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I have realized for long time that Obama’s obsession over health care wasn’t about health care, it was about redistribution of wealth and additional power and control of the country by the Federal Government.  I caught a sound byte this morning on Fox News of Howard Dean being interviewed on MSNBC.  (Be advised, I don’t watch MSNBC and I surely hesitate to quote them, but this one is pretty good.)

Howard Dean is not one of my most favorite people, but I must say he is at least being honest when he admitted that Obamacare was a method for redistribution of wealth.  I have heard so many other Dems going on about how this health care bill is going to make health care more affordable, more accessible to everyone, how it is going to lower everyone’s health care premiums, to the point I am about to puke!   The fact is that it will raise costs for everyone on the consumption side and reduce revenue for everyone on the supply.  Where will the difference go, into the coffers of the Federal Government, to be pissed away on who knows what.

Howard Dean on MSNBC

At least someone on the Democrat side is acknowledging that this is a plan to redistribute wealth.  Now, tell something I didn’t already know!

What do you think?

Man, I really love it when things work the way they are supposed to.  Last night I fired up my notebook to check some emails and to pull up a technical manual that I wanted to read.  The manual was located on a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) drive downstairs in the radio room.  But after checking my Emails I could not access the RAID drive.  I went downstairs to see what was wrong and discovered my RAID box was showing an error on one of the drives and had shutdown.

For a number of years I have used a RAID on Linux server to save files and backups from our computers in the house.  The RAID was a home-brewed computer running Redhat Linux 9.  Unlike a Windows computer, this one ran without a single hitch for years. Over that time I collected about 200 Gb of various files and backups.  Finally after about 6 or 7 years the power supply failed in that computer.  I replaced the supply in the computer and was back up and running.

Since the computer I was using was quite large and consumed a lot of power and took up a lot of space, I decided to upgrade to a Buffalo Terrastation NAS (Network Attached Storage) system.  I bought one from www.ecost.com on close out for just over a hundred bucks.  It was a terabyte box, with four 250 Gb drives.  In the RAID 5 configuration it had just at 700 Gb of storage, more than adequate for my uses. RAID 5 uses one of the disks in the array as a parity disk so that if any single disk in the array fails there is enough data on the other drives that the array can be rebuilt.

When I retired the old Redhat Linux server and RAID I saved a couple of 250 Gb IDE drives from the old RAID server just in case I ever needed a spare for the Terrastation.  Well, I needed one last night.

Just as advertised, I replaced the failed drive in the Terrastation, booted it back up, logged into its HTML interface and rebuilt the RAID.  The rebuild took overnight, but in the morning all my files were back!  Whew!  That was close!  I really like these computers when they work the way they are supposed too!

With St. Patrick’s day coming upon us, my emails have been full of Irish jokes.  I have some Irish in my heritage on my Mother’s side of the family.  In fact, she had a cousin that used to perform on the Lawrence Welk show, a tenor by the name of Albert Finney.  So, I guess that I can spread some Irish humor around too.  Of all the Irish jokes I have heard, this is by far my favorite:

An Irish priest is in a church on Saturday afternoon, hearing confessions…A man walks in and kneels down and begins his confession – Father, it has been two weeks since my last confession. These are my sins: Last night I had sex with Nookie Green.

That is your sin?

Yes, Father.

You are forgiven. Go out and say one “Our Father.” The man leaves. Soon, another enters and kneels. Father, it has been one month since my last confession. These are my sins: I have had sex with Nookie Green every week for the last month.

The priest thinks to himself this Nookie Green woman is fairly popular with his male parishioners…

Those are your sins?

Yes, Father.

You are forgiven. Go out and say three “Hail Marys.” The man leaves.

Soon, another enters and kneels down. Father, it has been six months since my last confession. These are my sins: I have had sex with Nookie Green twice a week for the last six months.

This time, the priest has to ask – Who is this Nookie Green?

Just a woman I know, Father.

Very well – you are forgiven. Go out and say ten “Hail Marys.”

The priest closes the church for the evening and leaves wondering who this Nookie Green woman is…

The next morning, the priest is up in front of his congregation saying mass. The doors fly open in the back of the church and in walks this woman, a tall redhead with long gorgeous hair, a green sequin dress, green sequined heels and a green hat with a long green feather coming from it. As she walks straight up the aisle she has the attention of everyone in the church.  She walks all the way down the aisle and sits down right in front of the priest, her knees apart.

The priest cannot help but stop and stare. He finally catches himself and leans over to ask the altar boy – Pssssst. Is that Nookie Green?

The altar boy can’t believe what the priest was asking, takes a second to collect his thoughts and says, “No, Father, I think it’s just the reflection off her shoes.”

On second thought, that might be my second favorite Irish joke, but my favorite one may not be suitable for publishing!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

This weekend Fox News personality Glenn Beck gave the keynote speech at the CPAC convention.  I didn’t get to see the whole speech, we started listening to it in the car (Barb has XM Radio in her car and it stays on Fox News most of the time!)  on the way back from dinner.  When we got home we got the rest of the speech on Fox News on TV.

Glenn did a terrific job!  He was passionate as usual, made some really good points, and also gave us a bit of a history lesson on the 1920 depression.  I didn’t know that there was a 1920 depression.  I knew about the 1929 depression, but not 1920.

I have linked the video of his speech from the Glenn Beck website below.  It runs about an hour, but I will tell you right now it is worth the time.

Glenn Beck at CPAC

Update – The original link is now bad, so I have substituted a link to part 1 of the speech on You Tube.  There are several other parts that you will have to bring up on You Tube to see the whole speech.

In 2008 the Supreme Court struck down the long standing handgun ban in Washington DC.  Citizens of our Capital City were again allowed to own handguns.   Well, after not quite two years of citizens being able to own handguns the murder rate has decreased 25% !  How about that.  It is true, gun ownership makes citizens safer!

Click here to see the article.