Best Internet Speed Test Site

this is the best internet speed testing site on the internet. Than you speedtest.net. I have even installed the speed test mini on my website here: http://huntscomputer.com/internet-speed-test

Happy testing!
Sincerely,
RBH

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Thank you

I'd like to thank FOX news for providing the world with quality new reporting and opinion.

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Davis Hunt

This is my nephew Davis getting his hair did at Christmas.

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Welcome to Rave Ministries

Thanks for coming by our site. I hope it is a blessing to you as you are to us. Leave a comment here about what you like about this site, or what you don't like about this site. What are we doing well? What could we do better?
Thank you,
Website Management
http://huntscomputer.com/

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Community Builder - Direct access to this location not allowed.

I get this message above in joomla when i'm in the back end trying to ad a new field to community builder for user profiles. this did not always happen. and i can figure out what changed to make this error start to occur.
Thanks,
Ryan

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Side Wiki on Twitter

I'm not sure what's the point... a posting side bar on a posting site. Ha. The social web is getting very complicated.

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Team Viewer vs. Go to Assist

Hey, anyone prefer either Team Viewer or Go to Assist over the other. I'm deciding which to go with for my company and I'd like someone input. Thanks!

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Merry Christmas

and a happy new year!

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looking for IMAP for the Pearl Flip 8230

does anyone know of a piece of software or natively, how to download IMAP email to a Blackberry Pearl Flip 8230? Tweet or email me. twitter name @huntscomputer

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My Website, Hunts Computer Solutions

This is my first Google Sidewiki post to my own website. I'm interested to see how this might help website owners like myself drive "interested" traffic to our websites. Come check it out.
-Ryan

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for website developers?

I'm wondering how this might help direct "good" website traffic to the websites that I help develop like: http://huntscomputer.com and http://raveministries.com/ . It's going to have limitations as not everyone will have Google Sidewiki. I'm excited to explore the possibilities however.
-Ryan Hunt, just a guy trying to make it in a cyber world.

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Status

Trying to get Windows 7 to look nice. I think my graphic card dosen't support the fancy stuff :( -rbh

Thomas Jefferson was so right!

The wisdom of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, in many regards could be called a prophet, for he
foresaw our age in his quotes:

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we
shall become as corrupt as Europe ."
Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who
are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A
principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results
from too much government."
Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and
bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
in government."
Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots and tyrants."   Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Thomas Jefferson

Finally:
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until
their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.'
Thomas Jefferson

Spread the Irony

Spread the Irony

Only in America ......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to
the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people
can buy cigarettes at the front.

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Only in America ......do people order double cheeseburgers, large
fries, and a diet coke.

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Only in America ......do banks leave both doors open and then chain
the pens to the counters.

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Only in America .....do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in
the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

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Only in America.......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns
in packages of eight.

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Only in America ......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

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EVER WONDER ...

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

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Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

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It's the Network - GiANTImpact.com

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It's the Network

There's no denying that we've fallen into precarious economic times. The United States shed 2.6 million jobs in 2008. More of the same continued in January 2009, a month during which corporations announced 65,000 layoffs in a single day.

No matter how penniless you feel right now, there's one investment you can't afford to overlook. At a time when no one's buying, there's something you must build. In a world where budgets are tight, you can't skimp on this line item. What is it, you ask?

As the Verizon slogan says, It's the network.

In his book, Never Eat Alone, Keith …

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Failing Forward
By Dr. John C. Maxwell

Vincent Van Gogh failed as an art dealer, flunked his entrance exam to theology school, and was fired by the church after an ill-fated attempt at missionary work. In fact, during his life, he seldom experienced anything other than failure as an artist. Although a single painting by Van Gogh would fetch in excess of $100 million today, in his lifetime Van Gogh sold only one painting, four months prior to his death.

Before developing his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein encountered academic failure. One headmaster expelled Einstein from school and another teacher predicted that he would never amount to anything. …

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Personal Note from John C. Maxwell

Dear Friend,

Developing yourself as a leader is essential to make a great and lasting impact. A leader sees the big picture, but he or she needs other leaders to help make their mental picture a reality.

The nightly newscasts are broadcasting messages that stir emotions of fear, doubt, and uncertainly. Let me encourage you to maintain a positive and realistic perspective. Choose to be a catalyst for hope. This season more than any in recent history calls for leadership and people of influence.

The time you spend with this material will prove to be a worthy investment. Your organization will …

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Cycle of Democracy

This is a great article by Orrin Woodward.




The following quote is from Alexander Fraser Tyler - (in his 1770 book, Cycle of Democracy). I have been thinking about this quote and the state of our union for many months. I do not write this article in an attacking spirit, but in a spirit of searching for the right path in a world wandering down blind alleys.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a louse fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence:"

Here is the sequence with my thoughts of where America is in the cycle.

From bondage to spiritual faith;

The Great Awakening of the 1730’s in the American Colonies was a time of revival and spiritual longing. Jonathon Edwards, considered by many to be America’s greatest mind, led the revival with Biblical sermons and a fire for truth. Edwards taught the unvarnished truth about sinful man and our accountability to an Almighty God. Not surprisingly, he is mocked and laughed at today, but that is more of an indictment of our society than Edwards preaching. Pastor Edward’s magnum opus, Freedom of the Will has never been refuted by any scholar. This was a critical step in developing the conviction to fear God and not man. Even if man happened to be the largest empire in the world in which the sun never set – British Empire.

From spiritual faith to great courage;

Spiritual faith leads to great courage based upon convictions worth sacrificing for. A person who will does not stand for something, will fall for anything. Think of the true heroes throughout history. One of the uniting principles that all heroes have is a willingness to stand for truth and convictions in a world of untruth and apathy. The Founding Families had great courage to stand for the truth of against tyranny and oppression. They did this because they knew the Bible said, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.” The British were moving in the direction of excessive taxation (1 %) and the Colonist would not sit back and allow an offsite government to tax local colonist.

From courage to liberty;

The Colonist defeat of the British Empire was not a defeat of British military forces as much as a victory over British will. The Colonists were fighting for their deeply held principles that they were willing to give their life, wealth and sacred honor for. The British were fighting for some extra taxation in one of their many colonies. The American will defeated the British will because of an imbalance in the convictions involved. With the defeat of Cornwallis and the subsequent genius of our American Constitution, liberty reigned in the United States under rule of law.

From liberty to abundance;

The abundance generated by free enterprise and limited government was one of America’s biggest blessings, but also one of our biggest challenges. One of the few standing economies after WWII was America’s. Our products flowed to nearly all foreign markets creating the wealthiest society in the world’s history. It takes incredible discipline to remember where our blessings come from with abundance heaped upon further abundance. Over time, people forget the principles that created the liberty and the fruit of that liberty. Seeing the inequalities in the blessing of individual citizens, an envy of our fellow Americans germinates. The fruit of this unholy thinking is a desire to take our brothers and sisters abundance and give to those less abounding. Government would have to intervene and right this wrong according to the envious.

From abundance to selfishness;

The 1960’s were a decade of self masquerading as a care for those less fortunate. Free love, destruction of society’s norms, and a drug culture prevailed in the youth. The 1960’s were a rebellion against the plastic society of abundance without the belief in the principles that created that abundance. The Church, having lost conviction of the truths of the Bible, ossified into ghetto culture within America. With little truth in the Church, the youth were left on their own to search for answers to the hypocrisy that engulfed them. Instead of returning to the Biblical principles and the God that created the blessings, society entered into the worship of self and self-actualization. The youth of the 60’s saw the hypocrisy, but in their endless faith in their own holiness marched America even further from its Biblical roots.

From selfishness to complacency;

Without a Biblical foundation, the rebellion was bound to produce worse fruits than the plastic culture it attempted to replace. With no firm convictions to stand upon, the rebellion dissolved into peace and personal affluence. The loss of Biblical absolutes is bound to lead from convictions to surrender to complacency as no one is sure what the truth is. What is the use of standing for anything, if we are not sure that what we are standing for is truth? The 1970’s saw this complacency as the youth joined the “system” and pursued peace and affluence with little understanding of original principles that America was founded upon.

From complacency to apathy;

1980’s were a brief respite in the cycle. Thanks to the leadership and convictions of Ronald Reagan, America stood its ground against Communism and found that Communism was a paper tiger. The respite was short lived because the President, even with his bully pulpit, cannot consistently educate Americans on Biblical truths. This must be a function of the church, which has abdicated their responsibility in an effort to be relative to a lost generation.

The 1990’s saw a near complete surrender to apathy and personal fulfillment. With a near complete rejection of absolute values, people defined their own values and pursued fulfillment in the myriad of choices available to them. People did not care who was running the government as long as they were left alone to pursue the own personal agenda. Government performed by doing focus groups to ascertain what the people wanted and giving it to them, surrendering all leadership responsibilities to the disparate wishes of the people. Government, instead of playing the role of umpire and defender of our freedoms began to play the role of a benevolent dictator. The dictator studied to learn what we wanted and offered that to us with only a token price of submission to their plan.

From apathy to dependency;

The 2000’s will be remembered as the decade of complete submission to the government’s largesse. The American citizen’s depend upon government for their welfare, health care, social security, etc. It would be unthinkable for most Americans to live without the direct involvement of our beneficent Big Brother. The price of dependency is submission of our freedoms to the dictates of Big Brother. The old saying that you boil a frog one degree at a time aptly fits here. If you take a frog and throw him into boiling water, the frog will have enough sense to jump out. But if you turn up the temperature slowly, the frog will open up its pores and will literally be boiled without an attempted escape. Americans are now boiling in our dependency on our government.

From dependency back again to bondage.

Eventually in our dependence, we see our status falling in the free world as slaves can never perform the functions of free men and women. Although the government still mouths the words of our founding fathers, the words have new meanings. The citizens cannot put a finger on the malady, but they know something is not right. In their desperation, they look for a messiah to save them. Because the Churches are not sharing the message of the true messiah and the true way to liberty, the citizens look for a worldly messiah. A perceptive leader, with words that tickle the ears promises to be the searched for messiah. With the republican form of government torn asunder and transformed into a nascent democracy – the powerful words and promises of deliverance speak directly to the masses. A savior is born unto the people and salvation is just around the corner.

A shocking truth is learned too late that man cannot save man and only Jesus Christ can liberate the soul in bondage. A people held in bondage to sin can never be responsible to run a free government. The people in bondage will look to the government the way Christians look to their Savior. Government cannot be the savior to the people and was never intended to be so when created by our Founding Families. America’s national debt is now over $10 trillion and to service the debt on the interest is over $450 billion per year. This makes interest on debt the 3rd biggest item on our governments budget! We are bankrupting our children's inheritance on the altar of self indulgence! Ben Franklin said after the creation of our Constitution when asked what type of government was created, “A republic, if you can keep it.” A republic was formed to keep the masses from directly running the government and voting the government into bankruptcy. How far have we traveled from our founding principles and roots?

I did not write this to scare people into inactivity, but to awaken our consciences to the choices that face us. We do not have to complete this cycle and just as Ronald Reagan interrupted the cycle, we can too! Will it take convictions and guts? Yes, but a Godly people that have studied the truth of our founding principles will not be swayed by the promises of an almighty government. Examine yourself. Where do you stand at this historic time?

Let me close with one of my brothers favorite authors. The science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein called this issue "Bread and Circuses" - a reference to Roman Emperors providing food and entertainment to distract the masses. In "To Sail beyond the Sunset" the character Lazarus Long discusses this problem:

"A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally has no internal feedback for self correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens...which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it...which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'

"Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."

Where do you think America is on the cycle and what do you think we must do to address and fix? I will end this article here, but will address my proposed cures in future articles. God Bless, Orrin Woodward

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