Sunday, November 15, 2015

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." - Gen. Omar Bradley


The store where I got my new Mac said the wait is five business days to transfer everything from my old laptop to the (used) new one. Nope. So I bought a firewire cable, and this morning used the "migration" program built into a Mac that the salesman showed me to do it myself. It took me a couple of tries to figure out how it worked, but it wasn't at all complicated. Thirty minutes or so after starting the process my new laptop went through a restart and came to life looking exactly like the old one.
The Cabeza family was smiling at me on my desktop, all of my desktop folders and docs were in precisely the same place, all my programs came across and occupy the same spot on the task bar...
This is why I like Macs. They do what you want in the way you expect.

Q: In one word, how did Bill Gates get so wealthy?
A: Versions.

AZ Cardinals vs. Seattle Seahawks.
Hmmmm. This is a tough one.

I discovered the problem with the only exterior outlet, the one on the front porch. It had tripped - I'd figured that much out - but I could NOT find the breaker. Last night before going to bed I discovered it's wired into the same circuit as the GFI outlet in the bathroom, which also wasn't working. Hit the reset button and solved the problem.

I think that in addition to using executive action far more than other chief executives, history will remember President Obama for the absence of a coherent foreign policy. It's almost like he doesn't know quite what to do and so does nothing. Of all the areas where that has come back to bite him none looms larger than Syria. Remember his "red line?"
He rejected calls for the enforcement of a no-fly zone when he could have implemented one, and now with the Russians flying sorties it's too late. He described ISIS as "contained" hours before the Paris attacks.
Less than 48 hours after the attacks the French began an air campaign against the ISIS "capital" in Syria. If those attacks had happened in Chicago do you think the President would have planes dropping bombs in Syria?
I think his foreign policy failings may be the most notable feature of his presidency.

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