Middle America's Worldview

It seems no sleeping in for me for the weekend. I was awakened Saturday by work (the continued on-call luck) to a non-issue. Since I was up early anyway, I decided it would be best for me to grab my supplies for a home project. We had the A.C. fixed Friday night. It appears we were 2 lbs shy of freon. Fortunately, and blessedly, we have cool air again. I knew it was too hot in this bloody house. In the continued interest of keeping the 3 mutts (dogs) off the A.C. unit outside, I wanted to build a wall around it.

I ran to Lowes for the supplies, it took a bit to find the necessary items. To make things simple, for a simpleton like me, I grabbed some 2x4's, nails and some lattice work. The idea would be to keep it simple, but efficient.

Since, I was to go out, prior of the kids waking up, how about grabbing some donuts, and that pool we been talking about. This is my wife suggesting a more efficient run for me.

I grabbed the stuff at Lowes and managed to fit the 4x8 lattice work in and 2x4's within our van. I would be bopped in the back of the head but oh well.

I then proceeded to Walmart on Rogers street. No pool. I then went to the one on Zero street. Yes, as unreal as it seems, this area can support 2 super center Walmarts and 2 smaller ones. I had a girl find the requested pool. As usual it was someone not within the dept area and the items were located somewhere else. It was by hardware none-the-less. So I am looking at this behemoth of a box, thinking, ok, it will surely fit with all the other wood in there.

The nice lady found me a cart in order for us to roll or push it onto, as opposed to lifting it on the regular shopping cart. Since she was so nice, I decided to do the most of the lifting and pushing onto the metal cart. There went one nut, busted. But I restrained the grimace, a bit.

I proceeded up to the counter where everyone was 4-5 people lined back. I readily found the old lady cash registar with the equally old lady counting her pennies for her supplies. Once I finally was able to pay out, I was asked if I needed assistance. Looking at the "2 man lift" on the box that reached my head, I replied "Yes, please". I waited for about 10 minutes before the group of guys about 6 feet away was done drawing straws.

The poor loser of the straw drawing followed me out to the van. After, I removed the lattice and boards, we began to put the item in the back of the van. Yes, I removed the back seat before leaving the house. Rather than lifting it, he simple began pushing it over into the van. After some muscle and the second nut (mine) busted, it was in. We nimbly dodged the metal cart from hitting us as it flipped during our course of action.

The kid then took the cart and ran off. I replaced the wood and climbed in. The lattice found its way closer to the back of my head. I then had to find the donut shop on the way home. This was accomplished readily enough as it was close to the store.

After grabbing a box of donuts, I proceeded home. I had a good view of the sky as the backend raised the front pretty good. If it was Herbie the love bug, I am sure the sentence from him would be "Get that fat bit** off my end." But it wasn't, so I just imagined it as I proceed home.

I made it there with the axle still surviving.

I have to say at this point, I was able to get my project done yesterday, but the pool box remains in the van.

I hadn't seen these before, so I thought I would share them. The Email title was "Pictures to horrible for the Media"
Hopefully, they will not eat up the bandwidth. The email asked to share and pass on.
Happy Good Friday to everyone and continue to pray for the troops, our leaders , those that are lost, and this Nation!

I actually was able to acquire some sleep the last two nights. I only received a call around 9:30 p.m. and again 6 a.m. for Wednesday and no calls last night from work.

Yesterday I managed to get most of our yard mowed as well as all of the neighbors yard. With the new lawnmower we purchased last year, it doesn't take long.

In addition to fixing the garbage disposal last week, I think (hope) I fixed the air conditioner last night. These are considered great accomplishments, as I am not mechanically inclined. Mr. fix it, I am not.

I heard on the radio yesterday, I am unable to find the reference, stating Maryland has or is attempting to pass a "No Gossip" ban. I cannot personally see how this could be enforced, to what extent. It appears it is oral and in public. Crazy.

Arksansas Governor, signed into law no smoking in all buildings across the state. Many are up in arms on this, as it effects everybody. If that isn't bad enough for smokers, evidently it also contains the inability for someone to smoke in ones car if a 5 yr old or younger is in the car with the smoker. Excessive?

Rough day, Tuesday. It almost seemed like an additional Monday in play. However, Monday wasn't this bad. As you know by my whining, I am on-call this week. I was called nearly 5 times Monday night alone for network issues (nothing I personally can do for them) within 3 facilites. This all occured around 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.
This was proceeded by another stressfull school board meeting. It appears, they wish to remove the parents input, that they have had in place for 4 plus years, called teacher request. The elementary school is growing, and it's become cumbersome to have half the student body doing request. Because realistically, you just cannot make everyone happy. I and another member, of 5, raised our concerns because the admin wanted to immediately do away with the tradition without first informing the public. Our school isn't really key on PR and this would not help the district itself. Plus the fact, I personally asked the Super to have this on our agenda in the beginning of the school year and again middle of the school year for the primary reason of not wanting to wait till the last minute, while 100 plus parents have already turned in their teacher request for next year. So, I and another member stopped the truck from running and probably pissed off Admin. We spoke more of this one topic then it took to discuss the full nights meeting.

I then wake up 6 a.m. Tuesday morning to find the internet is out. I of course do the routine. Unplug the modem, router, reboot the pc, ect. I went to the extent of /renew and /refresh the ipconfigure in my machine trying in vain to call that net service. I resorted to call Cox cable and reported the fact no internet service. After 3 calls into them, I was informed "yeah, I don't even see your modem online" Nice.

Running the kids to school, I called my boss lady informing her of my sitch. I hit the coffeehouse and plug in. At least I was able to acquire my all time favorite coffe drink, the Mocha Grande. Caught up on my email, and worked on some issues till about 11 a.m. and boom. I lost internet. I asked the guy up front if they could determine if they lost internet, other than me not able to get crap. "No man, that happens at times, it must be Cox" Nice.

Kel called shortly after that to inform me of the ultimate information regarding Beka. She has been dropping hints of her interest for the last 3 months now, which I have as far successfully ignored. Since, I didnt have net access anyway, I updated my bosslady, driving to the seminar and was indoctrinated with a new (new means to me) way of education. In my area homeschooling isn't really mainstream. But, it appears in my last 3 years, I have been introduced to many things outside of my realm of prior knowledge. So, I take it in stride and simple listen and ask questions. Initially I have had serious reservations when the discussion was brought up, for a number of reasons. However, from what I am currently seeing, getting flak and educating those not aware of it aside, it is looking interesting.

So I find myself up again tonight around 2 a.m. est after work does a server upgrade. I am not informed by my company (thats too much to aske for), rather by the vendor the upgrade is complete. Oh well.

It allowed me to return some replies in other blogs and update everyone that comes across this blog.

This morning, I personally didn't want to get up. I didn't have any meetings scheduled at work for a change, but I knew once I get out of bed, the week would officially have started.

This is our view for this week.

Monday: The kids have their first of 3 day testing. Kel has (hopefully) the last of the PTA yearbook to be put in order. I hate to tell her, but some teacher had dumped two additional disposable camera's to be printed late. I have a school board meeting tonight.

Tuesday: The kids have their 2nd day of testing at school. Kel is going to a seminar for at home school this night. I have a 2 a.m. conference call I have to attend this night for work. Yes, a scheduled 2 a.m. call.

Wednesday: The kids have their 3rd day of testing at school. I don't think we have anything scheduled this night.

Thursday: The kids last day of school this week. The lucky dogs have Friday off again.

Friday: Kel plans to have some quality time in with the kids.

I like writing these down, it doesn't look so bad once their on paper. I am on-call this week as well. Hopefully, it will be a quite week regarding that aspect.

Having read in the newspapers, viewing it on tv, I find it increasingly disturbing on the PC front. Schools unwilling to allow the red, white and blue to be displayed on their chlothes as opposed to simply saying no to the mexican flags. Yes, I understand they want consistency by stating none for all as opposed to be viewed as bias by saying none to all but...

Being a school board member, living in a glass house, I am seeing parts of this similar thinking being expressed as well. Your in a public office and viewed to represent the state. It doesn't matter your not officially a public servant only on the public meetings, rather your always viewed as such. Thus, if someone wanted to split hairs, they can complain if you express one sided ideology or religion, ect. Some have the view if your part of a public body, you need to be transparent and "non-bias" on all accounts or subject matters. So you have individuals that have been appointed on their merits and character being requested to change their ideology and worldview once that office is attained, in the name of being fair. PC hit again. It's like rust buidup that is spreading down the pipes of our society. Unfortunately, it has taken over so much, I don't think anything can really stop it at this point.

I have started reading a interesting book titled, "Witchcraft goes mainstream". I only recently started it. I found it at Grapevine Mill Mall within the Bible outlet store. So far it looks to be a good book. The author has studied paganism within America since the 60's forward. From what I read of the book so far, it touches on how paganism has moved in our American culture like a steady moving turtle. Slow, but non-stopping. Then in the 90's after hollywood brought out a new hippier view of witches, the young culture took it on as a fad. Now, this younger generation has grown, married, and teaching their views on their own children. The author states, once a small group using the anti-christian view for rebellery has now become a adopted religion of itself.

He points out something else, that is chilling to me. These new religions from the 60's, 70'2, on onward have one common thread among them. They are all ant-Christ. Meaning, each of them (whether pagan, non-deity, deity, heretic, witchcraft, aethist)does have one commonality among them. That commonality is the rejection in the belief of Jesus Christ as their personal saviour. It appears not only has this common thread been found among them, they are being pulled together for a cause because of it. It appears the old term "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" comes home in this commonality within the anti-christian worldviews.

I checked online and continue to find startling facts regarding in who excactly does believe in God.

A new survey by Harris Interactive of 2,306 adults that shows belief in God varies quite widely among different segments of the American public.

Guess who does not believe it God? Ten percent of Protestants, 21 percent of Roman Catholics, and 52 percent of Jews do NOT believe in God.

Who believes in God? While 79 percent of Americans believe there is a God, only 66 percent are absolutely certain of it. Nine percent do not believe in God and 12 percent aren't sure. And weirdly, not everyone who calls himself or herself a Christian or a Jew actually believes in God.

Who worships at a religious service?Just over half (55 percent) attend a religious service a few times a year or more. Thirty-six percent attend once a month or more often, and just 26 percent say they attend every week. Forty-one percent of women and 31 percent of men attend once a month or more. Protestants (47 percent) are more likely to go to church once a month or more often than are Roman Catholics (35 percent). Jews are least likely to go with 16 percent saying they go to synagogue once a month or more. Church attendance is highest in the Midwest and lowest in the West.

Belief in God by geography and ageEighty-two percent of Midwesterners and Southerners believe in God, compared with 75 percent in the East and West. Our beliefs get stronger as we age. Of those 25 to 29 years old, 71 percent believe in God. That number jumps to 80 percent for people over 40, and hits 83 percent for those 65 and over.

Other fascinating facts about who believes in God:

• 84 percent of women believe in God, compared with 73 percent of men.
  
• 91 percent of African Americans believe in God, compared with 81 percent of Hispanics and 78 percent of whites.
  
• 87 percent of Republicans believe in God, compared with 78 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of Independents.
  
• 82 percent of those with no college education believe in God, compared with 73 percent who went to college.
  

I didn't find a date on when the poll was taken but it does give a brief view on where we stand. I would personally be curious on the grounds of what their belief in God really is as well. Given this information, the pollsters may only believe in a God as opposed to the specific JudeoChristian God. That in itself could be significant and dropping the percentage even further on those actually believing Jesus Christ as a personal saviour.

As we continue to see the assault on redifining the definition for separation of church and state, removing any article of religious value, inability to publically announce ones faith, or pushing for the fear of speaking of faith in the work force, I find myself becoming more and more a minority.

Talk about a double standard. Check out this article on Stop the ACLU that I get to read on my arrival home.


At least here was some good news for those believing in traditional marriage.....
A Surprising Win This week (now last week), the Massachusetts Supreme Court declined to allow out-of-state homosexual couples to get "married" in Massachusetts. The decision avoids the spectacle of lawsuits all over the nation challenging the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which gave states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex "marriages" performed in other states. This is a surprising
victory in one state court for which we are thankful, but we must continue
our efforts to protect normal marriage everywhere!

Gee, I see San Francisco liberal mania continues.....San Francisco Tolerance?
San Francisco has portrayed itself as a city built first and foremost on "tolerance." This is the place whose mayor "married" same-sex couples in
defiance of state law and whose most high profile community event is the
annual "gay pride march" where public nudity is common. But,lately, the
"city on the bay" has made it clear that its tolerance has limits.

Last year, the city council voted 8-to-3 to reject the mooring of the
historic battleship, the USS Iowa, in San Francisco. Why? Because the
city council opposes the war in Iraq and doesn’t like the Pentagon policy
that prohibits open homosexuality in the military. Even liberal Senator
Dianne Feinstein was shocked and called the council’s action "a very petty
decision."

But the supervisors were just getting warmed up. They unanimously passed a
resolution last week attacking the Catholic Church because of its opposition to homosexual adoption. The board called the Church's teaching that children should be placed with mothers and fathers,"hateful and discriminatory" and said the teaching "shows…insensitivity and ignorance."

This weekend it was evangelicals' turn to get pummeled by San Francisco's Government. More that 25,000 evangelical youth held a two-day rally sponsored by a wonderful group called Teen Mania, run by Ron Luce. The purpose of the rally was to inspire Christian teens to resist the "siren song" of our popular culture with its constant emphasis on sex,drugs, etc.
Sounds like the sort of thing most cities would welcome, but not the radicals who control San Francisco. Once again the supervisors passed a resolution condemning the rally as "an act of provocation."
Protestors called the event a "fascist mega-pep rally," and a state assemblyman said
the Christian kids were "loud, they’re obnoxious, they're disgusting and they should get out of San Francisco."

So, San Francisco has found the limits of its tolerance. Same-sex "marriage," homosexual adoption, abortion-on-demand, and public celebration of decadence are okay, but the U.S. military, Catholics and evangelicals are beyond the pale. You will recall that the leader of the House Democrats is Rep. Nancy Pelosi who is from San Francisco. She hasn’t said much about the "thought police" who run the city. Perhaps the House leadership ought to offer a few resolutions of its own
condemning the San Francisco supervisors and see how she votes!

Crazy month in general. As most probably noticed, I haven't had time to post worth a flip. I had a few things I wanted to write out, but simply haven't had the chance to do it.

Today is my Friday. We plan to leave by 4 a.m. local time tomorrow and heads to Cantun, Texas! I will let you know how unnaturally hard this trips seem to be. It's primarily a means to get away from everything. We have been planning on this since the beginning of the year. The place is basically a huge open yard sale with shops and sellers. We have been planning to go with Kel's parents, her aunt and our friends (said friends with the 2 kids that hang over here all the time). As I write this, both of our vehicles are in a shop. One is having a transmission dropped to be repaired and the other is being checked out for a knocking sound under the dash. Fortunately, it was already pre-planned to drive Kel's van. We were to pick up the friends at 4 a.m. and meet her parents, aunt at another location around 4:30 a.m.. Then the caravan was heading west.

Let's just say the issues didn't hit our cars, but the friends bills hit wrong and their fridge just went out today. Kel's parents also seem to have similiar issues. Kel wonders if God is saying to stay home. It's only been barely 6 weeks since Kel's postop as well. Kel and I already plan on leaving irregardless if everyone else bails on us. We simply need to get away for awhile.

It's Sunday already. We had our final yardsale on Friday again. Kel had to be at work early that morning. I took the kids to school and then came back, setup the thing. Kel's dad helped pull the remaining stuff out. We were actually able to keep everything on tables, as opposed to the last one. The wind was blowing like crazy and it simply cut right through you. Irregardless, people still came. I worked and then would step outside to check on things. Our friends came over to run it this time, since Kel and I had to work that day. Now, if I can just get the remaining stuff out of our garage, it will be good.

I have to say, Friday night was great. It was nice to simply get away with my wife on a date out. It's very rare we get to actually go out to a nice place alone. I love the kids and truly enjoy spending quality time with them. However, I personally needed some time out with my wife. We went to a Japanese place called Shoguns. It reminds me of Kabukees in Amarillo. You get to watch the cooks literally cook everything in front of you as they perform with the fast filleting knives and create fire volcanoes from the mounds of onions.

Saturday morning, we went over to Kel's parents to pick up the kids. I took over our Foot Bath and Miracle Foot Massager to use on them. It was the first time Kel's mom and aunt had one. It was pretty nasty, but not as much as I expected. Her Aunts was the worst of the two. We enjoyed the company and had lunch with them.

That evening we watched the movie Dreamer. It was a really good family movie. I would recommend it. We did our own footbaths while we watched the movie. We also had found two new gamecube games for the kids while we were out Friday. So they also enjoyed playing their new surprises. Yes, I had to try out one of them as well.

This morning, we are enjoying some quite time, before getting ready for Church.

Next week, we are already looking at a busy week. Monday night, more moms are coming over to work on the PTA yearbook. Tuesday night, I have a 3 hour school board conference. Wednesday night, so far nothing. Thursday night, we will have to be prepared for our 4 a.m. Friday morning leave to Cantun!

So where did this month go? As I lay in my bed at 3 a.m. contemplating on getting up, I could not help but wonder, 'wow, already end of the week, already end of the month'. It continues to amaze me the time continues to fly.

I don't know about any other families, but it seems ours continue to be on a fast-trac. I guess this is why time freaking flies. This week, a group of moms came over one night to start the PTA yearbook. We have another yard sale scheduled tomorrow and Kel plans to take the kids to see the airforce show. Our son's speech lessons has lessened to 3 times a week, but that still takes our time to run to those after school. Compounding this, I am trying to really get my new Get Rid of Toxins website out as well as the Gary Buckles website. Next week, we are already looking at a three hour special School Board one night, kel has a dentist appointment, another group meeting to work on PTA yearbook again, the 3 speech days. In addition, we are all taking off next Friday to go to Cantun, Texas. I am really looking forward to next weekends run. We will get a chance to escape awhile.

Regarding PTA, our time is nearing its end. I wasn't able to attend the last meeting due to our daughter having a bad earache. However, from what I hear, it was pretty comical. 25 teachers showed up along with maybe 5 parents. The majority motioned and ruled for the next meeting to be at 3:30, right after school. Coincidently (not really), next meeting will choose the next set of officers. A nominee committe was chosen as well. Again, it appears they quickly chose 2 teachers, until another teacher stated a parent really needs to be on this nominee. It has been quite obvious we have 3-4 teachers doing a takeover on the PTA. The sad thing is, at this point no or very few parents want's anything to do with PTA. Oklahoma PTA left a bad taste in most parents mouth, and the 3-4 teachers have found a new compassion to be involved. Oh well. I will again contact Oklahoma PTA to do a follow-up today. At this point, the current officers are creating a nice package to give the new officers. Everything done the past 2 years are out in the open for all to see. I will be interested in seeing how next years PTA will do. I am very concerned with the impact this will be on the kids, as they should be the focus point.

I have been able to listen to a bit of the news this week. Seems like the radical left wingers are getting more radical. Hillary Clinton has made another 'I don't know' comment on the fact that her husband is working to push the Dubai port deal, while she screams it's wrong on the Senate floor. Just this morning, I hear she attempted to speak scripture referrencing what Jesus would do, regarding some bill against immigrants. Is there really anyone, able to make breath show up on a window pane, that believes or supports Hillary Clinton at this point anymore?

Also, what's the deal with these child molesters getting off in courts and calling their choices a disease?

Oklahoma, along with other states, was in a bad need for some rain. It has been basically raining since Friday night. Don't get me wrong, I like it. For the first day of spring, the degrees down to 50's, with possible sleet and snow tomorrow.

Candles contain toxic ingredients including lead wicks that create dangerous air quality

My family and I have started to use candle warmers about a month ago. These allow you to heat the actual wax rather than burn the wicks within the candle themselves.

Ours look something like this.....



Kel pointed out the smoke, ect and before I ran across this article. I happen to be looking up some information regarding toxins and found it.

So for those still burning candles, it's something to think about. One thing we noticed is the glad candles seem to do better than most. But even after awhile, the wax remains but the scent drops dramatically after awhile. Which makes sense if you think about it. The scented oil evaporates over time.

I just wanted to share this.

Man, what a week! Can I get a H3LL yeah. We had a yardsale that went totally crazy. I personally didn't think it would be much considering it's Friday. We originally was going to have it next week. But since we had 8 families that was kind enough to fill our garage with their stuff, we decided to have it early.

I was very surprised as people kept coming in droves. I had not realized so many people were off Fridays. I would go out and check on Kel and there would be at least 3-5 people out there rummaging around. Fortunately over 1/2 of the crap was sold. It went very well. Our kids were selling soda and water part of the day and actually made 13 bucks. They were selling them 25 cents for the soda and 50 cents for water, if that gives you an idea of how many they sold.

It was a very nice day today. Tonight it's suppose to be 60 percent chance of rain and 80 percent for all day tommorrow and Sunday. So a soggy weekend.

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.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof

Sounds like mostly dealing with war, money and taxes to me. So with the exception of the above, everything else should be ruled by the States, not the government. But, that is not what is occuring. How many Federal (not state) judges in the past has ruled against what the people of the states desire? Can anyone recall land taking away from citizens for enterprises, same sex marriage, to name a couple?

These decisions are being made against the states or the people. Totally against the Tenth Amendment. My question is why haven't there been an outcry using the Tenth Amendment as a justification against these rulings?

So it boils down to the States needing to retake control by feeding or restricting the power to the federal government rather than the other way around. I guess it boils down to education.

"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."

The Tenth Amendment clearly states the States or People have the power to delegate legislation. A black robe federal judge, or a district court appointee does not have the rule of land.

Thomas E. Woods said it best in the book. "If the Tenth Amendment were still taking seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it."

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

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