First of all I would like to say that it has been nice growing up in this country. Knowing what it was like; what it used to be like before slightly more than half of the population became willfully ignorant. But for those of us who know better it's time to fix things. Our government is indeed broken, but not from the inside --from the outside. The government is achieving its goals by reducing freedom and increasing dependency. The only thing broken in this country is the electorate. A government "...of the people, by the people, for the people..." which suppresses freedom is an abomination. This can only happen when economic ignorance is rampant.

The Obama administration has promised the impossible. For a Democrat politician that is not unusual. What is unusual is that for the first time, at least in my lifetime, more than half of the general public is too ignorant to know that these promises will not and can not be kept. Do people really believe that things are going to get better when profits are frowned upon and achievement punished? As I have said before who wants to move up to the hated class?

It's been said before in many different ways by many different people. Obama is not our worst problem; an electorate that would put him in power is our worst problem. Obama is but one man; however, if a majority of the population keeps voting to power people who will limit our freedom; Obama will be the least of our worries.

We, who know better, will have to double down in our efforts and expend more of our life energy to ensure that future generations don't pay for the mistakes of previous generations.

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Wi-Fi Logo

I don't know about you, but I always find the names of home Wi-Fi spots interesting. It doesn't matter if you're in a neighborhood or live in an apartment it's always interesting. The BBC recently had an article about this.

Wireless internet users are typically asked to assign names to their networks when installing new routers. These names can be seen by anybody within range who searches for networks.

Many stick to mundane options like "Home" or "Wireless01". The more adventurous may even use their surname or address.

But this is an era of bite-sized self-expression. It's possible to see names like "Drop it like it's hotspot", "Terror network", and "Virus Detected Shutting Down". Or witticisms like "Pretty fly for a Wi-Fi" and "Wi Believe I Can Fi".

I was looking for an open Wi-Fi connection in one apartment I lived at (I needed to test a VPN implementation). One of the Wi-Fi names I saw was "Get off my 'effing' Connection" "effing" having been spelled the normal way. Needless to say, I connected to it because it was unsecured.

I've seen any number of crazy names, some even list the owner's apartment number. The one I have used before is "Join Other Network". Of course I have come up with more like "Your Mama", "Join At Your Own Risk", "Packet Sniffing Here", "Your Personal Info For Sale", "Random Name", "Guess Who", "I Knew You Would Come", "We Are Waiting" and so on...

As the article points out Wi-Fi names are used as a means of semi-anonymous communication.

What are some of the names you've seen?

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Biden and Ryan

Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan will debate on Thursday, October 11, 2012.

Topic: Foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan
Moderator: Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent)

The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.

Joe Biden is beyond goofy --to the point that Biden is seen by our enemies as a weakness. I don't know about you but that's a pretty embarrassing position to be in. Here is a list of some Biden gaffes.

Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Obama and Gen. David H. Petraeus.

“The reason for concentrating on them,” the al-Qaeda leader explained to his top lieutenant, “is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency. . . . Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour . . . and killing him would alter the war’s path” in Afghanistan.

Expectations for Joe Biden are extremely low. Biden needs to make it through the debate without using profanity, accidentally trashing the president and remember that he's at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. If he can keep it together for 90 minutes, the media will report that Biden looked very "statesman-like" --presidential even.

You will also notice that there will be little attention paid to substance when referring to Biden during the debate. Most of the focus will be placed on Biden's "experience" not what is said during the debate.

After the debate; be prepared to hear the most insane reasons for why Biden lost the debate. At least, that's my guess on how it's going to go down.

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Romney to Obama, "...puny god"

There was a clear winner in the presidential debate last night --Mitt Romney.

Obama is now being skewered by his own people. Obama said nothing last night that could have energized his base. This is dangerous for Obama because his base seems to idolize him. As soon as they see that he is weak, or no longer holding with his "god" status, Obama's base might just turn on him.

"Tonight wasn't an MSNBC debate tonight, was it?" Chris Matthews said after the first Obama-Romney presidential debate concluded on Wednesday night.

"I don't know what he was doing out there. He had his head down, he was enduring the debate rather than fighting it. Romney, on the other hand, came in with a campaign. He had a plan, he was going to dominate the time, he was going to be aggressive, he was going to push the moderator around, which he did effectively, he was going to relish the evening, enjoying it," Matthews said.

"Here's my question for Obama: I know he likes saying he doesn't watch cable television but maybe he should start. Maybe he should start. I don't know how he let Romney get away with the crap he throughout tonight about Social Security," Matthews complained.

Yes I know "throughout" is not correct, but it's what the site has and I'm quoting it.

If Matthews' methodology were implemented it would be no different than Romney going on stage and saying that Obama is a socialist. Obama didn't come out and say that Romney is some rich guy that doesn't care about poor people and there is a reason for that. Personal attacks in debates don't work well. People are looking for substance not goofy attacks. Remember how well Newt Gingrich did when the moderator asked him about his ex-wife?

When Gingrich was asked in the January 19 debate, shortly before he won the South Carolina primary, about his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich's claims, he unloaded on moderator John King of CNN. The former House speaker decried "the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media" and saying the question was "as close to despicable as anything I can imagine."

Gingrich's attack on King was met with a standing ovation from the audience, and exit polls out of South Carolina suggested his debate performance was a significant driver of his double-digit victory there.

It seems that Obama has nothing left but personal attacks. The vast majority of Obama campaign ads are personal attacks on Romney. When Obama tries to attack Romney on substance he does so by purposely misquoting Romney. Misquoting didn't work in the debate because Romney shut it down. Romney is not McCain.

All Romney has to do to wrap up this election is to bring to each debate what he brought last night.

-- Next Thursday, October 11, 2012 is the debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. --

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There was a link to this on Fox News. I've never seen or heard of anything like this before. Amazing!

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