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We finally have a ruling this year I agree with as the majority decision upheld our Second Amendment rights. The case was brought to the Supreme Court through a case in Washington, D.C. that has had a 32 year law that banned private possession of handguns and required that any rifles or shotguns kept at home be unloaded and dissembled or bound by a trigger lock.

People will point to stats about how many gun deaths there are in the U.S., but how many are a result of legal gun owners? Then compare the HUGE number of deaths from car accidents and the gun death figures are insignificant. We are willing to risk our lives on the road and accept that risk, but not the risk that some psycho will take out a gun and shoot us at work which is a much less likely scenario. Maybe if more of us carried a concealed weapon we could take down these crazies.

It will be interesting to now see if other gun control legislation is challenged now that a precedent has been set by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wow, another sad day for those of us in the U.S. as the five liberal leaning members of the Supreme Court continue to make bad decisions. This time they ruled that States cannot sentence child rapists to death. I love children and think that special rules should actually apply to those monsters who rape or harm children and am very disappointed by this ruling that may have made some of these beasts pause before acting. I don’t know if it is just urban legend or not, but I understand that child rapists are targets in prison so this may not actually make much difference.

Even though I am a Christian man, I have to tell you it would be extremely difficult for me to control myself if anyone touched or harmed my wife or three daughters. Death may actually be a better option than being raped by a monster because at least you are then immediately in Heaven, rather than having to live out your life with the mental, and maybe physical, damage caused by these demons. I am very emotional about protecting our children and probably shouldn’t say anymore here on this issue as it just gets me fired up.

at least IMHO :)  My wife and I were married 15 years ago and today will be celebrating by spending a weekend alone in our favorite hotel in Seattle. Did you know that we actually met each other and were married in a mere 17 days? We were both Christians and felt secure in knowing that we were designed for each other and neither one of us felt that nervous those 15 years ago. God is good, all the time!

My wife is an amazing woman who actually became pregnant with our first daughter just one month after we were married and has been the best mother any person could ask for so my girls are very blessed. We have had lots of good times and a few bad over the years, but we continue to love and enjoy each other. My love for her actually grows every year and I am happy for this since we plan to be together for a LONG time.

Thanks Dayna, for putting up with me all these years, I know it hasn’t been easy all the time. Love and marriages are never easy and are not designed to be easy. I wish more people would make the right choice and work hard to stick with it over the years though so we had less divorces. It makes a HUGE difference if God is at the center of your lives too.

OK, let me start off by saying that I just don’t have much time to post here anymore with my ZDNet blog, my normal day job, and life with my wife and family. I am just using this blog as a way to either voice some of my personal opinions, talk a bit about my devices, or rant when I need to rant. As we move into another highly anticipated Presidental election season you may see more political posts and if you don’t want to read them then please don’t and you may even want to unsubscribe to this blog, which is your decision to make.

Neither candidate reflects and upholds all the values that I hold dear to my heart and it is one of those years where I’ll have to choose the best for the job, with the primary role of keeping my family and me safe. That said there is really only one choice when it comes to voting for an American who loves this country and will do everything in his power to protect it and that is John McCain. Obama’s inexperience and attitude towards those who intend to harm us is scary and I just can’t believe there are intelligent people out there who may actually vote for him.

This idiotic latest Supreme Court decision highlights a key difference between these two candidates and makes it very clear who should be the next President of the U.S.A.  Why should suspected terrorist detainees from other countries have the right to add to the backlog in our civil court system? Do you think this kind of ridiculous decision would ever be made in another country, only in America. I like McCain’s strong statement that Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainees is “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

I posted about the release a couple weeks ago and with lots of new devices to evaluate I have been installing PocketBible 4 on them (if they are Windows Mobile) so I can read on the train ride in and out of town. They really took it to the next level with the layout saving capability, scrolling page turns, highlighting and notes support in non-touch screen devices, maximize windows, flick gestures, and much more.

It looks absolutely fantastic on the high resolution display of the HTC Touch Diamond that I am evaluating and with a super small device like this it is easy to have the Bible with you at all times.

Wow, some people online are amazing how they can be so rude and self-serving. I don’t want to get into details since there is a long history of someone I know disrespecting a ton of people (media, public relations, bloggers, etc.) for their own self-serving needs, but I am a bit ticked off that anyone would question my integrity. As a Christian man of the Lord I hold myself to a high level of honesty and truthfulness and would never sell myself out for a silly mobile device. Readers here and on my ZDNet blog know that I always lay it out as I see it and never gloss over or hide any facts about devices because of my integrity and my desire to make sure you all can make the best purchase decisions for yourselves.

The fact that some fool questions me isn’t an issue since that is their right, but to so rudely post publicly about it without the courtesy to contact me first to discuss the issue is uncalled for. Maybe I have newer firmware on my device so my experience is different. Maybe the person should watch my videos where I clearly show exactly what I am talking about. One reason I now do a lot of videos is so that you experience exactly what I am experiencing.

Wouldn’t it be nice if common courtesy and respect was brought back to our society? Let’s make a difference and try to lead by example OK folks.

As you all know, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 3G yesterday at the end of a long WWDC keynote. The new device has 3G, GPS, and long battery life. However, your data plan rate will increase $10/month too. The rest of the hardware is the same so my plan is to skip this small update and wait to see what may be announced next January at MacWorld.

The iPhone 2.0 software update will also be coming in July so I do plan to update my current iPhone to get Exchange ActiveSync support, which will be great. Apple also announced their new MobileMe service that looks awesome and I think this is the bigger announcement than the iPhone 3G.