Assad Killing Spree in Syria Continues

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the recent massacre in Syria's Houla, expressing "revulsion" and placing blame for the incident squarely on Syrian President Bashar Assad. Netanyahu joins a growing chorus of condemnation by world powers, including the United Nations, the United States, Russia, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union.  Forces loyal to Assad killed at least 108 people and injured around 300, mostly women and children, on Friday in Houla in Homs province, according to the UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous. The event marks one of the biggest massacres of the 14-month uprising against his rule. Syrian authorities have denied carrying out the attack, instead blaming it on "terrorists."  "Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu expresses his revulsion over the ongoing massacre being perpetrated by the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad against innocent civilians, which continued over the weekend in Houla and included dozens of innocent children," a press release stated.  Netanyahu also took the opportunity to condemn Iran and Hezbollah for their roles in the ongoing violence in Syria. "Iran and Hezbollah are an inseparable part of the Syrian atrocities and the world needs to act against them," Netanyahu said.  You know, I don’t think this administration has sufficiently stepped up to the plate on this issue, and it would be a good idea to listen to John Mc Cain’s suggestions in this area.  I know that Larry Elder is only in favor of wars of economics such as oil fields and not humanitarian concerns, but I think it would be an excellent time personally for the United States to send a signal to the world that this sort of thing will not be tolerated.  I’d encourages those who have the faith for it, to pray for a victims.  Since we posted this in Word first, I don’t believe we should have transfer format problems.

I eventually turned Leo Le Port back on after borrowing a cigarette from Steve, but that was over an hour ago with no prospects in sight in the foreseeable future.  After the two o clock news on KFI I went out for coffee call which I heard.  It was a lengthly wait of over twenty minutes and the weather had  warmed up.  The four remaining birds were in the cage.  Phyllis Green and Loretta were talking about beloved relatives whom them seldom see.  Phyllis said one lady twenty years her senior would be 111 in twenty years and that date was important somehow.  John Powell asked what next year would be and I said “2013” and there was talks about thirteens and jinxes and I said “I guess it will be the only thirteen year in our lifetimes”.  Of course speaking of longevity- - as you know Grandma had a brother named Philip- - I was reminded last Saturday.  That’s his real name though Mom always refers to him as ‘Uncle Budd”.  No word on whether his mother’s maiden name is Kiriacus, and that’s a really out of date joke.  Of course Uncle Bud is the father of Richard and Roger Hiss and Aunt Esther is the mother of only child Pat.  The last time I checked the entire quartette of first cousins are still alive.  The TV had commercials on 7, 5, and 4 with golf on two, so I needed to find a way to kill some time.

Leo was just a tad in math error when he spoke of projector “throw distances” being “exponential” in the way most people think- - of being logarithmic.  This is not a logarithmic reading but a squared reading to be precise.  That’s different.  That goes for bulb brightness and probably the size and expense of the projector.  I didn’t know hanging projectors from the ceilings was so common.  “Anywhere we want”.  Of course those same peramaters apply for screen area - of screen face in the eye ball.  I kind of knew file names were re-written in deletion but I thought they just started with the EOF ASCII(26) character planted at the beginning.  But Leo says they use a special upside “e” character as the first file name letter.  Do they ever use dollar signs instead like in Windows?  Leo says that de-fragging flash drives are counter-indicated.  DON”T do it.  Because erasure of files only wears them out quickly because as Judy says, “Flash drives don’t last forever”.  Flash drives have random access and therefore defragging is utterly pointless, having zero “seek time”.   But the other thing besides this and processing speed that can slow down a computer is a slow “data BUS” that moved data around internally within the computer.  Basically Leo says “Get a new whatever you need because everything is so cheap now”, in this throwaway culture we have- - but don’t use the public land fills; you can’t do that.  Sometimes callers complain about recent versions of Microsoft Explorer screwing up.  It seems that somehow file names get confused with URL links.  How?

In other news -  this was the most exciting Indy 500 in years.  The race had just about a little of everything.  It featured the most lead changes ever in a race, at 30, beating by one the old record set back in 1960 at 29.  It seems there were three guys who were friends and whichever one of them won, the other two would be happy.  The winner was Dario Frankie, or something.  Hurricane Baryl is expected to hit landfall in Jacksonville, Fla by tonight and that “the outdoor jazz concert is canceled”.  And gasoline prices are actually falling here in California, but not by much, but continuing down in the rest of the country, giving Karl Rove ad planning nightmares.  Click-it or ticket appears to be very successful and this weekend the cops are out in heavy force on California highways.  Seat belt violations in California are down dramatically since the program has been in place.  And then we have that Pakistani doctor put in trial for working for our CIA.  As our government points out to the dullards within the Pakistani govt, our mission in Pakistan was not against their government but against Al Qaeda.  If they don’t drop all charges against this doctor, I think the US should “Do something to make the Pakistani government regret it”, but I don’t know what.