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If you want to know how the "String Theory" and "Anti-gravity" spinning card tricks are done, just Google "Hummer Card Magic Trick Revealed" and you'll see how it is done. The video at Metacafe by CoreyHuck is pretty good. The trick is done using 'invisible' magician's thread.

I was looking for a free screen recorder that would record sound properly and the one from nbxsoft.com seemed to be what I was looking for. They make a big deal about it being free and that registration is free. But after you use it a few times, you are forced to register and that's when you find out that registration is no longer free. You have to pay if you want to keep using it.

Companies that do this kind of bait and switch should be closed down. It's not an innocent mistake. They've had plenty of time to update their web site to let us know that registration is no longer free. If they can update the registration page with this information, they can update their other pages too.

If nbxsoft.com is going to trick us like this, how can we trust them with our credit card information? It's probably safer to avoid nbxsoft.com and their products.

Signs of things to come. Supervisors in Oregon laid off or demoted because they don't speak Spanish:

Message to United States citizens: It seems Spanish speaking people do not have to learn English, so you're going to have to learn Spanish if you want to keep your jobs in the future.

If you move to France, you better learn how to speak French. If you move to Germany, you better learn how to speak German. If you move to Mexico, you better learn how to speak Spanish. And if you move to the United States, you better learn how to speak English Spanish? If nothing is done to preserve English, we'll be bilingual for a while, but you know that Spanish will eventually take over if you have even a drop of foresight.

People talk about preserving various cultures, but what about the integral part of United States culture where English was our common language? Many legal immigrants used to be proud to learn English as a part of becoming an 'American.' English was a major ingredient in this Great American Melting Pot that held us all together:

English is part of our culture and we should hold onto it. Making sure that English is our official language does not mean that other languages would be banned, it just means that we won't lose English as our common language when Spanish speaking illegal immigrants and their children eventually become the majority in the United States. Below is a quote from wikipedia about the English-only movement under Criticism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-only_movement

Linguist Geoffrey Pullum, in an essay entitled "Here come the linguistic fascists" charges English First with "hatred and suspicion of aliens and immigrants" and points out that English is far from under threat in the United States, saying "making English the official language of the United States of America is about as urgently called for as making hotdogs the official food at baseball games."

He said that in 1991. Only a fool would try to use that as an argument in 2008. It should be clear to even the most dense by now that illegal immigration is a serious problem that threatens our cultural language. It has nothing to do with hatred and suspicion. I hate everyone equally no matter what skin color they have or what language they speak. I simply like the English language. I like how you don't have to wiggle your tongue in strange ways or make squeaks or clicks or noises like you're trying to scrape up a big ball of phlegm. I like how most common English words roll off the tongue with little effort. No oral gymnastics are necessary. The unprecedented illegal immigration problem in the United States is going to keep chipping away at our language unless we protect it while we still can.

Related Links:

http://www.us-english.org/

The lack of an assimilation policy for immigrants to the United States is rapidly changing the successful integration ways of the past. Gone are the days of the American Dream and the upwardly mobile society for immigrants. In its place are low expectations and government policies that encourage Americans to learn the language of the immigrants, instead of the other way around.

http://www.proenglish.org/

Today America's linguistic unity, which enabled the melting-pot crucible to forge one nation out of millions of immigrants from all over the world, is under attack as never before. Record numbers of non-English speaking immigrants threaten to overwhelm the assimilative process. And instead of encouraging new immigrants to acquire the English fluency needed to succeed in our society, the policy of our government is to promote "diversity" by operating in ever growing numbers of foreign languages.

This multilingualism is causing a growing underclass, which is segregated and walled off into linguistic ghettos. A century ago such immigrant ghettos were marked by extreme poverty, 80-hour workweeks and child labor. As the industrial revolution matured, immigrants discovered that language skills were the key to entering the emerging "middle class." This, coupled with mandatory public education and reduced immigration, resulted in the successful assimilation of ethnic communities into American society.

But today, in segregated classrooms, so-called "bilingual education" keeps immigrant children from learning English, by teaching them in foreign languages. And millions of people cannot find good-paying jobs, because they lack the ability to speak English with customers, co-workers or employers.

I read a post somewhere that said, among other things, that the person needed the Bible for strength or that he'd be lost without the Bible. Well, I have to say that strength comes from within. Trying to get strength from other people, dusty old books, or magical invisible men in the sky is like using a wheelchair when there's nothing wrong with you. You have everything you need to be strong in any situation. The problem is that many of us have been trained since childhood that we need something outside of ourselves for strength and self-esteem.

And the whole "I chose the correct religion and everyone else is going to hell" idea is kind of like thinking that everyone who didn't buy Google stock is going to hell. "Sorry, you invested in the wrong company. It sucks to be you. Try to have fun splashing around in the lake of fire or floating in the black void or whatever the latest theory my cult leader has about where you sinners are going."

It will be so funny if we find out that everyone goes to 'Heaven' no matter what they believed or what the did while on Earth. It would totally piss off atheists and people who belong to any small or large cult such as Christianity.

The Easter egg symbolizes Christ and the Holy Spirit. Christ is the disgusting rubbery egg white and the Holy Spirit is the orange dead baby chicken ball. God the Father is the Easter Bunny who hides the colorful Christ/Holy Spirit eggs since one wouldn't want to make it easy for kids to find Christ and the Holy Spirit. We all know that boiled eggs are disgusting and that's why Easter Bunny God hides so many. He gives kids numerous chances to eat of the disgusting rubbery white flesh of Christ and gnaw on the dead baby chickeness of the Holy Spirit and those who refuse will eventually be cast into the lake of molten marshmallow. Easter Bunny God also brings big baskets of candy to rot the teeth of children because teeth represent the roots of evil and they must be destroyed by the power of God's chocolate.

I haven't been to Sunday school since the 1980s, so some of that might be wrong.