tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260802122011-12-24T01:17:10.727-05:00'Why,' you ask?<br>Well, I need a good retirement plan, the medical benefits are great, and...<br><br>Oh, why vote for me?<br><br>Why not? Do you really have another choice? Do you think that any of the candidates really cares? Then why do they keep proposing more of the same, minor variations on "solutions" that didn't work then, and won't work now? All they're doing is making life more complex.<br><b>AND THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM!</b><br>It’s also a good way to vote for "None of the Above".Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148685180515911253noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26080212.post-8306896765597942662011-12-24T01:17:00.000-05:002011-12-24T01:17:10.739-05:00

Some rules kids won't learn in schoolText By Charles J. SykesPrinted in San Diego Union TribuneSeptember 19, 1996Unfortunately, there are some things that children should be learning in school, but don't. Not all of them have to do with academics. As a modest back-to-school offering, here are some basic rules that may not have found their way into the standard curriculum.Rule No. 1: Life is

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And once again we're seeing another debacle in Congress, where pretty much everybody agrees on the basic idea of a bill, but they're fighting over details and amendments that are mostly irrelevant to the supposed core purpose of the bill.  Maybe we should change the rules. Too many legislative bills turn into monsters, with thousands of pages, most of which have little or nothing to do with

Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148685180515911253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26080212.post-55659331035401283722011-11-29T17:10:00.001-05:002011-11-29T17:14:02.341-05:00

I'm liking the Modern Whig Party more and more. Here's a fairly simple explanation of what they stand for from one of their blogs: Imagine changing your spark plugs every time you had a problem with your car. This may work if you had an issue with your engine BUT would changing your spark plugs fix a blown tire or a brake problem? When we use ideologies, we believe that there is only one

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One of the better pieces I've seen lately. Some excerpts: Some of the smartest and most sophisticated people I know—canny investors, erudite authors—sincerely and passionately believe that President Barack Obama has gone far beyond conventional American liberalism and is willfully and relentlessly driving the United States down the road to socialism. No counterevidence will dissuade them from

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Got this from a friend who stayed in Germany after his enlistment: "...on the flight back to Germany, next to me was an army sergeant who had just finished his 2nd tour in Afghanistan. His ideas about the "War"? Well, he said he wasn´t there for the USA or to protect freedom, he was there because he was a soldier. He also said most men like him over there knew that back home they had little

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The White House website has just added a new feature they call We the People: Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. If a petition gets enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it’s sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an

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Here's an interesting opinion that I generally agree with. What's your opinion? There are a few concerns I have that I don't generally see addressed in tax and revenue discussions. I'm going to address one of those concerns here.One is that not all income is the same. I'm not referring to source, but to amount. IMHO there are three categories.Category 1 is a minimum figure for an economic unit (

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I like this idea from the Modern Whig Party. The USA is and has always been a country of immigrants. The Modern Whig Party understands the dual responsibility of securing our borders while also dealing realistically with those illegal immigrants already in the country. We propose the following: offer illegal immigrants the opportunity for citizenship if they join the military and serve out

Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148685180515911253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26080212.post-62188118849755241182011-08-20T19:35:00.002-04:002011-08-20T19:39:32.658-04:00

Well, it looks like another campaign season is opening up. I haven't been here for a while, but it doesn't look like much on the political landscape has actually changed much. Pretty much the same bunch of bozos mouthing pretty much the same brand of garbage. Oh yeah, the "Tea Party". Appears to be another batch of loud mouthed extremists with nothing new to say, just say it loudly. When is the

Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148685180515911253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26080212.post-1147420712554927192006-05-12T03:53:00.000-04:002006-05-12T04:00:46.523-04:00

This is actually one of the most sensible posts I've seen on the RIAA and downloading. Personally, I believe that the impetus behind the RIAA's opposition to downloading isn't protection of the artists, but protection of the management of the record labels.What do you think?

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I've been getting a lot of emails like this in the last couple of days:Hey,You are recieving this email because you are a member of BlueSecurity (http://www.bluesecurity.com).You signed up because you were expecting to recieve a lesser amount of spam, unfortunately, due to the tactics used by BlueSecurity, you will end up recieving this message, or other nonsensical spams 20-40 times more than

Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148685180515911253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26080212.post-1146287313473064072006-04-29T00:25:00.000-04:002006-04-29T01:16:54.856-04:00

A friend sent me this, and I'm somehwat curious. Do you think that things are as one-sided as this assumes?Dear President Bush: I'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this. I plan to skip all

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Race is, increasingly, an obsolete concept, kept alive by the politically-correct and the haters. Most people, at least in the U.S., aren't of just one race these days. And much of what people consider race isn't; it's often cultural. Thus, 'Hispanic' isn't a race; there are black, white, Indian and all manner of mixes of those three who would be considered 'Hispanic'. Same goes for all European

Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148685180515911253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26080212.post-1145859829398767182006-04-24T02:17:00.000-04:002006-04-24T02:23:49.406-04:00

I've just started reading the Koran (E.H. Palmer translation), and what is one of the first things I see, but: IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God. ALIF LAM MIM. That is the book! there is no doubt therein; a guide to the pious, who believe in the unseen, and are steadfast in prayer, and of what we have given them expend in alms; who believe in what is revealed to thee, and what was

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If we really want to do something about crime, we've first got to stop making it so profitable. The quickest way to do that is to end the War on Drugs, which hasn't accomplished anything, except to make a lot of bad people very rich. Legalize and regulate drug sales, so they have to meet Truth-in-labeling laws. Take all the money we're wasting on drug law enforcement, and put it into treatment

Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148685180515911253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26080212.post-1145516182633239812006-04-20T02:54:00.000-04:002006-04-20T02:56:43.723-04:00

Why should we keep making more and more complicated laws and regulations to try to control campaign financing? All we're really doing is creating a system that's incredibly difficult to oversee and enforce. Let's try something simpler. Sure, there are parallels between campaign contributions and speech. But there are even stronger parallels between campaign contributions and voting. So why not

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I don't usually like to use the 'H' word, but spam is one of those things that actually deserves it. It's invasive, it wastes your time, it uses up bandwidth, most of it is part of a scam (of one sort or another). But what can be done about it (and similar things, such as malware)?Well, my first take is that we need a Constitutional amendment, tentatively: Information about a citizen belongs

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