I don’t really have time to blog right now but go read this post to understand the the thoughts going on in my mind right now. Kristine is my favorite writer at BCC (linked above) and she described the thoughts I’ve been having for the past day perfectly. Now I’m going to go to the hospital to be with my wife, my 3 year old and my 18 hour old.
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I’m going to attempt to provide a video file for people to download to see if it will be feasible for me to start providing some video on this site. I won’t leave the files up for too long because after a while they will start hogging space and bandwidth on my web server but I do want to see how well this is going to work. If any of you have ideas about how I can do this in a better way please let me know…I’m very new at this kind of thing and am still trying to figure out the best way to use my blog software to serve video. I want to learn how I can stream video from the site instead of providing it for download.
Click here for a short video of a portion of the dinner conversation Corryn and I had before her bedtime this evening. IMPORTANT NOTE: This video clip is 4.7 Megs…that means that on a dial-up internet connection it could take 15-20 minutes to download. I recommend downloading the file by right clicking on the link above and chosing the “Save Target As” option. You can then save the video of my cute kid anywhere you want on your computer. You can then watch it again and again as many times as you want without having to download it again.
The whole video is available (with more footage and a bigger viewable display) for family or friends who want it. I’ll put it on a CD and mail it to you if you send me an email request or comment to this post asking for it. The video will play on any computer that has Quicktime or Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Its almost 1:AM and I’ve been doing some work on a home appraisal report that was due today but that won’t get turned in now until Monday. Oh well. I was waiting for the computer to save a report and decided to check out one of my favorite church themed blogs. This new post talks about something I’ve been thinking about a lot…the value of the work I do to society.
My brother is a roofer and my dad is a retired mason. Their jobs day in and day out provide people with a service that directly benefits them…durable homes that keep the elements at bay. My job indirectly benefits people by providing banks information they need on investments they make so they can stay in the business of helping people finance their homes. I like my job and feel good about it but I’ve always been a bit envious of my dad and brother for the skills they have which can be used to help someone directly.
Read the whole post (linked above) at BCC and the comments. Its an excellent discussion about the nature and value of work.
Here’s an interesting Wired article that talks about Orrin’s latest crusade. He wants to save Hollywood from the scary pirates. Said Hatch:
“I do want to solve this problem for the recording industry and the movie industry and the book industry,” Hatch said. “We have to give a damn about copyright.”
The article also discusses the thousands of dollars Hatch and Leahy (the other sponsor of the bill being discussed) recieved from the industries they are pimping for. Hatch has been around too long. Someday maybe the Utahns who keep putting him into office because he is a good Mormon will realize that he isn’t as good a statesman. Maybe.
This is legislation looking for a problem to solve. There are already laws on the books that make it illegal for people to do most of what Hatch has his panties in a bind about. This bill would make hardware and software that allows people to make copies of any copyrighted media heavily regulated. Its passage would be bad for any one who has any interest in or hope for future innovation coming from technology companies in our country.
Anyone who wants more information on this act and it progress through congress should check out the Induce Act Blog.
This sums up the upcoming election campaign better than anything I’ve ever seen. It is a 3.7 meg download…but I promise it is worth it. I PROMISE!!!
(Oh yeah…still no action yet on the baby front…but watch the above linked video anyway…)
…Medicare To Slim Us Down.
Medicare has re-classified obiesity as an illness. I can see why they would want to do this…there isn’t enough abuse of this wasteful disgusting program already. We need to think of more ways to make it worse.
Medicare has future deficits that threaten to bring our economy to its knees and these super geniuses are expanding it to cover health problems related to lifestyle choices. I wouldn’t be so ticked off about it but I’m forced to pay twice as much as everyone else into medicare because I work for myself.
Damn.
Do you remember the cold uncomfortable feeling that stayed with you all through the fall of 2001?
If you want to remember what it felt like read this. Be warned…its scary…and it might tick you off a bit.
Link courtesy Instapundit.
UPDATE: There was some confusion about whether or not this story was real. It has been confirmed.
Part of my problem with what Hillary said is that her idea of the common good is not good for me or my family (pretty typical commoners:-). I cringe at the fact that her and her ilk want to take more away from my family to support the leftist government run economy the Democrats seem to want. Hillary and her party don’t want to get rid of recent tax cuts as part of a program of spending cuts that will bring the budget into balance. Current Democrat rhetoric from John Kerry’s website supports an increase in the involvement of government in nearly every part of our economy and an increase of funding for nearly every government spending program. John was right in his comments to the post below; I don’t want my money spent to support the current incarnations of Social Security and Medicare. I want those to be seriously reformed because I’m not ignorant of the danger they pose 15 years down the road. Their catastrophic failure will ruin the U.S. economy.
I could support the Democrats if they really were the party of fiscal restraint. I could probably even support their tax increase if this were the case. It clearly isn’t. Their platform includes moving toward Canadian style socialized medicine, increased and expanded agricultural subsidies (the largest current form of corporate welfare), fully funding education at the federal level, and a general increase in nearly every other source of government spending. This is not creeping towards socialism, this is racing towards it. I don’t want America to be like Europe. I don’t vote Democrat.
John and Nate are right about the Republicans in their comments to the post below. The level of irresponsibility displayed by this administration and Congress is staggering. They clearly don’t have a better plan than the Democrats for building America.
That said, it is completely disingenuous to propose that the Democrat party is a pillar of fiscal restraint since that is clearly not the case and never has been. Common people like me who really do want smaller government that isn’t spending our grandkids money with abandon are unrepresented. That is the main source of the frustration I expressed towards Hillary’s statement.
