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Sometimes jokes speak so much truth…

Nice Weather We're Having

Good ol’ Utah!  Last week, we had rain (and some snow) with temps between 40 and 55.  This week, so far, it’s been between 70 and 80 degrees with lots of sun.  Apparently, tomorrow we’re getting rain and temps in the 50’s.  Wow.  Talk about lack of consistency.

 

I’ve always complained about the Utah seasons, especially swapping from Winter to Summer.  Why did I leave out spring?  Because there really is no such thing.  We don’t get the month of 65-75 degree weather with mild breezes and rain showers.  We go from a snowy, cold Winter to a 2 week period (where we are now) that the weather can’t figure itself out, and then immediately jump into the 90’s for summer.  I really wish we had more of a spring.  I LOVE the mid-70’s temps and the mild breezes and all that – it makes for GREAT soccer weather. J

 

But I guess you take what you can get, and much to my wife’s dismay, I ain’t moving to California anytime soon.

 

You know, I can’t believe I was so hard up for something to blog about that I blogged about the weather.  Oh well, it’s a good thing no one reads my blog anyway. :D

Good Ol' America!

So today kicked off Tea Parties across the U.S. in virtually every state.  For those who aren’t aware of what these Tea Parties are for, I can sum it up very quickly:  They’re a peaceful protest against the wasteful government spending that has gone on since Bush finished out his term in office.  We’ve had to endure stimulus package after stimulus package – all of those packages are ultimately going to be charged to…(insert drum roll)…the average taxpayer!!  These Tea Parties are to show Washington that we’re sick and tired of how they are mismanaging the money in this country, essentially enslaving our children and children’s children into massive debt that can’t possibly be paid.

The graphic posted today isn’t aimed at these Tea Party protests and the people attending.  It is actually pointed at the critics of these Tea Parties.  You see, there’s another movement going on right now by the main-stream media, as well as the liberals in this county who are now starting to label REGULAR conservatives as “idiots”, “extremists”, “militia members” and so on.  They are trying to discredit and belittle anyone participating in these protests.  The irony is that they all say the same thing: that these protestors don’t realize that it was Bush who started it all.  They say that Bush alone doubled the size of the national debt and completely condemn him for it.

DUH!!!

What these “Leftists” don’t understand is that the vast majority of us know all too well what Bush has done and are ticked at him too.  But what they won’t admit is that so far, Obama as DOUBLED WHAT BUSH DID!  It’s such a stupid argument anyway.  “Well it was your beloved Bush that doubled our debt!”  My response is simply, “And so that makes it OK for Obama to do it too!?”

This country is full of ignorant people who aren’t grasping what’s going on.  So many people are so far out of touch it’s sickening.  These Tea Party people are rising up in protest in SUPPORT of the Constitution, and they’re being hammered by the “Lefties” for it.  I mean, really?!  Being criticized for defending our Constitution?!  Really!??

Make the dumb people go away.

 

HEY-YO!!!

Everyone give my sis a shoutout!!!

Awwwwww

How precious...

My Blog

After some careful thought and observation, I’ve realized a harsh truth:  No one reads my blog.  I thought this morning that instead of “ifyoureseekingpower”, I should’ve named it “noonereadsmyblog”.  Who knows, maybe I’ll make another blog with that title, or one close to it.

The best part about this post is no one will read this either, so no one will care whether or not I’m even writing something right now.  Maybe someone might glance at my blog but see that I wrote more than 20 words and will just pass on by because of the effort it takes to read all this text.  Maybe I should just start making my blog entries super-short, or just put pictures.  I bet if I just put up pictures of explicit nudity or graphics of Barack Obama, I’d get millions of hits an hour.  But I have standards, and those 2 items are WAY above my standards right now.

Oh well – I guess blogs aren’t necessarily for other people to constantly read and drool over.  It’s just a place to write my own mindless-babbling garbage for the sake of getting something out there in the universe that aliens might one day read, and realize how truly insignificant we all are.  And you can bet once they read my blog, that’s EXACTLY what they’ll be thinking.

See, because of me, this planet will be spared annihilation.  I'd say “go ahead and thank me”, but again, who’s reading this crap anyway?

National Direction (or lack thereof)

Neal Boortz threw this out today and I thought it was worth repeating:

"Almost half of the people in France believe that it is acceptable for workers who are facing layoffs to lock up their evil, greedy bosses. What's more, 56% of blue-collar workers approve of boss-nappings.

This is the type of attitude that is fostered and even encouraged by the constant hammering on the high-achievers in our society. Never have I seen wealth envy so intense, and never have I seen it so eagerly promoted by demagogues in power."

Doesn't it feel like we're somewhat close to that ourselves?  The government is helping us rise up against our greedy corporate executives.  People have shown up at some of these "failed" company's doorsteps, picketing the wages and bonuses of the top-level execs.  They have even shown up at these same Execs homes in protest.

We've entered a scary era of Wealth Envy and personal entitlement.  We are further down the same path that France is already treading than we realize.  What's sad is that most Americans don't know or won't accept the fact that our very own Government is HIGHLY responsible for getting us to where we are today, and not JUST "WallStreet" as they claim.

Wasn't this country built on freedom and personal choice?  If we want to succeed, don't we all have the means and freedom to attempt just that?  Likewise, if we want to be lazy and fail, aren't we all free to do exactly that?  This country has become the greatest country in the world in only a few hundred years, and that greatness was built on Individual Freedoms - everyone has had the right to choose whatever they wanted to do.  America has been a breeding ground for innovation and inspiration.  Now, your government would have you believe that all this is wrong; that personal freedom and achievement is what brought this country down.  The people who have sacrificed and climbed to the top are now the enemy, and that Government is the solution to level the playing field and make us all equal.  They'll take the money from the achievers and hand it to the underachievers - while in reality they'll pocket a massive amount for themselves, run up the national debt and enslave us all, economically, for generations.

I heard a quote the other day from a Socialist from a few decades back who said "I don't call myself a Socialist, I call myself a Progressive.  I believe in the power of the individual, and in the fairness that this country could obtain for the people."  ...something like that.  

What caught my attention (if it didn't catch yours) was how she touted that the power of the individual was a good thing...then contradicted it immediately by spouting the word "fairness".

Quite simply: Taking away from the "individual" and giving it to others to be "fair" seems counterintuitive.  Aside from that, it's unconstitutional.  Nowhere in the constitution does it state that people are "entitled" to other people's successes.  We each have the promise to "the persuit of happiness", but that doesn't mean we're all going to achieve it.

Even in Religious circles there is no entitlement.  In my faith, we're taught that our reward in heaven will be subjective to our faith, effort and sacrifice here on earth.  Nowhere in our doctrine are we told that we can slack off and do whatever we want and reap the same rewards in heaven that prophets of old will receive.

Let's take another stab:  Karma.  Karma denotes that whatever you put out into the universe, you'll get back - generally speaking.  It doesn't mean that if Joe donates every free second of his time serving homeless people food down at the shelter that his buddy Steve is going to be rewarded for it.  To me, it's just common sense.

Our government wants you to believe that all of these basic, fundamental truths of mankind aren't correct and are, in essence, fundamentally flawed.  The goverment wants you to believe that THEY are the source of all your happiness and well being, and that YOU aren't smart enough or good enough to achieve it on your own.  Fascism, Socialism, Marxism - whatever you want to label it, that type of view is just wrong, and our founding fathers knew it.  The government wants to control us, and most of us are buying right into it.

Oh, I should mention...  Barack Obama is one of the biggest, most avid supporters for this "punish the rich so the poor can benefit" nonsense.  Did you know that he has an Aunt living in this country illegally?  That's not a big deal in and of itself, as there are a lot of illegal immigrants floating around.  But what really gets me is his aunt is destitute - completely broke and living in a shelter.  Why didn't Barack Obama ever "share his wealth" with her?  He's a millionaire - why isn't he helping her out?  At the very least, pony up some dough to help her become naturalized. Oh, I get it - Barack Obama wants to "share the wealth" as long is it's with OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.  Ah, I get it now.  He shuns his own relatives on the same principles he and our Democratic congress and senate are SHOVING down our throats.  Odd - I don't see much "fairness" in that.

Anyone else have a problem with what's happening to our country?

Cabin Schedule

After tedious hours of hunting the web and configuring a calendar, I finally have the Cabin Schedule and room assignments back up and running. You should see them on the right side of the screen a little further down.

Also, with the help of Google Calendar, I have actually scheduled our cabin weeks all the way out to the end of 2010. J This of course doesn’t take into account any “swapping” of weeks with other families, but those can be easily adjusted as I find them out.

Let me know if you see any problems or glitches.

Enjoy!

A Quick Pic of My Son

This was taken back at the beginning of December in Disneyland - and before his haircut.  This is such an awesome pic...

WHEW

I’m done. I think I found a theme that works and have it all configured (for now). I like this much better than my last theme.

For those interested, the header was a picture originally sent to me by a friend of mine a while back, and I always wanted to incorporate it into my old blog as my header, but never got around to it. So after a few touch-ups and editing to the original picture, VIOLA! The rest is history.

BTW – this new theme appears to correctly center pictures sent through email. It automatically centered the image 2 posts below. Schwwweeeet! I don’t like how it formats the date of each entry on the upper left, but meh – oh well. I can probably tweak that manually at some point.

Finding Theme's

Either I’m really picky, or everyone out there who has ever created a theme for Blogger sucks.  Obviously it can’t be my fault, so I’ve figured out where the blame lies.  Seriously, I have scoured 15-25 different “template sites” for a new template for this blog, and I can’t find what I’m looking for.  AAAAAAAARGH!  It’s driving me nuts!

 

Rant over – back to the hunt…

Making Posts From Email

Ok, now I have to admit this is pretty cool.  Not only can I make posts by sending an email, but I can also include pictures and they’ll post.  The downside is I can’t really format it right, since the only way the image will show up is if it’s an attachment, and not an image embedded in the email.  So it always aligns “left” and shoves it before any of the text.

 

If you haven’t noticed, this entire post is through email. :)  The cool thing will be that I can take pictures on my phone, then email them to my blog and have them posted.  Very slick.

 

The Death And Life of My Blog

My old blog has died.  The blog I previously had at power.prototype-b.net was being maintained (monetarily) by a good friend of mine who has decided that he doesn't want to renew his account.  He asked me if I really wanted him to renew, but of course I'm not going to make him make any payments on something he's not even using, so I told him to just let it die and I'd find something else.

So here it is - I'm not sure I'm sold on this "blogger" stuff.  I'd really like to get my own domain (possibly through Xmission) and actually create a real website, and not just a blog.  But I figure this is worth trying out anyway.

I'll be playing with this for the next month to test it out.  With any luck, maybe 1 person may read it and post some feed back. :)