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Man I love this album!

If you've ever been a fan of punk, Lou Reed, raw rock, clever lyrics, you need to get this album. And don't spend a mint. I got this album new at Half.com (recently bought by eBay) for under ten clams.

I really thought Bush might have been a man of integrity. The Iraq thing? Well, maybe there was a bit of mis-leading going on there, but do you really think the public would have accepted the fact that Bush went in to Iraq to defend his father's honor?

He's really seemed like a stand up guy until now. Bush's recent amnesty for illegal aliens is proof enough that his integrity only run's so deep. While I wouldn't consider this as severe a betrayal of the country as Clinton's trading of missile technology to the Chinese in exchange for campaign dollars, but suddenly making illegal immigrants "legal" is not only paradoxical but also dangerous.

In a surprising shift in direction, Redhat recently announced it would abandon the Linux desktop market.

I've used Redhat Linux for my own desktop environment for about 5 years. I've become more and more disappointed in their "upgrades". With each release of their desktop software, they change and break things. They've made it increasingly difficult to remain loyal to the distribution. I've been entirely disgruntled for the last 3 years, but due to familiarity, I've stuck with the distro, putting off switching to more stable and user-conscious distributions such as Gentoo and Debian.

But they've finally forced my move, and I'm happy about it. This decision marks the downfall of Redhat. They have chosen to take the path of Sun: focus on the server market. And they've made the same mistake: without a loyal following of desktop users, no OS can hope to achieve any significant success in the high end server market. Sun is beginning to give up on its "high end" Solaris OS and beginning to adopt Linux as a last, desperate effort to survive. Now Redhat is choosing the same fate.

But as everyday Linux users migrate from Redhat to other distributions, what distribution are they likely to promote when it comes to high-end server applications? Redhat did not define Linux's ability to serve the high end server market, and they can never hope to fulfill it if they abandon their everyday users. These users are the same folks who will be the one to migrate failing Windows servers to Linux. And why would they choose Redhat when they've long become comfortable with another, more capable, less buggy, distribution? Well, they won't. And this will be the end of Redhat.

You read it here first folks, Redhat is dead.

While the recent devastating fires in San Diego were beyond belief in themselves, what is more incredible is the CDFs part in the proliferation of these fires.

I'm not referencing any sources in my claims, however, I do believe that the following statements are entirely true based on news reports, anecdotal evidence, and my own observations. Additionally, all my criticisms are limited to the Cedar Fire, though I'm sure much of the same CDF neglect and counter-productivity can be referenced in the various other fires that raged throughout the state recently.

In a Washington Post editorial today titled No More Justice Moore (washingtonpost.com), some unnamed journalist states:

THERE HAS BEEN little ennobling in the saga of Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore -- until last week, when a unanimous judicial disciplinary court removed him from his job. Mr. Moore is a demagogue who has made a judicial career not in his performance in the courts but in his unconstitutional decoration of them. Most recently, he gained national attention when he installed a huge granite monument to the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court building and then defied a federal court order to remove the obvious violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state.

Obvious violation of the First Amendment? Let's look at the first amendmant:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Anyone who can understand this plain and simple sentence will also understand that there is no violation of the Constitution. No law has been established prohibiting freedom of speech or expression. Something worse has happened. Under the guise of Law and Constitutionality, Mr. Moore was removed from his post simply for excercising his Constitutional right to express his own religious beliefs! Unfortunately, the Constitution does not ban religious persecution. The spirit of the Constitution has been trampled on blatantly.

But for some reason, beyond my comprehension, the public and journalists alike are blind to the true injustice involved here: Mr. Moore's Constitutional right to freely express his own religious beliefs has gotten him removed from his post.