Well, Christmas and Hanukkah each brought with them a new puppy, which means I’ve been spending a lot of time cleaning up secreted piles of dog crap and soaking urine out of the various rugs in the house.
— Which is precisely why, after steam cleaning the latest dropping out of the crevices of a wool “stone” rug and gagging through the entirety of it, I ordered a bunch of Safety 1st cloth pressure mount gates to go with the doggie gates we already have. I figure if we can sequester the puppies to a single room, they won’t be as likely to shit where the eat. And yes, that’s probably the first time I’ve used that phrase literally.
On the legal front, tomorrow I begin to follow-up with my Maryland attorneys and make sure the probate was all done exactly right. I’ll probably have to get a Court recorder to take video depositions from the doctors, nurses, and the care facility staff affirming that my mother was completely competent (she was) — and note through correspondence, etc., how the Will change and the POA change and revocation all were happening before my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Too, the initial diagnosis spoke of 3-6 months — and it was I who was prepared to pay for the care she was receiving at her nice, new rehabilitation hospice.
My brother and his slip and fall lawyers are banking on my Mom’s quick demise, ready to argue that the very family members who took care of her, pulling her out of a care facility that couldn’t accommodate her needs, contacting the police about what was essentially elderly abuse and fiduciary fraud, then spent either every day at her bedside or every day working to find her assets so she could live with a bit of dignity, and ultimately had to arrange (and pay for) her funeral services, burial, etc., were in fact after her money all along, and so coerced her into signing all the documents she signed.
That she’s not here to speak for herself, “Goldie” thinks, helps his cause. And yet he was phoning her everyday up until the day of her death trying to get her to get me to drop the investigations and legal claims against him, which she refused to do. Because he robbed her. And she knew it. By the time we got her out of her indigent situation and got her some clothes, food, and some pocket money so she could live again, she was finally done justifying and protecting her youngest, a bona fide shitheel, from his own disgusting, immoral, bullying actions.
So bring it on. There isn’t a person alive who will testify on his behalf who hasn’t been bought off by time in our old pool and my brother’s penchant for purchasing friendships with the booze and illegal substances he was able to buy with my Mom and Dad’s money — all while he essentially kept my mother imprisoned. And I’ll make sure my attorney’s prove that.
But all that aside — and sorry for the rant, but I have such limited time now to write (probably wasn’t the smartest idea bringing in two puppies while all of this is going on, but it made the boys happy, and I’m sure it’ll make the entire family richer in the long run) — here’s wishing you all a Happy New Year. I’ll be back more regularly sometime after the first of the year, largely depending upon how much I have to do with the lawyers and how quickly I can get the puppies house broken.
Meanwhile, Obama runs roughshod over all of us and our Constitution, whether I’m here bitching about him or not. And the GOP establishment, that gaggle of limp-dicked surrender monkeys and bought-off career hacks, will continue to fight any attempt at serious reform, happy to have their snouts in the federal trough, happy to have their big offices and their committee chairs, now that they hold “power” in DC. This has been that way for years, and I’ve been in the wilderness for years for the crime of pointing it out and for criticizing those putative conservatives who both helped and enabled the establicans — and demonized sober constitutionalists like me and the rest of the TEA Party movement — because they’d bought into the fiction that we risk of becoming a “regional party” (as hangdog hitman Mitch McConnell dumbly predicted just ahead of the 2010 GOP landslide) should we not pretend Obama was just a swell, well-meaning garden variety Democrat, and that leveling criticism against, and bringing up factual biographical information about, the Red Diaper Baby and the murder of pecking radicals he was insinuating into the fabric of our country, was “unhelpful,” marking us a “purists,” “True Believers,” “extremists,” etc., who refused to see the “pragmatic” and “realistic” way forward was to pander to the soundbite “centrists,” mushy “moderates,” and politically ignorant or disengaged morons who can be swayed by such tripe as identity politics and cowed by PC pressures.
Ironically, those very “pragmatists” and “realists” who made sure I was silenced are now spending much of their time writing things that I was writing back in 2008- and onward; but hey, if they pretend I don’t exist, they can pretend with alacrity that they’ve been extraordinarily principled and consistent all along, and that they never were part of the problem. And that’s exactly how they’ve behaved.
Nice gig if you can get it.
Maybe the New Year will bring with it a surge in my being an effective pain in the ass to the GOP establishment, thanks to a sudden re-spreading of my audience. But given the networking apparatus of the “new” “conservative” media and how it’s controlled by a few central sites (who write with one finger always in the political wind), I’m not going to hold my breath. You get the Jeb Bush you deserve.
So instead, puppy and toddler pics!
Two puppies. And I thought I was crazy with five kids in 7 years.
Just discovered that somebody’s been doing a bit of internet clean-up, and that a bunch of my posts — pertaining to a particular fellow whose HONOR is unquestioned — have been scrubbed from history.
Fortunately I was able to find a single snap-shot of a particularly important post — in that without the body of it and the context surrounding it, I’m easily damned, and many many people have evidently been fooled into damning me — and I’m going to link it here in the comments just to preserve it. Should some of you wish to make copies, go for it. Otherwise I suspect even that will be forced down the rabbit hole.
For the HONOR.
But many things are becoming clearer and clearer.
Swordfish. Sideways.
How diligently and tirelessly some must have worked to bring us to this point!
Because.
Uh oh… those are the posts that were never recovered?
I just saved a copy locally.
Wow — the entire month of December 2009, vanished. HTF does that happen?
Anyway, I’ve retrieved the Waybacked Part 1 as well as parts 2 and 3.
The Part 1 post is now reconstituted here (minus comments).
Don’t forget this.
The guy can only win arguments and influence people when he can argue against strawmen. So the context HAD to be erased. For HONOR.
Lucky I have puppies and kids and a wife and a new house and principles that I have not sold out or changed to meet prevailing winds, or my day would be absolutely ruined.
Parts 2 and 3 reconstitued too, clickable in sequence from Part 1.
And I’ve noticed all the links that carried over are to wayback URLs. Which means if they’re archived too, scrubbing the originals makes no difference.
I followed the links in the comments. That was certainly a trip down memory lane.
This has also been removed from my site.
Here’s the original link: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15657
Guess some people think hiding the truth will set you free.
Well, they don’t show up in Google searches.
Which I’m betting is what’s behind this.
How could someone else remove things from your site?
I don’t understand what’s going on.
Good question, cranky-d. I’m not terribly computer literate.
Which doesn’t mean I’d reach out to, say, Anonymous. Generally, if I can’t do it, it doesn’t get done.
At any rate, I don’t really care much anymore. The damage has been done and, no matter how much one attempts to justify it to himself, there’s always going to be that nagging worm inside that stares out at him and says, “Dude. Really? Because you were wrong on the internet? That’s fucked up.”
It may be a consequence of the hackings. All of us with admin privileges should change our passwords every so often.
There were posts lost due to crashes like several months of stuff at the Pub in late 2007 early 2008. Then there were the crashes that seemed to be hackings. Lastly many old links don’t work because the urls for the archiving changed.
I have quite a few Protein Wisdom pages on my hard drives. Including a number from 12/2009.
Of course you can just start from one url from Dec 2009 like [ https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15608 ] at the way back machine and then index up or down to find different ones
At least one actually was a hacking. Somebody inserted links to reputation-management outfits into the templates.
Just to say for the sake of the saying, it’s a pleasure to assert how good it is to see a toddler evince a pose of what the Philadelphians of my acquaintance liked to refer to as “atteettood”. Of course, ‘seasy for me to say, since I don’t have to clean up his messes.
Reputation-management outfits are
infiltratedstaffed by “little-a” Anonymous hackers. As are most heavy-use internet firms, and all of the hardware and software manufacturers. Oh, and mind the sensitive data you stuff in the various Clouds!Just about any firm that employs IT-savvy staffers would be surprised to know just how many of their employees are white- or black-hat hackers. Or, not. I know Sony certainly is, right now..
Heh. I’m putting a side bet on the life of the (heavy) vases in the middle pic. Someone is forgetting the #1 most basic rule around small children and large pets: never challenge gravity!
Damn, Tanner’s getting big.
Has anyone else noticed that there’s another particular right-leaning site that hardly anyone ever mentions anymore?
In the spirit of putting a few more true things into the record…
BECAUSE OF THE… well, you know.
Can we prove this? Is this allowed without my knowing?
I need clarification. Because if it’s so I have a very direct public question I wish to ask.
This was sometime in the last year or two, I think. I can look back through my archived emails (in a while; not able right now) because I contacted one of them about it.
I’ll email what I find, Jeff.
for animal stains white vinegar straight/diluted by 1/2 depending on severity. check small discrete area 1st for colorfastness or staining of wood. also a dark light flashlight is good for finding urination on carpets. recent turnover with dogs and fleas.
Jeff, it was two years ago last February.
It’s a pity Barrett Brown is still locked up.
Send me more specific details. Pieces are starting to come together. Just saw, for instance, this: http://youtu.be/OfoOyV5oWfM
I suppose the question to be asking of these deleted posts is one that, unfortunately, John Dickinson is portrayed as asking Ben Franklin in 1776: “When did you notice they were missing?”
i haven’t had a dog in a while. forgot that the flea bites last so long.
Unfortunately, Jeff, I haven’t found all of the emails I remember from that time, and the one I did find contains no description of what happened, only an assurance from one of the reputation companies’ honcho saying (among other things) that he’d emailed you. That was the same day as the February 2012 post linked in my 7:54pm comment.
I try to keep backups of everything, but if I only have one copy and it’s on a hard drive that’s failed and can’t be salvaged…
If PW was hosted by Pixy Misa back then, maybe he has records from that incident.
More background: Feb. 15, 2012 at 8:53am and Feb 15, 2012 at 10:54am
C’est la vie. I think the life is not perfect. Forget it and look forward a happy new year.
go forward
Art V 1st convention:
1. Term limits congress, courts, bureaucracy
2. Debt ceiling: 2/3 states legislatures to raise it
let’s talk
I’ve been arguing for a rule, as part of an all-laws sunset provision, that when a law is sunsetting it can only be renewed if there are enough new members of both houses to do so with the necessary quorum, who didn’t vote for it any of the previous times.
And if it was enacted or renewed on a voice vote previously, all members on that occasion are disqualified regardless to vote on renewal.
>I think that the origins of Charter 77 illustrate very well what I have already suggested above: that in the post-totalitarian system, the real background to the movements that gradually assume political significance does not usually consist of overtly political events or confrontations between different forces or concepts that are openly political. These movements for the most part originate elsewhere, in the far broader area of the “pre-political,” where living within a lie confronts living within the truth, that is, where the demands of the post-totalitarian system conflict with the real aims of life. These real aims can naturally assume a great many forms. Sometimes they appear as the basic material or social interests of a group or an individual; at other times, they may appear as certain intellectual and spiritual interests; at still other times, they may be the most fundamental of existential demands, such as the simple longing of people to live their own lives in dignity. Such a conflict acquires a political character, then, not because of the elementary political nature of the aims demanding to be heard but simply because, given the complex system of manipulation on which the post-totalitarian system is founded and on which it is also dependent, every free human act or expression, every attempt to live within the truth, must necessarily appear as a threat to the system and, thus, as something which is political par excellence. Any eventual political articulation of the movements that grow out of this “pre-political” hinterland is secondary. It develops and matures as a result of a subsequent confrontation with the system, and not because it started off as a political program, project, or impulse.<
havel @ '68
>Once again, the events of 1968 confirm this. The communist politicians who were trying to reform the system came forward with their program not because they had suddenly experienced a mystical enlightenment, but because they were led to do so by continued and increasing pressure from areas of life that had nothing to do with politics in the traditional sense of the word. In fact, they were trying in political ways to solve the social conflicts (which in fact were confrontations between the aims of the system and the aims of life) that almost every level of society had been experiencing daily, and had been thinking about with increasing openness for years. Backed by this living resonance throughout society, scholars and artists had defined the problem in a wide variety of ways and students were demanding solutions.
The genesis of Charter 77 also illustrates the special political significance of the moral aspect of things that I have mentioned. Charter 77 would have been unimaginable without that powerful sense of solidarity among widely differing groups, and without the sudden realization that it was impossible to go on waiting any longer, and that the truth had to be spoken loudly and collectively, regardless of the virtual certainty of sanctions and the uncertainty of any tangible results in the immediate future. “There are some things worth suffering for,” Jan Pato?ka wrote shortly before his death. I think that Chartists understand this not only as Pato?ka’s legacy, but also as the best explanation of why they do what they do.
Seen from the outside, and chiefly from the vantage point of the system and its power structure, Charter 77 came as a surprise, as a bolt out of the blue. It was not a bolt out of the blue, of course, but that impression is understandable, since the ferment that led to it took place in the “hidden sphere,” in that semidarkness where things are difficult to chart or analyze. The chances of predicting the appearance of the Charter were just as slight as the chances are now of predicting where it will lead. Once again, it was that shock, so typical of moments when something from the hidden sphere suddenly bursts through the moribund surface of living within a lie. The more one is trapped in the world of appearances, the more surprising it is when something like that happens.<
>IN SOCIETIES under the post-totalitarian system, all political life in the traditional sense has been eliminated. People have no opportunity to express themselves politically in public, let alone to organize politically. The gap that results is filled by ideological ritual. In such a situation, people’s interest in political matters naturally dwindles and independent political thought, insofar as it exists at all, is seen by the majority as unrealistic, farfetched, a kind of self-indulgent game, hopelessly distant from their everyday concerns; something admirable, perhaps, but quite pointless, because it is on the one hand entirely utopian and on the other hand extraordinarily dangerous, in view of the unusual vigor with which any move in that direction is persecuted by the regime.
Yet even in such societies, individuals and groups of people exist who do not abandon politics as a vocation and who, in one way or another, strive to think independently, to express themselves and in some cases even to organize politically, because that is a part of their attempt to live within the truth.
The fact that these people exist and work is in itself immensely important and worthwhile. Even in the worst of times, they maintain the continuity of political thought. If some genuine political impulse emerges from this or that “pre-political” confrontation and is properly articulated early enough, thus increasing its chances of relative success, then this is frequently due to these isolated generals without an army who, because they have maintained the continuity of political thought in the face of enormous difficulties, can at the right moment enrich the new impulse with the fruits of their own political thinking. Once again, there is ample evidence for this process in Czechoslovakia. Almost all those who were political prisoners in the early 1970s, who had apparently been made to suffer in vain because of their quixotic efforts to work politically among an utterly apathetic and demoralized society, belong today-inevitably-among the most active Chartists. In Charter 77, the moral legacy of their earlier sacrifices is valued, and they have enriched this movement with their experience and that element of political thinking.<
The Christmas Junta
Until The Whole World Hears
in allan news
Jesus Is Just Alright – Doobie Brothers
>Almost all those who were political prisoners in the early 1970s, who had apparently been made to suffer in vain because of their quixotic efforts to work politically among an utterly apathetic and demoralized society, belong today-inevitably-among the most active Chartists. <
yes
newrouter says December 28, 2014 at 9:47 pm
go forward
Art V 1st convention:
1. Term limits congress, courts, bureaucracy
2. Debt ceiling: 2/3 states legislatures to raise it
let’s talk
And then there’s this, created at the request of someone who was morbidly curious about l’affaire and who briefly posted a tweet referring [said blogger] to that very post, until I freaked out over my impending doxxing.
Or worse.
@havel
>There is no way around it: no matter how beautiful an alternative political model can be, it can no longer speak to the “hidden sphere,” inspire people and society, call for real political ferment. The real sphere of potential politics in the post-totalitarian system is elsewhere: in the continuing and cruel tension between the complex demands of that system and the aims of life, that is, the elementary need of human beings to live, to a certain extent at least, in harmony with themselves, that is, to live in a bearable way, not to be humiliated by their superiors and officials, not to be continually watched by the police, to be able to express themselves freely, to find an outlet for their creativity, to enjoy legal security, and so on. Anything that touches this field concretely, anything that relates to this fundamental, omnipresent, and living tension, will inevitably speak to people. Abstract projects for an ideal political or economic order do not interest them to anything like the same extent—and rightly so—not only because everyone knows how little chance they have of succeeding, but also because today people feel that the less political policies are derived from a concrete and human here and now and the more they fix their sights on an abstract “someday,” the more easily they can degenerate into new forms of human enslavement. People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
To shed the burden of traditional political categories and habits and open oneself up fully to the world of human existence and then to draw political conclusions only after having analyzed it: this is not only politically more realistic but at the same time, from the point of view of an “ideal state of affairs,” politically more promising as well. A genuine, profound, and lasting change for the better—as I shall attempt to show—can no longer result from the victory (were such a victory possible) of any particular traditional political conception, which can ultimately be only external, that is, a structural or systemic conception. More than ever before, such a change will have to derive from human existence, from the fundamental reconstitution of the position of people in the world, their relationships to themselves and to each other, and to the universe. If a better economic and political model is to be created, then perhaps more than ever before it must derive from profound existential and moral changes in society. This is not something that can be designed and introduced like a new car. If it is to be more than just a new variation of the old degeneration, it must above all be an expression of life in the process of transforming itself. A better system will not automatically ensure a better life. In fact, the opposite is true: only by creating a better life can a better system be developed.<
dude ted cruz 2016
>To shed the burden of traditional political categories and habits and open oneself up fully to the world of human existence and then to draw political conclusions only after having analyzed it: this is not only politically more realistic but at the same time, from the point of view of an “ideal state of affairs,” politically more promising as well. A genuine, profound, and lasting change for the better—as I shall attempt to show—can no longer result from the victory (were such a victory possible) of any particular traditional political conception, which can ultimately be only external, that is, a structural or systemic conception. <
RE: puppies and the accompanying floor and carpet messes
One of the biggest problems with these stains is that we humans, with our feeble noses, think we’ve gotten things pretty well cleaned up, but the doggies can still smell the spots where they did their thing, and that makes them think they should do their thing there again, thus, perpetuating an ugly cycle.
When we were housbreaking our last puppy, we picked up some stuff at a local janitorial supply house that worked wonders. Called Triple-S Enz-Odor II Odor Counteractant & Digester. Label says it contains enzymes that break down stink-making compounds, including the stuff in the aforementioned pet stains. For all I know, it contains the tears of liberal fascists gathered after Reagan’s second inauguration. But it works.
http://www.triple-s.com
Great photos! Your boys and the dogs are quite handsome. A happy and prosperous New Year to you and yours, Jeff.
Ah Christmas! Your kids look great!
I’ve had a typical holiday, all sorts of things broke. Here’s a short list.
The fridge (on the 23rd, my birthday), we’re using the beer fridge in the garage as backup. It’s about 30 years old and has never broke, our 5 years-old super fridge has broken twice since the four year warranty passed.
The washing machine. Again, the four year warranty passed in April. The pump won’t drain it, I’m sure there’s something blocking the tube, college kid is home, if it’s a condom I’ll vomit.
Every car I own has a check engine light lit if they have one, the one that doesn’t has a short in the wire harness I can’t find and no lights on the right side of the car, so I can’t drive it. Which means, I haven’t left the house since last Sunday, and that’s a bad thing, because teenagers and college kids are not very good proxy shoppers at the lumber yard, and they are ALWAYS in the cars.
My wife decided to have a New Year’s party and everyone she invited decided to come. So yesterday she decided to tear the carpet off of the stairs and re-finish them. She didn’t listen when I told her there was a reason we put carpet on the stairs to begin with. So I had to buy $300 of oak stair treads, and another $100 of risers to replace the 1960’s builder’s grade steps we had. Oh, did I mention that whoever built them didn’t know how to use a framing square and just eyeballed it? Great for keeping burglars at bay, terrible if you want to replace the treads AND YOUR FUCKING TABLE SAW IS BROKE. Not to mention that while I paid for the wood, it took multiple phone calls and trips to the lumber yard and even (gasp) a delayed lunch date for college kid to pick up the right stuff.
You know what else is broke? ME. I ain’t got no money any more.
nothing a lil banana nut bread and whipped cream cheese can’t fix
Re-making “classical liberal” too.
You will not be allowed to have any word to signify what you believe. Your opponents will define you out of existence and apply their own labels, you wreckers.
I thought opponents of socialism were supposed to all be fascist fat cats and their deluded apologists.
You misspelled “proponents.”
They keep pushing things, and I often think it’s time to start ignoring them and to spend my energy preparing for the inevitable result of their machinations.
Blockquote fail.
Seeing as Dicentra notes above that someone was asking for a re-cap (and apparently a short re-cap at that), I’d recommend this pw post from Sept 26, 2012 as a starter. Of course for events discovered or taking place after that time, other citations will be necessary.
Blockquotes can be trained to sort themelves out.
Thank you, McGehee.
It’s hard for me to comment on site troubles because my advice would always reflect my own experience — which stems from having gotten started when the only way to manage a website was to learn how. Of course, back then all web pages were static and the most gee-whiz thing you could do involved a hit counter.
Or the blink tag, but let’s forget that ever happened.
Tanner needs to go into acting. In that last picture, not a word is spoken but the expression and body language speak — or, more accurately, suggest — volumes.
I liked the blink tag. Lost time was my friend.
LMC, from one ‘old gadget lover’ to another, you’ll appreciate this.
I need to figure out what reputation protection company it was and on whose behalf this was done. I was never notified.
You know what’s fun? Bringing in the new year by not giving a fuck. I’ve asked Frey directly now several times if he had any involvement. I’m beginning to pose the questions as hypotheticals.
He’ll never cop to it.
He’s too honorable to dink around with other people’s blogs.
That’s why you’d reach out to a character like Barrett Brown, to keep your hands clean.
The guy from Internet Reputation Managem3nt (take that, Googlebots!) insisted he had nothing to do with it and said he’d emailed Jeff to have the link removed. If he never emailed, that’s interesting.
But I suspect since there were two separate outfits linked it was the hacker trying to make a point — maybe about Googlebomb complaints.
Frey’s certainly more likely to hire one of those than be hired by, IYKWIMAITYD.
It’s also possible the extra link was to camouflage responsibility. Or that both were.
Just found another email in which the guy at IRM named another company he thought was responsible (Reputation Management D3luxe) because of phrases in the inserted content. Honor among sleaze?
While enzymatic cleaners have their uses, I’d also recommend getting a 10lb. bag of baking soda (we get ours at Costco) to have on-hand for any carpet or rug messes that are liquid. Just heap the baking soda over the urine spot and you’ll see it pull it right out of the carpet. If the surface of the baking soda pile gets discolored by the underlying moisture, you need to increase the size of the heap until the baking soda on top is dry. Make sure you’ve got dry baking soda at the edges of the heap, too. Give it a bit of time to work its magic, then sweep up the pile and steam clean underneath.
If you just use the steam cleaner, you end up with a carpet pad saturated with a combination of urine and cleaning fluid. Unless you’re using a machine substantially stronger than a home use model, you aren’t going to be able to pull all of that back up. The enzymatic cleaner is going to work better on any remaining residue if you’ve got the majority of the contaminating liquid (urine, vomit, etc.) removed. This method has also worked pretty well for wine stains, too.
What was that Orwell said about who controls the past?
They’re beautiful!
Hey, McGehee: can you put the code in a text file — all that you have found — and email it to me?
Thanks.
And no, I was never contacted.
For the record, Frey has denied having anything to do with it. I accepted his denial on its face.
Because I’m all, like, psychotic and shit.
Code?
I’ll email you attached text files of all the emails I can find, but I don’t have any site code. I’m relying on memory just finding the emails.
Which acceptance doesn’t exonerate his Frey Guys, some of whom were more obnoxious toward you than he was.
Then again, there are also spots of Goldsteinhaß in Oregon, middle Tennessee, etc. Didn’t thorhead claim to be in Florida?
Accepting his word on it’s face is why Jeff still checks his mailbox everyday for a specific letter. Sooner or later, the Post Office just has to come through!
Specific letter or specific letter-bomb, Ernst? Ya never know.
The letter I had in mind was purported to be one telling Jeff to stop doing something he wasn’t doing in the first place. So you can understand why he’s so anxious that it should finally arrive.
Purported, that is, by a person whose word we can accept on it’s face.
Yep, I remember the incident well.
I’ve now decided that my first book will be “The Life and Times of Jeff Goldstein and His Band of Merry Pranksters.
Will it be a tragedy or a melodrama?
Will it be a tragedy or a melodrama?
Yes?
Tanner needs to go into acting. In that last picture, not a word is spoken but the expression and body language speak — or, more accurately, suggest — volumes.
I don’t know from acting, but what that picture suggests to me is Tanner is defiantly uninterested about wearing his pants backwards.
i love how the carpet stripes are roughly the same width as the carpet slats
*floor* slats i mean