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Friday, March 27, 2009
Leo Laporte and David Lawrence sing!
This is so incredibly funny! Leo Laporte from Tech TV and David Lawrence of Heroes once sang "You don't Bring me Flowers" together!
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Dear A.I.G., I Quit!
One of the $1 a year employees at AIG sends his resignation letter. He's angry, and he has every right to be angry!
I take this action after 11 years of dedicated, honorable service to A.I.G. I can no longer effectively perform my duties in this dysfunctional environment, nor am I being paid to do so. Like you, I was asked to work for an annual salary of $1, and I agreed out of a sense of duty to the company and to the public officials who have come to its aid. Having now been let down by both, I can no longer justify spending 10, 12, 14 hours a day away from my family for the benefit of those who have let me down.
Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all
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I take this action after 11 years of dedicated, honorable service to A.I.G. I can no longer effectively perform my duties in this dysfunctional environment, nor am I being paid to do so. Like you, I was asked to work for an annual salary of $1, and I agreed out of a sense of duty to the company and to the public officials who have come to its aid. Having now been let down by both, I can no longer justify spending 10, 12, 14 hours a day away from my family for the benefit of those who have let me down.
Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
The American Spectator: Osama Bin Elvis
This is an interesting article. My impression is that the author dismisses Osama Bin Ladin as innocent of the 9-11 attack and that he was probably murdered to prevent the U.S. from capturing and interrogating him. He suggests the attack, though it was conducted by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, originated in Iraq!
Check it out at the The American Spectator here: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/13/osama-bin-elvis/print
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Check it out at the The American Spectator here: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/13/osama-bin-elvis/print
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Sunday, March 01, 2009
Paul Harvey Passes
Hello Americans, we'll miss Paul Harvey! A great American, Paul Harvey, has passed on. He was 90.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Alan Keyes pulls no punches!
Alan Keyes talking about "Alleged President Obama!"
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Oh my heck! (As my sister would say.) This is so funny:
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Good joke: Donald Trump's Daughter
I doubt if this is a true story, but It's funny just the same!
Good joke: Donald Trump's Daughter
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Good joke: Donald Trump's Daughter
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
No, Antarctica is not warming!
Once again environmentalists are being dishonest. Gee who would have thunk it? A recent study claimed to show that the Antarctic is indeed warming. I carefully read the article concerning the study and noticed that it was only explaining away the evidence that Antarctica is in fact cooling. My skeptical antennae went up. Now I read this article (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4332784/Despite-the-hot-air-the-Antarctic-is-not-warming-up.html) that cites numerous scientists who also have problems with the study, especially since some of the parties involved have, to put it nicely, tweaked their data in the past to make it fit their foregone conclusions.
We are seeing more and more evidence of cooling so why is the global warming crowd getting louder? Follow the money! Follow the money. They are about to loose it all, their grants, their reputation, and hopefully, their political clout!
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We are seeing more and more evidence of cooling so why is the global warming crowd getting louder? Follow the money! Follow the money. They are about to loose it all, their grants, their reputation, and hopefully, their political clout!
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
New York Times is dishonest? Really?!
The New York Times has been dishonestly portraying veterans as more likely to commit murders, yet the actual numbers are 28 murders committed per 100,000 people in the general population but only 8 murders committed per 100,000 veterans. Ann Coulter wrote a great article about this and the real cause of crime, single motherhood. Read it at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30285 here's an exerpt:
A 1990 study by the left-wing Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime disappeared.
It's an amazing article.
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A 1990 study by the left-wing Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime disappeared.
It's an amazing article.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Sunday, December 28, 2008
I just finished reinstalling all my programs on my phone. Why? I had to do a hard reset to factory conditions to get rid of a program that just wouldn't uninstall! I should have seen the problem coming when the rogue program had to reset my phone to complete the install. No program has ever done this before on my Pocket PC Windows 6 based phone.
When the program wouldn't even see my music files, (it was a music player) yet saw every other file on both the phone and memory card, I attempted to remove it. It wouldn't leave! I did a clean install to see if I could get it to uninstall, and now there were two. Deleting the files by hand left icons in my program list. So I went to the program's web site and carefully followed the uninstall directions. The result? Three icons in my program list! Now this is not some unknown program. I've used it on my Palm Pilot for music. I have it on my desktop and laptop for video. The program? RealPlayer Mobile for cat's sake! And of course there is no support for Real's free programs. What a crock of you know what!
So here's the drill do a hard reset, resync with the pc (which has renamed the phone and won't let me change it), reinstall all the programs I've put on there that I still want on there, including a different music program (s2p), which, since I can't find the setting, probably won't turn off the backlight, so I'm stuck with the old one, PocketMusic, I was using and no longer like, or Windows Media Player, which also doesn't turn off the backlight, or Pocket Player which I like but is a commercial product that I have to pay for.
You know this kind of sucks...
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When the program wouldn't even see my music files, (it was a music player) yet saw every other file on both the phone and memory card, I attempted to remove it. It wouldn't leave! I did a clean install to see if I could get it to uninstall, and now there were two. Deleting the files by hand left icons in my program list. So I went to the program's web site and carefully followed the uninstall directions. The result? Three icons in my program list! Now this is not some unknown program. I've used it on my Palm Pilot for music. I have it on my desktop and laptop for video. The program? RealPlayer Mobile for cat's sake! And of course there is no support for Real's free programs. What a crock of you know what!
So here's the drill do a hard reset, resync with the pc (which has renamed the phone and won't let me change it), reinstall all the programs I've put on there that I still want on there, including a different music program (s2p), which, since I can't find the setting, probably won't turn off the backlight, so I'm stuck with the old one, PocketMusic, I was using and no longer like, or Windows Media Player, which also doesn't turn off the backlight, or Pocket Player which I like but is a commercial product that I have to pay for.
You know this kind of sucks...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Broken Window Theory
I've known of "The Broken Window Theory" for some time but I finally figured out where it came from. This is from the Las Vegas Review Journal Sunday December 21st column from Sherman Frederick:
He recounted, "A 1969 Stanford experiment in which two cars were abandoned— one in the mean streets of the Bronx and one in a rich neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif.
Within 10 minutes the car in the Bronx was vandalized, and within a few days it was stripped and smashed to pieces.
In Palo Alto, the car sat untouched for more than a week.
The psychologist conducting the experiment then went up to the untouched Palo Alto car and took a sledgehammer and smashed part of the car. Soon, passersby took turns hitting the car with the hammer, and in a few hours the car was demolished.
Several years later two University of Pepperdine criminologists used the Stanford experiment to put forward the “broken windows” theory of crime: When a broken window in a building is left unrepaired, the rest of the windows are soon broken.
Why does a broken window invite further vandalism? It sends a signal that no one is in charge, that breaking more windows costs nothing and has no bad consequences. This phenomenon can be extended to graffiti, panhandling, littering and a host of other acts. In short, once people begin disregarding the norms that keep order in a community, both order and community quickly unravel."
In other words in communities and schools and even our homes, we do need to "sweat the little stuff!" if we are to maintain a pleasant environment for us and those around us.
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He recounted, "A 1969 Stanford experiment in which two cars were abandoned— one in the mean streets of the Bronx and one in a rich neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif.
Within 10 minutes the car in the Bronx was vandalized, and within a few days it was stripped and smashed to pieces.
In Palo Alto, the car sat untouched for more than a week.
The psychologist conducting the experiment then went up to the untouched Palo Alto car and took a sledgehammer and smashed part of the car. Soon, passersby took turns hitting the car with the hammer, and in a few hours the car was demolished.
Several years later two University of Pepperdine criminologists used the Stanford experiment to put forward the “broken windows” theory of crime: When a broken window in a building is left unrepaired, the rest of the windows are soon broken.
Why does a broken window invite further vandalism? It sends a signal that no one is in charge, that breaking more windows costs nothing and has no bad consequences. This phenomenon can be extended to graffiti, panhandling, littering and a host of other acts. In short, once people begin disregarding the norms that keep order in a community, both order and community quickly unravel."
In other words in communities and schools and even our homes, we do need to "sweat the little stuff!" if we are to maintain a pleasant environment for us and those around us.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
I have no idea who to credit this next with, but they are absolutely true! So here they are 25 absolutely true statements, beginning with a quote from Thomas Jefferson, that sum up my political views on guns nicely!
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."
~ Thomas Jefferson
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution 1791. All Rights Reserved.
11. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.
24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
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"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."
~ Thomas Jefferson
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution 1791. All Rights Reserved.
11. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.
24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Man-made global warming myth
Wow! check this out:
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UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in 'Dustbin of History'
POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.See the rest here: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Icon Aircraft A5
Oh! I want one! I wish Santa would bring this for Christmas!
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Civics Quiz
Try the civics quiz at http://americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
What do you think? Should an American have to pass before being allowed to vote? (I got a 97%!)
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What do you think? Should an American have to pass before being allowed to vote? (I got a 97%!)
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
it's semi-official!
My soon to be new daughter-in-law, Chantal. I've known for a couple of weeks but it's been fun keeping it from the rest of the family!Richard's main page
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
What will BO's supporters do now!
This is so hilarious!
And so, so true!
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And so, so true!
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
Read a Flag, On a Hill at ejectejecteject.com
Okay fine. We have the most left-wing radical president-elect ever. You want some comfort? Go read this:
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A FLAG, ON A HILL
It will make you feel better, I guarantee it!Richard's main page
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Walter William's latest
Walter Williams makes a very good point doesn't he?
I fear for our country's future if the communist Barak Obama wins this election. I don't think things will be all that great with McCain either, but at least he doesn't hate our country as Obama does.
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One of the campaign themes this election cycle is "affordable" health care. Shouldn't we ask ourselves whether we want the politicians who brought us the "affordable" housing, that created the current financial debacle, to now deliver us affordable health care? Shouldn't we also ask how things turned out in countries where there is socialized medicine?
Read the rest here: http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/10/22/affordable_health_careI fear for our country's future if the communist Barak Obama wins this election. I don't think things will be all that great with McCain either, but at least he doesn't hate our country as Obama does.
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