Afghanistan Peace-1, Doves-0
29 Sep 2009 Leave a Comment
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Remember that old 70s commercial with a bunch of people having a Kum Ba Yah moment while singing:
I’d like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow-white turtle doves
Chorus:
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
Let’s hope this video isn’t an updated version of that ad:
Retro News: 1981 Report on first forms of internet
13 May 2009 Leave a Comment
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I almost died laughing when I heard how long it took to download a newspaper, and how much the service cost:
Lately, EntreCard users visit my blog more often than I do
04 May 2009 Leave a Comment
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I have been a horrible blogger lately. It feels like I haven’t written a post here since the Truman administration. However, I do seem to be getting quite a few visitors due to EntreCard, so I figure I’ll try to post here on a semi-regular basis. I just am so busy lately, doing business-related stuff that probably isn’t relevant to this blog. I’m also getting ready to move soon. My sister (and best friend) lives about 10-12 miles from me right now, and she and I decided it would be great if we were all in the same zip code. At first, I thought of persuading her to move closer to me, but I decided I like her neighborhood stores more than I like mine. Plus, even though I’ve had this house for a long time, it has never quite felt like “home” and I now want a place with a huge, gigantic, humongous yard. Of course, I know that a person selling a house won’t get as much as they could have a year ago, but I also know that people buying a house won’t have to pay the inflated prices that are long gone. So I have a feeling that part is going to even out, I just have to find the right house.
Back to work, work and more work for me. I’m enjoying what I’m doing, but lately, it feels like I’ve been working at it 23 hours a day. But I have a feeling that the workload’s going to change very soon and I’ll be able to go back to a fairly normal schedule. At least, that’s what I’m working towards.
Gosh, I just checked my home page and saw the banner I put up for Hurricane Relief.
In 2008.
I should fix that one of these days.
(P.S.- I wasn’t alive during the Truman administration, in case you’re wondering. )
Barack Obama LIED about the Military during interview
07 Sep 2008 Leave a Comment
In an interview, Barack Obama was asked by George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “This Week” program whether he’d ever thought about military service and replied: “You know, I actually did. I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school” A few moments later, he said, “But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979.”
However, the Selective Service Registration requirement was terminated by Proclamation 4360 which eliminated the registration requirement for all 18-25 year old male citizens. This proclamation was signed by President Gerald R. Ford on March 29, 1975. According to Wikipedia, it was reestablished by Jimmy Carter in 1980, after Obama graduated:
On March 25, 1975, Pres. Gerald Ford signed Proclamation 4360, Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act, eliminating the registration requirement for all 18-25 year old male citizens. Then on July 2, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18-26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960. Only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration.[2] The first registrations after Proclamation 4771 took place on Monday, July 21, 1980, for those men born in January, February and March 1960 at U.S. Post Offices. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were reserved for men born in the later quarters of the year, and registration for men born in 1961 began the following week [3].
I know many people are probably focusing on Obama’s “My Muslim Faith” comment during the same interview, but I think this is just as important. Why in the world would he lie about something like this? Everyone at the time knew that young men were no longer required to register.
Even if Obama didn’t know that Ford had signed the proclamation, how could he be remembering being required to sign up, when there was no requirement at all?
Don’t want to break my posting streak….
01 Aug 2008 Leave a Comment
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So I’ll report on the big news hitting the metro Phoenix area:
Dunkin’ Donuts is reopening NINE stores, from Scottsdale to Glendale. I thought that they had been driven out of town by Krispy Kreme, but it looks like there’s only one of those in the state, and that’s in Mesa. Personally, if I head to Mesa for fried doughy goodness, I’d rather grab some Arizona Native Frybread. It is one of the best foods on the planet! How in the world can anyone resist a Green Chili Meat Taco: “Native American Frybread smothered with shredded beef and green chili, topped with your lettuce, tomatoes, shredded cheese, and red onions.” After you finish your taco, you can have Indian dessert frybread. Look at this picture, doesn’t it make a glazed donut look puny in comparison:
My Sunday Prayer
27 Jul 2008 Leave a Comment
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(I actually wrote this post on Saturday, I had forgotten that blog posts can be time shifted. I wonder what else I need to remember? Anyway, here it is:)
Darn, someone grabbed the domain name I wanted!
23 Jul 2008 Leave a Comment
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I woke up this morning and decided that wombatcombat.com would be a fun name to own, but someone else beat me to it. I don’t know what I’d do with the name once I owned it, but that’s never stopped me from buying a domain name before.
Someone recently asked me how many domains I own, and I honestly don’t know off the top of my head. I have a list of some of them on this laptop, but the main chart is on my big girl desktop that I don’t use that often any more. I guess I could sit here and try to count them all, but that’s no fun. It’s enjoyable to me to find them and buy them, everyone has to have a hobby, right? Some people collect stamps, some people collect recipes, and I collect domains. 
