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Jeff has made a few software recommendations and while they include the fun google stuff like the caledar and spreadsheets (which I use and love, btw) he mentioned a piece called WorkRave that I’d not heard of.
Now I’ve seen this type of application crudely built for time billing (think lawyers) but never from […]

While researching the various itcy plants over the weekend I found a great achademic article on Poison Oak that more than scratches the surface.

I went home last Thursday and told the missus to not eat her just picked up spinach chicken salad from Subway. At the time she was not very happy with me but I’d heard about the e.coli problem on the radio driving home and figured better safe than sorry until they shake out the problem. […]

As I have occasionally mentioned, I’ve spent a few hours this past year looking casually at bikes and dragging myself back from the brink of actually spending money. As the summer winds down my thoughts have returned to bikes so yesterday I trotted to a local dealership I frequented “back in the day”.

I […]

Part of my day off today was spent at a local bike shop. Not much there in the way of cruisers suitable for the missus and me but an ugly duckling in the corner absolutely caught my eye, a BMW R1100R. It was in excellent condition, doubly so since the odometer showed 61k miles […]

I didn’t really think it was a lesson that had to be learned the hard way but I guess it wasn’t that obvious to the guy who brought a sword to a gunfight. Some people just have to learn the hard way, I guess.

I can’t help but wonder at the mindset of this war when such stupid policies prevent us from killing the enemy. The problem is the battle between those that see terror as a police matter and those who see it as a real war effort. In a police effort we have rules against […]

As if it were surprising good ol’ gal Rosie O’ puts her foot in it by saying that radical Christians pose as much a threat as Islamofascists. Even one of her own co-hosts points out that Christians aren’t bombing public places in America but that didn’t disuade her because we’re “bombing innocents in other […]

So the guy knows his daughter was one of those referenced by a political Ad yet the daugher’s name is never mentioned in the ad itself? According to the apparently partisan article the ad says:
“Just last year in another case, an inmate convicted of robbery walked away from Ellsworth’s safe house and murdered three […]

That’s what I paid yesterday and it looks like even that will fall further. As a matter of fact prices across the country are falling pretty dramatically.
I wonder if BP has another pipeline they can shut down for repairs…

As Religious leaders urge Muslims to distance faith from terrorism I cannot help but think, sure, “moderate Islam” can do what most “moderate Christianity” has done:
Rewrite their holy book and remove what they don’t like.
The march of Islam has continued, utilizing terror tactics, for centuries and will not stop until every nation is […]

Hot Air has CNN video from the morning of 9/11/2001. Fox News coverage can be found by going to their website, click Video at the top right, then in the Video window select “9-11 Remembered” in the lower left. There are a number of clips well worth your time.

The hurricane season, this year, has been little more than a few tropical storms that the “if it bleeds, it leads” media all but willed ashore. It was quite amusing to hear the news keep referring to these storms as “hurricane strength” when, if that were the case, they’d be classed as hurricanes. But they […]

And…. wait for it… in the UK. One more check off for the remnent that don’t yet believe the Brits have lost their blooming minds.

Mandriva 2007 RC1 has been released. Still my personal favorite distribution….

If you do nothing else to remember 9/11/2001 listen to Islam: Satan’s Masterpiece?.

“Rome fell September 4, 476AD. It was overrun with illegal immigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards, Jutes and Vandals, who at first assimilated and worked as servants, but then came so fast they did not learn the Latin Language or the Roman form of government. Highly trained Roman Legions moving rapidly on their […]

“All those critics who say we should change our foreign policies because we are causing the Islamists to attack us are—whether they use the term or not—arguing to appease aggressors by changing ourselves in conformity with the aggressor’s desires. The politically correct crowd who say we should change the way we talk, think and behave, […]

“Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our […]

I heard it this morning on the radio, the city council told the Indianapolis Library they should rework their budget in light of an unexpected 3% increase in available cash. Since when is how much you spend to do a job predicated by how much money you have available? Anyway, I could rant about […]

Anyone reading here long knows I’m not a fan of Indiana’s senior Senator largely because I think he’s a RINO and a stooge of the CFR, Tri-lat’s and the US State Department. It doesn’t help the Senator any that he is quite obviously in step with the State Department and uses his Senate Foreign […]

Interesting that a recent study shows no surge of Hispanic voters which means either all the Hispanics are ok with the current political scene (and not voting)… or they’re not citizens and cannot vote. I think I’ll have to flip a coin on this one….. but I do know that my Mexican-American […]

Great quote from a PatriotPost.us reader:
“I could not disagree more with your label of ‘Islamic fascists.’ It may be politically correct to blame ‘Islamic fascists,’ but there is no such thing. The problem is Islam itself. These terrorists are merely Muslims who take the Koran seriously.” —Fort Mill, South Carolina
A interesting point. […]

We could end up having all firearms classified as “machine guns” even if they cannot fire a single round because of the ATF changing its mind on things already classified and ruled on. What that means is if you were to get a letter from them saying that it’s OK to build something a certain […]

Just a thought… but if the courts have deemed it illegal to charge a poll tax which could deny people their Constitutional rights.. why is it then OK to charge a citizen to live by his Second Amendment rights? Is it not simply a type of poll tax?
Remember that the poll taxes were originally […]