BOO!

---Happy Halloween guys! Are you taking the kiddies anywhere special tonight or tomorrow night to go trick or treating? We have a couple of ideas to toss around here, were just not sure yet....

Let me know what you guys plan on doing!---

If you could.....

An affluent couple gets into an argument over dinner.

"If you could cook," said the husband, "we could fire the chef."

"If you could screw," replied the wife, "we could fire the driver."

---Haha. Prolly true in a lot of relationships though.

Well, my step dad comes home tomorrow, which is great news! But his recovery will be long and drawn out. Having had TWO open heart surgeries in the past, everything takes a lot more time for him to get back on his feet.

By the way Scott, I think I talked her into buying an external HD, for storage.....---

Happy Sunday Everyone!

---Yes, Im this bored right now and the cat picture is cute. Fall is in full effect here, it was 34 degrees when I went out at 715 this AM. My step Dad (Dennis) is doing better, but man, being a heart patient and having pneumonia sucks ass! It has totally drained him.

Did I tell you guys Im down to a slim 170 pounds now, down from 205 over the summer. No special diets, no weight loss pills, no eating right, my secret? I just eat dinner early, around 430 in the afternoon and then dont eat again until the next day, so cutting out the big night snack is what did it for me! Im pretty happy about it. Lets see, I got a new computer, its pretty nice IMO, Runs super fast, dual core and all the fixens. The only draw back to getting the new p.c. was the fact that that was my ink $$$, so there will be no more sleeve work for me any time in the near future.

Anyone got any Halloween plans? We will take Ava trick or treating around the nicer part of town if it isnt too cold and if it is too cold for her, we will just go the big mall here where they hand out candy to the wee ones.

Well guys, I know youre all busy, but when you get just one extra minute, let me know how youre doing, I think of my Brothers often and I am really sorry I wont be headed into town like planned next month.

One more HUGE thing..Im looking in your direction Mike and in your direction also Mark, how much do you know about flash drives? Scott, can you help me here? The ex has literally hundreds of pics of the kid on her computer and she wants to put them onto a flash drive...any ideas???? Its so bad at times, her p.c. runs low on memory and wont do anything for a while. What are some good drives and HOW MUCH can they hold, she has hundreds of pics, will she need to buy 2???---

update

well, I felt I should update ya'll on my going ons even though this blog is a ghost town but my step dad has fallen ill with a very, very serious case of bacterial pneumonia and travel is not advised for him anytime in the near future His recovery time will be long and drawn out and the main reason we were going to head that way was so he could spend time with some dear friends of his, so in a nutshell, I wont be coming, sorry guys. Guess there is always next Spring and maybe as the time that goes by between now and then, we could throw some kind of reunion together or something. Just an idea.


See you guys around I guess......Im going to Vegas anyways, or at least thats what Im telling myself.

---OK, I know you guys are busy little worker bees, but the blog is dead...

Hello, anybody out there?---

Iraq Blogs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6940384.stm

---Sorry, I still dont know how to directly link on this damn thing, but anyways, copy and paste works just as good. Go check it out, its kinda interesting.---

OG

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A former gang member convicted in a jewelry heist that resembled robberies he described in his memoir has been sentenced to 126 years in prison.

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Colton Simpson, 41, declined to speak during Friday's sentencing hearing and showed no reaction when Superior Court Judge F. Paul Dickerson III issued the sentence.

Simpson, who has previous felony convictions, was sentenced under the state's three strikes law. He was found guilty of robbery, burglary and grand theft for his role in a 2003 heist at a Robinsons-May Co. department store jewelry counter in Temecula.

Simpson was accused of being the mastermind and getaway car driver. Two unidentified men, who were not prosecuted, were accused of entering the store and actually pulling off the heist.

Dickerson permitted Simpson's 2005 memoir, "Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang," to be presented as evidence during the trial.

Prosecutors argued that a visit by Simpson to the jewelry counter two days before the robbery was similar to scenes in the book.

---Its crazy to me to think there are still Crips and Bloods out there and doing well. At my last check I was under the impression that most of the serious, hardcore L.A. gangs had gone underground more or less, kinda like the MOB. You damn well know they exist, but they are just really, really quiet about it.

Its like if someone my size was to end up in prison serving HARD time. Id join a white power gang so fast your head would spin. You need protection on the inside. I still remember a lot about the prison system from my years in college (and I worked in an all women medium security prison for about 6 months too) You dont play solo in prison for very long and expect to be left alone. You do what ya gotta do to live in there. OK, I got off topic, anyone else got any ideas about prison, or gangs for that matter? Are there still a lot of gangs over there? I would imagine Chicago is riddled with them. The gangs here are VERY well hidden, Des Moines has an excellent gang task force, be it very small---

Busted

Long before the sun comes up to bake the Arizona desert, the Maricopa County sheriff's deputies get ready for the day's pursuit.

"The objective is basically to make stops on these vehicles, screen these individuals [to see] whether they're in this country illegally," said Madrid.

With 4 million residents, Maricopa (which includes the cities of Phoenix and Mesa) claims to be the fastest-growing county in America. Illegal immigrants are helping fuel that growth with their numbers and labor, and in Maricopa County they aren't waiting for Washington to stop haggling over immigration reform. That's because they have a no-nonsense sheriff who likes to do things … his way.

---Its about time they gave some of our border patrol guards the power to actually arrest someone trying to get in illegally---

raw fish anyone?

Since its sweeping westernization, sushi has seen a sharp decrease of popularity in Japan.


---Never had it, never will. I don't see how you can eat raw fish, yet raw chicken or beef could kill you due to bacteria inside of it. Ive heard that raw pork is the most dangerous meat though.---

Nov. 4th-9th

Dont forget fuckers, Ill in town in that time span, Ive given you ALL PLENTY of notice, so I expect a night out with the boys.


by the way.....this blog is dead dead dead....what are you guys up to?

Ive been enjoying the fall weather, even though it has rained here the past 3 days. Im still gettin used to my new monster of a p.c. that I just got and I have officially started my Christmas shopping already...go me!!!!!

ring ring.....

19 percent of telephone calls placed by 13 year-old-boys are prank phone calls.

---So, admit it, what was the craziest or most foolish prank call you have ever made?---

Another GREAT one from W.

We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal -- federal cufflink.
--George w. Bush

Milwaukee, WI
03/30/2000
comments made at Fritsche Middle School

I gots me a new P.C.

---Im very happy and excited about it. Vista will take some getting used to though. Its a Dell Inspiron 530s. It cost me a few bucks, but what the hell....its only paper with numbers on it anyways.---

random thoughts

hi guys, just wanted to stop in and say hi from across the pond. i'm at the edinburgh airport getting ready to head to my hotel. hope you are having fun

p.s. the paris airport is a huge headache to negotiate

one more try?

that is what i ment to do.

random thoughts

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a little something i picked up from a website i like www.conspriacyplanet.com while i was drinking my coffee.

ps thanks for the sentiments guys, we are all very excited. i'll do my best to get pictures.

bad bad lyrics

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe Sting should start writing more instrumentals. The school teacher-turned-rock star topped Blender's list of the worst lyricists, thanks to lines that betray "mountainous pomposity (and) cloying spirituality," the music magazine said.

The survey, contained in the November issue that hits newsstands next week, placed Rush drummer Neil Peart at No. 2, Creed frontman Scott Stapp at No. 3, Oasis guitarist Noel
Blender assailed Sting for such alleged sins as name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the Police tune "Don't Stand So Close to Me," quoting a Volvo bumper sticker ("If You Love Someone Set Them Free"), and co-opting the works of Chaucer, St. Augustine and Shakespeare.

A spokeswoman for the English rocker, who is currently in Belgium on the Police's reunion world tour, did not respond to a request for comment.

Blender described Canadian rocker Peart's lyrics as "richly awful tapestries of fantasy and science," and said Gallagher "seemed incapable of following a metaphor through a single line, let alone a whole verse."

Further down the ranks, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant (No. 23) was derided for his Tolkienesque musings on Gollum and Mordor in "Ramble On."

Carly Simon (No. 31) was mocked for rhyming "yacht," "apricot" and "gavotte" in "You're So Vain."

Paul McCartney made No. 38, thanks in part to "Ebony and Ivory," his socially conscious duet with Stevie Wonder.

The ascent of the Internet as the supermarket of choice for deviants has spurred law enforcement authorities to step up their trolling of the darkest corners of the Web in an effort to lure sex offenders to their arrests.

Examples abound, some of outwardly decent people, indeed pillars of the community, who have sought to have sex with children through sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
Most worrying to law enforcement, however, is a small but apparently growing subset of these predators who are hooking up online with parents or guardians willing to prostitute their children, sometimes as young as infants.
These are the most dangerous predators going after the most vulnerable victims, and finding and prosecuting such cases provide the opportunity to take both the criminal parent and perpetrator off the streets, according to criminal justice experts who spoke to ABC News.

---As young as infants????? What the hell is the matter with this Country? And no no no, dont go fucking blaming ole W for this kind of shit. Parents prostituting their children out to online predators????? WTF!!!!! This nation has some serious issues.---

life and its happenings...

---Well, its back up into the god damn low to upper 80's again here, so we are going through an Indian summer, or so they call it. It just sucks cuz I just started pulling out all my winter clothes. You know, get my 40s and 50s sweaters out and in return put the shorts away til next spring.

Ive gotten glasses! Bi focals to be exact. I HATE THEM! I just need them to read and when I sit in front of the p.c. anyways. My nearsight vision is shot to hell. They are cool Buddy Holly ones though, they look good.

I just bought a new computer, will be here by the 19th, Im really excited about that. My mom bought a new HDTV (as you have read about in an earlier thread), so I wont get into that.

Where the hell did Mark M. and Mr. Martin run off too, I havent seen them post here in ages. Do I need to send out the bloodhounds to sniff you guys out?

Well, thanks for everything, you've been awesome, thanks, goodnight---

---No, Im NOT leaving, dont start cheering yet cuz your favorite conservative is leaving, Im not, Ive always wanted to end a post like that, kinda something a rockstar would say to the crowd after their final encore.....---

question.

-----We will be gettin an HDTV next Heres my question.....

If a show comes on and it says "available in HD" or whatever does the HD just automatically kick on our new HDTV, or will we havta activate it every time we see one of those kind of things??

Im know laugh, go ahead....Im a dork

Things that go bump in the night.

The horror film "Poltergeist" is being re-released in theaters today to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The film, which is considered a classic and was nominated for three Oscars, has a lesser-known legacy: it strongly influenced the public's views about real-life ghosts.

About half of Americans believe in ghosts, according to a 2003 Harris poll. Since the scientific evidence for ghosts is shaky at best—and since relatively few people claim to have personally seen a ghost—most people get their information about them through the media.

Steven Spielberg, who wrote and produced "Poltergeist," is well known for his influence on pop culture in general. But his films have also shaped the public's perception of the paranormal. His successful films often include supernatural themes, including ghosts, aliens (e.g., "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," and "War of the Worlds"); miracles (the Indiana Jones series); and psychic powers ("Minority Report").

While audiences know the films are entertainment, there is a clear (if subtle and sometimes subconscious) influence on their beliefs about these topics

---Do you believe in ghosts?---

random thoughts

"when fascism comes to america, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross."
-sinclair lewis


also i'm leaving for scotland on the eleventh and my step-son, damien has just turned 18. wow time sure flys.

Iranian Pres. visits US

A firestorm of controversy swept throughout the nation last week as the defiant president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited the United States. Ahmadinejad was originally invited to speak at Columbia University last Monday as a part of that institution’s World Leader’s Forum.

From there, he delivered a speech to the United Nations opening General Assembly Tuesday morning. Both appearances are a source of hefty dispute.

First, Ahmadinejad received a mixed greeting at both in New York and at Columbia University. A handful of students applauded his arrival while another handful of protestors stood outside the University, touting messages like, “GO TO HELL.”

There were also protestors all over New York City itself. Most of the demonstrators were centered on Ground Zero, due to a visit Ahmadinejad had planned. Because of all the hostile activity, the Iranian president was forced to cancel his visit, much to his dismay.

Ahmadinejad was asked to speak at Columbia University as part of the institution’s World Leaders series. To make him feel even less welcome, Columbia University’s president referred to Ahmadinejad as a “cruel and petty dictator,” when as he was introduced to the audience.

In his presentation, Ahmadinejad inspired laughter and uproar as he covered various topics such as questioning who was really behind the September 11 attacks to his right to question the reality of the holocaust.

He even said, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country.”

He talked about God, science and how the United States merely misunderstood him, that he was truly an academic. All in all, Ahmadinejad’s lecture lasted about an hour.

He ended on a good note by inviting the entire listening faculty and students to Iran, saying that they could visit any Iranian University of their choice, where they would be respected and listened to.

---This guy is a jag bag, plain and simple. I cant put it any other way, fuck him.---

The following day the Iranian President addressed the U.N. General Assembly. As Ahmadinejad prepared to give his speech, the United States delegation left, setting a hostile tone for the duration.

WTF Jack, im lost

So. im not Bill Gates, but HOW THE FUCK do you change your homepage/start page onFirefox?


ugh
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can 1 of you help me?

Yet another reason not to fly.

As air travelers' summer of hell draws to a close, stories of canceled flights, lost luggage and late arrivals abound. But while it might seem that the whole system is a mess, which carriers are actually the biggest culprits?

Other than JetBlue's much publicized ice storm fiasco in February, customers seem to be engaged in a general rage against the industry machine. And it's true that some common annoyances, like long security lines, come courtesy of the government and tend to affect airlines across the board.

Check out the worst airlines at our partner site, Forbes.com.

But when it comes to delivering for customers, there can still be quite a difference from one carrier to another. To measure the worst performing airlines for the 12 months ended July 31, 2007, we analyzed the U.S. Department of Transportation's Air Travel Consumer Report for the three criteria that consumers say are nearest and dearest to their hearts--flight delays, cancellations and mishandled bags.

Overbooked planes were also cited in consumer complaints--who doesn't detest getting bumped from an oversold flight? But because the problem affects only a tiny fraction of the flying population, we didn't include the category in our calculation.

The numbers show that Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a former Delta Air Lines unit that still has working agreements for baggage and other ground operations with its former parent in Atlanta, and which ranks at or next to the bottom in all three categories, has earned the dubious distinction of America's worst airline. Right behind are Delta's low-fare subsidiary Comair, which has the nation's highest cancellation rate, and American Airlines' unit American Eagle, which ranks among the bottom four in all categories.

---Man, I truly hate airliners.---

Meth, how do you feel about it?

I've been to my share of parties, talked to more than a few "pharmaceutical majors" and read plenty of Bukowski and Burroughs, but I've never heard people describe a drug with such simultaneous reverence and revulsion as the meth-heads in Montana, where a PSA campaign has helped reverse the prevalance of this drug. (To watch the videos, click here.)

"You feel like God," one young woman told me about her experience with the drug. Another described feeling "10 feet tall and bulletproof." She cracked a guilty smile when she spoke, and I was able to count her six remaining teeth.

Methamphetamine was invented in Japan in the late 1800s, and years later, the Nazis mixed it with chocolate to keep their pilots focused in battle. A graph charting American meth use looks like a hockey stick; a low plateau through the '60s and '70s that cranks skyward.

By the '90s, it was no longer a fringe weight loss aid or trucker's buddy. It became a smokeable, snortable, shootable party drug that has devastated rural America.

Why here? For years, it was cheap — and everywhere. Unlike cocaine, heroin or marijuana, meth is not grown but mixed; a witches brew of cold medicine, antifreeze, drain cleaner and other store-bought or farm-pilfered chemicals.

One needs only time to cook it, and space to mask the fumes. The American West has plenty of space, along with plenty of small-town kids eager to experiment on a slow Saturday night.

But calling meth addictive is like calling water wet. As it floods the brain with dopamine and serotonin, it also explodes the vesicles that receive these pleasure-producing hormones in the future.

Soon, the only way for a user to experience joy is with more meth. "If someone tells you they're a recreational user, they're full of crap," a veteran drug cop told me with a wry laugh. What begins as recreation often ends in soul-crushing depression and physical decay.

---Hah, I didnt know Nazi's used the shit, did you? I cant begin to tell you how many lives I have known that have been impacted by meth. My former sister in law lost her kids because of it. Iowa is pretty big for meth users. If you head out into "Corn Country" you can see plenty of old, abandoned trailers that were used for meth manufacturing. Drugs, how fun. Well, I just wanted to post a story to the board maybe spice things up a bit, me done.---

MT quote...

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain (35)

---I dunno about "good books" being on this list but the other two are pretty good.---