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Sperm Song

  I am not a real fan of Monthy Python because I feel they are anti-religion (mostly anti-Catholic).  Some of their stuff is pretty funny but it takes the fun out of it when you know they have a cause and a mission in life.  Their mission is not just to be funny it is to attack religion and other things.
  Now having said that and telling you that I am a Catholic here is the Monty Python Every Sperm is Sacred.

 

Uniden BCT8 Programming

  I did not get very much done today.  I was programming the Uniden BCT8 scanner.  I do not have the scanner yet but I will get it on Tuesday (3 days).  Today I was using a program to enter the frequencies into the data base and then when I get the scanner I can load in the frequencies into the banks of memory.  Believe me it is much more easy to do it by a program than by punching them in on the keyboard one at a time.

  One thing that is going to be a bitch is that when I get the scanner I am going to hear hams talking on the radio and hear radio nets and I do not have a ham radio and I can not join them. 
   The ham radio that I showed here last week cost about $400.00 yes that little thing and right now I do not feel I can afford it.  I can get a real nice one for $200.00 and I may do that next month.  Right now I am just waiting to see what sort of medical costs I have with my new insurance.

  I do have a lottery ticket for tonight.  The jackpot is $3 million.  I could get a lot of ham radio equipment for $3 million dollars.

Le Samourai (1967)

  I am not sure why I ordered the DVD but I just wasted an hour of my life watching "Le Samourai" on DVD.  It is a French movie made in 1967.
 

"A little bit gangster film, a little bit samurai flick, this 1960s French masterpiece from Jean-Pierre Melville introduces the memorable anti-hero Jef Costello (Alain Delon), a contract killer with the instincts of a Japanese warrior and the features of Adonis. After offing a nightclub owner, Costello has two big problems: his double-crossing employer, who now wants him dead, and the dogged police investigator who's determined to rein him in."  NetFlix

  I could not stand to watch the entire movie.  I think I watched about an hour of it.  I got tried of seeing him walking around in his trench coat with his hat on and then doing that over and over again.  On IMDB this film has a rating of 8.2 out of 10.  I would rate it a 1 or 2.  What am I missing?  I am sure I don't have to warn you about this film because none of you are going to run out and rent it.

Reading Obituaries

  I just started reading obituaries.  I can remember my father and mother reading.  I never could understand it. Now here I am doing it myself.
  I saw in the obituaries that Lawrence J. Bonavia Sr passed away.  He was 94 years old.  (I am 67 years old.)  I do not remember him.  But I do remember his daughter Carrie Bonavia.  Carrie and I went to Holy Name Grade School and she was my first girl friend.  We were in the 3rd or 4th grade.  I see from the obituary that Carrie is married and her last is now Correll.  Of course to me she will always be Carrie Bonavia.
  Her father and mother had a Halloween party and I waited for my mother to get home from work.  She was going to pick me up a costume for the party.  My mother came home with a pirate costume but it had short pants.  I went in the costume. I so embarrassed that Carrie would see me in short pants.
  My love of Carrie was around 1951 give or take a year or two and I would have been 9 or 10 years old. 
  I stole a bracelet from Wards or Sears I can't remember which and gave it to Carrie.  I don't remember how much it cost.  It had what looked like a lot of "diamonds" but it was of course fake.
  Her mother called my mother and asked if it was OK for me (Jimmy) to give it too Carrie.  I do not know what my mother said to Carrie's mom but boy I was in trouble.  That was my first and only stealing.  Oh I made up a story about the bracelet.  We had just had a big flood in Kansas City MO (1951) and I said that some stuff got wet in the flood and the store gave it away because of the flood damage.  Well OK I was only 9 or 10 years old and it seemed like a good story to me at the time. 
  So I decided to give up my life of crime.  But I could not give up my love of Carrie.
  We moved away a year or two after that...and I never saw Carrie again.
  But I did talk to her on the telephone one time.  There was a TV Show called "Commander 9" on KMBC-TV (on channel 9) and kids could send in drawings and I sent in a drawing of a space ship.  Commander 9 showed it on TV and said it was from "Jimmy Howard" and I got a phone call right away from Carrie.  She saw it and heard my name and I guess she looked me up in the phone book and we talked. 
  That was the last contact I had with Carrie. 
  I am sorry to hear that her father just passed away but I am happy to see that she is still alive.  Maybe if I had not had those short pants on maybe she would have married me.  Maybe if I had not stole for her she would have married me.  Maybe if she had not seen my drawing on Commander 9 she would have married me.  Of course it could have been worst.  I did not send a drawing to the Romper Room TV show.
  First loves you never forget them.
  I wonder if she remembers me.

2007 Income Tax Refund

  I got my 2007 income tax refund today.  It went direct into my bank account.
  I ordered a Uniden Bearcat BCT8 scanner. 



  It is not the high tech fancy one that I been lusting after for months but it is a good scanner.  In fact if your looking for a scanner this might be the one for you.  If your new to listening to scanners this is a good starter scanner.
  You can listen to police, fire, weather, ham radio, marine and aircraft.  This scanner when you get it you can enter in your state and it will then have many of the frequencies for your state in it.  That is pretty neat.
  I should get this Tuesday 29th of January (2008).  So I am sure I will be commenting about things that I hear from time to time on ShowMeBlog. 

a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man

Paper rips Rudy Giuliani as "a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man"

Giuliani responds: I wouldn't be a conservative Republican if I did what paper wanted

Opinion piece says McCain will "end the George Bush style of governing"

Paper praises Barack Obama but calls Hillary Clinton more qualified for the job

 

NEW YORK (CNN) -- "The New York Times endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination over Rudy Giuliani and the rest of the GOP field, strongly criticizing the former mayor of its home city..." 

  The New York Times called Rudy Giuliani "a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man" and I think the voters of FL are going to agree with them.  Rudy Giuliani has been spending all of his time in Florida and has been counting on this state to give him a win.  The vote here is on Tuesday and the polls have him as number 3.
  I think a loss here will send him back to New York but it sounds like they don't want him either.

  The New York Times said; 

"The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city's and the country's nightmare to promote his presidential campaign," the paper writes, describing Giuliani as "a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man."

 
  My blood pressure is sky high today.  I could tell it was high when I woke up by the way I was feeling.  My head and my eyes giving me problems.  I walked up to CVS to pick up a couple of medications and took my BP at the CVS and the Systolic was 170.  I forget what the Diastolic was at the CVS.
  My BP should never be above 140 with the medications I am taking. 
  I walked home and took my BP and it was 154/100.  I never have a Diastolic that high. 
  I took two of my medications about 30 minutes ago and I just took my BP again and it is 151/65 with heart rate of 62.
  I may take a lot of naps today.  Not sure if that will help or not.

Vote Chooser

  There is a site called Vote Chooser and they ask ten questions and then list how you match up with the presidential candidates.
  I agreed with Barack Obama on 9 and with John Edwards and Hillary Clinton on 7 issues.  With Huckabee, McCain, Paul and Giuliani I agreed 3 times and with Romney and Thompson 2 times. 
  I will be voting however for Hillary Clinton here in FL soon. 

$800 errr $600 now $300.00

"...In exchange for those concessions, the Bush administration and House Republicans agreed that the stipend of at least $300 would be paid to all workers who earned at least $3,000 last year, even those who did not earn enough to pay taxes.

Workers who paid income taxes could receive more than $300, and families with children would receive an additional $300 per child, up to a cap of $1,200. The stipend, which some lawmakers were calling a “tax rebate,” would be subject to income limits so that the wealthiest taxpayers would not receive it. Payments would go to individuals earning up to $75,000 and couples earning up to $150,000. He said roughly two-thirds of the overall package would be aimed at individual taxpayers and one-third at businesses..."   This from a New York Times link. 

  I am confused at this point. 

  My feet are not swollen as bad today.  I walked up to CVS and I ordered two medications and I ordered two months worth of each and I am not getting it via my insurance I am paying cash.  They are cheap.  It will be nice to have a two month supply of each on hand.  That way I will not run out at the last minute and in case of an emergency, hurricane or something, I will have a supply.  I have not picket them up yet.  I hope the cost is what I think it is for them.
 
  I went to Radio Shack and I got a 4 port Modular USB 2.0 Hub made by Gigaware.  I have not hooked it up yet but it looks good.  I see at the Radio Shack site they list a Gigaware USB 2.0 Extention Cable that is 64-feet long.  The price is only $30.00 for it.
  Opps.. now that is mis-leading.  It shows in the photo a USB cable that is very long.  But in the small print it says connect up to 4 cables in a row.  That is how you get the 64 feet.  So they are selling 16 foot cables at $30.00 each and if you want go to 64 feet it is going to cost you $120.00 for the distance.  Smile
  They have a number of Gigaware items.  They look good.  I wonder if that is a new Radio Shack brand name. Of course the stuff is made in China.

Show Me The $600

NEW: Deal would give individuals $600, couples $1,200, sources say

NEW: Parents may get $300 more per child, sources say

GOP will allow rebates for people who don't pay income taxes, sources say

Democrats won't push food stamp aid hike, unemployment benefit extension

  See CNN story:  Taxpayers would get checks under economic stimulus plan

  Taxpayers could get a check by June according to an AP report.  To win over Republicans there will also be business tax breaks. 
  Fiscal conservatives may offer resistance due to the increase in federal debt the stimulus plan would add.  Right now due to the weaking economy the deficit will go to $250 billion and that does not include the stimulus package.

  I still do not think this is going to help.  I also do not think I will be getting the $600.00 because I did not pay any taxes last year and I did not work any last year.  I am retired and get $1000.00 a month in Social Security and I get a retirement check of $175.00 each month from my hospital retirement plan.
 
  Yesterday I needed to get some things done.  I need to go and pick up some medication and do some other things but both my feet were swollen big time and my legs.  I am not sure what the cause of it was this time.  I do not remember eating a lot of salt unless there is a delay of a couple of days in the effects. 
  Tomorrow I should get my income tax refund check of $400.00 and my plan was to buy a brand new fancy ham radio that would take almost all of that money.  But I was thinking I was going to get one of those rebates of $800.00 (now $600.00) but now that I know I am not going to get that money I am thinking maybe I should go with the less fancy and flashy ham radio for $200.00 instead.
  Staples has a big sale on the Sony Cyber Shot DSC-H7 8.1 MP camera.  It is $250.00 for the camera right now.  I found the deal at DealNews.  It is a site that reports on good deals and sales. 

Stimulus Package will NOT Work

"...But all of us should recognize that the stimulus package will be inadequate to drive sustainable growth in our $13 trillion economy. An emergency Fed rate cut and an economic stimulus plan are short-term responses to our complex economic problems, nothing more than bandages for a hemorrhaging economy...

All Americans will soon have to face a bitter and now obvious truth: Our national, political and economic leaders have squandered this nation's wealth, and the price of this profligacy is enormous, and the bill has just come due for all of us..."

The above is what I have been saying except Lou Dobbs says it so much better.
See Dobbs: Our leaders have squandered our wealth

  One problem is that this has hit right before an election.  That is not good.   The people running for office and in office only want to be elected or re-elected.  They are not going to do what needs to be done or tell us what needs to be done.
  I do not know the answer.  We do need to end that war in Iraq.  We can not afford the war.  We should have only gone to war if we could pay for it.  I am not sure if we need taxes or if we need less taxes.  I do know than none of the people in Washington now or the ones that want to be in Washington are going to tell us that we need a tax.
 
  Let me re-print something that I wrote here on January 19th:

 

"...I am not smart...just a dumb old ex-welder/night watchman...Not smart like them guys in Washington DC but you know if I was in Washington DC I would try and think of some different way to do this $800.00 hand out.
  I think I would send out a $100.00 coupon that would get me a free bike made in the United States.  Just think of all the jobs that would create and they would be U.S. jobs.  The bikes would have to be made in the United States by U.S. workers.
  So it would create jobs and when I got it and used it I would be saving gas and I would be improving my health.  That would help with medical cost and insurance costs.
  Then if I was in DC I would still have $700.00 to share with Americans.  What if they sent me $100.00 worth of those compact fluorescent light bulbs? Now if they make them in the United States then they should be made in the U.S.A.  Now I would save money on energy cost.  The utility might not have to build more plants and they might use less coal or oil to create the power.  I guess I should not limit it to $100.00 they should do a study to see how many bulbs most people could re-place in their home.
  Now that would leave about $600.00 for them to send to me. 
Maybe them there smart people in Washington could come up with other ideas like the ones I just posted or maybe even better ideas.
  They could come up with a list of good causes that if money went to them would help out the United States.  Maybe a list of them and we could check off and send up to $200.00 to them.  Maybe we could decide what percent goes to each one.  Now those organizations are going to use that money to buy things and that will help the United States.  Maybe you would decide to give money to the Red Cross.  They would spend it and it would help us all.
  I am not saying don't send any money to us.  Maybe send $200.00 or $400.00 and do some of these other things. Of course.. I an'tn smart like them there fellows in Washington so I guess they know best.  I know they are always looking out for poor folks like me.  And I am knowing that they only do what is best for us and the United States..."

  What I was trying to say is think out side of the box.  Don't just try and make people think your doing something but try and fix the problem.  The 150 billion dollars, as Lou Dobbs says, is not going to fix a $13 trillion dollar broken economy. 
  But why waste another $150 billion. 
  I am not saying you have to go with the bike or the CF bulb idea.  I was just trying to say...try something new...think about the problem...do not just give lip service to the problem.