Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

Don’t Waste Your Vote

Ron Paul weighed in on the election today. It wasn't the third party run that I'd hoped for, but he makes a great argument for not wasting your vote this time around: The American Majority The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right ...

Baccus for President

Chris Hill found me out.. it's true. I'm running for President.

Porcine Matters

Man... that was fast: I don't know what Obama's intent was, and it doesn't really matter that McCain said it months ago.  This is a classic case of not being aware of the context. And the context of Palin making the famous lipstick remark means that this old saying is off ...

Stupid AND Evil part 3

On Friday, Lauren said: We are part of a social democracy. People rally around this Socialism= Bad motif, but they would be outraged if suddenly they were taken away. (I for one am a fan of the FDA, USDA, OSHA- I like knowing my food is clean- Remeber Upton Sinclair’s “The ...

What is modern conservatism?

Great quote from Lew Rockwell's speech yesterday at the Campaign for Liberty's Rally for the Republic (you'll have to overlook the Auburn connection - kidding): What does conservatism today stand for? It stands for war. It stands for power. It stands for spying, jailing without trial, torture, counterfeiting without limit, and ...

What not

I have nothing really exciting to say, but Scott Coats is posting once a day these days, and a lot of the rest of my LiveJournal friends are seriously slacking off, so I gotta keep it going I suppose. We're studying a Christian financial book in Sunday school right now in ...

Ron Paul Still Shaking Things Up

I'm still working through The Revolution - A Manifesto, Ron Paul's new book, but I thought that this report from the Nevada State Republican Convention last week was entertaining and revealing. Rather than allow the Paul supporters to take over the party, they shut the process down. One of the ...

The Revoltuion - A Manifesto

Ok, so I've laid off the Ron Paul stuff for a little while. There has been some silence lately from the campaign, but that's about to end with the upcoming publication of Ron Paul's Manifesto. It begins thusly: Every election season America is presented with a series of false choices. Should ...

Great McCain Parody

Hillarious. Watched 60 Minutes' pieces with the 2 Democratic candidates. I like Obama. I do. I don't really support some of his ideas, but he seems to be a genuine, real person, unlike his counterpart. On a likability scale, I'd put McCain at the bottom, Hillary just 1 notch above ...

Why Ron Paul Will Not Quit

I know it looks bleak for Ron Paul when you look at what is going on with McCain, but my support continues unabatedly. This blog post lays out how things could rapidly shift once we get to the convention, especially if we end up with a brokered convention. (Incidentally, Lincoln came ...

January 5th 2009
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iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...
January 3rd 2009
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Winter Geocaching

Scenes from around the Wolf River as we were out geocaching yesterday: [gallery] Because of the great weather we've had over the break, I've had the chance to get in some geocache hunts. Today we hit a couple of the easier park and grab ones while out for lunch, but the main ...
January 2nd 2009
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Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...
December 31st 2008
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Weightbot for iPhone

Click to Read: Lifehacker: Weightbot Tracks Your Weight with Pretty Graphs, Friendly Interface. Weightbot has been getting a lot of press here lately. I'll echo the praise, it's a great iPhone app to go along with all those New Year's Resolutions to lose weight. It's got an outstanding UI, really makes ...
December 28th 2008
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Hey Ladies - The Best Music of 2008

Why Hey Ladies? There's a significant trend this year with a record number of female voices in my choices for this year's mix—half of the songs. Last year, it was two. The other big trend was that this was the year of the male/female duo, most of them married couples. ...