A Real Bi-partisan Effort

Well, it would appear as if we have finally found an issue that members of both parties can agree upon. Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a joint statement yesterday demanding that "the Justice Department must immediately return the papers it unconstitutionally seized." Congressmen have hollering about "separation of powers" over this issue for a week.

Here's the history. A congressman named William Jefferson (D- Louisiana) was video-taped by the FBI accepting a $100,000 bride from an informant. The FBI found $90,000 of the cash in Jefferson's freezer. The FBI then went to a federal judge and got a search warrant to search the congressman's congressional office for evidence of corruption. Now, other congressmen are up in arms.

I don't understand why this is a violation of the separation of powers. It would seem to me that this proves why and separation of powers is supposed to be. The Executive branch is holding the Legislative branch to the same standards that it holds other people. To get the warrant, they had to prove to the Judicial branch. So, the Judicial branch is keeping the Executive branch from overpowering the Legislative branch.

So, the real issue must not be "unconstitutional practices" because the intent of the Constitution and its separation of powers is being followed. What then, is the true issue? Well...It is the arrogance of our legislative branch. The same issue I've been carping on for three years now. These arrogant congressmen think that they are above the law. But this is the whole point to a Republic (not a democracy): it is that the RULE OF LAW that is the standard by which all men are judged, regardless of his position in society.

So, FBI...please search his congressional offices. And, by the way, the manner in which these other congressmen are behaving is very suspicious behavior. I wonder what they are trying to hide. Maybe a search of their offices is in order to....

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Search Engine Optimzation Contest Winners Donate Winnings to Celiac Reseach

A while back ago I asked my enoromous fan base (all 5 of you) with websites (that's 2/5 of my audience) to link to a site of guy who was participating in the contest who had decided that all proceeds would go to Celiac Research.

Well, this is a follow up. While the winner of the main contest is taking his money and running, you can read here that the winners of the spin-off contest are indeed giving thier winnings to Celiac Research.

You can learn more about Celiac Research.

Registered For Graduate Class

I registered for my first graduate class today. I'm a little nervous. Its been ten years since I was last in school and I can defintently say that education has changed a lot since then. This degree program I am taking is completely offered online while the Internet barely exisited 10 years ago. We'll see how it goes.

Old computers harm office morale

Well...duh!!!

Old computers harm office morale - Breaking - Technology - smh.com.au

Time for another Choice

Our nation has been a two-party system since its inception. There were no Democrats or Republicans at the Constitutional Convention, but there were Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Throughout the years political parties have risen and fallen. Some become more prominent, some less. Some have changed names, some have changed ideals. All have changed. I like the two party system. I think it works better than the multi-party system that we have seen in Europe that gives way too much power to influential extremists.

However, now is the time to change. It is time for some party to die and another one to be come into place. We have seen the trends of this need for the past 16 years. It started in 1992 and 1996 when Ross Perot was able to garner enough third party votes that Clinton won. It is becoming even more necessary today. The two major political parties are so partisan that no one can really move, no one can really change.

Both political parties are failing the American people. Illegal immigration alone proves this. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-80% of Americans (depending on which poll you follow) agree that the borders must be shut down definitively. Those same people all are against any kind of amnesty or guest worker program. Yet our politicians refuse to listen. Can you remember the last time some issue in America had a 80% agreement rate? It just boggle my mind that the politicians don't care about our opinion. They are so secure in their position (due to a lack of competition) that they can be more worried about losing potential future voters than they are worried about losing real voters. That is a problem. It is time for a change.

In his most recent editorial, Thomas Sowell writes:

Frankly, the Republicans deserve to lose this fall's election, after their wild spending and pandering to economic ignorance on gas prices. But a Republican defeat would only bring in the Democrats -- and the country does not deserve anything that disastrous.

I share his sentiments. I am mad at the Republicans...but more scared of what would happen if the Democrats took power. There is no real choice. It is time for a change.

It is time for a change. We need a strong third party to step up and kill off one (if not both) of our current parties. It has to be a party made up of libertarian principles (not necessarily the Libertarians, though). None of the so-called, third parties, are going to be able to capitalize on this need. I don't think the third largest party in the US (the Libertarians) can do it. They have been marginalized players for so long that they can not escape that identity. Their stance on legalization of drugs (which I support, based solely on principle) keeps them from gaining mainstream acceptability and will forever banish them to fringe politics.

It is time for a change. We the American demand control of our government back. We want government of the people by the people. That means, we demand that you listen to us. When 80% of all say the same thing and you refuse to listen...then you lose your job. I just wish there was a really good choice out there because I'm ready for a change.

Mihaela Discovers "Veggie Tales"

Mihaela had attached herself to a Veggie Tales book last week. Imagine her excitement when the workers in toddler nursery played the "Madam Blueberry" video. That is all she could talk about. Needless to say, we broke out our old videos and got our Veggie Tale DVDs out. No longer is she content with Dora...she want Madame Blueberry.

It is so funny because she gets upset when the "Silly Song" portion of the show comes on and breaks up the story. She will say "Where Madame Blueberry go?" or "Blueberry back." But, her eyes never avert from the screen.

We also were amazed at how used to the quality of DVDs we've become. We have some of our older Veggie Tale videos only in VHS and had forgotten how bad quality tapes are. Also, Mihaela has never experienced VHS tapes, so doesn't understand the concept of rewinding...

So, our order of progression to date has been:

• Baby Einstien Videos
• Dora the Explorer
• Little Einstiens
• Jo-Jo's Circus
• Dora the Explorer
• Veggie Tales

I wonder what is next...

Church Sound Blog

As the ministry leader for audio/visual, I was excited to stumble across this site. It has some great information:

http://thesoundbooth.blogspot.com/