https://ksmith.com/ 2026-05-03T09:12:00+00:00 https://ksmith.com/ https://ksmith.com/lib/tpl/arctic/images/favicon.ico text/html 2022-11-04T09:01:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:2022_arizona_ballot_initiatives&rev=1667577680&do=diff 2022 Arizona Ballot Initiatives Pretty interesting some of the advertising around the state propositions. In particular proposition 132 ads in Arizona are disingenuous at best. Here is My take: Proposition 128 Diverting funds from things found to be illegal or unconstitutional. Basically makes it easier for the legislature to use the funds elsewhere if they can't use them for their intended purpose. text/html 2023-04-06T15:33:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:child_abuse&rev=1680820438&do=diff Child Abuse The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 published a letter from a Samuel Metz, MD of Portland Oregon. This supposed doctor apparently aided his adolescent child's sexual mutilation. I would love for a district attorney to prosecute him, and his wife and any supposed doctor that participated in the abjectly horrible transgression against children. It is high time we treated these perverts for what they are. Children should be protected and counseled until they reach the… text/html 2023-12-26T23:06:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:chuwi_n100_minibook_x&rev=1703657189&do=diff Chuwi N100 Minibook X The Journey I bought a Teclast F5 moons ago (See: Teclast F5) I toted it for quite a while, it was a pretty decent small laptop minor quirks reliable N4000 CPU and 8G of RAM. I updated the SATA SSD with something slightly larger. It got dropped and banged up, but continued to work just fine, I decided to shift to something even smaller. text/html 2024-05-28T10:28:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:lethal_force&rev=1716917282&do=diff Lethal Force I asked the question when this Mar-a-lago madness began. Why was it necessary to roll up to a former President's home with an FBI swat team of near 100 agents? Tear gas, automatic weapons, surround the facility, literally storm it? Now we find there was a text/html 2022-10-28T13:47:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:media_bias&rev=1666990062&do=diff Media Bias I don't know why people think there is bias at google. A simple look at the search results from Google, Bing, and Duck-Duck-Go centering around the Arizona governor's race shows plainly that there is no bias whatsoever. This is clearly not bias, Google is simply actively campaigning for Ms Hobbs. After all Kari lake is text/html 2024-01-03T09:52:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:search_engine_sanity&rev=1704300763&do=diff Search Engine Sanity GOOGLE is just useless I wanted to do a quick blog entry, I typed in www.ksmith.ccom on accident with google as the search engine... This web site did not appear anywhere. There were around 60 (six-zero) responses to the obviously mistyped query, not one mentioned this site which has existed since before you had to pay for a domain name. Now, I understand, there are paid advertisers and all that, so I would not expect it to be the first thing, I would however expect… text/html 2022-08-10T23:54:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:start_of_a_new_blog&rev=1660200877&do=diff Start of a New Blog This is the start of a blog. Just testing things out for now. text/html 2022-08-10T23:57:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:start&rev=1660201029&do=diff text/html 2022-09-22T13:54:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:suppressing_the_vote&rev=1663880091&do=diff Suppressing The Vote I find it stunning that anyone would have a problem showing an ID of some sort to vote. Frankly I think we (as in the various municipalities that control voting) should force people to re-register / confirm every 4-8 years. People are constantly moving around these days, and automatic dis-enrollment is frankly not enough. Voting is a privilege you should be very careful with. Most politics are really local, and as a member and officer of various community organizations i… text/html 2023-06-12T13:20:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:tesla_charging_plug&rev=1686601240&do=diff Tesla's NACS Charging Plug NOTE: I don't own a Tesla, I own two EV's a Hyundai Kona EV, and a Kia Niro EV. Both have CCS plugs which are bulky, hard to plug in, and generally terrible. EV charging comes in several flavors, but the bottom line is you either plug into an AC outlet or a DC outlet. An EV 'charger' is not really a charger like you would have for an iPhone or laptop. When charging an EV the box is simply a control/communication devices and a relay. To simplify the idea, when you… text/html 2022-08-10T23:56:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:test_article_2&rev=1660201001&do=diff Test Article 2 This would be the 2nd article text/html 2022-11-04T08:58:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:the_age_of_majority&rev=1667577502&do=diff The Age of Majority The age of majority, which is eighteen (18) in the United states is considered the age at which a child becomes an adult, and confers the right to vote to that individual. This age was 21 for the longest period of time, until radical left leaning groups from the 1960's decided to push for a reduction in that age with the argument that if you were old enough to be drafted and die for your country you should be allowed to vote. text/html 2022-09-03T11:16:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:the_right_to_choose&rev=1662228993&do=diff The Right To Choose Pro-Choice/Pro-Life is really the same thing. I am in whole hearted agreement that women have “The Right to Choose”. The fundamental question is: At what point the choice has been made? Whenever you ask the fundamental question, you start to get all these anecdotal and irrational comments about text/html 2024-01-03T10:31:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:unbiased_media&rev=1704303084&do=diff Unbiased Media It's so pervasive it's almost comical [Inundated with this cruft in my browser] So apparently “unearthing” plagarism by the president of a university is a 'weapon' that conservatives use to target colleges . . . (Minorities, etc). My question as a reporter would be somewhat simpler. I'd be calling out the board that was either so inept or so biased, or so corrupt that it failed to do simple due diligence in the vetting process before hiring an individual to run what is suppos… text/html 2022-08-16T21:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ksmith.com/doku.php?id=blog:wsj_on_secrets&rev=1660710668&do=diff WSJ on Secrets The Wall Street Journal, Saturday/Sunday, August 13-14, 2022 - Vol. CCLXXX NO. 37 Page 1: “Secret U.S. Files Siezed in Trump Search” “FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents that could show violations” Is this for real? How could Mssrs Alex Leary, Aruna Viswanatha, and Sadie Gurman possibly know whether or not the FBI recovered a