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This morning’s Sunday Music is “Seek Ye First“.

Seek it first the kingdom of God,
And his righteousness,
And all these things, shall be added onto you.
Alleu, alleuia.

Ask and it shall be given unto you,
Seek and ye shall find.
Knock and it shall be opened onto you.
Alleu, alleuia.

Alleuia, Alleu.
Alleuia, alleuia.

This morning’s Sunay Music is “Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee”.

Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flow’rs before Thee,
Op’ning to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
Drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness,
Fill us with the light of day!

All Thy works with joy surround Thee,
Earth and heav’n reflect Thy rays,
Stars and angels sing around Thee,
Center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
Flow’ry meadow, flashing sea,
Singing bird and flowing fountain
Call us to rejoice in Thee.

Thou art giving and forgiving,
Ever blessing, ever blest,
Wellspring of the joy of living,
Ocean depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father, Christ our Brother,
All who live in love are Thine;
Teach us how to love each other,
Lift us to the joy divine.

Mortals, join the happy chorus,
Which the morning stars began;
Father love is reigning o’er us,
Brother love binds man to man.
Ever singing, march we onward,
Victors in the midst of strife,
Joyful music leads us Sunward
In the triumph song of life.

Business.  Nursing my bride back to health.  Computer with power supply issues (as in, dead.  I’m on an old backup to write this).

Time out has been called.

In the meantime, get a copy of “To Shake Their Guns In The Tyrannt’s Face” by Robert Churchill.  Interesting read.

Here’s John Kerry on Obama’s “cap and trade” plans

“It’s a win-win in so many different ways, we can’t afford not to do it,” Kerry said.
 
When CNSNews.com confronted the former Democratic presidential nominee with admissions from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House budget chief Peter Orszag that the plan would most certainly raise energy prices for Americans – Kerry maintained his support for the controversial initiative.
 
“There could be some (price) increases,” Kerry admitted, adding that the “costs of doing nothing could be greater,” including a decline in the food supply. “But there’ll be higher rises if we don’t do it and start to curb these emissions because you’re going to pay more for the adaptations, the loss of food, all the other problems that come along with it.”

Translation: I don’t care if it costs a bazillion dollars, we’re all gonna ddiiiieeee!

Remember the phrase from a number of years ago “risky scheme”?  I think it’s time that right thinking people dusted that one off and turned it back around on the Democrats, because truly, cap-and-trade is a ridiculous, and RISKY scheme.  There is no science to it, not even the evil-carbon-emissions-destroying-the-world part.  It is an insiders’ and politicians’ shell game, a scam of gigantic proportions.  Can we teach the American people that these folks don’t have our best interests at heart, that they are only interested in a risky scheme to increase their own power and cashflow?

Barbara Boxer used Depression images yesterday to compare how she feels about cap-and-trade to combat global warming. 

“We pulled ourselves out of the Great Depression when we mobilized to fight World War II. I believe we need a mobilization now, we need a mobilization to fight global warming!” she said.

She also allowed as how “In the short run, in the transition, there’s always an up-tick (in prices)”.  An “uptick”?  In the “short run”?  Uh, you’re either clueless, lady, or you’re an outright liar, and given your track record I’d suggest both.

In fact, a 2008 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analysis of the cap-and-trade bill introduced last year by Sens. John Warner (R-Va.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) showed that by 2030 electricity prices will be 44 percent higher than normal and an extra $0.53 will be added to the price of gas as a result of cap-and-trade – with $1.40 added by 2050.
 
The same report also showed that cap-and-trade will cause the nation’s gross domestic product to decline by as much as 3.8 percent by 2030 (and by 6.9 percent by 2050) than it would be without cap-and-trade.

Those figures depend on a 150 percent increase in nuclear power and a marketable system for carbon sequestration – which does not currently exist. Without these two developments, electricity prices skyrocket to approximately 80 percent above normal by 2030. 

These are the same crooks who won’t allow nuclear plants to be built.  And there is no “marketable system for carbon sequestration”.  The whole thing is a scam, just another Democrat risky scheme.  I see little difference in goals between these people and the Taliban in Pakistan. True believers all, willing to risk great damage and use any method to effect their vision of “the way things oughta be”, neither of these groups care who gets hurt

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Taliban militants bombed a power line in Peshawar late Thursday, hours after a first attack, plunging more than half the northwestern Pakistani city in darkness, officials said.

Plunging into darkness… it’s what fanatics do.  Personally, I see Obama’s risky cap-and-trade sceme (helped by Republicans like Warner) in the same light as the Taliban and their tactics.  It’s simply another case of making the world over in their image, chasing an idiot’s vision, and forcing it on everyone else regardless the consequences.  Read the whole article, because it is clear they aren’t about saving the world so much as they want to tax and control the American people.  They need to be stopped.

So, there is a good reason for no posting this week.  Youngest daughter came for a visit, and one of the special events we wanted to do this week was to float tubes down the Boise River.  Usually a very fun afternoon trip, remind me and I’ll tell you about it sometime.  Maybe this winter.

This trip however, my tailbone connected with a very large and immovable underwater rock.  Nausea.  Blackness and shooting stars.  Lingering pain and suffering, and a very large bruise.  By the way, sitting down, internetting, or driving, is not enjoyable, so I’m not. 

It made the trip less fun that usual.  But when I think that another inch or two could have brought an even more, er, sensitive part of the anatomy into play, I get nauseous all over again. 

Perhaps tomorrow I’ll be back to posting…?

Home on the Range is becoming one of my daily reads.  New blog, great writer, great pics.

Light blogging for the next couple of days… planetary alignment, blah blah, cosmic rip, blah blah, enemy territory, blah blah.

Has anyone else ever tried to renew a PC-cillin subscription?  The software on this Dell laptop expired last week.  I dutifully tried to renew it before it expired, clicking to their very helpful and convenient online renewal page.  Went all the way through the form, hit “submit”, and it coughed me to an error page.  Odd.  Let it sit a couple days to make sure my credit card didn’t get tapped.  And then this morning, it pops up and reminds me that I haven’t renewed yet.  Alright.  Check the credit card statement online and, no, they didn’t tap it.  So I tried again.

Open the virus software; yes, I know I’m expired, that’s why I’m here; click to the handy renewal page; make my selection, read the legal boilerplate, fill in the form, click submit…

Same silly error as last time.  Grrrr.  So I used their handy email link to contact Customer NoService and ask what might be the problem. And they replied thusly,

Thank you for contacting Shop eCommerce for Trend Micro

There could be a couple of reasons why you are receiving an error message while trying to purchase. Please verify you are entering all information accurately:

• The billing name should match that of the credit card you are attempting to use
• If your credit card is not listed as a company credit card, please leave the company name field blank. Entering information into the credit card field that is not associated with the credit card, such as “Home, self, or retired” will cause the transaction to fail. If a name must be entered please enter the billing name of the credit card into the company name field.
• The billing address should match exactly to that of the Credit Card you are trying to use.
• The CSC number must match the Credit Card
• The checkout button should only be clicked once, not multiple times.
• You might have forgotten to choose a shipping method. Please choose the option that best fits your needs.
• Make sure you are filling out all the required fields.  

Kind regards,

Shop eCommerce for Trend Micro

I’m sorry.  I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I HAVE used the internet and my credit card together.  More than once, in fact.  Over the last few months I’ve arranged for hotels, a couple airline flights, purchased a gun, ammo, many books, some clothing, home furnishings, a couple of classes, scheduled a number of professional appointments, and I’ve managed to keep a couple of websites running. I’ve got the internet form routine down pretty well, but you know, maybe I did make a mistake.  So I go through it all again, making doubly sure to spell my name right, put in the right address, and fill in all the little yellow boxes with red asterisks beside them.  Double check it all.  Click submit (only once, because sometimes I’m a fast learner).  And it all coughs up on me again, and gives me the little helpful email link again, so I can confess that I’m a helpless dolt.

I guess they want me to try a different security suite now.  Cool!  Does anyone have a good suggestion for an internet security software suite that might actually work?  I’ve got to tell you, I’m not feeling really “secure” about PC-cillin anymore.  What’s the saying? 

You’re fired!

Can I tell you about how sick to death I am of hearing 24/7 coverage of Barack Voldemort Obamessiah?  The whole Superduper Tuesday/Hillary Campaign  deathwatch thing is driving me nuts… or could you tell by my lack of posting?  Or is it because I’m veddy veddy busy in my non-cyber life?

I could do a post about my buffalo soup recipe…

I could talk about the very clever moosecall made out of a shoelace and an empty Pringles can we saw at the Sportsman Show…

I could whine that I didn’t find a rifle at said show…

or, I could just go back to the office and finish the print job I started late this afternoon.  Yeah, that’s it.  Responsibility.  Sometimes a guy has to do what a guy has to do.  Thanks for stopping in.

I’ve been so busy this week I feel like whole days of my life have disappeared.  Whew… but now it’s Friday night.

So it’s good to start catching up with the world again, news and blogs.  There is a lot to look at and read this weekend.  It’s good to see three sources now are saying the fat little bastard traitor Adam Gadahn is a few spare parts at the bottom of a smoking hole.  What, no virgins in Hell, eh Adam?  Sucks to be you, doesn’t it?!

Speaking of sucks to be stupid, how about THIS guy in Spain.  The video that Ace posted brought a tear of joy to my eye.  I’d say, I wish we could see a bit of that in this country, but things haven’t gotten desperate enough yet.  They will, so keep the link for use as a training video.

I won’t even try to hit all the gun blogs tonight, much less the political ones.  Nor do I want to take time to reply to Sam in the comments.   Save that for the weekend.  Right now, I believe I’ll go find the DVD the postman brought us this afternoon.  Fire up the fireplace, grab the blanket, curl up next to my sweetie, and watch a movie.  Some things are more important than others.  Then, all I’ll need is a good night’s sleep.  Tomorrow is the Sportsman Show… think I’ll see how many classes I can sit through… turkey hunting, chukars, waterfowl, bass… maybe even find the rifle I’ve been looking for… my tail is waggin’.  Good things coming!

Remember the days of “Just Say No”?  This last week, Laura Bush announced more cancerous growth in the Federal government, which I think they ought to name “Just Go Play”

..The government bureaucracy just got a little bigger: The latest addition is something called the National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play.

It’s part of a new effort by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to “coordinate and expand” the government’s existing efforts to prevent childhood obesity.

This stuff makes me nuts.  Can’t you just imagine Publius writing about the need for the Federal government to be directly involved in making sure “the children” have proper playgrounds in order to insure their maximum protection from the scourge of childhood obesity in The Federalist #397?  Yeah, right.

..According to Mrs. Bush, the Administration for Children and Families (part of HHS) will establish a new National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play. “With a $12 million, four-year grant, the Center will help Head Start programs across the country evaluate their playgrounds and their outdoor play spaces, and educate children and families about the importance of healthy food and physical activity.”

She said ACF also will provide $10 million to build and upgrade Head Start Playgrounds - “making sure children have safe places to play and exercise outdoors.”

And someday in the future, when the “We Care the Most” party gets back into power, they’ll grow that part of the budget exponentially to make up for how the “Evil Scrooge” party shortchanged Americas children, condemning untold millions of children to desperate lives as sedentary, obese little butterballs.  And we’ll deserve it.

Which gives me another horrible thought… First Ladies are famous for this baloney.  What will First Lady Bill Clinton do?