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World Net Daily has an article about the series of ads offering a so called free credit report.

The gist of the article is that the site that is advertised actually ends up charging people money.  The article does give a real free credit report site, AnnualCreditReport.com.  The Annual Credit report website is run by the credit reporting agencies, and you can get a free credit report, but you still have to be careful, because there are lots of offers that you need to opt out of, even as you try to get your real free credit report.

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Apparently the Church of Scientology (which doesn’t even own the copyrights to Scientology, the Church of Spirtual Technology which was founded by a former IRS attorney and non scientolgist does) has some new problems.

It turns out for that for over 20 years the church either knew or should have known that their highest levels were being delivered on a ship, the FreeWinds, (owned by Scientology “trusts”) that was coated in the worst kind of asbestos, “Blue Asbestos” (link to National Institutes of Health PDF Report).

When the architech working for the church warned them about it in 1987, he was brushed off, and eventually silenced, until he gave an affidavit in 2001.

While the members of the “Church” feel that they will overcome all disease and illness through doing the work that the founder, L. Ron Hubbard did.  It’s unfortunate that most Scientologists do not know the details of L. Ron Hubbard’s death:

L Ron Hubbard was given Vistaril® by Dr. Gene Denk in his final days, by intramuscular injection in the right buttocks. Vistaril® is a psychiatric drug, used to calm frantic or overly anxious patients. He died on January 24th, 1986, eight days after the fatal stroke, and one day after signing his last will and testament.

While the members of the church might be okay with being exposed to what is widely agreed to be a lethal substance, the “Church” should have warned the other people who have worked on the ship about the risks, but didn’t.

Which is why the ship has been sealed and the government in the island Curacao had publicly announced the health risk when they recently found about it.

RadarOnline has written and gossip columnist GlossLip have both written about this.

But that’s not the only problem for the “Church” of Scientology.  Apparently actor Jason Beghe has requested that the “Church” turn over it’s files on him to him.  However, in spite of the press coverage of this (see Fox News article) it seems that the “Church” has people sign a contract that states:

“I am giving up any and all rights of ownership, possesion and
control, copying and viewing the PC folder and other files
concerning myself, both with respect to the files themselves
and the information contained therein.”

So Beghe will have to go to court to get the secret files that his former church has on him.

What a great way to run a religion.  Have it be secretly controlled by former IRS attorneys, put people onto ships with asbestos, discourage them from knowing anything about cancer, deny them drugs that their founder was taking when he died, and keep secret files on their members that the members can never see.

Only in America.

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Apparently even though McCain has a lot of delegates, the GOP doesn’t want Ron Paul to have the delegates that he should.  Prison Planet has this article:

During an appearance on CNN’s American Morning, Congressman Ron Paul responded to this past weekend’s bizarre incident in which the Nevada GOP walked out on its own convention in an apparent attempt to stop Ron Paul delegates from voting.

That’s right, to make sure that Ron Paul delegates won’t be able to go to the national convention, the state GOP organizations seem to be engaged in ever more bizarre behavior.  The sad thing is that they use taxpayer money to put on the elections, and then deny the people any voice whatsoever.

Makes you proud to be an American!

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Al Gore is one of the people who pushed for the BioFuels to save us from the “Global Warming” hoax.  According to the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler:

the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity.

The Global Warming agenda is making Al Gore lot’s of money, but there is a distinct lack of science behind it.  Even the ground based temperature measurments that give demostratably higher temperatures (see this article) are funded by the government.

We ignore all the science that links global temperature to the sun, and allow people to divert food from people into schemes that waste fuel and food, and then give awards to Al Gore.

Hmm, maybe there is a reason why Al Gore got the Nobel Prize, it might be because some people feel that there are too many people in the world.

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As many people know Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years for a misdemeanor conviction.  Contrast this with the 21 months that some guy (Edward Davidson) in Colorada got for FELONY tax evasion, and FELONY stock fraud.

Seems unfair, Wesley Snipes gets 3 years for a misdemeanor, yet a man who defrauded people out of millions, committed felony tax crimes, and forged documents gets 21 months?

What does it say when the Supreme Court has said that state laws and constitutions no longer restrict police officers?  According to this article:

The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law.

That’s right, police in America no longer have to follow state laws (even if they are local police). [Note in Canada though the courts are going the other way, preventing the police from searching people illegally]

And we supposedly have a written constitution that protects us?  Wesley Snipes tried to argue the constitution in his case, and that is one reason why the Judge threw the book at him.

Gives a new meaning to land of the free.

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According to The Australian:

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth’s temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.

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This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers.

It didn’t happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon.

The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth’s climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.

Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon’s Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots.

Much like the ridicule I took when I said that the housing market was going to collapse, that the dollar was going to decline, and that gold and silver coins were better investments than the stock market, I fear that many people will follow Al Gore and his 300 Million dollar ad campaign like lemmings making preparations based on global warming theory, and then wondering why you can’t buy food.

Even in the United States (and Canada) there are signs of the coming food shortages.  Not since World War II have stores rationed food, yet there are news reports of food rationing in the United States today.  And part of the problem is Al Gore and the global warming agenda.

Another part of the problem is the Genetically modified Organisms (GMO).  For instance there is the study that shows that GMO rice produces 10% LESS rice per acre.  With so many corporations pushing GMO rice, it’s no wonder that there is a shortage of rice, 10% less rice is a lot of lost food.  As this article says:

the Kansas researchers concluded that the very process of gene-splicing seems to lower a plant’s productivity.

So what do governments do when confronted with this?  Why pass laws allowing for more GMO crops to be planted!

And GMO crops not only produce less food, they have dangerous side effects.  According to The American Chronicle:

On October 10, during the symposium over genetic modification, organized by the National Association for Genetic Security (NAGS), Doctor of Biology Irina Ermakova made public the results of the research led by her at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). This is the first research that determined clear dependence between eating genetically modified soy and the posterity of living creatures.

Over half of the rats born to mothers who ate GM-soy (55-56%) were dead in three weeks, as opposed to a 9% mortality rate in rats whose mothers ate normal soy.

“The morphology and biochemical structures of rats are very similar to those of humans, and this makes the results we obtained very disturbing,” said Irina Ermakova to NAGS press office. (Regnum, 2005)

Another glaring example is that of Syngenta and the German farmer, Gottfried Glockner of North Hessen. As William Engdahl explains in Seeds of Destruction,

This farmer found evidence that planting Syngenta Bt-176 genetically engineered corn to feed his cattle in 1997 had been responsible for killing off his cattle, destroying his milk production, and poisoning his farmland. Syngenta’s Bt-176 corn had been engineered to produce a toxin of Bacillus thuringiensis, which they claimed was deadly to a damaging insect, the European Corn Borer. (pg. 230)

But don’t let that deter you from supporting the destructive policies of government interference with the environment.  Just when you are freezing and starving, you can look in the mirror for the person responsible.

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I saw someone in a video with a sign that said:

“If you really want to enslave people tell them that you are going to give them total freedom.” L. Ron Hubbard

Now that was an interesting quote, so I wondered what the source of it might be.

According to Steve Fishman, L. Ron Hubbard said some interesting things (link here):

More from the sacred scriptures of Hubbard. “THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.”

“If you really want to enslave people tell them that you are going to give them total freedom.” (At the top of the Scientology grade chart of levels of initiate attainment at the OT 8 level is the benefit obtained from that level. At OT 8 it is written “Total Freedom.”)

So who is Steve Fishman, from his page:

Who is Steven Fishman?
Was he really the biological father of Jesus Christ?

The Church of Scientology said he was. His auditors, Nancy Witkowski, Catherine Fox, Leah Abady, Ann Glushakow, Margaret Supak, Richard Reese, John Eastment, Hans Stahli, and Ray Mithoff all checked Steven Fishman on the e-meter over a period of years and told him over and over again that he was the biological father of Jesus Christ, and that it was Steve Fishman’s resposibility to de-Christianize the planet by exposing the lie and the myth of the immaculate conception, and thereafter bring all of Christianity into Scientology as the largest FSM (Field Staff member) or conversion movement of planet earth.

Steve Fishman is most recognized for having put secret Scientology information into the court record in a lawsuit that Scientology brought against Fishman for saying that he commited crimes at the direction of Scientology.

According to the Pro-Scientology site, Theta.com:

As a result Fishman was charged with, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of obstruction of justice.

In sentencing Fishman on both the fraud and obstruction of justice counts in July 1990, District Court Judge D. Lowell Jensen stated, “These are very serious offenses. I’ve said that before and I think it’s obvious to anyone these are offenses carried out over a period of time. There’s multiple victims. There is choice after choice after choice to commit crimes, and they do threaten the justice system itself.”

After serving two and half years of his sentence, Fishman was released to a halfway house in January 1993 and was paroled from there five months later. After being paroled, he resorted to the same criminal conduct for which he was convicted. In fact, he has repeated the identical allegations about Scientology for which he received a jail sentence.

It’s an interesting quote still, and it seems to be something that L. Ron Hubbard might have said, but I can’t find an authoritative source for the quote.  Since there are a lot of things that L. Ron said, and wrote, and are citable, I just don’t see how this quote which has no specific reference should be cited.

But it does appear that YouTube has relented and allowed former Scientologist Tory Christman’s videos back.

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While YouTube will allow people to post almost anything, apparently you can’t talk bad about Scientology.

According to this video the account of Tory Christman (ex-scientologist) was suspended from Youtube.  I had seen Tory’s videos in the past and she just talked about her opinions.  It’s strange that YouTube will let people espouse other things, but not criticism of Scientology.

Her page is here.  Her user name on YouTube was ToryMagoo44.

Complain to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us
editor@youtube.com
suggestions@youtube.com
estreich@youtube.com

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A reader writes:

I just watched the movie “Rendition” last night, and I was amazed that it was rated so highly by the normal main-stream critics.  “Rendition”‘s premise is the “Extraordinary Rendition” agreement that allows the CIA to simply spirit away ANYONE without any sort of due process at all, and place those persons in prisons anywhere in the world.  The reasoning behind the rendition agreement is to extract vital intelligence from the subject using methods that are not legally allowed in the US.   The actors portrayed their characters well and the movie addresses the erosion of our civil liberties and the callousness of government officials on numerous levels.  I would recommend this movie as a must see.
www.renditionmovie.com
also check out www.witness.org for more infromation and documentaries about Extraordinary Renditon.

Too bad people don’t really care about freedom and liberty, at least from the choices for president, that’s what it seems like.

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According to Animation World Magazine:

We lose our rights and our creations, and someone else makes money at our expense.

This includes every sketch, painting, photo, sculpture, drawing, video, song and every other type of creative endeavor. All of it is at risk!

If the Orphan Works legislation passes, you and I and all creatives will lose virtually all the rights to not only our future work but to everything we’ve created over the past 34 years, unless we register it with the new, untested and privately run (by the friends and cronies of the U.S. government) registries. Even then, there is no guarantee that someone wishing to steal your personal creations won’t successfully call your work an orphan work, and then legally use it for free.

In short, if Congress passes this law, YOU WILL LOSE THE RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR OWN CREATIONS!

At one time copyright was designed to help the general public, now it’s been tailored to help a select few people.  We have the Attorney General of the United States bragging about how the U.S. government is going after the new terrorists, those who violate copyrights, while making sure that the individuals no longer have the rights they once did.

Nice government for the people, of course it does depend on which people you are talking about.

Here is a good idea about what an orphaned works law should do, but probably won’t. From American Society of Media Photographers:

In terms of drafting, we are proposing to limit the scope of the Orphan Works defense to:

Uses by individuals for non-revenue producing personal or community purposes, including uses on websites that do not generate revenues for the individuals using the Orphan Works;

Uses in works of non-fiction, such as books, articles or documentary films or videos;

Uses by non-profit educational institutions, libraries, museums or archives qualified for treatment under ¤501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code as amended

in exhibits, including website displays, and
for uses that produce revenues and that are ancillary to exhibits.
In a nutshell, we see little financial harm to creators from the non-profit and non-fiction uses of orphaned images. At the same time, we want to make sure that commercial> users of images and illustrations would not be able to use an Orphan Works defense as a free pass to profit from infringements.

Well we can hope.

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Ben Stein recently produced a new movie (not yet released) called Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed.  Fox News had this to say about it:

To wit: Stein, Frankowski and pals say in “Expelled” that perfectly good scientists and educators are being stigmatized for wanting to teach their students creationism and “intelligent design” – in other words, junk science – in addition to or instead of conventionally accepted Darwinism. You see, Stein, like some other celebrities, finally has shown his true colors and they aren’t so pretty.

Now it appears that Harvard is claiming that their video (big version, small version) of the life of a cell was the original idea for the clips that are used in this clip of the movie (and maybe elsewhere).

Why I see some similarities, I also see some differences.  I can’t believe that Harvard claims that they alone have the ideas that the Inner Life of a Cell depicts.  The only really similarity I saw was were the thin looking thing was pulling the big ball behind it on a strand.  ( the thin thing is called a kinesin, I think).

According to ScienceBlogs, this one similarity shows that Expelled stole the concepts from Harvard, according to the blog:

That kinesin molecule is illustrated showing a stately march, step by step, straight down the microtubule. Observations of kinesin show it’s more complex, jittering back and forth and advancing stochastically.

The ScienceBlog also has pictures of the allegedly infringing frame.

The question is, since facts are not copyrightable, is the cell movie from Harvard fiction, and if so why isn’t it labeled as such.

Now, I know it’s not fiction, just that license was taken to portray the sequence of events, but I think that the fact that Expelled wanted to show an ordered set of events is a logical interpretation, not something that they explicitly copied from Harvard.

However it appears that an earlier version of the same steps (absent the big ball) was created by Graham Johnson (quicktime movie here).

It appears that Harvard wants to claim ownership of things that it appears they might have gotten the ideas from other places.

And that’s just not fair to the other scientists and universities that have done similar work over the years.  Even if the argument is unfounded it might keep Ben Stein’s movie out of theaters, and that could be the reason for this.

There is more discussion about this at CoincidenceTheories.

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According to ComputerWorld:

 Iron Man is fighting the dark forces of Linux.

That’s right, Iron Man is going after the “evil” Linux users. I have to say that I am surprised, at what point did the users of free software become villans?  It’s sad that Marvel wants to attack people who want to help other people as being evil.

But then again, you have to remember that Marvel is a big corporation, and corporations are not really about helping other people.

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I recently was looking for a program that would mount an ftp site as a local drive in windows and encrypt/decrypt files so that the files on the ftp site would all be encrypted.  While FTPDrive looked good, it only mounted the ftp sites under a drive letter, not quite what I was looking for.

Another program that I stumbled across in this search is called Gizmo. This is a nifty program that sells itself primarily as a toolbar.  But it does a lot more than that.  It has a query analyzer (i.e. a program that lets a user access and use a database server) that remembers your connection information and has a nice interface with an object browser (i.e. something that shows the tables, columns and other features of a connected database).  It also has an editor, a tool to automate tasks in windows (i.e. a scripting tool), a component that will let people mount virtual hard drives and other drive images (e.g. iso, cue, etc), and a synchronizer (I didn’t really think was so greate), and a hash program.  Best of all, it’s free.

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A friend of mine got some Mobil gift cards and wanted to use them at a Mobil station to buy something other than gas.  My friend went to a Corporate Mobil station, and was given a hard time.  They took down the license number, told my friend that the card was only good for gas and other nonsense.

Maybe Mobil doesn’t want to redeem their gift cards for anything but gas, but why have a store with things and then give people a hard time when they try and use their gift cards there.

Exxon-Mobil doesn’t have a good name for honoring their commitments, having avoided paying out for the Exxon Valdez diaster for almost 20 years now(well they have paid a lot to lawyers) and now their corporate stores telling people to not bother trying to use Mobil Gift Cards there, Mobil just doesn’t care about it’s commitments.  At least to the general public.  I am sure that Mobil treats it’s insiders well.

This is just my opinion, but I am sure that if Mobil doesn’t care about the people that is has legal obligations to then, it doesn’t care about how the people who buy into it’s gift card program are treated.

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This is one video you have to see to believe. (Video here).

Of course, you can’t argue this position in court.  See Ed Brown, Wesley Snipes, Dr. Ward Dean (Cmdr, USN, Ret) and others.

Of course the constitution does say that there is no allowance for the federal government to have direct taxation within the states, and apparently the congress critters know it.  It’s just that the income tax is a great tool and they love the control that they get over people through it.  With it’s confusing rules and maze of instructions, it’s a perfect pass the buck system to screw the lower classes.

Of course I’m not saying that wealthy people don’t have to deal with the IRS.  There is a reason why Bill Gates created the non profit Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.   The IRS can tweak anybody’s life, regardless of right or wrong, which is why Bill has remade himself from hated to geek to humanitarian.   The IRS is a political tool used for social control that also keeps the whole scam of the Federal Reserve hidden as well.

The reality is that while poor people might be scared of gangs, wealthy people are scared of the IRS.  People send papers to the IRS without understanding the legal reasons why.  And if you question the reasons, like Wesley Snipes did, you are villified as being against the children.

Which is ridiculous.  Wouldn’t it make more sense to have children that are free, than children that are born with an ever growing debt, a debt that will be paid through global climate change taxation?  What are we really passing on to the next generation?

And who really cares?

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The FDA has approved a virus that kills bacteria for use on food.  According to the FDA:

The type of phage that was approved is lytic, which means that the phage destroys its host during its life cycle without integrating into the host genome. This type of phage works by attaching itself to a bacterium and injecting its genetic material into the cell. The phage takes over the metabolic machinery of the bacterium, forcing it to produce hundreds of new phages and causing the bacterial cell walls to break open. This process kills the bacterium and releases many new phages, which seek out other bacteria to invade and repeat the cycle.

“The process continues until all host bacteria have been destroyed,” says Zajac. “Then the bacteriophages cease replicating. They need a host to multiply and will gradually become inactive when they lose the host.”

Here’s a question, as this virus is spread on all the food, what happens to the bacteria that humans need in their system?

According to Wikipedia:

Research suggests that the relationship between gut flora^[8] and humans is not merely commensal (a non-harmful coexistence), but rather is a mutualistic, symbiotic relationship.^[3] Though people can survive with no gut flora,^[4] the microorganisms perform a host of useful functions, such as fermenting unused energy substrates, training the immune system, preventing growth of harmful species,^[2] regulating the development of the gut, producing vitamins for the host (such as biotin and vitamin K), and producing hormones to direct the host to store fats.

Of course, you can’t accuse the FDA of letting health get in the way of profits.  The people at the FDA know who they really work for.

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The Republican party continues to do it’s best to destroy itself.  Even though in the past there were people who were delegates who could vote as they wished, the Republican Party is trying to adopt new rules to force people to vote for McCain.

According to WND.com:

The RNC was contacted by phone while the debate was going on, and, according to party rules, the national delegates must endorse John McCain or their votes won’t count. That left some angry.

“If they intended to bind candidates to vote for the presumptive nominee (John McCain), they should’ve announced this at the beginning,” said Paul supporter Jim Sutton. “This convention has never bound delegates to a candidate before. It was a torpedo job against us!”

Just another example of how wonder our system of government is.  It’s designed to prevent any meaningful change by the people, and give power to oligarchs.   I think it has done a marvelous job of acheiving those goals.

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The Wall Street Journal has an article (h/t TheMessThatGreenspanMade) about how people are getting burned with the Condo Hotel Room idea.

I found the article interesting because in the Chicago area there is a group of people (here is their website) that constantly beats upon how great it is to own a hotel room.  I’ve heard them on the radio at times, and even seen them on television once promoting the hotel room ownership benefits.

If you find yourself thinking of buying based on these pitches, I think that it might make sense to RECORD the shows (or find copies of the recordings).  The reason is given in this bit from the Wall Street Journal article:

Many developers were careful not to market condo hotels as investments, but “many others find it difficult to restrain themselves from creating expectation of investment returns and cash flow,” said Rob Webb, a senior hospitality partner in the Cleveland office of law firm Baker & Hostetler LLP, which has represented condo-hotel developers in cases where buyers have tried to rescind their contracts. “All you have to do is find the developer’s newspaper ads, and it could be a devastating blow.”

Some buyers said developers should have registered their condo hotels as securities, which might have allowed them to review a detailed investment prospectus before they bought a unit.

For some buyers, a securities-law claim could provide a way to undo a purchase. “The rights of recovery are so much better if you can say it is a security,” said Burton Wiand, a former SEC attorney who now practices at Fowler White Boggs Banker in Tampa, Fla.

I don’t know exactly what Joel Aldeguer or his cohorts have said, but it seemed to me that they promoted this hotel room idea as an investment, and a great investment at that.  I’m not saying that Joel’s properties aren’t better than the ones at the MGM Grand, or the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas, but it seems that many of the people who bought into those properties are very unhappy.

Once again, from the Wall Street Journal:

… condo hotels were one of the most dangerous investments of them all. Hotels are risky investments in real estate because occupancy can swing with the weather or the economy. Developers loved condo hotels. “It minimized the upfront risk to the developer, and shifted it to the individual unit owners,” said Mark Lunt, a lodging analyst at Ernst & Young. Many developers said they insisted that buyers regard condo hotels as vacation homes that they would use rather than income-producing investments.

In short, if you think you are buying a condo hotel room and it’s some kind of great investment, ask for projections, such as rental rates, occupancy rates, etc.  If they refuse to give them to you, then you know it’s not a real investment, but that you are being sold a vacation home that might have some costs covered by the management.

At least that’s how I read it.

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From the Ron Paul War Room, McCain may not actually have the delegates he supposedly got, due to a law McCain sponsored, McCain-Feingold.  According to the article:

McCain used the matching funds eligibility to avoid having to collect signatures to qualify for ballot access in several states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Those state wins must be voided according to most experts on the issue.

McCain wants to claim that the Federal Matching funds limitation doesn’t apply to him.  That he is special and above the law that he wrote.  Yet another example of different rules for different people.  Apparently McCain-Feingold only applies to people whose name is not in the title.

There is a petition asking John McCain to follow his own law.  You can see it here.

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As part of my effort to squeeze every bit of performance out Windows XP, I tend to monitor what’s going on quite regularly with Process Explorer (and taskmanager), it’s not that I always have it running, just when things seem to slow down, I fire it up.

After upgrading to FireFox 3.0 B5 (the one “essential” plugin that I couldn’t get to work was a Gmail notifier, but Google has a replacement that runs in the systray) now that FireFox was running at lower CPU usage, I noticed that a svchost process would spike the CPU.  It turned out that the process was the Microsoft DNS Resolver, aka DNS Client which really is just a DNS Cache server.

Now if this did this just once in a great while, I wouldn’t have minded, but it kept pegging the CPU out, so I looked for a replacement.

It seemed that the best thing would be to install the Berkley Internet Name Domain (BIND) server from Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).  While that can install okay, it didn’t seem to be properly set up as service.

It turned out that it was easier to install TreeWalk DNS (which is based on BIND) and then install the latest version of BIND over it.  The Treewalk DNS service starts, while the ISC Bind service doesn’t EVEN THOUGH the service that is running is the ISC BIND one.

In closing, now I don’t even notice the cpu usage for DNS resolution (Named never runs above 1%).  So another buggy Microsoft component replaced.

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