I find interesting how from the day the war in Iraq started, the US has been portrayed as an evil, heartless empire bent on the conquest of the world, killing millions on innocent people in airstrikes, with guns and tanks. Our horrible soldiers killed innocent Iraqis without a care while the insurgents were seen as the victims and heroes by our own Media. The reality is that our soldiers have literally been fighting with their hands tied behind their backs trying to identify the insurgents from ...

I find it so ironic how often the one thing we refuse to do for fear of the backlashes one will get tend to have opposite results. I never figured my wife would stumble upon the article I wrote ( Back to the beginning of a possible unhappy ending ) about how we met and our 11 years together after that. As many times as I had tried in the past to get her to come to JU, she picked that one day to come on to JU. When I noticed she was reading it, I figured this was it, the end was here and our r...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 (Warning – This article will not contain many details, linksto websites for proof or expert opinions. The article will be more of a ramblestraight out of my current thoughts so I may not have all my opinions perfectlyexplained but I hope and expect most to be smart enough to get the points beingmade. Thank you.) Day in and day out, we const...

(Warning - Very long and Possibly boring personal story ahead - You have been warned) (This was not easy to write but sometimes easy is not the best way to go) Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Well I figured I’d go back to the beginning, maybe even abit further back, to give some details of my relationship with the mother of mychildren. I feel I need to explain these things for it may be a good way toe...

So Obama's idea about change makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? With the way things are going, everyone is looking for some change (that is both pocket change and different alternatives). Well here's something that can definitely satisfy both the "I want change" crowd and the "I want an alternative" crowd. How would you like to pay $0.86 a gallon of gas for your car? And it's not the type of gas you are thinking about. Well Honda has the car for you. The 2008 Honda Civic GX is a car li...

A follow-up on my comments on KFC's article Random Acts Of Kindness where I pointed out how there were times I wish I had not been so kind to help some people. I decided to use a recent example of how one down random (and maybe not so random) kindness sometimes backfires making it hard to wanna do it again. Here at my job, most of my co-workers seem to get along pretty good if not good enough to work together to maintain a high standard of quality and quantity of work. There is usually a lo...

"Beam me up Scotty". According to an article on ZDNet.com it would seem that some of Star Treks cool gadgets are making their way to hospitals paving the way to new ways to assist patients more efficiently. On the article 'Star Trek" communicators free up doctors' time then talk about a new " Star Trek-like " communications system based on small communicators the staff at a hospital carry that allows them to contact any member in the hospital without having to leave the current location...

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I asked in a previous article of mine if racism was still alive and well in the US ( link ). From the comments it seems to be and still with much steam behind it. But who are the ones keeping this idea alive? The answer would have been simple had those who were racist were the only ones being racist. But the answer is more complicated than that. You see, not only those who are racist spread this terrible concept, but those who are the ones being insulted by this racism also become racist when th...

Well, the day finally came. We are now in our new apartment. After finding myself in a pickle when the landlord was being foreclosed on,I was desperate trying to figure out what to do before we were eventually evicted. Thanks to my boss, and his wife who works for real estate, they were to help us find an apartment (though a bit more that I was paying) that gave us first months rent free and a small deposit. But it got better, although I had to wait a little over a week to get the place due t...

Well, there have been signs that there still is some racism in the US, obviously not as bad as it once was many decades ago. But one thing is for sure, there are people out there doing what they can to keep it alive. The color black is usually referred to the absence of light, does not reflect or emit light. Black is usually connected to dark or darkness. Such as pitch black or the darkness of night. The fact that we created things such as light bulbs to light up darkness, it shows how the av...

It's interesting how movie makers today try to cram as much detail about a the story line of a movie in 2 hours or less. Sometimes, like in The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, the need for detail forces movie makers to extend movies to, at times, 3 hours just so as to not leave anything out that they believe is useful to making the movie more successful. A few decades ago, details were not that important. No need to figure out what made the DeLorean in "Back to the Future" fly, just that it was co...

Thanks to terfan1980's article "Hancock" (great article BTW), I was inspired to ask this question to all. Taking into consideration the average price of $4 a gallon of gas and some people having to rethink and readjust their budgets, not to mention ticket and popcorn prices going up with or without the help of gas prices, what are your plans for all the summer blockbusters that are already starting to hit the big screens or will soon be? For some there are options and that is where the title ...

Well, as some of you may know I have been, for some years now, having issues with the mother of my children. Some issues, while already mentioned, I do not wish to repeat but to say the least it's enough for many to ask why I am still with her. Well recently we sat down, by her request, to talk about our current situation. It would seem my frustrations had finally got to me and I was acting very indifferent with her. Guess that is what took to get her attention. Anywhoo, we spoke about what n...

OK this is the deal. I have 2 HP laptops. Both laptops have Windows Vista Home Premium. My laptop is connected directly to the linksys wireless router thru the cable. My wifes laptop is set up as wireless in our bedroom. I have a 500 GB external hard drive that connects via USB to my laptop. I want to be able to share the external hard drive to my wifes laptop. We are both on the same network and can see each others PCs. She can not access mine but I can access hers with a password. Can someo...