Lessons On Life and Living from Tony Snow

From the article: The most poignant and impressive lesson that I learned from Tony was how to live well and end life with integrity and grit. Since his mother had died at age 37 of colon cancer, Tony knew his odds were not good. When his colon cancer returned in the stomach and liver, he knew he was living on borrowed time. He did not have to change his way of life; he was already cherishing each moment with his family. He did, however, understand that this life is temporary and that only the eternal has lasting value and significance. He loved his family and told them so. He loved life and lived it fully and vibrantly.

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A Civilian's Salute to Soldiers

You chose to join a cause and fight
You heard your nation call.
Signed and swore and trained for war
For your country you gave all.

If no war you saw that's best
You preserved our freedom yet.
If in radio, accounting or infantry,
this honor you have met.

For we civilians, have this hope
That if called upon you will;
Lace your boots, raise your weapon, Lock and load.
And you would take that hill.

Thank you soldiers every one
For between them and us you stand.
Do the do's, fight the fight, win the battle.
It is you who shields this land.

Jeremy Johnson  - http://www.lbcac.com/
Copyright 2004

 

This is a poem written by my brother. It is a personal salute to his three brothers that served in the Air Force, Army and Marines.

Hacking Your Computer - Physical Access is Total Access

This article is intended as a basic overview of techniques to compromise computers given physical access. It covers Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It also covers prevention techniques.

A cardinal rule of computer security is that once an attacker has acquired physical access to a machine, it is generally trivial for that attacker to fully compromise the system. As technology improves, this is becoming less the case, but for now, if an attacker has physical access to a machine, the attacker can generally breach its security.

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Obama appeals to Republicans with new ad

Sen. Barack Obama has begun running a new TV ad in Indiana and 17 other states featuring an unusual person for a Democratic presidential ad: Republican Sen. Richard Lugar.

The relationship has been so good that it led to some speculation that Obama might pick Lugar as his running mate. Lugar, though, has said he is not interested in being vice president, for either Obama or Republican Sen. John McCain.Obama's campaign said it did let Lugar know that the ad was running.

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Obama's constitutional crisis on Abortion

Barack Obama considers himself a constitutional expert. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 10 years. Both are listed in the top 10 law schools in the country.

But don't be fooled. Obama is constitutionally challenged in at least one key area.

Example one comes from Obama's book, "Audacity of Hope" (page 53), where he quoted then misinterpreted the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

… [T]he essential idea behind the Declaration – that we are born into this world free, all of us; that each of us arrives with a bundle of rights that can't be taken away by any person or any state without just cause; that through our own agency we can, and must, make of our lives what we will – is one that every American understands."

Obama's choice of the word "born" as his interpretation of the Declaration's launching point for the rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness was calculated, obviously to protect his belief in abortion, but, of course, inaccurate.

The Declaration clearly stated these rights commence at "creation." Framers reiterated this point by stating they are endowed by a "Creator."

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Obama Camp Slams Satirical ‘New Yorker’ Magazine Cover

Aides to Barack Obama are blasting a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts “President Obama” in the Oval Office, wearing a Muslim-style outfit and doing a fist-bump with his wife, Michelle, who is dressed in camouflage with an automatic rifle slung over her back.

A picture of Usama bin Laden hangs above the mantel of the fireplace, which has an American flag burning in it.The July 21 cover, titled “The Politics of Fear,” is intended to be a parody, an attempt to show how “scare tactics and misinformation” are being used to try to derail Barack Obama’s campaign, says cover artist Barry Blitt. “I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous,” Blitt wrote in an e-mail to the Huffington Post. “It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.” Wrong.....


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Obama: Enforcing Immigration Laws = Terrorism

ICE performs raids when they have reason to suspect illegal activity, and (occasionally) detains those who are found to be breaking the law. Terrorists strap bombs onto their bodies and detonate them in crowded areas, or they fly airplanes into buildings. Perhaps I'm not as nuanced as Senator Obama is, but I see a big difference there. This guy is supposed to be Commander in Chief material? He's promised to continue the War on Terror, so I have to assume that when we leave Iraq he will redeploy our troops to battle ICE. It only makes sense.

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Penn and Teller - Gun Free Zones

From Penn & Teller's TV series. Do gun free zones help?

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Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?

You’ve heard the bogus statistics, skewed studies and incompatible comparisons that the anti-gun lobby and the media elite endlessly repeat ad nauseum in their propaganda, which blames firearm freedom for violent crime.

* "A gun kept in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a family member, friend or acquaintance, than to be used to kill someone in self-defense."

* "Americans are more likely to be shot to death than people in the world’s other 35 richest nations."

* "Every day in America, 13 children are killed by guns, almost a classroom full of children every two days."

By drilling you with these anti-gun "statistics" until you can recite them in your sleep, they hope you’ll come to accept and expect them, like the morning sun in your window, or the drone of an air conditioner that you swiftly cease to hear. But now, in an authoritative analysis of dozens of existing studies on the subject, Don Kates, a Yale-educated attorney who served as a professor at Stanford Law School, and Gary Mauser, a Canadian university professor and author, have shattered the anti-gunners’ elaborate façade into a thousand fragments of falsehood.

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Feds cite Schumer in collapse of IndyMac

An important angle in the IndyMac failure that may get lost in ominous headlines tonight and tomorrow: federal regulators pointedly cited U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in explaining the bank's failure. In simple language, federal regulators blamed Schumer for a run on the bank.

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Knife crime claims 60 victims a day in UK

Apparently their strict gun laws have an unwanted side-effect.

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FreedomWorks Crashes MoveOn.org protest in Maryland

FreedomWorks outnumbered the leftists and held up signs that called for the U.S. to expand our domestic energy supplies. The MoveOn crowd seemed perplexed and couldn’t figure out how we were able to crash their rally in front of Exxon stations in Bethesda.

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Dems PROMISE lower gas prices if you vote for them in 2006

What happened? Many people voted democrat in 2006 and the gas prices went up -- why were they lied to? They deserve an answer.

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Driving satisfies Jeff Gordon

Though Jeff Gordon admires Tony Stewart, the four-time Cup champion has little desire to follow the two-time champ's footsteps.

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Rock the Vote Aganist 74% of Millenials on Social Security

A recent economic survey by the Center for American Progress found that 74 percent of young people support personal accounts.In the past, Rock the Vote has been again personal accounts. How can Rock the Vote oppose something that 74 percent of young people support?

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How to Set Up Port Forwarding on Your Xbox 360

An overeager router is great for protecting a home network. With gaming on the Xbox360, though? It becomes more of a speed bump. Chances are you need to tweak the port forwarding settings on your system to keep the fragging flowing freely. Here's a quick rundown of this fairly straight-forward process.

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Obama camp's illegal lottery modified

This after someone reminded him that his promotion looked too much like online gambling.

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Bank robbers hurt police officers in chase

The pursuit Tuesday night of a man police believe robbed a bank near Dayton, Ohio, led to a jarring cluster of law enforcement on Interstate 70 near the Indiana state line and injuries to two Richmond police officers.

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Obama to Vote for FISA Bill

Today, Barack Obama is going to vote for the FISA bill he swore to filibuster when he needed the support of the far left. The Senate is finally expected to wrap up the bill updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...

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Obama Joins Growing List of Mortgage "Sweetheart Senators"

The scandal surrounding the Dodd-Countrywide mortgage bailout bill continues to grow, as news surfaced that Barack Obama received a suspicious deal on a home mortgage in 2005 from Northern Trust in Illinois. Join the discussion on this!

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