Here's hoping CA goes bust!

Gov. Schwarzenegger's doomsday budget for California may be the greatest single thing to happen to California and this country in a long while. California being the shining of socialism in this country with HUGE spending on public aid programs, welfare and healthcare. A gigantic state government that sucks down cash like kool aid. Now the whole thing looks to be crumbling down and hopefully IF it is allowed to fall down like a house of cards it may show the rest of the country how NOT to run a state government. For that matter it will also be a very good example on how not to run the country seeing that California is just our current government on a smaller scale. Maybe then the 54% will have an epiphany and realize the mistake that was made with Obama and the rest of his administration.

Unemployment a Good Thing?

Well yeah I know this is a stretch but hear me out. Being recently unemployed due to lay off really stinks and I join the millions of Americans now looking for employment. The good thing though may be the lack of income tax that the government pulls in. With the Obamanation increasing spending on an unprecedented scale and the lack of money coming in it cannot be sustained or for that matter even justified. If unemployment continues at its' current pace the growing federal government will have even less money than previously thought. Now they can raise taxes on those that are still employed and put new taxes into place but in doing so I am hoping it will wake the country up. Maybe those that drank the kool aid now having to pay a tax to drink the same kool aid will come to grips with the lie that is Obama and his policies. This could end up well and the country could revert back to its' roots. The other is that it could plunge this great nation into complete and total socialism. Only time will tell but it is something to ponder.

End of America - Redux

Well I thought about this quite a bit after my previous blog and well things are definitely changing and maybe just maybe for the better. With the tea parties, which I proudly attended, to the mid-west states asserting their 10th amendment rights things are looking up. More and more people are beginning to see the lie that is Obama, his policies and his administration. More people including myself are making their voices heard. This is the start of something wonderful but it is just that a start. We as a people as the citizens of these great United States of America need to make our voices heard louder and louder every day. It is our right, no our duty, as Americans to demand of our elected representatives to represent us the citizens their constiuents and not special interest groups, campaign contributors, foreign banks and interests. This is a government of the people and they need to be reminded of that every moment of every day to ensure that our freedoms and liberties are no longer eroded and the ones that have been be restored. I for one feel that we are at a point that we the people can take back this country and make it the great nation it once was in the vision that our founding fathers had when it was formed.

The End of America

With the Obama administration in place and now going forward with their socialist and fascist plans I fear that the United States as it once was is lost. We are now turning into, at a very fast pace, the United Socialist States of America. With rampant spending, increasing debt, nationalization of the financial, insurance and auto industries as well the erosion of the constitution there will soon be nothing left. I once thought that fighting and speaking out for what is right as well as contacting my elected representatives was to make a difference and having my voice heard was to be that difference. Now it just falls on deaf ears and the only voices heard by the politicians are those of special interest groups and foreign banks and governments looking to corrupt and destroy this once great nation. Well it was a nice ride for the past 233 years but it looks like it's pretty much done with by the time this administration is done. To those that wanted change, you got it. With that change will come the tyranny and oppression you deserve for turning a blind eye and deaf ear.

The United States of America
1776 - 2012
R.I.P.

I HATE MICROSOFT!

Windows... what a PIECE OF SHIT operating system! This bug ridden commercially available virus they call an operating system is nothing more than a thorn in my side. Conficker is the latest threat to rear its' ugly head and has given me nothing but grief updating network after network. To top it all off after updating these damned networks Microsoft's own updates hosed some of the damned servers they were to protect! So I had to spend countless hours troubleshooting a problem caused by patches that were supposed to fix a problem. Ugh... I cannot for the life of me understand why in the hell people continue to use this turd of an OS. So many other viable and robust alternatives out there and they are all free of the heartaches that come with Microsoft operating systems and products. Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, BSD, etc... all of these are far superior to anything that Redmond can pump out yet the sheeple keep buying their shit and accept its' flaws as par for the course. Well I am done with this rant because the more I think about it the more pissed off I get.

Two Words

GO FEDEX!

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2009-03-25-fedex-boeing-labor-law_N.htm

I nearly shed a tear

Two days ago I came in from work and as usual the kids were running about and doing their thing. I went into the living room and my daughter was doing her thing on her laptop browsing the web, YouTube, Myspace, etc... I ask her how her day was and she replied "ehhh..." then out of the blue comes "Daddy can you put Linux back on my computer?". That was a very heartwarming moment. Here's how it all started.

About a year and a half ago I got my daughter her first laptop, which was one of my hand me downs, and I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on it. I did this as more of an experiment seeing that up until this moment she had only used Windows in school and at home. I didn't tell her anything about the operating system nor did I mention that it wasn't Windows. I simply gave her her username and password and she was off to the races. The first few weeks she had some questions, mostly about where to get and how to install software, that I answered and showed her two or three times and never heard from her again. So up until December 2008 she had been plugging away happily on her laptop without a complaint, ever.

Then the inevitable happened and the unit went south and was in need of major servicing. I opted to get her a new laptop for Christmas from Dell and had it purposely shipped with Windows Vista Home Premium. Christmas came and she was thrilled with her new laptop that is until she started using it. The first couple of weeks she complained about performance and constant nagging from the anti-virus, firewall, etc... I told her to go along with it as it was necessary for security as well as to keep the computer as virus, spyware, malware free as possible. Fast forward to two days ago and well my daughter made a CHOICE. A choice that I had absolutely no influence in but one she made based on her own experiences with Windows and Linux. My daughter became a *Nix snob and that was a moment I almost shed a tear. She has seen the promised land and on her own accord relieved her unit of Windows in favor of a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10.

This took almost two years as it was like I said an experiment. In the end though it proves that if given the choice based on experience most users will choose Linux. My daughter is living, breathing proof of this as are millions of other users out there. When I started this I would use what I saw and her experiences as anecdotal proof. Now after her decision to switch back to Linux for better performance, security and features it is no longer anecdotal but absolute proof that Linux is the superior operating system.