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I’ve been seeing a ton of television airtime for ADT and Brinks home security systems. Both companies have rather comical commercials because in each of the advertisements, the home invaders kick down the door when someone is home, make a face like a gorilla when the alarm sounds off, then immediately run away. Funny thing is, that’s not how it works in real life. Those are examples of home invasions, which are more violent and different than burglaries.

A burglary is defined as a non-confrontational property crime in which items are removed from the residence. Most burglaries take place during daylight hours because a vast majority of these people are at work, school or running errands. This greatly increases the odds that the burglar will make an easy getaway. According to the FBI, only 13% of all burglarized items are returned to their rightful owner and the thieves are rarely caught. This makes burglaries a flourishing criminal act.

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Lie #1: Negotiations on C-SPAN
This is perhaps Obama’s biggest lie. Not a single discussion has been broadcast on C-SPAN. All the Health Care discussions have taken place behind closed doors in which only a few Democrats have been privy to. In fact, Obama has done exactly the opposite of what he campaigned in that he himself has struck a behind-the-doors deal with the pharmaceutical companies. None of his own party members have read the Health Bill. There have been no bipartisan negotiations on this bill. The republicans have been shut out … although Obama is telling everyone otherwise. The Republicans have their own version of a health care reform bill posted online, but Obama is shutting them out (source: CBS News).

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Here’s an example that best exemplifies the title of this blog entry:

People … I don’t care if you are a Democrat, Republican or an Independent. This isn’t right. This isn’t what our government is supposed to do. This is so unbelievably unjust, it’s difficult to think it happens right here in America. How can we criticize the Afghanistan, Iranian or Iraqi governments as being corrupt when the American government is just as guilty?

This video is a perfect example of why democracy is dead. We vote them in, and they do stuff like this. There is no way to punish elected officials like John Murtha. They truly are above the law. You might say, “we can vote him out!”. Well, yes. But why haven’t we, then? John Murtha has been re-elected time and time again for the last 35 years. Our country is dying a slow painful death because we are too steadfast on our political labels. Meaning, if you consider yourself a democrat, you will vote democrat. If you are a republican, you will vote republican … regardless of principle.

It’s time we the people take back our government. We have worked too hard over the last 233 years to throw away our country to corrupt politicians. We need to unite and vote these guys out of office. We are the only ones who can hold them accountable.

According to the Official NHL website:

50.1 Kneeing - Kneeing is the act of a player or goalkeeper leading with his knee and in some cases extending his leg outwards to make contact with his opponent.

In game 4 of the Washington Capitals vs the Pittsburgh Penguins, Alexander Ovechkin did just that. He viciously kneed defenceman Serge Gonchar. I can’t read Ovechkin’s mind to know if he intended to hurt Gonchar, but I can look at the replay and see that he clearly and deliberately kneed him. As you can see in the video above, not only does Ovechkin clearly not play the puck, he intentionally goes for the hit, lunges into him (almost jumping) and leading with his right knee makes contact with Gonchar’s knee.

Gonchar’s agent had this to say on the record …
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Ever have an Orangutan write your college thesis, not proof read it, then turn it in to your professor and wonder why a week later you failed the class? That’s exactly what the Senate/Congress did when they passed this 451 page Bailout Bill, allotted themselves less than 24 hours to read it, then pushed it on through to Congress for ratification. The bailout has failed … miserably …. and now they’re mustering every single brain cell in their politically tuned brains to weasel their way out. The asinine part is, they are talking about throwing more taxpayer money at the problem when they can’t control who gets the money in the first place (and when I say taxpayer, that means You). That’s kind of like asking the Orangutan to type up a few more pages for some extra credit.

It’s not uncommon these days to find cordless phones, TV’s, DVR’s, security systems, automated coffee machines and much, much more in all of our houses. When you look around the house, there are a lot of every day things that use copious amounts of electricity. So, just how much electricity are these devices really using, even when they are supposedly turned “off”?

In the old days when you turned something off, it really turned off. There was no more electrical draw from the wall outlet. But in the new world, turning something “off” doesn’t really mean off. If you turn off your TV by pushing the power button on the remote control you are actually putting your TV into Standby Mode. If it were in fact really turned off such that no electricity flowed through the little internal components, how would the TV detect a signal from your remote control to turn the TV back on? It wouldn’t. Most TV’s as well as any other device that has a remote control is always using electricity if it’s plugged into a wall outlet. The electricity used by these devices is called standby power or vampire power because it sucks electricity without most people even knowing it.

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