Romney Wins Arizona GOP Primary .

Mitt Romney won the Arizona primary and was clinging to a small but persistent lead over Rick Santorum in Michigan Tuesday with about half of precincts reporting.

The former Massachusetts governor had been widely expected to win Arizona. Michigan was the fiercer battleground, and Mr. Santorum hoped a victory there would help him offset Mr. Romney's advantages in money, organization and experience.

But Mr. Romney held a lead of several percentage points in his native state, where his father was governor. If the narrow margin held up, it would give Mr. Romney momentum but might not dispel doubts about his ability to unify the party.

With 50% of Michigan's precincts reporting, Mr. Romney had 40% of the vote to Mr. Santorum's 36.2%. Texas Rep. Ron Paul had 11.5%, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had 6.6%.

Hate to say it but the time would come to cut my losses and see what happens with every intention of voting 3rd party if Romney get nominated. Romney or Obama wins and its over for America. So I would rather hell freeze over than vote for Romney or Obama. Instead of supporting the republican Obama version I will still be attacking Romney and Obama. I won’t cave on principal. But that is me. And that is why I was with Bachmann who had a 100% conservative rating till she dropped out. But I also supported Cain and I will vote for Santorum in my Caucus and for Newt if he wins in the general. But Romney is a bridge too far.

We haZ those...

Unfortunately Cali’s enviro edicts, Homosexual nazis (and their ‘new way’, and other ‘big’ issues, along with people wholly unable to operate motor vehicles, meth heads and other criminals fleeing the 3 strikes law and the like came with them.

Even since I’ve been here (and Las Vegas a few of those years - same problems there too) it is a 180 turnaround in the makeup of the state. It is like dropping a bunch of Mass/Conn libs into Texas and saying “OK boys, fix it!” Except Texas didn’t need their brand of “fix” and neither did AZ or NV. Not that it stops them...

Now if you get away from all that into the boonies, it’s a lot like the old days with an armed and old-school populace...to a point. But you lose the JoAnn’s and the Coffee shops too.

That is nobel sentiment, but take the example of Europe, in particular my country the UK.

We used to be as conservative as you, we were the original conservatives..........and why have we been so massively reduced to a socialist state in all but name?

Not because these left wingers were so electable and popular, but because our conservatives were infaltrated, and watered down from within.......it is a gradual process, but the GOP seems to have shockingly sped this up with successive moderate candidates........all in the hope of a bit of power. It is nothing but oneupmanship....reds vs blues.......they have become so blinkered they have forgotten what they once stood for, as did our conservatives....mark my workd, take it from someone that has seen the exact same liberalisation of a so called conservative party......the day you wake up to a GOP leader throwing his support behind tax and spend policies and the liberal social agenda draws closer and closer. Romney is just the start.

I just hate to reboot remote machines. That’s part of the reason this took so long, the box locked up and couldn’t get the machine back into multi-user after a remote power cycle, requiring a 2.5 hour leisurely drive in the middle of the night to give a warm hug to my sick init process. Need to investigate remote consoles.

You might enjoy this story about 'remote machines' John ...

Back in the late 80's, I found myself working at an FM radio station in North Florida, wearing several different hats, news director, morning show host, Sat nite oldies host, etc., and our station had applied to the FCC for 24 hour operation (prior to that we signed off at Midnight) and when we were granted the 24/7 extended hours, my boss sadly realized that he couldn't afford an extra person to sit on the control board from Midnight to 6, and that is when I suggested to him that we just record 6 hours of programming on the audio track of a VCR tape, and run the VCR after Midnight until the morning crew (me and my co-host) came in at 5:00 am.

My boss was ecstatic at the idea, in fact he went out and bought a Hitachi (?) VCR which was not belt driven like most VCR's of the day, but gear driven which meant no distortion on the lower extended play/record speed.

So everything is great UNTIL our illustrious engineer informed us that we couldn't leave the station totally unattended UNLESS we were able to remotely control the transmitter to shut it off if necessary per FCC requirements. And the remote control equipment was prohibitively expensive. My boss went from ecstatic to enraged.

At the risk of this sounding like I'm tooting my own horn, I spent some time with the engineer (who was like a dutch Uncle to me anyway), and we found a cheap solution:

In the transmitter shack about 100 yards from the main building, we had a standard touch tone telephone, and we replaced it with a speaker phone that had a feature for "automatic pickup" for incoming calls. We tested it, and sure enough, we could call the phone and it would answer and we heard the humming of the transmitter (and not much else).

Then we installed a popular consumer product of that era between the AC power coming into the shack and the transmitter itself.

Behold, the 'CLAPPER' (Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!), and by God it worked: we called the speakerphone, we clapped our hands over the mouth piece on our phone, and the damn transmitter shut down perfectly.

My reward? I got a .50 cent per hour increase in wages.

BFD (as Joe Biden would say) LOL

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