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Tornado Preparedness - 1950's

  Here is a film from the 1950's.  It is about Tornado Preparedness.  You will notice no computers.

 

  There is also mention made of a weather observer corp.  I was a member of the first one for Kansas City, MO.  I was in Civil Defense, in Kansas City, and I was in the USAF Ground Observer Corp.  The USAF did away with the GOC, in 1959,  and so we all became weather observers.
  Later in life I was a police officer, in a small town, in Missouri. I would watch for tornados.  The local volunteer fire department did an excellent job of watching for tornados.
  When I worked hospital security we would watch for tornados.  We also trained hospital employees on hospital policy during a "Code Gray."
  I have been, for years, a member of SkyWarn.

  I never have seen a tornado. 
  I was right in the middle of a "Microburst."  That was in Lee's Summit, MO (May of 1996).  I was working at Lee's Summit Hospital and it must have been about midnight.  I was the only security officer on duty.  I noticed the rain was blowing sideways.  I had never seen anything like that before and then I heard on radio the police put out a tornado warning for the East side of Lee's Summit.  I called the hospital on duty house supervisor and told her we needed to go into Code Gray right now.  She told the PBX operator to page the code and we went into Code Gray.
  The hospital received no damage.  There were a lot of houses that did get heavy damage in the Raintree Lake area.  We got a few people into the hospital with minor injuries.
  I had never heard of a "Microburst" until the weather department said later that it was not a tornado but a microburst.

  In the vintage video two of the weather department forecasters ae Joe Galway and Don House. The film must be dated about 1956.

Hulu TV - Free movies

  I told you about hulu TV.  You can watch some movies and a lot of TV shows and it is all free.  I, as you all know, am a big movie fan. 
  This weekend after you check Howard's Notebook and read the blog and make a donation (smile) jump over to hulu TV.  I recommend the following movies;  "The Big Lebowski", "Bulworth", "K-Pax" and "The Slums of Beverly Hills".  

  If your not a movie fan then this weekend you could read Howard's Notebook and then go to ViewMy.TV and click on the C-SPAN 2 link.  You can watch all weekend BookTV.
  If you click on C-SPAN 3 you will get the C-SPAN History channel. 
 
  Want to play some games on your computer? 
  Check out IWON.  It is free.  They have many fun games.  You can also win some money.
  I like the Diamond Slots game the most.  I been playing each day for about 15 to 30 minutes.  I have never won any real money.

  Now you do understand that you should read all of Howard's Notebook first before you do any of these other activities?  Smile

Your Personal File

  It is big news that people are looking at the presidential candidates private passport files.  The news people are acting like it is a surprise.  Condoleezza Rice has apologized to the candidates.  I am not surprised or shocked.
  It happens all the time to all of us.  Hospital workers look at medical files of people they have no reason to be checking.  Police officers check on people when they have no legal right or reason to do it.  People that have access to information are checking right now on people that live next door to them or checking on an ex-wife or ex-husband or a boy friend or a cute girl.  It happens all the time.
  It should not happen. Many places have very strong rules that say you cannot do it.  You may have to sign a paper saying you will not do things like that with the computer access.  But it is happening right now.
  Many places try and have some sort of way to see who accessed a file.  There are ways around it often.  I am sure if you work someplace and you can have access to personal files and information you know how to get around it.

  I do not see any way to stop it.  We need strong laws and we may already have them.  But there is not way to stop it.
  Let us say we have some overweight middle age woman that works in the police department or in a medical records depart of a hospital and she is found guilty of accessing an ex-husband's file or his new girl friend or wife...  I guess if the woman that did it knew that if it was found out that she had access those files all of her personal information would be published in the local newspaper and she would have to stand outside on the street nude for x amount of time and she would have to tell everyone that she met for one year her weight that might stop her from doing it.  NO,  it would not.  She would think they were not going to catch her.

  This is something that needs to be fixed.  It is something we need to work on.
  I think the only way it can be fixed is with a national ID card and every time you use a computer your logged in and there is a match to you.  You touch a keyboard and it is easy for the right people to know everything you did.
  You do not want that sort of security and information right? 
  I want it.  I am sick and tired of people pretending to be someone.  I am sick and tired of not knowing who you're dealing with.  I am sick and tired of getting emails on how to make my dick bigger. 

Dream

  I had one of my work dreams again last night.  In this dream I was back working at Research Medical Center as a security officer. I was in a class.  I am not sure what sort of class.  We broke for lunch.  I then ran into a woman and for some reason the hospital needed to pay her 50 cents.  In the dream I left to get her 50 cents and then I had to help someone else.  Then I had the 50 cents and was trying to return to give her the money and things kept me from getting back to her.  Hours passed and I was still trying to get back to her.
  One time I passed the class room and sort of hid.
  Then I found a couple of woman and tried to give them the money but they were not the correct woman. I have forgot what the correct woman looked like. 
  I hate dreaming about work.  I do not work now.  The last time I worked for Research Medical Center was in November of 1999.

How Dreams Work

Dreaming about work is normal

  I hate the time change.  I wish they would leave the time alone and not mess with it.
  I will think it is about 5 PM and I look and it is 7 PM.  I wake up and I think it is 5 AM and it is 7 AM.  I know we only did an hour change but that is the way I feel.

Lonesome Dove

  I just watched six hours of "Lonesome Dove" and it was excellent.  I had not seen it.  I would not want to see it again.  It is just not the sort of movie I would want to see a second time.

  My son  and his wife, in CA, just moved into a studio apartment.  It is $950.00 a month but they do not have to pay for water or electricity. 
  Ken was checking some rental places here the other night and he said the prices have gone up.  I guess rents are not going to go down.  This may be a good time to buy but not to rent.  He was just looking we plan on staying in this place. 

  I feel a little better today.  I ate less today.  I canceled the doctor's appointment for the 26th of this month.  I will make a new appointment in about a month.
  My birthday is on the 26th but that is not the reason I canceled the appointment.  I just did not think I needed to go so soon after the last time. 
  I have a coupon for a $38.00 dollars massage.  If I have the money, on the 26th, I may get a massage.  The company offers the one time coupon deal at all of their locations.  The company is Massage Envy. 
 
 

Hard Times

  I was reading at the CNN site about the little people that are having problems.  I was reading about borrowers not finding any help.  That got me to remembering back when  President Bush and the Republicans made a major effort to get the bankruptcy laws changed.  They were just crazy on the subject.  They said we had to make it harder for a person to declare bankruptcy and had to make it hurt the person filing for bankruptcy.  I wondered why they were so hard and crazy on the subject.  I just said to myself well they are Republicans and all they care about is big business, corporations and banks.
  Now I wonder if some of them knew that one day things would get real bad for the little guy and they wanted to try and keep them from using the bankruptcy laws. 

  I keep hearing about the feds pumping $200 billion dollars into Wall Street and the banks and corporations to help them.  It does not seem to help.  That one day the market may go up.  The next day it is back down big time. 
  How many homes would $200 billion dollars save?  How many little people would that amount of money help?

bear stearned

Urban Word of the Day

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March 20, 2008: bear stearned

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear+stearned&defid=2931981

 

to crash, to collapse, to plummit, to fail

 

1. I can't believe it, I completely bear stearned that test.

 

2. For the third time this week, my computer bear stearned on me.

 

Stickam Video

Is Mark Sherman a "legal" reporter?

  I saw a headline on the Internet and it said  "Justices agree on right to own guns" and I said to myself "What the Fuck."  How can they agree on anything?  They did not decide anything today.  They just listened to both sides today and they ask a few questions.
  The story is by an AP writer by the name of Mark Sherman.  Does the AP have a reporter cover the Supreme Court that does not know how the court functions?
  He says "a majority of justices appeared ready to say that Americans have a right" to keep and bear arms.
  Now that maybe true but we do not know.  The justices during this first step will toss out questions and say things for many reasons.  They are trying to get information and test out different positions.
  This guy should not be reporting on the Supreme Court.  The justices are just starting.  This was the very first step.  We will know in June what they decide.
  I just did a Google search on Mark Sherman and he does seem to report on legal and court matters for AP.
  But I say again this guy wrote a very poor article on what took place today.
  He should know better.  I wonder if he has some issues.  Maybe he is an NRA member and a gun nut himself and he just cannot cover the issue in a fair manner.
 
  Believe me you cannot decide how the justices are going to decide or even how they are feeling by the questions they ask on the first day. 

  I will be very much interested to see how Justice Antonin Scalia comes down on this issue.  I do not like him.  He comes across as a real prick.  The reason I want to know how he deals with this case is because he is a big critic of the idea of a living constitution.  He believes you read the constitution just as it was written and that it means just what the writers wrote when they wrote it.

  I hope the court will decide this matter.  I am so tired of each side saying the Second Amendment supports their point of view.

A well regulated MILITIA

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- "The Supreme Court on Tuesday took up gun control, hearing arguments concerning a District of Columbia ban on handguns more than two centuries after the Second Amendment gave Americans the right to "keep and bear arms."

Lawyers for both sides tried to strike a moderate tone before the court, arguing that there was an individual right to own a weapon, but that governments could impose reasonable gun-control legislation..."

  I know this is just arguments taking place but it sounds to me like it is all in the wrong direction.  The Second Amendment does NOT give Americans the right to "keep and bear arms."  It gives each of the states the right to have a national guard. 
  I want the Supreme Court to rule on that issue.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

  Right now we have the NRA and gun nuts saying that the government cannot put limits on the owning of guns.  They say you can own any type of gun you want.  They say the government can not have any control over gun ownership. 
  I hope the Supreme Court will say the Second Amendment applies to each state having an armed militia. 

If that happens that does not say that a person cannot  own a gun.  It will just say that the Second Amendment has nothing to do with it.
Then it would be up to each state to decide what the rules are in each state.