I’m on my way to the west coast to attend the OFCNFOEC. I love technology and believe that whoever dies with the most toys wins.
Maybe I can do some blogging in Chicago during my layover.
On the other hand I can have a breweski or two....…decisons decisions.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sad news
Once upon a time we were Salesmen. Not Account Executives. Not Customer Enablers. Not Planners or Account Managers.
No. We were Salesmen. And we ran the road, with dedication and the supreme confidence that we were selling products that made people’s lives better. We sold touch dialing, three way calling, call forwarding, SSS7 Signaling, toll ticketing, fiber optic transport that carried more and more conversations and data at lower and lower costs. And if our first cell phones looked like book ends we dreamed and knew that someday they would fit in our pockets and cost less than a dinner for two at a trendy restaurant.
And it was fun and we knew the customers and our competitors. It was a small universe that had very few bad guys, and best of all we had our very own internet before there was an Internet.
It was called “Joe Martian” and the network was called “Roadrunners.”
Before email, there was snail mail and the telephone. Joe kept up with us. He knew where a new job could be found, who had been blessed with a new child, and who had a new wife. He knew who had moved, who had retired and best of all he did this with kindness, affection, good humor and a pleasant demeanor rarely seen in today’s world.
Joe retired a few years back with some health problems. They have now become worse. Gentlemen and ladies, say a prayer for a true Gentleman. The world is a better place because of Joe. Like all of us he will, sooner or later, check-in to that last roadside motel where there is a grumpy front desk clerk and a room with a broke air conditioner…. But I have no doubt he will be immediately upgraded to a 5 Star hotel and a suite on the Club Floor with a complimentary fruit basket and a king size bed for eternity.
Rest well, Joe. You will be remembered.
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No. We were Salesmen. And we ran the road, with dedication and the supreme confidence that we were selling products that made people’s lives better. We sold touch dialing, three way calling, call forwarding, SSS7 Signaling, toll ticketing, fiber optic transport that carried more and more conversations and data at lower and lower costs. And if our first cell phones looked like book ends we dreamed and knew that someday they would fit in our pockets and cost less than a dinner for two at a trendy restaurant.
And it was fun and we knew the customers and our competitors. It was a small universe that had very few bad guys, and best of all we had our very own internet before there was an Internet.
It was called “Joe Martian” and the network was called “Roadrunners.”
Before email, there was snail mail and the telephone. Joe kept up with us. He knew where a new job could be found, who had been blessed with a new child, and who had a new wife. He knew who had moved, who had retired and best of all he did this with kindness, affection, good humor and a pleasant demeanor rarely seen in today’s world.
Joe retired a few years back with some health problems. They have now become worse. Gentlemen and ladies, say a prayer for a true Gentleman. The world is a better place because of Joe. Like all of us he will, sooner or later, check-in to that last roadside motel where there is a grumpy front desk clerk and a room with a broke air conditioner…. But I have no doubt he will be immediately upgraded to a 5 Star hotel and a suite on the Club Floor with a complimentary fruit basket and a king size bed for eternity.
Rest well, Joe. You will be remembered.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
The Judge
Today must be my day for information from my buds. The following describes a .45 caliber/410 gauge pistol that looks ideal for protection in close quarters. I think the 410 capability is great because if you have to use it, you aren’t going to kill someone two rooms over, and you don’t have to be the world’s greatest shot to hit your target.
Link to "The Judge."
But although "The Judge" looks impressive for close in defense, I’ll still take my 20 gauge short barrel pump loaded with No 4 shot for every thing outside a car. Light, almost no recoil and accurate enough so that duffers like me can damage what I shoot at.
Besides. I love to hear that shhhkunkk when I chamber a round.
My thanks to Grant C.
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Link to "The Judge."
But although "The Judge" looks impressive for close in defense, I’ll still take my 20 gauge short barrel pump loaded with No 4 shot for every thing outside a car. Light, almost no recoil and accurate enough so that duffers like me can damage what I shoot at.
Besides. I love to hear that shhhkunkk when I chamber a round.
My thanks to Grant C.
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I wonder why this didn't make the MSM??
Could it be that it doesn't fit in with their agenda?
I got this from my bud from Texas, Mike L. My thanks to him.
You know, I have to wonder if this would have caused Mrs. B. Hussein Obama to have some pride in her country?
Or is that pride reserved only for her own desires? I think we know the answer.
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I got this from my bud from Texas, Mike L. My thanks to him.
In Tennesse e we really do pull off the road and stop for funerals......nobody moves until the last car has gone by.
What follows is a message from Vicki Pierce about her nephew James' funeral (he was serving our country in Iraq):
'I'm back, it was certainly a quick trip, but I have to also say it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. There is a lot to be said for growing up in a small town in Tennnessee The service itself was impressive with wonderful flowers and sprays, a portrait of James, his uniform and boots, his awards and ribbons. There was lots of military brass and an eloquent (though inappropriately longwinded) Baptist preacher. There were easily 1000 people at the service, filling the church sanctuary as well as the fellowship hall and spilling out into the parking lot.
However, the most incredible thing was what happened following the service on the way to the cemetery. We went to our cars and drove to the cemetery escorted by at least 10 police cars with lights flashing and some other emergency vehicles, with Tennessee police handling traffic. Everyone on the road who was not in the procession, pulled over, got out of their cars, and stood silently and respectfully, some put their hands over their hearts.
When we turned off the highway suddenly there were teenage boys along both sides of the street about every 20 feet or so, all holding large American flags on long flag poles, and again with their hands on their hearts. We thought at first it was the Boy Scouts or 4H club or something, but it continued .. for two and a half miles. Hundreds of young people, standing silently on the side of the road with flags. At one point we passed an elementary school, and all the children were outside, shoulder to shoulder holding flags kindergartners, handicapped, teachers, staff, everyone. Some held signs of love and support. Then came teenage girls and younger boys, all holding flags. Then adults. Then families. All standing silently on the side of the road. No one s poke, n ot even the very young children.
The military presence, at least two generals, a fist full of colonels, and representatives from every branch of the service, plus the color guard who attended James, and some who served with him .. was very impressive and respectful, but the love and pride from this community who had lost one of their own was the most amazing thing I've ever been privileged to witness.
You know, I have to wonder if this would have caused Mrs. B. Hussein Obama to have some pride in her country?
Or is that pride reserved only for her own desires? I think we know the answer.
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A picture IS worth a 1000 words
Well,well. Here is a good look at the Democrats’ presumptive Presidential nominee. Don’t you think he looks just swell? I wonder if he is considering that outfit for the swearing in ceremony… Gotta be diverse you know!
And then we have the endorsement by Louis Farrakhan. Which Hussein’s troopers rushed to disavow…. Well, not really..
Said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton: "Sen. Obama has been clear in his objections to Minister Farrakhan's past pronouncements and has not solicited the minister's support."
I mean, so what? You have it.
But just to clear things up, Hussein himself spoke:
"I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan," Obama said in the statement. "I assume that Trumpet Magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree."
The above non-disavowal was touted by the Washington Post as:
the Obama campaign responded with an unequivocal statement on it from the candidate himself.
Do Journalists actually study the English language anymore? Do they take any courses in critical thinking? But I digress.
Ok. But can we now have a disavowal? Neither of the two statements is. Instead they are attempts to parse and straddle. Here, Hussein. This is a disavowal.
“I condemn Louis Farrakhan’s many hateful statements about Jews and whites. I did not seek his endorsement and totally reject it.”
No charge because I know you are too busy getting yourself deeper and deeper in the hole.
Washington Post
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Service
A classmate sends this educational comment.
My thanks to Billy F.
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At one time in my life, I thought I had a handle on the meaning of the word "service."
"It's the act of doing things for other people."
Then I heard these terms which reference the word SERVICE:
Internal Revenue Service, Postal Service, Telephone Service, Civil Service, City & County Public Service, Customer Service, Service Stations
Then I became confused about the word "service." This is not what I thought "service" meant.
So today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said he had hired a bull to "service" a few of his cows. BAM! It all came into perspective. Now I understand what all those "service" agencies are doing to us.
I hope you now are as enlightened as I am.
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You are who you vote for.
I had an old bud call me up this morning and show a modest amount of umbrage over my suggestion last night that there are no moderate Democrats.
“I am a moderate,” he proclaimed, “and I am a Democrat.”
Not wishing to engage in verbal jockeying so early in the morning I asked him. “Will you vote for whoever the Demos nominate?” His answer was, to paraphrase; of course, I am a Democrat so I support the party. I rested my case by inquiring about his family, wishing them well and saying good bye.
Folks, it is time to quit fooling yourselves. You are who you vote for. If you vote for Hussein you are not a moderate Democrat. You are a Left wing Democrat who has promised to abandon Iraq, bring the troops home immediately, engage in talks with countries that sponsor terrorists with no pre-condition and nuke Pakistan.
If you vote for a Democratic Representative or Senator you are a Left wing Democrat who has promised to surrender in Iraq, de-fund the troops, increase taxes, give amnesty to intercultural sojourners – aka illegal aliens - and hold hearings on such weighty matters as did ballplayers use HGH and steroids while the economy tanks and Iran builds nuclear missiles.
Not that the Repubs are a lot better, but the facts are the facts, and the above is what the current Democratic Party stands for.
Deal with it. Admit it or vote for someone else. They aren’t going to change, and your Demo Congress person, if you elect him/her, will keep the radical Left in power, with the capability to introduce bills, waste millions of dollars in useless so called “oversight hearings” and destroy our efforts towards winning the WOT and closing the borders to the intercultural sojourners.
Remember. The party in the majority has the majority on the committees. What that means is that a Demo bill can be voted out and into debate on the floor by the majority in the committee. If the Demos want to squash the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” all they have to do is get it out of committee. If the Repubs want to extend the Bush tax cuts they will never get that bill out of committee.
So the party of the individual you vote for is important.
If you put a radical in power then you have become a radical.
There are no moderate Democrats.
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“I am a moderate,” he proclaimed, “and I am a Democrat.”
Not wishing to engage in verbal jockeying so early in the morning I asked him. “Will you vote for whoever the Demos nominate?” His answer was, to paraphrase; of course, I am a Democrat so I support the party. I rested my case by inquiring about his family, wishing them well and saying good bye.
Folks, it is time to quit fooling yourselves. You are who you vote for. If you vote for Hussein you are not a moderate Democrat. You are a Left wing Democrat who has promised to abandon Iraq, bring the troops home immediately, engage in talks with countries that sponsor terrorists with no pre-condition and nuke Pakistan.
If you vote for a Democratic Representative or Senator you are a Left wing Democrat who has promised to surrender in Iraq, de-fund the troops, increase taxes, give amnesty to intercultural sojourners – aka illegal aliens - and hold hearings on such weighty matters as did ballplayers use HGH and steroids while the economy tanks and Iran builds nuclear missiles.
Not that the Repubs are a lot better, but the facts are the facts, and the above is what the current Democratic Party stands for.
Deal with it. Admit it or vote for someone else. They aren’t going to change, and your Demo Congress person, if you elect him/her, will keep the radical Left in power, with the capability to introduce bills, waste millions of dollars in useless so called “oversight hearings” and destroy our efforts towards winning the WOT and closing the borders to the intercultural sojourners.
Remember. The party in the majority has the majority on the committees. What that means is that a Demo bill can be voted out and into debate on the floor by the majority in the committee. If the Demos want to squash the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” all they have to do is get it out of committee. If the Repubs want to extend the Bush tax cuts they will never get that bill out of committee.
So the party of the individual you vote for is important.
If you put a radical in power then you have become a radical.
There are no moderate Democrats.
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