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Bush says he felt "awe" in presence of Pope Benedict XVI

How dumb can Bush get?  How stupid can Bush be?
President Bush says he felt "awe" in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI.  Let me get this right.. the President of the United States the most powerful nation on the earth felt "aw" in the presence of a man that has on a dress and a funny hat.  Is that correct?

Webby Award Winners

"With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise -- and perhaps a little bragging."

The Webby Award winners are out.  Funny I do see my name listed.  I am sure it just be an error. 

You can read for yourself at their site.  But let me give some of the winners.
eBay got a Lifetime Achievement award.  The Webby Person of the year is Steve Chen & Chad Hurley the Co-Founders of YouTube. 
Webby Film & Video Award for Best Actor:  Ask A Ninja
Webby Film & Video Award for Best Actress:  Jessica Lee Rose (Lonelygirl15)

It is an interesting and long list of winners.  Later I am going to click on a bunch of them and see what a winner looks like.. I am still surprised that I did not win.  Just kidding guys.

 

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Paris Hilton

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Everyone seems to hate Paris Hilton.  I do not have any feeling for her.  I do not hate her or lover her.  I have not been someone that follows her in the news.  Today however I could not get away from her.
Ken thinks she should not be put in jail.  I do not agree.  I think they need to make an example out of her just because she is rich.  Some might think it is wrong to come down on someone just because they are rich.
I think you need to make an example out of a person sometimes just to get the word out to the public.

Today all day Fox "news" was just reporting on the Paris Hilton matter.  They did not even report on other news.  It was very odd the way they did not cover any other news.

I turned off the TV about 5 PM and did  not turn it back on for 5 hours and it looks like all the networks are reporting on Paris Hilton.

Do you think she will be in jail on Monday?

CNN story on Paris Hilton

Fox "news" says that TMZ.COM has been reporting a great deal on Paris Hilton. 

Many people are up set with LA County Sheriff Lee Baca.  I agree with them.   Plus and this is just me.  I get pissed every time I see some sheriff or chief and police with five or six stars on his collar.  Lee Baca has five of them.  I was never had that sort of rank but I was a sergeant on a police depart and I never put my rank on or told anyone my rank.  I did not have to tell anyone.  I made detective on the police department and I would just ID myself as a police officer.  At one of the hospitals I worked at I made the rank of lieutenant and I did not put the rank on my collar or go around telling anyone what rank I was... So it just pissed me off that these guys all think they are such hot shit.  They just need to do their fucking job.

I also get tired of seeing "America's Toughest Sheriff" Joe Arpaio.  What a fucking ass hole.  He is always on TV news telling us what a great sheriff he is and about how he puts people in his jail in tents.   Also anytime they do video from the jail he will get a group of inmates behind in the photo. 
He is fucking sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona.   
"...Maricopa County is one of the most conservative urban areas in the country. While the city of Phoenix leans Democratic, the rest of the county tends to vote heavily Republican. Every Republican Presidential candidate has won Maricopa County since 1948..."

I will be glad when this story is over.  I was tired of hearing about Paris Hilton.
I just heard on the news that Paris Hilton never went to high school or college.  I think they need to lock up her mother and father.

6/6/07

Out on the road again. Jeep in for lub.

The Italian

I watched "The Italian" on DVD.  It is a Russian movie with English sub titles.  It is listed on the IMDB under the title of  "Italianetz" 2005. 

"Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family..."  It is a sad movie but it shows a little bit of life in part of Russia. 

 

The Mistress of Spices

I watched "The Mistress of Spices" (2005) on DVD.  I liked it.  It is rated a 4.5 on IMDB. I would give it a 6 but I did like it.

24/7 with Ronald Lewis

I found an interesting guy called Ronald Lewis.


His web site is:  24/7 with Ronald Lewis
He is doing some great stuff with streaming video.  Check out his web site and his streaming video. 
He is in the Denver area and if your in that area and want to jump on a way to promote your business or cause get in contact with Ronald.

I got a $40.00 donation from a fan of "ShowMeBlog" yesterday.  I want to thank him.

I saw a very short clip on CNN of the interview by Larry King of "Doctor Death."  It did not appear that Larry King was asking any hard questions.  I would have pounded him to see if I could get him to start foaming at the mouth and saying he was going to kill me.  I used to be a big fan of Larry King when he was on the radio before people had heard of him.  Larry King is too old now. 

"...Unlike many interviewers, Larry King has a direct, non-confrontational approach. His interview style is characteristically frank and no-nonsense, but with occasional bursts of irreverence and humor. His non-confrontational approach attracts some guests who would not otherwise appear.

Throughout his career he has interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. In all, CNN claims that he conducted more than 40,000 interviews over the course of his career..."

I was a fan of Larry King, I think, from 1982 to 1986, when he was on the Mutual radio.  I was working at Research Medical Center and sometimes I would end up in the the patrol car when his show was on the air and I would listen sometimes. 
On June 18th 1984 I tuned into listen to Larry King but I did not like the guest he was interviewing so I tuned the car radio to KOA in Denver.  This was right after they got word that their talk show host Alan Berg has been gunned down.  That was a wild and interesting show from KOA.
I would sometimes listen to KOA when Larry King had a guest that I did not find interesting.
I was never a fan of Alan Berg.  I did not like how he did his show.  He was nothing like a Larry King.

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Astronomy

I have always  been interested in Astronomy.  Back right after the first satellite went into orbit I began a column on space communications.  I would list the satellites in orbit and give the frequency that they were transmitting on and give orbit information on them. 
When I did my radio program on WRUL radio I used to play the "Sounds of Space" each week.  I would play the sound of one satellite transmitting.  The 45 rpm record was by Elmo Melton a local ham in Kansas City.

When I started Howard's Notebook in 1982 I had information about Astronomy.  Later a local Astronomy club used my bulletin board system.  Later then started their own BBS.
I used to subscribe to "Sky and Telescope." 

I have owned a couple of telescopes but they were never very good.  I never could afford a real good one.  I always wanted one of those fancy ones that you see in magazines.

A good link if your interested in how to buy a telescope. 

As my kids were growing up I always made an attempt to point out objects in the sky.
When I worked hospital security most of the time I worked the midnight shift.  Often when an employee was coming  into work I would point out one or more planets when they were interesting.

On my Palm device I always had a program to help me find objects in the sky.

If your looking for a great place for binoculars, scopes, telescopes and all sorts of great things check out:
Optics Planet. 

Check out the Meade MySky device. 

"Meade MySky Personal Sky Exploration Guide is the latest and greatest gadget and astronomy instrument from Meade. 

Meade mySky Personal Planetarium Telescope 04540:

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Optics Planet has got so many neat things. 

The above is a PayPerPost.

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Google Maps - "Street View"

I can not keep up with everything that is taking place in the on line world.  How many of you know about the new "Street View" on Google Maps? 

Well I just did a search on the Internet to get information and I guess they just started the service.  I guess they have trucks with 360 degree cameras drive around and take photos.  So you can use Google Maps and if you see a street with a blue line you drag a icon on it and you see photos taken with the camera.  You can move the icon along the blue line and see photos.
One man is seen picking his nose at a street corner, a couple sunbathing in bikinis and a man entering an adult book store.

I do not have a problem with it.  But then I am not the guy going into the adult book store.  They are taking the photos from the public street. 

New subject... I do not like living on this fixed income.  I guess most people are on a fixed income.  Even if you have a job you get a certain amount each payday.  Unless your in sales or something like that were you get a commission. 
I guess the problem is not that I am on a fixed income but it is that I do not have a enough of the fixed income.  My cost of living is going up but my income does not increase.
I do take in a small amount of money from advertising, banners and commissions because of the blog.  I just have not found a way to make those amounts larger.

Now PayPerPost has worked out well for me.  I have taken in $104.00 from them.  I could run more of their advertising but they would not fit in the blog and it would make the blog look like crap.  Most of the things I can post from PerPerPost pay me between $5.00 and $15.00 and that is not much money.  If I had a higher Google ranking (I have a 4) then the money amounts would be larger that that would help.
If you sign up for PayPerPost and none of you have if you went all the way and began posting I would get $15.00 one time.  That is not a very good deal for me.  (By the 81 of you have clicked on the above banner or one like it.)

Now I have made some money from the Sex banners here.  I was at $40.00 a month for a couple of months but it is down now a bit.  I have 4 people that have signed up as an affiliate under me.  I get 7% commission on their sales.  They have not sold anything. 
I need some go getting that wants to make some money to sign up under me.  I would love for someone to sign up under me and sell lots of stuff.

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I will just keep dreaming.  Now if I could just win the lottery.

Car Plows into D.C. Street Festival

I saw the head line "Dozens injured when car plows into D.C. street festival" and I had to read it.  I have a daughter that lives in Washington D.C. 
It seems like we are having more of these car plows into people stories.  It maybe just that we get them now because of CNN and other national networks that pick them up. 
It is an interesting story if you read it.  The woman had a 7 year old in the car with her.  The driver, woman, had been driving "erratically" and struck a police car and fled from the scene about a half-hour before the crash. 
When she came back to the scene she started off slowly through closed streets and the hit the gas running through the heart of the event.
Seven of the victims have major injuries.  Two officers were hurt driving scooters into the car's path trying to stop the driver.
The woman grew up in the neighborhood and is well known.  Residents saw her in the area Saturday morning and she was driving erratically and clipping parked cars. 
It will be interesting to find out what was wrong with the woman.  Is it drugs?  Did she have a medical condition?  She is a mental patient?

She did not use a gun so we can not call for gun control.  My guess is that NRA supporters will say if the public had been armed they could have shot her. 

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