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Hacked

April 2, 2012 by · Comments Off
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My websites all got hacked.  This is now day 3 of cleaning up and recovering.  One site (Saintly Sins) is still down.  The nerds at DreamHost.com responded very fast. I sent them an email Saturday night … had a response Sunday morning. They had scanned and repaired all that they could, gave me a list [...]

1940 U.S. Federal Census

March 31, 2012 by · Comments Off
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From Ancestry.com The National Archives and Records Administration will open the 1940 U.S. Federal Census on April 2, 2012—the first time this collection will be made available to the public. Ancestry.com will begin uploading census images to  so the public can browse them. Initially, this collection will be  a browse-only collection. This means a person [...]

The Bill of Rights

March 27, 2012 by · Comments Off
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James Madison’s draft of the Bill of Rights was prepared and introduced shortly after the First Congress convened in 1789. Quoted from:  http://ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/index_no_flash.php “The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty [...]

The 1st amendment

March 27, 2012 by · Comments Off
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All these people who keep yelling about the Constitution and how it’s being violated by the government and keep insisting that “This is a Christian country.” and  claiming the government is carrying on a “War on religion” need to read it. Here’s a link to the constitution. http://ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/constitution.pdf And here’s what the 1st amendment actually [...]

A BIG BANG

March 13, 2012 by · Comments Off
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Took a break from the Republican melee and watched Big Bang.  SERENDIPITY!  It dawned on me that Romney is the political incarnation of Sheldon … out of touch with reality; no comprehension of regular people! More on Politics

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