Abortion is a God-Given Right says the Baptist Preacher...

"Abortion is, in fact, a “God-given right,” according to the Rev. Carlton Veazey, a Baptist minister and the president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice."

Yes, there have always been Baptist ministers on the wrong side of history and God's law.  The Baptists split in the 1800s because so many of them believed that slave-holding was a "God-given right."

These Baptists do not worship the God of the Bible.

Look at the picture below and tell me that that act was a God given right.  Tell me where in the Bible God gives you the right to do this, Carlton.

How to change the startup sound for Windows 7

I just installed Windows 7 and I am pleased.  It has run all day without a problem.

Back in the old days of Windows 98 I used to have my own sound ("Greetings") when I started windows.  The capability to customize the startup sound is not there in windows 7:  you can either use the default windows startup sound (cling-cling, cling-cling) or no sound at all.

So, I searched the web.

What you need to know is that this is a  hack, and if you screw your computer up, it's your problem, O.K.?  If you want to continue, know that you could really mess things up: you do so at your own risk.   This worked for me, but I take no responsibility for errors or omissions.  This is the web, right?


If you are new at registry hacks, PRACTICE ON A COMPUTER YOU DON"T CARE ABOUT FIRST.

First, you need to find the file that controls the windows startup sound.  It is called "imageres.dll" and it is found in the windows directory.  In my computer it was:


   C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll

Next, you need to change the ownership of this file.  This file cannot be overwritten or modified without ownership, so I used these instructions:

http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-take-ownership-grant-permissions-to-access-files-folder-in-windows-7.htm

Next, you need a file that allows you to edit the dll file.  I downloaded that from

http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip

After I unzipped ResHack, I ran it as an Administrator.  I then opened the imageres.dll file, made a copy of the original in to safe place, and then opened the file again in the system32 folder.

I expanded WAVE and 5080 as shown, and there is a resource called 1033.

If you click on Play WAVE you will hear the windows startup sound.

The next step is to right click on the resource 1033, and select "Replace Resource"

You will see this menu:

 Click on "Open File With New Resource" and navigate to a .wav file of your choice.

(In this example I am using a file called "alerted.wav")

 

Click on "Open", then put "WAVE" in as the resource type, "5080" (or whatever number that folder is labeled) is as Resource Name., and "1033" or whatever number is indicated as Resource Language.

Click "Replace". Then save in the original location and quit ResHack.

Right click on your desktop, select Personalize from the menu, click on Sounds, and check the Play Windows Startup sound and click "Apply".

When you restart, it should work,  if not, ask someone who knows what they are doing for help.

Comments:  Some people commented that they could not get this to work.  You need to run ResHack as an administrator, or else you won't get it to work.  Also, I received some comments obviously written by a child.  If you are a child playing with your parents computer, don't do this!

If you have trouble saving the changes, it is because you didn't take ownership of the .dll.  The child that posted a comment that this couldn't be done obviously omitted this step.  More detailed instructions are below.

How to Take Ownership in Windows 7

1. Locate the file or folder on which you want to take ownership in windows explorer

2. Right click on file or folder and select “Properties” from Context Menu

3. Click on Security tab

4. Click on “Advanced”

5. Now click on Owner tab in Advance Security Settings for User windows

6. Click on Edit Button and select user from given Change Owner to list if user or group is not in given list then click on other users or groups. Enter name of user/group and click ok.

8. Now select User/group and click apply and ok. (Check “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects” if you have files and folder within selected folder)

9. Click ok when Windows Security Prompt is displayed

10. Now Owner name must have changed.

11. Now click Ok to exist from Properties windows

Once you have taken the ownership of file or folder next part comes is Granting Permissions to that file/folder or object.

How to Grant Permissions in Windows 7

1. Locate the file or folder on which you want to take ownership in windows explorer

2. Right click on file or folder and select “Properties” from Context Menu

3. Click on Edit button in Properties windows Click ok to confirm UAC elevation request.

4. Select user/group from permission windows or click add to add other user or group.

5. Now under Permission section check the rights which you want to grant i.e check “Full Control” under the “Allow” column to assign full access rights control permissions to Administrators group.

6. Click Ok for changes to take effect and click ok final ok to exit from Properties window.

Safer, Cheaper Nuclear Power: The Nuclear Cigar

What is a traveling wave reactor and why should I care?

Readers of this blog are familiar with the potential nuclear proliferation problems of both uranium reactors and plutonium reactors.  As a quick summary, natural uranium is mostly an isotope called U238 which cannot sustain a chain reaction nor make a bomb.  To make a uranium reactor you need to "enrich" the uranium, that is, remove some of the U238 so that the concentration of U235, the uranium that works in reactors (and bombs) is increased.  The problem is that the same technology that can be used to make nuclear fuel can also make nuclear bombs.  (Iran is doing this now.)

Another fuel for bombs is Plutonium239, which can be produced in a standard nuclear reactor, and then separated out chemically from the uranium and other materials in the fuel.  It is easier to make P239 in a reactor than to separate U235 from natural uranium, but it is harder to make a working bomb.  (North Korea is taking this approach.)

P239 makes a good fuel for power generation, and it can be produced from U238, the non-fuel isotope of uranium.

Imagine a cigar made from moist tobacco leaves.  The leaves will not burn unless they are dried first.  If you light one end of the cigar with a match, the heat of the burning leaves will dry the unburned leaves and ignite them as the cigar burns from one end to the other, leaving ash behind.

A newly proposed powerplant design called a "traveling wave reactor" works like a nuclear cigar.  The cigar is a tube of unenriched uranium, mostly U238.  A little U235 acts as a match at one end to produce neutrons that will change the U238 to U239, which decays in two steps, first to neptunium and then to plutonium.  The plutonium acts as a fuel for the reactor and produces power and more neutrons that continue the process of producing new fuel from the inert U238 down the tube.  The reaction, like the glowing tip of the cigar, travels down the tube over time, leaving reaction products (spent fuel), behind and producing more fuel from the unenriched uranium.  This is the "traveling wave" reaction.


This reactor, once started, does not produce easily accessible plutonium that can be diverted to bomb making (it is very easy to tell if an operating reactor has been shut down, and if the nuclear cigar is shut down it indicates either an operational problem or a potential plutonium diversion.)  Also, the reactor only needs a small amount of enriched uranium to act as a match.  All the enriched uranium required for every reactor in the world could come from one enrichment facility.


Finally, the reactor, once started, would burn all its fuel over a period of 50 years or so, meaning no re-fueling "outages" a great cost item to nuclear reactors.  Also, the nuclear waste stays in the reactor, eliminating the need for short term storage of spent fuel over the life time of the reactor.


Nuclear power is our best possible option for clean, inexpensive energy to power the economic growth for future generations, and the nuclear cigar is one possible way to make it safe and simple.

The nuclear cigar:

 

 

I'm Shocked, shocked to find that uranium enrichment is going on here!

News Item:

Iran has a secret uranium enrichment facility in violation of international law.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axQop_S3u.wA

This is no surprise to anyone that pays attention. There is no need for the additional centrifuges possessed by Iran except for the production of nuclear weapons. Don't deny that.

Racism and Government Opposition

Jimmy Carter, a man I greatly admire, has stuck his foot in the poop:

"I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.

"It's a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States..."

The personal attack he is describing is:

"When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler..."

Now I don't think Obama is an animal or a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, but I do think that Mr. Carter has missed the mark. Many people of his age, and many professional politicians, are quick to blame racism. I understand that for them racism still exists. But many other people, mostly younger people, I suppose, have grown up learning that we do not judge by the color of skin but by the content of character. This is the great lesson of Martin Luther King.

I do oppose Obama, and although I don't think he is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, I am really unhappy with his approach to government and its similarity National Socialist Workers Party and other totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Government takeovers, abortions, the thugs at ACORN all point to discredited governments in history, and I don't want to see America make the same mistakes.

Opposition to the Government is not racist because the head of state is of a different race than someone who might oppose him. That thinking is also a failed and discredited world view from the past. Let us judge by the content of character and the results, not the skin color, Mr. Carter.

Obama is wrong

First, I hate racism. I detest it in all forms.

Here is what Obama said:

"But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 -- what I think we know separate and apart from this incident -- is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."

In 1985 I was caught by a police officer standing next to a car trying to open the door while the alarm was wailing. Very suspicious. I showed my ID, explained that it was my employer's car, and showed him a pay stub to show I worked at the company where to car was located. I told him I didn't know how the alarm system worked, so although it looked bad, I had a reason to be there and was doing no wrong. The cop had me wait sitting down while he made a call to check the facts, came back and handed me my ID and wished me a nice evening.
I was not angry. The cop did not act stupidly, and since I am not African-American or Latino, but was stopped, Obama's number 3 doesn't hold either.

If a situation is suspicious should Obama's police ignore the situation if the people involved are African-American or Latino, and only investigate if they are European-American? That's racism.

Happy Roe Day. How cruel can you be?

Today we celebrate the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which turned out to be the cruelest Supreme Court decision in U.S. history, even worse than Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Our new President fully promotes the killing of unwanted unborn children for no reason other than unwanted children are inconvenient. Just as the Nazis decided that Jews were not people who deserved rights, our country has decided that unborn children are not people and can be killed at will, and for the profit of government supported enterprises like Planned Parenthood.

On Tuesday we celebrated the inauguration of the first black U.S. President, who supports the racist policies of Planned Parenthood and their selective killing off of black unborn children. (Over one third of the children killed by abortion are black, and yet only 12 percent of America's population is black.) Your President's promotion of the killing of unborn children is wiping out the future of African Americans. Since 1973 there have been 13 million black children killed before birth in America.

Today I read in the paper a news article about "cruelty free vegan shoes" now available. On the same page was a advertisement taken out by Planned Parenthood and their co-profiteers celebrating the anniversary of the commercial abortion industry. At the same time our society celebrates cruelty free shoes, and the cruel murder of unborn children for money. Do you feel good about that?