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?