ROBERT H. BORK

Robert Bork, the man nominated to the Supreme Court by ROnald Reagan and subsequently rejected by the United States Senate, died today.

Bork is best remembered for the rejection of his Supreme Court nomination by a process of smears, lies, and exaggerations and misrepresentations that became known as "Borking".  Although Bork was - in our view - a bit too willing to give the State the benefit of a doubt over the individual, the campaign to torpedo his nomination was a disgusting cascade of slander.

The original "Borking" was led off by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) who said that Bork would take the nation back to "segregated lunch counters" and allow "rogue police" to kick in the doors of citizens on a whim; among other things.  Since these accusations were made from the Senate floor,  Kennedy and his fellows could not be held to account elsewhere for them.

 

Bork's rejection was widely celebrated and became the standard battle plan for the Statists who have hijacked the Democrat Party. Anthony Kennedy was nominated after Bork's rejection, and unanimously accepted by the Senate. 

 

Here at the Alexandria Daily Poop, we believe in God and we know that He indeed works in mysterious ways. Because for two months and four days shy of a quarter century, the Statist Left  has been congratulating themselves over their success in ridding themselves of Robert Heron Bork.

 

Today, that celebration has exploded in their faces like an El Explodo cigar. Because had Bork assumed the seat held by Kennedy, today Obama would be in a position to nominate a fifth ultra-liberal Left Justice. And while we offer sympathy to Robert Bork's loved ones in their loss, we bid them and all - especially his enemies and most especially the Statist Lefties whose wet dream for decades has been taking over the Supreme Court - to remember that God has called Robert Heron Bork to his rest and reward to show everyone exactly who is in charge.

 

They who dissed and denied God during the Democrat Convention have just been given a sign by the Almighty whom they deny and decry. How's it feel, knowing God Himself just flipped you the bird, you Leftist clowns?

FREE STUFF FOR CHRISTMAS! "GEORGETOWN IN PLAINCLOTHES" AVALIABLE FREE ON KINDLE 12/22-12/24

I must be an idiot, seeing as how last year I put my first Kindle novel "The Peterson Investigation" out as a promo for free. Almost two thousand people got it for free (and a couple hundred paid for it, too; but anyway...)

 

However, it's Christmas after all. So on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of this month I am putting my latest opus "Georgetown in Plainclothes" on a FREE promotional offer.

 

"Georgetown in Plainclothes" is a "prequel" to "The Peterson Investigation".  It is set in 1977 and features the main character of "The Peterson Investigation"; John Philip "J.P." Waterman as a 25 year old newly minted Detective Candidate working with the plainclothes contingent of the Second Police District of the Metropolitan Police, Washington, D.C.. 

 

Ironically, his first arrest as a member of that unit comes when he is assigned to work marked-unit traffic patrol during the 1977 Hanafi Moslem siege of D.C.. He and his partner make a traffic stop that explodes into an investigation involving everything from a scraggly street bum to Dr. Henry Kissinger and from juvenile shennanigans to affairs involving the Central Intelligence Agency and the Shah of Iran's SAVAK secret police.  It's good.

 

Only downside is that it turns out that if you want to write a review you have to buy it for cash. But folks I know who have read "Georgetown in Plainclothes" are blown away by it, and I can tell whether they are just "trying to be nice". Most of them aren't, they actually like the story.

 

Of course I like paid sales. But since I can't buy the world a Coke and keep it company, at least I can give it a good story (I hope).

OBAMA'S NAKED POWER-GRAB

The most powerful branch of the federal government is the Congress of the United States, and the most powerful body of that branch is the House of Representatives. The Senate has its filbuster, sure. But no matter what gets past them and no matter what anyone wants done, to do it they need money.  And money can only be gotten with the permission of the House. 

 

The Senate can't write a tax bill and send it to the House for approval. Tax bills have to ORIGINATE in the House (and Obamacare "originated" in the house as a tax bill that had nothing to do with health care; and the Senate just stripped out everything under the bill number and wrote a tax bill on their own and sent it back to the House; and we are amazed that not one lawyer has challenged this piece of trickery).

 

Any actual spending must be authorized by the House. More importantly, the House has first say on whether or not these United States take on any more debt. And they can de-fund anything.

 

Well, Mr. Obama is turning out to be the very model of a modern Kleptocrat wannabe. As part of the "compromise" to avert the "fiscal cliff", he wants Congress to allow HIM to decide when to borrow more money to finance his looney schemes. He's basically telling Congress to hand over its weapons.  We'll give him this: he has big brass ones.

 

Some of his lackeys have been floating a whacked-out interpretation of the debt validity portion of the Constitution to try and create a loophole allowing him to bypass the Congress - and for that matter, the Constitution if he figures he could spend a few trillion wisely. (Aren't these the same people bitching about "tax loopholes" and "gun show loopholes" all the time? Yes, they are!)

 

Obama wants complete control of the money. It is against the Constitution, and this is a dangerous situation. The House should let the nation go over "the cliff" before it agrees to this naked usurpation of Constitutionally reserved authority. 

THE CONNECTICUT SCHOOL MASSACRE

FOR ALL THE TALK, AND THERE'S BEEN PLENTY, WE STILL DON'T KNOW THE WHOLE STORY ABOUT WHAT WENT DOWN LAST FRIDAY AT SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY IN NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT.

 

Nevertheless, politicians and particularly "anti-gun" shills have been blabbering all over TV and the radio. We find it sickening that they have decided to use as a catch-phrase that the mass murder of innocent children is a "game-changer".  This is not a game, and we inagine these "antis" are secretly rubbing their hands together and dancing with glee in the blood of these beautiful, precious children.

 

As you can imagine, we here at the Alexandria Daily Poop have some pretty strong opinions about all of this. But the National Rifle Association has decided to show respect for the grieving families and has shut down its Facebook and Twitter accounts while the grim ritual of burying the slain kids goes on.

 

And so we shall remain silent on the subject of this tragedy and the gun debate until after New Year's Day. (The picture on the masthead stays the same. We're not a mental weakling.)

 

We only wish the politicians and the "antis" would be decent people and shut up long enough to allow the families of these kids to deal with their grief and not feel like a collective bunch of political footballs. But they won't, because they're not.

A FURTHER NOTE ON MALWARE

I just finished killing yet another bug - this one was that damned thing that blocks your PC and tells you that "The FBI" has "Detected" you doing "one or more of the following" and then lists all manner of internet crime from software piracy right up to kiddie porn; BUT tells you that if you get a PayPal card and pay a fine of $300, "the FBI" is willing to just forget the whole thing.

 

Yeah, right.

 

This fucker is tenacious. If you get it, FIRST re-start in Safe Mode and do a system restore to a point at least 24 hours before you got this pest. After that, you should be able to get back up on the net.

 

After your system is restored, get online and download and run "Spybot Search and Destroy".  It's free to private users - they do ask for a donation, it's a great tool, so pony up if you can - and scan your system and delete that garbage. 

IF A VIRUS HAS DISABLED YOUR DHCP CLIENT SERVICE

Last year I wrote about a problem I had wherein a virus had disabled this computer's internet connectivity by shutting down the dhcp client service. If you are experiencing this problem, there is a relatively easy fix available that involves going into the registry and simply re-typing "dhcp" into the box for that particular service and its ancilliaries. Unfortunately, my filing system consists or stuffing papers into random pigeon-holes and drawers and right now I haven't the time to look through all that stuff. But a tad bit of research (use the terminals at the local public library or at a Kinko's or something) will put you in touch with the fix.

 

The reason I'm writing this now is that (1) someone pulled up this blog in a search about what to do about a deleted dhcp service and (2) I believe I was similarly assaulted a few days ago.

 

Here is a telltale symptom that you are being attacked by a virus that wants to disable and/or change your operating system: Your security program will display a message that a virus has been detected and neutralized, but it will be necessary to re-start your machine to complete the "clean-up" or "removal" process. 

 

DO NOT DO THIS!! RE-BOOTING YOUR MACHINE IS ONLY NECCESSARY TO IMPLEMENT CHANGES TO THE OPERATING SYSTEM!!! SUCH A BULLETIN CAN ONLY MEAN THAT THE VIRUS HAS HIJACKED YOUR SECURITY SYSTEM AND IF YOU RE-START, IT WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF ONE BIG HEADACHE!

 

 Instead, go IMMEDIATELY to Microsoft's security page and download and run the Microsoft Security Scanner. After the scan has been completed, note the name(s) of the viruses detected, and then to make VERY sure, download and run Microsoft's Malware Removal Tool. If other viruses are detected, note these also.

 

If at any point you get a note from these services that the virus was "partially" removed and if you look the virus up in Microsoft's index of viruses only to find out that "no information is available" about the bug, then wait until they find out what makes the rascal tick, and then repeat the scan procedure. Until then, don't turn your machine off. Let it "hibernate" but not "sleep". 

 

ONLY after all of these conditions have been met should you re-start your machine in order to get rid of the glowing red warning from your security program.  

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FRUITCAKES WHO PRODUCE THESE PESTILENT ANNOYANCES ARE INNOVATIVE AND ARE CAPABLE (THEORETICALLY) OF GETTING AROUND EVEN THIS REGIMEN. It is entirely possible that even during a scan with the most up-to-date definitions, someone out there may have launched a new attack. 

 

One more note: If your machine is "hopelessly" locked up, there are devices by which you can remove your hard drive and connect it to a USB port in another computer, and use that computer's scan system to murder the invader. But in these goofy times, my advice to you is to do what I do and update your security every day before you go surfing the net.

 

  Personally, I rather enjoy outwitting and killing these malware programs - and as I have said, I hope one day to put some of the fruitcakes responible behind bars, and if one of you assholes are reading this then know that I am after your stinking behinds - but like most of us, I'd just as soon go online and get things done without having to worry about some idiot hacker. Every time I get attacked, I learn something new. Some day, one of these hackers is going to fuck up and tell me who exactly he is.  As I have said, you hackers depend on the fact that every system has flaws. Yet you think that yours doesn't?? You are a pack of fools.

MARION SHEPILOV BARRY, EAGLE SCOUT

Dear readers, in these troubled times I am certain you would like a little dose of frivolous trivia to distract you a bit. I am happy to provide it.

While I was doing research on my next novel - the second "prequel" to "The Peterson Investigation" - I ran across the little tidbit that is mentioned in the post heading.

 

Yes, "Mayor for Life" (as he is known in these parts) Marion S. Barry; the former mayor and current at-large City Councilman in D.C, of "Bitch set me up" fame; is an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America.

 

No kidding.

 

Here's another little Barry tidbit: After he got out of the pokey, he ran for Mayor again and won, using the campaign slogan: "He may not be perfect, but he's perfect for D.C." 

 

Truer words were never spoken, nor were they ever so unintentionally true. For this sterling achievement, we are awarding District of Columbia City Councilman "Mayor-For-Life" Marion Shepilov Barry the first Alexandria Daily Poop "Truth in Politics Award" with sprinkles and a cherry.  Marion Barry, a perfect personification of D.C. city politics at their worst.