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Blogger/Blogspot Sucks

Tags: Blogger, Blogspot, splogs, free hosting, free blog hosts, Blogger sucks

Just like Typepad, if you quit Blogger to move to real hosting, you may–or probably will, eventually–have your Blogspot URL hijacked. And actually, it’s more of a problem with Blogger than Typepad, as far as I can tell.

Here’s an example: Fausta recently moved her site (The Bad Hair Blog) from its Blogspot URL to her own domain. Almost immediately, badhairblog.blogspot.com was snatched up by some goatfarking moron–not just that, but the scumbag is posting as “Fausta” and even wrote about waiting for the Pajamas Media ad code!

So anyway, after I heard about that, I just happened to click MY old URL - bamapachyderm.com - from which I had moved in November 2004. Until recently, the redirect worked fine. You never even saw the old site–all the archives were transferred here so there was no reason to see it, so the redirect was immediate. So anyway, I clicked the old URL and what did I get? A farking splog! I’ve still got an active Blogger account with several other blogs attached to it (not to mention the profile, which I use when commenting at Blogspot blogs). Because of that, I’m sure people do click the link in my profile, where it shows the blogs I have or of which I am a contributing member. And I don’t know if anyone still has a link in their blogroll to the old URL (I would hope not after all this time!), but there are links to posts floating around from the old days. That pisses me off.

I can still access the “old blog” from the Blogger dashboard, because it wasn’t deleted. But WTF?! What the hell is wrong with Blogger, anyway? Do they even pay attention to flagged sites? Do they even bother answering questions? I found this Google group and this blog, and it sure as hell doesn’t look like it. Every time I turn around I find another hijacked blog that’s become a splog. The Blogger Status for Real blog knows about the bastard hijackers, but who’s actually solving the problem at Blogger? Anyone?

MY ADVICE: Don’t use Blogger, Typepad, or any of these other freebie hosts if you think you may be blogging for at least a few months, because apparently your URL will be taken by someone else once you move–even if you don’t delete the old site. Besides, the free sites suck anyway compared to paid hosting, if you want any real functionality. Actually, I’m surprised there are any blogs that bitch about Blogger actually using it. I don’t get why they would at all. (Blogsome and Wordpress are free too, but I haven’t heard about hijackings–YET. I’m sure I will, though.)

Auto mechanics’ question of the day

Tags: car, automotive, vehicles

Here’s your assignment:
1996 Volvo 850 GLT, with around 115K miles on it. Has a battery less than a year old and a new alternator (six months old). We tried to jump the car, but even with that, when trying to start it, there is NO sound. It’s not what you would normally hear with a bad starter; there is nothing, like turning the key in the damn glove compartment nothing. The car ran just fine when I went on a road trip a couple weeks ago (thank God!). VERY recently I had noticed some of the dash lights going out, though, so I’m sure there are fuses to be replaced.

I’ve got a mechanic coming to pick up the car tomorrow morning, but I dread the gender-impaired diagnosis and the bill, and don’t want to look completely clueless.

Any ideas?

A welcome break from the news

Need a break? Try these to distract yourself from the news:

And my favorite game–watch out, you could get addicted to it–Bookworm.

Tags: online games, time-wasters, internet games

CAIR is “against terror” but refuses to condemn Hezbollah

If it’s not obvious to everyone that this war in Lebanon and Israel isn’t about “occupied” land yet, I call bullshi’ite. If you can’t support Israel this time, then you support terrorists, and the terrorists’ goal of exterminating the Israeli people. PERIOD. It’s the same thing I say about the greater war on radical Islam: if you can’t support our side against terrorism, then you ARE with the terrorists. There is no option to not fight; we weren’t given that option. We either fight it or submit–or in Israel’s case, cease to exist.

CAIR supports terror. CAIR wants to see the end of Israel. CAIR has terrorists in their ranks.

CAIR claims to oppose terror, but they will not speak against Hezbollah.

CAIR opposes American support to fighting Hezbollah.

As far as I’m concerned (and many others are concerned), CAIR is a terrorist organization.

stein hoist LindaSoG

Tags: CAIR, anti-CAIR, hezbollah, hizballah, hamas, terrorism, terrorists, lebanon

Hezbollah Dating Service

HA!

stein hoist LindaSoG, who said I need to lighten up. :mrgreen:

Wow, I had no idea!

Ya think the nutroots might be skewing this poll just a little? :roll:

Oh, looky here–a nice little list for the nutroots to flood!

SWWBO

What the War on Terror Is Really About

This is long–an hour and seventeen minutes. I know most bloggers and blog readers can’t stand to sit in front of the computer watching a video for that long, but do it anyway. Make time for it. WAKE UP. Listen to what the Muslims–radical and moderate–will tell you themselves.

Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really About

“Some people view the current situation with the Middle East as a clash of civilizations. I think it’s more than that, way more than that. It’s an outright declaration of war, from radical Islam on western culture.”
–Nonie Darwish, daughter of a “martyr”

stein hoist Macktastic Rusty

Tags: Al Qaeda, Al Qaida, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Arab media, jihad, terrorism, terrorists, war on islamofascism, the caliphate, islamism

About ‘proportionality’.

The latest, greatest multi-culti obsession.

When attacked, the reaction with the greatest chance of success is to respond as disproportionately as possible.

Today we took out several terrorists in Iraq, we uncovered arms caches, we destroyed their infrastructure.

Should we voluntarily kill an equal number of our military, turn over an equivalent quantity of weaponry, and destroy an equivalent amount of our communications and logistics technology, in order to have behaved proportionately?

The very idea is absurd.

ABSURD.

Dangerous leftist orthodoxy now permeates even our own institutions. Perpetuated by the anti-America media. Highlight and demolish it. Every day.

Australian Age op-ed writer spreading Jesse MacBeth lie

I knew that once the Jesse MacBeth storm died down, someone would recycle the story as fact. Terry Lane writes at The Age:

Why doesn’t the Government hold an inquiry into the video evidence of US Army Ranger Jessie Macbeth? Macbeth served in Iraq for 16 months and regrets that he was ever part of the invasion and occupation. You can see and hear Macbeth on Google Video - just search for Iraq war.

Macbeth is young and troubled. He speaks with a slight stutter. There is pain in his eyes as he describes the things he was ordered to do.

Macbeth is a little like Obersturmfuhrer Kurt Gerstein, the German who joined the SS to see for himself if the rumours of mass murder were true. He found that indeed they were and he tried to tell the world what he had seen. He approached Swedish, Swiss and Vatican legations in Berlin and was told to go away. He believed that if the Allies had eyewitness reports of what was happening in the extermination camps they would broadcast the information across Germany and the good German people would be horrified and would rise up against the Nazi regime. Would they? It seems unlikely, given what we know of our capacity to turn a blind eye towards any evidence that makes us uncomfortable about our own complicity in great crimes.

This is what Macbeth says of his orders in Iraq: “Our job over there is to strike fear into the hearts of the Iraqis. You can do whatever it takes in the field to make them fear you. You can be brutal - the Geneva Convention doesn’t mean crap.”

Operation Iraqi Freedom is more like Operation Iraqi Slaughter. Macbeth describes going into a basement bomb shelter looking for insurgents.

“We had to go in there and make sure everything was dead. So whether there were women and children, if they weren’t dead, we had to finish them off and drag their bodies out.”

Macbeth says of the people in makeshift bomb shelters: “Most of them were just families hiding down there but we were told that there were insurgents hiding down there, Saddam’s forces hiding down there. I remember going in there and smelling burnt flesh and hearing people crying and begging us to help them because they thought we were there for them. There were some that weren’t wounded very bad and we had to kill them.”

(Can’t leave out Godwin’s Law, can we?)

Hey, you moron: at least do enough “inquiry” YOURSELF to get the asshole’s name right! You make a whole column out of a thoroughly debunked story that’s still on Google Video? You want an investigation? IT’S BEEN DONE, you idiot! Here’s just what I wrote.

Here’s what everyone ELSE wrote. Here’s the Wikipedia (gag) entry for Jesse MacBeth. And here’s what Iraq Veterans Against the War wrote, if you refuse to listen to everyone else:

Questions have been raised about Jesse MacBeth and his claims of service in Iraq. MacBeth came to Iraq Veterans Against the War in January 2006 asking for help, and the organization and its members extended itself to help him in various ways. Assisting veterans is one of the founding principles of IVAW and it is a mission that we take seriously. After looking into his recent claims, we have learned that Jesse is not what he represented himself to be. Accordingly, IVAW does not in any way endorse Jesse MacBeth or any of his accounts involving military service. He — and he alone — is responsible for them. IVAW was not aware of the creation of the video program featuring MacBeth, and did not authorize use of our logo in the program.

Terry Lane, you are a joke, a pathetic excuse for a writer, and a moron.

Email The Age at ‘feedback@theage.com.au‘. I’ve sent mine already; I expect an immediate retraction.

I STG, stupidity should be painful.

Linking this to Wizbang’s Carnival of Trackbacks, H&I Fires at Argghhh! (Happy Birthday, John!)

Tags: Jesse MacBeth, Jessie Macbeth, shocking stupidity, lazy journalism, liars, fools, idiotarians, The Age, Australia, newspapers

Moonbat/Terrorist Supporter Dictionary

The Israeli Conflict Edition. (Actually, I think it applies to more than that, but it works!) We all know this one:

Militant: Code word for Arab assmonkey terrorist, often used by AP and Al Reuters.

I wish I could laugh about it, but this dictionary is so true it’s sad.

Tags: terrorists, terrorism, liberals, the left, hezbollah, hizbullah

Ouch.

Trashy no-talent party-tart, Lindsay Lohan, gets a letter from the Principal after a no-show on set.

We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so called “exhaustion.” We refuse to accept bogus excuses for your behavior.

Oh dear. Does she really think anybody buys this “I was overheated and dehydrated” bunk that she spouts? There are pictures of her blind-drunk, almost daily, in almost every newspaper, all over the farking world! She’s then usually pictured exiting with a similarly-shi’itefaced companion.

If you do not honor your production commitments, including your scheduled call time for tomorrow, and any call times thereafter, we will hold you personally accountable. This means that in addition to pursuing full monetary damages, we will take such other action as we deem necessary to preserve the integrity of the Georgia Rule Production as well as Morgan Creek’s financial interests. I urge you to take this letter seriously and conduct yourself professionally.

Ouch.

Tags: Lindsay Lohan, No-Talent Hack, Slutty Trash

Gloom and doom

The pretext: It’s kind of funny; I just read this thing last night about “the underground blogosphere” from a link at Crabapple.cc, where “Crabapple” (another incarnation of John) said,

I’ve often said the best Cotillion posts are emailed back and forth, and the world never sees them.

Well, he actually doesn’t see them either, but he knows us all well enough to know that’s true. Just speaking for myself, I know my email tends to be more detailed than the crap I post here and usually it’s stuff I either don’t think about posting or don’t want to post. I guess I need to post this–cleaned up a little–since RightGirl said she wanted to post it. And really, this isn’t even close to being “good” like what others have written in our own little “underground blogosphere.” This is just me venting.

vlogging

everyone else’s

this shi’ite in Somalia

I really think liberalism has doomed us all. We aren’t supposed to be for our own interests, we aren’t supposed to make value/moral judgments, we aren’t supposed to have a strong military or fight for/defend our interests abroad. We’re supposed to let the “brown people” (farking stupid moonbat phrase) do whatever they want because we’re “better” and benevolent, and when they fark up because they’re evil or brutal or incompetent, we’re supposed to bail them out (see “palestinians,” Africa, etc.) and lead by example, whatever the hell that means on the world stage. Because they’re all human and therefore can’t be “evil,” just “different.”

Meanwhile, evil will continue to roll and we’ll send aid to the starving and/or dead.

If things had been like they are today during WWII, we’d have been doomed then. Instead, I’m afraid that we are now. It may not happen in MY lifetime, but I really do worry about what the world’s going to be like for my daughter. No place seems safe anymore. I think, we could live in Australia, but they’re no safer than we are–if anything, less so. I never thought I’d EVER think this, but maybe 50 years from now–wait for it–Russia? (!) You never know what the world’s going to be like in 50 years. Maybe at least they’ll have a strong country, even if it’s a dictatorship, even if it’s Communist again (!), it’s better than Islamist. I’m just sick about the future for my daughter.

I want to believe that America is stronger than Islamism, but if 9/11 didn’t wake these stupid farking people up, I don’t know what will. How anyone can seriously look at the world today and NOT see the worldwide evil that is Islam, I don’t know. And the “liberals” (not) will hand the world to them on a silver platter. They think the Patriot Act and NSA surveillance is a police state? Shi’ite, it’s going to take a lot more than THAT to eradicate the problem if they don’t wake the fark up, and I’d welcome it. I never read In Defense of Internment, but damn, we can’t even “intern” un-uniformed combatants at Gitmo. I’d like to see a hell of a lot more Muslims interned than just those, but the blind moonbats think “fascism” is a reality, and anyone who wants to defeat Islamism is a “fascist.” (Nevermind the fact that we survived the same “fascism” of the WWII years in America.)

Gloom and doom.

I seriously think I need to get away from the news and just live a normal oblivious life in my nice, polite Alabama city, and concentrate on having a better social life.

Goodness Gracious!

Some common sense in a British paper about Israel and their fight against Hezbollah.

It is as if, having relinquished power, we Europeans now wish our own powerlessness upon the rest of the world. We make vaporous and offensive Nazi comparisons. We preach that unilateral action is always wrong. That position can be maintained only by people who do not have to make life-and-death decisions. It is cheap and immoral.

Tags: Hezbollah, PLO, PA, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, IDF, Nasrallah, Olmert, Israel, Middle East Conflict

TomKat’s baby. Seen!

Jada Pinkett-Smith has seen little Suri, the elusive TomKat progeny, and says she’s ‘gorgeous’.

Jada, who is a member of the Church of Scientology like Tom, claims the tot takes after her Hollywood star dad.

She said, “She’s one of the sweetest babies I’ve ever met in my life. She’s an absolute beauty and she’s daddy’s little girl. She’s got a head full of black, beautiful hair.”

There have been other sightings, evidently:

Earlier this month, ‘King of Queens’ actress Leah Remini - who is also a Scientologist - revealed she had also seen the tot and described the couple as “great parents”.

She deduced from a single visit to their home that they are ‘great parents’?

Some people are easily impressed. Particularly cult-adherents, it would seem.

Tags: TomKat, Tom Cruise, Scientology, Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise, Carribean Cruise, George Michael Cruise