Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Politics on Jan 26th, 2008
I very seldom vote Democrat, however, if I were to vote for any Democrat this election cycle it would be Obama. He may be an evil CFR member, but I find his positions on several key issue far better than any of the other Democrat candidates, especially health care, and we know he’ll pull troops [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Jan 20th, 2008
Ron Paul came in a strong second in Nevada and beat Giuliani in South Carolina… though Paul beating Giuliani is nothing new, the only time he hasn’t was in New Hampshire. Nevada and South Carolina proves a certain point about the Ron Paul base. Despite the fact he gets lower scores in polls, his real [...]
I saw a report that said that Antidepressants may not be as effective as popularly thought. Worse, the studies that prove certain drugs are ineffective are very seldom published in medical journals and literature. This is above and beyond the known side effects of antidepressants, such as them actually increasing the suicide rate among teens, [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jan 19th, 2008
Ari has started saying Totally and Dude occasionally. “That was totally neat! Dude.” That sort of thing, though normally not together in the same sentence.
Meanwhile we got back from the Emergency Room late Friday morning. Ari turned out to have upper repertory infection and possible early pneumonia. I ended up calling off work at 2:30am [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Jan 16th, 2008
Ron Paul placed fourth in Michigan far beating out Giuliani and Thompson, of course Giuliani continues to focus on Florida. Romney’s win doesn’t count for too much since the Republican’s cut Michigan’s delegates in half for moving the primary too early.
Meanwhile on the Democrat side, Clinton won, though she and Kucinich were about the only [...]
Posted in New Zealand on Jan 16th, 2008
If I were to move to Australia instead of New Zealand, since I have always loved Koala’s and Kangaroo’s (but if there is one thing that I learned from the Crocodile Hunter, it is that nearly every deadliest creature in the world lives in Australia so that part isn’t cool). Anyhow big city order there [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 14th, 2008
It is still early in the primary season, but I’ll lay out my official election predictions, as they stand right now.
On the Democrat side, which is an easier one to predict, I’ll lay best odds on an Obama/Edwards ticket with an eventual win as the Republican’s will not put up somebody who can beat any [...]
Posted in General on Jan 13th, 2008
Our monitor died the other day. Thank God for Freecycle, where we were able to get a new monitor for free… well, new to us. I wasn’t looking forward to having to shell out $240 or so for an LCD screen since LCDs, especially cheap ones are not very good for gaming, beyond the fact [...]
From Saturday Night Live comes another SNL Digital Short: Iran So Far, making fun of Ahmadinejad’s (President of Iran) statement that there are no gays in Iran (given that many homosexual men from Iran have attempted to get asylum in various countries based on being homosexual and fear of being put to death there because [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Jan 8th, 2008
Ron Paul so far in the New Hampshire primaries is second. Two hamlets voted last night, McCain received 10 votes, Mike Huckabee 5, Ron Paul 4, Romney 3 and Rudy Giuliani 1. Of course the big news is that Obama crushed everyone on the Dem side with 16 votes, Clinton 3, John Edwards 3 and [...]
Posted in New Zealand, Site News on Jan 7th, 2008
EDIT: As I jumped from 33rd to 1st, this isn’t a Nelson, New Zealand Blog… at least yet. So if you are searching Google or whatever, ignore this entry… hopefully you see this show up before you follow the link. Original post below:
I am presently the 33rd Google result of looking for: Nelson, New [...]
Posted in New Zealand on Jan 6th, 2008
Okay, enough cons of moving to New Zealand. I have said the whole time, I still would move there after Ari graduates pre-school if money wasn’t the problem, and if Sara would agree. Anyhow, from beautiful Nelson, New Zealand (my first choice if I were to move to New Zealand) comes the Lantern Spectacular, a [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Jan 6th, 2008
There is a great article by Chuck Baldwin, founding pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, titled: We Desperately Need The “Confessing Church” where he makes a very good comparison between the Christian Churches in Nazi Germany that supported Hitler, and the Christian Church today that supports Bush and the Neo-Cons (read all the [...]
I haven’t covered the developments in the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray for a long time.
Since I last covered it, Paramount and Dreamworks went to HD-DVD exclusive for 18 months after being paid a great deal of money. Then HD-DVD players went to $100 for a short period before jumping back to their normal [...]
Posted in General on Jan 5th, 2008
Check out this video of some Kea’s doing really amazing stuff:
Apparently Kea’s are among the smartest birds out there and cause havoc with cars in car parks in New Zealand’s ski areas. Kea’s are a non-speaking parrot.
Posted in New Zealand on Jan 5th, 2008
I created a New Zealand category and moved most of the old posts taking about my New Zealand obsession to there. (Asperger people focus on obsessions, mine tend to rotate from thing to thing as one may have noticed… I haven’t decided on my next obsession yet. )
Also, a follow up to the cons [...]
Posted in Site News on Jan 4th, 2008
I finally fixed the overly light text on block quotes, so they should be easier to read now. Sorry for the overly long delay on that one.
Posted in Politics on Jan 4th, 2008
Sorry for the curse words, but there is no polite way of putting it. The Evangelicals of Iowa decided to fuck over the country by pushing yet another person, who just like Bush, represents the Anti-Christ a billion times more then they represent Christ Himself. By simply claiming to be a Christian (or in Huckabee’s [...]
Posted in General on Jan 3rd, 2008
What is up with Diesel prices here? It is a good $0.50 more expensive then regular gas. I thought it was supposed to be cheaper normally… Of course a diesel car is probably still cheaper over the long term, but still…
EDIT: While we’re at it. Where is the Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel? Most of the [...]
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