Subtle Rantings

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” - Benjamin Franklin

That’s right folks - happiness, success, wealth, healthcare, great job, big house - you aren’t entitled to any of it. You are guaranteed the chance to pursue it though. Lots of people have forgotten that many years ago.

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Here’s a blog I came across that might provide some useful information to some.

Obama Exposed

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“We have been hearing from the far-left for more than five years how, ‘Bush lied.’ Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam’s yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy.”

Read more here @ Pitch Pull

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

–President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

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So true… Meet Bon Qui Qui
(this was stolen directly from Daniel Miessler’s site @ dmiessler.com)

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In a previous post, a reader had asked why I stated McCain is a better choice than Obama. I mentioned in that post my disdain for McCain, but I do still firmly believe he’s as they say in the voting world, “the lesser of two evils.”

This isn’t going to be a long expose’ or fact revealing post of Obama’s empty promises or socialistic ideas, just a listing of why I can’t vote for him. Maybe later I’ll explore each point and dissect each one.

• Obama’s support of gun bans. He was a vocal proponent of the Chicago gun ban and supported the DC gun ban as well. He thinks the 2nd Amendment is interpreted based on where you live - “What works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne,” Barack Obama said after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Washington, D.C., gun ban.” Obama is just like any other gun hating liberal who thinks the answer to gun violence is to ban them or make it even harder for law abiding citizens to own them.
• Obama’s stance on Universal Healthcare. Obama and Clinton’s plan are nothing but socialistic redistribution of wealth. Obama touts his healthcare plan as a great compromise for people of all incomes by stating those who can afford and choose to continue using a private healthcare insurer, can do so. At their expense of course. So if you choose to have a private insurer, will you still be forced to pay for Universal Healthcare? Absolutely. Kind of like Social Security and we all see how well that’s worked out for us. Whether the Demo’s will admit it or not, when someone is forced to pay for a service for someone else, while also having to pay for their own services, that’s redistribution of wealth. That’s Socialism. Don’t believe me? Look it up.
• Obama’s support of the FISA legislation. He flip flopped and supported the FISA bill and Telecomm Immunity when he said he wouldn’t. This piece of legislation is another one of this current administration’s use of fear tactics to gain more control over it’s people. In the name of “National Security” the FISA bill was passed and it basically continues to allow warrantless eavesdropping and eliminates many of the safeguards put in place by the 4th amendment. It also provides complete immunity to the telecomm companies that assist the government in this unconstitutional wiretapping.
• Obama’s economic policy. I’ve never agreed with any Democrat’s economic policy as they are always about more taxes, bigger government, more handouts and more entitlements.
• Obama’s wife. Just like I think the real danger in the Clinton family is Hillary, not Bill, I think Michelle is the same way. I think she harbors a lot of pent up anger and has a serious chip on her shoulder against white people.
• Obama’s connection to Rev. Wright. Obama attended that church for 20+ years and those recent sermons were the VERY first time he ever heard those racist, bigoted statements from Rev. Wright? Liar. Wright served as a close friend and mentor, but Obama never knew Wright’s real feelings? If there was ANY white person, much less white pastor that said anything near as inflammatory as Wright, they would be labeled a racist cracker and no one would touch them with a 10ft pole, much less a presidential candidate. How long did it take Obama to disown Wright? That should tell you something.

  People have tried to discredit McCain by pointing out his relationship with controversial pastor John Hagee and by comparing it to the Wright/Obama relationship. It’s not even close. McCain doesn’t go to Hagee’s church. Hagee isn’t McCain’s mentor or close personal friend. He’s someone that offered a public endorsement of McCain. Did you know the New Black Panther party publicly endorses Barack Obama?

• Obama’s methods and plans on how to tackle environmental issues. Obama thinks we should force - by passing new legislation - car manufacturers and other companies to develop certain products and new technologies. This encroaches on capitalism and the free market. The government needs to stay out of business. Let the market and the people decide what they want. With all the current “green” initiatives, haven’t we already seen a shift in thinking from car manufacturers and so many of the other industries in this nation? Let the people drive change, not the government through it’s strong arm of the law.

The bottom line is that most Democrat’s are excellent visionaries and dreamers. But they are just that: dreamers. They have wonderful ideas and make these great promises. It all sounds great when it’s being delivered from the podium, but how are you going to get from point A to B? They make promises that they themselves don’t have a clue how to fulfill. They lack an execution strategy.

Do I like McCain? No. Do I like him more than Obama? Yes. Do I feel like either will do a good job? No. And before anyone writes in criticizing me for not taking a stand and voting 3rd party, I’m sorry, but I just can’t do that. I did that in the primaries and gave it a valiant effort (just look at some of my other blog posts about Ron Paul). The fact is, I think we are in serious trouble if Obama gets into office and I’m going to do whatever I can to keep that from happening. Comments welcome.

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Found this interesting link from another blog.

FDIC Failed Bank List

This is a list of all the failed banks that the FDIC has had to take over assets for. Watch this list over the coming months. It could be interesting to see who starts showing up on it.

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Some of you may remember me asking back in March if anyone had any NAS recommendations. I finally came across a solution that I think is going to serve me well. I picked up a D-Link DNS-323 NAS and a couple Seagate 500GB SATA/300 drives to fill the dual bay D-Link enclosure. The total investment was right at $360 - not too shabby for a terabyte’s worth of data.

One of the reasons I chose the D-Link was because of it’s RAID options. It offers RAID-0, RAID-1, and JBOD. I am currently using RAID-1, which is just disk mirroring. This way if/when one drive fails, the other just takes over and since it’s a mirror of the other disk, all data is safe and secure. This does not protect me if I happen to accidentally delete some files, as the mirrored disk will have those same files removed. To combat this, I’m thinking of buying another DNS-323 unit to serve as a backup unit to my first DNS-323 unit. This way I can do a nightly differential rsync on this secondary unit and I will again have a highly redundant storage system.

In regards to setup and install, it was very easy and straightforward. D-Link provided a “Quick-Install” guide that walked me through it. Basically, you insert both your drives into the enclosure, connect the network and power cables and power it on. No tools are necessary for drive installation or removal. Once the unit is powered on, you can use the included D-Link Easy Search utility which will find the DHCP IP address that unit was assigned. From there, you open a browser and connect to the NAS via the web interface. Basically, set up just consists of choosing which RAID option you would like (if any) and formatting the drives. Once that was done, the unit was ready to be accessed from any Windows PC via a standard shared drive.

I’ve had the NAS for a week now and I have to say I’ve been very happy with it so far. I would definitely highly recommend this NAS enclosure and the drives of your choice to anyone. It’s definitely a much more budget friendly NAS when compared to other similar products like the NetGear ReadyNAS or any of the Buffalo TerraStation’s.

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Racism still exists today because of people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson who have taught African-American’s to believe they are entitled to something or owed something. Many liberal Democrats have fallen prey to this teaching as well and developed the guilty conscious. A good example of the effects of this thinking is seen at a recent Dallas County meeting about speeding tickets. Note: Emphasis added.

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

This is where it gets good.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”

Is he serious? A white hole? Wow. That’s intelligent. Does any else see the race baiting going on here? Wait there’s more.

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

A Judge? Are you serious? Racially insensitive analogy? He thinks a scientific entity that has existed since the beginning of time is racist?! What a moron. Read on.

Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”

At least someone paid attention in Science class. Or maybe this means that science is racist?

Other County officials who were present interceded and got the meeting back on track.

This my friends is why racism is still alive. It’s not white oppression. It’s the the constant walking on egg shells and not wanting offend anyone. It’s the mentality that something is owed to another group of people. And if we’re not careful, soon, we’ll be doing the same thing for Muslim’s.

Original story: Dallas County Meeting Turns Racial

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“Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, ‘See, if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’” - Harry Browne, April 11, 2002

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