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Observations by and for the vaguely disenchanted by Kevin G. Barkes

 

Conceived above a saloon, delivered into this world by a masked man identified by his heavily sedated mother as Captain Video, raised by a kindly West Virginian woman, a mild-mannered former reporter with modest delusions of grandeur and no tolerance of idiots and the intellectually dishonest.

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network solutions made me a child pornographer!
The sordid details...

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Anniversary

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Requiem for a fictional Scotsman

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Oh my God! They killed Library!! Those bastards!!!

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Elegy to a Mostly Maine Coon

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It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

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A Pittsburgher in the Really Big City

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Da Burg Annat

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I Have Issues

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Yeah, yeah, I'm inspired

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At least the rivers freeze in Pittsburgh

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He knows if yinz is a jagoff

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Friday, November 12, 2004
posted by KGB at 2:50 PM (permalink)

Arms race

Various cities are investigating street-mounted acoustic listening devices which can detect the sound of gunshots.

In a related story, criminals are testing a similar device that can detect the sound of donuts being eaten.

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posted by KGB at 6:21 AM (permalink)

Land of the free....

"Things have taken a turn for the surreal."
-Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) in Saving Private Ryan

So the Federal Communications Commission cowardly refuses to promise television stations they won't be fined for indecency for airing a story about Americans fighting to preserve our liberties, including free speech.

I know what my late father, a World War II veteran, would say about this situation. But he couldn't say it on broadcast radio or television in the country for which he took a bullet.

Thank goodness the values voters won.

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Thursday, November 11, 2004
posted by KGB at 6:30 AM (permalink)

Yep, she's a doll

Granddaughter Leanna was Raggedy Ann for Halloween this year. Look at that hair... who needs a wig?

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posted by KGB at 6:17 AM (permalink)

The Great White North

I take back anything unpleasant I ever said about Canadians. (Thanks to The Sanity Inspector on alt.quotations.)

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
posted by KGB at 6:59 AM (permalink)

Look on the bright side

Recent rapid increases in arctic temperatures threaten coastal cities, have changed growing patterns for vegetation and will destroy habitats for some wildlife, but, by God, there'll be gas for your SUV.

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posted by KGB at 6:44 AM (permalink)

The odd things that appear in my e-mail...

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From: George W.Bush
To: kgb@kgbreport.com
Reply-To: GWB@whitehouse.gov
Subject: How I stole your election (ha ha ha ha!!!)
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:56:21 -0800
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How I Stole Your Election
by George W. Bush

The first thing I did to steal your election was to make friends with ALL the manufacturers and code-verifyers of the Electronic Voting Machines. They were really nice, especially Diebold who gave me $600,000 for my campaign. Wow, thanks dude!

https://nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz/stealing.htm

Next, I had my attack dog, Karl Rove, convince these companies to either alter the vote totals on the central tabulator machines (simple PCs running windows using Remote Access Server -- RAS), or reprogram (via a downloadable software patch) the voting machines themselves so that they would give the advantage to ME! Isn't America great?!? A little money and some religious zealotry goes a looooong, loooong way. Oh, the religious zealotry thing? That's just a cover. I'm not really a Christian -- or at least I don't act like one. Anyway, I digress.

https://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-25.htm#rig

Did you ever hear the media complaining about how inaccurate the exit polls were in prior elections? No. That's because they basically ARE accurate. But this election, the exit polls showed Kerry WAY ahead. No problem. My buddies rigged the machines (and all they needed to do was rig it in one state, Ohio, but they took care of at least Florida for me too) not only to make me squeak by in the important battleground states, like Florida and Ohio, but they also made sure that when I did get a state that I was expected to win, the margin was HUGE so that my "popular" vote would make it look like I had a mandate.

So let's recap how the popular vote thing worked again. Let's say we didn't want it to look suspicious by taking states that Kerry really would have won (except for Ohio and Florida, gotta take those! heh heh). So we let him win there, but in order once again to boost the "popular" vote (I put that in quotes because as you know, I'm not REALLY popular), we bring my vote tallies RIGHT UP NEXT to Kerry's, to jack up the "popular" vote as much as possible, even if I didn't win the state.

Then, with states like North Carolina, we know we're going to steal the state anyway (at least according to what the exit polls were telling everyone.... and according to the long, long lines of new voters were telling everyone .... because we all know most of those people were voting for Kerry, not the status quo), so we just jack the crap out of the vote total to REALLY stuff a crapload of "popular" votes in my pocket. You see, this way I can get on the TV and declare that I have a "mandate" and that I'm going to "cash in" on my political "capital" (which I don't really have of course, but we made it look that way).

Here's a nice chart to show you what I mean. Take special note of how the electronic voting machine totals compare to the paper ballot totals. And see what I mean about North Carolina?

https://www.bandsagainstbush.org/cgi-bin/archives/exit_poll.gif

Look folks, if you really want me out of office, first you're going to have to impeach me. But you know what, if you don't have verifiable paper trails at the polls like these folks recommend (https://openvotingconsortium.org/), and if you don't take these voting machines out of the hands of private companies that are aligned with one end of the political spectrum, then I'm gonna just continue to hose you (and then my brother Jeb will be president too cause we're into this dynasty thing, kind of like my buddies the Saudis... ain't it cool?!?). Also, in 2006, we're going to steal about five more senate seats, and then we'll have the "super-majority". That means the Democrats can't do that confounded fillerbs... fillas.... fillbusters.... CRAP, well, they can't get in the darn way any more and we can pass ANY laws we want about ANYTHING and put whoever we want on the Supreme court. Ha ha, then you're REALLY screwed. So if you don't fix this mess (I mean great system) in two years and have a verifiable voting system nationwide, America is MINE!!!!! (and Jeb's and my daddy's and Cheney's and Rove's... hey, we could even pass a law saying I could be president for FOUR MORE YEARS after 2008! That would be SOOO cool!) Anyway, I digress once again.

Here's one of my favorite sites:

https://www.nogw.com/electionfraud.html

And that pesky Bev Harris. Man I wish she would go away. If too many of you contribute to her cause, I might just get in trouble so KNOCK IT OFF!!

https://www.blackboxvoting.org/

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Fool me once.....", oh CRAP, I forgot again. Well how about this? "This would be a heck of lot easier if this was [grammar incorrect] a dictatorship.... just so long as I'm the dictator. Heh, heh." Well, sorry to say folks, but I got my way. What are you gonna do about it, huh? Bring it on!!!

https://votergate.tv/votergate/votergatethemovie_64kb.mov

"Sincerely" Yours, "President" George W. Bush

P.S. Pass it on! I dare ya.

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posted by KGB at 6:32 AM (permalink)

Quote of the day

I'm sure you know, there's talk of Hillary Clinton gearing up for 2008. Or as Bill calls her... The Polar Express.
-Jay Leno

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Tuesday, November 09, 2004
posted by KGB at 8:11 AM (permalink)

Electromagnetic escapades...

The Sunday flight from Pittsburgh didn't begin well. It was almost two hours late and the pilot had decided not to make the flight deck radio available on the audio system.

I've flown United about 100 times in the past two years, and this was only the second time I couldn't listen to the in-flight air traffic control conversations. I actually think the same pilot pulled the plug on both flights.

You may ask, "Is there a reason you need to listen to the ATC transmissions?" A more valid question is: "Is there a reason I shouldn't?" Bear in mind that anybody with a cheap Radio Shack scanner can listen in to the conversations, so it's not like it's a security issue. United makes a big deal about it- so much so, that when one pilot decides I shouldn't be able to hear what's going on, it makes me nervous.

Is the pilot a stutterer? A victim of Tourette's Syndrome? ("United 611, Cleveland Center, climb and maintain 23 thousand." "Cleveland Center, United 611, climbing to 23 thousand... asshole.")

I decide that instead of a neurological disorder, the pilot just likes to assert authority. So I try to doze off.

Then something wonderful happened.

The first officer announced passengers on the right side of the plane should be able to see the aurora borealis, the northern lights.

Not one, but two miracles: a low-latitude aurora, and actually being seated on the correct side of the aircraft to view it.

The light pollution in the city made it impossible to see the aurora from the ground. But when I awoke to go to the bathroom at about 1 a.m., I noticed an odd light flickering outside the window, even without my glasses.

My tenth floor apartment is about 500 feet from the shore of Lake Michigan, and I have an unobstructed view. There's a park at the lakefront, so there aren't many lights and the sky above the lake, of course, is totally dark.

Right at eye level was a beautiful display of the aurora.

For three hours I watched the ribbons of multicolored light cascade across the sky. They were mostly green, but about every ten minutes or so there'd be an eruption of yellow and red that was absolutely breathtaking.

Of course, I was totally worthless yesterday, since I had about a total of three hours' sleep.

But at age 50, I had discovered two things that were previously unknown to me: the beauty of the aurora, and that acute sleep deprivation and excessive caffeine consumption produce the same visual effect.

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kgbreport.com used to be kgb.com until December, 2007 when the domain name broker Trout Zimmer made an offer I couldn't refuse. Giving up kgb.com and adopting kgbreport.com created a significant problem, however. I had acquired the kgb.com domain name in 1993, and had since that time used kgb@kgb.com as my sole e-mail address. How to let people know that kgb@kgb.com was no longer kgb@kgb.com but rather kgbarkes@gmail.com which is longer than kgb@kgb.com and more letters to type than kgb@kgb.com and somehow less aesthetically pleasing than kgb@kgb.com but actually just as functional as kgb@kgb.com? I sent e-mails from the kgb@kgb.com address to just about everybody I knew who had used kgb@kgb.com in the past decade and a half but noticed that some people just didn't seem to get the word about the kgb@kgb.com change. So it occurred to me that if I were generate some literate, valid text in which kgb@kgb.com was repeated numerous times and posted it on a bunch of different pages- say, a blog indexed by Google- that someone looking for kgb@kgb.com would notice this paragraph repeated in hundreds of locations, would read it, and figure out that kgb@kgb.com no longer is the kgb@kgb.com they thought it was. That's the theory, anyway. kgb@kgb.com. Ok, I'm done. Move along. Nothing to see here...