New Joker Poster

We have likely all heard about or seen the Obama Joker posters that are being placed all over the country, the ones with a picture of Obama made up as Heath Ledger's Joker character from the Dark Knight Batman movie. What has amazed me about those is that nobody has really taken offense to them. Obama doesn't speak out about them, he has never denied being a socialist, and nobody seems to have a problem with socialism.

The reason for that is because they have nothing to deny, and Democrats are really just socialists in disguise, and the Republicans are heading there. But their secret is out. As Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948 said:

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

I think we've reached that point, and we don't even realize it. Now, Obama and the DNC are going for a Marxist, communist America, with it's accompanying totalitarian political correctness. Glenn Beck says the American Marxist Revolution has begun. I say let the Counter-Revolution begin.

Therefore, I propose a NEW Obama protest poster: the one that tells the REAL truth: Obama as Marxist!

I bet they don't even bat an eyelash.
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Rules of Computing

Things to remember if you use a computer. (And if you're reading this, you very likely do.)

1. Computers are stupid. They do only what they’re told, nothing more, nothing less, even if it’s the wrong thing to do.

Therefore:

2. Save often! Especially before printing. Because if you forget to save your work every 5 minutes, the computer will crash after you've been working for 5 hours. (See Murphy’s Law.)

Therefore:

3. Always keep back up! More than one! (Because Murphy was an optimist, and hard drives will fail. It's not a question of if, but when.)

4. Artificial Intelligence is no match for the real thing. Most people really are smarter than computers. Especially if they try to be. Put some effort in to it.

5. You can't break it. Under normal circumstances, doing normal stuff, you can't break your computer just by working on it. So, make sure your data is backed up, and then go explore, play, learn, and take notes so you can get back to where you started. But, worst case scenario, if you really mess up something, you can wipe the hard drive, reinstall the operating system and you apps, restore your data from your backup and go on with life.

Those are the most important ones. Here are a few more:

A working program is one that has only unobserved bugs.

No matter how many resources you have, it is never enough.

Any cool program always requires more memory than you have.

When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space.

Disks are always full. It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void.

If a program actually fits in memory and has enough disk space, it is guaranteed to crash.

If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes.

No matter how good of a deal you get on computer components, the price will always drop immediately after the purchase.

All components become obsolete.

The speed with which components become obsolete is directly proportional to the price of the component.

The hard drive on your computer will only crash when it contains vital information that has not been backed up.

Profanity is one language all computer users know.

A patch is a piece of software which replaces old bugs with new bugs.

The only program that runs perfectly every time is a virus

The likelihood of problems occurring is inversely proportional to the amount of time remaining before the deadline.

The smaller the size of your email account, the more junk mail you will get.

Antivirus systems only effectively work on a virus after given virus has passed its prime.

Proof-read all e-mails three or four times before sending it. All errors are detected immediately after being sent.

Can you suggest any others?
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Obamacare = Post Office

That title is important. Remember folks: Government health care = Post Office.

Here are a few links that are as fun as they are informative:

Obama's Post Office health care disaster

Explaining why he believes a public option would not crowd out and ultimately eliminate private insurance, Obama said, "My answer is that if the private insurance companies are providing a good bargain, and if the public option has to be self-sustaining--then I think private insurers should be able to compete. They do it all the time. I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

Ummm... Okay... (It was a non-teleprompter moment.)

Obamacare: The "Post Office" of Health Care Plans

But the most important question is this: if you have an urgent piece of mail you need delivered, life or death, who are you going to call? Everyone saying the government--please raise your hands. (crickets)

LOL!

Obama's Post Office Gaffe: More True that You Can Imagine

A couple years back, libertarian writer Wilton Alston contemplated a world in which the Post Office had genuine competition. He concluded that we would most likely have more services, lower rates, shorter lines, greater quality of service (no damaged, late, or lost packages), and easier access. But the worst thing is, we can’t know, because we’re not allowed to test it. The government forbids it, which governments always do once they’ve secured control.

And the best part, from the American Vision article:

At the end of last year [2006], the Post Office did some research and was surprised to find that customers at the nation’s 37,000 post offices were not happy about wait times in line. In response, the Post Office came up with a brilliant idea, something that could probably only come from the federal government. They removed the clocks from all 37,000 post offices. Stephen Seewoester, a Postal Service spokesman said, apparently with a straight face, "We want people to focus on postal service and not the clock."

Imagine such a solution in a government-run clinic. "We want you to focus on health care services, not the fact that you’ve waited nine hours and not seen anyone yet."

Precious. I don't make this stuff up, folks.

Questions That Need Answers

I have recently been researching the national health care plan, and it seems that everybody, from the kooks in the White House to the kooks in the backwoods, has a different answer for all of the questions below. It also seems that there are scaremongers on both sides of the aisle, and up every tree. All I really want are straight answers, without any scare tactics, political patronization or double-talk.

However, I highly suspect that no one has any straight answers to these questions because nobody really knows, nobody has really read the whole bill, nobody really knows what Obama, Reid and Pelosi have up their sleeves and nobody trusts anybody with the truth.

So, I've posted some of what I feel are the most important questions here and I invite you to post your as well, and invite your friends to do so, as well. Then, after the August recess is over, I'll compile them into a strongly worded letter and send them off to Washington. We'll see what happens, but I don't expect much.

From The Heritage Foundation:

• Can you promise me that I will not lose my current plan and doctor?
• Can you promise that you and your family will enroll in the public plan?
• Can you promise that Obamacare will not lead to higher deficits in the long term?
• Can you promise that government bureaucrats will not ration health care for patients on the public plan?
• Can you promise me that my tax dollars will not fund abortions?

From TCSDaily.com:

• What will we do about the large projected deficit in Medicare?
• What can we do to reduce government subsidies for extravagant use of medical procedures with high costs and low benefits?
• What should we do about the health care needs of the very poor?
• What should we do about the health care needs of the very sick?
• What should we do about a scenario in which both income inequality and the share of average income devoted to health care rise sharply?

And a few of my own:

• What proof do we have, and can the government truthfully promise us, that the government can manage health care better (i.e.: more efficiently, with more savings of time, money and life, and with more satisfied customers) than private entities?
• How can we pay for health care, economic stimuli, bailouts, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare and all the other entitlements, without the country going deeper into debt?
• At his point, is there any way at all that the country can get out of debt in my lifetime, so that this burden is not left to my children, grandchildren, and their posterity, or are we destined for bankruptcy?
• What if I don't want health insurance? What if I want to be self-insured?
  
• Is freedom more important than health, economics or political gain?

I'm anxious to see what you think about it.

Ten Axioms to Guide Your Life

I just ran across these and thought it would be good to share them. The original article is here.

By Elder Robert D. Hales
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Axiom 1
It’s not the obstacle that counts, but how you overcome it.

Axiom 2
Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind, and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner.

Axiom 3
From a tiny spark can come a large fire.

Axiom 4
Our greatest strengths can become our greatest weaknesses.

Axiom 5
Failure is one of the greatest teachers if we have the faith to learn from it.

Axiom 6
It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race. It is how you cross the finish line that matters.

Axiom 7
"If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but
it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage." (Brigham Young)

Axiom 8
You cannot learn the Lord’s will without exercising your agency and
becoming accountable for your decisions.

Axiom 9
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Axiom 10
The temple of God is the greatest university.

Interesting Photos

I got a couple of pictures from a friend of mine that everyone should see.

One of them is of President Obama after his meeting with Officer Crowley and Professor Gates:

I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.

Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is looking.

I think this photo constitutes another major Obama blunder.

As some commentators point out, this picture becomes a metaphor for ObamaCare. The elderly are left in the back, with only the kindness of the Crowleys of the world, the stand up guys, to depend on. The government has other priorities.

At every stage of the entire Gates affair, Obama has provided a revealing tell. The "acted stupidly" blunder revealed that he automatically blames the police and thinks they really are stupid to begin with. It didn't trigger a single alarm bell in his mind as he figured out what to say.

Then, the non-apology apology revealed an arrogant man who cannot do what honest people do: admit it when they make a mistake.

Now at stage three, the beer photo op looked OK. It didn't turn into a disaster.

But then in a small moment that nobody in the White House had the brains to understand, Obama goes and send a body language message like this.

I think he is going to get deeper and deeper into trouble. He is no longer repeating the familiar scripts dreamed up for the campaign. He was a master performer.

But when he goes improv, as a president must do, he lets his true character show. This helps widen the level of doubt that Obama is the same guy a majority voted for. Those doubts can only grow.

However, there are two points that I disagree with here: First, I don't think the White House Staff are too stupid to see this, I think that they are too proud, and arrogant to see it. I don't think that the people will see this the same way, the people who voted for him are likely also too proud and arrogant to see it, but are also looking at what they can get from Obama and his hand-out government, or, they're the stupid ones.

The other photo is of President Bush with elderly Senator Robert Byrd, and creates a stark contrast.

Why People Vote Democrat

Posted recently at the 912 Project Web Site. It would be funny, if it wasn't so true.

I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse.

I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people.

I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.

I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite The Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass that it is unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.