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The 4th of july is coming up and I thought this would be a good time to show some support for our troops. I am a fully supporter of our troops in the military for I know they work endless hours and are very tired day in and day out. I want to thank them for their continued service to this country. I am very thankful to be a US citizen for I have traveled all over the world and I have seen many countries. I have never seen a country such as good as ours. I would also like to take this time to thank my relatives that have served in the served in the military such as my father, my uncle Bob, and many other people in my family. I truly appreciate all you did and have continued to do. My continued prayers are with the troops serving today.

Wordpress version 1.5.1.3 labeled Strayhorn was recently released with many new bug fixes. There were some serious security holes available in the 1.5.1.2 package release, so it was recommended to ugprade. I made the upgrade just now and everything seems to be running smoothly.

Please feel free to e-mail me or comment here if you see that anything is broken or not working correctly — Please enjoy : )

Well, to start it off, I partially took the title from Chris’ site because his site title is Sillyness spelled incorrectly, so that’s where it came from. My life has been pretty busy lately. I have done a lot of modifications to this site and I’m getting ready to launch another site soon. I’ve been working on the forums for that site as well and getting everything ready. There is much work to be done still before launching my new site, but it should be good and hopefully ready within 2 weeks.

My sister came out this past weekend and it was really good to spend the weekend with her. I hadn’t seen her in a while and she’s gotten so much bigger (belly-wise because she’s pregnant!). We’re all very excited for them that they are expecting a baby boy. I was able to hang out with a lot of my friends this past weekend and catch up on old times. I love my friends, I have some of the best friends I think. It’s nice to know that I don’t have fake friends that just want to use my or something, but actually care about me and who I am.

Church was pretty good this past weekend because Larry spoke (he is the founding pastor of the church, but hasn’t been the senior pastor for 2 years now). Things are going really well in my life and I’m going down to see a friend next weekend in Irvine, so that will be very exciting. Lots of stuff happening and more to come, so stay tuned :D

I would like to be the first to announce that I was the first blogger (other than the creator himself, Mark) to use the Nice Search plugin. The plugin isn’t that very difficult to desigin, but the idea behind it is ingenius. Mark did a great job at creating this plugin and made it very easy to use.

The plugin simply lets you do http://www.bleakgeek.com/search/query-here so that you can search for anything just by using that URI instead of the index.php?s=. It gives it a better look and I give him my props for that!

I recently received this e-mail and I thought it was very interesting. I think it was interesting in the first place that one our senators would make the stance that our troops are acting the same as Hitler’s men did. I thought the statement was very outrageous so I followed through with the support of an e-mail to the senator.

Here is the response I got from the AFA…

Sen. Dick Durbin has apologized for his remarks comparing American troops to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Durbin’s apology came after approximately 140,000 AFA On-Line supporters sent e-mails directly into his office calling for an apology.

Earlier, Durbin had adamantly refused to apologize. However, when the e-mails just kept coming, on Tuesday the senator went to the Senate floor to apologize.

While there were no doubt other factors which played into his decision to apologize, the only new factor following his refusal were the e-mails.

Thanks for caring enough to get involved. I hope you will continue to get involved in the issues. You can make a difference!

Sincerely,

Don

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

Today in #Wordpress there was a heated discussion regarding the matter of the legal drinking age of 21 in America. Many things were brought up and I thought it would be a good idea to post about it and give my opinions on it.

One of the items brought up is that an American citizen, over the age of 18, is allowed to sign their life away to the US Army and die for our country, but they still wouldn’t be allowed to drink alcohol. I realize that life isn’t about drinking, believe me, I don’t think that at all, but I see that it’s a bit unfair to the troops.

That is just one argument and I can see many pros and cons to this discussion.

A few of the cons of having a lower drinking age limit are more drunk driver accidents, possibly more shooting crimes related to alcohol, and there are many more to list. There are a bunch of things that could go wrong if the drinking age was lowered simply because it would be easier to get a hold of for people younger than 21. I think that the government has the age set to 21 right now simply because they want people to learn how to be at least a little bit responsible first before being allowed to drink.

On the other hand in Holland and other nations the drinking age limit is set much lower and the driving age is set much higher. I can see how this works for them because they are usually smaller nations (land wise not population) and they can ride their bikes or walk places. But in the US most people drive, so it is understandable how the legal age to drink is set above the legal age of driving.

I see much discussion here and I think it’s quite interesting how many times this actually comes up. Penny for your thoughts?

Bridgekeeper: Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.
Sir Lancelot: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I am not afraid.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your name?
Sir Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your quest?
Sir Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your favourite colour?
Sir Lancelot: Blue.
Bridgekeeper: Go on. Off you go.
Sir Lancelot: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.
Sir Robin: That’s easy.
Bridgekeeper: Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.
Sir Robin: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I’m not afraid.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your name?
Sir Robin: Sir Robin of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your quest?
Sir Robin: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What… is the capital of Assyria?

[pause]

Sir Robin: I don’t know that.

[he is thrown over the edge into the Gorge of Eternal Peril]

Sir Robin: Auuuuuuuugh.
Bridgekeeper: Stop. What…is your name?
Galahad: Sir Galahad of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your quest?
Galahad: I seek the Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your favourite colour?
Galahad: Blue. No, yel…

[he is also thrown over the edge]

Galahad: auuuuuuuugh.
Bridgekeeper: Hee hee heh. Stop. What… is your name?
King Arthur: It is ‘Arthur’, King of the Britons.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your quest?
King Arthur: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Bridgekeeper: Huh? I… I don’t know that.

[he is thrown over]

Bridgekeeper: Auuuuuuuugh.

Sir Bedevere:How do know so much about swallows?
King Arthur:Well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know.

If you learn one thing about me, it’s that I love this movie. Some say it’s stupid, some say it’s profane, some say it’s simply dumb, but I love it because of the old English humor. This was a low-budget film back in the 80s and it’s still one my favorites.

I recently read about the release of Google and their own music store. They are creating an ‘iTunes clone’ type site, such as Rhapsody or Napster.com, all to sell music. Google has the following now: Google Video, Google Maps, Google News, Google Search, Google E-Mail (Gmail), Google Images, Google Price Matcher (Froogle.com), Google Groups, Google Directory, Google Scholar (for education searches), Google Movie Listing, and there are plenty more sites about google being added everyday. It is extremely insane how far Google has come and where they still have to go.
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When life can’t get any funier, the comics always have a way of doing so. I’m starting to post more and more comics because I find them funny and want to share them, so here’s another one…..

I added a poll to this site because I want to start getting the opinion of my users about different things, as for example, the first poll I’m doing is about which online music provider you use. I will use this data for personal reasons and will not be sold to any third party.

Please take part in the polls because it will help me and help the sites I manage. Thank for you for your participation and help in this.

I want to try to make this a monthly poll, but this first one may stay up longer just so I can get some good opinions, thanks!