Not something that you would have expected.  One more reason I love Bill Maher.

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I’m glad some of the shine is coming off Obama, maybe the press will start actually covering what he is doing instead of licking it up like dogs at a water bowl.

I was appalled yesterday by the number of people who were celebrating D-Day as National Doughnut Day.  They thought that’s what D-Day was.  There were thousands of tweets saying “What’s D-Day?”  “Glad I got my D-Day Doughnut”.  It made me sick.

So for those of you who don’t know what D-Day is I offer this history lesson:

The fact that many people, especially young people, don’t know what D-Day truly means is a failure of our school system, their parents and perhaps society at large.  Our public school systems have become academies of mediocrity, parents have neglected their responsibility to truly educate their children and instead try to bribe their good behavior with more material things.  As a society, we are becoming so disgustingly obsessed with ourselves that there is little need to know anything but what our next status update is going to be.

D-Day forces us to consider that EVIL exists and is manifest in the world, even today.  And that is it the responsibility of the righteous to confront and destroy it not for our own sake but for those who cannot fight for themselves.  Remember the American, Canadian, and British forces that landed on D-Day were NOT defending their homelands but instead were defending the right of those who could no longer fight to life and liberty.  65 Years later that lesson is more important than ever.

FDR’s Speech on the 6/6/1944

Regan’s Speech on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day  6/6/1984

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I just finished watching in the last episode of season 7 of 24 and I feel like I’ve been robbed.  I am a huge Jack Bauer fan, and I’ve religiously followed 24 from season 2 until this debacle they call a season.

This was the most convoluted, disconnected, and by far the worst season of 24 ever.

Here are my 24 Season 7 Awards:

Worst FBI Agent in the History of Bureau  and Worst Jack Babe to Date

Annie Wersching playing Renee Walker – Lauren and I joked through the entire second half of the season “and here comes the worst FBI agent in history!”  Blowing it again for Jack and Co.

Worst FBI Agent On Television

 

Day 7 Jumped the Shark When …

Tony Alameda invites Jack to the reflecting pool to tell him that another attack is going to happen.  Except these will be completely unrelated to the events in the first act of the story except both bad guys are from the same African country.  OOOOOOO!  Watch out for those Sengalans.

Worst Sub Plot …

Chloe O’Brien pitted against the annoying Janeane Garofalo playing the more annoying Janis Gold in a I can top you side by side technology forensic ironchef competition.  Where secret ingredient is “Fake Techno Babble Bullshit”!  BTW if you are a real fan you know NO ONE can touch Chloe.

Person We Most Wanted to See Die and Were Denied … 

Annie Wersching playing Renee Walker – Congratulations on your second award of the night, although technically your first award was “a double” … which is exactly what we needed to believe that someone as brainless as her character could even get through Quantico. 

Person We Hated to See Die …

James Morrison as Bill Buchanan his death was completely unnecessary.

I Almost Shot My TV When …

Tony admits to Jack that he had to fake being bad, while he was being good, as he was faking being bad.  All to avenge his dead wife.  Really, that why you took us on this fly-ridden dung heap of a season.  BANG! 

The “A Drama Club Student from Brentsville District Could Have Acted Better Than Award” …

Cherry Jones playing President Allison Taylor.  Awful … makes we want to puke.

Yeah they tried to pass her off as the President

 

AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL.

If the writers truely loved the character of Jack Bauer they would have let him die instead of potentially having his good name dragged through another pile of crap like this season.

It would have been the honorable thing to do.

A great video showing where the application of technology can take us:

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Today Senator Arlen Specter announced he was leaving the Republican Party and changing his affiliation to the Democratic Party.

There are lots of opinions as to why he did this  . . . . but one fact is absolutely clear:

“Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter trails former Congressman Pat Toomey by 21 points in an early look at Pennsylvania’s 2010 Republican Primary. Fifty-one percent (51%) of Republican voters statewide say they’d vote for Toomey while just 30% would support Specter.”  Source :  Rasmussen.

Arlen Specter is a coward that changed his party affiliation so that he could avoid the ultimate judgement he has brought on himself.  This is not the story of a “moderate and principled man” who has to leave a “party of extremists” as the left is spinning it.  This is a man who turned is back on his constituents and voted for things they disapproved of AND just when he’s about to be held accountable by those supporters he changes his affiliation to garner support from the same party that spent $4.6 million dollars in an attempt to unseat him in 2004  Source : OpenSecrets.com . 

So exactly how principled or moderate is a man who according to this 2004 opponent  voted with George Bush 89% of the time.

“It’s sad to see that Arlen Specter is so desperate to keep his job that he will say anything to change the subject from his 89% support for the Bush-Cheney White House”  – Joseph M. Hoeffel  Source:  Project Vote Smart 

Appearently voting with the Evil One (George Bush to the rest of us) qualifies you as a moderate.

Please don’t feed me some BS about how principled Specter is, if he were principled he would have stood up for re-election by those who supported him in 2004 and if he lost then he could have done what Joe Lieberman did in 2006 which was to run as an Independent.  Where Lieberman won and was returned to the Senate.

Instead let’s call it was it is  . . .  politically expedient for both the Democrats and Specter.

I added a WordPress app to my iPhone to see how realistic it would be to use it to write new blogs.

So far I have found that it works better if you turn the phone on the side to type in the story. Trying to use this application with the phone in the upright orientation was maddening.

The value is you can add to your blog from anywhere when the inpiration strikes. Like when you are sitting in an airport waiting for a flight to LA and the elderly woman across from begins to discuss her Sexting Habits … California is the land of fruits and nuts. Yuck.

Anyway back to the review.

This app also has the ability to include photos from the phone. I’ll include a test photo taken of Ben on the playground at home.

This looks like a pretty decent application for adding to your blog from the road.

So tonight on the way home from Soccer the boys, Aiden and Wesley, were debating what the Chinese language sounded like.

Aiden rattles off a string of nonsensical sounds and announces, ” That means ‘let the race begin’”.

Wesley counters by making a bunch of whooshing sounds and then informing me, “That means ‘the second challenge is a Dance Off!’”

Have I told you how much I love my Wesley. He is such a goof ball.

When I get the chance to log into Facebook (or FB as we Internet elitists call it) I am amazed by the people who are actively using it from Lauren(my wife) who is a prolific blogger/writer on FB to my Mother and Godmother who love to post pictures of Family and friends to share.

But when I look I also see all the folks who are not using it.

Tad is a Bad Mamma-Jamma

I recently spoke to my Sister in Law about FB and asked when she was going to get on so she could share more pictures of my super-cute nephew, Tad.  She said she had no plans to get a FB page anytime soon. She wasn’t ruling it out but it would not anytime soon.

I completely understand the idea that many people share which is that FB is a fad and will quickly be replaced by something else. Does any still use MySpace? But Facebook is MySpace refined. Typical reasons cited for not using Facebook:

1. I don’t want to post information about myself on the Internet. (Certainly valid, but remember FB can’t publish anything you don’t give it, so you are in complete control of this one.)

2. It’s only for Teenagers and Pedophiles. (Frankly a very dated argument, actually Facebook’s fastest growing segement is Women over 55)

3. I don’t have time for it. (That’s right, you probably don’t. I’m not going to lie you will look up from your computer and say “I did what for three hours!”)

But here are the benefits of using Facebook

1. Easily Share Photos, Videos, and News with Friends

2. Reconnect with Friends and Classmates from High School or College

3. Use it for Networking with Colleagues and Business Contacts

4. Kill Hundreds of Hours Playing Mostly Awful Games (Completely Optional) 

But perhaps the most important reason to use Facebook is because you are already on it. That’s right your photo is already plastered all over Facebook and it has your name on it. Remember that embarrassing night in college . . . yeah that’s right . . . the one with the leather chaps and the wig . . . it’s on there. You see when your friends use Facebook they post pictures that include you AND they are putting your name on the picture in a process called Tagging.

IF YOU WERE ON FB you would have the chance to Approve or Disapprove that Tag taking your name off of that embarrassing photo, but since your not . . . that photo will have to stay.

So let’s try an experiment. Let’s take my brother, Steve. He is not on Facebook, but look in just a few minutes I’ve pulled all of these photos of him from other profiles.

Photos of Steve on Facebook

Steve has never posted a single photo of himself on Facebook yet he probably has upwards of 20 photos already published. 

How many photos of you are already on FB?

So why do you need to be on Facebook . . . .the fact is you are already on it  . . . you might as well make it official.

I’m posting this because I’m sure it will not be picked up in the  general media.  You know the same media that has decided that instead of challenging the claims of  a pending global catastrophe  . . . . they filter any evidence that challenges the powerful liberal environmental establishment.

They were very quick to assert that increased global hurricane activity was the sign of the pending global disaster (remember the reporting after Katrina?) well wouldn’t the opposite also be true?  Decreased activity should mean that the threat is subsiding . . . right?

http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/

I was reading one of my daily idea generators from a social media blog called Mashable, and between some of the great stories it includes I found an advertisement for something called BizSpark.

I’m not sure why, but I clicked through to see what it was and found an absolutely fantastic new service from Microsoft  . . . of all people.

Part of a larger Start Up Support program from Microsoft, BizSpark, provides FREE software development software to startups and businesses that earn less than $1 Million a year.

You can get all of this software for free:

All the software included in the Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System

Visual Studio Team System is Included!

Team Suite (VSTS) with MSDN® Premium subscription

Expression® Studio Version 2

VSTS Team Foundation Server (standard edition)

Production use rights to host a “software as a service” solution (developed during participation in the BizSpark Program, on any platform) over the Internet, with regard to the latest versions of Microsoft products including:

• Microsoft Windows Server® (all editions up to and including Enterprise)
• Microsoft SQL Server® (all editions)
• Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server
• Microsoft System Center
• Microsoft BizTalk® Server
• Microsoft Dynamics® CRM (coming soon)

In addition to the core program offering, BizSpark startups will be eligible for other Microsoft offerings, such as:

• Microsoft Azure™ Services Platform

This new program gives startup businesses access to the software they need to build their business.  Talk about a Business Stimulus Plan!

It it amazing what you can find on the web.  Perhaps not as alluring as a photo of Amanda Peet, but is she giving away software? 

Sure she's cute, but can she program?

No she is not!