Apparently there is some controversy over whether Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from the eventual 0bamacare constitutionality SC case, because his wife is a former head of a conservative group and called the bill unconstitutional. 74 congressional Dems are saying he should recuse himself.
Orrin Hatch fired back and said that since Elena Kagan is a former member of the 0bama administration she should recuse herself.
Do either of these two need to recuse themselves?
My opinion, ideally, is no. Both should be perfectly capable of being impartial in regards to the law.
What is interesting is that there is a growing furor on the left over the fact that Virginia Thomas has political opinions. Somehow the fact that Justice Thomas's wife is politically active makes him ineligible to form an unbiased opinion, or an opinion biased only bu constitutional law. Yet these same 74 Congressional Democrats are ignoring the fact that Justice Kagan was special counsel to the 0bama administration while they were forming the very law that will be coming before the Supreme Court. If anyone has more reason to recuse, it would be Justice Kagan.
...but I will reiterate: Both should be perfectly capable of being impartial in regards to the law. I mean, they are adults, are they not?
2011-02-10
My Basis/Netweaver Blog has moved...
For all of you who have been following my Basis/Netweaver posts, I have moved them to a new blog:
http://JoeysBasisBlog.blogspot.com
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2009-04-27
Horrible Failure by American Airlines...
In my experience, there was an overall failure to provide quality service for flight 661 to Ontario, California on 4/26/09.
The details included:
-None of the information screens at the airport listed anything about this flight.
-When asking at other gates for information about where this flight was leaving from, I was given 2 different answers.
-No gate attendants even showed up at the gate until 5 minutes before boarding was supposed to begin.
-I came to find out that the pilot for the flight was called only 15 minutes before boarding was supposed to begin.
-Very little information was offered to the passengers waiting for boarding.
-We were first told that the delays were due to the catering, but later the agent announced that it was due to an earlier international flight. Then the pilot announced on the intercom on the plane that the whole crew was called late for the flight, as if the crew for this flight was just an afterthought, and that was the cause for the delay. Which was it? It would be nice to have been extended the courtesy of a straight answer.
-While boarding, the gate manager at D21 required that I check my bag, the very same bag that I have used for over 100,000 miles of flights with American over the past year. And on top of that I was treated rudely by both him and the other gate attendants. My bag fits in the overhead, and it fit in the tester, but these AA employees saw fit to embarrass me in front of the 120 people waiting to board.
-Also while boarding, I noticed that one of the flight attendants was stuffing a bag much larger than mine into the overhead.
-While pulling out of the gate, the plane experienced a problem with an alternator on the left engine which ultimately grounded the plane resulting in the entire plane being emptied and passengers having to trek across to the other side of the airport after another plane was located.
-After leaving the first plane, I asked the gate attendant to retrieve my bag (which they forced me to gate-check), just in case the flight would be cancelled, since we were told that was a real possibility. It took the gate supervisor, David, over thirty minutes to locate my bag and get it to me, which almost resulted in me missing the new plane.
-When I got my bag to the new gate, I was not asked to gate-check it, because it clearly fits in the overhead bin, as it always has over the last 100,000+ miles traveled with AA.
Overall I am extremely disappointed and dissatisfied in the lack of service provided by the AA gate employees in regard to this flight, and I am lodging a formal complaint. I am surprised at the total lack of respect and dignity offered me, considering the amount of time I spend traveling with AA. Had this been my first experience with American Airlines, I would avoid this carrier at all costs. I would hope American Airlines would instill in their employees a greater appreciation for their customers.
The details included:
-None of the information screens at the airport listed anything about this flight.
-When asking at other gates for information about where this flight was leaving from, I was given 2 different answers.
-No gate attendants even showed up at the gate until 5 minutes before boarding was supposed to begin.
-I came to find out that the pilot for the flight was called only 15 minutes before boarding was supposed to begin.
-Very little information was offered to the passengers waiting for boarding.
-We were first told that the delays were due to the catering, but later the agent announced that it was due to an earlier international flight. Then the pilot announced on the intercom on the plane that the whole crew was called late for the flight, as if the crew for this flight was just an afterthought, and that was the cause for the delay. Which was it? It would be nice to have been extended the courtesy of a straight answer.
-While boarding, the gate manager at D21 required that I check my bag, the very same bag that I have used for over 100,000 miles of flights with American over the past year. And on top of that I was treated rudely by both him and the other gate attendants. My bag fits in the overhead, and it fit in the tester, but these AA employees saw fit to embarrass me in front of the 120 people waiting to board.
-Also while boarding, I noticed that one of the flight attendants was stuffing a bag much larger than mine into the overhead.
-While pulling out of the gate, the plane experienced a problem with an alternator on the left engine which ultimately grounded the plane resulting in the entire plane being emptied and passengers having to trek across to the other side of the airport after another plane was located.
-After leaving the first plane, I asked the gate attendant to retrieve my bag (which they forced me to gate-check), just in case the flight would be cancelled, since we were told that was a real possibility. It took the gate supervisor, David, over thirty minutes to locate my bag and get it to me, which almost resulted in me missing the new plane.
-When I got my bag to the new gate, I was not asked to gate-check it, because it clearly fits in the overhead bin, as it always has over the last 100,000+ miles traveled with AA.
Overall I am extremely disappointed and dissatisfied in the lack of service provided by the AA gate employees in regard to this flight, and I am lodging a formal complaint. I am surprised at the total lack of respect and dignity offered me, considering the amount of time I spend traveling with AA. Had this been my first experience with American Airlines, I would avoid this carrier at all costs. I would hope American Airlines would instill in their employees a greater appreciation for their customers.
2009-04-17
In Order to Form a More Perfect Union...
The Problem: The Federal Government has become Too Oppressive in its Size and Scope.
The original intent of the formation of the federal government was not to be even a fraction of the size it is today. Powers of the federal government were to be limited to those enumerated in the Constitution, and as is laid out in the 10th Amendment anything else is left up to the states. Nobody can honestly deny that the federal government has grown well beyond what is laid out in the Constitution. Welfare, education, social security, the FDA, IRS, FCC, USPS, etc, are just a few examples. One form of oppression is when the citizens of one state are threatened with incarceration in order to extort funds for programs in another state. On top of that, the federal government is now, through a so-called “stimulus package,” is attempting to further regulate and control the states by offering funds (funds spent, but not yet collected, yet another debt heaped onto the next generation) to help with economic troubles if they will submit to further restrictions on states’ rights. Furthermore, no programs in one state should be funded by the citizens of any other state. The design of the United States of America was to bond sovereign states in a union, not put the several states in bondage to said union.
The Solution: Systematically Dismantle the Federal Government as it exists today.
Granted, we as a people have become dependent on many of these programs and administrations that the government overstepped its bounds to create, so eliminating them would be burdensome to the people. Since there is no option of a referendum at the national level, it follows that such programs should be turned over to the states for the people to decide at that level whether such programs should continue exist. In doing so, all programs and entities that are not constitutionally enumerated should not be funded by tax dollars on the national level. Ultimately, if all the national programs are moved into the realm of the states, it may be more expensive at first because of the transition. However, when these programs are put into state hands, they will be at the mercy of the people to a much greater degree than they are today. It will be a long process, but the ultimate result will be a union of strong sovereign states, as intended by the constitution, run by the citizens of those states.
Today we are not the economic superpower we once were. A nation is only as strong as it's components, and the oppression of the federal government has made those components of the United States (the states themselves) weak, and thus our nation is weakened.
The original intent of the formation of the federal government was not to be even a fraction of the size it is today. Powers of the federal government were to be limited to those enumerated in the Constitution, and as is laid out in the 10th Amendment anything else is left up to the states. Nobody can honestly deny that the federal government has grown well beyond what is laid out in the Constitution. Welfare, education, social security, the FDA, IRS, FCC, USPS, etc, are just a few examples. One form of oppression is when the citizens of one state are threatened with incarceration in order to extort funds for programs in another state. On top of that, the federal government is now, through a so-called “stimulus package,” is attempting to further regulate and control the states by offering funds (funds spent, but not yet collected, yet another debt heaped onto the next generation) to help with economic troubles if they will submit to further restrictions on states’ rights. Furthermore, no programs in one state should be funded by the citizens of any other state. The design of the United States of America was to bond sovereign states in a union, not put the several states in bondage to said union.
The Solution: Systematically Dismantle the Federal Government as it exists today.
Granted, we as a people have become dependent on many of these programs and administrations that the government overstepped its bounds to create, so eliminating them would be burdensome to the people. Since there is no option of a referendum at the national level, it follows that such programs should be turned over to the states for the people to decide at that level whether such programs should continue exist. In doing so, all programs and entities that are not constitutionally enumerated should not be funded by tax dollars on the national level. Ultimately, if all the national programs are moved into the realm of the states, it may be more expensive at first because of the transition. However, when these programs are put into state hands, they will be at the mercy of the people to a much greater degree than they are today. It will be a long process, but the ultimate result will be a union of strong sovereign states, as intended by the constitution, run by the citizens of those states.
Today we are not the economic superpower we once were. A nation is only as strong as it's components, and the oppression of the federal government has made those components of the United States (the states themselves) weak, and thus our nation is weakened.
2009-03-30
Skystream Firmware v2.02 and Skyview 2.0 Is EXCELLENT!
Well, I have had my windmills up since October, and electricity production has been great. My only beef is with the Electric COOP who refuses to do net billing, so my ROI is now 17 years as opposed to 7. But now, with the new firmware version, the rated output of my generators have been bumped from 1.9KW up to 2.4KW. That's a greater than 25% boost from firmware alone. That is really cool. An added bonus is that it does not cut out in small wind gusts. It used to be when I would get 25-30mph winds, the turbines would often cut out due to gusts, but after the upgrade I have yet to witness the turbines shutting down, even when we had tornadoes in the area last week.
The output of these windmills has been awesome. In the 5 months I have had them up, I have only used 3000 KWh from the COOP and pushed 2000 KWh in excess back up. In the winter time I typically use 1800-2000 KWh per month, and over the course of the year I average 1300 to 1500 KWh per month.
I should see a better return over the months that I don't have to run heat or AC. But in either case, the new firmware upgrade should accelerate my ROI.
The output of these windmills has been awesome. In the 5 months I have had them up, I have only used 3000 KWh from the COOP and pushed 2000 KWh in excess back up. In the winter time I typically use 1800-2000 KWh per month, and over the course of the year I average 1300 to 1500 KWh per month.
I should see a better return over the months that I don't have to run heat or AC. But in either case, the new firmware upgrade should accelerate my ROI.
2009-03-17
Raise Livestock? Be on the Lookout for this Professional Loser.
A recent HBO special about a failed animal cruelty case against a pig farmer in Wooster, Ohio, has raised my ears a bit.
Newspaper article:
http://www.farmanddairy.com/news/judge-clears-wayne-county-hog-farmers-employee-of-most-charges/818.html
Some animal rights loser, who went by the name of John Knoldt in the film and had recently changed his name from Chris Parrett, approached pig farmer Ken Wiles asking for a job. Of course he presented himself as a guy named "Pete" because coward cockroaches like him have to hide.
He proceeds to film daily life as he "works" for six weeks on the Wiles farm, and all he gets out of it was a downed pig being hung (which is neither cruel nor torture) and some piglets being tossed into separating bins.
What HBO omitted was the fact that even the prosecution's own expert witness admitted that the animals were well taken care of on the farm, and that there really is no easy, economical or painless means of euthanizing a downed full grown pig. Hanging (asphyxiation) is faster and less cruel than the recommended practice of carbon dioxide poisoning, and is safer than using a firearm.
Pete aka John Knoldt aka Chris Parrett showed up in court with a fake mustache and beard, because he was too cowardly to face the men he was trying to put in prison or out of business, and came out upset that he now has to "change his name again" in order to keep doing what he does for a living: Lying in court for money. Yes, he is on the payroll of the HFA, a known anti-farming animal rights group not so cleverly disguised by their name "Humane Farming Association," and he has gone undercover to bring up false charges at least 7 times. He was perturbed to find out that the local newspaper dared to publish both his fake names as well as his real name.
At the end of the special, of course, the real agenda is leaked. "If everyone really got to know these animals, they'd never want to eat them."
Watch out, America, this loser is mad and on the loose and wants to do it again to try and expose hard-working Americans for the crime of feeding our people.
Yes, Chris Parrett aka John Knoldt aka Pete, YOU ARE A LOSER!!!
That is a name you will never be able to change.
Newspaper article:
http://www.farmanddairy.com/news/judge-clears-wayne-county-hog-farmers-employee-of-most-charges/818.html
Some animal rights loser, who went by the name of John Knoldt in the film and had recently changed his name from Chris Parrett, approached pig farmer Ken Wiles asking for a job. Of course he presented himself as a guy named "Pete" because coward cockroaches like him have to hide.
He proceeds to film daily life as he "works" for six weeks on the Wiles farm, and all he gets out of it was a downed pig being hung (which is neither cruel nor torture) and some piglets being tossed into separating bins.
What HBO omitted was the fact that even the prosecution's own expert witness admitted that the animals were well taken care of on the farm, and that there really is no easy, economical or painless means of euthanizing a downed full grown pig. Hanging (asphyxiation) is faster and less cruel than the recommended practice of carbon dioxide poisoning, and is safer than using a firearm.
Pete aka John Knoldt aka Chris Parrett showed up in court with a fake mustache and beard, because he was too cowardly to face the men he was trying to put in prison or out of business, and came out upset that he now has to "change his name again" in order to keep doing what he does for a living: Lying in court for money. Yes, he is on the payroll of the HFA, a known anti-farming animal rights group not so cleverly disguised by their name "Humane Farming Association," and he has gone undercover to bring up false charges at least 7 times. He was perturbed to find out that the local newspaper dared to publish both his fake names as well as his real name.
At the end of the special, of course, the real agenda is leaked. "If everyone really got to know these animals, they'd never want to eat them."
Watch out, America, this loser is mad and on the loose and wants to do it again to try and expose hard-working Americans for the crime of feeding our people.
Yes, Chris Parrett aka John Knoldt aka Pete, YOU ARE A LOSER!!!
That is a name you will never be able to change.
2008-10-21
Juniper VPN Timeout Issues / iTunes Conflict
If you have iTunes installed on your laptop it is possible that it may have a conflict with the Juniper VPN client.
Typically this will manifest itself by killing your connection within 30 seconds to a minute after connecting.
The problem is that the ‘Bonjour’ music sharing service (an add-on to iTunes) changes settings with DNS (techie geek stuff) and causes the connection to drop with the VPN.
To resolve this, the ‘Bonjour’ service needs to be turned off and disabled.
Don’t worry, you will still be able to use iTunes to listen to music and copy over to your MP3 player, etc.
Steps to turn off and disable ‘Bonjour’:
1. Go to Start->Run
2. Input ‘services.msc /s’ into the command line (without the tic marks)
3. In the new window that opens up, scroll down the selection list to the right to find the ‘Bonjour’ service
4. Right-click on the ‘Bonjour’ service and select ‘Properties’
5. In the ‘Startup Type’ drop-down, select ‘Disabled’
6. If the service status is ‘Running’ or ‘Started’ select the ‘Stop’ button
7. Click the ‘Okay’ button
8. Close the services window
2008-10-20
Sarah Palin on SNL...
Now how many other political figures would go on SNL after a roast? Sarah's good people.
2008-04-24
New Opportunity...
In case anyone is wondering, I recently decided to leave my position with Justin Brands, Inc. in order to pursue a career as a Basis Consultant with CIBER (www.ciber.com) and am thus far enjoying the change. If you would like to know more about this, feel free to contact me via blogger or my LinkedIn profile to the right.
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