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It looks like Microsoft may actually be serious in their endeavors to become more than a niche player in the event management field with the Operations Manager product line. Event management that only works with one platform is immediately handicapped and restricted to small to mid sized companies. But when you add cross platform extensions […]

I can only laugh at the latest explanation of the missing Whitehouse Emails, they migrated from Lotus to Exchange and Exchange does not have a defacto archiving system. First thing I want to point out is that such a lapse is due to very poor product capabilities evaluation or poor communication of requirements. I […]

After some decades I finally found something on which I can agree with the New York Times (second question)….

Microsoft has released a USB thumb drive device that allows police to completely unlock a “suspects” Windows based computer system. And it will only be used for legitimate purposes… I suppose we should be grateful there isn’t a little pi symbol in the corner of our screens eh? But then why be so obvious when […]

I have a mystery on my hands. When I got home last night there was a box on my desk from a company I’d never heard of and didn’t order anything from. Initially I thought it might be some promotional item (Dell is always sending me stuff like mobile mice and blue tooth headsets). But […]

Though Stahl gets her opinion in her interview of Justice Scalia reminds me how much respect I have for him.
“When I first came on the court I thought I would for sure get off as soon as I could which would have been when I turned 65. Because you know, justices retire at full […]

I was readingRush’s comments on “farming out” and it occurred to me that while the Democrats bash the Republicans for outsourcing government jobs through “privatizing” the Democrats are guilty of outsourcing government authority and accountability to the globalists and United Nations.
Now some of you may not see that as a bad thing, but a […]

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
—John Adams

Hm, now this is interesting, a FOXNews.com - scientist says Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age
“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. “If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to […]

I saw a writeup on this last week, the potential billions of gallons of oil in the Bakkan region of North America but waited to see if the mainstream picked it up.. which they did not. So while we drive the cost of food up and starve out 3rd world populations and drive inflation […]

If you wonder why kids today are stupid, why they cannot comprehend the American Dream, it is because their history professors don’t know history themselves. Or, knowing it don’t like it and want it rewritten in their own ideal. The saying goes that the victor writes the history which is as it should be. […]

I guess it is natural that with the fall of real estate prices in the United States, and the advent of Real Estate Tourism (Europeans taking bus tours looking for real estate bargains in the US) that other markets should follow to keep pace with competitive pressures from the United States. Interesting to note that […]

It appears President Bush is ready to back McCain-Liberman “Kyoto lite”… now that the Earth is heading into a cooling trend we “must act now”. And you idiots think Bush is a “radical right-wing conservative”? You’re all nuts…
This is the kind of liberal insantity coming from McCain, Bush and the national Republican […]

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”
—John Marshall

“The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen […]

Yet another article in the main stream continuing to throw doubt on global warming. So now you know why the global warming crowd kept saying “we must act now!”… before they were found out for the frauds they are.

I love the media fear mongering going on in Flori-duh. They found an Anti-Tank Grenade Launcher which was seized while busting up a crime ring (kudos on the bust btw) and they’re trotting it out for all to see as some horrific weapon of mass destruction. What you have to read closely to find […]

Three divergent articles on global warming, or the lack thereof, today. The first one is on the lack of temperature rise since 1998 which is a pretty startling piece of information to read from the BBC. Second up is how the lack of major disasters in the last couple of years (where did those forecast […]

So I finally get around to calling about ordering the Tsukayu Jumbo Strong hard bags for the VTX only to find out they are shipped from Japan and it takes 6 weeks go get them… I guess it’s not a terrible hardship having to wait until mid May to get them but I had hoped […]

This will end well…. Can we put the Argentine president in a room with Maggie Thatcher for 10 minutes and get this settled? Again? Seems more humane than killing all those sheep residing in the Falklands… and would make a wonderful YouTube video.
Otherwise, GW may have to let Britain have a hand full of […]

Did you hear that using a cell phone for 10 years is more dangerous than smoking for 10 years? No? Bet the cellular companies really don’t want you to read the study.

Where is that big effort by Democrats to root out corruption in Washington? I guess its all well and good as long as the corrupt are not other Democrats. Now I agree with the court in upholding the Constitution in this case - political corruption in the due course of being a congressman or […]

If you think you’re voting for “Change” this fall I recommend you look more closely at who is funneling money to the candidates and especially look at the business sectors.
Would it surprise you that Finance, Construction, Energy and Health businesses contributed a whole lot more to the Democrats than to the Republicans? Now wait a […]

If you think its lowering your cholesterol you’d better think again.
“no result— zilch. In no subgroup, in no segment, was there any added benefit” in terms of reducing plaque, said Dr. John Kastelein
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I’m don’t typically buy Buck knives but reading what they’re doing for returning troops I think it is time I take another look at their offerings. And kudos to the Navy for getting themselves squared away on the matter.