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Life

Born in the USA (Blue)

MY MODEST PROPOSAL: THE U.S.A.R.
By C. B. Shapiro
I feel bad for the Red States.

Yes, they won the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and most of the state houses. But they still can’t have the country they really want because the last few Blue States won’t roll over. So I am making a simple proposal:

Secession. Divorce. Splitsville.

Personally, I think we made a huge mistake not letting them go when we had the chance back in 1862. Well, no time like the present to correct an old mistake.

Then, they would finally be free to have the kind of society they’ve always wanted; church and state can be fused so they build the kind of theocracy they’ve dreamt of, with Jesus at the helm. Then the new USAR (United States of America Red) can ban books, repeal civil rights, persecute gays and have all the wars they like. They want prayer in schools? More power to them. They can ban abortion and post the Ten Commandments in every federal building in their country. Bring back slavery, if they want. We’ll be free to live with our like-minded countrymen who believe in science, modernism, tolerance, religion as a personal choice, and truly want limited government intrusion in our personal lives. Why should each side be driven mad by the other any more, decade after decade?

Call the Culture War a tie and everyone go home.

Of course, we in the U.S.A.B. get the Gross Domestic Product, businesses and universities of California, New York, Massachussetts — basically the whole Northeast and Northwest (plus Illinois and Michigan if they want to come along). They get Wal-Mart and Duke and most of the Nascar tracks. But they can feel free to import movies, TV shows, financial services, and defense technology. We’ll import country music, bibles and Confederate flags.

The two countries will by necessity have open immigration policy: anyone who feels they are living in the wrong country can just move across the border, no questions asked.

Ultimately, why should I have to convince my fellow countrymen that Darwin may have had a point and that the word “liberalâ€? is not equivalent to “godless communist?â€? And why should they be forced to live in a country with morally corrupt non-believers? I’ll stay in the messy, free-thinking U.S.A.B. And to the U.S.A.R. I say…

God bless you all, and see you at the U.N

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Geeky/Programming

VS.NET 2005 and SQL 2005 and Webhosting

Well, I finally installed SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 and VS.NET Beta 1 on a VMWare Image. Maybe I can start to play with it a little bit and check out the cool new features I have read about and seen in demos. Nothing like geekin out to get over post election blues? I also did some researching into some cheap web hosting tonight because a coworker and I are making a webpage for someone. We dontated it as a silent auction item in Aug. I had a hoster that was like 2 bux a month, but lost the address. The cheapest one I have found is like $6.95 a month.

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Life

F$*K the Vote?

Yesterday I Voted.

Today I Vomited.

4 More Years? I don’t know if we can handle it. Maybe Bush will have the same fate as Nixon. Hopefully. I can’t believe that many people support him, I can’t believe there are that many stupid people out there that can’t see the shady dealings, the lies, the “no millionaire left behind”, The “War on Terror For Foreign Oil”? Just look at the electoral votes – California and New York, the two biggest states – they had it right. I am just glad that Minnesota wasn’t apart of the red states. Years from now we can at least say we voted for the right candidate, and the blame can fall on the south and middle states. So many people voted for Bush just because of one issue that was dear to them. Hunting, Same Sex Marriage, stuff like that. What about the Iraq debacle? No responsibility. I bet you could find more WMD in New York City than in Iraq. Bush’s mentality is the WMD. People also use the excuse that we are more secure now. Who was on the watch when 9/11 happened? No blame for that? The economy is in the toilet, the only reason that people can get 0% financing and things like that is because we got attacked. If 9/11 wouldn’t have happened, the economy would be even worse. Bush doesn’t care about the middle class, just HIS bottom line. People around here claim to be Republican, but they don’t even know what it is. Farmers, Laborers are voting Republican. What does DFL stand for again? WTF? People who voted for Bush HAVE to be ignorant people can’t see when there is a need for change. They are the people who drive their vehicles till the oil runs out. They’re the people who aren’t informed, have no clue on issues, and can’t see something for what it really is. It really is just sad.

Well, like a buddy of mine said “At least we negated a Republican vote”. I hope the President can sleep at night knowing 49% of the country doesn’t want him in office.
What we need is someone for president who can get 70%-80% of the vote, which will never happen. If Bush can make decisions like he has the past four years and get re-elected, I wonder how many f’ups someone would have to have to not get re-elected. Did you know that the govt spent more money investigating Clinton having sex in the White House that they did investigating 9/11? Wtf is with that? I can’t even believe that we though about impeaching Clinton. Something stinks in Washington.

One other thing I read –

One Guy: “If you don’t like the outcome and the way America is, why don’t you just move”

Other Guy: “Because I don’t want to be affected by America’s “Foreign Policy” “

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Life

Campaign Ads…

Do you notice how you see all the candidates for office on TV in every commercial break? My question is, why don’t we ever see them in commercials once they get elected? Why don’t they give us some updates on all the things they promise before the election. That would be a good PR move in my opinion. Every day we should get some blurb in a commercial from the president telling us something cool or just what the big news is. Like that would every happen though..

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Life

Nick For Kerry (Regime change!)

Nick Hexum is one of my “look up to’s” – glad to hear he is for Kerry – and they are covering some Beatle tunes to boot! – Nice~!

From 311.com….

Nick Hexum and his brother, singer/songwriter Zack Hexum, have just announced their upcoming mini-tour throughout the swing states to raise awareness of the coming presidential election. Nick said, “It hit me like a ton of bricks that I wasn’t doing enough to help spread the word about the most important election of our lifetimes. I decided I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do everything in my power to help educate voters on what I believe are terrible missteps by the Bush administration and to help inform people about Kerry’s clear and concise plan for our country. So I’m going on the road to play some music and spread the word.” He added, “We’ll be playing intimate club-sized venues and we’re keeping the ticket prices really low. It’s going to be a great experience. We’ll play some 311 songs, some songs from Zack ‘s debut album “The Story So far…â€? and covers from The Beatles, Radiohead, The Pixies, Billy Joel, Bob Marley &The Clash – and we’ll be talking about the election and the need for a regime change in this country. We hit the trail on October 20th.”

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Life

Ya think?

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” – John Lennon

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Geeky/Programming

Error that completed successfully?

I just love goofed up error messages. Check this one out. WTF were these guys thinking when they made this error message. (BTW – I actually got this error message, using remote desktop connection, it isn’t a photoshop thing)

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Geeky/Programming

XP Themes

Have you ever wanted to “theme” XP? Don’t you think that the three “color schemes” that come built in suck? I do. So I have researched things, tried things, and here is what I found.

1) You can pay 30 bux a year to get a program to do it for you. This option is ok, but it is another program running all the time, kinda shakey, crashes, blah blah. The themes are cool, but sometimes hard to get going, installed, etc.

2) You can replace the default version of uxtheme.dll with a hacked one to allow 3rd party themes. This seems like the best bet to me. Finding cool themes is harder though.

Here are some links to get you started:

Program to patch uxtheme.dll

Watercolor Theme

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Life

Debacle

Debacle. Not many people know the word, much less use it. I use, my friends use it, and people who never hear it are like, “wtf?”. I just love it when I see it in the news or something, makes me laugh. Anyways, here ya go:

If you don’t know what it means: Definition of Debacle

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Geeky/Programming

Sprint PCS Aircards

Sprint PCS has something called an “Aircard” that you can buy. It isn’t a phone, but it is a PCIMCA card that you can use in your laptop. Anywhere you can get Sprint coverage, you can connect to the internet at decent speeds (60-120k). It is a an awesome tool if you are traveling with people and you need to connect to the net, or if you are somewhere out and you need to get connected. I use it to connect to VPN and do work from restaurants, etc. It is such a timesaver. I think unlimited usage is like 80 dollars a month. If you haven’t checked out these aircards, I would suggest you do. There are some different brands, Novatel has worked great for me, there is Yiso and and some others. I take that and my wi-fi card with me and I am set. You can also use it with a cradle with a pocket pc and you are connected, using MSN Messenger, Internet, etc. It is awesome!

Check it out

Sprint PCS Aircards