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“It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life . . .”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“. . . popularity may be united with hostility to the rights of the people, and the secret slave of tyranny may be the professed lover of freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

We all have on occasion cleaned the smudges and finger prints from our monitors and it helps a lot. But eventually the inside gets dirty, too, and most people don’t know how to properly clean the inside of the screen. So being the tech that I am when I found an online tool to properly […]

Bye-bye Global Warming. Hello Global Cooling. Haven’t we been here before? Say… one solar cycle ago?

“The goal of the ‘liberals’ —as it emerges from the record of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction […]

I don’t spend much time listening to music whether corporate or independents but every now and then I’ll find something I like and River County happens to be one of them. I especially like the song We’re All Here (Because we ain’t all there) but enjoyed the all 3 of the selections on their […]

It appears to be a bit older, probably done sometime around the last elections but Hillary Can’t Wait ’til 2008 is not only funny but successfully captures a dozen or more humorous points from the political world. I especially like Nancy Regan at the end…

The video of Navy missile hitting the satellite is a must see. I don’t really care if it was a weapons test, an effort to protect secrets on the bird or to keep 2500 pounds of scrap from wiping out a village in Africa. The SM3 did its job so all 3 may well have […]

If you’re a Linux user who like Photoshop you’re pretty much stuck having to pay the Microsoft Tax just to run it. Over the last several years I’ve largely converted to using GIMP for most tasks and only occasionally switching to a Windows VM for Photoshop. Adobe has said for many years they’ll not […]

Have you heard any of the few nuggets of policy plans from Obama and thought they sounded vaguely if not outright Marxist? Now we know why… his mentor was Frank Marshall Davis and abashedly of the Communist Party USA…

I’m hitting close to 2 years with my Palm Treo 700W so no surprise when it finally came apart this past weekend. Thankfully we keep insurance on all our phones (company plan) so by Tuesday I had a spanking new one in my hands and all my data sync’d back up.
One of the reasons […]

If there is a poster boy for controlling illegal immigration This guy has to be it. He is only 22 years old but has been arrested 15 times now for various illegal activities (other than illegally crossing the border of a sovereign nation) including smuggling others across the border.

I can understand why some Republicans hear McCain’s tough talk on Iraq and vote for him. His attitudes in this issue even appeal to me. I cannot begin to express how important it is that we not abandon the people of Iraq as we did in under Bush 42.
Still, it is […]

While Detroit may be leading the country in foreclosures they’re also leading the country in sales as well. Some may ridicule the bargain hunter view of the “housing bubble burst” but it appears buyers in Detroit are taking that view quite seriously. People forget that such markets while feeling short term pain are largely self […]

“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”
Samuel Adams

“Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.”
Translation: A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer’s hands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca “The Younger” , circa 45 AD

Pull your tin foil hats tight and take a look at some cool big brother technology.

I guess if there were any doubt as to Obama’s communist platfor then a Che Guevara flag in one of this offices might lessen it a bit. Of course if all you know of Che is what you learned watching the propaganda film “Motorcycle Diaries” you may not know that Che was Castro’s chief […]

Setting aside the roll call of conservative issues John McCain has voted against during his term in office one sure fire way to have conservatives simply stay home in November would be for him to have taken money from left wing nut jobs like, oh say George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry. Oops…
Sadly running […]

If you’re buying candy for your significant other you might want to check out this story about stores selling Valentine’s candy from 2007 or even before. Now I’ve eaten stale chocolate and the only thing worse than stale chocolate is no chocolate. But when they unwrapped a Big Kiss and it had worms in […]

Doesn’t it just figure that the literal day after my Brother and his wife invest in BlackBerrys they have a Nation wide service sut in North America. So you 12 million doing without today now know who to blame..

It superficially appears that Yahoo hasn’t totally lost their senses but then they could simply be fishing for MS to up the bid.
And not that most of you care but the amount that Microsoft bid is about what adding all the AARP members who aren’t paying income taxes to the Federal “Stimulus” packages […]

I don’t think that Nancy Pelosi’s announcing Iraq and the ‘Surge’ a ‘failure’ was properly coordinated. Either that or Al-Qaeda’s PR department didn’t get the memo….

An interesting op-ed in the Investors Business Daily The Sun Also Sets discusses studies of the sun.
“Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again,” Patterson says. “If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad […]

For those who don’t know Zimbra is a web based email / calendaring client one of the primary alternatives to Microsoft’s Exchange. But in light of Microsoft courting Yahoo! there are some questions as to what will happen to the project which is owned by Yahoo!.
If Microsoft were smart they would latch onto […]