Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006


On Monday I got my DSL modem and couldn’t connect to EarthLink. After a phone call or two, I got through to somebody who gave me the IP and DNS addresses so I could configure my network connection manually. That worked.

Then I tried to put my LinkSys Wireless Router between my PC and my DSL modem and it STOPPED working. I got ahold of the config information from both sides (after a chat session and another phone call to EarthLink) and set the modem right and then set the router right and they still wouldn’t communicate with each other.

Today I called EarthLink to try to talk to someone who knows the router stuff to help me get them talking. After basically trying the same things I’d been trying, they said that they’d done all they could. Since I didn’t get the router from EarthLink they couldn’t go any farther with configuring it. Instead, they gave me a phone number for LINKSYS’s tech support.

When I called LinkSys, I got somebody with an accent so strong that I couldn’t tell if she was even spelling my name right. That was almost a lost cause, until she gave me the URL for a page on their website that would help me. I checked the site and said more than once to myself that if it really worked, I’d sing their praises.

Well, I’m here to tell you that if you have any connection problems with a LinkSys router, there IS a solution. http://linksys.com/easy is the place to go. One of the three programs is called NetSet. It’s a program that automatically sets up and configures your LinkSys routher. All I had to do was follow the instructions and let the program do the detecting and configuring. After all that work, there was a program that did it all for me.

Many thanks to LinkSys for creating a program that works so well and solves so many problems!

This week from Jay Leno:

Today of course was the “Day Without Immigrants” as they called it. Or as the Native Americans call it, “the good old days.”

Lots of businesses were closed, streets were closed—everything was closed but that big hole down on the border.

California now has the most expensive gas prices. Gas is so expensive now that drivers are shooting themselves instead of each other.

You know gas is expensive when the guy behind the counter is wearing a ski-mask.

It’s close to four dollars a gallon. This is like “revenge of the Amish.” They got that smug little buggy thing.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is blaming man for global warming. And today Al Gore agreed with him. That’s so typical. Two cyborgs blaming the humans.

In his latest audio tape Osama bin Laden says that the Bush administration is evil, it’s made up excuses to attack Iraq, and is obsessed with Middle Eastern oil. If Osama bin Laden keeps talking like that he could wind up the Democratic frontrunner.

Speaking of that, Senator John Kerry said this week that he is thinking about running for president again, but he hasn’t made up his mind as of yet. Well, that should put to rest all those rumors about him being indecisive.

Michael Reagan brings up an interesting point. While I’ve thought about comparing gas prices over time, I hadn’t thought of looking at how much the taxes have been.

“According to the Tax Foundation, over the past 25 years—in inflation-adjusted dollars—oil and gas companies have paid in royalties and state and federal taxes $2.2 trillion dollars. At the same time they have made a little over $630 billion dollars in profits. So their taxes and royalties are three times greater than their profits. The real question… is who is gouging whom?” —Michael Reagan

And we thought that the oil companies were getting outrageous profits! Maybe if they weren’t taxed so heavily the prices wouldn’t be so high. But then, if that huge tax didn’t exist, how would we pay for our bloated government??

Oh, wait, we’re NOT! We’ve got a government that’s growing fat and huge and ever-more bureaucratic on borrowed money! If I ran my personal finances that way, I’d be thrown in jail!

Not to keep going on about immigration, but I guess the whole country is going on about it, so it’s no big deal if I do. I recently got an article that I’ll share with you presently.

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RECONQUISTA SHOWS ITS MIGHT

A half a million illegals and their supporters in one demonstration on the streets of Los Angeles.

A half a million.

From just Los Angeles.

That’s roughly as big as any public protest or civil rights march in the history of the United States. And this was just people from Los Angeles.

That’s how bad it’s gotten. How frayed America has become and how the equilibrium of social and cultural identity has tipped irrevocably in some areas. Some areas aren’t really in the United States anymore, and southern California is one of them.

The protest proved that.

Ten thousand in Milwaukee. Twenty thousand in Phoenix. Fifty thousand in Denver. Other tens of thousands all across the country.

Doing two things, primarily: Waving Mexican flags and claiming to have built America and to be the reason for its success.

It was an angry, entitlement reaction all across the country. They called this their land and said they wanted their rights and their freedom and their money and their respect.

A bunch of illegals.

An invading army of people who have flooded our borders and insinuated themselves into our society and economy. An army of people who drain America’s prosperity through their disproportionate use of government services and their wholesale export of American currency.

They are the bird flu of demographic change.

They are the end of American sovereignty as we know it. Since the Manchus breached the Great Wall and the Vandals sacked Rome there has not been such an example of a mighty people being pillaged by a weaker neighbor.

The Reconquista is almost complete.

And with the house ablaze, the Senate will debate the installation of smoke detectors

After years of ignoring the gathering storm, the Washington politicians have decided to exploit our national cancer in an effort to seduce our votes and contributions. It is not likely they will do anything substantive or useful, but they will fan the flames of division and chaos in order to exploit their bases.

While ignoring the fact that both parties have been treasonously impotent on this issue.

The Republicans let illegal immigration roll forward unrestrained because it helped their friends who have tainted capitalism with their immoral greed. The Democrats let illegal immigration roll forward unrestrained because they believed they could claim ownership to the Latino vote as they have the black vote.

And the American mainstream was ignored by both parties. Duped by both parties. The interests of America were dismissed in order to serve the interests of the parties.

And now a half a million clog the streets of Los Angeles.

People who largely had no right to be here. People who any other nation on earth would unflinchingly deport.

People whose words betray a strong antipathy for the United States People who said over and over that the United States would be nothing without them. People who have not gratitude for this nation, but resentment.

Our guests have become our conquerors.

And the government’s response won’t be about the nation, it will be about the midterm elections.

Those half a million people sent a message.

That we will still celebrate the Fourth of July, but that we’ll do it on the Cinco de Mayo.

The lion’s share of Americans want secure borders, enforced immigration laws and America for Americans.

And the Senate is going to tell the lion’s share of Americans to screw off. Just like the president has done.

In our Republic – in our representative democracy – the government is about to ignore those who can vote in favor of those who cannot. The value of citizenship has evaporated as we ignore those who have it and acquiesce to those who don’t.

That’s just the way it is.

And the politicians lack the spine or the integrity to change it.

The Mexican national anthem declares that “heaven gave you a soldier in each son.” And so it is that an army of Mexican sons and daughters has come to occupy America.

And they don’t intend to leave.

And we lack the stones to make them.

And thereon turns the fate of our nation.



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