Screw the 30 Second Time Limit and Move On!

I’ve just recently heard a complaint made about “the majority of bloggers” that they “use links of others” rather than composing their own original work.

WTF?

Is there really a rule of thumb to follow regarding the content of your blog? Call me ignorant, but I’ve never heard of such a thing.

So, I wonder if this person’s saying that if you own a blog, it must be your own content? Is it considered “stealing” if you find a good, funny, or an interesting post and want to share it with your viewers? Do they know more about my small group of visitors than ‘I’ do?

What if you find a newsworthy topic on CNN and are interested in sharing the link with others along with your comments? Is that bad too? Or just plain boring?

What I’d really like to know is why this kind of “blogger behavior” disturbs people so. How is this “wrong”?

I suspect these Negative Nellies are coming from blog trafficing sites such as Blog Explosion and Blogazoo. They see one post that links to another site not knowing what YOUR blog is really about and running away so fast not realizing that you offer much more a variety than their false assumptions run wild about.

People like original content? While recommending my viewers to specific links can be “unoriginal”, I know my viewers. You don’t. While I may not be entertaining ALL my viewers, there were a couple of viewers I knew who would be interested in the adorable cat picture I found on Orge’s blog.

What are Trackbacks for? I’m guessing that those so readily and enthusiastically pointing the fingers at bad link-sharing blogs, don’t use the Trackback System. They’re completely useless to them because their content is “so original”.

1) The purpose of TrackBacks are to let a site know that you are referencing them on your on site.
2) The TrackBack URL is different than the regular permanent link URL.
3) TrackBacks are fun. You should use them.

Heavens to Murgatroid! What about Instapundit.com, the most popular blog out there that’s all about linkage and random one liner comments? Instapundit receives approximately 150,000 visitors a day. From time to time, the author of this site is mentioned on the news.

I’m also aware that people constantly bitch about those bloggers that write about their personal daily lives including unedited rants and raves about the cute guy who sits next to them in their high school Biology class and what they ate for breakfast. Many people peek at these blogs, and if they’re lucky enough to still be awake to report these blogs so boring and horribly written, they will without hesitation report them. However, we must give those boring blogs credit. They’re original.

I say screw the Negative Nellies. These are the type of people that will bitch no matter what. I get approximately anywhere between 50-100 hits a day, but I’m as happy as a bee in a tree if I get at least 10. I will admit that I’m a crazed attention whore and believe “the more the merrier”, but I will not go to the ends of the earth to satisfy the grumpy miserable hit and run loser types who subject themselves to a painful 30 second time limit just so they can gain more traffic to their site.

Trust me. There are blogs that annoy the hell out of me too – especially those blogs that play music automatically and damn near knock me out of my seat when I click on their site. In fact, I was planning on making a post on my blog to tell these auto-music playing bloggers to turn their blogging radio to manual instead of auto. But the difference between Grandma-Bitchy and me is that I will gracefully give up the potential 1/3 of a point that I can earn from Blog Explosion and screw the 30-second time limit – moving on to the next blog as noted below.

Surfing too fast? You betcha. Negative Nellies? You see that? You DO have other options. Just thought I’d let you know.

Bathing in Japan

What I really need to do is go through all the pictures that I took while I was living in Japan, scan them, and blog them. I haven’t gotten to that yet, and it will be several months before I do as it takes more time than I have on my hands right now.

However, a few years back, when I was feeling homesick for Japan, I came across this apartment page for foreigners. As some of you may know, most homes in Japan have Japanese style bathrooms where there’s a separate room just for the toilet and another room where you take a shower. The shower head is found – not over the bathtub – but over the floor that has a drain.

Here’s an example:

Shower:

See the little plastic chair? Many Japanese people enjoy taking parts of their shower sitting down. (I’m telling you – these people know how to relax!)

Bathtub:

Look how deep those things are! They are so deep, that you don’t need to lay down in them. You can sit up Indian style, drinking hot sake and the water will cover you up to your neck. I can’t begin to tell you how relaxing this is.

Traditionally, Japanese people will clean their bodies in the shower area first, and then slip into a nice hot bath with their Japanese Hot Spring Bath Salts which are (in my opinion) the best bath salts ever created next to the German Kneipp Herbal Bath Salts (They rock my socks and make me realize that Heaven does exist on earth).

Traditionally, the Japanese spend quite some time in the bathroom, but nowadays with the younger generation of Japanese, you’ll find a lot of them just taking a quick shower and getting out of there. Things are changing over there, but you’ll still find Ma and Pop, Grandma and Grandpa doing it the Japanese way!

Please refer to this website for the complete viewing.

The above set up can be found in most homes in Japan. Not the same tiling or colors, but that’s the basic gist of it. However, Japanese apartments are quite different. Japanese apartments are made to be small, so there’s no room for the traditional huge bathroom (or shower room). Instead, you’ll find apartment bathrooms to be westernized (for the most part). The toilet, shower, and bathtub will all be together in one very small room. It was never too small for me, though. And here again, the bathtub is STILL deep. Let’s take a look!

And a close up view of the sink and shower:

(Pictures courtesy of Yamasa.Org.)

The shower I had was exactly the same except that the tub was on the right instead of the left. And in the picture above, you’ll see the deep tub.

Now, in Japanese homes, traditionally, Mom will clean the tub out every morning. She will fill it up in the afternoon or evening with Japanese bath salts and then she’ll put a lid over the tub to keep the water hot. When Dad comes home from work, he’ll use the water. Following that the children will use the same water and then Mom will go last. Please correct me if I have the order wrong. What I’m 100% sure about is that Dad always goes first!

You’re probably thinking “yuk”… “How could they all use the same water?” “Groooooossssss!”. Unless Poppy comes home drunk and his bowels leek in the tub, there’s nothing gross about this at all. Remember what I mentioned above. There’s a strict tradition in Japan where you MUST shower yourself completely clean before entering the bathtub. MUST. So, given that all the family members are clean when they are getting into the bathtub, it’s a safe bet that you’ll climb out of the tub just as clean.

Japanese do not bathe in the bathtub. That is taboo. And if you think about it, it’s not practical. You get into the tub, lather with soap, rinse off your soap in the same tub your dirt has fallen off in and jump out. The Japanese think Americans are dirty for that. And well… we are. You just simply cannot call Americans “clean” after bathing in a tub. Talk about gross…

There are some un-internationalized and culturally retarded Americans who believe that non-Americans are not clean people. This is a fallacy. I’ve never in my life lived with and known a more hygienically-anal and meticulously clean bunch of people than the Japanese. I’ve heard that German people are similar – if not worse. But this is a good thing unless it’s taken to a neurotic level.

The same rules for bathing are enforced (if not – even more strictly) at Japanese public baths otherwise known as “Sentos”.

You can find a nice close up here if you click the image below:

Picture from John Kyoto or.jp

Here’s a close up of the shower area taken from Japanvisitor.com.

You can choose to either sit on a mat or a plastic chair. Old, old traditional Japanese men and women would use the buckets that you see above to get their bodies wet and to wash the soap off them. But the shower function is available for those who find it easier. I don’t think you have to be a genius to guess which method I preferred to bathe myself.

If those old ladies in the public bath house see you even thinking of getting into the bath without showering first, you’re dead. Particularily, they watch the foreigners. You think Americans are germaphobes until you’ve lived in Japan. It’s all clean. It’s all safe. I promise.

More information on Sentos can be found here.

A sento (銭湯, せんとう) is a Japanese communal bath house. Typically these bath houses are quite utilitarian, with one large room separating the sexes by a tall barrier, a line of showers along one wall and a single large bath for the already washed bathers to sit in along the other. Since the 1980s these communal bath houses have been decreasing in numbers as more and more Japanese bathe at home, and some Japanese are concerned that without the skinship of mutual nakedness, children will not be properly socialized. An special form of the sento is an onsen, which is a sento using water from a natural hot spring.

And more comprehensive information can be found here.

Most Americans are sexually repressed and are afraid of not only their own nude body, but those of others as well (hence the existing rioting over breast-feeding in public). For this reason, you won’t find too many Americans hanging out in public baths or Hot Springs. Some Europeans and those from other countries (you know, the heathen-liberal – non-born again Christian types) will, without thinking twice, subscribe to this Japanese tradition and love every minute of it.

In case you’re like me and want to visit another country (or live there), go to Japan and enjoy taking a bath.

 

The World Must Stop – I’ve Got a Perty Picture!

I stopped by Orge’s Politics and Views Blog and came across the following entry and picture, and couldn’t resist to share it with my viewers.

One of the things I think that really, really differentiates between cats and dogs is the ability of the cat to very effectively deny ANYTHING. No matter what has happened, the cat can just stand there, looking innocent, and you can’t even begin to question it. Dogs, on the other hand, if they even THINK they might have done something wrong, they’re hiding under the furniture, crawling on the floor begging for forgiveness, etc. Take, for example, exhibit A:

Read the rest of his post here.

Nothing more complex than him just wanting to hold his friend. Is that not the sweetest thing? Priceless.

 

Damn English Freakin’ Majors!

Are English majors the only people in the world that can speak, spell, write, and read in English properly?

My advice: Avoid them like the plague! God has a special plan for them: English majors are born to live forever. Life is not too short for them. They’ve got plenty of time to waste with their self-righteous obsession with grammar, spelling, sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, missing accent marks, prepositional phrases, pronouns, comma placement, split infinitives, adjective clauses, past and present participles, and parallelism. Evidently they have all this time to monitor and then criticize every undotted “i” and uncrossed “t”.

THEY’RE A PAIN IN THE ASS. We all make mistakes. Some intentional, some careless, and some on accident. Who cares! Even published articles in magazines and newspapers after having been edited dozens of times will still have errors.

But what gets me the most are those damn English majors who criticize the English of foreigners in their own country. How messed up is that??????

When I lived in Japan, it WAS frustrating to see all the screwed up grammar and sentence usage on the advertisement banners outside restaurants and businesses. It wasn’t frustrating because of the mistakes. It was frustrating because they didn’t take the time to ask for help from a native English speaking citizen. However, I’m sure that they have their reasons for this. If not, they are just pure stubborn and prejudiced considering their aversion to “smelly and loud” foreigners, but that’s a whole ‘nother post.

In any event, you don’t have to be a damn English Freakin’ Major to recognize that. You’re no better a person than the rest of us.

I appreciate those who can speak and write intelligently. Especially in a writing medium, I’d like to think that we all strive to keep an eye on how we are viewed by others by using spell-check and proof-reading our work. Not all of us do it, (especially if your blog is hosted on Xanga) but generally, I believe we do.

I think that there should be a separate state/country for English Majors because they drive all the rest of us crazy.

Kids Just Being Kids

How many of you were allowed to be kids growing up? Click the below to watch the video.

(Credits to “I Like Shiny Things” for the video.)

Watching this video makes me happy, but sad at the same time when I think of all the children in the world who are forced to sit quietly all the time like Katharine Hepburn. This is not to say that I condone parents allowing their children to run wild throughout the grocery stores and restaurants. One has nothing to do with the other.

However, there are too many children forced into adulthood from the time they come out of mommy.

• No crying
• Don’t be loud
• No singing
• No dancing
• No laughing out loud
• Not allowing to express their happy feelings
• Not allowed to explore and ask questions as they are new to the world. (Asking “why” seems to be the most criminal because that forces a parent to give an answer that they… well, don’t have.)

Those children deprived of a real childhood cope by either repeating the cycle with their own kids or by never growing up still seeking out ways to let the child in them come out. The most extreme example of this would be Michael Jackson.

Adults can just be plain weird. They complain when their kids are happy and innocent, and they complain when they carry weapons to school and shoot people. 

So I ask you again… how many of you were actually allowed to be a child growing up?

PETA Kills Animals.Com

Just to be fair, Liberals can be hypocritical too.

A special thanks to Right Wing Stuff for the link.

New billboard: ‘PETA kills animals’

Education effort points out nonprofit destroys 85% of pets in its shelter

A new publicity campaign run by a consumer-freedom organization is using a billboard in Times Square to expose the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, saying the nonprofit is a deceptive money-grabbing lobby that actually kills over a thousand animals every year.

The Center for Consumer Freedom runs a project it calls PETAKillsAnimals.com.

“Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has it in spades,” states the new anti-PETA website. “While loudly complaining about the ‘unethical’ treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret.

“PETA kills animals. By the thousands.

My question is … why does PETA do this? I’d be curious to hear their reasoning.

“PETA raked in nearly $29 million last year in income, much of it raised from pet owners who think their donations actually help animals,” said Martosko. “Instead, the group spends huge sums on programs equating people who eat chicken with Nazis, scaring young children away from drinking milk, recruiting children into the radical animal-rights lifestyle, and intimidating businessmen and their families in their own neighborhoods.”

The site also hammers PETA for giving “tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals,” including the North American Earth Liberation Front – “an FBI-certified ‘domestic terrorist’ group.”

The motivation for this? Could it be……. Money?

Just another example of greed/money taking precedence over the life of another (in this case animals).

Why am I not surprised?

Bully Poll Results

I’m a little late with these results, but here they are.

Have you ever been bullied?

Do the research yourself, idiots! It’s people like you who create criminals. If anyone needs a good ass whoopin’, it’s you since you think pain makes you a better person. Well, it didn’t work for this guy among the majority of other bullies out there.  It’s not my problem that you’re too lazy, bitter, and angry to wake up! Anyone who’s been bullied themselves and prefer to live life in denial pretending it did you no harm are the same fuckwarts that look the other way (as school teachers and school administrators do) when it happens to others.

You minimize the trauma because either you’ve never been bullied yourself or you have been bullied and not one person was there for you to show you that what happened to you was wrong.

This is why nothing’s done about bullying. Here’s yet another example.

Barry Loukaitis, a quiet, 14-year-old honor student, shot and killed two classmates and a teacher at his school in Moses Lake, Wash., in 1996. He said other students had bullied him and called him “faggot.” He was convicted as an adult and sentenced to life in prison without parole. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

I don’t blame him. If I could go back in time, and if I had a gun, I’d do the same thing.

I bet nobody think’s he’s a fag anymore. A man is measured by how rough and tough he is. If it takes putting a bullet through someone’s head, so be it.

Calling someone a “faggot” is a very common bullying tactic. Very. A big bunch of cowardly (usually beaten in their own homes) fucks tend to go after men and women that “look” vulnerable.

…:::NEWSFLASH:::….

You are no less of a man if you are kind, have a tender heart, are quiet, like Classical music, sing in the choir, play in the school band, or like to study.

Let me tell you what a REAL man is. If you are a real man and want to fight, you do it one on one so that it is fair. THAT is a real man. Period.

Dragging your friends and going after one man is cheating – not only that, but it’s the most cowardly act of all. Nobody can win a fight against 10 men going after you. How is that possible? If you can come up with the answer to this, please do so in my comments section.

Unless you have a gun like  this guy, this guy, this guy, or several other piston pissin’ bully-fight-back retaliaters, the bullying will never end.

Witnesses: Disabled Girl Punched In Face, Forced To Perform Sex Acts

Here again, we go after another vulnerable person:

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 16-year-old disabled girl was punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in a high school auditorium as dozens of students watched, according to witnesses.

Authorities are investigating and no charges have been filed in the alleged attack last month at Mifflin High School. Four boys suspected of involvement were sent home and have not returned to class.

Also, the principal, Regina Crenshaw, was suspended and will be fired for not calling police, school officials said. And three assistant principals were suspended and will be reassigned to other schools.

Crenshaw had no comment Tuesday.

The girl was forced to perform oral sex on at least two boys, according to statements from school officials, obtained by The Columbus Dispatch.

Part of the alleged assault was videotaped by a student who had a camera for a school project.

School officials found the girl bleeding from the mouth. An assistant principal cautioned the girl’s father against calling 911 to avoid media attention, the statements said. The girl’s father called police.

Her father said the girl is developmentally disabled. A special education teacher said the teen has a severe speech impediment.

(Just to let you know – the boys responsible never did get punished.) You see, bullying is STILL not yet recognized as “bad behavior”.

What a shame, isn’t it? But then, some of you say these type of events is “just kid stuff” and “natural”. Sure it’s natural if you’re beaten to a pulp at home by parents who cannot control their anger and you have no other outlet but to take YOUR OWN BOTTLED UP ANGER out on a defenseless classmate.

Some of you numbskulls say it makes you stronger. Are you people living on Planet Earth?

Jealosy is another factor, I’m guessing. Male or Female: those that have tender hearts and are not mean people become of product of other’s jealousy. They think it’s not fair that – that little cute, sweet, fragile girl is looking peaceful. In a bully’s eyes, nobody should be walking around like that. They should all be feeling the same pain of the bully himself. Let’s make her feel it too and dunk her head into the toilet bowl while my friends crowd around and laugh. Why not? What doesn’t kill you just makes you stronger. Right?

But I’m learning myself, day in and day out, that you have to be a mean bitch to survive in this world. If you’re not, people will walk all over your ass and try to get away with what they can. You have to show these little, cowardly bullies that they’re not going to get away with it.

It sure is a sad day when nice people have to grow mean just to survive.

If yah can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, right? Sounds good to me!

Show Your Love for God and the USA

Rapture Ready is the name of this site.

The site’s description is as follows:

This site is dedicated to converting hethen-liberals into God-Fearing conservatives who follow the words of wisdom of George W. Bush, reject the ACLU and pro-homosexaula agenda. I want to prepare you liberals for conversion and for the coming Rapture. R U Rapture? You better be or you will be left behind.

He welcomes you to his blog:

Hi! My name is Alberto Trippe. I am a God-fearing family man who hates the ACLU, the homosexual agenda, the liberal agenda and anyone who speaks out against God’s anointed messenger, the great George W. Bush.

God Bless the USA and George W. Bush!

In this blog I hope to get people ready for the coming Rapture.

Visit here often and I will alert you to those God-hating liberals who are trying to kill off God’s will in this the greatest place on earth, the United States of America.

He welcomes everyone to comment:

Hello. I welcome comments from everyone, especially liberals as you are in the most need of help.

I commented on his post. I told him that I needed help. I certainly hope he can find some help for me. I’m wondering if there’s a 12-step program out there for us Libs?

If anyone knows, please tell me because my Prozac isn’t working anymore.

(UPDATE!: This post is 3 years old. If you click on this guy’s blog above, you’ll notice that his post is now spam. He’s abandoned his account, however, the comments are still there.)

Virgomonkey’s Guide to Determining if Someone is Gay

Disclaimer: This post is all about my disdain for the wide-spread homophobia that’s prevalent in our society.

You know how you can find out if someone’s gay? It’s really simple.

First off, there’s a difference between homosexuals (gays) and fags. Homosexuals prefer to sleep with those of the same sex. Fags are asshole gays.

Closet fags are actually more transparent and just as much (if not more) obvious than their flamboyant counterparts. How is that? If anyone you know preaches “anti-gay-isms” and is a blatant homophobe, it’s a dead give away that they are a closet fag.

My Totally Gay Boy Scout Leader The tormented Republican mayor of Spokane might have molested young boys. Boys like, well, Mark Morford

And now, this: Jim West, the Republican mayor of Spokane, a longtime serious player in regional politics and the former majority leader of the state senate and a potential Republican gubernatorial candidate and apparently one of the fiercest and most hot-tempered and most powerful Republicans in the state of Washington, is in deep trouble.

Claims are now rampant that West has used his position of power for years even since the ’70s, ever since he was a Scout leader, ever since he was handing out cute plastic trophies to young preteen boys exactly like me and actually to me in particular (I won a couple — what can I say?), West has used his position to lure men and teenage boys into having sex with him.

If you know anything about the Mayor of Spokane (Jim West), you’ve heard about his constant Anti-Gay preachings and rants – a very staunch homophobe.

Well, so what? No big deal, so far. Creepy and deceptive though it may be, West has, so far, done nothing horribly illegal. Just another powerful, closeted, hypocrite Republican (the antichoice West voted for the invidious Defense of Marriage Act in ‘98 and once proposed that teen sex be outright criminalized — not just intercourse, mind, but all sexual contact, of any kind) showing his true colors and leveraging his power to work through his rather sad boy-toy fantasies and insodoing giving all true open-hearted gay and bisexual humans who just want to celebrate their love and be left alone a very, very bad name.

Okay, let me get this straight: It’s okay to bang and fondle little boy’s private parts ruining the rest of their lives – (not to mention the whole act being non-consensual), but it’s NOT okay to have sex with someone you love before marriage?

And there it is. Not merely a sad closeted gay Republican mayor using his office to cruise for and have regular sex with all manner of incredibly young but still of-age males, but allegedly a true-blue pedophile, a child molester, a bona fide, first-class, card-carrying demon. Could it be possible?

Oh sure it is. Here are some more characteristics of a closet fags:

• He has a macho-machismo persona
• He brags about how tough he is
• He’s usually very well-built and tall
• He’s an emotional retard and has never cried once in his adult years
• He often reminds you of his gun collection (GTL , I know you have a gun or guns too, but you don’t brag about it or try to use it to defend your manly-hood.)
• He’s a born again Christian and whips about the bible when he’s at a loss for words.
• Let’s just say he’s a little bit overly masculine – almost like he’s over-compensating.
• And just like Jim West, the fanatical Republican Preacher, he’ll boast about his Anti-Gay-Pride and how teens should avoid sex until they’re 30.
• His name is Tex Taylor.

So, if you know a person like this – even if he’s your next door neighbor and he’s very, very nice, think again. And know that every night he’s fantasizing and dreaming about having his own Neverland Ranch.

And someone should really do a national, once-and-for-all study to back up what everyone already knows — which is, of course, that the more repressed and sanctimonious and uptight you are about sex and love and gender and religion, the more likely you are to be involved in secret kink, in deep perversion, illegal perversion, perversion that crosses the line from healthy and slippery and delicious to degrading and morally reprehensible and Karl Rove. Just ask — did I say this already? — the Catholic Church.

Amen to that!

There is, of course, zero causal link between homosexuality and pedophilia. I couldn’t care less that West might be gay, or bisexual, or whatever the hell else he tells himself he is when he goes to sleep at night and dreams of, I don’t know what. Bunnies. In leather chaps. On fire.

Here’s what does it. Here’s what makes West and people like him rife with potential for, well, some of the nastiest and most dishonest and dangerous abuses humans are capable of.

It’s the ability to ignore the incredible hypocrisy of your own life.

Read more about the hypocritical homophobe here.

Read the rest of Mark Morford’s article on Jim West here.

Why am I not surprised by all of this?

Sites for Learning CSS and HTML

When I spend time trying to design my blog, I reference many sites
on the internet for help. I thought I’d share my discoveries with you.

There’s nothing like having a good generator around:

MediaBuilder 3D Text Maker – Create Free 3D Banners for Your Web Pages!
            

CoolText: Logo Generator and Web Design Tool – Online Graphics Generator
            

E-Mail Icon Generator
            

Button Maker :: Kalsey Consulting Group
            

Online Button Maker
            

AdDesigner.com – Design and download free banners in seconds!
            

Free meta tag generator
            

Free Code: Generators: CSS Link Wizard
            

CSS box border test: evaluate border styles and cross-browser rendering

 

Learn HTML!

 

Reference: HTML Cheatsheet
       

Animation Factory’s MediaBuilder – Free Backgrounds, Clip Art, Web Elements, Animations and Onl
       

Bravenet Web Services – Professional Web Tools for Your Website
       

GIFWorks
       

Xara3d
       

Cliparts
       

Wingdings
       

Mandarin Design. Web and Blog Design and Development
       

Disable Nav Bar
       

web pictures
       

Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!: A List Apart
       

Free php and perl scripts
       

HTML Kit for more than editing HTML
       

Learn CSS ! 

w3schools css bkrnd

CSS From the Ground Up – 1

            

Elastic Design: A List Apart
            

/* Position Is Everything */    Modern browser bugs explained in detail!
            

CSS layout techniques
            

CssCreator->Page Layout
            

The Best Cursor Site
            

CSS Reference | Stylegala
            

CSS box border test: evaluate border styles and cross-browser rendering
            

CSS Float Html Tutorial
            

CSS Properties
            

CSS Cheat Sheet – CSS – ILoveJackDaniels.com
            

spacings
            

16.4b word-spacing
            

Word Spacing
            

CSS do it yourself training
            

CSS BACKGROUND IMAGES repeat y

 

Sites Dedicated to both CSS and HTML:

Webmonkey: The Web Developer’s Resource
            

ProgrammingTalk – powered by vBulletin
            

CSS and HTML examples and tutorials by Ove Klykken
            

CodeAve.com – ASP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML made easy
            

Elastic Design Demonstration – HTML Dog
            

Mandarin Design Daily:The MEG Blog
            

DevGuru Home Page
            

Susie’s Design Blog
            

css.maxdesign.com.au
            

squidfingers / code / dhtml / divscroller
            

VisiBone HTML / CSS Charts
            

CSS and HTML examples and tutorials by Ove Klykken

 

Color Charts and Color Coordinator Generators:

Web Color Swatches Color Chart
            

About.com: http://www.cookwood.com/cookwood/html4_examples/4files/colorhex/backcover.html
            

Color Blender
            

[ws] Color Scheme Generator 2
            

color palette creator v1.6
            

VisiBone Webmaster’s Color Lab
            

Color Schemer – Online Color Scheme Generator
            

ColorMixers: Remixing RGB since 2003

 

And Last but Not Least, the following sites are ones that I look up to for their designs or give away nice templates for free:

BLOGGER TEMPLATES
            

Beccary » Goodies
            

mezzoblue  §  css Zen Garden — Design List
            

eclecticism
            

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
            

Binary Bonsai » Kubrick for WordPress
            

MetroStation
            

http://www.muirheadkingdom.com/blogs/daria/wp-content/themes/default/style.css
            

Photo Matt » Unlucky In Cards
            

eris : design
            

Layouts List « WordPress Support
            

WordPress Themes
            

CSS Vault » The Web’s CSS Site
            

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What it Means to be Liberal

A lot of people become Republicans only because they don’t want to be associated with the Liberals. What these people don’t understand is that there are

• Liberals

and then there are

• Liberal Extremists.

There is a blatant distinction between the two that either people forget or just out of ignorance allow a few Far Left Hippies (wearing tie-die t-shirts, ripped jeans, that wonder around stoned with signs everywhere they go preaching peace while mumbling incoherently beating up cops, vandalizing cars, and spitting on returning soldiers) — to create the definition of WHAT a Liberal is.

You people who can’t see this distinction are either just plain uneducated or just simply uneducated. You allow the bad apples to ruin it for the True and Balanced Thinking Liberals. We rule.

There is also a blatant distinction between

• Republicans

and

• Republican Extremists.

Again, it’s all about this quote (my favorite one):

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.” –Theodore Isaac Rubin

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Hey, there’s no age requirement on this!

Don’t be one of these cowards:

NEW YORK – Young Republicans gathered here for their party’s national convention are united in applauding the war in Iraq, supporting the U.S. troops there and calling the U.S. mission a noble cause.

But there’s no such unanimity when they’re asked a more personal question: Would you be willing to put on the uniform and go to fight in Iraq?

In more than a dozen interviews, Republicans in their teens and 20s offered a range of answers. Some have friends in the military in Iraq and are considering enlisting; others said they can better support the war by working politically in the United States; and still others said they think the military doesn’t need them because the U.S. presence in Iraq is sufficient.

“Frankly, I want to be a politician. I’d like to survive to see that,” said Vivian Lee, 17, a war supporter visiting the convention from Los Angeles,

Lee said she supports the war but would volunteer only if the United States faced a dire troop shortage or “if there’s another Sept.11.”

“As long as there’s a steady stream of volunteers, I don’t see why I necessarily should volunteer,” said Lee, who has a cousin deployed in the Middle East.

In an election season overwhelmed by memories of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military’s newest war ranks supreme among the worries confronting much of Generation Y’ers. Iraq is their war.

“If there was a need presented, I would go,” said Chris Cusmano, a 21-year-old member of the College Republicans organization from Rocky Point, N.Y. But he said he hasn’t really considered
volunteering.

At age 16, Chase Carpenter has.

“It’s always in the back of my mind – to enlist,” Carpenter, a self-described moderate Republican visiting Manhattan this week from Santa Monica, Calif., said Wednesday on the convention floor. He said he’s torn over whether he’d join the military if he were 18.

Others said they could contribute on the home front.

“I physically probably couldn’t do a whole lot” in Iraq, said Tiffanee Hokel, 18, of Webster City, Iowa, who called the war a moral imperative. She knows people posted in Iraq, but she didn’t flinch when asked why she wouldn’t go.

“I think I could do more here,” Hokel said, adding that she’s focusing on political action that supports the war and the troops.

“We don’t have to be there physically to fight it,” she said.

Similarly, 20-year-old Jeff Shafer, a University of Pennsylvania student, said vital work needs to be done in the United States. There are Republican policies to maintain and protect and an
economy to sustain, Shafer said.

Then there’s Paula Villescaz, a 15-year-old from Carmichael, Calif. who supports Bush and was all ears Wednesday afternoon at the GOP’s Youth Convention in Madison Square Garden. She doesn’t support the war, but she supports the troops and thinks the United States
“needs to stay the course” now that it’s immersed.

If Iraq is still a U.S. issue when she’s 18, Villescaz added, she’ll give serious thought to volunteering.

“I’m in college right now, but who knows?” said Matthew Vail, a 25-year-old from Huntsville, Ala., who works with Students for Bush. He said he might consider enlisting after he finishes his degree at the University of North Carolina, but not until then.

“The bug may get me after college,” he said.

Um. All these cowards are saying that “they can do more here” or “they don’t need us yet”. That’s a load of cow pie if you ask me.  They can talk the talk, but won’t walk the walk.

If our defense didn’t need more man power, they wouldn’t be raising the age for the reserves to 39. They are getting desperate by the day – hence the need for a future draft.

If they were against the war, that would be different. The hypocrisy of the pro-Iraqi War bunch kill me. 

Cowards!

 

Sand Storm in Al Asad, IRAQ

On April, 26th there was a sand storm in Al Asad, IRAQ. There was a wall of sand traveling at 60 mph. You can see the video here:

Excommunicated for Not Supporting Bush?

Get a load out of this!

NOT GOP? You’re Excommunicated!!

Following the report that nine members of the East Waynesville Baptist Church in western North Carolina were excommunicated because they did not support President Bush in the election, Ralph G. Neas, President of People For the American Way Foundation, had the following statement:

“What have we come to when the doors of a church are closed to longtime members because of their political beliefs? When a pastor equates political support for the ‘wrong’ candidate with a sin before God?

“I would say to Senator Frist and Karl Rove that this is what comes of attempts to manipulate religion for political gain. Americans simply will not accept the claim that ‘unless you accept my political beliefs, you cannot be a good Christian.’

“This nation was founded on respect for religious belief, and tolerance for religious diversity. Men and women of faith have every right to advocate for their political beliefs. While churches, of course, can set their own membership standards, no one should punish people of faith for their political beliefs.

“This is terribly sad. I urge the President to express his opposition to all attempts to manipulate faith for political gain.”

And yet, this is just another example of our self-proclaimed, “Christians” at their best.

If you don’t emulate my thoughts, opinions, way of life, you get the boot, Charlie Brown!

The sad part about this – is that the hypocritical, Neo-Nazi, extreme right-winged, God Fearing, intolerant haters will read this and not realize that they’re one of them.

For all you mental midgets out there: Do you all really think God approves of your evil ways? I think he’s planning to burn you guys extra slowly in Hell!

What’s the Difference between Laci Peterson and Amber Frey?

If Amber Frey is such a naive moron for hooking up with Scott Peterson, what’s to say about Laci Peterson?

Is everyone just keeping their mouths shut just because she’s a deceased person?

I find it most interesting that everyone thinks that Amber Frey was stupid to have gotten fooled by Scott. But can you not say the same for Laci? After all, Laci’s the one that was killed by her own husband.

To all you Amber-bashers out there: You just can’t have it both ways.