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MeanDean has got a great post today at blogs4God.com “Why all Christians should vote for G.W. Bush” Personally I love that last paragraph.

What about you? Don’t tell me the party line, give me something from the heart – and do it on your own blog – trust me, it’ll drive you more hits than a link here.

Spammers are of course encouraged to send their ads for breast enlargements, claims that I need to deploy spyware to keep an eye on my wife and other crapola to submit [dot] JLLsbrCziERSvlwp [at] spam [dot] spamcop [dot] net … all others, use your blogs, that’s what God gave them to you for.

On Wednesday night I received a phone call from the Butler County Democrat Party. The caller asked if he could count on my vote for John Kerry on Nov 2. I said ’sure’, he seemed rather shocked and asked again if I was going to support John Kerry. I answered ‘absolutely’ he then asked if I knew where my polling place is and if I needed a ride, I told him that I knew where it is and stated that I would have no problem getting there on Tuesday. We then ended the call.

Now I began to fell bad for lying to the guy.

So I called up the Butler County Republican Party and explained what had just happened, explained that I was actually going to vote for President Bush and that I was feeling bad for lying. I asked the lady on the phone if she would forgive me.

After she stopped laughing she said yes. I thanked her and ended the call.

I am sure I made her day, maybe even the week and I am sure that when she got off the phone everyone at the GOP call center knew about the call.

The utech fotopage has been created and features the much anticipated utech 4.0 set for release in mid-march 2005.

Remind me never to flip the bird during a camera test as I might want to run for public office someday. Bush flips the bird during 90s camera test.

via LGF “Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal” is now available for on line viewing at no cost. Help us reach as many people as possible in these critical final days. We need your help! Streaming video to hundreds of thousands of people costs money as do paid cable and broadcast placements.

Watch this real documentary. You can download the stream using SPD and then make your own DVD.

Pirate my film, says Michael Moore well ok if you insist. Marc Perkel Rantz has permission from Michael Moore to make Fahrenheit 9/11 available to download. He has a number of versions available, including audio only.

After watching F911 I would then encourage you to check out FarenHYPE 9/11 and FactCheck.org

If you are looking for some facts about the ads you see and here check out FactCheck.org. Here is one example of getting to the facts in this political season….

Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore

This anti-Bush radio ad is among the worst distortions we’ve seen in what has become a very ugly campaign. It states as fact some of the most sensational falsehoods that Michael Moore merely insinuated in his anti-Bush movie Farenheit 9/11 .

The ad was released Oct. 25 by The Media Fund, an independent Democratic group run by former Clinton deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. It falsely claims that members of the bin Laden family were allowed to fly out of the US “when most other air traffic was grounded,” though in fact commercial air traffic had resumed a week earlier.

The ad also falsely claims that the bin Laden family members were not “detained,” when in fact 22 of them were questioned by the FBI before being allowed to leave — and their plane was searched as well.

And by the way, the man who gave approval for the flight wasn’t Bush or even any of his close aides, it was former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, now one of Bush’s strongest critics.

ESPN.com – NFL – Favre’s wife diagnosed with breast cancer

The wife of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to The Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald.

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The Favre family has had a difficult year. In December, Brett’s father, Irvin, died from a heart attack. Three weeks ago, Deanna’s brother, Casey Tynes, was killed in an ATV accident on Brett Favre’s land near his home in Oak Grove.

Please hold up the Favre’s in prayer.

There is another story that hit the AP today about Bush and his National Guard service. It leaves me shaking my head and asking “Does this really matter?” It was 30 years ago. Heck I don’t want people going into my past of just 10 to 5 years ago.

I know someone will say, but what about Kerry? Why do you make his service a issue? Simply because John Kerry makes it the issue.

I think what is more important is the present history. Such as the last 4 years or the Bush Administration or a 20 year Senate career. The problem here is that when ever someone tries to bring up Kerry’s dismal 20 year history in the Senate he replies with, “I served in Vietnam, how dare you question my patriotism.” WHAT? I don’t care about Vietnam, I wasn’t even alive. I don’t even know my own father’s “record” from Vietnam, other than the garbage I was told by my grandfather who really didn’t like my dad, and I know that most of it was more than likely untrue but you know I have never asked my dad about it. Why? Because it really doesn’t matter to me what my father did 30 some years ago. I am proud of who he is now.

I don’t hear anyone who is proud of who John Kerry is now. And I think a big part of that is because no one really knows who he is now. Yeah, he has “A Plan”. Whoop-de-do. What is “the plan”? And how does “the plan” compare to The Record?

George W Bush has a plan, but more importantly he has a record of 4 years and it is on his record of the past four years that I base my decision.

The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq’s most sensitive former military installations.

Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to “guard those stockpiles.”

“This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration,” Kerry said.

In an election week rush:

**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times

**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times

**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times

**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times

But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 — when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

Source: Drudge Report

And yet people still claim that there isn’t a liberal bias in the mainstream media!? Most of the reports are making it sound like this just happened when the truth is this information was known some 18 months ago.

[Kerry said (at different times)], “I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them… with the entire Security Council, and we spent a couple of hours talking…”

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Asked whether the international body had any records of Mr. Kerry sitting down with the whole council, a U.N. spokesman said that “our office does not have any record of this meeting.”

A U.S. official with intimate knowledge of the Security Council’s actions in fall of 2002 said that he was not aware of any meeting Mr. Kerry had with members of the panel.

An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations remarked: “We were as surprised as anyone when Kerry started talking about a meeting with the Security Council.”

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best headline about this: Kerry Cheated on the Global Test.

Source: Security Council members deny meeting Kerry

Maybe Kerry meet with the Security Council before he didn’t meet with the Security Council?

First it was Cambodia, now the Security Council. What else is John Kerry going to claim that he did when the record shows that it didn’t happen at all…

In what could be considered a related topic Julie needs your help “If you have a spouse who suffers from mental illness, or you suffer from mental illness yourself, I’d love your input.”

Survey: The Effect Of Mental Illness On A Spouse

Justin, has a post about finding out who is linking to your blog/site. It is always fun to see who links to you.

Check it out…

Google – link:utech.blogspot.com or Technorati

Finally, Speaking of cache (read: cash)

Computerworld: 2004 Salary Survey Snapshots

Just some numbers to show that it really is getting better in the IT world.

W2 T-Shirt via GlennBeck.com

Check out the status of Project Longface

The following is from a blog post I read this evening.

let’s talk about the election. i am sooo confused!! how do you pick between the lesser of two evils? i thought i knew who i was going to vote for (bush), but lately, i am unsure. oddly, i get the creeps when i look at kerry, and i absolutely dislike teresa heinz! she’s creepy too. but, i don’t agree with many republican ideas. maybe i’m a republocrat? i don’t know. anyway, i am just sooo confused. election day is looming, and i don’t know who to vote for. everyone is giving me their opinion on who to vote for…. this is a little annoying, but i am grateful for other’s advice.. plus, this just shows me they are concerned. everyone is so hyped up about kerry raising the minimum wage… who do you think is going to pay for that? US, DUH!! he will have to raise taxes… money isn’t free. then there’s bush with this implied deficit… and the fact that our economy is in the toilet right now. don’t forget the fact that he has many middle eastern connections! AHHH!! i worry about so many things… and, unfortunately, i don’t have the words to express myself right now. if anyone out there has any advice for an undecided voter, please let me know. opinions will be honored and respected as long as they are tasteful.

Here is my ‘tasteful’ reply:

The minimum wage has no effect on taxes. However if a small business owner is forced to pay a higher minimum wage typically this means that they have to layoff some employees to cover the cost. They aren’t selling more because the min. wage goes up, so where would they get more money to pay higher wages.

The implied deficit, that is a great way to state it. There are two main factors here 1) Sept 11, increases in Homeland Security, two wars 2) we were in a recession that began in early 2000 when the .com bubble broke. Yes Clinton had a PROJECTED surplus, but that was 10 years out, just like the deficit numbers we keep hearing about are.

Our economy is not in the toilet. Granted I don’t know what your personal situation is but as a whole and as a majority of the country our economy is strong and is growing and gaining strength. Unemployment is .1% lower now than when Clinton was in office. (Have you noticed how bad fast food service is, they are bottom feeders when it comes to the work force and the pool is pretty shallow right now)

Yes, manufacturing jobs are on the decline but we are seeing a shift in the age. Our economy is now driven by information and technology. With companies like Wal-Mart forcing smaller profit margins for manufacturers they have to cut their costs.

Which leads to the need for lower taxes. We keep hearing about how companies get this “Bush” tax break if they go offshore. Umm, if you don’t have your company in the US why would you pay US taxes? It doesn’t matter who the president is…

Bush’s middle eastern connections?

You mean the allies we have in the war, or Israel? Or are you talking about this Michael Moore lie about the Saudi’s? I would encourage you to read the 9-11 Commission report, that clearly states there was no special treatment for the Saudi’s. I would encourage you to check out the real documentary “FarenHYPE 911” it is for sale at Wal-Mart for $10.

Now we are hearing about a cache of weapons that disappeared, however there is no mention that they disappeared over 18 months ago, before a single US military member was there.

Check out my blog for an entry about Kerry’s list of accomplishments (Little Green Football’s post I referenced) during his 20 year career as a Senator… I did more work when I was unemployed for three months.

And in case you are wondering, Yes I did criticize Wal-Mart and then refer you to them in the same discussion. Don’t you love America!