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.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Expect More
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.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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 | 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 | No |
| Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold | Maybe - unsure |
| Former | Maybe - unsure |
| Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich | Maybe - unsure |
| Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack | Maybe - unsure |
| Former | 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
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")
Someone foolishly let this guy have the bow & arrowMost 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
Candice Perry, the legal advocacy program coordinator for
“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 walkYesterday, 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.
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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.Monday, October 09, 2006
spam titles
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.
