Getting Mad

While this is in direct opposition to everything that they suggest and direct and won't last, it might very well mark the point where people have finally gotten sick of criminals. Here, specifically school infiltrators and child murders; but applicable to many circumstances. I think calling in for a surgical strike on the felon(s)' butt is wiser. Often, conpliance yields better results, but examples given in the article point to times when compliance yeielded suffering then murder.

Skip all that! I think America sould finally wake and be sick of crime and criminals and accept, "I shoot the bastards! That's [our] policy!" That's right. Whether the muderer was suffering from a bad case of indegestion or inoperable brain tumor, the wrongness of the act requires action -- prompt action. Tooo often people try to emancipate people from their actions and responsibilies. Gosh, he did that because he was abused *1, or she had PPD (post partem despression) or PMS, or mixed coffee and three other caffeine drinks and got too wired.

While this thinking -- prepatory retalitory violence, may be innappropriate for some situations, I dare say that subduing an attacker (especially when outnumbered -- which is almost always the case) makes much more sense than accepting the doom. If you do some reading on recent shootings, including the poor victims of the Amish killer, he supposedly brought in materials for raping as well, since he freed the boys. In another shooting, the guys were freed and a few girls freed who reported to police/swat outside that he was sexually assaulting the girls there. They went in and only one child died. Now, fingers could be pointed to police mishandling, but if a felon comes in with automatic weapons, do you really think he's going to drop them and say ... "kidding!"

*1 Those abused are not doomed to repeat the crime. That's bullcrap! Victims, more than non-victims should know the wrongness of the act and how it hurts and the long-standing difficulties it can have, therefore they should not act out the abuse that "still" makes them suffer. If they are struggling that badly ... seeking counseling. Many therapists work cheap or free and are readily available.

I have never been confronted with rape or murder before, but I would like to think that I would battle until the end. "If you're gonna die ... if you're gonna die. If you're gonna die ... if you're gonna die. If you're gonna die ... die with your boots on!" + In one hypothetical, first you are raped then you are killed or you could die fighting never being raped. "It's a logical transaction, one life for billions." "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few -- or the one."

+ Iron Maiden, meaning, die fighting, die trying -- don't so easily submit to defeat on important matters.

Movie on stupidity

I got it from the library, categorized as an educational video. It wasn't educaitonal, per se, but worth seeing parts of it. The premise is analyzing the dumbing of humans through media, but it first examines the psychological terms of "idiot, imbecile, moron" related to IQ. Now these terms are synomous and interchangable for stupid acts or persons acting in a stupid manner.

The movie raises some interesting points, but continues to use the same technique it claims that TV does to capture the audience -- soundbites and 2-5 seccond bursts of visuals; including violence, sex, and less savory human tendencies. I found it easier to experience with my eyes closed, visuals distracting from the meaning. In the end, it both reviles and shields Bush in regards to stupidity. Generally, post viewing perspective -- which is it, that he is stupid, "only plays one on TV"+, or that he is made stupid.

In any case, many are stupid, anyone can act in a stupid manner, and that no one that they polled (people on the street) could really give a good meaning of the word stupid. There were a few long scenes of people waiting to enter a theater to see Steve-O and a Jackass creator in "action". While waiting, COPS crowd antics ensued including jumping onto a locally parked car, uprooting of a street sign, and more. What a complete waste! The throngs of the easily manipulated couried and pushed into violence by the anticipation of stupid live acts.

I won't rate the movie, as I would not want to see it in its entirety again, but ... I would like it re-edited for the 20 -40 some good minutes of narration that it does have. The background could be switched instead of seeing countless Jackass-esque antics from real accidents or violence. That would, of course, "rip the soul" out of the artistic work that is Stupidity.

+ used in the movie declaring him to be not an idiot

Topless protests okay

Judge ruled that women may protest topless. I believe he added the caveat that the protesting women be "sweet honies with bodatious ..." Okay, he didn't add that, but the "sweet honeys" part he should have added. I think, if the protesters were thinking clearly -- ha, fat chance there, that the 400 pound women be discouraged from going topless.

Hey, what's with the non-traditional burlesque show going on there? Are the dancing hippos with the dancing ostriches as well?

More on the Gibson

Of course I didn't say those things. And if I did, I didn't mean them. And if I did mean them, I meant them in a satirical manner. I got more sense than to say those racist things!

Yeah, I remember saying those things. They were funny.

Alcohol is a hell of a drug, eh?
......
Now, Gibson is trying to do three card monte with the media. You see .... it's that cop, he's got it in for me, you see? I didn't inhale, while expelling my awful tirade on Jews everywhere.

I'm waiting for Gibson to come out and just admit that he's an ass and be done with it. Didn't he see Clinton? "I did not ..."

8 years of wrong

Pennsylvania court rules in favor of plaintiffs in Wal-Mart suit. Hmmmm ... $78 million, which will be appealled taking another 8 years, 'til finially it drops to $54 million and $40 some million dollars in court fees and lawyer costs+ yielding around $10 million for those affected, after taxes and other fees, bringing a healthy $20 check to each party on the class action suit against Wal-Mart.

So, Wal-Mart loses money, maintains prices, foregoing the happy smiling bouncing face lowering prices and reshapes its policies and procedures.

Two people I know that work or have worked recently for Wal-Mart remarked how "anally retentive" it was about clocking in, out, breaks and the seeming minutia. I suppose it/is due to the lawsuit mentioned above. Hmmm, food for thought, I suppose.

MSNBC chose a picture of lotto winners outside the courtroom delighted that they won. I guess no one told them that it would take years to get the money, which would be widdled down to less than a day's paycheck per litigant. Well, it's gas money for 2015.

+ intentional reversal

Cartoons -- stage left

including slowpoke Jinxie and Pixie and Dixie. He isn't the same as Slowpoke Rodrigez (also fastest gun in Mexico), but you get the 60's drift, right?

Snagglepus, ending a cartoon with, "Wait ... I'm going to gay Paris (paree) too!"

golf clap

Man, this case could go either way .... [ring]
Yes. Um hmm. I see. Okay, let me know if his condition changes.
Well, what? Why isn't he here?
He's dead.

Child molester finally does the right thing -- kills himself. Far too late, but still the effort is comendable.

Dragon's Lair

Oh, wait ... make that Dragon's Keep (Cafe). Lances are prohibitted. Cerpicio, MR, and I went into the cafe Thursday. I first had to wait to the little beeping and the blue light+ to know if I should walk straight or left. The wide hallway (the cafe) was quaint, cramped for space, but they did a nice job with what space they had. The 60s-80s music was intersting. The barrista was friendly enough and Cerpicio and Paula had been there often enough, he knew him.

The coffe was okay ... hey, it was coffee, right? The food, overpriced, but I didn't know that. I'm picky about nearly everything, so the food was okay, just. The atmosphere, decor is unique to the coffee shop, but it would be better out west or east looking a little out of place in its present locale.

The wrought iron chairs (2 chairs per table) was better suited to couples -- you know, like Cerpicio and Paula. Anyway, it was okay and for couples who like wrap sandwiches and coffee or tea, it is a quiet, quaint little place. More more space and some scents (oils, candles, or incense) it would be homey.

+ allusion to arcade game (first laser disc game '80s, later a short-lived Disney cartoon. For trivia, the laser disc games failed as a "new wave" of arcade games.

War; it's fantastic

Shoot, shoot, shoot ... shooting . .. shooting, shooting. It also encourages you to hit a target more than once. I really like overkilling.

bones on which to chew

Look, I have a compromise. Inmates stop being uncooporative and the dogs won't need to be there. I have another solution. If inmates are uncooporative, you move them unconsciouly to the new locale. How they change from conscious to unsconscious is up to the prison authority then. I don't want to hear any more about who bit who. I do think, however using trained aggressive dogs in this manner sets a bad precidence for law regarding mauling deaths and harboring of dangerous animals, etc. The dogs, noted here are trained aggressive, as has been the argument of felons (caught and to be caught) who raise dogs for dog fights.

I like better my idea of moving instructing prisoners with the guidelines that transfers while conscious is preferred, but not manditory. Hey, look! You're already in prison, generally+the more obstinant ones are repeat felons. The guards and staff should be safe, so ... I prefer to error on the side of staff and faculty safety, rather than worry as much about rights infringement on the "poor" convict.

+ generalization, for sure, but not unreasonable.

Hey! I have a new defense

I was nude because I had stress in my life. I'll use this case all the time now. You see, I have bi-polar disorder and stress, which is why I was wandering in the nude. You see, it makes sense, right? Presently, I don't have bi-polar disorder, but with the right lawyer, it's likely to win. I'm wondering where that hidden lover is. Oh, come on now. A man wandering around in the nude at the offices after business hours. You know he has a lover there. The reason is not medical, but perhaps is biological.

as covered yesterday

I think the constitutional law being violated is the pursuit of happiness (and safety and well-being) for children and parents alike. 1,000 feet is too short. I'd recommend 1,000 miles. I suggest an anchored floatilla (Waterworld) in the South Pacific. Sex offenders -- move or kill yourselves, either way, we win.

Expect More

I do! MR responding to my criping about pork in congress and access to bills and the pork on them showed me that link. It was signed into effect by Bush. I expect more for: it DOES NOT show me the law that was approved nor list the HB number. It DOES NOT show me pork. It IS NOT indepedantly reviewed, but rather reviewed by ... shock -- lawmakers and other government agencies. Find a single name of a reviewer ... uh ... uh ... er ... you can't.

I will ASSUME it is only it its infancy and will really detail what it is they are showing viewers. By its own standards, I rank it ineffective. I like the idea, but showing this law and funding is effective, that one not, what the bill entails in its ENTIRETY. I am not cynical here, just that I read it and there's little there to read to make an opinion.

done without guns

My sister emailed me today that she killed yet another hard drive. I guess that she should stop juggling them or using them in skeet shooting.

Kentucky buddy and the Indy Fed fools

So, a KY judge forces sex offenders to move. Way to go buddy! I only wish I could vote you into office here! Menawhile, Indianapolis decides that sex offenders should be closer to children for the time being. Uh ... did I vote you folks into power or were you appointed instead. Step away from the bench please, remove the robe and resign, please.

Mentally insane

So, he's nuts! My questions are:
He violently killed people close to him. Is he at all likely to kill again? Yes.
Is there a method to get him to not kill, apart from executing him? Maybe.
Which makes society safer execution or imprissonment with possibility of parole or escape? Execution.
Well, this non-English speaking murderer, I think just about spelled out his end with morte, no comprende

That's a damned shame that he's crazy. He's not going to get sane nor nonviolent, so ... we're keeping him around, why?

More Bush bashing?

Barbra Streisand does comedy skit ... ha! I don't think so. I will again mention that I disagree on a number of points with Bush, but this crap -- why? I wonder if the entertainers don't read and smell their own crap? Dixie Chicks ... anybody remember this group that went up North to make money? Look, SNL might do some lampooning, but hey ... the TV audience isn't paying for it, so you can protest by stop watching it. When you paid for ... choke, chuckle, snicker; paid for a Streisand ticket, then you got screwed. Oh, I mean that you got her singing and "comedy" skits. I guess, if she's done this kind of stuff before, you couldn't be surprised, but you are sitting there having paid for it. Likely, you didn't want a political satire, least of all from her. I could be wrong, but doubt it.

What makes a bad teacher?

Well, one, when your bigotry and angst interfere with teaching. Here, we have a case for a piss-poor teacher being excused for his evil-intent in that he has a passion for teaching. Really, like decreeing what is, rather than allowing decisions to be made. Moreover, forcing the purchase of propoganda? I think this guy knows Hilter, because he imitates him. Fire him, now! Regardless whether people approve of Bush or not, this teacher's teachings are flatout wrong and inflamitory.

Kiki's Delivery Service

Well, I don't think it was too bad as an early movie, but ... it left a bit to be desired. The fickle, lonely thriteen year-old girl here has troubles and typical teen problems, especially moving into a new city alone. The theme of discovering what makes you, you ... good, but mired with other complexities. It played a bit like a Tarot reading, while you thought a Queen would show, oddly the 8 of hearts would be flipped. Of course, for Tarot reading, you disclude many of the cards of the deck for meaning.

It has some rewatchability, with era-specific music, but pre-teen and early teen girls might find it watchable. Most other characters in the story are walls, windows, and doors in a room. They confine the main character, some allowing limited movement and growth. There is no strong violence in the movie, though injuries and deaths are implied (accidents in climatic wreck, leading to rescue).

The diector uses a range of animation and drawing techniques, including flat backdrops and animated backgrounds. The sound is good, but mixed on English, lacking some fluent ambient noise for more realism. The version (re-release) I saw marked at the end as a dedication to Phil Hartman who voiced the black cat familiar of Kiki the witch.

it's timing

Really, long before North Korea fired it's nuke. I do, however find it now ironic that -- hey, we need teachers here in South Korea!

2008 election (presently)

Nominee	My vote
Former North Carolina senator John Edwards	Maybe - unsure
New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton	No
Former vice president Al Gore	No
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry	No
Delaware Senator Joe Biden	Maybe - unsure
Retired general Wesley Clark	Maybe - unsure
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean	No
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson	Maybe - unsure
Former South Dakota senator Tom Daschle	No
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold	Maybe - unsure
Former Virginia governor Mark Warner	Maybe - unsure
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich	Maybe - unsure
Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack	Maybe - unsure
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani	No
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice	No
Arizona Senator John McCain	Yes
Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich	No
Florida Governor Jeb Bush	No
Tennessee Senator Bill Frist	Maybe - unsure
Virginia Senator George Allen	Maybe - unsure
Vice President Dick Cheney	No
New York Governor George Pataki	Maybe - unsure
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney	Maybe - unsure
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee	Maybe - unsure
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback	Maybe - unsure

Maybe - unsure means that I need to do more research on them.

I always feel like

somebody's watching me ... or is just fantasy ...

Echo was watching out of curiosity and because we were playing outside and he wanted to be a part of it.

not 2-pac

2 hat Monkeyjack
Walker would be proud

What we might have had, but didn't

This is a hospital helicopter ... no one needed for Sunday.

-- photo shot couple weeks ago, midafternoon at a local park

realistic, my foot!

You'll shoot your eye out

Charlie got a bow & arrow set, one arrow broke early

A loosed arrow into the sofa. I insisted that it never be aimed at the living ("people and puppies")

blunt points make for slow arrows

Monkeyjack devised shooting at the pumpkin

and so he tried,

and tried,

and finally hit it, though the arrow bounced off and went farther than he was standing

Someone foolishly let this guy have the bow & arrow

Most excellent

State plans to establish protective order registry

From The Associated Press

 

EVANSVILLE — Indiana plans to use a federal grant to establish a protective order registry, which will link courts to police data to try to ensure information in the orders is entered and available immediately all over the state.  Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shephard announced the state has received a $259,000 federal grant to create and fund the plan.

Protective orders sometimes would not be available to law enforcement officials for days, which is “unacceptable and too dangerous to continue,” Shephard said in a news release.

Once the registry is running, copies of new orders that go into the system will be faxed to local law enforcement agencies, ensuring all are immediately aware that a protective or no-contact order has been issued or revoked.

The orders also will be registered with the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, offering protection across state lines.

Candice Perry, the legal advocacy program coordinator for Albion Fellows Bacon Center in Evansville, said that the new registry can only help.

“I think the majority of people we come in contact with are unsure with how the protective order will really help them,” Perry said. “We try to educate them on what it does and what it doesn’t do.”

Clients often say they have been told the protective order is “just a piece of paper.”

“We are very realistic with them that it is a piece of paper,” said Perry. “But it’s also a first step that gives law enforcement the ability to do much more for them.”

Perry said the new registry could ease concerns some clients have when traveling between counties.

Never constant

folks resting after a short walk

Yesterday, it was warm, the sun and light clouds were soothing. The autumn colors were beautiful. Thomas and Marcus put on yet ANOTHER rod. Thomas was clever enough to yank the last one out of the wall. In his defense, the metal sheered in half, not really pulled out of the wall. The bar, like the others was a nusance to put into the wall. It took parts, tools time, and a drill bit was broken in half.

Later, the folks went out for a walk in the nice autumn weather. It isn't supposed to stay nice for all that long, so today was the day. We three ate orange roughee for dinner and then the folks watched the Ugly Dachshund, an old Disney movie.

In the evening, for no particular reason, Thomas took out the blood pressure monitor and took his reading, then Lois' and found that Lois had a heart rate in the 40s. Despite taking it several times, it was always low (a few times in the 30s). Since she's had heart problems, heart attack history, we got to see the emergency room last night. We were there for two hours, then Lois was discharged with a 24-hour heart monitor.

It was determined that she had non-symptomatic bradycardia (slow heart rate without any symptoms). It is likely that some of the medicines that she's taking are now at too high of levels and are pushing her heart rate down too low. Well, they'll determine what they will do later.

....
As a side note, while the entire staff that night was nice, congenial and friendly, they had -- bar none, the most effeminate male staff. The EMS guy there (though Mum was driven to hospital by myself), had a voice higher and odder than Pee Wee Herman. The doctor who was working was about half as effeminate and the registry guy was slightly less than that, but good golly! I guess Lutheran wanted to keep them out of the more typical public eyes or something? I applaud their promptness and quick work to get her out of there shortly after midnight.

Feeling no pain, Mom gets patches to monitor her heart functions 11 somthing at night at hospital.

Elevator scents

Who has the most fragrant and expensive scent?

spam titles

Equestrianism Roller hockey

Racquets Ice dance

....

Now, what is equestrian roller hockey?  I don't know, but I'd like to see that!  The racquets ice dance also sounds pretty interesting.

No Child Left Behind

Hey, lunkheads in congress and senate. Do think that, instead of making accountability law without money is more important than keeping students who want to go to school safe? Flunkies at the congress and senate wheel, step away and quit. Safety should be number one! If they aren't safe at school, they won't go and the smart parents won't send them. Get that "No Child Left Behind" shit off the books and make funding for education. Look, you can tell the world that you don't have the money, but you had the money for a war in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're still paying that daily. SO ... I don't believe a friggin' word when you tell me the nation doesn't have the money. You lied right there. "You're sitting there, acting like we didn't already have this conversation!"+

Make schools safe. Fund schools so that they have staff and supplies. Make education work. If you only look to the next day and not the next couple of decades, then step away. You aren't a thinker and aren't a planner. The US imports college grads abroad because we don't produce enough. How many GED or High School only jobs are there now? How many will there be in ten years? There will be fewer and you know that!

Let "No Child Left Behind" be a founding for money and education and the resurgance of learning, not a cold phrase from a teen killer holding a gun.

+ Fargo

Access, genetic donors, access

Case in point a mother used her baby as a weapon in a domestic despute. Did IQ's drop sharply while I was away?+ Some people should never have access to children, even their own. I blogged yesterday on this very topic. So, you think these people would adopt out their child? So, you think these people are good parents? So, the child won in this case? Bullshit, that's an animsl! Shoot it!++

+ Aliens
++ Party Animal

Local newspaper poll

Would the country be better off if Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November?

Yes. Democrats better represent the needs of ordinary people.

Yes. Democrats couldn't be worse than Republicans have been.

No. Republicans haven't done as much good as they could have, but they're still better than Democrats.

No. Republicans hold the line against terrorism abroad and moral decline at home.

........

I'm going to borrow a short dialogue from My Cousin Vinny;

“I can't answer that question.”

“Are you saying that you don't know the answer?”

“Nobody can answer that question.”

“You see, she doesn’t know!”

“No, it’s because it’s a bullshit question!”

“Why is it a bullshit question?”

……….

I can’t answer it because you don’t friggin elect a party, unless you’re an ass and pull the party switch not choosing at all. The question should be, while difficult to answer: “Who should be in the US House to make things right?” This now doesn’t imply that things are wrong or right and doesn’t matter at all what party, sex or whatever. I should see persons on the ballot, not parties, which are like online spam or popup ads. I know that it doesn’t take a particular party to improve or ruin what is, but rather individuals. Take, for example Foley. Does Foley represent the Republican party? If you say yes, then there you go. I think most people would cite him as an individual, as are they all. If I take this approach, then parties need to be disbanded, because you recognize persons as individuals. Otherwise, you could assume that all Republicans are like Bush and Foley, and that all Democrats are like Kennedys and Clintons.

It’s a bullshit question.

Iran blames US -- how shocking!

Oct 9, 10:44 AM EDT

Iran blames U.S. for N. Korea nuke test
By Ali Akbar Dareini
Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state radio Monday blamed North Korea’s reported nuclear test on U.S. pressure, accusing Washington of “humiliating” the impoverished communist country. “Not only did the United States not lift the sanctions it had imposed on North Korea, it even increased the diplomatic pressure. Such pressure finally led North Korea to conduct its nuclear test,” Iranian state radio said in a commentary.

“North Korea’s nuclear test was a reaction to America’s threats and humiliation,” it said. Iran has said it will not abandon uranium enrichment despite the threat of international sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, which Tehran insists is purely for peaceful purposes to be used for nuclear energy.

President Bush on Monday said the United States was still attempting to confirm that a nuclear test in North Korea had actually taken place. Still, he said, “such a claim itself constitutes a threat to international peace and security.”

Iranian state radio accused Washington of “double standards” in its policy on nuclear nonproliferation, pointing to its attitude toward Israel and India. India has tested a nuclear bomb and Israel is widely believed to possess such weapons, but the United States is not currently applying sanctions against them.

In an oblique message to the United Nations, which is considering taking steps against Iran’s nuclear program, Iranian state radio said that the Security Council should not punish North Korea but disarm the nuclear arsenals of the great powers. “Instead of imposing comprehensive sanctions on North Korea ... it would be better if the U.N. Security Council adopt a wise decision and seek full implementation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty,” it said.

“That is to say, it should seek to disarm the countries that currently possess nuclear weapons and provide conditions so that signatories to the treaty will be able to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,” it said.
........

So, the US is to blame for that whole thing with North Korea building nuclear weapons and selling them to Iran and Syria. I see. Yes, that would make sense that the US would encourage arms sales to and through the "Axis of Evil" governments named in 2001. I can see exactly why the US got in on that. Oh, wait ... headache, no, it's

Logic time!

Iran, shout all you want. No one with a brain listens to that crap anyway. Having a long ... L -- O --- N ------ G history of strife, fighting, murder, absolute control over groups, kidnappings (remember the 444 days with the US captives) , Iran has absolutely no backers on this one. I dare write, they should not have backers at all.+ That 33 year old horse isn't going to win that race, long shot and big payoff or not. It ain't gonna happen. If we examine Iran and its developments we find ... almost no change since 578 A.D. -- yep, A. D. (in the year of our Lord, buddy.)

Iran, in weapon development, or rather in hopes of development, is casting blame on US and trying to direct attention to North Korea, which could be wiped off the face of the planet in a non-nuclear war against China. Now, Kim Jong-II might be mad. He might even launch one, but at the peril of mostly himself. Not too many countries would cry over the carpet bombing that many close nations would do in order to, well, create overnight desertification on the area.

Oh, just FTI: as you called China an hour before the testing, you'll likely also get an FYI call about an hour before forfeiture of control. News tomorrow: North Korea and Iran get deliveries of weapons-grade nuclear material ... in warheads themselves. No communication available from either government.

+ backing and betting on the wrong horse

More bills I didn't know I was paying

The military outsources advertising, so "Paid for by the US army", which is you is also then sent to another company that is in charge of advertising for the armed forces. They were paid $200 million in 2005. I wonder how many tax dollars Godsmack got for the Navy commercial. Isn't that a funny bit of irony. Godsmack paid by the taxpayers. Hmmm. I'd say there weren't too many bands paid by tax dollars like that, eh?

Method 2

As well as a wall that will be erected, the US will soon have a croc filled moat. While, internationally, they caught and will keep the crocodile in a holding area, I suspect that some clever thinkers will now have a new method of eliminating the would-be river crossers from Mexico to the US. I think that few persons use this path to enter, but should it ever had been, these nature files of the migration would be sickening and planned, but effective for some.

Cross at your own risk.

I'm the guilty party

When around the youth -- children, it is always wise to carefully choose your words. I refrain from swearing as best as I can and I try not to refer to adult matters. I have, unwittingly, left a word well in the vocabulary of Charlie. I had played some game and then -- bampf, "moron" spilt out. I paid no attention to my liking of this word until Charlie referred to folders on the TiVO as morons. Oh, my ... I'm glad that I didn't say it in a derogatory manner denoting its meaning. Yikes! A tabboo word for him and family is "stupid".

In this case, I would like to backpeddle away from responsibility, but I can't ... I am the moron for using the word.

N Korea's rooster act

I would call it peacock act, but there's nothing pretty about it. Although I'm not in agreement on many levels with China, it could be a powerful nation to put N Korea back into line. I might suggest a short monologue (as it's full of rhetorical questions) like this (as China speaks with N Korea):

So ... I was kind of wondering if you'd like to continue to be called North Korea. You would? I think, if you thought about it at all, China (us) could very well run military through your country and take it like Germany did France. You could be China's little brother to south, still called China. North Korea would then, virtually vanish from the map and well ... victorious get to write the history, so ...

You get my point?

I've stated it before ... (based on S Dakota's potential ban)

The ban on abortion, while touchy and emotional warrants thinking about this:

How many children who aren't aborted are without homes?
How many children who aren't aborted are in foster care?
How many children who aren't aborted by "biological donors"+ are in a household poorly suited to existence?++

If there was a ban, dare I predict a national ban on it, who then raises the children? Should unreported criminals, sadists and molesters and rapists and child exploiters be granted them; especially since they would relish the opportunity to have a bevy of kids at their beck and call and access. Many of the people on the ban-wagon don't raise a single child at all, let alone foster or adopt a child. If you don't do that, you aren't part of the friggin' solution! So, shut up! If the argument is that adoption process is too tedious or full of too much red tape, therein lies the problem. When there is a suitable home for all children, I will agree that there should be a ban on abortion, for there is no call for it.

As far as abortion being in place of contraception, then I don't mind another $500 a year of my taxes being spent on free prophylactics. Heck, that's cheap and considerate. If that would help, go for it! In the end abortion is selfish in that I understand. I do know that many of the people seeking abortion tend not to be cut out to be parents at that time anyway, so the would-be child has that potential danger ahead of her/him. Children are destroyed daily, some or most by people who should never have had access to them in the first place (regardless whether they are genetically related to them or not).

+ you can't call people parents unless they raise their children. Siring offspring isn't parenting.
++ there aren't enough agents and people and not enough money to patrol houses with poor living for persons there. Find out stats on CPS (Child Protective Services) and find out that I'm right.

Day at the zoo

I'm not typing or posting it twice, so this is a brief on the zoo day where I went with the folks.

We elected to go Japanese for dinner and found, sadly, that our preferred restaurant is no more. I don't know if they opened elsewhere or are permanently gone. Yokohama, we missed out. Instead, we went to Asakusa which was just fine, just not quite the same. They serve lots of food and no one went home hungry.

anime environmentalism

Nausicaa, a tale of a girl who has "strange powers", really is good-natured, so say it simply. She cherishes nature, life, insects, and plants. When another group of humans tries to take over her community, the story unfolds as into a story against war, ultimate weapons (thermonuclear), slaughter, and hatred. It is a little brutal and would leave many kids with lots of questions, but they would be answerable. I would suggest 9 years and up watch it, though many 9 year olds' would probably not like it.

It's overall messsages are fairly clear, the visuals are intersting and the music is quieted, but so-so only. The background child singing (Nausicaa's little to-herself song) is pleasant and used for allusory purposes. Patrick Stewert dons the voice of Ebineezer and Uma Thurman plays out a quasi- Kill Bill character seeking bloodshed and curiosity through control, domination and warmongering.

I would rate it about a 4.8 with limited re-watachability, also due to some ambiguity to the story line and characters. The same director did Spirited Away, a much better film, and Kiki's Delivery Service. Not so surprisingly, the protagonists (girls) look remarkably the same in so many ways.

House of Wax

For an interesting twist, I write the few things that were interesting in the movie, then slash it to pieces as per normal. It had a few red herring curves and it had some potential for haunting scenes and the night scenes added a bit to the allure. There was a scene where they showed Paris Hilton dance a little, down to her undies. Finally, someone recognized that Paris Hilton couldn't act to save her life and wisely gave her very few lines in the movie. She more like a late Monet in the background ... captivating, until you look at it closely (finding there is flatline brain activity) then it loses it's wonder.

I wouldn't bother watching this sophomoric attempt at the horror genre, but the director has some potential to do better. I applaud the attempt to use wax museum, as they faded into obscurity in the 70's, much like is stated in the movie, and it is difficult to go back in the past. The "horror" bit of it is B-horror movie antics mixed with Saw and Dawn of the Dead music inclusion to thunder your way into being scared. The brutality goes between old Friday the 13th epic slaughtering, near cartoonish to bloody (aforementioned horror movies).

The dialogue wasn't that interesting and some of the "unusual ways to die" weren't original. The talking with the guy who wants to kill you bit; why are you talking to him. This movie has no re-watchability. With some of the errors in it including, but not limited to:

Gee, he's a creepy guy, but he's offering us a lift. Okay, but only if I sit my girlfriend next to him in the truck cab.
First stab him, then hit him with a rock, then tumble him down the stairs ... no, wait; that's not right. Wait 'til he stands then hit him with a rock.
Let's make the shadow protagonist a complete ***hole who you'd rather see slaughtered in "many nasty ways, "Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Robin"+
Gee, one black guy ... think he'll get it? They avoided the obvious problem of one skin tone only (although there were wax persons of some varying degrees of skin color). It wasn't simply a matter of press and spray.
Hey, teens and young adults! We'll show you that you picking a random spot in the wilderness and dropping trash and bottles friggin everywhere is justified. I think it was a bad message to send.
Oh, yeah ... we were going to a football game without tickets, right?
No ... no ... no similarity at all to Evil Dead, well, a little ... maybe more than a little.
Superglue on mouth, then ripped open -- nope, uh ... nope ... but if you have a mind, you know that's not right.

[SPOILER -- the whole city being desolate was much like Hills Have Eyes and really expected after they walked through the town; hint -- old pumps at gas station and no sermon at church]

I would rate it about a 2.5, but not higher. I was interested in seeing more of Elisha Cuthbert after watching the movie. She looked pretty cute.

+ Monty Python, Holy Grail

Answering on the shock that I wouldn't vote for a Republican

The fact that he's a part of any party in immaterial. The thing I don't like about parties is that the voter is shafted, stuck with party A or B, rather than voting in a person, which is what a voter is doing. Consider the fact that any person in congress or senate may not vote in the same direction as his/her party betheren. Why ... would that make that person an individual, capable of making decisions, maybe. If people applaud individual thought, then why applaud drones to a party?

I would rather have a nice research on individuals running. Hey, how would you get the word out with it requiring so many millions of dollars? Hmmm ... how is this message available now ... internet.

I say abandon the old way of skipping over Indiana for it only votes one way, and instead have a webstie specifically designed for candidates, with researchers finding out everything on each person. Then you would elect a PERSON not a party.

It would then be down to popular vote eliminating the electoral college which has too many faults to be useful. The website would only show candidates and the resarch on each. The voting would still have to take place in a voting center, coupled with fingerprints required for voting. One person, one vote.

Think about all the corruption and scandal and decide if the web were available and research on each person, including (questionable ethics ... questionable financial deals ...) would all the presidents we've had ever make it? Ted Kennedy certainly would be out of there! Clinton would have had so many red flags on "questionable ..." that he'd look like a UN building. It is the better way. Real reasearch providing people (voters) with real possibilities as opposed to schmuck one, schmuck two, schmuck lesser-known than one or two, schmuck lesser-known than the other three.

cleaner TV brings questions

I was watching, Ugly Dachshund, a Disney movie about a man who intentionally integrates a Great Dane into the family, hoping for a manly man dog. It is typical 60s-70s Disney. Anyway, there were a couple of scenes where the couple were in the bedroom and they had seperate beds. Charlie, Monkeyjack's son, was confused by this and wondered if they were in a hotel. That's really very funny and observant.

While most couples have ONE bed, I believe too often TV and movies tend to try to show you action in the bed that isn't appropriate for younger viewers. Generally speaking, the sheet rustling has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the plot whatsoever. This is the mark of a poor writer who can't captivate the audience without titilating them with scenes of sex (to varying degrees of explicitness, graphic content and nature).

Patterns I could not see

The TV was a bit of a mess, in that you couldn't turn off the TV. Only unplugging it worked and that got old quickly. The man who came to repair it was knowledgable and found the capacitor (not flux) that was the problem. It exploded a bit with cracks and tears (like gas escaping). The man went into discussion with me on his number hobby -- the patterns of the powerball and other lottery numbers. He, of course, has only come close to getting the numbers, never winning the pot himself.

He had handwritten sheets with numbers, highlighting patterns (I flashed back to Lost's+ short series of numbers). I could not see the pattern and he admitted that there were aberations to the patterns, but there were patterns, he told me. My experience with lottery and powerball is that it doesn't pay out. I retain about 36% of my cash, while losing 64%. I NEVER had a large payout. I stopped playing altogether two - four years ago.

What was interesting is that he was very passionate about the patterns that he saw. He was an educated man, talking about vectors and vector analysis and numeric occurances, but ... I could not see what he saw. For all his charts, talking and showing -- it was lost on me.

+ Lost has a series of important numbers that recur in the show. These numbers allowed one survivor to win the lottery, but gave him an equal amount of misery. Hmmmm, there is the pattern I feel. The thought that the pattern will grant you something and that all things don't have a price, when they do.

They're making it up as they go along.

Vatican might revise ‘baby limbo’ teaching
Talk of drafting doctrine that says unbaptized babies go to heaven
Associated Press

Vatican City - Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday.
“All of us have hope for the babies” that they will go to heaven, under the revised thinking on limbo, said the Rev. Luis Ladaria, a Jesuit who is secretary-general of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission. The commission, which advises the pope and other top doctrinal officials of the church, has spent the week debating the question of limbo in view of preparing a document. Although Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized still have original sin and are thus excluded from heaven, the church has no formal doctrine on the matter, Vatican officials have noted.
Theologians have taught that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, commonly called limbo. The theologians, including clergy and laity, were holding a final session Friday evening. But Ladaria said the theologians have not reached the point of drafting a document. Italian state TV reported Thursday evening that the document would be ready next year.
“That could be very possible,” Ladaria said. But “when it will be ready to be published, should they (the Vatican) decide to do so, doesn’t depend on” the commission. Ladaria made his comments during a break in the debate, speaking by telephone from the Vatican City guest house hosting the meeting. Since both Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor, John Paul II, have urged the theologians to study the limbo question, a document is widely expected to be made public.
Benedict celebrated Mass with members of the commission Friday, but his homily, a reflection on theologians’ work, did not touch on the limbo debate. Ladaria’s hopes for the non-baptized babies’ fate after death echoed the optimistic opinion by an Italian bishop who is on the commission. Asked if the document will “tip the balance in the favor of heaven” for babies now believed to go to limbo, Archbishop Bruno Forte told state TV, “I hope so.”
Archbishop William Levada, the San Francisco prelate who last year became the Vatican’s guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy after Benedict assumed the papacy, has described the need to resolve the limbo question as a pressing one. Levada has cited an increase in the number of non-baptized babies in societies he said were marked by “cultural relativism and religious pluralism.”
Ladaria in an interview last year with Vatican Radio described the long-held view on limbo, as a state where the babies enjoyed “natural happiness” but had no vision of God, as “being in crisis.”
Any document on limbo would likely reflect Benedict’s nature, as a career theologian, to spell out the Church’s stand on limbo in a well-developed theological argument.

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If you have to re-write it, you weren't ever right. Either you know what God's intent is, or you don't. This is faking it. As a non-Catholic, I'd say this will be yet another blow, to anyone with a brain, to the Catholic religion. Sure, people need to know that God loves all and that Jesus saves, but you you have to re-write it after years to say ... well, uh ... God's not damning the to the vestibule of hell, but they don't go to purgatory or Heaven either; they are in NEW limbo -- not around hell, maybe entered into Heaven with caveats and US Federal tax code indexing of footnotes and whatnot.

These are the same group who had to tell people that cheating on taxes is a sin. Are you preaching up there or talking to the generally stupid who you often denied the word of God, as the parishioners were incapable

J Karr's free

to receive the bullets presently in my 60 round clip in my automatic uzi. I knew, when they lost the computer, that they were going to lose the case. They couldn't get him on much and now that don't have him. Let's see who's neighborhood he enters. I wonder how many he'll molest before they catch him. He seemed to like to talk about molesting and killing. I dare say, this pansy, lightweight punk will likely get his chance. Now -- if things were better (though not right) a "stray bullet" would find its way to him.

Let us all reflect on the continual releasing of molesters back into society ... no better, but perhaps only more clever than before, to capture, rape then perhaps kill their victims. Ya know, I'm tired of it! If the state sought marksmen for firing squad, I'd be there every weekend, 15-hour days if necessary and unpaid.

If you have children, I'd either get pissed or never let them see the light of day. I'm on the side of pissed and believe emptying the braincase of the molester is a good, solid way of removing the powerful impulses that "plague" them so often.

I believe she should also die

Mom charged in pedophile slaying case
Associated Press

BALTIMORE - The mother of a slain boy was charged with reckless endangerment Thursday because she had allowed the suspected killer and convicted sex offender to care for her 11-year-old son, prosecutors said.

The investigation reflects the "ongoing concern for protecting vulnerable children who are at risk of injury and abuse at the hands of child predators and complicit caretakers," said prosecutor Julie Drake.

Authorities said Shanda Harris knew her friend, Melvin Jones, was a convicted sex offender but allowed him to care for her son, Irvin.

Jones, 52, was charged in July with first-degree murder for the stabbing death of boy, whose body was found on a golf course near his home.

Jones pleaded guilty in 2002 to having sex with a teenage boy and was sentenced to serve one year in prison, prosecutors said. He also pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse in 1989, and was convicted of indecent exposure in 1994, harassment in 1989 and battery in 1988.

very interesting question

Is cervical-cancer vaccine worth a shot?
By Amy Wilson
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)

What's a mother to do?

Bombarded by commercials that urge her and everyone around her to "tell someone," she pays attention to the news that a vaccine has been engineered - and approved - that will protect women against the human papillomavirus, which causes 75 percent of all cervical cancer.

Furthermore, studies have found the vaccine to be almost 100 percent effective in preventing precancers of the cervix, vulva and vagina and genital warts.

But should she vaccinate HER daughters?

The virus, also known as HPV, can be fatal. It is the most prevalent sexually transmitted disease in the world. The cancer it can cause is second only to breast cancer in its ability to kill women.

In June, the Food and Drug Administration approved the manufacture of Gardasil, Merck's version of the vaccine. The vaccine itself was developed by Albert Jenson and Shin-Je Ghim, researchers now at the University of Louisville.

The decision whether to vaccinate is complicated by its price, $360, and that insurance coverage is being worked out. (Some insurers are waiting for the CDC to formally adopt recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, expected in November.)

Then there is the debate about the wisdom of any vaccination. So, yes, all parents are cautious. Parents of teenage daughters have a lot of deciding to do.

We turned to the experts for advice. Here is what they had to say:

The Food and Drug Administration: The agency recommends the vaccine for all girls and women ages 9 to 26.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Its immunization committee has recommended that the CDC endorse routine vaccinations for girls 11 to 12 years old, before sexual activity.

Dr. Albert "Ben" Jenson, a researcher of tumor immunobiology at the University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center and part of the original team of scientists at Georgetown University that invented the HPVvaccine and holds the patent on it: "I can't think of a reason not to (get the vaccine). The adverse reactions are very small. It's the first vaccination to prevent cancer. My three daughters - ages 42, 40 and 38 - are going to get it. I think every woman should have it. Maybe they don't have it (HPV) now, but they could get it if their partner, no matter how committed, has (pause) flaws and brings the virus into the relationship. I think men should have it too - to protect women."

(The vaccine is being tested on men, he said, but most of the initial trials were done on women because they can die of the diseases associated with HPV.)

Dr. W. David Hager, a prominent Lexington gynecologist and conservative Christian voice on women's health and sexuality, a Bush-appointed member of the FDA's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs and on Merck's Ob/Gyn Advisory Board for Immunization: "I have worked to help other organizations understand (Merck's Gardasil) and the need for it.

"(After) the FDA approved the product, the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices at the CDC made recommendations for use in 9- to 26-year-old women with the principal age of immunization being 11 to 12 years of age. We do not have sufficient data in men to warrant approval at this time, although the studies to evaluate this are in process.

"Merck has been good about not encouraging sexual activity in their marketing strategy. We continue to say that girls should remain abstinent as the best way to prevent sexually transmitted infections and non-marital pregnancy. However, the latest data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey indicate that almost 7 percent of kids have initiated sexual intercourse by 13 years of age. Thus, it is important to immunize before sexual activity begins. Even if a young lady remains abstinent until marriage but marries a guy who has been sexually active, he could bring HPV into the relationship. So I strongly recommend encouraging abstinence but giving the vaccine at 11 to 12 years of age."

Dr. Susan Modesitt, associate professor of gynecologic oncology, University of Virginia: "I personally would recommend the vaccine early (age 12 or so) and am hopeful that it will be made mandatory."

I think filming his execution would be better

Ex-Zimmer executive is sentenced
Gets 4-year term for using hidden camera to film girl undressing.
From The Associated Press

WARSAW — A judge sentenced a former top executive at orthopedics maker Zimmer Inc. to four years in prison for using concealed video equipment to film a girl undressing.

James P. Simpson, 48, apologized during a court hearing Thursday for his actions, but the judge turned down his request for probation. Simpson pleaded guilty Aug. 31 to two charges of child exploitation.

The girl’s father said he hoped Simpson’s sentence would protect her.

“She must have peace of mind that she is safe and that her privacy is protected,” he said.

Authorities in Holland, Mich., told Warsaw police in March that a Holland electronic repair business had found a DVD in a car’s compact disc player showing a girl undressing, prosecutors said. Investigators later learned the girl was younger than 15 and that the recordings were made with a concealed camera equipped with a wireless transmitter, authorities said.

Simpson said in court that he was “committed to staying on a disciplined course of recovery. My behaviors and actions have cost me much.”

Kosciusko Circuit Judge Rex L. Reed said that while Simpson was remorseful and has sought treatment, the girl was harmed even though Simpson did not touch her.

Simpson joined Zimmer in 1999 and was promoted to senior vice president in December before resigning before his April arrest, the company said.

Zimmer has more 6,500 employees worldwide, including about 2,100 in Warsaw, about 40 miles northwest of Fort Wayne. The company designs, develops and manufactures reconstructive and spinal implants as was as trauma and orthopedic surgical products.

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I'm sure that I believe his, "I won't do it again" speech.

Whoa .... gotta get there

to go pee ... maybe sleep.

Drink too much? Get a room downtown

The Downtown Hilton and Grand Wayne Convention Center on Thursday will release details about a new program that gives discounted room rates to downtown revelers who think they have drank too much.

According to a news release from the Downtown Improvement District, the “Stay Safe ... Stay With Us” alcohol safety initiative was created to “promote safe alcohol use downtown by offering discounted room rates at the Hilton to those who cannot practically drive themselves home after consuming too much alcohol at a downtown establishment.”

Promoters tout the program as another example of downtown businesses taking care of their customers.

D M's 3 points

Regarding the Clinton's marriage, "is like a slim jim rack and a slushie machine attached". Regarding the overuse of insanity plea, "So you're crazy. We'll fry you in a clown suit." Dennis Miller also remarked, on something I truly appreciate, on child molesters and lifetime monitors, "You know another way we can know where they are ... we bury them."

While not all of the stuff was funny, these three things were worth seeing. It was an older show, but I don't generally listen to his standup, so it was a good change.

I'll give one thing for them

Salafist Group hate the French, and so do many Americans.  "Our brothers," he said, "will be a thorn in the necks of the American and French crusaders and their allies, and a dagger in the hearts of the French traitors and apostates."

 

They, however, have no interest in bringing and end to this destructive conflict.

 

SGPC is friend in need, friend indeed -- to Al-Quada

He won't get my voite

Commissioner Nelson Peters, 48, next week will announce creation of a committee to explore his possible candidacy in next May’s Republican mayoral primary. Peters was elected commissioner in 2004, so the GOP would have to appoint someone to fill the final year of his term if he is elected mayor.

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He will form a committee to find out whether he should run? My word, how wasteful with tax dollars.

Re-reconsidered

I originally ranked X-Men III: Last Stand at 5.5, but there is no way, in good conscious that I could do so ... it would rank down there to 3.something. I didn't like X-Men 1 or 2 and 3 was worse. Special effects notwithstanding, you've got nothing else. I won't watch it again. I didn't see the other X-Men twice either.

I just don't like movies anymore. I used to like them, but I'm just so damned finicky and picky and peculiar anymore. I want something that entertains, but isn't so dimwitted and stupid -- thrown in with half-plots and poor acting ... "it all sounds like some bad movie"+.

+ Top Secret

just poop on the slide please

Unbelievable! There might be DNA testing and matching to see who's poop is floating in the Pacific. That's just, weird!

Mrs. Drinktoomuch

Ark. woman shows up drunk at DWI hearing

Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK - A Little Rock woman facing her fifth drunken-driving charge in the span of a year - and third in less than a month - showed up to a court appearance drunk Tuesday morning, a court official said.
Susan Marshall, 55, was arrested for contempt of court after a brief appearance in Little Rock District Court, said chief probation officer Sheila Farley. Marshall later had a blood-alcohol level of 0.147 percent, Farley said. The legal limit for adult drivers in Arkansas is 0.08 percent.
Marshall said she did not drive to her court appearance and had no keys when arrested, Farley said.
Marshall, who had three drunken-driving arrests in September, was taken to Pulaski County Jail. She was scheduled for another court appearance Wednesday, Farley said.
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I wonder if she'll drive herself out of jail then? Is she really learning?

letter of condolence

Thank you very much for your interest in the Marketing Publications Consultant position with [this company], however, the position has been filled.

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Ah, dude!

They meant legal "gay area"

Florida voters proclaim, "We did not elect that predator", but checking, they did indeed elect him into office. If there is justice in the world, some nice Floridian will drop off a gun with hollowpoint bullets for him to nice take "himself out" with one or more bullets. I'm sure that many persons around the nation would be happy to off him, to save others. The sad bit here is that he once pushed legislation to help children and to protect them.

Witch on trial

She thinks it's Harry Potter, but really, the witch is the one in the photo. A character is influencing the youth to practice witchcraft. I guess what she doesn't seem to see is that media is no substitute for parents -- ie: don't let books, magazines, movies or television adopt a higher influence on your children than you, the parent. I guess that message would be lost on this flake.

It's been tried before and will be tried again. "Hey, look! It's evil! Let mob it and condemn it without thinking or aksing questions!" So, Harry Potter, a character has more influence on the children than parents and is trying to get others to learn and practice magic through the use of spells with wands. I guess that mother never read the books -- in that the spells; limited in description and variety in the books, also requires a unique-to-user wand, as well as the inate ability to do so, rather than having magicless personage.

I think the dunce cap would make her look better in the photo, only hinting at her own witchy (bitchy) ways.

Put 'em together and what have you got?

not "bibbity-bobbity-boo", that's for sure. Far from being a magical incantation, subject lines for spam. Who would open these? What little brain power would be behind a mind that would open these?

clotheshorse , demodulate some smutty
drift in win in aperiodic
broke ! perception topography
ingenuous , heath and pageant
in brick bestowal
penultimate not holt but hymn
dumpy the slivery inherent blurtcameo
decolletage and capricorn be desist

America, wake up!

Do you really want these on the streets again, in any town let alone your town? I'm greedy. I don't want my tax dollars spent on keeping someone in prison for the rest of their life, while vagrants can't get medical help, these pedophiles do in prison. I say kill them now! How many people have to friggin' die in school shootings or be molested before America decides -- hey, that's enough of that shit right now!

A hibitual sex-offender (specifically child molestation) gets 8 years in prison, 2 years probation. Did you read that right? Habitual; that means repeated convictions, will be out again to molest and rape and maybe kill. Is that person learning in prison, becoming a better person with like individuals and other criminals in there; no.

Damn society for harboring these types of terrorists. Kill them now. If you want them -- you have them! I don't want them! I'm fine the the execution of persons. I think I should be allowed to direct where my taxes go, directly. I pay taxes and I think that I should be able to go online and direct how they are spent. I don't even care so much that the taxes are higher than they should be, but I do care that the taxes are spent stupidly. I find that congress and senate spend the money stupidly. Crime is a large amount of annual expediture that doesn't grow smaller every year.

As far as it taking more money to kill convicts by lethal injection by the law with decades of appeals and costs, I consider the fact that not feeding or providing water will result in the same end, but faster and cheaper. If that's cruel and inhumane, I think providing them with the means to suicide is perfectly acceptable. If not that, then live ordinance testers or simply shooting them. In any case, the dead tend not to commit crime and I don't have to wonder about them lurking around finding or creating victims.

If you read about the PA Amish killer, he supposedly molested/abused girls in the past and wanted to do so again. So ... those wanting to save the molesters, please raise your hands and raise your taxes! "F" 'em! Kill the molesters now, not later, now! God judges, Christ saves; I'm neither. A person has to live on the planet dealing with his/her sins, as well as the evils of everyone else. I'd prefer a society with fewer molesters wandering around. You can't get them all, but you can certainly put a dent in the number living.

View with a restaurant

as seen from the wooded river path in the park
What you don't see is the river and cliff between the restaurant and these leafs in the forefront. There is no back entrance.

from inside the resaurant, you get a restaurant with a view, though a bit obscured. This is Curly's, a small place where Pop 'n' Fresh has played many times. They taut Irish lineage or homeage, who am I to argue. It reminds me, while I'm on the path, of about how far along I am. There are a few markers like this, but the shot is neat, showing the windows, which are quite large, offer little precision from their lofty height.

I guess I'm enticed to go there again to eat, drink, listen to music and see the colors of fall and part of the river.

pictures of the walk (since MR reminded me that I didn't post them)

the leaves are just starting to turn color
found on the underside of a log
looking East on the river
monarch
unknown species of mushroom, but interesting to me
for clarification, this is a heron
one of the park's patches of seasonal flowers
along the golf course
shade adds to this shot
trees are always redder on the other side, which doesn't have a path

filth and mire

videos on the net, ever possible, but some leave you with the qeustion, "why" or more appropriately, "who would ...". Amy was at Monkeyjack's last night and introduced us all to a website with hundreds of videos -- many of which panders to the sick. I wonder why MR mentioned Videodrome the other night, it's relevancy now comes into focus. I only saw one video that I hadn't seen, while tasteless it wasn't sickening. It was, however 'R' rated material. What Lori, Monkeyjack's wife, told me was that one they (Monkeyjack, Lori, Amy) watched while I was battling the boys, was "tossed salad"+ and more. I'm glad that my time was spent playing rather than watching the sad, sick, twisted nature of people.

I would have thought, sometime within you seeing what was going on you would: kill the video, kill the page, turn off the sound and monitor, or escape the room as though it were on fire. They did none of these and watched it. Amy was introduced to this by a co-worker. She works in schools -- you think about that! I was told about it and won't see it and won't tell the website. For me ... it is the better part of valor not to carry the message at all.

Even more so than the TV, monitor what your family watches -- you may undo all of your work, by enabling curisoity that doesn't kill the cat.

+ I had mentioned that I recently had typed in the term to find out its menaing and was grossed-out to find the preversions of people, but shouldn't have been shocked. I think this sparked a memory in Amy's veiwing with the co-worker (notice I didn't use, "friend")

disembodied

I was on one of the three bridges that cross a local river, each within a few miles of each other. The bridge is very old -- 40's, I think and rocks with wind and seems to support only the weight of three persons. I walked from end to end and back, then heading back to the car, I heard, "bye" from a child's voice. Now ... who said it?

There are two nearly-parallel paths, one in the woods, one out. There were people out in the park, but when I listened for more, I heard no voices at all. I don't believe in ghosts and won't, until one bites me in the arse, but I found it strange. "Bye", by whom? I'll forget about it, until I experience it again. Still, it was worth the eerriness of the moment.

Swordfight at the OK coral

I was at Monkeyjack's, invited to dinner, and was greeted by the hounds of the baskervilles (not so terrifying if you know that they are rambunctious puppies -- large as they are). They are still teething and when a toy isn't around, furniture or people work just as well. With my return there, the behaviors returned as well ... some good, some bad. They are, afterall, dogs that can imprint information and make associations that last a lifetime. Humans think too much to do this.

Cheyenne has taken more to going belly up for chest rubs, while Echo prefers a back and rump scratch -- devilishly difficult to reach. They have difficulty being calm around guests, it appears, or perhaps just around me -- the upright dog. Should I have been in the Shaggy Dog? They are very lovable.

Charlie wanted to battle, the moment that he knew I was there. It started with swords then moved to wrestling. With Jared's arrival, I was the evil one, General Grievious, wielding two swords against my opponents who had armor that doesn't break and had force fields, and could walk on lava, whereas I had none of those things -- hence, my continually slaughter at their hands. Later, they developed the ability to become invisible and I was swinging in the air for targets that continually slashed at me. It was my disappointment that early on, while Charlie alone was battling me, that he bears a scratch by my random swinging.

The boys together were formidable, but agreeing on rules was their downfall. What to play, ground rules, who I was, what weapon I was to have all were difficulties. After dinner, the boys battled me, but older man me requested that we switch gears to video games, where digitally, I was crushed, shot, pushed felled and in all manners slain in a Mario fight game.

The dogs, singly and together pawed and cried at the door to be with the boys and I. There were no distinctions. Kids, canine or human should play together in harmony.

Charlie had one last fight -- sleep, but to this enemy he fell.

Park walk

On Sunday, while the weather was nearly perfect -- enough so for me, I went for a simple park walk, 2 or 3 miles tops. I saw many a thing there, nature not too afraid of humans, the tinge of color in a few leaves, the murky river and I smell ed the aroma of autumn. The largest animal I saw, but was too fast for my camera and myself was a woodchuck that scurried along the path to its wide burrow.

Something I didn't expect to see, teen boys throwing their bikes off a stairwell to the bridge. I merely stepped by, not asking a thing, for I remember as a youth, pangs of physical energy -- needing to move, destroying was more fun and I had not concentration on creating. Therein, the preference for destruction -- mindless, mostly with some benefit. I later saw the four guys; three biking and one walking. Guess which one was throwing the bike off the stairwell. They bade me only a, "hey" while I passed, they knew full well what utter asses they looked like, but who cares what an old man thinks, right?

There was a family getting photos in the flower garden, though they weren't in a wedding party. Rather than the typical, "cheese", they all chimed in with, "buttfly" with each shot. I was getting some shots of spiders lying in wait on flowers, but heard them in the background, later seeing the group finish and move on. It appeared that there weren't very many 'apparent' adults there.

I found a section near a bridge where, the last several times I've been there, a strong odor of death. I looked and searched, but couldn't find the dead thing. I haven't smelled an unprepared dead person before and wonder if it smells much like most other dead animals. I believe that there were markings near the area, as canines and other predators tend to mark areas and locales of food. Still others hide their larder, but I believe a small patch of underbrush and loose twigs covered a body of something. I suspect a fairly large animal, like a raccoon or the like. Dead fish smells like dead fish, but this smell mammalian.

Apart from a long-winded and sickening tale of dead, I continued from there to a spot under the nearby bridge where I could almost cross to the other side of the bank from stones littering the bed. I chanced upon a hawk -- first I heard it, then saw the dark shape in the wonderful blue. A minute later, a heron was in the air, long, magestic and not wanting to be around humans.

I got back to my car and the family next to my car looked peeved that I should do something as vulgar as want to leave with it. From one angle, it looked like they were continually banging the baby carriage into the side of my car. I said nothing to them and left.

It was great to be out in the open, though I'd like a job. I'll go again when I get the chance, which may not come soon.

Grading Flickr

I give it a D. I would give it an "F", but as it's taking about 20% of what I'm giving it, I cannot outright flunk it, but it is close. I do hope that sometime they get it running better, you know ... where when you load pictures it actually loads them. I tried a few times, gave up rather than use profanity and punch my monitor.

Somewhere, there's a puppy crying

While walking through the woods on a leaf-covered path, I found this ... a lonely tennis ball, without its dog. The pair will not see each other again. Poor little puppy lost a good toy, friend.