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    February 4, 2010

  • VIDEO: Ooops, Obama Did It Again – Las Vegas Mayor Calls Obama A Slow Learner

    Las Vegas Mayor Telling Obama To Stay Away
    Nevada Governor On Fox
    The battle between President Obama and Las Vegas has heated up. Obama issued an apology to Harry Reid earlier this week after telling people “you don’t blow a bunch of cash in Las Vegas while trying to save for an education”.
    Then he (Obama) turned [...]

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    • February 3, 2010

  • VIDEO: Obama Says Turn Off The News And Stay Uniformed

    Wow, Obama is taking another big step in trying to keep the American people uninformed. This is really unbelievable.
    Obama says for people to turn off their Fox News, MSNBC, the blogs and other news sources because people are sick of hearing it. Instead he wants you to go out and talk to the [...]

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  • I Do Not Get It – How Is A Hiring Tax Credit Going To Help

    Maybe I need some direction here. I don’t know. But I can not get my head wrapped around how giving businesses a tax break from hiring unemployed workers is going to help anything.
    In fact, the Senate proposition will exempt companies from paying the employer’s share of Social Security payroll taxes for new workers [...]

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    • January 31, 2010

  • Drug Testing For Welfare Recipients – Yes Or No Take Poll

    I stumbled upon a Facebook group called “Making Drug Tests required to Get Welfare” (over 1.2 Million fans). I joined the group because I honestly believe that a lot of money could be saved by identifying people that are abusing the American taxpayers money on drugs or alcohol. Granted the alcohol deal would be [...]

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    • January 30, 2010

  • Obama Did Lie About Supreme Court Ruling

    I have been looking into, reading about and watching opinions on this whole Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n case.
    We have all been hearing about how in an unprecedented move Obama basically called out the Supreme Court during his State Of The Union speech.
    Where Judge Alito then appeared to mouth the words “not [...]

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    • January 28, 2010

  • Take Our Poll: SOTU – Obama Seemed Connected Or Disconnected From Americans

    What say you?
    Did you think President Obama seemed like he was truely connected or getting reconnected to the American people during his speech last night?
    Personally I think he delivered a pile of….. Now, he is a good speaker and he made it sound great. But bringing up things like health care and how [...]

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  • Chris Matthews Forgot Obama Was Black During SOTU – Mentioned Tribalism?

    You know, generally I don’t get on these band wagons when Democrats are all in an uproar that a Republican allegedly said something racist. Or vice versa. I think most of it is blown way out of proportion and that most of the time is just one side or the other trying to [...]

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    • January 27, 2010

  • Obama’s Warm Fuzzy On A Spending Freeze Is Just That

    President Obama has announced that he will implement a spending freeze due to our looming deficit. That all sounds great until you really think about and dig deeper into the numbers.
    Also you may have seen headlines like “Salary Freeze For Top Positions At White House”. Ok.
    The spending freeze will not take effect until October. [...]

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    • January 25, 2010

  • Barney Frank Wants To Abolish Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae….Well, Not Really

    When I frist saw the headling stating that Barney Frank wanted to do away with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae I was shocked. How could this be? After I got over my shock I realized there had to be a catch. There is now way Barney Frank and the Democrats would want [...]

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    • January 22, 2010

  • Did President Obama Want Scott Brown To Win Mass. Election

    Oh, don’t get me wrong. Mr. Obama would love nothing more than to get his socialist agenda pushed through. He would love nothing more than for every American to be required to carry health insurance or face a fine. He would love nothing more than to for all intents and purposes break [...]

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    • January 21, 2010

  • ABC Interview: Oh Mr. Obama We Hear You And We Don't Like It

    In this ABC interview Obama states that he doesn’t think he has done a good enough job conveying his message to the people and that is one reason Scott Brown was able to win in Massachusetts.
    Well, I am here to tell you Mr. President that we have heard you. We have heard you loud [...]

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    • January 20, 2010

  • 1 Year Anniversary For Obama – Scott Brown Wins Mass. – Democrats Not Seeing The Light

    Scott Brown has defeated Martha Coakley for Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat. And while this should open Democrats eyes a little many including Howard Dean are saying the health care was not reason for Browns win.
    This monumental election result came the day before President Barack Obama’s 1 year anniversary in office. What has [...]

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    • January 19, 2010

  • If Brown Wins In Mass. What Will Democrats Do?

    As we all know today is the big day in Massachusetts where Scott Brown is hopefully going to beat Martha Coakley. Things seem like they are in a pretty tight dead heat although many polls are showing Scott Brown in the lead.
    I have to say, all the polling that is showing Brown up with [...]

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  • Should Evil Corporate America Be Doing More In Haiti

    No. They shouldn’t.
    I get frustrated hearing some of the garbage coming out of liberal mouths. Thinking that corporate America needs to be doing more in Haiti. Or more to the point that they are not doing enough. I don’t know what people expect Corporate America to do and I highly doubt the [...]

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    • January 15, 2010

  • List Of Corporations Donating To Haiti Relief

    I don’t usually just copy and paste stuff, but here is a list I found at moneycontrol.com of companies donating the relief in Haiti.
    Of course I do have to get one little dig and that would be to remind people that this is “evil corporate America” (obviously said very sarcastically) donating relief to a devastated [...]

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  • Obama And Policies Are So Loved That He Stays Away From Massachusetts Senate Race

    Before reading this, keep in mind that as hated as Dick Cheyne is (by the Libs), he can still back a candidate in Big W’s home state of Texas.
    Keep in mind that while Obama’s home state is not Massachusetts, it is the, or one of the leading states in registered Democrat voters. Easy win [...]

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    • January 14, 2010

  • Obama Shuts The Shades On Transparency For Health Care And More

    ***No C-Span Coverage As Promised
    ***Won’t Advocate Bill Being Available On Line 72 Hours Before Voting Even Though Many Americans Advocate 14 Days Before
    ***Dem’s Vote Down Republican Amendment Ensuring Bill To Be On Line At Least 72 Hours Before Vote
    ***Obama Has Had No Press Conference Since July
    ***False Transparency With Job Numbers
    On his Campaign trail now President [...]

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  • How To Help In Haiti Earthquake Victims

    Let’s face, some people feel the overwhelming need to help the people in Haiti which is fantastic. I don’t know if you can even hop on a plane and head down there or not, but I don’t think that is the route most people will be able to go despite wanting to help.
    And let’s [...]

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    • January 13, 2010

  • It's Not Ted Kennedy's Seat, It's The People Of Massachusetts Seat

    It is funny how people think of the currently open Senate seat in Massachusetts as being Ted Kennedy’s seat.
    As the Republican Candidate for that vacant seat points out in the most recently debate on January 11th, it’s not Ted’s seat. It is the people of Massachusetts seat. And he does a great [...]

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    • January 9, 2010

  • Texas Attorney General And 12 Others Take Healthcare Fight To Washington

    I seem to remember reading months ago when all these health care bills started coming out that Texas basically said “forget that, we will invoke the 10th amendment, our people don’t want/need this”.
    10th Amendment –
    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved [...]

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    • January 5, 2010

  • Why Are Terrorist Attacking? Thought Obama Was Spreading His Peace And World Love.

    I was under the impression that Obama was going to have all the other countries loving us. Getting rid of that “evil capitalist” look and feel that we project on the rest of the world. I mean didn’t the world hate us because of the likes of George W. Bush? Hasn’t Obama [...]

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  • The World Is Ending – Global Warming Is Coming As We FREEZE

    I have been hearing a theme this “winter”. And I say “winter” loosely because there was a lot of cold winter this year long before winter officially hit.
    But I will not try and talk to much about global warming, but there has been a lot of crazy cold and snowy weather this year – [...]

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    • December 30, 2009

  • Midnight Trucking Radio Network – Quite Possibly The Best Conservative Radio Show

    I know I have not posted on here in a while. In the middle of the holiday season my family and I moved to a new town, went out of town on a vacation and went through the holiday seasons. I will be posting something in the near future on our new town [...]

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    • December 29, 2009

  • Just Me Or Did Obama Seem Like He Was Being Disturbed With Press Conference In Hawaii

    It seemed to me that Obama wasn’t really into his speech today while on vacation in Hawaii. It seemed to me he was more worried about his vacation (or something) other than the events at hand. Those events being that a terrorist successfully got explosives onto a plane and tried to detonate them [...]

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    • December 28, 2009

  • Janet Napolitano Says The System Worked, Obama Silent While Playing Golf In Hawaii

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that “the system worked.”
    What in the hell is she talking about. The system did nothing in preventing this possibly tragedy. The brave passengers and flight crew members are what prevented [...]

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Pratt's Fun

    January 11, 2010

  • Newbie Getting To Know Linux Distros

    Well a couple of weeks ago I decided to start playing with some Linux distro’s. This just happen to be on accident. I read somewhere about small portable OS’s that you can run off a Live CD or you can even make a bootable USB drive. I decided to Google “Portable OS”. [...]

    • October 21, 2009

  • What Is Windows Genuine Advantage And How To Disable It

    Are you tired of getting that pesky pop-up when you start up Windows wanting you to verify your copy of windows?
    That Windows Genuine Advantage box.
    Most important let’s disable it first then we’ll see what it is!
    For disabling it I got the information from here –
    http://gideonmiranda.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/how-to-disable-windows-genuine-advantage-notification-in-3-simple-steps/
    Which was linked to here –
    http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-disable-windows-genuine-advantage-notification-in-3-simple-steps/
    HOW TO DISABLE IT [...]

    • October 4, 2009

  • Online Media Is The Way To Go

    I have been playing around a lot lately with online media. Movies, TV shows and more.
    There are a lot of great services out there to watch movies and TV shows through.
    My flat screen TV is nothing special. A Toshiba 37″. The laptop that I have been using to stream the videos/shows to the [...]

    • September 15, 2009

  • The Joys Of Reality TV, Big Brother Season Ended Tonight

    I can’t believe that I get sucked into some reality shows. Well, in reality there are only a couple that my wife and I like to watch.
    We watch Big Brother but we have never liked a season as well as we like the season with “Evil Dick”. And I started watching before I [...]

    • September 11, 2009

  • Remembering 9/11

    September 11, 2001. I had been out of the military for about 7 months when the Twin Towers were struck by terrorists.
    At the time I was working 2nd shift. I had got up early that morning, lifted weights and was eating breakfast on the couch in front of the TV. I really don’t [...]

    • September 10, 2009

  • Scam Uses Google’s Good Name, Then Rips You Off

    I was on my way to bed this evening when @fevvynoriegaah contacted me on Twitter. I was just finishing watching the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans opening 2009 NFL season game.
    Here is what this persons Tweet said.
    @pratts_pub I’m sure you have heard but if not Google is hiring users online for work. You [...]

    • August 27, 2009

  • Setting Up A PC DVR For My Tv

    Well, I know nothing about this subject so I have decided to take some baby steps. My first setup is going to be very cheap and I am NOT expecting anything fantastic out of it. But what I will do in the end is grow it and enhance it so that it is [...]

    • August 11, 2009

  • PHP: List Files In A Directory

    Like I have said. This site is a little about everything. It is also a place for me to keep examples of scripts that I use from time to time in case I loose them. Misplacing items is a very common things for me, just ask my wife.
    Anyway, whenever possible I will [...]

    • July 28, 2009

  • Getting Flash Chat To Work With WordPress MU

    Looking for a chat program to add to your WordPress or Wordpress MU site. I recommend FlashChat from the guys at TUFaT.com. FlashChat has a very nice interface and configuration that is pretty easy to figure out and customize.
    You can add custom themes as well as customize how the chat program is used [...]

    • July 18, 2009

  • NASCAR Racing At Pratt’s Pub

    Feel free to stop by Pratt’s Pub and our chat rooms for all sporting events (or for now reason at all) including NASCAR.
    Sorry, you do need to register in order to use the chat rooms. While I have caught a little flak about this, there are a couple of good reasons for having it this [...]

    • July 16, 2009

  • WordPressMu 2.8.1 And BuddyPess 1.0.3 Hit The Shelves

    When did this happen? Just a couple of days ago it seems like I noticed the WordPress MU 2.8.1 is available! Please update nag tag. I didn’t even know WordPressMu 2.8 had come out. Turns out that it has not.
    Most of the info in this post comes from Andrea at WordPressMu Tutorials. [...]

  • There Really Is No Need To Use Credit Repair Services

    Driving into work today I heard one of those commercials where some company is swearing that they can “call off” your creditors, “settle for less” with them and give you one small easy monthly payment to get everything paid off.
    And then it hit me like a ton of bricks. When my wife married me [...]

    • July 13, 2009

  • LifeHacker.com Brings You Everything You Need To Know

    Well, I guess part of what I will do here is review some websites.  Well, I won’t regularly reviewing website and I don’t even know if I will call it them reviews.  Mainly because I can’t imagine really taking the time to write about any website unless I really like it.
    That brings us to one [...]

    • July 9, 2009

  • WordPress MU New Plugin’s Feature And Plugin Management

    I am one of those people that is going to get bit real hard one of these days because I have a tendency to not really read up on WordPress updates before I apply them.  I will scour around a little and see if there are big problems, but I don’t really read up like [...]

  • Portable Apps, The Only Way To Go On The Go

    Have you heard about portable apps (applications)?  About a year ago a co-worker told me about them.  Applications that you can run on a USB stick “independent” of the computer.  By independent I mean the applications are not installed on your computer at all, they are run right from the USB stick.
    Great, so what.  Why [...]

    • April 11, 2009

  • WordPress MU: List All Posts Plugin

    Once again I decided I needed a plugin and of course I am never satisfied with how they come “out of the box”.
    I am going to talk briefly (yeah right) about he WordPress MU pluggin – List All Posts pluggin.
    This is a great pluging. What it basically does is allow you to list all [...]

    • April 9, 2009

  • Simple Press, Wordpress MU, and BuddyPress Share Avatar And Profile – PART 2

    Part 2 I guess.
    I left off the other part with wanting to find a way to get the “profile edit” link to take the user to the BuddyPress profile edit instead of the Simple Press or the WordPress profile edit.
    Well after posting over at Simple Press and learning some things, I got it figured out. [...]

  • Creating My Own Blog: Introduction

    A couple of weeks ago I got this crazy idea to create my own blogging program. At first the whole point behind it was going to be to make it as simple as possible with now “frills”. I would bet that there would actually be people looking for something like that.
    I am going [...]

    • March 20, 2009

  • Adding A No Sidebar Page Template To Wordpress

    I have been helping my wife and her sister work on thier new blog Twilight Sisters. They decided after having the blog up and running for a couple of days they wanted to a get a jump on having some message boards. So I pointed them towards Simple Press which I think is [...]

    • March 19, 2009

  • WPMU: Taking Yet Another Look At Allowing Scripts And Objects In Sidebar

    Well, after my last 2 posts on this plugin that I am working on, it doned on me that this was lacking a couple of things. For starters the way that my revision 2 was, all I had it doing was searching a script or object for a partial URL. So if http://www.youtube.com/v/ [...]

    • March 17, 2009

  • WordPress MU: Increase Site Admin Or Any Specific Users Upload Limit

    Since I am new to Wordpress MU that is what I am primarily going to be wwriting about in the near futur probably.
    My site Racing News Digest has a lot of pictures associated with the main page. I use NexGen Gallery to manage those photos. Each current driver and track has a photo [...]

    • March 16, 2009

  • Simple Press, Wordpress MU, and BuddyPress Share Avatar And Profile

    If you have WordPress MU, BuddyPress and Simple Press Forum wouldn’t it be nice for them all to share 1 avatar and profile. I think users would get confused about filling out information for 2 (even 3 with the WordPress MU profile) profiles.
    So what I wanted to do for starters was get the Simple Press [...]

  • WordPress MU Plugin Allowing Scripts And Objects In Sidebar

    THIS POST IS OUTDATED. PLEASE READ THE MOST RECENT POST HERE
    This is my second post on this blog. The first one dealt with the same thing as this post. A plugin to allow scripts and objects (like YouTube videos) to be displayed in the WordPress MU Side bar.
    After building this plugin I [...]

    • March 15, 2009

  • Buiding A Widget To Display Scripts In WordPress MU

    THIS POST IS OUTDATED. PLEASE READ THE MOST RECENT POST HERE
    I racked and racked my brain on this subjec. At first I could not believe that I had set up this blogging community and now my users can not import scripts from other sites to put in there widgest. My site Racing News Digest [...]