Anagram: Lost Connection/Not Nicest Colon

Before we get to Obama and McCain, some Crap!!! Today’s blog get’s this interesting title for two reasons. One, the dsl connection we have here went out for the better part of around 90 minutes due to storms running through the area. I told the guy from Verizon this, and he said that wasn’t possible because it was a wireless system!!! Good Lord Amighty!!! It is amazing that the dsl kicked in just fine the second I connected with the guy from verizon……after being on hold for 25 minutes. As for the Wireless comment, I guess he just latched onto the first thought he had and decided to go with it. I have experience with this stuff and…um… DSL ISN’T WIRELESS!!!

Second, I always like my anagram blog titles to be as entertaining as possible. And I think the Not nicest colon thing is an eye-catcher.

Now To Barack and a non issue news item. Seems Little brother got his concentration camps mixed up and the RNC decided to give him an impromptu history lesson. Seems Senator Obama said something about an uncle of his helping to free Auschwitz in ‘45. His great uncle, a member of the 89th Infantry division, actually helped free a portion Of Buchenwald, and it would have been impossible for him to have done any helping with Auschwitz, unless he was in the red Army. The Soviets freed Auschwitz.

That the RNC felt the need to say anything here is, well, just the way it goes in politics. Mistakes in speeches get the treatment. But the Conservative bloggers are losing their minds on this one. Now from my vantage point, this is just a mistake, similar to when George Bush Senior Inadvertently said in a speech that the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Happened on September 7th, 1941. Quoting a Redstate.com blog:

“…What’s worse is that he is using the freaking Holocaust to both ingratiate himself with Jewish voters and veterans while using the lie to justify expanding a federal program. For months now we’ve seen Obama lie through his teeth to pander to voters. The media has not once called him on it. Will they now that he has brought the holocaust into his lies? Will they now that he stoops this low to pander to Jewish voters? Its no longer about Obama having no shame. This man has no class” END QUOTE. For the whole shebang, click here.

There’s More. hotair.com (aptly named, if this article is representative of the stuff there) The write-up here actually takes Mr. Obama to task for making a political speech on memorial day to veterans. Admittedly he does get him once good. Obama did kinda make it sound like he was addressing dead people with this line. “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.” END QUOTE. for the rest of the story, click here

Mr. Obama, watch that will ya!?!? The Republicans will pound you relentlessly everytime you make mistakes like that. BARACK OBAMA: I SEE DEAD PEOPLE LOL That is funny, ya gotta admit.

In Other Political news, The word is that Michigan and Florida may end up being officially invited to the Convention in Denver. The DNC’S Rules Committee meets this weekend, and I am absolutely certain that there will be a Florida and Michigan seated at the convention after the meeting of the rules committee. If they don’t get seated this weekend by the rules committee, there is something VERY wrong with the Democratic Leadership. How do you cut off well over 2,500,000 voters and call yourself the party of the people? You can’t. Those two states MUST Be admitted to the party or it all means nothing. And if these two states don’t make it, mark your calendars, January 20th will be John McCain’s Inauguration day.

Cutting off Florida and Michigan would be cutting off our nose to spite our face.

One More Political News Blurb: Several U.S. Senators sent letters to.. well, Read an excerpt from the Reuters story:

“Several U.S. senators want Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, the dominant electronic payment companies, to break down detailed costs associated with transactions called interchange fees, according to letters obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.” Later in the story we see…

“Consumer groups, grocery and drug stores and other retailers are concerned that the payment card industry is setting higher non-negotiable fees for card transactions and the system lacks transparency. Merchants believe that Visa and MasterCard are colluding to set interchange fees much as cartels can fix prices. Earlier this year, Rep. John Conyers, chairman of House Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation that would create a panel to determine interchange rates and terms.” END QUOTE. For the whole story, click here cut and paste this and put it in your browser —>

I am happy to see that the big credit card Companies are being called on the carpet to explain their fees. A Big Thank you goes out to the senators In question, those being Dick Durbin, Herb Kohl, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Spectre. Now, I don’t claim to understand the way they figure out this interchange fee thing, I don’t have the prerequisite Economics Masters degree to do that, but I know enough to say that the fact that these companies made a total of $42,000,000,000 on Interchange fees alone means someone is getting fleeced.

Us. Sick’em Fellas!

That’s it for news, Politics, and Opinion. Onto music.

Guitar: I Played for quite a bit today. And today was yet another Installment of The Million Mode March. Lord I played a bazillion of them today. In all keys and in a great many ways. two notes per string, 3 notes per string, 1 octave, 2 octave, 2+ octave. Also did a joyful little exercise. Pick a Spot on the guitar at random. Then Pick a mode. Play that mode, then all the other associated modes, in whatever order sounds pleasing to the ear. i did that several times. Nothin Says Love Like Ab Locrian, Baybee!

I also played the usual single string alternate picking exercises. I worked on a few songs, or at least chord progressions that sound nice and are very musical. Did one, Just goofing around In E Major, that sounded remarkably like The Allman Brothers song “Melissa”.

Been practicing the wedding march for the last day or two, so I can play it for my wife. She has a wedding blog and wants to use it as a Wave file or some such Ting like that. Wanna make sure I have it down and can do it right before I go to record it. Played it as a single note Line. Sounded Hollow. Like it was missing something. Played it as a two note riff. slightly harder, but no real issue except that It still didn’t sound right. Why you ask? I was playing it in major thirds. It actually made it sound like a dirge.I realized what i was doing wrong and fixed it. It works best in Major fourths. Once I caught that, The song became cake, and went from being a Pain in the ass to done in a matter of minutes.

Nice!

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That’s it for me. JAM ON!

Today’s Nuggets, from Milton Friedman, Via Wikiquote: I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.