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Good Morning
This image was taken in Tucson, Arizona at the encouragement of my 16 year old son. He saw the foolishness of how the Border Patrol labeled the spot where you put the gas in this truck. I posted this to make a point that the United States government is not the right people to be handling the affairs of ordinary people. If they control the Border Patrols to the point that they tell them where to put the gas then you can imagine their control of your healthcare. I work for the government and I can tell you that the Border Patrol is not an isolated incident. All areas of the government are the same. At work they force us to identify wall outlets in the office so that we know they are 120 volts.
It is early on a Sunday morning and my family still sleeps. Yesterday I had to work an unusual Saturday so the weekend seems short. At work there are some deadlines that must be met while they impose a new web based program on us that is not ready for operation. This is pretty typical for the way the government does things. I really do not like to harp on the government all the time but they have proven themselves incapable, bureaucratic over and over again. The system that we are being forced to use is admittedly not ready yet because many of the tools are not even available to update though we are still being held to the same standards as though they were. This web based system is replacing a stand alone computer program that is saved right on the computer that is being worked on. Anyone that has worked with a web based system knows that you have bandwidth issues with transferring data over the web slowing things down. With every transaction it requires a save, and refresh and each transaction requires this four or five times. With every refresh it can take ten to 30 seconds to refresh. Since we have several hundred tasks, the time taken increases more than four times the old method. This does not even account for the modules that are not available yet.
For this reason, I had to be at work on a Saturday at 6:15 am and will have to work overtime every day this coming week and and then do it again next Saturday. Anyone that has ever dealt with any governmental agency whether it be city, county, state, federal, they know that it can be a bureaucratic red tape to do anything. Just go to the Veterans Administration, or Social Security office and you will find they have requirements that are above and beyond other agencies. The VA for example will require you to see a doctor even if you are not sick as a condition for their covering your medical treatment. This is just the nature of government because governments are not held to meeting a bottom line. They do not have to be concerned about profit margins and so efficiency is usually not even a factor in deciding how to do a process. I am not saying that it is malicious but rather just the nature of how things work in the government. If the government runs out of money, they just force the tax payers to give more. This is done through extortion, threats and intimidation.
This is not me going on a rant but rather just pointing out some observations of my being connected to the government for more than 20 years. When you add to this bureaucracy that inevitably exists in any government agency by nature, that they are funded by politicians that may or may have no idea how to run a business, the problem is made worse. Our government is headed up by 535 Senators and Representatives that have virtually no accountability. We have an executive branch that also has no accountability. The Judicial branch is so out of control and has the least accountability of all branches. Our founding fathers created a system that was supposed to have checks and balances to keep leaders from gaining too much power. What has happened over the years is that we have lost our direction and created a two party system that has created a divisive network of issues that really help no one but are used to drive a wedge between groups of people in an effort to gain votes.
There has become this Republican versus Democrat system set up that has its core issues, none of which help any of their constituents yet they are used to emotionally enflame their constituents to vote for one side or the other. There is never a middle ground or any other issues that matter because they along with a willing accomplice in the American media have successfully galvanized the public to fall for these issues. Either you are for it or you are not. Either you support this candidate or you support the other side that is evil. There is no middle ground. These issues are so predictable and always the same. On the Republican side it is the issues of the legality of abortion, the fight against big government and taxes, illegal aliens, and a host of others. On the Democrat side it is the issues of medical care, the poor, the elderly, the unions among others. On both sides they paint the other sides as villains to their respective cause and people just fall right in line. Maybe it is laziness, maybe it is ignorance but in my opinion it is both. I think it is a willing laziness to just accept what you hear on the television as fact and not hold these people accountable.
Many people that run for political office have no qualifications to run a 7-11 store much less spend millions of dollars of our tax money in an attempt to stay in office. Many times political figures will offer some sort of social program and the entire political movement along with the media stands behind this issue as the defining issue of the day. These politicians will paint a picture of some perceived injustice that is happening to a group of people, usually a large voting block like the elderly. They will put themselves in a position as savior to fix this problem if you just support them. They will offer some social program that will give those voters some sort of benefit that is too small to make a real difference yet large enough to convince them that the politician is on their side. The Democrats are very very good at this. They do this in a way that anyone who would dare go against spending this money is portrayed as evil and against progress. This is how the galvanize their followers to vote not only for the program but against the opponent. The Republicans are not as good as the Democrats at doing this but they are just as dishonest.
Our American political system has become a system of celebrity worship where if the candidate can get the most name recognition, they are the winner. The qualifications of the candidate are not even a factor. There are many candidates in Congress that have never had a real job and yet they are making decisions that affect the rest of the country. Another troubling problem is that in our government we have a disproportionate number of lawyers that are in political office. This is not meant to be a slam on lawyers but rather to point out another observation. A lawyer is a special career choice that specializes in rhetoric. When I say rhetoric, I mean the art of words. Being a lawyer is more than just having knowledge of laws that are applicable but also having a knowledge of the power of words. If you have a large vocabulary and the ability to communicate orally and written, then you have skills that are powerful. The career choice of being a lawyer also requires the ability to make an argument for or against anything using whatever information is available. It is an art that must be learned for most people but some are born with it. In this career it is more important to win the argument than it is to be right or wrong. Success it determined on the number of arguments won rather than how many right or wrong arguments are won or lost.
Just as the nature of government is to be bureaucratic, the nature of being a lawyer is to convince people whether by facts or emotion to agree with one side. This is usually done using emotion rather than facts and most lawyers that I know will admit this fact. The problem that arises is that you have a disproportionate number of people that are in charge that are more driven by success of an argument than they are by the drive to do something that is morally right. When this happens people sometimes get emotionally drawn into the argument of the day believing they are doing the right thing when they are really just being played upon. The power brokers are pulling all the strings driven by staying in power and winning their argument while the people are emotionally tied up in issues that the politician/lawyer cares virtually nothing about.
This is made worse because two of the three branches of government, those being the executive and legislative branches have put all controversial decision making on the judicial branch. The judicial branch meaning the courts are run 100% by lawyers with the same drives that I have spoken of before. The courts have zero accountability with lifetime appointments and no chance of being removed from office. The average citizen has no power in the decisions that are made in the courts. The judicial branch of government was intended to make Constitutional determinations of laws that were made by Congress and signed into law by the President. Their job was to determine the Constitutionality of laws. The judicial branch should be used to say yes or no. Yes it is Constitutional or not. What has happened is that judges and courts in general have gone further by adding their opinions to the decisions. These opinions themselves are unconstitutional. These opinions are being referenced in other cases to determine whether other issues are constitutional or not. Judges have no place adding opinions to cases. Further, the use of case law for deciding other issues is just as wrong.
If one judge oversteps his or her power in a decision, then it opens the door for others to use this previous decision to justify their irrational decisions. Since both the executive and legislative branches have not stood up to their responsibilities by impeaching these corrupt judges, there is absolutely no accountability. The Congress turns a blind eye to to corrupt judges and refuses to use their power to remove these judges. Our system has been further corrupted by those in power.
Those in Congress have forced our children to go to schools that preach a certain political slant. They control the education system with the curriculum and money. They have indoctrinated a whole generation of children to believe that a socialist system is better than a capitalist system. When I say socialist, I mean by definition where the government controls the money and assets. Socialism means that the welfare of the nation is determined by the government because they are the handlers of money. I heard a recent poll that said that only 52% of Americans thought that Democracy was better than socialism. This is a scary proposition because many of these people are too young to understand the implications of socialism. They do not remember the former Soviet Union’s grip on Eastern Europe and the world. They do not remember the Soviet Union’s real name was the Union of Soviet SOCIALISTS Republic (USSR). Governments by their very nature will grab more power than is offered them.
Anytime the people willingly give up their freedoms in the name of security, are also giving up their rights. These rights once they are lost, will never return. Security is something we all desire but not all have the willingness to fight for it. When we become lazy and give that security fight over to a government whose nature is to grab power, we lose our rights. This post is not an attempt to scare everyone to death but rather to vent my frustrations at what I see in the world. I see the nation that had such a great reputation in the world willingly handing over the freedoms that were fought for in the name of becoming secure. How many other nations have done this to see their glory days a distant memory? The Soviet Union most likely desired security. The Nazi Germany likely went down the same path. Please do not be lazy and allow those that may not have your best interests at heart be in control of your future. Do not turn your rights over in the name of security.
Do not allow the two political parties and the media to determine your future. Do not allow those that are good with words to take your rights when they are more concerned with winning an argument. Take responsibility for yourself and be critical of those over you. It is good to be critical of those that make decisions over you. Never accept that anyone in power is thinking of you because by our very nature we are selfish. People do what makes them happy without thought. If we hold each other responsible for our own actions, then maybe we should hold those that make decisions on our behalf responsible. This is not meant to be malicious or callous in any way. This is just an attempt to wake people to understand that you have to take responsibility and not let someone else make decisions for you.
I know I paint a bleak picture of our political system in this blog post.
Never Go To The Government
Our beloved General Motors has just been made a public example why you should never go to the government for assistance. I do not care if you are on the verge of homelessness, never EVER go to the government for help. When you do this, you are forfeiting your freedoms and subjecting yourself to humiliation. The United States government is far more corrupt than any corporate scandal you may have heard about over the years. The U.S. Congress is the most hypocritical organization known to mankind with the President running a close second. Barack Obama is no more qualified to be President than a random prisoner in just about any prison in the United States.
Let’s be honest here. Political Correctness has taken over this country and Barack Obama’s presidency is the biggest display of this. The ONLY reason he is President is because of the color of his skin. I am not saying that I oppose his presidency based on the color of his skin because that would be a complete injustice to what I am trying to say. I as well as most would have to agree that you cannot legitimately judge a person’s character based on the color of their skin. I do not want to be mistaken by all this by saying that my pointing out his flaws is an endorsement of the Republican party either. Both of the major political parties has zero credibility to point the finger at anyone. Whatever General Motors may have done to find themselves in their situation, it pales in comparison to what our corrupt leaders in Washington D.C. do on a daily basis.
General Motors biggest mistake was going to the government with their hands out because now they get to endure the embarrassment of being forced to walk naked in front of everyone while Barack Obama’s unqualified ignorance gets to play bully for a while. I would rather go bankrupt than to go to the government and accept their strings that are always attached to things. Shame on our local leaders like Governor Brad Henry for accepting one dollar of this criminally extorted payoff they call a stimulus package. Shame on anyone that accepts any of this money that is spending our country into financial ruin. George W. Bush was almost as big a disgrace as he spent himself out of control. What happened to conservatism? What happened to small government? Our leaders on both sides are playing us and people are too stuck in this Republican versus Democrat fight that they do not even see it.
While we sit around buying into the other party is the REAL EVIL our own guy is stabbing us in the back. Think about it… John McCain is not a conservative under anyone’s standard yet he gets the nomination for the Republican party. He has burned the Republican party over and over again. The Democrats are so far gone they are not worth even discussing. The Republicans are racing to meet them in their left wing agenda. The Republican party throws a bone to the conservatives by proclaiming their opposition to stem cell research, abortion or whatever topic the media thinks conservatives are against today. They never substantially act on any of these proclamations just like Democrats never do more than throw bones to their constituencies. Think about it. Democrats talk about helping the little guy and saving them from corporate corruption so they create programs that never help anyone. They spend more money on programs that never actually help anyone than if they had just given every American one million dollars each. I am not saying the government should be giving everyone a million dollars or any money for that matter. It is not the government’s job to be taking other’s property to give it to someone else. This loosely interpreted statement in the Constitution about the “common good” is misinterpreted at best.
Of course it is the people that are allowing themselves to be duped. I know what I am talking about because I have been guilty myself for this for years. I put all my hope in the Republican party to be the saviors of our family values while they sell us down the river. I meant what I said back over a year ago when I posted on February 9, 2008. People gave a me a lot heat for being anti conservative when I said that I was willing to concede this election to the other side to let our side know they are accountable. There are times that I feel that I have made a mistake every time I see Obama open his mouth on TV. When I think about it, I know I was right. This never ending voting for the “least of the two evils” does not work. I have voted Republican over and over again just to have each successive candidate be more liberal than the last. Of course if you listen to the left wing media you would have believed George W. Bush was the most conservative right winger that has ever been in office. You would have to either have your head completely submerged in the sand or be deliberately misleading people to believe that. I am thinking it is the latter. The truth is that George W. Bush though outwardly speaking semi conservative ideas was not committed to them. It was just throwing us a bone just like his dad.
I think our side needs to know they ARE accountable to the people that elected them. I think the time of allowing them to think they automatically have our vote just because our desire to keep the other guy out is bad policy. I am glad our side lost this time as painful as it is. I think it is time for us to communicate to our leaders that it was not an accident. They needed to be thrown out of office so they can understand that we mean business. Either they represent us or get in line at Obama’s welfare line. I can remember arguing with people in the past saying we must vote for this guy or that guy just to prevent the other guy from winning. I remember passionately defending Bush because of the danger of the other side winning. Let me ask you a rhetorical question… Has this made our land a more conservative place? Absolutely NOT! Our guy feels comfortable betraying us because he knows that we will not vote for the other guy. He plays us like a fiddle with the comfort that his own constituency will never vote for the other guy.
The checks and balances that our fore fathers put in place to save our land have lost balance because all the checks are in one pile. Our liberal elected officials have stacked our courts with liberal activist judges that do not interpret laws against the Constitution but rather make liberal laws. Our Congress does most of the corruption while blaming the President. They sit and pass laws that are thousands of pages without even reading them. They take your tax dollars and mine and spend them on their buddy’s projects padding their own nest. They make a kingdom for themselves so in the RARE event they are not reelected, they will have a free ride when they are out of office. They fail to do their duty and impeach corrupt Presidents and judges because they are so busy not paying their taxes just like half of Obama’s cabinet. The only organization that is more corrupt than the Barack Obama administration is the United States Congress.
Of course this is where I get religious on you so you may want to tune out if you are one of those that engage in this behavior. All this does have a common denominator and that is a lack of moral standard. Our country was founded on fore fathers that made mistakes. They were not perfect but they did believe in a standard and that standard was Christianity. These fore fathers were miserable failures at this standard just like we are but they understood what Christianity was all about. They understood that God’s word says in Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
They understood that since they were every bit as much sinners as we are that Jesus’ death on the cross was payment for their sins through faith. They recognized God’s words as the standard to live by and made an attempt to live by those standards. They made one mistake when they wrote the Constitution and that was their lack of clarification in the establishment clause of the first Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
This lack of clarification in their intent has been used by those who oppose this standard as an excuse to forbid Christianity in almost every avenue of life in our country. They speak of being a pluralistic society where there are differing cultures living side by side in our own society. This pluralistic society also includes those of differing religions living side by side. They use this as more evidence for not allowing religion in public life in the name of not offending one of those in the other cultures, religions. They often speak of religion but they really mean Christianity. There are several religions in our country just as they speak and the goal of all of them is to evangelize of get others to become converts. The problem is that in the discussion of this false notion of separation of church and state is almost without fail relating to Christianity. There is almost a hatred toward Christianity that is difficult to describe.
My point in all this is that our country was founded on Christian values whether those pluralistic crowd wish to acknowledge this or not. True Christian values does not advocate violence toward any other religion. I know, I know, this is where the argument about the Crusaders usually comes up. Like I said before, true Christianity does not advocate this behavior. Anyone can take on a title and claim to represent that title and do things that are opposite of what that title stands for.
If we do not have a standard by which we measure morality, then everything is subjective and that is very dangerous. If morality can be voted on then look out for slavery and violence against various groups of people. With the media’s power and lack of objectivity they can have you hating blacks again if they chose to go that route. They can have the public outraged at them for a fabricated injustice they have done. I mentioned blacks because they are a group that most people can sympathize with and understand the injustices they have endured. I could just as easily have mentioned any group. My point is that if we do not sit down as a group and establish some immovable standards, then anything can happen. The Bible already has those standards. I am not advocating creating our government to enforce biblical rules but rather to acknowledge the standards by which our country was founded.
One thing that has still not learned is that every choice you make has consequences whether good or bad. Just because a person fails to acknowledge a moral standard does not eliminate the consequences of their actions. When people make a choice, there will be a consequence. If not Christianity, then what? If not Islam, then what? If we continue to live in this relative world of no values then our greed will be the end of our country. If you look at history you will find that no empire lasted forever and ours will be no different. Instead of ignoring what went wrong in the past just to make the same mistakes again and again, how about setting some standards? These standards already exist and have existed since our country’s founding. Our problems are not the result of religion, they are the ignoring of it. If we continue to subsidize failure, we will have a very prosperous crop.
Restrictions at Work
As many of you may know I have posted about how the government does everything the hard way. Everything we do is usually impacted by a new rule or policy that makes our jobs harder. Over the last two days at work we have received this message or some rendition of it on our computers. This is basically telling us that we cannot use any removable media on our computers at work any more. This is going to virtually shut our office down in the short term. My office produces Power Point presentations daily. We take engineering photographs to display issues that are coming up. With this new policy we cannot unload our work related photographs or reports. Sometimes we deal with Excel spreadsheets that are so large that the government email will not allow it to go through. This leaves us with our memory stick to move files from one computer to another. We do this every day many times a day.
Although they did not post the reason for this policy, it is quite clear why they did this. It is my opinion that their reasoning is two fold and that is to prevent the spread of virus’ to government computers. The other reason is to keep people from taking restricted information outside of the government. I took this screen shot this morning because I was just amazed at these ridiculous blanket policies. We have the capability to scan these forms of removable media to check for virus and worms. There is technology that is available that can encrypt this media that must be authenticated by our government common access cards (CAC). This really should not amaze me at all because this is typical of the government to create these blanket policies to cripple everyone to punish a couple. Instead of dealing with the trouble makers they shut everyone down from doing their assigned duties.
To give you an idea of the waste that goes on in the government. If a person works in maintenance they are required to get their technical manuals or Technical Orders (TO) online. They must print them out each time they want to work on a piece of equipment. These printouts are only good for one day so they must be shredded and then reprinted the next day. This means that litterally thousands of sheets of paper are printed and shreded every day at my work. This is mandated by law. If a person is caught using a printout from yesterday then they are subject to disciplinary actions. This is typical for the government and keeps most people worked up over it all the time. I am curious how this new policy of no removable media is going to play out as I have already heard that our colenel was even complaining about it and if it is true, he has every reason.
There is not a day that goes by that almost everyone in our office is required to create an electronic report of some kind. These reports or presentations are almost always presented in a conference room on an overhead projector via PowerPoint or some other software. I am curious how this will work out since no one will be able to get their files from their computers to the conference room. One might think that we could just email it to ourselves on the other computer. That is virtually impossible since to set up our Outlook Exchange server requires administrative privilages. We would have to call the IT help desk for each person that wants to do a presentation on every computer. Web base email is out of the question because they have blocked access to all web mail accounts including Cox.net or SBCglobal. No Yahoo, No Google, No Hotmail. No social networking sites. They have even blocked access to even use CD-R’s. To the average citizen this may seem a little over kill but the the government worker this is an average day. You can add to this frustration that I received a delinquent travel voucher notice this afternoon for a temporary duty (TDY) that I took three weeks ago. By law we are required to submit our travel voucher within five working days of return. Our second level supervisor just signed it yesterday even though I submitted it the day I returned. I fulfilled my duties immediately and my second level supervisor sits on it for weeks and then I get a delinquent notice. This is typical of an average day. I think I have beat a dead horse long enough. I just had to share this information to get it off my chest. 
UPDATE: 21 Nov 2008
Thanks to KC5FM for pointing out the US-CERT web site’s warning about a malicious code being spread through USB Flash drives. I certainly hope that a fix is discovered soon as work has really been hampered. You can read the article here…
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#malicious_code_spreading_through_usb
Churches and Tax Exemption
One thing that I have noticed with those that oppose Christianity is their using campaign rules to silence churches. Anytime a Bible believing church speaks about political issues and political candidates, the liberals begin to tout that churches should not be allowed to endorse a candidate since they are tax exempt. They like to point out that churches speaking on those issues are in violation of their tax exempt status. My point is that whenever a church takes the tax exemption offered by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), they are giving up their freedom of speech. They are limited to speaking about certain issues without pointing out that a particular political official is in violation of God’s laws. You will notice that this is only applies if you are a conservative, or fundamentalist church. Many times you will see liberal politicians go to liberal churches, many times black churches and no one complains. If a conservative dares to go to a church and speak, then complaints are aired almost immediately.
It is for this reason that I think churches in the United States should not accept tax exemptions. I know there are many that would disagree with me and say that without this exemption the church would not survive. I believe this is wrong. First of all the church is admitting a lack of faith that God will meet their needs. If a church is really serving God then they would survive. Giving up our freedom of speech for a tax exemption is crippling the church. When you add to the fact that churches are afraid to speak of sin for fear of scaring off potential members, the church is not relevant in today’s society. The churches that I see today preach on the love of God but they never tell the fact that being a Christian means repenting from one’s sins and changing their life. Is it just me or do we have a spineless church that will not preach the truth?
We are living in a day that is very hostile to Christianity. There are those that have purposely misinterpreted the establishment claus of the First Amendment as being a freedom from religion instead of a freedom of religion. When a church allows themselves to subject to the government that is being turned against God, then they are giving up their rights to speak the truth freely. I use to think that being tax exempt was a blessing but as the world has become more hostile toward Christianity, I now see this as a restraint on the church. Anyone that knows the government, they also know that anytime you depend on the government, you are going to have strings attached. This is one of the reasons that I am so opposed to a liberal agenda that advocates using tax dollars for social issues. When the people are dependent on the government, they are subject to the strings that are attached. Those strings are subject to the party in power at the time. If you are a leader of a church, please consider the price to be paid to be tax exempt.
What have I been doing?
This weekend we had a very productive day getting our repeater running on 145.25. We finally got the good repeater back from repair and it is working great. The only problem is that our Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) node stopped working. Every time the push to talk (PTT) wire would be hooked up, it would start transmitting. We finally traced it back to the IRLP board. Since it is a proprietary board, we are going to have to order a new one at $170.00. What we did was took the IRLP board out of the node for the 443.3 repeater since it was down anyway and installed it in the 145.25 repeater with success.
Then Larry, KD5MAF and I edited the Del City Amateur Radio Club (DCARC) web site to include a link “Technical”. This link on the left takes you to another page that has pictures of all the relevant pieces to our repeaters, and nodes. My dad, W5QO said he is going to order two more IRLP boards to replace the one and have a spare. Now the 145.25 repeater is now up and running at 100%. The WIN System repeater on 443.3 is now going to be the focus. Yesterday Larry and I drew up some diagrams on Microsoft Visio of the Interfacing of the IRLP to the repeater. You can find them on the new “Technical” section of the DCARC web site.
Well now since the summer semester is over we have two weeks to relax before the fall semester begins. I noticed this weekend that OU has changed their email to Microsoft Exchange web system. They were using a Java based email that was a hassle to use. It was so hard to download attachments. The new Exchange system looks pretty nice. It is very similar to Outlook 2007 with the calendar, email, and contacts. So far I am very pleased but then again I have not tried to send attachments.
This week I received an email for a potential job increase at my work. I am hopeful that it will go through. As with anything the government is involved in, it could take weeks or months to find out for sure. This job opportunity may be huge if I get it. It does however, have the potential for temporary duty (TDY) assignments overseas, particularly in England, Saudi Arabia, and France. If I do, then I better keep the laptop warmed up with Skype so I can keep in touch with everyone ;-) It would be better working conditions and potential doubling of my current salary. Again, nothing is certain at this point but I am hopeful because I am among the finalists for the job. Keep me in your prayers.
Speaking of work, it this week has been incredibly anarchist in that we are being put under intense pressure to get a project done but there is no printed guidance. Another supervisor got in trouble doing this project for doing it illegally. The job was taken from them and given to us. Our customer has been at a work stop for more than a month and are waiting for us to complete this project. Due to government bureaucracy we cannot even start. Every time we start to get going, my supervisor stops and demands some other documentation is put into place. I feel sorry for our engineers. This guy had to deal with the wrath of my supervisor several times on Thursday and Friday. This is just amazing to see the wheels of progress stop due to bureaucracy. If you have never worked for the government, you have never seen anything like it. If there is anything that will bring down this country, it will be the bureaucracy that halts all progress.
Enough of that… Well I thought I better do an update since I have been playing a low profile online and the radio. I don’t know if any of you have ever gone through waking up on the wrong side of the bed for a couple of weeks but that is what I have done but I am over it. I have been invisible online and avoided the radio knowing that I would not be very friendly online. Most of it has been from the constant barrage of problems on the repeaters and nodes costing us hundreds. Add to that, the only one that uses it is a person that is only 34 years old with no handicaps and chooses not to work and lives in a homeless shelter for the last six years. Also the past week I was so buried with work from school that I could not get caught up until the last day. Life is good now. I apologize for all those that I may have snapped at under pressure 
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