After Adam Curry’s mysterious comments at the beginning of No Agenda episode #98, I was curious so I poked around in Google. I finally found a link to a Dutch paper leading me to believe that Adam is seeking a divorce from his wife of 20 years, Patricia Paay. Here’s the link to the Dutch paper:
http://www.story.nl/artikelen/nieuwsgossip/5086
Want a quick way to speed up your Mac that I just tried and found that it really does work? Clean off your OS/X Desktop. Radically minimize the number of files and folders on your Apple Desktop.
Also, to prevent future clutter, change your web browser’s default “Download” setting to a folder other than the Desktop.
This is a simple thing to do and it really does work!
I have two separate air cards — one from Sprint, the other from Alltel.
I’ve been using the Alltel air card for the past few days. I was on the computer a lot yesterday, including watching several videos on the YouTube website.
Starting this morning, I tried watching YouTube videos from the YouTube site, and no matter what I tried I kept getting the following YouTube error message across the top of the page where the video is normally located:
“Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe’s Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.”
I got the error message in FireFox on OS/X. I got the error message in Safari on OS/X.
With the Alltel air card still connected, I swichted to my Windows Vista VMware virtual machine. I got the error message in FireFox, Internet Explorer and Safari in the Windows Vista virtual machine.
Next, leaving the browser window open to the page with the error message, I disconnected the Alltel modem and plugged in the Sprint modem. I clicked the “refresh” button on FireFox and the video that wouldn’t load before, instantly loaded and started playing.
When the Alltel air card was plugged in, I could play embedded YouTube videos, but NO YouTube videos from the YouTube site. I also was unable to get Hulu.Com videos to play either with the Alltel modem connected.
Susan Boyle, the overnight singing sensation contestant from “Britain’s Got Talent” released a charity CD back in 1999. She is the type of person most people would just overlook from a purely visual standpoint. And yet, the singing voice that comes out of her mouth is absolutely incredible!
I ran across an extremely interesting book today that was written over 100 years ago about a doctor and his wife that moved from a city to become farmers. It’s called “The Fat of the Land” by John Williams Streeter. Since this book is in the public domain, it’s available in its entirety via Google Book Search. Here’s the link to it:
It’s clear to me that something has been lost in our modern world. We tend to think of ourselves as fortunate to be living in a time of high-technology, but our ancestors possessed access to something far more valuable — moral values and a high degree of common sense.
I am currently without a load so I was about to watch something on Hulu. Instead I ended up getting the idea I might be able to watch it on my phone instead. I did a Google search and found a browser that works on my phone that has full multimedia capability. I can not only watch Hulu, but YouTube videos as well. That’s pretty amazing. I just watched a good three hours or more worth of videos on Hulu right on my phone.
With the pop-culture personality worship nature American society has moved towards, it’s become painfully obvious that a large percentage of the younger generation of people up to about 35 years of age cannot think for themselves. The sheer hatred of George Bush was an indicator that something was seriously wrong. Now these same people are worshiping Barack Obama.
The problem with mankind is spelled out in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Man wants to play God in his own mind. The only way human beings can play God is through judgment, more specifically something I like to call resentment. The best description I can come up with for the resentment I’m talking about is hurling mental thunderbolts in one’s imagination, as if one could strike another dead with his or her thoughts. It’s a “puffing up” of the wrong side of the human ego. It feels so sweet, it feels so right, yet resentment is a dealy sin if it’s not properly faced. Not properly facing sin is denial, an even worse sin.
“All who sin are slaves.” When a human being resents a person, place or thing, he or she is immediately disconnected from the source of their real identity, and face immediate guilt, because resentment is an inferior response. When we resent, and refuse to honestly face our conscience, we are thus faced with two wrong choices — go along to get along with whatever we got upset with, or try to rebel and do the opposite. Either way, as long as we are in denial we are cut off from the source of our original identity and must absorb the identity of that which we resented. Thus, over time, layer on layer of resentment and denial adds up, and we end up with a group-think, externalized identity. Conscience, which could save us if we would face it fairly and squarely, we view as the enemy. We come to see the world backwards — wrong looks right and right looks wrong. Real freedom seems like slavery and real slavery looks like freedom, which is really license.
Every human being that walks the face of the Earth has a proclivity to play God in his or her own minds. Resentment is the nectar of an illegitimate god. Over time it’s possible to morph into a monster.
What has gone wrong with American society over the past 50 years? The answer is right in front of our noses. Most of these George Bush-hating Obama bots are products of a broken home. There either was no Dad present, or a milk-toast male sperm donor that married Mama and became nothing more than a weak-minded sibling. While it’s possible for a single woman to raise good, clear-minded children, it’s not very likely. Children that hail from broken homes universally hate the Dad that wasn’t present for them, and by extension hate everything about American society.
Resentment not only separates people from their original unique God-given identity, but it also separates people from their common sense. In fact, common sense is a threat. Common sense is painful. When someone like this sees common sense in action it pains them. The only pleasure someone like this can get is tearing things down and making everyone else around them as miserable as they are.
An agitator like Obama can come along and agitate the existing resentment in people like this and easily get them to do his bidding. Adolph Hitler did exactly the same thing with a large resentful segment of the German population. America is morphing in to Hitler Germany.
The 2010 elections are the last hope for America. However, even if we manage to turn the tide we still face a serious problem — we have a large, ever-growing percentage of citizens that are products of broken homes. They WILL vote your rights and freedoms away, because they don’t know what freedom is. They have always been slaves, and are threatened by liberty.