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This years Gun Rights Policy Conference is close enough to home I’d love to actually attend. A lot can happen in 4 months so I’m not going to make reservations yet but it’s on my radar.

Hmm.. I wonder if Simpler Times Village needs a technologist?

I am one of the lucky few who mostly loves what I do for a living. Even so I simply cannot imagine how much these guys love going to work every day. Talk about a great way to work through life….

The most conservative of the Republican moderates, Fred Thompson, has passed Rudy in the most recent Rasmussen poll report. Granted it’s within the margin of error, but then Thompson hasn’t even announced…

If you need a refresher on why public education is failing take a moment and read an example of Contra Costa’s lost computers from 15 years ago. They lost the computers and the paperwork, renegotiated with IBM to pay in ‘08 and now that the time to start paying has come they’re begging for […]

I was rooting for Elton John’s The Bitch is Back but a sappy Celine Dione song won. Yawn.

When the Democrat majority leader is carrying the football for Bush’s Immigration bill it should set off alarm bells in every Republican in America. This makes for 2 pieces of obnoxious legislation (the other mentioned in the previous post) that have been carried forward by rules tricks that would have gotten a Republican lynched in […]

In the legislative background noise over the immigration bills the New Federal Gun Control (HR 2640) is quietly moving from the House to the Senate. This bill moved through the House due to some Democrat slight of hand as the bill went from dead to being quietly passed by a voice vote in 3 hours. […]

I don’t often link to software but considering the dearth of such software i figured I should point ou the Giveaway of the Day, Total Network Inventory. I haven’t installed my copy yet but I certainly dropped a copy on my desktop for further investigation.

Declining Air Traffic Hints at Slowing Economy?
Please… treat all your customers like criminals in a sealed tin with oil and capers then have them arrested on felony charges if they so much as dare to disagree with one of your customer is always a violent terrorist mentality employees then wonder why your business is […]

We ran into a weird issue when we replaced GAIM on our terminal servers with Pidgin. All the text was white. Turned out that GTK 2.10 in the Windows Pidgin package does not support 8 bit displays (256 colors) on a terminal server. So my resident guru Eddie figured out a work around […]

Could it actually be that the placid Canadian neighbors are actually catching on?
Blaming everyone but the culprits — violent youth gangs waging turf wars — the promoters of failed social policies are demanding more of the same. They want more regulations for the law-abiding, more molly-coddling for the lawless and more America-bashing for everyone.

You may have heard schools referred to as criminal safe zones? It looks like Home Depots are shoplifter safe zones.

Its a quick read on the lack of a global warming consensus among scientists; They call this a consensus?
in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; […]

Why does it worry me that Key Bush backers are rallying to Fred Thompson including Mary Matalin? My tin foil hat must not be on tight enough… And as much as I like Fred Thompson there are still some rather prominent problems in statements he’s made over the years.
But […]

While you’re enjoying your mystery country of origin Wal-Mart fishsticks take a moment to read WorldNetDaily: Seafood imports from China raised in untreated sewage.

Maybe I’m in a foul mood today but that as it may be I’m sick of buying non-existent vendor support. My vendor for phone software is proving they don’t know how to earn the $6k in support subscriptions I pay for annually. In the past 2 months I’ve now opened 4 incidents with my […]

All you “man caused global warming” people who wonder why we laugh at your scientific evidence only have to look at who passes as “scientists” a little more closely to see why we’re not convinced. Bon voyage.

Want to know why western culture will lose the war against the islamic jihad? Because our delicate sensitivities cannot handle a battlefield of children. In a sense we’ve been here before. During Vietnam; a child sent running toward GIs with a live grenade - the GIs are then in an impossible position […]

Check it, if it was made in China it contains diethylene glycol (anti-freeze) which is toxic and will damage the liver so throw it away. I’d ask when we’ll learn from such things but I already know the answer is ‘never’.

I just spoke with a source who informed me that the small Munci pizza chain Greeks is acquiring an independant pizzaria in Greencastle, close to campus, to become a Greeks! To each his own, of course, but I think Greeks is one of the best pizzas around. Now I wonder which one since […]