Subtle Rantings

Been meaning to post this video from Dave Ramsey for a while now. With consumerism and over extended credit lines finally catching up with America, I’m hoping you’ll see more people taking the mentality that is shown in this video:

Found out about this interesting little tool the other day. It’s called Spam Mimic and basically it encrypts your text to make it appear as spam. Here’s the description of the service from the web site:

There are terrific tools (like PGP and GPG) for encrypting your mail. If somebody along the way looks at the mail they can’t understand it. But they do know you are sending encrypted mail to your pal.

The answer: encode your message into something innocent looking.

Your messages will be safe and nobody will know they’re encrypted!

There is tons of spam flying around the Internet. Most people can’t delete it fast enough. It’s virtually invisible. This site gives you access to a program that will encrypt a short message into spam. Basically, the sentences it outputs vary depending on the message you are encoding. Real spam is so stupidly written it’s sometimes hard to tell the machine written spam from the genuine article.

I don’t know how useful this would be since I’m guessing most spam filters would catch this and delete it, but nonetheless, neat idea.

Spam Mimic

This is quite a few years old, sometime in the mid nineties (I think), but it is worth watching again if you have already seen it.

Texas state representative, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, whose parents were killed by a gunman while her gun was out in the car, gives very moving and bold testimony about the REAL reason that the second amendment was designed to protect our right to keep and bear arms.

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

I love this guy. Definitely one of the funniest around right now.

“Every collectivist movement rides in on a Trojan Horse of ‘emergency’. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.” – Herbert Hoover, Memoirs: The Great Depression (1951)

This is a great video from the Nuge. I echo his sentiments completely.

Then this is just a funny video and has some 2A tie-ins.

The author of this letter, Lou Pritchett, is a well-known public speaker who retired after a successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and Gamble. I’d love to hear the counter arguments to the points made below.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because:

• after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
• I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
• you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
• you have never run a company or met a payroll.
• you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.
• you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.
• for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
• You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America ‘ crowd and deliver this message abroad.
• you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
• you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
• you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
• you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
• you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.
• your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
• you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
• you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
• the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
• you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
• you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett