Having a Computer Guy in the House

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This SoftLayer Blog entry actually comes to us from Kate Moseley (Age 10), daughter of VP of Network Engineering Ric Moseley.

I think it is cool that my dad is a computer guy that works for SoftLayer because he is always able to fix our computers, TVs, and anything electronic. His job is to order and fix computer networks. He also likes messing with anything technical at home including iPods, iPhones, computers, TVs, etc.

My dad is always working so hard to earn money for our family. Sometimes he’s so busy emailing people at work that when you ask him a question, it’s like he can’t even hear you. I also think that it’s cool that he gets to travel to a different state almost every month it seems like. I love going to my dad’s office because I get to see what it’s like working in an office with so many people in such a busy place.

My dad goes to many meetings with his boss, Lance, and the rest of the staff. When he’s not at his office, he’s still working really hard at home! Sometimes he stays up till 4 o’clock in the morning to help fix things at his work. One time he got a call while we were on vacation saying that a router was down at the data center and he needed to come back ASAP! So he packed up his bags and headed back to Dallas! Sometimes we don’t even get to sit down and have an actual meal as a family because he always misses dinner and sometimes he’s on a conference call for more than 2 hours at a time.

My dad used to work at The Planet. He and 9 other people came up with the company called “SoftLayer.” SoftLayer recently merged with The Planet, and now they are one big company. His company is always getting bigger, so almost every year they have to move offices to a different location. My dad loves his job because he gets to interact with one of his favorite things: Technology. SoftLayer has given my family an opportunity to do many things in life that we would not ever have had the chance to do.

Someday I hope to be a part of SoftLayer just like my dad is today.

- Kate Moseley

If you share Kate’s hope to one day be a part of the SoftLayer team, visit the SoftLayer Careers page. We have more than 50 positions available in Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco and Amsterdam. As Kate explained, SoftLayer is growing like crazy, so whether your background is in Finance, Technical Support, Facilities, Human Resources, IT, Marketing, Sales or Development, we want you to join us!

PHIL’s DC: Fine-Tuning the Idea

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When Lance opened the floor for SoftLayer employees to present their ideas for “innovative” approaches to the Internet, I put together a pretty ambitious proposal. As it turns out, the idea wasn’t as fully baked as I may have wanted it to be, but I came to the decision to change gears a little and take a different approach.

Completely unrelated to that personal decision to adjust the direction of the project, I had a nice little chat with Lance on the phone. We decided that the world was underready for a revolution and that a more traditional nontraditional approach was in order:

The Internet needs data centers to hold all of your pictures. SoftLayer does a great job at being a data center, but I feel like there’s still an opportunity for a revolution in data center design. I have a few ideas about how the world of web hosting can be completely redefined, and with the unique resources Lance has put at my disposal, I’m fairly confident that I’ll be able to create a stellar hosting platform with an unbeatable discount price structure. PHIL’s DC is the future of web hosting.

- PHIL

‘God of Liberty’: The Role of Religion in American Independence – Huffington Post (blog)

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Deseret News
'God of Liberty': The Role of Religion in American Independence
Huffington Post (blog)
The spiritual ideas of the Enlightenment rationalists were eclectic and complex, often ambivalent and beguiling; but crucially, they didn't need definite religious doctrines to find common cause with the liberty-seeking evangelists. ...
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Fayetteville woman to open home to veterans as part of medical foster program – Fayetteville Observer

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Fayetteville woman to open home to veterans as part of medical foster program
Fayetteville Observer
It also provides them with more freedom and flexibility, as well as a homier atmosphere, Bragg said. The Fayetteville program is one of several already instituted across the nation, she said. While researching the program, Bragg met a World War II ...

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CPI leader Chaturanan Mishra passes away – Times of India

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CPI leader Chaturanan Mishra passes away
Times of India
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PM condoles passing away of ex-Union Minister Chaturanan MishraDailyIndia.com
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Sabotaging Freedom Flotilla II – Aljazeera.net

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Sabotaging Freedom Flotilla II
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8000 gather for ABATE rally in Algona – Mason City Globe Gazette

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8000 gather for ABATE rally in Algona
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Giant Step Closer to Freedom – ABC News

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Giant Step Closer to Freedom
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Republicans draw another district for a black conservative?

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From Clifford Thies:

The North Carolina state legislature, which flipped Republican in 2010, has re-drawn the state's Congressional District lines so as to favor Republican candidates. As a result, three or four seats currently held by Democrats are likely to be represented by Republicans after the 2012 elections. No surprise there. But, what really is news is that one of these new Republican-friendly seats appears to be drawn specifically for Vernon Robinson, a prominent black conservative. The former Winston-Salem city councilman resides in Democrat Brad Miller's re-drawn district. The re-drawn district voted 56 percent for McCain in 2008, whereas the old district voted only 40 percent for McCain. In 2006, Robinson, a founding member of the North Carolina Republican Liberty Caucus, finished first in the Republican primary in a heavily-Republican Congressional district that stretched out to the west. He was edged by then state Senator Virginia Foxx in the run-off, who went on to an easy win in the general election.

Robinson's new district is more urban, which should be to his advantage in the primary, as well as sufficiently Republican, to give him the advantage in the general. Following a defeat in 2006, Robinson announced that he would never again run for political office; but, with re-drawn district lines, conditions have changed. This development, the district in Texas drawn for Michael Williams, and our two incumbents, the Party of Lincoln looks to have at least four African Americans in Congress following next year's elections.

Obama’s got that Minus Touch

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2nd company visited by Obama goes out of business

by Clifford F. Thies

Obama has done it again. First, he has a hot dog at a Toledo restaurant and, voila, the restaurant goes bankrupt. Next, he goes to a wind turbine manufacturer in Cleveland and, guess what, it too goes bankrupt.

There's a moral in this somewhere. How about this: Bad things happen when the President breaks wind and when he bites his weiner.

Dr. Thies is a professor of economics in Virginia

They Said That If I Voted For John McCain Illegal Weapons Would Flow Unchecked Across The Southern Border…

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...and they were right!

I continue to suspect that a secret program allowing thousands of guns to go from U.S. gun stores to Mexican crime sites was more than coincidentally related to a gun-control campaign from the same administration that was predicated on . . . statements about the flow of guns from U.S. gun stores to Mexican crime sites.

Professor Reynolds is not alone in his suspicion, given the Left's long established pattern of creating a problem and then posing as the saviors. The corruption of the original Operation Fast and Furious into a full-blown smuggling operation ("Gunwalker") appears to fit that pattern, as does the minority report's building a case for expanded gun control legislation and regulation.

What is surprising is the reckless, thundering stupidity behind letting thousands of guns into the hands of an enemy and the expectation that the violent, criminal nature of the fall-out would work to political advantage. What were they thinking?

Gunwalker was especially dimwitted given the Government's betrayal of U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean in 2006. In the public's eye, the DOJ, DHS and Federal Government's credibility was reduced to near zero by Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Kanof, Prosecutor "Johnny" Sutton and President G. W. Bush. Compean and Ramos were aggressively punished for doing their job - a fact not lost on every professional and Federal Agent working the borders and not lost on the entire libertarian and right blogosphere.

Now we have the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry - and suspicion of cover-ups - a situation that expands the ill-will beyond Federal Agents and the blogosphere to the huge constituency of law-abiding gun owners. (Just think of it as... community organizing for dummies.)

If AG Eric Holder is responsible, his impeachment won't be enough to solve the problems on the borders, but it will make an excellent start.

[Posted by Ran for Eric Dondero]

From CNS: U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends ‘To Promote, Produce, or Protect’ Terrorists

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From Ran for Eric Dondero:

U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends ‘To Promote, Produce, or Protect’ Terrorists; Also Calls Israel Anti-Terror Partner
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
By Edwin Mora

(CNSNews.com) - In an implicit admission that Israel is so threatened by terrorism that it is not only surrounded by countries and territories that produce terrorists but also unwillingly harbors terrorists within its own territory in a way that most other nations in the world do not, the Obama administration is currently listing Israel among 36 “specially designated countries” it believes “have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members.”

Before the anti-Israel noise machine begins the Snoopy-dance, they must observe that Mora's report also notes four other countries that fall into the same category. By sheer coincidence all five (including Israel), though not islamic majority "have had internal problems with radical Muslim terrorists, as reported by the State Department." (One might ask why Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Canada etc. etc. are not also on the list? We could name a very large country with a Muslim extremist problem as well...)

Tip o' the hat to Lonely Conservative & Maggie's Notebook and thanks to CNS.

While The Cat’s Away, Other Bloggers Will Play

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We have Eric hidden away in a secret location on the west coast and until we want to let him out, Ran, Tim and I will post articles of our choosing on Libertarian Republican. While Eric is away, the other guys will play.

The story that has gotten little play in the news, at least in what I read, is the Mark Halperin Incident. Honestly, who cares if he called Obama a dick. That doesn't even scratch the surface of his Obamajesty's omnipotence at incompetence. Still, Mark had to know in his mind's eye that even calling The One a dick would get him sentenced to journalist's purgatory, he should have gone the full monty and at least fomented a charge of lese majesté. Asshole would have been closer to the truth although F'ing moron would have been more satisfying. I mean, in for a penny, in for a pound, right?

Next off we have Beck claiming he left with his soul. I mean, who gives a flying eff you see kay? While I applaud his success, I am starting to wonder if he is 15 minutes is up. With the money he's made, he could buy a soul if he lost it at Fox News.

Of course what would a crisis be without the philanderer in chief charging to the rescue? Bill Clinton, the evergreen aw shucks boy from deliverance-land, seems to be always at the ready to save the country from Disaster.

Lastly, we have the 4th of July weekend coming up. One has to wonder if Obama will celebrate this great country of ours and all its 57 states? It's actually much worse than that. Barry doesn't even know how old his kids are. Talk about social promotion. How did this guy get into Harvard? A better question which bears an answer is how did he get in the White House? They can sell, he just can't deliver.

Thank you for reading this blog and Eric will return tomorrow evening.