The silence is deafening!

I believe that we are sitting on a ticking time bomb and no one is willing to acknowledge it, let alone diffuse it.  The aging  baby boomer population is going to push government programs like social security and Medicare over the brink of sustainability, which will drag down our Nation’s economy and challenge the fundamental structure of our government.   In the future, 75% of our National budget will be income redistribution from the workers to retirees.  This is in effect socialism.      

 

Here is an Newsweek article that details the subject: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20010728/site/newsweek/

 

Social programs have been ingrained into our being.  But there comes a time when someone has to pay the bill.  We need to have some foresight and take a look at the horizon to appreciate the magnitude of the oncoming tidal wave. 

Pennsylvanian City Law Struck Down by Federal Judge

HAZLETON, Pa (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional a local law designed to crack down on illegal immigration, dealing a blow to similar laws passed by dozens of towns and cities across the country.

U.S. District Judge James Munley said the city of Hazleton, 100 miles north of Philadelphia, was not allowed to implement a law that would fine businesses that hire illegal immigrants and penalize landlords who rent rooms to them.

"Federal law prohibits Hazleton from enforcing any of the provisions of its ordinances," Munley wrote in a 206-page opinion following a federal trial in which Hazleton's law was challenged by civil rights groups.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2645989120070726?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true

I agree with the Pope

The pontiff, speaking as he was concluding his holiday in northern Italy, also said that while there is much scientific proof to support evolution, the theory could not exclude a role by God.

“They are presented as alternatives that exclude each other,” the pope said. “This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.”

He said evolution did not answer all the questions: “Above all it does not answer the great philosophical question, ‘Where does everything come from?’”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19956961/

 

 

Review of Sicko

This article from Box Office Mojo has some good details about Michael Moore's fakumentary Sicko.  There may be a health care crisis in America, but a Communist solution is not the answer.  In typical fashion, it is easy to criticize without offering any solutions.  A truly convincing documentary woudl be fair, objective, and gorunded in facts.  Not Michael Morre's modus operendi.

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/reviews/?id=2344&p=.htm

 

Bush Commutes Sentence Scooter Libby

Bush did not pardon Scooter Libby. The convition still stands, just no prision.

Here is a list of Clintons pardons.

Democrats have no room to play politics on this one. They are throwing stones from a glass house.

http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm#january202001

SQL Database interface and ASP.NET form validation

Made a online enrollement application for a medical career college.  First experience with SQL Server Express and ASP.NET database connections.  Also the most avanced ASP.NET page I have created so far.

 

Database connect sucessful in local enviroment but I cant get it working on remote hosting.  Also, can't figure out how to get data from a form into a SQL database.  I am stuck with form mailer for now so no database features are currently in place.

 

Milestones:

1st form with required fields

1st form with field validation

1st ASP.NET page with form2mail

1st time usinig SQLServer Express

1st time connecting to datasource (disabled for now)

 

need to learn ADO SQL language to get data from forms to database.

need to learn how to post .ASPX input from one page to another

need to learn how SQL Server works with Godaddy.

 

 http://www.youngerweb.com/ed/preview/asptest2.aspx