Thursday, October 26, 2006

Why I'm glad I didn't vote for Bush..

A little story I recently received in my email:

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's
a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the

ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he
dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible


MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's
a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the

shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why
the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold
and starving.

CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering

grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a
table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can
this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is

allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where

the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then
has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Ted Kennedy & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Dan Rather that

the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call
for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,"

retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing
to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to
pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.


Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of
federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare

recipients. The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of
the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to
be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain

it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a
drug related incident and the house,now abandoned, is taken over by a gang
of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican



Pretty standard ignorant, uncaring Republican bs. Especially in the light of recent events.

So I wrote back:
A nice story.. but in reality, the GOP leadership is full of scheming criminals who are bankrupting this country financially and morally.
The current administration's involvement in Iraq has
led to far more civilian deaths than Saddam Hussein's ever did.

WASHINGTON -- A new study asserts that roughly 600,000 Iraqis have
died
from violence since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, a figure many
times higher than any previous estimate. Human Rights Watch has
estimated Saddam Hussein's regime killed 250,000 to 290,000 people over
20 years.

Thats about half the population in Idaho dying violently in three
years. So I guess that the people who voted for Bush would rather have
that than the evil dems who might support education or welfare or
abortion or something really wicked like that. (By the way, I've been
out of the loop for a while, when did God remove "thou shalt not kill"
from the 10 commandments? Or did he just append "unless they are brown
people" to the end?)

Heck, Bush has even cutting spending (by billions of dollars) for veterans (a group one might associate with the "ants" and
not the grasshoppers?) So I think your little story is pretty much
bunk.. but if you want the blood of 600,000 civilians (many women and
children) on your hands.. then by all means, support these criminals.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006


Sweet bulk ink feeder for epson r200 inkjet printer! I got it in March off of ebay for $54 shipped from a seller called vtechplace. So far it has worked pretty well. More photos below. Posted by Picasa

The first half of the ink seems to go fairly fast. I think it basically filled up the cartridges. The whole pack cost me like $30 off of ebay. The seller was enough nice enough to send me a replacement magenta when the first one's chip didn't work. Posted by Picasa

I think if I had it to do over, I'd just get cartridges though, and the bottles of ink that can be used to refil them. Keeping the big cable out of the way is a little tricky, and I worry that it'll break some day. Posted by Picasa

If I let the printer sit for long periods of time, I have to run a nozzel clean or two before it prints again... but now I don't worry quite so much when the ink drops by 15% on a single clean ;) Posted by Picasa

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

9/11 the true version of V is for Vendetta?

Apparently there is pretty good evidence to support the argument that crashing jets into the WTC buildings didn't cause them to collapse. In fact, the evidence seems almost overwhelming. But, as Lavar Burton used to say.. don't take my word for it. A professor at BYU recently released a paper, and has a detailed web page about the subject. Some of the responses to his page are quite interesting. I haven't made it through all of them yet, but none seem to argue against what he says on a technical basis. A few are fairly threatening however. This page also offers quite detailed coverage of many aspects of the builds' collapse. And on the political front, a group is organizing to support further investigation and political action.

Saturday, May 27, 2006