Her Family never Valued her Life; Yet they want to Profit from her Death

There is nothing sadder than the death of a child, of a loss of the life this world will never know. What becomes an outrage is when those who were to protect that child are responsible for such death. What affects us all is when our systems in place to prevent this are bogged down by funding issues, politics and outright incompetence. Nixzmary Brown’s story is such a story.

As bad as the story is however it’s not over. Now the city is being sued by relatives of the poor girl, among them her grandmother, and a father who never visited or held the child in her entire life. They want millions for their suffering. I will not debate the fact this city’s child services failed Nixzmary. People were fired, funds increased. Bloomberg created and filled the position of family services coordinator so the mayor’s office going forward would be more closely involved with child services. Going forward child services will work more like the NYPD to get around stone walling grandmothers.

None of this will help Nixzmary, but hopefully will prevent her fate from another. And in this the city will find a way to offer tribute and memory to the sufferings of her and others.

But as I see those that stand in line with their hand out, expecting a payout from this tragedy I have to asked them, where the fuck where you when this was going on? Did you lift a finger? Didn’t you notice the cuts and bruises?

Now after death you claim to love her and seek money to cure your suffering, yet not one of you stood beside her and helped prevent this. Yes, New York City let this little girl down, but so did you… and taking money from this city will not make that guilt go away.

A History of Criminality

The illegal rights march sure have faded from the news. Oh yeah, a few illegals are making sound bites but perhaps a few got rounded up. Of course the question remains if our Congress is going play poll points for a few thousand demonstrators or listen to the MILLIONS of VOTERS that are DEMANDING our borders be SECURED and illegals shown the door. But then....

Hold on... if this amnesty thing plays out we could use it other areas.

Think about it;

If you cheat on your taxes and don't get caught for 5 years, you're clear.

If you cheat on your wife for five years and don't get caught, you get to legally swap her out.

If you run a company like Enron and can cook the books for five years you get to keep the money and your book keeping becomes, reality.

Truth, justice the American way.... a bunch of baloney and we have our dish washing friends to thank for pointing that out.

We don't need no stinking laws, we got amnesty.

"In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.

• The leadership of the Columbia Lil’ Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation." Source Link

"Reducing the number of illegal aliens entering the United States may affect crime rates far beyond the U.S.-Mexican border. The Cook County analysis shows that 46 percent of illegal aliens arrested had entered at San Ysidio, near San Diego and part of Operation Gatekeeper, and 13 percent had entered at El Paso, home of Operation Hold the Line. If these and similar operations actually reduce illegal entry, rather than simply shifting it to other regions, Cook County, and probably other areas, will eventually see a reduction in the number of illegal aliens apprehended for criminal activity." Source Link

Here is the real deal folks, just because someone ILLEGALY comes to this country and marches around with a sign saying I'm not a criminal, doesn't make it so. Our rights are being stolen, our healthcare is being stolen, our schools are being stolen and our jobs taken, illegals now seem to be targeting our political voice as they hijack the civil rights movement turning our past suffering into their modern illegality.

Will your vote count anymore? Will our Congress speak for our poor, who want a better life over those that come from another land, to steal it?

Disgusting Behavior

An update to "punkies got a gun". Turns out the punk is a retired NYPD officer. What the fuck is up with that? However reading between the lines reveals punkie was hardly one of NY's finest. For one thing good cops never retire in their fourties.

This does change my rant a bit, but not much. The community needs answers and if this man was a walking time bomb and someone knew, manslaugher charges are in order.

Both men in this incident represent those that are sworn to protect the community, not the blods and crips. As for "road rage" since when did a gun become easier to use than a frigging horn? What happened to an old fashion arse kicking or even a friggin baseball bat... that tired and true Staten Island favorite? Not only do we need to keep guns away from such dickless arseholes we also need to keep away their drivers licence.

A frigging gun shot because some dude wouldn't drive fast on a street full of kids... two ex cops. UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE.

Punkie's Gotta A Gun

I’m anti-gun. I can’t fathom the hunting thing but will acknowledge that it is a right. I can also acknowledge that guns could be needed in a rural environment, but regardless to where and how guns are used they should not be so easy to get. Yes, I know that guns have never killed people, only other people... but if not for a gun in the hands of fools, more people would be alive. The way I see it is many folks upon getting a gun feel empowered, and for the first time in their limp little dick life feel, like a man. They are big and bad, walk a bit cockier and drive a bit faster. God forbid you get in the way of a retard with a gun.

Now the neighborhood I live in is suburban, professional class with a diversity of people. Out the front of my complex is a strip mall, out the back a big frigging mall. It’s a bit overdeveloped and lacking in a neighborhood park. Needless to say you tend to have a bunch of kids walking around Richmond Hill Road. The name Richmond is big on the Island, we have Port Richmond, Richmond Road, Richmond Street, Richmond Avenue, Richmond Terrance, Richmond Park... heck the Island has its own county, and yes it’s frigging Richmond. Our tourist attraction is Historic Richmond Town.

Staten Island has given the world Christina Aguilera, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Steven Seagal, Gene Simmons, Martin Sheen, Theodore Sturgeon, the Vanderbilts, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Pat Robertson, Bill Richmond (the boxer that everything on this island is named after), Ichabod Crane, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (yes folks, the man who painted "dogs playing poker", In Living Color and the WuTang Gang, I could go but you get my point. Staten Island was also the home of Aaron Burr. As you can see from this small sampling, Staten Island is a reflection of everything good and bad about this country. Aaron Burr is of course, neither the first nor last Staten Islander, to meet a bullet from a pacifist gun fired by a dickless fool projecting power.

Now where was I? Oh yeah the strip mall across the street. It has a Dunkin Doughnuts ran by a Indian family in which I had never before last night, seen a cop inside. It has a liquor store run by a Japanese family that stocks my favorite Merlot, a Japanese restaurant and Laundromat (all owned by the same family with the liquor store) and of course a Chinese Restaurant named Dynasty Taste. I like the “taste” and pick-up food from the place at least once a week. It is also a family affair; the Chinese family running it all works at it. They serve fresh food; have a clean establishment with their five year old little girl playing the hostess as she entertains the guests as they await their order.

Last night on this busy street at the cross roads of America, a retired Port Authority police officer was shot 8 times as he was exiting his car in front of Dynasty Taste, in front of the five year old little girl, in front of families getting doughnuts, families doing laundry, in front of a blogger getting off his bus after a day’s work in the city.

The reports are in on why this man died. No it wasn’t like Arron Burr, way to one sided for that. It was because the man was not driving fast enough on Richmond Hill Road for a punk with a gun, who feeling like a “man” used a pacifist weapon to take away the life of another man. Today a Grandpa is dead and the punk, still with a little dick is surrounded. Hopefully he will put the pacifist weapon to his head and treat his brain to the wall.

I’m anti-gun…

Bricks should be in walls, Not Congressmen's Brains

1. We grant amnesty to any worker that will help build a wall as they work on the wall

2. We BUILD the wall between Mexico and the US. We pay great day wages.

3. On the last day as the amnesty workers finish the south-side of the wall, we lock it.

4. We grant citizenship to ANY illegals and their family that qualifies and joins any branch of the US armed forces upon an HONERABLE DISCHARGE.

We greet with smiles any legal immigrants that come thru the walls gate.

Pissing in the Rio Grande

I think our country is confused, or perhaps the baby boomers are having 60's flashbacks and remembering how they met loved ones at anti-establishment rallies in their youth. I keep seeing news regarding immigration rallies that in fact that nothing to do with immigration but everything to do with breaking the law. No one is stopping people from immigrating here should they follow the rules and procedures in place to do so. What we clearly need is a secure border, not a politically created sub class. It is the shame of both of our political parties that they will sell out us, we the people, over poll points and hoping "the latino vote" would give them the edge to stay or get in power.

Frankly I think we are missing a big chance here. I mean we keep hearing it's going to be hard to get these illegal's out of here but heck... we know where they are, duh.

Amnesty for illegals is a slap on the face of every immigrant that fought hard to get here and make something of themselves. It's a slap on the face to the civil rights movement. It's most of all a slap on the face of the average American who is paying to house, school and police these illegals.

I see that the media is reporting a guy carrying a sign, "we are not criminals", but they are. They stole across the border, they stole a job some else would be doing for a fair wage if THEY WEREN'T HERE. They are stealing from our educational system, they are stealing from our healthcare system and they are a burden to our security and legal system. They are also a bit on the cowardly side as instead of working to make Mexico a better place, they ran off and came here. Hardly the type I'd want to watch my back. Frankly we were better off when we had immigrants that made us the land of the brave and free rather then the lost society of Aztlan. If they march in the street for the right to cut out hearts and have sex with 12 year olds are we going to support that as well?

"Mexico is struggling to modernize its justice system, but when it comes to punishing sexual violence against women, surprisingly little has changed in a century. In many parts of Mexico, the penalty for stealing a cow is harsher than the punishment for rape"

This is the land of opportunity for all, is it however to much to ask that we give preference to those that wish to come here legally?

I can't wait for May 1st when a day without ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will reveal that we can do without them... do very well thank you much. Now go home put some of this energy into Mexican politics where it's really needed.

Bubble Headed Bleach Blond with a Gleem in her Eye

Not that it matters, because frankly the fourteen folks that still watch the CBS evening news haven't caught on that Walter Cronkite has died... but picking Katie Couric to anchor the news is pretty much up there with AOL buying Time Warner. I also expect before this fiasco plays out about the same amount of people will lose their jobs. I wonder if they will get Geraldo Rivera to co-anchor.

I guess being the network with the news organization that faked documents wasn't enough for CBS and I guess some will be glad they have a source to follow Eminem's breakup's and see "Katie" pose with international talking heads as she blankly smiles and sips from her CBS news mug. Look, I'm not calling her an air head.... SHE REALLY IS A FRIGGIN AIR HEAD... however she's a mental giant compared to who ever came up with the idea of bringing her over to a news organization.

The last time I watched Katie she was reporting that 30% of junior high students performed oral sex and asking 14 year olds "what does hook up mean?" Hardly the depth of someone able to handle hard news and react to something not within the bounds of a smile and cheesy jokes.


The only thing that makes any sense in this is perhaps CBS is playing a gambit in which it knows Katie will fail and has her contract putting her on the Early Show should that happen . Even so they are killing the network as a news source.


Now if they had gone with Jane Pauly, I'd be on board.

Union Dysfuntion

New York is a city of seasons and up till this year you could count on every other winter holiday being hijacked by the TWU (Transit Workers Union) in their fight with the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority). If the MTA ended a given fiscal year with one thin dime on the table the TWU would demand it's fair share. So needless to say this year with the MTA ending up with a billion dollars still on the table the TWU got so worked up over how they would like to spend this money that they actually walked off the job, putting thousands at risk. (They are being sued for deaths that resulted due to the strike)

Of course New Yorkers took it in stride, found other ways to get around and flipped a collective middle finger to this union that set on empty buses crying out, "Respect Me". For one thing in this city no one is given respect, it must be earned and the TWU can't even drive a bus or train from point A to B in a given time factor. If they would concentrate on doing this, they'd be respected... big time. Heck they'd get frigging tips.

Now back to the billion dollars. The MTA is not in the business of turning a profit. They are in the business of getting people from point A to point B. That billion dollars came from the people of New York and the MTA had a plan to give it back in the form of free holiday rides, station improvements and added security. Frankly the salary of 50K plus healthcare to drive a bus from point A to point B, (and remember they don't even have to be on time), is a fair deal. In the years that the MTA had been millions of dollars in the hole not once has the TWU stepped up and said, "Tough year, here's some money back from our share". No, instead we the people paid the difference.

Anyway we all know the strike happened and we all lived happy ever after... well it's not over. One, the TWU still doesn't have a contract and in fact voted down the one that "ended" the strike. Two, TWU members have had to pay a few days wages for each day on strike and three, the union owes the city 3 million plus interest and Mike B is not going to let them walk away from this debt. You wonder who the fuck is running the TWU and how he found enough crack to reach this level of leadership.

Example of stupidity; the TWU votes down the contract that ends the strike so the state puts the MTA and TWU into binding arbitration. The MTA takes the voted down contract off the table, and what does the crack smoking TWU president do? He spends money the union does not have to mail the rejected contract back to the union who state they will still reject it, hoping to get it passed even though the contract is no longer seen as valid by the MTA...

And we wondered why a frigging bus in the city can't get from point A to point B on time. One good thing about the strike came about however, TWU knows they like Al Quida, power outages or Hurricane Andrew are not going to bring this city to its knees and came off lessened for trying.

Speaking of Dr. Doom E.R. Pianka

IMO, his trouble with humanity is all due to the fact that he somehow believes that "Brokeback Mountain" was ripped off from his story about a cowboy and his love for a Bull Buffalo.

(Oh, I mean no offence to gays, or buffalos... however Texans are another story)








In this photo we must excuse Doom, as he is having a "being one with the bushfly" moment...

American Tech Support Sucks

Every once in a while the media will pick up on the loss of tech jobs in America to India and other areas of the world. The clamor will be politicized, used to make some off topic point and then die down. It will die down because the reality sets in that no one is really losing their jobs and frankly those that do suck at it.

I use support, a frigging lot. Given the choice between spending a few hours on the MS knowledgebase or slapping down $249 to brainstorm with a few folks that have access to the kb articles yet to be published, it's a no brainer. Besides if during this brain storming I solve the issue the fee is refunded. Out of the six support calls I've opened with MS this year I've only paid for two and come away with a weath of knowledge. They use Indian support and they are far, far, far better than the support MS had three years ago, American support.

RIM has Canadians and I like them as well. In fact I like Canadian support so much I dropped dealing with the chumps at Verisign and starting using Register.com a few years ago. Once more the company with American support lost. Verisign support always whined about their database and merging "the old one" to "the new one" like I give a rat's arse. I just wanted to transfer DNS settings and they wanted me to "register" on "the new database". Bloomberg uses Brits mostly and they were bad, got better and are now very bad. It’s not the tech support however as much as they assume you are trying to steal products and services, you are guilty until you prove your innocence and frankly I don’t time for that fucking shit. On a side note, the office myth is that I can reduce a support tech to tears and this did happen once with a Bloomberg tech. In fact they sent his boss over to complain but our managing partner tossed the guy out yelling, “I pay him to get things done, not for you to fucking like him. If you people liked him, I’d fire his ass”

Regardless to who supplies the support I made a rule a few years ago and the firm I work for supports it. We will not register for support nor will we use web based support. If we don't get a phone number for support we will not consider your product or service. (Yes I'm talking to you, Thomson folks, and I just got your contract and you STILL fucked it up... oh and you Juniper folks as well)

I could fill this rant with examples from Juniper, Blue Coat and scores of other American supported companies. The wait times, the idiots working tier 1, the expectation that my day is so empty I want to chat on and monitor a support website. But instead I will present an incident from this week.

I installed a product called Replistore. The goal is high availability for Exchange services in a non clustered multi site set-up. Now this goal had been achieved using a product called Double-Take, but in doing an annual review of my disaster prep plans I felt I could improve upon the two year old system in place. Two things drove this, advances in technology and the increased attention to DRP from our investor base. I used to could write the plan, shuffle it around the partners and compliance folks and get back to my office where I could wait all day on hold with Juniper Networks. But this year it's in our presentation, I have to meet investors, explain it to the SEC and I have to post it into various broker and investment bank questionnaires... all good as this attention gives me cause to adjust budgetary constraints... so back to the point. Instead of a 6 to 8 hour recovery time as spec'd previously I increased the disaster rollover to 1 to 2 hours. Double Space was no longer a fit and my candidates where a CA product and Replistor. Replistor was brought on deck by a would be consultant wanting a piece of my business, which I was at the time considering giving him.

American support, will talk as if they know, when they don't, they want office hours (9-5) and they have contempt for end users. Yet, somehow our media has presented us with an imagine that our streets are full of tattooed hackers that can access the net with teeth fillings and pierced gentials, walking around with laptops never needing charging and waiting to turn twenty four... when they will put on suits and work at geek squad should their IPO fail.

Consultant X, supplied me with the relistore product and I proceeded to install it at the DR site. He however gave me a whitepaper that was three years out of date. Calls to EMC (Replistore) were useless as they have a policy of not dealing with end users until the product is installed by a proper consultant. Oh did I mention the total cost of the product is over 20K? I admit this should have been a red flag. Consultant X supplied me his ID and I got the product installed. Now I have a 153 GB data store so I asked the consultant if I could transfer this via DLT with the EMC product. He did not know, and EMC could not tell him. We were to wait 24 hours.

Now, I've done this job long enough I should have known better, but we all get cocky and yes I admit sloppy at times. (I was doing a Friday night project on a Wednesday afternoon because I wanted to go to Hartford and get laid that weekend.) The first warning sign was when I was asked to create a new mail enabled public folder "ProspectusDelivery". While the public folders were available and functional I could not access the public folders from the Exchange system. I did a few checks and then dialed support. Working with the professional Indian tech it was discovered that an Active Directory value had been changed by the replistore product. A call to consultant X was met with "never heard of that, I'll call EMC in the morning". The pile of shit was growing bigger. It was noted that a new knowledge based concerning TCP.sys was coming out and I should apply a patch. This was done and a re-boot of the exchange system scheduled.

So, now I'm at home enjoying a nice glass of merlot and playing a few chords on my S08 when my Blackberry starts playing the only cord it knows. The frigging Exchange system dropped off the net. So I make the calls and head to bed early cause a 4 AM pick up was in works.

4:45AM - Sure enough I lost the SCSI boot drive on the server.
5:15AM - I'm back on the server and Exchange is happy, MTA up, SMTP up and stores mounted.
5:16AM - WTF Outlook can't find Exchange
5:17AM - Call to consultant X, message... not available.
5:18AM - Call to EMC, "I'm sorry you aren't in our database" I offer to pay any fee for support. "I'm sorry we aren't allowed to do that without your authorized consultant. I again call consultant, no answer... left message that he's no longer considered. Call EMC back ask to speak to whoever is running their support services, get a message machine. Call EMC back to tell them to get their head out from their arse as my Exchange system is down and if it's not up by 9AM I'm calling the New York Attorney General, Microsoft and the law office of WD&M. I'm told to hold.
5:45AM - I hang up and get to work. I knew the bastards have fucked with my AD so I went looking, I got a Indian MS tech on the phone and after 2 hours we found each and every change made by the piece of shit program from EMC and corrected them. Oh uninstalling the replistore product did not help as their programmers seem to have missed the class in which your uninstall process is to leave the system in the state it was in before your software was installed.

By 9AM I was up and running, people unaware of the event and another example of why American tech support is losing is logged into my knowledge base.

In a nutshell we need to focus on productivity, not talk about it. We need to act, not outline. We need to deliverer not sit on a high horse and brag about the view.

I had an intern that was a computer / business major at Columbia. He wanted to work with me. I asked him one day what he though of some traffic coming over a certain UDP in my IDP logs... he looked at the print out, raised his head and asked, "What's UDP"?

Oh as a bonus for putting up with this long story; if you have an Asterisk based VOIP system and create a trunk to VOIPDISCOUNT.COM, you can call all over the world for free. Aren’t misconfigured servers great?

(Regarding the image, it is from Google. I don't know if the guy sucks at support or not. I don't even know if he supports his own family. All I know is the image reflects what in my mind is a view of an American support professional... one of them anyway.((Anyone care to guess why he places his nuts in the middle of this CRT flux zone?)) Requests to remove photos will be honored. Except for that frigging lizard man arse that wants to see us all dead)
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He has a dream: Lizards happily playing in a field of human skulls

I like science and I like trees, I could give a rat’s arse about lizards but can clearly see they have a place in the ecosystem of this planet. Now many ecologists will tell you this planet is doomed. Yes these esteemed first generation elders of a branch of science that is younger that that of psychology (and history shows psychology had a good deal of crackpots when it started out as well) will tell you they have it all figured out. From global warming to over population to disease control and species extinctions.... after all none of these things happened before man invented himself by bioengineering a few apes.

Yes mankind has had an impact on the planet and it's negative. But then any species that is well adapted to survive is as guilty as we in ratio relative to their survivability in their given ecosystem. To single out mankind as the single most threat as a species to this planet is the ranting of a fool. Now I do admit we have brains and should learn to use them a bit better. But there are many scientists that don’t agree with the doom and gloom bunch.

Now, I introduce to you the lizard man, Dr. Eric R. Pianka. He is indeed a Santa Claus looking mother fucker, but hold off on the lap sitting, Virginia. He doesn't seem to like people as you can see from his obituary (wait, the guy is not dead yet... but he has an obituary? Clearly we are not dealing with the sharpest scientist in the lab)

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Evaranus/obit.html

"Pianka spent nearly 10 years of his life living in the desert, often alone, and he liked to think of himself as a hermit and a desert rat. He spent 6 full years down under and at times, he was at one with the bushfly. He spent the last half of his life living in the Texas hill country in a "shack on Flat Creek," where he became known as "Tatonka Pianka."

Now what I wonder is how the fuck he became known as "Tatonka Pianka", unless he pulled the factoid out his lizard arse, given he prefers to hang out with non-humans. Perhaps being one with a fly enhanced the mans fondness for BullShit. Regardless we can see the living dead man is a bit in need of that sister discipline of science called psychiatry. What I am bit confused about is how the nut bag came to be a respected member of the scientific community, then again all I really have is the word of a few Texans. But his students seem to love him...

"Although this course was demanding, I now have a better idea of how ecology serves as an important subject in the evaluation of human behavior. This course was so thick with information concerning animals and lizards that the human race is threatening every day in exponential terms, it makes one really sad to realize how distant humans have evolved from other creatures on Earth. The behavior, survival and evolution of animals has strong correlations to humans. This class was a friendly reminder of that."

"Being of the same mindset as you, Dr. Pianka, I greatly appreciate your dedication to educating the university's undergrads about the plight of the earth and how wholly it is underscored by economic goals and successes. The only path to change is education."

I have a much greater empathy for those non-human creatures who are suffering. Much of the info you taught is swept under the rug by politicians and corporations, and I am sad that it took an upper division college course to show me how important this is. I watch commercials with fear seeing all the new disposable products I will not buy. I am not writing this because I did well in this class (I HOPE to get a C!). I was truly touched by your dogma."

"Though I agree that convervation biology is of utmost importance to the world, I do not think that preaching that 90% of the human population should die of ebola is the most effective means of encouraging conservation awareness."

Hmmm, it seems the last one is not quite one with the other bush flies...

Yes you heard it right the lizard man PREACHS that 90% of humanity should be falling down in agony with blood pouring from every orifice of their body. Since news of his preaching has come out a bit of a spin has been going on... and I offer up the man's (or is it a blowfly today?) own buzzing:

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/Everybody.html

I also offer up this balanced coverage of Dr. Doom and why he needs to go back to the desert and eat shit with fly family.... oh did I tell you he and his students have a DNA lab? Nothing like the state of Texas giving this crackpot access to impressionable minds, lab equipment and of course his dream of a healthy planet.

"Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets.

AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.

After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, “We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.”

With his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, Professor Pianka was deadly serious. The audience that had been applauding some of his statements now sat silent."

http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/editorial-p/index.html

We Don't Need No Stinkin Melting Pot

I’m not against immigration; in fact I’m for it. However, I’m against illegality in obtaining it. I have friends from Belarus, India, Dominican Republic, Israel and Saudi Arabia, all here legally and all happy to stir around in that thing called the Great American Melting Pot. None of these people feel compelled to give up their “heritage”. In fact New York City has sections that reflect communities from around the world. But each of these folks has learned English, has learned how we do business and adapted this to how they do such things.

Yet across the country I am seeing Mexican Flags and people who have broken the law crying out that they have rights. First off, if you have so much pride for the Mexican flag and feel wronged here, please exit and build your country into something worth waving a flag over. You were not invited here, you take our health care, have us educate your children and take entry levels jobs away from us by working for illegal wages. Then you insist we deal with you in your language. Now you tell us we can't wave OUR flag because it upsets you. Just so you clearly understand how this makes me feel... "besame culo"

I want a strong boarder and I want illegal’s tossed back across it. I understand that will take time but give our cops the authority to arrest them and in time they will be gone. I understand that each time we grant amnesty more will come. I understand that amnesty fraud will cost my children and their children, that our education system is already buckling from illegal’s ready to wave a Mexican flag at the first sign of asking them for accountability or legality. We have people from ALL over the world that want to come here. We have people willing to follow the rules to do so. Why should we allow someone who doesn’t obey the law into this country over those that will? We have become responsible for the welfare and care of Mexicans, because our congress is inept at securing our borders. Yet it is Mexico who holds that responsibility. Mexico needs to reform its wages, its management of resources and its wealth. Mexico needs to end the lawlessness of border towns, the kidnapping and the drugs. Mexico needs to stop sending their people here to keep its politicians fat.

I’m told we need illegals because Americans will not do the work they do. What horseshit. Who the fuck is creating a Hispanic subclass and why are these idiots in the streets waving flags to support them? My first job was washing dishes. I washed dishes until they saw I could do other things. I cooked, I waited tables, I became manager. I had a path that is being taken away from kids today because Bush and Fox want to give such work to a politically created subclass with its root in lawlessness.

As a kid I remember times my mother would come home from work with sunburn on her back from picking crops in the field. It’s only in my generation that jobs have been labeled by class and race. So if you want to go out and wave a frigging Mexican flag around to help create an American subclass go ahead, define racial roles and expectations, go ahead... meanwhile I’m jumping back into the melting pot. You can clean it when we’re done.

Ms. Baiter

Cynthia McKinney, the name is becoming synonymous with Bozo the clown. I guess rushing around full of the hot air of self importance can do that to you. Now put the race card away, it’s no good here. However if you have the sexist one handy, I will admit I think this thing is more about a bad hair day and PMS. The incident was not even news worthy, but it seems in an election year some politicians will use anything to get a bit of face time on the national tube. So seeing Cynthia don on some make-up, combing out her new do and making the talking head show circuit comes as no surprise, but when she turned this all into more of the race baiting she is famous for it got ugly. The crux of her argument is that she is just one of 14 black women so important that they should be recognized on sight regardless of dress or hair style. Now in my office we have only three women, all important IMO cause frankly, I like women. On two occasions I have mistaken one of these women for someone else after she radically changed her hair. In fact not a male among us, hasn't been side-swiped by a hair do. Women do some strange shit with their hair.

Now in DC we are having terror alerts. In the past 3 months I can re-call Congress being evacuated at least twice. That a police officer asked an “unsub” (gotta love that police lingo) to stop and then reached out to grab them when they didn’t was business as usual. Frankly Cynthia should have thanked the man for doing his duty as she identified herself.

Now I’m not as famous as Cynthia nor have I changed my hair in years but I do enter into an office building that is guarded by security staff. They all know me, I know them. But if I came in on a Saturday without my ID I would not be allowed in, period... nothing to do about race, but everything to do about security. I know cause this happened once a few years ago. Of course I couldn't tell you the color of the security guard's skin as I can't remember, being it had nothing to do with race but everything to do with security.

Maybe Cynthia didn’t get the election year memo that her party was supposed to the one about security...

Dutch Apple Pie

Apple (AAPL). Yesterday I’m going about my business when one of the traders is calling me over. “Mickey, my frigging blackberry isn’t working”. He hands me the unit and I just stare at it. It’s a 7290, less than 45 days old and it looks like a hair lipped dog chewed it for lunch and crapped it out after dinner. No, I didn’t bitch slap him with the unit but I did sarcastically praise the care he gave to our equipment. Now as most sentient beings are aware of, 80% of Blackberry problems are solved by flipping off the back, taking out the battery and rubbing it three times on your left ass cheek before putting it back together. Needless to say the trader had an issue with the flipping off the back part which only goes to show that the increased dexterity of the Nintendo generation is but a myth. However as I was walking away from his desk he winked and glanced over at his Bloomberg screen, “You probably haven’t heard but Apple just released boot camp, you can do windows on Macs, it’s up 6 points”. I reflected on this and gave him the quick answer, “you’re an idiot”.

Apple has always been more of a cult then a market share. Mac users tend to travel in groups lead by a Mac evangelist and read magazines in which anything stated by Steve Jobs is in bold red. The role of Steve Wozniak tends to confuse them however much like Catholics when asked to define the Holy Ghost. Anyway, Apple came on the scene with a 1984 Super Bowl ad that tossed a large hammer into the Big Blue (IBM) dominated work paradigm. This event has made the Super Bowl a vast wasteland of technology upstarts and the bane of venture capital ever since. Apple would later make a rebel yell showcasing a commercial in which blindfolded office workers would walk up a cliff only to fall into the Intel abyss. The cult ate this crap up and the Mac was the counterculture workstation and the engine behind many a manifesto.

Now let’s move forward many years. Job’s had went off and wondered the desert and Wozniak headed to the stars with SpaceShip One. A new device called the iPod made Apple cool again and Job was back earning his dollar a year salary. New machines were spinning out with 64-bit speed daemons from IBM…. Oh wait I forgot to tell you, IBM is no longer the bad guy of 1984. This had been the decree by the evangelists when Apple switched from the Motorola processor to IBM. True, the move made years of software development obsolete along with much hardware but hey… the faithful slowly bought new stuff and snuggly moved on knowing at least they were still better then the Intel crowd.

About the time you could get anything to connect to an iPod, up to and including a nose hair trimmer, the evangelists started crying fowl as rumors of yet another impending doom appeared. Another generation of software and hardware was being called to be sacrificed on the alter of Apple. But this time the move would bring the evils of Intel to the Mac and frankly never in my life have I had so much fun fucking with Mac users. Many of the Mac faithful are forming colonies of IBM only units and getting ready to help each other until the day the “G5+” descends from heaven.

With me so far? So Apple has gone Intel and the spin starts. While they use Intel chips they will use it "differently" than a PC. They will not have a "BIOS", no O/S other than theirs will run on their machines and their software will be "better". Now this is like promising the geek community that the first one that can break this will get a date with a real live girl, that puts out. Oh wait let me back up a bit. The Apple user base is full of idiots; I’ve yet to meet a geek that only used a Mac. Case in point, O/S X is UNIX based and hardly any Mac hacks take advantage of this nor has the community tried to use Macs for Linux. Two months ago screen shots of the new Macs running Windows started to spread across the net like Courtney Love panty shots. Faced with such hacks we now see Apple is giving the public this gift of “Bootcamp”.

The sweet spot for AAPL is near. However I do see one thing that could save the company; release O/S X to run on ANY PC. (Before the hackers do)

Spring lifts up her skirt: Reveals wool panties

Ok, so I’m working… busy morning. We have this video conference with folks in the Central Time Zone that don’t quite have concept of time zones down. They call to postpone the meeting and as I finish re-scheduling the room and circuit they call back to explain their error and request we go with the original plan… no sweat. But as I walk by the trading room and glance out the window I see frigging snow! Not some little flake snow but the big frigging kind that would make great beer coasters, and they are just floating around in that way you need to be a least 30 floors up to see. Needless to say I was not the only one cussing over this. It was only a few hours earlier as I commuted in, that I had noticed the cherry trees on West Street were in bloom. Before I give the matter much more attention I was getting calls from London. I get off the phone look out the windows and it’s a frigging sunny spring day. April can be such a tease.

Oh My Blog... I've come back

Ok. I’ve had a few blogs before and tried to go more the interactive route. Problem is frankly, the internet is full of liars and folks that expect you to serve tea out your arse as you entertain or baby-sit them. So let’s get this out of the way. I don’t want to be your friend, email buddy, chat room sex partner, help your aunt get her needed surgery or finance “the next big thing.” I have nothing to sell. My only goal is to post, rant, opine and make observations. In many ways this is masturbatory, only my enjoyment really matters and I'll know when I'm done.

I can and will change my position on any given issue as the facts, as I see them… warrant. I can be wrong and I will make mistakes, but I will be both honest and true to myself in my posts, and in my actions. This is not the New York Times, the Daily News or even a journal of any sort.

It’s a frigging blog… in a New York frame of Mind