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Damn

Too many damn beers, not enough sleep. Have to go to work. This sucks.

The Fairtax Act

Here is the entire bill known as HR 25(the Fairtax Act). It will take a few minutes to read, but I felt that it would be good to actually post the entire thing here.

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More on Herman Cain

Damn I wish he had won the republican nomination for senate. Here‘s the text of testimony he gave before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures of the House Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on the Extraterritorial Income Regime back in May 2002.

Imagine keeping 100% of your paycheck

Neal Boortz said something about this column yesterday on his Radio show, this is the first time I have had a chance to look at it. Explains very nicely the Fairtax Act in very simple terms.

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Free speech getting fried.

Came across this little story at boortz.com:
BUSH … NO CHAMPION OF FREE SPEECH
But then again neither is John Kerry.
President Bush has enlisted the services of Arizona’s Saintly Senator John McCain to “go after” the so-called 527 groups, that is the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, Moveon.org, etc. The President wants to shut them down. That’s right, he wants to take away their (and by extension, your) right to free speech. Welcome to The United States of America in 2004.
Question: Would the White House please issue a statement telling us just which constitution he promised to preserve and protect when he took the oath of office? Evidently it wasn’t ours. Ours, after all, says something about free speech.
George Bush wants to make it illegal for you to pool your resources with some other folks who share your views and express those views through the media. Think about this. You join a group promoting tax reform. One of the presidential candidates supports your cause, the other does not. You want to run ads promoting your tax reform idea and encouraging voters to support your cause by supporting your candidate. This is the very essence of political free speech … and both George Bush and John Kerry want to make your actions illegal.
There is no scandal in the 2004 presidential election greater than this … the candidates from both of the major political parties teaming together to deny your freedom to effectively speak out politically. How serious is it? Kerry and Bush approve of placing you in jail if you dare to express your political feelings in a way not approved by them.
If these two enemies of our Constitution succeed then we will be at a point where only candidates and those in control of the media will be allowed to express political viewpoints through the mass media in the months leading up to a presidential election.
The founding fathers are on a spit.

What a crock of shit. If you look at the Attorney General of the United States, and the Department of Homeland Security, this is just the next logical step.

Videos

I figured that since I only want the movies themselves off of dvd, I will just hook the dvd player into the s-video on my TV Tuner and just record them with BTV. Such a simple solution, fuck this ripping and converting and whatnot. What a PITA.

Backing up DVDs

I’ve been fooling with trying to find a good program to backup my DVDs for quite awhile. The only thing I am interested in is the movie itself. I don’t particularly give a shit about the menus or other interactive crap that they put on the DVD. When I buy a DVD it is because I want to watch the movie. Very simple.

I’ve looked at program after program trying to find a decent one that would get past the encryption and just save a damn video file to my HTPC’s hard drive. Finally I have settled on two, DVDDecryptor, which does a great job pulling to vob files to the hard drive, and DVDx to convert them to mpg. At least I know what I will be doing the next few evenings.

More about the HTPC

Did a couple of test runs on the recording stuff yesterday. I won’t say that it worked flawlessly, but it was pretty damn close. Recorded Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee, a classic if there ever was one. My 15 year old said it was cheesy. I guess maybe it was. Hell, I though it was pretty damn cool when I was 15, still do.

Olympics

Just set my PC up to record the closing ceremonies Sunday night. Will have to set up a couple more recordings for today to make sure that it is working properly though.

HTPC

Finally gor got my HTPC where it will change the cable box channel itself when I change the channel on my PVC software. Had to do it a roundabout way using three different programs, but hey, it works. That will make a big difference because now I can schedule it to record stuff and not worry about what channel it gets left on.