VT Abuses

I extend my sympathies towards those who lost family and friends in the horrible shooting at Virginia Tech.


However, I am more sorry for the abuses the media is already heaping upon the survivors and the public to push for ratings and political agendas.

First, VT was not the deadliest attack on US civilians. 9/11 and Waco have that beat. But I guess Waco is forgivable because it was a government sanctioned, if misguided and unjustified, attack, and 9/11 was performed by Muslim terrorists and we can't say anything bad about them in the news anymore.

Second, I can already see the gun-control nazis coming out of the wood work, and I want to point out that if these students and professors were allowed their constitutional rights to bear arms, Cho might have been stopped before such a death count could be tallied, or he might have even been afriad to do something like that in fear of being shot. (Minor props to ABC Evening News for mentioning this side of the gun control debate, if not on equal terms as the anti-gun nazis but at least not belittling the argument.)

Is it too early to start talking like this? Not according to the news networks and not according to the anti-contitutionalist.


Personally, I feel kind of ashamed to have to say anything like this, but if people don't start now, we are going to have another Patriot Act shoved down our throats while the public is too emotional to realize how blind they were.

Hot News Delivery

I have been using podcasts to keep up with the news, and I just got to rave about the best kept secret on CNN. Virgina Cha reguarlly does the CNN Now in the News Podcast (available through iTunes) and she has to be the hottest news babe around.


This screen cap is not the best quality, but check it out for yourself.

Love those Lady Humps...

I have been collectiong weird covers for awhile. I have Typo Negative doing Possession and Hit Me Baby, I got Warren Zevon doing I Kissed A Girl...but this one might just take the cake.





Can't get much better than that...Except maybe for this one.....

So many fun new toys...

All right, boys and girls.

If for some reason you read yesterdays post, and came back today, you might find that I have again changed my template.

You might ask why?

Why? Because Blogspot is out of beta and has added some new stuff to the behind the scenes workings. As you see, there is now a Google search box and Google ads on the page (feel free to click, they are sponsors, after all), some news and video feeds and other new prettiness ot the page.

Needless to say, I have spent a few minutes playing with some of the new options available to me.

Expect new looks as I dig deeper into what I can do.

Really? You don't say!

Hmmmmm…….Deja Vu?

No, just more people trying to treat you like an idiot and scare you out of going on vacation.

By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer
Tue Apr 3, 8:47 PM ET

DENVER - A top researcher predicted a "very active" 2007 Atlantic hurricane season Tuesday, with at least nine hurricanes and a good chance one will hit the U.S. coast. The forecast by William Gray predicts 17 named storms this year, five of them major hurricanes. The probability of a major storm making landfall on the U.S. coast this year is 74 percent, compared with the average of 52 percent over the past century, he said. …. From AP, via Yahoo News…Go here for the whole story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070404/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_forecast


So, I got to wonder if this will be anything like last year’s Huricane season…The one that was predicted to bring even worse storms than Katrina to the US…The one where they “revised” their prediction to a “less severe” hurricane season…In September!

And, remember! These are the same “researchers” that are telling you that Global Warming is being caused by mouth-breathers.

“Mouth-breathers? Where did you come up with that?” you say.

Well, we all know that the Environmental Tyrants have been talking about all the bad carbon emissions.

For the longest time, I thought they were talking about CO, as in Carbon Monoxide, a poisonous gas released by combustion engines and other burning processes…

Excuse me for thinking that there was any science behind the Green Kings movement.

You see after the Supreme Court ruling allowing the EPA to regulate car emissions, all the news agencies – CNN, FOX, ABC, etc.—have been reporting and consulting experts about the need to control the most dreaded of Greenfarce gases – CO2, or Carbon DiOxide.

Now, for those of you who don’t remember your 3rd grade science, or had a liberal education where learning stuff wasn’t as important as playing nice and being like all the other kids, Carbon Dioxide is the stuff we, as in mammals and all animals, breath out! We suck in the oxygen and blow out CO2.

And does that CO2 go to waste, or to clog up the atmosphere and kill off the polar bears?

No, Plants…You know, those green, leafy things that are alive, but alright to eat because they don’t have a cute face? Plants suck up are unwanted CO2 like Al Gore’s houses suck up energy. They use it like we use oxygen, and in turn, they spit out Oxygen as waste.

Wow, that is like…in balance..or an ecosystem or something.

Anyway. CO2, the stuff plants breath in to live and we breath out, is what is causing the polar ice caps on Mars to melt. We are bad, bad people.

Now, this may be a little off subject, but it is all part of the same plot to keep you afraid and obedient. More, scary hurricanes are coming. The hurricanes are worse because of global warming. Global warming is worse because gas-burning cars spit out carbon dioxide. So, don’t go to the beach, because storms are coming and cars are bad and you should stay home and work and pay more taxes like the good little serfs you are.


(I know this is kind of a rambling rant, but it is stupidity like these news stories that gets me so angry, not because they put them out there, but because there are people who believe this crap.)

Stick a Ford Motor in my Porsche?

If I were to go to a Ford Motor parts dealer and order a fuel injector, should I expect to be able to install it in my Porsche? No.
If I sign up for XBox Live, should I expect to be able to play my PS3 or Wii games on it? No.
If I buy software for Windows, should I expect to be able to install it on my Mac? (Trick question...ignore that one).
How about if I buy software for OSX, should I be able to install it on a XP machince? No.
If I subscribe to HBO, should I expect my Cable Box to be able to decode Dexter from Showtime? No.
If I log on to Star Wars Galaxies, should I expect to be able to use my Blood Elf from World of WarCraft? No. (although that would be really cool if I could!)
Then why the hell should anyone expect to sign up for iTunes and use it on a non-compatible machine?

Consider this guy from the EU....
(excerpt from this story -- http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/25/business/EU-FIN-Netherlands-Apple-iTunes.php -- from the International Herald Tribune ( www.iht.com)

Consumentenbond spokesman Ewald van Kouwen said his group had filed a formal complaint with the Dutch antitrust watchdog NMa asking it to investigate what he called "illegal practices" by Apple's iTunes Store.
"What we want from Apple is that they remove the limitations that prevent you from playing a song you download from iTunes on any player other than an iPod," he said.
"When you buy a music CD it doesn't play only on players made by Panasonic. People who download a song from iTunes shouldn't be bound to an iPod for the rest of their lives."
(Ninja comment - Does that mean that those of us who bought "Long Tall Glasses" on 8-Track shouldn't be bound to an 8 Track player for the rest of your life?)
Currently, songs bought on iTunes can be played only on iPods, and an iPod can't play downloads from other stores with similar premium content from major artists — like Napster Inc.'s service or Sony Corp.'s Connect.

Look, it is simple, if you want to download from the iTunes music store and take it with you, you got to have an iPod. That is the way the world works. If I wan't to play Rainbow Six on Xbox live, I got to have an Xbox and an Xbox version of the game. I can't use a PS 2, PS 1, Nintendo GameBoy, or PSP version...It has all got to be Xbox.
Apple didn't make iTunes to be a Wal Mart of the Internet music world. They built it as a service to their customers who bought iPods. Just like Xbox Live and most other product-specific accessories and services. I can't buy a Yu-Gi-Oh booster pack to use with my Magic The Gathering deck. I can't stick my (PS1) Final Fantasy 7 disc in my Xbox and have it work. And you can't take your iTunes download of the Backstreet Boys do Boys TO Men Video and load it in you Zune (or maybe you can, there has to be something that thing can do.)
If you have an iPod, you don't have to use ITunes music store to download music. Any mp3, and the dozens of variations and similar formats, will load into an iPod. There are plenty of legal download sites were you can get your music in a format that can be imported into iTunes and dumped to your iPod.
You can also rip CDs. I have yet to download a single song from iTunes store, and I have 9 days of audio content on my iPod. (not that much music, but a lot of audio books). Now, I have used iTunes to download podcasts and TV shows, just to be completely honest.
I don't hear this guy saying that Sony or Napster has to make their service compatiable with iPods--which would make more since, considering that the iPod is the #1 media player sold. And that doesn't mean it is the best or the greatest, even though I think it is, it just means more people want iPods than Zunes, Zens or Walkmen.
Of course, what this really boils down to is politics. These socialist political agents and their governments are always out to wipe out any individual or individual corporations that is doning something well and making money off of it.
I have never heard one consumer—a regular guy girl—complain about not being able to use iTunes because they bought a Zune, Zen or what ever failed "iPod Killer" Sony is pimping this week. They know that they should have bought an iPod for that.
Personally, I think someone high up in the EU bought the wrong MP3 player for his kid, and is too arrogant to admit it was his mistake, so he is orchestrating the entire thing so he doesn't have to shell out some Euros for an new iPod.

Hmmn...e-mail, what an interesting idea.

So, a friend recently contacted me through the comments of one of my posts, and I was kinda of surprised. After taking a look around, I realized that my profile needed a little bit of updating and wasn't displaying my e-mail.

So, for those who might need to know, you can drop me a line at ChristopherAHuff@gmail.com

I am also available on Yahoo Messenger as christopherhuff@yahoo.com

I have updated this info in my profile as well, so you can always find it there.

I am at MySpace to, under the name Christopher Zen. (I know, it's so over done, but I had to join to get to the girly pics.)