Blessings In Disguise

Getting kicked off the metro yesterday, which made me walk home from Capital South and call my grandparents. That is truly a blessing in disguise. It was beautiful out yesterday. And the Harris Teeter in my neighborhood actually OPENED. It has been 'coming soon' for quite literally three years. Yesterday was a good day.

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

Quick everyone! Boycott Dunkin Donuts!

Yes that's right, Michelle Malkin says here that Dunkin Donuts is trying to endorse jihad by dressing obvious terrorist Rachel Ray in a scarf while she endorses ice coffee...why didn't the CIA catch this???

Idiots. If I were making an idiot list, it would be like this

1) Michelle Malkin
2) Dunkin Donuts for scrapping the campaign and not releasing a statement like "Shut the FU@# UP."

My faith in the world wanes with every passing second.

Hilarious

So I am pretty sure this just happened, as I walked out of the Post Office, past the retarded Larouche supporter (more on this later), and began to cross Wilson Blvd:

An obviously crazy person riding an orange kids BMX bikes stops, looks at me and says

"That's right - you better cross the street, or else I'm-a knock you out like hypnosis"

Then he continued down the hill. I know it's passe to catch a giggle at those less fortunate, but damned if that wasn't a hilarious sight/quote.

Why openSUSE is no longer installed on my Server

Pretend for a moment that your lungs could install and uninstall organs in your body. We are in agreement that you need your lungs to breathe. Do you think if you were building a body, that would you include lungs that knew how to uninstall themselves? Leaving you with no real viable method of reinstalling said lungs?

That's a decent analogy for what happened to me when trying to update software on openSUSE last night. Yast, the crappy package manager for openSUSE, had some squabble about dependencies, and apparently it decided to uninstall yast to resolve them. Hmmm, now I can not install anything without wading through dependency hell with rpm.

Goodbye, openSUSE.

Hello Ubuntu! Again!

McCain Has This One In The Bag

If he keeps making bold and sweeping predictions like this:

McCain predicts Iraq War over by 2013

Yes that's right folks, we are going to win this war and it's only going to take five more years!

This article is hilarious. The list of accomplishments that McCain lists as his goals read quite like a Miss America pageant speech:

Other milestones McCain hopes to see at the end of what would be his first term are:

Witnessing Russia and China cooperating in "pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions, and North Korea to discontinue its own."

Significantly increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps, which will be "better equipped and trained to defend us."

The application of "stiff diplomatic and economic pressure" by the United States -- acting in concert with a newly formed League of Democracies -- to cause Sudan to agree to a multinational peacekeeping force, with NATO countries providing logistical and air support, to stop the genocide in Darfur.

Several years of robust economic growth.

Taxpayers filing under a flat tax.

The world food crisis ending, low inflation, and a "much improved" quality of life "not only in our country, but in some of the most impoverished countries around the world."

More accessible health care for Americans and an easing of pressure on Medicare because of lower health care costs.

A United States well on its way to "independence from foreign sources of oil."

A Social Security system that is solvent, does not reduce benefits for those nearing retirement and includes individual retirement accounts

The confirmation of "scores of judges" to the federal district and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

A secure southern border for the United States after "tremendous improvements to border security infrastructure and increases in the border patrol, and vigorous prosecution of companies that employ illegal aliens."

Perhaps he can get us some world peace while he's at it! Awesome. What I really enjoy is how these candidates talk about HOW we are going to fix the health care system and social security! Come on guys, at least pretend to have a real plan. Geez.

When Your Government Fails You

What...The...Hell

Seriously. Why? Weren't the steroid hearings a big enough waste of time/tax dollars?

Dear Manny Acta,

I used to think that you would be a sufficient replacement for Frank Robinson. You said the right things, baseball people held you in high regard, and your players seemed to play hard for you. After a rough start, the team really played some good ball last year, and I was feeling pretty hopeful coming into the season. After 40 games, I am not so sure I have any reason to be excited about you anymore. You seem to have forgotten how to manage. Your handling of pitchers is atrocious.

I can remember a time last Saturday when poor Mike O'Connor couldn't get the ball over the plate to save his life. Jena and I looked out in the bullpen, expecting to see someone warming up. After all - the game was certainly not out of reach! We were wrong. Nothing. As O'Connor alternated between giving up line drives and walks, finally Joel Hanrahan got up. After about 3 minutes, on a 2-0 count, with the bases loaded, you put Hanrahan in, obviously not all the way warmed up. That was terrible, and he proved that you had made a bad move by tossing a wild pitch, finishing the walk, then giving up a grand slam before settling down.

Now Jena and I thought you had learned your lesson. We were so wrong. Just this week, in a game against the Mets, with the team clinging to a lead, you put in Ayala, who looked good in his first inning of work. You were so encouraged that you left him out there, which seemed okay, but maybe you should have had someone ready in the pen, just in case he faltered? Especially after the debacle last weekend? You didn't, and Ayala fell apart like one-inning guys are wont to do in their second inning of work. But guess what! Without anyone to replace him, you had to leave him out there. Bad. Bad. Bad.

I would also like to ask you while I am writing - why is Kearns trotted out there every day to hit 5th or 6th, where he is in a perfect position to kill rallies with strikeouts and double play balls? He's hitting .200, and not the Nick Johnson kind of .200, where he walks all the time and makes plays on the bases. No, the .200, where you stink. And where you continuously make fielding blunders that render your 'awesome arm' useless.

There are other things I like to discuss, like why you tried to bring Cordero back, despite a sore arm that left his velocity around 82 mph, at all. I'd especially wonder why you did it on a night where the temperatures were in the 40s. Do you hate Chad Cordero's arm? I also wonder about your decision to keep Lastings Milledge in the 5th slot despite his inability to hit with brains or power.

Maybe sometime we can discuss all this. If your crappy managing keeps up, you will likely have a lot of newfound free time.
Sincerely,
Someone who is suffering through equally sad starts by his Nationals and Tigers in the same year even though he did nothing to deserve it except to be a loyal fan.