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March 28th, 2007

This Day In History March 28, 2007

By fmragtops

1797 - Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine. His wife was so pissed * he didn’t invent a diamond ring, box of chocolates, or bouquet of roses.

1930 - The cities of Constantinople and Angora changed names to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Muslims were outraged.

1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended. Like the French, Spain surrendered to itself.

1941 - Soon after reading one of her own books, author Virginia Woolf drowned herself.

1979 - Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania…So that’s what’s wrong with FIAR!

2000 - Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person. Later that day, all 9 Justices were arrested on their way home.

2007 - Fmragtops decides to pull the plug on Fmragtops.com…No that’s not a joke. I thought about holding off until April 1, and doing the April Fools Joke that wasn’t an April Fools Joke, and that would be the joke. That’s just too weird.

Seriously, folks, I’m hanging up the keyboard. At least from the perspective of having my own blog. I’ll still visit and comment, and FIAR said I was still welcome to guest post over there, so I won’t be completely gone. Just forgotten.

Oh, you want to know why I’m hanging it up? Well, simply I just don’t have enough time to blog anymore. You may have already noticed that. Between school, kids, a fast approaching wedding, and…ummm…wait, there was something else on that list….OH YEAH! work. Between all those things I just don’t have enough time. It’s just a matter of having to pull one of the irons out of the fire. Blogging is the least important of all the irons. In a few weeks my hosting subscription will run out, and I imagine this place will disappear into the ether. I could be wrong about that though because I am complete computer idiot.

While I am effectively resigning the blog, it may not be forever. The one thing that stays the same is that everything changes. I may very well decide to come back one day when my situation changes.

Until then, I thank you all for stopping by, pimping my blog, and visiting my friends on my blog roll. Do me a favor, a last request if you will, browse my “Blogs I Read” blogrolls in the left sidebar, and find at least one of those guys to take my place on your blogroll.

Later, y’all, thanks for all the good times, and fond memories.

* edited by fmragtops to make more sense.

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March 23rd, 2007

This Day In History March 23, 2007

By fmragtops

1775 - Patrick Henry declared “Give me liberty, or give me death.” This bold statement led to today’s Democratic slogan: “Give me liberty or not!”

1806 - Having discovered the most likely places to put trailer-parks, Lewis and Clark began their return journey east.

1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his own party in Italy, the Fasci di Combattimento, which is Italian for “Stewie’s Sexy Party“.

1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proposed a space-based missile defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative or “Star Wars.” Contract negotiations with Darth Vader broke down causing the program to be scrapped.

1998 - The motion picture epic “Titanic” won 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards, tying it with “Ben-Hur” for the most ever. Sure evidence the Oscars are bullshit.

2001 - Russia’s Mir space station ended its 15-year orbit of the Earth, splashing down in the South Pacific. It ran out of gas.

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March 22nd, 2007

On This Day In History: March 22, 2007

By fmragtops

1765 - The Stamp Act was enacted on the American colonies by Britain. Shortly thereafter, the colonies enacted a stomp act on Britain’s ass.

1894 - The first Stanley Cup championship game was played. Nobody watched that one either.

1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris. France immediately surrendered.

1945 - The Arab League was formed in Cairo, by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. As usual, muslims were outraged.

1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. A bunch of crazy people killed themselves because they thought the comets passing would signal the end of the world. That was the punchline.

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March 21st, 2007

Ding Dong The Bitch Is Dead…

By fmragtops

Well, not really, but Louisiana Governor, Kathleen Blabineaux-Bunko has decided not to seek a second term as governor. That’s close enough. She’s embarrassed herself, her state, her very gender to the point where after politics, she will be completely irrelevant. She’ll be to the office of Governor in Louisiana what William Henry Harrison is to the office of the POTUS.

Since the incumbent is not running, the march of populists has started. Louisiana still has a taste for the “good ole boy” politicians that promise to be fer the werkin’ mayin while taxin’ the sheeit out of evil businesses, sons a bitches they are. Candidate Foster Campbell is going to try to work up a number six on ‘em. That’s where he rides into Baton Rouge, repealing all the sales and income taxes in sight. ‘Cept, of course, fer the oil companies. He’s gonna rape the sheeit out of ‘em back at the number six dance.

Has Louisiana actually smartened up? I’m not sure. I was really hoping Blabineaux-Bunko would run again. I figured her performance in the election would be a good litmus test of how much smarter Louisianians are after watching the tragic events of hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the twisted, dark, comedy of errors that followed. I don’t think crack-whores beg more for money than Louisiana politicians did after Katrina and Rita. My two kids don’t blame other people for their misbehavior more than Louisiana politicians did after Katrina.

Now, former US Senator, John Breaux (D-LA), is considering running. The only problem is after the hurricanes, he moved to Maryland, and registered to vote there. He effectively relinquished his Louisiana citizenship. Luckily for him, Louisianians don’t much care fer that high-fellutin’ piece of paper, The Looooosiana Constitution.

Breaux will be a force to be reckoned with, even though he’s another dose of more of the same. He has the reputation of standin’ by the werkin mayin while dat Ray-gun sumbitch was screwin’ the werkin mayin. Then again, he endorsed Chris John as his successor, and Chris John lost to Repuiblican David Vitter. Maybe he isn’t that big a force after all.

You may be asking the burning question, “Fm, who are you supporting?” Well, there are many intriguing candidates. There is independent, Tony “Tony G” Gentile. He’s not a career politician, but he has too much class warfare rhetoric for my taste. On top of that, he’s kind of goofy lookin’ and I don’t know if the average Louisianian would vote for somebody that’s goofy lookin’. Hell they wouldn’t vote fer that brown feller.

Then there is Libertarian T. Lee Horne. He is freakin’ loon. He’s opposed to the death penalty for anyone that “has only been proven to have killed once.” Well, dumbass, learn how Louisiana law works before you run for governor, mmkay? In Louisiana, unless you kill someone while committing an “enumerated felony” like burglary, armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, etc. or kill more than one person at once, it’s not a capital crime, douchebag. Of course he has all the anti-drug war rhetoric of most libertarians. If they would just lose that whole “you can’t legislate morality”, holier than thou bullshit, I might consider changing party affiliations. Plus, I’m for killing more people. I will never support an anti-death penalty candidate.

My vote will be with Jindal. He’s conservative, he’s been fighting for Louisiana to get more off-shore energy revenue, and he doesn’t sound like a tard, hippie, or commie. Well, that’s my take on it anyway.

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March 19th, 2007

On This Day In History March 19, 2007…

By fmragtops

…Fmragtops posted something. I know what you’re thinking. “Oh crap, I thought he was dead. I guess I lost the office pool. Hey, at least my Final Four is still intact.” Well, maybe not exactly that, but I’m sure it was similar.

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March 10th, 2007

This Day In History March 10

By fmragtops

1861 - The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution. This document secured the freedoms of watching NASCAR, listening to Tim McGraw, and the use of Copenhagen.

1888 - A torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888, the most famous snowstorm in American history. It caused more than 400 deaths. The fact that this hasn’t happened again in over a century is proof that Al Gore is a douchebag.

1930 - William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. It was also the first time a crane was used in the burial of a president.

1941- President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Bill. That bastard didn’t tell us about that huge balloon payment at the end.

1942 - General Douglas MacArthur leaves the Philippines saying, “I’ll Be Back.”

1993 - Janet Reno won unanimous Senate confirmation to be the first U.S. Attorney General of an ambiguous gender.

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March 10th, 2007

Ubuntu

By fmragtops

Tyler D asked “What does your Linux distro look like?”

Well this is mine

I’m still pretty new to Ubuntu, so I haven’t done a whole lot of customization. I’m still learning how to make it do what I want it to do.

UPDATE: Now that I have a little more free time, here’s a little more info about my system. I’m running Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” for AMD64 processor. I have only been running it for two weeks, and I haven’t had a lot of time to do all I want to do in it.

Since I am running an AMD 64 bit processor, it was kind of a pain in the ass to install flash since Adobe’s newest flasplayer isn’t made to be compatible with the 64 version of Linux. A little research and a little caffeine, and I got it working.

It was also kind of funky to make the HP printer drivers work in 64 version as well. Even with the little extra work that I have to do because of my processor, I’m thoroughly satisfied with Ubuntu. Thanks, my computer-geeky blogging buddies, I could have never done it without you.

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March 9th, 2007

On This Day In History March 9, 2007

By fmragtops

1848 - Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This treaty hired the maid for the House of Representatives.

1876 - The first telephone call was made by Alexander Graham Bell. The words spoken by Mr. Bell were “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.” Of course Mr. Watson Responded “Not tonight, I have a headache.”

1948 - The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia’s anti-Communist foreign minister was found. He was stabbed 16 times, shot five times in the stomach and was found hanging from a tree by a noose. The KGB reportedly called it “The worst case of suicide we’ve ever seen.”

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March 8th, 2007

Time For A Sexy Party!!!

By fmragtops

I reached 25,000 hits, yay me! I actually think it was RT that was number 25,000 since it was coming from New Joisey at 8:30 pm using Verizon Network. Not to mention the referring URL was http://allrtee-publicpondering.blogspot.com/ I just want to thank everybody for continuing to read my dribble. Now, I’m off to bed, where I will lie awake, and ponder how truly minuscule a number 25,000 really is. Goodnight, and God bless.

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March 8th, 2007

Libby Conviction

By fmragtops

There isn’t much need in beating a dead horse. Sweetness and Light has a transcription and a link to the audio of Armitage doing his best impression of a sieve, or a submarine with a screen door. I don’t think there is much else to be said.

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