Apology or not, now she can start to see what she has started.

Check out this Fox News clip of someone joking about killing Barack Obama.

How disgusting.

Citing the assassination of Bobby Kennedy as a reason to stay in the race shows several things:

1. Such poor judgement, she is not qualified to be President of the United States
2. Near criminal activity. To even mention the possibility that someone might assassinate Obama puts her as suspect #1 should such a horrible event occur, if not culpable.

Combine this with her over 30 million campaign debt and Hillary Clinton has proven that she is nowhere near a viable candidate for the Presidency of the United States.

Update:Here is a video of her statement: Video

Update:Keith Olbermann calls Hillary out. You really want to watch this.

Sometimes, a beautiful statement can be made from the dreadful loss of life:

Mosaic of Cheney and Bush made from the photos of 4,000 dead soldiers

I have been hearing about netipots for two months or so, and as someone who has always had allergies, taken medication, worn masks in the yard and soon to have a new kitty, I am interested in any solution to allergy relief.

So a netipot is just a pot - some look like aladdin’s lamp, others more like pots, with the spout the right size to fit in your nostril.

You basically wash your nasal passages with a salt based solution, using gravity only.

The trick is finding a good solution with the proper temperature of water.

My first attempt, using a NeilMed netipot and their solution, was near perfect, except the water was not quite warm enough. Too cold and it feels a little like drowning. Warmer water cures that.

The results? Even with this cold, I am fully clear and breathing easier than even without a cold.

I think I will do this before I go to bed, and in the am, just to see how it keeps me clean. The concept is to repair the nasal hairs with moisture, while washing out the gunk, dust, bacteria, mucous that might be in your nose.

You are not sniffing at all, as that might draw solution into your ears. Rather, you tilt your head forward and to the side, run the solution from the high nostril and out the lower one it comes. Repeat with 50% solution on the other side.

Here is some guy’s video of the process:

What a great game. Pricey at $170, you get a wireless guitar¹, a set of 4 drums with foot pedal and a mic.

So you get to play solo as a drummer, singer, guitarist or bassist. Add some friends and you can form a band, go on tour, earn fans and get new stuffages.

I just unlocked “Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld.” How freakin’ cool is that?

I can’t do 100% on any song in Easy mode yet. Sometimes there are too many notes for me to keep up, other times there are notes on the up beat and my lack of musical sense triggers a brain freeze.

However, when I do complete a hard section, it is a really awesome rush of fun and it makes me look forward to getting better and playing on the harder levels.

We like this game so much we’ve already bought some more songs. My Sharona wore a blister on my thumb. I’m now taped up.

Rock Band for the PS 3 gets an A+.

[1]: I think the xbox guitar is wired, but for my PS3 it is wireless.

I am late to the game checking it out. Email me your ids, mine is geeksrus. Original, eh?

Any good clients to use other than the website?

Wired’s Interview with UMG’s Doug Morris is an eye opener.

It amazes me how set in their old ways these executives are and why they are causing the music industry to fail.

I won’t go on and on, read it yourself, but consider this paragraph:

“It was only a couple of years ago that we said, What’s going on here?’ Really, an album that someone worked on for two years — is that worth only $9, $10, when people pay two bucks for coffee in Starbucks?” Morris sighs. “People never really understand what’s happening to the artists. All the sharing of the music, right? Is it correct that people share their music, fill up these devices with music they haven’t paid for? If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would you be willing to pay for Coca-Cola? There you go,” he says. “That’s what happened to the record business.”

Coke sells water to people, even though the water in the tap is perfectly fine (here in Portland, Or at least).

I think I just blew a hole through that analogy.

No, Mr. Morris, it is not the Internet that killed your industry. Your crappy artists, your crappy albums and your crappy ability to see what we want killed your industry.

We need arts and entertainment as humans, but we most certainly don’t need yours.

Elizabeth and I ran around shopping. I’ve been in ‘organize the house’ mode this summer, trying to make sure we have places for stuff so that when we move, we already know where things should go.

If you didn’t know, Bed Bath and Beyond has turned into “As Seen on TV.” I got the toilet cleaner thing a couple weeks ago, but today netted us:

Hercules Hooks

Ok for $15 I got 10 hooks and a cheap LED leveler, which actually works very well.

The hooks are amazing. They work exactly as advertised. I used them to hang my old bathroom shelves, which with normal huge drywall plugs and screws took 20+ minutes. These took under 2, including the leveling.

The hooks do not have good strength when being pulled away the wall, so we’ll see how they work for shelves, as if you pull outward on the shelve, the shelve tilts forward a little.

However, the hooks have great vertical strength. The more you push down, the more the back end digs into the back of the wall.

The leveler came with plastic tack to hold it on the wall, and two tacks. I just made my first hole, then used the hook to hold the leveler to the wall on the right end, then use the plastic tack to hold it level. A second hook gets inserted, remove the first, insert and hang.

Done.

Next, from the same huckster, got:

Zorbeez

This block of 10 cloths (6 jumbo, 4 large) absorb a ton of liquid. I picked them up for cleaning the windshields, etc when using RainX. I have yet to try that out, but they worked great at drying off stainless with zero spotting.

JFC - Yes it has an acronym.

It is about what would happen if Christ walked a modern day Earth.

It was fantastic.

I don’ even believe in organized religion but this show was fantastic.

Write HBO.

Tell whatever idiot cancelled this show to bring it back.

Seriously, Kyle.

Elizabeth rocks! She has been using the older MacBook Pro to play WoW on and check the web, and now we’ve moved her iTunes off her old PC to the Mac.

She went out and bought a WD Passport 160gb travel drive which is super light and super quiet. It is USB 2.0 only, but that is fine.

Now we’re using that to back up her entire Mac. How can I not love a woman who buys her own hard disks?

So if anyone had any question that this war is about Oil, Money and Power, and nothing else, listen to Dick Cheney talk about why they didn’t go to Baghdad in 1994.

Then compare it to what has happened in this war.

They knew! They knew what would happen! Yet they did it anyway.

If I was a military family member I’d be even more irate than I am.

Watch Cheney

1. Attack Iraq because they have Weapons of Mass Destruction
2. Remove their leader, who actually didn’t like Al-Qaeda, tho he was a bastard, evil man.
3. Set the country into civil war
4. Allow Al-Qaeda to move into Iraq where they have much more room than in Afghanistan (Don’t charge them more rent btw)
5. July, 2007 announce you want to stay in Iraq 2 more years “to defeat Al-Qaeda where they have taken up headquarters,” which of course you master minded.
6. Prove yourself more ignorant than even simple minded web bloggers like myself
7. Do all of this while destroying the Constitution, which you think is a property on a Monopoly board

mmmm yes our economy is strong, Mr. Bush.

1 USD = 1.03621 CAD

Way to go. Keep dumping money in Iraq and moving all business to China. We’ll be third world in 25 years if not 5.

Americans, it really is time to wake up and realize we’ve been fucked by this choice of administration.

Ok its not bionic, but this is an amazing, wonderful invention. It uses no batteries, no power source. Wow.

Read about this device and be sure to watch the video on the page.

I hate to say it, but we’ve put up with so much disregard for our country’s laws, for the respect of other people in this world and now President Bush has pulled the final straw out of his failed Presidency.

According to CNN, President Bush has commuted Lewis Libby’s prison sentence.

Mr. Libby was found guilty of perjury by a Federal Court.

President Bush says his friend got an “excessive” sentence and will pay financially and professionally as it is.

And? Don’t you think, President Bush, that each and every person in prison feels the same way? Of course they do. But the rest of this country’s prisoners don’t have a President as a friend, let alone a President who has time and time again shown disrespect for the office he was elected to by abusing presidential signings and now, a commutation of a prison sentence for his friend.

I don’t write much here about the political situation in this country but enough is enough.

I am not a fan of wielding the impeachment sword but this President has proven he likes to play by different rules than the rest of us, has no respect for our country’s laws and thus it is time to go.

Waiting for 2008 is a mistake.

Thanks to Elizabeth’s mom for this tip, cheap $20 ottomans that have storage inside. Picked up two black ottomans!

Elizabeth took me downtown for the weekend. We rode MAX to Pioneer Square, shopped for crocs (they were hosting a well life event it turns out) and we headed to a very nice hotel. Her plan? No phones, no computers, not a single luxury, like Robinson Crusoe… Anyway, we walked from downtown to the Pearl for lunch, had a great dinner and just spent time together.

While it was “just downtown,” it was perfect. No long drive, just hop on the MAX and we were home. We slept for 11 hours. We did unmentionables. It was fantastic.

This is the woman I have longed for. Thirteen months. Amazing, eh?

Happy Anniversary

Google has added the ability to add your own maps! You can add search results, edit the text, etc, add photos, what not.

I have started my own map of the northwest here: Map

The URL is ugly, I hope they come up with a better scheme.

My 7 year old Royal AG-X10 finally died after I whacked the top to loosen some paper. A component on the circuit board blew out, so I went on a hunt. I didn’t like anything I found online and all reviews were bad.

While at Fred Meyer, I found a Fellowes DS-2 on sale for $60 so I picked one up. It is fairly nice with a larger basket, a lift handle, can do credit cards but not CDs and if you touch the shredder opening, it stops. It also has a opening in front for dropping in clippings.

I tossed a bag inside of it (which obscures the window showing how full it is) and shredded a few items - Quiet and quick. We’ll see how long it lasts, but for this price, I can buy a new one yearly for five years and still be cheaper than the cost of a higher rated unit.

What does it look like inside your computer when you are watching pornography? These new exclusive photos reveal the answer to this decades old mystery!

NSFW: Diode Sex