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Terry Evans on Global Warming

• "Jim I have seen you leaning with Gore on this whole "Global Warming" issue. I know you are smarter then that. It must be hard for you to have to side with Democrats on an issue like this when I know you know better. You seem to have a great memory, as I do.  Don't you remember just a few short years ago.....Global cooling, it was all over the political agendas so I know you were following it. But now Gore is screaming Global warming so you start to yell it to. 1975 to 2007 is such a small blip in the history of time on this planet.. a nano-second of a nano-second of a nano-second......so can you explain to me  the big change? Really I would like to know. I feel mankind in no way has had even the slightest effect on the climate. For the short time we have been on earth we couldn't. If you feel different...I will need an explination on how mankind caused the great ice age and every other climate change that has happened on this planet for millions of years before man appeared on earth..."

 

Note from Jim Howard:  Terry sent a bunch of information to support his statement above.  It was too much for here and does not fit in here but you can see it all at Howard's Notebook. 

Choose A Browser

  I found a site that wants you to BrowseHappy.  It is an anti-Internet Explorer site.  They list the other choices you have and tell you a bit about the other browsers and have some comments from different people that use the other browsers. 

  I am feeling pretty good today.  I still have not seen the heart doctor.  I am going to have to put off my next visit with my normal doctor.  I do not want to see him until I have seen the heart doctor and have the tests done.
  I also got to tell my normal doctor that I am not taking Simvastain any more.  He was happy to get me taking it and happy with the results of the lab work.  Oh well.. thank God I found out it was making me hurt all over.

  I ran out of food and money but I get my SS money in 5 days.  I want to lose weight and the next five days may help me lose weight.
  I am not sure when I will get the retirement fund check.  I been wanting to get a Palm Treo with part of the money but I was thinking I spend hours and hours in front of this computer monitor each day.  I am thinking maybe I should get a 19" LCD monitor. 

John Edwards

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  I have not had a presidential candidate.  Right now I would have to say that I would go with John Edwards.  I just watched the powerful press conference with John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth Edwards.  That was powerful and moving.    I was watching on FOX "news" and when the press conference was over the FOX announcer made a slip and said "President Edwards" and then corrected himself.  A short time later the announcer mentioned that his own mother had died of cancer.  I think that John and Elizabeth Edwards have made a real connection to the American people at this time.
  Health care is something that has been very imporant to the American people and they have been fighting for it.  Now we can see and understand that this is an issue near and dear to their heart.
  Right after the press conference FOX went to the white house for a statement by Tony Snow.  I am no fan of Tony Snow but he made a very short and very excellent statement.  I felt those few lines were from the heart.
   
  Hilary Clinton maybe the best person for president.  She is smart.  She has been around and knows the world and has contacts and has everything that we would want in a president.   
  The right wing people hate her and her husband with such a passion that I just do not want to see her run.  I know the right wing people are total nuts and you never should listen to them but why run someone that makes them foam at the mouth and why run someone that can never ever get their support no matter what.  If she could turn wine into the blood of Christ they still no one would support her and they would hate her and say the power came from the hell.  I just do not want to see that sort of election.

  I can not see any reason to support Barack Obama.  He is young.  He is black.  He is smart.  But there are a lot of young smart black men in the United States.  I need some other reasons.

  Al Gore is smart and has the back ground to be president.  He would make an excellent president.   But he had his time.  He ran and he lost.  He just does not excite the American people.  It is a shame that how you appear on TV matters but it does matter.  He is lacking something. 
  Al Gore is like  Adlai Stevenson.  I remember Adlai Stevenson and he would would have made a great president.  He ran God only knows how many times and he just could not win.  Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey would have made an excellent president.  The age of TV came and now the Internet is here and we need a certain look and feel for the man running for president. 
  Right now I would have to say that man is John Edwards.

 
 

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Stolsworth

  My mother's name before she got married was Hallie Stolsworth.  She was born in 1917 in Missouri and she died in 1992 in Missouri.  She had one brother William Stolsworth and I think he was born in 1916.  I think he died in 1983 in Muskogee OK.  His wife, I called her Willy, was Wilma Stolsworth and she was a saint of a woman.  I lost contact with that side of my family.  For the last few years, since I moved from Kansas City (2000), I been wondering if Wilma Stolsworth was still alive and thinking I sure would like to contact her and see her and talk to her.  Over the last year or two I did a search on the Internet for a phone number and made a call or two with no luck.
  I am not good at doing family ancestry stuff.  I did find an interesting site:  Find A Grave
  I just found the site and I have not used it yet but I am going to play with it.  But it got me thinking about my mother's family.  I did a bit of searching on the Internet and think I found some information on Wilma Stolsworth and it looks like she died in 2001 in Muskogee OK.
 
  I tell my kids and my grandson a bit about our family history.  I do not think they care one bit.  I wish Americans were more like the people in Japan and China.  I think if we remember our past and honor the family that we came from it would make us better people.  Maybe a mugger would not be knocking down a 101 year old woman for $23 dollars.
  If I can get my ex-wife to send the family photos I am going to scan them and I will do some study and reseach on the family.
  I wonder if all old people get interested in family history. 

Jobs

  The first job I had was at Master Craft Metal in Kansas City MO.  It was a wrought iron shop.  They made railings, signs and other things.  I was not very good at bending the metal.  The owner(s) were very nice.  It was a small shop and everyone was very nice.
  My second job was at the Darby Corporation.  The owner was Harry Darby and he was a Republican and a royal ass hole.  We had a union and I became a member of the Boilermakers Union. Thank God we had the union but even with the union the company treated workers like crap.  (Kansas was a "Right to Work" state).   The Darby Corporation was in Kansas.  I lived in Missouri.  Believe me "Right to Work" sounds good but it anti-union and anti-worker.  It is an attemp to break unions and keep workers from joining unions.
  I worked for Darby one year to the day.  The place was so bad that each day when I would go to work I would tell myself I am going to quit at lunch.  Then when lunch came I would think well I will finish the day and then quit.  I did that for one year and then on that last day.. I quit.  The place was a building but it was open on all sides and in the winter ...well it was fucking cold.. I would limp to my car with frozen feet.  We were mostly re-building rail cars.  We would take old rail cars, mostly coal haulers, and cut them down to the back bone and then make them new. 
  Later I would go back to work for the Darby Corporation and work three months at their "ship yard" which was close to the building but down by the river. 
  I am talking about the early 1960s. 
  When I was working at the Darby Corporation "ship yard", they had made landing craft during WW II, a worker fell under a train and had both legs and an arm cut off.
  Something, I think, interesting is that my father was a member of the Boilermakers union all his life.  My mother was a member during WW II and then I was a member.  (Later I would also become a member of the UAW).

 

BlackBerry?

   This is a PayPerPost.  Everything I say is true and I often report on this subject but I am being paid for this post.

   

I had SprintPCS for many years.  I was one of their first customers.  From Missouri to Florida to Texas and back to Florida I have told you about my success and problems with SprintPCS.  After I had to quit my job (due to my prostate) I told you I had to give up cell phone service to save money.
    I have talked about getting a pre-paid service.  Then Russell got a new phone and signed up for the family plan with T-Mobile and I got his old phone on his family plan. 

BlackBerry phones

    So I got his old phone and it is one of the cheap phones.  You all know me.. I like the high tech stuff.  I have been thinking about getting a Palm Treo phone. What do you all think about BlackBerry phones?
    I know I will be watching a news discussion or a talk show on PBS or CSpan or something and the people will be talking about their BlackBerry phones. 
    Russell has a BlackBerry phone by the way.  It looks good.  He will not let me touch it so I can't tell you much about it.  I know he loves it.  It does everything he wants it to do.
    I get some money at the end of the month so I will be getting a new phone.  Feel free to leave a comment if you got a recommendation.

  Update:  I got my Palm Treo today.  It looks brand new.  Not a mark on it.  I got it all set up to work as my cell phone with T-Mobile.  I did not have very much data but what little I had I moved to the Palm.  I have my brain back.
  The Palm Treo 650 is great looking.  The screen is the best I have seen on a Palm device.  It is bright and I think I could read it out doors in sun light.  I will find out one day soon.
  Now I am not going to have Internet access with it.  I am using Russell’s T-Mobile family plan and he does not have Internet access with it.  But I just wanted a good phone and I wanted a Palm PDA for my information.  I have been lost with out my Palm device.  I got it back today.  I am a happy camper.

      
 

Bush Will Not Allow Their Hands On The Bible

   We have again  President Bush  that does not want his staff to take an oath to tell the truth.   He is not willing to allow his people to raise their hands and say we will tell the truth.  Bush needs to go and his entire rotten crime family needs to go with him.

  Well there is some good news ...they found the Scout.  He left the camp because he wanted to hitch a ride home.  I am sure the mom and dad are so happy and glad to have him home.. But you know.. when they get him home they fucking need to beat his butt.  Fucking "hitch" a ride home?
  I am glad that way the press reported the story.  I think they did a good job on the reporting this time for some reason.  Maybe the BSA had a PR man at the location or something.
  I think it came out pretty good for the kid.  Reporters were asking if he was crying or calling for his mommy.  The were told no he was not crying and not asking for him mommy.   Just think if they reported him crying and begging for his "mommy" and the 12 year old boy then had to go back to school. 
  I was a Boy Scout for a short period of time.  I do not think I made Tender Foot.  I had problems remembering the basic stuff you had to be tested on.. I have always had a poor memory.  It is extra hard for me to remember things.  I have problems remembering numbers most of all.  I can remember very well what someone says or what I say.. but I have a problem with numbers.
  Man God fucked me over when he sent me down here.. He did not make me good looking...He did not make me smart or give me a high IQ...He did not give me big penis...He did not give me a good memory...I must have been going to the bathroom or something when he was passing out the good stuff.
 
 

Simvastain

  I been taking Simvastatin for high cholesterol.  I took it and the next visit to the doctor the lab work was good. It had improved my cholesterol levels.
  I am not sure when I first started having problems.  I did not link the problems with Simvastatin.
Possible side effects of Simvastatin:

"Abdominal pain, diarrhea, indigestion, and a general feeling of weakness are a few of the common side effects of Simvastatin. Some rare Simvastatin side effects include joint pain, memory loss, and muscle cramps. It is important to let your healthcare provider know if you develop any side effects of Simvastatin, as well as anything that 'just does not seem right.'..."

House of D

  I just saw a good movie.  It was "House of D."  "By working through problems stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw (Duchovny), an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is, and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends..."   I had never heard of the movie.  I am glad I got to see it. 

  I am feeling pretty good.  It is pure luck that I found out that the Simvastatin I was taking was making me feel so bad.  I could not afford to pick up my Rx and did not take it for it for three days and I was feeling better each day.  It has been four days now and I will not be taking it.  Too bad it is not my $60.00 medication but it is ony $12.50 a month.  My guess is the doctor will want to replace it with something different.

  Russsell did not go to bed last night so he was up all night and went to work at 0600 hours.  He got home at 1500 hours and went right to bed.  He has been sleeping now for 9 hours.  I will make him at 0500 hours.  My guess is he will sleep for another 5 hours. 
  Ken did not go to bed until midnight last night and had to be up at 0430 hours.  He went to bed a bit early tonight and I wake him at 0430 hours.
 
  I walked over to the store and got 12 Polish hot dogs and some buns.  When I get my SS money in 8 days I will try and buy some healty food and eat better.  Right now I just want to have something to eat for the next 8 days.

 

Jeep Wrangler

Jeep Wrangler 
  Ken is looking to buy a Jeep Wrangler.  I know he would like red.  I am not sure if he would take any other color or not.  He wants one with automatic transmission.  He wants a used one and wants one for less than $10K.  If you happen to have one for sale contact me and I will pass the information on to Ken.
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  If the right one happens to be someplace other than the FL area my guess is that I would have to take the bus to that location and then drive the Jeep back here.   Ken can not miss work.  I am not working so I could make the trip.

Lost Scout
  On the lost Scout I wonder if at night they aim a search light up into the sky.  You know the kind they use for advertising from time to time.  The type that you see in old films were they are aim them in the sky to see enemy aircraft.  I think that would be a good idea.  Locate a number of them at base camps and keep them pointed up into the sky.  Take one on a truck in as close as you can get it to an area your searching and keep in pointed up into the sky.  Hell they would have to have a generator to power it and it would also put out a lot of sound.  I am not sure if they do anything like that or not.  I just think it would be an excellent idea in a case like this.
  I hope they find the kid OK.  It would be wonderful if they find that his Scout training saved him.