In which I change blogging topics.

July 8, 2010 By

I’m sick of blog­ging about pol­i­tics.  There is just too much vit­riol out there.  I will say this right now:  I have not nor will I ever talk bad about any­one per­son­ally — espe­cially the lead­ers of our land.   Sure, I have talked about how much I dis­agree with their poli­cies and the direc­tion they’re tak­ing this coun­try.  I still dis­agree with the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion — and that’s to be expected.  I’m a con­ser­v­a­tive that believes in lim­ited gov­ern­ment and the free-market sys­tem.  I love cap­i­tal­ism; I love see­ing small busi­ness own­ers - and even big busi­ness own­ers — suc­ceed and become rich.  More often than not, they have worked their butts off for that accom­plish­ment.  And they take that money they make and turn right around and put it back into the economy.

But I think it’s time that take a break from pub­licly talk­ing about the polit­i­cal scene.  I will still talk about the oil spill and how it’s affect­ing my local area.  It’s dras­tic and dev­as­tat­ing, and it sad­dens and upsets me.  We have endured so much as a region in the past five years, and it seems the hits just come right on com­ing.  I’m won­der­ing how much more we can take.

But on a lighter note, I want to start blog­ging about my hobby — my only hobby — gam­ing.  I feel that I can con­tribute more to that topic than I can to pol­i­tics.  So, let it begin.

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Theme Changes

July 29, 2009 By

As you may have noticed, I switched back to an old theme yes­ter­day.  The rea­son for this is I am in the process of tweak­ing the “other” theme to bet­ter reflect the per­son­al­ity of this blog.  I sus­pect it may take a while, since I have “fallen off the bike” of web themes.  I’m also look­ing for a cus­tom theme for this site, so if any of you graphic design­ers would like to design my theme, please drop me a line.

I have decided to fur­ther mar­ket this blog as a conservative/political blog, mostly based on our cur­rent Government’s actions.  Let’s just say that I’m tired of sit­ting back and not really speak­ing out.  Things are about to get serious.

A co-worker (Hey L!) pointed me in the direc­tion of In The Fight, which I have joined today.  I urge you to please do the same if you’re sick and tired of Con­gress and Obama leg­is­lat­ing away your rights.  It’s soon going to hit us all that the coun­try our fathers and fore­fa­thers fought for is dis­ap­pear­ing right before our eyes.

I promise you — I will not go qui­etly into the night.  Thank you all, and God Bless!

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Today’s quote for 02÷16÷09: The Presidency

February 16, 2009 By

Here’s a very funny quote that fits today’s sit­u­a­tion very, very well.  I hope you enjoy it!

Any­body who wants the pres­i­dency so much that he’ll spend two years orga­niz­ing and cam­paign­ing for it is not to be trusted with the office.

–David Broder

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Barack Obama is President-Elect: Now What?

November 10, 2008 By

Barack Hus­sein Obama, junior sen­a­tor from the State of Illi­nois, has been elected as the 44th Pres­i­dent of the United States with his term begin­ning on Jan­u­ary 20, 2009.  As a cit­i­zen of this Nation I ask: Where do we go from here?

First and fore­most let me con­grat­u­late Mr. Obama on a suc­cess­ful cam­paign and his elec­tion.  He will be our Pres­i­dent in two months, whether we like it or not.  With that said, let me make one thing clear: I did not vote for him, nor will I ever vote for him.  This is not because he is a black man, and this is not because his mid­dle name is “Hus­sein”.  Frankly, I do not believe that he has the nec­es­sary expe­ri­ence to be the leader of our great Nation.  He will have to prove to me — nay, to all Amer­i­cans — that he has the where­withal to be in this position.

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Federal Wind Coverage Looks Unlikely

September 23, 2008 By

Mis­sis­sippi Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Gene Tay­lor (D-Bay St. Louis) has been try­ing for the past sev­eral years to secure either all-peril insur­ance cov­er­age or, more recently, wind cov­er­age into the National Flood Insur­ance Pro­gram (NFIP).  How­ever, his cru­sade has fell vic­tim to sev­eral fac­tors:  vicious oppo­si­tion, sus­pi­cions, and bad timing.

The rea­son it has fell vic­tim to bad tim­ing is because of the recent $700 bil­lion gov­ern­ment bailout of Fan­nie Mae, Fred­die Mac, Lehman Broth­ers, AIG, etc.  It’s look­ing like the cur­rent NFIP, which is set to expire on Sep­tem­ber 30, will get an exten­sion — noth­ing more.

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Weekend Edition for 9÷13÷08

September 13, 2008 By

Good morn­ing, all.  The wife and I were up at the crack of dawn this morn­ing (my nor­mal time of get­ting up — around 5:30 a.m.) to get ready for her Praxis II test.  We left the house around 6:30 this morn­ing and drove over to the Uni­ver­sity of South Alabama in Mobile.  After I dropped her off, I headed over to the Shell sta­tion across from cam­pus.  The price there was $3.799 per gal­lon, but lo and behold they were out of 87 octane.  Since I was run­ning on vapor, I had to go some­where close.

The next sta­tion down the street was a BP.  It was a quar­ter of a mile down the road, and the price was $3.899 per gal­lon!!  I sup­pose this is all the supply-demand thing since Hur­ri­cane Ike has shut down a good por­tion of the oil rigs off­shore of Texas and Louisiana as well as the refiner­ies in the Houston/Pasadena area.  Still, I couldn’t believe the jump in price in that short of a dis­tance.  But it’s bet­ter than most areas that are start­ing to see the price spike above $4.00 a gal­lon — some places even near­ing $5.00.  Crazy.

If you want some inter­est­ing read­ing this week­end, here’s some links of the news sto­ries that broke yes­ter­day and today.  They’re bro­ken down by area of interest.

U.S. News:

Hur­ri­cane Ike Slams into Hous­ton and Galveston

Fif­teen peo­ple killed when com­muter and freight trains col­lide in Los Angeles

Sci­ence and Technology:

Anti-Spam Law Over­turned; Spam­mer Walks

Google buys Korean blog­ging soft­ware com­pany — Oh Nos!

Pol­i­tics:

Obama Regrets Not Pick­ing Hillary — Biden even dissed him­self and lifted Hillary up.

Obama Back­ers Jit­tery, Obama starts get­ting des­per­ate and calls McCain ‘Out of Touch’

Sports:

Bran­don Webb hits 20 wins as the D’backs beat Reds 3–2.

Titans’ Vince Young was sui­ci­dal?

Alright, folks.  Enjoy the read­ing.  It’s time for me to head over to Barnes & Noble and see if I can find some PHP/MySQL/Wordpress books…Time to start devel­op­ing my hobby!  Have a good rest of your Sat­ur­day and a great Sunday!

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Mississippi AG Plans Fight on Price Gougers

September 4, 2008 By
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood

Mis­sis­sippi Attor­ney Gen­eral Jim Hood

Watch out, gas sta­tion own­ers, Mis­sis­sippi Attor­ney Gen­eral Jim Hood is com­ing after you.

As well he should.  Cur­rently, price goug­ing is against the law, but appar­ently some gas sta­tions in Mis­sis­sippi raised prices prior to Hur­ri­cane Gus­tav.  Some raised the prices by astro­nom­i­cal amounts.  Per the Sun Her­ald:

“We sent peo­ple out down there Wednes­day,” Hood said, “and we saw where prices shot up some places as much as 32 cents a gallon.”

Hood said they reviewed cur­rent Mis­sis­sippi laws, but found they could not charge the offend­ers since they raised prices in advance of Gov­er­nor Haley Barbour’s dec­la­ra­tion of a state emer­gency last Thursday.

Con­se­quently, A.G. Jim Hood is plan­ning to pro­pose sim­i­lar leg­is­la­tion his office pro­posed prior to Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina, which totally dev­as­tated the entire seventy-five miles of the Mis­sis­sippi Gulf Coast.

It would allow the Attor­ney General’s Office to declare a state of emer­gency only for the pur­pose of enforc­ing price-gouging laws and pre­serve the governor’s author­ity to declare the over­all state of emer­gency needed to deploy resources, seek fed­eral assis­tance, and stream­line local gov­ern­ment response.

I hope this time they can get the law passed.  It is about time price gougers are held respon­si­ble for tak­ing advan­tage of not only hur­ri­cane evac­uees, but any sit­u­a­tion (such as another ter­ror­ist attack — God for­bid) where the pub­lic has an exi­gent need to stock up on much-needed sta­ples such as fuel, bread, or water.

Go get ‘em, Jim.

Source:  The Sun Herald

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Work, Gustav, and Celebrity Politics

September 3, 2008 By

Well, today was my first day back to work since Hur­ri­cane Gus­tav rolled through Louisiana and parts of Mis­sis­sippi. No dam­age was incurred here at our office – I was con­cerned about the amount of storm surge our build­ing would see. (It’s on an island.) From var­i­ous reports, the storm surge in Pascagoula was about ten feet.  Thank­fully, we didn’t get any water.

I spent most of my morn­ing tak­ing off the plas­tic we use to cover our com­put­ers and also attend­ing my grad­u­ate course via com­puter. All in all, just another slow Monday-Wednesday.

Ona totally dif­fer­ent note, I have been intrigued recently by the stance dif­fer­ent celebri­ties are tak­ing in this pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.  I have been sur­prised some­what, also.  John Voight is for McCain, and Lind­say Lohan made a halfway-intelligent obser­va­tion about Sarah Palin’s sit­u­a­tion.  Most of the time I am dis­gusted by celebri­ties’ views on pol­i­tics — sim­ply because they hardly know what they’re talk­ing about and usu­ally just regur­gi­tate what they’ve heard com­ing from the far left.  I must say that it is a refresh­ing change to hear that some celebri­ties (i.e. Clint East­wood, John Voight, Nick Clooney) are actu­ally think­ing for them­selves.  Amazing.

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