Middle America's Worldview

Man, the show was cool. Looks like this season will be the season of drawing the lines. Everyone seems to be making a choice on whom to stand by.

Can't wait to see next weeks episode of Johnny's accident. Also looks like the blonde chick is in it for awhile on the season. She will be Johnnys new babe. I am also glad to see Walt taking a stand on Sarah, make a decision. Too bad the kids in the middle.

For those not watching the show, you missing out. Looks like this season the plots are a bit more complicated and that, too me, is good.

Another factually intersting email I received.
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BBBSA's Inclusion of Homosexuals Causes Insurance Woes

By AFA Journal
June 10, 2004

(AgapePress) - One of the nation's largest mentoring organizations is
discovering that some of its chapters are having trouble getting liability
insurance because they allow homosexuals to be mentors for kids.

According to Family News in Focus, several chapters of Big Brothers Big
Sisters of America (BBBSA) may be forced to shut down because insurance
companies are charging higher premiums or even refusing to write policies
because of the "gay" mentors.

In 2002, BBBSA began requiring its chapters to allow open homosexuals to
serve as mentors for children participating in its programs. That policy --
especially in light of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal -- has led to
a hesitancy on the part of some insurers to do business as usual with BBBSA..

Joan McPheron, a director for one BBBSA chapter, told Family News, "Of
course, bottom line, the homosexual issue does come into play. Because we're
working with kids ... we're dealing with possible abuse issues. [Insurers]
recommend at least a million dollars to two million dollars coverage."

Rob Paris, who is a risk management specialist, said, "When you put a child
with a known homosexual as a mentor, that would be [an additional] risk
factor that the insurance company would take into consideration."

Paris said some insurance companies will not insure the chapters at any
price because of the homosexual factor.

This article appeared in the June 2004 issue of AFA Journal, a monthly
publication of the American Family Association.
© 2004 AgapePress all rights reserved.

For Agape Press info. contact
editor@agapepress.org

I received this via email and found it interesting. So I thought to post in my blog.

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Gay And Lesbian Medical Association Lists Homosexual Ailments
Date: Thursday, August 08 @ 20:42:30 CDT
Topic: Diseases

The Gay And Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) has just published a list of diseases and social pathologies that afflict those who engage in homosexual conduct.

According to the Gay And Lesbian Medical Association, men and women who engage in homosexual behaviors are at greater risk of a series of diseases and mental problems than are heterosexuals. These risks include: HIV/AIDS; substance abuse; depression/anxiety; STDs; prostate/testicular/colon cancer; alcohol and tobacco abuse; gynecological cancer; domestic violence; heart problems; osteoporosis; breast cancer and more.

Instead of discouraging these behaviors, however, the GLMA simply encourages health care providers to be aware of these diseases, addictions, and mental health problems.

If your school is pushing the homosexual agenda, school officials may wish to read about the dangerous health consequences of promoting sodomy among teenagers. GLMA has published reports on homosexual males and females. To access this information, go to: http://www.glma.org.

Read TVC's Special Report on homosexual diseases

This article comes from Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org

The URL for this story is:
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=377

Survived the day.

The kids did great at T-ball. One kid, on the opposite team, actually did a 3 play. He caught the ball, tagged two out. wow, these are 5-6 year olds. Then our side turned around and made 3 outs with no one coming home. "Is that our team?" I heard a mom asked.


We also made it through the first part of the first Birthday then the full second one. There were 2 at the same time. The first one at 4 then the second at 4:30. We went to the first one for 20-30 minutes. This made the birthday boys mom happy and the kids got to play together for a bit. We then proceeded to the second one and the kids got to play in a pool, played limbo and hit a penyata. The thing had to be made of iron. There were about 13 kids and each had first 2 hits a piece, then 3,4,5 hits a piece in turn. The thing didnt bust. 2 moms finally beat the hell out of it and it cracked open.

One thing that did disturb me though. The group of the second party ( hosts friends ) were pretty much too themselves. Kelli and I basically stood together enjoying the kids playing and one couple actually attempted a discussion. The host were fine and they also discussed but I could not help notice the other 3 couples staying to their group. Anyway, my wife said remind me to tell you the story of that one. Seems that these 2 particular couples wanted to have a baby at the same time. So in doing so, unfortunately one had miscarriaged, so the other mom-to-be had evidently 'taken pills' so she in turn miscarriaged. I couldnt believe it. Then I was told this occured 3 times. Finally both had kids. I was pretty much disgusted with that thought.

But all in all, the kids enjoyed it and that's what counts. I plan to watch my Quantum Leap tonight and we have Church tomorrow. My wife is doing her womans sunday school and she allowed me to read it. I was very impressed. I told her it was very well done.

Oh and we plan on starting a diet Monday. She has been on and off one and has done extremely well. I on the other hand have always said, I need to. Well, I am actually going to go the mile and work with her on this turn. So for tonight and tommorrow I am stuffing the pepsi and doritas, but Monday brings showtime.

I can't believe it's already Saturday, where did the week go? I got up early to mow the yard ( mine and my neighbors since she has moved off and continue to try to sell her house ). I was able to get hers done as well as my front and sides. I still need to do the back, but I was already sweating profusely by the end and it wasnt even 9 a.m.. Man, its already hot.

The kids have T-ball game at noon and a birthday party to go to around 4:30 this evening, so the day is already shot. I did manage to get some corner shelves up for my wife, Bob Villa I am not, but they did remain level.

Yes, I am drying our last load of clothes, run a load of dishes and managed to vacuum the house. So all in all I did get some stuff done this morning.

I haven't had a chance to watch my Quantum Leap yet. I fell out last night after watching G4, a gamers review on tech tv. I did see one part, a behind the scenses of Quantum Leap yesterday while I was folding clothes.

My wife told me she seen Quantum Leap at Walmart for 50 bucks. So I did manage to find it pretty cheap at Target.

A Picture of the Arch from our hotel room we stayed. 

Above is a picture I snapped with the Digital from our 5th floor room we stayed.

A picture from the 'Precious Moments Chapel' 

Here is a picture I took of a wall painting within the Precious Moments Chapel. We stopped there on the way to St. Louis. The chapel wasn't really that large but the pictures were truly beautiful.

Man, it was nice in my own bed last night. I made the kids sleep in their own bed as well. They wanted a sleepover in the living room but I said nada, considering it was already after 10 p.m.

I asked them this morning and they seem to sleep good as well. I think I will try to go watch shrek 2 with them today. Kelli (wife) has to go into work for some time today, I personally dare not even look at my buisiness email yet, as I will feel like I will have to do work. So rather than have the feeling we are home, ok vacation is over, I am going to try to keep us going on the good times. Reality is all too near in the future, back to the ball and grime, penny pinching, you get the drill.

I checked Yahoo on Shrek 2 reviews and see that most state the story was half way done as the first, but I think the kids will love it anyway.

I still havent had a chance to check out Quantum Leap. I will probably watch that tonight when everyone else crashes. Currently catching up on Laundry from the trip. We pretty much have everything else put away. Since we cleaned the house real good prior of leaving for the trip, we didnt have a messy house to come home to, which was nice.

We will also get our dogs back today. Our Aunt babysitted them while we were away.

Better go fix some breakfast, my son already is watching the DinoThunder PowerRanger dvd again.

Finally home and glad of it. The trip was fast and furious but we were able to do alot of things. We seen the Arch, Zoo, Malls, ect. I was also impressed with the little things on the way, such as the beautiful scene of trees and mountains. It was a nice drive, long but nice.
After we left St. Louis this morning we stopped again in Springville (mid-way point) and found a 'An American Pizza Place', I think. It was a happening place, we ate the buffet and played the games. It made a nice break from the drive and then we pushed on. So now its 11 p.m. here and by the Grace of God no wrecks, accidents, suicide bombers, ect.

I had to say it. Quantum Leap got my money. I hit a Target here in St. Louis and they had the Quantum Leap first season DVD set. I couldnt restrain myself. I had to have it. It was 39.99, more than I normally spend on anything but I kept saying to myself ' I am on vacation, I am on vacation.' heh heh The mantra helped. I also ended up buying my daughter the 'Kim Possible, A stitch in Time' dvd. I with them love to watch Kim Possible. We hit the zoo today and was able to see a real naked mole rat. : )

Anyway, Sam Goodys in the mall wanted Quantum Leap for 59.99 so that helped me a little bit in my spending. I am on vacation, I am on vacation.....

Ahh, I was able to see The Deadzone on USA. The premier was good. Looks like they shifted his psychic ability on hyper-drive. Now he is losing his own memories and time as he views the dreaded future. Man, it was good. But it looks like a two parter. The next one will be the followup of this one. Can't wait to see it.

Quantum Leap on DVD ! I couldn't believe it. The first season of Quantum Leap starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell is now on DVD. Man, I grew up with this show! I have added it on my list of interest. Now I am torned which to buy, the second season of The Dead Zone or the 1st season of Quantum Leap. grrr. Too many DVD's are coming out. A guy doesnt have enough money to keep up with them. I stil haven't bought any Farscape DVD's either and loved that show. Those are too expensive for me. But Quantum Leap and Deadzone, I can probably muster up for. : )

Never heard of Quantum Leap? The Scifi link is here. You can check it out.

Vacation finally here. We left Sunday morning and drove to Springfield, MO. first, half-way to St. Louis.
On the way we stopped at 'Precious Moments Chapel' and took the free tour. It was a good stop and let us stretch our legs. The Chapel was immaculate. Not very big but the paintings were unbelievably beautifull. It was definitely off the beaten path but it was a nice place.

We also were on the look out for cops. Can't help it, driving for so long on these kind of trip. I rarely seen one, unless he had some poor slob over on the road. We passed one poor soul and noticed his buddy was also ahead on the side of the road waiting for him. The truck then later on down the road zoomed passed us, evidently not learning his lesson. "Nuts" My wife noticed it was the same truck that was just getting a ticket then I noticed his bumper sticker and understood why. The poor soul was an idiot and crazy driver. The bumper sticker? " Vote for Kerry "

We stayed over at a hotel while we checked some of the stores there. The kids was able to play in the pool for a little bit that night. I visited the 'Bass Pro Shop'. I haven't fished nor hunted in years but we were told we had to check it out. It was really cool. They had everything imaginable in there. All forms of stuffed animals mounted, including a large bear you could take a picture with. A stream literally ran through the store with live fish, ducks ect. Nothing like I expected. The place was HUGE. We had to hit a Target and ate at Ruby Tuesday's since we don't have that restruant around our place.

The next morning we hit the road early and drove on into St. Louis. It's the first time any of my family been here, so were all psyched. I had to come through the airport on the way to Pennsylvania a couple of times , but that doesnt count. We found the hotel and were meeting some friends here as well. They drove in from up north so were looking forward to it. I personally just enjoy being away from work and house.

We plan to see the arch tomorrow and go up into it. We have a pretty good view of the arch from our 5th floor and the hotel is nice. I will try to post a pic or two of it. I plan to take alot of digital pics as I have a 64 mg card and my PC. So I can continue to download and clean my card througout these days of vacation. Its 9:17 p.m. and the wife and kids are already out. The kids played hard and wore us out. heh heh

Since the kids had the sleep over last night most were cranky this morning. As I stated in a previous post my wife kept entertaining them till the parents came. Amazing the attention span of kids now-a-days are about the size of nats.

The last parent picked the last kid up around 9:30 a.m. and stayed around for about 40 minutes. Once she split, while her child was whining about the shoes not being comfortable, we made a list for me to run errands. I had to take a couple things back from Walgreens and Walmart plus pick up some last minute items.

We managed to keep the kids awake till early evening and we all went to bed early. I took some Nyquil which kicked my butt. I was out before 9 p.m. The kids were out about 6 minutes after they hit the bed which was actually a few before 8 p.m.

It just hit 1 a.m. here and I am finished with my on-call phone call for the night. The new hospital OPUS ( a operating vendor ) was down and finally came up and operational. My on-call ends in the morning, about 8 hours from now. Man I can't wait. I been on-call since last Saturday and I am ready to give it to someone else. I also start vacation as of Sunday morning as well. Technically its Monday, but since I am off call Sunday, I am calling it then.

While I was waiting for OPUS to call me back (after I paged them ) initially, I found myself reading other people blogs again. I guess I am officially hooked on other peoples lives. Geez, I thought my wife was bad watching 'E-Entertainment'. Oh well, guess there could be worse things in life.

Guess, I been my office long enough, my boy just came in about 1:10 a.m. to tell me the movies over. Yeah, been over buddy. He wanted some water. Poor guy, my wife and I let the kids watch a movie at bedtime tonight since they both were exhausted. They crashed hard, now after 1 a.m he lets me know the movie was over. heh heh

I better get back to bed, gotta long drive in the morning.

I figured it's bound to happen but it seems closer than I thought.
Seems Viacom's MTV and Showtime discussing to launch this year. I guess my question is why? When I view nightly programming, in nearly every series I came across there are already is one or more gay characters. Some shows are already built around this lifestyle, like 5 gays helping a straight slob. So what is the big deal?


TV Guide quoted media stock analyst Tom Wolzien of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. as saying, "It's about time somebody had gone after that audience with a [cable] network. ... It's an important segment of the audience that has traditionally been under-served. The money is certainly there to support it."
Article found here.

Say what? Disney has gay days, Rosie Odonnell is creating an all gay cruise. All in the attempt to tap into this supposedly reservoir of money. No I think it's more than that. Since the media outlet, tv in general are already pushing the lifestyle containing 2 percent of our nations population, I really don't see a need for it. Already it's bringing controversy, which I suspect is the primary reason they mention it. 'Will this fly?'

Since Orielly generally blasts MTV for their degrading music this cannot help their PR. Many believe MTV has lost its true touch since the 80's when they went to reality tv and games. Showtime already hosts a number of 'gay' shows including, Queer as folk, The L word. So it's not really surprising.


Family advocacy groups are already putting in place a means to speak out about this.


AFA a constituent of Family values has a poll concerning this already.

" MTV — the network which brought us the infamous
Super Bowl halftime show — has announced that they are beginning a cable TV network to push the homosexual agenda. The new network will be supported by advertising and will be offered as part of the "basic" package of cable networks"

I also recommend you to check out Traditional Values Coalition that has some good articles, ect.




More articles on this can be found at the following links.
CBS

Boston

CNN

Yes, I do actually watch the Dead Zone on USA. I came across this show about 1.5 years ago by accident and was hooked. USA had a special Deadzone marathon that I was able to tape one weekend to catch up on the first season I missed. Since that time I have seen all of them. My wife even bought the 1st season DVD set for me on Valentines day this year. I see that the second season is being release June 8th. Wife if you read this, hint hint. ; )

The official Dead Zone webpage is Here. I try to watch this and Monk. Not much else on the television for me, other than Fox News and The Orielly Factor. So those that don't have a clue on this show then check the website and go find the Season one at blockbuster or something. heh heh

We survived a night of another slumber party. This one wasnt as draining. We actually had a childs parents stay with us most of the evening. We had one before of 13 girls ( or was it 14 ), now that was work. I was going to bail on that one, when one of my wifes friends was going to help out. She canceled and I had to stay. I got caught in the kitchen corner once and had to tickle my way out. : ) You have to understand these are 5-6 year olds.

Anyway last night I continue to be amazed of the dichotomy of each kids personality. A couple of them are wilder than a march hare and the other 2 were calm and quit. But they all seem to get along well. My 5 year old son loved it of course. My wife really enjoy these. I at times cannot tell who is having more fun she or the kids.

Can we say...the energy one has bounces off the other ? Man they are hyper together. Usually one or two never wants to go to sleep. Last night was not different, 2 first kept talking and playing, while the others started falling out. Finally at around 11:30 p.m. I just said 'OK, after this movie we are turning it off.' One was still awake after the movie. I crashed and was only called by work once last night around 12:10 a.m. which was good.

So yeah, I am drinking the coffee this morning and we are waiting till 9 a.m. central for the parents to come pick them up. My wife continues to entertain this morning. We woke up around 6 a.m. and bless my wifes heart, she has allergies that are rocking her and she already done all their hair, breakfast, played Disney UNO, shall I go on?

Is it 9 yet? heh heh
( Yes, I snuck away for a bit to write this. Oh God, they found me........

I understand these blogs can be a means of information as I look through some other blogs. But others I ran across is what my wife kindly refers to as an online diary.

I was captivated by a simple blog that I began reading. Basically she was just speaking of her day to day happenings, as I have begun to do and I kept get this feeling of being a peeping tom.

Any others ever catch that? Please comment I would be interested in your thoughts on this matter.

Anyone been on-call recognizes the fact that you have it hovering over you. Never knowing when that cursed beeper/cell phone will ring. I have a work cell phone they contact me and last night, contact me they did. I got a call every 1.5 hours. I kid you not. Now, the issues were trivial in correcting thankfully, but the fact is everytime I would get about asleep the phone would ring. I am a light sleeper anyway and it takes me awhile to get back to sleep. So I had plenty of coffee this morning and my patience is short today. I did manage to mow the yard this evening. My daughter has a slumber party tomorrow night and we are getting prepared. I have 3 more nights on call and then I am off for a week, vacation. I am counting them down.

Just to let you know what exactly I had to do during on-call. I work for a company that owns and operates hospitals/facilities. I work in the interface group and when a interface goes down, specifically a critical one (Radiology, Pharmacy, Lab, ect.) then I get called to get it going again. This normally only entails me to recycle (start/stop) my side and then have the facilty or vendor to recycle their side. But it takes time to first page the other then wait for the call back, then request that individual to recycle their side. In all it can take over an hour, depending on how quick the other person is. So when I say I got a call every other hour, I really mean, I got little sleep last night.

I have to speak about Wed. As you know my daughter had to go to the second dentist Wed. Seems on the Tuesday visit a tooth was found to be absessed, how? According to them sinus alergies and infections. Seems the sinus's lie above your upper teeth and can effect them. Well, it effected this one. Not going into too much detail. Seems that rather than them working on the one, they had to also work on the two beside it, 3 in all. Mind you she is 6. The Dr. said she had strong good teeth, but this one got problems. At first he didnt think it was even abcess (the first dentist referred her to this one stating abcess tooth). He was going to just shrug it off since it did not appear abcess nor tender, ect. Then he decided to go ahead and drill in, that's when he noticed no blood. Evidently this is not a good sign. The news became worse, from a simple dentist exam to a referral, now we are told the tooth was so badly absessed they contemplated on outpatient surgery on it for Friday, fearing they may not have been able to save it. Seems the infection was so bad, the possibilty of an absess to the brain was high. My wife was freaking. She was giving me phone call after phone call as the information poured in during everyin 5 minute interval. On top of this, the visit costed 385 bucks, our payment. Total was 850 bucks but insurance would pay most. They were on the phone with our insurance getting an amount. Man, you talk about sucking. Not only was they in there for 2 hours after one hour waiting, now were told cough up the 385, given we could write a post check.

After all this, comes the silver lining from this storm. 1) The fact that my daughter was under a severe infection we were not even aware of. This caught it while we were home, rather than on our vacation trip next week. 2) Somehow, ( Gotta be God because my wife was actually praying during this with one of the dentist attendant) without my wife asking the Dentist decided to give us a discount, cutting off some of the cost. The 385 went down to 250 due. My wifes dad said he had it and would give it to us, he was at my house during all this, coming over from work and wrote out a check for my wife to deposit it covering our expenses. And get this, this assistant placed it in the computer to always give us this same discount, for all future visits.

So yes, there was indeed a silver lining yesterday and man, was I glad of it. And yes, I did think my God.

Man I thought the weekend was busy. Tuesday is a distant memory now but allow me to quickly grab your hand and fly you through our Tuesday.

I had to take 1/2 day off that morning because my wife had to be in 3 places at once. She can usually pull off 2 places, but this was a bit much. I took my son to therapy, toting my daugher with me at the 9:30 a.m. Note I cleaned up the house prior to because I had to wait till 9 to start that way. My wife had already left at 6 a.m. for work to get as much done as possible.
After therapy, I then proceeded taking the kids to a Dr. appointment for them and my wife ( 10:15 a.m. ) as the three did that, I ran over to a nearby barber to cut the hair. We then met over, across town to a pizza place to meet with my wifes dad to have lunch, (11:00 a.m.). We had a good lunch together the I took my son home ( schools out for the summer ) as my wife took our daughter to her dentist appointment (around 12 p.m. now).
OK we get home, the boy and I. He wanted to play play play (he's 5) and I basically say, what movie you want to watch, Dad's gotta go to work ( I work remote out of the house, gotta love the net). I start the Power Rangers movie for him and start checking my buisiness email. Man, of course everyone wants something, yesterday.
Needless to say, I was there till 8 p.m. My wife came home around 4 p.m. and brought dinner with her. She then took our daughter off to T-ball for an 8 p.m. game. The boy stayed with me because he did not feel well. I hate days like these, non-stop action but man it gets old.
My boy fell out (asleep) before my wife and daughter came back and I threw our daughter into the shower into bed as soon as they arrived home at 9:30 p.m.

That was my Tuesday and yes, it flew.