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Some Interesting Features in Google Docs for Creating WordPress Posts
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Up until recently, I’ve found Google Docs to be a little interesting, but nothing worth putting much time into. The more I learn and the more they improve the system, the more interested I am.
Here’s a few cool things that I found tonight. With these 2 features, it’s easy to start writing about an idea and picking up images and resources as you write. It simply speeds up the process. The post can even be edited by multiple people simultaneously. All of this is also easily connected to every other Google program.
The research tools.
Embedding ability in websites.
Shocking Food Stamps Usage Data
Here’s a link that shows food stamp usage across the United States. The data is very revealing about how many people are claiming that they need help from the government to feed their family.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/28/us/20091128-foodstamps.html
List of Blogging Tools
Here’s a good list of blogging tools. Some are free some are not.
The Secret to Angus Young’s Energy
Have you ever wondered how these old rock n’ rollers do it? Angus Young‘s secret – corn flakes. Not Special K, not any of the other cereals, just plain old corn flakes.
Angus Young plays a solo during "Let there Be Rock" during a performance at the Rogers Centre in Toronto (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I always find it humorous when people are looking for the magic answers to success and find out that it’s really just a lot of hard work and dedication. Ok, maybe it is the corn flakes. 
Go to 7:10 to hear it from Angus himself.
The rest of the interview covers some other interesting things, like how they respond to criticism. They’re ask how the feel about people saying that their music is simple and repetitive and to paraphrase, they do what simple, works, and has proven to be what people want. Like baking a cake, you keep with a recipe that works.
ABC and Obama Team Up to Create a Diversion
On an ABC News “exclusive” Obama states his “evolving” position on gay marriage. My first thought was, “Shut the hell up and clean up the mess you’ve made.”.
Barack Obama Deutsch: Barack Obama (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We’re what, 17 trillion in debt? I’ve lost count. We’re past the point of screwed and the dollar is becoming more worthless everyday. 100 million out of 300 million working age Americans either can’t, won’t, or don’t work. This website puts it a 36.4%. With numbers like that, it’s to many to count anyhow. The point is we’re in deep trouble. Trouble that should scare the hell out of us. What does ABC and Obama want to talk about, gay marriage. Sonofabitch.
Yep, gay marriage trumps the other stuff. That’s what our fine President wants to talk to us about in these times of trouble. A legal contract that hasn’t changed for a couple of hundred years on the books, that’s the problem. I’m surprised he isn’t telling us that it will create more jobs by requiring more preachers to be available for the ceremonies and more lawyers to handle the divorces.
I got into a few discussions about it. First, the goal is obvious; they want to change the culture and language and simply changing the definition of what marriage means is an easy big step. The second goal is to gain voters by claiming this issue is the moral and upright thing to do and if you’re against it, you hate gay people. Nobody wants to be thought of that way, so they’ll feel pressured to hop on that bandwagon. It makes a mockery of Christianity, so that’s a plus for Obama. It’s an all out sham that will turn up the political heat in general and Obama checked which way the wind will blow and figures it’s in his favor. So, from now until the election, we’ll be hearing about this while the country continues it’s nosedive.
I’m taking a Libertarian view on it and this guy states that view best. In order for government to quit using marriage as a tool to control the masses, they need to just get the hell out of it. Let people enter into contracts and have government do the job of enforcing them. Leave the religious aspects to the church. I can’t find any fault in this angle on the matter.
We’ll never see this happen. Liberals can’t see past their noses on this issue and I think they enjoy the damage they’re doing by stirring this pot. Republicans, see it as a way to look like they actually have moral fortitude on an issue. Everyone loses in the end. I find it interesting that anyone cares what Obama thinks about the issue anyhow. He’s powerless until a Republican controlled Congress puts a bill on his desk. But hey, if they want to talk about marriage law instead of the carnage his Presidency created, he’s all for that!
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Trader Joe’s Low Salt List
If you’re trying to reduce your sodium intake, finding low-sodium products can be hard to do in the usual chain grocery stores. Trader Joe’s has a huge list of low-sodium products and many are not high-priced “low-sodium” versions of other products. Most are priced reasonably. Here’s the link to the PDF.
Trader Joe’s Low Salt Product List
Was Ted Nugent Targeted by Obama?
Ted Nugent isn’t one of my favorite folks. He’s an outstanding musician, a humorous side-show wherever he speaks, and a great outdoorsman. For what he does for a living, entertaining, he’s outstanding at his craft. Where I find fault in him is that he’s a Chicken Hawk. He’s always showboating the firepower he has, always talking big about war, but he dodged the draft when it was his time to serve.
Ted Nugent live in 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I don’t have a problem with draft dodgers. If they were to yellow, to sickly, to worried about problems at home, disagreed with the government, or whatever, that’s their decision. There’s enough patriots to fill this minority’s void. If a person makes that decision, they need to just keep their opinions about the military to themselves though, especially in the presence of those that have. Nugent completely crossed the line when I seen him showboating with disabled Vets and instead of taking the backseat to real heroes, he continued with his showboating. I just lost any respect for him.
Recent events have brought Nugent to the spotlight that make me just shake my head in disbelief. Nugent starts grandstanding at an NRA event saying that he’ll be dead or in jail if Obama gets re-elected. Really? Now he’s going to take his patriotism to a level that he’s willing to die or be imprisoned for his country? I don’t buy it, but it sounds good to the crowds I guess. A real patriotic tough guy. Maybe he’s telling the truth. Maybe now that he has children and a hell of a lot of stuff to lose, he sees things a little different than he did in his college days. If that were true though, he’d come up with a better solution than supporting Romney.
So, after he makes his anti-Obama statement, Obama, another one that never served, takes offense. No threat was made to him, he just wanted to steal a little of that spotlight and make his power known. He finds an obscure Alaska law and used federal power to get it enforced against Nugent. Nugent pleads guilty and they fine him $10,000. All of this is to be expected from a politician used to doing it the Chicago way.
Here’s the strange part of Nugent’s punishment. He’s being forced to run a public service announcement on his TV show.
He was charged for breaking a law that nobody has ever been charged with before. It was an obscure and buried law that The State Of Alaska wouldn’t even waste their time with. It’s obvious that this punishment is to set an example to anyone who speaks out against Obama. They want public humiliation and they’re taunting anyone who speaks against their best wishes.
It’s kind of obvious to me that Obama used his federal power to ensure that Nugent was snagged and humiliated. Of all of the things this country is dealing with, big-mouth showboat Nugent hits the top of their list?
Low-Salt Bread
The doctor recommended a low-salt diet a while back. Eliminating salt in your diet pretty much means that you have to quit eating most things that are processed and most restaurant food. Salt is packed into everything that is made commercially.
The good news is that if you do the work and trouble of making home cooked food, reducing salt is easy. Store bought bread is one of the tougher conveniences to remove. Salt-free bread is hard to find and costs over $4/loaf. I’m attempting this low salt bread recipe today. I replaced the salt with sea salt(it’s supposed to be better for you) and the vegetable oil with olive oil.
The process is simple. Mix ingredients, knead, allow to rise, place in loaf pans, allow to rise some more, then bake. No bread machine or fancy ingredients required for basic low-salt bread. It saves a few bucks, it’s fun, and it’s more healthy than commercial bread. A little time and patience is the only hassle.
As for the results with this recipe, mine were nothing spectacular, but good enough. Replacing the vegetable oil with olive oil still made a good loaf of bread. Next time though, I’m taking the time to go buy some good whole wheat flour. White bread just isn’t as good.
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The Patterns of Fear Mongering
John Stroud, Heath, Ohio rest home escapee.
Take a look at this photo. They are of the same person. A mentally disabled person stricken by brain cancer named John Stroud. He’s got a pretty sad story and the Newark Advocate, 10TV, and every other media outlet that had a chance at the story just made it worse.
From the unreliable usual media sources I’ve read, Mr. Stroud tried to commit suicide by cop a while back. They do not provide any details of substance about how far his cancer had went, but he was found unable to stand trial after the incident. He shot at police officers and their return fire hit him in the knee. If he shot at officers in Ohio and was found not able to stand trial, I would make a very safe bet that he truly was mentally disabled.
Stroud was placed in a rest home in Heath, Ohio. He was placed in a ward where their concern was that he was a danger to himself. He was allowed to leave the facility with visitors. He was also disabled with a severe limp from where he’d been shot. He escaped the facility through a window and large-scale manhunt for a dangerous murderer followed.
The Advocate first released the top photo of much younger and healthier man with nothing more than a warning that he was charged with attempted murder. That’s an eye-catching headline and any person of common sense would take note of the warning.
I noticed more law enforcement in the area than ever. You couldn’t travel more than a few blocks without seeing officers. State Highway Patrol helicopters were in the air. Everyone was on the alert and searching for this supposed highly dangerous person.
Later in the evening, the lower photo came out. It’s obvious from the photo that Mr. Stroud had deteriorated into much less of threat than was being portrayed in the news.
Law enforcement found him just a few miles away in a field. He hadn’t harmed anyone and was starting to get hypothermia.
Like most, I only know what I’ve read, but the story is troublesome and raises quite a few questions. Why the hype? Who benefited?
I really don’t want to think this, but I find it VERY hard to believe that a multi-agency search, with air capabilities, couldn’t find a disabled man who lacked the ability to run. If that’s true, that worries me. If it’s not true, did they know where he was at and just play along with the media coverage that they were getting? Either way, it’s a puzzling scenario.
I do thank The Advocate for their coverage as it provided quite a bit of humor. Their hype is so poorly written that it’s hard to believe a word of it. Look at how this story spiraled from a huge danger to a barely functioning mentally disabled person.
The pattern of this is something to think about every time a news story comes out. It’s a pattern that is happening more often. A manufactured problem, a manufactured reaction, and for this one, we’ll have to see what the solution to this is soon. I’m sure it will be more laws, costing more money, and benefiting government agencies at the taxpayer’s expense.
