Middle America's Worldview

I had picked up two movies yesterday since I was off today. I rented Curious George for the kids and A America Haunting for myself. I knew I would be watching it alone when the rest of the crew went to bed.

First, I would say Curious George was a cute movie, as expected.

Second, the scary movie A America Haunting was not as I expected. The back of the movie stated it was based off a true story. The setting is back before the Civil War where a family is haunted by a spirit that actually killed a family member. It also stated the source of the curse. Well, nearly the whole movie was indeed intense. Supposedly this family committed usury over some land. The lady that had owned the land put a curse on the family. This led to the Bale Witch curse, ect. ect.

The story was written by a local teacher that witnessed the events that occured to the family.

Anyway, why I say it's a let down is througout the movie, it intense. The girl was persecuted by the entity, and the family could not stop it. When it wasn't attacking the girl, it attacked the dad. (the curse of the bale witch was primarily on those two of the family).

Nearly the whole movie showed what was occuring, then something odd happened at the last 12 minutes of the movie. It did a complete 180 degrees. It insenuated the attacks of the girl was made by the father. Kindof like a incest rape thing going on. The daughter had killed the dad, through meds, for payback.

Totally bizarre turnaround. It never explained all the other witness's view of the girls attacks, the voice everyone heard throughout the movie, ect. Made no freaking sense at all. What a let-down.

I pulled another weekend on my part-time job. Saturday, I just could not keep up with the customers. As soon as I fill the aisles with Soda, it seemed to disapear.

Walmart's 2 liters are on sale for 88 cents a piece. All Pepsi 2 liters. Needless to say, many took part of the sale. They simply moved and moved quickly. Crud, even the non-sale items seemed to be snatched up Saturday.

Saturday night,I had the pleasure to go out with Kel. After not seeing her all week, it was nice to go out with just the two of us. Tired or not. (smile)

Sunday was equally busy, but its over now. I managed to mow the front yard after I came in today. It needed it bad. I was hoping a cold snap would kill the grass, but no luck.

I am off tomorrow and the next day from my primary job. I look forward to it.

The plane arrived home about 1:15 p.m. local time yesterday. I was glad of it. Kel and the kids picked me up and we headed for some errands. Since Kel had a doc appt. I utilized the time to pick up the groceries with the kids. It was nice to be with them again.

Kel had a nice crockpot full of hot food cooking. The temp was around 53 with it looking about to rain. Nice chow for that type of weather.

Up early this morning to head to Pepsi. I have a couple additional errands to run during this day. I hope I don't forget them. (smile) The first one is to put gas in the vehicle. Not sure how Kel does it, she manages to always have the car on empty when I need it. (smile)

I continue to find it fascinating when I come to Corp. I look at the week I will be up here alone, thinking I have some time alone to do some personal stuff.

Yet, when I am up here, the time still flies and I have yet to open that magazine I brought to read. Unreal.

Now its my last night here and the week has literally flew. I didn't get to do those personel things I wanted to do. Oh well.

I tried to get to bed early tonight, due to having to get up around 4 a.m. I have an early flight and it always takes time to drive back to Philly, drop the rental, ect.

I crashed around 8:30 but awoke at 10:30, not able to sleep. I am watching the 100 scariest movie moments on T.V.

I am ready to go home. Crud, I am already packed and ready to go.

Why is Canada doing the right thing here, while United States seem to stall? Personally , I don't want to go through another voting fiasco. Either party will call foul when the tallies are in. It doesn't matter one way or the other.

While the U.S. mid-term elections are going full steam ahead with a myriad of maybe-reliable and not-so-reliable electronic voting systems in place, Quebec is pulling back from its adventures in e-voting, after the province's chief electoral officer Marcel Blanchet delivered a harsh report on the 2005 municipal elections. The voting machines were used in some 140 municipalities in the province last year but, according to the report, they went down like bad plate of poutine, suffering from blackouts and transmission errors, resulting in unreliable results -- although he adds that there's nothing that can be done about the results now except to move on. He also reported that the electronic voting machines weren't any faster or more economical than manual counting. As a result of the report, Quebec's Municipal Affairs Minister Nathalie Normandeau is accepting Blanchet's recommendation that the current moratorium on electronic voting put in place after last year's elections be maintained, apparently indefinitely.

Voting is about 2 weeks away and it's becoming all too obvious on the TV and radio. I bet the stations love this time of the year.

The problem I have is all the advertising posed by the candidates usually is anti-opponent. Rather than each candidate coming out to say, I voted for...., I supported x.... the groups trash the opponent. Come on people, let's not trash, rather promote what you actually have done to improve this country and it's people.

Realistically, you can find any little thing against someone else. It's not hard, and if you can't find anything juicy, they can simply lie.

I actually acquired sleep last night. It took 2 benadryls plus an extra green pill, but it worked.

My lovely wife snuck the movie Sneakers in my bag for my trip. I was wanting to watch it and she must have found a copy on Ebay or something. Thank you honey! I will probably watch it tonight.

Last night, I did my routine of hitting TGIF, grabbing a Tostado Nacho and heading to the hotel. I was exhausted from hitting the hotel the night before at 2 a.m. with little sleep, so I didn't walk too much of the Mall. I did notice the KBToys was finally out, replaced by another Cingular store.

I uploaded another vid on youtube. I find it just another portal for communication and sharing.

Today, I am looking at 4 scheduled conference calls, plus being on support. The norm everytime I come up here. But it is nice to see everyone again.

Am I reading this right? First North Korea, now Tehran, Iran is in the Nuclear arms race? If I am, then surely it's only a short matter of time, before the end.

Iran to EU: you will lose if you back U.N. sanctions

Wed Oct 18, 2006

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator told European states on Wednesday they would be the losers if they joined the United States to push through a U.N. Security Council resolution punishing Tehran for its nuclear program.
Ali Larijani's comments to the semi-official Mehr News Agency came a day after the European Union backed limited U.N. sanctions against Iran for not halting uranium enrichment, a condition for starting talks on an atomic incentives package.
"If the other side (the EU) yields to American pressure, it is natural that the situation will become radical. The world will not end but it will affect all our cooperation, in which I think the other side will lose more," Larijani said.
He did not specify what cooperation would be affected, but Iran has in the past threatened, if pushed, to review dealings with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. watchdog that routinely inspects Iranian atomic facilities.
"Definitely, if a new resolution is issued by the Security Council, we will not be at the point that we are in now for the continuation of talks," he said.
One Iranian lawmaker was more explicit, however. "If any sanction against Iran is ratified, parliament will oblige the government to have minimum cooperation with the IAEA," Hamidreza Haji Babaie was quoted as saying by Mehr, adding that this would start with barring inspectors.

The West accuses Iran of seeking to enrich uranium to build atomic bombs, but Tehran insists it only wants to master the technology to make fuel for nuclear power plants.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- plus Germany have offered Iran political and economic incentives on condition Tehran first stopped enrichment.

But Washington has been pressing for moves toward sanctions as talks aimed at coaxing Iran to suspend the work dragged on.

"If it is imagined that it is possible to simultaneously use the policy of 'carrot and stick', it is an error in calculation," Larijani said.

The incentives package did not threaten penalties if Iran refused, but the failure of months of talks between Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana prompted EU foreign ministers to back incremental measures.

"If the P5+1 really intends to reach a compromise, the joint effort with Solana has paved the way for that to some extent," Larijani said.

© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.

I had a late flight yesterday to Pennsylvania. It was scheduled on purpose due to my daughters 9 year birthday yesterday. Hard to believe that one.

Irregardless, the flight went well. We actually touched down to Philly 25 minutes earlier than expected. Once I hit the airport, I pick up a National car rental and drive to King of Prussia. Being 1:20 a.m. in the morning, traffic was light.

I arrived at the hotel near 2 a.m.




My home for the next 4 days.


Sleep is always an issue for the first 2-3 days. So by the time I adjust, I will be back home.

Corporate is low on cubicles. Normally we are assigned to whatever is availiible. Fortunately, for me, I have one dedicated cube for my 4 days here. Normally, you hop from one empty place to another.




Here is a shot of the cube as I am upgrading my Lotus Notes. Yes, a cup of supremo black coffee sits by it. A perk for physically being here is to be able to hunt down the people with the new software, ect.

The pics were taken by the work cell.

I would first like to say, this is simply my view.

I am seeing a growing trend in the way people are thinking. This trend is the concept of accepting all and everyones view. Whether that refers to religion, characteristics, philosophy, sexual behaviour,ect. The idea of accepting all views, in my opinion, is totally illogical. However, it seems to be spreading more rapidly in the past 10 years.

Let me provide some scenarios to explain my thoughts on this.

Religion is a sensitive subject irregardless of what view you share. However, when you have two opposing thoughts on it, IE evolution/creation, one has to be wrong. There cannot be two rights.

Sexual behaviour is another hot topic. Who is to say the love of a man to woman, man to man, woman to woman, man to boy (nambla), ect. is right or wrong? Can one person really dictate what another person should or should not have sex with? Realistically, no one person can say what the other person should love or not love. Personally, I do not go with the thought we are inherently born a certain way when it comes to our attraction to a certain sex. The reason I do goes two fold. On a evolution worldview level, this cannot be good for the species. The race would die out. So, if you take the evolution view, homosexuality would have already phased out. On a creation worldview, the bible makes it clear woman was made to be with a man. It still stems to two different worldviews. Back to the issue both cannot be right.

Irregardless of two opposing views, the idea to accept both views as equal halves or equally correct is simply wrong.

How can two opposing views be correct? In my opinion, you cannot. You can have two individual having different views, but that does not make those two individuals both correct. So the new culture idea is to give both views equal weight.

Anyway, what you have left is either to accept all views equally, or your labeled a narrow minded person. I am seeing more and more people willing to accept any and all views, as opposed to be looked at as a narrow minded person, irregardless if it's illogical.

This school of thought (accept all equally) is referred to as postmodernism.

*Truth does not exist in any objective sense.

*Truth whether in science, education, or religion-is created by a specific culture or community and is "true" only in and for that culture.

*All thinking is a "social construct". In other words, what you and I regard as "truths" are simply arbitrary "beliefs we have been conditioned to accept by our society, just as others have been conditioned to accept a completely different set of beliefs."

*Any system or statement that claims to be objectively true or unfavorably judges the values, beliefs, lifestyle, and truth claims of another culture is a power play, an effort by one culture to dominate other cultures.

With the election coming near and the Dems foaming at the mouth, I thought it would be beneficial to see who their speaker of the house is. CAn you believe she is 66?

Born on March 26, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland she is the highest-ranking Democrat in the United States House of Representatives. She is the first woman to lead a major political party in either house of Congress.
Source

Famous Pelosi quote.."Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped." ( Referring to George W. Bush, Fox News, 3/17/2005)"


"In this case, it was strictly political," Jefferson said of the caucus vote. "[Pelosi] believes that it gives her a political advantage in this set of elections. She hopes that out of this she'll be speaker of the House one day, if the Democrats can take charge." Source

She will drain the GOP swamp. What she will do the first 100 hours. Gee, what then.

On Project Vote Smart she is rated as Liberal.

Here vote record can be found here.

She declined to provide proof that the trip was paid for by Todo Puerto Rico con Vieques, rather than D.C. lobbyist Smith, Dawson & Andrews. when asked when it was shown a Washington lobbyist firm did not pay for a trip she and other Democrats took to Puerto Rico in 2001.

In May 2000, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, a liberal Democrat, participated in a shameless attempt to stop public interest in the CIAÕs use and protection of drug-traffickers supporting the Nicaraguan Contras. Source .

She voted five times to appoint known pedophile Gary Studds to a committe head position. However, she is screaming for Foley to resign.Source

Newt Gingrich posed these simply themes.
Source.

1)Republicans are right on defeating terrorism, and the left is wrong in wanting to run and hide...

2)Republicans are right on cutting taxes and growing a better economy, and the left is wrong in their desire to raise taxes, ...

3)Republicans are right to favor traditional American conservative social values, and the left is completely wrong to put San Francisco left-wing values third in line to be President...

Some other facts on Pelosi.

* On Sept. 14, 2006, Pelosi voted against building a fence on the border to protect America from terrorists;

* Before 9/11, Pelosi repeatedly voted to cut intelligence (in 1993 by $500 million) and after 9/11 she has still voted to cut intelligence (in 2004 she voted to withhold 25 percent of intelligence funds);

* When you ask why we were not more prepared for 9/11, remember that six months before Sept. 11, 2001, Pelosi voted to decrease proposed defense spending by $65 billion;

* The next time you think about North Korean nuclear tests and North Korean efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the United States, remember that in 2002, Pelosi voted for an amendment to the FY 2003 Defense authorization that would block FY 2003 funding for space-based missile defense programs;

* Pelosi led a faction of 124 House Democrats who voted against final passage of the Patriot Act's reauthorization;

* Pelosi voted against the $87-billion Iraq/Afghanistan supplemental that included extra money for body armor for our soldiers;

* Pelosi voted against creation of Homeland Security Department;

* Pelosi was one of only 33 members to vote against prohibiting U.S. citizens and companies from conducting any financial transaction with countries that have been identified by the State Department as active sponsors of terrorism; and

* In 2004, Pelosi voted against House passage of the intelligence overhaul bill, which reorganized 15 intelligence agencies under one Director of National Intelligence.

I realize not all Democrats are liberal nutjobs, but you cannot deny the ones in power, are highly liberal. I would caution you on this election, when you vote for your local Democrat, you are putting another feather in Pelosi's hat. Look beyond your region, and see the bigger picture.

I had to check out the situation with Islam and Canada.

Not sure when this was actually taped. It shows to be uploaded June 18, 2006.
The video is 10 minutes and 50 seconds long. The last minute or so, the video is a bit poor in quality.



"The religious face of Canada is changing, and cities such as Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal are becoming hubs of Islamic culture." This came from a article I found regarding Islam and Canada. It was posted back in 2004.

According to Answers.com, as of 2001, there were 580,000 Muslims in Canaada. That is 1.8 percent of Canada's population. This is a significant increase as of 1991 with only 253,260 , .09% of the population. In 1871, there were only 13 muslims on the roster for Canada. In 1938, when the first Canadian Mosque was constructed, 700 muslims were in Canada.

According to this source, the Canadian Muslim population is very diverse being drawn from across Africa and Asia.

According to this,
Islam is the second largest religion in Canada. This was back in 2003.

Jedwab said Islam is the fastest growing religion in Canada—expected to grow to around 1.4 million followers by 2017 from 2001’s total of about 600,000. (Check out Jedwab's link. The comments are interesting)

However, Canada isn't alone regarding that aspect. In the United States, it is also reported to be the fastest growing religion. By the year 2010, the number of muslims in United States is looked to be 10 to 16 million. The conversion rate to islam in the United States is estimated to be 135,000 per year.

It would seem the Islam religion is slowly taking over, period.

Check this article out. Please note the term "asians" are actually referring to Muslims.

It was towards the end of the program on Friday that this item was brought into my studio. A girls in Manchester, England was arrested and put in jail because she didn't want to be a part of a tutoring group that spoke a language she could not understand.

First .. the source of the article. It came from The Brussels Journal which bills itself as "The Voice of Conservatism in Europe." This website deserves to be bookmarked on your computer.

OK .. here's your story.

A 14-year-old girl, Codie Stott, was assigned to a six-student group to receive tutoring in science at the Harrop Fold High School. The girl had a problem with the group because all of the other five students were Asian and only one of them spoke English. Stott told the teacher "I'm not being funny, but can i change groups because I can't understand them." The teacher then told her that she was a racist and was going to get "done" by the police. She was put in isolation at the school for the rest of the day.

The teacher filed a complaint with the police officer assigned to the school. More than a week later Codie Stott was taken to the police station and placed under arrest. Her fingerprints were taken, as was a mug shot.

According to this article in the Daily Mail, Codie was then questioned of (now get this!) committing a section five racial public order offense. She was placed in a bare cell for three-and-one-half hours. Finally she was released without any charges being brought ... but the matter is still under investigation.

Yes .. it is getting this bad. The left has unleashed the monster of political correctness on our society, and every day we learn of a new absurdity. Sure, this story is about Great Britain, but how long before this type of nonsense reaches our own schools? How long hell!! It's already here! Just look at some of the so-called "free speech" codes that exist on many college and university campuses across the nation.

You can't say anything about it, though. To dare to speak up would, of course, make you a racist right along with Codie Stott! Source

I also heard an interesting discussion this morning on Talk Radio. The discussion was describing the difference between the war on terror for America and the war on terror for Europe. Where America is truly fighting the terror in war, Europe has more of a civil war occurring with the terrorist.

In addition there seems to be a book out there pointing out the fact that muslims in Europe are having 4 times the amount of babies then Europeans. Giving the numbers, it's just a matter of time before the muslim population simply out grow the old european descendants.

A Star Tribune article describes a current issue regarding muslim taxi drivers refusing to transport anyone leaving the airport with alcohol on ther persons.

It may seem insignificant to most, but this may have more of an impact then you might expect.

About three-quarters of the 900 taxi drivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are Somalis, many of them Muslim. About three times daily, would-be customers are refused taxi service when a driver sees they're carrying alcohol.

What your looking at is nearly all 3/4 of the taxi services refusing to do their jobs in the name of their religion. From the reports, a taxi driver is in line(3 hours) to pick up a would be customer from the airport. You have a line of taxi's to pick up a line of customers. Currently, if the taxi pulls up to pick up the customer and the customer has any type of alcohol on him (most from duty free stores, ect) the muslim taxi driver refuses to transport them. The taxi driver must then go to the back of the taxi line for the next opportunity to pick up a customer.

Apparently, a would be solution would be to have some marker to help identify those willing or unwilling to transport the alcohol. The public came up in arms about this one and that attempt failed.

The issue is two-fold.

1)If you work for a company, should you not comply with that companies rules and polices.
2)If you work for a company, should you not be allowed to apply your faith/religious views with your job?

In fairness to the cab drivers...

The observant drivers object only to transporting openly displayed alcohol, said Ali Culed, a Somali Muslim who's been driving an airport cab for eight years. They won't search passengers or quiz them about what's in their bags.

But on the other hand, why should the cab drivers be able to discriminate?

One side is making it a customer service issue, the other is side a religious issue.

My thoughts in Italics. I was driving the two of us to speech. My son was playing his pokemon gameboy game, when this came up.

son: Dad, what does P I S S spell?
me: uh, what was that? where did he see the word piss?
son: P I S S
me: hmm, where did you see this at?
son: (raises his gameboy up to me in the back seat)
me: why would piss be on a gameboy game?
me: Can you spell that one more time? I can't see it from here.
son: Oh wait, P I Z Z.
me: Pizz? that spells pizz, but ...
son: Argh, Sena (his petname for his sister) named a pokemon this.
me: ahh

For the life of me, I couldn't think why the word piss would be on the game. Then when I heard she named a pokemon pizz. She was probably trying to spell out pizza for the pokemons name. I was thankfull she really didn't call a pokemon piss.

Evidently a electronic poll was done to the masses. The poll asked what they felt was the top 4 things the ACLU was attacking, regarding America's moral and culture.

Now, I will say up front the poll was biased in asking what as opposed to do you believe. Never-the-less the answers provide us some information the groups response.

Reading the information, it appears ten items were given in the poll.

The top five picks were clear:
(1) erasing America's Christian heritage,
(2) attacking religious liberties,
(3) silencing the Church,
(4) redefining marriage and family, and
(5) sexualizing America's children.

The poll was a means to promote a new book from Sam Kastensmidt, entitled Indefensible: 10 Ways The ACLU Is Destroying America

Bush signs Mexico border-fence bill
By UPI Staff
United Press International
October 5, 2006

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (UPI) -- President Bush signed a bill in Arizona Thursday that provides $1.2 billion for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to curb illegal immigration.

The $35 billion homeland security bill also includes an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The overhaul will "help our government better respond to emergencies and natural disasters by strengthening the capabilities" of FEMA, Bush said.

The bill will also "deploy nuclear detection equipment at our ports of entry, raise security standards at the nation's chemical plants, safeguard American cities against weapons of mass destruction and stop terrorists seeking to enter our country," the president said.

Standing before Camelback Mountain in Arizona, a state with much debate over border security, he also said the legislation would "give us better tools to enforce our immigration laws and to secure our southern border."

Outgoing Mexican President Vicente Fox has called the barricade "shameful," comparing it to the Berlin Wall and saying it would hurt U.S.-Mexican relations.

About damn time. Now we need to barricade the whole thing. In addition put one on our northern border as well.

This morning was the first morning I woke up actually feeling like I received some rest. Perhaps it was the benadryls I took or just the fact I was so exhausted. Either way, I am glad to feel halfway like my old self again.

I checked out some more of You Tube after watching the Save the Internet piece on it. Most of what I found was basically garbage. 45 seconds up to 8 minutes of anyone posting their ramblings or attempt of shock value. There were some interesting tidbits out there. I can see this technology actually being beneficial. If you utilize it as a means of education or news, that would be cool. The main media or cable outlets can only inform you so much, at times bias. However, if someone was at a small town or an otherwise unknown location reporting, educating on topics of interest, that would be worthwhile. There is a search bar on the site, but I haven't found it to be that useful. I guess I will continue to look through the site.

Check out this You Tube video showing a clip from Save the Internet!

I had to share the one. Below is a excerpt of NBC's universal view over chrisitian statments.

NBC anti-Christian bigotry continues. This time NBC censored Bible verses and expressions of Christian love from the children's cartoon Veggie Tales being shown Saturday mornings on NBC.

NBC says comments such as "God made you special and He loves you very much" were offensive and censored them from the show.

In response to the outrage over the allegations that NBC was ordering the removal of any references to God and the Bible from the animated series, the network first issued a flat denial. As reported in Broadcasting & Cable, NBC said they had to "clip off the beginning and ending tags, which are Bible verses, but they were also arguably the easiest cut to make."

The creator of Veggie Tales, Phil Vischer, said NBC's excuse for censoring the Bible verses was not true. Vischer said, "Well, that's kinda funny, because as the guy required to do all the editing, I know that statement is false...The show wasn't too long, it was too Christian. The show was already cut down to the proper length, so timing had nothing to do with it."

NBC then backpeddled: "NBC is committed to the positive messages and universal values of Veggie Tales. Our goal is to reach as broad an audience as possible with these positive messages while being careful not to advocate any one religious point of view." Evidently NBC considers not being truthful as one of their "universal values."

Vischer said had he known how much censorship NBC would exercise, he would not have signed on for the network deal.

Censored were comments such as: "Calm down. The Bible says we should love our enemies." And "the Bible says Samson got his strength from God. And God can give us strength, too."

NBC says using Bible verses or referring to God is offensive to some non-Christians. But NBC doesn't hesitate to offend Christians by showing Madonna mocking the crucifixion of Christ. Neither do not mind offending Christians in their new program Studio 60 with a segment called Crazy Christians.