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Posted on September 6, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

From one man who is constantly amazed by indoor plumbing and cheap energy, I support the efforts of Mike Rowe’s project to promote American skilled labor. Check out his recent letter to Gov. Romney and his website MikeRoweWorks.com.

Posted in Information | Tagged Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe, Work | Leave a comment

Support and Educate your Local Sheriff

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

There is really no downside to having your most high-ranking peace officers become more educated and informed about the Constitutional basis of their authority. As our un-elected local police forces become increasingly militarized and federalized, the sheriffs are being downsized and marginalized. This is a tragedy. Our most important peace agencies are the local county sheriffs. Sheriffs are the most accountable to the citizens, and have the rightful jurisdiction to defend citizens against unjust acts and crimes.

The second “Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) convention will be held on September 16-18, 2012. Read what Michael Badnarik posted on the event. I urge everyone to forward this information on to your own sheriff. (from personal experience, it will take more than just an email to convince him though) This would be a really good event to raise money to pay for your local sheriff to go do! (I ran into my Sheriff Box on Tuesday and was very glad to hear he is going this time)

Posted in Events | Tagged constitution, law, Liberty, Sheriff | Leave a comment

Winning At All Costs

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

I didn’t have any realistic hope that Ron Paul would emerge from the RNC’s convention as the pick. Romney had overwhelming support. HOWEVER, I did not expect the GOP, under the direction of Romney’s cronies, to break their own rules and avoid the basic system of democratic representation. The Republican party, at the national level, has now guaranteed that the establishment will stay the establishment, pretty much no mater what the people’s wishes are for years to come.

SIDENOTE: The Texas GOP is a little different. I say ‘a little’ because they were/are going that direction also. As of this year, even though there was a significant amount of ‘heated debate’, the overall result of the convention process was a representative of the people and mostly fair.

WHY: So I have to wonder why the GOP choose to shutout all debate and run over people, even though they were thoroughly in control by vast numbers? Simply following their own rules would have kept the grassroots / liberty folks involved and on-board. Now all those people are disenfranchised, and they got the message loud and clear about who is in control, who will remain in control, and how those in control will treat the minority. But why? Sheer arrogance? Paranoia? Not sure it matters, because the result is that the GOP probably lost an important part of their support base.

I don’t know how anyone who claims to act on principle can support the national GOP after this, unless it is strictly on terms of trying to win the game at any cost. (Saul Alinsky tactics) I’ll likely focus my support somewhere else.

Some articles on the subject:

Posted in Politics | Tagged establishment, fairness, games, GOP, Republicans, tricks | 1 Comment

The Element of Time

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

I remember four years ago when I became interested in picking between the two candidates who were running for president. I compared BO and John McCain. BO struck me as an empty suit, who sat in a church that preached hate for 20 years, and who had serious ties to scary-liberal and communist people. McCain was a war hero who seemed like a good Christian. That was where I was at mentally 4 years ago.

Now, I realize what a moron I was. Not because I considered McCain a good guy. (Given the choice of 2 people, I picked the better guy) I was a moron because I waited until the two major parties picked their candidate to even pay attention to the whole thing. General elections at the national level are nothing more than giant popularity contests controlled by big money and marketing. The game is decided by the masses of idiots (which I was one of the many) who are gambling and excitedly fretting over who they should root for, just like they bet on horse races. It is an amazing waste of all personal resources: time, money, energy, emotion, and effort.

So this year I decided to start paying attention earlier, during the primary season. Turns out that just voting is really ‘not good enough’, you actually have to show up to a few meetings and be a part of a democratic process. This is also somewhat a waste of resources because of the inefficiencies, but not nearly as much as the general election involvement. I learned a lot and now have a better understanding of the system we operate under.

So the point of this post is to describe my frustration of myself 4 years ago. Why wasn’t I smarter about this? Now I’m four years older and know some things I didn’t know then, but what am I missing now? If I continue to uncover truths for 4 more years, how stupid will I seem to the Brian of 2016?

The larger issue is remembering this time element when dealing with other people. We just don’t know where people are at on this time scale in their own lives. Not only are we all on different paths with different experiences, we are all doing it at different speeds and with different priorities. Besides all that, some people just do not care to educate themselves about reality at all!

Posted in Politics | Tagged elections, sheeple, time, understanding | 2 Comments

The Daily Show is not daring!

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

Here is a short clip from Stossel, where Gutfeld explains that Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is not daring at all.

The Daily Show is not daring!

Posted in Humor | Tagged Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Video | Leave a comment

The biggest GOP power grab in the party’s history

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

I really don’t understand how anyone with morals can vote for underhanded corruption, blatant disregard for the rule of law, and preference of establishment power over the will of the people that is represented by the RNC and Mitt Romney’s gang. Think this is going to be better than BO? I don’t think I’ll be a part of this bullshit!

Reality Check: One on One With Romney, Did Romney Really Not Know About RNC & Maine’s

Posted in Politics | Tagged GOP, grassroots, RNC, Romney, rules | Leave a comment

Bryson Starts Public School

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

Last night was ‘meet the teacher’ night for Bryson. Let the fun begin!

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Aiden’s First Birthday

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

We celebrated Aiden’s first birthday last weekend. Lots of smiles and mess!

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Posted in Family | Tagged Aiden, birthday, Pictures | Leave a comment

Trick to Activate Windows XP

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

I work with a WinXP virtual machine quite a bit, and recently made some changes to the memory settings. Do this too many times and then it complains that you need to reactivate it! Here is a neat workaround that resets the timer then locks the system access from the timer. (brilliant) (the link to the original article is included below – I’ve copied the text because this type of information has a habit of disappearing)

http://www.wikihow.com/Activate-Windows-XP-Without-a-Genuine-Product-Key

Click on the “Start” button
Find and click the “Run” button
Type: “REGEDIT”
Click the plus next to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”
Click the plus next to “SOFTWARE”
Click the plus next to “Microsoft”
Click the plus next to “Windows NT”
Click the plus next to “CurrentVersion”
Click “WPAEvents”
On the right panel, find “OOBETimer” and double click it.
Now, highlight all values, then delete them
Then type in the following value: FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD
After that, click “OK”
Next, on the left panel, right-click “WPAEvents”
Then click on “permissions”
Click “SYSTEM”
Click the box “Deny Full Control”
Click “OK”
Click “YES” and exit out of Registry Editor. You can do this by clicking on the red X in the upper-right corner of the Title Bar or, while holding down the ALT key, press the F4 key.
To verify that it works, Click on “Start” and then “Activate Windows.” Or you can click on “Start,” then “All Programs,” then “Activate Windows”. If these options don’t work, type this text in the space provided: %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
Click on “ACTIVATE ON THE PHONE” and then “CHANGE Product Key”
Type: THMPV – 77D6F – 94376 – 8HGKG – VRDRQ
Click “UPDATE”
Click “REMIND ME LATER”
Restart Windows
Once your computer is back up, click “START” and “RUN” and “%system”
Click “OK”

Posted in Technology | Tagged license, Microsoft, tip, trick, XP | 6 Comments

Pictures of Aiden (and Bryson too)

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Brian Gallimore

With the threat of severe weather came a nice cover of clouds that gave us a break from the oppressive heat and sun. Amber took some snapshots of the boys playing in the backyard.