Apple - iPod Photo

I heard rumor of this for some time now, and it looks like everybody was right...

An iPod that syncs with both iTunes & iPhoto (or other photo apps for all you poor PC users out there). Looks great, though is a little expensive...

I quickly discovered this would actually hold my entire photo album, as after loosing everything on my hard drive a while back, I lost all my photos... I currently have 1.25 GB of photos, so a 60 GB drive would be more than enough...

Ah well, just got my new iPod last year, so I don't really need a new one... Guess this may help my Apple stock price though...

Democrats Secret Plan to Disenfranchise The Military?

I want to blog this so I do have an ability to do an "I told you so" if this actually occurs...

A number of abstentee ballots from Pennsylvania have been sent to Military (and other) voters with Ralph Nader on them. However, the November 2nd ballot for Pennsylvania will NOT have Nader on it. This basically means the ballots are incorrect, so the Republicans are pushing to have accurate absentee ballots re-sent to all the military members.

A former Kerry advisor, who is now a Pennsylvania election observer says:

When overseas voters are weighed against that potential pool, the scales don't even come close.
  Mark Aronchick

There's a big problem here. What this will do is give Kerry the ability to request ALL THOSE MILITARY BALLOTS BE THROWN OUT!!! With a simple claim that they should not be counted because they did not vote using valid ballots, all 15,000 of those military votes will vanish from Pennsylvania's total. And because of the fact that 3 out of 4 troops on active military duty will likely vote for Bush, that's a total of over 11,000 votes for Bush gone! And less than 4,000 votes for Kerry...

If you do the math, then imagine it like Florida's close call in 2000, that alone would well push the scale over the line. It would be a net loss of over 7,000 votes for Bush...


We'll see what happens, but you can bet if Kerry tries to pull this move, there will be a lot of screaming from the Right. The Dems will deny the entire scheme, even though IT'S NOW FULLY DOCUMENTED 2 WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION EVEN TAKES PLACE!!!

Up until a week or two ago I had Real's RealPlayer 10 beta for Mac installed on my system. Real released their no beta version, and as I often do I downloaded and installed it thinking "This is the final version, it can only be better than the beta I'm using now."

Well, unfortunately I was wrong. I purchased some instructional video clips a couple months ago for around $10. When trying to open them today to review, I found that a window opened up saying "This clip requires the following free software" and a window which indicated it was trying to download some type of codec from Real. Well, lo and behold, it came up and said "Some need components were not available"!!!

So basically the final release will not play the video clips the beta release played fine previously... I'm basically out $10 due to Real's screw up... That doesn't include the fact that, even if I could get my $10 back, I still want to use the videos to help me with what they teach...

With Christmas approching, I figured I would take the opertunity to post a small wishlist for all thoes out there who want to get me something but don't know what...

And I'm sure there are SO many of you out there...

Bobby's Wishlist

• Penguin Magic $25 Gift Certificate


• Penguin Magic $50 Gift Certificate


• Penguin Magic $100 Gift Certificate


• Penguin Magic $150 Gift Certificate

News-Miner - Past News

I'm utterly confused about this (no pun intended). A Moose Bull was strung up in a power line in Alaska...

The moose was alive when it was lowered to the ground but was later killed when officials from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game decided against tranquilizer it to remove the wires because they were worried the moose, already stressed, would die and the meat would not be salvageable as a result of the drugs.

So basically this is what is says: In order to keep the moose from dying, we decided to kill it... We killed it, of coarse, because had we tranquilized it, we couldn't have eaten it...

Gimme a break...

The Florida Myth

Well, it appears the Dems are giving the aptly named Florida Myth another run by, in order to accuse Republicans of suppressing the black vote. They keep referring to 2000 even though...

In June 2001, following a six-month investigation that included subpoenas of Florida state officials from Governor Jeb Bush on down, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report that found no evidence of voter intimidation, no evidence of voter harassment, and no evidence of intentional or systematic disenfranchisement of black voters.

C'mon guys, give up already... You aren't going to succeed in rewriting history...

[UPDATE]

Looks like I spoke too soon, check out this story on the Drudge Report:

The Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee are advising election operatives to declare voter intimidation -- even if none exists, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

A 66-page mobilization plan to be issued by the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee states: "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike.'"

Absolutely amazing... To think, this time I'm actually *almost* surprised... Which in itself is quite scary...

Well, of little surprise to me my list of liberal based offences is getting larger. This time there's a happy ending of sorts, as Men save signs for Bush in stakeout.

I say of sorts because one of the men who caught the perpetrator is scared to release his name because he believes the Dems in the area will retaliate. It's scary when people fear expressing their political views. Basically now the liberals appear to be turning into fascists...


So the list is now:

• Burning swastikas in Bush supporters lawns


• Firing bullets into Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters


• Breaking windows and doors on Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters


• Breaking into Bush/Cheney headquarters & stealing computers


• Ransacking & vandalizing Bush/Cheney headquarters


• Sieged Bush/Cheney headquaters to intimidate voters


• Stealing Bush/Cheney signs and intimidating supporters
  

Again I ask, how much longer are you dems going to make this list???

Microsoft looks to dethrone iTunes in music category

This makes me laugh so hard...

ITunes has done a great job of helping to elevate the [digital music] market. We're different because Apple is a closed system. If you want Apple, you have to use the iPod. A lot of people want choice and we offer that.

  Christine Andrews [lead product manager of MSN]

There's one problem, and I documented this in an email I sent to the author of the story:

I found the statement that Microsoft made about iTunes Music Store being "closed" amusing.

What's amusing is the fact that ANY type of protected windows media (music and video) will NOT run on a Mac, no matter what. Microsoft has basically done NOTHING to make the Windows Media Player on the Mac compatible with it's protected formats...

At least the so called "closed" iTunes works on BOTH PLATFORMS!!!

  Bobby T.

Oh, and I thought this link is interesting... According to it, iTunes Music Store holds a 70% market share!

On a personal note I buy most of my music now on the iTunes store. It's great because I would normally have to go to Best Buy, grab the CD, stand in line, buy the disc, take it home, rip the CD, and put the CD someplace out of the way... I can now accomplish virtually the same process in a matter of 3 clicks, taking all of a couple minutes (including the download)...

I estimate I own somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 CDs currently. If you do the math that comes out to around $1000 in music (at least). In a normal given year (after I built up my CD collection replacing my cassettes), I would buy around 10 CDs... This last year I bought 2, however I actually purchased around 20 albums...

If this happened near my house, I would be extreamly angry! Kerry still thinks he's way more important than anybody else on the planet, and he's not affraid to shove that in peoples' faces!

Kerry's visit to Canonsburg, PA
 
Good Tuesday morning!  John Kerry brought his "front porch meeting" to our Canonsburg, PA neighborhood on Labor Day morning.  Since you will never hear the truth from the TV or print media I thought that you should know from someone who was almost' there.
 
The residents who live on the street where the event took place were not allowed to attend.

Kerry shipped in approximately 90 invitation only VIPs.  In addition, there was a hard luck case who was about to lose her job at USAIR and another was an elderly woman who was having health care problems.
Neither one was from this neighborhood. The street was closed to all traffic the night before and all residents on the street were REQUIRED to remove their Bush/Cheney signs.

The sympathetic police officers on duty told us that Kerry used imminent domain to claim the street for his purposes.  Residents who have homes within the perimeter (approximately 1 full block) were kept behind a line away from the partisan crowd.  The rest of us were not allowed within the 1 block cordon.  A neighbor from across the street came to the line where we were being kept and asked us to come onto his property.  The police
told us that we could not stand on this mans FORMERLY private property!  This was set up so that Kerry's views could be heard - but not the neighbors.  About 30 peoples (mostly neighbors) shouts echoed down the street "Let the neighbors in".

We could barely hear Kerry speaking with his microphone because press buses were used to block us off  from view!  This mornings papers are reporting  hecklers tried to interrupt Kerry as he spoke to the neighborhood gathering, but he turned our chants to his favor by calling us rude.  Even though most of the media was there to record our stories of not being included in the neighborhood forum,  not one of them printed or aired the truth.
This is what America will look like if Kerry becomes president.

Get registered and get all of your friends registered to vote if they have not already.  Kerry thinks that he is better than the rest of us and he has the media on his side to make him out to be what he is not!

Finally, last night as I drove down the street where the rally was,  I was shocked to see Bush/Cheney signs in almost every yard on the street!

Well, I didn't really watch the debate. I was busy playing the new Mortal Kombat...

I did catch a couple minutes, and ended up laughing at what Kerry said, until I realized it wasn't supposed to be a joke...

Someone asked something like "What will we do with Iran if UN sanctions don't work and they end up getting nuclear weapons?"

Kerry's response? Something like "Well, we can't reily solely on UN sanctions..." Hmmm, sounds a little backwards from what he's claiming is currently wrong in Iraq. 9 years of UN sanctions got nowhere, yet Kerry thinks we should have given the UN more time... Nice little flip here...

Granted, I feel he's right about Iran, however, I also feel he was right about Iraq... Up until a year or two ago, when he flopped...

I find it really amuzing that the Gretta Pole on fox news shows Kerry won by something like 65% to 30%... Looks like the liberals are heeding that email from a couple weeks ago and trying to spin, spin, spin a cacoon of liberal bliss... But spin won't matter this time around.

I look forward to downloading the debate for free off the iTunes Music Store, and hearing the victory for myself...

Yesterday Kerry gave a speach where he said The President should take responsability appologize for the false information about Iraq...

What's ironic here is I've yet to here Kerry appologize for all the false information he said about Iraq...

It's absolutely amazing that he stands there and accuses Bush of so many things that he himself is doing and has done, and NO ONE ever calls him on it!

The Truth Laid Bear: Kerry Campaign Disclosure: Still Sucks

Well, it looks like the new numbers are in.

Candidate		Full Disclosure
George W. Bush:		92.8%
John F'ing Kerry:		78.5%

Well, Kerry's improved by less than 2%. George Bush is still above the 91% average, Kerry is over 12% >below the average... Is Kerry still hiding something?

John Kerry for President - Official Web Site

It may very well be down by the time you read this, but John Kerry's main homepage has 2 pictures from the debates. It is a direct violation of the rules to use any images, audio, or video for any campaign purpose. This includes John Kerry's web site...

Kerry's not only violating rules durring the debate, he's violating rules after the debate as well. When all is said and done, I wonder just how many more rules will be willingly broken by Kerry & his campaign staff...

MSNBC - Rewriting History

I actually found this lie, on behalf of MSNBC, kind of amuzing...

...Saddam's regime had been listed for years by the U.S. government as a 'state sponsor of terror,'...

But except for the allegation about Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda'a claim that is now more in question than ever the other examples cited by Cheney in Tuesday night's debate never have been previously emphasized by Bush administration officials, and for good reasons...

The reason I can state this as a lie was due to me, the other night, flipping though channels and stoping on our local cable channel (which I documented in a prevous post). It had a liberally biased show on where they were playing clips of republicans before the war talking about the dangers of Saddam.

What is interesting here is a speach given by presedent Bush, which directly stated that one of the reasons to oust Saddam was due to his vast ties with terrorist networks... What makes this more interesting is the fact that my source for this information did, as I said, come from a liberally biased show!!! Always amuzing when you can break apart some liberals supposed facts with other liberals attempts to incriminate the right...

I still found it amuzing that in that show, there was not one single clip of a Democrat saying these same things, even though there were just as many solid quotes from the left (including people like Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry) as there were from the right...

And just as soon as a conservative documented these, with links, thoes links all of a sudden mysterously started dieing, almost as if all these liberals were trying to hide from their own words...

Before I posted that liberals were loosing their minds. The list of ways they are has gotten much longer.

Now they're:

• Burning swastikas in Bush supporters lawns


• Firing bullets into Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters


• Breaking windows and doors on Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters


• Breaking into Bush/Cheney headquarters & stealing computers


• Ransacking & vandalizing Bush/Cheney headquarters


• Sieged Bush/Cheney headquaters to intimidate voters
  

How much longer are you Democrats going to make this list before the election? It seems odd to me that Democrats claim they are for the little guy, but then clearly are only for them if they share their political views. If someone doesn't share a view, you guys go and vandalize homes, offices, and even fire guns at us.

This is discrimination, plain and simple...

First the liberals burn swastikas in the lawns of Bush supporters, now they're firing bullets into Bush/Cheney re-election headquarters.

Still once again, I'm not surprised...

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004

Or maybe he insulted a whole one of his two Americas...

Ahem...

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.
  John Edwards

Nice to know you think you're better than everyone else. Guess you and John Kerry both believe your vastly superior to all other members of the human race.
At least it helps to know you both are on the same page...

Best of the Web Today

In response to Kerry's short term memory when it comes to Poland, President Aleksander Kwasniewski said the following:

It's sad that a Senator with twenty years of experience does not appreciate Polish sacrifice. . . . I don't think it's a question of ignorance. One thing has to be said very clearly: this Coalition is not just the United States, Great Britain and Australia, but there's also contribution of Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers who died in Iraq. It's immoral to not see this involvement we undertook because we believe that we have to fight terrorism together, that we need to show international solidarity, that Saddam Hussein is a danger to the world.

From such a perspective, you can say we are disappointed that our stance and the sacrifice of our soldiers is so marginalised. I blame it on electioneering--and a message, indirectly expressed by Senator Kerry--that he thinks more of a coalition that would put the United States together with France and Germany, that is those who in the matter of Iraq said 'no.'
President Bush is behaving like a true Texan gentleman--he's fighting for the recognition of other countries' contribution in the Coalition.

So Kerry's on a roll as far as offending other nations' leaders are concerned... Any guesses as to what nation he will insult next??? Maybe we should start a betting pool...

Mortal Kombat: Deception Slices into Stores

I've been waiting for October 5th for some time, and it's virtually upon us (already upon some of you out there). I've got a full day of work tomorrow, so I'll have to wade though that before playing. But I probably won't get much sleep tomorrow night...

Space pioneer Gordon Cooper dies - Oct 4, 2004

Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the nation's first astronauts who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, died on Monday, NASA said. He was 77.

Cooper died at his home in Ventura, California.

Just wanted to post this because of a tiny relation... Namely that I live in Ventura, California myself...

I also find the following somewhat interesting strictly on an objective level... Being a semi-regular listener to Coast to Coast AM and all...

I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth.

I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.

For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.

The Torgo Homepage has managed to obtain an exclusive shot of John Kerry's infamous pen he pulled out at the beginning of the debate:

Middle School Teacher In Trouble Over Presidential Photo?

This is appalling. A middle school teacher puts up Bush's photo along with pictures of all the other presidents, and she's told to either put up a picture of John Kerry or take Bush's photo down... Basically threatening to fire her, it not so many words...

Only one problem, to my knowledge, currently John Kerry has NEVER been president. Am I wrong about this? Did we hold a top secret election last week that everybody in the world but us conservatives knew about???

Now if John Kerry does, by some miraculous reason, get elected, then I would say his picture should be up. But until he's elected, he should not by default be measured as being or having been an American President...


And what are the liberals saying about this? You would expect they would react to this story in the exact same manner they reacted to similar stores. But if you actually thought that would ever happen, you'd be wrong. Liberals only whine and cry about seemingly anti-liberal behavior. Anti-Bush behavior? Oh that's fully protected by the constitution...

Only problem is, I don't recall the declaration: Thou shalt be allowed to politically attack any such cause or candidate except those causes or candidates of the democratic party... Where such an attack shall be considered infringing upon your god given and inalienable rights.

Can someone point out to me where this item resides in our current constitution?

DRUDGE REPORT 2004

Well, even though they didn't "bring a screwdriver", Kerry did in fact CHEAT during the debates! Again, I can't say I'm surprised...

The debate rules specifically state any objects a candidate wishes to bring will be given to the debate staff which will be left on the podium. So what does Kerry do? He pulls something out of his pocket the moment he gets to the podium, while his back is turned to the audience...

Kerry did not cheat, this is more lies from Republicans, who are hoping for a quick change of subject away from the president's performance, and the new polls.
  Kerry Campaign Source

Only problem is, ANY object brought to the debate is a violation of the rules, even if the object was only his lucky pet rock... So regardless of what anybody claims it was, Kerry did directly violate the rules of the debate...

Here's a clear video showing his cheat!
   http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Movies/JFKCheat.mov

Oh, and for thoes of you claiming it was a pen. I carry a pen EVERYWHERE I go. When you pull a pen out of your pocket, you do NOT crumple up your hand like that when pulling it out... Unless this is some new pen designed to look like a 3x5 card... AND UNFOLDS!!!

[UPDATE]

DEM FLASHED 'WRITE' STUFF AT DEBATE

Ahem...

We plead guilty to having a pen.

2 problems here...

1) This is still a direct violation of the debate rules, regardless of WHAT it was...
2) The item was most deffinately NOT a pen... Unless, like I commented above, it's a pen designed to look like a 3x5 card...

View these photos, clearly showing a straight edge on this so called pen...

Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Everybody hide! I was watching the Mount St. Helens Volcano Cam, and saw the picture below! Apparently Flythra, the giant fly, has emerged! We're all doomed!!!

SpaceShipOne Apparently Wins Prize

It appears the X-Prize has been won! I seriously doubted that would ever happen, but I'm very glad I got this one wrong! This is extremely impressive, and I'm very glad this happened within my lifetime.

I hope things take off from here (pun intended). Who knows, one day I may visit space... If you think about all the things in the world only a few people ever get to do, going into Space is towards the very top of that list... At this rate going to space may very well be something anybody can do in the near future...

I just heard a member of John Kerry's Campaign talking on Fox News. The Bush Campaign representative said that Kerry's saying we should have gone into Iraq with allies, and at the same time he's now saying we should address North Korea unilaterally. Basically Kerry is having it both ways (yet again).

So what does the Kerry rep say in relation to this? He rambles on about Iraq rather than addressing the North Korea flop...

Kerry & his campaign continues to insult my intelligence, along with the intelligence of America. What's scarier is so many people are in fact falling for his repeated ploys...