tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62515364313876203612024-02-18T20:52:05.864-06:00Inside Bobby's HeadA Mostly Moderate, Fiscal Conservative, Social Liberal Guy and my political thoughts, Gardening achievements, Motorcycle riding, Photography stuff - and any other comments on society that I have. Dedicated to Truth and Knowledge, Always! #IamGraywalkerBobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-35431222681400651432020-05-24T07:45:00.002-05:002020-05-25T15:04:18.922-05:00Conservative Christians are messed up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You can't make this stuff up. So, Christians are very vocal on Facebook. But if you read their threads, they are full of hypocrisy. For example, one posted this:</div>
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And also posted this:<br />
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Talking about their desire to hunt down and kill duly elected Democrat officials in "Blue" states. They want to murder Democrats. They say so often. ... reminds me of a <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/true-to-the-faith/ten-commandments?lang=eng" target="_blank">Commandment</a> they might want to read over again a few times. (Number 6... and 9... and 1 needs a refresher too, seeing how many truly Believe in Trump.)</div>
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Then, another posts this:</div>
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As if Christians are not currently going around discriminating against, abusing and killing gay people. As if Christians are not shooting up gatherings, bombing Federal Buildings and saying we should <a href="https://www.au.org/church-state/february-2010-church-state/people-events/religious-right-activist-calls-for-execution" target="_blank">execute homosexuals</a>. Modern Christians. Lets not talk about their blood-soaked past - its only in the past they tortured and executed people, some being burned alive, for being "Witches" and Heretics. Its only in the past they invented torturous death machines to get innocent people to 'confess' to sins. Its only in the past that they lynched black people whom they considered to have no soul.<br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-71216592797643173962019-09-29T08:36:00.003-05:002019-09-29T08:36:39.878-05:00Economic Growth is an Illusion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Y'all do realize that "Economic Growth" is an illusion, right?<br />
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In 1940, a 1 1/2 ounce piece of candy would cost you a nickle - 5 cents - $.05. (<a href="https://www.candywrapperarchive.com/candy-collector/candy-prices-over-the-years/" target="_blank">here</a>) In 1999, that same piece of candy would cost you seventy cents - 14 nickles - 70 cents - $.70.<br />
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Now, do you think the value of that candy went up that much? No. What happened is that the value of that nickle went down.<br />
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What is happening is that the uber wealthy are picking your pockets without you realizing. Or you are just too scared to stand up to them.<br />
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How? Even though they have $100 dollars and you only have $1 dollar, they want that dollar of yours for themselves. So, they devalue your dollar, tell you that you now have $5 dollars. Then they take one of those dollars. Then they tell you that you have $10 dollars left. And take two of those dollars. Now, you think you have $8.00 - much better than the measly $1 you had before, right? Only, what you really have left is only worth 1/4 of the original dollar - 25 cents. But now they have $.75 cents of your original dollar, and you're happy with that. They're still scheming on how to get that last quarter.<br />
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They've been telling you that the people who do the work are not as important as those who have the money - STOP believing that. Its bull. Labor deserves compensation. "Investment" doesn't deserve anything - its a gamble that the company will do well. IF the company does well, after making good on it's responsibility to it's workers, then the investment should get a return. If the company doesn't do well, the investment should be lost. Investment returns should be the last consideration of a company. The absolute last. Returns on Investment are a by-product, NOT an end goal.<br />
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For some extra reading:<br />
<a href="http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/">http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/</a><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_corporate_law">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_corporate_law</a><br />
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Corporations are one major area where we need to get back to some 1776 thinking.</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-12401449882659629002019-03-26T13:20:00.003-05:002019-03-26T19:10:28.763-05:00The Electoral College for Idiots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some of y'all are thoroughly confused as to what the Electoral College is meant to be.<br />
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I'll start with "Tyranny of the Masses" - this was pulled from discussions on the separation of powers in our government, not the electoral college. (See <a href="https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/primary-source-documents/the-federalist-papers/federalist-papers-no-10/" target="_blank">Federalist Papers 10</a>) We have a President (Executive), Congress (Legislative) and Supreme Court (Judicial). The independent branches were supposed to prevent a wholesale domination of the minority by the majority. It was supposed to be good people doing their job for the best interest of the Nation. (we have totally failed at that) In addition, the Congress was to be divided into a Senate and House of Representatives, elected differently. The senate consists of two members from each state, giving all states equal representation. (see <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Senate-United-States-government" target="_blank">The Senate</a>) The House of Representatives was based on the population of a state, at around 60,000 per Representative. (See <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Representatives-United-States-government" target="_blank">House of Representatives</a>) The membership was to change based on a population census every 10 years.<br />
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The Electoral College was put in place because the Founders didn't trust the Citizens to always elect a competent person as President (sadly turns out they were right). They wanted Congress to elect the president. As a compromise, they came up with the Electoral College - where each state was given an Electoral Representative for each Congress-person, who would vote on president based on the votes of their citizens. So, two for the Senators, plus the number of Representatives (based on population). The idea was that if the citizens voted for a really bad choice, the Electoral College could change it, in the best interest of the Nation. (See <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp" target="_blank">Federalist Papers 68</a>)<br />
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So, if the House of Representatives was still one representative for each 60,000 people in a state, we would have Five Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty Three members of the House. (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=current+population+of+the+USA&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS822US822&oq=current+population+of+the+USA&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.8655j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">US Population</a>) Foreseeing this expanding population as a problem, in 1920, they pretty much skipped the reapportionment due to rural representatives stalling it. In 1929, they froze the House at the current 435 members. It was at this time the under and over representation started - states with a larger population started getting less representation and less populous states started getting more. (<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-population-keeps-growing-but-house-of-representatives-is-same-size-as-in-taft-era/" target="_blank">House vs Population</a>)<br />
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I can find no reference to purposefully giving less populous states more voting power for president anywhere in Founding-Era documents. So, this is most assuredly NOT the original purpose of the Electoral College, as many corrupt individuals would have you believe. (<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-reason-for-the-electoral-college/" target="_blank">Fact Check the Reason</a>) The protection from the "Tyranny of the Majority" was in the division of powers between the three branches of government. This delusion that the Electoral College is supposed to give more power to less populous states had to take hold after some significant population growth after 1930, perhaps in the 1950's when the Nation started buckling to the corruption that has infested our government.<br />
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What needs to be changed in order to fix the Electoral College?<br />
1. Adjust the membership of the House of Representatives as originally intended by losing the static number and adjusting the per-citizen ratio. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule" target="_blank">The Wyoming Rule</a> would be a good method)<br />
2. Set a law that a state's electors should be apportioned in relation to the vote of the state's citizens - in other words, abolish the winner-take-all rule.<br />
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We need to get to a place where we are more <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote" target="_blank">One Citizen, One Vote</a> and restore the Electoral College to it's original purpose. Those who don't want equal representation, should move to their beloved Russia.<br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-20831006513459391172017-02-15T10:16:00.001-06:002017-03-24T11:37:43.628-05:00Changes in Altitude<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So.. since last post, I have moved to Saint Louis, MO. I am not dating anyone... not sure why. But, I do have a good job and I am Loving it here. Getting back to myself a bit more every day. Although yesterday (Valentine's Day) was pretty hard to get through.<br />
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I am trying to get a HashTag going so that I can be found online by using the tag - so #IamGraywalker is what I am trying to use. Yes, this post is an attempt to make that more searchable. :D<br />
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I'll try to fill this out a bit more with updates and other items shortly... stay tuned.<br />
Probably need to update on my getting a land loan, truck breaking down, buying a car, adjusting to winter here, etc...<br />
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Yes, the Hashtag is working. Anyone smart enough can find this post. Probably the best place to contact me is on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/bobby.kearan - PM something a bit more complex than "hi." and I will likely respond.<br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-49891284718123134272017-01-15T10:17:00.000-06:002017-02-15T12:59:21.676-06:00Preconceived notions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Paraphrased something I read today... "I have no patience for fake people,
whiny-little-bitches or liars. People whose idea of a vigorous discussion or
argumentation is to belittle people rather than defend your argument. People who are into flag banni<span class="text_exposed_show">ng,
flag burning or denying someone else's rights. People who support tyranny, racism, discrimination or
suffering. People who align themselves
against U.S. veterans or our founding fathers. People whose idea of fun involves hate-baiting, divisiveness or
general ass-hat-like behavior."</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Someone commented on that, again paraphrased, "yeah, I can't stand liberals either."</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Which took me by surprise, because I was thinking, "yeah, this guy can't stand conservatives."</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">I suppose that goes to show we each have our own pre-conceived notions. Only, I think mine can be shown to be true a lot easier than the other guy's.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">"Fake people, whiny-little-bitches or <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2015/08/factchecking-the-gop-debate-late-edition/" target="_blank">liars</a>" certainly makes me think 'conservative.' Damn near everything they (the public faces of the conservative movement) say is easily proven to be wrong or an <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/07/3689230/chris-christie-september-10/" target="_blank">outright lie</a>. And "Fake People" - Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker... come on... </span><br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-7123992505199686222016-09-13T21:14:00.001-05:002016-09-13T21:33:46.762-05:00Distilling Patience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="9b0k8-0-0"><span data-text="true">I'm not sure who or what is in control of my life right now, but I am fairly certain, for better or worse, it is not me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cebbp-0-0"><span data-text="true">If it were up to me, right now, I would be living in the Saint Louis, MO area, enjoying a more social life, pagan shops, comic book shops, role playing games (pen and paper), board games, liquor in grocery stores and all kinds of nice things not found in my current state. I would be dating a good, fairly amazing, woman.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9dgps-0-0"><span data-text="true">For whatever reason, I have been unable to find a company that will hire me - lack of college degree, no certifications, whatever reason - despite my skills and years of experience actually doing the job.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="co128-0-0"><span data-text="true">Now, I am fairly well stuck, due in no small part to an accrued debt load. I, we, made purchases and plans based on an expected fiscal influx that, despite assurances, never came through. So, now, even with assets in my favor, I am afraid that it will still be months before I am somewhat secure.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9b2tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am in the habit of expecting things to happen on my timeline - which is a lot more quick and efficiently than they actually do. Many other people seem to be just lethargic in everything they do - walking, working, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9b2tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am being forced to slow down, be patient, be alone and have nothing to do but think and reflect. Yep, this stinks.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9b2tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">So, now I am thinking there had better be something good to come out of this. The good woman I referred to earlier has stopped communicating with me because I am not in Saint Louis yet.... through no fault of my own that I can see.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9b2tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">I have found, quite possibly the root of some of my health issues and am working on getting treatment - although that is also going too slow and too frustrating for my tastes. I am depending on others to get it resolved, but... slow.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9b2tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">Every time I start planning for what will happen when x gets done, I have to stop and remind myself that the people who need to get x done don't ever seem to have any motivation to do so and it will take for frikkin ever to get done.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9b2tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">... I just wish I could take over and get it done... but, honestly, I don't know how.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9b2tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">... and then, I have to work - but no place I need to go to to get stuff done is open after I get off work, or before I get to work. So, I have to take off work to get anything started, much less done. </span></span></div>
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-69478851987632237442015-11-05T20:59:00.002-06:002015-11-05T20:59:35.697-06:00Leaves and Lives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I burst forth into life, clinging to the limb high in a tree.<br />
I grew, gaining life and giving life<br />
doing my part.<br />
I held on to the limb through high winds<br />
through blazing heat, ups and downs <br />
Over time I grew tired.<br />
My green faded.<br />
I learned to let go.<br />
I became a leaf on the wind.<br />
Spiraling down, soaring up<br />
wherever the breeze pushed me.<br />
I slowly descended, wondering<br />
what would I find below?<br />
I settled onto the river,<br />
dancing on the water as it babbled,<br />
flowed, eddied, crashed and rushed.<br />
I learned to go with the flow,<br />
going where fate may take me,<br />
overcoming the rocks in the river.<br />
Dancing ever slower.<br />
I realize I am sinking into the water.<br />
The water pulls me down even as it<br />
fills me up.<br />
I shall go under, settle and decay.<br />
My wish is that I have become rich enough<br />
in my life<br />
That the leaves of the trees downstream<br />
will be a little more green,<br />
live a little bit longer, their trees stronger,<br />
because I lived before them.<br />
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- today's motorcycle meditation</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-39509218621179150332015-10-31T13:58:00.000-05:002015-10-31T14:11:51.083-05:00Yeah, I don't like being required to listen to Prayers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So, this has been a while coming. Recent Facebook conversations have got me thinking about why I feel offended by being required to listen to, if not participate in, Christian prayer in order to attend just about any supposedly public event.<br />
I've been thinking - because an un-examined position is not a good one - about my reactions. Not even sure this is a good idea... but... <br />
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What offends me? The repeated idea that Their way is the only way. That people are powerless, needing to be possessed by some foreign spirit to even be able to walk - or do anything, win a sports competition, get over grief, make more money, etc. That a loving, all powerful deity is also a petty, vengeful one - kind of like an abusive boyfriend that will kill you if you don't love them back. That it is better to believe - or go through the motions of really believing - just in case it is true that this loving deity will send you off to be tortured for eternity if you don't. That people are basically cruel, evil beings in need of saving from themselves. That a lot of the same people Praying in public are 'sinning' - often in very nasty, harmful ways - in private. That a lot of people Praying for peace, love and understanding in public are also racist, hateful, mean spirited people - mostly in private, but even in public. Hypocrisy in general. I won't get into the anti-science and 'bible-based' bigotry.<br />
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I understand - from a first hand point of view - that if you seriously believe it, that you see wanting other people to believe as you do is the kind thing to do. I know it may be comforting to think some omnipotent, benevolent God is really paying attention to everything all the time - even you and your quest for a parking space. I know how hard it is to have that Faith stripped from you. Its not something I would wish on anyone. <br />
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So, I don't go around trying to convince Christians of what I know to be true. I don't try to force anyone to change their religion or open themselves to spiritual possession. I don't require anyone to meditate, take a shamanic journey, make offerings to Cernunnos or anything else to participate in any event or gathering. <br />
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Is a little reciprocal consideration too much to ask? <br />
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I don't 'cleverly' give people copies of "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=Conversations%20with%20gOD&linkCode=ur2&tag=graywalker&url=search-alias%3Daps&linkId=XZJXLSOZVKQGI5WZ" target="_blank">Conversations with God</a>" or "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=Richard%20bach&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ARichard%20bach&tag=graywalker&url=search-alias%3Daps&linkId=6G5KUOUZTDFGSOWL" target="_blank">Illusions</a>." I don't invite people to a free dinner - without telling them it requires sitting through a presentation of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=The%20Secret&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AThe%20Secret&tag=graywalker&url=search-alias%3Daps&linkId=SD447CLEIAEPPQ3O" target="_blank">The Secret</a> before or during eating. I don't go around suggesting everyone get into <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=Heal%20yourself%20with%20Shamanism&linkCode=ur2&tag=graywalker&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&linkId=RL2QTACJUKAUWXCV" target="_blank">Healing through Shamanism</a>.<br />
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(Feel free to click the links and buy some books or videos if you are interested.)<br />
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What do I believe? I answered that a while back on another blog (<a href="http://thepaganside.blogspot.com/2009/01/ethics-and-belief.html" target="_blank">click to read</a>). The <a href="http://thepaganside.blogspot.com/2009/01/bleeping-secret-prophecy-and-beyond.html" target="_blank">post before</a> that one is good too. So, not getting into that here.</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-36131411242065554792015-08-08T11:05:00.002-05:002015-08-08T11:05:52.799-05:00Vista Print Yard Sign Tutorial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>How to make a Vista Print Yard sign</b></div>
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Step one - go to Vista Print's Yard Sign page (<a href="http://www.vistaprint.com/lawn-signs.aspx?mk=yard+sign&ad=p&crtv=73000174939&device=c&psloc=1026770&pstid=kwd-38859341&psite=mkwid|lihGrWau&iv_=__iv_p_1_a_30626749_g_18387823099_w_kwd-38859341_h_1026770_ii__d_c_v__n_g_c_73000174939_k_yard+sign_m_p_l__t__e__r_1t1_vi__&couponAutoload=1&GP=8%2f8%2f2015+11%3a40%3a14+AM&GPS=3581312066&GNF=0#1" target="_blank">Click Here</a>)<br />
"Browse our Designs" is already selected.<br />
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Step two - pick a size by selecting the circle next to 'small' or 'large'<br />
Click Continue.<br />
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Step three - Select design. I selected the "Phone / Other * Company Name * company message" design with the blue frame for this tutorial.<br />
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Step four - fill in the text you want :<br />
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Step five - Click Edit on the 'other back side options'<br />
It should show the same design for the back. Click Next.<br />
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Step six - Check the box beside 'I have reviewed and approve my design' and then click Next.<br />
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Step seven - You can sign in, create an account or click "Continue as Guest"<br />
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Step eight - Select your quantity - whatever you can afford or are willing to spend.<br />
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Step nine - Click the circle beside the free stand (or not, up to you.)<br />
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Step ten - Click "Go to Cart" to skip the offers for more stuff to buy.<br />
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Step eleven - Review the cart and click Check Out and pay. The sign should be on the way!<br />
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I will be offering a custom design a little bit later.</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-56107886053110202142015-07-28T13:02:00.001-05:002015-08-01T10:17:10.345-05:00The Confederate Flag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I grew up seeing the Southern Cross confederate flag (a stretch of one of many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America" target="_blank">confederate flags</a>) as a symbol of Southern Pride, doing the right thing, having a little fun - and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes_of_Hazzard" target="_blank">Dukes of Hazzard</a> kind of good ole boys - never meaning no harm. For me, and many poor white folk in the south, it did not mean racism. It meant having a little pride when there was not much to be proud of. "We may have been beat, but we're not beaten." A symbol of "when you get knocked down, stand right back up!"<br />
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Now, I realize that all the talk about the <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/" target="_blank">Civil War</a> was fought over State's Rights and Taxes and other stuff is, although founded in some actual issues of the time, just not really the case. Slavery was <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html" target="_blank">the cause</a> for the Southern states.<br />
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"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery--
the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the
product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions
of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate
verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none
but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun." - from <i>A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the
Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union. </i></blockquote>
That reality was, and is, hard to come to terms with. It goes against what I believed growing up, what I was told and taught.<br />
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The same with the Confederate Flag - the Southern Cross flag, which is a stretched out version of the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-didnt-know-confederate-flag/" target="_blank">battle flag of Virginia.</a> We didn't see it as meaning what it does to so many. Coming to terms with the fact that <a href="http://m.snopes.com/2015/06/28/confederate-flag-history/" target="_blank">it DOES</a> represent Hate, Racism and Terror for a very large number of people was difficult. It is used by the KKK - a white christian hate group. It was created for that exact reason - to instill terror in people of color. For many people, it brings up images of burning crosses in yards, white hoods with weapons in hand, nooses, lynchings. The Southern Cross flag is to people of color what the Swastika is to the Jewish people. They are often waved together!<br />
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Knowing what it means to people of color, I can no longer imagine that it is anything but a symbol of terror. It has been hard losing what I thought it was... what it meant to me. But I could no more fly or defend the Southern Cross any more than I could fly or defend the Nazi flag.<br />
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Getting other people who grew up like I did to see that, to realize the facts and to support removing the flag from state flags and stop flying it or wearing it - that is going to be hard. You have to realize that for many of them it really does not represent slavery and hate. It represents at least a little something to be proud of, resilience, heritage, not being held down - hope. Destroying the symbols of people's childhoods doesn't make for a good basis for building relationships.<br />
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It is hard to realize that when you fly the Southern Cross flag, you are, even inadvertently, supporting things like this:<br />
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(<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3176619/Black-child-s-birthday-party-interrupted-white-men-Confederate-flags-allegedly-said-kill-y-n-s-driving-fleet-pickup-trucks.html" target="_blank">More Here</a>)</div>
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On the other side, it is important to realize that the Confederate Flag does represent Heritage and Southern Pride to a lot of people who are not racist. If you are looking to change hearts and minds, then <a href="http://wreg.com/2015/07/22/group-takes-a-shovel-to-confederate-generals-grave/" target="_blank">desecrating memorials and graves</a> is not the way to go about it. It would be better to help people realize what the flag means to those who have been terrorized by people waving it. Help people realize that just because they think of it one way, doesn't mean that other people see it the same way - and that sometimes it is worth giving up a symbol in order to not cause distress to others.<br />
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There are good people who really do not realize what the flag symbolizes for people of color. Losing a beloved reminder of their childhood, a piece of their pride, an image of resilience, is not going to be easy.<br />
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It can't be about what race has to be humble and apologize for past behavior. It has to be about coming to terms with the past, coming to an understanding of how things are and working together to move forward.<br />
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... on "how things are"... It doesn't take much to see that harsh laws are applied differently to black people than they are to white people. The question is how to stop it! From the obscene treatment of the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/scott-sisters-debt-society-and-new-jim-crow" target="_blank">Scott Sisters</a> to the unequal application of <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0806/Racial-bias-and-stand-your-ground-laws-what-the-data-show" target="_blank">Stand Your Ground</a>, the ... the bullshit is systemic. Poor white people are often victims of our blatantly corrupt legal system, but not as often or too the same degree.<br />
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When we come to the realization that our we are not actually that different, that <a href="http://www.understandingrace.org/history/history_trans.html" target="_blank">"Race" is propaganda</a>, segregating ourselves based on the color of our skin is just plain silly and start to join together against the <a href="http://7online.com/archive/9440401/" target="_blank">injustices</a> that harm us all - that is when we start to make a difference.</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-10881193123471725942014-12-14T10:07:00.003-06:002014-12-14T10:07:46.051-06:00On Poverty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
WARNING: Very disjointed post. Inspired by a meme featuring a quote from Bernie Sanders about <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/buzz/war-on-poverty" target="_blank">poverty</a> and comments from facebook.<br />
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1.0:$7t4l1-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One reply to this was : "</span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;">Three solutions. Finish school. Wait until you're married to have kids. Get a job, any job. Problem solved.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1.0:$7t4l1-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, many people don't have access to the education they need to realize that there are options other than the living situation in which they are growing up. With conservatives refusing sex education, the 'wait till married' is not working out. And 'get a job' is not as easy as it sounds, even with school. 'Any job' will also not solve the problem of child poverty and hunger.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1.0:$7t4l1-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1.0:$7t4l1-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I firmly believe we need to invest in education - especially in lower-income, poverty-ridden areas - and have classes dedicated to teaching kids how to be productive members of society. If you think those are things to learn from the parents, then you are a very privileged. Those are t</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">hings that privileged kids learn from their parents and are things that many kids never have access to. From getting and keeping a job to how to manage finances, credit, etc. That there are options to working at wal-mart or getting a job at the factory and living in a trailer for the rest of your life. How can a parent teach things the parent does not know?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="136js-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$136js.0:$136js-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$136js.0:$136js-0-0.0" /></span></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7qa6a-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7qa6a" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="7qa6a-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7qa6a.0:$7qa6a-0-0">I know it is hard for the privileged to realize that not everyone has the opportunity and education they did. That 'motivated and willing' are not always enough to overcome a bad situation. For many, many people growing up in generations of poverty, we are going to have to teach them that there is another way of life that they can have access to</span>, because otherwise, they will always think that the way they are living is 'just the way things are.'</span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="7t4l1-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7t4l1.0:$7t4l1-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have began to see that many people have little to no will (not sure if that is the proper term) of their own. They go wherever they feel expected to go, do whatever they are expected to do or told to do. That is the norm. That is why occupation names became surnames. The baker's kids became bakers, so the family became The Bakers. Taylor, Shoemaker, LeForge, Parker, Cook, Smith, Farmer - just a few more examples of Family Occupation surnames.
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="3hg44-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3hg44" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="3hg44-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3hg44.0:$3hg44-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That is why the children of poor people tend to remain poor. The information and knowledge that there is another option is not often made available. Even when it is, the confidence and drive is often overwhelmed by their situation long before it can be utilized. Add to that the weight of hunger, hopelessness and desperation, most people are crushed before they have a chance to achieve more. Upward mobility is harder that ever. The poor parents don't have the contacts to get their kids special treatment that more connected parents often do. Many don't even know what opportunities exist nor how to get access to them. If they parents don't know, how can the kids ever know?</span></span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="fn1ba-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$fn1ba" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="fn1ba-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$fn1ba.0:$fn1ba-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another problem comes in when bad people learned to take advantage of people's lack of self awareness and willpower. Advertising. You see something enough times, some people are convinced despite all evidence to the contrary. (see the effects of Fox News) </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="675ra-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$675ra.0:$675ra-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$675ra.0:$675ra-0-0.0" /></span></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="3hvim-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3hvim" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="3hvim-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3hvim.0:$3hvim-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The best thing we can do to help people not be dependent on welfare is to provide adequate Education, Food, Housing, Transportation and Training - and awareness that options are available. In conjunction with reigning in rampant profiteering, wage inequality and corporate malfeasance (like not paying living wages, overcompensating executives, tax evasion, etc.), we could have a very healthy economy.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="b28rs-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$b28rs" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="b28rs-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$b28rs.0:$b28rs-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Extreme Conservatives want to throw everyone to the wolves and create some Beyond Thunderdome world where the rich and powerful rule by force. Conservatives <a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/12/13/mississippi-education-money-gap-grows/20378079/" target="_blank">refuse to educate</a> anyone whose family doesn't already have a lot of money. Extreme Liberals want to give handouts to everyone who shows a need. Republicans want to shred the constitution and create an Theocratic Oligarchy in it's place, Democrats seem to want to be Republican Lite.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bkfue-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$bkfue.0:$bkfue-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$bkfue.0:$bkfue-0-0.0" /></span></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="3voqe-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3voqe" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="3voqe-0-0" data-reactid=".25.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3voqe.0:$3voqe-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I just want Freedom and Justice for All. A big part of that is Freedom of Information - which to me means education, awareness of options and opportunity.</span></span></div>
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We should require money management courses for all those on welfare, those who file bankruptcy and those on unemployment. If you get state-funded support, you get the training to help you not need it. For those on welfare, they should also get life lesson courses - rich dad, poor dad kind of things and basic life skills - how to get along in the workplace, how to find a job, how to find training, how to get access to training, how to make contacts and nurture business relationships. Many people never get that kind of information.</div>
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I wish I had the money and contacts to start a training program.... </div>
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-38218963362512143142014-09-17T09:54:00.005-05:002014-09-17T09:55:37.486-05:00Freedom of Speech - You apparently don't understand it.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" target="_blank">First Amendment</a> is often cited. Most often, it is used improperly. I am going to make an effort to explain what the First Amendment means when it talks about Free Speech.<br />
<br />
First off, the "Freedom of Speech" is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">not absolute</a>. It does not give you the right to say anything you want, any time you want, any where you want. It does not protect you from the non-governmental consequences of your speech.<br />
<br />
The right of Free Speech does not mean that you can say "<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/046616_public_school_free_speech_religious_persecution.html#" target="_blank">Bless You</a>" in the middle of class during school hours. It surely does not mean that you can then proceed to start an argument with your teacher in the middle of class and suffer no repercussions.<br />
<br />
The only thing that the right to free speech affords you is that the government can not arrest you for simply saying something. Teachers can tell you not to talk in class unless called upon - including not saying "Bless You" when someone sneezes. Rules of the class. Police can open an investigation on you for saying something like "I want to kill the president" or "My heroin supplier was late, so I shot him and took all his stash." You can be arrested for shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater or bar - if anyone hears you and a stamped occurs because you scared everyone - and fined for damages.<br />
<br />
People are completely free to stop buying your products or shopping at your store because of anything you said that they didn't like. Your employer may fire you for saying bad things about the company.<br />
<br />
Your right to free speech has other limits as well. You can't claim free speech when standing outside a classroom yelling the script to Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail. You are free to speak that somewhere else, like a public park. However, if you start doing that in a grocery store, they are totally free to kick you out.<br />
<br />
Your right to Speak Freely is only protected from excessive suppression and obstruction by the Government. Freedom of Speech does not protect you from the social and civil consequences of what you have said.</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-53242793379846422852014-08-15T09:30:00.003-05:002014-08-15T09:30:39.284-05:00My Visual Studio Project Disappeared!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I worked on a Visual Studio 2012 project pretty much all day yesterday. It was a Visual Basic .Net project.<br />
I saved frequently. I debugged. I ran the project.<br />
<br />
Overnight, windows updates (I am assuming) rebooted the system and, this morning - no more project. Gone. Nowhere (normal) to be seen. Apparently, I did not "save all" or save the project itself. So all that work and testing disappeared.<br />
<br />
I googled. Nothing I found turned out to be helpful or if it seemed helpful, turned out to be untrue. I panicked! All that work gone - I saved!!! What the Funk!?!?!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/06/30/autorecover-vstipenv0019.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/06/30/autorecover-vstipenv0019.aspx</a> <-- No help.<br />
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848072(v=vs.85).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848072(v=vs.85).aspx</a> <-- No help.<br />
<a href="https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download">https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download</a> <-- No help.<br />
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saraford/archive/2008/02/14/did-you-know-where-visual-studio-saves-auto-recovered-files-in-the-case-of-an-unexpected-shutdown-151.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saraford/archive/2008/02/14/did-you-know-where-visual-studio-saves-auto-recovered-files-in-the-case-of-an-unexpected-shutdown-151.aspx</a> <-- No help!!<br />
<br />
"C:\Users\MyUserID\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Backup Files" had MyProject folder. It was empty.<br />
<br />
I cursed and searched, and cursed and searched... and then I found it:<br />
<br />
"\\localhost\c$\Users\MyUserID\AppData\Local\Temporary Projects\MyProject" - it was all there!<br />
<br />
I copied the folder to my documents. Then I copied the folder to my visual basic projects folder and opened the solution file. It is all there! Whew!<br />
<br />
Why the \\localhost\c$ ? Well, I am on windows 8.1 and the "Previous Versions" tab is gone from File Explorer, but you can get to it using UNC to your own machine. Silly, I know.<br />
<br />
I hope this helps someone else find their hard work that a stupid thing from Microsoft caused them to loose.</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-60514259181997035162014-07-12T11:13:00.003-05:002014-08-15T09:31:08.470-05:00Religious Freedom, Not the Christian Religion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its been said, many times, many ways, but again...<br />
<br />
"Under God" was added to the Pledge in 1954, some sixty two years after it was written. God in Government was not part of our Nation when it was founded - quite the opposite. The Founders set our government up as being only about civil and common issues, leaving religion up to the individual.<br />
<br />
It took the Civil War to allow the theocrats to insert "In God We Trust" onto coins, breaking a barrier our constitution had set up. Note that it was 88 years after the war for independence from a country who had the Church of England as it's official religion. How quick oppression was forgotten. But 88 years and "God" was no part of our federal government.<br />
<br />
In 1956, during the paranoia of the Cold War, was when they changed our nation's motto from "E Pluribis Unum" ( Out of Many, One ) to "In God We Trust" - ideologically tossing roughly half our citizens out of the government and breaking our Unity. That was 180 years of Unity, broken by one vote in a paranoid congress.<br />
<br />
If you are urging "God" and YOUR religion to be inserted into OUR government, then you do not respect our Country nor our Constitution.<br />
<br />
I have no problem with you having your religion, practising your religion, going to your church, advertising your religion (despite your book's admonishments) or teaching your religion. The problem starts when you try to enforce your religion on others. It is especially problematic when you try to get <b>our</b> government to force <b>your</b> religion on <b>me</b>.<br />
<br />
In the United States of America we share a common core, a belief in Freedom. We can, and should, rally around the core of Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Realizing and Embracing the notion that our Liberty ends when another person's begins and extending to all people each and every right we want for ourselves. This forms out of many people of different backgrounds, religions, races, orientations and persuasions, One Nation, Indivisible, with True Liberty, Justice and Equality for All.<br />
<br />
Sources (this time) :<br />
<a href="http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm">http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx">http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx</a><br />
<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7500.html">http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7500.html</a><br />
<br />
Excerpts from the sources:<br />
<h1>
<a href="http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm" target="_blank">The Pledge of Allegiance</a></h1>
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist
minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931). It was originally published in <i>The Youth's Companion</i> on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in any country.<br />
In its original form it read:<br />
<blockquote>
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which
it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."</blockquote>
In 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President
Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," creating
the 31-word pledge we say today. <b>Bellamy's daughter objected to this
alteration</b>. <br />
<h2>
<div>
<a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx" target="_blank">History of 'In God We Trust'</a>
</div>
</h2>
<div class="article-date">
</div>
The
motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because
of the increased religious sentiment existing <u>during the Civil War</u>.
Secretary of the Treasury <span class="textheader">Salmon P. Chase</span>
received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country,
urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins. ....<br />
The Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the <span class="textheader">one-cent coin</span> and authorized the minting of the <span class="textheader">two-cent coin</span>.
The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins
for final approval of the Secretary. <u>IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on
the 1864 <span class="textheader">two-cent coin</span>. </u><br />
<br />
<h3>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/069112602X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=069112602X&linkCode=as2&tag=graywalker&linkId=ZZVR6XQR34KJATDO">The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=graywalker&l=as2&o=1&a=069112602X" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<br /><span style="font-weight: lighter;">Frank Lambert</span></h3>
1639...Those Puritan Fathers exemplify two of the most enduring views of
colonial America: America as a haven of religious freedom, and America
as a Christian Nation. First, the Puritan settlers had fled England,
where Archbishop William Laud had persecuted them because they refused
to subscribe to religious beliefs and practices that they deemed to be
unscriptural. Now in the American wilderness, they were free to worship
according to the dictates of their consciences, governed only by the
rule of God's word. And, second, those Puritan Fathers organized a
Christian State. They established their Congregational churches as the
official religion of Connecticut, supported by tax revenues and defended
by the coercive arm of government.<br />
...<br />
One hundred and fifty years later... <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(in 1787, after such horrors as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 - BK) </i></span><br />
... unlike the work of the Puritan Fathers, the federal constitution
made no reference whatever to God or divine providence, citing as its
sole authority "the people of the United States." Further, its stated
purposes were secular, political ends: <b>"to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common
defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of
Liberty."</b> Instead of building a "Christian Commonwealth," the supreme
law of the land established a <u>secular state</u>. The opening clause of its
first amendment introduced the radical notion that the state had no
voice concerning matters of conscience: "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof." <br />
In debating the language of that amendment, the first House of
Representatives rejected a Senate proposal that would have made possible
the establishment of the Christian religion or of some aspect of
Christian orthodoxy. <b>There would be no Church of the United States. Nor would America represent itself to the world as a Christian Republic. </b><br />
<br />
Their bequests were the ideas of separation of church and state and the
free exercise of religion extended to people of all faiths or no faith.
Their achievement can be understood only against the backdrop of the
American Revolution. Clearly, they were architects of a political
revolution, throwing off constitutional monarchy for a democratic
republic. But they were also framers of a religious revolution,
rejecting the idea of an established or official religion, which was the
organizing principle informing church-state relations in the vast
majority of countries, as indeed it had been in most of the American
colonies. Never before had there been such a total separation of
religious and political institutions. But the ban on establishment was
not the Founders' only legacy in church-state matters. Regarding
religion as a natural right that the governed never surrendered to
government, they prohibited any interference in citizens' rights to the
free exercise of religion.<br />
<br />
Influenced by the Enlightenment, they had great confidence in the
individual's ability to understand the world and its most fundamental
laws through the exercise of his or her reason. To them, true religion
was not something handed down by a church or contained in the Bible but
rather was to be found through free rational inquiry. Drawing on radical
Whig ideology, a body of thought whose principal concern was expanded
liberties, the framers sought to secure their idea of religious freedom
by barring any alliance between church and state. </div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-33762847414026944672014-04-26T09:48:00.001-05:002014-08-15T09:31:25.740-05:00The Dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
BT is Safe!<br />
<br />
There, I said it first. Sure, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis" target="_blank">Bacillus Thuringiensis</a> is safe and effective when sprayed on even organic crops. The problem comes from inserting genes into embryos (seed) to cause the plant to produce it's own crystal protein toxins. While Corn is safe to eat, BT Corn is no longer Corn. It is an untested genetic experiment unleashed on an unsuspecting public - and it is proving to be bad.<br />
<br />
Now, don't think I'm picking on corn. BT modification was first done on Potatoes. Peanuts also have been BT modified. And don't think that I'm picking on BT modification - any direct genetic manipulation that introduces a foreign gene into a food crop is ... simply wrong. Especially if it is not tested properly, which none of them have been.<br />
<br />
Any product that the manufacturer fights against testing or labelling, should raise alarm bells for anyone of sound mind. <a href="http://www.scientistsunderattack.com/" target="_blank">Scientists are attacked</a> for revealing any study that proves GMOs to be dangerous. <br />
<br />
The process of gene splicing is just plain reckless. Basically, they break open a cell of the organism that has the desired trait, break it's genes apart and hope they suck up the right piece with a needle. Then they inject the genes into a developing seed or egg of the target organism - hoping that it will incorporate the desired gene into it's own genes. What other genes they are creating, they don't care. Antibiotic resistance, increased toxicity, decreased nutritional availability, increased allergens are all <a href="http://enhs.umn.edu/current/5103/gm/harmful.html" target="_blank">concerning possibilities</a>.<br />
<br />
Some claim that the GMO products will reduce the use of pesticide, which may be true. The insects eat the plant and the toxins paralyse their digestive system causing them to not eat and therefore starve to death. Those same toxins are found in the blood of people who consume GMO products - and their <a href="http://www.responsibletechnology.org/10-Reasons-to-Avoid-GMOs" target="_blank">unborn babies</a>.<br />
<br />
But for Roundup-Ready varieties, they increase the use of herbicide. Farmers increase the use of Roundup and when the weeds <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/genetic-engineering/" target="_blank">become resistant</a>, they up it again. Yet it still fails to increase the <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/genetic-engineering/failure-to-yield.html" target="_blank">crop's yields</a>.<br />
<br />
So, while spraying live BT bacteria on crop plants - which can later be washed off - may be safe, creating a plant that produces the insecticide of that BT by itself - which can never be washed off - is not in any way the same thing and, by far, not at all safe.<br />
<br /></div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-51462501698377371562014-02-01T10:45:00.000-06:002014-02-01T10:45:11.020-06:00Minimum Wage doesn't Raise Prices<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wages have been either stagnant or declining for the past 30 years. That is a Fact, indisputable and supported by vast research.<br />
<br /><a href="http://economyincrisis.org/content/study-shows-meager-increase-median-wages-1980" target="_blank">Study Shows...</a><br />
<a href="http://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2012/03/basics-real-wages-remain-below-their.html" target="_blank">Real Wages...</a><br />
<a href="http://www.kyklosproductions.com/articles/wages.html" target="_blank">Wages in America...</a><br />
<br />
That last one has some fairly good statistics.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<br />
"The minimum wage is 21.4% less [in 2004] than it was in 1979"<br />
<br />
"As one source has put it, "in 2000 a CEO earned more in one workday
(there are 260 in a year) than what the average worker earned in 52
weeks. In 1965, by contrast, it took a CEO two weeks to earn a worker's
annual pay".
" <br />
<br />
"With 1992 as base year, productivity was at 82.2 in 1979. It grew to
94.2 by 1989 and 116.6 by the year 2000. In <b>[2003],</b> moreover, it
has exploded, putting it over 120. That's a nearly 40% increase"<br />
<br />
"The overall picture is abundantly clear: real average hourly ages of
more than 100 million of American workers' are less today than 25 years
ago; real wages of college educated workers have risen only modestly in
the late 1990s and fallen since under Bush II; and real wages of the 10
million lowest paid workers have declined more than 21%."</blockquote>
<br />
With all that in mind, Corporate profits over the same time period have soared!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/01/493870/corporate-profits-skyrocket/" target="_blank">Profits skyrocket...</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/corporate-profits-after-tax/" target="_blank">After Tax profits...</a><br />
<a href="http://www.supplychainquarterly.com/columns/201103monetarymatters/" target="_blank">Rise in Profits...</a><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The U.S. Department of Commerce recently reported that corporate profits
(which includes both domestic and foreign profits) now make up the
largest percentage of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) since
the 1950s. This ratio currently stands at just under 13 percent of GDP,
amounting to a total of US $1.9 trillion (see Figure 1). However, wage
and salary disbursements have been slowly trending downward from 47
percent of GDP in 1985 to 44.4 percent in the second quarter of 2011
(see Figure 2). These trends seem to point to increased inequality
between workers and managers, driven to some extent by the outsourcing
of lower-skilled jobs to Asia."</blockquote>
<a href="http://modeledbehavior.com/2010/07/22/income-inequality-a-deeper-look/" target="_blank"> Income Inequality</a>...<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"the Top 1% has more than triple its income with fairly steady growth
since 1980. The middle and lower classes have seen only about a 15%
increase in real income with all of those gains coming after the early
90s."</blockquote>
Looking at all this data from the perspective of a rising minimum wage - we can tell that there has been no such thing in the past 30 years, yet prices have still gone up. What has gone up along with prices? Executive compensation and Corporate profits.<br /><br />The only thing that goes up with minimum wage increases is the health of the economy as a whole.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf" target="_blank">Study on Minimum Wage...</a> (pdf) <br />
<a href="http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/pages/job-loss" target="_blank">Job Loss Myth...</a><br />
<a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_min_wage_bp/" target="_blank">Impact of minimum wage...</a><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>No evidence exists that teenagers or less-than-high-school-educated
adults lost work as a result of the 1996-97 minimum wage increases.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Historically, analyses of the minimum wage’s impact on young workers
have never shown the predicted large job-loss effects. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>The small
negative employment effects found in past analyses diminish over time
and are no longer statistically significant. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li> Minimum wage increases
are well targeted in the sense that 63% of the gains from a dollar
increase in the minimum wage would be expected to accrue to working
households in the bottom 40% of the income distribution. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Of the 8.4
million workers (age 18 to 64) whose wages and incomes would increase
with a one-dollar raise in the minimum wage, 2.7 million (32%) are the
parents of 4.7 million children. Of the 2.7 million parents who earned
at or near the current minimum wage in 1999, 63% had family incomes
below $25,000. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Most minimum wage workers are adults (71%), age 20 and
up.[2] Women and minority workers are over-represented among the minimum
wage workforce. Slightly less than half (48%) of the minimum wage
workforce are full-time workers.<br /></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-18788331159185573522013-12-28T10:41:00.000-06:002014-08-15T09:31:46.075-05:00The Defenitive Guide to Why Government Builds the Roads<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So, I was reading Facebook posts and wound up at the Libertarian theory that if government didn't build roads, we wouldn't need roads. No, seriously - <a href="http://libertarianmoney.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/the-definitive-guide-to-who-will-build-the-roads/" target="_blank">they think this</a>! I will be using <a href="http://libertarianmoney.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/the-definitive-guide-to-who-will-build-the-roads/" target="_blank">The Definitive Guide to Who Will Build the Roads</a> as reference, since it prompted this post.<br />
<br />
Roads have been around for well over <a href="http://www.lcpc.fr/english/information-sources/roads-through-the-ages/article/the-birth-of-roads" target="_blank">Three Thousand</a> years. Long before cars, there were roads. They have, since their invention, been made and maintained by large merchant organizations (Trade Associations) or a government for the purposes of trade or war. Some roads were made by people travelling from one location to another, but they usually linked up to a government built and maintained road.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Where was Jesus going on the Road to Damascus?"</blockquote>
The private roads have <a href="http://www.triplenine.org/articles/roadbuilding.asp" target="_blank">already been tried</a>, both in England and the United States.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Private individuals built roads themselves and then charged for their
use, usually blocking passage by setting a long pole (pike) across the
road. Once the toll had been paid, the pole would be swung (turned) out
of the way, allowing the travellers access to the road (turnpike). By
1829, 3,783 different turnpike companies operated 20,000 miles of
highway throughout England.</blockquote>
The People (bicyclists and farmers mostly) are responsible for the government taking on road building.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The first definite success of the fledgling Good Roads Movement was
achieved in 1891, when New Jersey became the first state to take
responsibility at the state level for improving roads and formed a State
Highway Department.</blockquote>
On to their Guide:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"If the government didn’t build the roads for cars, would people still be driving cars.
<br />
They could be driving off road vehicles that don’t need roads to be
build. If no one ever built the roads then car companies might have
developed the technology to hover above the ground instead of needing
roads. Naturally, this is all silly speculation but there is one
untouchable point.<br />
We cannot predict whether we would need roads if government didn’t build them." (spelling errors left intact)</blockquote>
For one, the invention of cars prompted the building of better paved roads, not the other way around. Henry Ford built vehicles, people bought them, people demanded better roads, government responded with better roads. For another, hovercraft require flat surfaces without obstacles - also known as roads. As for needing roads if government didn't build them, that is kind of a moot point, really, because we have built and used roads of some type for thousands of years.<br />
<br />
The author then goes on to equate good roads with slavery.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Asking, who will build the roads without government, is like asking, who will pick the cotton when we free the slaves.</blockquote>
I'm not going to respond to that, just pointed it out.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Why are roads the worlds go to source of transportation? Why aren’t we
carrying things on planes or trains? Why haven’t we invented hovercrafts
yet? </blockquote>
Why are roads the world's go-to source of transportation? The Free Market. It is the way we, as a people, have chosen to do transportation. We all walked the same path, wore it down into a trail, widened it into a road for wagons, paved it for ease and comfort of travel.<br />
<br />
Why aren't we carrying things on planes or trains? We do. There is still a need to get people and goods from their point of origin to the airport or train station. Planes and Trains still need roads.<br />
<br />
Why haven't we invented <a href="http://www.hovercraft.com/content/" target="_blank">hovercrafts</a>? We have. They have <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9q_2uIk-M" target="_blank">lots of issues</a>. Also, they have not caught on with consumers. Feel free to <a href="http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=10963" target="_blank">buy one</a>.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
If there were no roads then car companies would have two choices. There
first option is build better off road cars. There other option is to
build the roads. (Again, bad grammar left intact. I'm sure the author intended "Their first option")</blockquote>
Car companies would build the roads? First of all, either the price of a car would go up dramatically or the car companies would have huge <a href="http://www.nh.gov/dot/org/operations/turnpikes/faq.htm" target="_blank">tolls</a> on their roads. If you have travelled on a toll road or turnpike - imagine every inch of every road being a toll road!<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
You might be wondering how they could profit off building roads. That’s a
fair question. How does government profit off roads? Tolls are one
option. (No, if people had to make a profit off every road they wouldn’t
have toll booths. They could easily get car companies to put chips in
cars that count road usage.) The people that use the roads would pay for
the roads instead of the 300+ million people the United States
government currently charges</blockquote>
Government doesn't profit from roads, thereby keeping the taxpayer cost down. The author obviously has never been to a large city or been on a toll road. There are still toll booths, but you can buy an EZ-Pass for most turnpike systems. Imagine travelling from one side of the city to another. How many bills for road use would you get? How about travelling across a state or through several states? How many times would you have to stop and pay tolls if every road was a toll road and the company that owned that road changed every so many miles? Either you would have a massive corporation in control of all roads or lots of different bills from "your travel authority" for each stretch.<br />
<br />
All these tolls to just use the road would be an extra burden on the already poor, who would likely be unable to use the road to even get to work.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The funny thing is, private road building companies could profit without even charging people that drive on the road.</blockquote>
How does the author imagine that to be the case? Sell advertising space on the road? Would that cover it? How much would that make prices go up?<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Road front property is more valuable than non-road front property. Many
landowners would be begging for roads to be built on their property.
That’s because their property value would increase exponentially with a
road built through it.</blockquote>
Okay, so either property owners would have to charge more rent and be responsible for road maintenance or businesses along the roadway would chip in for road maintenance? Again, rising prices on everything.<br />
<br />
You know what? The bottom line is that We, The People, have decided that we don't want to be controlled by large corporations. We want real freedom of travel. We have determined that we will all contribute to maintaining our roads. If you don't like it, you are free to chose to leave.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Government is non-voluntary. I can’t choose not to be a citizen of
America. I need permission to leave. I was born here. I did not agree to
that. I’m stuck here, following the rules until government approves of
my departure (I even have to pay to eliminate my citizenship. That’s not
voluntary.).</blockquote>
So, you'd like to leave - but you want someone else to pay for your passage out of here? You blame the government for not paying for your travel? Yet, you want to pay corporations just to be able to use the roads? From what I understand, you don't need a passport to go to Mexico or Canada - but you still have to pay your own way there.<br />
<br />
It seems to me that you don't want freedom, what you really want is to be able to do anything you want without any consequences. That will never happen. Suck it up, buttercup. Actions have consequences no matter where you are.<br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-87113797516695036322013-11-03T07:16:00.000-06:002013-11-03T07:21:33.223-06:00Your father smelt of Elderberries!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While the Monty Python line was an insult from a Frenchman, the Elderberry is a very good berry!<br />
<br />
From Elderberry wine to immune boosting syrups, the little black berry has been used for just about everything.<br />
<br />
I just recently came back across the Elderberry information and am trying to get me a bottle of the juice, the syrup and some cuttings of the plants so I can grow some!<br />
<br />
I found <a href="http://elderberrylife.net/" target="_blank">Elderberry Life</a>, where you can get bare root plants or cuttings. I'll try the cuttings first. I am also going to get some of their juice!<br />
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One of the things that I am going to try with the Elderberries that I grow, is to make some Elderberry Mead. I think that will be a one-gallon brew for the first try-out. :) I may even use some of the juice from Elderberry Life to make a trial run.</center>
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<br /></center>
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I will try to remember not to eat too many raw berries or the leaves and other parts of the plant (tree?) - that <a href="http://kaweahoaks.com/html/elderberry_poisoning.html" target="_blank">could be bad</a>.</center>
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-76900776099208644552013-10-31T18:24:00.000-05:002013-10-31T18:24:00.939-05:00Oracle has made Java Enterprise Friendly!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Finally!!</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
From Java 7 Update 10 forward, Oracle has instituted some
intense security. This has totally screwed with enterprise java deployments. Many organizations have not bothered to update to Java 7 at all. Which is a problem, because in April, 2013, Oracle stopped issuing updates for version
6, leaving open vulnerabilities to be exploited.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Oracle introduced the Security Baseline JRE version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before running any app, java will attempt to
verify that the version of java on the computer is at or above the baseline
version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it is not, security dialogs
will pop up and the app may be blocked!</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
From Java 7 Update 10 forward, every version has a
hard-coded expiration date. When that date passes and Java has not been updated, Pop-ups attack!!</div>
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<br /></div>
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The default security level is “High”:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Very High - Only apps signed with a valid
certificate are allowed to run. Everything is prompted to approve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If java is outdated, you can’t run any app.</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>High - Signed apps can be run, self-signed can be run in the sandbox as long as the JRE is up to date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unsigned are allowed in the sandbox with
multiple verification prompts.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Medium - Allows running of apps even if JRE is
out of date, but has prompts to inform and verify.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Oracle has finally given some relief to Enterprises as of Java 7
Update 40 - and I just found out about it!</div>
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</div>
<br />
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“A new feature in <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u40-relnotes-2004172.html">Java
7 Update 40</a> is aimed at ameliorating this predicament. It's a change to the
<a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020160">local
security policy</a> that allows large customers to specify a limited number of
apps that will run on older versions of Java. Now known as a <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_rules.html">deployment
rule set</a>, the new instructions use a digitally signed certificate to
whitelist specific apps, often referred to as JARs or java archive files. Those
not on the list will be dropped, or possibly run on the latest Java version.”</div>
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To take advantage of the Deployment Rule Set, We need to
know every website or java applet that we need to Whitelist for our end users
in order to create the ruleset.xml, a Java Developer’s Kit installed, a Code
Signing Certificate and to distribute the “DeploymentRuleSet.Jar” file to all
endpoints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The initial pain comes from doing a blanket block of all unknown java applets and vetting the ones that users call in to request access to. Of course, you want to find out as many of the internal URLs that run java apps and as many of the business-need URLs that users have to have as possible, but you will miss some. Users will call in, the .xml will have to be updated and the .jar will have to be rebuilt and re-sent.</span></div>
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Within the ruleset.xml, we can whitelist a java applet to
run without prompts (unless the certificate has been revoked), block it or just
use the default settings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can also set which version of the JRE to use, so we can
identify apps that require older versions and set those to use those versions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that we do not need to uninstall
older versions – we can force any unlisted app to use JRE 7 or simply be
blocked, while sending only those applications that require older versions to
their specific version.</div>
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I find this very exciting!</div>
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Online Documentation Resources:</div>
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<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/jcp.html#security">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/jcp.html#security</a></div>
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<a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/introducing_deployment_rule_sets">https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/introducing_deployment_rule_sets</a></div>
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<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/security/overview/">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/security/overview/</a></div>
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<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/security/">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/security/</a></div>
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<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_rules.html">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_rules.html</a></div>
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-41446387846411639702013-10-25T18:13:00.000-05:002013-11-01T09:46:26.707-05:00You can't have Obamacare<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is another futile effort to make people less stupid.<br />
<br />
"Obamacare" is a set of Policies, Requirements and Regulations affecting the Health Insurance industry. It is impossible to enroll in Obamacare. It is impossible to not be affected by Obamacare. It is impossible to "Opt Out" of Obamacare - you can't "Opt In" either.<br />
<br />
You can't "have Obamacare."<br />
<br />
You can have Health Insurance as provided by a variety of Private Insurance companies - as you always have. Those insurance companies now have to adhere to a new set of regulations that do a better job of protecting YOUR interests.<br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>You can't be dropped from coverage when you get sick </li>
<li>You can't be dropped from coverage if you made an honest
mistake on your application. </li>
<li>You also can't be denied coverage or
treatment for being sick</li>
<li>You can't be charged more for getting sick. </li>
<li>You can't be
charged more for just being a woman.</li>
<li>Most insurers must spend at
least 80 percent (85 percent for insurers covering large
employers) of the premiums you pay on medical care
and quality improvements. If insurers spend too much
on overhead, such as salaries, bonuses, or administrative
costs, as opposed to health care, they must issue
premium rebates to you each summer.</li>
</ol>
There are <a href="http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-pros-and-cons.php" target="_blank">pros and cons</a> as with any policy adjustment.<br />
<br />
Most of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-and-part-time-work-2013-10" target="_blank">conversations</a> I hear about Obamacare are full of <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/tag/obamacare/" target="_blank">misinformation</a> and outright lies.<br />
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You can use a Health Insurance Exchange that was set up by the policies of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - also known as "Obamacare" or the ACA. If you don't have insurance provided by your employer or you are not happy with that insurance, you can go to a State HIE or the Federal HIE if your state is too stupid to have one set up (like Mississippi, even though we spent the money to set one up, the Guv blocked it being implemented). This allows you to shop around for all the Private Insurance offered through the exchange. It is like if you were employed by a mega corporation who offered various insurance plans through various insurance companies. The effect this has is to lower overall insurance premiums by spreading the risk pool - just like what large companies offer. The reason single or single family plans are so expensive is that there is no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_pool" target="_blank">risk pool</a>, its just that one, small group. <br />
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You can opt to not get health insurance and be charged a tax penalty instead of get health insurance for yourself. Not the most shining example of "Personal Responsibility," but you could choose to do that.<br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-63891615758409393762013-10-23T17:07:00.000-05:002013-10-23T17:07:00.878-05:00Sharing the Sacrifice Act<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sharing the Sacrifice Act</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To repeal the
provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of
Congress, tie congressional compensation to Median Income and make adjustments
for smaller government.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENTS FOR MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(a)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In General- Paragraph
(2) of section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C.
31) is repealed.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Technical and
Conforming Amendments- Section 601(a)(1) of such Act is amended—</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by striking `(a)(1)'
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by redesignating
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(3)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by striking `as
adjusted by paragraph (2) of this subsection' and inserting `adjusted as
provided by law'.</span></div>
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-23176979906060258052013-10-15T19:51:00.000-05:002013-10-15T19:51:00.461-05:00Built us a Shed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Willice decided that we need a deep freezer. We don't have any room in the house, so I decided that the best option was to get a Shed Kit and built it on the concrete parking pad beside the house - that we never use to park on.<br />
We ordered the <a href="http://handyhome.com/storage-sheds/gable-sheds/home-depot-exclusive/majestic-8x12-shed/" target="_blank">Majestic</a> shed kit from Home Depot. I went a got some more 2x4s after it came in to reenforce the floor a little bit. The kit arrived on a flatbed truck and I tore into it immediately.<br />
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I got the foundation set up and leveled, with some help from George. I quickly decided that it was better to work in the shade. I used the canopy that I bought for taking to Thunder Ridge Motorcycle Rally.<br />
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Sweet relief from the blazing sun!!<br />
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The foundation plan called for 2' centers. I added a few 2x4s and came up with something a bit off... but stronger. The ones in the picture above are not screwed in, just laid out. <br />
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Leveling was a bit interesting.<br />
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The plan called for having one 2x4 on this joint. I bought the steel plate and make it two 2x4s for a stronger foundation. There were two such joints, one on each side. The shed is 12' long and they used 1 8' 2x4 and a 4' 2x4 to make the span instead of one 12' - because it all had to fit nicely onto the pallet.<br />
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The Floor coming together. The shed kit didn't include the flooring, just the floor frame, so I went for a very sturdy floor!<br />
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Sawing, screwing, hammering, cutting, sweeping. It gets exhausting.<br />
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Floor is done and the walls are coming together! Well, I'm building the walls. George is helping after the first wall. Really need two people to lift if without breaking something. The lumber is 2x3 and warped. The walls also have the joint like the floor did, but I couldn't find a good way to make it sturdier. I don't think I'd find a good 12' 2x3.<br />
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One wall flipped over and one wall laid out.<br />
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George checking out our progress.<br />
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I'm tired and those walls are flimsy.<br />
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The loft frame helps me feel better about the walls not falling outward.<br />
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All four walls are up and the roof is on. With warped wood, Square is just a theory.<br />
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For all the warping, the only problem area on the roof is quite small.<br />
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I haven't been able to get the shingles yet, so the roof is tarp'd. We are wanting to match the new shingles on the house and those are from Lowes, so we have to get the money and then go all the way across the county to pick them up.<br />
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The windows and the wrap-around shelf.<br />
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The Work-bench has already proven useful.<br />
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I have wired up two power outlets, two switch-controlled power outlets to run the lights and a switch for the soon-to-be mounted outside motion detection flood light. Now I have to get an electrician to hook up the power. Well, make sure that I haven't gotten something messed up, then connect the power.<br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-22907549104578327162013-10-09T17:42:00.000-05:002013-10-16T10:09:37.067-05:00Windows 8 Network Connection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So, I just updated my workstation to Windows 8. We have a SAN - well, it was a SAN now its a NAS, but we still use the old name to get to everything since that was easier than changing every shortcut that went to it.<br />
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Anyway! I could not get to our SAN - or very many network computers - after I finished my update.<br />
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The Solution - which I could not find and hopefully you have - is setting a registry value and adding a DWord value. As below:<br />
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<br />
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters]<br />
"ServiceDllUnloadOnStop"=dword:00000001<br />
"RequireSecuritySignature"=dword:00000000<br />
"EnableSecuritySignature"=dword:00000001<br />
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000000<br />
<b>"OtherDomains"=hex(7):37,00,00,00<br />"RequireSecureNegotiate"=dword:00000000</b></blockquote>
Edit the Other Domains value to be 7<br />
Add "RequireSecureNegotiate" and it should default to 0 (zero).<br />
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That fixes it all.<br />
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While we are on the subject of Windows 8 - some have complained that they can't run File Explorer as an admin. Here is the fix for that :<br />
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Create new shortcut on the desktop... right click in an open area and select "new" and select "shortcut."<br />
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For the location, type "explorer.exe" and click "Next."<br />
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Type a name in - like "File Explorer (Admin)" and click "Finish."<br />
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Right click on the new shortcut and select "properties." Click "Advanced."<br />
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Put a check mark in "run as administrator" and click "OK" until you are back at the desktop.<br />
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Presto! You can now browse as an admin!<br />
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Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-49496605687316149592013-10-07T17:10:00.000-05:002013-10-08T10:19:12.597-05:00Riding the Natchez Trace - The Plan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometime soon, I plan to ride the entire Natchez Trace and back. The trip will take three days.<br />
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Well, one evening to get down to Natchez and camp, one day to get to the end of the Trace and backtrack to camp and one day to ride home via the Trace.<br />
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This will be a good test for my packing skills and camping endurance for <a href="http://bobbyshead.blogspot.com/2013/09/motorcycle-trip-in-planning.html" target="_blank">The Oregon Trail</a> ride in 2014.<br />
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The trip will be 125 miles on the first evening to get to the campground in Vidalia, LA, then 494 miles on the Trace itself for day 2, which includes 50 miles of backtracking to get to the Fall Hollow campsite for the night. That should make for 8 to 9 hours of riding time, plus stops for gas and food along the way. The last day will be an easy 320 something miles home - via my grandmother's house for a quick visit.<br />
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There is an article in Rider Magazine about a <a href="http://www.ridermagazine.com/travel-features/motorcycle-riding-along-the-natchez-trace-parkway.htm/" target="_blank">similar trip</a> - only they stopped in Tupelo for the night.<br />
I look forward to taking some photos and posting the trip blog!<br />
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Anyone want to join me?</div>
Bobby Kearanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251536431387620361.post-85402948813328626482013-10-05T11:55:00.000-05:002013-10-07T09:11:57.210-05:00Definitions!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Saw this in a comment on a gun site: <br />
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"Definition of a Democrat: Never let a good tragedy go to waste when it comes to the CORRUPT and SUBVERSIVE agenda of our SOCIALIST party."</blockquote>
I though I would add a few:<br />
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Definition of a Republican: Never let a good tragedy (we probably orchestrated) go to waste as long as there is profit to be had and benefit to the corrupt and cruel agenda of our FASCIST party.<br />
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Definition of a Liberal: Everyone has a right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - right up until it infringes on someone else's rights to the same.<br />
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Definition of a Conservative: I have the right to do anything I want to do no matter who else gets hurt, screw everyone else. It is my right to oppress anyone I am able to and the right of my corporate masters to oppress me any way they so desire!</div>
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