I discovered in soliver571's Xanga that Michael Moore has decided to be a self-righteous jackass once again, and since I haven't torn an idiot apart piece-by-piece in a while, here's me pointing out the obvious stupidity of his claims.
Let me take this son-of-a-bitch's pledge piece by piece.
1) We will always respect you. We will never, ever, call you "unpatriotic" simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us.
Why would you ever need to call us unpatriotic? Last time I checked, conservatives were not the ones backing the UN's global control agendas, opposing our troops in the field and their objective, calling them idiots and their lives wasted, and keeping them from fighting a war like it was really a war. I only wish more of our side had the cojones to see the folly of the tactics we are using and call a spade a spade. Nor are we the ones more interested in how we treat our enemies than our own, who reject profiling in favor of feel-good but worthless "randomness" as if Old Black Granny or 7 Year Old White Bobby is going to commit a terrorist act on a plane, or persist in pursuing fallacious "Bush Lied" claims despite solid evidence that he as well as many of those Democrats who now decry him were speaking based off the same intel. Whether the evidence was correct or not is the question of any who truly deserve to be called patriotic. Slander is never honorable, nor is it patriotic.
2) We will let you marry whomever you want (even though some among us consider your Republican behavior to be "different" or "immoral"). Who you marry is none of our business. Love, and be in love — it's a wonderful gift.
Every time I hear this argument I am reminded just how stupid it is. Marriage is what it is. Unfortunately, much like the leftist view of the constitution, the left also views words as "how we think they should have been defined" rather than "how they are defined".
3) We will not spend your grandchildren's money on our personal whims or to enrich our friends. It's your checkbook too, and we will balance it for you.
The problem is, tax-and-spend types like modern Democrats seem to believe that expanding government and raising taxes are something other than "spending our grandchildren's money on our personal whims", and see enriching total strangers in both our own and other countries by robbing our own as valorous. I want less government involvement in my checkbook, not more of it. I admit that tax reductions aside, the Republicans have failed on this front too, but I don't believe for a moment that the Democrats are going to be any better.
4) When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring your sons and daughters home too. We promise never to send your kids off to war based on some amateur Power Point presentation cooked up by men who have never been to war.
There are many problems with this, but I feel they will illustrate themselves if they succeed in a cut-and-run in Iraq.
5) When we make America the last Western democracy to have universal health coverage, and all Americans are able to get help when they fall ill, we promise that you too will be able to see a doctor, regardless of your ability to pay. And when stem cell research delivers treatments and cures for diseases that afflict you and your loved ones, we'll make sure those advances are available to you and your family too.
Right, because universal health coverage has worked so well elsewhere. Also, considering all the advances have happened in adult, not embryonic, stem cell research, and that we have not outlawed it in the first place, this is a huge red herring.
6) When we clean up our air and water, you too will be able to breathe the cleaner air and drink the purer water. When we put an end to global warming, you will no longer have to think about buying oceanfront property in Yuma.
First off, global warming is nothing but a scare tactic, and probably even a natural phenomenon if it's happening at all. Weather has always been cyclic.
Second, if your air and water are filthy (as leftists tend to suppose), perhaps you should have thought twice before moving into a densely populated area like New York City or Los Angeles. The air and water are just fine where I live.
7) Should a mass murderer ever kill 3,000 people on our soil, we will devote every single resource to tracking him down and bringing him to justice. Immediately. We will protect you.
Mohammed Atta and his buddies died in 9/11. Finding and taking out the whole of Al Qaeda is a bigger job than it sounds, considering they are decentralized, have cells all over, and operate under the guise of civilians in so many countries that it's near impossible to really make a difference just by catching "him" (whoever "him is; killing bin Laden is not the end of Al Qaeda, and he did not put himself on a plane in the US on that fateful morning). I have yet to see a clear majority of modern Democrats (with obvious rare dissenters like Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller) who had the backbone to follow through on anything of the sort. Democrats are more interested in shutting down any and all programs we have to find these bastards.
8) We will never stick our nose in your bedroom or your womb. What you do there as consenting adults is your business. We will continue to count your age from the moment you were born, not the moment you were conceived.
Right, because much like the attitude of a certain political party from Germany in the first half of the 20th, as long as you convince yourselves they aren't humans, it's fine to kill people. The sad thing is, mentioning that online invokes Godwin's law despite the obvious veracity of the comparison.
9) We will not take away your hunting guns. If you need an automatic weapon or a handgun to kill a bird or a deer, then you really aren't much of a hunter and you should, perhaps, take up another sport. In the meantime, we will arm the deer to make it a fairer fight.
The second amendment has never, ever been about hunting.
10) When we raise the minimum wage, we will raise it for your employees too. They will use that money to buy more things, which means you will get the money back! And when women are finally paid what men make, we will pay conservative women that wage too.
Because it's fun to put low-wage people out of work by cutting the number of jobs available while creating unemployment at the same time! Whee!
11) We will respect your religious beliefs, even when you don't practice those beliefs. In fact, we will actively seek to promote your most radical religious beliefs ("Blessed are the peacemakers," "Love your enemies," "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" and "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me"). We will let people in other countries know that God doesn't just bless America, he blesses everyone. We will discourage religious intolerance and fanaticism — starting here at home.
Picking and choosing religious snippets has always been a pasttime of modern leftists. To be fair, though, if you take things out of context as has been done above, you can prove pretty much anything biblically without being doctrinally accurate. Clinging to what is good and hating what is evil (Romans 12:9) has never been their strong suit. I guess they are distracted by their efforts to rob Peter to pay Paul.
12) We will not tolerate politicians who are corrupt and break the law. And we promise you we will go after the corrupt politicians on our side first. If we fail to do this, we need you to call us on it. Simply because we are in power does not give us the right to turn our heads the other way when our party goes astray. Please perform this important duty as the loyal opposition.
Moral corruption vs. legal corruption. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Both parties are just as guilty as each other. On both counts.
Now, as a special bonus for those of you who have stuck around this long, I'll put you off by saying stuff that may not please you.
Bin Laden isn't important. He thinks he is, and as long as you believe he is he will continue to be on a certain PR-style level, but he's not important. He is a figurehead, a spokesmodel, a talking head. He may as well be the terrorist version of Larry King. Taking him out will not hurt al Qaeda, and may even help them recruit in the short term. I am still for taking him out, but he's not a genius and he's not a mastermind.
He is one of potentially thousands of al Qadea leaders. Just as the Japanese emperor was not responsible for each and every new aircraft design Mitsubishi put out in the early forties and early thirties, and Churchill not the man who personally organized the Coastwatchers in the Pacific, there are always people who do the real work and the real planning. A CEO does not code software in most companies, he tells design departments what he wants and they delegate to the nth level. In a way, bin Laden is the most disposable man in that organization. As well as the most potent powder-keg if we kill him, since he will then be seen as a martyr.
Any fool can give an order to underlings to go find a way to blow up the White House or to sneak a dirty bomb into one of our ports. The real danger is the men who come up with the plan and execute that plan. These are the ones that need to be taken out most, and we have succeeded to a certain extent at this domestically.
Next time a leftist bitches that we haven't found/killed bin Laden yet, keep this in mind. Don't try to explain it though, you will only get a headache trying to make them understand.
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17 November 2006
24 September 2006
Computer Fun
There hasn't been a lot of excitement around right now, since the beginning of September marked a drastic drop-off in the number of fire calls we have had. August was my fire department's record month for calls in its existence, which is saying something since we have been around since 1928. This break will be a big help, since it lets us take care of some badly neglected maintenance that we just couldn't afford the time for. First will be our brush truck, which has a minor leak. This isn't a big problem in itself, but the ordeal of removing the entire pump motor is a time-consuming hassle, and that brush truck is the busiest unit we have had, especially with Whitesboro's brush truck being unreliable. Their new one should be completed in the middle of next month.
Next on the list, according to my Chief, is the Battalion Command. Air conditioner needs work, and while it's a little late, it'll be nice next year. I think there are some other minor mechanical issues to be done as well. The booster is on the back burner, since its projected overhaul is the most considerable, but also the most optional. We want to turn it into a brush truck, and are just awaiting the funds.
As for me, the fiscal year for fire departments is coming up, which means they have money to hire. So I've been applying again, and it's nice to have that going on. Even if it means I'm running around and filling stuff out. The first two have the same day for physical agility, so I may have to pick one. It's a choice between the one I prefer, or the one that has more applicants and more slots. The one I prefer is closer, and I would pick it over the other.
I recently upgraded aoi-chan's processor from an Athlon Thunderbird 1000 MHz to an Athlon Thunderbird 1300 MHz when one of our firefighters bought himself a new Pentium IV system and gave me his old one. This turned out to be a really good deal for me, since it allowed me to upgrade the afforementioned processor, as well as replace my CD-RW and DVD-ROM with a single DVD±RW drive that I installed for him maybe six months ago (the CD-RW was out of his computer too, as it was given to me when he upgraded to the DVD±RW). It also added a 128MB and a 256MB DIMM of PC-133 to my memory stash, and I replaced a 64MB DIMM in aoi-chan with the 256MB DIMM. He also had a pair of 80 gigabyte IDE hard drives, unmatched unfortunately, which he determined he did not need since his new system was SATA and gave to me. One was in the old PC, the other brand new and still in its factory-sealed wrapper.
So total upgrades to aoi-chan in the process of Ken getting a new PC:
Processor from 1000MHz to 1300MHz
RAM from 704MB to 896MB
CD-RW and DVD-ROM replaced by a single DVD±RW
Hard drive can go from my 40GB to either of two 80GB if I feel like messing with it, but it's kind of a pain and I have over half of it free.
My data is still mostly kept on the file server, better known as miyuki. She has a 60GB, if I recall correctly, and is definitely a candidate for one of the 80GB models when I do a re-install soon. GCC (gnu C compiler) 4.1.1 has wreaked havoc on all three of the Pentium II machines on my network as far as upgrades go, but has only taken one out of commission. Have-blue, my laptop, freezes due to some kind of library fubar, and is being reinstalled. Twenty, Amy's new-to-her Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop is having minor issues, but still fuctions. For now. It too will probably be re-installed soon. Miyuki, an HP Kayak XU functioning as a file server, is unable to update itself due to the C compiler not being able to create executible code. Any techs in the audience will know what this means if they have ever messed with compilers. This should be solved when I re-install, as thankfully a stage1 install of Gentoo from a 2006.1 tarball will natively compile for GCC 4.1 series.
Soon, my network will be cured. I still don't understand why GCC 4.1.1 hates Pentium II machines so much, but there is little I can do about that other than be thankful it works when it's done. I'm not terribly well versed in C, so I won't pretend to know what advantages 4.x will hold, but I'm content with the idea that with a machine compiled from scratch all on 4.x will run properly. Broken libraries are no fun, and should be left to Red Hat.
And now, I leave you with a comic strip well worth reading, from the fine folks at Little Gamers.
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Next on the list, according to my Chief, is the Battalion Command. Air conditioner needs work, and while it's a little late, it'll be nice next year. I think there are some other minor mechanical issues to be done as well. The booster is on the back burner, since its projected overhaul is the most considerable, but also the most optional. We want to turn it into a brush truck, and are just awaiting the funds.
As for me, the fiscal year for fire departments is coming up, which means they have money to hire. So I've been applying again, and it's nice to have that going on. Even if it means I'm running around and filling stuff out. The first two have the same day for physical agility, so I may have to pick one. It's a choice between the one I prefer, or the one that has more applicants and more slots. The one I prefer is closer, and I would pick it over the other.
I recently upgraded aoi-chan's processor from an Athlon Thunderbird 1000 MHz to an Athlon Thunderbird 1300 MHz when one of our firefighters bought himself a new Pentium IV system and gave me his old one. This turned out to be a really good deal for me, since it allowed me to upgrade the afforementioned processor, as well as replace my CD-RW and DVD-ROM with a single DVD±RW drive that I installed for him maybe six months ago (the CD-RW was out of his computer too, as it was given to me when he upgraded to the DVD±RW). It also added a 128MB and a 256MB DIMM of PC-133 to my memory stash, and I replaced a 64MB DIMM in aoi-chan with the 256MB DIMM. He also had a pair of 80 gigabyte IDE hard drives, unmatched unfortunately, which he determined he did not need since his new system was SATA and gave to me. One was in the old PC, the other brand new and still in its factory-sealed wrapper.
So total upgrades to aoi-chan in the process of Ken getting a new PC:
Processor from 1000MHz to 1300MHz
RAM from 704MB to 896MB
CD-RW and DVD-ROM replaced by a single DVD±RW
Hard drive can go from my 40GB to either of two 80GB if I feel like messing with it, but it's kind of a pain and I have over half of it free.
My data is still mostly kept on the file server, better known as miyuki. She has a 60GB, if I recall correctly, and is definitely a candidate for one of the 80GB models when I do a re-install soon. GCC (gnu C compiler) 4.1.1 has wreaked havoc on all three of the Pentium II machines on my network as far as upgrades go, but has only taken one out of commission. Have-blue, my laptop, freezes due to some kind of library fubar, and is being reinstalled. Twenty, Amy's new-to-her Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop is having minor issues, but still fuctions. For now. It too will probably be re-installed soon. Miyuki, an HP Kayak XU functioning as a file server, is unable to update itself due to the C compiler not being able to create executible code. Any techs in the audience will know what this means if they have ever messed with compilers. This should be solved when I re-install, as thankfully a stage1 install of Gentoo from a 2006.1 tarball will natively compile for GCC 4.1 series.
Soon, my network will be cured. I still don't understand why GCC 4.1.1 hates Pentium II machines so much, but there is little I can do about that other than be thankful it works when it's done. I'm not terribly well versed in C, so I won't pretend to know what advantages 4.x will hold, but I'm content with the idea that with a machine compiled from scratch all on 4.x will run properly. Broken libraries are no fun, and should be left to Red Hat.
And now, I leave you with a comic strip well worth reading, from the fine folks at Little Gamers.
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26 July 2006
An embarrassment
Note: I will be writing with initials today. This does not normally find itself to be the case in my entries, but due to not wanting to have things reflect poorly upon any individual or department, I have opted to do so today.
Well, the fire department was...interesting...to say the least today. I got woke up by a call for mutual aid to PPFD for a "fire". They wanted our Tanker, which is fine. We run excellent tanker ops. I heard KB on the radio telling Dispatch that he was on his way through PP and would be at CFD(I)'s station in about 10 minutes. So I got up, got dressed, and got to the station shortly after KB left in CFD(I)'s Tanker with DR. KB's daughter C was at the station, one of our explorers. She told me her dad had told her to wait, and if somebody else arrived, to go out there in CFD(I)'s Battalion with a cooler full of ice and bottled drinking water. So far so good.
Me and CB arrive on the scene right near downtown PP in CFD(I)'s Battalion, and followed CFD(I)'s Tanker to a filling location. As it turned out, DR refused to go help fill the tanker and stayed at the scene, which is completely unacceptable in the first place. CB and myself assisted, and followed CFD(I)'s Tanker to a location behind CFD(II)'s Engine where CFD(I)'s Tanker supplied it with water. DR returned from someplace, apparently the Command Post, to inform us that he had left a $1200 handheld radio on the bumper of CFD(I)'s Tanker before KB took it to fill up, so we had now lost a $1200 radio that we couldn't find.
Command came over to tell us that they had a Quint coming from TCFD to use its aerial gun to spray water from above. TCFD arrived, and PPFD broke down the entire water supply to let them set up their Quint (despite a superior location being ready and clear for the Quint) and began operations. I'm not going to even get into how much of a cluster the command situation was. Shortly thereafter, DR makes us aware that we have been cleared to leave. Me and KB found this unusual, since there was lots of work and water supply to be done. Also, we were still supplying CFD(II)'s Engine with water, while many other Engines were doing nothing. This is pretty much unheard of. DR broke down our connection and we departed.
We arrive back at station. KB is already fumingly annoyed at DR over the radio and the fact that CFD(I)'s Tanker's accountability tags and passports were still in PP somewhere, missing, since DR gave them to someone who put them somewhere we were not aware of and we couldn't retrieve them. What's even worse is that DR laughed and said that he had gone to Command and had seen WW (a former CFD(I) captain who hates CFD(I) there as one of those in charge. Long story and I don't know the half of it. He was quitting as I was joining, so I don't know the guy. DR apparently asked while CFD(I) Tanker was out filling up they were done with us. This is another unacceptable action, since it implies that you and your department have better things to do than help them. Our new and improving relationship with PPFD was not helped by this in any way, shape, or form.
To make matters worse, right afterward we picked up traffic on the radio scanner that GFD was being called for their tanker, FMFD was being called for a tanker, LFD was being called for manpower and I think maybe a tanker, and WFD for an Engine and manpower. All of these departments are much further than us. Which made myself and KB particularly annoyed with DR for humiliating our department like that. Fortunately, like usual, DR had already left. We wondered idly why he volunteers if all he wants to do is go home. We had wanted to fight fire. If we had known he had done that I would have told him to take the Battalion and go home, and then I would have gone to command and apologized for his actions right away and ridden home in the Tanker. I plan to write an email today to PPFD's chief and call PPFD's chief tomorrow about it. I want him to be aware that he acted on his own and his actions do not represent the rest of the department. Not being an officer, I can't exactly speak for us officially, but since I was there I feel somewhat responsible for his not having been stopped or questioned more closely in regards to what he was telling us.
DR returned, got a mild talking-to by our chief, and me and DR were sent in CFD(I)'s Brush truck to stand by at WFD's station. We went and had sandwiches at the meat market, and hung around the station. I looked up problems with my website and found out why, which will follow my long rant about DR dragging down the quality of CFD(I). When we heard WFD check en route back to W, DR insisted that we go back to CFD(I). I had planned on waiting for WFD to get back, but I was sick of him. So I got in, and halfway there we heard our chief on the radio to WFD's assistant chief telling him the CFD(I) crew would stay at WFD's station until he arrived to release us. So rather than return to WFD station, DR decided we should stage halfway between.
As soon as we arrived halfway between, we got paged out for a grass fire in CC. This meant driving back on the same street past WFD's station, a good 4 minutes away, where we should have been. I know they saw us, too. It made me even more annoyed with DR and how he reflected on our department. After that there is little to say, we went to the fire (which was nearly nothing) and went back to station.
As far as the website issue above, I redid my website yesterday using XHTML Strict 1.0, CSS, and a limited amount of Javascript. Everything looked good, my CSS and XHTML Strict 1.0 passed the W3C testers with flying colors, and everything seemed great. I tested it today on the fire department's computer and learned that Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML. At all. Even 7.0 will not support it, despite the standard being more than a half-decade old. My page turns out as just a blank black page on it. While this proves my stance that Internet Explorer is an embarrassment as a web browser, it doesn't make my page work on it, and sadly a lot of misguided people have failed to switch to something better like Firefox. So now I have to figure out what to do. I don't want to crumble and use one of Microsoft's hacky broken methods of making it sort of work, but I don't want to make my page unreadable for average users. I'll have to figure something out.
I am interested to know what browsers people out there are really using. A lot of statistics claim different things, probably because different user bases respond to different things. Who out there is using Firefox? Internet Explorer? Opera? Konqueror? Safari? Something else? And on what operating system? Feel free to respond in comments, I am really curious to know.
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Well, the fire department was...interesting...to say the least today. I got woke up by a call for mutual aid to PPFD for a "fire". They wanted our Tanker, which is fine. We run excellent tanker ops. I heard KB on the radio telling Dispatch that he was on his way through PP and would be at CFD(I)'s station in about 10 minutes. So I got up, got dressed, and got to the station shortly after KB left in CFD(I)'s Tanker with DR. KB's daughter C was at the station, one of our explorers. She told me her dad had told her to wait, and if somebody else arrived, to go out there in CFD(I)'s Battalion with a cooler full of ice and bottled drinking water. So far so good.
Me and CB arrive on the scene right near downtown PP in CFD(I)'s Battalion, and followed CFD(I)'s Tanker to a filling location. As it turned out, DR refused to go help fill the tanker and stayed at the scene, which is completely unacceptable in the first place. CB and myself assisted, and followed CFD(I)'s Tanker to a location behind CFD(II)'s Engine where CFD(I)'s Tanker supplied it with water. DR returned from someplace, apparently the Command Post, to inform us that he had left a $1200 handheld radio on the bumper of CFD(I)'s Tanker before KB took it to fill up, so we had now lost a $1200 radio that we couldn't find.
Command came over to tell us that they had a Quint coming from TCFD to use its aerial gun to spray water from above. TCFD arrived, and PPFD broke down the entire water supply to let them set up their Quint (despite a superior location being ready and clear for the Quint) and began operations. I'm not going to even get into how much of a cluster the command situation was. Shortly thereafter, DR makes us aware that we have been cleared to leave. Me and KB found this unusual, since there was lots of work and water supply to be done. Also, we were still supplying CFD(II)'s Engine with water, while many other Engines were doing nothing. This is pretty much unheard of. DR broke down our connection and we departed.
We arrive back at station. KB is already fumingly annoyed at DR over the radio and the fact that CFD(I)'s Tanker's accountability tags and passports were still in PP somewhere, missing, since DR gave them to someone who put them somewhere we were not aware of and we couldn't retrieve them. What's even worse is that DR laughed and said that he had gone to Command and had seen WW (a former CFD(I) captain who hates CFD(I) there as one of those in charge. Long story and I don't know the half of it. He was quitting as I was joining, so I don't know the guy. DR apparently asked while CFD(I) Tanker was out filling up they were done with us. This is another unacceptable action, since it implies that you and your department have better things to do than help them. Our new and improving relationship with PPFD was not helped by this in any way, shape, or form.
To make matters worse, right afterward we picked up traffic on the radio scanner that GFD was being called for their tanker, FMFD was being called for a tanker, LFD was being called for manpower and I think maybe a tanker, and WFD for an Engine and manpower. All of these departments are much further than us. Which made myself and KB particularly annoyed with DR for humiliating our department like that. Fortunately, like usual, DR had already left. We wondered idly why he volunteers if all he wants to do is go home. We had wanted to fight fire. If we had known he had done that I would have told him to take the Battalion and go home, and then I would have gone to command and apologized for his actions right away and ridden home in the Tanker. I plan to write an email today to PPFD's chief and call PPFD's chief tomorrow about it. I want him to be aware that he acted on his own and his actions do not represent the rest of the department. Not being an officer, I can't exactly speak for us officially, but since I was there I feel somewhat responsible for his not having been stopped or questioned more closely in regards to what he was telling us.
DR returned, got a mild talking-to by our chief, and me and DR were sent in CFD(I)'s Brush truck to stand by at WFD's station. We went and had sandwiches at the meat market, and hung around the station. I looked up problems with my website and found out why, which will follow my long rant about DR dragging down the quality of CFD(I). When we heard WFD check en route back to W, DR insisted that we go back to CFD(I). I had planned on waiting for WFD to get back, but I was sick of him. So I got in, and halfway there we heard our chief on the radio to WFD's assistant chief telling him the CFD(I) crew would stay at WFD's station until he arrived to release us. So rather than return to WFD station, DR decided we should stage halfway between.
As soon as we arrived halfway between, we got paged out for a grass fire in CC. This meant driving back on the same street past WFD's station, a good 4 minutes away, where we should have been. I know they saw us, too. It made me even more annoyed with DR and how he reflected on our department. After that there is little to say, we went to the fire (which was nearly nothing) and went back to station.
As far as the website issue above, I redid my website yesterday using XHTML Strict 1.0, CSS, and a limited amount of Javascript. Everything looked good, my CSS and XHTML Strict 1.0 passed the W3C testers with flying colors, and everything seemed great. I tested it today on the fire department's computer and learned that Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML. At all. Even 7.0 will not support it, despite the standard being more than a half-decade old. My page turns out as just a blank black page on it. While this proves my stance that Internet Explorer is an embarrassment as a web browser, it doesn't make my page work on it, and sadly a lot of misguided people have failed to switch to something better like Firefox. So now I have to figure out what to do. I don't want to crumble and use one of Microsoft's hacky broken methods of making it sort of work, but I don't want to make my page unreadable for average users. I'll have to figure something out.
I am interested to know what browsers people out there are really using. A lot of statistics claim different things, probably because different user bases respond to different things. Who out there is using Firefox? Internet Explorer? Opera? Konqueror? Safari? Something else? And on what operating system? Feel free to respond in comments, I am really curious to know.
Now Playing: The W's - J.P.
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08 July 2006
Stadium Security Stupidity
Went to the Rangers game tonight (last night?). It was good, because the Rangers pwned the Twins, but the main thing at hand is the utter stupidity of stadium security.
Now, if any of you have ever heard Lewis Black speak on airport security, especially his stand-up on his album The End of the Universe, you will find some common threads. Obviously, it will entail the stupidity of the policies, the outlandish ideas that formed them, and the complete incongruities within.
This is not news to anyone who has been reading me for any length of time, but that is not a problem as far as I can see.
Among the things we brought to the stadium was a couple of six-bottle capacity coolers with soft shells, one of which had a plastic liner, the other of which once had one but no longer does. Each one was filled with six plastic bottles, one filled with Coca Cola, the other filled with Dr Pepper.
Slight digression: Dr Pepper is not spelled with the period after the "Dr" part. It once was, but is no longer.
Stadium Security, in their overzealous yet wholly ineffective quest to give reasonable people headaches, searches all bags on the way in. Not people, just bags. I could have walked in with a loose BDU jacket with a .45 in a shoulder holster without question. Now, I walked into the area, compliantly opened all bags, and was promptly informed that they were going to confiscate the liner to the cooler. I bluntly stated, "I don't understand," and she said I could keep the cooler and drinks, but that she had to take the liner. Apparently it might be used to hit people with, she says.
I reminded her that I could just as easily bludgeon somebody with a foul ball, and she seemed amused and unsurprised, but still hijacked the liner of my cooler. Obviously, I knew how stupid the situation was, and that escalating over a cooler liner was idiotic. So I dumped the ice and drinks into what was at this point essentially a canvas sack with a zipper. Standing there, dumping ice and drinks into a sack to get rid of a plastic liner that might be used at a weapon, while wearing a belt that could be used to strangle, a pair of boots that would be far better as bludgeons than a lightweight plastic liner, a knife clipped visibly to my righthand slash pocket, going into a stadium where wooden bats are featured.
In fact, today (tomorrow, at the time, the 8th of July, 2006) they will be giving 8,000 fans Michael Young Commemorative Bats as they enter. Meanwhile, they will be hijacking the liners of soft-shelled coolers, selling alcoholic beverages, and providing people with numerous ways they could (but won't) hurt each other. Meanwhile, a bomb-strapped terrorist, a concealed knife, a hidden pistol, or a grenade down the pants of a malicious ticket holder would skate right past the gates.
Does this mean I want tighter security? Not at all. All I ask is that they start trying to make some kind of sense. In particular, stop pretending cooler liners are weapons but giving people sticks intended for hitting on the way in. This is idiocy. Instead, stop taking away cooler liners, and quit being idiotic.
Now, if any of you have ever heard Lewis Black speak on airport security, especially his stand-up on his album The End of the Universe, you will find some common threads. Obviously, it will entail the stupidity of the policies, the outlandish ideas that formed them, and the complete incongruities within.
This is not news to anyone who has been reading me for any length of time, but that is not a problem as far as I can see.
Among the things we brought to the stadium was a couple of six-bottle capacity coolers with soft shells, one of which had a plastic liner, the other of which once had one but no longer does. Each one was filled with six plastic bottles, one filled with Coca Cola, the other filled with Dr Pepper.
Slight digression: Dr Pepper is not spelled with the period after the "Dr" part. It once was, but is no longer.
Stadium Security, in their overzealous yet wholly ineffective quest to give reasonable people headaches, searches all bags on the way in. Not people, just bags. I could have walked in with a loose BDU jacket with a .45 in a shoulder holster without question. Now, I walked into the area, compliantly opened all bags, and was promptly informed that they were going to confiscate the liner to the cooler. I bluntly stated, "I don't understand," and she said I could keep the cooler and drinks, but that she had to take the liner. Apparently it might be used to hit people with, she says.
I reminded her that I could just as easily bludgeon somebody with a foul ball, and she seemed amused and unsurprised, but still hijacked the liner of my cooler. Obviously, I knew how stupid the situation was, and that escalating over a cooler liner was idiotic. So I dumped the ice and drinks into what was at this point essentially a canvas sack with a zipper. Standing there, dumping ice and drinks into a sack to get rid of a plastic liner that might be used at a weapon, while wearing a belt that could be used to strangle, a pair of boots that would be far better as bludgeons than a lightweight plastic liner, a knife clipped visibly to my righthand slash pocket, going into a stadium where wooden bats are featured.
In fact, today (tomorrow, at the time, the 8th of July, 2006) they will be giving 8,000 fans Michael Young Commemorative Bats as they enter. Meanwhile, they will be hijacking the liners of soft-shelled coolers, selling alcoholic beverages, and providing people with numerous ways they could (but won't) hurt each other. Meanwhile, a bomb-strapped terrorist, a concealed knife, a hidden pistol, or a grenade down the pants of a malicious ticket holder would skate right past the gates.
Does this mean I want tighter security? Not at all. All I ask is that they start trying to make some kind of sense. In particular, stop pretending cooler liners are weapons but giving people sticks intended for hitting on the way in. This is idiocy. Instead, stop taking away cooler liners, and quit being idiotic.
26 May 2006
The Randi profile thing...
Q. Elaborate on your default photo:
A. On Gaia, it is my avatar. On Blogger, I lack one. On LiveJournal, it is a cargo container. On Xanga, it is Glyn squeezing the crap out of a sandwich that isn't any damn good.
Q. What's your current relationship status?
A. married
Q. What exactly are you wearing right now?
A. black socks, black EMT pants, black Das Komet t-shirt, dog tags, spongebob squarepants boxers, black web belt, contact lenses
Q. What is your current problem?
A. unemployment
Q. What makes you most happy?
A. accomplishing stuff
Q. Are you musically inclined?
A. no, but I have a mix of a Mega Man 2 song here.
Q. If you could go back in time, and change something, what would it be?
A. I would be hesitant to change anything, things have gone well and I wouldn't want to risk messing that up.
Q. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what would it be?
A. I have no idea.
Q. Ever have a near death experience?
A. many times. It's fun.
Q. Name an obvious quality you have?
A. An annoying interest in knowledge
Q. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
A. Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman) by Led Zeppelin
Q. Who will cut and paste this first?
A. no one
Q. Name someone with the same b-day as you:
A. Jeanne d'Arc
Q. Have you ever vandalized someone's private property?
A. Not that I can think of.
Q. Have you ever been in a fight?
A. Officially, yes. I don't really think so though.
Q. Have you ever sang in front of a large audience?
A. Yes. I was in choir in 8th grade and in my freshman year
Q. What's the first thing you notice about the OPPOSITE sex?
A. boobs
Q. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
A. chai
Q. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
A. no
Q. Say something totally random about yourself:
A. I am practical to the point of impractical.
Q. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
A. yes, Wierd Al Yankovic
Q. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?
A. yes
Q. Did you have braces?
A. yes
Q. Are you comfortable with your height?
A. yes
Q. Do you speak any other languages?
A. English, bad english, some German, and trying to learn Japanese. I also am conversant in Python, and I know a bit of perl, bash, and a little C
Q. What is your favorite smell?
A. so many good smells, so little time.
Q. Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
A. no
Q. What magazines do you read?
A. Game Informer
Q. Have you ever ridden in a limo?
A. no, but I know a limo driver
Q. Has anyone you were really close with passed away?
A. a friend from kindergarten killed himself when I was in high school
Q. Do you ever watch MTV?
A. no, but I used to watch it when Daria was on
Q. What's the latest you have ever stayed up?
A. there is no good answer, I have stayed up for multiple days at a stretch
Q. Have you ever been rushed into the emergency room?
A. More than once.
Q. What's the last text message on your cell phone say?:
A. I think it was Cingular trying to pimp out more services.
Q. What color shirt are you wearing?:
A. black
[b]Q. Most recent movie that you watched?:
A. [/b]In The Army Now
Q. Name one thing that you do everyday?:
A. cook
Q. What's the color of your bedroom walls?:
A. off-white
Q. How much cash do you have on you right now?:
A. $8 and change
Q. What is your favorite part of the chicken?
A. breast
Q. What's your favorite sport to watch?
A. womens' gymnastics
Q. When was the last time you saw your mom?
A. I think last summer.
Q. Who got You to join myspace?
A. Huh?
Q. What did you have for dinner last night?
A. The slowest chimichanga on earth.
Q. Is Tom on your friends list?
A. no
Q. Look to your left. What's there?
A. Amy
Q. What's the last piece of clothing you borrowed from someone?
A. I borrowed Grady's gloves a few months back at a fire.
Q. What website(s) do you visit the most during the day?
A. Gaia Online
Q. Do you have an air freshener in your car?
A. No
Q. Do you have plants in your room?
A. If by plants you mean bugs
Q. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
A. no
Q. What city was your last taxicab ride in?
A. Flagstaff, Arizona
Q. Do you own a picture phone?
A. no
Q. Recent time you were really upset?
A. A while back.
Q. Would you have a problem if your friend went after your ex?
A. What ex?
Computer: aoi-chan.systemsalchemy.org
Operating System: Gentoo Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 #2 PREEMPT Wed Mar 29 19:27:33 CST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor GNU/Linux
Current Music: まほろまてぃっく - かえりみち
A. On Gaia, it is my avatar. On Blogger, I lack one. On LiveJournal, it is a cargo container. On Xanga, it is Glyn squeezing the crap out of a sandwich that isn't any damn good.
Q. What's your current relationship status?
A. married
Q. What exactly are you wearing right now?
A. black socks, black EMT pants, black Das Komet t-shirt, dog tags, spongebob squarepants boxers, black web belt, contact lenses
Q. What is your current problem?
A. unemployment
Q. What makes you most happy?
A. accomplishing stuff
Q. Are you musically inclined?
A. no, but I have a mix of a Mega Man 2 song here.
Q. If you could go back in time, and change something, what would it be?
A. I would be hesitant to change anything, things have gone well and I wouldn't want to risk messing that up.
Q. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what would it be?
A. I have no idea.
Q. Ever have a near death experience?
A. many times. It's fun.
Q. Name an obvious quality you have?
A. An annoying interest in knowledge
Q. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
A. Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman) by Led Zeppelin
Q. Who will cut and paste this first?
A. no one
Q. Name someone with the same b-day as you:
A. Jeanne d'Arc
Q. Have you ever vandalized someone's private property?
A. Not that I can think of.
Q. Have you ever been in a fight?
A. Officially, yes. I don't really think so though.
Q. Have you ever sang in front of a large audience?
A. Yes. I was in choir in 8th grade and in my freshman year
Q. What's the first thing you notice about the OPPOSITE sex?
A. boobs
Q. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
A. chai
Q. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
A. no
Q. Say something totally random about yourself:
A. I am practical to the point of impractical.
Q. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
A. yes, Wierd Al Yankovic
Q. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?
A. yes
Q. Did you have braces?
A. yes
Q. Are you comfortable with your height?
A. yes
Q. Do you speak any other languages?
A. English, bad english, some German, and trying to learn Japanese. I also am conversant in Python, and I know a bit of perl, bash, and a little C
Q. What is your favorite smell?
A. so many good smells, so little time.
Q. Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
A. no
Q. What magazines do you read?
A. Game Informer
Q. Have you ever ridden in a limo?
A. no, but I know a limo driver
Q. Has anyone you were really close with passed away?
A. a friend from kindergarten killed himself when I was in high school
Q. Do you ever watch MTV?
A. no, but I used to watch it when Daria was on
Q. What's the latest you have ever stayed up?
A. there is no good answer, I have stayed up for multiple days at a stretch
Q. Have you ever been rushed into the emergency room?
A. More than once.
Q. What's the last text message on your cell phone say?:
A. I think it was Cingular trying to pimp out more services.
Q. What color shirt are you wearing?:
A. black
[b]Q. Most recent movie that you watched?:
A. [/b]In The Army Now
Q. Name one thing that you do everyday?:
A. cook
Q. What's the color of your bedroom walls?:
A. off-white
Q. How much cash do you have on you right now?:
A. $8 and change
Q. What is your favorite part of the chicken?
A. breast
Q. What's your favorite sport to watch?
A. womens' gymnastics
Q. When was the last time you saw your mom?
A. I think last summer.
Q. Who got You to join myspace?
A. Huh?
Q. What did you have for dinner last night?
A. The slowest chimichanga on earth.
Q. Is Tom on your friends list?
A. no
Q. Look to your left. What's there?
A. Amy
Q. What's the last piece of clothing you borrowed from someone?
A. I borrowed Grady's gloves a few months back at a fire.
Q. What website(s) do you visit the most during the day?
A. Gaia Online
Q. Do you have an air freshener in your car?
A. No
Q. Do you have plants in your room?
A. If by plants you mean bugs
Q. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
A. no
Q. What city was your last taxicab ride in?
A. Flagstaff, Arizona
Q. Do you own a picture phone?
A. no
Q. Recent time you were really upset?
A. A while back.
Q. Would you have a problem if your friend went after your ex?
A. What ex?
Computer: aoi-chan.systemsalchemy.org
Operating System: Gentoo Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 #2 PREEMPT Wed Mar 29 19:27:33 CST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor GNU/Linux
Current Music: まほろまてぃっく - かえりみち
27 March 2006
The Bill Pullman Curse Theory
I have had an epiphany which has resulted in a theory, which follows.
Bill Pullman is pretty good at what he does, and he has a tendency to be in good movies. A League of Their Own. While You Were Sleeping. Spaceballs. However, he seems to not make movies that qualify as "great". I came up with this theory earlier today when something made me think of it. I don't even remember what. I was content to leave it at that, but then Amy embarked on an effort to make her own list of "the greatest movies". She mentioned both While You Were Sleeping and A League of Their Own as being very good but not "great" in the sense of the list, and I reminded her what I had said earlier today about Bill Pullman. Interesting.
Anyhow, Saturday I tested in Flower Mound. The test was the exact same one I took in Lewisville and got a 94 or 93 on. Somehow, despite putting the same answers, I got crapped on. I have no idea how I got a 79 on this thing, but I guarantee I did not miss one in five questions. While I am on the list, it's not near as high as I expected. I saw Dewayne late the other night and he also seemed confused. But as I mentioned to him, even if something went wrong with the scantron machine, being the whiner who demanded a re-check does not get me the job. All it does is make me the whiner who second guesses them.
Finally got my wok good and clean, which is good. Made General Tsou's chicken (yes, I am aware of the culinary lack of authenticity of this dish) and was very pleased with the results of the washing. Seasoned cookware used to make me paranoid, but no longer. I now have mastered the zen of carbon steel wok maintenance. No Volkswagen maintenance mastery, but I get by.
Bill Pullman is pretty good at what he does, and he has a tendency to be in good movies. A League of Their Own. While You Were Sleeping. Spaceballs. However, he seems to not make movies that qualify as "great". I came up with this theory earlier today when something made me think of it. I don't even remember what. I was content to leave it at that, but then Amy embarked on an effort to make her own list of "the greatest movies". She mentioned both While You Were Sleeping and A League of Their Own as being very good but not "great" in the sense of the list, and I reminded her what I had said earlier today about Bill Pullman. Interesting.
Anyhow, Saturday I tested in Flower Mound. The test was the exact same one I took in Lewisville and got a 94 or 93 on. Somehow, despite putting the same answers, I got crapped on. I have no idea how I got a 79 on this thing, but I guarantee I did not miss one in five questions. While I am on the list, it's not near as high as I expected. I saw Dewayne late the other night and he also seemed confused. But as I mentioned to him, even if something went wrong with the scantron machine, being the whiner who demanded a re-check does not get me the job. All it does is make me the whiner who second guesses them.
Finally got my wok good and clean, which is good. Made General Tsou's chicken (yes, I am aware of the culinary lack of authenticity of this dish) and was very pleased with the results of the washing. Seasoned cookware used to make me paranoid, but no longer. I now have mastered the zen of carbon steel wok maintenance. No Volkswagen maintenance mastery, but I get by.
24 March 2006
Stupid Foreigner ばか外人
Applied in Flower Mound last Friday, and tomorrow is my test and physical agility test. Looking forward to it, somehow. I want this one to count. It's been a slow week, been playing Final Fantasy VIII now that I finished Final Fantasy IX, and afterwards I may end up trying VII again...VII frustrated the hell out of me when I somehow managed to get my game stuck in a place where I could not continue. Don't ask how it happened, according to everyone I asked, I should have been able to continue but the game was not doing what it should have been.
Recently, I tore down my whole home network and rearranged things, including changing from a desk to a table, since having two monitors makes having more desk space a must, provided you lack flat panels. These old Trinitrons are huge. aoi-chan (my Athlon T-bird) is now under my table, and instead of being on the right of me with amy on the other side of it, miyuki (深雪, my file server, an HP Kayak 400MHz Pentium II with 1 processor, 2 once I find a matching one) is now on the right-hand side of my table, with my old switch-box on my old desk next to it. To my left is Amy with puddleglum (her Athlon XP) on her desk. Aoi-chan now has the monitors running at 75Hz, which is a nice upgrade since it wasn't working out previously thanks to the switch-box. It turns out that my switch-box did not support 1280x1024 at a higher refresh rate than 60Hz. Amy now has a 5-port switch on her desk, and over on top of the switch-box by miyuki there is a Netgear modem router, with a 5-port 10/100 switch, on top of which I placed a wireless b/g access point with four 10/100 ports. My old monitor is attatched to the switchbox, which rests atop an old Belkin surge unit. Miyuki, mahoro (まほろ, a Dell Pentium III 500, our token Windows box) and two openings for computers I am working on are attatched to that setup over there. I left half the desk open for use as a work bench.
Physical layout aside, the cool part of what I did was I made Miyuki the print server and the scanner server. Print-server stuff is normal, which most people are probably used to seeing. My black-and-white laser is now run through miyuki. My scanner, on the other hand, is different...my entire network goes through miyuki for scanning now too. I have the Epson flatbed scanner hooked up and configured to be used by any box on the network, which is something cool that I ran across as an idea one day on google. Turns out Linux loves it.
I read an interesting column on Townhall today by Col. Oliver North. While in Heidelberg, Germany doing a documentary on Gen. George Patton, he encountered a group of students in an internet cafe. Hilarity would ensue, were it not for the fact that these kids are serious:
«Though hardly a scientific sampling of European public opinion, these students' perspectives on the U.S. role in defeating fascism, communism, in bringing down the wall, of standing up to Islamic terror were both shallow and twisted. According to them, Germany would have rid itself of Hitler without "terror bombing German civilians"; the Americans "created the 'Red-Scare' to divide and punish Germany; the wall would have come down decades earlier but for the presence of U.S. bases in Europe; the Sept. 11 attack was concocted by the Bush administration; German troops should never have been sent to Afghanistan, and -- because this is much on the news here right now -- U.S. troops in Iraq routinely commit atrocities and human-rights violations. They were unaware of this week's forceful presidential speeches, press conference and question/answer sessions -- perhaps understandably, because they have been little covered in European TV and newspapers.»
These students did not know who Col. North was, or I doubt they would be so open with him. It's well worth a read.
In other news:
I am studying the Japanese language.
日本語を勉強しています。
Recently, I tore down my whole home network and rearranged things, including changing from a desk to a table, since having two monitors makes having more desk space a must, provided you lack flat panels. These old Trinitrons are huge. aoi-chan (my Athlon T-bird) is now under my table, and instead of being on the right of me with amy on the other side of it, miyuki (深雪, my file server, an HP Kayak 400MHz Pentium II with 1 processor, 2 once I find a matching one) is now on the right-hand side of my table, with my old switch-box on my old desk next to it. To my left is Amy with puddleglum (her Athlon XP) on her desk. Aoi-chan now has the monitors running at 75Hz, which is a nice upgrade since it wasn't working out previously thanks to the switch-box. It turns out that my switch-box did not support 1280x1024 at a higher refresh rate than 60Hz. Amy now has a 5-port switch on her desk, and over on top of the switch-box by miyuki there is a Netgear modem router, with a 5-port 10/100 switch, on top of which I placed a wireless b/g access point with four 10/100 ports. My old monitor is attatched to the switchbox, which rests atop an old Belkin surge unit. Miyuki, mahoro (まほろ, a Dell Pentium III 500, our token Windows box) and two openings for computers I am working on are attatched to that setup over there. I left half the desk open for use as a work bench.
Physical layout aside, the cool part of what I did was I made Miyuki the print server and the scanner server. Print-server stuff is normal, which most people are probably used to seeing. My black-and-white laser is now run through miyuki. My scanner, on the other hand, is different...my entire network goes through miyuki for scanning now too. I have the Epson flatbed scanner hooked up and configured to be used by any box on the network, which is something cool that I ran across as an idea one day on google. Turns out Linux loves it.
I read an interesting column on Townhall today by Col. Oliver North. While in Heidelberg, Germany doing a documentary on Gen. George Patton, he encountered a group of students in an internet cafe. Hilarity would ensue, were it not for the fact that these kids are serious:
«Though hardly a scientific sampling of European public opinion, these students' perspectives on the U.S. role in defeating fascism, communism, in bringing down the wall, of standing up to Islamic terror were both shallow and twisted. According to them, Germany would have rid itself of Hitler without "terror bombing German civilians"; the Americans "created the 'Red-Scare' to divide and punish Germany; the wall would have come down decades earlier but for the presence of U.S. bases in Europe; the Sept. 11 attack was concocted by the Bush administration; German troops should never have been sent to Afghanistan, and -- because this is much on the news here right now -- U.S. troops in Iraq routinely commit atrocities and human-rights violations. They were unaware of this week's forceful presidential speeches, press conference and question/answer sessions -- perhaps understandably, because they have been little covered in European TV and newspapers.»
These students did not know who Col. North was, or I doubt they would be so open with him. It's well worth a read.
In other news:
I am studying the Japanese language.
日本語を勉強しています。
02 March 2006
Mike Adams for President!
The best news I have heard in a long time, even though I strongly suspect it of being satire, is columnist Mike S. Adams announcing intent to run for President in 2008. I would, without a doubt, vote for Dr. Adams if he is on the ballot for the primary.
In other news, my temperature is back to normal, from its peak around 102.9 last night and 101 or so in the afternoon yesterday. Hoping my head and throat stuffedness ends soon, it's really quite annoying.
Aside from this, I have had very little going on lately.
In other news, my temperature is back to normal, from its peak around 102.9 last night and 101 or so in the afternoon yesterday. Hoping my head and throat stuffedness ends soon, it's really quite annoying.
Aside from this, I have had very little going on lately.
23 February 2006
Extreme Opposition
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:19:34 -0600
From: xxx
To: info@noworlando.org
Subject: Extreme Opposition
Message-Id: <20060223221934.0acec198.xxx@xxx.org>
Organization: xxx
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Dear NOW Orlando:
I realize that you have until now used your Extreme Opposition page for more prominent people than myself, but I would love to be linked to on your "Extreme Opposition" page, as I extremely oppose just about everything you stand for. I realize that I am not in the Orlando area, but rather closer to Fort Worth, Texas, but please consider my request.
Thanks,
xxx
http://www.xanga.com/xxx
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From: xxx
To: info@noworlando.org
Subject: Extreme Opposition
Message-Id: <20060223221934.0acec198.xxx@xxx.org>
Organization: xxx
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Dear NOW Orlando:
I realize that you have until now used your Extreme Opposition page for more prominent people than myself, but I would love to be linked to on your "Extreme Opposition" page, as I extremely oppose just about everything you stand for. I realize that I am not in the Orlando area, but rather closer to Fort Worth, Texas, but please consider my request.
Thanks,
xxx
http://www.xanga.com/xxx
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"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve." - Benjamin Franklin
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16 February 2006
Been a while
Well, I have been absorbed for several months with American Government Simulation, which I have been tired of for a while and finally decided to just quit. This means it is likely I will post here more often. With any luck, I may even remember to read the entries of others, too. I sure hope so, I have felt kind of bad about getting out of the habit. However, I have been waiting for real inspiration to go ahead and post here, and as a result, here is a nugget of wisdom that came to mind:
I would sooner let Dick Cheney take me hunting than let Ted Kennedy drive me on a tour of bridges.
Thank you.
I would sooner let Dick Cheney take me hunting than let Ted Kennedy drive me on a tour of bridges.
Thank you.
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