Category: Rants

You can’t put the bullet back in the gun, or at least this time I won’t have to learn a foreign language

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November 2, 2013

12:46 pm

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I’m not usually one to believe in conspiracy theories, but, this time you might have to ask yourself “if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?” I listened to about 5 minutes last night of Michael Savage, Michael was going on about how the administration may be using (planning) this whole TSA shooting event to not only end up arming the TSA, but, to eventually use them as a government police agency.

I’ve been thinking about this scenario off and on all day, and maybe there is some truth to this. Over the past year I’ve heard about the Homeland Security Agency buying 750 million rounds of ammunition (See HSA massive ammo buys).

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What? 750 Million! If you have a home protection firearm, and you’ve recently went to buy ammunition you’ve noticed the shortages since this president has taken office. Remember the movie “V for Vendetta” about a totalitarian government elected under the guise of several terrorist acts, creates a secret police  that can act as judge without due process (see imdb: V for Vendetta (2005) ).

Plus, with the recent Edward Snowden leaks how do we really know what to trust? Over the past 10 years I’ve seen us all loose freedoms. This country was founded on Freedom, yet we sit back and allow ourselves to remove a freedom from one person, based on another, or one group based on another.

We obviously are short sighted, remember this;

“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.” -Martin Niemöller

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We had the greatest generation (my father fought in WWII), and it appears now we have the lost generation (I see 35 year olds not working and living off every government subsidy along with their parents) how can a child learn a work ethic if the parents are showing them how easy it is to get money, food, housing, and even a cell phone.

You have a choice where you want to go out and eat or drink, yet you demand that the business owner not allow smoking (a practice that is NOT illegal), haven’t you taken his rights away? You do something stupid and then litigate, causing higher costs for everyone. All in the name of “public safety”. Then you want attention from “Reality TV” and push your body to absolute limits. Does any of this seem absurd to anyone else?

This entire subject is not left or right, conservative or liberal, republican or democrat. It is plain American, and when will we wake up and realize that we are our brother’s keeper and watching out for him will watch out for us.

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When Experience Will Fail You

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July 17, 2013

1:18 pm

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The other day I was in autozone and was looking for something that would act as a degreaser. When I asked the clerk he promptly told me “Yes sir, we do, and we’re having a special 2 for the price of one” he went on to tell me that he used it on his barbecue grill and his wife swears by it. So, I bought it. When I finally got around to my project that I needed to use it on, I sprayed it on waited a few seconds and wiped it down, and if you ask me it was just OK, it wasn’t the revolutionary product exactly as he exclaimed.

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While I was using it, I had a thought about the whole experience… This guy was about 20 years old and he said it was the best thing he had ever seen, then I thought “You old #$#@”, of course how many things could he have seen, he was only 20!!!!

Why do I have to apologize for being an American

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May 6, 2013

1:44 pm

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Seems like working hard to get on top just isn’t as popular as it was when I grew up. There wasn’t such a thing as a computer, but, I spent countless days and nights to figure it out. Every new type of computer that came out I had to try…

I owe a lot to the TRS 80, the Timex computer, the Texas instruments pc, and even the Commodore 64

Before PC’s started coming out I reminisce about how I would type basic code from examples and write data lines, save them to cassette tape and reload them to work on them again (which didn’t always work 100%). I started investing in stock and created a graphic program to show the historical data of the investments by typing in the daily prices from the newspaper. It took a lot of stick-to-itiveness to do it.

When I first started writing business applications I kept one thing in mind through all of this experience, there isn’t anything I can’t make a computer do. How many times have you hired a programmer, or consultant and the next words out of their mouth is “That can’t be done”? Why? Call me crazy, but, that’s the secret, if you work hard at something, don’t accept defeat!

Seems like the up and coming have an attitude of pay me a lot now, but, then show me how to do it because I don’t know how. I know, it seems like a rant of “I walked 5 miles in the snow to get to school when I was your age…” that our parents told us. But, really, seriously?

The moral of the story is, working hard is the American way, and a Christian ethic, so lets not forget it!

If you have a project that someone told you couldn’t be done, give me a call, then stand back and watch an American do it!

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