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Army "birther" supporters in a RAGE

  I post here about the "Army 'birther' loses ruling on evidence." 
After that I started to get some Google hits.  People doing a search on the subject and I was high on the Google list and they end up here.  So I then did a search using the terms they did their search for to see where I was on the Google page and see what others are saying.
 
  I find my site listed but many of the other sites listed from the search were site that supported Lakin.  Let me tell you they were pissed off….Not just pissed off they are in a mad rage. 

  I think the reason they are in such a rage is that they were thinking that this was going to be a show trial.  Lakin was denied his request to compel President Obama to testify.  Then on top of that the military judge ruled that he could not even use as a defense President Obama's eligibility to be president. 
  The trial will be on did Lakin refuse an order.  The charge is disobeying orders.
 
  I think that is the reason that sites supporting him are going nuts now.  They are so crazy they think that President Obama is not the legal President of the United States.
  They think that any American that does not agree with them is just plain stupid and that all they have to do is present their "facts" and then we all will see that President Obama is not the real true President of the United States.
  Now that is not going to happen. 
  The trial if there is one is going to be on did Lt. Col. Terrace Lakin get orders and did he refuse the orders?  I do not think there is going to be a  trial now.  I think Lakin will make a deal. 

 
  I did find some good comments on some of those sites; 

"THERE IS NO JUSTICE . TAKE TO THE STREETS. General strike needed. Our Founding Fathers await our response."

"Here is one of the best comments since it explains things for us non-military people who have no idea of military law:

you and I have discussed this before, and it was clear from the beginning that the LTC’s quest was a “quixotic doomed one.” I and many others have explained that, under the law, the judge had no choice but to rule as she did — LTC Lakin’s view of the President’s eligibility, even if 100% correct, does not constitute a legal defense to the crimes of which he stands accused.

It’s hard to blame the military for this — military law on this subject has remained the same for many years, and the outcome was entirely predictable. LTC Lakin even received a counseling letter before he committed his crimes pointing out that the defense he was planning to use would not be considered valid.

As I’ve said before, the blame belongs with the man who made the decision, LTC Lakin himself — and with those who encouraged him to make this sacrifice even though it was clear from the beginning that he would gain nothing and lose much.

Those who cheered his self-destructive path should be ashamed of themselves."  Comments from "Fellowship of Minds"

  That last comment above I think is how I feel.  I did not know it until I read the comment.  When I saw the video of the Lakin I had that feeling.
  You know when you see some crime and there are two subjects.  In court you find that one of the two subjects is sort of slow and is a follower and just does what he is told to do.  That is the feeling I had about Lakin. 
  I KNOW he is not only a doctor but a military officer but that is the feeling that I get about him.  The feeling that he had this stupid idea and even others officers might have said the same thing but he said it and some of them told him …"You go girl."  "You show them."  "We support you 100%."  "You are right."  "You will be a hero!"
  
  If he takes a deal and fast he could end up running with Sara Palin for President of the United States in 2014.  If he does not take the deal he may be in jail in 2014. 

Vegan Family

  I have family members that are "Vegan" and no that is not a person from some other world.  Well sometimes it feels like it.

  See "My Vegan Life" for a well written and interesting post on being a vegan.

"Hello. I'm Marly. I'm a vegan. For any members of my family who may be reading this post, it's pronounced VEE-ghun. I have had several people (yes, in my family, but others too) who've asked me what the heck that means. Here's the short and simple answer: it means I do my best to eat food that does not include any type of animal products. I also do my best to avoid purchasing things (like purses) that are made of animal products…"
Read more: http://blogcritics.org/tastes/article/my-vegan-life/#ixzz0yS9sv3kS

  I think the Comedy Channel could come up with a great show on the subject.  I see the show being something like "My Name is Earl."  Just show a vegan person  trying to deal with life and the people around the vegan person trying to deal with them.  For one show you could use the line "not that there is anything wrong with that" all the time during the show.
 
  I love meat.  I eat way to much and I eat "meat" that no one should eat (like hot dogs).  I think eating almost no meat would be a lot more healthy.  I think eating zero meat for most people would not be good.
  I think to be a true vegan and be healthy you have to very smart and you have to work very hard. 

 

Army "birther" loses ruling on evidence

  I wonder what Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin is going to do now? 
An Army judge ruled today that proof of President Obama's eligibility to be president isn't relevant to the defense of an Army doctor accused of failing to obey a lawful order.
 

"FORT MEADE, Md. — An Army judge ruled Thursday that proof of President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president isn't relevant to the defense of an Army doctor accused of failing to obey a lawful order.

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin has been charged with disobeying orders after failing to show up for duty in Afghanistan and questioning whether the president has the right to order him there.

Lakin had sought the release of school records that could include a copy of Obama's birth certificate. He as questioned whether Obama was born a U.S. citizen and therefore eligible to be president.

The judge ruled Thursday that the records and any other evidence or witnesses pertaining to Obama's birth will not be admitted. Prosecutors have argued that Obama's birth certificate shouldn't be part of the case, especially since the order for Lakin to deploy to Afghanistan didn't come directly from the president, The Associated Press reported.

The Greeley, Colo., native did not report to Fort Campbell, Ky., in April to prepare for deployment.

Lakin said in a YouTube video that he chose to disobey orders and was inviting his own court-martial. He says he wants to see Obama's birth certificate as proof Obama was born in the U.S., as presidents must be, and thus that the deployment order for Afghanistan is legal.

Hawaiian officials say they have records proving Obama was born there, but so-called birthers challenge that.

If convicted, Lakin faces up to 45 months of confinement, total forfeiture of pay and allowances, and dismissal from the Army.

In a brief statement after Thursday's hearing, Lakin's defense attorney said the ruling denied his client the ability to be defended.

The next pre-trial hearing will be Sept. 28 and the trial is set for Oct. 13-15."

  That is what I expected would happen.  I wonder if Lakin honestly felt he was going to be allowed to bring up all this "birther" crap in court?  His defense attorney should have told him it was not going to be allowed.
  Now Lakin is fucked.  It comes down to were you ordered to go to Afghanistan?  Did you refused the order? 
  Next stop for Lakin Fort Leavenworth and the United States Disciplinary Barracks and four years of hard labor. 

  My guess is that on September 28th he will want to cut a deal.  My guess is he will try and get the best deal he can on the type of discharge from the Army and that he will take forfeiture of all pay, allowances, benefits etc.
  He will then be out of the military and he can say that he was correct and that he could not get a fair day in court.  He can end up on Fox News or he might run for Congress. 
 

  I do not see him going to jail now.  I think he will cut some sort of a deal. 
Will the military be willing to give him an out?  I think the best thing for the military might be to not give him an out and make an example of him. 
  Send the message out to the troops that you obey orders or else.

Where are the 3,000 New Netflix Movies?

  I am a fan of Netflix.  I have posted here a number of times about the Epix and Netflix deal.  Netflix will get 3,000 movies that we can watch via streaming.  It was happen on September 1st.
  Well where are the movies?  But the crazy thing is that Netflix does not say anything on the web site. They just had a press release about the deal, and it was hard to find, posted 08/10/2010.
  Someone in their organization is fucking up big time.  They must have a PR department?
  People want to know about the movies and people want to know when they will be online.
  How do I know?   Because people are searching the web and they are being sent to ShowMeBlog as a link.  Thanks Netflix for the traffic but come on ...  Get smart.... Post some information on your own site.  
  Also my God... Do something with your blog.   

  I do not think they have added the 3,000 movies yet to their listing but if they have..what a stupid way that would be to do it.  They need to let people know.  If I remember correct they spent 1 Billion dollars to get those movies.  They need to get the word out to their 15 million members.  Hell that calls for a couple of emails going out.

KC Hospital Workers Join SEIU

  Here is some interesting news.  I worked at both these hospitals. I worked for Research Medical Center for 18 years.  I worked at Menorah Medical Center for one year.
 

"By a more than 2-to-1 margin, workers at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO voted yesterday to make SEIU Healthcare Missouri/Kansas their union.  The landslide victory, with a vote of 285 to 136, unites nearly 600 more HCA-affiliated hospital workers in SEIU Healthcare.  They join the more than 300 workers at Kansas City-area Menorah Medical Center who voted to join SEIU just weeks ago.

"The election was a very moving experience and a very needed change," remarked Arthur Dawkins, an EVS Tech at Research Medical Center. "Yesterday we stood together and with a mighty voice we said to HCA that we want to sit down and talk about improvements."  Already, just hours after voting closed, workers are filling out contract surveys and talking about their priorities for bargaining.

More than 15,000 workers at HCA-affiliated hospitals in California, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Kansas, and Missouri are now united in SEIU."

Read more from the

Kansas City Star.

  Both these hospitals needed a union when I worked at them and it was after I left RMC that HCA took them over.  I worked for a HCA hospital in the Orlando (FL) area after I left RMC and Kansas City.  The hospital in FL was the worst hospital that I had ever seen and I had worked 30 years at hospitals.  So I am sure that after HCA took over RMC and MMC that both those hospitals needed even more a labor union.
  I used the hospital employee grievance procedure four times at one hospital (Trinity Lutheran Hospital) and it worked excellent.  It was fair.  I won all four!  Smile
  I used the grievance procedure at Research Medical Center two times.  It sucked.  They almost laughed in your face when you used it.  They also let you know that you would pay for using it.  I won the first time and I lost the second time.  
  Hospital workers need unions.

"I wouldn't call him lucid"

  I do not have cable TV but when I had it one of the channels I enjoyed the most was the Discovery Channel.  I guess you saw the news report of the gunman at the Discovery Channel?"

  If I had not read the story and you were to ask me what cable channel had a gunman holding hostages I would not have come up with the Discovery Channel.  My first guess would have been CNN. 

  There are so many people in the United States that are not lucid.  Some are that way all the time and some just from time to time.  It seems like we got a lot of people out of control and not living in the real world.
  We need medical help for these people but I am not sure we can afford it.  On the other hand can we afford not to get them the treatment that they need?

  We need real national health care for all Americans and we need it to cover mental conditions.
  We need to make sure we do not start wars that are not necessary and end up spending three trillion dollars.  We could afford health care and other things if we did not waste money on the Iraq war. 

  We also have a problem with violence in this nation.  We all are guilty of it.  You ask me to name some of the movies that I like and I will name some movies with violence. I think it is part of our history.  
  We need to work on non-violent conflict management.  But everything is so political now.  It is hard to get sex education approved for kids in school and I suspect if you attempted to get non-violent conflict management education in schools that you would have major protests for some reason.

  There is a lot of violent in our nation and our cities but I do think that the news media, by their reporting, scare the hell out of a lot of people.  It makes a lot of people live in fear and that leads to  paranoia.
 
  I do not know what the answer is for the problem.  I know that more police, more guns and more gated communities is not the answer. 

Waiting for the 3000 New Netflix Movies

  I do not see the 3000 new Netflix movies yet.  Today, September 1, should be the day. 
  They did release a Press Release on August 26 but I do not think it has anything to do with the new 3000 movies.

"Netflix App Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

Free App Enables Netflix Members to Instantly Watch TV Episodes and Movies Streamed from Netflix to iPhone and iPod touch

LOS GATOS, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced the availability of its free Netflix App for iPhone and iPod touch, allowing Netflix members on plans starting at just $8.99 a month to instantly watch a vast selection of TV episodes and movies streamedto their iPhone or iPod touch at no additional cost.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100826/SF55487)

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100826/SF55487)

The Netflix App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or atwww.itunes.com/appstore/.

"Apple has changed the game for mobile devices," said Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and chief executive officer. "We're excited that our members can now carry Netflix around in their pockets and instantly watch movies and TV shows streamed from Netflix right to their iPhone or iPod touch."

The Netflix App delivers a high-quality viewing experience, a broad array of movie and TV choices and a clean, intuitive interface. It is available via both Wi-Fi and 3G networks. TV episodes and movies are conveniently organized into a variety of categories based on members' personal preferences, popular genres, new arrivals and members' individual instant Queues. Members can choose a movie or TV episode from any of the lists and just tap the innovative Multi-Touch user interface to watch instantly or to save the title for viewing later.

Additionally, users have the option of fast-forwarding and rewinding the video stream, and stopping at any time. When users want to start watching again, the video stream starts exactly where it was stopped, even on a different device capable of streaming from Netflix. 

The Netflix App supports any iPhone or iPod touch device running iOS version 3.13 or later…"

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Boys on the Side

  I just watched a great movie "Boys on the Side." 

"Boys on the Side is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross (his last film before his death six years later). It stars Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary-Louise Parker as three friends on a cross-country road trip. The screenplay was written by Don Roos.

Three unique women embark on a cross-country road trip: Jane (Whoopi Goldberg), a lesbian lounge singer in search of a new life after breaking up with her girlfriend; Holly (Drew Barrymore), a pregnant girl who just wants to escape her brutal boyfriend; and Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), an uptight real estate agent who has her own secrets (namely being infected with HIV). Robin puts an ad in the newspaper that she is looking for a traveling companion to drive across country to California with. Jane answers the ad and agrees to join Robin after her car gets towed during their meeting. Jane and Robin leave New York and travel through Pittsburgh to take Jane's friend Holly to lunch. They stumble across a knock out fight between Holly and her abusive boyfriend, Nick, over some missing drugs. They leave him there bound to a chair with tape after Holly hits him in the head with a bat to stop him from attacking Jane. Unbeknownst to the women, without medical attention, the blow Nick received to his head turns out to be fatal, as he stumbles across the floor and dies.

The three unlikely travelers then form a special friendship on their journey which sees them through ultimately tragic times…"

 

  I recommend the movie.  It was great. 

Water retention

  The last week or so both my feet and legs are so swollen with water they look and feel like they are going to explode. 
  I take a "water pill"  and it is Furosemide 40 MG a day.  I feel like the water is moving higher and higher on my body.
  I just took one 40MG tablet.  That is what the doctor has me taking each day but I am going to take one each six hours today and see if that helps.
  I do not think that will be a problem because you can take 20 MG to 600 MG each day for water retention. 
  In fact I am going to take one more right now and start the day off right.

OK I just took 40 MG more so I had 80 MG at about 0600 hours and I will try and remember to take 40 MG at 1200, 1800 and 2400 hours.  Of course if I see that I do not need it I will go back to my normal amount.
 
  I am not going to play Civ IV until the swelling goes down.  I been playing Civ IV for hours and hours and that has me sitting at this desk.  I know not good.

 

Update:  09/01/2010 0408 hours
  I think the 80 MG helped.  I did not take any again unless late last night.  I may do 80 MG early today and see if I can get the swelling down in my feet and legs. 

Netflix movies tomorrow?

  It is odd that the Netflix site and blog does not have information about the new streaming videos.  I been thinking we could watch them starting tomorrow (September 1, 2010) but I see no announcement about it.  Man their blog sucks.

OK, I found their press release on the Netflix site: 
(The press release is not dated! Smile)

"NEW YORK & BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--EPIX™ and Netflix, Inc. [Nasdaq: NFLX] today announced an agreement through which Netflix members can instantly watch an array of new releases and library titles from EPIX streamed over the Internet from Netflix. Movies from the multi-year deal will begin streaming from Netflix on September 1 and include movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM.

EPIX has subscription pay TV rights to new releases and movies from the libraries of its partners and will make these movies available to Netflix 90 days after their premium pay TV and subscription on demand debuts. Historically, the rights to distribute these films are pre-sold to pay TV for as long as nine years after their theatrical release…" 

  I think tomorrow I may have the ability to watch 3000 streaming movies.  It will be interesting to see if I can find anything to watch now.

  If you are like me and not wait to see what new videos you can see tomorrow then go to Epix and you can find the list. 

Google Earth

  Google Earth has updated their satellite photo images.  The resolution is even better now.  I checked out my old place in Belton and the place in Miami. 
  In the street view they drove their photo car through the condo lot in Miami.  So I can see the front, back and side views of the place. 
  I wish for street view they did not wash out signs.  I can understand why they are doing it.  But at least businesses it would be nice to see those signs.
  I may go back to the Miami view and see if I can see someone I know walking down the street.  I should check the bus stop in front of our condo I might see Jim Howard.  Smile

Blogging with some control

   I know I have said it in the past many many times but I am going to try and control my political blogging.  I am going to try and keep most of it out of ShowMeBlog.  I will still put it on Howard's Notebook.  
   ShowMeBlog should be my personal blog and I do no want to fill it with rants and screaming about the God dam fucking Republicans.  (See I am off to a good start right?  Smile)
   I am sure I will fail from time to time but I am going to try. 
   One thing ShowMeBlog has been is a view of what is going on in my life and what I am interested in and that has changed with time.
   I had a lot of post here about my chest pains and how I was expecting to die at any minute.  I had a lot of post here about my bladder control or lack of …. Man, I have put you guys through hell…  Those that are still reading this blog after all these years are saints or heroes or something…Not sure what you are…
   Most I guess are friends…Who else would put up with me.
   
   For September I am thinking about making a video blog a day.  I will not post it here.  In fact I am thinking I will not even post it on YouTube.  I might use one of my other sites.  It would be sort of a test to see how it works.  I might not stick with it. 
   I have a site ShowMeVideo that almost no one visits.  I like the way it is set up and the way it works.  I never post a video there.  I have set up to get any video that I post on YouTube.  But I might just spend one month posting videos there and see how it works and what happens.  If I learn something you know me I will be telling you about it.

  I have over 100 videos on YouTube and I want to remove some of the stuff that no one is watching and that is just not getting any traffic.  Videos that have been there for years.  I think it would be a good idea to remove them… I just can not bring myself to delete them.

  If you hate the Republican Party as much as I do then you can check out:

www.howardsnotebook.com for my raving and ranting and foaming at the mouth.
  See this time I remembered to say that I hated the Republican PARTY.  I need to remember to say I hate the PARTY and not the Republicans.  Some of my best friends are Republicans. 

AC Secondary Drain System

  We rent a second floor apartment.  For the last week or two a little pipe over the bathroom sink has been leaking water.  The pipe comes about 1 inch out of the ceiling. 
  I have had to be careful not to lean into look in the mirror or to hold my toothbrush in the wrong spot or it will get hit with water from the ceiling.
  Today I woke up from a nap and there was water on the floor. It was coming from a metal ceiling panel.
  I know very little about AC units.
  It seems that the AC unit outside on the ground has more to it than just that unit.  I guess the air runs through pipes and coils and condensation units or something and in my ceiling is a auxiliary and secondary drain system.
  I guess codes call for such a unit and that the "auxiliary pan drain shall discharge to a conspicuous point of disposal to alert occupants in the event of a stoppage of the primary drain."
  I was wondering why in the world would they put a drain pipe in the ceiling over the bathroom sink.  I know the answer to that now.
  The apartment repairman came over and fixed the problem for us.
  
   What I do not know about things would fill a lot of books.

   Oh..the repairman said if it  was not for that system up there we would get about 20 gallons of water a day on the floor.
   He also said the reason it was not draining is that there was moss growing in the thing and and he put a couple of big tabs of something in it to prevent that from happening.
  If you are a young person thinking about a job one day…Think about air conditioning installing and repair.  I do not think they can out source those jobs to India.  Plus in a state like Texas we will pay any amount of money to get our AC working.  Smile

Newsy.Com News Report on the Glenn Beck Rally

"Regardless of what your stand point is, you need to think as individual. Don't be so quick to regurgitate catch phrases and insults. Don't put yourself in a category of "us" and "them".
Calling people liberal idiots, right wing bigots, etc only divides the country and that gets us nowhere.
Think as an individual! Do not follow what one commentator says as the word of God/truth. Research, come up with your own conclusions, watch more than one news channel, read more than one paper.
This is the only way we will have true information and education."

Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com

Glenn Beck's "Honor" Rally had 96K People

  I was interested in the crowd size and been looking for numbers.  It seems that Fox "news" during the event ran a banner across the screen saying the crowd was estimated at 500,000!  Smile
  You got to wonder if they are laughing when they run a banner like that across the screen.  I see them laughing at the viewers.

  On the morning after the rally Glenn Beck told Fox News Sunday that he believed that the crowd was between 300,00 and 650,000!  

  CBS News commissioned a crowd estimate by the company AirPhotoLive and they came up with the number as 87,000 people.  They say there is a margin of error of 9,000 so the number of people at the rally was between 78,000 and 96,000 people.
  You can believe who you want but I am going to go with the AirPhotoLive numbers.
  That is not a bad turn out of people..I would expect a lot more since Glenn Beck has a big following and plus he has been plugging the event on Fox "news" for a long time.  Still not a bad turn out.
  I wish we could get some honest comments from people there.. I think they must not have been happy… I think they wanted to go and hear him rip and tear into President Obama and the Democrats.
  I do not think they wanted to travel to Washington DC in August and  hear Glenn Beck preaching religion to them.  Many, if not most, of those people are not to crazy about him being a Mormon. 

  I guess there are people wanting to see Glenn Beck run for President of the United States.  Smile

See CNN for this story. 

Looking forward to September 1st

  September 1st will be here soon.  I am looking forward to it.  On the 1st I get my hospital retirement money.  I get $175.00 each month for 18 years of service.  It is not much but it helps.
  Since I am in Texas I hope that we will start to have some nice weather soon.  August has been hot. 
  This September 1st Nexflix will add a log of movies that we can watch streaming.  I hope I can find something to watch.
  I should just give up and order cable TV. 
  I have done Blockbuster and Netflix in the past.  I like Netflix best because of the streaming video.  But have not been able to find any DVD to order and a hard time finding anything to watch streaming.  I am getting on DVD again "The West Wing" and I have seen it in re-runs and got it on DVD from Netflix in the past.  I hope there will be something I can watch.

  I like the start of a new month or a new year.  I think that I am going to do things or not do things and nothing changes.   But I think I am going to turn over a new leaf (*). 

 

*  When you decide to do something different to change your life for the better, you are turning over a new leaf. Example: "This year I've joined a gym and I am exercising every day. I'm turning over a new leaf."
Turning over a new leaf is like turning over a new page ("leaf") in your life and seeing what is on the other side. Example: "Wow. Look how polite your son has become." Reply: "Yes. We had a big talk with him, and he has really turned over a new leaf."
You turn over a new leaf when you commit to changing your life for the better. Example: "I'm turning over a new leaf: I've decided to quit smoking. "  GoEnglish.com

Grandpa error

  Russell works about 20 plus hours a week.  Many days, like today, he has to walk an hour to get to work.  He seems to get sick a lot but he never misses a day of work. He works sick.  
  Yesterday when he was working and I was taking a nap we lost power for a little bit.  When I woke up I had to re-set my alarm clock.  I took the time off my computer.  My computer is plugged into a UPS unit.
  Well … I bet you can see where this is heading…
  I was to wake Russ at  0430 today.  The alarm did not go off.  The alarm clock said 0606 but my computer said 0506.  I checked my cell phone and it was 0506.
  I woke up Russ.  He did not get upset… I was half expecting him to be mad. 
  I guess I set the alarm clock wrong but on the time being wrong…I think my computer was wrong after the power loss and I think it set to the correct time at midnight.
  I had better get the time from the cell phone from now on.
 
  That is one of the things I do not like about my life now that I am not working… I never know what day it is or what time it is ….  If I get out early in the AM to mail a DVD or get donuts and I see people going to their cars to go to work.. I want to be going to work.  I do not feel that way in the PM.  If I am out and I see them coming home I do not think I wish I had been at work today.
 
  I never did think that I would be retired one day. I never did think about it.  I just was thinking that I would be working until I fell over one day. 
  I would still be working if my prostate had not gone to hell on me.  I am not sure I knew anything about a prostate in the past.  I am not sure there is anything you can do to keep your prostate working correct.  My guess is that drinking water might help.  My prostate and entire body never saw any water…I fed it Coke and I suspect that was fine for when I was young but I pay for it now.
 
  There are going to be a lot more old people like me around for the next few years.  Young people are going to start seeing more and more of use and my guess is that young people are not going to like it and at the same time … It may force them to think about when they get old.. They may start to decide how they want to live when they reach our age.  I will be 70 in March. 

I want I want I want

    I saw a video on YouTube of new Logitech HD Webcam C510.  It looks very good and is only $44.99 at Amazon.  Then I found that they have a new Logitech HD Pro C910 camera.  I want it.
   It is a USB webcam.  It looks like it does not need all the power that my current webcam needs.  So you can do HD 1080 video and not have to worry about running out of CPU on your computer.  I put it on my Amazon WishList. I am not sure when I will have the money but I save stuff there.
  If you want to know what things I am interested in check my wishlist.  I stick them on there so I can find them when I am rich.  Smile

  This is so funny or I guess cute.  A dog that likes to watch "Family Guy." 

  It reminds me of one of my kids.  He would not want to go to bed and wanted to stay up and watch "Captain" (Star Trek).  He would rock in the rocking chair in the living room.  If I said time for bed he would say "Captain."  Sometimes when a adv would come on we should say it is over and he would go to bed.

  I am still doing SwagBucks but have not won anything in their contests.
Oh Jimmy did win $100.00 on a scratch off TX lottery ticket.  It was a $2.00 ticket. 

  Both my feet and legs are swollen.  I do not feel all that good.  It is the food I am eating.  You do not want to know. Just I am eating to much and it is the wrong foods.  I got to try and do better.
  I think it has been a few months since I even got a lottery ticket.  I should buy one for the big lottery each week.  I love to think …If I won X amount this time I would give it to the following people in the following amounts.  It is worth $1.00 just to think what I would do with the money.  I know I will never win but it is fun to dream about.
  I bet very few of you can remember a TV series that was  called "The Millionaire" and it ran from 1955 to 1960.  It was very popular at the time. 

  "The Millionaire is a television drama anthology series that aired on CBS from January 19, 1955 to June 8, 1960, originally sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive. The series explored the ways unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. The show became a five-season hit, thanks in large part to a twist that also made it a bit of a cult classic in the years that followed its life in the so-called "Golden Era" of U.S. television. The show centered around the stories of unknown people who were given, seemingly out of nowhere, one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him – with one memorable exception…"

Water Contamination from Gas Drilling

  I been blogging since 1982.  I have covered a lot of subjects.  I was a member of the Green Party back a long time ago.  I have always been interested in living green and promoting it. 
  But I knew nothing about gas drilling and fracturing fluid until I moved to Fort Worth.  It is an issue in Fort Worth and Dallas.  It is an issue in Texas and in other states.
  It seems when the oil corporations drill for natural gas they use dangerous hydraulic fracturing fluid.  They drill by using a LOT of water with sand and hydraulic "fracturing" fluid.  The oil corporations refuse to tell the public or government what fracturing fluid they use!
  I know it is hard to believe that they have been doing this for years and they just thumb their nose at the public and government.  Hell they give us the finger.
  Now the oil corporations say that the fracturing mix is 95% water.  Hell they will say it is 99.5 % water.  But they use millions of gallons of water.  
  After they pour that dirty dangerous mix down the well to do the drilling they pump out the sludge and they may bury the sludge right there. We do not know what they do with the left over unknown crap.

Glenn Beck says his role is to wake America up!

"From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck told a crowd of tens of thousands of people Saturday that the U.S. has too long "wandered in darkness."

His rally's marquee speaker, Sarah Palin, praised "patriots" in the audience for "knowing never to retreat."

The two champions of the tea party movement spoke from the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech 47 years ago. Some civil rights leaders who have denounced Beck's choice of a venue staged a rival rally to honor King.

Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee who may make a White House run in 2012, said activists must honor King's legacy by paying tribute to the men and women who protect the United States in uniform.

Beck, pacing back and forth on the marble steps, said he was humbled by the size of the crowd, which stretched along the Washington Mall's long reflecting pool nearly all the way to the Washington Monument.

"Something beyond imagination is happening," he said. "America today begins to turn back to God."

"For too long, this country has wandered in darkness," said Beck, a Fox News host. He said it was now time to "concentrate on the good things in America, the things we have accomplished and the things we can do tomorrow."

Neither Beck nor Palin made overtly political comments."   MSNBC

    It looks like all I can find is "tens of thousands" so I guess I will just give up on it.  I guess I could say get got a good turn out.  I do not think he gave the mob what they wanted to hear but I am not into that sort of religion so I could be wrong on that…We will see.