Gerald R. Ford Airport 20 Million Dollar FAIL

Gerald R. Ford Airport in Grand Rapids Michigan has spent 20 million dollars to upgrade its front end. A magnificent glass overhang shelters travelers from the elements while two skywalks will bring them to covered parking across the road.

So how did the engineers screw it up so bad? It seems easy right? Build a pretty glass overhang to keep the weather off the people down below. Unfortunately this endeavor proved too difficult for the brightest engineers. The thing just plain doesn't work. It leaks on the people worse than if it wasn't there at all. Today the weather was nice and warm for December. The temperature rose above freezing and all the snow on top of the glass overhang began to melt. Due to the roof being built like a pasta strainer it was in effect raining indoors while being nice and dry outdoors.

Way to blow 20 MILLION BUCKS Grand Rapids. Its not like we have a kick ass economy or anything. Frankly we have one of the worst economies in the country. Just more well spent money with a great plan that couldn't be pulled off by so called smart engineers.

Why Wal-Mart is Winning

In my area Wal-Mart isn't the number one store like it is in many other areas. Here Meijer is King. For those not in the small region where Meijer is located think of a Super Wal-Mart. Meijer has been around for decades. Most of my life it was the only option for a 24/7 grocery and everything else store.

13 years or so ago Wal-Mart came to town. I remember Meijer being very worried about it. This worry has caused them to update aging stores and buy up land where Wal-Mart could build on just to keep them away. So far their plan is not working. A super Wal-Mart finally went up blocks from a Meijer store. People love it of course.

The trend I'm seeing now with Meijer is that they are raising prices on many of their items, only to mark them on "sale" at the original price. A quick visit to Wal-Mart shows the same items for 50 cents to a dollar lower in price than the sale price.

Hey Fred, (owner of the Meijer stores) do you really think your customers are so dumb they don't realize that something they buy each week has had its price raised? Do you think the fake sale price which was the original price is a good idea? Especially when I can go to Wal-Mart and get it for an even cheaper price?

On that note, have you ever heard of the 5S program? That means making the layout of each store the same so no matter which one a customer enters they can quickly and easily find the goods they are looking for. I hate going to a "foreign" Meijer and have to wander around for 10 minutes looking for something that is on the opposite side of the store from what I'm used to.

Love them or hate them Wal-Mart is here to stay. They will put you out of business if you can't offer a service to your customer base that will offset the cheaper prices they offer. I for one don't mind paying a little extra if I'm getting superior support from the staff.

Secretive Site HiJacking New Threat?

About 6 months ago a friend mentioned that whenever she tried to visit my site it tried to download something. After typing in my url: http://bobbydoran.net I discovered nothing amiss and just assumed she was smoking crack. During this period I have been very busy so my design site was a very low priority. I did notice that my inquires had dropped off to nothing but dismissed it as my fault for not putting in the time that I had used to promoting my site. Again, with training with the Army and doing design for a company rather than myself I wasn't overly concerned.

The other day I decided to install Google Analytics on my site to see what it would show me. I couldn't access my FTP. Thinking I messed up the password I requested a new one be sent as it had been forever since I logged on and wasn't quite sure what it was any longer. After NOT getting the email I realized my account was using a now defunct email. A quick email to my hosting company and a verification later I was back in business.

As I was looking through the folders on the server I noticed some strange files that I knew shouldn't be there because I didn't put them there. They were named ht_access and ht_access_mal. Every folder on my server had these files in them. Even the sub-folders in my folders. Now I don't know how to code except XHTML and CSS but I've played with enough javascript and actionscrtipt to where I can usually look at the code and can tell what it is going to do. It seemed to me this code was a redirect of some sort. But a very tricky sort.

This is where it gets interesting. It seems this code would only redirect a user from my site to one of those scam download this spyware your computer is infected sites if the user clicked my link on a search engine. If the URL was typed in the browser or someone had my site bookmarked it would go to the site like it was supposed to. Finding my site on a search engine I tested my theory and sure enough, I was brought to an attack site that closed all my tabs but one and tried to get me to download some anti spyware virus crap. In a fit of rage I deleted all the files from the server. Clearing my cache and history I tried it again. This time it went to my site, so for now the problem is fixed. I will be contacting my hosting company and informing them of the intrusion of my domain.

This is the first time that I have heard of hackers attacking a site in this fashion. Has anyone out there heard of this subtle technique? Because I hadn't updated in quite some time nor spent any time with SEO this went on for quite some time. How much business has this cost me? How many lost clients did I miss out on? How tarnished is the name of my site by people clicking on those hijacked links? I'd love to skin whoever did that to me alive, pour lemon juice on the raw flesh and leave them on a fire ant hill to die a slow death.

Black Friday Begins with Death

Are people really stupid? Seriously, with everything we as a species have accomplished I really think that we are just stupid. Can the need to purchase crap that won't be around 5 years from now really be so important that a throng of people literally tear the doors off of Wal-Mart and trample a person to death while injuring others?

I guess I can't fathom being in such a rush to spend money because something is on sale that I wake up before dawn, wait in a line, and not unlike cattle stampede inside a store. It's Wal-Mart for gods sake. For the most part they sell crap anyway. Its not like you are rushing to buy things you normally couldn't afford. It's Wal-Mart. They always have sales to offload the crap on their shelves.

Kids nowadays are so spoiled their parents are willing to stampede and kill to buy them the Hannah Montana guitar they need to survive. Can't teach them to deal with disappointment, so rip doors off the hinges and crush someone to death in a mad rush to get the last one. Have we all gone insane? This happens every year yet we don't learn. Its silly. I hope every customer involved in the mad rush gets tried for man-slaughter and spends Christmas in jail.

Jobless claim not that bad

Rush made a good point today, and I thought I would echo it here. It is about how bad the economy is, and how many people are not working. What these fear mongers fail to say while comparing the jobless rate to that of 1985 is the work force has DOUBLED since that time. This means the jobless rate is actually half of that of 1985. With that many more people in the workforce the economy is not going to fluctuate as badly as this liberal nut jobs are claiming.

If you have a job, buy things. Save. Be normal. Quit letting the media spoon feed you the fear. If we are not scared, we are less likely to be controlled by those in power that want to remove some of our freedoms so THEY can tell you what is good and what is bad in your life.

Cool Stuff for your pad

Save the Whale Wack Job

It was a late night and nothing was on TV. Flipping through the channels I landed on Whale Wars. Seemed OK at first, until I realized just how crazy the captain of this group is. He puts the life of his crew below that of the whales.

Watching this show reminded me of the South Park episode where the anti smoking crowd comes to town and is going to kill Cartman to prove that second hand smoke is fatal. The anti smoking crowd was manipulating the media to turn the public opinion against smokers. Much the same way the captain of the ship first attacked a Japanese whaling ship before putting two of his crew members on board knowing that they would be taken captive or worse. He then chose the "worst" photos to give to the media to get attention.

Its people like him that give the media a bad name. They only know what they are told sometimes. I really can't believe I'm writing something defending the media, as I think they are a bunch of liberal wack jobs already. But in this case, they ran with what they were given. All I can say about the entire show is that it made me want to be on a ship so I could attack these people back. I'm surprised the Jap whalers haven't hired some mercs to blow them out of the water yet.

Got to go fishing

It has been awhile since I've been out night fishing. It is one of my favorite things to do but I have been unable to get out for quite some time. My stepkid and I decided to head out and go to my favorite spot last night. It was cold, snowing, and dark. The odds were against us but we kept casting. After awhile with no strikes or the telltale minnows skipping on the surface telling me a walleye was eating I decided to shine my light in the water. Nothing. No fish, not even a sucker to be seen. I decided to move us below the dam and fish the river. Nothing again. Not wanting to go home empty handed I moved us upstream through the woods.

It isn't a fun journey to do in the day, and its even worse at night. Mucky ground, fallen trees, prickers, puddles, did I mention it was snowing? So after a not so easy hike we get to the bridge. After many casts our lines became tangled. While I was about to unwrap my lure from his line a fish strikes. So now I have to get my line free of his before the fish escapes. At one point we thought the fish was off because it stopped tugging and jumping. Grabbing hold of his line I pull and feel the weight of a heavy fish on the other end. I quickly bite my line to free it from his line.

The battle starts again but is short lived. The fish has tired. Of course I have no net, no waders, and have to now help land this nice 30" brute. Ryan was thrilled to catch this one, and even though I was happy for him I wasn't happy about getting skunked. Shortly after that my lure hit a rock and broke ending my fishing for the night.

Be an outlaw!

I've been watching Sons of Anarchy for the past two weeks. After catching part of an episode it became my goal to watch each one made to catch up. The show is that good. It made me wonder how real bikers felt about it, so after mentioning it to some friends I know that ride I discovered two things. They love it! It is a bit unrealistic at times, but has a lot of truth to it as well. I met some guys that are actually part of an MC and they voiced the same opinions.

So what has this show done for me besides give me something to do for an hour? I want to be an outlaw thats what. I want the vest with the club name on it, the Harley with loud pipes, the brothers, and yes....even the danger. I know that all sounds a bit melodramatic but this show calls to my dark side like nothing else. If I was in a different time and a different place I could easily see myself falling into that lifestyle.

Should this revelation scare me? I think no as this show just calls out to the desires most men have. (Unless they are from San Fransicko or some other such lib town) What guy doesn't want to cruise around at will on a bike, slamming chicks, knockin' off the bad guys, and making lots of money on top of it? Sure its illegal, but the freedom to live like that would almost be worth all the risk.

Does anyone know about Etsy.com?

Sometimes I wonder if people know about Etsy. You know, the site that people use to sell things that they make? Kinda like an online flea market of homemade goods. I just wonder how well they do because most people I talk to have never heard of Etsy.com. If you mention ebay everyone that doesn't live under a rock knows about it. Mention Etsy and most likely they never heard of it.

On the flip side of that though is if the person has heard of it they rave about it. So why don't they advertise more? Or do they and not in my area? I don't know and I'm too lazy to find out.

If you find that you want to buy some art type stuff for your home, better yet some art type stuff that I made visit my shop at Etsy here and you will make me happy.

Sigh...

Well the election is over and the commie is in. Hopefully it won't be as bad as I fear, but I think it will be. I'm just trying to make myself feel better. Watching the South Park episode helped a little, but not much.

To make matters worse, I dropped my iPhone from less than two feet. It landed face down on cement and the glass has cracked like a car windshield that had a head smack it in a front end collision. It still works but I feel little shards of glass moving around and I fear I'm going to slice open my delicate finger tips or make it worse if I use it too much. Hopefully this isn't the change BO was talking about.

Looking online, my options seem bleak. My only hope is to get a cool Apple Genius at the Apple store that fixes it for free or doesn't charge me that much to get it replaced. I'm going to go cry or smash my head against the wall for awhile now. I read that you burn 150 calories an hour doing that...

46 Questions for Obama

My friend from guysnightout.com came up with these questions for BO. I thought I would share them with you as well.

1. Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have blamed the current economic crisis on McCain and Republican Deregulation policies, and 8 years of Bush Policies. Do the Democrats in Congress and the Senate bear ANY responsibility for this crisis? 

2. Wasn’t this crisis precipitated by the failure of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac which John McCain did try to regulate and the Democrats such as Barney Frank, Chris Dodd , and yourself blocked saying there was no problem? 

3. Wasn’t it disingenuous of you to suggest that deregulation of corporations urged by general Republican policy was the catalyst of this current crisis when the problem was Democrats refusing to regulate Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac when Republicans asked for it? 

4. Has the former Freddie Mac top guy Franklin Raines who made millions from the now failed Freddie Mac, advised your campaign in any way official or unofficial? 

5. Is it in any way possible that the push by groups like Acorn and Democrats in Congress to force Banks to alter their lending practices and have quasi federal agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back housing loans to minorities and other people who could not really afford them is a cause of the current economic crisis? 

6. Has your campaign ever given money to ACORN for any reason? 

7. Have you spoken out forcefully about voter fraud in this campaign or taken definitive action to stop it such as personnaly asking the Ohio Secretary of State to validate all votes as legitimate? 

8. How is it possible that you could sit in Rev Wrights church for 20 years and not get the impression that he is a Black Liberation Theologist who thinks America is a bad country that still oppresses blacks and demands that Black be given something now such as reparations, jobs, power, etc to get them back to equal standing with whites in this country? 

9. Rev Wrights act looked very polished like he had given it many many times before. How can you say in all honesty that you never heard these views that most Americans despise and didn’t know he had them? 

10. Do you agree with Bill Ayers views on education reform in this country? 

11. Would you have education policy that includes the views that Bill Ayers espouses on education such as political activism being part of the education process? 

12. You are tied in various ways to the Chicago education reform establishment that Bill Ayers is a huge part of. Has Bill Ayers had any influence on how your views on education were shaped? 

13. Do you think that White people in this country owe Black people? 

14. You have repeated talked about the evil Corporations in this country specifically citing Exxon Mobil. These statements are potentially damaging to companies like Exxon Mobil in the global marketplace. Do you realize how many Americans Exxon Mobil employs and how many Americans are invested in these companies through mutual funds, 401k & pensions? 

15. Do you think that is irresponsible for you to make those kind of statements? 

16. If the big evil corporations that you criticise so often were put out of business, how many jobs would be lost and how would you replace those jobs? 

17. If all these big corporation jobs were replaced with government jobs therefore making the Government the biggest “Corporation”, Would you consider the lack of competition bad for America?

18. Please explain what you did to help rebuild some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods.

19. What went wrong with your plan to “spread the wealth”?

20. Tony Rezko received large sums of money with your help, but nothing was done to help Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. Were you involved in Rezko’s corruption?

21. What role did Rezko play in helping you buy your house?

22. It seems like the people in YOUR neighborhood did just fine, while the people in the poorest neighborhoods continued to suffer. Isn’t that the very corruption that you said led to “quiet RIOT”?

23. Weren’t you part of the problem, not part of the solution?

24. If you don’t succeed in winning stealing the election, will you encourage that “quiet RIOT” to turn into full-fledged riots?

25. Why did you vote against the bill dealing with babies who survived abortion–even though you wrote it?

26. How is removing the temporary Bush Tax Break on the middle class notincreasing our taxes?

27. Will you encourage WaPo to release the tape of you at the anti-Jew, pro-Terrorism party? And in the event you say “no,” why not?

28. What are you going to do with the extra millions of dollars in cash your campaign has left over after November 4?

29. Why won’t you release your college records?

30. Why won't you release your birth certificate?

31. While I understand why you can’t disavow everything that every nutroot does in your name, why won’t you at least respond to things like the children’s choir singing a praise and worship hymn to you when they hit the major newsmarkets?

32. Where did you get the money to buy your house?

33. How will your healthcare reform affect your wife’s paycheck from the hospital that has repeatedly fleeced its patients who are Medicaid and MediCare?

34. Why do you want your daughters to abort your grandchildren? Don’t you love them?

35. Why did you, on March 27, 2004, tell Cathleen Falansi that you were raised by your Christian mother, yet you have told the rest of the world that your mother wasn’t really a Christian, that she considered all religions basically equal (in your book), and that your grandparents raised you?

36. And if your grandparents–as in both of them–raised you, is that the same thing as being raised by a single mother?

37. How is “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” different from you taking more money from the wealthy to give to the poor, or, as you have called it, “spreading the wealth around”?

38. Can you ever admit when you are wrong?

39. Where were you when Rev Wright said “God DAMN America!”?

40. Will you be taking more money from Rev. Wright, since he’s now purchased a multi-million dollar home and giving it to the people on the street?

41. Why do you not want voting booths to require a valid picture ID, yet you do want one at your party on November 4?

42. If you’re–as you claim–for the “non-elite”, “regular” people, why are you charging so much money for people to attend your party on November 4?

43. How is it any different for you to run the risk of getting shot while pumping gasoline than for me to run the risk of getting shot while pumping gasoline? Do you get your gasoline in worse areas than I do? Do you even pump your own gasoline?

44. Why is Michelle so angry? Why does she hate white people so much? Why is she so ill-at-ease with herself if she’s in a room full of white people who probably don’t think a thing about the fact that she’s not white?

45. What does a Community Organizer actually do?

46. Why do you want to write another Bill of Rights?

Too Little Too Late?

The media is finally starting to report on NoBama's tax plans and his idea of redistribution of wealth. The question is do people really understand what that means? Quite often I hear liberal friends of mine say redistribution of wealth is a great idea. Really? Do they really think that? Did it work in Russia? Has it worked for Cuba? Has it ever worked? Nope, Nope, and Nope. Communism looks great on paper, but in real life it sucks. If you can get all your needs met without lifting a finger, what moves a person to lift a finger? I know if I can be lazy I'm the first one to do it.

So if we want to become an even lazier society with a shrinking work force because we won't have to work because the "rich people" who went to school and made something of themselves will take care of us while the nanny state tells us what is good for us (mercury filled light bulbs instead of incandescent anybody) then by all means vote for BO.

This will work until the successful people get sick and tired of taking care of the worthless and move themselves, their money, and their business to more friendly locations overseas. Then we can stand in line for bread like they do in Russia.

If you think BO won't be raising your taxes, think again. By letting the Bush tax cuts expire if he were to become President would in effect be raising your taxes. I for one am sick and tired of BO's lies, half truths, and omissions. This guy has been barely examined by the press and now that he is starting to get some negative hits I just wonder if it's too little too late...

Playing Around

So I was messing around with a photo I took in Austin Texas awhile back and discovered you can do some amazing things to a photo that was taken in raw format. I shot this in raw, and tweaked some settings in camera raw getting this as the end result.

BO running Scared?

So BO is heading back to Hawaii. He states it is to visit his Grandma, the one he visited for an hour on his last two week trip to Hawaii. Strangely enough, his trip coincides with a petition to the Hawaii Supreme Court to expedite the release of his birth certificate...

What does he have to hide? Maybe the fact that he isn't half black, but half arab? Or could it be an even bigger fact? Could he have been born outside of the US, in Kenya perhaps? That would make him NOT a natural born citizen and therefore NOT allowed to be President...end of story, end of campaign, end of the messiah.

Taxes Made Simple

I came across this and thought it fitting. People in this country don't seem to grasp how our tax system works, and this puts it in terms almost anyone can understand.

Our Tax System Explained: Bar Stool Economics

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers,' he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.' Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
'I only got a dollar out of the $20,'declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'
'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too.
It's unfair that he got ten times more than I got' 'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'
'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia

BO Sis Koom Bah

BO must have done something wrong because the MSM cheerleaders are in overtime. I still find it amazing that even after this guy has a long list of pals who are either racist, anti-American, or full blown terrorists bewilders me. I don't want to hear that BO made a new ad attacking McCain, I want to hear about why he can raise almost 1 million dollars for a hostile village raping and killing political party in Africa that is trying to overthrow the legally and legitimately elected president that was voted into office and yet we hear nothing of it. (google obama raises 1 million for odinga)

Can we expect the same thing to happen here when BO suddenly loses because the polls the press show are nothing more than slanted polls taken by liberals from liberal areas and readers? Their are many "Joe the Plumbers" out here in the real world who view BO for what he is. A snake oil salesman with a scary agenda and creepy friends.

I do find it humorous though that suddenly all these BO supporting plumbers are making news to help combat what the real "Joe the Plumber" stands for. I don't think any self respecting American who owns a business will vote for the terrorist loving freak we call BO. Unions have to like him, they always go for the democrat, even though democrats have done nothing for them since the Hoffa years...

A Training Pic

I'm going to take a break from politics with this post. Earlier I promised that I would share some of my Army training photos so here is the first one. I was the platoon sgt. and although the job wasn't all that fun I did learn quite a bit by doing it. The pit in front of us is where we practiced our hand to hand combat. It was filled with shredded rubber tires which made moving around difficult. The smell wasn't that great either.

In the News WTF of the Week

In the wacky city of Sans Fransicko, first grade children attended the wedding of their lesbian teacher. The kicker was they attended by calling it a field trip. Now call me too conservative but I'll be damned if my kid attends a gay wedding under the guise of a field trip. Indoctrinating youngsters to the gay lifestyle just doesn't seem right to me.

So WTF is wrong with the parents of this charter school? Turns out, it was an idea from one of the parents to surprise the carpet munching educater by having the students attend the....ahem...wedding.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not anti gay or anything but marriage is a religious ceremony. The government stepped in and decided to make gay marriage legal. To me that is mixing church and state. Let them have a union of some sort but don't call it marriage. That hell is reserved for us hetero types. I do draw the line at gays raising children. That door better never open even a crack.

The beginning of the end for BO?

It seems like the BO camp is neck deep in voter fraud, intimidation, and illegal funding. The main stream media isn't covering this because they have been backing the wrong horse from day one. I see them having to jump ship in the days to come or sink with the ship in the aftermath. This article http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/clinton-supporters-sharing-evidence-for-rico-case-against-obama-campaign/#comment-7997 is a little long but a very interesting read.

I urge all of you to start contacting your local news, and congress officials what they are doing about voter fraud, and what they will do to prevent it in the future. BO and ACORN are manipulating the democratic process to their gain by illegal methods and we as US Citizens need to stand up and be heard.

Something Stinks...and his initials are BO (thanks guysnightout.com for that one)

So my daughter comes home from school today. From what I gathered they are talking about the election and discussing candidates. She then says "I think I'm going to vote for Obama"

Taking a deep breath and counting to ten I calmly ask her why. She replies, "well he has a plan that if a little kid needs glasses then they can get new glasses for free."

Not a bad reason if you are an 8 year old kid, but Dear ol' Dad can't let that slide. So I proceed to tell her that the glasses will not be free, but Obama will take some money from everyones paycheck to pay for those glasses. Suddenly that idea wasn't so swell to her anymore.

I then asked her if she knew what redistribution of wealth meant. I know, a crazy way over her head conversation but we have them all the time and she always understands in the end. So of course she has no clue what that means. So I give her this. It means he will take money from rich people and give it to poor people. "Oh, that is nice. Thats a good idea huh Dad?"
"No honey, it isn't really. What if you worked really hard, and after a long time you finally had enough money to be called rich. Then Obama comes along and says you have to much money, so I'm going to take some of it and give it to these people over here because they were to lazy to work hard and would rather other people take care of them."

"I don't think that is right Dad, Obama isn't a good person. I'm going to tell my friends to vote for McCain."

Its amazing how children can see through the bullshit if you talk to them like they are adults and not silly little kids.

Obama is like Senator Palpatine

Everyone in the world of Star Wars thought that Palpatine was a good Senator. Like Nobama, he promised them hope and change. His hope and change was to rid the galaxy of dissent and end wars. We all saw were that ended. Many years of misery under the oppression of the "Empire".

Nobama also promises hope and change. His plans to tax big business, new business, and the "rich" to help the middle class is silly. By taxing those "evil big corporations" he is going to do nothing more than hurt the middle class. The big companies will have to raise the costs to us to maintain the profits they need to operate. I'm a middle class guy, at times I'm a lower middle class guy and I think Nobama is the devil.

I may be showing my Jedi geekdom with the above Star Wars analogy but it holds true. People are swayed by his so called charm and oratory skills but the truth is he speaks very poorly when off of the cue cards. His so called "new" plans are nothing more than what Jimmy Carter did back in the 70's. He touted "Trust", Nobama touts "Hope". Carter was one of the worst presidents this country ever had. We were such a mess it took years to straighten out. Nobama will bring us the same ruin as Carter did, only on a much larger scale.

Don't vote for the man who has close ties with known terrorists. He is a member of the New Party which has an agenda of pushing socialist agendas upwards. That is not what America is about. Do not be fooled by the sweet honey talk of this dangerous person. We don't have a Luke Skywalker waiting in the wings to overthrow him.

The Bailout

I really do not understand why congress is in such a hurry to spend OUR tax money to bail out failing companies. I was sent an email joke that actually makes much more sense. Rather than repost that, I will condense it down to its highlights.

To make the math simple, 85,000,000,000 has been proposed for this bailout.

America has a population of 301 million. Keeping it simple still, lets assume 200 million of those people are adults 18 and up. If you divide the bailout money by that number it would be 425,000 for every person. If we were then taxed 30% everyone would pay 127, 500 right back to Uncle Sam. That would leave you with 297, 500 for a single person and 595,000 for married people.

What could a person do with that money?

Pay off the mortgage, housing "crisis" solved

Buy a new car, create jobs

Help pay aging parents medical bills, heath care improves

Invest in the market, capital drives growth

As for AIG, liquidate it.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
Let American General go back to just being American General.

This plan is better because it would do more and only cost 59.5 billion because 25.5 billion is instantly returned to Uncle Sam in taxes.

I think this is a great idea, it is just to bad that congress doesn't have the balls or imagination to think of it on their own...

*Edit*

A good friend decided to do what I should have done before posting this, actually do the math. It works out to 425 dollars a person, not 425,000. Now if the bailout was 85 trillion the math would be right. Thanks for pointing that out Dave.

Why Liberals Piss Me Off

So now the Dems are blaming McCain for holding up the "bailout bill" they were trying to get passed yesterday. But witnesses to the event say the opposite. The funny thing is why is our democratic led congress trying once again to make the taxpayers foot the bill for crooked lenders?

FREE MARKET means let the market take care of itself. If a bank or a company gives a poor or crooked service, then they no longer stay in business. I for one think it is a bit scary how the democratic led congress is bailing out these banks, and taking control of the housing and lending sector. That is a little too close to communism for my taste. Now big brother will be in charge of when and where you live? I see a chiropractor who is from China. This is really freaking him out because that is how it is there. He keeps telling me to buy guns, ammo, and food and have someplace to go. For awhile I thought he was a bit eccentric, then nuts. Now maybe I'm thinking he is on to something...

ps. Hey Letterman, get over it already. You're going to give yourself another heart attack.

Palin!

Well I have been absent for awhile, but with good reason. I have spent most of my summer in Army training of one sort or another. If all goes well I'll be off soon again for yet another school. I will post some photos of that in good time.

So while I was gone McCain chose Palin as his running mate. This was a brilliant move on his part, and the wacky libs have no idea how to handle it. Wait, they think they do. Lets bash her. All these silly celebs are saying such crude things about her it is almost unbelievable. Its even more unbelievable that they are backing the commie Nobama. Ignorance is bliss I always say. I'm having fun watching the backlash they are getting from their fan base who happens to think Palin is great!

Why is she so great? Here is a little top ten:

10. She is a women
9. Her husband races snowmobiles
8. Her husband likes to fish
7. She likes to hunt
6. She sold the Governers jet on eBay
5. She doesn't take shit from anyone
4. Hilliary supporters have a new female to vote for
3. Nobama says she is inexperienced, but so is he
2. She brings a platform for special needs people
1. She is a true CONSERVATIVE

Random Thoughts and Feelings

The topic of gun control seems to fade in and out. You have those that are for it, and those who are against it. Of course I'm against any form of gun control. It just doesn't make sense to me because the criminal element isn't going to follow the rules regardless of what they are. If I'm armed, at least I can protect myself.

My brother and I have been training the past few weeks. I have some hard training coming up soon while he has an Iraq deployment around the corner. So we load up our rucksacks and go for a hike two or three times a week. Our kickoff point is in front of an American Legion and then we hump down the trail until one of us starts to get hot spots on our feet.

Last night started like any other, only this time a fellow walked up to us and wanted to know how much our rucks weighed. Mine was a light 50 while my brothers was pushing 60. He gave us each a simple fist bump, holding it long enough to say, "I love you, Jesus loves you. Stay safe."
He then told us he was in 'Nam and I thanked him. Like all vets from that era he brushed off my thanks while heaping praise on us. I told him, "no, thank you. We get our thanks, you guys didn't."

And that got me to thinking about how it must have felt to come home from a war you didn't want to go to. After somehow surviving it all even though you watched friends get killed around you each week. The horrible things you had to see. And finally, when you get home you discover that your own country thinks you are disgusting. They spit on you, ridicule you, and call you things like baby killer. Funny thing is many of those same people are now the ones running this country. So much for being against "the man". Now they are "the man" and they suck still.

Vietnam Vet's may get thanked today but to them it is to little to late. Can you blame them? The most touching thing though is how they go out of their way to talk to the new generation of military guys and gals. One group that I know of meets every plane of soldiers when they come in. Time doesn't matter. 2 am, 5am, 11pm, they are there waiting. As one of them told a friend of mine. "We are here because no soldier should come home and be treated like we were. We are here so you know that you are not forgotten and that what you did is appreciated." They then brought all the guys inside and treated them to a dinner. Its acts like these that make me proud to wear a uniform. Those are the kinds of people that make what we do all worth it.

Dispute these Obama

Obama's Not Exactly's

1.) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to
have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in
1965. (Google 'Obama Selma' for his full March 4, 2007 speech and
articles about its various untruths.)

2.) My Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged,
well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of
one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your
cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to
overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first
widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American
but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your
half-brother, Abongo Oba ma, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted
your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone.

Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get
Sharia muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his
followers have burned Christians' homes and then burned men, women and
children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter.. Obama
SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started.

Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.

5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT EXACTLY, she does
her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to
mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives
to 1 man.

6.) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and
'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language.
Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the
first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack
Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75%
Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side. While Barack
Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly
Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and
87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not
African Negro). From....and for more....go to.....

http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.....25%25_African

7.) I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at
school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for
31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for
office.
4-3-08 Article "Obama was 'quite religious in islam'"
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559

8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - NOT EXACTLY, you were
registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for
making faces (check your own book).

February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr.
Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer,
reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed
delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks),
Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds
on Earth at sunset." This is just one example of what Pamela is
talking about when she says "Obama's narrative is being altered,
enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts."

9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you
could speak the language.

10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience -
NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of
6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how
to study the Koran and watch cartoons?

11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa
(surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been
anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our
closest allies.

12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT EXACTLY, you
were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of
Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said
you were just fine.

13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony
has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and
never did, exist.

14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - NOT EXACTLY,
Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't,
and never did, exist.

15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you
are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough
experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.

16.) Voting "Present" is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they
are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.

17.) Oops, I Misvoted - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups
and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.

18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior
lecturer ON LEAVE.

19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior
lecturer ON LEAVE.

20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you
didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.

21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14
days from start to finish.

22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was
rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all
regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which
David Axelrod came.

23.) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March,
2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released,
exposing all the special interests pork are still closed.

24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT EXACTLY, you
were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You
failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.

25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, your 111
economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0,
and even YOU voted against your own bill.

26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, even your
own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.

27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, they were
not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a
fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

28.) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA - NOT EXACTLY,
the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation
your campaign had with them.

29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran
Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah
supports the destruction of Israel.

30.) I Want All Votes To Count - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.

31.) I Want Americans To Decide - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses
that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only
operate during small windows of time.

32.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - NOT EXACTLY, you passed
26, most of which you didn't write yourself.

33.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - NOT EXACTLY, you used
tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.

34.) I Don't Take PAC Money - NOT EXACTLY, you take LOADS of it.

35.) I don't Have Lobbyist - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists
and counting.

36.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - NOT EXACTLY,
your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

37.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in
office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single
time.

38.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - NOT EXACTLY, your
plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it
"Qui non intelligit aut discat aut taceat". Who does not understand
should either learn, or be silent

Cheaper Gas!!!

Wow, can you all believe how the gas prices fluctuate on an almost daily basis? I love watching them drop from $3.69 a gallon to $3.56 a gallon only to shoot up to $3.75 a gallon mere hours after dropping. WTF?

Then all you ignorant fucks bitch that the big oil companies are to blame for the outrageous price of fuel. It is NOT their fault. Yes it is, you say? Go ahead, wallow in your own ignorance. God knows most American's do. The simple fact is we have ONE refinery in this country that was built in like the early 70's. ONE frickin refinery to change the black gold in to go go juice for the automobile. Seems to me if we built another refinery, and began drilling off the coast of Florida for our own oil things would be much different. Gasp, we can't do that the freaky liberals cry out. Sure, OK but in the mean time Castro is slant drilling OUR oil. Do you all realize that the oil fields of ANWAR have as much or more oil than the fields in Saudi? Our country could be energy independent if we would start drilling there. But the Sierra Club carries a bigger stick than the little man so go pay four bucks a gallon for fuel.

I'm so sick and tired of Obama I'm not even really going to say much about him right now. OK, just this one thing. To all you black voters out there that are voting for the stretch chin just because he is black.....sort of. Did you see how he turned on the bigot Rev. Wright? Did he not say just a mere few weeks ago he could "never turn on him. Turning on him would be like turning on blacks." Well he did, and he will. He isn't the one. Wait for the next one. This guy is a terrorist. I really believe he has ties to some extremist group and will do great damage to this Country if he gets elected. And by great damage, I'm not even counting all the costly social programs he will try to put in place.

On a non-political note. I landed a new design gig. This one a little closer to home in fact. My little Brother's Brother in-law and his partner have designed a new broad head. It is going to take the hunting world by storm. There is nothing on the market like it, and what they have is locked down by bullet proof patents. I'm excited to say that I will be responsible for designing the site and branding for this exciting new company. More to come on this as details and projects emerge.

And even more lies...

Wow, between Hildog and Obama the angry (half) black man with an agenda the lies and drama is stacking up pretty deep. Now the owner of the long stretched out looking chin is claiming that he would have left the church had not the bigot, racist, anti-American rev. wright not retired. R E A L L L L Y? So for 20 years you sat and listened to his drivel, and upon his retirement you made him one of your campaign advisers. The only reason you asked him to step down from that role is because all this stuff popped up. So DO NOT LIE to US Obama the pencil neck, radar ear, stretchy chin, liberal, angry (half) black man with an agenda that wants to ruin the country. You and your America hating wife want to destroy what we value with your wacked out notion of redistribution of wealth, attacks on big business, increasing taxes to pay for the social programs that don't work, making people reliant on government rather than their own abilities, retreat and surrender in Iraq.

We do not want government in our lives. It can't even run a retirement program for the masses, let alone a healthcare program. Please crawl back under whatever rock you came out from under and let us be.

Politics...

Obama, Hildog, and McCain. How does one choose from these three to be the leader of the free world? Easy, pick the one that is least liberal. McCain wins. I'm not a huge fan of McCain, but he is the lesser of three evils.

Hildog is a lying liberal freak that wants to quit the war in Iraq thus branding America as losers. We must finish what we start. Can't she understand our Military is building an entire infrastructure over there? This is something they just are not trained to do, yet they are doing it.

Obama wants to surrender in Iraq as well, but not quite as quickly. He is a big fan of anti big business. Doesn't he understand that big business makes the world go round? He also wants to tax more from the rich, and give it to the poor. Yeah right, he means give it to bloated government and give the scraps to the poor. Redistribution of wealth doesn't sound very Constitutional to me! That pencil neck dumbo ear is one of the biggest threats this country faces. He is an angry (half) black man with a scary agenda. Obama and his Wife are more racist in their views than most people realize. Statements like "typical white person" should be a big clue. I won't even talk about his bigot, racist, anti-American preacher turned campaign advisor.

So that leaves McCain. He won't surrender to Terrorism/Islam, and he supports the Bush tax cuts which have kept this Country floating. He isn't that conservative, but he isn't a hardcore lib and that is what matters.

On another note.....

Google Fitna Movie Online. This is a powerful film showing how wrong the islamic religion is. I didn't capitalize that on purpose, as I have no respect for a religion that relies on terror, mutilates women's genitals, and commits atrocious acts against people that are not of that particular religion. Islam is on the rise, and they can not be reasoned with. Just watch the part of the movie where a three year old refers to Jews as apes and pigs, because that is what the kornyran taught him. Sick Sick Sick

On even another note....

I joined the Army because I once again felt the call of duty. This is the second time I enlisted during a time of war. Support our troops, Support the war, don't believe the hype of liberals and the drive by media.

As I see it

Hello again. So much going on in the world today this entry will cover some top hits.

1. The NH vote. As Rush predicted, the media is referring to Hilary and McCain as "Comeback Kids". How stupid. McCain doesn't count as he basically camped out in that state for months and it will be the only victory he sees. Hilary winning is more to the fact that many independents voted Republican rather than give Obama their vote. It has been pointed out that a black candidate has never won in NH so that is most likely another reason for Hilary's slight win.

2. Iran, stop it or you will suffer like Iraq. So now you claim video/audio footage of your boats clearly harassing US Ships as fake. Is this how you go about things? Flat out denial! First the claim of no gays in Iran, and now this. Your Country and its politics is laughable. You are not Persia any longer, don't make us go Sparta on your ass.

3. The muslim group CAIR. You are nothing but terrorists living in America. I can't wait until Mike Savage sues your front right out of the country. And yes, we are aware that you are a three headed snake. You thought you were smart, but we are smarter. For more on this visit here to read about this dangerous group and what they are trying to do in America.

4. And last but not least, a delegation from Columbia University plans to visit Iran to "apologize to Ahmadinejad for the way he was treated" during his visit. I think that if they go they should not be allowed to return to this great Country. Keep liberal assholes like that out of my USA.

Animal Rights Wacko Nut Jobs

OK, so on with more global warming crap in the media. As a side effect to the "global warming" polar bears are now being considered for the endangered species list......Only one problem with that though, they are not endangered. The polar bear population has exploded in recent years, and has higher numbers now than ever. A new story here claims their is even video of drowning polar bears. I've been to the zoo, and I've watched discovery channel. I can tell you first hand these creatures can swim their asses off, and hold their breath for long periods of time. So this "drowning polar bear" propaganda is just silly.

This is just another issue people are jumping on because they have no self identity so these types of issues become everything that they are. Now, say it with me.....GLOBAL WARMING IS A FARCE!!!