What an irritating day today. This morning, my husband's computer was attacked by one of those bloody anti-virus programs that attacks and takes over your computer in order to get you to buy the attacker's software to cure what it gave you. He always makes me deal with computer stuff, although he works on his about 18 hours a day, but it is a typewriter for him. So all my plans for the day fell through. I dealt with the attack by downloading a different virus doctor, but there was another virus in his computer that had been attaching itself to so many files for who knows how long, that when the infected files were stripped, it affected almost every program and now nothing works without a ton of lost files and runtime errors.
I should have tried a restore point first. Afterward, that would not work. So, it's about time for him to have a replacement for his Dell instead of me wasting a bunch of money at a computer store, so I ordered one, and now am pulling off all his documents and photos. I'm sure the whole "change the iPod" thing will cause him to go into a swoon, but that can't be helped.
I did buy him a Dell with an XP downgrade. I hate Vista like the ringworm. It renders a computer nearly useless.
Meanwhile, Democrats are still self-destructing all over the place:
Listen to what Texas Democrat, lipless Lloyd Doggett has to say about democracy breaking loose in his district to the Wall Street Journal in this story:
Some Democrats who have seen the sharpest attacks say that has made them more determined not to back away from public meetings. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D., Texas), who was recently heckled over health care at a supermarket, said he would attend a veterans-center opening, a community-health event and a meeting with Austin public school teachers in coming days.
"The apparent focus was to kind of create this impression that you could run me [and] supporters of this out of Dodge," he said. "That's not what is going to happen."
Lloyd, you old reprobate, you can stay in Dodge, but you just can't stay in Congress.
A nice long piece from the Canada Free Press:
The Obama administration has cynically tried to hijack the Town Hall by transforming into a one way series of meetings, in which enthusiastic carefully chosen citizens voice their approval of his proposed policies. That is not an American Town Hall, it is a Soviet party meeting. In a Town Hall meeting, citizens question their elected representatives. At a party meeting, they give them their wholehearted approval. But it is a part of a pattern for the Obama administration, which works to put an All-American stamp on its un-American program.
Have you ever wondered what it's like, all cooped up inside a Trojan horse? See this.
NewsBusters found a great CSPAN caller:
LEAH IN MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Hi, yeah, I just wanted to clarify a few things about these "manufactured, angered crowds." I've never been politically active in my life. I've never done anything like go to a protest ever. I started going to protests, these Tea Parties back on the Fourth of July, and the reason that you're seeing the numbers grow and swell and become bigger and bigger is not only because of the healthcare legislation, but like you said earlier, all these massive bills, thousands of pages long that are passed with almost no debate, no time for us to see what's in it, in direct controvertion (sp) of what was promised about transparency and a near era and we're going to know what we're doing in advance. I see, I see politicians admit on TV that they can't read it, that they can't understand it because of its complexity. Lawyers who are writing these bills say they need lawyers to tell them what's in the bill.
Now, when I watch the news people stand here and tell me that I am a member of a hired mob, that I've been called up by the Republican Party, they only wish they could have done something like this. I've never been contacted by any organized group. This is an organic movement, and when people stand there, and lie to me about what I know is going on, how can I trust them when they tell me it's going to save money when the Congressional Budget Office says it isn't? That it's going to cover everybody when the Congressional Budget Office says it isn't? That it's going to let me keep my, my healthcare when common sense tells you that's not what's going to be the end result of this when the government ends up providing all the healthcare which the man who wrote the bill in the beginning says. Go watch it, Jacob Hacker who wrote this says that in time, and President Obama said it, we will all be swallowed up in this government plan.
When people lie to us, we don't trust them when they give us platitudes about what's in the bill.
ROB HARRELL, C-SPAN "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" HOST: Leah, are you planning to, are there any town halls planned in your area, in your neck of the woods?
LEAH: No, my, my Congressmen are afraid. Now they won't even come out and meet us face-to-face. They want to do some phony telephone thing so that we can't judge their facial expressions. We can't say with a follow-up question, "I'm sorry, that didn't answer my question. Could you please?" You know, yes people are getting angry. That doesn't mean it's fake. That means it's real. And by the way, about the caller who says it's all racial, the only person I've seen that's been attacked, physically attacked, is a black man who was attacked by SEIU, and he says they were black. So, I'm getting tired of the race card. I'm getting tired of the lies. I'm getting tired of the media not telling us what's in these bills but giving us a bunch of "Republicans says this, Democrats say that." I don't care.
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What about that pesky CBO that Leah cited? They're at it again!
Ending with a a nice photo of Baby Jane Doe:
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