Can America Be Fixed?

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Privacy? Never happen, Just smile and bend over your being screwed!

We are willingly giving up freedom for safety, is that safe? Cameras are everywhere growing at an alarming rate, phone conversations are monitored, and personal information is gathered & linked to various data bases. "We're moving in the direction of having the government turn us into a society that's under constant surveillance"

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NSA and Privacy . . .

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Why Americans are doomed

We, the American people, are technological, political, and educational laggards. Our culture of convenience, laziness, and ignorance will, in the long run, doom the United States to the global backwaters. The evidence is everywhere you look...

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Weekend News . . .

Ok so my weekend started pretty much on my friday . . . this woman I met online dropped in at my work to say hello . . . it was kewl . . . not very often I get people drop by at work . . . so after taking my friend (Isaiah) to the airport yesterday I was supposed to hang out with Lisa (the woman I met online). However, I was so freaking tired yesterday I just crashed when I got home from Boise. . . I was hoping to hang with Lisa today . . but she was at work for most of the day and I havent heard from her yet . . . I wrote her . . but still no answer yet . . . oh well . . . can't say I didnt try . . . I hope she's not mad at me or anything . . . I think I'll ask her if its ok if I post her pic here in my blog . . . that would be kewl . . . then all of you could meet her too . . . anyways . . . got lots to do . . mowed the lawn today . . . got laundry done . . . gonna relax for the rest of the nite . . . until next post . . . lata . . .

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Whats New . . .

Ok . . to start off . . . yesterday was fun . . . Regis Philbin got a new cell phone . . Kelly Ripa had to show him how to use it . . it was hilarious . . she showed him that he could take video on his phone . . and Gelman even made a comment that Regis would never figure out which button to push to snap a picture . . . . it was funny . . . . . well I worked on my lawn this weekend . . its looking good . . . yesterday I had DirecTV hook up in my room . . . it was really quick and easy . . . Im very glad it worked out so well . . . I went over to my sisters to hook up her computer . . . its working now . . . the scanner and everything . . . only internet isnt hooked up yet . . . anyways . . . the satellite's hooked up to my TiVo . . . I can watch and record my favorite shows now . . . awesome . . . anyways . . thats all I got for now . . . until next post . . lata . . .

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Hope this works . . .

Ok . . I hope this works . . . I've found now that this is not so easy to post a video to this blog as I thought it would be . . mostly becuz the file type that my camera recorded in isnt the type most sites accept . . and finding a way to convert it is not fun . . . lol . . . anyways . . . lets see if my video works now . . I've uploaded it to my Myspace account . . . and here's the code . . .



Get this video and more at MySpace.com


I hope that this will work . . only 1 way to know for sure . . try it out . . .
until next post . . . Im done for now . . . lata . . .

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Lots of Fun . . . .

Ok so yesterday . . . lots of fun . . like the title says . . . Im gonna be posting pictures of my adventures from yesterday on my MoBlog . . . anyways . . . yesterday I decided I wanted to start Spring Cleaning . . . starting with my yard . . . I went outside to start up the mower . . . unfortunately for me . . sitting outside all year . . it didnt want to start up . . . I called up my dad to let him know it wasnt working . . he said hed work on it today . . check the spark plug and clean it . . . and work on the mower . . . so anyways . . . yesterday . . . We(My Family and I) went to the park . . this was fun . . . we fed the geese and the ducks . . and went for a walk . . when I got home I had only about an hr and a half before work . . . what did I do . . I didnt rest . . . I went right to work rearanging furniture and moving it so I could vaccuum the living room . . . it looks so much better now . . . I was so tired last nite though at work . . . Today I went out to check if the mower was working. . . my dad didnt get a chance to work on it yet . . . but I got to borrow my brothers mower that started up on the first try . . . I mowed his lawn and myne . . he came over and used the weed eater to cut back the edges for me . . that was kewl of him . . . well anyways . . . Im gonna upload some new pix from yesterday on my MoBlog . . . be sure to visit it . . lol . . . until next post . . . lata . . .

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Errr . . .

Ok so here is yesterdays story about Katie Couric leaving the Today Show . . . its official . . . she'll be leaving at the end of May . . . she's moving over to CBS . . . to host the CBS Nightly News . . . this is all good . . although it would be nice to find out whos gonna be replacing her on the Today show . . I'll miss Katie . . It just wont be the same without her . . . anyways . . . last nite was the results show for American Idol . . . and they voted off Mandisa . . . I thought she did really well too . . . too bad, I guess Im partly to blame cuz I didnt vote for her . . . I voted for Kelly Pickler, Paris, Katharine Mc Phee, and Buckey Covington . . . he kinda grew on me . . didnt much like him at the beginning of the season . . but he did really well singing a country song . . . Him and Kelly Pickler did the best . . . well anyways . . . to my disappointment . . . I missed recording Heist last nite . . . do to a time schedule shift . . . used to be that Idol was on before Heist so I could record them both on TiVo . . . now they overlap and I can only record one . . . that sux . . I hate it . . Im willing to be its becuz of some kinda Neilson Ratings scam too . . . they are probably trying to find out who watches what and who gets more viewers . . . Im working on a fix for next week so I can record both programs . . . well on a good note . . today was payday . . . and last nite we had hamburgers and hotdogs for lunch . . . this was nice . . . they did this cuz we had gone 45 days without any accidents . . . anyways . . . enough of my rantings for now . . . until next post . . . lata . . .

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Latest Picture of Me . . .

Ok this is my latest picture for anyone who hasn't already seen it . . .
It was taken by my niece Amber using my Fuji FinePix A350 Digital Camera . . . This picture taken shortly after I had my hair cut on March 28th of 2006 . . . . 

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64GB USB 2.0 flash drive. Yes, flash.

Insanely huge storage for a flash drive that size. Yes, it is 6-4, sixty four, gigabytes, of flash memory. This dwarfs many hard disk based portable usb drives as well, and at a fraction of the size. Imagine a 60 gigs flash based iPod..

here's a link to a much cheaper but similar usb drive -
Kanguru Flash Drive


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My Days Off . . . .

Well to start off . . . I'll start with my Friday . . since thats where my weekend started . . . I havent written anything since then . . . . Ok on that Friday, before I went to work that nite . . . I just so happened to be on one of my IM clients . . . on my list of friends, suddenly someone comes up that I havent talked to in a long time . . . when I start a conversation with that person they keep asking me if I know who they are . . . sadly its been so long I dont remember them . . . then they turn around and tell me they are Paris, by Paris they are reffering I assume to Paris Hilton since that is what the Icon next to their screen name was showing . . . I was in shock . . . I wrote back and said "For Realz, You are Paris Hilton" . . . then they signed off and I havent heard from them since . . oh well who knows it could have been her . . but in reality it could have just as easily been someone impersonating her . . . after all this is the internet . . . without seeing live video of her . . I wouldnt believe it anyways . . . well now that I've told that little story . . . on to my weekend . . . Monday nite line up on NBC was Deal or No Deal, followed by The Apprentice, and then a replay of the Pilot episode of Heist . . . Tuesday morning all over the news, and by that I mean on Fox News, was the Protest in France. This is because the french government passed a new law allowing employers to fire anyone under 26 for no reason at all . . . oh I forgot to mention I got an e-mail from Julia, a girl I met on the internet that lives in Russia . . . its so awesome to get e-mail from her . . . oh in other news . . my mom is finally gonna be getting a computer . . . I'll be able to send her pictures and e-mail her . . . and she can finally see some of the stuff I do online . . . that will be nice . . . yesterday I took the time to call just about everybody in my contact list on my cell phone . . that was kewl . . got to talk to alot of family . . . and a few friends . . . Today I uploaded a bunch of pictures to my MoBlog that I took yesterday . . .

I also got a hair cut yesterday . . . I have new pictures posted on most of my profiles . . . I may have missed a few but I'll update them all . . . well for now this is getting long . . . until next entry . . . lata . . .

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Yesterdays Events

Ok so yesterday I was an interesting day . . . First off I went to Staples . . . had to make a copy of a mail in rebate form . . . picked up some DVD-R's while I was there and a couple of magazines . . . only to find out that one of the magazines I picked up I already had @ home . . . sux for me . . Im gonna see if I can take it back . . . Last nite I watched Deal or No Deal . . . awesome show . . . I still think the one guy should have taken the 76,000 and left . . but he ended up with only 8 bux by the end of the game . . . the other lady didnt do much better she got 50 bux but still that wasnt very much when you could win a million . . . but thats how the game goes . . after that was Law and Order: SVU . . . good show I have to say . . . never really watched it before . . . but last nite was good . . . then was Conviction . . . thats a good show too . . . after that I had to get ready for work . . . I spent about 2 hrs this morning tryin' to clean up my Yahoo e-mail . . . too much spam and junkmail . . . wish there was an easier way to eliminate it all . . . Talked to Isaiah last nite . . hes gonna look into seein' if Cingular has a partner provider in this area for me . . . talked to Terri this morning . . . shes kewl . . . It's gonna be Korina's b-day in 8 Days . . . I have to find out if she's still livin' @ her moms or if she moved out . . . if she checks or e-mail @ all . . and if I can get her number from her brother(Adam) . . . missed him this morning . . . but I'll catch up with him lata . . . anyways . . . thats all for now . . . lata pplz . . . oh one last thing . . if you didnt already know . . . AOL has launched a new program . . In2TV . . . its kewl . . check it out . . .

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Today's Update . . .

Ok, I'll start off by going over my day off yesterday . . . I watched a movie my brother brought over on DVD . . it was Shawn of the Dead . . . man that movie is funny . . . Last nite, Monday nite . . . is a pretty nite for NBC . . their line up includes Deal or No Deal, The Apprentice(Which is in season 5 now I think), and Medium . . . I have TiVo'd all those programs so I can watch them @ my convience . . . Other than watching that movie yesterday I pretty much slept all day . . . This morning I was up early . . . I pretty much stayed up all nite last nite . . . first listening to Loveline . . then playin' with my computer in the living room . . . Earlier today I watched UltraViolet . . . awesome movie . . . yet another Vampire movie I'll eventually own . . . I went to Mc D's again today . . . seems that they aren't accepting debit or credit again . . what a pain in the ass . . . oh well their loss not myne . . . instead I ate @ Subway . . . I worked on my network earlier today . . and downloaded Mandriva not to long ago . . . gonna try it as soon as this post is done . . . American Idol was on tonite . . good thing I TiVo'd it . . . cuz I was sleeping when it was on . . . well for now . . I think this is good enough for an entry . . . lata . . .

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Long Time Since Last Post . . .

Well its been awhile . . . since my last post . . the Winter Olympics have come and gone . . . Looks like the Japanese girl won in the Womens Ice Skating Competition . . . she did well . . Sasha Cohen got the Silver . . and Irina Slutskaya got the Bronze . . . they all did really well . . . although my favorites had to be both Kimmie Miessner and Emily Hughes . . . Well American Idol is now on Season 5 and the competition is getting good . . . I havent yet voted but soon will . . . I got my taxes back a couple of weeks ago this is good . . . I can pay off some of my credit card debt with them . . . I got back my federal Im still waiting on state . . . I used 70 bux out of it to buy me a DVD player with an HDMI output . . . its an upconverter player . . . the best you can get for now until the HD DVD players come out . . . of course Im still waiting for the HVDs to come out . . . those will blow away both HD DVD and Blu-Ray altogether . . . There are currently 2 movies I want to go see . . . UltraViolet . . . that movie came out on Friday . . . and V for Vendetta . . . that looks like it will be a good movie . . . I'll probably go see UltraViolet tomorrow . . . well for now Im gonna get going . . I'll try and write more often . . lata pplz . . .

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Dave's Experiment . . .

Ok, so for the new year I thought I would try something new @ work . . . What might you ask would that be . . . well everyone @ work is used to seeing me wear a cap . . . I decided I would go to work without my cap . . . just to see what all ppl would say . . . the response . . . over half a dozen ppl noticed something was different about me . . . whats funny is most of them had thought I had gotten a hair cut . . lol . . . anyways . . . I think I like the new look . . . its something different for a new year . . .

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Christmas . . .

Well I hope everyones Christmas was Merry . . . I know myne was . . . anyways . . . if you want to know how my Christmas was check out my Myspace.com account . . . I wrote a blog entry there about it . . . if you'd like to see some of my goals for the new year you can check them out @ 43 Things.com . . . its a kewl site . . anyways thats whats new . . . talk to ya lata . . heres my list of things I want to do for the new year . . . .

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Ok Super Crazy Long Post . . . .

Ok so this post is long overdue . . . Since I've been to Denver and back . . . I finally got to meet Isaiahs wife Helena . . . shes kewl . . . . Isaiah and her both work @ Radioshack . . . . they recently celebrated their 2 yr aniversary . . . for free, no kidding . . . they stayed @ a hotel that had a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee . . . and they messed up on the breakfast . . . so Isaiah and Helena were comped for the whole nites stay . . . anyways . . . . I had alot of fun there in Denver . . . I won a couple hundred bux that I spent while I was there on food, gas, and entertainment . . . of course I brought my own movies and games to play and watch . . . we also rented a kewl movie . . . The Game . . . that movies a Dave movie as it really makes you start to think about things . . . I left a couple of my DVDs there with Isaiah . . . and also left Kingdom Hearts for the PS2 there for Him and Helena to play . . . although I think Isaiahs favorite game to play while I was there was Soul Calibur 2 . . . I went to this place called Fat City . . . it was awesome . . . I went there with Helena . . . . we played like 5 rounds of Bowling . . . for only a couple of dollars a game . . . it was kewl . . . and the arcade there was awesome . . . it made me miss my old job in the arcade . . . . also I spent time with Isaiahs neighbor . . . Patricia . . . Isaiah kinda despises me for this . . . cuz one day I took off with her . . . cuz he didnt want to do anything . . . I cant say I dont blame him . . . its kinda my fault . . . I kinda had a crush on Patricia . . . . she had a wonderful 3 yr old son . . . and during my stay @ Isaiahs . . . she had another baby . . . she was only in the hospital for like 30 mins or so . . . man can she pop out a baby . . . lol . . . . anyways . . . . one day me and her and her 3 yr old son . . . went around Denver . . . we went to a mall and also a place called Nickel City . . . a nickel arcade . . . it was fun . . .
well this was all back in August around Isaiahs b-day . . . . a couple of months later . . . fast forward to October . . . and its my moms b-day . . . and we are @ Grandpas . . . I had so much time visiting my Grandpa and Aunt and Cousins in Gresham . . . I got to ride the Monorail/Train . . . it was fun . . . its a great way to get around Portland . . . I got to check out Lloyd Center and Clackamas Mall . . . they are huge . . . . I even got to check out a Fred Meyers . . . since I had never been in one before . . . it was alright . . . not too impressive though . . . my store has all the same stuff . . . . anyways coming home from PDX . . . they practically strip searched me . . . Oh yeah . . . btw . . . I got a new laptop not too long ago . . . In fact Im writing this whole thing up on it . . . . I took it w/ me to Portland . . . Teddy . . . my cousin . . . had alot of fun w/ it . . . He also had too much fun w/ my Digital Recording Camera . . . he accidentally broke that . . . . its ok though . . . I got it fixed . . . needless to say . . . I didnt let him use my stuff after that though . . . I figured out how to wire my cell phone to my laptop and get internet anywhere I go . . . . and @ nite time its free . . . Andy . . my other cousin enjoyed using the internet on my laptop cuz it gets connected @ speeds almost double what dial up is . . . 115 Kbps . . . which is much faster than what they have . . . oh yeah . . . I forgot to mention that b4 I went to Portland I had my buddy Adam fly up here to visit me and my bro and dad . . . . we had fun while he was here . . . argued a lil bit . . but no big . . . . Adam got some awesome books . . . so did I . . . lol . . . We went to Primos Pizza . . for all you can eat a few times . . . Adam liked that cuz it was cheap . . . . food here is cheaper too . . . and so is the water . . . or rather bottled water . . . he like it here cuz its cheaper to live . . . . alas he had to go home after spending a week up here though . . . I remember one day we played BurnOut 3 Takedown for like 6 hrs straight . . . . it was awesome . . . and then one time there was a blackout while he was up here . . . I was like . . bored . . . and wanted to build a back up power system . . . my dad had power though . . . he always does . . . Adam just was like . . I'll read a book . . . . now to fast forward to the present . . . its one day b4 halloween . . . I have tomorrow off . . . Im gonna go take the kiddos trick or treating tomorrow . . . that will be fun . . . I work now in Hardware . . on the GM side of the store . . . after 2 yrs of working in grocery I can finally learn something new . . . . I like it over there . . . less stress . . . . well . . . now I've written a whole lot . . . so good day . . . until next entry . . . lata . . . .

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Overdue post . . .

Ok so here's whats new in a nutshell . . . basically Dave finally got a Cell Phone . . . its a Motorola V710 . . . and my service provider is Verizon . . . they are kewl . . . . My only gripe . . . they disable half of the cool functions of my phone and if I want to use them I have to pay to use them . . . oh well . . . also as soon as I got my phone it was outdated . . . I want the E815 model . . . cuz its broadband capable and my V710 isnt . . . too bad Im stuck on a 2 yr contract . . . oh well . . . . I got all kinds of kewl accessories for it . . . a 256 Meg Trans-Flash card . . . man that thing is micro . . . . I pay 40 bux a month for 450 minutes of air time . . . . thats not so bad . . . i got a couple of extra features on my phone . . . I pay 5 bux extra for mobile interent access . . . its kewl . . . I can look up stuff like weather and news and check my e-mail from my phone . . . . I bought the USB cable for my phone . . . . and a USB bluetooth dongle . . . so my phone can talk to my computer . . . . I finally figured out how to play movie files on my phone . . . or rather I figured out how to convert movies to files my phone can play back . . . its kewl I got a couple of music videos now on my Trans-Flash card . . . and I'll be adding some TV shows on it . . . . I want to get another T-Flash card . . . that would be awesome . . . . . anyways . . . . Im done talking about my phone . . . . and thats what all is new . . . later . . . . I'll try and post more often . . .

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Daves Day . . . .

So I had a great 4th of July . . . . considering I had that day off . . . it was awesome . . . got to spend time with the family . . . and see the fireworks @ Farewell Bend . . . . nice display of fireworks . . . however they are kinda pale in comparison to Tahoe . . . oh well . . Im just spoiled . . . I know its been awhile since my last post . . . so whats everyone think about what happened this morning over in London . . . . I think it sux . . . I got a classic computer today . . for 10 bux I picked it up . . . it has Windows 3.1 on it . . . its from way back in the days . . . I picked up a couple of good Math books too . . . one is an Algebra book . . the other is a Pre Calculus book . . . I got a really good deal on them . . . both books for a buck . . . we stopped @ a Yard Sale/Fund Raiser . . . . it was for a christian summer camp thing . . . I donated my last buck . . . and my Dad picked up a chainsaw for 10 bux . . . not a bad deal on it . . . I ordered Final Fantasy for a guy that lives across the way from me . . . hes been looking for it . . . cost less than 15 bux on Ebay . . . . the original FF for Nintendo was awesome . . . I need to clean my room again sometime . . . Its such a mess . . . well for now . . . I think Im gonna go . . cant say I didnt try and update this Blog . . . LOL . . . later . . . .

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