From a Fox News article on Black Friday:

The dollar hit record lows against the euro Friday and reached their lowest point in 12 years against the yen.

After a while you feel like you're beating a drum and no one is listening. But, many are and are starting to wake up. Visit www.RonPaul2008.com and check him out.

While you're at it check out the new money bomb!!! Rudy's Reading List is a great new place to commit to giving to the revolution. November 30th here we come!!

Ideology-free politics not only for liberals

Gene Edward Veith wrote a very convincing article discussing the new liberalism with its lack of ideology. Read it...its solid and makes some good point.

I would like to extend his arguments, however, to conservatives, especially in the now and present race for the presidency. Liberals are not the only ones that seem to be lacking in ideology. The current race for the GOP ticket seems to greatly lack its own ideology. The front two runners are a mormon and a pro-choice candidate. I have already read many arguments for Christians supporting both. The argument for supporting a mormon president is that we are not voting for pastor but rather the president of the country. Read Olasky's comments in one his last articles (sorry for the vagueness on that one) in which he wonders aloud whether some of Romney's flip-flop is due to his mormonism. The argument for support of the pro-choice (and I shudder at this logic) is that voting for Giuliani will decrease the number of abortions by 100,000 compared to the number of abortions if Clinton were elected. Yes, each of those 100,000 lives are one more life saved, but listen to the argument. We are rationalizing ourselves to choose truly the "lesser of two evils." Where are the ideologies we once held? Where is the rationale to vote for someone with principle, someone that will bring change and match the ideologies as presented by our founding fathers?

With that I present Ron Paul. Many will not support him because there is no chance he will be voted in. Many do not want to throw away their vote. But whatever happened to us being a people of principle? Maybe I'm just not old enough yet to lose some of my ideology...maybe my experience in this world hasn't been chiseled away enough to realize that ideologies are nice yet unrealistic in life.

I just shudder at the ideologies my children will have to give up when we compare the ones we sacrifice today. It makes you see a world much presented in V for Vendetta is more reality than we would like to admit.

Liberty is Brewing (Watch this Video)

Sorry Hobster...don't mean to take your thunder but this video is amazing. Let's make this a 16th of December that they will never forget!!! Pray for the Revolution!!

Pro-Life?

More than two decades after the abortion carnage began, biblical Christians remain rather confused and battle weary in the pro-life struggle.

The causes of this are many. The first is that the pro-life movement has been often driven by the sorrow of sentimentalism rather than a zeal for biblical righteousness.

To read the rest of the article click here. Doug Wilson sets the topic into a much-needed biblical light. Read and be challenged.

Cafferty on Paul

Keep it up all of you supporters!! The media is starting to pay attention (and some notable media isn't - Fox News). Here is one sample video. Check Ron Paul out on YouTube....if you dare.

Are you ready for another record day for Paul?! Check out Tea Party 2007.

Pandemic Flu?!

C'mon...is this really necessary?!

Maybe I should wait until after my first cup of coffee to write this, but KSL (SLC station) is reporting on a new frightening commercial by the Utah Health Department warning the community of a potential pandemic flu. It apparently sets forth the potential scenario of how the outbreak would affect our community to the point of mass deaths, panic, and hysteria.

OK. One could argue that because of this commercial we won't see the pandemic which could happen as people will be more educated. But, I'm just a little tired of this tactic of scare the people into action. Isn't it about time we have someone put forth the facts (of course, I'm also skeptical about the medical kooks they use to give facts...but that's for another blog) and steer away from causing panic. It reminds me of the House M.D. episode in which a pandemic disease struck the airplane, affecting Dr. Cuddy herself; of course in the end it was the hysteria that caused the disease to spread (great scene...House making up the symptoms at the radio and the passengers suddenly getting them.)

Anyway, back to my question. I really don't know the answer, but just wonder why this is coming out now. Of course, the huge supply of flu shots is beginning to be distributed. What?! Now, now, the flu shots have nothing to do with the pandemic as the pandemic would be the result of a mutated disease that couldn't be cured. Sure...but what citizen would not in some way equivilate getting the vaccine to help minimize the possibility of getting the flu. Surely, if enough people are vaccinated it would help decrease the number of flu bugs to mutate. Of course, this doesn't fully hold water as the flu shots have never gone unused due to the high demand. Still, it makes me wonder as to the impeccable timing of the commercial.

Maybe I'll just never know. Maybe Big Brother (sorry for the sarcasm) really does just care about me. Maybe I just lean towards conspiracy theories a bit too much. But, really, who comes up with this stuff?

Oracle Application Server 10g

How do I love thee, let me count the ways.... Zero. How does Oracle love me? Let's make the analogy that its very close to me; its the glass that has shattered and burrowed itself under my skin. I won't go into the details here but if I thought I was going to be bored tonight I was wrong. Sorry for the negative attitude, but man.......

Let's just put it into context. Their last user manager for JDeveloper (the development tool) which you would deploy onto the Application Server.....doesn't let you have 'or' in the name. It's not like I can create an error that states "Please change your user name so it does not contain 'or'" (If you can't tell....I'm just speaking of the two letters - not with quotes). This is what they call a production version to be deployed on our live servers!!

If you want an app server that is stable, try something else. If Microsoft made a J2EE server I would actually suggest that. <shudder> On to the rest of my evening.......

Remember Remember the 5th of November

C'mon all you Ron Paul supporters!! This is the day to support liberty and freedom from tyranny! Please visit www.ronpaul2008.com and donate in support of Ron Paul for 2008. Any gift will help Ron Paul as he continues his campaign. Mitt Romney has the top fund raising day of $3.1 million for 2008; let's make this a day that will go down in the record books as a day millions were raised for freedom.

Pandora

On a reference from my wife's grandmother (who would have thought...she's becoming a techie?!) I am loving life with my own customized radio stations from Pandora. When you go to the site, enter an artist or song and you're on your way. The station will provide titles from your artist and play songs from other artists sharing the same genre. I entered Ben Folds and it found Ben Folds Five <shock!!>. However, it started playing The Gabe Dixon band...not bad!!

Go ahead, try it. I dare ya...I double dare ya!! And, if you have money (of course, after you give me some) check out their systems to get the same customized stations at home, in your car, etc. I'll stop there before I tempt myself too much.

Oh yeah, did I mention the customized stations are FREE?!