Joejolly and Hewlett Packard’s POP-UPs

Joejolly has been an HP fan since the time HP was mainly producing calculators. And joejolly’s calculators never broke – just retired to a dresser drawer to make way for a later model. But things are somewhat different now.

Joejolly just powered off his pc in the hope of stopping an HP pop-up hardware diagnostic from running on his computer. Joejolly has little reason to want all those pop-ups from HP. And he told HP so. And he also killed all those HP programs known by joejolly to produce pop-ups.

But this diagnostic program showed up – announced it was running and started to do so. Joejolly frantically looked for a button to stop the program but he found none.

Joejolly recalls having the option to stop that program in the past – prior to his telling HP he did not want pop-ups to run.

Joejolly powered off his pc in the hope of stopping the program.

It wasn’t always this way. The problem happened after joejolly tried to upgrade his operating system to Windows 7. Joejolly discovered that not only did HP not recommend that – a program required by the upgrade program was not a part of the C drive operating system. And joejolly discovered, first hand, the difference between “OEM” and “out of the box”. When joejolly next buys a pc, he will want to know how the OEM version of  the pc’s operating system differs from the “out of the box version”.

Was the Neocons’ Attack on the Geneva Convention/s Fatal?

Lets visit Wikipedia for information on:

Geneva Conventions

From Wikipedia

The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties and three additional protocols that set the standards in international law for humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. The singular term Geneva Convention refers to the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of World War II, updating the terms of the first three treaties and adding a fourth treaty. The language is extensive, with articles defining the basic rights of those captured during a military conflict, establishing protections for the wounded, and addressing protections for civilians in and around a war zone.[…]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

The civilized world is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the neocons.

The basic rights of those captured during a military conflict are still an issue in America. The issue was generated by the neocons’ bungling an attempt to take prisoners during the Iraq war. Renaming POWs to Detainees did not help.

The neocons’ “look ahead” feature may have failed for when they tried to get prosecutors to try the POWs in an American court of law, the issue of evidence came up. Evidence? Lack of evidence was a problem.

One high ranking neocon politician floated the idea of incarceration for life –without trial. That may be a “derived” assertion but what else could there be if you can’t try them and you can’t set them free because “they will harm Americans”. And after twenty-some-odd years of neocon wars and war-mongering, a good portion of the world might want to harm Americans.

Both the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations came under attack from America’s neocons. But the United Nations still seems to have a voice in the “current events” news pool. Not so, for the Geneva Conventions.

The neocons “penis slicing” and “water-boarding” trashed much of what the Geneva Conventions stood for. Name, rank and serial number was relegated to the refuse pile in favor of penis slicing and water-boarding. And it looks like the Geneva Convention/s has not recovered from the attacks on what it had achieved and stood for.

The Tea Party’s Bad Mouthing

The bad mouthing by Tea Party members ought to raise the eyebrows of eighth graders along with the eyebrows of the news profession. But the sensational aspect of some news stories are presented to America as  “current events” news thus co-mingling news and propaganda – leaving America to either use its “common sense” latch or depend upon the judgment  of a news source’s  “fair and balanced” statement.

Empty headed name calling and potty mouthed descriptions all should be restricted to the vulgar world from which they came. And in place of the vulgarity should come PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE, something rarely seen during the twenty-some-odd years of neocon “leadership”. And now, after a new name, things still seem to be the same.

The old neocons had a “potty mouth”. And so do the new neocons – now called Tea Party.

Here are a few “words of Tea Party Wisdom” published to the web:

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty accused President Obama and Democrats of “coddling” unions and applauded the Tea Party movement as “modern-day Paul Reveres.”[…]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/146279-pawlenty-on-obama-what-planet-is-he-from

But Tim Pawlenty likely would not remind America of how President Ronald Reagan handled unions. He is not likely to boast that Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 union members of the control tower workers – and Reagan  told them to NEVER COME BACK. President Bill Clinton removed the “never come back” stigma from the non-coddling behavior of President Ronald Reagan.

Reagan’s VOODOO ECONOMICS, under the management of the latter-day neocons, wrecked America and neither the old neocons nor the new neocons have commented. How dumb can America be? Perhaps dumb enough to embolden Tea Party members to feel it is safe to expose their rhetoric to a public that appears less than politically keen – or perhaps there are other reasons safely hidden behind the public’s Johari’s window pane number three.

The neocons are noted for their tainted RHETORIC. They never have been short on rhetoric. Its PERFORMANCE that the neocons and the Tea Party are short on. And for those who can’t see that – perhaps they should open their eyes and turn on their “common sense” latch.

A fool and his country may have already parted.

The Civil War Tool

Any tool, in the wrong hands, can become a weapon.

But a civil war, no matter the hands, can be a weapon of mass destruction. America’s neocons civil war threat preceded the civil war threat now being associated with Libya. While in different paragraphs,  America’s neocons and Libya  do seem to be on the same page.

It appears that the setting for the civil war tool is associated with a possible change in government. The focus may be on either a change from a current government or a change to a new government.

Adding-up the activities in Libya, the civil war talk seems to be an effort to retain government. Adding-up the activities in America, the neocon’s  civil war talk seems to be an effort to change government.

The civil war tool itself, depends upon its human drivers for values, deemed by the world, to be worthy causes.  America’s neocons, twenty-some-odd years ago,  put America out of the “worthy cause” category. And the latter-day neocons “drove the nails in the coffin” of America’s “worthy cause” category.

A fool and his country may have already parted.

Annual Oil Market Chronology

U.S. Energy Information Administration

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/AOMC/Overview.html

And here is another graph that shows crude oil prices over an extended period of time. It is annotated much like the wtrg.com graph that became “booby trapped” in my web blog . This graph comes from a .GOV website.

When A Country Can’t Manage Its Own People, that is an Abysmal Failure

It is normal to think that a country’s military is poised to oppose invading armies, but today, the armies seems to be opposing home-grown citizens tired of “business as usual”.

While the political “explosions” are centered in the Middle East, America’s neocons fore-saw the possibility that what they were preaching might not go over well in a country of 300,000,000 people. And 300,000,000 people is too many to avoid thinking of “socialism”. America’s neocons would rather give $1,000,000 to a single person than to give $1.00 to a million people – “socialism” – you know.

America’s neocons realized that to change America from a democracy to a fascist country would not be a task acceptable to everyone. As a warning to those who might disapprove, a possible American CIVIL WAR was placed on the table by America’s neocons.

For those Americans who believed that labor – not neocons – should pay for the neocons’ trashing of America, they were OK – the others could opt, instead,  for a civil war.

And the neocons did get American support. Bottom fishing America did produce a neocon following. For those Americans who liked the idea of a POLL TAX disenfranchising a segment of America’s population  – they were given CAGING. Caging accomplished the same thing that the now illegal poll tax accomplished – keeping people, who might not vote for neocons, away from the polls. Caging is also illegal.

But for a political party that plays “loose” with the rules, placing a civil war on the table is something that should not be taken lightly. However, after America’s neocons finally got a huge footprint in America’s “current events” news pool, Americans seemed to reflect a different personality – along with “failing” scores when tested by some Polls.

The neocon press, long ago, targeted the liberal press. And after buying up news sources seems to have made an impact on the “knowledge base” of many Americans.

Any tool, in the hands of the wrong person, can be used as a weapon.

Unanswered Oil price Related Questions Still Unanswered?

The price of oil shot-upwards during the rein of the neocons – why?

It is easy for Americans, when thinking of price changes, to think only of the factors – supply and demand. But those two are not the only factors that come into play when the price of oil changes. Back in 2008 the price of oil made a “humongous” change in favor of BIG OIL. Supply and demand did not seem to have anything to do with that huge jump in price.

Lets take a look at an oil price  graph published to the Internet by Wikipedia:

Of particular interest might be the huge jump in oil price that occurred in 2008. The price of oil shot up to $90.00 a barrel. Why? Business didn’t tell and the neocons, the neocon press, bloggers and mouth-pieces didn’t ask. The price of oil carried the price of gasoline along with it. But when the price of oil descended – it left, stranded, the high price of gasoline.

The above graph shows many other factors that affect the price of oil. From the graph, one can see that, in addition to supply – anything that threatens that supply may also be a price factor. But the graph may have missed the reason for the historical jump in oil price in 2008. Could speculators play a role in setting oil prices outside the “supply and demand” idea?

Looking at the graph, joejolly was not able to detect a cause of the extremely high oil price peak in 2008.

Back in 2008, the below article was published on THE HUFFINGTON POST web site:

Oil Speculators Cost Consumers $31 Billion this Summer

And not to be overlooked are the supply controls that are available to the oil industry – spigot to the left – supply goes up. Spigot to the right, supply goes down. Then prices react to supply.

[The above crude oil graph replaces the one that was destroyed by someone with a “no hot link” message where the “WTRG” graph was placed. Joejolly tried to delete the flashing no hot link message but could not. Joejolly deleted the post, changed the graph and uploaded again. Text may refer to data that is not shown on the current graph but the hike in oil price in clearly shown]

[And following the Wikipedia graph is a graph from a ".GOV" website that is annotated just like the "WTRG" graph was annotated but so far has not demonstrated the "booby trap" effect of the "WTRG" graph.]

Iraqis Rally to Vent Anger at Government

The New York Times

by JACK HEALY and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

February 25, 2011

BAGHDAD — Defying attempts by Iraq’s government to curtail a day of nationwide protests, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets on Friday to call for more accountability from elected leaders.

Most of the gatherings appeared to proceed peacefully, though there were sporadic reports of violence in the Sunni Muslim areas north of Baghdad, where Iraqi Army troops opened fire on protesters, wounding five of them. It was unclear what provoked the shooting.

In Baghdad, where officials banned all cars from the streets “until further notice,” hundreds of people began walking through the sprawling city, heading to the central square that has been a gathering point for demonstrations during the past few weeks.

The constellation of rallies, which Iraqis called a “day of rage” modeled after the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, brought together a chorus of anger and frustration over government corruption, instability and shoddy public services. However, unlike other protests in the region, there were not calls for an entirely new form of government.[…]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?_r=1&hp

The latter-day neocons focused more on the Middle East than any other American administration in recent memory. The Iraqi war alone could earn them that “distinction”.

What did the outcome of the Iraq war bring to the Iraqi people and what did it bring to America’s BIG OIL? For the people of Iraq, it brought democracy. For America’s BIG OIL, it brought the second largest oil reserve known. At that time, America’s President and Vice President were oil men.

What prompted, in 2003,  Iraq’s transition to democracy? It is now 2011 and still NOBODY KNOWS.

Nobody knows – in spite of the libraries built. Nobody knows – in spite of the books that were written. Nobody knows – in spite of all the news sources waiting to TELL AMERICA why its sons, daughters, husbands and wives died to bring about a transition in Iraq’s government.

The reason given, by the neocons, for Iraq’s war turned out to be something NOBODY else could validate. And…

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/365850.html

The Moving Finger Wrote “WMDs”.

If the people who know won’t tell, will the below statement ever come to pass?

Rice: People will soon thank Bush for what he’s done

While BIG OIL may be satisfied with the latter-day neocons’ activities in Iraq, it seems that democracy has a long ways to go before the Iraqi people have that same feeling.

Arab Unrest Propels Iran as Saudi Influence Declines

The New York Times

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN

February 23, 2011

MANAMA, Bahrain — The popular revolts shaking the Arab world have begun to shift the balance of power in the region, bolsteringIran’s position while weakening and unnerving its rival, Saudi Arabia, regional experts said.

While it is far too soon to write the final chapter on the uprisings’ impact, Iran has already benefited from the ouster or undermining of Arab leaders who were its strong adversaries and has begun to project its growing influence, the analysts said. This week Iran sent two warships through the Suez Canal for the first time since its revolution in 1979, and Egypt’s new military leaders allowed them to pass.[…]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/world/middleeast/24saudis.html?_r=1&hp

Iran has been at loggerheads with the West since 1948. By 1948 the League of Nations was dead and in its place stood a new organization called the UNITED NATIONS.

In 1948 Europe had a problem. The United Nations was the driving force in getting that problem solved or at least transferred. But first, the United Nations, being of Western influence, had to vote on the idea of relocating  Zionist Jews from Europe into a little country called Palestine. The sun was about to set on Palestine.

The United Nations voted on relocating Zionist Jews to Palestine. And here is how the voting went:

[…]Adopted at the 128th plenary meeting:

In favour: 33

Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian S.S.R., Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukrainian S.S.R., Union of South Africa, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Uruguay, Venezuela.

Against: 13

Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen.

Abstained: 10

Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/res181.htm

The above information comes from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

Iran, along with other Arab states voted against the acquisition of Palestinian land for the Zionist Jews. But while other Arab states “got quiet”, Iran did not. And thus Iran earned the ire of the United Nations.

One might politely say that the United Nations put the screws to Iran. Iran sounded like it would use force to undo what force had done. And the West did not like that. And, in response, the United Nations “sifted” iran’s sand looking for uranium dust particles while ignoring 560 drums of “yellowcake” that vanished in the Middle East in 1968. And now there may well be whole silos full of finished uranium based products at Middle East locations.

The people of the Middle East now seem to be redefining their relationship with their leaders and quite possibly with the Western world. One might think that America’s neocons would be happy to see democracy come to the Middle East without the need for another neocon led Iraq style war.

Any Tool, In The Wrong Hands, Can Become a Weapon

From the box of matches of the arsonist to the political power of the despot, all kinds of tools can become weapons.

Democracy is the tool that, in the hands of most of America’s political leaders, worked to the advantage of America. Labor and investors were  welcomed as Americans.

While politics would be a fool to deregulate any segment of its population –  politics would be stupid to target law abiding segments of its population for destruction.

Unfortunately, stupidity has been a “visible” component of America’s political population since 1980. Settling a labor dispute by firing labor is stupid. But under the stewardship of America’s original neocon, Ronald Reagan, that is exactly what happened. The neocons’  “warning shot” was not across labor’s bow but straight into labor’s super-structure.

America’s neocons are better at destroying than building. And America, at this stage in its life, needs builders.

It is a “crying shame” that a political party, over twenty-some-odd years of “leadership” has contributed so little to the well-being of America. It has been more like a parasite sucking America’s blood for a long period of time. And the solution to the neocons’ ransacking of America is to “kill” labor. How stupid can we all be?

At this point in time, democracy is being used as a weapon to kill labor. That is a distraction from the real culprits who damaged America. But as joejolly has said:

A fool and his country may have already parted.