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Hooray For America?

So today’s Independence Day here in the US. It feels a little odd to be celebrating America when our president isn’t even close to being American. Personally, this holiday meant a lot more to me back when America was better, and not overrun by these liberal assholes.

The fourth of July has pretty much become “grill and get drunk day,” but hey at least the fireworks promise to be somewhat entertaining.

Typing this on my iPod Touch in the WordPress app while sitting in Hudson River Park with my girlfriend napping on my lap. Yay for free wifi.

Piracy Cannot, And Should Not, Be Stopped

On April 12, 2010, Parliament (UK) passed a bill to “help protect copyright online and increase regulation and control of the way people use the Internet.” It’s set to go into effect on June 12, 2010. How does this affect us in the United States? Simple, if a developed, modern country passes and implements a law controlling the internet, other countries will follow with their own legislation. “Repeat offenders” will have their internet cut off by their ISP‘s, for an indefinite period of time. This is just another sad attempt by the entertainment industry to stop piracy.
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Google Tells All

Google's Word

I was feeling bored so I was typing in “Obama is a moron,” but before I was able to finish, these helpful suggestions popped up. Just goes to show, if you want to see how people really think, just Google it! 

Change… Not!

Now who do we most associate change with? If you answered Obama, give yourself a cookie, because he’s the one I’ll be ripping on in this post. Continue reading only if you don’t mind a little Obama-bashing.
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China Can Go And…

A little late on today’s post, but I’m still technically on time. Down to business, I was browsing around, being totally unproductive one day, when I stumbled upon (no pun intended) an interesting bit of news. Apparently, China had banned World of Warcraft because they didn’t want the “democratic west corrupting the People’s Republic of China (that in itself is the biggest lie here).”
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WordPress Design Awards

WPWebHost is holding a design competition to find the best-looking WordPress-powered blogs around the web. I submitted this blog to the “Best Clean & Minimalistic” category, and it made it into the top 10! I was quite excited and pleased to see my blog on the list, and I’m hoping that I may have some success in the final round. It’s no longer the judges’ decisions, it’s all up to you guys, the readers. You have to vote for the best-looking blogs in each category. I’m not going to directly say vote for me, I’m just going to suggest that you guys make the right choice ;)

You can vote here, my blog is under the “Best Clean & Minimalist” category.