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I'm 63 and Im Tired by Robert A Hall
Here's an excellent article that I think speaks for many of us.
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I'm 63 and Im Tired"
by Robert A. Hall
I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.
I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.
I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .
I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.
I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.
I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote theEmancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.
I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.
I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.
I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois , where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.
Puppies anyone?
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Koobface Trojan circulating on Facebook
This weekend I received an innocent looking Facebook e-mail from a friend of mine who is also an I.T. professional. The e-mail within Facebook invited me to view a Youtube video. I have gotten several before from other people I trusted and so I thought it was safe to click on this link. Once I clicked on the link it took me to a fake Youtube website and prompted me to install an updated version of Flash Player to view the video. I clicked on this link and found out that the website was trying to install a trojan virus onto my computer via the fake Flash Player update. Norton Internet Security Suite blocked the install and thanks to it I am safe. I should know better than to click on links like that and I am fortunate that I am not spending hours on either cleaning the computer from a virus infection or wiping the drive and reinstalling all those applications again.
I did some research on Snopes and on Symantec Threat website and apparently there are several variations of this trojan circulating on Facebook and it has been since January of 2010 or maybe even longer than that. One of the programs that gets installed is a keylogger program that steals your information and sends it back to a host that is capturing the information to be used at a later date.
Be safe on the Internet and protect yourself with good Anti Virus and Anti Spyware software and make sure you do regular scans and regular updates for those applications. It will help to keep all of us safe and clean from infections and allow us to use our computers for both fun and work productivity.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Printer issue...
A friend sent this to me and I thought it was funny.
COMPUTER REPAIR
| Caller: Hello, my printer is not working. Customer Service: What is wrong with it? Caller: Mouse is jammed. Customer Service: Mouse is jammed? Printers don't have a mouse! Caller: Mmmmm?... Oh really?... I will send you a picture.
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Just do it!!
I realize that sounds like it is straight from the Nike commercial but that is my motto when it comes to more exercise. I fly a keyboard for a living and during the day I am mostly stuck in an office chair. My brain and eyes get a large work out while the rest of me turns into gelatin. That means that I must force myself to find the time to go for a walk and get out of this office chair. Now that the weather is getting much nicer and it is starting to warm up a bit I am making it a point to eat lunch and then put on my walking shoes and head down the bike path here at Kiawah.
I almost go run over twice today on the bike path by two different bikers. One of them was a biker that was having a hard time navigating the bike path even though I was all the way to the right of the path to give bikers plenty of room to go around. The other person we will call speed racer because they almost sucked my light sweater off my body as they zoomed around me doing who knows how many MPH. I think they must have been training for the olympics or something. The weather is gorgeous and the walk allowed me to decompress from a morning of programming our phone switch. Now to get on with the rest of my day and look forward to studying tonight. Yeah me!!
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Making adjustments
I finally made the call to Comcast the other day and told them to drop our digital subscriber package which included digital cable, high speed Internet and digital telephone. I have been putting this off for way too long. With the econony being where it is and the fact that gizmo is not gainfully employed still is forcing us to make some tough decisions. We have hopes that gizmo will get a job with the Census bureau in March since she has gone through the testing phase and passed. I am not sure how long that job will last but at least it will be some sort of extra income coming into the budget. In the mean time we have to make whatever adjustments that we can to make my pay check stretch as far as it can. I know that I am not alone in this journey because we are all in the same boat in one way or the other. We were able to keep basic cable and we had to keep our Internet access because we are all doing online school. We reduced our bill down by about 65% which is good.
The other budget killer which is as equally hard is eating out. I do not think that we eat out that much until I sit down and look at how much we do spend in that category in our budget. I do not care what anyone says, it is much cheaper to eat at home than eat out. Yes, it is more hassle to have to cook and clean up after one self but the fact is it is cheaper and can be healthier. We have been looking at our spending habits with regards to groceries and we were under the perception that buying food at Walmart was the cheapest place to get food. Thanks to my wife doing some research we discovered that Sav a Lot can save you a lot of money in the food budget. We still have to get some things at Walmart like paper products and personal hygiene stuff and meat but our food dollars seem to go much further. Another thing that can save you some food bucks is using coupons. Using cupons over the long haul can save you a TON of money if you are diligent in doing it. I know this because I had the opportunity to sit down with a friend of a friend at Ryans Steak House on Rivers avenue. When I listened to this lady talk to me about the process that she goes through to find the coupons and go to the different stores to save this and that I was amazed. Using coupons is a lot of work but like this lady showed me on her receipts you can save a lot of money over the long haul.
The other thing that is killing our budget is our housing expenses. I love living where we are and the fact that I am 15 minutes away from the office. The truth of the matter is there are cheaper places to live and before our lease is up in May we are going to be looking for a cheaper place to live that is halfway between Goose Creek and Kiawah. We will probably be looking for something in West Ashley. Not only is our goal to find a cheaper place to live but we also need to get our teens out of the Johns Island/James Island school districts. Charleston county schools here are very poor quality and thanks to that we have been forced to do home schooling again. Our teens desperately want to move back to Goose Creek to go back to those schools and be with their friends but I do not want to drive 2 hours per day back and forth to Kiawah so we are going to have to compromise.
Despite the struggles that we may be facing financially life is pretty good. We are all relatively healthy and we are not facing and life changing events at the moment. When we hear about the tragedy in Haiti we realize just how fortunate we really are. Our poorest people in America are filthy rich next to these folks. I can not fathom the desperation and hopelessness that those people must be experiencing. The loss of life and property is staggering to comprehend. I am hopeful that all of the money that has been raised and all of the help from all around the world will be put to good use. I hope that the people of Haiti are much better off once the dust settles and they are able to get back to life as normal as possible. It will take years of rebuilding and some changes will have to be made by the Haitian government to allow those changes to happen. It is good to see how the world is responding to their needs.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Volunteering is important
Good morning fellow readers!!
I saw something on Twitter that has set me off this morning so yes this will be a bit of a rant. J
North Charleston is suggesting that some of us volunteer to pick up trash on the side of I-26 and make our roads beautiful.
Before I go any further I do pick up trash along with the rest of my co workers on Bohicket road just outside of Kiawah Island. I am not happy about doing it however it is a requirement of businesses on Kiawah to provide this community service.
I believe that volunteering our time in the community is important and that all of us should try to do that when we can and our schedules permit. On the other hand I believe that there are a lot of things that need to be done in our community and are not getting done because there either is not enough people to do it or not enough money to pay the people to do it. I am sitting here wondering why our city and state governments do not utilize the manpower that our tax paying dollars are supporting. I am talking about the thousands of inmates that are incarcerated in our city and county jails. I vote that while we are feeding them and providing them with free medical care and room and board that we establish a program that puts them all to work for 8 hours per day doing community service such as picking up trash on the side of our freeways and other things that they are certainly capable of doing.
While I am thinking about it how about all of the welfare recipients in our state that are either unable to find a job or even worse have decided that they are too lazy to work and would rather milk the system for anything that they can get. No, I do not believe that all welfare recipients are lazy people who do not want to work but I will bet you there is a small percentage of them who do. I vote that while we are supplementing their income that we provide them with an opportunity to give back to the same community that is helping them. I have a feeling that some folks that receive city, state or county assistance would be more than happy to lend a helping hand and for those that decide they do not want to do something in return for the assistance might be motivated to stop getting assistance and go get a job.
Ok, rant over… Back to my regularly scheduled tasks…
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Antivrus Live
Good morning
Antivirus Live spyware is a “profile specific” program that only affects the logged on user. A “profile” is what is created when you log on to a Windows XP workstation with your user id and password. All of your computer desktop and application settings are stored in that profile which is located in c:\documents and settings\username.
Antivirus Live does NOT infect the entire machine. To cure this problem all you have to do is save your MS Office data to a backup folder on your hard drive and then delete the profile that is infected. You also need to turn off System Restore so that your machine is not re infected when the new profile is created. Turning off System Restore DELETES all system restore points and therefore gets rid of any infected files that might be in there.
Antivirus Live is transmitted via a website AD that you might click on. The AD contains a picture file that gets infected and then gets uploaded to the web site web server. At this time there is no known way to detect that an AD on a website is infected. All we can do is our best to keep our network and machines as clean as possible and do due diligence by doing regular scans and keep the AV and AS definition files up to date.
I am telling you all of this so you will be aware of what is happening and so that you can also be better prepared to protect your home or office computing environment as well.
Saturday, January 09, 2010
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
Starting over in 2010
A dear friend of mine sent me this and I thought that it was a good way to get refocused and start out the new year with a new resolve and determination. Let me share it with you in the hopes that it will help in some way.
When you've trusted Jesus and walked His way, When you've felt His hand lead you day by day, But your steps now take you another way … START OVER. When you’ve made your plans and they’ve gone awry, When you’ve tried your best 'til there’s no more try, When you've failed yourself and you don’t know why … START OVER. When you’ve told your friends what you plan to do, When you’ve trusted them but they’ve not come through, Now you’re all alone and it’s up to you … START OVER. When you’ve failed your kids and they’re grown and gone, When you’ve done your best but it turned out wrong, And now your grandchildren have come along … START OVER. When you've prayed to God so you’ll know His will, When you’ve prayed and prayed but you don’t know still, When you want to stop cause you’ve had your fill … START OVER. When you think you’re finished and want to quit, When you’ve bottomed out in life’s deepest pit, When you’ve tried and tried to get out of it … START OVER. When the year's been long and successes few, When December comes and you’re feeling blue, God gives a January just for you … START OVER. Starting over means victories won, Starting over means a race we run, Starting over means the Lord’s “Well done," … so don’t just sit there .. START OVER. --- Woodroll Kroll
I am glad that 2009 is finally over and that I have the time to look back at the trials and tribulations that we went through both individually and as a family. I have to remind myself that while there were failures and bad decisions that I must not spend too much time beating myself up. Instead of doing that I will do my best to start over and make better decisions in 2010.
I have not made any new year resolutions because I have always been horrible at actually keeping them during the new year. Like most folks I start out very serious and determined about the resolution and I really do want to be successful at keeping them. Somewhere along the way life happens and for whatever reasons the resolutions get left in the dust somewhere never to be picked up again. Instead of a resolution this year I have several goals that I will continue to work towards each day in 2010. Here are some of those goals.
A. continue to lose 1 lb per week in 2010 - If I can lose more than that is great but 1 lb per week is the goal.
B. to continue being self disciplined to study in the evenings and make good grades in my classes at Trident Tech.
C. to face our finances and make sound financial decisions that will enable us to live with less - this will require living by a budget and cutting out unecessary spending.
D. to be thankful for what we have (each other) and be content - this includes not comparing ourselves (our family) with others. To do the best we can do with what we have and not worry about what others think about it.
E. to be genuine in our walk of faith both within our family our church and community. To focus more on the vertical relationship with God and let Him work out the details in our horizontal relationships with others in the community he has placed us in.
My prayer and hope for all of us is that 2010 will be a year where we can start over in our lives in the areas that we need to. No matter how big the failure or disappointment there is no better time to start over than today. Lets learn what we needed to learn from the mistakes and look forward to a brighter and more positive future. All we can do is live one day at a time and make the decisions that need to be made and do the best we can with what we have. I want to focus less on the negatives and the things that I have no control over and focus more on the things in my life that I do have the power to change and to keep a positive mental outlook on life.
Happy New Year
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Justin Moffitt
This is Justin Matthew Moffitt, my 14 year old son playing computer games.
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