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Today has been an interesting day. It is my 33^rd birthday. And, as I try to do each year, I’ve spent it with my family. Earlier today we finished watching a mini-series on John Adams. While parts of it were a bit dull it was, overall, a very good show. It’s one of the few times my older two daughters have ever shown an interest in how our great nation came to be. It also got me to thinking about life and death. And, since it’s my birthday I feel it would be as good a day as any to wax on about such topics. Don’t expect any great wisdom here, just a bunch of rambling that may or may not be coherent.
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After a rather long absence, I’m ready to start blogging again. In preparation for this undertaking I’ve been going through my archives and reading my old posts. I was troubled to find that in just about every article where I linked to something, the link no longer worked. I’m not quite sure what to do about it either.

But anyway. Here’s to the revival of a great hobby, blogging. Hope you enjoy the ride.

Prior to NASA’s Apollo 11 moon landing in ‘69, NASA sent several several orbiters to photograph the surface of the moon so that they could, among other things, choose a landing site. The data that was transmitted back was recorded on large magnetic tapes, and then transferred to photographic film for analysis. However, because of the limits of the technology available at the time, the images retrieved were of a much lower resolution than the original photos taken by the orbiters. Once NASA was done analyzing the data, all the tapes were Read the rest of this entry »

Tonight I went to Amazon and ordered a book in an attempt to do a better job managing my dedicated server. While I was there I got to looking through my wish list and realized that some of the books on that list were put there back in July 2002! That’s kind of sad. So, rather than asking me what I want for Christmas this year, those of you who want to buy me a gift can just buy me a book off my Amazon Wishlist.

This post is just me ranting about a few things that are really starting to get under my skin in relation to the state of politics here in the USA.

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1. Every since G.W. Bush first ran for office the media and the liberals have delighted in calling him names and claiming that he just wasn’t mentally competent enough to be President. But, President George W. Bush is the very first President to hold a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Even better, his MBA is from Harvard Business School, where postgraduate management training was invented in the early part of the last century.^[1] So, if President Bush has an MBA, why do the liberals claim he’s stupid? Because he’s not a great public speaker. And this brings me to gripe #2.
2. Since when has public speaking been the main skill that we demand in a president? Every Obama supporter that I’ve spoken with mentions his speaking ability as a reason they like him. And on the flip side, Sarah Palin is already catching flack from the liberals because she isn’t a great public speaker. I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous! I couldn’t care less if the President or Vice-President can give a good speech. I care if they can run the country! But we’re told by the media and the liberals that Bush can’t run the country because he’s not a good speaker and Obama will be great at it since he is a good speaker. I’m sorry, but this is total crap and I’m ashamed that the American people are buying into it.
3. And would someone please explain to me why it’s okay for Obama to have absolutely no executive experience, but yet Palin is the one being called inexperienced? And furthermore, why do the media and liberals continue to compare Obama and Palin? Is Palin running for President? Where’s Biden?
4. Oh, that’s right, Biden’s not doing much media since it has become obvious that he’s no Obama when it comes to public speaking. But, there’s no out cry that he’s short on intelligence. No, when you stump a liberal it’s because the reporter was asking the ‘ugly’ questions. But when you stump a conservative it’s because they’re stupid. Yeah, that makes since. People are still pitching fits because Palin didn’t know what the Bush Doctrine was. Heck, Biden doesn’t even know what his own campaign platform is._[2] And no, Senator Biden, I’m not joking
5. And, in closing, when did being a Bible believing American become a bad thing? I’ve seen more snide remarks about Evangelical Christians in this election cycle than ever before. And, quite frankly, I’m sick of it. I’m tired of comments about how Christians are ‘the easily manipulated, highly impressionable, Bible-beating masses._[3]‘ If we’re so easily manipulated why is it that most of us are refusing to follow Obama with that same wide eyed, ‘he’s the one’ expression all the liberals have?I’m also sick of people who choose to believe in evolution, regardless of the facts, slamming my belief in creation as having no scientific value. Those who claim that because Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in the theory of evolution that she is ’someone who completely dismisses evolution in favor of blindly accepting the baseless, fact less notion of creation, despite indisputable evidence to the contrary, obviously has little use or respect for the fundamentals of science’_[3] show their own ignorance and inability to look at scientific data and draw their own conclusions and rather choose to blindly follow the masses. But that does pretty much describe the current Democratic party.

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I feel better now after getting that off my chest, how about you? No? Maybe you should go write a rant on your blog. It’s therapeutic I tell ya.

[1] http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/02/gwb_hbs_mba.html
[2] http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/23/biden-turns-on-the-gaffe-machine.aspx
[3] http://www.seoaly.com/sarah-palin-embarrassingly-unapologetic-ignorance/