"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- RD Laing"


Not much to say here but how quickly love can turn into anger and hurt. Today is full of dread. Tommorow excitement, day after, dread, and then dread from there on in. More on that later.

Now this is cool

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Yahoo! has made a great move by buying these guys. Brilliant. Its a great little story 'bout this idea this guy simply couldn't sell. Then he did.

:)

Population Connection : Kid Friendly Cities

This is interesting. Seems to skew towards larger cities though. Population Connection : Kid Friendly Cities

Welcome to MSN.com: "'We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.'
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"

MSN Money - Forbes: Is your city overpriced?

Ouch. Finally a hit piece against seattle. Seattle, #1 most overpriced market. NY #2. This means both places suck, and I'm screwed.

MSN Money - Forbes: Is your city overpriced?

Gates worried over decline in U.S. computer scientists - Computerworld

Part of the problem is that people see that India and Russia have vast numbers of code pushers that will work for 10 bucks a day. You've lost the war before you've fought it if you decide to go into tech these days.

I think the core of it is this: you must believe that at your current position you are WORLD class. You cannot be defeated easily by outsourcing if you can compete with them, regardless of the cost structure.

Gates worried over decline in U.S. computer scientists - Computerworld: "'The nature of these jobs is not just closing the door and coding,' Gates said. 'The greatest missing skill is somebody who's good at understanding engineering and bridges that to working with customers and marketing. We still fall short of finding people who want to do that. I'd love to have people come to these jobs wanting to exercise people management, people dynamics as well as basic engineering skills. We can promise those people most of what they're doing won't be coding.'"

BillOReilly.com: Bill's Current Column

This is good, but it doesn't go far enough. I mirror it because it outs that stinkin' judge who let this animal go. Liberalism is a mental disorder!!! Any sane goverment would see that reform in the case of violent sex offenders is not going to happen and thus they must be permenantly and irrevocably removed from society. As lepers would infect their populatiosn and kill them via disease, these horrible monsters will do so by fiat.

Do it right. Now.



BillOReilly.com: Bill's Current Column: " Protecting the Kids

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By: Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, Jul 14, 2005
Here's the stark truth in the land of the free: Many American children under the age of ten can no longer play on their front lawns unsupervised for fear they may be abducted. Time after time we read about young kids being snatched, raped and murdered by known sexual offenders and our society seems powerless to stop the madness.

The latest is the horrific case of Joseph Duncan, a convicted child rapist who apparently murdered two adults, a 13-year-old and a 9-year-old boy in Idaho. When police arrested Duncan, he was having breakfast with the murdered boy's 8-year-old sister, who told authorities Duncan had brutally molested her for weeks.

Duncan was allowed to do this by Minnesota Judge Thomas Schroeder. Last March, Duncan stood before Schroeder charged with yet another child molestation. The monster had already served 16 years in Washington State for raping a 14-year-old boy, and admitted to 13 other child rapes. He even talked about them on this website. Yet Judge Schroeder set Duncan's bail at just $15,000. A friend of Duncan's gave him the money, Duncan paid the bail, and then skipped town.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports Judge Schroeder was aware of Duncan's past, and even if the Judge didn't know, he could have easily found out by having the prosecutor call the FBI's Crime Information Center in Washington. Schroeder has no excuse. He's a disgrace.

But there are many disgraceful judges, either too lazy or too apathetic to protect children. The solution to the problem is to take the power away from the judges altogether. It is not a hard thing to do.

First, every state in the union must pass a criminal statute like Florida's Jessica's Law. That calls for a minimum 25 year-to-life prison term for a first offense sexual assault conviction against a child. And second, if these predators do manage to leave prison, they have to register their addresses with the federal government so a national database can track their movements. Any failure to do this--ten years in federal prison.

Basically, that would take sentencing discretion away from the judges, but the nation would have to depend on prosecutors to aggressively pursue those involved with child molestation... something that has not been done in Jessica Lundsford's case.

So the solution is there for everyone to see--why then do our elected officials fail to enact it?

Only 13 states currently have mandatory prison sentences of ten years or more for convicted child sexual offenders. The other 37 states are mostly chaotic in the way they adjudicate these cases. My staff contacted all 50 Governors and their interest ranged from intense (Governor Rick Perry of Texas) to ho-hum (Governor Don Carcieri of Rhode Island).

The bottom line is that Jessica's Law could be and should be enacted quickly in every state. There is an urgency to this. And if your Governor doesn't get the urgency, give him a call and let him or her have it. Enough is enough with the brutalizing of American children. Every one of us must hold the lawmakers accountable and demand protection for the kids."

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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Churchill

The fire that destroyed some two-thirds of Rome began on this date in 64. Popular myth has it that Rome's emperor at that time, Nero, fiddled as he watched Rome burn. He blamed the fire on the Christians, a claim that led to the first Roman persecutions. Hated for his cruelty and extravagances, a revolt of both citizens and senators of Rome – including his own Praetorian Guard – drove Nero to commit suicide four years later.

The National Interest | | Publications::Article

A long time ago I read a Jeremy Rifkin book. Don't recall the name, but it was full of outlandsish statements, I think it was Entropy: A New World View. Anyway, he's at it again with his European Dream. I know what these liberals think. They think we can simply THINK our way into the future. That since we've got so much brain power we can socialize everything. He very much ignores the basic tenets of human behavior, and idealizes the current Europe. He really tantilizes me with that 35 hour work week stuff. I LOVE the idea and I do resent the amount of insane labor the American workforce expects out of you. 45 hours a week is minimal. 55 is a start. But to really get ahead, we're talking sleeping under your desk for months. Family/Life/God.....that waits.

One think I recall Einstien saying is that America, since we let you find job you love, we've turned work into play. Now that makes sense....but I'm not sure that Dominoes guy who undoubtedly spit on my pizza when I ordered it on a cold NY day felt much amore for his current vocation. But this kind of misery is the feedback for motion, the delivery guy will probably move up, or got to school. He'll find his way or drive off a bridge. Either way,it will be HIS decision, and not a Nanny State making it for him. Maybe piizza guy WLL work those 70 hour weeks, stash his $ and buy a business.

Once exposed to the concept of personal liberty, the immoral nature of an armed State taking money away from one group and giving it to another, and the idea that human nature will always take the easy route unless internally motivated, it is hard to accept any sort of bueracractic solution as progress. Thank you Ayn Rand.

This is a link to a kind rebuttal from a knowledgeable resource. Remember this: Europe isn't replacing its own workers save for immigration. What happens when you're new Mulism workforce decides not to pay for the old white Europe pension promises ? With separation of church and state verbotten in Islam, I expect them to be much more interested in sending money to Mecca instead of Brussels, London, or even Paris.




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"The true lesson of history is that no one learns anything from history. " -- Sir Timothy Bowling


Good day today at work and all. I enjoy public speaking, though I need to slow down during it. Nervous energy gives me a high.

Gonna try to see a movie this weekend. Hopefully War of the Worlds or something like that.

A quick word about my soon-to-be 9 year old Brianna. She is so very delightful my new nickname for her is Diamonds. Her help she devotes so freely to the care of the Chub, Ryan, is remarkable. She basically fundamentally enjoys the acts of being grown up and taking care of a family member. Its so very beautiful. So when she reads this later I want to tell her thanks, and tell her that she is so very very special. One of the nicest souls I've ever known. I am proud of her already, and deeply honored to have her as a daughter.

AOL News - Suicide Bomber's Blast Leaves 18 Kids and Teenagers Dead

These Islamic fundamentalists are worse than animals. If they are not violent, they foolishly believe that killing children and innocents is the correct thing according to God. If they are violent they follow a train of thought that is straight from the pit of Hell: That Gods cause can be advance by the killing of children taking candy from an American. Animals have no sense, but humans do. This makes them lower in that a cow has more value than them

AOL News - Suicide Bomber's Blast Leaves 18 Kids and Teenagers Dead

FOXNews.com - Molesters Often Strike Again

Dear Lord help us reform this!

FOXNews.com - Molesters Often Strike Again

"Your instinct to heal the world and all its inhabitants is accented by the planetary energy of the day, dear Pisces. You are happy to share your views with everyone you meet, and you are convincing with your words and puppy dog eyes. More than likely, you have a very strong effect on people and their attitudes. You have the capability of changing people's minds and hearts. People feel they can trust in you and believe in you. Accept this responsibility with pride."

That first line is spot on. Weird those things. I don't know about puppy dog eyes, but I like the whole statement overall. :)


Turns out that this london bombing was by suicide bombers in Leeds that were citizens. This has obvious implications here and there, referring mostly to the Patriot Act. We must come to the conclusion that the definition of freedom here must change. Until the threat has passed, we mustn't hold governments hand too strictly, and we must allow temporary infractions on our civil liberites for the good of the whole.

"Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies."

Samuel Butler , The Way of All Flesh

"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth." -- Denis Diderot


Citadel I am
Neither breached or halted - no!
With strength I move on

Social Security Briefing Room

I was reading MoveOn.org's rant on Social Security ( moveon.org) and
here
is an excellent and thoughtful rebuttal. Remember what SS is supposed to be -- a retirement account that we put in. Its our money, getting it out later when we retire? Well who do you know now on SS that says its enough?? Nobody. The State shouldn't even be in this business, but reform is a first step at least.
The libs talk about raising the ss tax on those of 90k. That is NOT The idea. This wasn't supposed to be an income tax, which in itself is unconstitutional.

Beware of the Left. Their ways lead to bankrupt, state run economies.

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" – Leroy (Satchel) Paige


Deplorable attacks in Britain this morning. The obvious question is this: will this attack make Britain angry at the terrorists, or at Bush? I gamble the second. Liberals think we brought this on ourself despite 9/11, the 2003 WTC bombing, the Cole, etc.

"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." -- Marcus , Babylon 5

Never thought of it that way :)

July 4th coming. I've been more interested in US history as of late, since it seems to me that the greatest country ever to exist must have an interesting and important story....and it does.

I won't go into now, but it seems to me that Lincoln went into the Civil war to keep the country united. I simply don't understand that. I assume that he didn't think it would cost so many lifes....but then why continue it? What happpens if he would have just left well enough alone? Slavery goes on for a bit, but honestly I can't see it going on for much longer than it did.

Perhaps it would have. Perhaps it still would exist. Keeping the US together as one country is, I think, a good act. It is one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and freedom for all. That statement puts our country on a higher plane, and with that I feel God has blessed us for it. But 600,000 lives?

I don't know, part of me thinks this war was fought over pride.