tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111688712024-03-13T04:58:22.733-04:00Rambling Rebuilder<b> Sitting on a mountain, underneath a cloudless sky ...
<br> ... Drinking from a fountain, that never shall run dry ...</b> <br>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.comBlogger435125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-84723016135088647982017-09-11T15:44:00.001-04:002019-07-19T11:02:35.661-04:00<i>The Old Rig ,out in the riptides</i><br />
<i>Wherein Resides the</i><b> Ramblin Rebuilder</b><br />
--------------------------------------------------<br />
Due to the rise of Twitter and Facebook,<br />
and the general lack of people being interested<br />
in my opinions, this blog mostly just<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjtbFYQofEBcKz4omO5AKLo0ruZNA6uM1-Zdmwuihk4VHPOARQDvJkUmOSR4jO6Krabww8FkZ3XbbPRFEvpe2S1g2CIdw9V2Xt_OoR0klV0nNkW9LWnccf6VdDcfarW4D0LXCJ/s1600/DERRICK.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="206" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjtbFYQofEBcKz4omO5AKLo0ruZNA6uM1-Zdmwuihk4VHPOARQDvJkUmOSR4jO6Krabww8FkZ3XbbPRFEvpe2S1g2CIdw9V2Xt_OoR0klV0nNkW9LWnccf6VdDcfarW4D0LXCJ/s200/DERRICK.JPG" width="200" /></a>exists as an historical artifact, from<br />
the vast archizes of the past.<br />
<br />
Some find that the only truly interesting<br />
portion of this blog was the Katrina section.<br />
I went to New Orleans and Biloxi Mississippi<br />
five time for disaster relief.<br />
<ul>
<li>Three Kitchen trips to Slidelle,</li>
<li>One Cleanout Trip to New Orleans,</li>
<li>One Kitchen trip to Biloxi.</li>
</ul>
That's a total of 7 weeks, including the travel days.<br />
From September 2005 to Jan 2006, off and on.<br />
<br />
That time totally rewrote my life, and was an after-effect of<br />
Hurricane Isabel and September 11th.<br />
Now 12 years after Katrina, they called me up again<br />
for Hurricane Irma in Florida.<br />
<br />
To see that old story,<a href="https://egyptoid.blogspot.com/search/label/Katrina" target="_blank"> click here</a>, or on the Katrina label to your left.<br />
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<br />Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-48358648576371840062015-02-28T08:20:00.002-05:002015-02-28T08:20:32.274-05:00<span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">1. We talk about "individual liberties"</span><br />
<br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">2. We advocate for states' rights</span><br />
<br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">3. We want "to make the world a better place" but doubt it is possible</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> as long as any Democrats are in office.</span><br />
<br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">4. "We identify with the colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule"</span><br />
<br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">5. We are interested in "defeating the Communists"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">6. We feel the federal government should butt out of issues such as</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> drinking ages, procreation ages, driving ages, smoking ages, and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #dddddd; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> other personal liberties that have been curtailed in last 100 years.</span>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-12076180512789393982013-09-11T06:14:00.002-04:002013-09-11T06:14:42.222-04:00Proper Remembrance of Sept.11.2001Across the nation, public officials will strike somber poses and shed
television-friendly tears and bow their blow-dried heads in memory of
the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.<br />
They’ll hold hands, light candles, and pass around a plateful of
platitudes: “Never forget,” they’ll intone. “Let’s roll,” they’ll
thunder. “God bless America,” they’ll warble in perfect harmony.<br />
They’ll assure us that they are committed to fighting terror and
securing our borders and doing whatever it takes to protect the homeland
from another horrific mass murder at the hands of freedom-hating
fanatics. And then?<br />
And then, from Washington state to Washington, D.C., they’ll go back
to work, roll up their sleeves, and spit on the graves of the 9/11 dead.<br />
Your pious city councilwoman will return to the office to draft a
resolution condemning the common-sense detention and deportation of
Middle Eastern illegal aliens suspected of terrorism.<br />
Your politically correct police chief will refuse to cooperate with
federal authorities in criminal investigations of illegal visa
overstayers and border-crossers and ship-jumpers.<br />
Your pandering mayor will stealthily renew his policy of preventing city employees from reporting illegal aliens.<br />
Your indignant local librarian will promote fear-mongering and misinformation about the Patriot Act.<br />
Your regional Chamber of Commerce president will join forces with
Canadian and Mexican government representatives to put business
interests ahead of border enforcement.<br />
Your tuition-thirsty university president will lobby behind closed
doors against federal efforts to track foreign students and ensure that
they go home when required. Your vote-hungry governor will encourage
document fraud through his support of insecure foreign-issued
identification cards and driver’s licenses for “undocumented workers.”<br />
Your race card-fearing congressman will court Arab and Muslim special
interest groups and donors who have coddled Islamists on college
campuses, in prisons, and in the U.S. military in the name of
“diversity.”<br />
Your grandstanding senator will block funding for long-delayed
homeland defense measures — such as a national entry-exit system to
monitor temporary foreign visitors — even as he whines about the need
for more money to ensure our safety.<br />
Your incompetent Transportation Security Administration will
stonewall pilots who want training to be armed, squander tens of
millions of taxpayer dollars on lucrative contracts for
weapons-detection equipment that doesn’t work or get used, and continue
to ban racial profiling.<br />
Your indifferent Interior Department will look the other way as
underequipped and understaffed park rangers along the southwestern
border remain vulnerable to drug smugglers and terrorists.<br />
Your bloated Homeland Security Department will keep Clinton-era
holdovers in pivotal positions, reduce routine inspections at seaports
in the name of efficiency, and continue to shortchange interior
enforcement against deportation fugitives and asylum con artists in
favor of duct tape tipsheets and cosmetic color-coded alerts.<br />
Your corrupted State Department will appease Saudi terror-backers,
reward butt-covering managers, assuage European travel industry tycoons,
and continue to defend lax visa screening policies.<br />
Your Democratic presidential candidates will unanimously endorse the
very kind of amnesty policies that allowed several al Qaeda operatives
to infiltrate this country and hatch terrorist plots.<br />
And your Republican Party elites will continue to spurn immigration
enforcement reformers within their own ranks for fear of alienating
ethnic constituencies that will never vote for them anyway.<br />
To those who lost their lives on Sept. 11 because their government
failed to enforce its borders, laws, and sovereignty, the politicians
and bureaucrats and civic leaders will ostentatiously offer one measly
day a year of dedication in rhetoric — and 364 days of desecration in
deed.Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-25318235529722665512013-08-01T10:59:00.000-04:002013-10-04T10:59:35.317-04:00Marley Aquatower<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-82920364566398614802013-01-18T10:55:00.001-05:002013-01-18T10:55:18.985-05:00Directions to Con: ramble around Wmbg til you see ...Directions to Con: ramble around Wmbg til you see horses. Then go south 2O seconds, hotel on the right.Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-76479471196508786882013-01-05T06:35:00.003-05:002013-01-05T06:35:42.422-05:00Obama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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from the <a href="http://thepeoplescube.com/" target="_blank">People's Cube</a>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-63586899135994263422011-08-09T16:11:00.001-04:002011-08-09T16:11:43.618-04:00Here's YourSignObama Regime - Credit Downgrade of the USA<br />
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Obama was careful not to take all the glory for this one,<br />
he fully acknowledge the assistance of the Congress & Senate <br />
<br />
Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-1030935993902093312010-07-05T19:33:00.000-04:002010-07-05T19:33:08.248-04:00Here's Your Sign<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-WlLG7aAHZs2F8UjIaV9MuImjKv2MQ5-tqkN7VvGwySCbbeqEjN7SrNKyNm1CmEs-CA-fbv6eSmhXr4RV4uoOfB4r8vC5ryqXfIUrEzAv0Rv9DkeHCzlq7pgd3knBLN3_CYg/s1600/white-house-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-WlLG7aAHZs2F8UjIaV9MuImjKv2MQ5-tqkN7VvGwySCbbeqEjN7SrNKyNm1CmEs-CA-fbv6eSmhXr4RV4uoOfB4r8vC5ryqXfIUrEzAv0Rv9DkeHCzlq7pgd3knBLN3_CYg/s320/white-house-logo.jpg" /></a></div><b>Barack </b><br />
<b>Hussein </b><br />
<b>Obama.</b>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-89620935850751778532010-04-26T17:43:00.001-04:002010-04-26T17:43:47.487-04:00Today at school This chubbyToday at school This chubby kid was asking people to guess his fave color. No matter what they said he would reply "nope; bacon."Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-86223746522995610082010-03-23T18:37:00.000-04:002010-03-23T18:38:10.987-04:00Health Reform Truths<p>The sections described below are taken from HR 3590 as agreed to by the Senate and from the reconciliation bill as displayed by the <a href="http://rules.house.gov/">Rules Committee</a>.</p> <p>1. You are young and don’t want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the “privilege.” (Section 1501)</p> <p>2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You’ll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That’s because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person’s health status. (Section 2701).</p> <p>3. You would like to pay less in premiums by buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer such policies, even if that is what customers prefer. (Section 2711).</p> <p>4. Think you’d like a policy that is cheaper because it doesn’t cover preventive care or requires cost-sharing for such care? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer policies that do not cover preventive services or offer them with cost-sharing, even if that’s what the customer wants. (Section 2712).</p> <p>5. You are an employer and you would like to offer coverage that doesn’t allow your employers’ slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26? Tough. (Section 2714).</p> <p>6. You must buy a policy that covers ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services; chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.<br />You’re a single guy without children? Tough, your policy must cover pediatric services. You’re a woman who can’t have children? Tough, your policy must cover maternity services. You’re a teetotaler? Tough, your policy must cover substance abuse treatment. (Add your own violation of personal freedom here.) (Section 1302).</p> <p>7. Do you want a plan with lots of cost-sharing and low premiums? Well, the best you can do is a “Bronze plan,” which has benefits that provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60% of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan. Anything lower than that, tough. (Section 1302 (d)(1)(A))</p> <p>8. You are an employer in the small-group insurance market and you’d like to offer policies with deductibles higher than $2,000 for individuals and $4,000 for families? Tough. (Section 1302 (c) (2) (A).</p> <p>9. If you are a large employer (defined as at least 101 employees) and you do not want to provide health insurance to your employee, then you will pay a $750 fine per employee (It could be $2,000 to $3,000 under the reconciliation changes). Think you know how to better spend that money? Tough. (Section 1513).<br />10. You are an employer who offers health flexible spending arrangements and your employees want to deduct more than $2,500 from their salaries for it? Sorry, can’t do that. (Section 9005 (i)).</p> <p>11. If you are a physician and you don’t want the government looking over your shoulder? Tough. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to use your claims data to issue you reports that measure the resources you use, provide information on the quality of care you provide, and compare the resources you use to those used by other physicians. Of course, this will all be just for informational purposes. It’s not like the government will ever use it to intervene in your practice and patients’ care. Of course not. (Section 3003 (i))</p> <p>12. If you are a physician and you want to own your own hospital, you must be an owner and have a “Medicare provider agreement” by Feb. 1, 2010. (Dec. 31, 2010 in the reconciliation changes.) If you didn’t have those by then, you are out of luck. (Section 6001 (i) (1) (A)).</p> <p>13. If you are a physician owner and you want to expand your hospital? Well, you can’t (Section 6001 (i) (1) (B). Unless, it is located in a country where, over the last five years, population growth has been 150% of what it has been in the state (Section 6601 (i) (3) ( E)). And then you cannot increase your capacity by more than 200% (Section 6001 (i) (3) (C)).</p> <p>14. You are a health insurer and you want to raise premiums to meet costs? Well, if that increase is deemed “unreasonable” by the Secretary of Health and Human Services it will be subject to review and can be denied. (Section 1003)</p> <p>15. The government will extract a fee of $2.3 billion annually from the pharmaceutical industry. If you are a pharmaceutical company what you will pay depends on the ratio of the number of brand-name drugs you sell to the total number of brand-name drugs sold in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the brand-name drugs in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2.3 billion, or $230,000,000. (Under reconciliation, it starts at $2.55 billion, jumps to $3 billion in 2012, then to $3.5 billion in 2017 and $4.2 billion in 2018, before settling at $2.8 billion in 2019 (Section 1404)). Think you, as a pharmaceutical executive, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 9008 (b)).</p> <p><br />16. The government will extract a fee of $2 billion annually from medical device makers. If you are a medical device maker what you will pay depends on your share of medical device sales in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the medical devices in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2 billion, or $200,000,000. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for R&D? Tough. (Section 9009 (b)).<br />The reconciliation package turns that into a 2.9% excise tax for medical device makers. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 1405).</p> <p>17. The government will extract a fee of $6.7 billion annually from insurance companies. If you are an insurer, what you will pay depends on your share of net premiums plus 200% of your administrative costs. So, if your net premiums and administrative costs are equal to 10% of the total, you will pay 10% of $6.7 billion, or $670,000,000. In the reconciliation bill, the fee will start at $8 billion in 2014, $11.3 billion in 2015, $1.9 billion in 2017, and $14.3 billion in 2018 (Section 1406).Think you, as an insurance executive, know how to better spend that money? Tough.(Section 9010 (b) (1) (A and B).)</p> <p>18. If an insurance company board or its stockholders think the CEO is worth more than $500,000 in deferred compensation? Tough.(Section 9014).</p> <p>19. You will have to pay an additional 0.5% payroll tax on any dollar you make over $250,000 if you file a joint return and $200,000 if you file an individual return. What? You think you know how to spend the money you earned better than the government? Tough. (Section 9015).<br />That amount will rise to a 3.8% tax if reconciliation passes. It will also apply to investment income, estates, and trusts. You think you know how to spend the money you earned better than the government? Like you need to ask. (Section 1402).</p> 20. If you go for cosmetic surgery, you will pay an additional 5% tax on the cost of the procedure. Think you know how to spend that money you earned better than the government? Tough. (Section 9017).Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-16875008322747739162010-03-10T14:58:00.001-05:002010-03-10T14:58:19.699-05:00I've been around the world and aye yi yiEgyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-63480142148111485502010-01-31T20:44:00.002-05:002010-01-31T20:45:23.630-05:00Time to Make The Doughnuts<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNPu75H2hlLxkFQr7Cz9K-2l0iEk5HwFmocbCSCvqz0AVgu61bBOIinzmNBY_Leif5fkaUxC-Df2SECBKKLegyG3FJsca4zSdfzWhi2lTdFe-oEh2W7T-QprNe8LswKksAzAA/s1600-h/ORIG0596.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNPu75H2hlLxkFQr7Cz9K-2l0iEk5HwFmocbCSCvqz0AVgu61bBOIinzmNBY_Leif5fkaUxC-Df2SECBKKLegyG3FJsca4zSdfzWhi2lTdFe-oEh2W7T-QprNe8LswKksAzAA/s400/ORIG0596.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433085125192860658" border="0" /></a>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-16258874190865653472009-10-10T12:14:00.000-04:002009-10-10T12:15:27.457-04:00Words Fail<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JVvD1sYLPElJLyFw0VlUSHdVjex_JcAdO_TDiBA3Aa-ccmtClpjZou_hHiCAgR_GDZbS7DWToD2H4EWXs06_q9fT0-gsV5-V8tunseSY05wqJhYxsrKfjX_hc6oECvFHGQhT/s1600-h/DBX.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JVvD1sYLPElJLyFw0VlUSHdVjex_JcAdO_TDiBA3Aa-ccmtClpjZou_hHiCAgR_GDZbS7DWToD2H4EWXs06_q9fT0-gsV5-V8tunseSY05wqJhYxsrKfjX_hc6oECvFHGQhT/s320/DBX.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391005584962044338" /></a>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-22752526692695800262009-08-17T18:08:00.000-04:002009-08-17T18:09:20.149-04:00Keep the Change !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vYU4z1Z1GeN2f0GxyvaSnxbNH-K6_rV_EnF-c7FHXxY4u-6hbLid7nfKXH_i5YR_yUG1yLhy8pbEGq802n_udE9o7_b-u5MYiQ0Ojn0Y1cSEvCXNw9qVi95ds3equWdvFnN_/s1600-h/LOLO.GIF"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vYU4z1Z1GeN2f0GxyvaSnxbNH-K6_rV_EnF-c7FHXxY4u-6hbLid7nfKXH_i5YR_yUG1yLhy8pbEGq802n_udE9o7_b-u5MYiQ0Ojn0Y1cSEvCXNw9qVi95ds3equWdvFnN_/s400/LOLO.GIF" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371058172870951986" /></a>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-37612146388937677652009-07-22T22:57:00.003-04:002009-07-24T14:42:24.294-04:00Rebuilder Manifesto<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzPcc0cYD5LSOR1wRu12uhSYKF8qI3SJa6JuwmRZ7Nxm8kKOLbgpkLKK8oIeh6zXv7YLZdkth3X4KErPmK7U1kciFJgrl6uNAejsdS-P01Kd6Bqp6rGx1DHz5ywnDVxZuadDdl/s1600-h/Nodsden_flag.svg.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzPcc0cYD5LSOR1wRu12uhSYKF8qI3SJa6JuwmRZ7Nxm8kKOLbgpkLKK8oIeh6zXv7YLZdkth3X4KErPmK7U1kciFJgrl6uNAejsdS-P01Kd6Bqp6rGx1DHz5ywnDVxZuadDdl/s200/Nodsden_flag.svg.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361484813374980866" border="0" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Be it resolved that the Household of Egyptoid hereby claims sovereignty for its estate under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.</span></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Be it further resolved that this resolution serves as Notice and Demand to the federal government to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.</span></span></p></span>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-12634301639549696942009-07-10T15:11:00.002-04:002009-07-10T15:12:17.243-04:00The Truth about Entitlements<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifjk-AtzcYQsrnYaTuFs8nA9G_PbdczLCCv129FjxPVCRkTlDhS87JQZtNsWlSxhZDt1AwJWxXAZN6yHHdVcWxEWaQ6iqvUovL_HCJOzi-xjccwsTWx76cXOFYXSX5Ed1HFxZp/s1600-h/libbem.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifjk-AtzcYQsrnYaTuFs8nA9G_PbdczLCCv129FjxPVCRkTlDhS87JQZtNsWlSxhZDt1AwJWxXAZN6yHHdVcWxEWaQ6iqvUovL_HCJOzi-xjccwsTWx76cXOFYXSX5Ed1HFxZp/s400/libbem.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356911311463389330" border="0" /></a>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-30491739563356127532009-07-08T21:35:00.001-04:002009-07-08T21:37:00.685-04:00The Good Old Days<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBN4E_7DrbaEtbwgp1K4DcjjnOLLDsy2wGg6G1hMfomzVMJU46iGn0e-xpZaGU9_cKMn8IQEQ6b54M8l0rz0zs14ci3uauK6uZZT_sstPwBCmtGQlk7NFeAQdiiN7LHRiwWmyx/s1600-h/oki-mate-color.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBN4E_7DrbaEtbwgp1K4DcjjnOLLDsy2wGg6G1hMfomzVMJU46iGn0e-xpZaGU9_cKMn8IQEQ6b54M8l0rz0zs14ci3uauK6uZZT_sstPwBCmtGQlk7NFeAQdiiN7LHRiwWmyx/s400/oki-mate-color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356268212919014898" border="0" /></a><br />the printer I had for my Atari 1200XL<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Oki Mate Color Printer</span>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-45951081899890245912009-07-05T19:41:00.004-04:002009-12-24T00:20:21.645-05:00Voting in 2010 - Where do your Reps Stand?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What is your personal Platform ?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />============================================<br />Homosexuality ? Atheism ? Socialism ? Abortion ? Feminism ? Pacifism ? </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Disarmament ? Racism ? Leniency ? Compromise ? Greenness ?<br />============================================<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;font-family:Arial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p62ULIfMcMY&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p62ULIfMcMY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />Do you agree with Disempowering basic Families via Promotion of Homosexuality ?<br /><br />Do you agree with Decreasing Independent Living via Promotion of a Welfare State ?<br /><br />Do you agree with Promoting Atheism as a Religion via Teaching Evolution or Humanism in Schools ?<br /><br />Do you agree with Devaluating Human Life in General via Promotion of Abortion ?<br /><br />Do you agree with Increasing Imbalance via the Promotion of Radical Feminism ?<br /><br />Do you agree with Decreasing the strength of the nation via Pacifism and an Anti-War stance ?<br /><br />Do you agree with promoting Racism by encouraging minorities to regards other groups as intolerant ?<br /><br />Do you agree with disempowering law-abiding citizens by revising gun laws ?<br /><br />Do you agree with encouraging lawlessness by courting with leniency the Illegal Immigrants as future voters ?<br /><br />Do you agree with being soft on crime by discouraging the Death Penalty ?<br /><br />Do you agree with the junk science that supports the statist policies of the Green movement ?<br /></span></span></div>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-84296357924264599882009-07-04T14:58:00.000-04:002009-07-13T15:00:03.213-04:00Welcome to Amerika<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ogSX9kemBDSA4m7fRyawVkwwggrdSzH4lbEH0oHn3DaJvxeb-N2QMcJkoljfoTbF8x6fv86LA9zgC0NVo9r8JnO6XtsJFcyLNQtKyxIcBLqJchExDotyrA8de0USPT9Xzfxa/s1600-h/OBAMA-X.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ogSX9kemBDSA4m7fRyawVkwwggrdSzH4lbEH0oHn3DaJvxeb-N2QMcJkoljfoTbF8x6fv86LA9zgC0NVo9r8JnO6XtsJFcyLNQtKyxIcBLqJchExDotyrA8de0USPT9Xzfxa/s400/OBAMA-X.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358021345607901058" border="0" /></a><br />All Hail President Hussein ObamaEgyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-78213925003405205642009-07-03T16:15:00.001-04:002009-07-03T16:15:31.212-04:00Faber University Bachelor Arts RhetoricEgyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-37403707597093634522009-06-29T15:54:00.000-04:002009-06-29T15:55:05.118-04:00Egyptoid was an Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. JeromeEgyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-84465734053855749272009-06-21T18:17:00.002-04:002009-06-21T18:19:38.391-04:00Census 2010<span style="font-style: italic;">No Need to fill out extraneous info.... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><blockquote>Rep. Bachmann believes the upcoming census to be "very intricate" and "very personal" and expresses concerns about ACORN's involvement in the data collection. The community organizing program came under scrunity after charges of voter registration fraud during the 2008 presidential elections</blockquote></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution only requires # in household.</span><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></blockquote>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-73621425993165998122009-06-20T10:08:00.000-04:002009-06-21T18:16:50.810-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lT_vJrMjGgtht504C5jqB0QNfegZJEsJ3Xa5XssdrlVkgGDq-8MIj5G53hVfmyeaWdmDFyVATkZCTAsDKuzRPnRSV8Sq2x9zR0yI5GQG5C0HV5bCWRfC4UGYx3gj4GihXiYW/s1600-h/dougkenney.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 104px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lT_vJrMjGgtht504C5jqB0QNfegZJEsJ3Xa5XssdrlVkgGDq-8MIj5G53hVfmyeaWdmDFyVATkZCTAsDKuzRPnRSV8Sq2x9zR0yI5GQG5C0HV5bCWRfC4UGYx3gj4GihXiYW/s320/dougkenney.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349782664894670370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Kenney </span><br />Writer/actor, National Lampoon alumnus.<br />(<span style="font-style: italic;">Animal House</span> - co-wrote and played "Stork");<br />died in 1980 by accidentally falling from a cliff in Kauai Hawaii.<br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">This post is not funny.</span><br /></span>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-90757764168389906852009-06-05T18:20:00.003-04:002009-06-05T18:29:46.401-04:00Urban and Rural<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2JUMBIoOfN1VbogZ03A5C_9A5knTLzKrEIJu1V300b20uMYzaq9joji2pT5EOuXoGsNlRfmvz2BxgbudcZZLXVi0XN7PXDU6brWZ-ChmP3Mk0LWedLhvQmIFH5AXZMs9K7UXi/s1600-h/425e_3.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2JUMBIoOfN1VbogZ03A5C_9A5knTLzKrEIJu1V300b20uMYzaq9joji2pT5EOuXoGsNlRfmvz2BxgbudcZZLXVi0XN7PXDU6brWZ-ChmP3Mk0LWedLhvQmIFH5AXZMs9K7UXi/s320/425e_3.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343973923895663250" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><div style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; font: normal normal normal small/normal arial; ">Okay so Miss Vicki and I are out cruising around on a nice weekend, and on the way home, traveling NOT via interstates, so that one can see the real america. We happen across a hand painted road-sign that says "Craft Fair Up Ahead"<div><br /></div><div>We could use a break so we decide to stop. In the next little county, at their little fairgrounds, they have signs up and the whole area roped off. The local Lions Club has sponsored this Craft Fair. So we parked and walked up and it was $5 each for us to enter. We paid and started strolling around. and got slowly appalled.</div><div><br /></div><div>There were 2 people in booths selling what we called crafts, which is to say, raw materials of wood, fiber, or what have you, that you hand crafted into an item of use or value. There were also 5 to 7 booths selling peanuts, snowcones, RC cola, etc. Those were fine, and remember this isn't the county fair, its a "craft show"</div><div><br /></div><div>The rest of the several dozen booths were folks hawking wares or services: NASCAR memorabilia (chinese plastic), replacement windows, whirlpool conversions for your bathtub, knock-off DVDs, fortune teller, tacky widgets (rooster clocks, skoal napkin rings, john deere S&P shakers). There were license plate frame dealers, ancestry verifiers, horoscope booklets, and ways to verify your next sure-fire lottery number planning.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sadly Vicki and I had to pass up on all these wondrous things, and started returning quietly to our car empty handed. When we were about 20 feet from our car I couldn't hold it in any longer. I blurted out:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> "Well it looks like the Zuckerman County Lions Club snaked another ten dollars out of them stupid city folk agin!"</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I want to thank you kind folks for reading this far, there is a pay off, a punch line, if you will.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Cause what I didn't see when I opened my pie-hole was this van parked close by, in which a gentleman was taking a smoke break, with his windows rolled down. You guessed it, he was wearing the special vest, hat and enamel pins that plainly identify a person as Grand Poobah, Great Lion, or Gold Wizard or some such title which I as the aforementioned metropolitan ignoramus could not possibly discern. And of course he had heard me complaining. I have no idea if appreciated my well practiced Confederate accent, caused he just stared at us stone-facedly. Vicki gave me her patented eyebrow maneuver which always says,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> Lets Go Now;</span> and away we zoomed. Eventually my dignity grew back, but it took a few days.</div></div></span>Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-83452831134740407762009-06-04T11:24:00.000-04:002009-06-04T11:25:39.569-04:00Israeli Ad Campaign<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfDmit7lqZm6rcOIukKgZjTl5RflPBKB0kPUHM0_sx6ktAymVCdjmYmm68Om_NbVgBCPUTS5CcxjAO7zl_2V528tBcP4bpPISvUu5d7hePR9j7a6WG9xjHr4ehyqQrv-s1Wj8r/s1600-h/Satellite.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfDmit7lqZm6rcOIukKgZjTl5RflPBKB0kPUHM0_sx6ktAymVCdjmYmm68Om_NbVgBCPUTS5CcxjAO7zl_2V528tBcP4bpPISvUu5d7hePR9j7a6WG9xjHr4ehyqQrv-s1Wj8r/s400/Satellite.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343493814998641890" /></a>Can't says I disagree with them.Egyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.com0