Monthly Archives: October 2004

Blinders

Something odd happened at work the other day. I was talking to a coworker who is a fairly serious Kerry supporter. We’ve been working together for years, get along just fine and rarely talk about politics. However, given the current … Continue reading

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Kerry Lied … Again

At the second presidential debate earlier this month, Mr. Kerry said he was more attuned to international concerns on Iraq than President Bush, citing his meeting with the entire Security Council. “This president hasn’t listened. I went to meet with … Continue reading

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New Phone

So yesterday afternoon I realized that my verizon wireless mobile phone contract was up for renewal. Changing providers wasn’t even an option since Verzion is the only providors whose cell phones even get a signal near my house (granted at … Continue reading

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What’s Kerry Hiding?

The only 180 John Kerry hasn’t accomplished in his litany of flip-flops throughout his campaign is Standard Form 180, the paperwork necessary for the complete release of his military records from the Department of Defense repository. The Kerry campaign and … Continue reading

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Stolen Honor available free online

On 10-22 The producers of the documentary ‘Stolen Honor’ told the Washington Times that they would be releasing a free copy of the program. It is a 13mb WMV file that obviously isn’t the best quality. it can be found … Continue reading

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I can only assume

There can be no denying that much has been made of John Kerry’s Vietnam service. It’s usually mentioned along with the notion that George Bush ‘only’ served in the air national guard. This was brought to my attention yet again … Continue reading

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Libertarian Pioneer Endorses Bush

The first Libertarian Party candidate for president, who ran for the nation’s highest office in 1972, has issued an open letter to fellow party members urging them to vote for President Bush on Tuesday. Besides running for the White House, … Continue reading

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Comments

A flood of emails (well, three) this morning have alerted me to the fact that recent stories posted to the site do not have comment links. I have no idea why this is happening. I have not made any changes … Continue reading

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The Kerry Draft

This is the one. This is the issue that finally pushed me off the fence into the Bush camp. Mainly because I actually fell for it for a bit. Actually, its more of a ‘final straw’ than a single compelling … Continue reading

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Pain in the Ass

Add Adobe Photoshop 7 and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 to the list of applications that would not run after a CPU upgrade without ‘reactivating’ the software. Aside from annoying the hell out of paying customers, just what the hell is … Continue reading

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22 Questions Kerry Won’t Answer

Bob Woodward At the end of last year, during 3 1/2 hours of interviews over two days, I asked President Bush hundreds of detailed questions about his actions and decisions during the 16-month run-up to the war in Iraq. His … Continue reading

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Conservative Kerry

Is it just me or is John Kerry trying to make himself look and sound more like Bush the closer we get to the election? First we have this: “I will bring my faith with me to the White House … Continue reading

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Kerry Imitates Bush

From the Wall Street Journal “Every one of the proposals I’ve talked about tonight [Al Gore has] called a risky scheme over and over again. It is the sum of his message, the politics of the roadblock, the philosophy of … Continue reading

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E-Vote at Risk

This November, as many as 50 million Americans could vote for president using some form of electronic touch-screen system, the vast majority of which have been designed by McKinney, Texas-based Diebold Election Systems. That has some IT and security researchers … Continue reading

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Upgrade not Authorized

Well I finally got around to replacing the motherboard on my main work system (the one with the swollen capaciters that had started just shutting off on me randomly). I picked a Gigabyte GA-7V500 board mainly because I didn’t want … Continue reading

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Politics in School

The oldest came home from school yesterday (she’s in 3rd grade) and it was apparent she was pretty upset. Mom asked her what was wrong. oldest: ‘Who are you voting for for President?’ mom: ‘President Bush, why?’ oldest: ‘You can’t … Continue reading

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Speed Limit

The road my house sits on has a 35mph speed limit. Most drivers really seem to take it a more of a suggestion than anything else. Especially the teenagers driving the ricers who live farther down in the development. Apparently … Continue reading

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Suntrust Online Banking

Suntrust Online Banking Bill Pay has suddenly stopped supporting the Firefox and Mozilla browsers. I’ve been using both for quite a while with this bank and have never had a problem. This morning I was greeted with the following message: … Continue reading

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Well isn’t that special

I mean come on… not only is he not wearing the helmet (carrying it doesn’t count) but he’s riding the bike while TALKING ON HIS CELL PHONE. Then again, he’s probably talking to someone trying to put together a plan … Continue reading

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SP2

In the months before its release and in the weeks following, I’ve heard not a few bad things about XP SP2. Even so it looked like the rewards outweighed the risks. So naturally I decided to test it by installing … Continue reading

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