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Time yet again for another time waster, this one caught my attention right before bed last night and I ended up playing it until 4 am. Dwarf Complete (Lineage II), is a rpg along the order of Zelda, but far simpler… well it took two hours of my sleep time away from me so not [...]

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It should come as no surprise, but the Presidential Candidate Selector scores Ron Paul as my top choice with a score of 100%. It will ask your thoughts on certain issues and then tells you which candidate, from the two main parties only, most closely matches your views on the subjects presented.

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If you have a few calendars around the house, go consult them and see when they say the vernal equinox comes this year, if they do at all. Go ahead, I’ll wait. We’ll, if you have a few that do say what day, there is a chance they may conflict on when they say the [...]

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Bush went off the deep end with the scandal over the firings of federal prosecutors saying, “I have proposed a reasonable way to avoid an impasse.” His proposal? Not have the aids testify under oath, and privately (i.e. not on record). The whole point of a testimony is to be on the record and under [...]

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I have been a long time supporter of vouchers. Ohio’s idiot of a governor, Ted Strickland, said in his State of the State address that he’ll seek to kill Ohio’s successful voucher program, thereby removing choice for Ohioans and making Ohio even harder to attract new businesses to here. Things were really bad with our [...]

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Ron Paul’s Straight Talk this time around talks about the upcoming Housing Bubble. An excerpt:
But capitalism is not to blame for the housing bubble, the Federal Reserve is. Specifically, Fed intervention in the economy– through the manipulation of interest rates and the creation of money– caused the artificial boom in mortgage lending.
The Fed has [...]

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I was perusing the Ron Paul related blogs, and came across the following two from the Ron Paul For President 08 blog:
A Dark Horse Shines from Common Sense, about how Pajamas Media removed Ron Paul because they thought there was spam voting going on, though they didn’t remove other candidates or their votes, who had [...]

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You have a far better chance of dying from the next mega asteroid striking the Earth than of dying from a terrorist strike, yet our government figures it is better to spend multiple billions to fight the war on terror than 1 billion on locating and tracking the potentially killer asteroids. Of course killer asteroid [...]

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The Daily Paul is scanning Ron Paul’s 1988 book, Freedom Under Siege. The 10 page introduction itself is worth the read.
Also out now is A Foreign Policy of Freedom, his new book on his views on foreign policy.
Not related to the books, but related to Ron Paul, I enjoyed reading Ten Reasons Why Ron [...]

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The title is a quote from the end of the article that I quote in part below:
Allow me to tell you about a worthwhile man for the Presidency of the United States. He’s an experienced Congressman from Texas, an important member of a major Congressional committee, and a gynecologist by trade. He has voted consistently [...]

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Last Saturday, after we cleaned the house, I took Ari out of Sara’s hair for a little while and took him to a public star gazing party at the Astronomy Club of Akron (I myself was a member… 30 or so years ago…) Ari had a great time, as did I. These star gazing parties [...]

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It’s official now, Ron Paul is moving past the exploratory stage to official candidate stage. America’s best hope is now an official candidate, so get the word out and let everybody know. If you can, contribute as much as you can at his official site. (There is a CafePress site promoting him, but it isn’t [...]

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There is a good article on Libertarians… not the party so much , but those of us who believe in personal freedom and capitalism. The article points out how progressives (Democrats and others on the left) resist capitalism, despite the fact it is responsible for laying the ground work that made minority rights and [...]

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Microsoft has launched their Beginner Developer Learning Center which takes people from no programming experience to a basic level of experience. It teaches Visual Basic and/or C# whichever one want. The first thing you decide is which track you want, Web Development for dynamic web sites, web applications and services, or Windows Development for making [...]

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Ari is 3 today… wow…
We decided to get him a Vtech V.Smile TV Learning System, which we’ll wait until his party Sunday night to give him. There are lots of cartridges for it to add more educational games to it. I think Ari will think it is a blast and be educated at the same [...]

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I can’t find the link at Yahoo News, but I read earlier today how some schools are forcing kids to watch Al Gore’s lie filed dredge of a film called An Inconvenient Truth. In the film, Gore claims that unless we do something about greenhouse gas emissions now, the ocean levels will rise 20 feet [...]

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I missed it somehow, but Stephen King’s Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1 (Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born), the first of the new Dark Tower series is out… I must get to the comic store tomorrow and pick it up as the book series was incredible. The comic series goes in proper chronological order, where [...]

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Ari is taking lessons at the local YMCA. So far he is taking swimming and gymnastics.
Swimming he is not too enthused about. Though he does sit on the edge with his feet it the water he clenches onto the teacher when they take him in. All the parents have to stay in another room and [...]

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While Ari loves being a Jedi, he also likes pretending he is Ollvander, and will pretend to give you a wand and have you flick it, then go “No! No! Definitely not!” take the wand from you and exchange it. (More info on his shop here).

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Ari loves Star Wars, particularly Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition) as he loves the battle with Darth Maul… as a matter of fact when he does the Star Wars theme he’ll actually sing the start (first two notes anyhow) of Darth Maul’s theme. Anyhow he loves playing lightsaber, so his [...]

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