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Thanks for posting this... some pretty good responses to your question. I’m happy to see that most have realized that one-of-these-two-will-be-the-next-president and we MUST NOT let that be Obama.

Personally, I’ve been stunned by the level of vitriol being thrown at Romney from FReepers. I suppose the DUers are nastier but it’s hard to imagine.

It’s as if most FReepers are going through the various stages of Grief. Hopefully, they will get all the way to acceptance before November 2012.

Here’s an optimistic thought: I’m already looking forward to the Romney second term. The economic recovery, energy renaissance, stock market surge, and lowered unemployment will be fantastic. Then after the Senate supermajority occurs due to the 2014 mid-terms, most entitlements are reformed and the tax code improved.

Think about it...

Fuel of the past???

Everything I have in the garage/driveway runs on gasoline.
And I’m expecting to use them for many years to come...

You’re exactly right, there were only happy tears.

I was at the Waverly Tea Party event hosting Herman Cain last night. It was truly an amazing thing. The author of this piece does a good job of capturing the excitement and passion of Cain and the crowd but understates the numbers. Badly.

Crowd size? Closer to 3,000. Standing Ovations? In the dozens.

Herman talked non-stop for just shy of an hour. No teleprompter. No notes. And not a thing said that I would disagree with. Even the 999 plan sounds pretty solid when he gets the time to explain it.

Ok, so he’s not a politician. To me that’s his biggest selling point. He’s real. He has principles. He’s one of us. He’s the only one of these clowns I would trust.

After seeing/hearing Cain firsthand, I feel just like the lady quoted at the end of the article. “If I have my way, he will be President.”

Hurricane Katrina hit landfall directly over our manufacturing plant along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi. The computer center there was flooded to almost ceiling level. Our Dell storage array network with all the local servers, disk drives, etc. was completely submerged in a stinking, muddy mess.

Come to find out, our fancy ‘distributed’ document management system is a combination of central and local storage. Whenever someone ‘local’ would access a blueprint file in edit mode, the system would move the file from ‘central’ storage to ‘local’ storage - this to improve the speed of accessing the file.

The ‘local’ files were in a Raid5 configuration with weekly full and nightly incremental disk-to-disk backup... plus tape backups stored in the datacenter - now all ruined.

The off-site, month-old backup was in a local bank deposit box. But the bank did not open for about a month after Katrina. The bank-located backups recovered just fine to a sister plant located in TN. But within the lost month, some of the company’s blueprint files had been moved to local storage. In all, a few dozen critical blueprints from across the company existed only on the muck encrusted data disks.

Luckily, a company specializing in recovering data from damaged disks were able to retrieve all the lost engineering files. But not after several weeks and over $100k spent...

Wow. She may be in front of the others...

... but she’s also “bringing up the rear”.

You’re correct, it’s actually Trevecca Nazarene University.

In reality, just a small fraction of the student body are ‘ministry’ majors (our son is one of those)...

We go to a medium-to-large sized Church of the Nazarene.

Most folks here in middle-TN are pretty conservative in how they think and live their lives. The pastor is in his mid-30s and, to his credit, steers completely clear of political discussions.

On the other hand, we have a college student going to the nearby Nazarene Bible College (Travecca) in Nashville. They definitely tilt leftward at the college. As a for instance, they have a new ‘Social Justice’ center.

Also, some weeks ago said student came home explaining that the country needs to get back to ‘organic farming. And why did he say such a thing? The school had sponsored a documentary on the subject. I had several points for young grasshopper to ponder: 1. How is this helpful in your studies to become a minister? (since it’s not, you should ignore it.) 2. Did they give any rebuttal to the film to suggest it was only one point-of-view? 3. Did any of the professors there claim to have farming experience of ‘any’ kind that would give weight to their claims? AND 4. My ancestors who came to this area some 150 years ago pursued what one would call ‘organic farming’... do you think they gave it up because they were stupid or had valid reasons for introducing more effective methods?

The Church would be best served by worrying about lost souls...

From the article:

“Democratic rank and file members, including Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, say the cuts won’t take effect until 2014 and will merely return food stamp benefits to pre-stimulus levels.”

Don’t be fooled. There are no ‘cuts’ here.

The plan is to ‘pay for’ money that will be doled out in 2010 (now). So they ‘claim’ a reduction in the PROJECTED budget for food stamps to begin in 2014. This will be done on-paper and never mean anything in the real world. Besides, they did this thinking that the employment situation will have improved and more-or-less the need for food stamps will have returned to pre-great-recession levels. This will be long-forgotten, and erased before 2014 comes along, if needed... As far as the politicians are concerned, it will be somebody else’s problem by then.

The outcry is a ruse/sideshow. There are no cuts in food stamps.

I saw Johnson on CNBC this morning making a pitch for his ideas. Mark Haynes had some great questions for him. One of them was about the fact that there isn’t this strife with other minorities, just the blacks, would he please explain. His answer: you can’t expect a race to get past slavery in just a couple of hundred years.

One of the reasons Johnson stated for us to address this problem is that welfare payments to blacks will simply get worse over time. So, I guess, to address a possible, future issue with increased transfer payments to blacks, we should make transfer payments now.

... Brilliant, don’t you think?

“I’m tellin’ ya. Black people are making it very difficult for fair-minded White people not to dislike or even hate them.”

Absolutely correct. I’m beginning to believe the ONLY way for blacks to improve race relations, salvage some political power, and ever get another african-american elected president would be if they: Distance themselves and expose Obama for the empty suit, usurper, fraud that he is.

However, I don’t believe they will. And their dream of a socialist utopia living off ‘whitey’ is going to end badly - for them.

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We live near the small town of Waverly, TN (about 70 miles West of Nashville).

Downtown Waverly was practically impassable last night, you could only enter/leave from South of the city. Our church is in a ‘100-year flood plane’ and, you guessed it, was flooded. At the peak yesterday, the water was as high as the doorknobs on the first floor.

Church services there have been cancelled for today.

As I type, it’s still raining here... not heavy but steady.

On first blush, some folks might wonder: Is what he said so bad? After all, being a superpower carries a lot of responsibilities. It’s expensive and maybe even a little unfair to all the hyperpower wannabies.

Well, here’s a way to put Obama’s comment in perspective:
Imagine your spouse’s reaction if they happened to overhear you say this to someone —>

“Whether I like it or not, I’m married.”

You’d be toast. And deservedly so...

A GT win would be a great end to the best season in many years.
Wreck ‘em Tech!

BTW, that’s a great tagline...

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I always get TurboTax in the middle of December. I spent part of the weekend putting in our preliminary 2009 numbers (some are just reasonable estimates from last year’s entries).

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome. There are several changes to the tax code that helped us:

1). An $800. tax credit for ‘making work pay’. ($400 apiece for myself and spouse).

2). A $2500. tax credit for our son’s college expenses. [Previously, the max was a $4000. DEDUCTION.] - This is an expansion of the Hope scholarship program funded by the Stimulus boonedoggle.

3). Some non-taxable income we have was allowed to be added to our income to be used in the calculation for how much state tax we paid in 2009.

Lastly, I had increased my 401K pretax savings to the absolute maximum allowed and we also increased our charitable giving in 2009. (Starve the Beast!)

Bottom line: last year we had to pay $800. to the gov’ment on April 15, this year we’ll get $2100. in refund.

... Sweet

... “Why aren’t the refineries, chem plants, businesses, etc. crying foul?” ...

Some are looking to profit from the coming crackdown on CO2.
See this little diddy from DuPont:

From: Linda Fisher, Vice-President - Safety, Health, Environment and Chief Sustainability Officer

DuPont believes the scientific understanding of climate change is sufficient to compel prompt, effective actions to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. We believe that to be successful, these actions will require concerted engagement by the world’s governments, along with technological innovations by businesses, and individual actions by all citizens.

Government representatives, businesses and citizen organizations are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to work on a global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. DuPont actively supports the work of these organizations to develop an agreement that includes all countries in commitments to reduce global emissions.

An important part of success in addressing climate change involves actions by individuals — both taking steps to reduce our own emissions and making our leaders aware that we support development of policies that reduce emissions globally. An initiative, “Hopenhagen,” has been developed to help link citizens around the world to the activities taking place in Copenhagen now.

Check out the Hopenhagen site and learn more about the activities and what other people around the world are saying: http://www.hopenhagen.org/home/map

Same here.
The speech he gave was a complete surprise to me.

OTOH, two points to make:

1). I don’t think BHO believes a word of what he said.

2). If he’d given this speech BEFORE they awarded the prize, BHO wouldn’t have won.