Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Pro Hamas Rallies Across America
I'm guessing that most of you probably didn't know this, but yesterday, all across our great nation, there were pro hamas rallies held. I was on the verge of going to the one in Tampa to quietly hold up my pro Israel signs, but being sick and not having anyone to take care of the little guys at home put a quick stop to that plan. Sadly, if I am reading a blog post on Atlas Shrugs correctly, there were only 3 pro-Israeli ralliest there. I wish I could've made it. But here is a video of the one in Ft. Lauderdale. As you watch this compare and contrast the difference to the reaction of my faith when a temple and church was almost stormed by the gays and gay supporters in Westwood. Notice how the majority of the women are covered up. Notice how they bring their children to an event that almost became quite violent, an event where they are yelling vulgarity and hatred. Notice how when they are called to prayer by their immam that there are no women there praying with them. Listen to the hatred, the anger, and the vile coming out of their mouths. All in the name of their religion which they espouse to be peaceful.
These immigrants come to our country, bringing their hatred and enmity with them. They expect us, as a nation, to accept it, to embrace it, and we as the infidels are offered only three possibilities: death, conversion to Islam, or a life of permanent humiliation, degradation, and physical insecurity as dhimmis under Muslim rule.
Folks, this is starting to happen in your backyard. The politically correct in this country are going to give away our rights, freedoms, and liberties by not standing up to this and stopping it before it is too late. Europe is probably beyond the point of being able to stop the "islamization" of many of it's countries. Sharia courts operate in Britain and look into Holland to see what has happened there. Europeans are quickly learning to expect daily attacks that used to be unheard of.
Two Israelis attacked in Denmark mall, from the Jerusalem Post, December 31
Two Israelis were lightly wounded when they were shot by a group of men in a mall in Copenhagen, Denmark on Wednesday afternoon.
The Israelis were selling Dead Sea cosmetics at a stand in the mall - a job many young Israelis pursue, usually following military service, in order to save money for their future, and to continue their travels.
A group of men with Middle Eastern-looking features approached them and an altercation developed. A man in the group then brandished a weapon and fired at the Israelis.
The public's assistance was requested in capturing the shooter, who was probably a Palestinian, police said. His getaway car was already found but he had fled on foot....
It is time to stand up for and support Israel. Check out http://www.jihadwatch.org/ for much more info on what is happening world wide.
I find peace in the fact that over 150 years ago, Orson Hyde traveled to the holy land to dedicate the Mount of Olives. In his prayer on the Mount of Olives he invoked the Lord’s blessings on both the land and on all the children of Abraham. There, with pen and paper, he recorded a prayer of dedication previously given him by revelation. In the prayer, he asked the Lord to inspire “kings and the powers of the earth” to help “restore the kingdom unto Israel.” He also prayed that the Lord would remember his promises to all the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the years since that prayer, we have seen the fulfillment of many of Elder Hyde’s requests. More are yet to be fulfilled. (David B. Galbraith, “Orson Hyde’s 1841 Mission to the Holy Land,” Ensign, Oct 1991)
These immigrants come to our country, bringing their hatred and enmity with them. They expect us, as a nation, to accept it, to embrace it, and we as the infidels are offered only three possibilities: death, conversion to Islam, or a life of permanent humiliation, degradation, and physical insecurity as dhimmis under Muslim rule.
Folks, this is starting to happen in your backyard. The politically correct in this country are going to give away our rights, freedoms, and liberties by not standing up to this and stopping it before it is too late. Europe is probably beyond the point of being able to stop the "islamization" of many of it's countries. Sharia courts operate in Britain and look into Holland to see what has happened there. Europeans are quickly learning to expect daily attacks that used to be unheard of.
Two Israelis attacked in Denmark mall, from the Jerusalem Post, December 31
Two Israelis were lightly wounded when they were shot by a group of men in a mall in Copenhagen, Denmark on Wednesday afternoon.
The Israelis were selling Dead Sea cosmetics at a stand in the mall - a job many young Israelis pursue, usually following military service, in order to save money for their future, and to continue their travels.
A group of men with Middle Eastern-looking features approached them and an altercation developed. A man in the group then brandished a weapon and fired at the Israelis.
The public's assistance was requested in capturing the shooter, who was probably a Palestinian, police said. His getaway car was already found but he had fled on foot....
It is time to stand up for and support Israel. Check out http://www.jihadwatch.org/ for much more info on what is happening world wide.
I find peace in the fact that over 150 years ago, Orson Hyde traveled to the holy land to dedicate the Mount of Olives. In his prayer on the Mount of Olives he invoked the Lord’s blessings on both the land and on all the children of Abraham. There, with pen and paper, he recorded a prayer of dedication previously given him by revelation. In the prayer, he asked the Lord to inspire “kings and the powers of the earth” to help “restore the kingdom unto Israel.” He also prayed that the Lord would remember his promises to all the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the years since that prayer, we have seen the fulfillment of many of Elder Hyde’s requests. More are yet to be fulfilled. (David B. Galbraith, “Orson Hyde’s 1841 Mission to the Holy Land,” Ensign, Oct 1991)
Monday, December 29, 2008
Guitar Hero ROCKS!!!
I mentioned in my last post that Kade got Guitar Hero as one of his gifts. He had saved his money and purchased an X Box off of Ebay earlier this year. At Sams club I found the latest GH version that came with 2 wireless guitars and the game for under $100 bucks. I can't put the dang thing down!! FINALLY a video game that I can BEAT WADE AT!!!!! Yippee!!!! Wade and I have had so much fun playing that we went out to Walmart and found the drums for under $50 and now we can play in band mode. Not to stroke my own ego or anything, but you really need to know how good I am at the drums. I have mastered the medium level and am moving on to hard. My youngest brother was slightly impressed by this as he was under the impression that the drums were hard. Even my kids are in awe of my awesome drumming skills. My 6th & 7th grade percussion playing days are finally paying off! I've looked at all of the stores to find the microphone for band mode to add in the vocals (you have to know what a karaoke singing fool I am to understand my absolute need for this) Unfortunately no dice. It seems to only come in Rock Band. There is a singing game for X Box that comes with 2 mics, but I'm not sure that they will work with GH, so I need to do some research on the matter.
Kade is waiting, impatiently, but waiting, for his hard drive to come in the mail. Once it is here and we are so going live and I challenge you, yes you, each and everyone one of you, to a live GH band rock off. Get your band together. Get your fingers rocking. Warm up your vocals because the game is ON!!!!! (If you happen to have a PS2 or 3 or Wii GH I am really disappointed and slightly deflated at this point. Your mission if you are willing to accept it: FIND SOMEONE WITH AN X BOX LIVE AND STALK THEM UNTIL THEY ALLOW YOU TO BEG BORROW OR STEAL THEIR UNIT!!!)
Christmas morning, my first time picking up the guitar and becoming HOOKED!!
Kade is waiting, impatiently, but waiting, for his hard drive to come in the mail. Once it is here and we are so going live and I challenge you, yes you, each and everyone one of you, to a live GH band rock off. Get your band together. Get your fingers rocking. Warm up your vocals because the game is ON!!!!! (If you happen to have a PS2 or 3 or Wii GH I am really disappointed and slightly deflated at this point. Your mission if you are willing to accept it: FIND SOMEONE WITH AN X BOX LIVE AND STALK THEM UNTIL THEY ALLOW YOU TO BEG BORROW OR STEAL THEIR UNIT!!!)
Christmas morning, my first time picking up the guitar and becoming HOOKED!!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Christmas '08
We all had a nice day yesterday, for the most part. Of course, Kyrie and Wade got into it last night, nothing new there, and Daniel started throwing up again last night, but I think everyone had a good morning. Started out opening presents and I think everyone was happy with their gifts.
Dan and Jake both got HUGE Bag the Bed Bean Bags. Remember my puff pillow? Well, these are about 2X the size of mine that was so fun and comfy. Jake slept on his last night, Daniel barfed on his. The covers are removable and washable thank goodness. When you take the covers off they lay out into queen sized puffy "beds". Pretty cool.
Kade's main gift of an X Box hard drive and an I Pod touch look-a-like didn't arrive in the mail yet, but he did get his Guitar Hero and everyone has had a great time playing it.
Kyrie's main request was UGG boots, chestnut, tall. I ordered what she told me, but apparently not the right ones. She wanted classic. Well, she didn't tell me classic, so she is going to ship them back for an exchange. She was happy with her new comforter set though.
Wade received the entire collection of 007 movies up to Casino Royale and a juicer. We picked as many tangerines off of our tree as we could and made some fresh juice. Pretty tasty! I got a nice papasan chair from Pier 1. We received a beautiful nativity from the Fosters that they picked up while they were in Israel. Since I've always so admired Sarah's nativity she brought back I was very happy to see this one. Will take a photo of it later and post it.
Made breakfast, had a nice dinner and now am left with the mess to clean up. Not to forget the true meaning of Christmas though: I am so grateful for the birth of our Saviour and the ultimate gift that he and our Father in Heaven gave to us.
Now, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WADE. YOU ARE OFFICIALLY AN OLD MAN!!!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Uh huh, Yeah, What Ever
What a bunch of sick twisted freaks looking for any excuse to indulge in self gratification w/o thought of the consequences.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3642845,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3642845,00.html
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Joy To the World...Daniel Just Barfed
I had been reading on line about the problem England is having with a severe stomach virus that is threatening to cripple their hospital systems. I even considered the odds of hitting Disney World, knowing that there would be many English people there, and one of us contracting the dreaded disease. Sure enough...Daniel just puked. Needless to say, I'm sure I'm next as he likes to share my drinks when I'm not looking. Christmas is going to be oh so fun.
WARNING TMI COMING: As I'm scrubbing the puke up out of the carpet, not to mention scrubbing the grease out too because some nameless person used my scrub brush to clean the grill unbeknown to me, that unnamed person wanted to know if he was still getting "lucky" tonight....ummmmm...ladies....what do you think?
WARNING TMI COMING: As I'm scrubbing the puke up out of the carpet, not to mention scrubbing the grease out too because some nameless person used my scrub brush to clean the grill unbeknown to me, that unnamed person wanted to know if he was still getting "lucky" tonight....ummmmm...ladies....what do you think?
Watch Me Slam My Head in the Door....again and again and again
***UPDATE***MEA CULPA!! These awards were given by the Media Research Center for the years worst reporting. I feel better, but still can't stand Matthews and Olbermann****
The MSM just came out with their best of notable quotables for 2008. You can find them here Check it out, if only to see the categories. Why these things are considered the most notable quotes of the year is beyond me.
These make me want to slam my head in the door, repeatedly just to be able to ignore the pain they cause. Listening to Keith Olbermann literally makes blood spurt from my eyes.
I'm sure Olbermann and Matthews are involved in some sick twisted gay lover triangle with some poor unsuspecting woman. Oh, wait? I need to verify my facts before reporting them as news? You mean nobody really wants to hear my political view spouted as fact and what the public is really thinking? Well, dang. I guess these two missed what investigative journalism, well, any type of journalism really is when taking all of those classes in college. Who'da thunk it?
The MSM just came out with their best of notable quotables for 2008. You can find them here Check it out, if only to see the categories. Why these things are considered the most notable quotes of the year is beyond me.
These make me want to slam my head in the door, repeatedly just to be able to ignore the pain they cause. Listening to Keith Olbermann literally makes blood spurt from my eyes.
I'm sure Olbermann and Matthews are involved in some sick twisted gay lover triangle with some poor unsuspecting woman. Oh, wait? I need to verify my facts before reporting them as news? You mean nobody really wants to hear my political view spouted as fact and what the public is really thinking? Well, dang. I guess these two missed what investigative journalism, well, any type of journalism really is when taking all of those classes in college. Who'da thunk it?
Monday, December 22, 2008
Oops....posted this on the wrong site...here it is for the Fosters
Okay, So I LIED
I am usually one of those frank, tell the truth no matter what kind of gals. I wouldn't want you to think I lied on purpose. It was an accident, really. Kyrie's good friend from B'ham is at Disney World with her bro and dad and wants Kyrie to come for the day. Sigh....Kyrie, who claims she HATES theme parks, Kyrie who every time I MAKE her go with the family sits on a bench while we do the fun stuff, giving us all dirty looks, and only smiles or has fun when I'm not looking. Kyrie, who would rather sleep in until 12:00 noon every day, who went to bed late last night, is up bright and early before 8:00am getting us all out of bed so she can be there on time.
I've decided since I have to drive there anyways, I will take the boys for the day too. I just love fighting the crowds, especially with a stroller.
In other news. I will never be embarrassed or disappointed that I voted for the Bush/Cheney ticket twice. While I certainly don't agree with the bailout crap that has been going on, or his policy on immigration/illegals/amnesty, I think he has a bit more insight into these issues and probably knows more about them than I do and did what he thought was right. Both of these men are heroes in my book and here is just one reason why.
Washington Times:
Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately: Met with thousands of war injured, kin out of spotlight
by Joseph Curl and John Solomon
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
GIVING SUPPORT: Vice President Dick Cheney, an avid fly-fisherman, practices his cast with wounded troops from Walter Reed Army Medical Center during one of the half-dozen barbecues he’s hosted at his Naval Observatory home. (White House photo)
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush’s and Mr. Cheney’s private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
“People say, ‘Why would you do that?’” the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. “And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish.”
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
“I lean on the Almighty and Laura,” Mr. Bush said in the interview. “She has been very reassuring, very calming.”
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said.
The first lady said those private visits, many of which she also attended, took a heavy emotional toll, not just on the president, but on her as well.
“It is just so unbelievably emotional to be with the families, for everybody involved. I mean for us and for them and for everyone,” she said in a telephone interview with The Times on Saturday. “I’m very aware of how emotional it is and how draining it is for the president and for me, too. Both of us. But I think we do support each other, not by saying anything so much, but just by the comfort of each other’s presence, both when we are with the families and then afterward when we are alone.”
I am usually one of those frank, tell the truth no matter what kind of gals. I wouldn't want you to think I lied on purpose. It was an accident, really. Kyrie's good friend from B'ham is at Disney World with her bro and dad and wants Kyrie to come for the day. Sigh....Kyrie, who claims she HATES theme parks, Kyrie who every time I MAKE her go with the family sits on a bench while we do the fun stuff, giving us all dirty looks, and only smiles or has fun when I'm not looking. Kyrie, who would rather sleep in until 12:00 noon every day, who went to bed late last night, is up bright and early before 8:00am getting us all out of bed so she can be there on time.
I've decided since I have to drive there anyways, I will take the boys for the day too. I just love fighting the crowds, especially with a stroller.
In other news. I will never be embarrassed or disappointed that I voted for the Bush/Cheney ticket twice. While I certainly don't agree with the bailout crap that has been going on, or his policy on immigration/illegals/amnesty, I think he has a bit more insight into these issues and probably knows more about them than I do and did what he thought was right. Both of these men are heroes in my book and here is just one reason why.
Washington Times:
Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately: Met with thousands of war injured, kin out of spotlight
by Joseph Curl and John Solomon
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
GIVING SUPPORT: Vice President Dick Cheney, an avid fly-fisherman, practices his cast with wounded troops from Walter Reed Army Medical Center during one of the half-dozen barbecues he’s hosted at his Naval Observatory home. (White House photo)
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush’s and Mr. Cheney’s private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
“People say, ‘Why would you do that?’” the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. “And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish.”
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
“I lean on the Almighty and Laura,” Mr. Bush said in the interview. “She has been very reassuring, very calming.”
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said.
The first lady said those private visits, many of which she also attended, took a heavy emotional toll, not just on the president, but on her as well.
“It is just so unbelievably emotional to be with the families, for everybody involved. I mean for us and for them and for everyone,” she said in a telephone interview with The Times on Saturday. “I’m very aware of how emotional it is and how draining it is for the president and for me, too. Both of us. But I think we do support each other, not by saying anything so much, but just by the comfort of each other’s presence, both when we are with the families and then afterward when we are alone.”
Sunday, December 21, 2008
It's beginning to look a lot like spring, in Idaho and Utah
Ahhh, winter in central Florida. Temps have regularly been in the upper 70's to mid 80's all week. I keep hearing about these blizzards and cold fronts, but not here. Well, maybe tomorrow. I think the high is supposed to be in the upper 50's. Brrrr...cold!!!
It's taking some getting used to and it's harder to get into the spirit of Christmas, but I'm sure we'll be there soon. After all, I am much more accustomed to snuggling up next to a wood burning stove at this time of the year with a steaming hot cup of cocoa than I am with having to turn the A/C back on.
You are going to have to wait longer for my new photos from my new camera. Kyrie's software for her Fuji keeps popping open when I plug in my Canon and messes everything up. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix it last night before giving up. In the meantime, the above are two pics taken in our city. One is a beautiful sunrise over a local lake here, and the other is what the fog has been like for the past week. As I was driving Kyrie to get her wisdom teeth removed on Friday, we only had about 10 feet of visibility for awhile. And the other???? I don't know what the hell that thing is. But if it was pulled out of one of the lakes around here I know I'm not going to be going water skiing any time soon!!! Fighting the gators is bad enough. Throw that thing into the mix and I will be having full blown panic attacks! Merry Christmas indeed!
Friday, December 19, 2008
My Funny Stoned Chipmunk
Kyrie had her wisdom teeth removed today. She was really funny in the recovery room. The nurse said she hasn't had a patient that "chatty" for a very long time. Kyrie was just talking away with some other teen in the room. The nurse couldn't understand her, but aparently the girls could understand each other. She was a bit loopy all morning and was pretty funny on the drive home. After Dan got up from his nap and saw her he wanted to know what was wrong. (She sounds like she has a severe speech impediment with all of the gauze in her mouth.) When he heard that the Dr had taken out some of her teeth he was quite angry.
"I'm gonna go to those Dr's and beat them up and get your teeth back." Awww...what a sweet protective little brother.
We spent our first day of Christmas vacation, yesterday, at Sea World. It was the PERFECT day (minus the arguing siblings). 85 degrees, low humidity, and no lines. The only bummer was we didn't get there until 2:00pm and they closed at 6:00pm. Lucky for us we only live 45 minutes away and have year passes now. We will avoid the theme parks like the plague for the next 4 weeks, but try to hit them again in mid to late January.
I purchased myself a new camera and have lots of photos to add, but will have to do it later. Don't let the suspense make you crazy!
"I'm gonna go to those Dr's and beat them up and get your teeth back." Awww...what a sweet protective little brother.
We spent our first day of Christmas vacation, yesterday, at Sea World. It was the PERFECT day (minus the arguing siblings). 85 degrees, low humidity, and no lines. The only bummer was we didn't get there until 2:00pm and they closed at 6:00pm. Lucky for us we only live 45 minutes away and have year passes now. We will avoid the theme parks like the plague for the next 4 weeks, but try to hit them again in mid to late January.
I purchased myself a new camera and have lots of photos to add, but will have to do it later. Don't let the suspense make you crazy!
Monday, December 15, 2008
ASA Concert Series
I just have to tell everyone how impressed I am with the performing arts program at our kids' school. The middle school's orchestra is hands down the best I have heard. Kade was going to play the bassoon again this year, even though they are strings only, until we learned that a new starter one costs upwards of 12Gs. He picked the bass instead and plays it so well. I'm really pleasantly surprised with his musical abilities. His director also conducts the local Polk County symphony orchestra and teaches these kids amazing things. Kyrie is doing classical guitar. Her instructor is equally amazing. She is developing her musical talents as well. Yesterday she and I sang a Christmas duet for sacrament meeting. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. There were even tears in a few eyes (and no John, not tears from pain). The last video is a song called "creatures" so the crazy notes you hear are on purpose. Sounds like a song for a track to a horror movie.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
My Daily Dose of Entertainment (Courtesy of the 3 year old)
My kids are sometimes so strange. Geez, I wonder where they get that from. Today I've already heard:
"I go to Shell's house and knock on her door on Sunday."
Michelle is our good friend who just happens to live in ALABAMA. I called her and left a message on her voice mail that if it just so happens that my 3 year old shows up at her house on Sunday, knocking on her door, could she please call me and let me know where he is or that he made it.
"Don't let the crap get out of my poop!!"
What?!?! As he was running for the restroom to go poop, he said this to me, more than once. Some days I have to really wonder what goes through their little heads.
So, your directive for the day
DON'T LET THE CRAP GET OUT OF YOUR POOP!!!1
"I go to Shell's house and knock on her door on Sunday."
Michelle is our good friend who just happens to live in ALABAMA. I called her and left a message on her voice mail that if it just so happens that my 3 year old shows up at her house on Sunday, knocking on her door, could she please call me and let me know where he is or that he made it.
"Don't let the crap get out of my poop!!"
What?!?! As he was running for the restroom to go poop, he said this to me, more than once. Some days I have to really wonder what goes through their little heads.
So, your directive for the day
DON'T LET THE CRAP GET OUT OF YOUR POOP!!!1
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The State of Fear
If you haven't done it yet, you really should read The State of Fear by Michael Crichton. I blogged about it awhile ago. It is well worth the 600+ pages and the over-use of the F Bomb. Now we have more than 650 international scientists dissenting over man-made global warming claims. "The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers. "
The entire article is too long for me to cut and paste, but here is a link to it. It is worth the read. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6
So, if you don't know what the State of Fear is, read the book, and then you will understand. Come back and we will discuss.
The entire article is too long for me to cut and paste, but here is a link to it. It is worth the read. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6
So, if you don't know what the State of Fear is, read the book, and then you will understand. Come back and we will discuss.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
National "Day Without a Gay" Day, and No It's Not What You Think
Tomorrow is national "Day Without a Gay" day. You can call in to work, claim to be gay, and stay home for the day. What a concept (tongue in cheek). It is also set to coincide with International Human Rights Day, because come on, gay's rights are so being taken away. They cannot sit at the same counters as heterosexuals in cafes and restaurants. There are specific restrooms and water fountains for them to use so they don't spread their "gay" germs to the rest of us homophobic idiots, especially in the South. They have to sit in a separate area in theaters and on public transit. Oh, and my all time favorite way to discriminate against gays is not allowing them to attend the same schools as heterosexual children. (for more on Chicago's Gay High School click here)
In Philly, the city of Brotherly Love (and now we know why it is so called), so many teachers are supporting this "call in gay day" that they are worried about leaving enough behind to man the classrooms. And let's not forget their real goal here: "Scott Craig, a fifth-grade teacher at Independence Charter School in Philadelphia, had no problem requesting and being granted the day off. So many of the school's 60 teachers were eager to show support for gay rights they had to make sure enough stayed behind to staff classrooms.
About 25 teachers plan to take Wednesday off and to have their work covered by substitutes while they discuss ways to introduce gay issues to their students (emphasis added) and volunteer at the local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, Craig said. A letter telling parents why so many teachers would be out went home Monday.
"We want to get the conversation going in the community that gay is not bad," Craig said. "For kids to hear that in a positive light can be life-changing." (By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer)
So there you have it. They are taking the day off of work to better their goal of indoctrination. They want to introduce gay topics to your children because you are too homophobic to do it yourself in a "politically correct" and positive way.
Now, if I could only get a national "Call in with PMS" day on the calendar I would be set. After all, who should have to work while suffering with cramps, bloating, fatigue and moodiness. Surely there is some woman's civil right being violated every day I have to work when I have PMS.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
That's The Way I Roll
Just in case you're wondering I found the Ferrari that I want. Informed my lucky husband that he has to fork out the cash for this for me in the next couple of years. Yes Truman. I will let you drive it.
Like other modern Ferraris, this one is fabricated from aluminum to keep mass under control. The 460 hp 4.3L V8 is the first from Maranello to use direct injection while following the racing tradition of using a flat-plane crankshaft. This car of firsts also debuts the production application of a dual clutch gearbox from Ferrari. The 7-speed unit is mounted in a rear transaxle configuration and should provide smoother shifting and even better performance than the existing hydraulically-actuated units that Ferrari currently uses. Acceleration to 60 mph should come in under 4.0 seconds.
The California is also Ferrari's first retractable hardtop convertible. From the shape of the hood scoop and headlights to the sweep of the rear fenders and vents behind the front wheels this car obviously draws on the heritage of the original 1960s 250 GT California. At the same time, it's blended with modern Ferrari design elements drawn from the current F430 and 599.
The engine is also in the front. I like that feature. It also has 2 "child" sized seats in the back. Now just picture it in a dark sky blue. Beautiful.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
It's time for the annual '2008 Stella Awards'!
The fact that these are real lawsuits, real people, and real verdicts simplifies things. Our country is full of complete idiots. Plain and simple. The smart, normal, "Joe the Plumbers" in our country are being screwed over and over and over again.
For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck, who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You may remember, she took the lid off of the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think she could get burned doing that, right? These awards are for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you shake your head.Here are the Stellas for the past year:
7th Place :Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a
furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
6th Place :Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
5th Place :Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the
insurance company must pay Dickinson $500,000 for his anguish. We should
all have this kind of anguish!
4th Place :Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th place in the Stellas when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the rear by his next door neighbor's beagle-even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the rear bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
3rd Place :Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a
spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd Place :Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware, sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said that the night club
had to pay her $12,000...plus dental expenses.
And 1st Place :(are you ready for this)This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was...Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her (are you sitting down?) ...$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result for this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.You can't fix stupid...and now it's profitable!
Okay, okay. In case you are staring at your screen with your mouth wide open and drool oozing out, close it now. Those aren't real. BUT, the following are:
The 2006 True Stella Awards
Issued 31 January 2007
(Click here to
confirm these are legitimate.)
For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck, who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You may remember, she took the lid off of the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think she could get burned doing that, right? These awards are for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you shake your head.Here are the Stellas for the past year:
7th Place :Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a
furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
6th Place :Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
5th Place :Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the
insurance company must pay Dickinson $500,000 for his anguish. We should
all have this kind of anguish!
4th Place :Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th place in the Stellas when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the rear by his next door neighbor's beagle-even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the rear bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
3rd Place :Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a
spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd Place :Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware, sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said that the night club
had to pay her $12,000...plus dental expenses.
And 1st Place :(are you ready for this)This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was...Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her (are you sitting down?) ...$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result for this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.You can't fix stupid...and now it's profitable!
Okay, okay. In case you are staring at your screen with your mouth wide open and drool oozing out, close it now. Those aren't real. BUT, the following are:
The 2006 True Stella Awards
Issued 31 January 2007
(Click here to
confirm these are legitimate.)
#5: Marcy Meckler. While shopping at
a mall, Meckler stepped outside and was "attacked" by a squirrel that
lived among the trees and bushes. And "while frantically attempting
to escape from the squirrel and detach it from her leg, [Meckler]
fell and suffered severe injuries," her resulting lawsuit says.
That's the mall's fault, the lawsuit claims, demanding in excess of
$50,000, based on the mall's "failure to warn" her that squirrels
live outside.
#4: Ron and Kristie Simmons. The
couple's 4-year-old son, Justin, was killed in a tragic lawnmower
accident in a licensed daycare facility, and the death was clearly
the result of negligence by the daycare providers. The providers were
clearly deserving of being sued, yet when the Simmons's discovered
the daycare only had $100,000 in insurance, they dropped the case
against them and instead sued the manufacturer of the 16-year-old
lawn mower because the mower didn't have a safety device that 1) had
not been invented at the time of the mower's manufacture, and 2) no
safety agency had even suggested needed to be invented. A sympathetic
jury still awarded the family $2 million.
#3: Robert Clymer. An FBI agent
working a high-profile case in Las Vegas, Clymer allegedly created a
disturbance, lost the magazine from his pistol, then crashed his
pickup truck in a drunken stupor -- his blood-alcohol level was 0.306
percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving in Nevada.
He pled guilty to drunk driving because, his lawyer explained, "With
public officials, we expect them to own up to their mistakes and
correct them." Yet Clymer had the gall to sue the manufacturer of his
pickup truck, and the dealer he bought it from, because he "somehow
lost consciousness" and the truck "somehow produced a heavy smoke
that filled the passenger cab." Yep: the drunk-driving accident
wasn't his fault, but the truck's fault. Just the kind of guy you
want carrying a gun in the name of the law.
#2: KinderStart.com. The specialty
search engine says Google should be forced to include the KinderStart
site in its listings, reveal how its "Page Rank" system works, and
pay them lots of money because they're a competitor. They claim by
not being ranked higher in Google, Google is somehow infringing
KinderStart's Constitutional right to free speech. Even if by some
stretch they were a competitor of Google, why in the world would they
think it's Google's responsibility to help them succeed? And if
Google's "review" of their site is negative, wouldn't a government
court order forcing them to change it infringe on Google's
Constitutional right to free speech?
And the winner of the 2006 True Stella
Award: Allen Ray Heckard. Even though Heckard is 3 inches
shorter, 25 pounds lighter, and 8 years older than former basketball
star Michael Jordan, the Portland, Oregon, man says he looks a lot
like Jordan, and is often confused for him -- and thus he deserves
$52 million "for defamation and permanent injury" -- plus $364
million in "punitive damage for emotional pain and suffering", plus
the SAME amount from Nike co-founder Phil Knight, for a grand total
of $832 million. He dropped the suit after Nike's lawyers chatted
with him, where they presumably explained how they'd counter-sue if
he pressed on.
©2007 by Randy Cassingham,
target="new">StellaAwards.com. Reprinted with permission.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Harken All Ye Non-Believers
The Man known as Wade does really exist. Here is a non Photo Shopped photo of us at the beach in Ft DeSoto Park to prove it.
Here is another pic of Wade lounging on our new sofa, thank you IKEA, with some of our friends who came to visit us.
Here are photos of the dinner being devoured.
And here is what happens after eating too much turkey with too much L-tryptophan
Here is another pic of Wade lounging on our new sofa, thank you IKEA, with some of our friends who came to visit us.
Here are photos of the dinner being devoured.
And here is what happens after eating too much turkey with too much L-tryptophan
Blame It All On Global Warming
Betcha didn't know this, but due to the huge amount of green house emissions produced annually in the US, large game buck are now ravaging the country side and attacking hunters, thus changing the game from the hunted to the predators. Well, not really. But I'm sure some scientist will come up with a study to prove just that after reading this article. (BTW, my family moved to ID from Sedalia, MO in '79. Betcha didn't know that either...crazy @$$ Missourians!!!)
SEDALIA, Mo. — A Sedalia hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain.
Forty-nine-year-old Randy Goodman said he thought two well-placed shots with his .270-caliber rifle had killed the buck on Nov. 19. Goodman said the deer looked dead to him, but seconds later the nine-point, 240-pound animal came to life.
The buck rose up, knocked Goodman down and attacked him with his antlers in what the veteran hunter called "15 seconds of hell." The deer ran a short distance and went down, and died after Goodman fired two more shots.
Soon Goodman started feeling dizzy and noticed his vest was soaked in blood.
So he reached his truck and drove to a hospital, where he received seven staples in his scalp and was treated for a slight concussion and bruises.
Photo by Courtesy of the Sedalia Democrat
SEDALIA, Mo. — A Sedalia hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain.
Forty-nine-year-old Randy Goodman said he thought two well-placed shots with his .270-caliber rifle had killed the buck on Nov. 19. Goodman said the deer looked dead to him, but seconds later the nine-point, 240-pound animal came to life.
The buck rose up, knocked Goodman down and attacked him with his antlers in what the veteran hunter called "15 seconds of hell." The deer ran a short distance and went down, and died after Goodman fired two more shots.
Soon Goodman started feeling dizzy and noticed his vest was soaked in blood.
So he reached his truck and drove to a hospital, where he received seven staples in his scalp and was treated for a slight concussion and bruises.
Photo by Courtesy of the Sedalia Democrat
Monday, December 1, 2008
Update to Is a General Mobilization Occuring?
Sorry for my week long hiatus. I have so much to blog about and share from our fabulous Thanksgiving week with family and friends, but that will have to wait a little bit longer as I am still way behind on necessary house wife duties. I've already done 10 loads of laundry since Sat. and have about 3 more to go, so you get the idea.
This story was reported today on numerous sites, including Drudge. I think this may be what rightsoup was referring to. Maybe, maybe not, but it is another troubling "blip" on the radar of things that are coming and will be interesting to say the least.
WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or nuclear attacks and emergencies, The Washington Post said Monday.
Citing Pentagon officials, the newspaper said the plan calls for three rapid-reaction forces.
The first 4,700-strong unit, built around an active-duty combat brigade, is based at Fort Stewart , Georgia , and is already available for deployment, according to General Victor Renuart, commander of the US Northern Command, it said.
Two additional groups will later join nearly 80 smaller National Guard and reserve units made up of about 6,000 troops to support local and state authorities nationwide, The Post said.
They will all would be trained to respond to domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive attacks.
The newspaper said that civil liberties groups and libertarians had expressed concern that the plan could undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.
Rightsoup.com did have this to say about the plan.
In a Sept. 8th article from the Army Times, it was reported that a force of 3,000 troops, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, were to be stationed on active duty at Fort Stewart Georgia for the purposes of helping with “civil unrest and crowd control”. After a wave of critical media attention (mainly from the activist blogs) they chose to change the language of that mandate, yet they continued to train with weapons both lethal and “non-lethal” for crowd control operations. Prison Planet reports that
“During numerous urban warfare drills, troops were trained to raid, arrest and imprison U.S. citizens in detention camps as well as taking over public buildings and running checkpoints. During role playing exercises, actors playing prisoners would scream “I’m an American citizen, I have rights” as they were being dragged away by troops.”
Obama promised such a force during the presidential campaign, so this announcement shouldn’t surprise anyone. We’re going to get “change” that’s the equivalent of death by a thousand cuts to our Bill Of Rights. Why not just mandate that all able-bodied citizens be armed? It’s not a new idea!
This story was reported today on numerous sites, including Drudge. I think this may be what rightsoup was referring to. Maybe, maybe not, but it is another troubling "blip" on the radar of things that are coming and will be interesting to say the least.
WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or nuclear attacks and emergencies, The Washington Post said Monday.
Citing Pentagon officials, the newspaper said the plan calls for three rapid-reaction forces.
The first 4,700-strong unit, built around an active-duty combat brigade, is based at Fort Stewart , Georgia , and is already available for deployment, according to General Victor Renuart, commander of the US Northern Command, it said.
Two additional groups will later join nearly 80 smaller National Guard and reserve units made up of about 6,000 troops to support local and state authorities nationwide, The Post said.
They will all would be trained to respond to domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive attacks.
The newspaper said that civil liberties groups and libertarians had expressed concern that the plan could undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.
Rightsoup.com did have this to say about the plan.
In a Sept. 8th article from the Army Times, it was reported that a force of 3,000 troops, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, were to be stationed on active duty at Fort Stewart Georgia for the purposes of helping with “civil unrest and crowd control”. After a wave of critical media attention (mainly from the activist blogs) they chose to change the language of that mandate, yet they continued to train with weapons both lethal and “non-lethal” for crowd control operations. Prison Planet reports that
“During numerous urban warfare drills, troops were trained to raid, arrest and imprison U.S. citizens in detention camps as well as taking over public buildings and running checkpoints. During role playing exercises, actors playing prisoners would scream “I’m an American citizen, I have rights” as they were being dragged away by troops.”
Obama promised such a force during the presidential campaign, so this announcement shouldn’t surprise anyone. We’re going to get “change” that’s the equivalent of death by a thousand cuts to our Bill Of Rights. Why not just mandate that all able-bodied citizens be armed? It’s not a new idea!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
More Doom and Gloom for you to Digest before you hit the Turkey
Found this website that keeps it real. http://patdollard.com If you don't like swearing, don't go to it. This man, a Hollywood talent agent, multi-millionaire, left it all behind to go to Iraq to film what was really happening. He was blown up in a HumVee by an IED and wounded. He now has a blog that shows his vidoes and messages from his time in Iraq and continues with current affairs. If you want the real story, the story the MSM is not going to EVER show you, visit his site and look around. While you're there check out the prediction of food riots in the USA by 2012 by Trend Forecasters, the same group who predicted correctly the market crash of '87 among other things. Here's a blogcast about BO's birth issue. (BTW, isn't BO holding the phone upside down? Brilliant)
And, when I talk about hitting the turkey I don't mean literally hitting your turkey. PETA has a new video out showing how turkeys are being abused at the turkey farms. Look, there are idiots all over this world. Unfortunately some of them work around other humans, some of the work with animals, hell, some of them even operate heavy machinery or airplanes that you fly in every day.
Here's a funny interview with Palin. The background just adds so much to her interview doesn't it?
I'm mean, come on MSNBC, how do you think turkeys are supposed to be slaughtered? A tree stump and hatchet?
And, when I talk about hitting the turkey I don't mean literally hitting your turkey. PETA has a new video out showing how turkeys are being abused at the turkey farms. Look, there are idiots all over this world. Unfortunately some of them work around other humans, some of the work with animals, hell, some of them even operate heavy machinery or airplanes that you fly in every day.
Here's a funny interview with Palin. The background just adds so much to her interview doesn't it?
I'm mean, come on MSNBC, how do you think turkeys are supposed to be slaughtered? A tree stump and hatchet?
Monday, November 24, 2008
State of Fear
I finished reading the State of Fear by Michael Crichton last week. A very well written, intense fictional book that debunks the global warming theory and outrage we have to endure thanks to these kind of hippies.
I wonder if they are using pencils, paper, toilet paper, homes that use wood, etc. Their mere presence in the woods with their wailing, screaming, and crying probably killed more trees than anything else. Undoubtedly the poor trees died in horror from their torturous cries. These are the same type of people who don't understand what the real reports out there show about the state of fear we are kept in so the gov't keeps control. Read the book. It is well worth it!
I wonder if they are using pencils, paper, toilet paper, homes that use wood, etc. Their mere presence in the woods with their wailing, screaming, and crying probably killed more trees than anything else. Undoubtedly the poor trees died in horror from their torturous cries. These are the same type of people who don't understand what the real reports out there show about the state of fear we are kept in so the gov't keeps control. Read the book. It is well worth it!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Twilight the Movie
So I'm not really sure what I thought about this movie. I love the books. I know, I know. Mushy teen romance stuff, but the book Edward is pretty dreamy. The movie Edward? Not so much. Don't get me wrong. Robert Pattinson is a good looking guy. But, #1: he's too old looking to play the role of Edward. #2: He has to fight his British accent the entire movie and sounds absolutely funny sometimes. #3: He's just an average actor. #4: He doesn't come across as vicious enough in any of the scenes that he needs to be frightening in. I would definitely say that I like my inside my own mind Edward better.
My impression of the rest of the movie: still undecided. I think this is one of those flicks that you either love or it has to grow on you. Once it is out on video and I can watch it again I'll have a better opinion. It was obviously not something that I have to pay to go see again.
ON THE OTHER HAND THE TRAILER FOR HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ROCKED!!!!! I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED THAT THEY MOVED BACK THE RELEASE DATE TO JUNE '09 INSTEAD OF THIS DEC SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO COMPETE WITH TWILIGHT. SMART ON THEIR PART, BUT SOOOOO LONG TO WAIT!!!
My impression of the rest of the movie: still undecided. I think this is one of those flicks that you either love or it has to grow on you. Once it is out on video and I can watch it again I'll have a better opinion. It was obviously not something that I have to pay to go see again.
ON THE OTHER HAND THE TRAILER FOR HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ROCKED!!!!! I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED THAT THEY MOVED BACK THE RELEASE DATE TO JUNE '09 INSTEAD OF THIS DEC SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO COMPETE WITH TWILIGHT. SMART ON THEIR PART, BUT SOOOOO LONG TO WAIT!!!
Friday, November 21, 2008
More of those Crazy @$$ Floridians
Wow. This story just stinks. Literally. I can understand being ticked off by some kids who continually uses flatulence as a way to bug the hell out of everyone, but having him arrested? Come on!!! What happened to suspending him or making him sit in the principal's office for the day?
from the smoking gun
Florida Boy Arrested For Gas Attack
12-year-old charged after deliberately "breaking wind" in class
NOVEMBER 21--A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police. The child, who was also accused of shutting off the computers of classmates at Stuart's Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School, was busted November 4 for disruption of a school function. A Martin County Sheriff's Office report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that the 4' 11" offender admitted that he "continually disrupted his classroom environment by breaking wind and shutting off several computers." The boy, whose name was redacted from the police report released today, was turned over to his mother following the arrest. The young perp turned 13 on November 15. (2 pages)
This next story is just plain sad. How someone gets to the point of taking their own life without getting help from anyone is hard to imagine. You would think there would be warning signs, and maybe sometimes there are none. I feel for his family, and am furious that there are people in this world who would sit and watch someone die, live, while doing nothing. Cyber voyeurism at it's worst. I never could understand how anyone could watch the posted video of Nicholes Berg being decapitated either.
Florida teen commits suicide in front of webcam
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Nov 21, 4:18 PM (ET)
By RASHA MADKOUR
MIAMI (AP) - A South Florida college student killed himself by overdosing on drugs in front of a live online audience as some computer users egged him on, some debated his method, and others tried to talk him out of it.
Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, died Wednesday at his home from a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and depression, said Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's office.
Authorities say the Broward Community College student is not the first person to commit suicide with a webcam rolling.
It's unclear how many people were watching through the Web site bodybuilding.com. Someone finally notified a site moderator, who pinpointed Biggs' location and called police, but they arrived too late to save him, Crane said.
Biggs, who used the screen name "CandyJunkie" on the bodybuilding Web site, started blogging about plans to kill himself 12 hours before he was found lying dead on his bed. He posted a link from bodybuilding.com to Justin.tv, a site that allows users to broadcast live videos from their webcams.
Some users who read the blog told investigators they did not take him seriously because he had threatened suicide on the site before.
But Biggs' family was infuriated that neither viewers nor the site acted sooner to save him.
"When (police) came in, the webfeed stopped. So that's 12 hours of watching," said his sister, Rosalind Biggs, who said her brother struggled with bipolar disorder. "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."
Rosalind Biggs described her brother as a friendly, social, outgoing person who struck up conversations with Starbucks baristas and enjoyed taking his young nieces to Chuck E. Cheese.
"It boggles the mind," she said. "We don't understand."
Authorities could not immediately verify the authenticity of a video posted online that shows a gun-wielding officer entering a bedroom where a man is lying on a bed, facing away from the camera. The officer peers over to look at the man, then begins to examine him as the camera lens is covered. The video matches Crane's description of events.
Condolences poured in to Biggs' MySpace page, where the mostly unsmiling teen is seen posing in a series of pictures with various young women. On justin.tv, his alias was "feels_like_ecstacy."
In a statement, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: "We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time."
The Web site declined to release information on how many people were watching the broadcast. The entire site had 672,000 unique visitors in October.
Messages left with the bodybuilding Web site were not immediately returned Friday.
A spokesman for the Pembroke Pines police said they were investigating but declined further comment.
Crane said she knows of at least one other case in which a South Florida man shot himself in the head in front of an online audience, although she didn't know how much viewers saw. In Britain last year, a man hanged himself while chatting online.
from the smoking gun
Florida Boy Arrested For Gas Attack
12-year-old charged after deliberately "breaking wind" in class
NOVEMBER 21--A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police. The child, who was also accused of shutting off the computers of classmates at Stuart's Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School, was busted November 4 for disruption of a school function. A Martin County Sheriff's Office report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that the 4' 11" offender admitted that he "continually disrupted his classroom environment by breaking wind and shutting off several computers." The boy, whose name was redacted from the police report released today, was turned over to his mother following the arrest. The young perp turned 13 on November 15. (2 pages)
This next story is just plain sad. How someone gets to the point of taking their own life without getting help from anyone is hard to imagine. You would think there would be warning signs, and maybe sometimes there are none. I feel for his family, and am furious that there are people in this world who would sit and watch someone die, live, while doing nothing. Cyber voyeurism at it's worst. I never could understand how anyone could watch the posted video of Nicholes Berg being decapitated either.
Florida teen commits suicide in front of webcam
Email this Story
Nov 21, 4:18 PM (ET)
By RASHA MADKOUR
MIAMI (AP) - A South Florida college student killed himself by overdosing on drugs in front of a live online audience as some computer users egged him on, some debated his method, and others tried to talk him out of it.
Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, died Wednesday at his home from a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and depression, said Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's office.
Authorities say the Broward Community College student is not the first person to commit suicide with a webcam rolling.
It's unclear how many people were watching through the Web site bodybuilding.com. Someone finally notified a site moderator, who pinpointed Biggs' location and called police, but they arrived too late to save him, Crane said.
Biggs, who used the screen name "CandyJunkie" on the bodybuilding Web site, started blogging about plans to kill himself 12 hours before he was found lying dead on his bed. He posted a link from bodybuilding.com to Justin.tv, a site that allows users to broadcast live videos from their webcams.
Some users who read the blog told investigators they did not take him seriously because he had threatened suicide on the site before.
But Biggs' family was infuriated that neither viewers nor the site acted sooner to save him.
"When (police) came in, the webfeed stopped. So that's 12 hours of watching," said his sister, Rosalind Biggs, who said her brother struggled with bipolar disorder. "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."
Rosalind Biggs described her brother as a friendly, social, outgoing person who struck up conversations with Starbucks baristas and enjoyed taking his young nieces to Chuck E. Cheese.
"It boggles the mind," she said. "We don't understand."
Authorities could not immediately verify the authenticity of a video posted online that shows a gun-wielding officer entering a bedroom where a man is lying on a bed, facing away from the camera. The officer peers over to look at the man, then begins to examine him as the camera lens is covered. The video matches Crane's description of events.
Condolences poured in to Biggs' MySpace page, where the mostly unsmiling teen is seen posing in a series of pictures with various young women. On justin.tv, his alias was "feels_like_ecstacy."
In a statement, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: "We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time."
The Web site declined to release information on how many people were watching the broadcast. The entire site had 672,000 unique visitors in October.
Messages left with the bodybuilding Web site were not immediately returned Friday.
A spokesman for the Pembroke Pines police said they were investigating but declined further comment.
Crane said she knows of at least one other case in which a South Florida man shot himself in the head in front of an online audience, although she didn't know how much viewers saw. In Britain last year, a man hanged himself while chatting online.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Is a General Mobilization Really Occuring?
Found this on the www.rightsoup.com website. Sometimes things make me really nervous. This is one of them. Wonder if it is correct? Will follow the story and let you know what I hear.
Right Soup is hearing that a General Mobilization of ALL former military officers is underway. We caution that the talk we are hearing is conflicting, and that no concrete evidence has been uncovered yet. Still, reports from some who would be affected say that letters began going out on November 17th to all Non Commissioned Officers to recall them to service. Letters to Warrant Officers and Sergeants will go out this coming week. Reportedly some retired military have already gotten their letters. Right Soup is actively searching for scans of said letters, and for confirmation of this news.
A General Mobilization is VERY serious, about as serious as it gets. The Posse Comitatus of 1878 , which limits the use of the military for law enforcement is possibly being cast aside, if the rumored mobilization is for domestic enforcement. The Act can be set aside Executive Order of the President. Bottom line is, something big has to be imminent for this to be happening.
All sectors of society would be affected by this recall; there are doctors, lawyers, policemen, accountants, mechanics etc…it would be a huge disruption of society. For this to be happening would mean the “threat” is something which would occur within the next 3 months. A mobilization of this magnitude would be impossible to hide, so there would be a public pretext issued soon.
American Electric Power, one of the nation’s largest electricity providers, has reportedly moved 45-50 housing trailers to it’s Gavin power plant in Ohio. These trailers are equipped with beds and MREs, and reportedly many power facilities are doing the same thing AEP is doing. There is also chatter about some of our battleships mobilizing to the Persian Gulf. Could something be happening with Iran? Or could our military be preparing for a domestic problem?
Right Soup is investigating this information right now. We will be reporting back with more on this possibly blockbuster happening, and are actively seeking concrete evidence.
Right Soup is hearing that a General Mobilization of ALL former military officers is underway. We caution that the talk we are hearing is conflicting, and that no concrete evidence has been uncovered yet. Still, reports from some who would be affected say that letters began going out on November 17th to all Non Commissioned Officers to recall them to service. Letters to Warrant Officers and Sergeants will go out this coming week. Reportedly some retired military have already gotten their letters. Right Soup is actively searching for scans of said letters, and for confirmation of this news.
A General Mobilization is VERY serious, about as serious as it gets. The Posse Comitatus of 1878 , which limits the use of the military for law enforcement is possibly being cast aside, if the rumored mobilization is for domestic enforcement. The Act can be set aside Executive Order of the President. Bottom line is, something big has to be imminent for this to be happening.
All sectors of society would be affected by this recall; there are doctors, lawyers, policemen, accountants, mechanics etc…it would be a huge disruption of society. For this to be happening would mean the “threat” is something which would occur within the next 3 months. A mobilization of this magnitude would be impossible to hide, so there would be a public pretext issued soon.
American Electric Power, one of the nation’s largest electricity providers, has reportedly moved 45-50 housing trailers to it’s Gavin power plant in Ohio. These trailers are equipped with beds and MREs, and reportedly many power facilities are doing the same thing AEP is doing. There is also chatter about some of our battleships mobilizing to the Persian Gulf. Could something be happening with Iran? Or could our military be preparing for a domestic problem?
Right Soup is investigating this information right now. We will be reporting back with more on this possibly blockbuster happening, and are actively seeking concrete evidence.
Ain't What They Used to Be
Have you been following the Somalian pirates? They have now captured their 9th vessel in 12 days and have apparently transformed a number of villages into boomtowns. Some of them also died, pretty much instantly, when they opened cargo on an Iranian ship that they had hijacked. Know why? Because the cargo was radio-active. Hmmm. Wonder what that could've been. And from Iran. Well, anyhow. They have made a real nuisance of themselves. But for some reason they sure don't look like the pirates that I have come to love thanks to Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. And in reality I doubt not that there were few pirates of the Caribbean who looked like those two anyways. Sigh
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
All I Can Say Is...This Just Makes Me Sick
I really feel physically ill after watching this brief clip of the forthcoming movie "Media Malpractice". Watch it for yourself at http://www.howobamagotelected.com/
The apparent lack of wanting to educate oneself about whom they are voting for is appalling. How can people not know this stuff? I could've answered every question 100% correctly. I think all of my kids but my 3 year old could've answered most of those questions correctly. Of course, I am indoctrinating them every day by making them listen to Rush and Hannity every chance I get.
Here's an even scarier thought. These are the same people that sit on your jury deciding your fate. Shudder!!!!
The apparent lack of wanting to educate oneself about whom they are voting for is appalling. How can people not know this stuff? I could've answered every question 100% correctly. I think all of my kids but my 3 year old could've answered most of those questions correctly. Of course, I am indoctrinating them every day by making them listen to Rush and Hannity every chance I get.
Here's an even scarier thought. These are the same people that sit on your jury deciding your fate. Shudder!!!!
Kyrie the Driving Teen
Remember Toonces, the cat that could drive? Well, this was my first experience with letting Kyrie drive us all home. I think I will enroll her in driving lessons before doing it again.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Pray that this Will Be Heard by Justice Thomas
As of 2:15 PM, Nov. 18, the US Supreme Court docket has been updated and the renewed application for an emergency stay of the 2008 national election is apparently now before The Honorable Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
If you feel so inclined, I urge you to include a request for heavenly help in this petition to the court.
If you feel so inclined, I urge you to include a request for heavenly help in this petition to the court.
Monday, November 17, 2008
USAWAKEUP.ORG
Do you live in a safe place...safe as in being safe from radical islamic terrorists who have infiltrated the USofA? Here is a map identifying known cells. Pretty eye opening.
DEYO NOTE: Terrorists are a very real and growing threat in America and to American interests around the world. It should be assumed these are not the only cell locations within the US and that they are subject to change.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Quantum of Solace Rocked....However: People Kill People, Not Guns
Quantum was good. Bond is taking a turn to the dark side as the writers move the series down a path similar to what has happened with Batman. This suits me just fine. Assassins should have a dark side, otherwise how could they be great at what they do? Now, don't get me wrong, nobody and I mean NOBODY, could be Sean Connery. He was a glib Bond with no penchant for the dark side, except for maybe his ability to womanize. If you don't know what I mean about assassins and the dark side, you really should start reading the Vince Flynn novels starring Mitch Rapp. He is way too amazing for someone who kills others so easily!! Mitch Rapp is my Edward (if you don't know what I'm talking about ask a teenage girl who Edward is) I digress. Quantum was good, but after hearing about Daniel Craig's anti-gun comments I don't know how he can in good conscious take the role of Bond. James Bond.
" Whooda thunk that Bond... James Bond... would be shaken and stirred when it comes to wielding a gun? “I hate handguns,” said Daniel Craig, Agent.007 in the latest movie based on Ian Fleming’s hero. “Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other. That’s a simple fact.” Craig went on (and on), “I’ve seen a bullet wound and it was a mess... [I]t scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that’s what’s scary about them.” Uh, that’s why they work, Danny Boy, and why citizens use handguns to thwart crimes 1.5 million times, by conservative estimates, each year. Indeed, Craig will take millions for playacting a gunslinger, but in real life he’s a hypocritical wuss. Perhaps he simply got cast in the wrong production—instead of Bond, he should’ve been Barney.1
A "hypocritical wuss" indeed." (http://take-aim-fire.blogspot.com/2005/10/daniel-craig-is-007-and-anti-gun.html)
If someone really wants to kill someone else and a handgun isn't available, they will simply find another method. At least guns are quicker and maybe even less painful in the long run. Okay, yes, that was in poor taste and I'm sure I would never say that if I actually knew someone who had been personally shot. However, my point is that it is people that kill people, not guns.
" Whooda thunk that Bond... James Bond... would be shaken and stirred when it comes to wielding a gun? “I hate handguns,” said Daniel Craig, Agent.007 in the latest movie based on Ian Fleming’s hero. “Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other. That’s a simple fact.” Craig went on (and on), “I’ve seen a bullet wound and it was a mess... [I]t scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that’s what’s scary about them.” Uh, that’s why they work, Danny Boy, and why citizens use handguns to thwart crimes 1.5 million times, by conservative estimates, each year. Indeed, Craig will take millions for playacting a gunslinger, but in real life he’s a hypocritical wuss. Perhaps he simply got cast in the wrong production—instead of Bond, he should’ve been Barney.1
A "hypocritical wuss" indeed." (http://take-aim-fire.blogspot.com/2005/10/daniel-craig-is-007-and-anti-gun.html)
If someone really wants to kill someone else and a handgun isn't available, they will simply find another method. At least guns are quicker and maybe even less painful in the long run. Okay, yes, that was in poor taste and I'm sure I would never say that if I actually knew someone who had been personally shot. However, my point is that it is people that kill people, not guns.
More of those Crazy @$$ Floridians
Cougar mauls 16-year-old girl
A teen was attacked by a cougar when she and her boyfriend illegally entered a wildlife collector's home.
BY JOSE PAGLIERY, JENNIFER LEBOVICH AND KIRSTEN MAGUIRE
jpagliery@MiamiHerald.com
A young man's irresponsible bravado nearly cost a young girl her life Saturday afternoon.
The 16-year-old girl was mauled by a cougar and rushed to the hospital after she and 21-year-old Anthony Zitnick illegally entered a wildlife collector's home about 1:30 p.m. Neighbors believe Zitnick was trying to impress the younger girl.
Alan Rigerman, who legally keeps two cougars and several snakes, tortoises and alligators at his North Miami-Dade home, was out for the weekend at a reptile show in Central Florida.
Wildlife officials said the retired Miami-Dade school science teacher had permits for the animals.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Lt. Eddy Ballester said the girl sustained some significant wounds that warranted taking her to a local hospital.
Miami-Dade police arrested Zitnick for his unauthorized entry into the Rigerman's home. Neighbors said paramedics also treated Zitnick, who was in shock after Chaos, a 150-pound male cougar, attacked the girl he brought inside the home.
Dried blood covered Rigerman's concrete floor at the spot where the 4-year-old cougar pounced on the girl and clenched his jaws around her head.
Richard Miralles, a neighbor familiar with Rigerman's large cats, heard the girl's piercing scream from next door.
'I heard her scream, `I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die,' '' he said, hours after paramedics had left.
Miralles said he immediately dropped what he was doing, jumped his six-foot fence, and barged into Rigerman's back room -- only to find the girl pinned beneath Chaos, her head in his mouth and his large declawed paw on her face. Zitnick was standing nearby in shock, Miralles said.
At first, Miralles said, he tried to push Chaos off, but he wouldn't budge. He then resorted to punching and kicking the cougar, who quickly balled up in a corner, he said.
Miralles then picked up the girl, who was bleeding profusely from her head and thigh, and ran outside to wait for an ambulance.
Rigerman left the area Friday and put his neighbor, Jason Medina, in charge of feeding the animals while he was away at Repticon, a two-day international reptile show in the Tampa Bay area.
The retired Hialeah-Miami Lakes High teacher said he was shocked to hear that ''A.J.'' Zitnick, whom he said was his young friend, had entered his home without permission. Rigerman said Zitnick entered with a key he'd given him soon after Hurricane Wilma in 2005, when the teenager did yard work for the older man.
''And he helped me with my cats under my supervision,'' he said. ``But never, never, never alone.''
Zitnick's family could not be reached for comment.
Rigerman said he's worried for the young girl and is sorry that Zitnick got arrested, adding, ``they had no right to be in my home.''
''I'm worried about my absolutely spotless reputation with what I do with these animals,'' he said.
Neighbors said Zitnick most likely entered the home simply to show the girl the cougars.
''He took it upon himself to bring his girlfriend here,'' Miralles said.
''And show off,'' Medina added.
According to Rigerman, his place was last inspected by wildlife officials on Thursday -- he passed with flying colors, he said. He owns a captive-wildlife permit that allows him to keep the animals at his home.
Hours after the incident, Chaos and his cougar mother, Chantelle, lay quietly on the concrete floor of their large indoor cages. Chaos seemed calm, his breathing steady. His eyes were focused and narrow, and his muscles flexed beneath his skin.
''Honestly, he's like a kid,'' Medina said, sighing. ``He likes to play.''
Chaos is still at the house -- in a cage -- and that's where he'll stay for now, said Jorge Pino, spokesman for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
My question: Why is a 16 year old girl dating a 21 year old man? She would probably be a candidate for the "safe child disposal" going on in Nebraska.
A teen was attacked by a cougar when she and her boyfriend illegally entered a wildlife collector's home.
BY JOSE PAGLIERY, JENNIFER LEBOVICH AND KIRSTEN MAGUIRE
jpagliery@MiamiHerald.com
A young man's irresponsible bravado nearly cost a young girl her life Saturday afternoon.
The 16-year-old girl was mauled by a cougar and rushed to the hospital after she and 21-year-old Anthony Zitnick illegally entered a wildlife collector's home about 1:30 p.m. Neighbors believe Zitnick was trying to impress the younger girl.
Alan Rigerman, who legally keeps two cougars and several snakes, tortoises and alligators at his North Miami-Dade home, was out for the weekend at a reptile show in Central Florida.
Wildlife officials said the retired Miami-Dade school science teacher had permits for the animals.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Lt. Eddy Ballester said the girl sustained some significant wounds that warranted taking her to a local hospital.
Miami-Dade police arrested Zitnick for his unauthorized entry into the Rigerman's home. Neighbors said paramedics also treated Zitnick, who was in shock after Chaos, a 150-pound male cougar, attacked the girl he brought inside the home.
Dried blood covered Rigerman's concrete floor at the spot where the 4-year-old cougar pounced on the girl and clenched his jaws around her head.
Richard Miralles, a neighbor familiar with Rigerman's large cats, heard the girl's piercing scream from next door.
'I heard her scream, `I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die,' '' he said, hours after paramedics had left.
Miralles said he immediately dropped what he was doing, jumped his six-foot fence, and barged into Rigerman's back room -- only to find the girl pinned beneath Chaos, her head in his mouth and his large declawed paw on her face. Zitnick was standing nearby in shock, Miralles said.
At first, Miralles said, he tried to push Chaos off, but he wouldn't budge. He then resorted to punching and kicking the cougar, who quickly balled up in a corner, he said.
Miralles then picked up the girl, who was bleeding profusely from her head and thigh, and ran outside to wait for an ambulance.
Rigerman left the area Friday and put his neighbor, Jason Medina, in charge of feeding the animals while he was away at Repticon, a two-day international reptile show in the Tampa Bay area.
The retired Hialeah-Miami Lakes High teacher said he was shocked to hear that ''A.J.'' Zitnick, whom he said was his young friend, had entered his home without permission. Rigerman said Zitnick entered with a key he'd given him soon after Hurricane Wilma in 2005, when the teenager did yard work for the older man.
''And he helped me with my cats under my supervision,'' he said. ``But never, never, never alone.''
Zitnick's family could not be reached for comment.
Rigerman said he's worried for the young girl and is sorry that Zitnick got arrested, adding, ``they had no right to be in my home.''
''I'm worried about my absolutely spotless reputation with what I do with these animals,'' he said.
Neighbors said Zitnick most likely entered the home simply to show the girl the cougars.
''He took it upon himself to bring his girlfriend here,'' Miralles said.
''And show off,'' Medina added.
According to Rigerman, his place was last inspected by wildlife officials on Thursday -- he passed with flying colors, he said. He owns a captive-wildlife permit that allows him to keep the animals at his home.
Hours after the incident, Chaos and his cougar mother, Chantelle, lay quietly on the concrete floor of their large indoor cages. Chaos seemed calm, his breathing steady. His eyes were focused and narrow, and his muscles flexed beneath his skin.
''Honestly, he's like a kid,'' Medina said, sighing. ``He likes to play.''
Chaos is still at the house -- in a cage -- and that's where he'll stay for now, said Jorge Pino, spokesman for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
My question: Why is a 16 year old girl dating a 21 year old man? She would probably be a candidate for the "safe child disposal" going on in Nebraska.
First Hand Account of Protests at the LA Temple
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081110hate.html
I haven't been able to talk with any of my friends from WWII (that's short for WestWood II ward, not World War II) who may have been involved with any of these actions. The few friends I have spoken with were all out of town that weekend.
I haven't been able to talk with any of my friends from WWII (that's short for WestWood II ward, not World War II) who may have been involved with any of these actions. The few friends I have spoken with were all out of town that weekend.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Have You Done Your Part?
Today I will mail out letters to some of the electors of the Florida college encouraging them to look at the evidence of BO's eligibility to be POTUS and to consider, before casting their vote, that he has not provided credible evidence. I have joined a few web sites that are starting grass roots movements hoping to defend our constitution and liberties.
I am also disgusted at a web site blacklisting supporters of Prop 8 in California. This site has listed supporters names, businesses, and the amount of money donated to the cause asking people to boycott them and their businesses. I will be creating a web site that whitelists and supports these people and encourages others to start a letter writing campaign letting them know they are appreciated and their businesses will be patronized by said letter writer when possible. Businesses across California are being picketed daily by opponents of Prop 8 calling the supporters gay bashers, homophobes, etc. The LDS church has been egregiously targeted. Two temples have even received fake anthrax scare letters. If we don't stand up for what we believe in we will allow our freedoms and liberties to be taken away.
Join in the efforts. So I ask, What have you done?
I am also disgusted at a web site blacklisting supporters of Prop 8 in California. This site has listed supporters names, businesses, and the amount of money donated to the cause asking people to boycott them and their businesses. I will be creating a web site that whitelists and supports these people and encourages others to start a letter writing campaign letting them know they are appreciated and their businesses will be patronized by said letter writer when possible. Businesses across California are being picketed daily by opponents of Prop 8 calling the supporters gay bashers, homophobes, etc. The LDS church has been egregiously targeted. Two temples have even received fake anthrax scare letters. If we don't stand up for what we believe in we will allow our freedoms and liberties to be taken away.
Join in the efforts. So I ask, What have you done?
Thursday, November 13, 2008
A Very Sad Commentary on the Family
Every time I would hear or read about one of these abandonments, my heart would hurt. How desperate as a parent or guardian do you have to be to completely abandon your teenager to the state? Why is it so difficult to be a good parent in today's society? And if Obama gets his way, will it become even harder?
Neb. parents rush to leave kids before law changes
LINCOLN, Neb. – The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska's safe-haven law. She was also running out of time: She knew that state lawmakers would soon meet in a special session to amend the ill-fated law so that it would apply to newborns only.
"Where am I going to get help if they change the law?" said the mother, who lives in Lincoln and asked to not be identified by name to protect her adopted child.
To the state's surprise and embarrassment, more than half of the 33 children legally abandoned under the safe-haven law since it took effect in mid-July have been teenagers.
But state officials may have inadvertently made things worse with their hesitant response to the problem: The number of drop-offs has almost tripled to about three a week since Gov. Dave Heineman announced on Oct. 29 that lawmakers would rewrite the law.
With legislators set to convene on Friday, weary parents like the Lincoln mother have been racing to drop off their children while they still can.
On Thursday, authorities searched for a 17-year-old girl who fled an Omaha hospital as her mother tried to abandon her. Her 14-year-old brother was taken into state custody, health officials said.
Child welfare experts said the late deluge of drop-offs was probably inevitable. After all, they said, some date had to be picked to begin changing the law.
But some of them said lawmakers and the governor missed chances to change the law early because they underestimated the number of desperate families looking for help. Heineman called the special session only after a spate of five drop-offs in eight days.
Reluctance to pull senators away from their jobs and election campaigns, along with the estimated $70,000 to $80,000 cost of a special session, were among the reasons Heineman's office cited in holding off on calling a special session sooner.
"I think there was a fair amount of denial on the part of legislators that it would snowball," said Karen Authier, executive director of the Nebraska Children's Home Society.
The safe-haven law was intended to save "Dumpster babies" by allowing desperate young mothers to abandon their newborns at a hospital without fear of prosecution. But lawmakers could not agree on an age limit, and the law as passed uses only the word "child."
All states have safe-haven laws, but in every state but Nebraska, the law applies to infants only.
Authier said her group and others had warned senators after the law passed early this year that there could be problems, but the lawmakers did not believe it.
"It wasn't like talking to a stone wall," Authier said. "It was just that people who aren't in the business of dealing with families, they aren't aware how desperate some of these families are."
Sure enough, 20 teenagers — six 17-year-olds, two 16-year-olds, six 15-year-olds, three 14-year-olds, three 13-year-olds — have been abandoned, along with eight children who were 11 or 12. Five of the children dropped off have been from out of state.
The Lincoln mother who dropped off her 18-year-old daughter said she was repeatedly turned down when she sought help from police, state social services authorities and the girl's school. The woman said her daughter had been diagnosed with a mental illness when she was 12 and had deep psychological scars from childhood abuse and from being left alone with her dead biological mother for a week.
The woman said she felt she had no choice but to leave her daughter at the hospital after a recent flurry of assault, stealing, sleeping around and cutting school.
"I thought she would get help" through the safe-haven law, the mother said.
However, state authorities refused to take the young woman into custody, saying Nebraska law regarding juveniles does not let authorities take in anyone older than 17. The woman left with her daughter.
Fourteen children in all have been left at three hospitals operated by Alegent Health in the Omaha area.
"These are largely families at a point of incredible desperation," said Wayne Sensor, chief executive of Alegent Health. "They aren't bad parents or bad kids. They simply don't know what services are available out there."
UPDATE
35th 'safe haven' child dropped off
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN -- A 5-year-old boy from Sarpy County was left last night at Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha -- the 35th under Nebraska's safe-haven law.
The boy was left at the hospital by his mother around 9 p.m., says Todd Landry, director of children and family services for the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS staff is gathering additional information today. he said.
The Legislature opens a special session this afternoon to work on changing the law so it applies only to infants.
Neb. parents rush to leave kids before law changes
LINCOLN, Neb. – The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska's safe-haven law. She was also running out of time: She knew that state lawmakers would soon meet in a special session to amend the ill-fated law so that it would apply to newborns only.
"Where am I going to get help if they change the law?" said the mother, who lives in Lincoln and asked to not be identified by name to protect her adopted child.
To the state's surprise and embarrassment, more than half of the 33 children legally abandoned under the safe-haven law since it took effect in mid-July have been teenagers.
But state officials may have inadvertently made things worse with their hesitant response to the problem: The number of drop-offs has almost tripled to about three a week since Gov. Dave Heineman announced on Oct. 29 that lawmakers would rewrite the law.
With legislators set to convene on Friday, weary parents like the Lincoln mother have been racing to drop off their children while they still can.
On Thursday, authorities searched for a 17-year-old girl who fled an Omaha hospital as her mother tried to abandon her. Her 14-year-old brother was taken into state custody, health officials said.
Child welfare experts said the late deluge of drop-offs was probably inevitable. After all, they said, some date had to be picked to begin changing the law.
But some of them said lawmakers and the governor missed chances to change the law early because they underestimated the number of desperate families looking for help. Heineman called the special session only after a spate of five drop-offs in eight days.
Reluctance to pull senators away from their jobs and election campaigns, along with the estimated $70,000 to $80,000 cost of a special session, were among the reasons Heineman's office cited in holding off on calling a special session sooner.
"I think there was a fair amount of denial on the part of legislators that it would snowball," said Karen Authier, executive director of the Nebraska Children's Home Society.
The safe-haven law was intended to save "Dumpster babies" by allowing desperate young mothers to abandon their newborns at a hospital without fear of prosecution. But lawmakers could not agree on an age limit, and the law as passed uses only the word "child."
All states have safe-haven laws, but in every state but Nebraska, the law applies to infants only.
Authier said her group and others had warned senators after the law passed early this year that there could be problems, but the lawmakers did not believe it.
"It wasn't like talking to a stone wall," Authier said. "It was just that people who aren't in the business of dealing with families, they aren't aware how desperate some of these families are."
Sure enough, 20 teenagers — six 17-year-olds, two 16-year-olds, six 15-year-olds, three 14-year-olds, three 13-year-olds — have been abandoned, along with eight children who were 11 or 12. Five of the children dropped off have been from out of state.
The Lincoln mother who dropped off her 18-year-old daughter said she was repeatedly turned down when she sought help from police, state social services authorities and the girl's school. The woman said her daughter had been diagnosed with a mental illness when she was 12 and had deep psychological scars from childhood abuse and from being left alone with her dead biological mother for a week.
The woman said she felt she had no choice but to leave her daughter at the hospital after a recent flurry of assault, stealing, sleeping around and cutting school.
"I thought she would get help" through the safe-haven law, the mother said.
However, state authorities refused to take the young woman into custody, saying Nebraska law regarding juveniles does not let authorities take in anyone older than 17. The woman left with her daughter.
Fourteen children in all have been left at three hospitals operated by Alegent Health in the Omaha area.
"These are largely families at a point of incredible desperation," said Wayne Sensor, chief executive of Alegent Health. "They aren't bad parents or bad kids. They simply don't know what services are available out there."
UPDATE
35th 'safe haven' child dropped off
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN -- A 5-year-old boy from Sarpy County was left last night at Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha -- the 35th under Nebraska's safe-haven law.
The boy was left at the hospital by his mother around 9 p.m., says Todd Landry, director of children and family services for the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS staff is gathering additional information today. he said.
The Legislature opens a special session this afternoon to work on changing the law so it applies only to infants.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
This Takes the Cake, and they Eat it Too
fromhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/12/earlyshow/main4595179.shtml
It's no secret that investment bankers are well-compensated, mostly through year-end bonuses, especially during bull markets.
But can they still count on those big bonuses this year, in the midst of the financial crisis and market freefall?
CBS News correspondent Priya David spoke with several compensation consultants who said that, even in this economy, firms are worried that, if they don't pay out the bonuses, they'll lose their top talent -- people they want to keep around for when pastures turn green again.
On The Early Show Wednesday, David reported that lawmakers and taxpayers alike are concerned about where the money for those bonuses will come from.
For Wall Street workers still employed, there could be a hefty bonus in their checks next month.
According to a report from financial news agency Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, for example, has set aside $6.8 billion for bonuses, and Morgan Stanley, $6.4 billion.
And the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, isn't happy. "These are people who lost enormous amounts of money," Frank observes. "How do you give a bonus to someone for having failed so badly as many of these people did?"
What's got many on Main Street and Capitol Hill angry, David says, is the possibility that some of the $700 billion government bailout package could go into the pockets of Wall Streeters to pay their bonuses.
"All of the money is to go into new loans," Frank points out. "None of it is to go into compensation of any kind for the employees."
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has opened an investigation into the Wall Street bonuses. He sent a letter to nine financial institutions, demanding "a detailed accounting regarding your expected payments to top management in the upcoming bonus season."
Did Barney Frank really have the nerve to say that? This man is such a retarded imbecile. The guy who was key in creating the whole mess with his liberal lending policies has the nerve to call the kettle black. Well, pot (I mean you Barney), here's a whole big steaming hot pile of Ship High In Transit to fill yourself with, because while you are correct on theory, your practice makes me want to vomit out of both ends.
Then there is Senator Dodd, who received personal “VIP” loans from Countrywide Financial, a predatory lender he was supposed to be regulating as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. And he helped craft a $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill designed to spur new small-business and homeowner lending — but which turns out to be designed instead to enable banks to buy other banks. He was asked some tough question by Tom Scott, one of Connecticut’s leading conservative voices of the past three decades. He was the last local on-air voice at WELI-AM, once a fully-staffed Greater New Haven news station turned into a right-wing talk radio syndication outlet by owner Clear Channel Communications. The interview never aired. Well, you can hear it here:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/upload/2008/11/102808_edited_Dodd.mp3
It's no secret that investment bankers are well-compensated, mostly through year-end bonuses, especially during bull markets.
But can they still count on those big bonuses this year, in the midst of the financial crisis and market freefall?
CBS News correspondent Priya David spoke with several compensation consultants who said that, even in this economy, firms are worried that, if they don't pay out the bonuses, they'll lose their top talent -- people they want to keep around for when pastures turn green again.
On The Early Show Wednesday, David reported that lawmakers and taxpayers alike are concerned about where the money for those bonuses will come from.
For Wall Street workers still employed, there could be a hefty bonus in their checks next month.
According to a report from financial news agency Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, for example, has set aside $6.8 billion for bonuses, and Morgan Stanley, $6.4 billion.
And the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, isn't happy. "These are people who lost enormous amounts of money," Frank observes. "How do you give a bonus to someone for having failed so badly as many of these people did?"
What's got many on Main Street and Capitol Hill angry, David says, is the possibility that some of the $700 billion government bailout package could go into the pockets of Wall Streeters to pay their bonuses.
"All of the money is to go into new loans," Frank points out. "None of it is to go into compensation of any kind for the employees."
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has opened an investigation into the Wall Street bonuses. He sent a letter to nine financial institutions, demanding "a detailed accounting regarding your expected payments to top management in the upcoming bonus season."
Did Barney Frank really have the nerve to say that? This man is such a retarded imbecile. The guy who was key in creating the whole mess with his liberal lending policies has the nerve to call the kettle black. Well, pot (I mean you Barney), here's a whole big steaming hot pile of Ship High In Transit to fill yourself with, because while you are correct on theory, your practice makes me want to vomit out of both ends.
Then there is Senator Dodd, who received personal “VIP” loans from Countrywide Financial, a predatory lender he was supposed to be regulating as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. And he helped craft a $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill designed to spur new small-business and homeowner lending — but which turns out to be designed instead to enable banks to buy other banks. He was asked some tough question by Tom Scott, one of Connecticut’s leading conservative voices of the past three decades. He was the last local on-air voice at WELI-AM, once a fully-staffed Greater New Haven news station turned into a right-wing talk radio syndication outlet by owner Clear Channel Communications. The interview never aired. Well, you can hear it here:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/upload/2008/11/102808_edited_Dodd.mp3
Conversations With the Kids
Instead of titling these post "kids say the darndest things" they will now be "Conversations with the kids."
Danny will be 3 in less than a week. (Wow, where does the time go?) Yes, I nursed him way too long, but if you know our living circumstances from hell in Beverly Hills, you know why it took longer than I planned. Regardless, he was weaned in May and every once in awhile will ask about "his numm numms." Two nights ago was one such time.
Dan, "I love my numms. I miss them."
Mommy, "Where did they go?"
Dan, "They're right there."
Mommy, "No. They're gone remember?"
Dan sadly and sighing, "Yeah. They went to jail."
Mommy surprised, "To Jail? Who put them in jail?"
Dan, "Daddy did!! He's mean."
Mom laughing her head off, "Why did daddy put them in jail?"
Dan, "Because he took them away!"
Dan also informed me that he loved his numms and they were so good. I asked him what they tasted like and he said, "CHOCOLATE!!" Not too surprising as that is his favorite food group.
Danny will be 3 in less than a week. (Wow, where does the time go?) Yes, I nursed him way too long, but if you know our living circumstances from hell in Beverly Hills, you know why it took longer than I planned. Regardless, he was weaned in May and every once in awhile will ask about "his numm numms." Two nights ago was one such time.
Dan, "I love my numms. I miss them."
Mommy, "Where did they go?"
Dan, "They're right there."
Mommy, "No. They're gone remember?"
Dan sadly and sighing, "Yeah. They went to jail."
Mommy surprised, "To Jail? Who put them in jail?"
Dan, "Daddy did!! He's mean."
Mom laughing her head off, "Why did daddy put them in jail?"
Dan, "Because he took them away!"
Dan also informed me that he loved his numms and they were so good. I asked him what they tasted like and he said, "CHOCOLATE!!" Not too surprising as that is his favorite food group.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Thank You Veterans....Thank You
THE THINGS THAT MAKE A SOLDIER GREAT
Edgar Guest
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The things that make a soldier great and send him out to die,
To face the flaming cannon's mouth nor ever question why,
Are lilacs by a little porch, the row of tulips red,
The peonies and pansies, too, the old petunia bed,
The grass plot where his children play, the roses on the wall:
'Tis these that make a soldier great.
He's fighting for them all.
'Tis not the pomp and pride of kings that make a soldier brave;
'Tis not allegiance to the flag that over him may wave;
For soldiers never fight so well on land or on the foam
As when behind the cause they see the little place called home.
Endanger but that humble street whereon his children run,
You make a soldier of the man who never bore a gun.
What is it through the battle smoke the valiant soldier sees?
The little garden far away, the budding apple trees,
The little patch of ground back there, the children at their play,
Perhaps a tiny mound behind the simple church of gray.
The golden thread of courage isn't linked to castle dome
But to the spot, where'er it be — the humblest spot called home.
And now the lilacs bud again and all is lovely there
And homesick soldiers far away know spring is in the air;
The tulips come to bloom again, the grass once more is green,
And every man can see the spot where all his joys have been.
He sees his children smile at him, he hears the bugle call,
And only death can stop him now — he's fighting for them all.
Monday, November 10, 2008
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