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I love creating new and exciting web applications and developing web properties contribute to the sharing of information, communication between friends and families, self expression of art video and music, and the free interchange of thoughts and ideas.

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May 09

Government should be held accountable

Is government guilty of illegal activity concerning tobacco products?
Well I say yes they are!
I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and it occurs to me the same health and safety codes that made cocaine, LSD and marijuana illegal apply to tobacco also and the government is turning a blind eye to it because they are not as concerned about the health of Americans as they are about making a buck!
LSD, cocaine and marijuana is enforced as illegal why isn't tobacco? In my opinion it is because they want the money. In my opinion they judge tobacco differently based on the others cause dissident behavior and that is a big no no. In my opinion it is not so much that it will kill us as it is that in their opinion it makes us rebel and not be good sheep. Well, that's fine with me, but why should we let them get away with allowing tobacco companies to fly under the radar and not be held accountable to the same standard, it is a health hazard that they admittedly state causes death and therefore it needs to be illegal, period!
Where are the lawyers? They shouldn't be suing the tobacco companies, they should be suing the government for ignoring the illegal status of tobacco as it should apply under The Controlled Substances Act.
They used these laws to make cocaine and lsd illegal and there were a hell of a lot less deaths from those than there are every year from tobacco.

While I am thinking of it I want to point out that I am not just ranting here, I am like many of you who has had to watch loved ones die because their will power of this drug (tobacco) is far less than that of cocaine or heroin addicts. And tothose of you saying I am a stuck up, better than thou, whatever.. I was a heroin addict years ago, and I was a cocaine addict years ago, and I was addicted to cigarettes (TWICE). Those addictions are gone and far far in my past, but I still get to watch loved ones around me die because the government chooses to allow tobacco to be legal when it should not be.

The point of this discussion group is to rally everyone from all walks of life to press your congressmen and senators, write letters to lawyers and start petitions calling for the immediate illegalization of tobacco products, and to shed light on a shadowy corner that has been hiding a gross hipocracy on the part of the governmet, MAKE TOBACO ILLEGAL or MAKE LSD AND COCAINE LEGAL.

Making cocaine legal is absurd and I only use it to point out that allowing tobacco to be legal is equally if not more aburd.

Mr President Obama, please, hear the logic in this article and take preventitive measures to avoid class action lawsuits against the government by removing the legal status of tobacco.

I hope everyone will join in this group and add their voice, save your children, your wives, your parents and friends. Most do not nor will not have the will power to escape on their own, and so called patches, gum and other cures and really just cleverly disguised means of making a buck on the backs of the suffering.

Join me in this uprising to stop this injustice and hipocracy once and for all!

REPRINT FROM MY DISCUSSION GROUP ON WINDOWS LIVE - PLEASE JOIN THE GROUP
March 11

My latest thoughts

Hello again,
 
  I had a few minutes and thought I'd write for a little while. I want to touch on just a few thoughts of mine that will hopefully get people thinking, maybe even passive agressive rebellion?
 
  • My first thought: Why is it ok for companies to war dial my phone?

Back in the day (1980's) we used to use things called war dialers to hunt through entire phone books looking for modem carriers. this might bring to mind visions of Mathew Broadrick in war games?  We were hunted, they called it criminal, AND YET, here it is 30 years later and my phone rings 4-5 times a day (on a quiet day) with what else, WAR DIALERS, only now they want me to either press 2 to be removed from their list or 1 to speak with some jerkoff salesman who is trying to give me a morgage bail out for a home I am not buying noram I in default on, or renew my extended warranty on my car because my warranty is about to expire.
For Crying Out Loud! Are there really people dumb enough to fall for this crap, or are the telemarketers just to stupid to realize people have brains?
Hello... pressing two does not get you off the list - pressing one and telling then to go *%$# themselves may help relieve some frustration, but that doesnt get rid of them either. The biggest question I have though is, remember where this thought started, WHY ISN'T THIS ILLEGAL?
I'm sure if I broke out my old C64 and war dialer the feds would waste no time breaking down my door. HEY, Uncle Sam, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, when are you going to arrest these criminal boiler room sales people?

  • My second thought: Why are they allowing drug manufacturers immunity from the law?

Have you REALLY paid attention to whats being said in all those prime time drug commercials these days? Here a just a couple of examples...

Advair, the miracle drug. Advair will stop your asthma symptoms so you can enjoy life.
Celebrex, the miracle drug, again cures your symptoms so you can enjoy life.
And believe me there are many many more!

In the mean time, while you are watching, the soft spoken, fast talking announcer (many times a female) is telling you that this will cause more serious side efects, can bring on fatal asthma attacks, liver damage, stroke, heart failure, kidney disease, lung damage, and get this IN SOME CASES DEATH, but be sure and ask your Dr for some today!

Hey man why don't they have to tell the truth at least...
Yo Bubba, we want you to  go and git yer Dr to prescribe this shit to ya so we can line our pockets with your hard earned cash. We think you are too stupid to hang on to it anyway, and besides, you'll probably end up in worse shape than you are now. Then you will be either dead or too sick to suit us.
Man, why is this crap legal? They make you go to the Dr and beg for penicillin (now a $4 generic they cant make money on ), or god forbid, some codine to kill a toothach or other agonizing pain, but when it comes to pushing designer drugs that should never have gotten approved by the FDA... Come on in baby, the waters fine.
NOW WHAT'S UP WITH THAT???

  • My final thought for this post: Am I the only one that notices this shit and gets pissed off at the insult to my intelligence?

Anyway I am not trying to rant and rave here so much as to just get you all thinking about what is going on in todays society.
Take notice, go ahead and get mad about, it's ok.
But when you do don't just be quietly angry. Take a minute, sit down and tell the world!  
Write your congressmen, and senators.
Write the attorney general, President Obama even (and by the way, thank you Mr President for signing the ok for stem cell research).
Get involved and make them change the rules.
Commercialism/Capitalism should not have carte blanc when it comes to selling products to consumers....

Well thats all I have for now, but on a happier note I Ive been working on some kewl new web properties, they aren't the prettiest, YET, but they will be and they are not just stupid spam sites either.  Hot

Anyway check them out, I write them to try and please the visitors and share my skills with the internet community, so...
If there is something you don't like about them let me know?
If there is something you would like to see added to them let me know?
If there is something you would like to see improved or upgraded let me know?
And of course if you like them by all means Let Me KNow That Too??

     Thanks for dropping in.

Until next time, C'ya  Wink
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February 21

What's new and exciting

 Hmm.. Lets see, well, ALOT is the short answer.
 
  •  So far I am still not pissed off at Obama and still believe in him.
  • I've finished www.indoorinternetmall.com
  • I opened a free technical support forum at www.thehelpclinic.com
  • The forums at www.kewlkatz.com was opened in beta yesterday.
  • Business2businessmarketing is a week or so away from beta release.
  • I've written a bunch of desktop bots to automate my time consuming mundane tasks.
  • I moved to a new house.
  • moved and setup my servers and computers.
  • made the email accounts at www.nopeddlers.com totally free.
  • yadda Yadda Yadda

Yeah I've been BUSY!!!

And that is my excuse for not adding any blogs in the last few months, "that's my story and I'm sticking to it".  Nerd

 I should have some more time to blog eventually, but for now I will elaborate on a few of the web projects I opened up since they are free and I would really like to hear from anyone who tries them out on what they like, what they don't like and what they would like to see in the future?

 

First off is The help Clinic;
I've been writing apps and creating web sites for many years now and usually for someone else, so I decided to go back to my roots and create a few pet projects for all the web sufers who are looking for free stuff.
The Help Clinic was first on my list, I wanted to open a site where I could post articles on computer repair, tips on getting the most from your PC, and answer some of the questions people have who want to try and be do-it-yourself PC Geeks. Smile 
So far I have written a couple articles on things like how to recognize and avoind potential virus problems, and advice to help those interested in either buying or building a new PC.
Yesterday I opened up the forum at The Help Clinic so anyone who needed advice could post a questions on hardware or software and I will try and answer them for everyone.
I'm not endorsing novice people try and make their own repairs and such, but I do believe in making the knowledge available for those who want to try their hand at do-it-youself.
I've been building computers, websites, and programming for nearly 25 yrs and so I feel I will be able to answer most questions that come along, and if I cant, I hope that others reading the forum will chime in and help others out too.

Second was my spam blocking email server at No Peddlers;
Originally I was going to turn it into a paid service, but I decided to just make it free as another offering of thanks for the many years I have enjoyed being part of the internet and programming community.
No Peddlers is pretty simple to use, the filters are very simple to work and like I said, the best part is it is FREE Wink
The front page of the web site itself isn't much to look at yet because I just have so many things going all at once  < LOL> , but the email system itself is functional and the filters work flawlessly. As soon as I get some of my other projects launched I will return and add in the outter page features like news, weather , etc. But hey, for now you can start enjoying a low maintenance spam free email account.

The other two projects are Kewl Katz and Business To Business, but since they will not be ready for a few more weeks I will leave them to another post.

If you try any of this out please let me know what you think. I enjoy givng to the web and all I ask is a little feed back on how to make it better so everyone will enjoy it even more.

I'll try and get back here more often, but being a one man programming department can really get hectic at times...

        C'ya Next time

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October 29

Rebuttal To Negative Obama Email

It's Getting close to election day and I keep getting bombarded with negative Obama Email that's lame.
But I would like to re-post my reply to the latest attempt to anti-Obama spam me and I hope it provides a little food for thought.....

Lets look at the developments of a republican hand in "American Freedom" ;

Freedom without control will always equate to inflation. Why, because the majority of unintelligent monkeys that make up this planet are genetically flawed and unable to control their emotions. They are subject to the single most devastating problem to afflict this planet since Eve ate the apple, GREED!

Without big brother to save people from themselves they will continue to lie cheat and steal from each other. They will play on the ignorance of the uneducated in an unchecked manner, and all in the name of capitalism and PROFIT!

IE: Take a look at today's medical ads on TV, They want me to buy a pill to stop my spring and fall sneezing touting how great it does this and how much better I will breath. Then in the kindest, most soft and seductive voice they can hire they proceed to tell me this same medication is known to cause kidney failure, liver problems, lymphoma (CANCER), heart attack, stroke, and in some instances death. AND THEN as if I have been completely hypnotized and convinced that these greedy uncaring capitalists are looking out for my good, they wind up their commercial by urging me to go and specifically tell my Dr I want him to prescribe this to me.
All and all I get to pay some ridiculous price for a drug that, while under the current rules of freedom DOES EXACTLY AS THEY CLAIM, it will CURE MY SNIFFLES, but will come at the cost of destroying the rest of my body!!!

That was just one small example to the constant IQ TEST going on in this country due to capitalistic freedoms.
Here is example of the working class failing the IQ TEST and this one really makes me depressed.

While most ultra rich will tout how hard they worked to get that way, let me point this out, most elite rich work hard at manipulating money.
They work at money, they trade money, they print money, they control money and on, and on with MONEY.

Of these elite rich, only a small percentage of them actually do any substantial real world work, like performing a material service or even as much as washing a window or helping an old lady across the street. For the majority of these elite the only work they do is manipulating and controlling money.

Wall street is filled with people who make a living manipulating money, bankers are rich by manipulating money, loan sharks/brokers work at manipulating money, day traders and stock brokers make their money by manipulating money.

Isn't that the same as SKIMMING?
Isn't skimming the same as STEALING?

In return for their hard labor MANIPULATING MONEY they tell us ...
we cant afford health care
we cant afford education
we cant cant afford to own a home
we can afford to have leisure
in fact they pretty much tell us we cant afford anything
unless it allows them to SKIM MORE MONEY.

Maybe we should all THINK ABOUT IT a little more, you just might see the truth behind the game.

If I have learned one thing from my life's journey on planet Earth it is this...
Man is still swinging from the trees when it comes to true intelligence, he has not learned compassion. Man has certainly not learned logic, and does not weigh the consequence of his actions, and if he does, then he still is subject to that genetic flaw, GREED, which allows him to cast aside right and choose wrong, EVERY TIME.

We are all flawed by this emotion and unfortunately we need Mom and Dad watching over our shoulders in order to save us from ourselves.

What does all this have to do with the election?

Does Obama want socialism? No but he understands that freedom must have incentives in order to control greed.

I have listened to both candidates (I have been Republican since Ronald Reagan) and would like to share my observations with you...

Obama: Has repeatedly told me where he intends to spend money, what he believes it will cost, has laid out exactly where and how he intends to raise this money for these expenditures and stated very clearly what he wants to accomplish, and clearly stated what he intends to do today in order to effect change tomorrow.

McCain: Has spent most of his campaign telling me why I shouldn't vote for Obama, he has told he he is not George Bush, he has told me about his past, and has vaguely stated that we need change and spending needs to be stopped and congress is over spending, and that Obama used to associate with a terrorist, and Obama is wrong, and Obama, and Obama and Obama.

I base my vote on clear cut logic.

  • What are you going to do today to change tomorrow

McCain hasn't said anything clearly

Obama has clearly stated how he plans to attack the problem.

  • How do you intend to fund and bring about these intended actions.

Again McCain has not said anything clearly, and continues to should like a excuse the pun, politiCain (politician deliberately misspelled )

Obama has told me what it will cost and how he will raise the money.
Obama has told me how he intends force corporations to create AMERICAN jobs (NAFTA WAS A BAD IDEA)
Obama has said "I will tax companies sending jobs overseas, and give tax breaks to companies willing to keep jobs in America." (THIS IS A GREAT IDEA)
Obama has told me he sees our problem with education not only being with the classroom, but the lack of parents to be parents. (THIS IS AN ALL TO TRUE OBSERVATION)
Obama has told me he will not raise tax on the working class (those making less than 1/4 MILLION DOLLARS) and that covers most of the American working class (THIS IS FAIR)
Obama has spent his campaign telling me what he is going to do when he becomes president,

McCain has done little more than slam Obama and pay me lip service.

READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BULLSHIT!

In fairness I will say (before you do) that both parties have been negative towards the other, but one thing has stood out. Obama has told me the plans he has, in the present, to bring about change in the future, and McCain has not!

For these reasons I support Barack Obama.

America needs saved, that is if there is still enough time to save it...
I believe Barack Obama is the best hope we have.

Please help put an end to Corporate GREED and the widening of the gap between working class and the ultra rich.
Support Barack Obama this Election Day!

PS: I make a six figure income!

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July 28

A Really Kewl Batman Sight

 
 I just got done browsing a really kewl Dark Knight website that has tons of stuff.
They have all kinds of Movie Trailers, interviews with Christian Bale and others, and even an HBO special on the Dark Knight!
 
There's a poll there to vote on different batman stuff, I voted for Jack Nicholson as my favorite Joke and Michael Keaton as my favorite Batman, as far as I'm concered that was stil the best movie of them all. The really did a great job of capturing the true feeling on a 1950's Batman Comic.
 
There's also a pretty large selection of Dark Knight Movie posters, including foreign language version, and they also had Dark Knight movie photos. 
 
This sight was also running a piclens 3D so browsing the posters and photos was really kewl.  Check it out for yourselves here.
 
 
 
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