Middle America's Worldview

I have added a new link on my blog called Jessie's Angels referring to promoting Jessica Lundsford Act. I also wrote to both Governers of Oklahoma and Arkansas imploring them to push for this type of legislation. I guess it may be no more than a 'make me feel good' letter from my civic duty. However, if I don't call for it, who will?

In addition, I also was informed of S1086 still not going through the Senate. So, in my feeling of being politically activated this week, I fired off letters to my Oklahoma Senators in addition to the Arkansas Senators. I will let everyone know if I get any replies.

Also I want to inform everyone on the HR2679 Hostetters Bill. Please contact your Senators and Representives about this important Bill. This would amend the "Civil Rights Attorneys Free Act of 1975., U.S.C. Section 1988". ACLU is making millions from the states on their crazy sueing practices. Hence, your tax dollars are being taken to push their agenda. With Hostetters Bill, ACLU would still be able to sue and attempt to push their agenda, but without the states being forced to pay for their work. Please, please look into this and contact your Representives to make them aware of and support it.

From Gary Bauer..
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Muslim Groups Slam Radiation Program

Major U.S. Muslim groups are furious about reports that homeland
security monitors have been checking the air for unusually high radiation
readings outside mosques and other sites in at least five U.S. cities.
The purpose of the monitoring is to detect the possible presence of a
"drty"nuclear bomb, which Al-Qaeda and other groups are known to want to
smuggle into the United States. Two groups have actually filed Freedom of
Information Requests demanding to know which sites were monitored.
Ahmed Younis, national director of the Muslim Public Affairs
Council said, "The problem is...it further gives the Muslim community a sense
they are suspect, they are under the gun." Mr. Younis doesn't get it.
If anyone is "under the gun" it is the United States. We know that 24 hours
a day co-religionists of Mr. Younis are working feverishly to bring to us
another day of sorrows, death and destruction like the one that we
experienced on 9/11.
Arsalan Iftikhar, legal director of the Council on
American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), said that his group wanted to protect "our
nation's borders" but "we are not willing to give up our guaranteed
constitutional and legal rights in order to do that."

It sounds like Mr. Iftikhar learned his lessons well at whatever
left-wing law school he attended. No one from the U.S. government has
entered a mosque without a warrant, and no one is hauling Mr. Iftikhar off
to a detention camp. There is no right in the Constitution that
prohibits appropriate authorities from measuring for dangerous levels of
radioactivity in the middle of a war with an enemy that has
repeatedly stated its goal is to detonate such a weapon on U.S. soil.

Let's briefly review the facts again. After 9/11 there were
strong reasons to believe that Al-Qaeda wanted to hit us again just as we were
trying to recover from their first blow. In May of 2002, Jose Padilla was
arrested on suspicion of planning an attack using a nuclear device.
Documents discovered in Afghanistan indicated our enemy planned to use a
U.S. mosque to store such a device. In other words, the government was being
prudent in taking the step that it did.

Wouldn't it be wonderful, when one of these controversies broke
in the news, to hear one of the spokesmen for the U.S. Muslim groups
say something like this: "We are not happy that our community has come under
additional scrutiny, but we understand the necessity to permit it. Vicious
fascists, operating in the name of our faith, have declared war on the
U.S. As loyal Americans first, we are prepared to make sacrifices to ensure
our adopted nation is safe. On the morning of 9/11, the enemy killed
Christian, Jewish and Muslim civilians who simply went to work at the World Trade
Center. Like all Americans, we don't want to see another day of such
horror in our homeland. We will fully cooperate with the FBI to make sure
that no Muslim site is exploited by Al-Qaeda to attack our fellow Americans."

Now, that statement would be a Christmas miracle!
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Let's get a fact straight. They are not imposing on the civil rights. They are checking
on public ground. I have said it before, and I will say it again. Not all Muslims
are Terrorists, but all Terrorists are found to be Muslims. Get a freaking
clue people. Same thing with this wiretapping the Demo's are trying to get a
rise out of people. I like what I heard on the radio to the other day on this topic.
"Do people really expect the Government to search out those possible terrorist outside of
the United States but ignore those within the United States communicating with them?"
I probably didn't get the exact wording but the meaning is still there. I would think
we would be more harsh on those possible sleeper cells within the United States. We are
in a war (regardless if it's not officially called that) and unfortunately there are
those among us who would do us harm.

The 4 day weekend was tremendously fun. We survived another event with both inlaws, no bloodshed was cast, only some aggravation.

I enjoyed one of my movies, Left Behind 3, and Farscape season 3, last night. Overall of all the movies ect. I enjoyed more of the home movies we are converting over to DVD. It is soooo cool. Plug in the VHS tape and dub to DVD-r. Man how we all have changed in the past 3 years alone.

My beloved wife tricked me on this Christmas. She not only acquired season 3 but season 4 of Farscape is on it's way! Unfortunately the series only lasted 4, but now I have all of them! This is a tremendous gift indeed.

Believe it or not, we pulled down the Christmas decorations, tree yesterday. I still have to get the lights and Snowman out from outside. Kel is working on putting the house back together prior to the Holidays (excluding New Years).

The kids, Kel and I actually sat in the floor and played old maid, go fish, war and crazy eights. It was nice to just sit and play a non-electric game. We kept laughing like crazy as the kids held onto the Old Maid.

Had to be back in work today. I start on-call tomorrow night. Yeah, the weekend was a true treat, but back to work.

Christmas did indeed start early this year, say around 3:30 a.m.

Kel and I exchanged our gifts last night and as I pat myself on the back, I actually was able to surprise her on some stuff.

Kel was up around 3:00 a.m (prob earlier), and by 3:30 was jingling bells in the hallway trying to wake the kids. LOL. They were up and atem, pretty quickly. Let's just say Santa was good to them.

The presents were torn through by 5 a.m. Thanks were given and as my wife said, it looks like Toys R Us exploded in the living room.

Her parents will be coming over around lunch. We are all in our new pajamas and enjoying our new toys.

I wish all readers and bloggers a Merry and Safe Christmas.

One down and one to go. My family hit us last night, today is Kel's family. Prior of picking my mom up yesterday to bring her here, I picked up two boxes of Excedrin Quick Tabs. I figured with both inlaws over the weekend, Kel and I will probably need them. I already popped one this morning. : )

Last night went pretty much as expected. I brought my mom over early so we can have some time together. I never noticed till last night, how much she is not a conversationalist. There were more than one time of silence. I guess we have grown so different over time. It was still nice to have her over. Dad ended up coming over early as well. Each one had tried out Kel and the kids goodies before they ate supper. My brother and crazy was late as usual. It kindof aggrevated me, considering everyone changed to late Friday for her needs. Oh well. It was all over by 9:30 p.m. I didn't get to talk much with my brother. I did a better job to keep crazy from dragging Kel alone. She normally tries to corner her and piss and moan to her.

The kids big present last night was a Nintendo Gamecube. Too cool. I am impressed with the graphics and quality of the games. I had to run to Walmart last night to grab a Gamecube memory card. Talk about nuts last night. I again spent more time in the self-check out lane than grabbing my 6 items. I picked the self-checkout with the younger couple rather than the older thinking it would be going faster. Bah. How do I get behind the technically challenged? The guy made the statement "I guess this is the most stupid thing they created." I felt like saying "no dumbass only the user" but I held my toungue. The gal finally was finished and asked out loud.."do i get a receipt?". I did inform her it was on the right side of the machine. (shaking head) oh well. Perhaps people will get use to them.

I had to play with the kids a bit last night with the new game cube. It came with Pokomon XD and we let them open another gift, Nicktoons Unite game. This allowed the three of us to play at the same time. I can't help it. I really enjoy playing with the kids, working together on the games.

This morning, my 3 kids. Yes, Kel included wanted to open up the presents between ourselves. We opened the kids presents to us (Kel and I) and let the kids open the ones between each other. They have to wait till tommorrow to open our presents to them. Kel and I will exchange our presents between each other tonight. Anyway, I received the Chronicles of Narnia book. It has all of the books combined, a ornament and Golden Corral coupon. : )

We are also going to read the real story of Christmas tonight to the kids. The presents are fun, but the true meaning of Christmas is real.

I received this in my email and wanted to share it.
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A young man's perspective , we all have heard of him ..read below excellent read!



A university professor challenged his students with this question.

"Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied "yes, He did!" "God created everything? The professor asked.
"Yes sir", the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists and according to the principle that our works define who we are then God is evil".
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to them;

Students that he had proven once more that religious faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?" "Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists.
Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact, sir, cold does not exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality, the absence of heat. Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat.

The student continued: Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does". The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color.! You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can Break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to Describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day.
It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold,
a word that man has Created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat.
Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.
The young man's name --- Albert Einstein

Ok, 4 days and counting, technically.

At our house the present opening will begin Friday night. My family will (in case they change their mind again) be coming over to our house Friday night to celebrate Christmas. We can exchange those presents among ourselves. This is actually cool, because the kids will get the Nintendo gamecube that night. This will allow us, I mean them to play it all day Saturday. LOL

For some reason it doesnt feel like a normal week of work. Yes, we are still extremely busy. Yes, we keep moving along, but there is definitely Christmas in the air.

I am scheduled off this Friday and Monday is considered a Corp. holiday. This allows me 4 days off without on-call (I have it again starting next Wed.). I am so looking forward to it.

Yeah, this year, it's not just the kids asking "Is it Christmas yet?"

This has been by far one of the better Monday's I have ever had in a long time. Work wasn't out and out crazy and even though I was on support, it didn't kill me.

The movie Skeleton Key was actually pretty good. It had a storyline (unlike most anymore) and it kept my interest. I was close to the knowing what the ending would be, but it didn't all sync in till after the movie. This to me, makes for a really good storyline. I enjoy the ones, I have to think about sometimes. Plus, it wasn't a spin/rip off of another movie.

Can you believe only 6 more days till Christmas? Unbelivable. Fortunately, for me, I have all mine done. I am now only waiting to see their excited faces as they open them.

In addition to renting Skeleton Key, we rented Star WArs BattleFront 2 for the PS2. The kids absolutely loved it. So much we are keeping it an extra night/day. I have to admit, I have been playing it with the kids. Its a max 2 player game, unless you have online gaming. We only have been playing the split screen games. We havent even started the actual storyline game, but it kicks butt.

Since Kel and I both were out this evening we met at the Chiro with the kids and ate out. It was a nice treat to sit at a booth with the kids.

God not only abliged me one night, but 2 nights of rest. Sweet!

Friday burned through like a hot knife in butter. That night, our friends came over and we played a game called "Disney Scene". It actally was pretty fun.

This morning, Kel had to go into work early. Yes, early Saturday morning. We let the kids sleep in. Our daughter slept till 9:30 a.m. Our son was up around 8 a.m. A all time record for them. I managed to paint our son's room and we cleaned up the house. I then took the kids with me to pick up lunch and we headed to Kel's work. I helped Kel moved some equimpment around, install some software, put up a new computer ect.
She took the kids straight home, while I hit the library, picked up a movie/pizza and headed home.

I found the "Skeleton Key"to watch later tonight when everyone else goes to sleep. I also found a game and a scooby doo cartoon for the kids.

This evening Kel put the remaning wallpaper up allowing me to finish the painting in our son's room. Now that's done, we can put up the trim tomorrow.

Needless to say, our Saturday flew quick.

In short, yes.

Here is the deal. I had a hell (its not over yet) of a on-call week so far. Monday night I was called every 2 hours and early Wednesday morning (3 a.m our time) I was called due to a UPS. Basically the power went out of the Corp. datacenter again. Everything went down including Corp. ability to call out on the lan lines. Sigh.

I was up from 3 a.m till around 9 p.m. That morning, after the fallback, I had to take my mom to see the doctor (around 8 a.m.). I then hit Walmart, Sonic (more caffeien!) on the way back home. When I left the doc visit with my mom, we ran by the pharmacist for her script, it was closed till 9 a.m. Sigh. In short, Up since 3 a.m., worked till we resolved all 16 facilites interfaces that were down. Ran my mother to the doc, hit a closed pharmacy store, dropping her home. I had two calls while at the doc's visit. One from work and another FYI'ing me some parent went to highschool and kicked a teachers ass. (I guess I will be hearing about this one)

I then proceeded to Walmart. I was efficient in grabbing all the PTA items until I hit the paint section. We are re-doing our son's room now with camo and new paint. No-one in sight. It took 2 request to call overhead before someone showed up. After 10 minutes of them creating the paint, I wheeled off to the checkout. Unbelievably, I had the chose of old checker to older checker. There were 3 carts lined up in the 6 availble old ladies checkers. This is super walmart for crying out loud. I stood there in obvious hurried look until I could stand there no longer. I went to the self-checkout lady and asked if I can write a check in this lane. She replied "uh yeah, but I would have to take it." Fine. I immmediately swung the full cart (6 gallons of tea, nearly 7 2-liter soda's, paint, 2 bottles of salsa, worcestire sauce, 4 cans of mushroom soup and other items) to the self-check out. Thank God for them. I can haul ass on those. I beeped every item through, wrote my check and then paid cash separately for the paint. I was through that bad boy faster than the original cart could make it to the checker in my prior lane.

I then headed home, calling my boss-boss to give her an update on the mornings UPS fiasco. I hit sonic and ordered 2 route 44's. My wife was awaken with me on my 3 a.m. wakeup call. I finally made it home around 10 a.m.

Once home, I proceeded to again catch up on my work email, IM's ect. It finally slowed down around noon. I wanted Kel to have a full day home. She managed to get all the Christmas items out of the garage hiding holes and wrapped them accordingly. I managed a few without serious damage to the eyes.

I took our son to Speech that same evening. During that time, I grabbed my mothers script and ran them to the same pharmacist. Unfortunately, he did not have that particular drug in. He made some concoction in the back (suppose to be the same effect as said drug). It took freaking 30 minutes to create 11 pills. I was on edge all day, feeling behind and this didn't help any. I did make a proposition and if it works out, I will blog on it later.

I finally was able to leave and grab our son, heading home again. Kel had supper ready and we ate in peace.

Last night, I fell out around 9 p.m. praying to God no calls from work and he abliged.

I woke up this morning at 4 a.m wide awake. I guess the exhausted 7 hours of sleep was enough.

They say time is relative and is contained within our physical, moving world. Well, I swear the world is moving faster. This year is nearly gone and even on those rare occasions to sit and watch a full movie, seems to be done before I finish my snacks.

I also knew this week would be going fast, and it hasn't turned out wrong yet. Monday at work went by way too fast. I had a school board meeting last night, taking my son to speech therapy, taking our daughter to the library, it was 9 p.m. at night before I could stop.

I have already been on the phone 3 times and worked on/completed 2 projects this morning before 9:30 a.m local time. It appears today will also be a runner. We have basketball practice tonight and I am resolving myself to butt out of the undisciplined kids running haywire.

I did acquire a new Christmas present this morning online for my wife. I am excited this year. I hope I can pull in some surprises for her. Normally, she has already tagged everything. ; )

Welcome to the 2005 Holiday Edition of Getting to Know Your Friends!
Here's mine................
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Eggnog. It's the only time of the year I can drink it. Not too much, though.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Our Santa has them non-wrapped in separate piles for each kid.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Our current tree is prelit with white lights. Love the plug and play.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? When we can find one. Never had it over our bed before. Maybe I will try that this year. ; )

5. When do you put your decorations up? As soon as my dear wife makes me. She normally cannot wait till the day after Thanksgiving.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Is there another favorite holiday dish? I would say the appetizers (cheese, crackers) that sit out during the day. I keep going to them.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? The excitement as a kid early in the morning. The snow is 5-6 inches thick, cold outside but a fire in the house warming us. Looking back, we really didn't get that much, but we were happy.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes with my parents. Kel and I also exchange our gifts to each other when the kids are in bed. It is a special time with just the two of us sitting on the floor under the lighted Christmas tree. I look forward to it every year.

10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? Last year was cookies and a pepsi. This year it will be milk, since our daughter want's him to have strong bones.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? I don't mind the snow and enjoy it during Christmas. I just hate the ice.

12. Can you ice skate? I never have tried.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? The unexpected one.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Watching my wife and kids face lit up when they open the presents. The warm feeling and thankfullness of each year.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Love Pecan pie.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Hearing my wife explain all the special ornaments to the kids when we decorate the tree. She has a iron clad memory and can explain each ornament on when and where we acquired them.

17. What tops your tree? This year is a snowman's head.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? I won't deny I love the gifts. I am a big kid too. But I love giving them to Kel and the kids. Something about the gratefullness in the ability to give gifts to the family.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Carol? Cheech and Chong explaining how reindeers can fly. ; )

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Blahh. I hate sticky candy. I don't care for them.

I will add one. One thing I hate is the continuation of others taking the religion out of the holidays.

I came in from Pennsylvania on Saturday evening. Needless to say, that whole day for the weekend was shot. Sunday, we decided to stay home from church. It was nice to get a partial time to rest. The sleeping in ones on bed is a luxury missed. Having a wife to hold and snuggle with is pleasure in itself.

Monday, the blog was down. For some reason I could not look at my blog page, so no updates were given. Basically, the day consisted of work and errands. It was 9 p.m. before I knew it.

Last night the kids had their first basketball practice. This time, they are on different teams. Our son's practice starts at 5:30 and ends 6:15. Our daughters practice picks up from there and ends 7 p.m. This puts Kel and I at practice for 1.5 hours.

I can see some improvements need to be made in having them practice already. BUt it was the first day. Everyone had to give shirt sizes, name their teams, ect. I was trying to recall how Upward Bound was teaching them in throwing the ball, ect. One guy kept screaming at his grandkids from the sideline "Don't throw that ball like that. Throw it right. Use both hands." blah blah. I finally said, you should teach the kids. He only replied in their too young for me to teach. I felt like saying shutup then. But oh well.

When the 1st grade was done, our daughters time was up for practice. This time I stayed to the side and tried to play hall monitor. There were alot more people in the gym by this time and some kids were running everywere on the sidelines. Initially when it was requested to use the gym, it was understood the school did not want a bunch of people running the halls or poking around in the building. Stay in the gym or to the restrooms, ect. I kept having to tell kids not to run in the bleachers, keep them out from under the bleachers. Once I helped some small kid to the restroom, and 3 teens came out of a dark teachers lounge. I asked them what are they doing. They replied, "uh, just talking" Yeah, get on out of here. I spoke with the parents that were in 'charge' of this event. (I felt fortunate I wasn't actually the one running this one). I tried to convey the fact, I wasn't wanting to be a hardass, but I was worried these kids were going to get hurt running helter skelter, while their fat ass parents didn't seem to give a care of anything. They tried to tell the parents to keep an eye on their own kids. Guess we will see what becomes of it. I told Kel last night after we all settled home, the next time I am just going to watch my kids and the hell with the others. It doesn't do me any good to harp after the other kids, playing babysitter while the fat ass mom's sit there on the bleachers and read a book or flap their jaws with other mom's without a care in the world. Yeah, I am griping but it burns me when I see parents that see this event as free babysitter time.

I found this article very interesting and wanted to share it.

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Conservatives Make New Push on College Campuses
Posted by Bobby Eberle
November 30, 2005 at 7:13 am
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It has long been known that left-wing thinking dominates the environment of America’s college campuses. In poll after poll, professors have identified themselves in overwhelming numbers as "liberal." Now, one group is stepping up to counter the liberal indoctrination with a dose of conservatism.

As covered in the Agape Press's story Delivering the Conservative Message to Combat Campus Liberal Bias, a new group known as the Network of College Conservatives "vows to expose and combat liberal bias on university campuses."


The Network of College Conservatives has been launched to provide a voice for students who are being harassed, intimidated, or even shouted down on campus because of their conservative or "right-wing" beliefs.

Christopher Flickinger, the founder of the Network, says its goal is "to help those students get a well-rounded education" because, "they’re certainly not going to get it from their professors in the classroom."

Flickinger needs all the help he can get. According to a story earlier this year in the Washington Post, "College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says."

By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week. The imbalance is almost as striking in partisan terms, with 50 percent of the faculty members surveyed identifying themselves as Democrats and 11 percent as Republicans.

The disparity is even more pronounced at the most elite schools, where, according to the study, 87 percent of faculty are liberal and 13 percent are conservative.

Another study sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute in 2002 found that today’s college campuses are not "diverse" places. "Quite the opposite: They are virtual one-party states, ideological monopolies, badly unbalanced ecosystems. They are utterly flightless birds with only one wing to flap. They do not, when it comes to political and cultural ideas, look like America," concludes the study.

Liberals outnumber conservatives 18 to one at Brown University. At Cornell University, the number is even higher, with liberals outnumbering conservatives more than 26 times. Penn State displayed a bit more balance, with the ratio of liberals to conservatives being six to one. Even the smallest disparity, at the University of Houston, had a ratio of three liberals to one conservative.

Despite this stark imbalance, liberal groups, driven partly by fear and partly by outrage that conservatives are now starting to make inroads, are stepping up their funding. Earlier this year, Howard Kurtz, in the Washington Post, noted that one liberal Washington think tank was "funneling money to universities to encourage liberal journalism." Kurtz asks, "Isn't that a bit like pumping sand into the Mojave Desert?"

"We're not winning the battle of ideas on campus," says David Halperin, who is running the project for the Center for American Progress. Conservatives "have this insurgency mentality, even though they run the world."

Hmmm… liberals overwhelmingly dominate the two major institutions of academics and the media and yet conservatives "run the world." If it were only true! The fact is that conservatives need to step up their efforts to reach college students. This is a crucial time in a young person’s development, and liberal professors and interest groups have a virtual monopoly on what is being fed to these young and inquisitive minds.

Our other peer showed up for work yesterday. She in turn did the Briggs Myer online test. This of course began a similiar conversation regarding her thoughts on life and such. I was surprised of her beliefs.

You may have seen those small booklets regarding the kid going friend to friend asking each 'what is the meaning of life'. These booklets attempt to have each friend cover every religion possible. I have seen the booklets out there, but it is quite something different when you are actually seeing individuals embarking on all those diverse beliefs.(especially in one room together)

Oh well. As opposed to the new guy yesterday, she has the belief life is a test. She believes in reincarnation, this is hell, her god could never have a literal hell. Basically she was all over the map. Once she stated, when you die, you go to god. Yet, then said some people do not know they die and they are trapped here on earth. This is opposed to new guy who simple doesn't know so doesn't have an opinion on the matter. Some of their ideology was different, but a lot of similiarities. Primarily both believed in good works to enhance their lives.

I also found it fascinating neither one of them, yesterday nor today, asked me of my opinions or thoughts on the subjects. I simply asked this and that and they were more than willing to answer. I was asked by the peer to go to lunch today to finish out the conversation. I wonder if she will ask me today? I guess I will see.

One other thing I found interesting. Both did not believe in the death penalty. Each valued life so much that it was not man's place to kill anyone. So that pedophile or mass murderer will rot in jail the rest of their lives but not be executed. When asked about abortion, each had a different opinion. She, absolutely no-one will tell her what to do with her body. He, does not believe in it, but did not know when life begins. I inquired to both, "ok, i agree with the body, but common sense would say, a womans egg mixed with a different man's sperm would create a separate dna, hence a new entity. So wouldn't that not be actually a part of your body?" She just kept saying it was man's laws made against women and no-one will tell her what she can and cannot do with her body. If they take that, then they will take away her means to vote next. (shaking head) He simply said, yeah, but when does life actually start?

All in all, I found it was very fascinating and this was the best Kumbaya I ever attended. It was a fresh breathe of air. We actually learned a little about each other, (well they talked about themselves) and I actually belive it helps.

As I said to each of them, I personally think each individual has their own worldview, based on their beliefs and up bringing. Everyone bases their actions on their own worldviews. If you have an understanding of their beliefs, ect. it helps to understand where they are coming from in their thoughts and actions.

So,is it really true as they say and agree on? It's all about love. No-one knows and we must learn from our life, doing good works and being nice to all?

I agree, no-one really knows. Creation... Evolution...no-one really knows. It takes faith either way on your belief. Life after death? Who knows, but it is fascinating to me on everyone's thought on the matter.

I think in a age of technology and information, we are still so unsure of it all.

I am reminded of a cork bopping in a large lake or ocean with no idea of the land where it originated or any idea of the land ahead. It just bops and moves alone with the wave or tide. Surely, we should have more of an anchor.

I flew into Pennsylvania fine last night. The plane touched down around 6 p.m. I grabbed a orange beetle type car (first one I see of these) from National Aisle and took off toward King of Prussia. It was 20 miles an hour on I-95 and ten on North 476. There was a wreck on 476 that caused the slow crawl. Still don't understand why 95 was so backed up. I basically hit an ACME and then the hotel. I reached the hotel around 8 p.m. and stayed there.

I ate a sandwhich last night, that I picked up from ACME and read more of the Robert Jordan book. I actually am enjoying it. At first I thought, another fantasy tale. Yet, as it actually started, it became interesting and is easy reading. After I blog tonight, I plan to read some more. The book kept my interset till 11:30 last night, before tiredness took me.

Today at work, we played kumbaya at midlevel. The whole interface team was suppose to gather in the same conference room all day today and tomorrow. We also had Siemens to give us a development show. This was scheduled at 9 a.m.
I was able to get a PCLan guy to setup the hub and I had the projector out and ready by 8:50. Nobody showed up from my team till after 9 a.m. Siemens all showed up 9:05. Unreal. The guy that lived the fartherest (me) was at Corp 7:30 a.m .in the freaking morning and everyone else half hazardly showed up nearly 2 hours later. Oh well. I don't plan to get there till after 8 a.m.

I finally met face to face with our new team member. He is based out of Chicago. They never look as you would picture them on the phone. He seems nice enough. We took a online Myers Briggs test this afternoon. I scored a INFJ. Funny how it pegged me. My super scored a INTJ. If you decide to take it yourself, post your result. I would be curious. I always found psychology fascinating. The 3 of us (super, new guy and myself) was alone for awhile this evening (boss lady and 2 other peers were out today). We had a deep casual conversation between us, bounced off from our results. I found it totally fascinating on the new guys ideology. He scored a ENFJ.

Oh well. We are definitely all different. I enjoyed the kids pics kel emailed me and I picked up the kids surprise this evening on the way to the hotel. I grabbed Sky High on dvd. I think I will be looking forward to watching it as much as the kids will, when they see it as their surprise.

I grabbed Tostado Nachos for supper and watched my "Last Boyscout" on dvd. I plan to brush my teeth, get under the covers and read my book.

I cannot believe it is already Sunday evening at the end of my vacation. I look back and see I basically ran most of it. Oh well, I did manage to do a couple (yes probably 2) of things I needed to or wished to do, before the end.

Yesterday we primarily stayed home. It was nice to just stay indoors without running somewhere. We cleaned the house up and that was about it.

Today, we spent lunch at Olive Garden together. We had enough left over to have it again for dinner. ; ) The kids finished up on their homework and managed to play a little bit of Playstation 2. I know, hard to believe.

We only hit a few places to finish up on some Christmas shopping. I also picked up "The Eye of the World' by Robert Jordan from the library. 2 of Kel's cousin told me, on different occasions, that the Wheel of Time series was very good. I thought it was odd 2 cousins (one in Texas and one in Oklahoma) on separate end of the poles as far as peronality told me about this series. We were not even speaking about books. So I managed to find the first book of the series at the library. It must be pretty good considering out of 6 copies, the library only had one. The others were noted as lost in the database. I plan to read it on my travels tomorrow to Pennsylvania.

We did our footbaths early today. Each of us does one, once a week, normally on Sunday night. We already gave the kids their showers, in their pajamas and ready for bed.

I went through all my work email this evening. I did good. I didn't check it all week during vacation. It was harder than I thought. I really had the urge to check in, last Tuesday.

I have a meeting with the interface team and the CIO tomorrow morning. I fly out around 11:30 tomorrow to Pennsylvania and will be at Corp. till Friday. I get to go home Saturday. I will be trying to get the PTA stuff done tomorrow morning at schooll as I take the kids to school. I normally always kindof look forward to the 2-3 days alone time on these trips. However, this time, I just want to be home only. I am dreading this one, even though, I know it will be going fast.

Well, it's already 7 p.m. this black Friday and it was a pretty good day. Yesterday for Thanksgiving we went to Kel's Aunts house for a feast, played games and planned the sales day out. We played the horse racing game again with about 8 people. This was the same one we bought Kel's dad while we were in Arizona. It was pretty fun. I left with less quarters than I came into the game with. : (

The kids, their papa and I played on their four wheeler for awhile as well. Kel's parents had it gassed up and ready to go. The weather yesterday was around 71, if you can believe it for the end of November. Unreal.

The kids stayed at Kel's parents house for the second night, last night. Kelli wasn't feeling well so she and I headed home around 6-7 p.m. We finalized the path for our money saving trip the following morning. Nearly every store was opening at 5 a.m.

Kel fell asleep pretty fast. I was jacked up from drinking coffee and soda's nearly all day. I popped 4 melatonin's to no avail. I didn't even watch cable tv. I popped in my Farscape from Kel. She gave me the second season early (yes I am spoiled). I am glad she did. I have enjoyed it immensely this week. I watched a couple of hours and popped an additional 3 melatonin's. I finally fell asleep around 11:30 p.m.

We woke up before 4 a.m. without an alarm. Kel's mom came to pick me up 4:30 a.m. and we headed to Walmart. She and I have been a team of this for the last 4 years. Not much was picked up there. Only one admatch was found. We were in line to get out longer than we were grabbing the items. A lady 3 people up ahead of us made some people curse. She and her husband had a large basket (top and bottom) filled to the rim. She had tried 4 credit cards that would not go through. She then went to her check book and did not have a single check in there to write one. Talk about unprepared. We changed lanes and moved on. How embarrassing. The bargain I found was two dvd's (The last boyscout and Swordfish) for 3.44 apiece.

We then met up with Kel at Kohls. Talk about a freaking crazy store. I went in there and basically went straight into the line. It was already throughout the whole store around 2 corners of it. Kel shopped while I stood there holding her findings. Again, it was basically for everyone else, not our stuff. Oh well. I did manage to sneak a couple of items from there for Kel's Christmas. ; )

We then hit Old Navy and found some really nice clothes for Kel and the kids. We also found some polo shirts (10 bucks a piece) that allowed me to match our son. Cool.

I left Kel and her mom to go to Hastings. It didn't open till 8 a.m. I purposely wanted to grab 2 dvd sets to get the free dvd stand. I wanted to acquire the first season of Full house for our daughter and one for Kel. While i stood there for 20 minutes I found out I wasn't so hard core. Some dude ahead of me was talking about being up 16 hours. He was in front of Best Buy since 10 p.m. the night before? Seems there was a computer on sale, with no mail in rebates. I had to ask if actually got it. He said "Oh yeah, I was the 16th in line". Wow, 16th at 10 p.m. the night before. He had a cot, sleeping bag and hot cocoa. Best Buy had sent out free wifi so they could browse the net for free while being out there all night. Crazy, man.

I didn't find the initial dvd sets I went for. However, I did grab 2 of them and 2 dvd's Kel's cousin had wanted. I grabbed the dvd set, season one ane two, the original scooby doo. I barely found it. I snagged the dvd stand. Yeah.

We gathered together at IHOP to eat breakfast together and then everyone departed their own ways. Kel, the kids and I went home. Looking at our sacks of sales, I see we only had clothes, my two dvd's. I was kindof surprised to only find primary clothes for our discomfort and no sleep. Oh well. Our daughter and I wrapped Kel's presents and now we have something under the tree.

We did manage to get a nap in today. We plan to do nothing but rest tomorrow. Only 2 days of my vacation left. Drat.

I haven't blogged in awhile, but it wasn't due to inactivity. I have also been enjoying being unplugged for awhile.We made it to and from Amarillo safely and with good results.

It amazes me how our son bounces back so fast after his surgery. It is a laser surgery on the brain. Although he had a couple of conflicts and giving his mother a few grey hairs, he bounced back the following morning after as if nothign had occurred. Truly amazing and a true miracle in itself. Yes, things could had gone far worse, but it had not and we cannot dwell on the 'what if'.

During our stay (Wednesday night through Sunday morning), I was able to walk over to NorthWest hospital to vist an old friend. It was nice to see face to face again and catch up on everything, work and family. Plus it allowed me to grab a mocha. Man, I love mocha's. It was a nice break and I did acquire some usefull information, I will have to followup on when I go to Corporate next week.

Our son's procedure was done on Thursday, and my daughter stayed with me during the time it took. She played on her mom's pc as I worked on mine. We took a break to walk the hotel, but there just wasnt much there. Friday, the kids went to watch 'Chicken Little' with the mom as I worked during the day. This was the day I snuck over to the hospital. The kids didn't speak too much of the movie, but seem to like it. Kel didn't come back into the hotel room with the same crazed look speaking gibberish as she had done with 'shark boy and lava girl', so it must had been feasible to sit through. (smile)

Saturday, I was able to take the kids to the 'Discovery Center' with their papa. It was a cool place and alot of hands on stuff for the kids to do. It also had a 9 hole putt putt that was included in the package. We went through the facility and then hit the hotel again for enough time to allow the kids to swim in the pool. The hotel doesnt have much, but it does have a warm swimming pool inside. We met the girls (kel and her mom) at the nearby mall and had a barbeque lunch. The platter was Texas size and very good. That night we had our 'Christmas' in Texas, exchanging gifts with Kel's side of the family down there. The kids received a gift from everyone, you thought it was Christmas. I was able to learn and play a new game. You use quarters and bet on which horse would win. I can't recall what the name of it is. Kel will have to comment it. We bought it for her dad when we were in Arizona, during the summer. It was actually pretty fun.

Early Sunday morning we split (around 5 a.m. ) and arrived home at a decent hour. Exhausted we immediately started laundry and started to diverse the stuff out to each room.

We finished the laundry yesterday, Monday, and put up all the Christmas stuff in the house. Yes, we have the tree up and ready as of yesterday. We plan to have Christmas pictures taken Wednesday for Christmas cards. A lady will come into the house and take them for us. We had her do this last year and was very pleased with the results.

This morning, I put up all the outside lights and front yard stuff. A large blowup Snowman, candy canes and changed the front lightbulbs to red ones, decorating them with reefs. So we are pretty set now. We are waiting on kel to get back from her work today and head over her Aunts house. I will weed eat and change a front door lock. Kel will do some additional work in Poteau while the kids and I clean her Aunts house. Thanksgiving will take place there and Kel plans to have everything ready for it. She doesn't want her aunt to have to do anything.

I only have about 5 more days to be on vacation and it's going fast. I fly out to Corporate Monday after my interface team meeting with the CIO. I hope to grab War of the Worlds today. I really want to see it.

the wife and son are off to the procedure. We had our time of prayer prior of them leaving. The daughter is already on her mom's computer and watching cartoons. We are in a suite at the hotel, so plenty of room on this trip. I am not really in the mood to work today, as my concentration will be elsewhere. Googling around I found another quiz on someone else's blog.

You scored as Moya (from Farscape). You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes. Moya (from Farscape) 94% Serenity (from Firefly) 88% Millennium Falcon (from Star Wars) 69% Bebop (from Cowboy Bebop) 63% Nebuchadnezzar (from The Matrix) 56% Enterprise D (from Star Trek) 50% Galactica (from Battlestar: Galactica) 50% SG-1 (from Stargate) 50% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

We arrived safely around 7 p.m. local time. Wireless internet access rules! I had some time to catchup on my work email and browse the blogs I read daily.




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We are about to head out to Amarillo, Texas tomorrow. I am taking a half day and look forward to get out for awhile. I noticed yesterday morning, I am actually off all of next week. I failed to remember we set it up for me to be off the whole week. This is great. I need to get some things done around the house and it will be nice to unplug from work.

I also had a board meeting last night and my daughter had to come with me. Her friend was sick and the neighbor was out, so she was stuck with me. I have to say she did great in sitting there during the open meeting. I know she was bored (with the exception of the gameboy she was playing), but she had picked up some stuff from the meeting. When I took them to school this morning, I pointed out the playground equipment they were putting up in the school yards. She promply stated, they talked about that last night during the meeting....that's my girl.

I am catching up on laundry today between meetings and work today. It's a 6 hour drive, so I am also combining some of the kids favorite songs on cd's for them to listen too.

I have to say, I am reading a really good book. Fade by Kyle Mills is a rivoting action book. I am nearly half done and it's hard to put it down.

The wife is exhausted and I am hoping between this trip and next week she can find some relaxation time.

I have been reading up on the Crusades and it is actually pretty fascinating. Here is a bit of knowledge,I am gleaming regarding jihad.
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The first campaigns of the Islamic holy war (jihad, literally 'striving')were waged by the Prophet Mohammed and his followers as a reaction to aggression and the secure booty for the infant Muslim community. But the jihad soon went on the offensive - to extend Muslim dominions. There was no question of forced conversion, although, in time, the growth of territory under Muslim, rule led to the spread of the faith. During the Muslim expansion, participation in the holy war was made the duty of all adult male Muslims; those who perished were assured of paradise, adn the idea entered Muslim tradition.
After the early eight century, Islamic conquest wanted adn enthusiasm for holy war was only intermittent, in reponse to local events such as teh Frankish invasion of Syria and Palestine.
Christian holy war had its roots inteh Just War, first defined by St. Augustine of Hippo in c. 400, which enabled Christians to reconcile Christ's rejection of violence with the need to uphold justice and order in an imperfect world. The influence of Germanic warrior converts to Christianity, and the threat to Christendom posed in the ninth an tenth centuries by the attacks of pagan Vikings, Magyars and Muslims, also modified the Church's attitude towards war. The idea of the Christian knight, who fought for the Chruch or on behalf of the poor and defenceless, was nurtured by churchmen who gave some measure of sanction to the pursuit of arms.
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It's interesting how the Christians created the Knights as a defence mechanism. I also read many of the Christian knights were from France. How odd and drastic that country has changed in religion and ideology. With the Muslim riots in France hitting 17 days straight, it appears history is repeating itself.

So how did the idea of using jihad to advance Muslim domain change to suicide bombers in the name of Allah? I am not about to say I totally understand this Religion of Peace, but I am trying.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media hasnt hit the story of 2000 Muslims burned down three churches, a nuns’ convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest, a girls’ hostel and some Christian homes, according to Asia News. So where is the ACLU, the out cry or just a mention of this in the media? I understand some nuts will use any religion or reason to do the unthinkable. But let's get real. No other religion has been used for these types of acts as the one in the name of jihad.

I was able to hear most of the speech given yesterday by our President during the Vet memorial. I was glad, actually relieved when he finally started to stand up on the decisions made regarding Iraq. It's past due. Although the left loony's are hanging themselves with their self blinded rhetoric, someone needs to point out their hypocrisy. Hence, my relief when Bush finally did.

Within the nearly 1 hour speech, 3 paragraphs are being regurgitated in every media....

"While it is perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war. These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs. They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein.
They know the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his
development and possession of weapons of mass destruction. Many of these critics supported my opponent during the last election, who explained his
position to support the resolution in the Congress this way: 'When I vote to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security.' That's why more than 100 Democrats in the House and the Senate, who had access to the same intelligence voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power.

"The stakes in the global War on Terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges. These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will. As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who send them to war continue to stand behind them. Our troops deserve to know that this support will remain firm when the going gets tough. And our troops deserve to know that whatever our differences in Washington, our will is strong, our Nation is united, and we will settle for nothing less than victory."

Was he strong enough in his speech? I am not sure. I guess it will show as time continues. No doubt the Dim's were prepared for it. Kennedy couldn't run to a mic fast enough for a rebuttal. No, the Dim's will call this speech nothing more than a means for an attempt to raise the poll numbers. Ahh Politics.

Here is a Link on Kennedy's old rhetoric.

Call me a hack, but I seen this on my wife's blog and had to do it. : )


10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

10 Favorites…
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Food: Spicy
Favorite Band/Singer: AeroSmith/Don't really have one.
Favorite Hobby: Reading
Favorite Movie: The Boondock Saints
Favorite Sport: Martial Arts
Favorite Season: Fall
Favorite Day of the Week: The day I am truly off
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Coffee
Favorite Time of Day: Morning

9 Currents…
Current Mood: At Peace
Current Clothes: House socks, Jeans, All Star Dad T-shirt
Current Underwear Color: Green
Current Desktop Picture: Default XP
Current Nail Color: None
Current Time: 8:44 p.m. central time
Current Surroundings: In bedroom
Current Annoyances: The wacked out Far Left that just don't get it.
Current Thoughts: Too dirty to describe : )

8 Firsts…
First Best Friend: Brian
First Screen Name: mcwolf
First Pet: Australian Dingo
First Tattoo: No tattoos
First Crush: 3rd grade teacher
First Music Group: Ratt
First Car: 76 Chevy Nova, red

7 lasts
Last Cigerette: Age 13, a joint
Last Drink: Rum and Coke, last night
Last Time on Drugs: Coffee every morning (get a headache if I don't)
Last Kiss: one moment ago
Last Movie Watched: Farscape
Last CD Played: Robots the movie
Last thing bought: Gasoline

6 Have You Evers…
Have you ever dated one of your best friends? No
Have you ever broken the law? Yes, God's law and Man's law
Have you ever been arrested? No
Have you ever skinny dipped? No
Have you ever been on television? Yes
Have you ever kissed someone you didn’t know? Yes

5 Places You’ve Been…
Texas
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Nevada

4 People You Can Tell Anything To…
Kel
My Dad
Jesus Christ
--That's it--

3 things you can hear right now:
TV
The Air Purifier
Kel looking through the paper

3 things you can’t live without:
Air
Food
Water

3 things you do when you’re bored:
Scan through the tv channels
Cruise the internet
Eat snack foods

2 Choices…
Black or white: Black
Hot or cold: Cold

1 Thing You Want To Do Before You Die…
To make a positive impact in Society

I had heard there was a Mosaic found under the Prison within Iraq yesterday, briefly on the news.

I wanted to share this link to the article stating Prisoners and archaeologists were working side-by-side on Tuesday, gently cleaning the two mosaics as prison guards stood nearby. The rough outline of the original building was visible under the large plastic tent erected above it.

When I read the article, two things stood out to me. ..it is ancient and possibly the oldest church found in Israel, but that it clearly shows there was public Christian worship here at a time when Christianity was still outlawed in the Roman Empire and when Christians were being persecuted.. and ..they include a memorial to four women, at a time when women were not usually mentioned in such a way... I am surprised for them to be surprised on the fact it was a public Christian worship purchased by a Roman. There is an account within the bible where Romans approaced Jesus for blessings in addition to Jews. The other thing many may not understand is the fact woman were not persecuted or looked down upon by the early christian faith. Unlike many other religions, the bible clearly states for the man to treat the woman as Christ treated the true church. I know there are many who misinterpretate scripture for their own purpose and goals. However, those interpretations are not literal nor correct.

Another interesting note is the fact there are more than one reference to Jesus Christ. It was stated this is the oldest findings in reference to Jesus Christ. No surprise there considering He was a actual person, no matter what Peter Jennings thought.

The left is totally excited about retaining their two Dem Governor positions. It is hilarous to hear the left are trying to show this is due to further their insane causes. What is sad is I really didn't expect these true blue areas going red. I would be surprised if it had. Most propable for the Dem's excitement is the fact they didn't get their A##'s kicked again. They are losing on nearly every other ground, when it is given to the people to vote on. Look at yesterday's Texas marriage ammendment( ..An overwhelming 76 percent of voters approved the constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman... ) that was overwhelming approved by the people as an example. When it's clear cut and given to the people, they respond overwhelming against the far left's ideology. The Dem's know it and cry at night while they try to sleep. I guess we can allow some room for their small glee.

Pirates hijack ship off Somalia

"Several ships carrying UN food aid have been hijacked. Pirates have seized a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, local officials have confirmed. They said the Maltese-registered ship, Pagania, was attacked late on Wednesday as it sailed from South Africa to Europe with a cargo of iron ore. The hijackers are reportedly demanding a $700,000 (£394,000) ransom for the release of the ship and its crew, all believed to be Ukrainian. More than 20 ships have been seized or attacked in the area since March. "


What Nimrod started calling these terrorist pirates? This goes back to my rant a couple days ago. Let's call black..black and white..white. Let's get real people.

These are not Pirates of the Carribean. These are terrorist attacking ships for cargo and kidnapping. A fascinating read on Somalia could become springboard for jihad shows where these incorrectly called Pirates are coming from. So get real people they are groups of terrorist from warlords out of Somalia. Another recent article here points it out......sea lanes have been taken over by ransom-seeking, ocean-going warlords, officials say.

While I am on the terrorist issue, I just heard Paris has hit 5000 cars total burned out in Paris by the unrest. The first victim died in Paris due to being beat to death. I am actually amazed only one has occurred with all the burning and ravaging the landscape. Anyone recalls the Los Angelos riots, where the black community basically burned and destroyed everything in site? This sounds similar. The sad thing is, who will be the ones hurting over this? Those living in the neighborhood being ravaged.

It is interesting to note, France is second in Jewish popluation after Israel, over there. These riots are being led primarily by Muslim.

Unbelievable weather in Oklahoma allowed us to clean up the yard, cars and garage today.

Since we basically did nothing Friday night and Saturday, we caught up today with our cleaning and preparing for the week to come. It will be hectic as usual with all the errands, jobs, and ect. We went to Sunday School at Church but was going to leave early to lunch. I was caught by a teacher at school and had to ask how things were going. Again, I heard similar issues with the principle. Unfortunately, it appears no-one wrote it up. I continue to hear similiar occurances from more than on source, but the frustration on my part is simple. I cannot do anything until it's presented to the school board with paperwork. I guess we will see if they will write this up. I continue to convey this needs to be written up as a complaint and keep a copy of it for their own.

We did get to go out to lunch today as a family and it was extremely nice. Making a list of todo's and just enjoying each others company without interruption was a true pleasure. There is a new (first and only one) Starbucks in Fort Smith. We drove by it and I had my first Mocha Venti there. It was pretty good. I should now have a worthy caffeine high to get stuff done throughout the day. : )

I watched two movies Friday night. I rented "Land of the Dead" and "Warriors of Heaven and Earth". Both movies were worthy to rent. I enjoyed both of them. Land of the dead is the latest in the living dead movies. The zombies are starting to think for themselves now. It was a pretty good storyline. Warriors of heaven and earth was a japanese movie with english subtitles. Again, the story line was good. I love the Seven Samurai and do not mind reading subtitles on movies.

One final event this week is worth mentioning. I received a Christmas present early. Yeah, really early. I was given the second season dvd set of Farscape. This is a big big gift. The prices for these sets are outrageous. I am truly gratefull for my wife willing to spend it for me. A great shoutout and thank you to Kel for it. It was nearly 11 p.m. before the kids and wife went to bed last night, yet I watched the first two shows of the set.

Farscape is truly a great great SciFi series. It is a shame only 4 seasons occured. However, I bet my wife is glad due to the prices of each. LOL

I grow tired of the incorrect perceptions people place on one another. At times, I have to point out the inconsistency, or lack of priorities in regards to school functions. Rather than my peers agreeing with me (or disagreeing with a valid example) they just wish to shuck it off stating he/she are doing a pretty good job. This is really irritating.

I am a fixer. Plain and simple. I receive tickets at work to resolve issues of interfaces, etc. I logically look at the flow and find the kinks and find resolution. I can't help but do the same thing in my home or other environment. Yet, when I attempt to address these issues, I get a ho-hum attitude. It seems they have this perception of their own rather than a reality view. This attitude of "it could be worse, don't rock the boat" is troublesome. Don't get me wrong. There are good qualities in most people, but this inability of addressing flaws because of fear or the person's insecurities is driving me nuts.

You can take this same issue with people and their God. Rather than looking at literal scripture, they have their own perception of how God should be or is. The statement of "I don't think God would do that" or "I don't believe God is like that". Why not just state, this is what my bible says or this is what the angel had told me as I was on my knees. The sad truth is, just because you want it to be true, often it's not. My point is, I rather have facts than perception of belief.

Take the same issue with a family member on drugs, spouse abuse, etc. There are always those in denial or looking only at their perception of what they want, rather than what is.

I don't know how to correct this, other than to continue pointing out facts and comparisons. Oh well, I guess I am just ranting.

It's nearly 3 a.m. here. I woke up around 1 a.m with a killer dry mouth and throat. After quenching it with water, I couldn't get back to sleep. I laid in bed tossing till around 2:30 and finally got up and came in here looking at blogs. None of the ones I daily read had anything new to say, so I scanned around.

I came across Busting Agenda that depicts the pro-homosexual activist pushing agenda driven drivel targeting nothing less than school kids. No, it's not about std's or aids,(that might actually be educational) rather it's conveying to K-3rd graders it's ok to be gay. If your parents don't see it that way, tough sh*t, their prejudice and don't know any better(my words). The article is long, but well worth the read.

A lot of the blogs are talking about the senate calling for closed session. Yeah, some thinks, wow, this is a good move by the Senate. Others are wondering what the hell? There is no reason for it. Well, I have a opinion on the matter. Basically the loony left are losing it again. This is not a good move, nor a right one. Let's face it, liberals continue to lose ground in the sight of the individual people, regardless how the major media attempts to portray them.

1. Their spotlight from the once one source media is going south (yeah the media still give them the light, but more and more people are looking at alternative news sources, ie the net and talk radio)

2. The false indictment didn't reach up to the top as they had hoped. Damn their luck.

3. Iraq is actually coming around. There will always be bombs going off. Do you hear the news about radical muslims in Europe causing chaos over there?
Per Gary Bauer....
Events in Europe this week offer a disturbing glimpse of the future, but you wouldn’t know it from the American media which has virtually ignored the developments.
First, there have been five nights of rioting in the suburbs of Paris by Muslim youth battling police. And in Denmark a number of young Danish Muslims have been arrested and charged with plotting suicide attacks in that country and throughout Europe. In Holland a group has been apprehended that was plotting to assassinate Dutch politicians who want to restrict further Muslim immigration into the country.
All in all, it looks like the strength of Muslim extremists is growing in Europe, posing a severe threat to the freedoms of many western nations.
Seems like an important story to me.
Yeah seem like an important one to me as well.


4. This new justice nominee is just another nail in their liberal coffin. The fact he is conservative has the same liberals chasing their tails. There really was no surprise the same three, Shumer, Durbin, Feinstein, would cry foul irregardless of the candidate. It was expected. That is what they get paid to do from their liberal money pouchers.

The Senate probably needed to reassess their situation (what the hell are we going to do now) and this requires time. It's just stonewalling on their part.

It's already Halloween night and the kids are in bed. We hit Halleujah night sponsored by the local church's. It was a crowd in a half. We had more trick or treaters this year regardless of the weather.

I seen the 100 most scariest moments in tv/movies the other night. I could'nt believe they actually put JAWS as number one. I wouldn't have chosen that one, personally.

I was trying to think of the most scariest movies I had ever watched. As a kid, I was pratically raised on them. I most likely watched them too young. Oh well.

The two movies that stand out, well three in my mind as scaring me was .....

3. Demons ( the first one )
2. Evil Dead ( I actually watched this on the old disk movies, anyone recall those?)
1. Shining ( Those twin girls in the hallway really, really freaked me out.)

Hope everyone has a really good and safe Halloween.

Author Richard Swenson, M.D notes
"According to isotope studies, 90% of our atoms are replaced annually. Every 5 yrs 100% of our atoms turn over; become new atoms...
In the last hour, 1 trillion trillion of your atoms have been replaced." Quote from the book 'More than meets the eye'.

Consider this for a moment. Our bodies are constantly regenerating each moment. How is it possible for our bodies to remain intact if it is changing 100% each 5 years? Evolutionists still have a hard time answering this question. How is the personality of the individual maintained? How are emotions retained in the new cells?

Everyone recognizes that the human body is made up of chemicals commonly found in dirt. But dirt can't perform the functions human beings can. You cannot produce any living organisms from simple compounds in dirt. There must be something else, some outside variable causing these attributes of a living being.

David M. Baughn M.D. says,
"We are continually being created from dust and returning to dust...we are no objects or machines that endure, we are patterns that have the capacity to perpetuate ourselves. WE are not things, instead we are processes." Quote from 'Contempary Scientific Principles and Family Medicine'.

At best we can only move it from one already living thing to another. Even in today's stem cell research we must take a living cell and place it within a living embryo to produce more cells.

Note the Bible has something to say of this.

Genesis 2:2 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Note in Genesis we are informed Jehovah God first formed man from the ground but then breathed in his nostrils the breath of life. This breath of life made man into a living soul. This would account our body having the chemicals commonly found in dirt, yet Jehovah God's breath of life would account to the outside attribute.

Genesis 2:21-22 "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man."

Note the story continues as Jehovah God caused man to fall into a deep sleep and took one of his ribs, closing up his flesh. Much like a surgeon would remove a kidney from a living donor. There is an old joke or belief questioning if God took a rib from Adam and put it Eve, then why doesn't all men have one less ribs than women? The answer is quite simple. If you loose a finger, does your new baby also have one less finger? Of course not, the man Adam would live the rest of his life with one less ribs, but his children would be born naturally with all their ribs.

The story continues, then Jehovah God takes the same rib and makes a woman. Later the man calls the new creature wo-man, meaning out of man. The man did this due to her being created out of his own flesh. I personally find this interesting. Why didn't God simply create a new creature from the ground and breathe again the breath of life? Later in the story, we are told man should leave his mother and cleave to the woman as a wife and the two shall be one. This is for another article.

The point would be again, a living creature was derived from another living creature. The other interesting thing I would like to point out is the Bible doesn't mention Jehovah God breathing the breath of life in the animals, plants, ect. We only see Man having the breath of life, causing him, the woman and his descendants to be a living soul. This would place man and woman in a different level than the other creatures found on Earth.

I woke up in a funk this morning and it's not wanting to let me go today. Logically,I don't know why. Everything continues to flow for work and home. The kids and wife are not sick. Thank you God in heaven. I just seem to be in a blah today. I even sold another BBS Protoday and received a compliment yesterday from my boss regarding my work. Maybe it will pass.


Wednesday: I was able to attend church. It starts at 7 p.m. and is pretty late regarding kids in school, ect. However, it was a fulfilling time with the crowd.

Thursday: I took the kids to Jacks Skateland for our regular PTA monthly gathering. Half the attendance proceeds goes to the PTA. There were not that many showed up. That in itself was kindof nice, leaving us with plenty of room to skate and enjoy. I requested Def Leppard or Gun's N Roses to be played, but never heard them. I made it to the very end and then bit the floor. I ended up flat on my back for all the view and cheer. Yeah, it happens to the best of us. Oh well. I am not as sore as I expected to be this morning. At least I am willing to get out there and skate with the kids.

Friday: So far this morning, I have managed to go number over 100 pumpkins being on display for the School Pumpkin decorating contest, sell a
BBS Pro, catch up with work and get a load of laundry done. Here in a few minutes, I will go put the ribbons on the pumpkins during my lunch break.

I have cleaned the refrigerator out, removing the leftovers. They don't even look good to eat. I am forcing down some left over cheese pizza. Kel will be bringing something home tonight for dinner. I have requested some good barbeque sandwhich with jalepeno peppers from a restaurant close at hand. Their twice baked potatoes are to die for. LOL

Maybe I can sneak away before my evening confernce call to see if any movies are out to rent, worth anything.

Great Scott this day flew for me. I ran the kids to school and headed straight back to work. Next thing, I look up and it's 11 a.m. est. The morning was gone. I then attempted to take a break from work to view some .net stuff. Yeah, real fun.

I had to leave work a bit early anyway to run a couple of errands and this and that. Needless to say, by the time I came home it was already evening and time to eat. I am now sitting in the living room catching up personal email at 9 a.m est. Crazy.

On another subject, I am currently reading the dummy book on ASP.NET. I am looking around for some good free asp webhosting. So if you know of any, please feel free to let me know. I would like to play with it.

I wanted to post this interesting information, via email I received today.
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This past Sunday the people of Poland voted in a run-off election and gave a clear victory to Lech Kaczynski and his Law and Justice Party.
Today various leaders of the European Union bluntly warned the new Polish leader
to not violate human rights and pointedly told him he was "on probation."
The head of the socialist group in the European Parliament added that Kaczynski better govern differently than he campaigned. What is going on here? Is Kaczynski some sort of neo-Nazi that has the rest of Europe shaking with fear? Not at all!
What has Europe hyperventilating is that Kaczynski courted the "religious right" during his campaign. He has openly opposed special rights for homosexuals, and he supports the death penalty for heinous crimes. One horrified European Commission bureaucrat sniffed, "Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation contravenes…the rule of law and human rights!"
This is amazing. The Polish people vote for a conservative who takes family and faith seriously and a bunch of European socialists are warning him he better not govern according to those values or Poland will be ostracized!
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I would like to say go tell EU to go blow. However, in a ever shrinking world, I fear this strong arm tactic will probably work against Polands people by the EU.

Looking at the blog, I noticed I haven't even updated the blog for nearly a bloody week. Time just keeps flying for me.

I had taken Friday off to spend time with the family. One of the aspects was to actually not work, since this week at work was horacious. We were down one peer and I was asked to look at everything. Oh well. Nice to be known and needed. Regardless it was nice to spend time with the family, even though it was hectic.

All day Friday we prepared for our daughters party. We had a party consisting of 3 girls birthday's. I think about 30 plus kids, with parents were there. The big hit was the Karaoke. Our daughter wanted one, so we bought her one for her birthday. I have since been checking out the karaoke CD's seeing what is out there. I am amazed of the vast quantity and sheer magnitude of availble cd's. Who knew it was so popular to have such a diverse amount of choices? Not me.

I managed to complete a home project by Sunday. Let's just say I am not really the handyman nor furniture inclined. I am sure it would take most 4 hours to knock it all out. It took me all weekend.

Tonight at Church we continued the "Purpose Driven Life" again. I was able to attend it and enjoyed it, again.

Yesterday, as I was reading the book, I ran across the statements referring each individual is pre-wired (note not pre-destined) for a purpose God has given us/them. This, to me, is interesting. Would this mean each of our interest, special abilities, have been given to us by God? If so, wouldn't it also be logical our inherent issues, weaknesses are also given to us? I think so. Keeping in mind alot is also dependant upon our social surroundings, place of birth and enviroment we grow up in, helps develop our personalities. This to me, creates a crucial requirement to have each child in a well founded family enviroment during development. I can see why many activity groups are so pro-family. I myself view traditional pro-family to be the best enviroment as well. For those individuals that call some mom-dad families can also be abusive, I have to say that is not a well founded family enviroment. Realistically, this ideal enviroment is dwindling each day/year and generation. I look around and see these kids trying to act more adult than their own parents and it is very troublesome. Then you have these wolves in sheep clothing indoctrinating the youth with misinformation is disheartening. I wish there was a means to bring the light into their freaking dark world. Perhaps after the "Purpose Driven Life" book is read, I will find a means and purpose to assist somewhere to change the landscape of youth.


I have heard somewhere God will not give you no more than what you can handle. I have to wonder how many people understand that when they

I dont know if we actually had a weekend. A weekend is something you sit or lounge while watching t.v. right? Hmm, didnt happen here.

Friday night, I can't really recall. I had rented two movies and watched most of the first one, Kingdom of Heaven and Unleashed. I fell asleeep on Kingdom of Heaven. I was able to finish it Saturday. It turned out better at the end. Now Unleash on the other hand was a really good movie. An actual decent storyline with action. Rare anymore to find a movie with a decent storyline from Hollywood.

Saturday, we had the PTA silent auction. I took the kids around most of the 4 hour duration. PTA did pretty good. Not as good as last time, however, we didn't do raffle this time. We will definitely have another one next year with a raffle.

Sunday, we ran to Tulsa. Kel's aunt is working at a new facility and acquired an apartment up there. We were able to check it out and visit a bit. Kel was able to check out some stores. I want to take the kids to a LaserTag up there. We simply didn't have the time. Oh well. It's not like we wont be up there again, visiting.

There was power surge at Corp that knocked everything out, including the phone lines. Needless to say, I barely made it home before a conference call with the critical task force and CIO was in play. So I basically was on the laptop all bloody evening till after midnight. I then received a couple of on-call calls during the night. Needless to say, no sleep and glad I am off on-call.

So tonight, I am sitting here drinking a wine and relaxing without a cell phone.

Q: Why do cultures throughout the world have legends that sound like they came from the book of Genesis?

A: There was a missionary to the Australian Aborigines that attended one of our seminars. Since Ken Ham knew that cultures all over the world had Flood legends similar to the historical account in Genesis, he asked this missionary if the Aborigines had any such stories. Ken then explained to him that the reasons these stories abound all over the world is that they were handed down from the time of Noah, even though they were changed somewhat.

The real record, of course, is in the Bible. This evidence attests to the fact that all cultures are of one race, descended from Noah … and ultimately Adam.

A few years later, this same missionary recounted the event of an old Aboriginal elder who told him that the Aborigines had a story handed down for generations, that woman was made while man was asleep. Remembering the earlier conversation with Ken, the missionary opened the Bible and read the account of the creation of Eve (Genesis 2:21-23).

The aboriginal said, "how come you have the same story we have-but your story is better." The missionary was able to lead this man to the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you would like to learn more about how various creation and global flood legends from different cultures compare to the biblical account, take a look at the articles on AIG's Q&A page on this topic.

The fight for Civil Unions by some states believe it will appease the Homosexual movement. The article shows civil unions taking effect in Connecticut for the first time legallyl. I personally believe this will not appease those gay couples wishing to be married.

They now have the same legal status as married couples, but it hints in the statement, "..they could't find words to describe their union." What does that mean exactly?

I posted a blog on the attempts of california gay activists pushing their agenda on the people irregardless of the peoples vote, proposition 22. The people clearly voted marriage is between a man and a woman. This view holds true throughout the states (that I can see) when questioned to the people as a whole.

However, those wishing to have their own ways, continue to seek routes other than that which is constitutional. The article does state this at the bottom. Guess we will see.

I found this article to be interesting, albeit a little old.

South African Expert says circumcision procedure is best 'Vaccine'. The article goes on to point out "the association between circumcision and a reduced risk of HIV was noted as early as 1987, when Dr. William Cameron of the University of Manitoba in Canada reported findings from a study in Kenya."

I did a quick google and found these related articles.

CTV article

Syfi News article

Boston Herald article

When I read this in the local paper, circumcision from the Bible actually came to my mind.

Check this site out for Circumcision practices around the world.

You find the first story of circumcision in the Bible with Abraham in Genesis 16:1-3, 15-16, 17, 21:1-2

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. (WEB)

This web page goes into more detail on the Biblical view of circumcision throughout all cultures.

None the less, I thought it was interesting none-the-less.

I feel like I actually had some rest of the mind this weekend. I was able to finish the great "Dark Tower Series" this weekend. I great great series. I began it years ago and now the tale is told, to me. I think I will start "The Chronicles of Narnia" series next, in preparation of the movie coming out December of this year. I have never read the books. However, I see it was really compared to the Potter series and I noticed many quotes from C.S. Lewis in the book "The Purpose Driven Life".

I was able to stay home and play with the kids most of Friday night and all day Saturday. We ended Saturday night playing Hide and Seek in the house. I absolutely loved it. : )

Kel had over done it this week and weekend. I can't keep a good woman down. : )
I took the kids to Church with me Sunday morning and she was suppose to 'take it easy' at home in bed, since she already over did it the day before. Alas, when I came home, looking in her eyes, I knew she done something. (shaking head) No, I didn't spank her (wink) but I do worry about her initiatives.

The Church has started a group to go through the book "The Purpose Driven Life" written by Rikc Warren. I had been given this book sometime in the past, but have never got to it. Well, last night I had attended the second week at Church. I need to catch up, but they were giving the books out to each individual to read and go through. I picked one up for Kel. So now we have one each. I will be now going through this book. Hopefully, Kel will too. I would like for each of us to read it on our own time and then perhaps discuss it between ourselves. Guess we will see.

I start on-call again today. blah. Maybe, it will not be bad. I already have offered my time late late Sunday night for a live. We have a Rx (Pharmacy) conversion going on around midnight Sunday (into Monday) that will go through Monday night into Tuesday. It consist of two facilites. It's not like we have never stayed up all night before.

Guess, I better get back to work.

A complaint filed yesterday regarding the display of the Ten Commandments and Mayflower Compact. ACLU and James Green verses Haskell County Board of Trustees and Sam Cole.

I called the US Federal Courthouse in Muskogee, Oklahoma to find out the file is under ACLU of Oklahoma. The case number is O5CV4O6 (not zeros). As of noon today, it still was not on the shelf.

I also contacted Dan Boren's office asking for his thoughts on this. Dan Boren is the Congressman for the 2nd District. I was told my inquiry has been sent to him up in the D.C.'s office. I am still waiting for a reply.

Tina Izadi, staff attorney for ACLU of Oklahoma stated; "It's not approaching religion in a neutral fashion.. It's endorsing a specific religious text. We're hoping that Stigler will act accordingly but we're investigating." This is found online here.

Seems that has changed now that James Green stepped up. I am not certain why now or if ACLU approached him first. I will pursue this.

I do find it interesting back in November 2004, ACLU stated they would not sue over the Ten Commandments and Mayflower Compact monument. Another article is found here with ACLU stating they are waiting on the Supreme Courts decision.

Unfortunately dependant on which state your in, the Supreme Courts decided 5-4 differently. Texas says its ok and Kentucky says it's not. The difference appears to come down to if it is alone or part of historical documents.

The monument in Stigler has the Ten Commandments on one side and the Mayflower Compact on the other side. In addition, it is placed alongside three other monuments honoring people who died in the Civil War, the Trail of Tears, World War I and World War II.

The 8-feet, $2,500 monument, funded by efforts of Stigler-area residents and church members, was erected in November last year after approval from the Haskell County Commission.

I will keep tabs on this story. I am also still waiting for the ACLU of Oklahoma to return my call back 2 months ago. : )

Last night, I came into a quite dark home. It wasn't empty, because everyone was asleep in their beds. I had made a late evening errand to pick up PTA silent auction items.

The past week I have been reading the last of the Dark Towerseries by Stephen King. I started this story many years ago and it is coming to a close.

I put away the items of donatation and items of purchase from Walmart from my errands. I let the dogs in to sleep in our beds, each going to their dedicated master. I turn the alarm on, house is secured.

After my nightly ritual and checking on each sleeping body, I pull out my escape and make me a drink. Taking both in the living room I sit comfortably in the recliner. I open the book, my current escape from realism and continue the story.

As I read and escape from my worries, thoughts try to enter into my mind. They remind me of everything I should be doing during this time of solitude and quiteness. You should be studying up those XML and .NET stuff. You should be doing a thorough cleaning of that filthy office in there. You should be reorganizing your PTA stuff. I simply turn the page and read on. As I read the words disappears but the story continues in my minds eye, unfolding before me.

I take a drink. It is Barcardi Rum and coke. I think I should not be drinking. I look forward to these quite nights sitting here with my drink either reading a good story or watching a decent movie. Either way is a means to escape my worries and relax. My reasoning mind reminds me this drink is similar to melatonin or tylenol pm, it just puts you in a relax state to sleep. When exactly does a drunk become a drunk? Probably recalls the first drink in his/her life, but not the one that they need. I take another drink and turn the page in the book.

I sit here till my eyes are closing and the words no longer disappears as the story plays out, rather blurs. I get up, putting away my two items and head to bed. I get a good night sleep.