Life on Snow Hill

This is the time that everyone carves up a turkey and visits with family.  It’s a great time of year.  We all usually eat way too much, and sit in front of the TV way too much watching football.  We enjoy our day, and enjoy being with our family, but we forget what the day itself is all about.

It’s not about family, football or turkey.  (I have a peeve about people calling Thanksgiving ‘turkey day’, by the way – we can have turkey any day of the year.)  It’s about being thankful.  But not just about being thankful – being thankful to God.  That’s why the day was set aside as a holiday in the first place – to give thanks to God.

• I thank God for my family, and I will be spending time with them during this holiday.
• I thank God for my church – He has richly blessed my life I believe as a direct result of following His leadership.
• I thank God for my health.  I don’t always feel that great, and I’ve been getting headaches lately (I need to get off caffeine), but there are people all throughout the world in much, much worse shape than I’m in.  Actually, I don’t have to look far at all to find someone in worse shape than me.
• Last, but definitely not least, I thank God for my wife.  We’ve only been married for 3 1/2 years, but she’s stuck with me during times I’ve been a real grouch, and any woman that can do that is truly great.

I could go on all day, but these are the things that are the most important to me.  God has richly blessed me, and I fail to thank Him as I should.

I thought this would be kinda funny, and since I hadn’t posted anything here in a while I thought it appropriate.

First things first.  I had no clue what a meme was until today when I saw this on another blog.

A meme consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

So in this context, what I’m giving you here is just something that you can get others to do in the same fashion and see what the results are.  Here we go:

1. Grab the nearest book to you (not your favorite one in the next room – the book closest to you.  Not a magazine or pamphlet – a book)
2. Turn to page 56
3. Find the fifth sentence on that page
4. Post the text of the sentence to your blog along with these instructions

Creating a distribution folder is discussed in more detail in Chapter 3, “Performing an Unattended Installation of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.”

See how geeky I am?  Now mind you, I’m at work.  But my desk at home isn’t much better.  Don’t worry, I haven’t actually read the book.  Besides that, it’s very old.  At least 8 years.

As an update to my site change post, I introduce to you TechJolt.  I’ve had it running for a few days now, but wanted to iron out the quirks before I posted anything about it.

So, for those of you who like my geeky posts, head on over and check it out!  I don’t have much content yet, but that will be added as time allows.  I have a few topics in mind, I just need to take the time to test what I’m planning to write about before I write anything on it.

This is a day that unfortunately goes unnoticed by many.  I just wanted to try to remind you, my loyal readers, to thank a veteran today.

You see, if it weren’t for our veterans, we wouldn’t enjoy many of the freedoms that we have today.  When our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence, they began that quest for true freedom.  They paid a great price for it.

Our veterans have fought, bled and died, and have kept us a free and sovreign nation.  Had those soldiers not fought, we would no longer rule ourselves as a nation.  There’s no way of knowing which nation might occupy our land and rule over us had our soldiers not fought.  There’s no way of knowing which of our freedoms would be stripped from us.

I personally have never served in the armed forces.  Some of you may hold that against me, and that’s ok.  Others of you know that I have said that if I was ever drafted that I would go willingly.  Regardless, I am truly thankful for those who have served, both voluntarily and those who were drafted.

Tell a veteran thank you today.

I hadn’t thought much about this until my dad brought it up yesterday.  Lots of people world-wide are calling Obama the Messiah.  I did a quick little search which turned up page after page, news articles and blogs about him being the Messiah.  Just to be fair, I did the same search with Bush.  A few turned up, but not nearly as many.

I also found references to him and the ‘Promised Land’.

People view this man as a god.  They look at him as the answer to all of their problems.  And with them already calling him the ‘Messiah’ (which literally means ‘The Anointed One’), they’re just as ready as ever to accept the antichrist.

Am I saying that Obama is the antichrist?  No, but it isn’t a totally absurd idea either.  Either way, the people of this world are ready.  They will blindly follow the man that sets himself up as the antichrist, much as they are blindly following Obama.

You may ask why I say people are blindly following him now?  People have to be blind to not be able to see what kind of man this is.  I’ve talked about several different things that Obama has promised to do, which will inevitably make it even tougher for the common American family to make ends meet.  If he keeps those promises, he will hasten the moral demise of this country.  I’ll stop there before I get too fired up again…  If you haven’t already, you can look at some of my previous posts about Obama to get a feel for what I’m talking about.

Some of you may say I’m speaking prematurely about people blindly following him, since he isn’t behind the desk of the Oval Office yet.  Let’s watch the approval ratings during his presidency and see if I’m not right.  I hope I’m wrong…

I ran across this video today and had to share it. If you’re a big Star Wars fan you’ll love it. Even if you’re not a Star Wars fan you’ll love it. I watched the first Star Wars episode when they were all redone, but never really got into it. This video, however is awesome.

Everyone, you should have noticed by now that my blog is on a new domain – www.lifeonsnowhill.com.  It only makes sense, since that’s what I’ve titled the site.  That is one of the reasons for the change.

Another reason for the change is two-fold:

1. I want to keep using this site as more of a personal blog.  Here I will talk about politics, religion, trips I may take, and that sort of thing.  I’ll pick something out of the news and give my opinion on it, then put up the shields as people yell at me in the comments.
2. I noticed that I have somewhat of a split audience.  One that looks at my blog for the posts I talked about in #1 above, and then another audience for computer/technical posts I do.  I want to use the old domain (jdsnow.net) for sort of a tech-blog.  Actually, I’m not sure if I’ll keep using that one, or if I’ll set up a new one, more cleverly named of course.

So please update any bookmarks you may have, or any links you may have to my site.  As most of you have probably already noticed, I have a redirect set up at www.jdsnow.net that points straight to here.  I’ll leave that up for a few weeks probably before I make any changes to it.  But once I do, there will be nothing left there to point to this new site.  I’ll try to give at least a few days warning before I remove that so as not to leave you in the dark about where to find me.

Thank you all for keeping up with me on my blog, and under this new name I’ll try my best to post more often about what’s going on in this complicated head of mine.

I will concede that the majority of Americans wanted this piece of trash in the White House.  I will also say, with all confidence, that the majority of Americans have turned far, far away from God.  This nation is one that has turned her back on God for years, and now she is about to reap the harvest.

Here is what Americans have done.  They have elected a president who is anti-American, and who:

• Promises to negotiate with terrorists
• Promises to send hard-working Americans’ money to other people who will not work
• Promises to bankrupt the coal industry and skyrocket Americans’ utility bills
• Promises to keep killing innocent babies, born or unborn
• Promises to disarm them as much as he can

I could go on, but it somehow feels pointless.  Nobody cared about these things before the election – why should they now?  Does anyone care about freedom any more?

I think I’ve been pretty open about the fact that I can’t stand the muslim trash, Hussein Obama.  I’ve also been pretty open about the fact that McCain also was never my choice. (A possibility to vote for him as a vote “against” Obama, sure, but never my choice who I wanted for president.  My vote was not cast for McCain, for the record.)  I believe with all my heart that I voted for the right man for the job.  Did he have a chance?  No.  But my hands are clean and my conscience clear.  Don’t come running to me when your president doesn’t turn out to be what you ‘hoped’ he’d be on his platform of ‘change’.  I told you he was no good.

Philip Fulmer, in a press conference yesterday afternoon at 5, said that an agreement was reached that he would step down as head coach of the UT Football Team at the end of the season.

Fulmer has been the head coach at UT for 17 years, and in 1998 UT won the national championship after an undefeated season.  However, in the years following, the football program has gone downhill.  They’ve won SEC division titles and been to several bowl games, but they haven’t seen the same success as they had in past years.

My personal opinion is that this has been a long time coming.  This is the SEC.  We’re supposed to be great, but we haven’t been.  The attitude with a lot of high school recruits is that they don’t want to play for coach Fulmer.  Eli Manning is a perfect example – he played for Cutcliffe rather than Fulmer.  The idea was that Cutcliffe did more for his older brother Peyton as an offensive coordinator/quarterback coach than Fulmer did.

I don’t hate Fulmer.  But I do think that UT kept him longer than they should have.  When local recruits wouldn’t even play for him (Brandon Warren), a red flag should have gone up.  Yes, I know Warren is there now, but his decision was an automatic one when his grandmother became ill.

Some people feel sorry for Fulmer.  I don’t.  Well, maybe I do to a point – the whole deal probably could have been handled better to possibly save some public embarrassment, etc.  But it’s not like he is struggling to make ends meet.  He’s better off than any of us can ever hope to be, financially speaking.  Looking at it from that perspective, I have no sympathy.

Maybe I’m just a cold-hearted person.  But the UT Football program has needed a new direction for a long time.  The years to come will be rough – the new coach and his new staff (I hate to see Chavis go, but he probably will) will take a while to build their type of team.  But if UT can hire a staff that can be true to the SEC attitude of greatness, it will be worth it for the team.

It’s time to get out and exercise our most important right as free individuals in this great country.  A lot of you may have already exercised that right through early voting – good for you!  For the rest of us, we must exercise that right.

Each election seems to become more important than the last, and this one is no different.  It may be even more important on a larger scale, just because of what is at stake.

Now, I’ll say up front that if people get nasty in the comments (if any comments are left in the first place), they’ll be turned off.  I won’t tolerate that here.  That being said, most of you, my loyal readers, probably line up with what I believe pretty well, so we probably won’t have a huge problem with that.  To the rest of you who may have found this post through a search engine, you’ve been warned.

I am whole heartedly, 100% against Barack Hussein Obama.  Some will call me racist just because I am against him.  Some will call me a religious bigot because I’ll say that he is a Muslim.

In a nutshell, here is why I am against this sorry excuse for a human:

• He is all for killing innocent babies.  Not only during pregnancy, but even after a baby is born alive after an attempted abortion.  That is infanticide.
• He, at the very least, has socialist tendencies.  He will redistribute the income of the American people, and promote laziness as a byproduct of that.  He has also said that he will place such restrictions on the coal industry with the purpose of bankrupting it because he is a tree hugger.  This would, in his own words, “necessarily skyrocket electric bills.”
• He is anti-2nd Amendment.  He may talk ‘pretty’ about it, and make himself sound like he’ll back the 2nd Amendment, but any time anti-gun legislation has come up, he has voted against gun owners.  If he’ll restrict our 2nd Amendment rights, that opens the doors for him to restrict other rights without opposition.  An example of this is that he kicked all of the reporters for papers who endorsed McCain over him off his plane.  He wouldn’t even let them report on the campaign at all without getting the information second-hand.

In short, he’ll begin taking away our freedoms.

Now, I’m not for McCain, either.  He isn’t as 2nd Amendment friendly as I’d like him to be.  He is, however, against abortion.  He is for capitalism.  There are several things that I don’t agree with about him, however, at the same time.

Here is my conundrum.  I voted for Bush.  Twice.  He was better than the alternatives, for sure, but I’m disappointed in a lot of the things he’s done.  I don’t want to experience that same disappointment with McCain, and I’m sure that I will if I vote for him.

If, however, I vote for an independent candidate, that is, as far as the outcome is concerned, the same as voting for Obama.

So, do I put in a vote “against” Obama, or do I put in a vote “for” someone else that lines up with my belief system more?  It is a tough choice for me.  I honestly don’t know of anyone else I can really vote “for” without writing someone in, and that would be even more of a vote for Obama.

See, the problem with voting for an Independent or a write-in is that 99.9% of those who are against McCain, are for Obama.  So that leaves those who could potentially vote for McCain.  If the rest of the votes against Obama are spread out among several candidates, Obama will have the majority.

So, again, do I put a vote in “for” someone I agree more with, and have a clear conscience no matter who gets in, or do I put in a vote “against” Obama in an attempt to simply keep him out of office in hopes for a better America?