Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 20 August 2006

Specific instructions are much appreciated. Slow learner here. On the Coasties, they are so good that they almost never lose anyone. They are incredible and get almost no recognition...which actual heroes don't care about anyway.

541 posted on 08/20/2006 7:04:30 PM PDT by Bahbah (Goldwasser, Regev and Shalit, we are praying for you...and now Steve and Olaf.)

Freep mail me with what you want to know and I'll help you if I can. What makes Firefox so powerful is all the addons (extensions) that make everything even easier.

BTW, find a fast moving thread and try my method of "refreshing". Click the post number (left corner below the thread text), or better yet the one immediately above it, and the thread will refresh and you will not have to scroll back to where you were.

542 posted on 08/20/2006 7:25:36 PM PDT by CedarDave (RIP Coast Guard Lt. Jessica Hill & Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven Duque, died in Arctic service 8/17)

"Exactly, he is the closest thing to a Clintoon in the Republican party."

Someone stated a few weeks ago that McCain & Clinton both share the fact that their one distinguishing core value is burning personal ambition.

543 posted on 08/20/2006 7:58:15 PM PDT by Reo

544 posted on 08/20/2006 8:15:07 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (The only way to bring a permanent peace is to eliminate the permanent threat. - FReeper Optimist)

545 posted on 08/20/2006 8:54:20 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (The only way to bring a permanent peace is to eliminate the permanent threat. - FReeper Optimist)

Hey thanks! I thought Beers was appropriately "Kerried" in his
comments. Just glad Wallace announced his affiliation.

546 posted on 08/20/2006 8:55:11 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)

I've been wracking my brain about "fixing" the refresh "problem" with FireFox. You provide a practical and immeidate solution.

Duh!

My mantra to all of my PC users (I have 36,000 PCs I "own") is that there's always a way to lie to a computer to get it to do what you want. IOW, think outside of the box.

I forgot my own advice.

thank you for the lesson. I are grasshopper.

547 posted on 08/21/2006 6:02:48 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

To: Alas Babylon!; All; snugs; anita; samantha

548 posted on 08/22/2006 12:32:48 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

thanks, TomGuy. I actually have avoided using these things as I generally haven't been able to learn to deal with them successfully. However, a week ago I got caught up (in a big way) in the Dell battery recall and I overdid it big time. I spent way too many hours working at my computer and I literally "sprained" my eye.

My right eye is basically useless for reading right now so I'm counting totally on the left. That's the eye I had cataract surgery on a few months ago. I just figured out today why I haven't bounced back from the problems that came out of the battery marathon a week ago. In a normal eye you have two mechanisms to use for focusing your vision, the muscles around the eye which change the shape of the eye and the lens in your eye, which can change shape. Cataract surgery removes the natural lens and replaces it with an artificial lens, but it can't change shape. That means the muscles shaping the eye are all I've got. Well, I overdid it big time and strained (or even sprained) the muscles and the eye. And normal work isn't letting them get any better.

I'm going to take the next two weekends as long weekends but, here's the catch, I have to avoid all of the things that will strain my eye as much as possible. That means avoiding reading and, unfortunately, surfing the web. I think I'll be able to do the weekend preview, but I'll try to make it an abbreviated one.

In the meantime I've downloaded DeskBot and am going to see if it helps. My big problem in the past when I tried to use voice programs, particularly for things like ebooks, I simply drifted off and fell asleep. We'll see if I can use it to get some stuff done.

Again, thanks a lot.

549 posted on 08/22/2006 4:57:47 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

To: MNJohnnie; Phsstpok; rodguy911

Single post award courtesy of rodguy911

550 posted on 08/22/2006 5:38:52 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))

Sorry to hear about your eyes I have just posted rodguy's single post award but did you have you wanted posted?

551 posted on 08/22/2006 5:43:02 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))

Make sure when your DeskBot reads my posts it uses the deep, sonorous, masculine voice, 'K?

552 posted on 08/22/2006 5:50:11 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!

To: shalom aleichem

Your defense of McCain is amazing. It reminds me of trying to disuade a teenage daughter from running with the town hood. She agrees, "yea, that's true, but...yea, that's true also, but... ". Forget reason. It also brings to mind Sancho Panza defending Don Quixote. ("I like him, I really like him...pull out my fingernails one by one, I like him..."). Good for you.

I saw your post on Sunday and appreciated it, but snugs "special post" award for MNJ in the resultant tumult pointed me back to it. His post is right on and I agree with both his post and your post almost 100%, but I have to say something here. Invoking Sancho Panza messes with my entire world view.

Don Quixote is one of the foundations of my personal view of reality. He's a madman. I accept that. But his madness is noble. It is "to the good." And he stands up against impossible odds for what is RIGHT.

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

And Sancho Panza recognized that Don Quixote was right, even when he was "wrong," and therefore stood by him, even in his madness. It's easy to declare "I am right" and justify almost any horror. But Don Quixote specifically argues for WHAT IS RIGHT, and action taken in defense of that. Moral absolutes. Right and wrong. Something the moral relativists reject. Sancho may even be wrong, but, like his "master," he is pursuing a correct goal, in my view. I cannot condemn someone on that basis. I can argue that their reasoning is faulty and try to convince them of the error of their position, but I can't condemn their attempt to do "what is right" on that basis alone. If I do I deny all of my own arguments of "right" and "wrong" I will not cede that ground.

I remain the eternal (cynical) optimist. And I am also the hopeless romantic.

That does not contradict your post in any way, in my view. I'm just making a different argument. (Oh, am I doomed for this, or what?)

553 posted on 08/22/2006 6:13:11 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

To: Phsstpok; rodguy911; Alas Babylon!; TomGuy; Timeout

554 posted on 08/22/2006 8:45:53 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))

Have I missed any single post awards if so please freep me.

555 posted on 08/22/2006 9:01:01 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))

Thanks for all you do snugs.

556 posted on 08/23/2006 2:53:57 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)

no, I only did the one. Because I do the "honorable mentions" I don't think of single post awards as often. I probably should do that more, though. I'm actually more likely to think of doing that when it's not my week and have suggested ones in the past to the person doing the review that week.

thanks for your hard work.

557 posted on 08/23/2006 3:58:35 AM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

Thanks I just wanted to check that I had no missed anyone and thank you for your hard work.

Now rest the eyes :0)

558 posted on 08/23/2006 4:52:21 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))

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