The kid, crying not because he was in trouble, but because he got caught took 5 minutes to put the worms back with his mother scolding him all the while the employee standing there watching. How pathetic. 3 year old child is already learning to steal from our stores and all his mom had to say was put if back or you will go to jail. And people wonder why the crime rate is what it is. If this was my kid, his ass would have been royally right there in front of everyone. Of course, that would never be my kid because I actually PARENT my child and teach him to be a valuable member of society, not a leech of it. Bah!

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Yes, the U.S. is one of the biggest, most powerful, countries in the world. Yes, Haiti is a poor “3rd world country”. Yes, Iraq and Iran need help liberating themselves from the terrorists that are ravaging their countries. Yes, Afghanistan had a pretty shitty ruler. I see and understand all of that.

HOWEVER…

- Poverty in the US is estimated that roughly 13% – 17% of our population living below the federal poverty line.
- Homeless numbers in the US are estimated in the hundreds of thousands and are growing
- The unemployment rate in the US is roughly 10%, doubled of what it was just 2 years ago.

The US is in one of the worst economic situations of its history. Americans all over the country are suffering from this, either directly or indirectly. With that I cannot help but be completely disgusted at the fact that we are spending so much to “help” other countries that don’t even appreciate or want our help.

Haiti – yea, it sucks what happened and I am sympathetic to those that have lost loved ones in the disaster… but it’s not the United States’ problem. Iraq – they don’t even like us over there. Iraqis want us to leave, our citizens want us to leave, we need to leave. Let the middle east fight amongst itself. Darwin’s Law will apply – the fittest will survive and the weak will become extinct. Iran – either back up our problem with their nuclear technologies and bomb them or back off. Politics does not work with retards. Afghanistan – Again, we got Saddam, job completed. Time to leave.

Here’s an idea – Feds – instead of all these international efforts, why don’t we just focus on fixing our own country? Actors – instead of donating millions to help Haiti, donate them to the US to help your own countrymen. WTF America, WTF?

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Error opening message store (MSEMS). Verify that the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is running and that you have the correct permissions to log on. (0×8004011d)

Even though you may be a Domain Admin or Enterprise Admin, you will still receive this. In fact, you are at a distinct disadvantage being in either of these groups. In order to run Exmerge, you must have “Send As” and “Receive As” rights on the Exchange Mailbox Store that holds the given users mailbox. Domain Admins and Enterprise Admins have implicit DENY policies in this.

Resolution:
1. Open “System Manager”.
2. Drill down to the applicable Mailbox Store.
3. Right click on the store and go to “Properties”.
4. On the “Security” tab, add your user and ensure “Receive As” and “Send As” are allowed.

This should resolve the issue. The other consequences of this is that any user you add here will be granted FULL control of all mailboxes within this store. Use with caution.

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Brett Favre, one of my least favorite players due to the constant media and PR games he plays with his “retiring” and then “not retiring” game, is now out of the playoffs and doesn’t get a chance at another SuperBowl Ring. What happens? There’s this big controversy about the Vikings not even getting a possession on the OT play to try to get the win and that isn’t fair. Waa Waa Waa.

A brief quote from Dan Pompei…

The current system is just not fair. The Vikings played their entire
season to get to the point when they had a chance to win it in overtime
and go to the Super Bowl, and they never even had a opportunity to
score.

Here’s my problem – they had 60 minutes of football, 4 full quarters, to outscore the Saints. They had plenty of time to get it done, and when it comes down to it, Brett didn’t come through for the team. Who knows – one more completion could have changed the outcome. There should be no complaining about fairness of OT rules. There should be no whining about losing the game to a coin flip. If they played a better game, if their defense would have done a better just stopping Drew Brees and the Saints Offense, if Brett would have played better offense, the OT would have never happened.

Don’t blame the rules, don’t blame the coin, don’t blame the NFL… You lost. Get over it. Oh, and this year, maybe you will retire for real? Lets hope!

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Lets start with service – it was fast, courteous and efficient. Order was taken quickly. Food was cooked and delivered speedy. Chef was actually wearing Chef’s clothes, not jeans and a T-shirt.

Selection – their menu was awesome. For you beer drinkers, there were several (maybe 8?) full sheet pages of just beer selection. Expected for a beer house, but actually a larger selection than even Winking Lizard. Foodwise, what can I say. There were a lot of unique recipes on there. Maybe 20ish different burgers plus lots of other stuff.

My friend, R.E., ordered the “Fatty Melt”. This was a burger with Bacon and Tomato with a twist – the “buns” were each a grilled cheese sandwich. Looking at that description, I expected the burger to be pretty big. I decided to order the “Double Sasquatch” burger. 2 beef patties, onion ring and BBQ sauce. It sounded pretty appetizing. Well when the food came out, my jaw dropped. R.E.’s burger looked big, but my burger was the biggest burger I’d ever seen. I felt like I should be on that “Man VS. Food” T.V. show. 1 FULL pound of beef, not to mention the giant onion ring. Garnished with a breaded, deep fried pickle spear on top, this was a sight. With the nearly impossible task of killing this I heard familiar words come from across the table… “Man up. Go big or go home”. The waitress actually did a blatant double-take when she walked past us under 5 minutes later and the burger was gone. Not only the biggest burger I’d ever had, it was easily one of the best. And for the price (10.75 – 2.00 Lunch Special discount = 8.75) you can’t beat it.

If you’re reading this, you have GOT to give this place a try. They deserve your business!

Buckeye Beer Engine
15315 Madison Ave
Lakewood, OH 44107
216-226-BEER
http://www.buckeyebeerengine.com

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Speaking of shows, I have two on the not so distant horizon. Cinderella (GHHS) and Jekyll and Hyde The Musical (GHLT). I hope you all come and see them. If all goes as planned, two of my co-workers are planning to audition for Jekyll and I will be working tech. Despite the fact that so many people want me to audition as “Spider“.

Last night I saw “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” and I must say I was impressed. I didn’t realize until 1/2 way through that Colin Farrell was in in it.

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So far I have to say I am less than impressed. The service is rather slow. The tables by the windows suck because they are old draft windows. Being allergic to dairy products, I attempted to order my Reuben without cheese. At first I was told no because changing the makeup of a menu item was like “slapping the cook in the face “. Wow… that’s ridiculous. Well the waiter says he would talk to he cook and “see what he could” do after I expressed my allergy. Mind you, its over 13.00 for a simple Reuben sandwich.

OK. Got the food and my first impression is “13.00 for that little of a portion? This isn’t L.A.”. Feelings of taste… there wasn’t much of it. Service? Slow but polite and happy.

Overall opinion: if you like hoity toity overpriced small portioned food then this place is for you. For me, I’ll never go back. Better luck next time Lucky’s. =]

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Error [0x0f0082] SYSPRP LaunchDll:Failure occurred while executing ‘C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer returned error code 2
Error [0x0f0070] SYSPRP RunExternalDlls:An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep
execution. dwRet = 2
Error [0x0f00a8] SYSPRP WinMain:Hit failure while processing sysprep cleanup providers; hr = 0×80070002

The problem is that there is not a “RunOnce” key in the following registry location:

hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

To resolve, simply add this key to the CurrentVersion folder and run sysprep again. Worked for me.

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Some details have surfaced. The Motorola phone will be named “Droid” and according to reports, the release date seems to be October 30th. If this pans out to be true, have no fear… there will be quite a bit of review posts coming as I will be buying one that day! I cannot wait! More to come…

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