Middle America's Worldview

I haven't had the opportunity to blog in some time. I am surprised I haven't had the ddt's. The familys been busy in trying to get a yardsale going as well as keeping the house up and clean. We leave for Cantun on the last weekend this month, and our Disney trip is rushing closer and closer.

Of course work has been busy and that makes the day go by fast as well. I have enjoyed the ability to take benadryl at night to actually sleep.

The new stuff going on top of all this is me joining Juice Plus(c).


Kel has been checking into it as of last year for our son. But we really couldn't get into it till now. Essentially it's a fruit and vegetable supplement. I know they say it's not a vitamen, ect. We already take vitamens from Nutriwest ect. This would just be extra dose for our fruit and vegetables. I read in Kevin Newdows book our grandparents garden held more nutrients then we ever could. I think it was stated it would take 5 portions of our current day vegetables to their one portion of the same vegetables. This is supposedly due to the additional pesticide, herbicides, growth hormones, genetically altered seeds, ect. Makes sense if one takes the time to look into it.

I have also been trying to update the Get Rid of Toxins website as well as creating and updating Gary Buckles website for one of the lawyers Kel works with. All in all, a continual busy week even after my horrid on-call week.



So if anyone is interested in help removing some toxins or Juice Plus check the site or Email me with your inquiries.

Let me get this straight, FDA wants to null the state laws, under the pretention of them possible reapplying those laws? Sounds like a takeover to me.
This was taken from http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/preempt011606.cfm
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Food Industry Advances In Labeling Fight
Bill in Congress Would Ban Many State, Local Rules And Set National Regulations
By JANE ZHANG
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 9, 2006; Page A4
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113677004643741230-search.html?

WASHINGTON -- Some state and local governments require food makers,
restaurants and grocery stores to post warnings about products containing
ingredients regulators deem harmful.

Those laws are often tougher than federal Food and Drug Administration rules
or cover substances not regulated by federal law. California, for example,
requires businesses to disclose the presence of chemicals that the state
believes cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Michigan
and Connecticut mandate allergen warnings about preservatives such as sulfur
dioxide at salad bars and other settings.

The food industry has been pressing Congress and the federal government to
ban such state laws ever since California voters approved what is known as
Proposition 65 in 1986. Recently, it has made some progress. A bill that
would override many such laws sailed through the House Energy and Commerce
Committee in December, and its sponsors include more than half the members
of the House. A Senate version hasn't been introduced and it's unclear if
the bill will move soon, but it already has set off a firestorm, pitting the
food industry against consumer activists and state food-safety officials.


Under the proposed legislation, many state and local laws, such as
California's Proposition 65, would be annulled unless states obtain FDA
approval to keep them. Through the FDA and the Agriculture Department, the
federal government sets national policy on nutrition and health-claim
labeling, as well as on food safety and labeling of meat, poultry and egg
products. The proposed federal law would set similar national standards by
stripping states of the right to require safety warnings on food packages or
where food is sold.


Food regulation has been largely a federal responsibility. Two landmark 1906
federal laws -- the Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act -- granted
the federal government the power to conduct sanitary inspections in
meat-packing plants and regulate adulterated foods and the use of poisonous
preservatives and dyes in foods. States can, however, make their own laws,
especially in areas where the federal government hasn't acted. Over the past
few decades, as Americans became increasingly aware of food-related health
problems, state and local governments have passed laws to address regional
needs or cover gaps in federal law. "Sometimes states can act faster," says
Joy Johnson Wilson, health-policy director at the National Conference of
State Legislatures. "We don't believe that should be precluded."


The federal bill would invalidate any food-safety and labeling laws
considered "not identical" to FDA regulations. But how to determine
"identical" -- or "substantially the same," as defined in the bill --
remains a question. The bill says states would be allowed to keep their
safety standard if the FDA fails to take a position, but some state
officials worry that any state regulation could be judged as "not identical"
to the FDA's "zero" regulation -- and then annulled. States could appeal to
the FDA to keep their laws, but such exemptions would be granted only under
three conditions. States must demonstrate that their law would cover an
otherwise unprotected "important" interest, and wouldn't "unduly burden
interstate commerce," or "cause any food to be in violation of any
applicable requirement or prohibition under federal law."


There is little doubt that the proposed federal legislation would undo
Proposition 65 in California, the state's Democratic Attorney General Bill
Lockyer wrote in a recent letter to the bill's main sponsor, Rep. Mike
Rogers (R., Mich.). In the past 17 years, Mr. Lockyer wrote, the law has
forced "quiet compliance" among businesses, with many voluntarily removing
chemicals that are on California's list -- now totaling 750 -- that would
require labeling.


The effects extend beyond California. While the FDA advises on its Web site
that pregnant women should avoid certain fish with high levels of mercury,
such as swordfish, California requires restaurants and supermarkets to post
that information. In October, supermarket chain Safeway Inc., of Pleasanton,
Calif., said it will place mercury warning posters in stores nationwide.
California also wants mercury-warning labels on canned tuna, but food
companies have gone to court to stop that.

The federal bill has drawn fire from state attorneys general, food-safety
officials and consumer activists. "States want to preserve the right to
protect ... citizens; sometimes our needs are regional and local, and we
want to do it effectively and expeditiously, and this legislation will
prevent that," says Steve Steinhoff, food-safety administrator at the
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture. "The legislation is aimed at
Proposition 65. Unfortunately, rather than fight the battle in California,
we are going to adjust the whole national system."


"What [the industry] really wants is a regulatory vacuum where state and
local governments will be unable to fill the gap left by the FDA," says
Benjamin Cohen, senior staff attorney at the Center for Science in the
Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group in Washington.


Food-industry lobbyists say varying state laws add uncertainty, confusion
and extra costs to interstate commerce. "You could have two different
labels, three different labels, 50 labels depending on inconsistent state
requirements," says Hunt Shipman, executive vice president at the Food
Products Association, a trade group. While almost all companies have chosen
to remove certain chemicals to avoid a warning label in California, he says,
things could get complicated if another state adopts a law as broad as
Proposition 65.


Industry lobbyists and congressional aides who have discussed the subject
during the decade-long push for legislation say the bill would still give
states authority to respond to an imminent hazard, inspect foods and
restaurants and require labeling for freshness dating, religious dietary
issues, organic designation and geographic origin. The proposed federal law
would cover warnings on labels, posters, public notices, advertising, "or
any other means of communication." It would allow states to require
public-service announcements on television or radio and billboards, says
Susan Stout, a vice president at the Grocery Manufacturers Association,
which represents the $680 billion-a-year food and beverage industry.


An FDA spokeswoman says the agency won't comment on pending legislation.


Write to Jane Zhang at Jane.Zhang@wsj.com

I know the former President Bill Clinton didn't think oral sex was actual sex, but come on. This is just crazy. Taken from Stop the ACLU.com.
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http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2006/03/11/california-supremes-oral-sex-with-kids-is-ok/


On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 to not force those convicted of having oral sex with underage kids to register as sex offenders with the state. The majority judges said that the law was "too harsh and unfair." Yes, I'm sure that the problem with such enforcement is the resolute "unfairness" of punishing those who know it is a crime and yet do it anyway. How terrible.

The judges justified their conclusion by citing the fact that under the state laws of California people convicted of having actual sexual intercourse with those who are 16 and 17 years of age are not forced to register as a sex offender. Their argument claims a lack of equal protection under the law.

So help me understand something. Because the laws are all screwed up about the sentencing of a crime that is even worse than the one that is committed, therefore we have to let those who commit serious crimes off easy? For some reason, there is an aversion to tough punishment in the liberal courts today.

During this whole week, I/we have had little sleep. I been on-call this week, but intestering enough, it wasn't due to that.

Monday was 2 stressfull evening meetings. That night, it took awhile to chill and I was awake at 2 a.m. I finished watching my last Farscape dvd and tried to go back to sleep to no avail.

Tuesday, can't even remember.

Wednesday night we had a really bad thunderstorm coming through with a tornado warning. So around 3 a.m. we unplugged all the computers and watched the news for a bit. Kel ended up staying awake. I popped a melatonin and manged to sleep deep for 2.5 hours. Best I had all that night.

Now it's Thursday and I have had 5 freaking calls already for work. Sigh. Tired. Tired of the stress. Tired of the little sleep.

I told my peers it felt like today should be Friday and some had agreed. Seems it's been a long week for them as well.

I remain on-call till Monday morning. Perhaps tomorrow I will have something interesting to blog about. At this point of the week, it's work-eat-little sleep

Friday night we decided to have a rare going out family night. The four of us went out to eat and the kids wanted to watch Doogle.
So starts the 76 minutes of my life lost forever in a horacious film.

I snagged the tickets (26 bucks please) and we made it in with no issue. I wondered if it will be alot of kids in there since it's Friday night and the only movie place in town showing it. We had our choice of seats. I think maybe 12 were in the whole theater. Hmm. OK.

The wife and kids settled and I went back out and grabbed 2 large drinks (for each of us to share), large popcorn, bag of skittles and bag of m&m's (19 bucks please).

I balanced it all deftly back in the theater, still 12 people.

The movie started and by the end of it, I am looking for some lemon juice to burn it out of my retina's. Yes, it's that bad.

Take the last 2 trilogies (matrix, lotr) quotations, slap some adult attempted humour and you have Doogle.

Throughout every camera scene there is a quip from another movie. Not a movie my less than 10 year olds would recognize, but every scene. The only thing holding the storyline together is a narrater.

Let me give you a couple of exciting scenes.

The train is alone in the underground railroad tunnel looking for Doogle and his friends. He states "Why do I always get the shaft" followed by "Good thing I have tunnel vision" as his eyes light through the tunnel.

The leftover 60's hippy rabbit pretty much sleeps all through the movie and is slooooowwwww ggoooooing. "Peace man". The rabbit is on some kindof barbituates or taking heroin off camera. The gang finds themselves in a 'Temple of Doom' place. They actually refer to 'Temple of Doom'. Like I said, every scene comes from another movie. Anyway, skeletons come out and the drug out rabbit becomes.....Neo. "There is no spoon." He proceeds to kick all the skeletons butts, which falls apart on his matrix moves. During this time bone and skelton jokes fly. Once all are apart they magically come back together. What does the rabbit say? "Now that's what I call pulling yourself back together".

Sigh, yeah, it's like that throughout the whole show.

I will say, the kids laughed at some of the scenes. So it should be worth watching them laugh, but that was the only enjoyable thing of the movie.

The only thing I can see the movie was about was 'leaning on your friends, finding inner strength, and never give up.' At least, that is the only thing, I could see.

There is a love between the snail and cow. Now, I mentioned it could be a underlying message of men are slime and women are fat cows, but not sure on that one.

As we left the movie theater, my wife said it reminded her of PBS. I looked at her and said, it reminded me of POS.

By now most have heard of the Colorado moonbat teacher spouting off Anti-America propaganda. Most shouldn't really care, unless your kid goes to his classroom to be indoctrinated by it.

Stop the ACLU has a good piece on it showing the teacher has hired ACLU David Lane. So now ACLU is representing him.

Michelle Malkin has the full transcript.

Woman honor thyself has a good post on this as well. In fact, it was the first I heard of this.

Now move over to Virginia and we have a similiar issue. The teachers material was removed due to it promoting conservative messages.Stop the ACLU has the piece that I found.

This is something I was touching on back in 2004! It appears it's becoming appropiate to remove the factual remnants of our Countries history, due to them being christian oriented. gasp. But if your anti-american, it becomes a free speech issue.

Can you see the bias? One teacher is spouting out his ideology, another one is promoting history.

Muslim rioters are responsible for up to 58 deaths (mostly Christians) on the streets of Maiduguri, in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, which were triggered by protests over the Danish cartoons satirizing Islam. It is reported that at least 51 Christians were brutally killed on the February 18 rampage, while over 150 homes and 32 churches were burned, and 85 shops were destroyed. Authorities were finally able to control the volatile scene after arresting 114 and having militia enforce a curfew.
The mayhem began when Muslims staged their demonstration against degrading caricatures of Mohammad that were originally published in September 2005 by the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten. Even though the cartoons were by no means a Christian attack on Islam, Muslims in Nigeria and throughout the world have turned their rage toward Christians; many of whom have never even heard of the controversial sketches.
Muslims are using the cartoons as an excuse to wage their violent jihad (holy war) against Christians, and have been reported running through the streets of Maiduguri threatening people with death and violence if they did not speak their local dialect. Many of the dozens of victims were publicly tortured to death in the city streets.

It seems regardless of the news pulling the spotlight off the Extreme Muslim destructionist, the chaos continues.

I snagged the above article from The voice of the Martyrs email newsletter.

I had to check this out myself, hearing it on the radio. Unreal. I agree everyone can do what they want to with their bodies. However, when it interferes in your work enviroment, it goes too far.

School board to address transgender teacher issue

By BERNARD VAUGHANStaff Writer, (609) 978-2012

Published: Monday, February 27, 2006

Updated: Monday, February 27, 2006


Lily McBeth, the former male teacher at Eagleswood Elementary who changed her gender, is one of many teachers around the nation in recent years who have struggled with school boards and parents to keep their jobs.

The Eagleswood school board will discuss McBeth's employment with the district at its meeting 7 p.m. Monday. The school district's issue with McBeth, 70, came to light after Mark Schnepp, of West Creek, took out a full-page advertisement in a local newspaper, urging residents to attend Monday's public meeting. Schnepp, a Methodist with two children in the school, has said McBeth's gender change is against his religious beliefs.

Dana Rivers, an award-winning teacher at Center High School in Antelope, Calif., sparked a national debate when her school board fired her in 1999 after she underwent gender reassignment. Rivers, formerly known as David Warfield, eventually settled with the school district there, and went on to become an activist for transgender people. People magazine named her one of their Most Intriguing People in 1999.

Alyssa Williams, a male-to-female transgender middle school teacher in Minnesota, resigned her position in 1999 after objections from parents. Williams told the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition that she intended to retreat from public life.

Randey Michelle Gordon, formerly Randy Gordon, was believed to be the first teacher to remain in the same school district after changing her sex in 2001. A year later she took a leave of absence from the school, in Westchester County, N.Y., after a doctor diagnosed her with chronic depression.

McBeth's employment should be protected, said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in New Jersey.

A state appellate court ruled in 2002, in Enriquez v. West Jersey Health, that transgender people are protected by New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination, or LAD. But despite the court's ruling, LAD still does not name transgender people as protected, Jacobs said.

"Because of situations like this, we are trying to get the state Legislature to amend the law to make it consistent with the court ruling and make transgender people protected," Jacobs said.

Garden State Equality, the grassroots organization that pushed for Ocean County to allow former Lt. Laurel Hester to leave her pension benefits to her domestic partner, issued a press release Thursday calling on area progressives to attend Monday night's meeting to support McBeth.

"The good citizens of Ocean County proved their fairness with their outrage over the treatment of Laurel Hester in the months before she died," said Steven Goldstein, chair of Garden State Equality. "We believe Ocean County will now rise to the occasion in support of Lily McBeth, whose reputation is unsurpassed. A great teacher is a great teacher, period."

McBeth's gender could not matter less to Shane Donnelly, 18, and Corey Basile, 19, former students of McBeth's at Pinelands Regional Middle School, where she also substituted before seeking a gender reassignment. She was known as William McBeth then.

"He was the best substitute," Donnelly said.

Donnelly, an employee of West Creek Liquors in Eagleswood Township, said McBeth frequently told entertaining surfing stories.

"He said he was the first surfer to put a camera on his surf board," Donnelly said.

Basile, his co-worker, agreed.

"He would tell the most ridiculous stories," Basile said. "None of them were bad or anything. They were usually about surfing."

Both said McBeth was a good teacher.

"He wasn't strict, but he wouldn't let us do whatever we wanted," Donnelly said.

Reading the story, the issue isn't whether he/she/it is a good teacher, rather what is being presented to the kids. You have to admit our children are very susceptible during school. While a teacher can speak the language in teaching, their tone, dresscode, ect are also communicating to the kids. If you have an individual that drastically crosses that boundry, the message/teaching changes focus on the teacher rather than the class.

I continue to be astounded on the news regarding San Francisco's ideology and political decisions.

Gun control Voters actually voted for a no to firearms in San Francisco in November 2005. Irregardless of the 2nd ammendment. Now get this, not only did they ban all guns, but wished to take away all citizens living within San Francisco guns as well. (shaking head)

Gay MarriageRegardless of Proposition 22 passed by the people, the Mayor allowed gay marriage to occur. I will have to say the high court nullified the marriages. But it again took priest in black clothes to make it so. I never did hear how much money was returned to the people.

Anti-Military Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval’s astonishing statement claimed clearly, he believes the Unites States should not have a military. Of course he later said he didn't understand the question clearly. But the statment definitely made ways. His idea of security relies upon the police.

Evidently there is moonbats out there. Vicky Leidner played lady liberty.



The above is exactly what the liberal left believes in.

I wondered how long it would take for the ACLU (Another Cult Loosed Under) to rear it's head on this, again.

Check out Stop the ACLU article on this.

I had actually checked this out a year ago when I heard of the National Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools. It was found to be totally constitutional and I found the concept actually interesting.

I personally get aggravated when we hear of the mandatory teachings of Islam as opposed to this voluntary class.

I think both classes can be taught as literature (islam and christianity), but I also do not think anyone outside the circle would fully trust what exactly would be taught.

Too bad ACLU supports one religion over another. Their bias is blantant at best.

I suggest everyone to check out the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools website and request the material to see exactly what it's all about. At least this would be a voluntary decision on your part.

High School MeMe


Your senior year in high school is supposed to be the best year of your life. (hmm not so sure about that!) Let's see how much you remember:

Year: 1989

1. Who was your best friend?Randy

2. What sports did you play?None

3. What kind of car did you drive?1976 Chevy Nova

4. It's Friday night, where were you at?Home

5. Were you a party animal?No

6. Were you in the "In Crowd"?no

7. Ever skip school?yes to take my drivers license

8. Ever smoke a cigarette?Yes

9. Were you a nerd?yes

10. Did you get suspened/expelled?No

11. Can you sing the Alma Mater?You kidding? Noway.

12. Who was your favorite teacher?Mr. Heinz, Science.

13. Favorite class?Chemistry

14. What was your school's full name?S**** High School

15. School mascot?Bulldogs

16. Did you go to Prom?yes

17. If you could go back and do it over, would you? Only if I remember everything. I would so do things differently.

18. What do you remember most about graduation? Hugging everyone in the hallway afterwards, then the party.

19. Favorite memory of your senior year? I recall the good young looking chics.

20. Were you ever posted up on the senior wall? no, don't recall we had one.

21. Did you have a job your senior year? Oh yes. 2 of them actually.

22. Who did you date? no-one. Didnt have time nor the courage too.

23. Where did you go most often for lunch? My grandmother. She was only 2-3 blocks away.

24. Have you gained weight since then? Duh. I gained all my weight after marriage.

25. What did you do after graduation? Went to Rad Tech School after becoming a PCN.

Q: How have new discoveries about the human embryo forced pro-choice advocates to rethink their arguments?

A: It's fascinating what modern science has discovered. Electron microscopes can produce images of embryos at every stage of a baby's development. For years,
abortionists have said that the early embryo is just a "ball of cells ... not a
human being."

It appears that, even after the first cell division, the cells differentiate between the top and tail position, and all future cells seem to adopt a similar orientation.

The details aren't yet fully understood, but it's clear that the "blob" theory has no basis in reality. On the other hand, the Bible's teaching still stands. Genesis teaches that God created man in His image, and a newly conceived child is fully human.
As usual, the scientific evidence makes much more sense if you accept the Word of God as your authority, and then build your thinking from that foundation.

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Evolutionist quote of the week

According to this "blob" theory, the cells were all the same, and none had yet become hair,
blood, etc. But research has since found that cells begin to take on special purposes on the
day of conception!
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"By the end of the eighth week, the face resembles a primate, but is still not quite human."

– Carl Sagan, Is It Possible To Be Pro-Life and Pro-Choice, Parade Magazine, April 22, 1990, p. 6.


Is the Human Embryo Essentially a Fish with Gills?

Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust

BC-02. From Malthus and Darwin to Eugenics

Embryology and Evolution


Some teachers and textbooks still are presenting a simplistic nineteenth century Darwinian hypothesis that a developing embryo summarizes the evolutionary history of that organism. Mainstream embryologists have rejected this view, called recapitulation, for more than one-half century.

The above quote is what I find interesting. News seem to tell the public how much science and technology has advanced, but the ideology of evolution remains to be the same in most teachers. I had heard if you take a person from history, say around 1500, and bring him in the present, they would feel more comfortable in a public classroom then anywhere else. The reason is due to the classrooms having not move forward.

It appears regardless of the advance in Embryology and knowledge showing life at earlier stages, evolutionist still keep hold on their faith of darwinism. This is a shame when you consider how racist the theory of evolution is.

I personally take (2) 1000 mg tablets of fish oil daily as part of my vitamen intake. Our son also takes fish oil as one of his vitamen supplements. We have heard how good it suppose to be for you. Eating certain fish with fruits and vegetables are good diet, ect. I ran across this study showing the benefits of fish oil for patients with Acute Lung Injury. I thought it was really interesting and wanted to share it.

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http://www.healthsentinel.com/org_news.php?event=org_news_print_list...

Roman Bystrianyk, "Borage and Fish Oil aid patients with Acute Lung
Injury", Health Sentinel, February 24, 2006,


Acute Lung Injury, or ALI, is most often seen as part of a systemic
inflammatory process and may be caused by trauma, sepsis (blood
infection), aspiration, and many other causes. Acute Respiratory
Distress Syndrome, or ARDS, is the most serious form of Acute Lung
Injury. Some of the other causes of ALI and ARDS are pneumonia, near
drowning, burns, and inhalation of noxious fumes.


An October 2005 study published in of the New England Journal of
Medicine indicated that there might be a great many more cases of ALI
in the United States than previously recognized. The new estimate
suggests that there maybe two to five times as many acute lung
injuries. The study authors estimated 190,600 cases of acute lung
injury occur each year that result in 3.6 million hospital stays and
74,500 deaths.


Recent evidence has shown that intervention with dietary fish oil,
which contains eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) or gamma-linolenic acid
(GLA), found in borage oil, may be beneficial in patients with ALI by
reducing inflammation. A 1999 study published in Critical Care Medicine
noted a decrease in inflammation in patients with ARDS that were given
EPA and GLA compared with controls. The EPA and GLA patients also
required fewer days of ventilation and had shorter time in the
intensive care unit (ICU).


A new study published in Critical Care Medicine examined the effect of
EPA and GLA on patients with ALI. In the study 49 patients received a
control formula and 46 received the EPA and GLA formula. The EPA and
GLA formula also included additional vitamin E, vitamin C,
beta-carotene, taurine, and L-carnitine.


The authors found that in this single-centered study there was an
advantage in the diet enriched with fish and borage oil. There was
improved oxygenation in patients as well as a small but significantly
shorter amount of time requiring ventilation - 13.1 days versus 17.6
days in the control group. The authors note that the better outcome in
the EPA and GLA group could be by "reducing inflammatory process in
the lung and improving lung mechanics and oxygenation."


The authors conclude, "our study demonstrates that this EPA + GLA
diet improves oxygenation and lung dynamics, and also morbidity related
to the lung condition, decreasing the LOV [Length of Ventilation] in
the ICU."


SOURCE: Critical Care Medicine, April 2006 [Epub ahead of print]

I was going to blog on the cancer in our society but after hearing more discussion on the port security/insecurity issue, I felt this was better.

OK, prior I said I did't have a nice fuzzy feeling on this port discussion. Now, I think I am getting butterflies on it.

I have recently heard and then read ... Last week, it emerged that both Dubai Ports World and Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the seller, specified that an agreement by the U.S. government not to make a formal investigation as a condition for the deal. This is exceedingly odd; this is enough to persuade Congress to push the review. This is from the Washington Times.

If that sentence alone doesn't raise eyebrows nothing will. I truly wonder if Bush had created some deal with the Islamic's that we are not aware of. I can see the conspiracy now. I can personally see a understanding of information sharing from them. Then we turn over our ports, perhaps for money reasons on paper, as our part of the deal. Scary, very scary.

I had heard the frontrunner against this is none-other ultra liberal Schumer. I was really surpised to hear him speaking with Michael Savage last week on this same issue. Yes same dufus that regurgitating Haliburton. Geez, they just can't get a clue.

I was wondering why oh why would liberal democrats be interested in National Security now. According to Rush Limbaugh it has been decided the libs are concerned over the Unions for the ports. Since a new company is taking over, the current union will be in jeapordy. So the concern would be for the Unions not the security. Is it true? Who knows. I just don't trust any Demo Lib at all.

Did you know this story actually broke before the Cheyney gun accident frenzy? I guess the media thought it was more important to victimize Cheyney hoping he would step down rather than this security port issue. I just thought it was interesting the story was out there but only now picking up steam.


Regardless of Bush's reasoning, I can see this having initial severe issues. People are freaking on this due to the unknown. Perhaps we will learn more as this story grows and the American people start asking for answers.

The ports that are effected are located in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, and New Orleans.

While I am griping, get some freaking guard down on the Mexican border and stop that cesspool as well.

I had to get up early early today, say 2 a.m. local time for work. I am not on-call this week, but there is some server work to be done effecting 2 facilities. Once the servers are back online, I will assist the person on-call to bring the interfaces back up and online.

I have taken the advantage in time to fold laundry, ect. Yeah, exciting stuff.

Kel came to bed around midnight after hearing the OK from our friends daughter surgery. Seems she was literally in surgery all day over 12 hours operation time. Unreal. I am sure the mother has 2-3 ulcers at this point.

There is alot of firestorming over the company taking over the U.S. port security. I have to admit, I am really not feeling easy on a Arab company taking conrol of it. I hear Bush is digging heels on pushing for them to do so. I understand the buisiness aspect, as far as not to allow discrimination. However, it just doen't give me a fuzzy feeling. I wouldn't feel comfortable with any foriegn country taking over our areas of security, regardless of the country.

Time to get some coffee. It's been 2 hours already and the servers are not back up yet.

I am enjoying the weekend off. I actually have 3 days this time, sharing it with the kids. Our company actually has Presidents day as a official company holiday.

Todays church service was a good one. It spoke of King Hezekiah request to live longer. God granted him an additional 15 years. I found it fascinating the request to prove it was to have the shadow move back 10 degrees. I did a little Google and there is some discrepancy on whether it's really true or an urban myth. Irregardless, Hezekiah did exist.

Today, I will enjoy a Clue game with the kids and wife. Kel gave me the game for Valentines Day. We have been enjoying it since. I wanted the kids to adopt a skill while playing. You have to use deduction on the game.

We rented a pretty good movie last night called Zathura. I was pleasantly surprised. The movie was much better than I thought it would be. Having seen the Jumanji movie wrapped around Robin Williams, I was expecting the same genre. Yes, it was definitely a kids movie, but a twist I had not expected at the end. I will say, there were a couple of words, the kids say in the movie I found a bit in-appropiate considering the audience. However, it probably is just the way it is, if not worse out there. Irregardeless, I give it a thumbs up. Our daughter fell asleep before it came on, but our son stayed up and focused on it throughout the movie. We will be keeping it an additional night and be watching it again.

I went ahead and put some money in the foot bath website. The freebie I was utilizing bit the big one. I was really aggravated. According to the postings, the guy running the server lost his internet access privileges. So it appears he was unplugged. Since I am actually dedicating some time in this, I bit the bullet and invested in it.

The weather was definitely crazy this weekend. On Thursday temps were up to 78, Friday it was high of 42. Saturday brought us hail, snow, rain and cold winds. We expected the same today, but at this time, only a high around the 30's with no additional snow, sleet, ice.

I realize this is a bit old now, but I ran across this article while surfing the blogs.


RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs
November 30, 2005 | Issue 41•48

LOS ANGELES—The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. "We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material," a press release signed by RIAA anti-piracy director Brad Buckles read. "We will aggressively prosecute those individuals who attempt to pirate our property by generating 'buzz' about any proprietary music, movies, or software, or enjoy same in the company of anyone other than themselves." RIAA attorneys said they were also looking into the legality of word-of-mouth "favorites-sharing" sites, such as coffee shops, universities, and living rooms.

In the digital age, where you can acquire 2 gig memory cards that you can fit on your keychain, I understand the ease of acquiring software, songs, ect. It can be a nightmare for any programmer or artist. But, looking into the ability to sue over word of mouth? I recall when the big issue when the movie "Hulk" hit the theaters. News of the movie leak hitting the biztorrent and then word spread like wildfire shortly after the movie release of how much it sucks. The entertainment industry blamed technology of cell phones, txt pages ect. Crying word of mouth was just too fast anymore with today's tech. Not that the issue was the movie itself. Sigh.

Having the wife down this week, I have utilized the famous crockpot. I have to say, I have earned a new respect for it. By mixing my food ingredients and using the Slow cook liners, I have the perfect suppers with no messy cleanups. I tell you, it made my week alot easier.

I recall when I was a kid, we really didn't use ours that much. When your single, it's a bit harder to cook for one person, but it beats steak and rice all the time.


History of the Crockpot.

CROCK-POT'S DEBUT
The first slow cooker was introduced in the early 1970s by Rival, under the trademarked name Crock-Pot. Today, two models of this appliance exist on the market: multicookers and the original slow cooker. Multicookers can be used to deep-fry, steam and slow-cook.

The crockery is an excellent insulator and keeps the cooking temperature even, so it doesn't require constant attention. Because multicookers heat from the bottom, food must be watched carefully and continuously stirred to prevent scorching. Slow cookers, which range in size from eight ounces to six quarts, have a crockery insert that may or may not be removable. The insert rests in a metal housing unit that heats from the sides.

Rivals history of the cooker.

10 Crockpot stew recipes.

An ultimate crockpot recipe site

I have always been fascinated with the hacker community. You have your white hat hackers that live only to learn, understand and report their security findings. Then you have your black hat hackers that utilize those same found insecurities for their own gain.

Michelle Malkin has a very interesting post regarding Islamic hack attacks on the net. I shouldn't really be surprised considering there is a increasing war cry physically. Now it's becoming obvious a digital war is occuring.

Considering the continued issue of identity theft (new Harrison Ford movie, Firewall coming out on the same subject) on the rise, this takes the Jihad in a whole new realm.

There have always been a net turf war since the boom of the web. Personally I recall when the web was only in text mode, using Delphi to gain access. Now you have a broad range of scripts, html, xhtml, graphic, java, ror, IM's, to utilize.

Once I read Michelle's blog, I had to do a search on this same issue. I found the following links below. Interesting to say the least.

Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers ...

Muslim hackers blast Denmark in Net assault

Anti-cartoon protests go online

Will Malaysia Emerge as a Pro-al Qaeda Cyber Terrorist Haven?

It has always been thought you are faceless in the digital realm. Your handle was your identity. At least that was back then when I use to cruise the IRC's ect. I haven't been online chatting in a long time, due to no time to randomly surf anymore. I wouldn't really call them "Muslim" hackers. They are simply black hat hackers. But then again, I haven't been in that scene in quite awhile.

I am reading a fascinating book called The Politically Incorrect view of American History. It points out something I havent really thought of, The Tenth Amendment.

So what is the Tenth Amendment, other than part of the Bill of Rights?

The Tenth Amendment is stated as such....

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

So what does it mean exactly?

"The Tenth Amendment guaranteed the states' rights to self-government. If the states had not delegated a particular power to the federal government, and if the Constitution had not forbidden the power to the states, then it remained as a resevered to the states or the people. For Thomas Jefferson this was the cornerstone of the entire Constitution. .....
Since the states existed prior to the federal government, they were the source of whatever power the federal government had. Thomas Jefferson determined the contitutionality of proposed legislation on this basis: If he did not find the power spelled out in Article I, Section 8, then it remained reserverd to the states." From the 'The Politically Incorrect view of American History'

Wow, so that means, if its not in this Article I, section 8, the states have control over it. So what's in the Article I, Section 8? It's a bit long.

Section 8.

I found this to be interesting. You can see more information in the AIG site.

A: Evolutionists have taught that the stratified fossil record of dinosaurs and other creatures formed slowly over millions of years. And most people have this idea that it takes millions of years to turn bones into fossils as well.


But creation scientists believe that most of the fossils—including most of the dinosaur fossils—formed at the time of Noah's Flood, only about 4,500 years ago. This means that fossils must have formed rather quickly.

So, is there any evidence that fits with this?

A museum in New Zealand showcases a petrified ham, which formed after a volcano covered a village in ash in 1886 (see Tarawera's night of terror). And a museum in Tasmania features a petrified hat. It was left in a mine, and after fifty years it had changed from being a soft, felt hat into a hard hat! (See 'Fossil' hat.)

No, it doesn't take millions of years to make fossils.

Can we know, then, when the fossil record was formed? The answer's in Genesis: most of the fossils were formed during the Flood of Noah's day, just a few thousand years ago.

I say a look at it as opposed to analyzing the movie. The simple reason is because there just is'nt much there.

OK.
First I would like to say in the extra's within the DVD, Disney pats itself on the back for being "able to make something many thought we could not", hence a sequel to the beloved classic. But, did they really create anything other than a rubber stamp of 2 on it?

Looking at the DVD timer, I only showed the movie lasting about an hour. Yeah, an hour. So it's short.

What characters did it have? Basically the following:
1) The expected Bambi (who looks really feminine as opposed to the rival).
2) The rival deer. It was some bully that pestered Bambi throughout the movie, but turned out to be a momma's boy. Remember the first movie where Bambi fights the unknown deer for the female doe? Could be the same one.
3) Thumper was in it. There was about 5 minutes of the same scene with his mother asking what his father told him.
4) Thumpers sisters. Same as the first movie, pestering Thumper.
5) Flower the skunk was in it. Yeah, the skunk still likes the flowers. The funny thing with him was his angry face to make him throw stink.
6) The female doe. She is probably the same as the original movie as well. Similar scenarios occured where the rival deer is fighting to have her attention as the first movie.
7) The grumpy porcupine. Recall the badger in "The Fox and the Hound"? Same character but a porcupine. I mean, really, same character.
8) The owl was in it. A bit younger looking, but he flew in a couple of times.
9) Bambi's father. He was basically the only new character in the whole movie that had much cameo. They posed him as a dad with the wrong priorities. However, he learns the son is the priority.
There may have been a doe or butterfly here, but that's the characters involved.

That's it. Basically there were no creation really involved in it. They used similar, if not exact, scenes from the first movie. Throw in a character from another classic movie and you have it. The storyline was basically the dad deer accepting Bambi as opposed to throwing him off on another doe.

I was personally disappointed but not surprised. Brighton had it right from the previews. The movie was nothing more than a rubber stamp to make more money with no new ideas. No meat at all. Sigh.

Your kids will love it. Not because it's necessary good, but because it's Disney and Bambi.

Then again, it's my own opinion on it.

I found this rather interesting. It appears NBC had attempted to put a show called "The book of Daniel". The show depicted a suppose christian family with serious issues. A dad that is a priest hooked on vicodin, a gay son, and a daughter is dealing marijuana to raise extra cash. Sounds like your regular family, right? I have to say I never watched this nor did I have a desire to. But I did receive the emails and heard others talking about it.

Here comes AFA calling to arms to contact the sponsors. Low and behold action was taken and NBC drops the show due to groups coming against it. The reason for the action to remove this show from christian and conservative groups?

"Conservative Christian groups condemned the depiction of Jesus as blasphemous, accusing the writers of portraying Christ as tolerant of sin in talks with the priest. Seven NBC affiliates refused to air it"

Now since NBC lost the revenue and probably pissed off about it, here comes a segment within Will and Grace. The story of Will and Gracehaving a segment having Brittney Spears as a conservative who hosts on a Christian TV network a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixin's."

Interesting enough, the conservative christian groups catches wind of it and again started to call on the sponsors. Now NBC is trying to say, they didnt know anything about it. Yet, everyone else caught wind of it and even played it on SNL during the weekend update.

Note the conservative christian groups means to show their dislike in a blasephemous view toward their God and Saviour? A simple to call to the sponsors. It had immediate, non-violent action and a impact that stopped the shows.

Now compare that to the muslim response to the caricatures.

It's became so bad that Danish Prime Minister Andres Rasmussen responded today to the
increasing Muslim violence over cartoon caricatures of Muhammad by saying,

We are now facing a growing global crisis. It now is something else than
the drawings... Scary.

Gary Bauer had a piece..."Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is, naturally, blaming Israel. According the Associated Press, Khamenei said, 'The
West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of
Islamic sanctities.' He then went on to declare the cartoons a 'conspiracy by
Zionists who were angry because of the victory of Hamas." For the record,
Hamas’ election victory occurred at the end of January; these cartoons were
first published in September of 2005."

Now, I agree there are a billion muslims and not all of them are going crazy over this. But you have radical islams taking this and attempting to rage their followers and recruiting riots. Unfortunately, it's working. I just don't see any other religion waving swords, decapitating heads, committing suicide bombings other than the the religion of peace.

In short there are many forms of power. I personally would prefer the power of voice, rather than the power of terror.

I am amazed at times to hear how many dads are unwilling to spend time with their kids. The wife had the opportunity to go out for a while last night with some girlfriends. This is rare and I am glad she actually can do it. Nothing like the Vegas commercials (that I am aware of wink wink), but some time away for adult conversation and girlie stuff. So when the girls go out to play, dad's are left home with the kids, right?

I personally enjoy the times alone with the kids. I rented a movie for the 3 of us, planned to play games and kids stuff, have snacks ect. I pulled the office mattress in the living room and made a pallet, ect. You know.

Then I hear what the other dads are doing. Take our friends for one (the ones I watched the kids nearly all bloody week). They had a skate party for their son, going on 5 that same Saturday. I asked the dad, what's the plan for you guys? He went into the spill of cleaning the sons room, putting bunkbeds together, ect. OK.
I then learn later from the wife he and his wife was fighting. Seems he was giving her a guilt trip for going out. He really doesnt like her going out to have fun, so creats projects on the same day of her going out and trys to guilt her in having fun. Hmmm, and what of the kids? I am sure they are in the middle of it. He seems not to like having to watch them.

Then another couple, I learned. Seems a dad simply doesnt know why he has to watch them while the wife is out. So, the grandparents take them.

Evidently another one received some fun time for the trouble of watching the kids.

What's with these dads anyway? Their your kids. God knows time is flying faster than a airplane on crack. I bitch about it enough. So, I say take a chill pill and enjoy what little time you have while they are young. Before long, they will be too old (in their own minds) to play with the parents.

Well that's my gripe for today.

Being up I scanned my daily reading of blogs and see the Islamic world is in an uproar over caricatures (one panel cartoons) within Denmark. Unfortunately, for all their crying they are only bringing more attention to the caricatures. How long will it be before more are produced.

What I thought was really interesting is the radical retaliation they are proposing.

Note attempted kidnappings(seems terrorist enjoy kidnappings), call for boycotting oil. Places are being sacked and graffitied.

"Protests have included street demonstrations, flag burnings, death threats, bomb scares and a crippling consumer boycott of Danish goods by businesses in several Gulf states."

All this and probably more not told over caricatures (cartoons) over the religion of peace. I think of liberals trying to purge United States of any mark of Christiantiy and am curious what would happen if christians retaliated in the same way as these muslims? I don't think it would be tolerated.

Here in America, we recently had an outcry over a caricature depicting wounded soldier in Iraq in the attempts to take a stab at Rumsfield. There was a backlash on the cartoonist but I don't recall anyone attempting the same things these muslims are.

Someone on the radio called for no more caricatures depicting in these ways. The host countered and said that wasn't the answer. His proposal was to allow them to continue to publish whatever they want, but for those wishing not to buy that publication, would be more appropiate. So in a way a boycott on those publications on a individual basis. I guess it's a good thing neither one called for a international day of anger over the sensitive caricatures depicting our troops harmed.


I say, iF you removed everything that offended someone, we wouldn't have anything to look at, much less a severe restriction in freedom of speech.

Does this all seem silly to some? Perhaps. However, don't take this anger in the Muslim world lightly. They will simply use these caricatures as a pretext for revenge.

Recall when the Islamic terrorist cried provocation against America for the Abu Ghraib prison scandals(among other things in the past)? The jihadist were fighting long before Abu Ggraib, Iraq, Israel, or American Independence.

1:30 a.m. local time and I can't sleep. Unreal. This week seems to be a frat party for kids. We had 2 kids over Monday evening, 2 kids (different) over Tuesday evening and night, I think we were spared Wednesday since Kel had to run them all over the place all day. We had 2 kids over last night and I will keep the same two all day Friday. Yeah, the night over on this one was up to me, but my point is we had 4 kids to deal with nearly every day and/or night this week. Kel has her surgery scheduled for next Friday.

Friday's plan. I will have the kids at home with me till around 1-2 p.m. Mine will go to their Nana and Papa's for the night. The 2 friends will be picked up accordingly around the same time, if not earlier. Kel has a lunch thing to go to around 7 p.m. for church. I plan to go to my Dad's for the hour. I haven't seen him in a long time and sit down discussion alone even longer. After that, the wife and I will have actual private time (on-call aside). Can't wait.

I think this week I have been missing adult time. Other than work and politics at home, I haven't really had time to sit down and just talk to other adults. I am looking forward to visiting with my Dad tonight and some quite time with the wife. I will still be on-call, but I look forward to the age bracket above 8 yrs of age.

I bought Avatar the last Airbender today as it came out on DVD this week. I was surprised no local movie rentals had it nor Walmart of all places. I found it at Best Buy and grabbed it. It was actually pretty good. I have seen one or two of the shows on Nickelodean. I watched it last night with the kids.

Not much else, I figured I better blog while I could. I have couple of things I am analyzing and will post them later, since I have put up any new analyzing post in quite some time.

I woke up with a splitting headache this morning. I think it has to do with stress in the political arena. Small town BS that is going down and I can only see it getting worse. We have a couple of teachers trying to put pressure on their peers to convey something they do not believe in.

When I attained School Board, I didn't think I could change the world, but at least make a significant improvement. However, I have and still learn, there is only so much one can do. I pull in all information on any given issue and try to find the means to enhance it to make it better. In this type of arena, information and good analytical discussion is crucial. You have to not only know all the facts avaiible but be able to convey those facts in a way to promote the best interest. Sounds simple, but it really isnt. You can speak to two different individuals on a given topic and each will tell you what they really believe, leaning on their way of thinking. Then when you have someone that is trying to stifle that information, it only makes it more difficult. Some of these individuals are hell bent just to make it harder for those that are only trying to make things better. If one steps back to look at the whole scenario, it becomes pretty obvious. But, some are only caught up on feelings rather than facts.

I seen the link to the Democrats not clapping for our President and I feel really sorry. I feel sorry for the President in the fact the dimwhits are making it harder on him than is required. By their actions based on feelings rather than facts, they are only hurting themselves (making them look like asses) and ultimately hurting this nation. Yes, I agree everyone has the right to convey their disagreement and voice accordingly. However, there is a time and place to do such things. When the world is watching the President of the best Country in the world speak of utilizing tools to our people in order to protect this Nation, it is not time to cut eyes and sit on your hands. Don't they really get it? I have been laughing at the Dems for their outragious behaviour, but I am not laughing anymore. By them sitting there in unsupport, they have shown the world their decision against this President and this Nation. Some may argue, "oh but they clapped for the troops and support them." Their actions speak differently. How can they support the troops without providing them the necessary means of survival against our enemies?

A simliar tactic is being used in our small town politics. We have certain teachers saying they are for the kids, yet their actions speak differently. They have only shown up on meetings when it concerns money in their general account. You see, they can say whatever they want to say. However, their actions show their priorities, whether it's a elected Dem or a simple individual in your small town.

Keep up the good work for those laboring for enhancing your areas.

Stop the ACLU link

Expose the Left has the video

There just not enough freaking hours in the day. I look up and it's already 7:30 p.m. local time. I did get up at 6:30 a.m right? So where's my 12 hours? Geez.

I grabbed the kids early today from school, less than 2 hours. We are watching some friends kids (different friends kids). Yes, another boy and girl. Yes, the girls seem utterly preoccupied in our daughters room with the door shut and the boys changing from PS2 to GameCube. I been stuck in my office doing work and making calls. Unreal.

I should have the whole house to myself tomorrow. The kids are out of school due to the dentist and chiro. The poor wife has to run 4 kids around tomorrow. God help her. She managed to sneak in her bedroom for a little peace time just now.

Get this, our boy woke up just fine and informed his mother, he will for now on not rush his work. So that parenting thing, sticking to your guns might actually work.
: )

Monday was another freaking blitz. Working like crazy. This time I had Skillet on in my office, LOUD, while I was working away. I was really cranking along this morning. I took off for lunch and met Kel at a barbeque place for a quick lunch. She was having a really crappy day and I wanted to at least be with her for a little bit. I also snagged some more Highlander the series on VHS tapes at the library on my way through. It was a nice break and a rare treat to have lunch with her.

I had to grab 4 kids(mine and two more) from school and hit speech. We then hit the house and I fixed spagehtti for the kids and a can of clam chowder for myself. The kids basically wolfed theirs down and went back to gaming and playing. I managed to read 2 pages from the 4th installment of Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series before I was interrupted. Oh well. Kel didnt get in till late that evening. By the time the other two (friends of our kids) were picked up, we barely had time for the kids showers and snacks.

Our son brought some bad grades in this week. So Kel and I had to figure away for some type of punishment for him. We really didnt want to ground him from running around since the week was so hectic with their friends coming over, ect. The kids smart, really smart. He just rushes through his stuff and doesnt really care like his sister of the grades. So we decided to have him go to bed tonight without a movie. The kids always get to watch a movie in bed every night. Oh man, did that hit him. So we found something that really was a detrimental blow. Needless to say, it wasn't pretty. I keep thinking, since it's detrimental, perhaps this will be the thing to have him focus. So our son has cried himself to sleep and our hearts are sagging as well. Shit, it's tough to be a parent sometimes.

I received a small pamphlet in the mail the other day and found some of the articles really interesting. One of them was for the choose life plates for Oklahoma.

I will be talking to the wife on this one. What's cool about this project is $20 bucks goes to a non-profit organization. According to the article, in 2005, a total of approximately $15,000 in the Choose Life Assistance Revolving Fund was distributed among five crises pregnancy centers. Some may say that's not much, but heh in this world every freaking nickle counts.

Some other things to note on this subject(per article). Despite legal challenges from anti-life opponents, it appears that the Choose life Plate Program is finding favor in the courts. In August, U.S. Chief District Judge Claire Eagan in Tulsa dismissed a lawsuit challenging Oklahoma's law, saying the federal court does not have jurisdiction. In 2002, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, dismissed a similar case from Louisiana. Although federal judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Richamond, Va., found South Carolina's Choose Life Program to be unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court later refused to hear the appeal.

Currently 16 states, including Oklahoma, off the special Choose Life Plate. Another 18 states, in addition to South Carolina, are actively involved in the process of creating similiar Choose Life License Plate programs.

I checked out the site and downloaded the application. In addition to the funds going to Choose Life you can actually have your funds deposited in the following accounts. Revolving Fund int ehState Treasury to be used by DHS, AGI the Classroom Education Fund, Child Abuse Prevention Revolving Fund, Choose Life Assistance Program, Attorney Generals's Revolving Fund, County of residence of the person purchasing the plates, Breast Cancer Act Revolving Fund, Okahoma Dept of Career and Tech Education Agriculture Revolving Fund, Heart of the Heartland Scholarship and about 5 more including a Childrens Hosptital Revolving Fund. So there seems to be more out there going for a good cause.

Now, I am not going to get into a discussion of Pro-life and Pro-death (I always thought pro-choice was a stupid synonim for choosing death. Realistically one can choose life of the child or not.). So keep those comments to yourself. I found this article to be for a good cause and wanted to share it. Check out your state to
see if they support Pro-life Plates. I did a quick search and came up with the following links.

Show me if my state has Pro-life Plates

State Pro-life news

Choose Life Store

I hope you found this particular blog of some use and tag it.

The passage below was emailed to me by a friend. I was surprised that I could actually read this and quick at that. Scary man.

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So could you actually read the above?

Man, I am glad it's Friday. A big TGIF. I am counting the hours down now. I was busy busy this morning and looked up to see it was already 12:00, half way there.

Since we now have internet again, stable too boot, I been catching up on the blogs I normally read everday. Mongo I respect your decision on not posting verbatim stuff, but surely you have something to say? I miss the Neil Borz stuff. Cox Cable actually pulled through and did credit us for those inactive days, with no hassle. I couldnt help but hear a continued stream of cable commercials during the outage. I guess they were working hard for the PR.

I already started the fourth book in Robert Jordan Wheel of time series. Man, I am hooked on those. Fortunately for me, the library actually has them.

I am in the process of watching my christmas gift, season 4 dvd set of 24. I had to take a break midway due to the fact, if I started to watch them, I end up staying up half the night finishing at least one cd (4 hours). Unreal, but the show is soooo addicting.

Tonight, we plan to stay indoors with the kids and play games. Tomorrow we have the basketball tournament that will basically last all day. So our Saturday is already shot.

That's it for me. Work, Eat, and little sleep. I try to get in my addiction where I can.

I finally get to stay at home and work within my own walls. It's interesting how the little things, you miss so much. Yeah, fI know over dramatic for my 3 days. However, it was a stark reminder how much we utilize the net.

Things I missed while working in the coffehouse.
1) Able to work with no shoes on. (Silly but true)
2) Able to keep the laundry up. (Yes guys can do laundry)
3) Able to jump on the internet checking my personal email (while in vpn I am unable to get on the internet)
4) The ability to go pee without the worry of losing anything. LOL


I changed the template again. I am now on Book four of Robert Jordans "Wheel of time" series. I am officially hooked.

I find it frustrating on the kids getting around in the mornings. If I wake them, they drag worse than 10 weights on a fish line. If Kel wakes them, they are happy as a lark and around, ready by 7:30 a.m. giving them time to watch t.v.

This morning Kel was up at 4 a.m. again. I was going to wake the kids up around 6:40 and Kel said she would, so they would get around. Frustrated I let her. This time I observed (while not being seen) trying to determine what's the big difference.

I will put my way and kel's way to see if you can tell. I can't see what's the big difference.


My way
I knock on the door and open it gingerly. "Good morning, kids! It's time to get up. Let's roll. Up and atem." I am met with "Dad! I'm tired!".
Then they move like sloths.

Kel's way.
She sneaks in our daughters room first. She barely whispers, "Good morning beutiful girl. It's time to get up. Let's get up and around to show dad your a big girl." It looks like she is lying down with our daughter as she is whispering to her.

She then sneaks into our son's room. Again barely audible at the door. "Good morning my baby boy. Did you have a good nights rest." It looks like some snuggling going on. She then appears to talk some baby gibberish to him and I hear "Lets get around for daddy this morning."


Hmm, I didn't see any money being passed to the kids or promises of chocolate. Could it be a conspiracy?

It wasn't as fun the second day as the first. Sweetbay was much busier and many came looking in the room at my coveted dark corner.

I was still busy as 10 bees during work. I had 2 cups of coffee and then 2 mochas on top to help me along. Kel and I woke up the night before and could not sleep for nearly 2 hours. It was nice to just lay and talk for awhile.

I went home and found we could access one pc to the cable modem, if I renew the IPconfig.

I also received a call that night from Cox (first time they called back) to inform me it was definitely on their servers not at my location. Duh. I was reinsured all days of non-activity would be credited and it should be resolved in 18 hours, as of 7:30 p.m. central time. However, this morning check did not show it working correctly.

I can at least access it by one pc (work pc). This allows me to stay home today.

Our internet is out and no ETA on the resurrection of our beloved pipeline to the outside world.


Kel mentioned last night, I should go to Sweet Bay and work from there. Hmm, that's a hell of an idea. Mocha at my leasure and a new surrounding. The commercial of the poor guy in a chair trying to work while being bombarded by all the people, slightly entered my mine. It's not all that bad actually.

I called Sweet Bay this morning asking if they still had the net problem. They did not. I asked if I could squat there and do some work. The super basically said, yeah sure, we have people here all day at times. Sweet. Dropped the kids and away to the calling Mocha house.

I am squatting in a 'dark' corner in a simple room. A nice cubby hole with the monitor only pointing to me. The shops been slow today (the attendants were commenting to each other outside the room) and it's actually cozy. I think later in the future, I might have to do this again to just change the surroundings. The workers havent even came in here nor bothered me at all. I leasurely drank my Mocha all morning, the wife came over and we had lunch. I cranked out tons of work. Ahh, if it can only be this way everyday.

As far as Cox Cable, they did some kindof conversion Saturday night. We woke up Sunday morning and could not get our net fix. I called for an outage and was told a conversion had taken place, try later. At 3 p.m. central I called back and asked for a status, still no net. I was then told the conversion took longer than expected and it was done an hour ago. OK. I rebooted everything and still no go. It showed connection but no-go on the browser. Hmm. I called back and finally got ahold of someone else. "Yeah, we are showing everything good on our side, but no traffic on the backbone. Seems like your one of those areas still effected. The tech guys are on it and it should be done by midnight (day end)." Thanks buddy. I won't say what the other guy said but to make it short, it wasn't resolved. A 6 a.m. Monday call provided no fruit either, nor a 11 a.m call. The people answering the phones simply are not informed by anyone on the field. One guy ( I spoke to about 8 today) told me at least 20 other calls were in on the same issue in my area. Hence, it's not just us. This was after another one told me it wouldn't be till Thursday till a tech guy was availible. Unacceptable. I pissed and moaned till someone called their super and was then informed a tech would be in our area, if not our house today. Sigh, it sucks the Squeaky wheel gets the first turn.

I grabbed some Mocha today because I wanted to stay up and alert abit tonight. Since I am on support Friday, I took advantage by leaving for lunch today. I was able to drop some papers off here, Fedex there, pick up some items at Walmart and snag me a Mocha from the local coffehouse, SweetBay. Man, I love Mocha's.

I was also able to pull my 10 scattered papers together and compile them onto one page (front and back but regardless one) so I have all my todo's, projects in one location. Nice. This was done while I waited in the vehicle line to grab the kids. I was able to finish it at Speech.

I also updated my detox footbath site. It was sorely needed and past due.

I still have alot to accomplish at work tomorrow, but I feel half organized now at least. It seemed I was losing ground there in all my projects. It's pretty bad, when you have a team meeting givig updates on your projects and the other peers make statements like 'we knew that wasn't all' after your 4-5 project updates. Oh well, someone has to be the boyscout.

Sigh, I am glad tomorrow is Friday.

Hard to believe it's already Wednesday. Well, I finally was able to get the Pocket PC to work. I had to download the newer version for the Pocket PC and install it. Once this was done, it worked like a charm. Now I have wireless internet access through the Pocket PC. I have to say, I am excited. Now once Kel checks it out, I am sure she will want one. I have already read where some are utilizing Skype with their wireless pocket pc's. This would give you free internet calls via through your pocket pc. But that is another test/project for later.

I had a few minutes today (for once anymore) during work. So I was able to get the house picked up, vacummed, and the clothes, dishes caught up. Not to mention getting in touch with Dell and fixing the pocket pc issue.

I also let the dogs in after I picked everything up and vacuumed. The old lady, phoebe, didn't even want to come in. I guess she thought it was bath-time. Oh well, I wasn't in the mood to chase her down. The other two (party poodle and half chiahu/half something else) came in with excitement. After checking every room and inch of the carpet for something to eat they have settled down in the office with me.

Already 2 p.m. est. Need to get the kids in less than 2 hours from school. The plan this evening is too hit speech, library, fedex, toys r us, and grabbing them somethign to eat on the way back home. Kel will be late getting home today, so its just me and the kids.

I also put a WEP on our wireless router. It now requires you to put a password key to login. I wonder how long before Kel will say, what is this and why do I need to login for? LOL

This week at work was pretty much stress and High Octane. I played School Board member pretty much all day Monday with a very stressfull School Board Meeting Monday night. Fortunately for me, the expected fight and confrotation was met. However, the stress was still there, only deviated to another source. Sorry, can't be specific, but take my word for it, it was stressfull. After I came home, I had to have a drink, the hard kind.

All week, I been busting my butt in trying to get organized for work. This year we seem to be moving faster already with more and more projects piled our way. I have been informed the "other members" of our group cannot handle any other applications, and rarely anymore projects. I have been blessed with the ability to multitask (at work, the wife can't believe it) and my supervisor is utilizing it in every way.

So on Friday 5 minutes after my regular shift, I am completing my final touches on 3 projects, updating my weekly report and ready to get the hell out of here.

I acquired a new toy this week. My Palm PDA bit the big one awhile back. I have been maintaining my contacts, calendar through my PC, but the Palm simply would not turn on. I can't really complain due to the fact I had it for a couple of years and from what I read online that is do-able. Needless to say, any choice I made on a new one, would be an extreme upgrade. I went with a Del Axim V30 Pocket PC. I did the normal search and read the reviews. It's not the newest on the market, but was highly reviewed. I have to say, it looks pretty sweet (son's favorite new word). Unfortunately, I am manually transferring all my contacts, ect over to it. This will require alot of boring, time consuming evenings. However, the Axim comes with wireless and bluetooth capabilities. I have yet to get the crazy thing to pick up our home wireless router, but last night on our outing, I did get it to connect at a coffee shop. I know at least it does work. If I can get it to work at home, I am pretty sure my wife will beg for one as well. There are more freeware applications out there for a Pocket PC (9 out of 10) than a Palm. I shouldn't be bored anytime soon.

I was pleased to hear back from the office of the Arkansas Governor. However, I wasn't really pleased with the actual reply. I will like it below. Basically it sounds like 'we are looking into proposals with our task force' but they negate the actual current legislation in place for sex crimes. I sent another letter back replying to the letter. I will see what they say on it.

I would submit to all reading this particular post to contact Senator Blanche Lincoln, Senator Mark Pryor and Governor Huckabee expressing your view on this important issue. As in most Legislative offices, it helps more if you are a constituent within the same state.

Mark Pryor

The River Market

500 Clinton Ave

Suite 401

Little Rock, AR 72201

Phone: (501) 324-6336

Fax: (501) 324-5320

Blanche Lincoln

Little Rock Office

912 West Fourth Street

Little Rock, AR 72201

Phone: (501) 375-2993

Fax: (501) 375-7064

Governor Mike Huckabee

Governor's Office

State Capitol Rm 250
Little Rock
Arkansas 72201

Here is the response I received from Arkansas Governor's office, by John Brackin.

Here is my response to this letter above.

I haven't blogged in awhile due to it being consistently busy. We had our first game of Basketball with the kids last Saturday. I felt proud for our teams we been working on. Personally, I think they did well. Now our practices will only be on Tuesday nights till the tournament. This will at least free up our Thursday nights.

Of all the letters I sent out to our Representives and Governers, only one has replied thus far. Governer Brad Henry;s office (Nicholas Atwood, Agency Liaison and Public Policy Specialist) replied quickly informing me "on May 17, 2005, Govener Henry signed into law Senate Bill 631, also known as the "Jessica Lunsford Act".

I at least know the actual Senate bill for the Jessica Lunsford Act. I will post his response, excluding my name and address below. Now if I can get Arkansas to kindly reply, that would be good.

I seen on the last 2 episodes of the Oreilly Factor a major spotlight has been put on Judge Cashman from Vermont. I thought Orielly would had come through the screen and beat the Criminal Defendant and speaker for Massachesets bar association. Personally I think it's the bloggers that put the new lights on these dark actions. The media is just picking it up from the electronic outcry. I also sent a letter to Judge Cashman with the address I found, I doubt if I get a reply from him or his staff.

Can anyone believe the Sam Alito hearings? I am recording them off of C-span radio and what little I hear, seems to be the same spill Judge Roberts went through. I think they clocked one Senator rambling 12 minutes without a single question. The poor dumb liberal Senators can't help themselves. Do they not realize it continues to put a bad light on themselves? I guess it boils down to the fact, the liberal mindset is to take advantage of its own ideology. They know their liberal ideology can only be met by force at the bench (the American public will simply not go for it) by those creating laws and legislations as opposed to correctly interpretating those laws and legislations. By placing non-liberal ideologist that will not push their beliefs on the powers given to them, the liberal groups lose.


Here is that quick reply by Governer Brad Henry's office.

I had to post my thought on this idiotic choice by a Vermont Judge. Thanks to Scott for pointing this out.

A Judge Edward J. Cashman put a sex offender, Mark Hulett-age 34,in 'recovery' for raping a child many many times in a four year span. The girls horror started at age 7. Why would this Judge not put this child rapist in jail?

"..Judge Cashman explained that he is more concerned that Hulett receive sex offender
treatment as rehabilitation."

Is he serious? This is the same garbage Arkansas is trying to regurgitate in their child sex crimes. They are more interested in the why as opposed to stopping those that do it.

I'm personally fed up with our undeserving Judges and Politicians spewing this type of crap and ideology. I swear, if I had the time, I would create a dedicated website to post everyone of these individuals. I am sure the database would require a server it itself, but at least a light would be placed on these types of Judicial actions.

Way to go Scott on pointing a light on this guy.

Below is the bio and contact info for this Judge. I plan to send a letter to the office on this one.

Address:
Honorable Edward J. Cashman

Addison District Court

7 Mahady Court

Middlebury, Vermont 05753

Judge Edward J. Cashman's Bio from Judgicial Bios 2003.

Edward J. Cashman of Essex, Chittenden County. Appointed District Judge by
Richard Snelling in January of 1982. He has served as a trial judge in ten of
Vermont’s fourteen counties over the years. He is a graduate of Boston College
(1965) and the Washington College of Law (1968). He served with the U.S. Army
including a tour of duty in Vietnam (1969-1971). He married Gail Sylvester formerly
of Saint Albans in 1966. She worked as an emergency room nurse at Fanny Allen
Hospital for 25 years They have three children: Jeffrey, a pilot with Vermont
National Guard, Michael, a law student and faculty member at the University of
South Carolina, and Brooke, a graduate student at The American University in
Washington, D.C. Judge Cashman has served as an Assistant Attorney General for
the State of Vermont (1971-72); Chittenden County Clerk (1973-75), Commissioner
of Public Service (1975-1978), Grand Isle County State’s Attorney (1978-1982). He
has also held local government positions with the Village and Town of Essex as
Planning Commission member and Town Agent. He maintained a private practice of
law for ten years. Judge Cashman taught courses at the University of Vermont and
Johnson State College in Environmental Law and the Law of Zoning and Planning.
He presently teaches a course at Johnson State College in Constitutional Law. He
has taught at the National Judicial College on the topic of Restorative Justice and
Community Based Court Systems. He has held positions with the Vermont Dismas
House Board of Directors, the Saint Lawrence Parish Council and the Knights of
Columbus. He is a past president of the Vermont Trial Judges Association and the
Chittenden County Bar Association. He is a member of the Franklin County,
Chittenden County and Vermont Bar Associations. He serves on the Civil Rules
Advisory Committee. His mailing address is 29 Lamoille Street, Essex Junction
05452. E-mail is Ejc29@aol.com or cashman@chitdis.crt.state.vt.us.

Last week I had the opportunity to go alone with our daughter to basketball practice. On our way back home, we had the chance to chat. I love talking with my kids on a personal basis. Probably, because I didn't get much of it when I was a kid. However, the conversation was not as I expected, as the kids are always surprising me. Here was the short conversation. Keep in mind she is in 2nd grade.

Daughter: Dad, have you ever been in jail?

Me: (paused) No.

Daughter: Do you think I will go to jail when I am as old as you are? I don't mean to say your old.

Me: No, that is ok. I hope you wouldn't go to jail. Why would you think you would go to jail? (I was a bit surprised and had no clue where this was heading)

Daughter: Well, (slight pause) Dillon is my boyfriend and he's a bit wild. We were playing cars and he is always fast. I think he will be trouble later on and get a ticket going to jail.(She was so serious)

Me: Well, if you think he will be trouble, why would you marry him in the first place? (I think I made a 'he's an idiot' remark)

Daughter: Dad, (rolling her eyes she learned so well from her mother) we were only playing and I am still in school. (you see she first talks so seriously and when I return in kind, she goes to the 'Im a kid, duh' stance)

Daughter: (oh yeah, she goes on)And another thing Dad, A) you wont talk about my boyfriend that way. B)blah blah C)blah blah (I cant recall the list)

Me:Are you done? (with a tint of aggravation)

Daughter: and D) I love you?

Me: OK. A) I love you too and B) if your boyfriends an idiot I will tell you and him.

Fortunately we arrived home at after that.

My wife was better at the resolutions for the New Year than I already. We did our devotions with the kids last night starting the New Year off right. It really didn't take long at all and I sat there wondering why we haven't kept them from last year.

I wasn't going to post my personal resolutions, however, I guess if I did, I would then be more inclined to uphold them. Gotta love the accountability.

1) As Kel said, I want to be more active and tone up. She purchased a cool weight scale. The crazy thing actually shows body fat. I don't have any idea how it does it. 4 buttons allows you to put up to 4 individual weights, goals and progress of body fat loss (or gain). We have our's programmed in and I am scheduling myself to lose 20 pounds. Will it happen? Who knows. I plan to not get crazy, rather take it slow.

2) Take things slower. I have a tendency to jump in with both guns blazing when I want something or feel the need to do it. This year, I plan to actually plan out a progressive, realistic goals as opposed to just doing it within a week and then give it up.

3) Be more of an advocate for the healthy body. This will mean me being more active as well as pushing the whole family in a supportive way to be more active. I want to keep eating more healthy and push more for vitamens, holistic approaches ect. This may be aligned with my number one. I see number one as more physical, whereas number 3 will be more mental. I also plan to see if I can really make something out of the selling the detox foot baths.

4) Be more organized. This will please my wife greatly. I want to utilize as much time. I am already 1/2 way through my life cycle here on Earth and I want to use the remaing time as best I can.

5) Devote my time to my family and my God. I can't save the world nor our small town. I can only do that which I am limited to do. I need to accept that and more importantly act upon it. I plan to spend more quality time with the family and do more of personal devotion to God. Going to church is not the same as a personal devotion to God and I plan to not only utilize my remaing time here, but put it where it counts the most.

Well, there you go. I hope I do all the above, and maybe more. Those 5 things are on top of my mind as we enter into year 2006.