All Your Base Are Belong To Us — The Kip Lange Homepage

Yeah. That’s out of left field, huh? Tim Russert is dead.

Well, Godspeed, Tim, Godspeed…

Well, Hillary’s out and the bruising Democratic primary fight is over. This is welcome news for Democrats but we Republicans would have liked to have seen it gone on a bit longer.

Now Hillary is obviously pushing for VP…but, as Fred Barnes has pointed out, this is a test of Barack’s character right here. He can’t continue his messsage of “change” and have a Clinton on the ticket. The Clintons are anything but change.

Let’s admit an ugly little truth, here, too. Everyone is proud that Obama has been nominated; that a black man has received a nomination for the highest office in…well, arguably the world…from his party. But the ugly little truth I’m referring to is that Obama won because he is black. If Obama had been the exact same person with the exact same speaking style and been white, you could say hello to HRC, your Democratic nominee.

Now, Obama has yet to move to the center for the general, although he has months to do that — and needs to do that. He’s far left on everything, and I don’t agree with him on…well, pretty much anything. He’s a compelling personality and a charismatic man but, from my point of view, he’s got the wrong ideas about governing.

But McCain isn’t capitalizing. Instead, McCain is doing things like delivering speeches on global warming. Give it up, Johnny-boy. You are not going to win the election on global warming. Anyone who believes in the dangers of man-made climate change to the point where they’re going to vote on that issue and that issue alone…is going to vote for Barack Obama. You can’t win an election by letting your opponent dictate the issues. That’s what an election is about — setting the agenda.

The candidate who sets the agenda of issues in this election will win. If Obama turns the issues leftwards, so we’re talking about man-made climate change and “how quickly” we should leave Iraq, as opposed to even considering the possiblity of staying, McCain is going down. However, if McCain hammers away on national security, taxes, limited government…he’s got a much better chance of winning.

Ah, well, the gloves are off now. Let’s see what happens.

I will say this, though: I do not believe Obama is going to pick Clinton as VP and drag her and the baggage known as Bill Clinton along with him for the general. Besides, he’s already going to do as well in New York state as he can without Hillary, so she doesn’t give him any swing states.

Aye, I should have gotten to this a while ago…but…anyway, all the pictures to Tricia Helfer’s photo shoot in Playboy magazine a while ago are right here for your…er…viewing “pleasure”:

https://celebsporno.com/tricia-helfer-playboy-pics/

**WARNING** Adult Content at above link, uncensored photographs.

Tricia Helfer, if you don’t have a clue who I’m talking about, plays the smoldering “Number Six” Cylon on the new Battlestar Galactica.

**UPDATED 10/2023 Verified Working Link**

You know what the new Eudora is?

Thunderbird in a Eudora skin.

I went back to the old Eudora 7.1.0.9 and am much happier.

It (the older Eudora) can still be downloaded from www.eudora.com.

I’d avoid the Eudora 8.xs until they give us a REAL new Eudora. Especially you Mac users out there.

For those of you who hate Outlook and like user-friendly email programs, Eudora has always been a great choice. Unfortunately, a little while ago they shut down the commercial version of Eudora to begin a Mozilla-based open source version of Eudora.

I’m pleased to say that the beta of the new Eudora has been released — Eudora 8.0.0b3 — and appears to be relatively stable (although I have only been using it for a short time).

Anyway, if you are interested, it is available for download here.

Remember, it’s only a beta, and while I haven’t encountered any bugs yet, I’m sure they’re there. But it’s good to see a Eudora 8.0 come out, beta or not.

I quite like this. 🙂

THE OTHER OBAMA IS FAIR GAME, TOO
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

Sunday, May 25, 2008

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/25/michelle_obama_is_fair_game/?page=full

On the website of the Tennessee Republican Party is a short video in which residents of Nashville talk about the pride they feel for their country. One man, for example, mentions his esteem for the First and Second Amendments. A Vanderbilt graduate student says he was proud when Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall — “and I was prouder when it came down.” A young professional woman extols the “academic and job opportunities that women have in this country.” A police officer named Juan says he is proud of having immigrated to the United States, learned English, and become a citizen of this “land of opportunity and the best country in the world.”

The video has a point to make, and it does so by alternating these upbeat comments with clips of Michelle Obama telling two different audiences in February: “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.” In an understated press release announcing the video, the state GOP welcomed Mrs. Obama to Nashville and remarked: “The Tennessee Republican Party has always been proud of America.”

One would have to have skin of microscopic thinness to take offense at so gentle and indirect a critique. No surprise, then, that Barack Obama took offense, reacting as if his bride had been slimed by slurs akin to those that enraged Andrew Jackson when *he* ran for president. (During the campaign of 1828, supporters of John Quincy Adams maligned Jackson’s mother as a “common prostitute” and mocked his adored wife, Rachel, as a “convicted adulteress” and a “strumpet.”) In an interview on ABC, Obama growled that Republicans “should lay off my wife,” and described the inoffensive Tennessee video as “detestable,” “low class,” and reflecting “a lack of decency.”

If Republicans “think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign,” he added ominously, “they should be careful.”

Ooh, very fierce. But unless Obama is prepared to emulate Jackson — Old Hickory defended his wife’s honor by fighting duels, in one of which he killed a man — he stands no chance of putting his wife’s remarks off-limits to criticism. As long as he keeps sending her around the country to campaign on his behalf, everything she says is — and should be — fair game.

And unfortunately for Obama and his allegedly sunny politics of hope, what Mrs. Obama seems to say with grim regularity is that America is a scary, bleak, and hopeless place.

Here she is, for instance, in Wisconsin:

“Life for regular folks has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn’t gotten much better.”

And in South Carolina:

America is “just downright mean” and “guided by fear . . . We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.”

And in North Carolina:

“Folks are struggling like never before . . . When you’re that busy struggling all the time, which most people that you know and I know are, you don’t have time to get to know your neighbor . . . In fact, you feel very alone in your struggle, because you feel that somehow it must be your fault that you’re struggling so hard . . . People are afraid, because when your world’s not right, no matter how hard you work, then you become afraid of everyone and everything, because you don’t know whose fault it is, why you can’t get a handle on life, why you can’t secure a better future for your kids . . . Fear is the worst enemy. It . . . creates this veil of impossibility, and it is hanging over all of our heads.”

There is also her creepily authoritarian vision of life under an Obama administration. From a speech in California:

“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual — uninvolved, uninformed.”

Michelle Obama is undeniably smart, driven, outspoken, and charismatic. She is also relentlessly negative about life in these United States. True, she is not the one running for president. But she is Barack Obama’s closest confidante and adviser; if he is elected, her influence will be considerable. That is why her words matter. And why, whether her husband likes it or not, Michelle Obama is a legitimate issue in this campaign.

(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for the Boston Globe.)

Okay, this isn’t really a spoiler, but I felt like giving some GTA IV advice.

Ever notice you hardly ever see any great cars or bikes driving around when you need one? Well…it’s sort of a Catch-22. To get really good cars to pop up, you need to be driving an expensive/nice car. Same with bikes. If you want to rip off a bike, it’s easiest to find one…when you’re riding a bike.

So my advice to you — and what I do — is when you get your hands on a really nice car, park that sucker in reserved parking at one of your safehouses. Same with a bike. If you want to go out hunting for a nice car, hop in your nice car and look…right near your safehouse. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to make it back with both cars (provided you have parking space available for them).

Same with a bike. You want to rip off another bike, keep one stashed somewhere. Get on it, and I guarantee you, you’ll start seeing more bikes than usual.

Hope this helps a little. 😉

As most of you probably know, Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

Now, I violently disagree with Senator Kennedy on practically…everything…and in many ways I think he has done some extremely rephrensible things (Chappaquidick?).

But I wouldn’t wish this sort of luck on my worst enemy, and as Donne said, ask not for whom the bell tolls — it tolls for thee. Any man’s death diminishes me. The point is, it’s not fair nor is it cool to be happy that the Senator is sick.

So I’ll say a little pray for Teddy, and his family, even though I doubt it will help, and I will wish him my best, and hope that he continues to live life to its fullest up until his very last day. I also hope and pray he doesn’t suffer a great deal of pain.

Good luck, Teddy, good luck.

Ayuh. If you’re a Comcast customer, and you’ve been trying to email Hotmail and getting your messages bounced backed to you telling you that your IP has been reported as being abused, you’re not alone, and no, you don’t have any weird spyware (that I know of).

I contacted Comcast this morning and they are aware of the problem although they have no ETA on solving the issue; they claim (and I believe them) that Hotmail/MSN has to resolve it on their end.

Anyway, as of this weekend, sending mail to Hotmail/MSN addresses was working; as of this morning, it was not.

That’s all I can tell you. Hang in there. If you need to get a message to a Hotmail user, trying using a Hotmail or Live account of your own. That will go through — I’ve tested it.

Good luck…guess we just have to wait.

Yeah… nothing major here, no XMB changes or patches for GTA
IV…just supposedly improved stability…