sarge-m's Blog

This whole week, I have not received any email alerts when someone replies to a comment I have made.  Is anyone else having this trouble?

Does anyone use Internet Explorer 7?  I know many use Firefox.  I am having a small issue with IE7, just an annoyance factor.  Whenever I am here at this site and I use the middle mouse button to open a page in a new tab, sometimes it does it twice.  This does not happen anywhere else, just the Fox 2 blogs.

 

Tabbing is important to me as I have dial up and I can open different blogs while I am still reading the first so I don't have to wait for them to load.

Virus scan is OK.  Let me know if this happens to you.  Let me know if there is a workaround.

Sarge.

I am considering a Satellite internet service through Dish network.  I am tired of this dial up BLEEP.  It sucks azzhole secretion.

Anyone here have satellite internet?  Am I making a mistake?  It is almost a done deal.

I will actually save money by getting rid of phone line and isp and switching service from directv.  I will pay less than I am now and get high speed internet and more channels of tv than I currently get to boot.

How is the service?  Any problems besides sunspots and storms?

Please let me know,  I haven't been here much this week because of phone line problems causing a very slow connection.

Thanks in advance.

Sarge.

 

Happy new year everyone.  Here I am with no electricity again.  I didn't even get to drink my coffee yet when it went out. I had just logged on here to read the blogs when it went out.  Kinda scary as the power spiked up and down, thought it might fry the puter. I have lived here for a little over three months and this is the second time I have lost power.  I just heard on Fox 2 my area is getting the worst of the snow storm.  Not to worry, I have a generator and run the whole house off it.  It happend around 6am today.  Still, I had to go out to the pole barn in the dark and I got all covered in snow.  Generator is not automatic, I have to physically start it.  I guess I will have to venture out later for more gas.  I have about a 16 hour supply in the tank.  I always keep a full gas can in case this happens.  I am glad I did.

Are you without power?  I wonder if this is local (I think it may be)

Any way, Happy no power everyone, Sarge.

 

 

Merry Christmas everyone!

I can't believe all the snow we had a week ago is gone!

Now, I will tell you I hate winter and cold but I do like a white Christmas.

It did snow a little bit here last night, but it is a dusting and won't take much to melt it off.

We have less then an inch.

It doesn't look good for us to have a white Christmas.

What do you think?  Do you wish we had a white Christmas?

How much snow do you have?  I don't mean ugly snow like brown piles of it, I mean nice clean, virgin like snow.

Let me know how much and where.

Merry Christmas from, Sarge.

I think that the Fox website should change the settings in this forum to allow comments in a persons blog by default.

This would help the newcomers post properly and expose all "Drive by" bloggers.

Are you tired of all these posts with comments not being allowed?

What do you think?  Should we ask to have this done?  Do you agree with me?

Please post Yea or Nay and I will send this on to them for consideration.

If you don't agree, thats O.K. too, let me know why.

Either way, let me know your thoughts.

Sarge.

Hi everyone, I want to let you all know I am moving to Imlay City on Sunday.

No high speed internet there either.  I will have to wait a couple of weeks for a phone line.

See ya later.

Sarge.

Bush Losing 'Fast Track' Trade Powers By JIM ABRAMS (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press June 29, 2007 7:35 PM EDT WASHINGTON - President Bush loses his power Saturday to seal "fast track" trade agreements without intervention from Congress, where Democrats blame recent deals for sending U.S. jobs abroad. Since 1975, only one other president, Bill Clinton, has been stripped of that trade promotion authority, designed to speed the reduction of trade barriers and open new markets with other countries. Bush won't get it back again, and the next president might not either. House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, whose Ways and Means Committee handles trade policy, said in a written statement Friday that their legislative priorities "do not include the renewal of fast track authority." "Before that debate can even begin, we must expand the benefits of globalization to all Americans," they said. In the Senate, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said he had other pressing trade issues, such as extending relief to trade-hit American workers. "I have always said that it is more important to get trade promotion authority done right than to get it done fast." Rather than promoting new free trade accords, the government should concentrate on rewriting old deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, going after countries such as China that manipulate their currencies, strengthening product safety and pushing anti-sweatshop legislation, said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. Nonetheless, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Congress on Friday to renew Bush's trade promotion authority. Without it, she said, "America will lose an important diplomatic tool that has proven essential to bringing foreign leaders to the negotiating table and advancing our nation's broader foreign policy interests." Rangel got a similar pitch in a letter from U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab. "More than 100 bilateral trade negotiations are currently under way among our trading partners," she wrote. "It is important that the United States not sit on the sidelines as other countries lock in new preferential trading arrangements with our competitors." Democrats say they support expanded trade as long as it's fair to American workers and doesn't exploit developing countries. They complain that Bush pushed too many trade deals at the expense of worker rights and environmental protections. Fast track authority, which dates back to the Ford administration in 1975, gives the president the right to negotiate trade agreements that Congress can accept or reject, but cannot amend. Every president since then has enjoyed it, although the law lapsed between 1994 and 2002, when Democrats suspicious of trade agreements joined with Republicans hostile to the Clinton administration in opposing its renewal. The revival of the law in 2002 came only after Republicans agreed to Democratic demands to expand a program assisting U.S. workers hurt by foreign trade. The expiration of fast track won't affect four outstanding bilateral trade pacts that Congress must consider before they take effect. Negotiations with Peru and Colombia are finished, the United States and Panama signed a deal Thursday, and the free trade accord with South Korea is to be signed in Washington on Saturday, just before Bush's authority expires. U.S. and South Korean negotiators cleared their final hurdle Friday when the Koreans acceded to new U.S. guidelines demanded by Democratic lawmakers calling for stricter labor and environmental standards. Democrats reached a broad agreement with the Bush administration last month that worker rights and the environment will be core parts of future free trade agreements. That improved prospects for congressional action on several of the accords, although there are still sticking points, such as violence against labor leaders in Colombia and South Korea's restrictions on U.S. auto imports. The top Republican on the Ways and Means panel, Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana, noted that since Bush took office in 2001, the United States has implemented 10 free trade agreements with countries such as Australia, Bahrain, and Chile, and that the U.S. trade deficit with those countries has fallen by $7.3 billion. He and other Republicans warned that without fast track, countries leery of congressional tinkering won't come to the negotiating table. "We risk losing market share around the world," said Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif. But Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., argued that "trade agreements have given us the largest trade deficits in human history." Last year the U.S. trade deficit reached $836 billion. --- On the Net: Congress: http://thomas.loc.gov/ Office of U.S. Trade Representative: http://www.ustr.gov/

I have met quite a few people here in this forum.  I can say a lot of them are Libertarians like myself.

It is a shame that we the people have to vote Democrat or Republican.  We Libertarians know that one of them will win, and can't vote for a Libertarian because our vote will be wasted.

What can we do to increase the Libertarian parties power?

I know money is the number one object.

I am curious.  Lets take a poll to see how many Libertarians there are.  Are we being under represented?

I know this is not a professional poll, but we can use the average numbers from this post to get a general idea.