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I Freaking Hate Hosting Companies
Just a quickie rant here. I say hosting companies (plural) but this is for one particular hosting company. In fact, it is the hosting company that hosted Iowadawg.com until I moved it to a better host company (who I hope never messes me up and become yet another host company I hate…hhahahahahaha). So here is the scenario:
I have four (4) blogs still hosted at this company. Been with them for over a year. Minor problems here and there, but nothing like what happened this week. First it started off a week or two ago where my blogs would take longer and longer to come up. Where I would be posting and when I hit publish, just hang and then stop. This was an on and off problem. Seemed to happen mostly in the morning. Well, the other day, it was like I could not do any posting, my sites would take forever to come up. Email sent off (because their own site was hanging when I tried their ticket support). Answer came back that they were having problems with the server. And that it looked like they would have to replace the hard drive. So I asked how long will this take, how long will my sites by down. Reply was about 6 hours when they started the process. But they could move my blogs to a new server if I did not want the downtime or wait for them to replace the hard drive. Now this is where I screwed up royally! I did not make backups to my computer of my blogs!! I just said, move to new servers. They gave me new DNS, and got all the blogs set up with new DNS. Well, the process was okay. So I thought.
Later that evening, my sites were completely whacko! No admin side, no recent pictures showing, links not working right. I checked and saw that a lot of the folders and files were missing on two of the blogs. Email sent. Next morning, all right with the world again. So I thought! And again, I should have done the backups then. But did not. And here comes an email. Got the server hard drive in, all works great, do you want to go back to this server? I said no, leave me where I am. And blam…problems again! Somehow, and this is me thinking, in the move from one server to the other, some folders and files were either corrupted or not moved. But since everything was now on two different servers, the blogs would be okay, but actually drawing from either or server. So when they told me, okay, since you are on this server, we will delete your blogs from the other server. This was yesterday evening. And BAM! Blogs screwed up again, royally. Email sent and I said, I will see in the morning. Well, this morning, blogs are up but dammit, they are missing 3 days to 17 days of posts! Yes, each blog was either missing the past 4 days of posting or the entire month of February posts! So, email sent again. They are checking and checking. But I think the records they have are screwed up and they just plain lost all those posts in the move, then someone probably tried to move it back, and then this was deleted, etc.
So, at present? I can not view my blogs! Yet I can see the old version if I use a proxy site. I cleared history, cookies and the important cache. Nope, no blogs! Keep getting (just tried now) a ‘server not found’. Crap and double crap! Now, I made backups today, but they are the old records, meaning one blog has nothing for the past 4 days, two blogs have nothing from January 30th, and one blog is missing maybe a weeks posting. My thinking on this now? Iwill calm down and see what happens tomorrow and Sunday. I see nothing, or I get the blogs up but with all those missing posts? Then Sunday I will start the process to move them to a new host company! And start up those 4 blogs with a big gap between postings!
I freaking hate host companies, having to host blogs, and anything else when my blogs go down for no damn reason!
And how is your day coming along?
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This must be stopped! The horrible practice of animal preservation in jars!
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These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”That depends, Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
“He had delusions of adequacy.” – Walter Kerr
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.” – Moses Hadas
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends..” – Oscar Wilde
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second …. if there is one.” – Winston Churchill, in response.
“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.” – Stephen Bishop
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” – John Bright
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” – Irvin S. Cobb
“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” – Samuel Johnson
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” – Paul Keating
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” – Charles, Count Talleyrand
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” – Forrest Tucker
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” – Mark Twain
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” – Mae West
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.” – Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Billy Wilder
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I’m afraid this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx
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Lin-sanity has broken out all over the world. The kid nobody in the NBA wanted, from an ethnic group about as associated with the NBA as bullfighters are with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, had just broken Shaquille O’Neal’s league record for the most points in his first five games as a starter. Adoring fans are holding up signs saying “To Lin-finity and beyond.” The Lin-ternet has broken under the strain of millions of tweets, many of them featuring even worse puns than “Lin-ternet.” Sports Illustrated put him on its cover.
And, of course, Asian-Americans are going wild.
I’m one of them. As a half-Japanese, half-white ex-jock, I’ve always followed and rooted for that tiny number of Asian-Americans who make it in any of my three favorite sports, the all-American Big Three of football, basketball and baseball. (There are lots of Asian baseball players, but not many Asian-Americans.) Half-Japanese players get even more points. The triumphs of Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno had me feeling my half-breed oats. And when former Giants’ hurler Atlee Hammaker, a hapa like me, melted down in the 1987 playoffs, my inner mulatto got a lot more tragic.
There’s no great mystery why I root for Asian-American jocks. It’s the same reason any member of a minority group pulls for one of their own: racial pride and solidarity. There are so damn few of “us” in the big leagues (I’m an “us” with an asterisk) that when one makes it, it’s cause for celebration.
MORE.
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In Julian Assange’s exclusive interview with RT he discusses everything from the uprisings in MENA, to his extradition fight, the Guantanamo and US Cable files, his relationship with The Guardian and The New York Times, global political youth movements, the current state of mainstream media and Bradley Manning.
He famously warns that social media and in particularly Facebook, Google, Yahoo are among the greatest spy machines ever invented. Once again Mr. Assange demonstrates his intelligence, authenticity and consciousness.
The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. It is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known.
“It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena, they have an interface they have developed for US Intelligence to use. Now, is the case that Facebook is run by US Intelligence? No, it’s not like that. It’s simply that US Intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure to them.”
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Read about this guy with half a head:
READ.
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In a future California, firearm control is taken to a new level by the nanny state government. Although the homeowner owns a gun, he is helpless to protect himself and protect his family from an armed intruder.
The scary thing about this video is that I have friends who think this system would be a great idea. [Coiled Snake]
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(Reuters) – Catholic bishops, energized by a battle over contraception funding, are planning an aggressive campaign to rally Americans against a long list of government measures which they say intrude on religious liberty.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops plans to work with other religious groups, including evangelical Christians, on an election-year public relations campaign that may include TV and radio ads, social media marketing and a push for pastors and priests to raise the subject from the pulpit.
“We want to make it something that will get peoples’ attention,” said Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Conn.
The bishops spent the past few weeks pressing President Barack Obama to exempt religious employers from a federal mandate that all health insurance plans offer free birth control.
Along with the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals stands ready to contribute money and manpower to the bishops’ campaign, said Galen Carey, an association vice president.
The group is also considering the unprecedented step of asking pastors of every evangelical denomination across the country to read their congregations an open letter protesting the contraception mandate as an assault on religious liberty.
(about time the church got totally political!)
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IPT:
Having swept into majorities in Egypt’s parliament, a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman is making it clear the group has ambitions far beyond Cairo.
“Concerning the Islamic caliphate, this is our dream, and we hope to achieve it, even after centuries,” Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghuzlan told Egypt’s Ahram news outlet in an interview Sunday. “It is the right of the Brotherhood that this is one of the pillars of its strategy. We are not concerned about the renaissance of the group only. Rather our first goal is the renaissance of Egypt, then the Arab world and then the Islamic world. This will come gradually.”
Ghuzlan’s statement echoes comments Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie made during a speech in late December. In it, Badie explained Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna’s original agenda remains intact. “It begins with the reform of the individual and then to start building the family and society, then the government; then the rightly guided caliphate, then instructing the world; instructing guidance, wisdom, truth and justice.”
Neither Badie’s comments nor Ghuzlan’s interview have been picked up by American news media.
(notice, this is really, truly, what the islamic world wants! TOTAL domination of the world!)
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(LA Times) — The Fox News commentator who said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) should “step away from the crack pipe” referring to remarks she made about House Republican leaders said his comments were a joke. But the Los Angeles County Democratic Party didn’t find it very funny.
Rep. Waters, a Democrat representing parts of Los Angeles, was a topic of conversation on Thursday’s edition of the Fox News morning newscast “Fox and Friends,” because of a speech in which she called House Republic leadership “demons.”
That riled up commentator Eric Bolling. “Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston,” he said. “Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from the Lorazepam, because it’s going to get you in trouble.”
The show’s hosts were caught by surprise and gasped. After the show returned from a commercial break, Bolling said it was a joke. “I just want to say I was kidding about the crack pipe,” he said. “Just kidding.”
Eric C. Bauman, chairman of the L.A. County Democratic Party, called for the network to remove Bolling, condemning his remarks as, at best, “insensitive and inappropriate” and a “horribly offensive characterization of a longtime member of Congress.”
“At worst,” he said in a statement, “Bolling’s comment oozes racism, which serves to discredit a strong African American woman by perpetrating racial stereotypes. Regardless of whether this remark was deliberate or offhand — it was irresponsible, despicable and reprehensible.”
(again with the damn race card! funny, the liberals can do this to conservatives, yet they scream when it is reversed!)
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Boxer Blocks Rand Paul’s Attempt to Cut Aid to Egypt Because of Its “Insolence And Disregard”
Sharpton spins 8.3% unemployment as “fantastic” for Obama
White House: We’re On The Road To Recovery!
Dead People can Vote!
Again, this is not exactly news in the MSM. As it would make Obama and his lacky Eric Holder look stupid (again).
Here we have a prime example of why requiring voters to show ID at the ballot box is important, and a common-sense safeguard against fraud. Good grief, the Project Veritas decoys in this video didn’t even have to know their own addresses. They just had to confirm them when the precinct workers read them out loud. The only thing they had to worry about was the off-chance one of them might recognize the deceased’s name, but overall it is clear that this type of scheme is way too easy to pull off.
On January 10th, Project Veritas reporters walked into New Hampshire Polling Locations during the Presidential Primaries, saying dead people’s names. We stated the name of a dead person we got from the NH obituaries. The names of the deceased were both Registered Republican and Democrats And in almost every case, saying a dead person’s name, we were handed a ballot to cast a vote. We used no misrepresentation and no false pretenses. in fact, in almost every case, we insisted we show ID and they insisted that we vote without showing ID.
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Debbie Does Class Warfare: People Doing Well Should Not Be Doing “Better”…(okay, old enough to remember Debbie Does Dallas. Some porno guy out there should make a new updated version “Debbie Does Class Warfare” or “Debbie Does OWS” and of course a look-a-like for Debbie here)
It’s physically impossible for Wasserman Schultz to open her mouth without saying something stupid.
And more Debbie! Now it is “Debbie Does Tea Party Hatred”…
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaking in New Hampshire this morning, reminded her audience of the tragic Tucson shooting last year — and also insinuated that the Tea Party, which she said regards political opponents as “the enemy,” has enhanced divisiveness in Congress and had something to do with the shooting, at least indirectly.
(keep in mind, Debbie only does and says what her handlers tell her. her handlers being in no order: democrats, liberals, muslims, obama, michelle.)
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The U.S. State Department’s number two was to sit down Wednesday with Muslim Brotherhood party leaders, as Egypt prepared to wrap up marathon elections that propelled Islamists to the centre stage of politics.
Washington has been reaching out to the Brotherhood in a nod to Egypt’s new political reality, with Islamists poised to dominate the first parliament since a popular uprising ousted veteran president Hosni Mubarak in February.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns “will meet leaders of the (Brotherhood’s) Freedom and Justice Party at their headquarters in Cairo,” FJP spokesman Ahmed Sobea told AFP.
“It will be the highest-level meeting with any official from the United States,” Sobea said.
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(what, is the Israeli hating state department getting together with the muslim brotherhood to find ways to destroy Israel and Jews?)
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Obama’s War on Energy
Cheap energy = wealth, and expensive energy = poverty. That correlation is obvious, so the Obama administration has to pretend that it is not suppressing American energy development, even as it does everything in its power to make us poorer. The administration’s latest misleading claim is that leases for energy exploration on public lands increased by 20% in 2011. That is true, but what Obama fails to note is that the increase is measured against the historic collapse in leasing that has occurred during the Obama administration. The Institute for Energy Research sets the record straight. This chart shows each of the last five administrations stacks up with respect to BLM leases:
Go to site for this chart….
The real question, of course, is how much petroleum is being recovered from public lands. Because of three years of Obama anti-energy policies, energy development is down substantially:
Oil production on federal lands is down 13 percent in 2011: 97,721,813 barrels in 2011 versus 112,124,812 barrels in 2010.
This is what happens when we have an administration that thinks Americans consume too many resources, which is to say, live too well.
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House Republicans File Resolution Condemning Obama’s Pro Forma “Recess” Appointments
Planned Parenthood Starts “Women are Watching” 2012 Campaign
Obama, Tebow, and America’s Hunger for Heroes
