Month: September 2020

I am out of HostGator and I cannot say a nice thing about them.

If I have a fault among many is that I am a loyal customer. And I will remain so till one of two things happen: Your product/service drops in quality and you do squat to fist it. Or you decide to screw me.

HostGator did both.

I started this blog with a small mom & pop type Webhost who got scared after the back-then assholes of Century Arms sent them a threatening note for a post I did about their shoddy work and shoddier customer service. I went to HostGator because they offered an affordable service and I figured a big company would not be so easily intimidated by Drunken Monkeys pretending to be gunsmiths.
But the blog grew in visitors, not that many, but I started to get blocked by HG because the traffic I was getting went above the resources for my particular account. Fine OK, it is the price of “success” and you have to pay it. On their own recommendation,    I got their 3 year Optimized WordPress Package which they assured me was enough to deal with anything that may come up in the future. It gave me unlimited bandwith and unlimited memory so I did not have to do shit butt write and upload pretty pictures.

And then we started to get the effing 500 Error messages.

I contacted them and it seems I was using too many resources which lead to automatic slow-downs  & restrictions. So to fix that I did what they wanted, bought extra shit that was supposed to help me with, eliminated many a plugin that may have been screwing with the system, basically pared down the site till it looked like Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree.  But it did not help.

More of the dreaded 500 kept showing up, tech services were contacted and then they started to hint I may need to move to a dedicated service where none of this would ever happen again! (heard that shit before.) I checked thei9r plans and I simply could not afford what they were asking, nor I could ask you guys to help me with that. Then we had a couple or more days were visits to the blog just blew the regular roof and I noticed the funniest of things: No 500 Error at all.  But then during a lower than usual visits days, the error was back,; this crap did not make sense and their only answer was to upgrade. That was the day I posted about quitting but AWA (Anonymous Webhost Angel) stepped up and offered his services.

So I did what HostGator wanted me to do: I upgraded my webhost.. but not with them.

It is not cheap, but it is not the testicle cutting amount that HostGator was demanding. And it comes with something I was not used to: Real Fricking Human Support. AWA not only did help me move over with the least amount of trouble, but went through the site figuring out what was going on and correcting stuff, making a more leaner, faster and effective site and all while dealing with me and my lack of properly following instructions.

I already got great feedback from some of you about noticing the difference and do thank AWA for that. I know I can feel it on this side of the blog and specially the lack of the 500 error message.

Yesterday was the last day of migrations and it was the email accounts. Apparently 12 years of emails do not migrate easy or fast specially with me screwing shit up. Finally last night we were done, the shackles from HostGator removed and I contacted them to let them know I was cancelling and I wanted a refund for the remaining time   left on my account. The reply was a very formal “Fuck you, you did not read the small print. Yes there was a money back guarantee, but it only lasts the first 45 days so we are keeping the moola. Love and kisses. Signed Escalated Support. PS: We are keeping your slot open till end of contract in case you want to come back to us, begging like a dog. After that, we will delete everything you made.”

So the money back guarantee died sometime 5 years ago and I am now officially out of $300 that I had planned to use for the extended payments of the new webhost.

So the blog will continue, this time on my server which won’t be tweaked by greedy assholes and be subjected by restrictions based on BS or politics. And I get to bombard you guys with my crap while you wait for J. Kb. to dish out the good stuff.

One last thing: I have told AWA to come up with a logo and contact info so I can advertise his services in the blog. He deserves more clients and I am planning he gets a couple through us. So, if you have the need for hosting services, stay put or email me so I can pass you the info.

OK.  Rant Off. Back to my coffee.

PS: Eff HostGator… it needed to be said again.

The Washington Post begrudgingly acknowledges that the Left isn’t all peaches and cream

From the Washington Post:

Violent memes and messages surging on far-left social media, a new report finds

Months of civil unrest have coincided with a significant rise in social media posts critical of police that sometimes are laced with violent themes, including calls to destroy property and attack officers, according to research released Monday morning.

The report, by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which previously has studied right-wing violence from groups such as the “boogaloo boys,” warns that some left-wing groups have embraced similar social media tactics, including memes and humorous catchphrases, to spread their messages and possibly help coordinate offline activity. The researchers pointed to possible signs of such coordination associated with riots in Seattle, Portland and other cities on July 25, involving fires, looting and property damage.

To understand the bullshit that is coming next, it is important to understand that for the Left, words often have the opposite meaning to them that they have to the rest of us.

They get this from reading 1984 as a how-to manual.

For them, someone on the right making a Pepe Meme is violence but a goon in Black Bloc throwing a homemade bomb at police is free speech.  White silence is violence but looting a Louis Vuitton store is peaceful protesting.

The report acknowledges that left-wing political actors, including those who embrace the antifa movement, have been responsible for far less violence than white supremacists and other right-wing ones — a finding consistent with the conclusions of law enforcement and other threat analysts.

See?  Who was trying to burn Portland and Seattle to the ground for months on end?  Who threw bombs and water bottles at police in Chicago?  Who has been wielding lasers trying to blind people?  Who has been tearing down statues?

One asshole runs over someone in Charlottesville back in 2017 and there is an epidemic of Right-Wing violence.  Tens of millions of dollars in damage is done during riots and it’s nothing.

Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence Group, said there are stark differences in the types of direct action promoted online by left- and right-wing extremists.

“It is overwhelmingly the far right — not the far left — that makes direct incitements for terrorist attacks and celebrates mass shooters as heroes to the movement,” she said. “Far-left activity usually doesn’t extend beyond destruction of property — that being arson against police vehicles, sabotaging infrastructure and similar activities.”

Property destruction and arson are not violence according to the Left.  That’s how they get away with saying such obvious bullshit.

[Socialist Rifle Association communications director, Lucas Hubbard] said left-wing activists — who have been targeted repeatedly, including by the president — are preparing themselves lest they become “victims of terrorism.”

While he renounced violence, he echoed right-wing actors in predicting it: “When the election happens, there’s going to be a surge of violence no matter who wins,” Hubbard said.

Gun owning Leftists preparing to cause havoc after the election.

I’ve covered how Grosskreutz was clearly engaged in the attempted premeditate murder of Kyle Rittenhouse but claimed self-defense, the Socialist Rifle Association is preparing to do the same thing.

But the researchers found the growing use of memes a worrying sign and argue that the spread of dehumanizing rhetoric on the left could set the stage for more serious incidents by what the report called “network-enabled mobs.”

And that’s the kicker.  They have been dehumanizing Trump supporters and police.  They are preparing for something big and something terrible.

The Left has never come up with an idea for a utopia that doesn’t require “kill everyone who disagrees with us” as the first step.

It’s become so overwhelming that finally, the WaPo has caught on a little bit, and they can’t even denounce it without first giving a whole bunch of “but much Right-wing violence.”

From this, you know the shit is going to hit the fan.

 

From the “No Duh” Files – DHS email confirms what we all knew all along

This from Law Enforcement Today:

Leaked email suggests DHS had “overwhelming intelligence” that Antifa was organizing the violence in Portland

A recently leaked email stemming from a former official from the Department of Homeland Security alleges that there’s “overwhelming intelligence” that the months of violence and riots in Portland have been organized by bad actors that are described as “Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired”.

Catherine Herridge from CBS News recently shared the leaked email on Twitter, apparently this intel has been floating around the DHS since as early as July 25th.

 

To the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, I say: “no shit, you obtuse partisan hack motherfuckers.”

Those of us who watched the live streams and video captured by independent journalists with our own eyes, we saw what was clearly an organized and quasi-professional operation.

They had materiel supply lines gathering raw materials to mass manufacture shields and bombs, and distribute food and water.  They had a JAG corps that was Johnny-on-the-spot bailing out arrested protesters with money from a central bail fund.  They operated like a trained Phalanx, marching in cadence forming a shield wall.  They had medics and people pretending to be medics to cause havoc.  They had a coordinated use of direct energy blinding weapons.

This is for all intents and purposes a trained militia.  There was no way in hell all of that just sort of came together randomly when protests broke out.  That took a level of command and control that is months or years in the making.

Given what we saw in Portland versus the random violence we saw in Charlottesville back in 2017, it’s not unreasonable to assume that a contingent of hard-core Antifa/Leftists have spent the last three years organizing and training for exactly this, or probably the reelection of Trump in 2020, and that this is them putting their training to the test before “the big one” in February.

Thousands or tens of thousands of Antifa militia training and prepping for three years, led by a cadre of riot veterans from Portland and Seattle, would be a hell of a force for a police department to deal with when the police are expecting and used to random rioters.

At least some people at DHS have some idea of this, I wonder what they will do about it.

This is why the Arab world hates the Palestinians and I hate Leftist Jews

Today, at the Whitehouse, the President of the United States got the Prime Minister of Israel, and Foreign Ministers of the UEA and Bahrain to sign a peace agreement.

This is absolutely fucking amazing.

This is an article published in Forward:

I grew up with anti-Semitism in the UAE. Peace with Israel is a dream come true.

Never in a million years did I believe there would be a deal in my lifetime where an Arab Gulf state would recognize the Jewish state. Watching the news this week of Israel and the United Arab Emirates normalizing relations was something of a dream come true.

Calling Israel and its Jewish inhabitants the enemy of Islam and God was as common as breathing while I was growing up. Anti-Semitism was in my home. It was in the school hallways and yard. You heard it at the café while having a hookah, enjoying a chicken shawarma and playing a hand of tarneeb.

At Friday prayers, a religious cleric at any given mosque was sure to make a comment about how Allah will one day destroy Israel from the map and all the yahoud that live in it so that our brothers may finally be free.

Given that history, consider how (to say it again) absolutely fucking amazing it is to see this:

Peace in our time is becoming real.  I cannot overstate how much of a tectonic shift this is in the Middle Ease.

So how did the Palestinians celebrate this momentous peace agreement between Arab states and Israel?

By doing the one thing those fucking savages know how to do, kill Jews.

The Palestinians don’t want peace.  They never want peace.  This is a blood feud, fueled by Iran, and nothing would make them happier than wiping Israel off the map.  They say so, right in their fucking charter.

This is why the UAE and Bahrain have decided to ignore the Palestinians and sign peace agreements with Israel, and why (hopefully) soon Saudia Arabia will too.  They know a future status as economically successful nations, respected on the world stage for being something more than just some rich sheik’s oil wells cannot happen if they are shackled to these bloodthirsty savages.

And while Israel is signing peace treaties with the UAE and Bahrain, what were Leftist Jews doing in the United States?  This fucking bullshit.

That’s right.  Israel is signing peace deals the Palestinians are launching unprovoked rocket attacks at Israeli civilians, and woke Lefty Jews are marching against Israeli peace waving the flag of the people who are shooting rockets at Israeli shopping centers.

This is an obscenity.

There is no justification for this.  This is pure hatred.  These woke Jews have abandoned everything Jewish in their souls and have replaced it with woke Leftism, which knows only hate and misery.

Good people would see nations working towards peace and celebrate it.

Woke Leftists will shit on peace because all they know how to do is destroy.

Leftism is a cancer that kills everything it touches.

If you find yourself protesting peace on behalf of terrorists who target shopping centers with rockets, Leftism has killed your soul.

 

 

Mail Ballot has you down? There might be alternatives.

If you are one of those lazy bastards that requested a Mail Ballot because you simply hate dealing with people (Not me, no way. I love people) check with you county Elections Supervisor for options other than cancelling it.
Miami Dade gives you the option of you  taking it (Page 9) to a designated location and drop it personally during Early Voting or Election day.

 

I am so doing the Early Voting thing.

BS Timeline

These people really are insane.

https://twitter.com/JRehling/status/1305628592685023233

Before the Holocaust started, Germany passed a number of laws on racial purity and segregation.

I’m curious, which side is it that has been promoting racial segregation, assigning social value and privileges by race, deciding which races are allowed to engage in what activities or business, and prohibit racial miscegenation.

It seems to be the Left that smashes up small businesses for having the wrong name or serving the wrong food if they are not black/ POC owned.

Which side is going into communities and destroy property and looting business because of the ethnicity of the owners?

This is just another case of projection and it’s really getting tiresome.