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Ha, no chance of that. The nectar of the agave is a dangerous spirit indeed. But, in other news I've left CCI. I'm self employed at the moment. The job in Mexico is a design/consulting contract from one of the Mexican governments main construction contractors. It involved becoming familiar with CoFeTel (their version of our FCC) rules and standards. Really just more of the same that we use. This should last another three months of so and after that I'm working with a few people I knew at AT&T & CCI to start a company to bid on some of the design work that CCI no longer wants to pursue. I've got a good feeling that this is going to work. More and more telecom companies want to sub their network design work so we might as well jump on it.

Hi everyone. I'm back. Sooner than expected but I'll be going back next month. I've been working in rual Mexico the last five weeks. Mexico wouldn't be such a bad place if it wasn't so screwed up. Nice folks but it is just a mess with drugs, corruption and all. Nice to be home though. I flew into Jackson to pick up the dogs (they were happy as heck to see me) then drove home this morning.

Hey everyone I'm going to be gone from the board for a time. Everything is ok, but I've got an opportunity to do some work in a very, lets say unusual place. Somewhere where internet connectivity figures to be hard to find. I'll be able to tell the whole story when I get back. Until then all of you be good and don't do anything I wouldn't do!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2012/02/04/nfl-owners-to-split-over-2-billion-when-league-adds-two-teams/ Not to go OT on you here but this is certainly interesting.

Actually, I kinda like arguing with somebody who doesn't get all gasbaggy "NYah nyah nyah! I'm better than you" (you know, the Gromnir method) becuase it often forces you to examine the same set of data, from a different point. And I don't know who you're voting for beyond the giant red elephant. I'm assuming it's not captain Crazy (sorry, but Gingrich is just getting scary... condos on the moon? SOPA being a LIBERAL tool? WTF?) so the only other viable option is Romney. That said... no offense but the Republican's have about as much of a chance of winning the election as Palin had getting good reviews on her movie that came out last year. (This one) The two guys who are vying for the republican side of the ticket are A) The architect of attack politics, cheater extrodinare, Over the top big government, rich, insider, and all around jerk Gingrich and B) Mormon, unrelatable, rich-and-known-for-it, inconsistant, and about as conniving as my plastic knife Romney. (although when his gloves come off he can shred people, as seen in florida against gingrich) But either way, they've both been murdering each other so much that the american public makes a mockery of them both while Obama actually tries to be personal and raises HUGE amounts of cash. Oh, and Santorum is still around... and declared that abortions are linked to cancer. You are correct, I am voting for the elephant no matter which one ends up with the nomination and I'll probably have to hold my nose to do it. But the Obama admin has to go. Everything I posted before was true.... all of it. Obama was not personally responsible for all of it but all of it was done in his name by people he put in place. The single most important thing in this world, individual liberty, means nothing to these people. Obama believes and has all but said the government should dominate every aspect of our lives. That is a perversion of what this country is supposed to be. I'd love to get into this more but I have to leave for work and I'll be on the road for a few days.

@Calax I could spend the next hour posting links and writing a witty response to you but we both know that would be a complete waste of my time wrtitng and your time reading. You an I could not even agree if rain was really wet and I like you too much to argue with you. We both know who is voting for who and neither of us is changing the other's mind. @Krezack, 307 million Americans don't give a **** what you and your 53 friends think.

I've been on the road for a while. I was in Jackson MS for work then Amarillo TX on business (yes there is a difference). Next week I get to continue my tour of dried up southern boom towns in Shreveport LA. Anyway what the heck happeed to the boad? I'm gone for a while and you guys change everything. I guess it takes some getting used to.

It was a great game to watch. Too bad there are no sports to watch until baseball kicks off in April.

Hi Krezack.

You think I'd like somebody who is going so far as to slam the "liberal media" for asking a question about his relationship to his second wife and his asking her if he can have an open relationship, after she came down with MS... when he was the head scalper in the Clinton/Lewinski scandal who made it a national issue that he president got an extra marital blowjob. The guy is a walking double standard, and his "big government" that you think I'd like, craps all over the constitution and doesn't even come close to being socially progressive. For the record, I'm not big government per se, but I do understand the necessity of having larger government apparatuses in order to contain, control, and regulate industries that would otherwise kill people via uncaring. I was joking Calax.

Obama has not turned out to be the left wing commie nutjob I expected him to be. However, he has no respect for the limits of executive power. For example he appoints unelected and unconfirmed "czars" then gives them a lot of extra-constituitonal power. He just signed a SOPA treaty with China without even waiting for it to be ratified by the Senate (an impeachable offense if his own party were not in control of the Senate.) He has spent more money and added more to the national debt than all forty three previous presidents COMBINED. He joined the government of Mexico in a lawsuit against the state of Arizona and has sued Arizona, Florida and Alabama for doing no more than enforcing federal law. He set up a 1-800 number so his supporters could call in and report people who were opposed to Obamacare. He seized GM and fired the CEO despite the fact that he has no authority to do so under the constitution. But since the Democrats controlled everyrthing he could get away with it. He threatend GM bond holders with criminal prosecution if they did not sell their bonds for 10% of value then gave the company to the Union chiefs who supported his election. Once again the democrats in the congress let him get away with it. He allowed assault weapos to be sold to Mexican Drug Cartels so he could make a case for gun control. His homeland security department declared veterans, white gun owners, and pro-lifers as likely terrorists and "persons of interest". He loaned millions of taxpayer dollars to "Green Energy" companies that had no business plans. The CEOs of those companies (who were either campaign staffers or financial backers of his campaign) embezzeld the money, bankrupted the comapnies and he refuses to order his own justice department to investigate. He literally sabatoged the clean up efforts of the BP oil spill to obscure the magnitude of the damage and his administrations involvement in BPs lax safety inspections, after all they donated heavily to his campaign. He halted all off shore drilling and stopped the keystone and north bay pipelines costing thousands of jobs and crippling our domestic energy procuctions causing gasoline and heating costs to escalate which of course drives up the price of everything else. I could go on and on. This was in just four years. Very dangerous. I hear a lot of people saying they don't even recognize the country they live in now. I can't say I disagree. State politicians in Texas are now talking openly about secession. He has to go.

Because of the way that the primary's are set up... you have to fight to be the most extreme member and pander to the factions that'll give the most support within the party.... just to turn around and fight it out on a national scale against the current president, and trying to pander to the moderates. Basically, the way its' set up right now, the most effective leaders and bi-partisan/moderate people who could even think of running for the presidency, are weeded out before they can even try to act moderate/bi-partisan. I did have myself an internal laugh when my friends back home (when I said that Mitt was the only chance in hell the republicans had of ejecting Obama from the White House) said that Romney wasn't a conservative... he's a moderate, and thus they wouldn't vote for him. Then I ended up accidently tripping their mom's "insanity" switch, and she went off about how within a year we'll be eating our own dead and everything will become mad max. Actually Calax if you ignore Gingrichs campaing speeches and what he said in debates (it's all just talk anyway) and look at the legislative bills and ideas he's championed and supported over the years you'd probably like him. He is all for a big authoritarian government... just so long as he is in control of it. I'm not a big fan of Romey by any means, I'm much more a fan of RP as you could probably guess. But Obama is dangerous, and for the sake of the country I love he needs to be gone. Romey is just least of all evils that has the best chance of making that happen.

Sorry Archie, Dennis Kucinich isn't running this time and he is the only one of any politcal stripe who meets that criteria.

Conrgrats Wals and don't feel bad. If your current employer could find someone who'd do your job for 15% less they'd fire you in less than a heartbeat. It's just the way things are. I cooked up some venison tonight with long grain wild rice and butter beans. Now it's time to pour a highball glass of Knob Creek with two ice cubes and retire to the front porch. Life is good!

I just do not understand this! How is that miserable bloated gasbag of a politcal caricture (Gingrich) actually looking like he might win the nomination? He would be the worst possible choice for the Repub nomination but somehow he is winning. I could understand if it were Ron Paul pulling the upset but Gingrich? This guy has more ethical issues than Warren Harding. I'm still supporting Romney and I hope he'll pull it out. He'd make a much better President than Barry O and much better than Gingrich. If Newt gets the nom I'm voting Libertarian. Between Obama and Newt we'd all be f****d either way.

Cats are in a real skid lately. They lost in Chicago las night and it was ugly. Only two points for their last six games. With Theodore hurt they might as well have a sixth skater for all the good Clemmonson & Markstrom have done between the pipes.

I had new furniture delivered this morning. A new couch, 2 recliners & 2 end tables. LA-Z-Boy. Whoo Hooo. They were expensive but the are soooooo comfortable. The driver was bitching about delivering out where I live. To call it rual would probably not do it justice.

The women I seved with in the Marines were always complaining they could do any job a man could do. It told one I'd believe it they day one of them actually finished a run. Never happened.

If they are screwing you to the wall does it matter if it for profit or some mad vision of how the world should be? But I do get your point.

I was referring to politicians who favor big government. After all, controlling the internet is only appealing to the people who would be in control of it. There is a great quote from an old computer game of all places. "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master".

Now reading True Spirit by Jessica Watson about her solo circumnavigation two years back. Also rereading The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan.

Happy belated Birthday Raithe. I miss football... there is nothing to watch on TV but basketball and I try to like it but I just don't. Only three games left in the NFL season then it's a long two month wait until baseball starts.

Not to go OT so soon but did you ever get your book published? You were thinking about self publishing IIRC.

While internet piracy is a big problem the SOPA & PIPA bills are just awful. They would give the US Government the power to order providers to block sites deemed to have "stolen" content and preclude businesses from advertising on sites deemed to have "stolen" content. And who gets the final say on what sites get blocked? The US Government. This is a raw and naked power grab. They will have the power to block any site they choose based only on a poorly defined criteria that they can apply at their caprice. Think of the potential ramifications for political speech online. This bill could and probably will be horribly abused down the line. Like I said, internet piracy is a problem but this cures the headache by cutting off the head...potentially. I sent e-mails to the roaches in my congressional delegation last week. So far the House Rep opposes and the Senators have yet to take a position. I'll send another one to each next week and again before the vote. If there is one. I read tonight the bill's sponsers are pulling their support. Hurlie might be right and this thing will die on the vine. More likely they will want to bury it until the press dies down and try to quietly pass it later. The MPA is a powerful and wealthy lobby, lots of money in supporting this crap. Plus I think the idea of taking control of the internet in some measure appeals to the "big-government" types.

Now reading "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" all five books in one collection. I don't know how I've avoided reading this on yet but it is a lot of fun.