 | | | 5/17/2022 7:00 PM | Politics | Let's clear things up.
Socialism is NOT:
Public schools
Public roads
Police departments
Fire departments
Taxes
Gas Taxes
Tolls
Hospitals
Armies and Navies
National borders
A court system
Public libraries
The National highway system
A 40 hour work week
Income taxes
These are examples of GOVERNMENT. The concept of government, of a centralized agency that collects money from the people who live in a certain area in order to provide services to ALL the citizens of that area, is as old as civilization and is for the most part, quite fair: It taxes everyone more or less equally to provide services to everyone more or less equally. These are things you could probably take care of yourself, but it's easier to centralize them a little. You may not use these services every day, but you pay for them so they are there when you need them. It predates the concept of socialism by several millennia. Also, most services are provided at the lowest level possible, like the city or county.
Socialism IS, by varying degrees:
Minimum wage
The Alternative Minimum Tax
Social Security
Welfare
WIC
Food Stamps
Rent Control
Free College
The Earned Income Tax Credit
The New Deal
The Green New Deal
Ethanol subsidies
Farm subsidies
Anything subsidized by the Federal Government
Solyndra
The Paris Accords
Global Warming schemes
All the horrors of the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Kampuchea, and other socialist countries
"You have earned enough money"
"Paying it back to the community"
Any government plan that specifically targets certain people or industries to take money from them, and specifically GIVE money to certain groups of people.
That's socialism. It is justified by a hundred different reasons, and it is called many things: Collectivism, Communism, Socialism, Democratic Socialism, Progressivism, Marxism, Fascism, and even Liberalism. It has the same arguments it always had, that they are "making things fair" or "leveling the playing field" or just simply "punishing the rich". It is always coming from the left, and it always spreads the misery equally, whereever it is attempted. They also lie to you about it, and try to equate government with socialism, and they are very much not the same thing.
It is responsible for the death of 100 million people in the last century.
Time to let socialism die. For the sake of all it's future victims.
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But I think too many Brothers treat Masonry like a movie theatre. They think the cost of admission is their annual dues. They paid some money up front for the degrees, some time invested in learning a catechism, if at all, and then write a check once a year for dues. They have met their obligation. Quite a bargain, they think. For the cost of a dinner out a month, they get regular entertainment and enlightenment, or just the privilege of wearing a ring and telling people they are a Freemason, without even the need to go back to Lodge. After all, wearing that suit is such a bother. Why can't we be more casual?
But they would be wrong. The dues are just enough to pay to keep the lights on, to give us a place to meet. That paltry sum in no way pays for the experience you just received, not even close. In order to provide for you a single night's experience, whether it's a degree, a stated meeting, or a dinner, took work and dedication from a dozen or more Brothers. And the only way to pay that back is to put in the work yourself.
Freemasonry is paid for by those who donate their time and talents to make a memorable experience. The Brothers who spend hours learning a ritual part, and even more hours rehearsing together to make that degree come alive. The Brothers who pay the bills, who run the meetings, who sweep and mop and vacuum and wax the floors, who change the lightbulbs, who prepare the meals, who serve the meals, who wash the dishes, who set up and tear down the Lodge after each meeting, who write the speeches, who repair the building when it needs a little TLC. Every evening you experience at your Lodge was only possible because a lot of men worked hard to provide that experience for you.
Ours is a working organization. It is incumbent on you, my Brother, to donate YOUR time and talents to the Lodge, whatever they may be, to ensure the experience for the next new member, and all of the current ones, is just as memorable as your experience was, and maybe even better.
If every single Mason would donate just a little bit of his time, who took his natural born abilities and donated them to his Lodge in sweat equity, if every single one of us would put in the work equally... just think how much we would accomplish!
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Find someone stupid enough to pay you to do that.
You will never work another day in your life.
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The zip file, "SPSApplication.zip" with all necessary files is on my home page under "Public".
Update: zip file contains PowerPoint slides as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BY9DMLBuLs
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- 32 oz jar of Miracle Whip
- 1 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
In a medium bowl, add entire jar of Miracle Whip. Gradually stir in the milk. Add red pepper flakes, cumin, salt, garlic powder, and oregano, and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to allow the flavors to blend. If you taste it right away, all you will taste is salad dressing.
Serve with tortilla chips.
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- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 egg yolks, beaten
- 3/8 cup white sugar
- Pie crust
- Fresh blueberries and strawberries
- Cool Whip
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a large bowl, beat 2 eggs and 2 egg yolks. In a medium pot, bring milk just to boiling over medium heat. Stir hot milk, a little at a time, into beaten eggs and egg yolks, until well combined. Stir in sugar. Place pie crust on cooking sheet. Carefully pour milk mixture into pie crust. Bake in preheated oven 45 minutes or until set. Let cool on countertop, then chill covered in refrigerator for at least an hour. Serve with Cool Whip and fresh blueberries and strawberries.
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https://youtu.be/ILR3T5SlBU0
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https://youtu.be/kKrOnw4jOko
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On the right, we have the presumption that Trump colluded with Russia to win the election. How exactly did Russia interfere? With $50,000 worth of Facebook ads? With hacking DNC emails that prove that Hillary stole the DNC primary? Even if we can determine that Russia was behind the hacking, I consider that a public service. It revealed the truth, which the mainstream media is trying awful hard to keep secret.
So, Donald Trump, a man with no political power before he won the election, managed to arrange high level meetings with Russian officials, and keep all of this secret, right?
Well, certainly a novice like Trump would not be able to cover his tracks, right? And a full year of an independent counsel and the entire mainstream media would have uncovered something, right?
So, let’s see what we know:
Flynn talked to some foreigners, and lied about it to Mike Pence, and was fired.
Jeff Sessions met a Russian general as part of his job, and misunderstood a question asked by the Senate, and corrected the record. He was so worried about a conflict of interest that he recused himself from the investigation.
Paul Manafort had some questionable business dealings several YEARS before working on the campaign.
Don Jr. met with ONE Russian lawyer, who had worked for the DNC in the past, who misrepresented herself to get a meeting. His testimony before the Independent Counsel lasted longer than the meeting itself, by a factor of ten, I think.
So, where is the collusion? Where is the smoking gun?
OK, on the Democrat side:
Hillary and the DNC paid Fusion GPS, through third parties, to get opposition research on Trump, as did some GOP candidates, at least until he won the primary. THEN, Hillary paid Fusion GPS to create a FAKE dossier on Trump.
Fusion GPS hired a British former spy to write this dossier, who hired Russian spies to help write it.
The DNC shopped this dossier around DC for months, but none of the media was willing to write about it, until Buzzfeed released it, and then they had cover. Sleazy, but still not so bad.
THEN, the FBI used this fake dossier, that everyone knew was fake, to lie to a FISA judge to get a wiretap order against Trump and his campaign.
THEN, the Obama Administration used these wiretapped conversations, unmasking the American citizens taped talking to foreigners, and released the transcripts to the media, which is how we know about Michael Flynn in the first place!
On top of which, senior leadership in the FBI who were strong Hillary supporters and anti-Trumpers, were not only involved in the Clinton email investigation (and derailed it) but are also involved in the Russian probe!
NOW, five months of texts between two or more of these FBI officials magically disappeared, only to magically reappear again. Just like Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats, the hard drives and the files and the emails that could incriminate them magically disappear, in violation of every law regarding safeguarding government communications.
That’s all just off the top of my head, of course there is plenty more.
Can any of you, with a straight face, tell me we shouldn’t be getting to the bottom of this?
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I also learned that a lot of apps that had a lot of buzz one or two years ago are really hard to get a free copy of today. But I found a few articles this morning (check my Twitter feed) that highlight other options that use Javascript. Right now, I am thinking of trying all the ones I can find, and contrast and compare.
It's also convenient that I already have several web sites for churches and Masonic groups, so I have ready-made guinea pigs that are getting mobile apps for free, while I figure out how to move to this new area of technology. Stay tuned.
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The reason the tax code is so convoluted, is becauses business are not run by idiots. They want to keep as much of their money as possible, so they spend money to lobby Congress to create loopholes for their particular business, a small investment for a bigger payoff. More often than not, it is the very large corporations that get tax breaks that hurt their competition: the much smaller businesses run by families or individuals, who can't afford lobbyists. Both parties are guilty of taking favors from lobbyists and crafting loopholes. But you notice the only politicians who ever talk about a simpler tax code, are conservatives?
If the tax code is complicated, we need a larger IRS to manage it. Is there any government agency that is feared by the average American, more than the IRS? What is especially troubling, is that some Presidents have actually used the IRS to punish their political opponents. Think about that. We are citizens, not subjects. We own this government. It serves us, not the other way around.
We need to simplify the tax code. It needs to be more transparent. It needs to be understandable by anyone with a high-school education. If we can simplify it enough, we may even be able to eliminate the IRS altogether. We spend somewhere between 6 billion and 9 billion hours a YEAR doing our taxes: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/10/americans-spend-6-billion-hours-doing-taxes-better-get-moving.html How could that time be better spent?
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Liberals want bigger government and higher taxes. Conservatives want smaller government and lower taxes. Period.
Liberals feel that every dollar you earn, as a private citizen or as a corporation, belongs to the government. Whatever they graciously let you keep is a gift. Thus, when you use the tax breaks they put into the system to keep more of your money, you are "stealing" it from everyone else who did nothing to help you earn it.
Conservatives know that every dollar you earn is yours. Government needs money to operate, and for good or bad, income tax is one of the primary sources of money for operating the government. But government should be small enough that we don't need so much of your money.
Liberals don't want anyone to have a tax cut, ever. So they make you think that if "the rich" are going to get a tax cut, you will oppose you getting a tax cut yourself, to spite the rich. This is contrary to your own best interest, and based on a lie.
Let's use a simple example. Let's say you earn $50,000 a year, and pay ten percent in taxes. That means you pay $5,000 to the federal government. Now, let's say I earn $5,000,000 a year, and pay twenty percent in taxes. That means I pay $1,000,000 to the federal government.
Now, let's say the conservatives want to give us BOTH a tax cut, letting us keep more of our own money. They change the rates to nine percent and nineteen percent. You are now paying $4,500 (a $500 savings) and I am now paying $950,000 ( a $10,000 savings). The liberals will scream that I am getting a much bigger tax break than you, because I get to keep $10,000 of my own money, and you only get $500. THIS IS THE BIG LIE.
You got a ten percent cut in your tax rate, from 10 to 9 percent. I only got a FIVE percent cut in my tax rate, from 20 to 19 percent. I paid more in taxes than you, I got a smaller percentage cut than you, and I STILL pay a whole lot more taxes than you. But because the actually amount I get to keep is so much more in simple dollars than yours, liberals will tell you that this whole tax cut program is a "giveaway to the rich", and get you to oppose it. So, you could have kept more of your money, but to spite the evil rich, you turned it down.
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- 2 cups milk
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 egg yolks, beaten
- 3/8 cup white sugar
- 9 inch round glass or corningware dish, or four to six oven-proof ramekins or custard cups
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a heavy bottomed shallow saucepan over medium heat, melt 1/2 cup sugar until golden. Carefully pour hot sugar evenly into the bottom of the round dish (for one flan to cut into slices) or split between each of the ramekins (for single servings). Tilt each to coat the bottoms evenly.
In another medium pot, fill with about a quart of water and bring to boil (enough water to fill your roasting pan an inch deep).
In another medium pot, bring milk just to boiling over medium heat. Stir hot milk, a little at a time, into beaten eggs and egg yolks, until well combined. Stir in sugar. Pour milk mixture evenly into ramekins. Line a roasting pan with a damp kitchen towel. Place ramekins on towel, inside roasting pan, and place roasting pan on oven rack. Fill roasting pan with boiling water to reach halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Bake in preheated oven 45 minutes, until set. Let cool on countertop, then chill covered in refrigerator for at least an hour. To serve, remove lid and place serving plate upside-down on top of dish. Carefully hold dish and plate together and in one quick motion, flip over and set down on counter. Remove dish, pour remaining caramel over flan and serve.
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- AngularJS
- MVC
- InfoPath
- Visual Studio Team Services
- GitHub
Every day reveals a new technology. Thank goodness for Microsoft Virtual Academy. I did learn one neat trick: Hook an HDMI cable from my laptop to the TV in my hotel. Much easier to watch Netflix, um, I mean training videos, yeah, just training videos on a big TV. Well, and some Netflix. It's fun to learn, I wish it was just one or two technologies instead of a half-dozen. | | ItemID:
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Enjoyed a nice Perdomo Habano on the drive home. Excellent cigar.
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Rises surf like Gaston, Wash away turf like Gaston, Makes dolphins and sharks give a wide berth like Gaston!
"I use sailboats in all of my decorating!" Hurricane GASTON!!!
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not only looks at monster.com, dice.com, careerbuilder.com, etc. but it includes results from the job boards of larger companies (GD, CACI, ManTech, Lockheed, etc.). It also has a great ZIP code specific search. Most search engines only narrow down to the STATE.
You should also create a profile on http://www.linkedin.com with your work history, and join a few groups related to your field. You should also join any group that relates to any hobbies or organizations you belong to, such as Masonry. That is the easiest way to network, where you will interact with people who have similar interests. I like to call LinkedIn "Facebook for grownups". I am constantly being contacted about positions through the site. | | ItemID:
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- This is not a Lodge, tiled or otherwise.
- There is no way to make an Internet discussion group secure, so we are not in any way "tiled".
- The owners of this group cannot verify that every member is a Mason in good standing.
- Even if they tried, we all belong to different Grand Lodges. This means most people in this group are clandestine or irregular to you, even if they are also regular Masons.
- Do not say anything you could only say in a tiled Lodge. Instead, assume you are in the dining hall downstairs and most of the people around you are not Masons.
- Learn the abbreviation YJMV (Your Jurisdiction May Vary). That means since all Grand Lodges are sovereign, what may be custom or even law in YOUR Grand Lodge may not be custom or law in ANOTHER Grand Lodge.
- You are allowed to talk to Masons from other jurisdictions even if they are not recognized. Just don't say anything you wouldn't say to a profane (non-Mason).
- It is not violating your obligation to call a non-recognized Mason "Brother". It is just a courtesy, and makes everyone feel welcome.
- Be courteous to everyone. If they are a member of an irregular Grand Lodge, you may point that out to them. But they probably don't know, and if the goal is to convince them to join us in regular Masonry, offending them probably won't help.
- Be courteous to everyone. Even if their jurisdiction does something you think is crazy, remember YJMV. We are not here to judge other jurisdictions, they may have valid reasons. Ask questions, but respect their rules.
- Be courteous to everyone. If a non-Mason is asking questions about how to join, the group may be set up to allow non-Masons to participate. The Internet can be a powerful tool to let people know about our fraternity and encourage them to join. If your group is restricted to Masons only, politely inform them and direct them to another group.
- Be courteous to everyone. Political and Religious discussions are not allowed in a Lodge, but this is not a Lodge. Unless the owner of the group forbids it, you can discuss politics and religion. But subdue your passions and be courteous.
- Be courteous to everyone.
If you have additions or suggestions, please email me or comment online. Feel free to share this page with your online group. These rules are specific to Masonic groups, but for the most part could apply to any online group.
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For example, you step onto the elevator with a business associate, who says, "What is that lapel pin you have on?" By the time you reach his or her destination on the 3rd Floor, you should be able to say it is a Masonic pin, and state a few positive things about your membership or about the organization.
How many times has an opportunity similar to that happened to you, but you quickly answered and hoped the other person would change the subject?
How often, when you thought about the opportunity later, did you wish you would have been ready to produce a short, intelligent response?
The time to prepare your "elevator speech" and explain Freemasonry and what it means to you – is now – before that chance arises.
The opportunity may come on the street corner; it may occur as you are departing from church; it could materialize in a fast-food line as you are waiting to order.
Some Masons believe the lack of having such an "elevator speech," is why membership is not advancing as it should. Too often, Masons are reluctant to speak up about their Masonic membership. Too often, they are not prepared to say something positive, and so don't say anything. Too often, they just feel unqualified to be that needed "public relations" representative for our Fraternity.
In the Indiana Freemason magazine in 2013, George Burkley, a Past Master of Tyrian Lodge #12 in Goshen, IN, presented his views on the need for an "elevator speech." If someone would say to Brother Burkley, as they were entering an elevator, "I hear you are a Mason. What's that all about?" here is what he might say:
Freemasonry is the world's oldest and largest fraternal organization for men over the age of 18. We are dedicated to serving our members and their families through building relationships, social networking, and activities with our members and in the community.
Freemasonry is not a religion but it is an organization where every member must profess a belief in God.
Freemasonry is not a charity but it is an organization that sponsors numerous charities, for example (and here he names charity endeavors that his Lodge, Grand Lodge, or one of his appendant bodies in Freemasonry supports).
And finally, Freemasonry is not a volunteer organization but it is an organization where its members voluntarily bind themselves together to make themselves, and their community, a better place. Personally, my closest friends outside my family are members of the Masonic Fraternity.
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"Note: if you are not seeing the SharePoint List information as XML in the browser then you’ll need to turn off RSS feed reading. In Internet Explorer 7 or greater, go to Tools–>Internet Options–>Content tab–>Feeds and Web Slices-settings"
Here's a graphic:
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He comes into the physical world, travels along the highway of life for a few years, and then lays aside the working tools of life and passes through the transition that--for want of a better term--men call death. And at his passing he takes nothing with him, all his material wealth and possessions are left behind. He takes only himself, and what he has done with his life in the development of character. So it is a fair question to ask, "What is a man really worth?" I think that the answer is that he is worth exactly what he has given away. What he has given away of his time, of his substance, of his effort, of himself. He is worth just that, and nothing more. What we give away we keep--and what we keep we lose. And so it is that the real wealth of any man consists of the countless little acts of kindness in which there is no thought of reward.
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SharePoint Saturday 2015 this weekend. As always, I had a chance to learn something new. Not as much as LAST year when I got a good look at Office 365, the SharePoint Store, and SharePoint 2013, but still plenty of new stuff to explore.
Modal Mania explained how to use JavaScript to launch modal dialogs on a SharePoint 2013 site using the SP.UI library.
Anatomy of a Mail App talked about building Office Apps and making them available in the Office Store, much like the SharePoint store. Definitely going to look into this.
SharePoint Event Receivers covered new event receivers for SharePoint 2010 and 2013.
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Basically, you add meta tags to the Master Page and Twitter will add a card to your Tweet if you reference the URL of your site. It's pretty cool.
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synonyms: leftism, welfarism;
Communism: A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Fascism: 1. the tenets of a centralized totalitarian and nationalistic government that strictly controls finance, industry, and commerce, practices rigid censorship and racism, and eliminates opposition through secret police.
Liberalism (the way it is practiced in America, not the classic definition of individual liberty): Outcomes are unequal, which is unfair. Use taxes and regulations to level the playing field. "You didn't build that." profit is evil, and must be punished. Strong central government, high taxes, burdensome regulations, limitations of civil liberties. Also indulges in crony capitalism (not limited to just one party).
Marx wanted to turn the whole world socialist, and thought it would instantly flip to communism overnight, because there was no more competition between countries or individuals. ALL of these system share one thing: total faith in a strong central government and zero faith in the individual. Minimum wage is a small thing, but it reflects a central tenet of left-wing thought: The STATE gets to decide what a person (in this case, entry level or low-skilled) is worth, or at least gets paid. The BUSINESS does not. We have all grown up with minimum wage, so we are used to it, and most of you don't see it for what it is: government control.
Have you ever heard Barack Obama or Bill Clinton PRAISE capitalism? Private business? the rights of the individual? Or do they talk about how life is unfair, outcomes are different, people need a helping hand, businesses are taking advantage of workers. They don't believe in the free market. So tell me, Scott, what tenets or policies of the modern Democratic Party are moving AWAY from the principles of socialism?
To show the other side:
Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. synonyms: free enterprise, private enterprise, the free market, enterprise culture, "the capitalism of emerging nations"
Conservatism: A belief in smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, a strong national defense. Championing the rights of the individual over the state. A belief in the free market. Yes, there will be unequal outcomes, but since people and situations are unequal, that is what is FAIR.
Libertarianism: An extreme laissez-faire political philosophy advocating only minimal state intervention in the lives of citizens.
Libertarianism and conservatism are right-wing. All the other isms I mentioned are left-wing. there is nothing right-wing about a strong, controlling centralized government. As much as some try to paint fascism as right-wing, it simply isn't. You don't require a massive controlling government to have national pride, although fascism does promote nationalism. But that is the only thing we have in common.
I will stipulate that although the overwhelming majority of Democrats are liberals, and a good percentage of the Republicans are conservatives, the parties do not accurately reflect the left/right divide. Most of the GOP in power have no problem with an ever expanding federal government. it's like democrats are full-speed ahead towards socialism, but the GOP wants to tap the brakes once in a while. If conservatives could retake our party, you would see a more contrasting difference between the parties.
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- Click the gear icon on the toolbar, and click "Settings".
- From the Settings page, click "Widgets" in the left-hand column.
- Click "Create New" in the right-hand column.
- From the "Create a user widget" page, you should be on the "User timeline" tab (if not, click "User timeline").
- Choose your configuration options and click "Create widget".
- Select the code at the bottom of the right-hand pane (underneath the preview) and click "Copy".
- Click "Save changes".
- Sign in to your SharePoint 2013 site and select the page where you want to add the feed.
- Unpublish and edit the page using the toolbar.
- With your page in edit mode, click "Insert|Embed Code".
- From the Embed dialog, paste the code from Twitter.
- Save and publish your page.
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- Open Master Pages.
- Using the arrow keys, highlight each of the master files until you find the one where "Set as Default" is greyed out in the toolbar. This is your default master page. NOTE: It should be either oslo.master or seattle.master. If you click on the master page, it will open the properties window.
- Right-click and drag the default master page and click "Copy here". Rename the copy.
- Check out the default Master Page.
- Right-click the Master Page and click "Edit File in Advanced Mode".
- In the Master Page, find the SharePoint:SPTitleBreadcrumb tag and comment it out using <!-- and -->.
- Save and check in the Master Page.
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- Open All Files to _themes and open the number folder (there may be more than one to try).
- Find the first .themedcss file that matches your master page (either Oslo or Seattle) and copy the title, minus the site URL.
Example: /_themes/6/oslo-236A6B32.themedcss. - Open Master Pages.
- Using the arrow keys, highlight each of the master files until you find the one where "Set as Default" is greyed out in the toolbar. This is your default master page. NOTE: If you click on the master page, it will open the properties window.
- Right-click and drag the default master page and click "Copy here". Rename the copy.
- Right-click the default master page and click "Edit File in Advanced Mode".
- In the Master Page, find the SharePoint:CSSLink tag.
- Add the following tag, substituting your .themescss file path from the previous step as the name attribute:
<SharePoint:CssRegistration runat="server" name="/_themes/6/oslo-236A6B32.themedcss" EnableCssTheming="true" After="true"/> - Save and check in your Master Page. Click "OK" to override the changing site definition warning.
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- From the Run dialog, type "regedit" without quotes and click "OK".
- From the Registry Editor, select HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor.
- If the AutoRun value is not present, right-click and click New|Expandable String Value. Name the value "AutoRun" without quotes.
- Double-click the AutoRun value.
- Under data, add "PROMPT" and the value you want to set for the prompt. In my example, "PROMPT $p$_$g".
- Click OK.
- Repeat the previous steps for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor to apply the change to ALL users.
- Close the Registry Editor.
- Close the Command Prompt if open, and open it again. The Prompt you entered is now employed.
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It is a good idea to know how much of your charitable donations go to those in need. Check out http://www.charitynavigator.org/ for an impartial rating of your favorite charity.
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1. Solar panels and windmills WILL generate some amount of electricity and lower your electric bill. 2. This amount varies depending on where you live, but the cost of installation is so high, they won't pay for themselves for decades. So people don't do it. 3.This needs to be sold among rich people as a status symbol, much like wearing an awareness ribbon. Except in this case, it actually accomplishes something: As more people buy solar panels and windmills, more companies will spring up to meet the demand, competing with each other for your business, and they will become cheaper to buy. 4. As the cost comes down, more people buy them, thus encouraging the cycle. Eventually, they will be cheap enough for everyone to afford, and become the must-have item, just like plasma TVs are today. The poorest people you know have a plasma TV, don't they? 5. All of this is accomplished WITHOUT a massive taxpayer funded program run with great inefficiency by the federal government. WIN-WIN!
By the way, this concept won't work for electric cars. Electric cars run on electricity, which comes from coal, so it isn't green enough.
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FIXXX!!!!!
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Is it just me, or are the SharePoint 2010 Themes just not as easy on the eye as SharePoint 2007? With 2007, almost all of them would 'work' for a page, and I could go back and forth between two or three until one looked just right for a site.
With 2010, every single one is jarring to the eye. There is at least one color (link, header, background) in EVERY Theme that makes me reject it. Watch for my colors to change as I keep looking. I really don't have time to find a custom Theme, I wish I could find one out of the box and just be done with it.
And don't get me started on Themes not being visible to anonymous users. So, disregard my comment about you people seeing the changes.
UPDATE: SharePoint 2013 Themes are pretty cool. Plus, anonymous users see them without customizing the master page. So, a begrudging thumbs-up to Microsoft for fixing one thing in 2013.
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Five million people have lost their insurance because of Obamacare. FIVE MILLION of my fellow Americans (and counting) had health insurance this year, and will not have it next year, because of a law passed exclusively by Democrats in the House and Senate, and signed by a Democrat President. Never forget that. It is completely a Democrat law that is causing all of this pain and suffering. Oh, and the 100K who enrolled? The government counts people who registered without committing to a plan in that number.
That's like you going to Amazon (except Amazon actually works and is easy) and putting something in your wish list, or your shopping card, without completing the purchase. If Amazon claimed that sale as income, they would go to jail. But that's how your government does things.
Five million.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/11/12/the-obamacare-exchange-scorecard-around-100000-enrollees-and-five-million-cancellations/
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The hero is a farmboy who never knew his daddy and kissed his sister.
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The other hero is a bootlegger with a souped-up ride he's always working on.
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The other hero's buddy makes the Duck Dynasty boys look like Yul Brynner.
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The other hero kissed the hero's sister.
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The other hero's friend hits on the hero's sister and gets them all thrown in jail.
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The hero hangs out with an old man who lives by himself in the hills.
- The hero later hangs out with an old man who lives in a swamp.
- The hero finally meets his daddy, and it's a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
- The hero's daddy never knew his daddy either.
- The hero's daddy grew up in a junkyard and likes to tinker with things.
- The hero's daddy knocked a girl up and had to hide it from everyone.
- Every so often, someone loses a limb.
- AA isn't specifically mentioned, but everyone is always talking about their higher power.
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I am curious as to which of these scandals he considers phony: Obama Scandals List
Bob: “Did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?”
Jim: “You mean the Mexican gun running?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17 and deaths?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean the rampant voter fraud?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean that 3 or 4 of Obama’s Gay boyfriends were mysteriously MURDERED when they came forward with claims he was gay too?” Bob: “No, the other one.
Jim: “You mean the president demoralizing and breaking down the military?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean the Boston Bombing?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, e-mails and everything else?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean the president wanting to kill Americans with drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million and right after it declared bankruptcy it was sold to the Chinese?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The IRS targeting conservatives?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The DOJ spying on the press?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and right after they declared bankruptcy 3 months later the Chinese bought it?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: ” Do you mean the Illegal obamacare fiasco?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “Do you mean ignoring our constitutional rights?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, e-mails and everything else?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The president’s ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons and falsely blaming the sequester?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The president’s unconstitutional threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The president’s repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties voted 100% for Obama?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The president’s unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate’s advise-and-consent role?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “HHS employees being given insider information on Medicare Advantage?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?” Bob: “No, the other one.”
Jim: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65
million low-information voters stuck us again with the most corrupt administration in American history?” Bob: “THAT’S THE ONE!” | | ItemID:
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- We have always had blackouts in New York City.
- Gas has always been over five dollars a gallon.
- The Senate has never had to submit a budget.
- We have never used oil, coal, natural gas or nuclear power from here.
- The President has always been able to serve as many terms as he wants.
- We have always told companies where they can build their products and how many employees they have to hire.
- We have always sold guns to our allies in Syria and Mexico.
- That little incident at Benghazi? Just anger at a video, which we apologized for.
- We have never been at war with radical or any other kind of Islam.
- We have always been at war with Israel.
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www.famoussmoke.com. I have heard their ads on XM radio for a year or more now, and I thought, 20 sticks for $20, worth a shot, right?I will post the results on my Cigar rating page. If at least four or five are any good, I guess it's worth it. | | ItemID:
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http://www.hrssug.com. | | ItemID:
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www.oceanview335.com and
www.researchlodge.org, are now in SharePoint 2010! This was a lot of work, as I had to rebuild them from SharePoint 2007 and ASP. This is really exciting for me to work with SP 2010, there is a lot of functionality I need to get familiar with.
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ActiveCell.Offset(-1, -1).Range("A1").Select Without relative reference, a macro that selects cell "A3" will ALWAYS select cell "A3", regardless of what cell you start the macro from. When you record a macro, the Relative Reference toolbar button is displayed in the popup menu. Copy it to a toolbar menu and save your Excel spreadsheet. The button will then be available in the future. If you record a macro and Relative Reference is not enabled, click the Relative Reference button and record the macro again. | | ItemID:
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If ActiveCell.Hyperlinks.Count > 0 Then
ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Range("A1").Value = ActiveCell.Hyperlinks(1).Address
End If
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Range("A1").Select If your cursor is in cell B1 when you run this macro, the hyperlink from B1 is copied to C1, and the cursor is moved to C1. By using a shortcut key, such as Ctrl-Q, you can quickly move through all rows in your spreadsheet.
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I am upgrading all my various sites from ASP.NET or WSS to
SharePoint Foundation 2010. I am really impressed how Microsoft actually LISTENED when they did an upgrade, many of the OOTB features are things I had to
kludge write the correct code for, before. Excellent job.The best part is, you can install SharePoint Foundation 2010 (the free version, think of WSS) on a
Windows 7 platform. This means, I can have SP 2010 and Visual Studio 2008 on my laptop. Way cool. Anyway, this week I have been converting over my blog, which was not an easy task. I have tried to correct links, formatting, etc. as I went along. When I first wrote my blog, I wrote the code myself in VB.NET, because I wanted to figure it out myself. Now, I will let SP do the heavy lifting. I look forward to seeing comments on my blog posts.
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the specs myself. Click ""Send Email"" to contact me. Thank you! (UPDATE: Email link disabled.)
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 So I've been on Facebook almost two years now. For some reason, I guess I thought I needed to keep my posts to 140 characters or less, so I joined the ranks of
Twitter. Follow me at
http://twitter.com/CigarDoug. I know, I know, CigarDoug isn't how many of you know me, but my usual handles were taken. By the way,
http://tweexchange.com/ doesn't WORK, they said every single name I tried was unavailable. Best to just try to create an account until you get one! | | ItemID:
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If you have found this site based on my resume, thank you for visiting my site. I have designed web sites since 1995, starting with HTML and JavaScript, later ASP and ASP.NET, and most recently using SharePoint, both the free version (WSS) and the Enterprise version (MOSS). I also have a great deal of experience with CSS, VBScript, DHTML, XML, XSL and XSLT.
This site was built with ASP.NET. When blog sites became popular, I created my own just to see how they work. Please look around.
Here are other samples of my work: | | ItemID:
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I just reread the book after seeing the movie. I think there are eight monsters in ""Where the Wild Things Are"", the book; but only seven in the movie. Or am I being too nitpicky? In this picture, the left-most and the right-most monster could be Ira, but they appear in this picture together!
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I liked it better when we had a President who couldn't PRONOUNCE it, but at least knew it was important to have... | | ItemID:
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During the recent Maryland snow storm, we had quite a few parking spaces where the snow plow drivers just pushed the ice & snow into a pile. To help reclaim the spaces, I drove over them every day, and my coworker Doug Miller caught me
in the act.
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Winston Roundtree, who pens the amazing comic
Subnormality!, has done it again with this week's comic, "Part of the Queue". I first discovered Subnormality! via a link from a blog to Winston's Nazi-Time-Traveler comic, then devoted an hour to reading the rest of the comics in the series. You may want to see the other comics I recommend. UPDATE: Look for the Links list on the home page. If you read this blog late, the comic in question is always available
here. There is a new comic every Monday, hopefully, and the main link to
Subnormality! will show the most recent comic. Click on "Leave a comment" to read the comments for that week. I should mention that Winston Roundtree is likely a pen name (or the online equivalent - electron name?) for the author. | | ItemID:
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I came across this picture while surfing the net; actually while deleting old bookmarks on my new desktop computer. I really like Windows 7, which I installed on my brand new laptop, so I am going to slick the desktop and install Windows 7 instead of Vista. Before I do that, I really needed to cleanup the backup of a backup of the documents folder of the backup from three computers ago - you know what I mean? Anyway, looking at one bookmarks made me do a search, and I found this image by accident; I think it really captures the essence of programming. Probably other career fields as well that require creativity as well. And yes, I am definitely in the Kicking Ass threshold. If only I figured that out a few years back, I would where I am now, um, back then. | | ItemID:
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More surfendipity: Came across
this collection of creative resumes actually submitted by designers. I would hope the person hiring would appreciate the creativity in stepping outside the black & white resume box. If not, I hope these designers kept looking for a better gig.
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This is the smaller "picture" ever taken - of a single
molecule!
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Since my blog is in date order, scroll down if you just arrived. I have been documenting my Farm Town from Facebook -
www.facebook.com/christopher.w.douglas. This is a screen shot of the Crown of Thorns that spell out my web address, since there is no easy way from Farm Town to visit a user's home page. I got bored with the regular plow & harvest and tried to express my creative site using the tools at hand to make Masonic emblems in my farm. This will be an ongoing effort.
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Here are fences marking out three, five, and seven steps, of significance to any Mason. I put mostly livestock in the pens, I have not enough yet to sacrifice a hecatomb. I do need to point out the fields planted in the first three steps represent Corn, Wine (Grapes), and Oil (Sunflowers produce Sunflower Oil). Once all three are in bloom I will repost.
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Behold, a Plumb Line, made of Apple, Orange, and Pear Trees, with the scarecrow with a plumbline in his hand. Actually that are path pieces making the line.
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This is a level from Plum Trees. It needs more work.
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This view shows the square made of Mango Trees, above the square and compasses (currently plowed and Wheat, Wheat gives the best result, haven't found an ideal crop for the compasses). Daffodils make the G, I probably need to fill those in.
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I have gotten swept up in Facebook the last few months, my page is
www.facebook.com/christopher.w.douglas and I am really enjoying the applications there. Carri is hooked as well, we both spend way too much time on Mafia Wars. In Farm Town, I got bored (she made level 34 and bought a mansion... big whoop!) playing the normal way, so I am expressing myself creatively with the tools available. If you play Farm Town, you can see it by visiting Farmer Doug. I will make some more screen caps to explain what I am doing. I did spell out douglasweb.com in Crown of Thorns, so welcome to anyone visiting by reading my flowers! As you can see, there is a square and compasses in the middle of the original farm space, I have a square, plumb, and level surrounding. More details to follow... | | ItemID:
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To quote Rich Lowry, of National Review Online's The Corner: The conscientious guy, concerned with helping those around him? Or the oblivious guy, striding majestically alone? | | ItemID:
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It is exactly what you would _THINK_ a collaboration between Disney and Dali would produce:
Destino.
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Sarah Palin announced on Friday that she was
stepping down as Alaska governor. I predict she is doing this in order to (a) raise money, (b) campaign for conservative candidates in 2010; and if successful with a and b, (c) run for President in 2012. Expect to hear even more criticism for this decision. I admit, short-term, it makes her look bad and it is easy to label her a quitter. I have never seen such hate and vitriol against anyone in politics, even against President Bush. I am also surprised at the amount of heat she gets from her own party. Obviously, people are afraid of her, from the Ubama (peace be upon him) White House to the country club Republicans who thought John McCain was the ideal candidate (and blame HER for his loss). I say, wait and see. If she becomes the voice of the conservative movement, we could do far worse (ahem,
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The king of tired, offensive, late night comedy,
David Letterman, tells jokes about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her daughters, including one about A-Rod impregnating her 14 year old during a seventh-inning stretch. What class. It is quite revealing about the left that even though McCain lost, and they (the left) blame Sarah Palin for him losing; they still can't stop talking about her and running her down. I think it's because they are scared to death of her and what she represents. Time will tell.
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Thinks that
flying Air Force One over New York City, after 9/11, is a _GOOD_ idea? Clearly our current president, who now claims that his office had no idea this was going to happen. I actually think that's worse.
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 And what liberals think of him (just don't ask what they think about the REAL savior). From newscom.com:
"The Truth" by Painter Michael D'Antuono which will be unveiled on President Obama's 100th Day in Office at NYC's Union Square. | | ItemID:
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 I attended SharePoint Admin & Troubleshooting training this week in Washington, DC. One of the gems I picked up was the
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, a great source of info for SharePoint developers. I am currently developing SharePoint apps for my client, and am looking at using it for my web site and the masonic web sites I created. If you see a major change in this site, it's because of SharePoint. As much as I like developing in ASP.NET, there are capabilities SharePoint provides that make web development easier.
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So, I finally bought a new desktop from Dell, I am on the bleeding edge for a little while once more. In transferring my old files from the laptop, I imported a lot of imbedded favorites for IE (Chris -> Old Bookmarks -> Chris -> Old Bookmarks -> etc.). I was able to delete most of them, found out that Vista does not make deleting bookmarks easy. Anyway, found this link of some VERY small web sites, they are worth a look: Nifty little Web sites (link expired) By Adam Gaffin Network World Fusion, 05/29/02 We're talking really little here: WildMag's 256b.htm Compo is a competition to build Web pages or resources in 256 bytes or less. guimp bills itself as the world's smallest Web site. Guaranteed eyestrain even on a 21-inch monitor, but fully functional games and even a Google searchbox all within a one-inch frame. (link expired) OK, TableArt isn't necessarily small, but it is different: An online art exhibit of the fun things you can do with HTML tables. (link expired) | | ItemID:
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I should do more with my blog than just quote other people's
brilliance, but some things must be repeated.
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 Just read a great column by
Jay Nordlinger in
National Review Online, comparing the rise during the
Cold War of "Soviet Studies" in American colleges and universities, purportedly to combat the threat of the Soviet Union. Trouble was, a lot of college professors were sympathetic to Communism and the Soviets, so we got a got of Soviet apologists for our trouble. Fast forward to today and the threat of
Islamofacism, where we really need experts on the Middle East and Islam, and the same problem emerges: Professors of Middle East studies would be very helpful right about now. But they are, unfortunately, among the worst of the lot: among the worst in the American professoriate. A range of departments, of course, is the province of radicals and ideologues, rather than genuine scholars. But departments of Middle East studies may take the cake. Here is the article:
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XM Radio has merged with Sirius, they have several band-specific channels, such as a Grateful Dead channel, a Led Zeppelin channel, a Jimmy Buffet channel (unfortunately, that one seems to play anything but Buffet right now), and a Springsteen channel. If you have an XM account, the streaming music is free, which is great for me at work. If you have Sirius, I understand they have streaming online as well. Who needs CDs, anymore? | | ItemID:
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Well, history has been made. America has elected it's first black President. Also, it's most hopelessly unqualified President, it's most socialist President, it's most under-investigated President. We see the results of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Over the next four years, America will learn about the pig in a poke they bought. I hope the nation will survive. Fortunately, my little blog is too small to be noticed, but watch what happens to talk radio and right-wing web sites under Obama's benevolent leadership. It won't be pretty. All hail the Fairness Doctrine!
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Seven years without another attack on American soil. Way to go, Mr. President.
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Despite what many on the left are saying isn't happening, Gov. Palin (the jury is still out on PAH-lin versus PAY-lin, I am pronouncing it as if Michael Palin of Monty Python fame were her older brother) has energized the Republican base. Speaking as a focus group of one, I was resigned to the idea of McCain as our nominee. I believe I expressed it to my coworkers as, "If it HAS to be a liberal, big-government democrat in the White House, it might as well be McCain". Governor Palin has changed all that. I must admit how shrewd McCain is to have chosen her, she is the ideal candidate to counter the Obamessiah's campaign. I think Mitt Romney might have been a better VP, but she has a better chance of helping win the election.
This is the most interesting presidential campaign I can remember. I have been more enthusiastic about other candidates (Reagan, both times) but I have never been more intrigued by the twists and turns of this election.
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Many of you know that my wife, Carri, was diagnosed with Multiple Schlerosis (MS) just over a year ago, after suffering for over ten years without knowing the cause. We are participating in the walk MS Event in Chesapeake, VA on Sunday, September 21st.
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John McCain picks the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his running mate - a conservative with more executive experience than McCain, Obama, and Biden put together!
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I need something to track cigars, I'm starting with this.
BOCK Y CA - CostCo - Very good cheap cigar. $37.50 for a box of 20, $2 a cigar. Excellent for the price. I believe these were Lonsdales, based on my recent trip to JR Cigars in North Carolina.
Private Stock #6 - Harsh, not much flavor, unsatisfying. $3.
Macanudo Duke of York - Okay, nice flavor, long smoke (45 minutes) but not as good as other Macanudos. Around $6. Larger ring than I am used to now, although most Churchill cigars are good. Would pick another Macanudo.
Churchills last about an hour, I like a cigar to last 30 - 45 minutes.
Excalibur III - Strong, flavorful, good pull, long lasting, heady smoke.
Ashton 8-9-8 - Mellow smoke, nice flavor, a bit mild for my taste.
UPDATE: I bought more BOCK Y CA cigars at JR's in North Carolina, excellent deal on bundles.
BOCK Y CA Robusto - The shortest of the three, bold, strong flavor, lasted 45 minutes, surprising for the size. Length 4.50, Ring 50, according to JR Cigars web site. A larger ring size than some others I smoked recently, a real nice cigar overall.
BOCK Y CA Corona - Slightly longer than the Robusto, haven't opened the bundle yet (My cigar box runneth over, I bought three bundles yesterday). Length 5.62, Ring 45. Looking forward to trying these as well. A decent smoke, good flavor. I think I prefer the Robusto of the three, but this is comparable.
BOCK Y CA Lonsdale - Pretty sure these were the ones from CostCo, but even cheaper at JR's. Length 6.5, Ring 44. A good mellow flavor, but still strong. All three of these rated medium strength by JR's. My least favorite of the three. I now think the box I bought at CostCo was Double Coronas, preferable to the Lonsdale. Further consumption tells me that the Lonsdales are a little weak, hard to draw. I don't think I would buy these again, but I have a lot of each to try, so they may grow on me. UPDATE 5/30/2014: See the "Cigars" tab on the site for the new info. | | ItemID:
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So, reading the What's New comics has taken me down memory lane, thinking of the classic Dragon magazine and the unreal comics that ran over the years. An image of Wormy the dragon was in one of the What's New comics, and it of course inspired me to look online for a Wormy Archive.
The Wikipedia Entry for David Trampier, the artist who penned Wormy, tells of the cryptic message in Dragon magazine:
In issue #136, in response to a reader letter, the Dragon editors wrote: "We regret to announce that 'Wormy' will no longer be appearing in DRAGON Magazine. We are looking into the possibility of adding another graphic series in the future."
It details the mystery of David Trampier's disappearance and the rumors of him driving a taxi in Illinois. A google search for Wormy finds several dead links, but the link below appears to have many of the comics faithfully preserved:
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(I got 47 out of a 100)
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This article by Bing West details how much the situation on the ground in Iraq has changed, and why it is critical not to draw down for the sake of drawing down, as the Obamessiah would have us do:
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I used to read Dragon magazine, back when I was in high school and played a lot of D&D. I was looking for a new online comic to read, and I thought of What's New with Phil & Dixie, which ran in the back of Dragon magazine for years. If you are into role-playing games, you will enjoy this strip.
It is also listed on the links to the right of the page, under "Comics".
UPDATE: They finally ran the Sex and D&D episode of What's New! For those new to the comic, they constantly teased having a "Sex and D&D" episode, here it is.
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 So, this project is now done. It was really hard getting the stones to sit level and not rock, I will probably have to adjust them after it rains. But, the porch is now ready to use! | | ItemID:
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This is the view from the top of the wooden porch.
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My helper is putting on his work boots to finish the job! After weeks of rain delays, three days of 70+ degree weather gives us time to wrap things up! | | ItemID:
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Another example of Surfendipity - I found The Degree Confluence Project. From their website: The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here. Some interesting pictures, if you ever wondered what things looked like in Mali or Vologodskaya. Most of the confluences in the United States have already been explored, of course. If you have a GPS and a strong urge to see XXX.000000' by YYY.000000', find the confluence nearest you! | | | ItemID:
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 My helper is back. I haven't taken many pictures of Isaac helping me, because this work is downright filthy, and I don't want to handle the video camera (doubles as digital camera) when I am working. Isaac did the cutest thing... I watched him step on the lip of his shovel to drive it into the ground, like he watched me do countless times. It is amazing how imitative he is.
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I had to realign the short retaining wall, kind of embarrassing that a Mason couldn't make a square... oh well...
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Finally levelled the extreme edge and layed sand, now have to see how hard it is to lay paving stones properly. I will be rained out for a week after this weekend, so work will be delayed again.
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I decided to have two or three steps at this end of the patio, to minimize the steep drop off from one corner of the patio to the other. I still have 16 feet by 8 feet for the main surface, which should be plenty.
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 Note that the extra dirt has been removed, and I am levelling the ground to start pouring sand and laying bricks. Finally!
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xkcd is a very funny comic.
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The grass transplanting to the corner of the yard that had a serious dip is now finished. I made the mistake of mowing a portion, didn't work well. I will have to weed whack for a while until the ground hardens. Most of the grass is still growing, thankfully.
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You can see the dirt in the middle, most of that is going under the deck until the project is finished. My levelling was right, but the overall angle of the wall needed adjusting.
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Had delays due to rain, the retaining wall is laid out and most of the grass has been 'scalped'. The effort now is to level this ground.
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This shot is at the foot of the porch, showing the overall scope of the deck. I still have a LOT of grass to cut out before I can level the dirt.
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Here I am getting a level reading from one point to another, to see how far down I have to dig the far corner. It turns out I start in the lowest corner and work my way uphill. | | ItemID:
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 I am building a patio in our backyard at the new house, here is one of my helpers sizing up the job before we get started.
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The Cartoon Bank, by the way, is a great source of cartoons from the New Yorker. The have a very robust search engine. I always read the New Yorker from back to front, just reading the cartoons, then flip front to back to read the occasional article. It's fun to read the liberal spin on how badly the economy is, how we have lost the war, how every soldier was trained at Abu Graib, etc., etc. Well, at least the cartoons make sense, usually.
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Vocabulary Game, and ten grains of rice are donated for every word you get right. You see a word with four definitions. Guess the right definition, and your bowl gets ten grains of rice. Every 100 grains and you get a little '100' to the side. OK, not exactly X-Box 360 level graphics, but those grains of rice are donated to a starving person somewhere by the sponsors on the page.
Update: They have a Vocabulary level that increases 1 point for every three correct words in a row, and decreases 1 point for each wrong word.
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here.
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This is to help my OWN memory. To add data from one table to the matching record in another table, use this SQL: UPDATE Groups SET Address = Lodges.Address,City = Lodges.City,Meetings = Lodges.MeetingDay + ' ' + MeetingTimeFrom LodgesWhere Lodges.Title = Groups.Title
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 Surfendipity - A term I coined where when looking for one thing on the Internet, I find some fascinating or interesting item I had not heard of before. My latest example of Surfendipity is
The Old Man of the Mountain, a granite formation in New Hampshire that collapsed in 2003. One of the more interesting points of the story is that a task force led by the former Governor, after shooting down the idea of a plastic replica to replace the rock formation, had coin-operated viewfinders installed near the site, that superimposed an image of the face BEFORE the collapse! I would heartily recommend
Wikipedia as a source for useless information. The power and
scope
of
the
Internet is only made possible by fans and devotees of trivia and facts only important to a small few. What greater tribute to an obscure television show than a fan spending hours of his spare time creating a web site? If only the
government and
big business had web sites, the Internet would be a very
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 By the way, Jay's column is an excellent source for skewering liberal double standards, tidbits about American culture, language items, and for reading about human rights abuses in Cuba, China and elsewhere. Hardly the sort of information you will find in the
Dinosaur Media. I heartily recommend him.
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Michael Ramirez at Investor's Business Daily does an awesome job skewering the left.
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I have been asked to create a web site for a research lodge I belong to,
Virginia Research No. 1777. I have had the priviledge of delivering a paper in this lodge, so I stand with (and are dwarved by) a distinguished list of masonic scholars who have done the same (spoken, that is, not created web sites). Seriously, Virginia Research Lodge has a proud tradition of masonic scholarship and research. One of our more famous brethren was
Allen E. Roberts. My goal over the next several months (years) is to bring as many papers as possible to the Internet, so our work can be shared with other Masons around the world. All the masonic related items I have on my site I am migrating over there, so that more people will see them. The web site is:
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map of countries that block Internet access to their citizens (Not 100% accurate but still interesting).
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Iraq. All I can say is, Ooh-Rah.
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article from the Onion, I swear. I guess you really can't write good parody anymore, the real world is too weird: A British woman has married a son of Osama bin Laden after a holiday romance and is to apply for a visa so that he can visit Britain, The Times has learnt. Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother and parish councillor from Cheshire, has until now kept her marriage to Omar Ossama bin Laden, 27, secret from everyone apart from her immediate family and close friends. But she has now agreed to speak about her relationship with bin Laden's fourth eldest son. "It would be nice if, like any other married woman, I could stand up and say this is my husband and this is his name, but I have to be realistic about things," she told The Times. "I hope people don't judge me too harshly. I married the son, not the father." Mrs Felix-Browne says she is aware that some people will be hostile to her marriage. Among the numerous terrorist plots linked to her new father-in-law are the London suicide bombings on July 7, 2005, the July 21 plot, and the recent attempted attacks in London and Glasgow. "I just married the man I met and fell in love with - to me he is just Omar," she said. "I hope that people will take a step back and think what it was like when they fell in love. He is the most beautiful person I have ever met. His heart is pure, he is pious, quiet, a true gentleman, and he is my best friend." Mrs Felix-Browne, who has been married five times previously, met Mr bin Laden in Egypt in September while undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis. She says that their fairytale romance began when her future husband saw her riding a horse near the Great Pyramid. They were married in Islamic ceremonies in Egypt ... Mrs Felix-Browne was initially reluctant to discuss her new husband but news of their relationship inevitably began to leak out in Britain and the Middle East. "I don't want any of my family distressed or upset by my actions," she said. "I know that for everybody who likes me there will probably be a million enemies." Now she hopes that Mr bin Laden will come to Britain. "He would like to spend quite a bit of time here," she said. "There is no reason why he should not come to live, but I don't think he would like the weather." Mrs Felix-Browne said that the couple hoped to use their position to help to heal the wounds caused by her father-in-law. "All we want is peace in this world and I will do all I can to promote it." | | ItemID:
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here, but also referenced
here. The owner of the plate has a
journal that shows the plate and other links. Apparently, the
wikipedia entry that explains who Cthulhu is (a character originated by
H. P. Lovecraft) had an entry about this vanity plate, but it has since been removed. I really like the blood-stained hands, although they are SUPPOSED to be paint... hmmm.... UPDATE: Just realized the plates expired in 2005... but story is just making the rounds now... | | ItemID:
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Yesterday was only my second Father's Day, Isaac is not big enough to tell me himself (maybe he did, in his own da.. da.. da.. language, I don't know). Still, it was a wonderful sunny day, we all enjoyed spending it as a family.
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OxyClinton! Courtesy of "Dr" Laura Ingraham, on the rarely-funny Fox Half Hour News Hour. Maybe they should just do 30 minutes of commercials, like this one?
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Crosstalk. The most recent article I finished was by Crilly Butler about the ten lessons he learned from building a
data warehousing project for the California Department of Fish and Game. Well worth the read if you are a developer or program manager. Some of it is a no-brainer, but he gives good examples of what they found in the course of their project.
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The Wire, on HBO, has a character named Tommy Carcetti, a Baltimore City Councilman (on the left). Driving in and around Laurel, MD, I kept seeing election posters for a Maryland State Senator,
John A. Giannetti, Jr. (on the right). I thought the similarity in appearance was rather striking (The Senator's poster looks even more like the actor). One Maryland Democrat politician for real, one Maryland Democrat politician on TV. Kind of a weird coincidence, I thought. | | ItemID:
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Steve Irwin, the
Crocodile Hunter, was
killed by a stingray off the Barrier Reef, according to Fox News. I am not overly surprised (I figured a croc would get him at some point), but he does leave behind a wife and two small children. Steve was one of the most colorful characters on television, with his willingness to do incredibly dangerous things around wild animals ("I'll just stick my head in this hole to see if there's a cobra inside..."). | | ItemID:
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web page this morning, while looking for a definition for pace. Pace means in spite of or indifference to, as in "Pace critics, President Bush continues to prosecute the War on Terror aggressively". Oh, and it is pronounced (pa - shay), not pace as in "walking at a brisk pace", which obviously was the wrong definition. It is an interesting page I mention, it defines "ad hoc" and a number of other terms that I hear people use frequently, and not always correctly. I created a new link category to the right, and called it "Language", with this as the first link. As I find other useful pages like this I will add them. Oh, and if you are looking for a definition on the web, your first two stops might be www.google.com and type in "define:pace" (substitute your word) and you will see links to web pages that define that word, or
www.dictionary.com, which also provides pronounciation guides along with definitions.
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Tabernacle United Methodist Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Carri and I are both so happy that so many of Isaac's family could be there. We have only lived in Maryland for a short time, and wanted his baptism to be held where family and friends could attend. There are many more pictures of Isaac's Baptism or use the menu to the right.
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It never fails to amaze (and amuse) me, how the whining left are just... plain... wrong. According to the
Drudge Report, Barbra Streisand recently posted a
blog entry about "that C student" George Bush, with ELEVEN spelling mistakes! Never mind that George Bush attended Harvard and Yale, and got a higher GPA than John Kerry, Babs herself never attended college. One would think that before attacking someone for being a C student, they would run... um, a spell check? Oh, and Babs also blames
the typist for the mistake. I find it hard to believe that someone who puts words on the page for a living wouldn't use a spell-checker. For the record, I wrote this blog engine myself, it has no spell-checker, and I proof my own words after posting them. And I can't imagine having 11 mispelled words in one post, even though I am a one-man operation. People who live in very expensive glass houses, shouldn't post stones... | | ItemID:
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I don't think I will watch ER again. Over the past several years, my favorite show on NBC (actually, probably the only network show left for me except Law & Order) has used every possible excuse to slam President Bush or the war in Iraq. The last one was when James Woods, in a guaranteed Emmy performance because he attacked Bush, said in a flashback to 2002 words to the effect of, "Hope? Didn't you hear? Bush just cut off funding for stem cell research!". His character obviously was hoping stem cell research would help cure his debilitating disease. Obviously, neither Mr. Woods nor the writers on the show bothered to look at the facts, which is that President Bush was the first president to START funding stem cell research, he just put some restrictions on it. And not to go too far down this line, but since when did limiting (or even stopping) the spending of federal dollars on something become the equivalent of banning it? I heard the same crap about the NEA, when Aerosmith and other burnouts bitched and moaned that if the government wouldn't PAY for obscenity, that meant that it was now against the law. Anyway, to get back on point, Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) makes a return to ER, where he is now in Darfur. I agree, the tragedy there is horrendous, but the blame for Darfur lies at the feet of the U.N. (remember John Kerry saying we should consult the U.N. before doing anything, anywhere?) The black doctor on the scene is telling Carter "Darfur, Somalia, New Orleans... if there are black faces suffering, the help does not come" or is slow to come, or some crap like that. Give me a break. I cannot BELIEVE that the writers of ER, who are so angry that Bush was reelected, who kept inserting political commentary into a show that was SO apolitical for so many years, and now every time I turn around, there is a character who had NEVER uttered anything remotely political is spewing something negative about Bush! Now, I love politics. I love Talk Radio, I love to watch the commentators on Fox News, I love to hear both sides going back and forth. However, when I am watching a television show like ER, I do NOT expect to hear people making political speeches! On Law & Order, even though the writers are pretty liberal, they do make an effort to keep it balanced. Arthur Branch makes me nod my head in agreement to almost everything he says, and not surprisingly, it is always a measured, thought out response; in contrast with the usual emotional outburst of the former lesbian or Jack McCoy. But it is always in context with the show! If the episode involves a political point, we hear both sides of the argument! On ER, just like Six Feet Under for it's final two years, we are just moving along, happily following a story, and someone pipes up with "Yeah, just like Bush lied to get us into the war!" I mean, get serious, ER writers! You are supposed to be gifted, intelligent, artistic people who weave many elements into a believable story. There are several shows over the years that I feel I know the characters better than people in my own family. They are real, their situations are real. Dramatic TV is, in essense, escapism; and I want to drift along with the story, not reminded of the blatent political bent of 90% of the people in Hollywood! If you can't win the elections, keep your stinkin' political opinions out of our favorite shows, or we will STOP WATCHING THEM! | | ItemID:
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Judge Alito is a far superior pick, both in his clear conservative record and his overall qualifications. I stated in this blog during the John Roberts hearings that if the president nominated an UNQUALIFIED candidate (which Roberts clearly was not) that his own party was responsible for rejected the nominee, which thankfully we did. Conspiracy theorist that I am, I think this whole thing was a Karl Rove judo move, to give the President cover for not nominating a woman - twice - to fill Justice O'Connor's seat. By the way, I was a little surprised when I first heard this nomination, for a second I thought he had nominated
this guy.
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United States Marine Corps. Happy Birthday to me, and all other Marines. We serve in every clime and place, and the boys in green today are under a lot more fire than I ever was, that's for sure. May God look out for you, fellow Jarheads. Semper Fi.
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It's hard to believe, but I just came from the hospital yesterday and found out I have
Bell's Palsy. I noticed a metallic taste in my mouth Monday, and what felt like an earache behind my right ear. Thursday night, I was trying to wash the taste out and noticed my face looked funny. The entire right side of my face was not moving. I didn't feel numb, I could move my cheek with my hand, but I couldn't make my face muscles work on that side.
I had decided, before Thursday night, that I would go to a doctor over the weekend to look at my earache. Naturally, Carri and I thought I couldn't wait till the weekend, so I took Friday off and went to the emergency room. I wish I had a local doctor, but we haven't found one near our new home.
So, what is Bell's Palsy? The web site I listed above describes it as "a condition that causes the facial muscles to weaken or become paralyzed. It's caused by trauma to the 7th cranial nerve, and is not permanent." This was encouraging to hear from the doctor, that the paralysis only lasts a few days. They prescribed Prednisone and Famvir, so I plan to just stay home for a few days and rest. Apparently, the exact cause is not known, but it is thought to be viral in nature. I have never had anything like this happen before, I am general pretty healthy. With luck, the symptoms will clear up quickly and I won't have any reoccurences. | | ItemID:
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UPDATE: We didn't find out then, but now we know: IT'S A BOY!!!
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Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. We are only a few blocks from the beach, and it is a much nicer drive to work. Also, I really enjoy my new job, I get to do more ASP.NET based stuff.I have intentionally avoided talking about the trials and tribulations of my job search, since potential employers could see my web site and might think I was desperate and/or whining. Anyway, all that is past, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I have all of my household effects around me once more. Living out of a suitcase for several months was no fun, let me tell you. | | ItemID:
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Ocean View Lodge #335. For those who are already familiar with my site, the Freemasonry link (NO LONGER ACTIVE) in the menu bar brings up a slew of links about Freemasonry in Virginia. Please take a look at the new site, it does have some nifty effects I am only able to do with ASP.NET. I have built it so we can easily add new information as things change. Too many of the web sites I see for small organizations are rolled by hand, meaning when something changes, a web designer has to go in and rewrite an entire page. This site was designed to allow someone who is NOT a web designer to make changes over the Internet, which is really pretty cool when you think about it.
UPDATE: The site has changed several times since this was posted, you can now see all external sites under "Links" on the menu. | | ItemID:
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the duck says things better than I ever could. I pity those poor people without cable, who only get the story on Iraq (and everything else) from the mainstream media. Viva
Fox News!
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Fox & Friends this morning about Cindy Sheehan. The lefty guy, I forget his name, but I thought he was a writer for NewsDay, lately he's just been a left-wing schill; he kept bringing up the poll where 61% of Americans want to pull out of Iraq, and equated that view with what Cindy Sheehan has been saying. Of the many opinions floating around about the Iraq war, I would imagine the vast majority of Americans fall in one of these camps: 1) The war is not going well, we've done all we can, now we should cut our losses and get out. Nation building is not what we came here for. 2) The war IS going well, but we need to look at pulling back some and seeing if the Iraqis can handle things. 3) We need to stay until the Iraqis can handle things by themselves. 4) We need to stay there, keeping the terrorists focused in one place (the flypaper theory), fighting side by side with the Iraqis, even if it takes ten years or more. Now, a good percentage of Americans may agree with point one, which seems to be the path of least resistance. Point two is probably where Sec. Rumsfeld is leaning, with some of the comments he's made of late. This is a bit risky and may require us to come back in a few years from now. Point three or four is where the President is. I personally think four is the best option, since it keeps most of the terrorists in one place, instead of here on our shores. Note I said MOST. In all of the above points, points one and two might represent a majority of American opinion. However, ALL of the previous points accept the premise that there was a valid reason to go to war in the first place, what with Saddam's tyranny, the threat (still not resolved) of WMDs, etc. The nonsense being fed to Cindy Sheehan does not reflect the majority opinion of this country, not by a long shot. Ms. Sheehan is parroting the usual leftist clap-trap, this was a war for oil, Bush started the war so Halliburton could make money, if Israel (Israel!) would pull out of Palestine there would be no more terrorism, etc., etc. Everything she has said of late can be found on the most fever-brained leftwing web sites. She is no longer just a grieving mother looking for answers, she has swallowed whole the answers given to her by nutjobs on the left. For the umpteenth time, people, this was NOT a war for oil. Bush did not just declare war on his own, the House and Senate signed a bill allowing him to go to war. If this was a war for oil, wouldn't gas prices have come down some? Hmmm? President Bush gave clear reasons for going to war (I have tried to find a short list somewhere to reprint here), and the only reason the MSM will talk about is WMDs, since that's the only reason that hasn't been resolved. I guess my main point here is, while a majority of Americans may (I said MAY) be in favor of pulling out and declaring victory, that is a far cry from Cindy Sheehan saying we only went to war so King George can help his oil buddies. | | ItemID:
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Matthew Brooks at the Republican Jewish Coalition website (wait... Jews... Republicans... I thought Pat Robertson spoke for the entire GOP? I can't keep up).Anyway, since Ms. Sheehan seems to speak for the anti-war movement, and by extension the Democratic Party, does the entire Democratic Party think the Iraq war is (a) a war for oil and/or (b) an evil plot run by our Zionist masters? Mr. Brooks spells it out better than I do here. | | ItemID:
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this video, where some college kid with a LOT of time on his hands is plinking one quarter after another into a shot glass; and said, OK, mildly interesting. But, when he starts sinking shots across the room, it gets most impressive.
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Miles Davis was born on May 26th, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. He was a remarkable and innovative trumpet player, composer, and band leader, and my favorite jazz musician.
XM Radio is hosting their third annual "24 Miles" event - 24 hours of Miles Davis music on Real Jazz, XM 70. Miles passed away September 28th, 1991, long before I personally came to appreciate Jazz - but I STILL knew who he was, even back then. Rest in peace, Miles, while we enjoy your music.
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Star Wars Saga,
Revenge of the Sith, premieres this week. Unfortunately, some people have decided that it is a tale about George Bush and the Iraq war, and George Lucas has made remarks at Cannes that support this crazy idea. Another blogger has put it much more succintly than I, in
An open letter to George Lucas. The point that galls me about liberals is that they constantly accuse George Bush of being a dictator, and leading this country into a theocracy, when nothing could be further from the truth. Ponder this: If these same people has made the same comments, in Iraq, about Saddam Hussein when he was in power, would they still be free today? Could they make similar comments in the old Soviet Union about the Communist Party? Could any of these liberals fly down to Cuba, "the worker's paradise", and denounce Fidel Castro, and not be thrown in jail along with everyone else? How about in North Korea? What is it about liberals that they can never see REAL dictatorships to condemn them, yet they insist that George Bush and John Ashcroft (who resigned after his term, by the way) have used the Patriot Act to stifle all dissent here in America? Why are Natalie Maines and Micheal Moore not in prison right now? I thought the Patriot Act allowed John Ashcroft to take away all our rights?
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Corner:
(The following is for the M-1; From Appendix A of the Marine Corps Drill and Ceremonies Manual, available
here. Thanks to a helpful reader for this.)
WOW! National Review now mentions me (OK, not by name) as a 'helpful reader'! I guess I will now get twice as much mail from the
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Salvador Dali Museum in
St. Petersburg. It was a remarkable experience. I purchased a few prints to have at home, I had no idea of the scope of Dali's work. His later paintings, such as The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and The Hallucinogenic Toreador, were commissioned for the museum and are fourteen feet high! A remarkable exhibit for a remarkable artist. I would recommend the museum to anyone visiting Central Florida. | | ItemID:
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is long overdue. Here is a quote from a
briefing in 2001, that should give some insight (he was
Vice Chairman at the time, I don't think he served as Commandant): Q: On tunnels and caves, does the United States have the kind of embedded capability that it developed during World War II, during Vietnam, to specialize in going into tunnels, caves, analyzing it, fighting in it? Do we have that special -- (inaudible) -- any more in the ranks?
Pace: Our specialized approach to caves and tunnels is to put 500-pound bombs in the entrance.
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www.wheresgeorge.com, a quirkly little web site with one goal: to track the movement of bills (any denomination, but mostly ones and fives) as they move around the country. Most bills have a red stamp on them. It can be fun, if you get a bill that someone else bothers to enter when they get it, most of mine don't go far. But it is a clever idea, and another useless use for this Internet thing. | | ItemID:
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Phenomenon with John Travolta. A very, very good movie, in my opinion. Is it sci-fi? Watered-down sci-fi? Reminds me of the kind of sci-fi I read as a child, like Ray Bradbury, where extraordinary things happened to ordinary people (and children). This is a good definition of the plot of Phenomenon, where George Malley -- I keep wanting to add the Irish O' to his name when I say it, obviously stripped out at Ellis Island, but I digress -- is an ordinary, slightly slow, auto mechanic in a sleepy California town (not a midwest town, as some reviews say) who witnesses a bright light in the evening sky on his birthday, and quickly develops telekinesis and the insatiable urge to read 4-5 books a day, as well as not needing sleep.
The premise of a person having "greatness thrust upon them" makes for an interesting story, but the more I think about it, the more plot holes emerge. I had a discussion with a coworker about what qualifies as science fiction, he had a more narrow definition than I did. I think I was arguing that
Solaris was not sci-fi, it was an unintelligible mush of a romance/ghost story that happened to take place on a space station (and elsewhere - or not - maybe - who knows?) and was probably a bigger disappointment than any other movie I had seen recently. I can appreciate a sci-fi movie that sucks, if it at least has decent special effects or an entertaining idea. Phenomenon, for example, does not stand up well for its dropped plot lines and too abrupt ending, but the basic idea was cool enough to save it, in my opinion. Solaris, on the other hand, had a cool-looking backdrop and that's it. I suppose the intellectuals would chastise me, along the lines of "if you don't get it, I can't explain it", but it doesn't change the fact that the movie left TOO much to the viewer. I was halfway through it before I figured out what Solaris WAS - the planet/star/nebula/big bright thing (cool effects, though). The beginning of the movie makes you think Solaris was the station. It's almost like the first half-hour of the movie was dropped, and the viewer is expected to know all this without being told. Anyway, Solaris sucks, and doesn't qualify as science fiction. The argument I made was that I would sit through some bad sci-fi to encourage Hollywood to make MORE sci-fi, in the hopes that better sci-fi would emerge. Face it, Hollywood has accepted the premise that Cop dramas sell, so there are a lot of them to choose from. Some good (NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues), and some bad (the replacement for NYPD Blue with Shep as a blind cop - I SWORE that was an SNL parody when I saw the preview!!!), and some just eh. But, you can pick and choose the cop drama you like. If sci-fi can get to the level of being a standard drama or comedy theme, networks other than the Sci-Fi channel will carry them! There will be good, and bad, and eh, but I will have more to choose from. Anyway, I ramble too long on this post, time to submit it. | | ItemID:
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timewaster. It involves catching flies with chopsticks. Yes, someone has EVEN MORE free time than me... | | ItemID:
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Day By Day and the author is Chris Muir.
One nice feature about his site is that you can read the entire archive, unlike Dilbert where you can only go back a month. | | ItemID:
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This blog entry is a little late, but I wanted to make sure I included it when I got my blog up and running. This image here sums up the Anti-War, Anti-Bush crowd perfectly. It makes my stomach churn to think that there are people in the U.S., the country with the greatest freedom in the world, who are so twisted that in THEIR minds, the U.S. Military is no better than the military of any dictatorship in history; where the troops are mere conscripts and the officers are hand-picked by the dictator to enforce his will. It might suprise these so-called Americans that both the officers AND enlisted of the U.S. Military are the most dedicated, best trained, most patriotic human beings you are likely to find anywhere in the world. U.S. troops and officers would not idly stand by, much less participate in, the genocide we know took place in Saddam's Iraq. The same regime, by the way, that these same people saw no reason to remove from power. I could go on, but I think you get the point. Credit to
FrontPage Magazine, one of the few places on the web I found this picture. Let no one forget the mind-set of the Anti-War, Anti-Bush left.
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Well, here is my first test from the web. It has been fun playing with this, let's see how this works. I am not sure how this blog is going to develop. The neat thing is, I wrote it myself in under an hour. I'm sure you can download some free version, but it is far more interesting to build it myself.
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