Stop it! Or I will bury you alive in a box…
Posted on January 19, 2012
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Stop it. Stop letting symbols control how you feel.
There is a funny TV skit from an episode of Mad TV that many people should take to heart. It is about a woman with an irrational fear of being buried alive in a box and she is at at her doctors and explaining the problem. The “Doctor” has some simple advice for her…
Just change “Buried Alive in a Box” to a few other items … and take the advice. View it here.
Todays word is “offend”. I think most people dont understand this word and what it implies.
Allow me to show you.
Here is a link to a news article “Canyons District rejects Cougar mascot, says it’s offensive to women”. Where a school district refuses to allow the “mascot” of the team to be a “Cougar”. While many mascots are Cougars… they .. “School District said that board members expressed concern over the use of Cougar because it’s used as a derogatory term for some women.”
Here is a link to an article where a kid has his driving privileges revoked.. because he flies a Confederate flag in the back of his pickup. Because .. “Collier said school officials told him they wanted the banner put away because some people were offended.”
Nothing in the world offends you. Listen carefully. I repeat. Nothing in the world offends you. It doesnt jump out and beat you. YOU CHOOSE TO LET SOMETHING OFFEND YOU.
People who find themselves offended should “Stop it!”. If calling a team “Cougars” is offensive to you? Stop letting it offend you. If seeing a Confederate flag “offends” you… Stop letting yourself feel that way.
So many times in our society people pull the “Offended” card. It is about time we took control of our own feelings. I learned a long time ago to not let something gain control of my emotions. I may still choose to feel bad or offended when other peoples actions dont meet my expectations. But they might not intend to “hurt” or “offend” me. Of course indeed they might do some things believing it will “hurt my feelings”. But if so, and it does, its my fault for letting it.
I control how I feel. Not you or your actions or some flag or image or phrase you may utter. And STOP assuming you know how others feel. Let them put on adult clothes and decide for themselves.
If I “choose” to display a confederate flag or for that matter the State Flag of Mississippi?
Do you find it offensive? Simply because it has a section with the Confederate Battle flag?
How about this one.
Okay, I do “allow” myself to be offended, but thats a personal choice. But I realize in some cultures this is a popular past time.
We should stop coddling people who allow themselves to b easily offended. You have to look at the intent of something before you should “feel” offended. Its not my fault if I do something that you find offensive. Stop letting other people control you and your feelings. Dont empower them.
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OMG I read the The Overton Window.
Posted on December 18, 2011
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OMG! I admit it. I am busted. I purchased and read the book “The Overton Window” by Glenn Beck. I read many books. I love science fiction and “military” type books.
The Overton Window
This is scary stuff because it is written in the “present” and based on hundreds of actual references of true events.
In a nutshell the story is about a plan to change America by manipulating the public perception gradually, so outrageous ideas or laws become acceptable. That means in simple terms for example: Trading your liberties for security. But done in a systematic way. Purposely creating events that make the public accept changes in society to accept the changes willingly.
As a fictional work. Its a good read. A great thriller. If you read it with a critical eye simply recalling the author it may seem somewhat unlikely.. However you might just get a “aha” moment. Then it becomes frankly horrifying.
The writing style is good. The characters have depth. But thats not what makes it GOOD.
The relationship to actual real world events wrapped in a possible scenario described in the book is what is well….terrifying. Because I know that some bits are true. Beck cites numerous real world actions, and provides the sources so a curious reader can go check the facts.
Its appalling that we have become so malleable, public opinion so easy to direct toward a goal. Of course its always been that way. But sadly, once we allow certain liberties to be eroded…its difficult to get them back. Hopefully anyone who reads this book WILL take the time to skim the references and the real world contexts. And realize whats already been lost…before its too late.
This is a work of fiction, at no time does Beck claim the scenario is based on any truths…He makes that very clear in the introduction. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys realistic thrillers. I would not recommend it to anyone who simply hates Glenn Beck. They wont be able to seperate the stories goal from the author.
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Posted on October 16, 2011
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While looking at news today, I noticed an article about the Occupy Wall Street movement, but it had many pictures of other protests around the world. They are using the 99% phrase as is the protests in the U.S. I am led to believe that perhaps the protest organizers have some common items. Perhaps the same organization or core groups are involved? Sadly the organized anti-capitalistic movement is hijacking the Occupy 99% movement. And this will be the movements undoing. Many Americans feel the pain of the economy and the large governments intervention into the private sector and its horrendous problems. But once we see the socialists acting like its THEIR movement..we will not support you..at…all. Go figure.
I have a REAL problem with this photo. If it actually communicates what they want…
Is the the "Real" agenda for the Occupy movement?
That photo is from a protest in Asia. Heaven help us if the US protesters actually feel that way.
The Europeans are known for the Socialistic ideas…that our very core has found abhorrent. Until now. Its just sad that young people that are swayed by the idealistic concept of “free” just frankly dont study history. It doesn’t work..
I and others are not going to pay for your free ride.
Thank God I am not rich. So my days aren’t numbered by this movement.
Note this sign..really LOOK at it and see who paid for it..
LOOK at who paid for that sign...now think.
I am not yet swayed toward their movement.
From Los Angeles…(of course)..
Look..
I might be wrong (I am not). But haven’t we actually FOUGHT real wars against socialists and communists that tried to impose their ideas of spread the wealth to everybody? Of course it didnt work out that way in their countries…. Their is always an upper class riding on the middle and lower classes efforts. At least in the free United States you have ( until things change for the worse..) a chance to increase your standard of living by hard work and skill. In the “free” societies you work…and get what you get…so why work harder? Why strive for the best? You get the same.
Just a few more pictures and I am done for today..
Maybe the protesters will buy more Ice cream? Uh Ben & Jerry’s is an American ice cream company, a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate. Free Ice cream for everybody? I DONT think so…
WTF is Ben and Jerrys doing here?
Unions – What the hell are you supporting? Your right to work? Your right to have YOUR members make more money, and get more benefits than non members? You suck..
Their home? Written by an IDIOT.
And the one below… Your tax dollar at work….
I am not paying your loan silly....
Are you REALLY a student? Some college let someone with your IQ in to their program?
I am done.. Have a great day, and if you dont…….Just blame the rest of us…its our fault of course…
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We are the 100%
Posted on October 14, 2011
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Fear us, for we are many….
We are the 100%. We represent the masses of humanity that are tired of hearing your excuses. Tired of the lies, the misinformation.
No longer will be stand idle, as you take what is ours…..
No longer will we tolerate your trash, We tire of hearing your constant whining. Your constant desire to take what is others and give, undeserved , to those with the “gimme stuff” mentality. We stand for those that work for a living. Responsible people that earn their own belongings.
You see us everyday. Standing.. watching what you do… And how you do it. Not realizing that some of us are some of you. While few, if any, of you are some of us…. We too, are unhappy with the country today.. With our politicians who made it that way. Our goals are similar…our methods differ. You want change, we want change. You bitch about it. We change it. “Occupying” something may make for good news, it may sway, temporarily a politician or two..that is until the election is over…then it will just go back to getting screwed. You want to take things from others….that you feel you are entitled to possess. Unearned.
We want to restore what worked, before it was mutilated into a huge uncontrollable government. We want to return responsibility to you. You will be empowered once again, to control your life. Control your children and they in-turn to control theirs.
You seem to want..more.. You union wants more..(why then do non-unions deserve less? )
You want freedom, a job (so you say), independence. We want that too.
We ar the 100% tired of your whining.
We are 100% sure that everyone is mad, wants change. We saw what hope and change did for us.
We are 100% sure we DIDNT like that change.
Tomorrow or the day after, you will (those of you that have jobs and realize you want to keep them..) go back to work .. and nothing really will change. We must restore America to its concepts of Freedom and personal responsibility. And we do that by changing the politicians…….Not sitting on our asses in some park.
Have a nice … (Hopefully rain free!) day.
No More Idiots!
Oh The Humanity!
Posted on August 3, 2011
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Once again everyone is complaining about a new law. That short term quick fix of the deficit. You know where President Obama said months ago he would not support a quick fix. He signed the new Quick Fix that doesnt really reduce the deficit. Doesnt “really” reduce actual spending….Doesn’t really increase taxes…. Only allocates more money we don’t have.
Everyone is complaining. The Tea-Party didnt get a real reduction…didnt get less taxes. Liberals didn’t get more taxes for social programs…
Anyone who tried to stand up for their principles…we called all kinds of names… Tea party is holding America Hostage..etc..
That type of rhetoric is frankly bs. Liberals always say any cuts mean we want to kill babies. People are going to starve… The Humanity of it all…
Lets face it. We can NOT keep increasing our real spending. Even raising tax revenues is not going to help. It might help reduce the deficit, but until we actually spend less than what the country takes in…..the deficit will remain. We MUST spend less. Budget less. This means cuts. Yes maybe health care, maybe medicare, maybe my military retirement,defense… its all got to be looked at and reduced. We must encourage growth of businesses. Not tax them to death. I dont care if GE made a profit of 5.8 billion, really I dont. Thats what businesses do…make money. Lets encourage them to make more…and hire me.
The Tea Party, in fact any group that supports a more conservative approach with less spending need to step up, and stand by those principles. To hell with the liberals. The fact that there was so much gridlock in congress simply means the 2012 elections havent occured. We are tired of seeing government throw our money away. Less aid to other countries…we need it ourselves right now. Less free money to social programs. Let the states deal with that issue more, if they so choose.
Our economic woes are not the fault of a single administration but of a paradigm shift in the way we do things. Somehow, somewhere and it doesn’t matter who..got this country on a path of spending without having the real money to support the spending. We are trying to stop or slow that down. But that makes us evil. If a liberal holds up a law because it doesnt have tax increases to pay for their precious snowflakes birth control its ok…But if a conservative holds up a law because they dont believe that raising taxes is beneficial to the nation as a whole…they are called terrorists? Thats fair? Yet another double standard.
Wake up Liberals, Progressives, and in some cases Democrats and Repubilcans… The conservatives, the ones that believe in a balanced budget and fiscal responsibility, and that believe that the US Government is to big, are indeed coming to town. We wont give up, we know the very survival of the United States as we know it is in our hands. Expect to see us in 2012 and beyond. We are here to stay.
Share on FacebookThe War within America
Posted on April 14, 2011
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The United States has formally declared war against foreign nations five separate times. Each upon prior request by the President of the United States. Wars are declared usually after hostile attacks on the United States have occurred. Wars are fought for pretty simple reasons. Power, influence, perhaps over resources. Or to even protect ones influence,power and way of life. An oversimplification perhaps, but true I believe.
Today, factions within our borders are fighting each other to achieve more power and influence. To gain more resources. These battles are being fought in Washington, California, in your state, in your home town. And in your church. All sides use threats of harm, death, and withholding of basic necessities as weapons of terror. Each side attempts to sway the public using these methods. The combatants dont wear uniforms, they dress like you and I. As the “President” often says…”Let me be clear…” This is a very real war, with very real consequences.
Why is this happening?
First: We, (the people), are no longer united. ”We” is now “ME”.
Second: “..form a more perfect Union..” Now this doesn’t mean a teachers union, or the Teamsters…..
Third: “..establish Justice…” Well not when the Supreme Courts makes law….or worse interprets law based on a judges personal bias.
The first premise is the problem. We are NOT united. Nor do we have united goals. This group wants, that group doesn’t want. Majority rules…right?
NO. It doesn’t. Not in this administration or any like it. At some point in time Congress and the Supreme Court have forgotten that the United States is a group of individual States. Each State has independent laws to govern its members. And when Congress or the Executive Branch create laws against the majority wishes of the general population, well unrest occurs. Which is the reason for the tactics used to “sway” public opinion……
It is all a big set of lies…. Obamacares’ purpose isn’t to save lives…it is to sway a chunk of the population to vote for them. Allowing aliens from other countries to come to the United States..and not be arrested for breaking the law…isn’t about stopping families from being split apart…its about swaying public opinion in that group to vote for them… Sending troops to Iraq wasn’t because Saddam Hussien killed 100000 Kurds….or we would have stopped the Tutsi and Hutu in Riwanda from killing almost a million people. I dont have a problem with the U.S fighting overseas to protect our economy…just say it for what it is….
I do have a problem with the Federal Government trying to limit the States rights. Especially when nothing gives them the power to do so…
It’s that pesky Constitution thing again….
As long as the Federal and State governments follow Constitutional guidance….things are fine. It may not be “right” it may not be “happy”…but its correct.
If something major comes along that the majority of States want to change, thats against the Constitution…then change it… but its not the Federal Governments job to “dictate it”. Thats a shortcut option. And often very unpopular with a majority of the States.
But I, yet again am rambling..
The “Problem in America” is you.
Really. Its very plain to see. You elected self serving idiots, for your self serving reasons. You want and want and want…. But aren’t willing to sacrifice your income to pay for it. Let someone else pay for it. Well…we can’t. The U.S has much money, along with much debt. To much debt. Those self serving folks you elected dont want to lose your vote…so they wont try to save money by cutting programs you might use. They too have lost the “WE”. WE must decide that to Save our U.S.A. WE will have to “suck it up” and lose perhaps some of those “entitlements” that, by the way, you aren’t perhaps paying for….The rest of us are digging deep in our pockets. The fact is that MANY things will have to go. Some decisions will be painful. But everything should be on the table. The answer isnt really raising taxes….but we must stop spending so much.
We need a leader that will tell us to tighten our belts, unite us to save our way of life. Not one that simply bad mouths the other sides ideas. At least they are taking it seriously. They KNOW the cuts will hurt us. But it has to be done NOW. If you want a real scare tactic…start talking about our budget in 20 years…..and the deficit. Assuming the U.S doesnt default on its loans. That won’t be pretty.
If our economy crashes all those worries about Gay Rights, Obamacare, Illegal immigration…won’t mean squat. Getting food in your childrens mouth will matter.
We need a hero, a self sacrificing person to lead the way. We need 300000000 of them. Including you. To don the invisible uniform of a person fighting to save America.
To stand up to the self serving fools that desire to erode our common beliefs and foundation, to their own desires, for their own reasons.
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My Ubiquiti Networks Bullet HP2
Posted on January 16, 2011
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I have always been interested in radio. Not the broadcast AF/FM radio per se but RADIO propagation. How well radio waves travel, what effect frequency had on path loss etc. I have been a licensed Amateur Radio operator since I was 14.
Integrating radio and computers is a dream fulfilled. I use a computer and radio to communicate using various digital modes on the “ham” bands.
Since wireless networks or WIFI utilize radio..I am interested. I wont make this into a contest of how far I could establish communications but on one of the wireless adapters I stumbled across.
I purchased a Ubiquiti Bullet HP2. This is a wireless adapter (if you want to call it that) that has almost 1 watt of output power. Feed that into a hi-gain antenna and considerable ERP (effective radiated power ) is possible.
For a point to point distant link…several factors can disrupt or limit effective distance.
Height… get the antenna high. If you can actually see the distant endpoint that helps.
In my case just to “see” other networks in my area is difficult. While the closest is about 800 feet, there is a section of trees (FOREST) between my house and the neighbor. Using a usb wireless adapter on the second story of my house I can sometimes see the remote network. I use linux for testing and one of the tools I can use is Kismet or Airodump-ng both tools will show me the SSID, channel and relative signal strength among other things of a detected network.
So I placed the usb adapter at the focal point of a Hughes satellite antenna…big difference… very difficult to aim.
The only problem with using said system is I need to mount the antenna(s) outside on my tower. That way I can elevate it above some of the tree line and foliage (fat chance…100 foot tall trees). This would require active USB repeater cables…somewhat expensive…
OR one could connect to a remote antenna using coaxial cable… Good cable is very expensive and the amount of loss at 2.4 Ghz (Wifi frequencies).
So.. This is where the HP2 Bullet by Ubiquiti shines. It mounts at the antenna (No feedline loss), it connects to your pc or router using standard ethernet cable..(cheap) and is powered over the same cable using a Power Over Ethernet (POE) adapter. Sold seperately..about $17.
The Ubiquiti BulletHP2
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My review of the Roku / Netgear NTV250 (Roku XD)
Posted on January 15, 2011
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I am a BIG BIG fan of instant streaming from Netflix.
We have been using our XBOX 360 and WII to play netflix movies on our TV. We used to use a dedicated PC to play Netflix movies but I spied this item in Radio Shack. I have been looking at the Roku netplayer devices for awhile and when I saw this in Radio Shack, I being the impulsive buyer (sellers love me) purchased it.
The Netgear box didnt fool me. It obviously is the Roku XD repackaged…sweet.
Netgear packaging of the Roku Player
Can’t fool me..thats a ROKU…in Radio Shack…
Share on FacebookMy experience with AT&T .. or how to get your DSL fixed..
Posted on December 8, 2010
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At home I have a AT&T “extreme” DSL service. It has been very reliable…until a couple of months ago. Now for some unknown reason I get sporadic disconnects and delays.
I will be contacting AT&T and documenting their response and helpfulness. I expect to be very frustrated initallay going thru their “first level” tech support. With them follow their hard coded book of instructions… Like they wont think I have tried removing power and rebooting…..
Here is a graph of some of the delays. This graph show the time it takes to “ping” the first network device upstream from my DSL. The I.P address shown is the address of the upstream device, not my home I.P.
The DSL is a Westell modem in bridge mode with a Netgear Rangemax router providing the PPOE connection. To complicate things more… I dont have Voice phone service with AT&T, I use a VOIP provider…so it will be challenging to “talk” to the support person when they want me to reboot, reset etc the device…which of course would disconnect me…and our Cell Phone coverage SUCKS is poor, but again it is AT&T wireless…..hmmmm.
DSL performance to first upstream hop.
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Drawing the battle lines …
Posted on November 30, 2010
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Its apparent some politicians (GOP) did not get the message from Novembers elections….and they need to go..away…
Eight GOP senators voted to preserve earmark spending, including Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), James Inhofe (Okla.), Dick Lugar (Ind.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Richard Shelby (Ala.). Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio) and defeated Sen. Bob Bennett (Utah) also voted against it.
Earmarks can be good if you are on the receiving end of a bill that has that lil special extra touch, to convince someone to vote on an otherwise bad bill that cant stand on its on merits….. bribe bribe bribe… thats all they have been used as…..
Like any tool if misused…it breaks…so throw it away. No Earmarks….
We said that CLEARLY in the election, and will say it again in the next elections….just saying….. buh bye…
Just sayin…..
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