Well, not really. The photo at the right is of a gasoline station sign down the street from my house. $0.99 a gallon obviously dates it a bit. From the looks of the station, it’s been abandoned for quite some time.
The odd thing is that the county just tore up the entire area around this defunct gas station to put in new water lines. But while they tore everything around it to shreds, they took great care not to knock down this sign. Guess somebody is a bit nostalgic for the past.
Linux companies: cough up the cash!
“Letters demanding US$5000 for use of the Linux name were originally dismissed as a hoax. But according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Open Sauce king is dead serious.”
Now this is ironic. For years now we’ve been told by the Penguin Squad that software really wants to be free (as in birds). Apparently, it wants to be free, but you better pay up if you want to call it by name!
“The Senate is poised to sanction the creation of a racially exclusive government by and for Native Hawaiians who satisfy a blood test. The new race-based sovereign that would be summoned into being by the so-called Akaka Bill would operate outside the U.S. Constitution and the nation’s most cherished civil rights statutes. Indeed, the champions of the proposed legislation boast that the new Native Hawaiian entity could secede from the Union like the Confederacy, but without the necessity of shelling Fort Sumter.”
I am no expert on Hawaii, but I did live there for ten years.
This “new government” stuff is just stupid. For one thing, the vast majority of the Hawaiian people voted for Hawaii to become a state! It’s true that there were some abuses by large corporations in the past, but that doesn’t change the fact that there was an overwhelming consensus among Hawaiians that becoming a state of the Union would be a good thing. Further, there are hardly any “pure” Hawaiians left! Most people who qualify as Hawaiian for race-based government handouts couldn’t beat an Elvis impersonater in a “how Hawaiian are you” contest.
There is a common myth amongst Hawaiian victimists and race-pimps that missionaries “gave Hawaiians the Bible and stole the land.” If this were true, it would still have been a good deal for the Hawaiians. But the reality is that while the missionaries gave Hawaiians an alphabet, they couldn’t teach them how to make decent candy (yuck). and instead of “stealing land”, they brought Hawaiians a new way of life — maybe what Akaka wants is a return to a more pure Hawaiian culture, like ritual human sacrifices under a military dictatorship, instead of the current system of one vote for every person. (Actually, in Hawaii, they can’t even get that right.)
Don’t get me wrong, Hawaii is a beautiful place. Kauai is the most beautiful environment I have ever lived in. But the current climate of racist, entitlement-driven politics makes me glad I don’t live there right now.
More biographies of Christian authors from SwordSearcher Bible Software posted: Clarence Larkin, Albert Barnes, and Matthew Henry.
Amber Frey becomes motivational speaker You remember Amber, right? She was the “mistress” of Scott Peterson, the man who murdered his wife and son. Well, Amber says that “there are so many women who can relate” to her own experiences, so she is becoming a motivational speaker(!). Uh, okay, maybe I am a bit out of touch — but how many women have adulterous relationships with men who murder their own families? Are there really enough of them to support her new career?