I remember how Cons like him got the “mainstream” media to run an obscure Colorado professor named Ward Churchill into the dirt, just because they could. Yet O’Keefe pals around with white supremacists and that same “mainstream” press yawns and looks the other way.

Thersday! If it walks like a fuckwit, talks like a fuckwit, and looks like a fuckwit, it probably is a fuckwit! Let the virtual lynching commence.

Zed?

Funny how that works, isn’t it?

Nope. Hey ‘pups.

Dr. Dick, I found out what my problem with Blackboard was.

how long, oh Lord, how long, will smarmy little wingnuts be accused of bigotry solely for acting like bigots?

Until they are convicted.

Any word of a trial date for Mr. O’Keefe?

No chalk?

He wasn’t trying to find out if the Senator was dumping phone calls. This guy is dirty and he was setting her up for something bigger than that. Follow the money.

You had the Urdu wrong?

It’s Japanese, not Urdu, and you have to say it backwards.

No, actually, Blackboard will not release quiz results until all students have taken the quiz. I had a couple of students I had to make special dispensation for. So, I gave those students until 9 tomorrow to git’r'done.

I really hate Blackboard.

There’s gonna be a trial?

I’ll believe it when I see it.

And God knows, if you get the Urdu wrong the whole thing can turn into a Farsi.

Oh dear dog. It is its own world isn’t it? They really do make it unduly complicated in a lot of places, in the least transparent ways possible, and are not real good at telling you what you need to do to get things done.

LOL!

An unimportant bit of trivia. In the American System, a conservative is considered innocent until convicted of martyrdom at the hands of the Liberal Media.

That fun fact is apparently nowhere in the documentation, at least according to our Blackboard guru. He told me that the only reason he knew that fun fact is that he encountered it and called Blackboard on it. I’ve got his number on speed dial now.

Especially if caught red-handed in the midst of a major felony, with the whole thing on video.

Peterr, you really should make that PSA and put it up on the intertoobz.

Why don’t they just plead guilty and throw themselves on the mercy of some Bush-appointed Federal Judge?

Yeah. They really, really like to omit minor little details like that from the documentation and dog help you if you try to deal with their “tutorials”.

You would think, wouldn’t you? Especially in Louisiana.

You mean, why don’t they just call dad?

Because they’re all innocent, dammit, innocent!

And a Senator on the Homeland Security committee, no less. Where are Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell’s rants about this? Where are the calls to move his case to a military tribunal?

Now that Blackboard has a total monopoly these sorts of minor problems will be ironed out promptly, I’m sure.

I’ll leave the actual production to professionals.

If Comedy Central would like to make it, or SNL, they have my expressed written permission.

I have better ways to waste time than look at any other Blackboard tutorial.

If they’d gotten into that phone system, they could possibly intercept calls and send them to their own operators who would tell callers God knows what. Or they could make calls appear to come from her office, make them appear to be raising money for her brother’s mayoral race, all kinds of dirty tricks out there.

But that would mean they’d have to actually know what they were doing.

Can I have some of the drugs you’re taking? They must be really good…

*Insane cackle*

Thank God that this time Watergate was executed by the Beagle Boys.

Thanks for having brightened my future no end, given that I am doomed to teaching one online class with Blackboard every semester for at least the next year and probably forever.

Oh, and Mr. O’keefe’s employer of record Mr. Blartfart is meltingdown on the Twitter thingy. The treasonous basterds at Sadly,No are loving every moment.

I hear they’ve hired the debugging crew that worked on Windows Vista.

As much as I am not a fan of the Louisana Senator I think burning some green cedar branches to smoke the bad spirits out of her office is called for.

That really was rather epic, wasn’t it?

ACK! See mine at 32.

Yes, but won’t that evict her as well?

PS – That is culturally correct for the region as well.

and still on-going!

I love it when wingnuts self destruct in public like that.

Now that’s reassuring, Peter. I won’t sleep at all tonight.

Is the typo (politcal) in the title intentional?

He’s their Medea Benjamin.

Hey now, as a beagle owner I must protest!
But yeah, you’re right.

Just like the students who have til 9AM to finish your quiz?

We just found out last month that when our expensive specialized software crashes, it’s because there’s something wrong in the data. We’ve only been using it for a year and a half.
(There’s some other stuff we’ve found out that wasn’t properly documented – heck, their documentation is almost short enough for a diary – but now that we know what’s wrong, we can deal with it.)

At last in attempting to sabotage Mary Landrieu they were targeting a fellow conservative.

*snerk*
(Why I didn’t get Vista for my computers)

So let me make sure I understand. You’re supposed to manipulate the data?

Which is only one of the many things about this crime that suggests the perpetrators were…and I mean this in the kindest, gentlest terms possible…fuckups.

One can only hope that there is a conspiracy investigation closing in on Mr. BigJournalism and others.

Why I wasn’t suckered into buying Vista, let me count the ways…

It’s my job to make them worry.

Well, it’s not my job to make them worry, but it’s my job to teach them stuff that makes them worry needlessly.

Well, for what we’re doing, it sometimes requires some, ahem, creativity. Mostly because the paperwork we’re supposed to have isn’t always helpful.
(‘Okay, we have a tee at 38, a cap at 40 , and an ell at 42. Guys, you do realize that the cap is at the end of something, not in the middle? And WTF is going on with the 20 feet of 3/4-inch pipe going to that vault over there that isn’t on the map?’)

Your point being?

Which I suspect is the real source of the meltdown in question.

Grumble, mumble, grrrr! I didn’t have a freaking choice. My computer decided to crash and burn last summer and I had to buy a new one and that was the only choice I had.

Data causes a system crash???

That lends new meaning to Chambers’ Programming With Data, doesn’t it?

My problem is that at home I have to have a machine running Win98, because some of the software I use refuses to run on XP. It complicates my life …

I have an XP installation disk just waiting for that eventuality.

Yes, you did.

You could have gone Mac…

They say once you go Mac you’ll never go back.

Just that the Indians of the Southeast burned cedar for purification, like those in the Southwest. On the Plains, it is mostly sage. Elsewhere it varies.

Oh yeah. In interesting ways, for some values of ‘interesting’. We’re not entirely sure why it happens, but they promise that some of the problems will be fixed in the next version.

Everything I use works fine with XP, so I just keep going.

I have issues with Apple going back to when they summarily, and without prior notice, discontinued support for the Apple II line.

And then there’s that resemblance between O’Keefe and McVeigh… hmmmmmm /s

The people I know who have Macs also have PCs. One of them got rid of the Mac; it wasn’t working for her. (Literally, after the display went funny.)

I’ve heard that song before. Sometimes it even happens.

I’ve never owned a PC. I used them at work during the ’90s but I would not have one in my home.

I’ve never had a problem with a Mac that I could not troubleshoot by myself, or an upgrade I needed assistance to implement. On the other hand that was true of the PCs as well.

Naw, I was refering to the part of driving the senator out too! *g*

Please prevent positively preposterous Punic pronouncements publicly in perpetuity.

Hmm… I wonder if the Pimp and his Bitch can be tried on hate-crimes charges for the ACORN stuff.

Are you declaring the Punic Wars?

Probably not, but there is criminal fraud and defamation.

YMMV.
I’ve used a Mac, back in the late 80s and early 90s. It’s okay, but most of the stuff I do involves things with fake glass panes. Some of the software doesn’t have an adequate Mac equivalent.

Alliteration delenda est!

How is that “go stay at your parents’ house and shut up, kid!” plan working for you now, judge?

Time to revoke somebody’s bail. Or all the somebodies’ bail. That’ll get his little buddies to turn on O’Keefe right quick.

Where is Punaise when you need him?

They’ve come a ways since the early ’90s. You can run Windows apps on any modern Mac, however it’s not worth it if your current system meets your requirements.

What’s the old saying? “The man who represents O’Keefe has a fool for a client”?

Who suffers from Deranged Wingnut Entitlement Syndrome (DWES).

Time for me to toddle off. The corrupting continues tomorrow.

I mus slumber also. Niters!

Man, I came to LN for a little snark, and I find multiple conversations going on. I’m confused.
What is Blackboard? Some sort of exam taking software?

Did anybody catch Jon Stewart on (gulp, holding nose) O’Reilly?
Steven Colbert mentioned it, so I turned it over just in time to catch some of it. I’d say Jon was wiping the floor with BillO, except, of course, BillO kept talking over him. Still, interesting.
And the only reason I’d ever watch that show even for a minute.

Don’t think so. The phone system was a keyset. Hard to do, becasue the console operator can see all incoming & outgoing calls, and would see the problem. You’d need to be a tech in that make of keyset to do anything.

Much more likely a phone tap, especially as they wanted access to the phone closet.

Yes there is that McVeigh resemblance but I think it’s the John Boy Walton look that creeps me.
And I also wonder when Not-So-Breitbart is going on TV with a giant wig,a sequin dress and a feather boa and sing Broadway show tunes with the lyrics changed to be racist, anti-semetic and homophobic.

Slow night.

My TV thingy doesn’t get the Fox News. Might end up watching the clips online but don’t know if I can force myself to endure the O-man and his waddle.

Well, Paulson is on Charlie Rose tonight….if you can stomach the spin.

Seriously? Your tv doesn’t get Fox? No, I hear you—it had been so long since I’d seen O’Reilly (and then only in clips, I think), I was surprised at how much less hair he has, how much older he looks.

I hope everybody has seen the Andrea Mitchell interview of Susan Collins? She could’ve pushed some more, but, like the dog walking on its hind legs, the wonder was that she pushed Collins at all. *g*
and Collins then did the republican thing – grinned and “answered” a question of her own choosing having nothing to do with the way Mitchell had just smacked down every single thing she had claimed.

O’Reilly and Rose on the same nite? Please.

To think, I once liked Charlie Rose. That was when I had no other source than MSM for news, though.

I hear you. I think the final straw for me was Summers on the other night.

I want someone to say “No no, answer the question, answer my question! Um, you’re not answering. Cut her microphone, guys.”
I know…dream on.

Hey Margot

Rose was a very good interviewer about 25 years ago. His biggest problem then was interrupting his subject too often. Now he’s a social climber whose only good interviews are with film celebrities.

Is anyone really upset that Landrieu was getting illegally tapped by a republican sewer rat?

Hi PPD, was distracted there…

I’m upset that a republican sewer rat is illegally tapping anyone. But, then again, I’m upset that *anyone* including the FBI or CIA or whoever is illegally tapping anyone. Ahhh…what do I know though.

I am. Holder should be, but once again, doesn’t seem to be. All four of those adults have brazenly broken the law and should be jailed.

Almost 100…

no problem — FDL’ers are multitaskers

100.

Congrats!

I’m not advocating lawlessness. But Landrieu is virtually a republican.

WhatdidIdo?

Silly, you got the 100th post.

ok …. what do I win?

Tomorrow I’m making a peach cobbler, you can have a slice….sorry, no ice cream…

Homemade desserts — I’ll have to stick around more often when we’re spproaching big, round numbers.

Fair warning, I knit better than I bake. Mind you, I’m really, really good at knitting. (even do some bobbin lace, though I doubt many have heard of that)

getting late — night all. be well

Take care, sleep well, and wake happy :)

I’ve heard of bobbin lace – I’ve heard of most kinds of stitching, but only do a few. Not including any kind of lace.

And now, it really is bedtime.

Who is more oppressed than James O’Keefe, the conservative Investigative “Reporter”
fixed it for you, thers.