Just the Sin City Saint THINKING OUT LOUD!
If you visited during the last few days you were greeted by a message that the site was unavailable. That was because I locked everything down. I did that because we were burglarized and all our computers were stolen. I’ve brought the site back up now since I think I have successfully blocked any access by anyone who may have found access information on the computers that were stolen.
Let’s see now, a bunch of incompetent, greedy multi-millionaires and billionaires spent the last 8 years spending millions of dollars lobbying a bunch of millionaires called the Congress of the United States to let them do anything they wanted to our economy and succeeded in destroying it, and now a lying incompetent multi-millionaire President of the United States and his $200,000,000 golden parachute Secretary of the Treasury says we (that is the less than $100,000 a year income taxpayers) have to cough up $700, 000, 000, 000 for them or we will all lose our jobs, our savings, and
It occurred to me today that the Obama campaign is failing to address a very big concern of the voters. The voters of the country have lost all faith in government. His ideas and plans and policies are right but voters are not hearing from him what they are hearing form the other side and that is what is making them support McCain. McCain is constantly hammering home the idea that Washington is out of touch, Washington is corrupt, Washington is the cause of the country’s problems, Washington is the enemy of the people.
Liz and I were both delegates to The Clark County convention which was a disaster. About 4 times as many people showed up for the convention as expected and the convention had to be reconvened weeks later to complete the voting.
Again, both Liz and I were selected as delegates to the Nevada State convention which met in Reno. This was better run, but ran about an hour or two behind schedule all weekend.
Even though President Bill Clinton came to Reno to address the convention, the results of the caucuses were reversed at the convention.
I’ve finished another redesign of all my websites and gotten them merged so that there is just one front door to everything. Still have a lot of stuff to get back. This redesign started from scratch except for this blog. The biggest take down was the photo albums. I’ve given up on Gallery. Just too slow and cumbersome in spite of all the great features it offered.
The Nevada Caucuses took place Saturday and Liz and I attended our precinct Democratic caucus at the local school. We had 117 show up. Only 3 candidates received support and (unfortunately) Edwards only had 15 supporters. The viability cut off was 18 and we were unable to convince anyone to join us so we had to redistribute ourselves. Obama managed to come out with 1 more delegate than Clinton in our precinct. I still prefer Edwards and hope he can manages to do better in the remaining primaries.
I’m really loving my new MAC! After having used Windows for so many years and dealt with the frustration of the speed (or lack of speed!!) of doing anything on a PC the speed, simplicity, and stability of MAC is like a breath of fresh air. However, I have had to give up some of my favorite software including my favorite editor (1st page by Evrsoft.) BUT… I have now found ShutterBug by Xtralean and with a minor adjustment to my way of approaching things I’m beginning to find it ALMOST as good as 1st Page.
It is not the worst of sins, but I will confess, it is one to which I am highly susceptible. Were it not so I would be posting to this blog on a regular bases and keeping the Gallery up to date.So I have taken the time and worked all day on the Gallery and can now say that all the photos and vids that had disappeared when I upgraded the software a few weeks ago have now been restored.Check it out. There are photos there from places most tourist to Vegas never see or even know about.
We just got back a week ago from a visit to Toronto, We were there during Thanksgiving and attended Thanksgiving dinner with the Democrats Abroad chapter in Toronto.Dinner was held at the George Brown College Ontario Hostelry Institute School of Hospitality.The students at the institute did all the work and provided a traditional Thanksgiving meal and were given a resounding round of applause for there work.In case your wondering how two visitors from Las Vegas got invited to attend this event, it was the result of the very political principle of “It’s not what you know but who you know that counts.”That is, the wife and
Have you seen the adds being put on by AARP? You know, the ones that say “Don’t Vote”? Well not voting isn’t the thing to do, but that’s not what they’re telling us to do anyway. What they’re say is “Don’t vote until you know where the candidates stand on the issues.”Well, I did that, I found out where the candidates stand on the issues and as a result I decided I wasn’t going to vote for any of them.Fortunately, here in Nevada for all the state wide and Congressional races we have the choice on the ballet to vote