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• Commented on God Bless America
  2nd wrst gstblg vr, bt t's cls, tht "G bm s cl" n hs lrdy bn dclrd #1....
• Commented on Compuserve shuts down
  Compuserve used to put their servers/routers/whatever the hell they were in the basements of local H & R Block offices. Telco would bring dozens of rotary POTS lines up to those machines for inbound connections from local citizens/customers, then hi-cap...
• Commented on Deduct your Ponzi scheme losses
  government is a Ponzi scheme, the neat trick of this administration is fleecing the masses & leaving them with a smile on their faces...
• Commented on Paul Krassner profile
  "How is it that Arianna Huffington wrote the forward? Is there a connection I'm missing?" I think she dropped acid with Karl Marx. He does show up on her blog sometimes, 40 year old philosophies are considered hip there...bummer that...
• Commented on GE sucks up government money, invests in secret stuff that we're not allowed to know about
  G.E. is Barry's Haliburton. They're feeding the govt a line about 'Green' technologies & the healthcare equipment they manufacture, no doubt the contracts will flow. Also, G.E.'s media ownership is a feather in their cap to the publicity craving hacks...
• Commented on Obamabot to be installed at Disney World, will robotically cover up torture, suspend habeas corpus
  18 + years ago one of youse was born every minute. is everyone over their denial yet so it's allowable to criticize this awful choice?...
• Commented on Congressman who's giving payday loan companies legal 391% APR loans says he's powerless to resist their lobbying
  Luiz Gutierrez (D-Ill.)...
• Commented on Quadrophenia: "New" 4-channel versions of classic rock albums
  I've heard these sound great in a car. hey, 'member that tour when Emerson, Lake & Palmer played in quad? me neither...
• Commented on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome exercises that really work
  #29 - Thanks for the good advice, therapy is definitely an option that should be checked out. Frankly, I didn't even think about it. Doctors are so quick to send you all over for testing. The MRI had me laying...
• Commented on Short story in spreadsheet form
  That's really funny, I loathe Excel. as if work isn't torture enough, then they send you everything in Excel. it's all clumsy-ass slides & tabs, there's got to be something better. add to your day some Power Point & Lotus...
• Commented on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome exercises that really work
  I'm trying to avoid surgery for carpal tunnel in both hands & will try it, WTF. I play bass at a certain level of competency & just worry that I wouldn't be able to move my big old mitts the...
• Commented on Verizon doesn't understand simple math
  i know of union negotiated per hour wages at verizon that end in an odd # of cents - like, for example, $30.01 an hour. they've ( i mean the company, you know, the one we call The Desolate One...
• Commented on Is Obama Finally Pushing Back on the Wall Street Barons' Supreme Arrogance?
  our best & brightest supremely arrogant thief & liar thinks AIG won't do as they please? this on the job training is gonna take forever...
• Commented on Stabbing pen
  i think i saw one of these in that fool Herbert Kornfeld's cubicle...
• Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
  i was pleasantly surprised at the author's experience at Walmart, taking the post at face value. but his comment #37 bothers me - unions being the enemy of the working poor, oh come on. my experience, as a union member...
• Commented on Stimulus Details
  finding the potential for silly waste in this bill doesn't take much effort. what may have taken a little bit of effort was assembling the random items found posted here. they all kinda look like a knock on public safety...
• Commented on Bing, Bong, the Bush is Gone / 1-20-09: END OF AN ERROR.
  @#24 - it is sad to get out-ballbusted by the guy whose best song is "I Don't Like Mondays", I agree, but class was certainly lacking today in the crowds reaction to the new ex-Prez. whatever. you whippersnappers enjoy this...
• Commented on Bing, Bong, the Bush is Gone / 1-20-09: END OF AN ERROR.
  http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717934,00.html...
• Commented on Bing, Bong, the Bush is Gone / 1-20-09: END OF AN ERROR.
  "God Bless George Bush & God Bless America" lotsa luck Barry...
• Commented on Obama's Cellphone Records Breached by Verizon Employees
  verizon wireless is a division of verizon communications, 45% owned by Vodaphone, a British corporation, it's not the phone company. it's employees are non-union (save a few craft positions, you could count them on your fingers). they are essentially all...
• Commented on Why "dial 9 for outside line" may go away
  sure this happens once in a while, it's called a misdial & talking to the 911 center for a second to explain would be better than hanging up, because the cops will respond to an abandoned call. every time. maybe...
• Commented on Boombox from THE AWESOME FUTURE
  in Heaven, Radio Raheem smiles...
• Commented on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" graphic novel
  guess as an infrequent post-er i'm trolling here, too. if i may: a comic book treatment of zinn's book, you say? nah, hate it when sarcasm is too easy. so let me just say - so many of my old...
• Commented on HOWTO Tap a phone line
  at our (the consumer) request, communications have become a nearly completely deregulated industry, so go for it. don't get caught though, it'll get federal/Homeland Security real quick. computers & complex voice services have made eavesdropping & code breaking way too...
• Commented on Thomas & Betts Ty-Rap Zip Ties reviewed (Verdict: Expensive but the best)
  as a purist, i can dig preluded's post (#2), but the advent of ty-wraps was a serious labor saver for telephone techs. lashing cable proper takes a lotta string, you'd be tying Chicago knots in your sleep, so ty's were...
• Commented on Iggy and the Stooges' gear was stolen, help 'em find it!
  not cool at all. mike watts' bass is kind of renowned among rock bassists, if the stuff gets found, it's going to be because bass players will go underground ninja throughout the world & find it. oh, now you know...
• Commented on New York Yankees ban sunblock "to fight terrorism" -- sell replacements at $5/oz
  them Boston hats & shirts look dangerous, too. new rule: confiscate them at the gate of tonight's game...
• Commented on Man's replica Batmobile
  but does he have an subterranean indoor turntable parking garage?...
• Commented on Time lapse of Simi Valley fires from 2005
  hey, my daughter & her husband live there! Cali is freaky scary. we don't have that kinda stuff in Jersey. i mean that axel foley-bongo music, fires can always be arranged...
• Commented on James Lileks goes to Disneyworld
  we were there last month, it was nuts. had a ferry boat ride, it was like evacuating Dunkirk. Downtown Disney? Capitalism's finest hour, i bought the full-scale working Lego Space Shuttle. ate so much at the buffet, the carver needed...