29 September 06 - 01:16Some sobering findings about the Muslim Faith

Things have been busy lately, but not too busy to listen to talk radio on my way to work.  Earlier this week I was listening to Ankarlo Mornings on Dallas station KLIF.  The segment I listened to featured one Brigitte Gabriel.  She talked about some things that I have been asking myself lately.  This got me to looking into things, and by the way, I have found that the Pope quoted a very good source. In the back of my mind I have been wondering where and when the "Religion of Peace," Islam, became corrupted into a religion with so much hate.

Guess what, I find that Islam started out that way.  The religion has a saying, "la, ilaha illa allah, muhammad rasoulu allah," (None is God except Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah).  In order to see what the messsenger has said, I downloaded the Qu'ran in Microsoft Word document format, then searched on a few things. I also learned that there are supporting texts for the Qu'ran as well as doctrines as disturbing as "Jihad."

First a few words from the Sahith Bukhari, a Muslim religious text.

• Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' " —Sahih Bukhari 4.52.176
• Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him." —Sahih Bukhari 4.52.177
• I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, 'O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!' " —Sahih Bukhari 4.56.791

Isn't that dandy.  Now for the Muslim concept of Al-taqiyya.  Al-taqiyya describes a practice of Muslims blatantly lying to non-Muslims. Apparently many Muslims consider the act of Al-taqiyya or lying to non-Muslims to be a good work. Good works is the Muslim pathway to heaven.  Doing good things such as killing infidels (non-Muslims) fits the bill.  You can even blow yourself up in the process and do your good work AND get to heaven in a split second.

Obviously I am not an expert on this religion, I have only sniffed around the edges to see more for myself, however, there is a smell here.  It would appear that there is a major threat that I can no longer ignore.  These people hate me and I need to know why.

This is an interesting point that Brigette made when she was interviewed. she indicated that Abed is the arabic word for slave as well as the arabic word for a black person.  If in fact the words are synonomous, it is interesting that so many blacks, especially high profile black athletes consider themselves Muslim.  I need to see if there is some al-taqiyya here someplace.  After all, those of us who are not Muslim are not worthy of being dealt with truthfully.  Al-taqiyya seems to me to be a custom of arrogance.

I am getting a bit concerned about not only the radical Muslims, but the so-called mainstream Muslims who seem to want to shield us not-Muslims from these very disturbing Muslim teachings.

More later.

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24 September 06 - 23:22A Matter of Honor

A freiend sent me this, enjoy without worry.  The Catholics can take a joke on themselves without creating international incidents, like some religions we know.

Pictue this.  A young teenager sitting beside a friend gets up from the pew and goes to confession. 

"Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose woman."

The priest asks, "Is that you, little Johnny Parisi?"

"Yes, Father, it is."

"And who was the woman you were with?"

"I can't tell you, Father. I don't want to ruin her reputation."

"Well, Johnny, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later, so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?"

"I cannot say."

"Was it Teresa Volpe?"

"I'll never tell."

"Was it Nina Capelli?"

"I'm sorry, but I cannot name her."

"Was it Cathy Piriano?"

"My lips are sealed."

"Was it Rosa Di Angelo, then?"

"Please, Father, I cannot tell you."

The priest sighs in frustration. "You're very tight lipped, Johnny Parisi, and I admire that. But you've sinned and have to atone. For the next 4 monthsyou cannot be an altar boy. Now go and behave yourself."

Johnny walks back to his pew, and his friend Nino slides over and whispers,"What'd you get?"

"Four months vacation and five good leads."

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23 September 06 - 14:28Alive or Dead

The story surfaced today of Bin Laden's possible demise.  The story was first published in L'Est Republicain, which cited a French secret service memo reported to say Saudi Arabia was convinced Bin Laden had died of typhoid fever in Pakistan.  Apparently, according to the memo, his demise was in August.

As usual, nobody can confirm or deny the report, but everybody is looking into it.  Even the french guy.

I only put the note here today because I regularly check on the status of Bin Laden.  Although I don't consider him "the devil" I do consider him to be somewhat of a scumbag.  I cannot think of a level that would not make me feel good if he were truely dead other than a hesitant Christian belief I have that all people should be treated as I would want to be treated myself.

It would be rather fitting if his death was reduced to typhoid since the search for him has been reduced to nothing more than a war of waiting and watching, with only occasional bursts of information such as this or military activity. Later.

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22 September 06 - 06:14Micro Things that are Amazing

Check this out.

This is really cool.  This is so unbelievable that I had to check that this information isn't a hoax.  All signs point to "amazing" and this is not a hoax.  Willard Wigan acutually sculpts these tiny little people, things, and animals at extremely small sizes.  You can see the statue of liberty, Snow White, dwarves, a king and his wives, an there is even a likeness of the Titanic on a pinhead plus a replica of Marilyn Monroe standing on a diamond (a girl's best friend). 

Willard has even placed some of his sculptures on human hair.  Due to its extreme size, the art is best viewed with a microscope and Mr. Wigan is said to go into a translike state, slowing his heartrate, to achieve the steadiness required for the infinitesimal scuptures.

The right time to do this delicate work is late at night, and it takes months to complete a project.  It is well worth your time to take a look at Willard's website.

Take a look.  I might even make this a destination for a trip.  Good things do come in small packages.

http://www.willard-wigan.com/

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21 September 06 - 09:12Something Fishy Going on Here....

A redneck was stopped by a game warden in Kentucky recently with two ice chests full of fish.  He was leaving a cove well-known for its fishing.

The game warden asked the man, "Do you have a license to catch those fish?"

"Naw, sir", replied the redneck.  "I ain't got none of them there licenses. You must understand, these here are my pet fish."

"Pet fish?"

"Yeah. Every night, I take these here pet fish down to the lake and let 'em swim 'round for awhile.  Then, when I whistle, they jump right back into these here ice chests and I take 'em home."

"That's a bunch of hooey!  Fish can't do that."

The redneck looked at the warden for a moment and then said, "It's the truth Mr. Government Man.  I'll show ya.  It really works."

"O. K.", said the warden.  "I've got to see this! Show me!"

At this point, the redneck poured the fish into the lake, then stood and waited.

After several minutes, the warden says, "Well?"

"Well, what?", says the redneck.

The warden says, "When are you going to call them back?"

"Call who back?"

"The fish", replied the warden!

"What fish?", replied the redneck.

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20 September 06 - 07:02The Pope's Message

I really get very tired of indignant muslims, crazy muslims, possibly "not very smart" muslims and then there are the muslims that think their civil rights are being violated.  I am not Catholic, but I feel that if I were given the task of finding the most honorable, humble, and caring person alive in the world today, the Pope would be on my list of candidates.

If I were given the task of naming that same person, living or dead, Mohammed would not be on my short list.  Perhaps he is holy, maybe he is honorable.  There is a bit of a chance at humble, but it would be a stretch. And I do not picture Mohammed as caring.

The situation he has created in the world today with the concept of "Jihad" is disastrous.  I have a very hard time imagining the same God that I worship as proposing such a thing on his people.  I am thinking Allah is not the God of Christianity or somehow certain parts of his message were garbled when Mohammed received the word on winning people to his religion with force.

By the way, if you want to read the Pope's speech it is at the address below.  Why members of any legitimate religion representing the true God would recommend killing the Pope is incomprehensible.

Read the Pope's speech and you will probably be more informed than the blabbermouths that want him killed.  Be informed, read it.  Oh, yes, keep a dictionary handy.  Those words you don't know are important.

Transcript of the Pope's Speech

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19 September 06 - 06:57Perception is Reality - Its all in the viewpoint

Picture this...

A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sits alone at a nearby table.

The wife asks, "Do you know her?"

"Yes," sighs the husband, "She's my ex-girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up seven years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since."

"My God!" says the wife, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"

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18 September 06 - 08:32A Misunderstanding to say the Least

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17 September 06 - 07:09Dog, The Bounty Hunter and the Really Bad Day

Our story starts with Andrew Luster in the year 2002.  Andrew, the heir to the “Max Factor” cosmetic empire, was brought to trial in 2002 for raping three women.  The investigation started earlier when a 21-year old college student claimed that Andrew had raped her with the aid of a "date rape" drug. Through the use of this drug, Andrew was said to have raped many women. Additionally, it seems he made recordings of these special events as police seized videos as part of the investigation.

Andrew fled to Mexico in January, 2003 during the trial to avoid prosecution.  How much more interesting can this get?  The answer is, a lot more. Enter Duane "Dog" Chapman, also known as "The Bounty Hunter."

Duane is a colorful character, to say the least.  He and a group of family and friends actually run a bounty hunting business out of Hawaii and a great deal of what goes on is filmed for the A & E television series "Dog, The Bounty Hunter."  Duane, his wife, two sons, and a friend (also named Chapman) make up the core of the group.

Duane managed to nab Andrew in Mexico in June 2003 and Andrew is in prison at this time.  The rub is with Duane.  As a result of the activity in 2003 Dog was recently arrested in Hawaii and held with son Leland Chapman, and associate Timothy Chapman in a U. S. prison.  They did not resist arrest and were arrested without incident according to the U.S. Marshal for the district of Hawaii.

Apparently this is all happening as a result of follow-up action by officials in Mexico.  The Chapmans were arrested in 2003, shortly after they nabbed Luster because they refused to turn Luster over to Mexican police.  This resulted in a Mexican hearing and the Chapmans skipped bail.  Current action is the result of a U.S. warrant for their arrest which was signed by a federal judge in Honolulu on Wednesday (9/13/06) and they now await an extradition hearing which could send them back to Mexico.

This action by our legal system against Chapman is nearly as ridiculous as the incident with John Karr in Colorado. One can only hope that this will turn out well for Duane and his group.

Here are some links for your own research with this case.

CNN Luster Story from 2003

Andrew Luster's "Poor Me" Site

CBS News Story about Luster from 2003

More CBS News from 2003

Dog's Own Web Page (Flashed to the Max)

A & E Page for "The Bounty Hunter"

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16 September 06 - 10:07Thong Girl to the Rescue

Remember the movie “Wayne’s World” which centered around a fictional public access television show by the same name?  Well hold on to your hats.  Once again, I do the research so you don’t need to.  The story from the Today Show folks at NBC seemed to say that Mayor Don Wright of Gallatin, Tennessee was duped when he allowed filming of a scene for a low budget movie in his office.  They implied there was something out of line with the movie, maybe even sleazy.  Wright says he was told what the movie was about a super hero, like Supergirl or Batman, but seemed nervous.  After listening to the description on NBC and looking into it, it would appear that the description was accurate.  The name of the movie, “Thong Girl 3” almost sounds like it would be X-rated, but its really not.

Let’s back up a bit.  The story is a little bit convoluted because it involves a comedien, Glen Weiss.  Weiss grew up in the New England town of East Hartford, Connecticut, and moved to Tennessee. This is where the “Wayne’s World” thing comes in, Glen created a low budget television show in Nashville called "Stubby's Place." According to their website the show “is an amalgamation of Saturday Night Live, MAD TV and Comedy Central. The humor is mostly edgy, off-color and irreverent, and is intended for mature audiences, although we steer clear of nudity and excessive cursing.”

Enter, Thong Girl.  Originally this was meant to be a short four minute skit on the show, but it has now become a comic book and a series of low budget movies which are released only on DVD.  I guess they are up to “Thong Girl 3.”

And I believe in her cause, apparently a bad guy is trying to convert all of the country singers to rap and Thong Girl is preventing this horror from occurring.

I think the mayor did the right thing.  My hat is off to Mayor Wright of Gallatin as well as to Glen Weiss for living the American Dream.  This political correctness thing is getting a bit out of hand.  Americans need to quit being weenies and live up to their potential.

I have collected the links you need to see the story from all angles.  As usual, you decide.

Thong Girl Site

Valley Access Channels

Stubby TV Site

Gallatin Examiner Article

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15 September 06 - 07:07No Sh_t, Sherlock

NASSAU, BAHAMAS (AP) - 9-14-2006 - "The coroner's office in the Bahamas says the death of Anna Nicole Smith's son is 'suspicious' and they're planning a formal inquiry."

The legal beagles in these vacation getaways are real geniuses. Let's see, 20 years old, sitting in a chair and drops dead.  Right there things are suspicious.  Most 20 year olds who "die of a massive heart attack" don't overexert themselves by sitting in chairs.

They also have said they are waiting for toxicology tests to come back and once done, they know who did it. Did what?  killed the younger Smith, of course.

They haven't arrested anybody, however, so I guess the person who did it won't suspect anything and, therefor, won't get away.

You can't help but feel sorry for Anna Nicole, what with all the trouble she had with the untimely death of her second husband and all.  Then she tries to go to the Bahamas for a quiet childbirth and, damn, all heck breaks loose.

And then the mother thing is a whole 'nother story.....

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14 September 06 - 22:53These People Want to Kill You

Today I have ordered the movie documentary "Obsession." You can see the trailer on "You Tube" here: These folks want to Kill You. This is a movie about radical Islam's war against the west. I have gone to other sites and seen this, but here is a DVD which shows what is going on with the Muslim radicals.

In the trailer you can see Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Shiite - Hizbollah leader who kidnapped a couple of Jewish soldiers to make himself look good. You will see him in front of a crowd, Hitler style, shouting "Death to America" followed by thousands in the crowd joining in and shouting the same thing. If the trailer from "Youtube" does not work, Try this one at "Google." If you are fixated on Bush screwing up and invading Iraq, forget it children. You are playing the wrong game.

Bush may have made a mistake, but you are missing the point of what is going on. This is WAR. These Muslim radicals want to kill you or control you. They call it Jihad. This is a concise definition of Jihad from Daniel Pipes of the New York Post. (1) "The purpose of jihad, in other words, is not directly to spread the Islamic faith but to extend sovereign Muslim power (faith, of course, often follows the flag). Jihad is thus unabashedly offensive in nature, with the eventual goal of achieving Muslim dominion over the entire globe." Again, you had better wake up.

If you think Bush is your enemy, you have your head up your sand. This is what he is trying to protect you from.

Later.

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14 September 06 - 09:09The Lady

Snopes disagrees with me on this one.  This is a letter circulating the internet.

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13 September 06 - 11:00Ahhh, To be a Celebrity

As a further look into role models, here are six.  In no particular order you can see the pictures of Mel Gibson, Robert Blake, Winona Ryder, Courtney Love, O. J. Simpson, and Michael Jackson.  What a group.

I can feel the confusion "adults-in-training" must feel of today's role models.  Think of who I did not include. I could have included a list consisting of most rappers, a large percentage of athletes (Terry Owens could top the list), and other miscellaneous celebrities.  In fact, it is just too easy to get a list of bad apples that are in the public eye these days without really trying.

That's enough of these folks.  All we can do is use them as examples of what not to do for our kids.  If you want to see the infamy of each of the role models pictured, click on "Real live role models alive in the present."

Good luck raisin' those kids, ya'll.

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12 September 06 - 07:59Dialing Under the Influence

I never knew that anything like this existed, and after researching it, I find it is already in the prestigious Wikipedia (We won't go into the Wiki concept here).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_dialing describes a condition where people call others when they are out drinking. I have heard tell of drunk people making phone calls, but a breathalyzer phone?  And, its been around for almost two years!  Two years! Where have I been!!! This is a breakthrough.

When I saw this phone by LG (the model LP4100), I couldn't believe it.  Then, I find it referenced in the Wikipedia.  Next, further research shows that virgin mobile has all sorts of research done on drunk dialing and has its own service to prevent it. This is BIG.

I think back.  I had a friend who had an accidental drunk dialing incident once, but neither the breathalyzer phone or the Virgin mobile service would have prevented it from happening.  It was sort of a case of "drunk re-dialing."  That can very embarrassing (it was certainly embarrassing for him).

And this news is two years old, has anyone marketed such a thing in the US?  Without fear of drunk dialing, it might be time to become a drunk.  I mean, really, now that the great fear of Dialing Under the Influence has been eliminated, why not?

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11 September 06 - 07:12Role-Models

When I was a child my parents stressed a world in which adults were citizens of the world and children were "adults-in-training."  As "adults-in-training" we were expected to respect adults, and adults of that time period seemed to consider themselves role models.

We looked up to the likes of Roger Maris, Albert Einstein, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dwight Eisenhower, Helen Keller, and others who seemed larger than life were alive when I was a child. They had their faults, but the adults of the world did not emphasize their faults, they emphazised their strengths.  Private lives were not a topic of discussion by lawyers, politicians, and the ACLU, but a matter of respect by one adult for the other with a certain consideration for the "adults-in-training."
 
As I was reading about George Reeves (the television superman of the 50's), I remember watching him as a child.  We had television back then and the show probably would have made a positive impression on me.  I know we immitated the show by running around with towels stuffed in our t-shirts and our hands in front of our face making a shshshshshshsh sound.  Superman always made that sound when he was flying as the dramatic music played in the background, finishing with a shshshoooooop sound as he landed.

George Reeves shunned personal appearances with children present (they tended to want to test his super-strength by accosting him). Even so, he was very aware of his position as a role model for "adults-in-training."  Reeves quit smoking and would not make public appearances with girlfriends because of his commitment as an adult to being a role-model.

Interestingly enough, a large number of heroes of my childhood had feet of clay, however, the adults of the time didn't seem to think it necessary to expose their personal lives in the press, just for the hell of it.

We could use more thinking like that of George Reeves in our world today.

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09 September 06 - 06:15Watch and Learn

From time to time I get emails with items like this in it.  They sound good, look real, and have the real possibility of really being real.  This is one of them.

Click on the picture and take a look at the article.  This is making the rounds (again) and is posted on blogs all over the place (usually by women who are agast at "the sorry state" of women in the oppressive past.

The article probably is not real.  Apparently it has been common practice over the years and even more so with the advent of the internet, to "fabricate" stories or anecdotes to show how advanced we are.

This type of story, then, becoms a sort of urban legend and the weak of mind accept it as fact.  Urban legends have been around long before the internet.  I go to a number of locations to check out authenticity of this type of thing, but there is no need to ge here and there to check out most of those things that seem a bit "wacky." To check these things out the best place on the web is "Snopes.com."

In fact,  the following Snopes.com URL has an article which includes information on the "Good Wife."

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp 

Even though I agree with Snopes.com and believe the article to be a fabrication, it is pleasant to think that, even the sarcastic author must have thought there was a grain of truth to the article.

Here are the bullet items from the bogus article, "The Good Wife."

Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal (especially his favourite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed.

Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.

Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.

Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives. Run a dustcloth over the tables.

Over the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.

Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.

Be happy to see him.

Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.

Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first - remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.

Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner or other places of entertainment without you. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to be at home and relax.

Your goal: To try and make sure your home is a place of peace, order, and tranquillity where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.

Don't greet him with complaints and problems.

Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.

Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.

Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.

A good wife always knows her place.

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09 September 06 - 06:10Sexual Harassment...

A man walks politely up to a woman in his office each day, stands close to her, draws in a large breath of air and genuinely tells her that her hair smells nice.

After a week of this, she can't stand it any longer, and goes to HR. 

Without identifying the guy, she tells them what the co-worker does, and that she wants to file a sexual harassment suit against him.

The HR supervisor is puzzled by this approach, and asks, "What's sexually threatening about a co-worker telling you your hair smells nice?" 

The woman replies, "It's Bobby, the dwarf.

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08 September 06 - 07:28Superman!!

Sometimes its fun to use the internet to learn more about things that seemed to be such a foundation of truth in my youth.  It is also good for me to learn about people, because I tend to focus on structure of things rather than the "people" of things.  Here is what I found...

In 2003, Jay Morton, at the age of 92, died.  He was a onetime writer and artist for the Fleischer animation studios.  He was the person who coined the famous "faster than a speeding bullet" phrase.  Before World War II, Jay worked on Betty Boop, Felix the Cat, Popeye and other cartoons. He wrote over 20 of the early "Superman" cartoons which were usually shown in theaters.  Originally, he described the comic book superhero as "faster than a streak of lightning, more powerful than the pounding surf, mightier than a roaring hurricane..."

In the 1940's the complete "Superman Intro" by Morton read this way:

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!

Faster than a streak of lightning, more powerful than the pounding surf, mightier than a roaring hurricane, this amazing stranger from the planet Krypton, the man of steel, Superman. Possessing remarkable physical strength, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth and justice, disguised as a mild mannered newspaper reporter Clark Kent.

In the 1950's and 1960's the "Superman Intro" I remember from television read this way:

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!

Yes. It's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities
far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with
his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan
newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way.

This was the dramatic intro to the television series starring George Reeves. As a child I was informed of his death, a death which meant "no more Superman on television." Now the movie "Hollywoodland" tells about the strange circumstances of Reeves demise.  "Hollywoodland" is said to be based on the last eight years in the life of George Reeves who is played by Ben Affleck.  The story was that Reeves shot himself in his upstairs bedroom while his friends were having a party downstairs.

This I need to see.

I'll keep you posted.

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07 September 06 - 07:43Now I feel Bad

Now I feel bad.  My friend Sandra's birthday was the 4th of this month.  After writing her an email she tells me she was so distraught that she broke her "un-humorous humorus."  She also indicated that they cannot set it for a few days and that she is in a temporary cast of some kind.  Further mention of strange jello-like behavior of the fingers didn't sound good, either.

I sort of got the feeling it might hurt and stuff, plus the discomfort of the huge temporary plaster cast.

This person, lets call her Sandra, would never dream of telling me she hurt herself with me at cause unless it was true.  Now I feel bad. 

We all need to remember that forgetting a friend's birthday can really effect that person very adversly.  Don't let this happen to you.

Never forget a birthday!

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06 September 06 - 08:01That Reminds Me

A friend sent this image.  It is an image of a newly married couple who have just completed their (no doubt) beautiful wedding and the wedding photographer has snapped this picture to allow them to remember this instant forever.

They have each just thrown a white dove into the air, a very impressive symbol of something (I am not too good at wedding things).  You can share the excitement of the moment by clicking on the picture to the right to get the full effect of the "throwing of the doves" which is a moment both will remember with alacrity for the rest of their lives.

Forever they will be able to share this moment.  This is the kind of picture that Mom would like to put on the wall with all of the brothers and sisters.

Later.

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05 September 06 - 10:12Will the Real Allison DuBois Please Stand Up?

Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye is a book of 193 pages. The book is easy to read and consists of a collection of anecdotal stories and life situations that describe the life of Allison DuBois.  Allison is the woman whose life experiences are the basis of the NBC television series "Medium."

This is a great show for someone like me, the book likewise.  I love the unknown and I have not difficulty realizing the folly of believing we can "sense" all there is to know about the universe that surrounds us as we exist during our life on earth.

Allison is played by Patricia Arquette.  Get this, she is the granddaughter of comedian Cliff Arquette, best known for his TV personality “Charlie Weaver.”  If you are an old fart like me, you remember Charlie Weaver from "Hollywood Squares."  If you are really old, you will remember grandpa Arquette on Jack Paar's NBC Tonight Show. It was here that the elder Arquette became the character "Charley Weaver complete with his squished hat, round glasses, rumpled shirt, wide tie, and suspenders, the same outfit you saw on Hollywood Squares.

The Arquettes aside, the book by Mrs DuBois was different from what I expected.  In the book, which is basically an autobiography, she describes her encounters with people who have died and how she tries to maintain normal relationships with her family and friends.  She actually sees dead people.

At one point in the book she describes going to see "The Wall" and how there were spirits of Vietnam vets there also visiting the wall.  In the book she indicates that she can talk to spirits of the dead like you and I can talk to other living people.

I guess this comes across as more of an endorsement than a review, however, I like that.  You should watch the TV show and read the book.  Also, rumor has it she has written another book which I will be out finding soon.  Ah, yes, the title of the book is to let you know that your friends and reletives are not "dead" in the sense that they no longer exist, but are exisiting in a way that can be detected by some of us who have the ability, such as herself.

Good stuff.  Read it and watch it.

Later.

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04 September 06 - 14:00Good Bye, Steve

AP - CAIRNS, Australia (Sept. 4) - "Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44."

Some years ago my son, my ex-wife, and myself took a trip to Australia.  We took two trips to the Barrier Reef from Cairns (The Aussies seem to pronounce it "CANS.") including one trip which involved snorkeling.

Steve Irwin was not there, of course, but I think all of us feel somewhat of a connection to him.  He had a hugely warm personality and his death will be a sad time for folks from all over the world.

Good Bye, Steve.

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04 September 06 - 06:55Muslim Extremists and the War on Terror

AP - ROSEMONT, USA, Sept. 2, 2006 - "The newly elected head of the largest Muslim group in North America called President George W. Bush’s recasting of the war on terror as a “war against Islamic fascism“ inaccurate and not helpful to people of her faith."

The woman's name is Dr. Ingrid Mattson.  She is an academic, and I think she is well thought of by many.  So let's review.

George Bush is not recasting the war on terror as a war against Islamic fascism.  Terror is a condition or it could describe a mental state.  The term war against terror needed to be clarified.  When you have a war, it is best to describe the enemy.  War against ___________.  We cannot describe the enemy as Arab since the Iranians say they are not Arab, and they are a part of it.  It is not a war against Muslims or Islam since the majority of those who claim that religion are not of interested in killing us.  It is not a war against the middle eastern area or people since, again, the description would not include terrorists such as those in England.  We do, however, want to be a specific as we can in a label of the enemy.

They claim Islamic or Muslim ideologies.  So the term Islam or Muslim is appropriate, but needs to be modified.  For that we look at the work fascism.  Fascism is used to describe a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism. Fascism was the term used to describe the attitudes of Hitler and Mussolini which included aggressive nationalism and in the case of Hitler, racism.

OK, Ingrid, We have Muslims and Muslim leaders who claim they want to forcibly foist their religion on the entire world, and they publicly point to the United States as a target in their warlike plans to rule the world with the Muslim (Islamic) religion.

Ingrid says the term Islamic Fascism makes her and other Muslims nervous.  All I can say is, it's about time.  It has been making the rest of us nervous for a long time. Sorry, Ingrid, but the term is highly accurate and helps us understand who the enemy is.  It is radical muslims, not anyone else.  They are organized and they have us in their gunsights.

It is not good for anyone to lie about a situation just to make themselves feel better.  We must call Muslim Extremists what they are and not ignore the fact that twisted Islam is a big problem for the United States.  I don't like it either.

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03 September 06 - 11:19Chavez - The One to Watch

MercoPress - CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 2, 2006 - "Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez promised that if he wins the coming December election he will call a referendum in 2010 on his administration, and if positive will propose a constitutional review to end the two consecutive periods’ reelection limit."

I have decided that if I would ever end up running a country, it should be a small country.  Better yet, a small country with oil and a shoreline.  Good old Hugo seems to have it made down there.  Beautiful women, the run of the country.  He has already changed the constitution once to allow him to serve the people better, and now is looking at doing it again.  Of course, there is the downside.

UPI - CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 1, 2006 - "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez alleged he has discovered a plot to overthrow his government, state-run television VTV reported Saturday.

The leftist Chavez said both his political opponents and the United States were conspiring to oust him from office."

Which brings us to another thought.  Chavez has noted that he believes the United States is in on the consipiracy to oust him.  He also thinks that we tried to oust him in 2002.  That is interesting. 

Chaves plays well in Cuba, Syria, and Iran, but has also managed to garner the votes of Russia and China in his quest to get Venezuela on the UN Security Council.

Keep your eye on this guy, he is far more ambitious and successful than we give him credit for.

Later.

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