First Church of Doug

I am preparing a long article on religion. I thought I should start out by revealing "beliefs" that I have come to accept as a part of my religion. There is no way, scientifically, to know if God exists. I can't truly say one way or another. I guess you could label me a scared atheist; however, I am certainly not relying on a god to give my life meaning. So here goes.

Statement of "Beliefs" of the First Church of Doug

I believe that the bible was written by man and is therefore fallible.

I believe in a God who will not judge people based on "beliefs", but on deeds.

I believe in a God who would "save" a good person who calls him or herself an atheist before a bad person who prescribes to the tenets of Christianity or any other religion.

I believe in a God who has set the universe in motion simply to watch what happens.

I believe in a God who may have "seeded" life in the universe, but nothing more.

I believe in evolution as it pertains to the species of this planet.

I believe in a scientific approach to religion. Blind faith is not in my vocabulary.

I believe in a God who does not, nor did ever, perform miracles*. A God who picks and chooses to perform miracles* here and there would be a sociopathic God, not worthy of worship anyway.

I believe that while Jesus was a great human being he was not God's son, nor did he perform miracles*.

I believe that no one religion has it right. There are no "chosen" religions just like there are no "chosen" people.

I believe that no person's life is predetermined in any way. We all make our own choices. And while free will may not be so free, there is no higher power directing our lives. No one dies because of "God's Plan".

I believe that all of the above are open to change based on my personal life experiences. Nothing is set in stone.

*Note that something is not a miracle simply because science cannot explain it.

More on right click disable script

OK, so I just downloaded the latest version of Firefox. Excellent browser. One of the new features allows you to drag a picture off the browser and onto your desktop; no need to right-click. So one of the main reasons for sites to try to do something as idiotic as disabling right-click is now gone. So now those of you who continue this inane practice will look even more foolish, as you are now considering everyone who visits your site a thief and for no good reason! (Not that you had a good reason before, it's just even less so now)

HAcked by EJDER ;)

Wow.

I was alerted to a problem on my client's website this morning whereby someone named EJDER, JeXToXiC or Alemin_Krali (not sure which) apparently managed to write the same set of files into every folder on my client's website. Each and every file is exactly the same with the exception of the Error.txt file which reads "Sorry, your application has crashed on unload. Please check your app for errors."

The rest of the files are named such that they'd overwrite all the standard default start pages used by Web Servers - default.asp, .cfm, .htm, .html, .php, index.asp, .cfm, .htm, .html, .php.

So this is kind of funny, and I get on the horn with my service provider to let them know what happened. I get the files replaced with temporary stuff until I can get the problem fixed. Then I started looking at the files themselves. Whoever the jackass was that did this decided he/she would use Microsoft Word to write the "Hacked" notice. And they didn't even take the time to remove the extraneous crap from the files. Nice job guys. I thought hackers at least had some HTML skills. I mean come on guys. If you're going to "hack" my site (if that's what you call it), please have the decency to use something other than word to create your pages. Geesh.

Tax Cuts for the Rich

OK, let me just say this once. I am SICK TO DEATH of the democrat party's standard line that the poor middle class in this country pays too much tax. Not only is it misleading, it is a blantant LIE. That's right, the democrats are lying to you about how much income tax the "rich" pay.

Did you know that the top 50% of tax payers pay 96% of income tax? Bet ya didn't, because you'd then know that lo and behold the democrat party has been lying to you! Here's a couple of articles with links to sources:

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/whopaysmost.htm

There are some pretty graphs on this one for those of you who like pictures:

http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/taxes/

And you can't forget about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). That credit virtually ensures anyone making less than 20K a year not only pays no tax, but also receives money from nanny government.

So the next time some idiot tries to tell you the rich don't pay their fair share, just send them one of those links. However, don't expect it to change their mind. The democrats' have invested a lot of time and money into their BS class warfare crap. Convincing people that it is false will never happen.

Illegal Aliens

It is my belief - regardless of how much our country "needs" the cheap labor they provide - that illegal aliens need to be removed from this country. Any good that the honest hard-working illegals do is counteracted many times over by the bad ones. MY case in point is this Alianiss Nunez Morales bitch (or whatever her name turns out to be) that hit a school bus and killed four kids and injured many more:

http://www.twincities.com/ci_8335909?source=most_viewed

Four lost lives, families grief stricken, many other children injured. The cost of this incident alone runs in the multi-million dollar range, and truly you can't put a price tag on a life.

As for the illegal woman, rather than wasting any more tax payer dollars on her she should be dropped over the Mexican border with a bullet through her head. Let them deal with their own garbage.

In the mean time, to hell with the freaking fences. Let's get some armed forces on the mexican border and shoot any living thing that crosses. That'll give them something to think about before they cross into the US.

Fuck the MPAA

Check out the latest from our fabulously bloated government:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9867146-7.html?tag=nefd.top

That's right. College is overpriced as it is. Now we're going to add more to the cost of obtaining higher education simply because a huge corporation wants something to fix their dying business. I can't believe the morons in congress let this slide. If this isn't a heads up that the US government is seriously screwed up, I don't know what is.

Rather than attempt to figure out how to fix their ailing sales, they would rather sue people who download or provide for download their copyrighted material. All the lawsuits and legislation in the world is not going to fix a business going down the shitter. Congress needs to flip the bird at the MPAA and the RIAA and stop their tyrannical lawsuits.

And my guess is you're going to help our government continue to be unaccountable for its actions by voting Republicrat or Democan this November. And you'll probably vote against one candidate rather than voting for another. If people in this country could get past the notion that voting third party is a wasted vote we could affect some real change as the powers that be would realize they could no longer lie their way into office.

Remember, a vote for a third party IS NOT a wasted vote

The Great Social Security Scam

So I received my annual report from the welfare program that the government calls "Social Security". The report details exactly how much the government plans on screwing me out of my own money so they can give it away to others who didn't plan properly for their retirement. In celebration of this joyous occasion I have updated my SSA Fleece application. You can find it here.

When you realize how much money is flowing through this bloated bureaucracy, perhaps you'll realize how awful a system it really is.

According to my calculations my employers and I will pay close to $340,000 into the system during my lifetime (assuming my current yearly wage stays static and I work until age 62). Earning even a 4% interest rate this amounts to over $1,000,000 by the time I reach age 70. According to my SSA document if I start receiving benefits at age 70, it will take 34.88 YEARS for me to recover this amount of money.

All I can say is wow.