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The "Abused" Iranian Amercan Student

  If you have watched the video of the "abuse" by the UCLA PD and are interested then you will want to check out the Mideast Youth site. 
  One thing I don't like about YouTube is they don't let you leave comments that are very long (think 500 letters is the limit).  the "Mideast Youth" site has a lot of long comments on the event.

  I watched the video a couple more times and it appears that he was handcuffed the last time he was hit with the Taser.  I am not sure that should have been done. 
  There will be a complete review of the event. 
  One thing, I think, no matter what they find in the review is that the student should be kicked out of school and sent back to Iran.  There was no excuse for him to refuse to show an ID.  There was also no reason for him to yell and scream the way he did. 
  I know they have rules they have to follow but if I were the head of the school and had the power I would be sending students home.  If a group came to my office and said they were protesting the event.  I would say how many of you think he did not have to show his ID.  Everyone that said they did not think he had to show his ID I would have the UCPD escort out the door and I would expell them.  I know you can't do that..I am sure they have rules and rights... God if I could only be King for a day or a week or a month.  I would love to clean house.

Any, Any, Any Plan II

  At this time of year us old farts on Social Security can pick a new health insurance company or stay with the one that we had last year.  It was my plan to stay with my plan from last year.
  But I been getting stuff in the mail from difference insurance organizations that have a Medicare contract.

  Well I got something from Universal Health Care Insurance Company.  Yes.. I never heard of them also.
  They say I can pick any doctor, my current plan offers that, and they say their plan is good world wide.  My monthly Medicare premium they will refund to me (that is about $1000.00 a year they would pay me in cash.)  Plus this plan does not cost me an extra fee (I think I pay about $40.00 extra to my current company.)
  Their web site is:  www.univhc.com  and I am going to check out their plan for me.  If there are any insurance experts out there and you want to check it out for me please do.  For state you would enter FL and I am in Dade county. 

  What I wonder about is they talk about doctors that except Medicare.  Would I find that there are doctors that will not take this insurance because it pays just the same as Medicare and nothing more?
  Also I wonder about the medications.  I take 3 a month now I pay a total of $40.00 a month.  I am wonder what I would pay with their plan.

Costa Rica for Retirement?

 

I been thinking about Thailand for retirement.  You can live like a rich man on what I get in retirement.  I been reading about it for years and thinking about it.  There are some problems with it.  One is the very high cost to fly there.  I don't think I would ever have any family drop in for a visit if I moved there.

  I have heard a lot of good thing about Costa Rica.  I don't think it is as cheap as Thailand however.  This one site says you can live in Costa Rica on $1000 to $1300 a month. 

  Here is a site with a little information.  The site is selling a book on the subject.
 

 

My Video Comments on UCLA

 

The following is my video comment to the UCLA Police Taser Video on YouTube.

UCLA Police Taser Ass Hole

 

I have posted many times about police using tasers in the wrong way.  I have commented about force level.  You don't use the teaser just because someone does not follow your command.  You use that level of force after you have attempted other steps and then you move up to the level if you need to use that level of force.

  Now this YouTube video I found first on Amercablog. The blog says you "have to watch this video" and he "wasn't fighting" and "just carry him away" and "you don't tase people for refusing to stand up."
  Well I am a fan of Americablog but I don't agree.  Now understand we don't know all the details.  But let me do a little guessing here. 
  For some reason the UCLA police notice this guy.  Something made them say something is wrong with this guy.  We need to check him out.  It appears he refused to show a student ID and refused to give them any information.  He told them to "fuck off."  They must have told him he would have to leave.  He refused to leave and told them to go to hell or something to that effect.  They then would have told him that he was trespassing and that he had to leave for be arrested.  He told them to go to hell or something like that.  They then should have told him he was under arrest.  Now we can't see from the video and in fact mostly we hear audio but he was disorderly and he should have been arrested for that.  I am sure they took his arms and tried to get him to move out of the building and he must have pulled back or made a fist or something.  That is resisting arrest and additional charge.   If he pushed and officer or touched the officer that would be battery and an additional charge.
The officers were within their rights to apply pain to move him and to take.  If they had attempted to carry him out with him fighting they would have hurt their backs or something and going to the taser seems like that best choice.

  If any of the students in the back ground that you hear yelling...if any of them touched an officer or attempted to stop the officers from effecting the arrest they should be arrested and expelled from school.

Goldman's Outraged

The O. J. Simpson Confession

  O. J. Simpson makes a confession to killing his wife and Ron Goldman.  He is reported to have been paid over 3 million dollars for his book and for a two part interview on TV.
  In the book and the interview he tells how he would have killed his wife and Ron Goldman if he were the person that did it.
 

   What sort of scum would publish his book and give him blood money?  Who would put his "interview" on TV? 
   Well the answer is Judith Regan, the Rupert Murdoch organization and of course it will be on Fox TV stations.

   My question is what are you going to do about it?

   Of course don't buy the book...but I do not think very many people will get the book...But O. J. Simpson already got his money up front.
   Now just not watching the "interview" on Fox TV is not going to be enough.  I say if Fox Network runs the interview never watch Fox TV again.  Turn them off.  Remove them from the channels you have set up for TV watching.
   Now if for some reason you can not ban them for life.  Then ban them for as long as you can.  Can you not watch them for a year?  How about one month?  Do what you can.  Make them sorry they ever paid the $3 million to O. J. Simpson.  Teach them a lesson.
   Remember we are talking about the Fox Network and their location TV station in your area.
   If Fox TV broadcast the O. J. Simpson interview make wish they had never heard of O. J. Simpson.

  What do you think?

Swallowing Pills

  You can't teach an old dog new tricks or something like that..
All my life I could not swallow pills.  I can remember when I was 5 years old my mother holding my nose closed and the land lady sitting on me and trying to get me to swallow a pill.  I could not do it. 
  Even a fat land lady sitting on me could not get me to swallow a pill.  You know maybe that is why I could never do it.
  Over the years I have taken very few medication.  Sometimes I would mash the pill into power.  Often I had the doctor write the Rx for a liquid.

  Well now that I take three medication each day I can swallow.  So you can teach an old dog new tricks.

  Speaking of dog when I was a kid I had a black cocker spaniel dog named "Lady."  I had her for many years.  I know we had her in 1954 and before for x number of years.  I know we had her when I was in high school (1955 - 1959) because she died during the time I was in high school.
  Well Lady would not swallow a pill.  You could try and give it to her the way the vet says to give a pill and it would not work.  She loved to eat food and you could place it inside of meat or anything and she would eat the food and leave the pill.  She loved DQ cones and you could try and hid it in the ice cream but nothing worked.
  Maybe you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Accident with "Little People, Big World"

   You will remember that I commented on the accident on the "Little People, Big World" show.  I said it was going to be problems for them.
  Well I found this story on The Oregonian.  It talks about the accident adding scrutiny to the Roloff family.  It says the neighbors air concerns after the pumpkin launcher hurts 2 at the family farm. The story says that more than 30,000 people showed up this fall to buy pumpkins from the Roloff Farm.

   If your interested in the history of the farm and some information from a growers point of view check out: 
      Little Farmer Learns to Survive in Big World

    By the way they have a web site:  mattroloff.com

  You look around and you see that Matt Roloff has written a book.  He has the farm.  A TV show.  He has a job selling software.  If you read some message boards and sites about them you will often see comments that he does not work.  Smile

  I found this on there site:
 
  Caribbean Cruise with the Roloffs
How about a great cruise with the Roloffs?
October 2007 we will be vacationing in the
Caribbean  and would love for you to join us.
Contact our travel agent Dee Polish for more details.

  Sounds like little people big business.

The Talking Cat

  Now that I have put XP back on my computer I am using Firefox about 90% of the time.  Since I had to re-install everything..I am starting over.  I can not find the one extention for Firefox that makes it easy to get videos from sites.  I need to locate that extention.
  I video of Hilary and her talking cat is much better from the TV station site:  www.nbc5i.com than the link on my blog.  I want to get that video from the NBC5 site before they pull it off.

  They are working Russ hard.  He went to work today at 4 am.  At 2 PM I took him to The Falls CompUSA store and he will be there for training until 8:30 PM. 
  When I when to pick up Russell at 2 PM at the Dadeland CompUSA I ran into one of the guys that I did work with there.  He left for about four months and then came back to the store and I was gone.  He asked about me and they told him that I left because I had medical problems and I had cancer.  Thank God they were wrong about me having cancer.

  When I picked up Russell he came out of the store and he had on a Santa hat.  He kept it on until we got to the other store.  I am not sure if he was just so tired that he was out of it or what..but that sure is not like Russell.  This job has been good for him.  He is turning into a normal person!
  Oh yes Russell did see the video of his mother and Zola (the cat).  I am not sure he saw the better video.  I think Hilary looked better in that video.
  Darlene said that Hilary is trying to get a book published.  I will have to find out about that. 
  Have you noticed on Amazon.Com that you can now read a news article or report and you pay for it on line and then you have access to it.  I did not check out to see how big the article or story can be.  The one I saw was four or five pages.  But that might be a way a person could publish a book.  What would be neat would be if you could publish that way and keep updating the book.  So if someone spots an error you can go in and update and correct it.
  I think CafePress also has something were you can publish books.  I was going to check it out one time but I never got around to it.

PHPNuke 8.0

  You  may remember I was running two or three PHPNuke sites all the time.  I loved that software and still have a place in my heart for it.  I am running two or three Joomla! sites now. 
  Well they just released a new version of PHPNuke.  It is version 8.0 now.

PHP-Nuke 8.0 FINAL Released

PHP-Nuke 8.0 Final version. This version includes a new anti-flood system, several cosmetic changes, a new web based installer, improvements on advertising system, downloads and web links modules, Forums and all BBtoNuke modules are now separated from the core system, improved the News module and many bugs fixes. Additionaly PHP-Nuke version 7.9 has been released for free to the public on the downloads section.

Using Windows XP Home Again

  I picked up Russell at work and took him to the other store for training.  I will pick him up at 8 pm tonight.  Not sure if I bring him back home or back to his store.
  They are working him hard.

  Today I was going to make a list of reasons why I installed and am running Windows Vista.  Well I could not think of one reason.  So I put my old O/S (Windows XP Home) back on the computer.  Now for the next few days I will try and get all the programs installed again.

  I been having chest pains all day long.  
 
  Well I am going to get back to installing programs.  I got to install PhotoShop, PKZip,  Dreamweaver and tons of other programs.  I got Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 installed.  I have not installed the Philips web cam yet.
  I want to install DivX.  That is a great compression program.

Fox "news" got their marching orders

  The Bush/GOP guy that runs Fox "news" must have watched the same programs that I watched and must have drawn up marching orders and talking points for the "news" people now.  I just had Fox "news" on and they were attacking the Democrats and calling them everything but nigger and gay.  (They call them that when the mike is not on.)
  My guess is that the head of the Bush Broadcasting Network (aka Fox "news") must have kicked some ass and told them to attack ATTACK.  They never have been fair but now they are yelling and screaming and if you did  not know better you would think the gates of hell had opened and they were in Congress now.

  It shows however that Fox does not care about our system nor do they respect the American people (voters).  The American people decided they wanted the Democrats to clean things up and get something done.
  But Fox 'news"  is saying now that your going to have Communism and God forbid health care for the American people.  They are yelling that the Democrats are going to raise your taxes. 
 
  Well check out my daughter and her talking cat:   The Talking Cat

  The video maybe better at:  NBC5

100 Iraqi Government Workers

  I been good about not posting anti Bush stuff here on ShowMeBlog.  I been posting it on Howard's Notebook.  Smile

  I have not been watching much news.  I check CNN web site from time to time.  I am sure you have seen were gunmen wearing Iraqi security forces uniforms kidnapped 100 to 150 employees of Iraq's Higher Education Ministry.  What a mess.  I feel so sorry for the people of Iraq.

 
  I also been posting items to a site I call Show Me News.  I am not sure if anyone is reading it and not sure if it is worth the effort that I put out.

  One reason I have not been watching the "news" is all the celebrity talk.  I don't care who is going to Africa to get a baby or who is getting married or breaking up.  I do want to hear when a celebrity dies.

  I saw a little bit of Fox "news" the other day.  I watched some of their election night reporting.  It looked like some of them were going to cry.  I think they were in a bit of shock.
  
   I would like to run Windows Vista 64 bit.  I wonder if I had a video card for Vista if that would help.  I ran it and I had problems but it was fast. 

   I been looking at some Thailand web sites again.  With my little SS check each month I would be a rich man in Thailand.  And think about this..My post here are pretty fucking dull.  But if I were posting each day from Thailand they should be interesting. 
  I can't run out on Ken and Russell right now.  Also it would take about $1K just to fly to Thailand.  I also would feel much better if I had say $5K as a back up and then live off my SS each month.  (If there are any Bush people that want to get me out of the United States take up a donation.  Smile)
  If you run across any good blogs from people living in Thailand send me the links.  I found a few and am reading them.