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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
11:15 pm	We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.' (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
11:07 pm	I was going to post some new pictures, but I find myself being far too lazy to do so. Maybe later. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
6:18 pm	Anna's teacher was telling her about the time change today, and mentioned that everyone will be eating in the dark. Anna very confidently said "We won't be eating in the dark." The teacher then said, well, yes, because of the time change, it will be dark when you eat. Anna then said "no, it won't, because we have power." (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 5th, 2009
1:31 pm	I really don't like the trends in policing that I see. (Comment on this)
12:23 pm	WTF? I find that many of the feeds I read cross source. In any case from the Washington Times via the agitator, via boingboing. (see what I mean) http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/05/criminalizing-everyone/ "You don't need to know. You can't know." That's what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search. The agents who spent half a day ransacking Mrs. Norris' longtime home in Spring, Texas, answered no questions while they emptied file cabinets, pulled books off shelves, rifled through drawers and closets, and threw the contents on the floor. Read the rest at the link. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
11:04 pm	Dispicable This is just wrong. From alternet A few miles down the road from Colorado Springs [a home to James Dobson's Focus on the Family], in the quiet bedroom community of Eldredge, a deeply disturbed young man named Matthew Murray followed the unfolding debacle at New Life Church [once under the stewardship of Pastor Ted Haggard] with an interest that bordered on obsession. Murray, a sallow-faced, bespectacled 24-year-old, had been indelibly scarred by a lifetime of psychological abuse at the hands of his charismatic Pentecostal parents. Murray's mind became crowded with thoughts of death, destruction, and the killings he would soon carry out in the name of avenging what he called his "nightmare of Christianity." What is wrong with some people? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
1:57 pm	balanced budget? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
2:30 pm	Hey Doc! Whatcha think of this one? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
11:00 pm	I agree. Of the Terminator iterations that have come about since T2, only Sarah Connor Chronicles picked up the metal robotic gauntlet that T2 threw down, and ran with it. Only the television show justified its existence as a followup to that classic sequel, by taking its ideas further and delving deeper into its world. If, as seems pretty likely, the Terminator franchise goes back into deep freeze for a long time until we get some new remake or reboot a dozen years from now, the only thing I'll miss is Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I couldn't agree more. I will miss SCC. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
8:26 pm	http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=16340 "LONGMONT - A police standoff on the 200 block of East 17th Avenue has ended, and traffic on the street should be returning to normal shortly after 7:30 p.m. A man who reportedly had threatened another man with a knife inside their home was taken into custody at about 7:10 p.m. No one was injured. Detectives are still investigating the incident." This is why the SWAT team wanted in the house, since we are right across the fence from the back of this house, our house and yard is a good place to observe from. Unfortunately, no pics. I was too worried about getting the twins out of harms way. I did also hear from another neighbor that it was a warrent arrest. Who knows? More details as I get them. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
7:02 pm	the longmont SWAT team is in my house right now. Looking for someone other than me (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
9:16 pm	Hope There is hope for the future after all. "I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites." (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
10:15 pm	More police abuse. http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/investigators/story/WILSON-Emergency-Aid-Delayed/8UXeuN7eFkytW0KGC5IDKg.cspx A 2 week suspension is all that the officers cheif considered justified. So much for accountablity. "(WXYZ) You need help in a hurry... you know what to do: grab the phone and dial 911. But what if nobody answered? Or, as our Chief Investigator Steve Wilson shows us, what if they answered, refused to send help and repeatedly hung up the phone? STEVE WILSON REPORTS IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ON THE RIGHT, THE STORY SCRIPT IS BELOW In the Downriver city of Lincoln Park, citizens call 9-1-1 over 14,000 times each year, and let’s make it clear right up front: those emergency calls are generally well handled…but that makes what happened to Adrienne Ledesma no less shocking. Adrainne Ledesma/Called for help: I was really scared because, you know, it’s my dad and he fell. He’s not supposed to fall like that. His fall was so frightening because he was just three weeks out of the hospital where he underwent brain surgery and suddenly, he’s on the kitchen floor, unconscious and shaking with a severe seizure. Ledesma: I was scared. I was freaking out. So this 17-year-old high school senior grabbed her phone and dialed 911. She says she got no quick answer, so she hung-up and called again. Now you know those emergency calls are recorded, but did you know the recording starts even before the call is answered? So you can hear her near-panic when again she can’t get an immediate answer, blurting out the f-word just as the call is picked up. Ledesma: What the f***. Sgt. Robert McFarland: 911. Ledesma: I need an ambulance at (address). But the Lincoln Park cop who takes the call admonishes her…and only makes her more frantic. Sgt. McFarland: Well, okay, first of all you don’t need to swear over 9-1-1 and slow down. Ledesma: Send me a f****** ambulance! (Call is disconnected)" The rest at the link. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 1st, 2009
3:49 pm	Yet another fine example of police abuse of power. I feel that the police in question are very very lucky the crowd lacked the balls to intervene. Naked Wizard Tased By Reality from Tracy Anderson on Vimeo. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
12:54 am	Outstanding. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
10:45 pm	If you thought the dog was bad, this is even worse. http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090325_mo_detained.6f8a23c1.html Ice T was right (1 Comment |Comment on this)
10:43 pm	Disgusting. This sickens me. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 30th, 2009
5:08 pm	It's been a while. A whole bunch of new pictures of the twins are up here. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
2:53 pm	New word You heard it here first. Priuspasm, n. the self-righteous ego boost that some people get from driving a Prius. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
3:44 pm	States with the most freedom. http://www.mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Freedom%20in%20the%2050%20States.pdf "We find that the freest states in the country are New Hampshire, Colorado, and South Dakota, which together achieve a virtual tie for first place. All three states feature low taxes and government spending and middling levels of regulation and paternalism. New York is the least free by a considerable margin, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland. On personal freedom alone, Alaska is the clear win- ner, while Maryland brings up the rear. As for freedom in the different regions of the country, the Mountain and West North Central regions are the freest overall while the Middle Atlantic lags far behind on both economic and personal reedom. Regression analysis demonstrates that states njoying more economic and personal freedom tend to attract substantially higher rates of internal net migration." You go, Colorado. (1 Comment |Comment on this)