Vice President 'they gonna put you back in chains'

Crap!

I voted five times for Opus and he didn't get snot!

I mean, after all, he was the executive assistant to Steve Dallas for a long time.  Anybody holding that job could certainly be the vice president to the pile of dogstuff that is in the white house now.

I knew that Bil the Cat was a lost cause, especially after he followed Jackson in that skin lightening bit, but I thought surely the electorate would see the necessity of dropping ol' 'they gonna put you back in chains' Biden.

And then I found out that if someone voted for dogstuff, they were voting for 'they gonna put you back in chains' too. Damn, what a letdown.

Oh, well, only 1,496 days until we are delivered from old dogstuff.

Unless the Mayans were on to something.  Then only five days!

Tanstaafl Non Grata

The following was in my Draft File.  I thought I had deleted it long ago.

It's original date was 16 Sep 2011.

I'm publishing under today's date, just to let those who never knew just what happened that I wasn't posting to the HD anymore.



Over the course of the past several months, I have had a dialog with an editor at the Herald-Dispatch concerning the deletion of large numbers of my posts on their now defunct Forums, and their current Article Comments area. These have not been pleasant items of correspondence, nor have they been elucidative of usable information.

I was accused of using a racial slur concerning the President of the US (I used the name Mutt for him - as he did himself in well-documented videos and print reports - actually published in the H-D as a matter of fact.) I was told that my post was too long (but those of another with whom I was having the discussion was some eight hundred words longer than mine and his was not deleted.)
And when I questioned that particular explanation, I was told that the editors did not know what the problem was and offered to republish my post IF I would retype it into the system.

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So, the days creep slowly by.  The acrimony became more and more intense.  And I finally said to myself, "Let's get it over with."

There came a day when about six different comments were sent and all were removed by the editors, except one ,  which did not meet their "rules".  I sent an e-mail congratulating them for removing all but the one which plainly did NOT meet their rules.

I received a nasty e-mail back, and the war was on.  I knew I would lose access, but I didn't give a damn.

So I checked the paper the next day, and there was a comment on a letter which took the paper to task for boosting Tomblin as Governor and Kessler for Senate President. I sent in a comment that "One damned Democrat was as bad  as another."  Of course, it was removed, but not until it had been there for a day and a half.

I hee-hawed to myself and re-posted it verbatim.  Removed.  Re-posted.  Removed.

By this time I was tired of them not doing anything and sent a post - cannot quote exactly but gist was- "go ahead and remove it again, get it over with, ban me from posting.  Come on, do it, that is what you DUMBOCRATS want anyway."

I got my requested action.

But then I began sending in letters to the editor - and every one that I sent was published.  But I got tired of that pretty quick, and the election blarney was beginning to heat up so I just stopped.

Holy Jumpin' JHC Amighty

Just back on line, trying to get back to this blog--took about four tries, three e-mails and one broken pencil (I got a leetle teed-off!!).

I fail to understand why these geeko's think that changing everything around is an improvement.

I went through their switching to gmail, their changes related to first one thing and then the next, but I cannot say that any of those changes made anything any faster (indeed, it slowed everything up) or easier to use (contrariwise, everything is now on a hunt for a button system that only geekers are familiar with.

I don't use Undo or redo - Hell, I type it the way I want it to begin with!

I don't give a rat's red  ruby rear end what font it is I am using - just plain old typing is fine with me.  If someone wants to juggle with it, let them be the one who needs to know how!

Now, bold, italic and underline are usable, for most author's.  I don't use them however, but they don't get a diss from me.  Not yet, anyway.

But, strikethrough?  What in the name of good billy Hell is that for?  If I need to strike through something, I'll just edit it out completely.

Color or background color?  Useless as teats on a boar hog.

Images?  Videos?  Never use'em.  Never have, never will. 

Jump break?  Useless to me!   Alignment?  I do it myself, I'm a middlin' good typist. 

Numbered list - bullet list?  What in Hell for?  Are people REALLY that damned lazy?

Quote?  Hey, it is right there beside the internal ENTER key.

And, remove formatting?  You know, tabs, space bars, etc. have a purpose.

And even worse, CHECK SPELLING!  Jesus, if you cannot spell, your writing is not good enough to read anyway.

But the very worst was, that the system did NOT remember my correct log-in or password.  I had to remind it.

Please, if you geekies are gonna make more changes to BLOGGER, let us have a vote first.