2008

Jerry proposed to Katie on Feburary 11, 2008, but he didn’t do it in an ordinary way, he did it on Youtube. Jerry won a contest in which he could propose to his girlfriend in front of millions of people on the front page of Youtube. There were a lot of Valentine’s video contestants, but Jerry’s was the grand prize. In case you are wondering, Katie said yes. I think doing something like that is really sweet. It is unique and they will forever have it documented for when the kids ask how dad proposed. Plus any relatives who want to see the special occasion can just log on at anytime and watch the video.

Well the site was down for a bit this weekend. It was down just now for the WordPress upgrade and it was down yesterday mornuing due to server upgrades. All in all I hope it is for the best. I took much needed time off this weekend from my everyday responsibilities and really just played video games and went to the beach with Krissy. I think I am going to install some WordPress plugins tonight and play some Halo, so if you want to play my name is leprakhauns.

I have been looking into Small Business Loans. I have such big dreams for Lep’s Lair, I think that maybe a loan might be the way to finish the stuff up. I mean I would use a loan to invest in advertising and make more wallpapers and stuff, but it would really help to get this site to a better place.

I have been looking at AFS for Small Business Loans because they have no hidden charges and a low interest fee. Low interest is good because I don’t want to be paying double what I borrow, if I borrow. They also have no application fees. Small Business Loans don’t seem like a bad idea for what I want to do, I just need to see if I will be able to bring in more than I borrow if I take one out.

Tonight Obama won Washington, Nebraska, and Louisiana. I wasn’t aware of the elections today, so when I went to CNN tonight I was very pleasantly surprised. These wins put Obama at 61 delegates behind Clinton. I think the next big state though is going to be Texas, now they may have a lot of Hispanic voters there, and Hispanic voters are more for going with Hillary, but at the same time they also have a lot of white men who don’t like minorities. I am wondering if Clinton being a woman will classify her more as a minority with the voters rather than the man. It will be interesting to see which way they go.

I have always wanted to visit Australia. I mean they have koala’s and kangaroos, two of the coolest animals ever, so why wouldn’t I want to visit it right? It doesn’t hurt that the Crocodile Dundee is one of the coolest movies ever. It just seems like Australia can do no wrong when it comes to things that are cool. I want to check out flights to Australia and see if there are any that I could afford. I could always use a little vacation right? Hopefully something will come through though so that I can have some more money soon, this way maybe I could actually go.

I have been bidding on GAF trying to earn extra income, but so far nothing. Most of what I am bidding on is ongoing work so I can have more income each month. More income is always good, right? Since Google screwed me over I have been a few hundred dollars short of what I am used to so I am trying to make that money up somehow. Hopefully something comes along.

It is my goal to get a College Education. The problem is that in order to get one you either have to b e rich or shell out a lot of money to get a good one. I have entered myself into a drawing that if I win I could win $50,000 toward a scholarship, but I don’t know if I will win, I hope I do, this way I can finally get the degree I want.

Mitt Romney has said that if he stayed in the race for the Republican candidacy then it would only help Obama and Clinton. He went on to say if he stayed in the race then it would help the terrorists. I say fuck you Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney also stated that marriage needs to be constituted as a man and woman, to this I say fuck you Mitt Romney.

Why do people get married? Well in Washington they would have you believe they do it because of tax breaks and because one person is a man and the other is a woman. They don’t tell you it’s because of love, because of security. To Washington I say fuck you all of DC who opposes gay marriage. Fuck you George Bush and George W. Bush, fuck you Dick Cheney, fuck all of your Republican party.

It would be amusing to see them get raped in the ass and then realize that they like it.

I was browsing through 1800 flowers to see if I could find anything relatively cheap and I saw that they had valentine’s day roses that weren’t a bad price. They were too rich for my blood, especially after I did my taxes last night, but I don’t think that for roses at this time of year that’s a bad price. They have a lot of Valentine’s Day specials going on right now and I saw some really nice things, but to spend money that I don’t have right now on that would kill me financially, especially since I think we are going out to dinner on Valentine’s Day. I just need to find out what is open down here and see if I can make reservations at the place I’d like to go.

John Mccain wants to make Bush’s temporary tax cuts permanent. I have a problem with this. Why? Because the people who benefit the most from the tax cuts are the rich. The rich already has money, so giving them more money isn’t going to make them spend it any quicker. They will simply hold on to it and not put it back into the economy like the government wants them to do. A similar tactic was tried in the 1930’s afte the stock market crashed. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.

Yes poor people getting tax breaks will help them out, but it won’t help the overall economy. Why? Simple. The poor have no money, any extra money they receive will either be put into a savings account or spent on something they need, not something they would like to have. What these people fail to realize is that no matter what the government wants them to do with their tax breaks, people will not be going out and buying a big screen television to make the economy better when they can barely afford to put food on the table.

Learn from the past, this tactic didn’t work in the past, it won’t work now, and it will not work if tried again in the future. Open your eyes people, it is time for a change, a New Deal for the New Age.

When Google made it known that they would be dropping ranks of anyone who did paid blogging or was a part of a link farm, panic ensued around the internet. Who were they to make the rules of how things should be calculated and what links should be counted toward a page rank? Some people folded under the pressure and stopped doing paid posts all together just to maintain their Page Rank. This doesn’t really make sense to me because what good is a Page Rank if you aren’t going to be using it for something?

For a few weeks people complained about what Google had done, but no one really did anything to stop it. That is until one company decided to say not to our posties. Izea, owner of PayPerPost, stepped up and released their own ranking system, Real Rank at IZEARanks. Unlike Google, Real Rank isn’t based on search engine statistics. It is based on a combination of things, the main one being your traffic. The higher your traffic, the lower your Real Rank. It has nothing to do with PayPerPost so you don’t have to worry about Google dropping your Page Rank if you use Real Rank.

For the month of February, Izea is giving away $1000 a week to the number one Real Ranking blog. If that isn’t enough motivation to register your site, then what is?

Clinton and Obama are still neck in neck. What I think is kind of funny is that they aren’t neck in neck because there wasn’t a white man to take the majority of the votes, even when there was one these two minority candidates were still the front runners of the Democratic party. I am not saying that they are minorities to offend anyone, but if they were in the majority then there would have been a woman or a black president before now.

They are in a dead heat because they aren’t what you expect a president to be. Hillary can be a bit robot like, much like the presidents that have come before her, but she is still different in that she’s a woman. I think Obama is the first real different presidential candidate. I mean he speaks like he could be your friend and not just your president. He is a real person and I think that is what appeals to people.

They are both change in the most superficial way possible, and with the superficial, hopefully if one of them wins then deeper change will come. I throw my support behind Obama, that is who I voted for yesterday and that is who I will continue to endorse.

To some people who know me this can come as quite a shock. I wouldn’t say I would be racist, but I think I am about as racist as any white man who grew up in white neighborhoods, change scares people. Color of skin is a big thing to most people, it doesn’t mean they are racist, it just means they aren’t used to it. I support Obama because he can get us Universal Healthcare, because I believe in order to help the poor it is better to have been poor. I am not saying that Clinton would do a bad job, I just think that Obama would do better. Vote for Obama.