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Hi there!

My name is Brian Meyette, and I welcome you to my little corner of the Internet world. This web site started in the mid-1990s as a very simple single page, to teach myself the new HTML code. It's grown to well over 100 MB since then. It also features a sub-web-site detailing the building of my Van's RV-7A plane. That RV-7A sub-site has grown until it has taken precedence over this original main web site.

Look around, there's a lot of info here - over 100MB, with over 300 pages and 3000 pictures.

If you've hit this page as a standalone web page (without frames and Table of Contents showing), click here to bring up the full page, with frames.

There are MANY links here to info located on other people's sites. Unfortunately, many of those links go stale over time. If you encounter any bad links on my site, please email me, and I will keep them cleaned up.

NEWS

JAN 24, 2012 - Click HERE to see one more reason for voting for RON PAUL

Nov 5, 2011 - HERE is a Washington Post article that is another example of the big corporations ripping off all of us to further their greed and lavish lifestyles at our expense. Some poor guy loses his job and is on unemployment, and the IRS makes sure Uncle Sam gets his cut of that. As shown in this article, corporations, with Congress and the tax code bought and paid for, not only pay no taxes, but even have a NEGATIVE tax rate, raking in millions in credits instead of paying taxes on the billions of dollars they've made in part by sending our jobs overseas. With outrages like this, it's no wonder that people all over are staging "Occupy ____" protests.

HERE is info on how the banks and credit card companies rip off all of us every day - In 2010, Vermont passed a law restricting the ability of credit card companies to rip off merchants on swipe fees.

OCT, 2011 UPDATE: after we got legislation passed in 2011 limiting how much the crooked banks can gouge the merchants with "swipe fees" (which of course they pass on to us), now the banks are going to start gouging the consumers directly - details HERE.

A reader sent me a very good definition of liberals and conservatives:

If a conservative doesn't like guns, they don't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, then no one should have one.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don't eat meat. If a liberal is, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect.

If a black or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal wants any mention of God or religion silenced.

If a conservative gets an email promoting ideas he doesn't support, he deletes the email. A liberal will send an angry, outraged reply, demanding that the sender cease immediately.

PIRATES

4/18/09 - Quick solution to pirate problem is to deploy an aircraft carrier to the region. The area may be too big for ships to cover , but not for supersonic jets. When pirates approach a ship, captain contacts carrier directly on pre-arranged frequency or sat phone. Jets are scrambled & vaporize pirates with air-ground missiles and 30mm cannon. No talking, no water cannons, no more of this stupid "catch & release", no trials, no screwing around. Very soon, pirate problem disappears. Unfortunately, no one seems to have guts enough to do this, probably in fear of the liberals' reactions.

April 4, 2009 - unbelievable, but apparently true - see what the left fringe wants to do for illegal aliens - click HERE for CNN report

March 9, 2009 - Sept 11, 2001 made us forget the trouble the Chinese had started with us earlier that year with our new President, by downing one our planes. Now, they're at it again with a new President. See story HERE. Companies are so eager to do business in China that too many people overlook incidents like this. People who think the Chinese are our "friends", business partners, or anything other than our Communist enemy are deluding themselves.

Have you heard about all the benefits of microcredit and how important it's becoming? At Kiva you can directly participate in helping others through microcredit, on a one-to-one basis. Give people a hand up, rather than a hand-out.

Fight against corporate bullying:

Even though less than noble interests killed the electric car, a new company has come up with this incredible new all-electric high performance sports car, the Tesla. 2007 production is already sold out. 2009 update - see this movie, and you'll get an idea of why bailing out GM for its bad behavior and shortsightedness is such a bad idea.

Are you concerned about your PRIVACY? Watch this amusing and alarming video. Not that I am usually a great fan of the excesses of the ACLU, but this is certainly something to be concerned about.

Are you concerned about the food you eat? See THE MEATRIX video and the movies Food, Inc. and King Corn to see where your food REALLY comes from. HERE is a perfect example of the increasingly prevalent kind of people and companies supplying America's food.

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