Monthly Archives: February 2010

20100227-Tweaking Again

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Out of sheer friggin’ boredom, I’ve been trying themes here at WordPress.com. As a result, I’m back to the Misty theme by Sadish.

By testing the drop-down menus with the iNove theme, I made a logical decision to include only four top-level (or parent) pages, which appears in both the top navigation bar and the main menu widget of the side bar.

These pages are sort in alphabetically order and appear as follows:

  • Archives.
  • Links.
  • Pages (sitemap).
  • Post (latest).

Since WordPress.com allows for two `Default templates`, such as `Archives` and `Links`, it makes sense to set two of these pages as parent pages.

The other two pages are static for `pages` and hierarchical for `posts`.

The `front matter` page of the `web book` has been split again to include duplicate pages of `contents` and `copyright`.

The `blogger` page of old posts from a deleted account has been set as a child of  the `archives` page.

With the `Misty` theme, there is no need to have a `RSS links` widget and a `search` bar widget, too.

Notice, too, my newest widget showing a `Masonic Compass and Square` with my initials F.B. and the double digit 33. The title to this widget is `Wide unclasp` from a stained glass window located inside the `Grand Ball Room` of the Winchester Mystery House (in San Jose, CA).

I don’t know what this means but these `same thoughts` came through my simple mind as appropriate for the intel community and pals (a.k.a. TPTB).

20100226-I’m Broke

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While waiting fifteen minutes in the doctor’s office at around 14:30pm on that rainy Friday afternoon, I read the following U.S. News (March 2010) article on pages 28 to 29:

A New Era Begins for Credit Cards
By Rob Silverblatt | Posted: February 19, 2010

~But then the bills started piling up. “It was just too conven­ient,” says Riggle, who last year joined the crowd of Americans who have been driven into bankruptcy by credit card debt.

~But as a result of the recession, these fragile illusions of wealth have come crashing down.

~[...] credit card issuers used the time window between the bill’s passage last year [Congress's Credit CARD Act of 2009] and its start date on Monday to preemptively raise rates, add fees, and cut back on rewards.

~It’s this feeling of trepidation that will prevent consumers like Jim Courtright, an advertising specialist from Chicago, from returning to credit cards. Until he declared bankruptcy last year, Courtright was, in many ways, the ideal credit card user. But after taking the strong line of credit he had built up over a lifetime of on-time payments and staking it to a business venture, he eventually got in over his head.

~So where does this combination of reluctance and disillusionment leave the economy? On one hand, the backlash against credit cards has coincided with a surge in the use of debit cards.

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This is what happens in a country driven by capitalism. People get hurt by their own doing and sometimes by the misdeeds of greedy, fat cats. People try to survive for personal and business expenses. My line of credit is related to a failed business, of course.

20100226-Ripping Off

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Well, Canada, the socialist-like health care country, has cheated twice:

  • Rochette got bronze.
  • Ohno got disqualified.

The former didn’t do as well as Nagasu, who should have been ranked as third place and not as fourth.

The latter clearly didn’t do anything, except Hamelin, who should have been the one disqualified for almost blading Ohno and bumping off the South Korean.

20100226-Inverted Imperfection

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After watching a YouTube.com about satanic symbols and masonic connections mixed in with astrology and the stars, I don’t understand the difference between an upright and an inverted image of a star.

A standing person could be viewed as an upright perfection. A fool standing on his head could be viewed as an inverted imperfection. Either way it all looks the same, five points.

20100226-Four Bads

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While en route from north-bound HWY 101 and to Ranch 99 for grocery, we heard Mark R. Levin on HOT TALK 560 AM ranting about thugs coming into America and running as officials. It seems that money does pay and terrorists are defended for killing people. Here are four bad things already happening to our country. But I cannot recall if the first one is the correct adjective he used during this afternoon’s show.

  • totalitarianism;
  • isolationism;
  • weakening national security; and
  • weakening law enforcement.