2 1/2 weeks of remote control training left, and therefore 2 1/2 weeks until I get cut-off and await my working fate, wherever it may be.
As is the rule (loosely) for my blog, which was put into place in this post, any political or religious commentary is generally frowned upon and therefore preceeded with a warning.
currently reading: The ACLU vs America by Alan Sears and Craig Osten 
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in reference to the book above that i’m reading, I got it free with my donation to an organization that fights against the aclu. for years no-one fought against them and now there is a group that does. the main reason I don’t much care for the aclu is that whole deal where they tried to force a private organization, the Boy Scouts of America, to accept gay Scoutmasters (see: http://www.aclu.org/scotus/1999/22393lgl20000329.html). As an Eagle Scout and supporter of the Scouts in general I took notice of that issue. The gay issue completely aside, I dont think any private organization should be forced to accept anything (another example-Augusta National not accepting women). It’s clearly unconstitutional to put acceptance rules on a private org. like this, and yet the aclu claims to be all about “rights”. really they are just about their interpretation of the constitution (thus their own adgenda), not what it actually says or means.
check this quote by the founder of the aclu, roger baldwin-
“I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.” see: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Nash_Baldwin
lol that pretty much tells you all you need to know. how unAmerican can you get?
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in other news i was happy to see ol’ Al won himself an Oscar. People do need to know more about the fragile state of the Earth which despite being able to sustain itself just fine for billions of years is now suddenly on the brink of total disaster because of the actions of the last 50 years or so. Kinda funny though, the same people that rave about global warming today where also shouting in the streets in the 1960’s about the impending global cooling period. see: http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/globalwarming.htm
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I’m thinking that I may just vote for Hillary for the same reasons people slow down on the highways to look at flaming wreckage.
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did you know that America subsisted just fine without an income tax for over 135 years? The govt was funded by tariffs on imported goods and excise taxes on things like liquor. There were brief income taxes during the civil war in order to fund the fight, but nothing permanent until the 16th Amendment was passed in 1913.
So why in the world was it passed???? basically it was a case of jealousy and forgeting why America was founded. A decent majority of people wanted to start finding a way to redistribute (punish) wealth. so, one by one, states started ratifying this amendment with the thought that only the very rich would be taxed. So much for that.
after its passing, the govt had free (and very easy) reign to spend and tax and thats where we get all of the social programs and “dept of …..”. And of course, now we get to fill out those rediculous 1040’s every year.
hey fine, federal taxes ain’t going away. but lets simplify it already and institute the national sales tax (estimated at 10-12% to cover existing revenues). Cause its fairly obvious we won’t be doing away with all the programs that need funding (why not localize most of those federal “benefits”??? talk about a pie in the sky…)
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Windows Vista: An Unmitigated Disaster
Over the weekend I bought a laptop; office depot had a nice toshiba on sale for $349 after a huge $200 rebate that will no doubt take 6 months to arrive. And I was “lucky” enough to have it include windows vista.
I can easily sum up windows vista-it tries to solve problems that never existed.
Unlike XP, which I felt actually gave me better control over my computer and ran as smooth as any operating system yet on a regular PC, vista tries to take away control of everything and dumb it all down. Now just trying to look at your file folders becomes a chore because everything is put into groups…photos..videos…songs…instead of a standard file system. i have no real idea where anything is going on my computer. how very mac-ish.
seriously, there was nothing wrong with XP. the big hulabalo about vista is its so “safe”. i’m sorry but if you had virus problems with XP its because you either were trying to download illegal files or you surfed far too much porn. With vista though, everything you try to run gets blocked and it brings up this box that seems to try to frighten you by saying “are you SURE you want to run this? Did you REALLY mean to do that? Do you want to let this program that you very deliberately installed do what it is supposed to? Do you want your computer to be at all useful? Did you enjoy flushing $150 down the drain for our unnecessary software?”
I have found myself working feverishly to try and make the operating system work like XP did by turning off all the unneccesary protections and new “easier” menus. Its taking more time to do that than it would to just format the computer and install XP from scratch.
Stupid Bill Gates, why do you think you need to be like the mac? Give me back control of my computer! quit trying to hide everything in order to make it ”appear” user friendly! annoying. just let windows be windows…a buggy but adequate way to get stuff done for people who actually know how to use computers. not a freaking ice cream social of an operating system that treats me like a 6 year old.