Good morning buckaroos

and a hiyoo Silver and away! Pope Algore has favored us with some moderate weather this AM, at least at the home field as well as the West Coast where I am doing TAD and enjoying myself immensely. Of course the next time I come out this way I shall learn Spanish before I come. Perhaps one of those “learning” programs that are being hucked on TV is in order.

In case you think I am being one of those unspeakable beasts, aka nativists, let me share with you what I heard Tuesday. One third of all people living in the Golden State were born outside the US.

Actually I think that number low. There was no word on how many are intercultural sojourners, aka illegal aliens. But I digress.

I got this from Denny Wilson but the original source was this article

I give you both because Denny was my source, and even though I would believe him over any newspaper, all Left Wingers that I know attack all sources that have information they do not like. And not only will they not like this information, I think most of them take a nerve pill after reading Denny.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

I had previously heard that the US has had the coldest winter in 50 years and the sunspot cycle had changed causing reduced output from the sun, and now we have this. Perhaps we need to get ourselves to the
Shrine of Algore for prayers and supplication.



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Computers and names

I am pleased to note that I have a new computer. A brand new fancy Toshiba Satellite P205D with Vista… About which I have much to learn. A friend grouched that Microsoft took the worst of Windows and the worst of Apple and made Vista… I will not complain at this time, but reserve the right to do so at a later time. I am sure Bill and his happy crew are anxiously waiting for my comments.

In the meantime John McCain continues in his efforts to solidify his base among the Left and the MSM with his abject apologies that a Right Wing Talk Show Host repeated Barack Hussein Obama several times while he was warming up the Senator’s audience.

Look folks. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. If he is concerned that Hussein reminds us of a Muslim dictator who raped, tortured, gassed and used WMD’s, then Hussein should get himself down to the Cook County Courthouse and change it to something more American. Like say, Jimmy Carter Obama…..

In the mean time McCain should quit being so fast to attack those who are trying to be his friend and start watching his back around Blitzer, et al. That is if he truly wants to be President.

What we have here is an attempt by the MSM to frame the discussion. Next thing we will find is that noting that Hussein has proposed nothing except change is beyond the pale and must not be noted.

It must have been on the grapevine.

Sometimes and somewhere this week I heard that 66% of the country is under snow cover for the first time in 40 years. Somehow that seems wrong and heaven knows we have too much media and not enough facts, but viewing the FNC weather picture shows cold sinking into Florida, so perhaps it is correct. It is almost the end of February people! Where is Pope Algore this morning? Has the man no shame? No shame at all for leaving his flock shivering in the cold?

Speaking of facts and the media, the daily lack of accurate information is truly staggering. Take this from yesterday’s USA Today and DeWayne Wickham:

The most recent chapter in US-Cuban history when Castro seized power…..The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 was supposed to spark a popular uprising …… but instead it rallied much of Cuba behind Castro..

Uh, DeWayne old bean. The invasion you mention was aborted when the US failed to provide the air support promised by JFK, leaving the rebels penned down in the swamps with only one road out. They were trapped in a trap of our making with bait provided by the then current “messiah of change,” John F. Kennedy.

Having lost his nerve there, he later had to reject the emboldened Soviet Union’s attempt to place missiles in Cuba and almost got us into a nuclear war.

There’s a lesson in there for the anti-war Left, but I doubt that any of them can figure it out.

But I digress. The point is this. Since the invasion failed, any “uprising” was sure to not occur. People are funny. If they see you losing they are not apt to run around waving American flags. As someone once said, success has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan.

And then we have this by James R. Healey regarding hybrid cars and pollution:

“Plug-in cars could increase air pollution.”

The theory behind this that the electricity required will be generated by coal powered plants.. The best is this:

“….so in some regions a plug-in running on its battery is nearly the equivalent of a coal-burning vehicle…”

No study is provided to back this. No mention of smoke stack scrubbers, etc., that have greatly reduced the pollution… no mention that nuclear plants would solve the problem.

I guess Algore’s 20,000 kwh per month mansion must be the equivalent of at least 10 Chattanooga Choo Choo’s huffing and puffing up the grade to Nashville.

I go now to view the future of fiber. Have a happy day. And don’t buy a hybrid in an attempt to save the planet. Do the right thing and consume no power until 6PM when you may turn on your TV for one hour. Hussein will be on display to tell you to have hope for change.





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Tax Answer International Issues

Bump and update:

Exchange Student Starved While in Egypt

Hosting a foreign exchange student is tax deductible but paying for your own, or your child’s, or any American citizen is not.

Or so says AOL tax tips. Why am I not surprised??

Guess Egypt doesn't give out tax breaks.

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I be here.

Here being The West Coast. May I say that United Airlines became Un-tied today, but I think the Chicago weather had much to say about that. Pope Algore failed us again. And may I say that the old Southern Curse, the one that says once things start to go bad they go bad…. Ask the Mayor of Atlanta circa 1864… was in full bloom. Flight cancelled…. Cellphone dies and I bounce my trusty Compaq off he floor..

The cellphone remains inopt but…… the flight out of Denver was First Class….

How much wine can a wine drinker drink if a wine drinker can drink wine???

But the Compaq, despite the CD tray no longer closing and a vertical line on the right side of the screen, is working. Maybe I should call HP and sell them on me doing a John Cameron Swazye.. “Takes a dropping and keeps on bloggin”

Of course it does have an issue in starting up, requiring multiple attempts and an occasional modest shake… Tomorrow to Best Buy.

Pleasant dreams.

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On the road again..

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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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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