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" Do Re Mi Beer
By: Homer J. Simpson

DOUGH... The stuff that buys me beer.

RAY... The guy that sells me beer.

ME... The guy who drinks the beer

FAR... The distance to my beer.

SO... I think I'll have a beer.

LA... La la la la la la beer.

TEA... No thanks, I'm drinking beer.


That will bring us back to...

(Looking into an empty glass).... DOH ? "

Hope you liked this song I found - New-Year's Eve Tune, just in time to learn before the big night...Just remember the words!! Also....PLEASE!! Don't - Drive - Drunk or Let Your Friends get behind the wheel, show them you care!!

Department Stores Discover That, Um,.. Sex Sells

NewYorkTimes; "Men cluster to me like moths around a flame," Marlene Dietrich croons over the sound system in the lingerie department at Henri Bendel in New York. Encouraging customers to get into the mood, loose-limbed mannequins wield riding crops, and others flaunt black lace blindfolds and thongs so sheer they expose a wedge of explicit anatomy. In the store's windows, instead of the customary Santas and sprigs of mistletoe, there are a pair of mannequins, one draped in fox and little else, another crouching to show off her lacy white knickers. Induced passers-by to press in so closely that their breath fogged the glass. In a climate in which strip and burlesque shows have been revived as hip entertainment, it not surprising that retailers are flouting taboos of their own. "There was a time when if you wanted a garter belt, you would ask for it in a low tone. Now it's a thing that's out in the open, where grown men and children walk by. Visitors to Saks are greeted by store dummies sporting thongs beneath marabou bed jackets. A handful of shoppers do appear to take offense. Confronted by the central exhibit in the new 6,500-square-foot, seven-room lingerie department at Bendel's, some customers promptly spun on their heels and stalked out. Other customers seemed unfazed. As scholars point out, fetish-style corsetry, blindfolds, black stockings and peekaboo lace date back at least to the turn of the last century. By the 1920's, all these things were in place in the culture, and that just hasn't changed. So familiar are such items in women's arsenal of seduction, that they have become domesticated, Ms. Steele said. Women tell themselves, `We're playing with this naughty cliché. Big deal. So what?' The latest Bendel's innovation, to be unveiled in time for Valentine's Day, is Rykiel Woman, a boutique within the lingerie department conceived by Nathalie Rykiel, a daughter of Sonia Rykiel, the Parisian fashion legend. Ms. Rykiel plans to stock the shop with vibrating rubber ducks and lipstick tubes, displayed alongside cashmere loungewear and garter belts. That way the same woman who sells you a cashmere sweater can show you how a vibrator works, she said."

Well ladies I guess we don't have to be afraid to be nasty!! Because the world is saying play & have fun, but I don't know if I'm just to old fashion for this stuff? Don't get me wrong, my daughter talked me into buying one of those panties that have the thin strip up the butt!!... Well lets just say, I didn't like the feelings it was give my rear..LOL if you know what I mean, so least to say it was a waste of money and made the trash the first day..

Muslin - Men want tax- write off for extra Wife's

Ya right!! Forgive me but if men can get a tax break, just because he becomes a Muslins. Then women should be allowed to have more then "One Husband" Too!! I think alot of Woman out their would ARGEE!! Then maybe we would finally feel like things get done..In our homes & Bedroom...LOL
Sorry guys just had to reply to this..
Britain may grant tax breaks for 2nd wives.British tax officials are considering breaks for Muslims who are allowed as many as four wives under religious rules to make taxes more "family friendly." Existing laws allow deductions for only one wife for inheritance tax purposes but Muslim activists are asking Inland Revenue to relax therules, the Times of London reports. "Wives and immediate children should be exempt from inheritance tax," Ahmad Thomson, of the Association of Muslim Lawyers, told the Times. "If the government is family friendly, they should change a tax which is unfairly hitting minority religious values." British law currently bans marrying more than one spouse at a time and such action could result in bigamy charges. Muslim women with second-, third- and fourth-wife status are considered mistresses under the law and have no legal or tax rights."

Battle's on For - third 'Apprentice'

I & my sweetie have watched this show since the first one aired. And will probley be sitting right on the couch again, every Thursday like we have in the past when number -#3 starts, betting each other who will win!! I think this is the best reality show on TV...
news;"This time, it's about education and experience. With only high school diplomas in hand, street-smarts team Networth will battle book-smarts team Magna in various tasks involving companies such as Burger King, Home Depot, Domino's and Nescafe."Mark Burnett and I have decided to take the series into a new realm," Trump said in a statement. "We wanted to see what would happen if we pitted college grads against high school grads." The third season of The Apprentice premieres Jan. 20. There are some striking distinctions in the 18 cast members compared with the previous apprentices. There are more older candidates (the oldest is 41), more candidates with children (at least three are parents) and more candidates with real-estate experience."

Doctor's Looking At Street Drugs To Help Patients

I truly feel this a a good thing, if someone I loved was dying and wanted these drugs to help them I will probley help them if I could too!! Washington;"For some, the diagnosis comes out of the blue. For others, it arrives after a long battle. Either way, the news that death is just a few months away poses a daunting challenge for both doctor and patient. Drugs can ease pain and reduce anxiety, but what about the more profound issues that come with impending death? The wish to resolve lingering conflicts with family members. The longing to know, before it's too late, what it means to love, or what it meant to live. There is no medicine to address such dis-ease. Or is there? This month, the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to a Harvard proposal to test the benefits of the illegal street drug known as "ecstasy" in patients diagnosed with severe anxiety related to advanced cancer. Has been referred to by psychiatrists as a drug especially good at putting people in touch with their emotions. Some believe it could help patients come to terms with the biggest emotional challenge of all: the end of life. The FDA's approval puts the study on track to become the first test of a psychedelic substance since 1963 at Harvard, where drug guru Timothy Leary lost his teaching privileges after using students in experiments with LSD and other hallucinogens. It also marks a milestone for a small but increasingly effective movement favoring a more open-minded attitude toward the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, virtually all of which have been criminalized and disparaged for decades as medically useless. Already, being tested for its ability to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Also studies are looking at the usefulness of magic mushrooms, in terminally ill cancer patients and in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Also hope to submit to the FDA an application to test psilocybin and LSD as treatments for cluster headaches. That would be a fitting birthday present for Albert Hofmann, the chemist who discovered both compounds while working for the Swiss drug company Sandoz and who turns 99 in January. Patients are being given psilocybin to see whether it can help them sort through emotional and spiritual issues. A "modest" dose of synthetic psilocybin, equivalent to two or three illicit mushrooms. They spend the next six hours or so in a comfortable setting with a psychiatrist, talking, thinking and sometimes listening to music with headphones. A 10-person study of psilocybin for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Also no complications in any of the five patients who have enrolled in his 20-person study for victims of violence struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. This is not about hippy dippy Halpern trying to turn on the world. I'm not looking at this as a magic bullet," he said. "But for a lot of people, the anxiety about death is so tremendous that there is no way to get their arms around the problems. Widow of the author and metaphysical pioneer Aldous Huxley, said her husband asked for and she provided a dose of LSD as he lay dying in 1963. "He wanted to be aware, took a wide array of psychedelics in the weeks leading up to his death from cancer in 1996. Some suspect the drugs clouded rather than sharpened his perceptions, but he died with a positive attitude. "It's kind of interesting really," he said of dying, talking to a friend in his final days. "You should try it sometime."

Naughty children lose gifts to eBay

MAGNIFIES:"The kids were naughty, Dad put the presents on eBay instead of under the tree — and Mom’s been crying ever since, even the tree’s down morning was sure not to be very jolly for three brothers — 9, 11 and 15 — who didn’t straighten up when their father told them Santa wasn’t too pleased with their fighting, cuss words and obscene gestures. Dad and Mom had warned their sons that the Nintendo DS video system — and the three games that go with it — were headed for the auction block if they didn’t get their act together. “No kidding. Three undeserving boys have crossed the line. Tonight we sat down and showed them what they WILL NOT get for Christmas this year. I’ll be taking the tree down tomorrow,” the man announced in his eBay posting. “If you don’t buy them, we’ll return them to the store,” the seller known online as magumbo—2000 reported on the site. Thursday night, the auction wound down with bidding at $465.01 — below the price the man had set. He said he would probably list the items again. A very bad day A single day of particularly bad behavior set the Christmas crackdown in motion. “These are normally really good kids,” said Dad, who asked the Houston Chronicle not to reveal his name. Dad even admits he and Mom are partly to blame for being too lax at times. But enough was enough. The warning of an impending sale came earlier in the week at a sit-down between offspring and parents. “We told them they were destroying each other and the calm and peace in the household. It had to stop,” said the man, who did tell the paper that he works as an information technology specialist and lives in Pasadena. The boys pledged to be nice, but were back to their old ways the next morning. That night, Dad announced that he would indeed be putting $700 in video games up for sale on eBay. The oldest boy double-dared his dad to make good on his word. Son shouldn’t have done that Dad said Mom has been in tears since the showdown “I don’t do it outwardly,” he said, “but I’m crying on the inside.” I wish as a Parent I should of done this a few times, maybe it would show then, nothing in life is a sure thing...Merry Christmas to everyone hope your's is better then mine, as I have the crude again bad and a burned hand all wrapped up. And at this moment my two teenagers are learning how much work it take's to make a holiday meal! Will let you know how it turned out...Bye

No Santa Claus !!

I was web surfing and found this...As I read it I knew I had to share it with others...Merry Christmas Remember!..Don't forget those who have less then you, at this time..
I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid. I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. "Even dummies know that!"My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her "world-famous" cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true.Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus?" she snorted."Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad. Now, put on your coat, and let's go."Off we went to Kerby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. That was a bundle in those days."Take this money," she said, "and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car." Then she turned and walked out of Kerby's.I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping.For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for. I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, the people who went to my church. I was just about thought out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker. He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock's grade-two class.Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough; he had no coat. I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat!I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked real warm, and he would like that. "Is this a Christmas present for someone?" the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down."Yes, ma'am," I replied shyly. "It's for Bobby."The nice lady smiled at me. I didn't get any change, but she put the coat in a bag and wished me Merry Christmas.That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper and ribbons. (a little tag fell out of the coat, and Grandma wrote, "To Bobby, From Santa Claus" on it and placed it in her bible).Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy. Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker's house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially one of Santa's helpers. Grandma parked down the street from Bobby's house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk. Then Grandma gave me a nudge. "All right, Santa Claus," she whispered, "get going." I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his doorbell and flewback to the safety of the bushes and Grandma.Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby. Fifty years haven't dimmed the thrill of those moments spent shivering, beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker's bushes. That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were: ridiculous. Santa was alive and well, and we were on his team.I still have Grandma's Bible, with the coat's tag tucked inside: $19.95.

Thanksgiving - My House

My family is a little different,some would say,when I grew up. Now, that's not exactly true - I think that there is nothing different, unusual, strange, or just plain weird about them. However, from what I see on television and hear on radio, it looks like mine strays a bit from the norm. Take Thanksgiving, for instance. An easy thing to do since it's just a couple of days away. My family would not dress for Thanksgiving. OK, we do dress but we don't -DRESS! The formal way of saying ..dress up.. The general dress of the day for Thursday will be sweats and jeans, maybe the cook still in their Pj's cooking. There will be no candles or lovely centerpiece. The centerpiece will be whatever food item gets stuck in the middle of the table while everything else is being passed around. If there is room, it will be my gramma's old roaster/dutch oven filled with dressing, if there's no room, it goes on the kitchen counter. Flowers and candles, not something to eat or fight over, will be put to some place out of the way, of the food and hungry mouths. The -Good china- and family silver, whats that? if there is actually any. Is left locked wherever it is. We would use paper plates, plastic cutlery and cups, and paper napkins. Much easier to clean afterward and less likely to cause breakage if dropped or jostled. We didn't really have a, kids table. Instead, there is the table, the kitchen counter, the sofa and maybe an old folding table. You eat wherever you can find a place to sit. And pray you just get to sit on something other then, the floor to eat. While now days most families are dealing with the Atkins to- Low Cal wars on food, my family believed in the- RULE!-if it tastes good, someone will eat it ALL!-thinking. That explained why we had turkey, giblet stuffing, ham,goose or duck, every kind of bread-roll, vegetables-dripping in anything that taste like it was made from only sugar, cakes, cookies, pies, salads, soft drinks, iced tea, and Kool-Aid. If your favorite is not on the table, or the kitchen-some where or the counter or the stove, or some where in the house. It's either because you never told anyone what your favorite is or you don't have one. The television always on, even during the prayer and would, be tuned to one of the football games. In my family, Thanksgiving football-with the men was as much a tradition as dressing and pie, or even better, burping and un-zipped pants. The women and kids knew to remain silent for fear of recriminations. The conversation was always loud, robust, and overlapping. After the second, or third meal of the day of snacking. we'd all separate and head to our different homes and, more than likely, engage in our post- Turkey-celebration ritual - Then...a long nap until the leftovers beckon, to be ate or put away, if any left! So, if my family was a strange and different kind of family, when I was growing up. I'm thankful I was born into it, rather than a -Normal one....HAPPY THANKS-GIVING TO ALL!

Hallowed ground: Irving school field becomes memorial for Iraq casualties

Pocatello Idaho;"Vietnam veteran Gary Richardson hammers a cross commemorating a casualty of the Iraq war into the Field of Heroes at Irving Middle School's football field Sunday afternoon. The Field of Heroes will open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on today, Tuesday and Wednesday. A special ceremony on Thursday, Veterans Day, will begin at 10 a.m..... >>>What was once a football field is now hallowed ground. Sunday morning, Angie Cook started four solid days of camping behind Irving Middle School and patrolling the track on her bicycle to keep out vandals. There's a registry for people to write their feelings about the sacrifices of the deceased. There will be flowers and wreaths, and there have already been tears.It took all of Sunday for Cook and a group of volunteers to convert the grassy playing field into a cemetery, and a visual symbol of what the country has lost. Family members of Jerrick M. Petty III, a soldier from Idaho Falls who was killed in Iraq Dec. 10, 2003, Mayor Roger Chase and military dignitaries will speak from a podium on the 50-yard line during a Thursday Veterans Day service. It will be followed by a candlelight vigil.Small, wooden crosses are perfectly placed in rows of three. Volunteers used a tape measure to stake each row exactly 3 feet apart and crosses in the rows precisely 6 feet from one another. American flags line the sidelines. "Just appreciate these are our guys who have died, and we're not going to forget them," John Rogers, a Vietnam veteran, said while he carefully hammered a white cross into the earth. Each cross is labeled with the name of an American soldier and the date that soldier died. The 143 crosses from the conflict in Afghanistan stretch from the south endzone to the 5-yard line. Rogers calls the other 95 yards Iraq. It's covered with 1,128 crosses, and counting. Rogers knows the numbers precisely. He wouldn't dare forget a single soldier.Blank crosses are at the ready to post for soldiers who may die before Veterans Day. Irving teacher Raejean Cates and her husband, Mark, built the crosses with donated wood and paint. Irving's librarian made all of the laminated names. It took them nearly three weeks to make the crosses. Sunday morning, members of the U.S. Marine Corps arrived at the field to place emblems on the crosses of their deceased - 275 enlisted Marines plus several reservists. After several minutes of posting emblems, a few of the Marines approached Cook with teary eyes. "They said, 'Oh my gosh! I didn't realize there were so many," Cook said. "They cried, and I gave them a big hug." There are eight larger crosses with the names and stories of the Idaho soldiers who were killed in combat. The most recent cross is dated Sept. 26, 2004, a memorial to Capt. Eric L. Allton, of Boise, who was killed during a mortar attack in Ramadi, Iraq. During the Veteran's Day service, the volunteers will hand out carnations for people to place next to the crosses of their loved ones. They also encourage people to bring their own flowers and tributes. The cemetery will be open for viewing today through Wednesday from 9 a.m. through 4 p.m.The city has a tree draped with 60 yellow ribbons containing the names and ranks of Idaho soldiers. Rogers hopes to obtain additional names of hundreds more Idaho soldiers to add to the tree, which will be displayed at City Hall until Nov. 15. Upon their return, members of the Yellow Ribbon Campaign, made of Vietnam veterans and their families, give the ribbons to the soldiers. Idaho soldiers in the Boise-based 1-148th Field Artillery Battalion are expected to leave for Iraq in December."These guys are choked up about it, and it means a million dollars to them," Rogers said. "These are top-flight kids. I am proud that they're serving the country the way that they are. You would be proud to know every one of them. We're not bemoaning the dead. We want to say everyone in Afghanistan and Iraq is of that same quality. We want to teach these school kids that." I live by this school and I watched them work on it all day Sunday and Monday, I tip a hat to these people that worked so hard to, Allow us all the blessing to be able to pay respect to those who gave their life to fight for what they believed in and us. For giving their life's also For the......United States Of America

We will miss you Dearly...

Colombian airport police find $47,500 cash inside passenger's stomach

Damn!! That had to hurt to pass that much money, south of the Border..LOL But my thought is how did they get it up inside of him to begin with? Or did it go in the same way it came out? LMAO.. When read this!

sfgate;"A suspect swallowed nearly $50,000 in cash in a failed attempt to smuggle the funds out of Colombia, officials said Monday. Airport police said they X-rayed the suspect because he was acting nervous while preparing to board a flight for Lima, Peru. The photo showed dozens of latex-wrapped packets inside his stomach and police assumed it was drugs, since such a smuggling technique is used by traffickers. But as the suspect passed the packages from his body, police discovered they were filled with cash, $47,500. "We find drugs inside the stomachs of smugglers all the time, but this is the first time we've ever found dollars," the head of airport police, said. Passengers leaving Colombia can carry up to $10,000 in cash without having to declare it. Police say new anti-money laundering laws have made it more difficult for drug traffickers to send and receive cash, forcing them to adopt the same methods used to smuggle drugs. Vargas said interrogations of the suspect indicated the money was probably going to be used to pay for a drug shipment."

250 Cats Found in Feces-Infested Home

Now this one is worse then the lady with the zillion trash bags full of garbage that I did yesterday..The poor cats! I could some what understand the old women not being able to take care of them, but they said her daughter and son-inlaw lived with her? What was wrong with them.. Or did they just move out and forget about the poor animals, this was in a sense a sad story only because of the cruelness that these cats had to live in!

St.Croix Falls, Wis.;"The stench was enough to guide emergency workers to a house where a utility worker had responded to a report of a power outage and found a house full of cats. Police Chief Paul Lindholm described the smell as unbearable and said the cat feces in the building was several inches deep on the floor. Firefighters Thursday night removed 250 cats from the house, half already dead and the rest so ill they had to be killed. Lindholm said a Polk County circuit judge signed an order to euthanasia the cats because they were diseased. An 86-year-old woman lived in the home with her daughter and son-in-law, but they had not been located. Investigators said they may have been staying with relatives in the area."

Loaned Sweatshirt Leads to Robbery Arrests

Well Guess this just goes to show you, never borrow anyone anything with your name on it! And if you do make sure you get it back as soon as possible. I can't believe how many people they had to go thru to just find one sweatshirt. But looks to me like they got lucky as, this isn't always the case in something like this...

DUBUQUE, Iowa;"A sweatshirt loaned to a friend two years ago led to the arrest of two people for a series of robberies in Indiana. High School soccer player Adam Schmerbach said he loaned his sweatshirt, with his name and number on it, to a friend because it was cold out. "I actually forgot about it," he said. But then he got a call from a police investigator. It turned out the friend that borrowed the sweatshirt passed it on to an Indiana man who had ties to Iowa. That man, in turn, had a roommate who took it when he moved out, police said. That roommate, Haycraft, and another young man, Devore were arrested last month for six armed robberies They made off with about $5,000 in cash and cartons of cigarettes, authorities said. They were arrested after surveillance cameras at one of the store's that was robbed showed one of the men, later identified as Haycraft, wearing Schmerbach's -school-sweatshirt, police said. It was during that search that investigators found Schmerbach's sweatshirt and a car matching the description of one used in the robberies. Inside the car, investigators found a shotgun and two ski masks, authorities said. Police said it's unknown when, and if, Schmerbach will get his sweatshirt back because it's being held as evidence in the case."

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Woman Sentenced to Jail for Filthy House

You know..I use to think at times I was a slob..LOL But I guess after reading this, I am quite clean in this respect, with my house. My Lord I have seen homes like this, but never as bad as this. You would wonder how people could live like this ? The smell alone...And the FLIES!!

OMAHA, Neb;"After ignoring six years of prodding from the city, a woman is going to jail for having a filthy house. A Douglas County judge Thursday sentenced Rosie Fellman to 45 days behind bars for littering, with breaks every 10 days to clean up her central Omaha home. Trash and debris has been piled up to 5 feet deep in the house and garage, which are a health and fire hazard, the city's chief housing inspector Kevin Denker said. Last month, inspectors found more than 100 garbage cans in the driveway. City Prosecutor Marty Conboy said the city has spent six years trying to get Fellman to clean up. There was not much else the judge could do, Conboy said. At the end of Fellman's sentence, the judge will decide if she has improved the homes condition. If not, she could be sentenced to another 45 days in jail. The city has ordered the home demolished, but Fellman, who lives alone, is appealing the order. "If she doesn't clean it out we'll just tear down everything," Denker said."

Heads -up to all you Men

Okay guys just trying to give you some free fashion, don't get mad!

MSN;"Walk through your average mall, and what do you see? Guys who clearly don’t read G.Q. These guys pay attention to other guys who, fashion-wise, are stuck in 1987. Thus these mall-walkers are, in a sense, trendsetters, albeit most of the trends they set are seriously lame. This isn’t to say you have to emulate a G.Q. boy to look good, but you’d do well to avoid the following: The ponytail. If you’re sporting a long ponytail, the general public might think you’re a wannabe hippie. If you’re sporting a medium-sized ponytail, the general public might think you’re too lazy to get a haircut. If you’re sporting a short ponytail, the general public might think you’re a hopelessly out-of-touch record executive. Nicely styled long hair is perfectly swell—just leave that scrunchy at home. The single earring. Back in the ’80s, it was said that if a guy wore only one earring, you could get an idea of his sexual preference, depending on which of his lobes was pierced. Today, if a guy wears one earring, you can get an idea of his lack of taste, regardless of which lobe is pierced. Get both ears pierced and be symmetrical, or don’t get pierced at all. (Note: A single earring often shares a head with a ponytail. This is a situation where two wrongs most definitely don’t make a right.) Loafers without socks. Sockless loafers with jeans don’t work. Sockless loafers with shorts don’t work. Sockless loafers with anything don’t work. Plus most loafers don’t breathe well, so if you wear them sans socks, you run the risk of developing toe cheese. The goatee. A quick refresher course in facial hair terminology: A Van Dyke is a mustache/chin-hair combo, and if you keep it neatly trimmed, it can look very cool. A soul patch is a little blip of hair under your lower lip, and if it’s carved and sized just right, it too can be exceedingly hip. A goatee is a blob of hair on your chin, and it isn’t the least bit stylish—it just looks like somebody glued a blob of hair on your chin. The comb-over. If you develop male-pattern baldness, roll with it. Take what you have, and get it styled so it looks, y’know, stylish. Or, if there’s not enough there to style—and if you have a nicely shaped head—chop it all off. Not only will a total buzz make you look enigmatic and dangerous, but it’ll give you the opportunity to fudge the truth about your scalp: “I’m not going bald—I have tons of hair. I just like the way it looks when it’s shaved.”

Error - Ohio Gave Bush To Many Votes

Sure is funny they find this out AFTER!! the election is over!

NBC;"Columbus Ohio.. An error in an electronic voting system in Ohio gave nearly 4,000 extra votes to President Bush, the tally for one county precinct gave Bush more than 4,200 votes, while John Kerry had 260 - even though only 638 people had voted. A spokeswoman for Ohio's Secretary of State says even after the extra votes for Bush are subtracted, it doesn't change the outcome. She also says that was the only error detected from Ohio's electronic voting machines. The Election Reform Information Project says while the glitch appeared minor, that could change if more stories start coming out. In North Carolina, one county reports over 4,000 votes were lost because officials thought the machines could store more data."

Man Watches Disaster Movie, Burns Home

Okay this guy has some issues..One of then I think is he needs to stay away from the bottle! Instead of trying to raise money for his Bond, they should be trying to find a state hospital to check him into. If this was my husband I would tell them to keep him! Sorry but I would, what if his family would of been asleep in the home when he did this....

Cordele Ga.;"There was no day after tomorrow for- Charles Adams mobile home, he set on fire after watching the disaster movie and drinking beer, told deputies he had burned down the doublewide home. Said that after watching >The Day After Tomorrow Movie,"

Man Shows Up To Fight DUI Charge With Booze Breath

Okay, everyone don't we all the the Golden-Rule!!..Don't have a drink till after you go to court...LOL

maybe someone should of told this man this...Geez

sfgate;" Pa.- Something smelled rotten when Mr.Hanczyk showed up in court to fight a drunken driving charge. Authorities say it was the booze on his breath. A judge stopped a hearing and ordered the 42-year-old to take a field sobriety test after he and others said they smelled alcohol on Hanczyk's breath. A breath test indicated that Hanczyk had a blood alcohol content of 0.296 percent, more than three times the state's legal limit, Judge John Wagner Jr. Threatened to put Hanczyk in jail for 30 days for contempt of court."

17 reasons not to slit your wrists

Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in let's- remember the words of Monty Python, and always look on the bright side of life!

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
2. Bush's victory was the narrowest win for a sitting President since- Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults, proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction think the war wasn't worth fighting, and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing.

5. The Republicans will not have a ..60-seat majority in theSenate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack theSupreme Court with right-wing ideologies. Did I say -if the Democrats do their job?- Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole WestCoast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them alive in-lava. And no more show tunes!
7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut. But a poisonous nut... A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
9. Gays - thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, now can not get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3-chambers in Tuesday's elections.

14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all down hill for him from here on out and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12thgrade, you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: A: Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building a legacy so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or B: He will become so cocky and arrogant, and thus, reckless, that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans, 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide,it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying, especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed The #1 Liberal in the Senate. That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore.Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this, that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelical, that is not news. What is news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact,that's big news. Which means, don't expect the main stream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about Novembers, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008. Feeling better? I hope so, this is such a wonderful country, it doesn't even need a president! But it needs us.....

Monster Mash.. Revived As Anti-Bush Song

Click on the link and watch the video, its cute and don't take long to down-load, I just don't know what to think of Mr. Bush as a President anymore? so much has happened over the last few months...

PeoplePC;"Just in time for Halloween comes a new version of the 1960s hit "Monster Mash" - this time an Internet critique of the Bush administration's environmental policies. The new version, a flash video called "Monster Slash," features the original singer, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, taking President Bush to task for policies to promote logging and mining. "He and his friends cut the forest down," Pickett sings as animated figures of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials dance with a chain saw, hatchet and scythe. "He did the slash," Pickett continues in a reworking of the familiar chorus. "They did the forest slash. ... It was brutally brash." In less than a week since its release, the song has already generated more than 100,000 unique visitors to a special Web site, www.monsterslash.org according to its sponsors, the Campaign to Protect America's Lands and Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund. Pickett, who hit Number 1 on the charts with "Monster Mash" in 1962, said he agreed to record the new version "because, like millions of people, I think this president has the worst environmental record in the history of our great nation."

From The Writer Of Coffee Talk

I like to shake up my Blog-Site once in awhile, and its readers depending on my moods. So hope you don't feel offered by some of the things I am going to post over the next week, or so. Found some things on The Election, War, Lies, sex-problems, drugs, relationships and slavery, felt like I wanted to post them...Hope all who read them are adults, and by reading them you find something worth reading...Thanks Please feel free, to respond to each of them.

Hunting trips integral to Man World, Gal World

I love her writings she tries to post something at least once a-month and their is always something funny in her writings, I swear she found her calling...Enjoy!

Pamela Petty;"The former owner of the Backstage Bar in Pocatello and a native of eastern Idaho.In the olden days, even back before The Bob Newhart Show, the menfolk would pack up the rigs and leave the gals, the kids and the work-a-day life behind. They would set out pre-dawn, armed with nothing more than courage, determination, a great big gun of some sort, tire chains, a shovel, a Handyman jack, a tow strap, cold weather gear, a chainsaw, firestarter, matches, two-way radios, roadside flares, a man-tent, a woodburning stove, clothesline, Dutch ovens, lawn chairs, a table, cots, bed rolls, water, an ATV, a snowmobile, a $17,000 truck roughly the size of Dom DeLuise, food, beer and a customized flatbed trailer. The trip into the wilderness was to allegedly save money on the family food bill. The flatbed trailer was to haul the beer. On the way back, the flatbed would be empty, so that would conveniently make room for the elk. "A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go..." Nothing much has changed since BFN (Before Bob Newhart). Well, sure, trucks cost a lot more now...Somewhere upward of your average heart transplant...But, the hunting and gathering instincts of men and women remain the same. What men say: "Well, babe, the outfit's all loaded up. The boys are ready. It's gonna be rough out there, make no mistake. It'll be cold and wet...A living hell, really. But I do it for you. I'm puttin' food on our table. I'll be back and fill that freezer." What men mean: "Oh boy!! I am so outta here! I'm gonna eat potato chips and smoke cee-gars and curse and drink a bunch o' beer! I'm not takin' a bath for a week! And I'm NOT pickin' up my socks!! And I'M NOT GONNA SHAVE!!! HA!!!" What women say: "Oh, honey. Please be careful. I'll think of you every moment, up there...In the snow. Godspeed, darling. Wait! Do you have your ammo?" Man: "Ohhh. I forgot the ammo." Woman: "Do you have your hunting license? The Fish and Game regs? Battery cables? Hold it! Your mittens!!...Did you hit your head on the tub again?..." What women think: "Hmm. Oh yeah! I'm goin' to The Bon to gather!! There may be a sale!! That'll save us a lot more money than that truck did!!" I have actually been to a hunting camp. Ohhh, it was really something. The only thing that was missing was a sign outside that said: Secret Fort. No Girls Allowed. There were men inside that man tent. It was "Man World". It contained Man Bacteria that could have easily been entered in that Dodge Circuit Rodeo deal. I happened to drop in on "Man World" just when they were fixing to Fight to the Death over who would get to cook dinner that night. A guy named Ted won. Poor Dennis. After a brief but solemn ceremony, dinner was served. I've never seen so much Man Food since the opening credits of The Flintstones. Slabs of prime rib with Au Jus'. (They didn't call it Au Jus'. They called it Meat Soup.) They had big ol' bakers with the works and biscuits spread with fresh creamery butter. For dessert? Doritos and beer. I knew they didn't want me there, being a chick and all, so I left before they belched me out on my keister, clean through that tent flap. As I pulled away, in my four-door sedan, I realized something. Hunting (and gathering) season may very well be the reason Man World and Gal World can co-exist. Without a break from each other like that, we might all end up like Poor Dennis. By the way, they were hunting in "Area 51, think I'll go get a facial."

John Kerry and George W. Bush

View;"After three debates between John Kerry and George W. Bush, the differences between the two candidates are unmistakable. George W. Bush failed to come clean with the American people. He failed to defend his record: 1.6 million jobs lost, five million Americans who have lost their health insurance, tragically many are children; middle-class incomes falling, college tuitions skyrocketing, and a disastrous war in Iraq that has left America less safe. Americans like me, know that this administration has taken our country from one of the most respected to one of the most hated in the world over the last two years. We had the chance to bring the world together after Sept. 11, yet Bush squandered our chance to rise out the ashes of that horrible tragedy and once again become a light of peace for the world. This administration instead chose war with a country that had never attacked us. John Kerry may not be the ideal candidate for many of us, but he has a plan for the future of our country, and he will make choices to try and benefit all of us, not just those like Halliburton. The choice is clear. America needs a new direction. Our country, our children, our soldiers, and our loved ones may not survive another four years of Bush. I'm choosing John Kerry."

Dick Cheney Lied

View;"In the vice presidential debate, Dick Cheney lied to the American people. First, he said that he had never met John Edwards before that night. I'm surprised and baffled as to why Vice President Cheney would lie like that, considering that it has been clearly shown, with photographic evidence, that VP Cheney met Sen. Edwards at a Senate prayer breakfast back in February 2001. Sens. Kerry-Edwards aides also pointed to news articles from January 2003, when Edwards escorted the newly elected senator from North Carolina, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, onto the Senate floor for her swearing-in by Cheney. More important and telling, though, is that Vice President Cheney said he has never made a connection between Iraq and 9/11. However, in January, Cheney said on a NPR radio show, I think there's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi government. Cheney lied to America. Is it any surprise Bush and Cheney are lying to us about the situation in Iraq? Together, these charges paint a picture of an administration that has spent its ammunition on the wrong target. If we want to win the war on terror, it seems to me it's pretty clear the choice is John Kerry, not George Bush. The reality is we need a new president with credibility with the rest of the world and who has a real plan for all Americans."
I know many people think, what does Chaney have to with Bush? A lot.. Because if for some un-seen reason Mr. Cheney could become our new president in a brink. And he is suppose to be our Presidents right hand, so why would I want a man who can't even be honest about something so simple as knowing someone run my rights in the country I live, And speak as my voice to the world!

Depths Of Hell - War

View;"Struggling through the depths of hell, with death or disability only one step away for the innocent of this world is inhumane. Generations of war have cheated our prime and many other victims of one's greatest gift, mortality, and all because of the madness and lack of wisdom of too many ambitious, manipulative world leaders. When wars control one's body and mind, who's right or wrong? Why not beckon to our own advice? As we teach our youth, "make friends, don't fight."All countries have shame to bear of their past. Ours is slavery, massacre of our Native American Indians and women's rights are but a very few. World civilizations by now should have progressed, rising above such primitive actions. . . Love thy neighbor is imperative. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Remember, fanaticism of power, politics and religion destroys world peace. Listen, now listen! Can you hear? Those voices of the past that must be heard? Let them speak, if only from their graves, hear their whispers of their sorrows deprived of their right to life now cold and still of breath. Open up your hearts, then heed to their great loss and sacrifice. Soft breezes mourn among the graves in harmony as tears of sadness weep from the heavens. These tragic lessons are repeated in history only because of we blind followers that sadly support them because of our lack of searching for truth and wisdom. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."Oh, to be free as the birds, and just fly away without witnessing another war of man's barbaric ways."

Just Vote

Views;"When you go to the polls Nov. 2, remember. Even if you do not want to vote for either Mr. Bush or Mr. Kerry (there are some folks who don't really like either candidate), remember that one of these men will choose new members,to take a seat beside them, because of retirements or illness. Those folks will be sitting for the rest of their lives determining the future of the United States. Please vote for the president you believe the best."
We are all soon will have to chose, which man will lead us for the next four- years...Who do you want to trust you life to!

Election

Views;"If you want a president who cares more about money and revenge, then...

VOTE FOR BUSH!!

If you want more of the same... The lowest job market in the history of the U.S most of all, the continuation of a war for all the wrong reasons, more lives lost because a president and his administration cannot admit to making mistakes, and take action to correct those mistakes. A president who cares more about greed, the rich and big corporations with tax breaks and outsourcing jobs. A president who is setting us back 20 years on changing restrictions that are destroying the environment. A president who gives tax breaks to the rich, appeases the middle class with a pittance, called lower taxes. A president who does nothing for legislation for stem cell research that has the possibility to cure thousands or even give them hope. OR...you can vote for a man who is able to see clearly what is happening in this country, and our freedoms. A man who is able to change his mind when he is wrong, and is willing to correct those mistakes in a civilized, intelligent manner. And a president who can regain the respect of the rest of this world that this president and his administration has lost. Which man do you want controling your life, for the next four-years?
I't up to us now what we want? Do we want more of what our livies have been like the last 4-years? or do we want to do something about it Now! before its to late to change the damage done...If it's not already to, late!!

Man finds axe put through car roof

New Zealand's;"A man could scarcely believe his eyes when he found an axe had been put through the roof of his car. Police discovered a party at a commercial building next door, celebrating the completion of the big race across the (Tasman Bathurst 2004.- http://www.motorsport.org.nz) Part of the entertainment included taking an axe to a car wreck outside. But the axeman got the wrong car."

Never knew people got so worked up over race-car driving...Bet this guy was beside himself when he came out and saw a axe in the roof of his car! After reading this makes you wonder, if when you park your sometime this could happen to you...

Sex at the Alamo

News;" San Antonio Texas, tourists at the Alamo saw something besides historical exhibits at the shrine of Texas independence. A couple who witnesses say were having sex at the downtown mission landed in jail. An Alamo security officer caught the two having sexual intercourse near a public viewing area. The report said Kristine Nissel, 18, and Matthew Hotard, 19, were almost naked,when the officer apprehended them after several tourists watched the couple, having sex and became upset. The pair, both active-duty members of the 232nd Medical Battalion stationed at Fort Sam Houston, were charged with public lewdness, according to police. Bond was set for each at $800."

Boy ole boy, these two! Must of been really out of control to not even know people were watching them..Doing the Deed..LOL You'd think they would of at least found a bathroom or something with a lock on the door. Tell you what.. My mate now and I use to sneak around at work, sure and do the kissy/necking thing, and I was worry about just getting caught doing that!!...Not sure if I ever would want to go this daring, or maybe I'm just to old for stuff like this ..lol

Quote of the Day

Women; " Sometimes we feel like our ONE-VOTE won't make a difference. But in the voting booth, we are all equal. And we all have the same amount of power. Women make up more than 50% of the population, but do not vote proportionately. I think if we want change, then it's up to us to make the changes. That means going out and voting, letting our voice be known. Perhaps then, politicians will take women's issues more seriously."

Teenager Cited For Wildfire

Wenatchee-Wash;" Forest Service said it plans to bill a teenager $10 million to pay the costs of fighting a 16,000-acre wildfire. Ryan Unger, 18, was cited for operating an off-road vehicle without a spark arrester, which believed started a fire in central Washington. Besides burning thousands of acres, the fire destroyed one home. Forest Service is required by law to recover costs of fighting forest fires. Natural Resources has paid about one-third of the total $14.9 million it took to extinguish the blaze. Teenagers father said, the family would not comment."

I use to live in this area years ago, before I moved to Forks Wash., where in the burn season usually around July-Aug. Their! You had to be so careful to not so much as drop a cig. Out your car-window because it was risky, it got really dry at times when they would have no rain. What is sad tho... I don't think the kid ever thought he would start a fire, by just driving around in his rig! But to ask a young man to pay back that kind of money is un-real! I don't see how he will ever be able to do it. Looks like he'll remember this for long-time... Hopefully others learned from his mistake also!

Litter Box Full, Woman Sets Fire

~ Hey... I used to live in this town ~

Port Angeles Wash.;"Clallam County Superior Court tie an alleged arson in an apartment complex to a smelly cat litter box. Charged Marie Adeline Calkins, 63, with first-degree arson, accusing her of setting a fire Tuesday in her apartment on South C Street. No one was injured. She told officers she lit the fire because "she was depressed and upset that her kitty litter box was full and smelled," court papers said. Judge George L. Wood set bail at $50,000 and ordered a mental health assessment."

Well Never heard of getting rid of the stinky cat-box smell like this before..LMAO!! Maybe someone should of told her about Baking Soda! Just a little each day helps with the smell. Or she should of at least went out-side and got some fresh dirt. Would of better better and a whole heck of a lot cheaper then trying to Burn!! Down the the building-unless..... the cat used the whole apt., For a litter-box...LOL

Bush's-No Child Left Behind Act

"Much was made two years ago about the No Child Left Behind act. It truly was supposed to make sure that every child in American schools would receive a good education, regardless of race or financial status. Funds were supposed to be made available to school districts to make sure the program worked. Standardized tests were mandated. Despite the hooray, it appears the promises made in NCLB were mainly empty, politics as usual. Today, the same Elementary and Secondary School programs are in place. Now, they have simply been renamed. They are now called No Child Left Behind. Under the old title and now the new one, the same requirements are in place. But, and here's the kicker, while the same educational programs are required, the federal funds to leave no child behind have actually decreased while mandates have increased. So, we've all been duped. Not only does NCLB not truly help students, but it does virtually nothing to assure that students are not left behind. Students are supposed to be helped, that was an NCLB promise It hasn't happened. No funds are made available. In fact, the president's budget proposed to cut these programs by $20 million during the last fiscal year. The lesson: Don't be fooled... Look at what's really happening. In this case, it's a bunch of hooey." I as a parent know this one only to well... As I have children in school and spend hours, and count less days fighting with the system to make sure my children are getting what they need to do well in school.... And all I see and get from Pocatello Idaho Dist. #25 is we are doing the best we can. Still I see larger head-count in my child's classrooms, more homework sent home, everyday. My kids sometimes spend hours just doing homework! So what are they doing in school? I tell them to ask the teachers for help and they say to me, the teachers are always to busy to help everyone! So... Now tell me again, how does the ...No Child Left Behind Act Work...And make me believe you?

Men Beware Of Your Dog

town of Galati;" An elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it. Said 67-year-old man, he rushed out into his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night. "I confused it with the chicken's neck," Mocanu, who was admitted to the emergency hospital in Galati, was quoted as saying. "I cut it ... And the dog rushed and ate it." Doctors said the man, who was brought in by an ambulance bleeding heavily, was now out of danger."

Oh! My Lord!.. You would think he knew the difference when he grabbed it wouldn't you? And why would he be that close to a chicken in the dark! To not be able to tell the difference..? Well guys you heard it hear..Never heard of a women mistaking hers for a chicken neck, have ya..LOL

Crying For Our Children

I went to these sites and they were very mind-effecting and felt I needed to spread the word. So please don't pass on reading the links that go with this post... Thank-You!

RealVoices;"Click on "A Mothers Tears;"to view our TV spot. If you had a minute to say anything you wanted to George W. Bush in front of thousands of American voters, what would you say? Chastise him for his foolish military adventure in Iraq? Scold him for domestic policies that hurt average Americans while enriching the few? Or just urge him to be honest with the American people for a change? We think about that question a lot, We regard the war in Iraq to be George Bush's greatest betrayal of the American people. It has greatly increased the risk of terrorism, damaged our international prestige, and caused the greatest losses to individual families. American democracy: a chance to be the real citizens of America... The ones George Bush prays you won't hear... A platform to talk back to the President, in front of thousands of American voters. Democracy doesn't get any simpler or more direct than that. And all we need to make it work is you. Ask: George W. Bush? What? 50,000 voters want to know! "

Just Like To Thank Mr. Bush

"Thanks a lot, you've been successful in making politics a dirty word, there has been an endless stream of lying, hate-spewing right-wing messengers. There was Mr. Gingrich. It takes a real man to cheat on a wife fighting cancer. I'm really not pro-abortion, I'm pro-choice. Let the woman explain it to God. She may have a good reason. How about old Rush? Isn't he a great example for all young kids that happen to see or read the news? What do these kids think when they hear their parents glorifying him? Let's hope that none of them have memories or actually think that what he does or says can be considered as the right thing to do, or the right way to think or be. All you that vote that way because of the tax breaks that Bush has given you, well, you have given that back many times with the 75 cents per gallon more for gas that you have been paying at the pump. I personally don't think that making the fat cats fatter will ever trickle down to a single one of you. I think that good-paying jobs, workplace safety and health benefits should be more of a priority. Unions have given us higher paying jobs, better benefits and safer workplaces. This is not an area that the Bush supports. If you want to keep your good paying job or ever hope to get one, then you better start supporting the party that supports unionizing."

Military Families Need Your Help

I posted this because, I feel something needs to be done to stop this war!! And if it takes something like this to do it then so be it!

Read on.........

SpeakOut; "Military Families who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military. We were formed in November of 2002 and have contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world. As people with family members and loved ones in the military, we have both a special need and a unique role to play in speaking out against war in Iraq. It is our loved ones who are, or have been, or will be on the battlefront. It is our loved ones who are risking injury and death. It is our loved ones who are returning scarred from their experiences. It is our loved ones who will have to live with the injuries and deaths among innocent Iraqi civilians. If you have family members or loved ones in the military and you are opposed to this war, join us. Send us an e-mail at: mfso@mfso.org Please, if you know someone who is obligated to join the war, at home or as a soldier, do not offer your pride. Instead, express your sorrow at their personal situation, ask if you can help, and work to ensure that needless wars are never again started by our country. Click Speakout-Link: for information about the legal challenge to President Bush's right to take the country to war without a Congressional Declaration of War.

Prisoners break out of jail using towel rope

Rio De Janeiro; "50 prisoners have escaped from jail using a rope made of sheets and towels in the city's second mass breakout in four days. Prisoners of the jail made a hole in the ceiling of the cellblock and used a rope to climb the wall of the jail before dawn on Sunday. Officials at the penitentiary suspected guards had been paid to turn a blind eye as the wall was not staffed during the escape. Corruption is widespread in Brazilian prisons as guards are poorly paid, while powerful drug gangs often use money and intimidation to free their comrades."

Well aren't we glad that our President spends so much of our tax-payers money, to build so many prisons.. Hell the way our country is heading now... Soon...We'll all be working at a prison, some where...Or living in one, as their won't be much hope in anything else...But...Crime or cheaply paid-Guard Duty!!

Killer Denied Makeup In Jail

sfgate;" Australia- Prison officials Thursday rejected a mass murderer's application to be allowed to wear makeup while serving his 30-year sentence. The ruling came after secret negotiations between Paul Denyer and prison officials. Denyer-31, was convicted of stabbing and strangling three young women during a three-week killing spree in Melbourne in 1993. Since being imprisoned 11 years ago, he has made headlines by asking for a sex change and demanding the right to wear makeup. His request for a sex change was also rejected."

Well if you ask me..Why would I or anyone else want to give him anything after what he did? Also He killed 3-women! Why would he want to become one, let alone wear make-up. This man is sick in my view I'm sorry!

Cemetery Puts in Artificial Turf

Calif;" Sunset Hills Memorial Park cemetery is giving up grass in favor of artificial turf. It's a move owners believe will save as much as $180,000 in water and maintenance costs over the next three years. The cemetery is the final resting place for cowboy stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. "I actually believe it will revolutionize the cemetery industry eventually," said Sunset Hills co-owner. He knows of no other cemetery that uses artificial turf. Artificial grass has several benefits besides saving money on water and maintenance costs. The most important thing for a cemetery is to look good at all times, to look beautiful inside."

Tell me, What is beautiful about... Plastic Grass ? I don't know if I like the ideal of going to a cemetery and everything is fake! So what if it cost money to water, mow and make the grass look nice! That why they charge us so much in the first place isn't it? So I wonder how much $money$, they will slap on the cost to the poor families, of the people they lay to rest in their -Plastic grounds....Huh?

Memories

"The democrats will never get over losing the 2000 election. The election was stolen by George W. Bush with the aid of his brother, Jeb. Never before in the history of the United States has a president been appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court. You evidently believe George W. Went to Florida three times in three weeks to see the damage done by the hurricanes. I believe he went to Florida three times to check on brother Jeb to see if he has successfully arranged to have all voting machines programmed to vote Republican and just happened to look out the window of Air Force One and saw the damage. But if you truly believe that he went to see the damage done by the hurricane, and you think I'm wrong. Then, would you be interested in buying some leftover... Bull-Dung?..Well!

Woman Wandering Wearing Only Bra & Knickers

New Zealand's;" Searchers were out at first light looking for a woman who disappeared after being taken in by good samaritans The woman was last seen wearing only a bra and knickers, when she was found walking down a road by a local couple. They took the 25-year-old woman in and gave her a bed but police said within 20 minutes she had disappeared, raising fears for her safety because she was so lightly dressed. Police said the woman appeared to have been drinking or on drugs although her family had told police that would be totally out of character. "The people who took her in were not too sure what one it was (drink or drugs). "That was their observation that she wasn't 100 per cent and it was one of the two, that she must have been on something."

Okay... If you ask me this sounds fishy? From what I have read, the only people that knew for sure that this women was wearing only under/clothing is the couple! And they claim they toke her home and put her to bed....Okay, are they sure that was all? Just don't make any sense to me that someone would walk-out into the night with nothing on but under-wear, let alone pick-up a stranger walking around without any clothes on and not take her to the police, or hospital..What do you think?

Baby Boomer Era

Here's something for everyone to chew on...If you like Bush then you'll be doing the Happy-Dance, here in a few short weeks! If you want Kerry.. Then you better get your butt-out their and your not-dead yet...Gramma. And for vote for Kerry or you have no one to blame but yourself...

Walker;" It must be tough being a baby boomer president, or presidential candidate. From Bill Clinton through George W. Bush and on to the next few elections, the candidates will have been raised in an atmosphere of radical social change. Flower children, recreational drugs, sexual permissiveness and changing attitudes on everything from race relations and gender definitions to America's military role. They've experienced it all. Now those times are coming back to haunt the candidates. Vietnam, pop drugs, service to country. Forests disappear as authors crank out exposes on candidates' pasts, and television is abuzz with political soap opera. It's ironic that their forebears who lived in presumably more circumspect times. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, did not get the personal scrutiny today's candidates endure, even though each had skeletons rattling in his closet. Of course, media wasn't as pervasive then and there was a gentleman's agreement that what a man did in his private life or younger days was his business. That agreement reached dangerous extremes when the press failed to expose how gravely ill Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were during their terms. Barring any extraordinary events or huge gaffes, both of which could happen. George W. Bush will be re-elected. The popular vote will be close, but not as close as 2000. Bush will win by at least several hundred thousand votes. The Electoral College won't be that close. Most of the important toss-up states will go to Bush. John Kerry has failed to ignite the enthusiasm of undecided voters, who will opt for the familiarity of the incumbent rather than the uncertainties of the challenger, even if they're not 100 percent sold on the man in office. 2008? Let's repeal the 22nd Amendment so Bill Clinton can run against George Bush........Whoa, doggie! Pop the corn and ice down the beer! Wouldn't that be a humdinger?"

School Mistakes Shirt Slogan For Drugs

This happen about 2-years ago, with my son his first year in- Jr. High. School administrator called saying, they needed me to come into school and to bring an extra shirt for my son.. Wouldn't say why? So I went to the school thinking he did something to the one he had on, only to be confronted with the comment of asking.. Why I let my child wear a shirt with That on it!! And I said what? What they were referring to was on the front of my son's shirt he had a screen-printing of a Alien taken a nap under a red colored mushroom which I bought a J.C. Pennys. I knew when they pointed it out... Where they were going with this? I wanted them to say it, and they wouldn't..LOL So I pretended to play dumb! Well least to say my son wore the shirt the rest of the day, but I made sure he never wore it to school again because of how they felt about it!!

sfgate; "The town of Hempstead, N.Y., has a message for administrators: Before you target a student wearing a Hempstead shirt, look at a map. A student in Grayson High School, was weeded out of a classroom by a school administrator because he wore a shirt that read: "Hempstead, NY 516," a reference to the Long Island town and its telephone area code. According to the family, which moved from Hempstead to the Atlanta suburb, the school thought the shirt referred to marijuana. Student wasn't allowed to return to class until he persuaded school officials to search the Internet for the town's name. Hempstead is the nation's largest township, with 759,000 residents spread across 22 villages and more than 142 square miles. The hemp plant is related to the marijuana plant, and its fiber has been used for centuries to make rope and other products. But it contains small amounts of THC, the substance that gets people high, and U.S. farmers are barred by federal law from growing hemp."

Storm over free tea

London;" Britain's much-loved cup of tea has been deemed too costly to give out free to military staff. The Ministry of Defence sent a memo asking employees to log every cup of tea or coffee they drink so their department can be charged for the beverages. One staff member, speaking anonymously, that workers initially wondered if the plan was a joke. But the government defended its decision. "The days of a tea trolley coming round giving out free tea are long over."

Geez..Money must really be getting tight if even the English, are being petty over a cup of Tea..LOL

We Count The Dead And Dying - Why?

I think the words to this great songwriters, song says it better, then I could....

READ ON >>>>

vote-for-change;" DEJA VU (ALL OVER AGAIN) Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio, did you try to read the writing on the wall. Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before, It's like Deja Vu all over again.
Day by day I hear the voices rising, started with a whisper like it did before. Day by day we count the dead and dying, ship the bodies home while the networks all keep score.
Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio, could your eyes believe the writing on the wall. Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before, It's like Deja Vu all over again.
One by one I see the old ghosts rising, stumblin' 'cross Big Muddy where the light gets dim. Day after day, another Momma's crying, she's lost her precious child to a war that has no end.
Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio, did you stop to read the writing at The Wall! Did that voice inside you say, I've seen this all before.It's like Deja Vu all over again .......It's like Deja Vu all over again
By: John Fogerty-(singer & writer)

Judge Has Party, Sentences Fugitive

Come-on I thought this was funny...At least she showed him she cared and missed him, most people don't get half that much for their Birthdays. Mines coming up here real soon wonder if those that know me will remember?...LOL

PeoplePC;"A judge welcomed a former fugitive back to her courtroom with balloons, streamers and a cake before sentencing him to life in prison. "You just made my day when I heard you had finally come home," Judge Faith Johnson told Billy Wayne Williams, who had been convicted in absentia of aggravated assault after he disappeared a year ago. "We're so excited to see you, we're throwing a party for you." Williams, 53, who has a criminal record dating to the 1970s, was accused of choking his girlfriend until she passed out. He failed to appear for his trial last November and was finally captured Thursday at a gas station in suburban Arlington. Before he was brought into the courtroom on Monday, the judge directed staff members as they placed balloons and streamers around the courtroom. A colorful cake was decorated with his name and one candle to signify the year he spent on the lam. "It seems like everyone wants to have a party, and it's fun for you people, but not for me," Williams told reporters as he was led away in handcuffs. Seana Willing, executive director of the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, said she found the incident troubling. "It's the kind of thing I look at and scratch my head and wonder, `What was she thinking?'" Willing said. She questioned whether the party violated standards of decorum and impartiality. "The whole purpose of it was to mock him, to make him feel bad. I guess she could have put him in the stockade, in the pillory, in front of the town square and let people mock him," Willing said. Willing said the commission will investigate if a complaint is filed, or can decide on its own to look into the matter. Judges found guilty of misconduct face a range of discipline, from private admonition to removal from the bench. She said Johnson had never been disciplined by the regulatory agency. Calls to the judge's office were not immediately returned Tuesday. Trent Touchstone, a supervisory deputy U.S. marshal, said Johnson took a special interest in Williams' case after he jumped bail that she had set following the 2002 assault. "Put yourself in her position," Touchstone said. "She's going through a trial with a jury, with defense attorneys, with prosecutors and rolling along and one day the defendant decides not to show up, and everything comes to a screeching halt."

Wanna Date A P-Star ?

FYI.com;" Have you ever wanted to [escort] a hot looking porn star? Sure, we all have. But unless you are a fellow porn star or a suitcase pimp, the chances of actually fulfilling your dream is as slim as Ted Kennedy being invited to Mary Jo Kopechne's family reunion. However, while traversing the Internet came across, this... Montana is one of the hottest women in the industry today, and like a few other stars, she also works as an escort on the side. That's right guys, for a small "donation" you can have porn superstar Montana Gunn be your "escort" for a few hours or even an entire weekend! The location of your "escort" is up to you. she'll travel any place in the world! Having a chance to be "escorted" by a porn star, why, it's a dream come true! Did we mention the "donation?" Have you won the lottery? For the meager "donation" of $2000 she will "escort" you for 2 HOURS! Hold it, we know what you are thinking, "Hey, that's a little high." She is a smart businessperson. She knows that the higher the "donation" is she must give her "benefactor" an incentive. If she "escorts" you for four hours, the "donation" is only $3900, AND the fifth hour is FREE! For you really big "benefactors" out there, try having, her "escort" you for $9000 for twenty-four hours. If you can afford a 9K "donation," for an insignificant "donation" of just $13,600 she will "escort" you for a whole weekend! Now that's a lot of "escorting."

One bit of information I didn't find her anywhere on the web site when I wandered thru it, but this is what the name of the charity is that your donation" goes to....Okay Guys!! Get out your check-books. Borrow against your car, at the Pawn shop...Hurry!! So you can say you finally had a date with a Porn-Star...lol

PROTECTING INEEL'S POWER SYSTEMS

NBC-6;"Computer experts at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory are using homeland security grants to help protect critical power control systems from hackers. Power systems used to be separated from the outside. But as they link to the Internet, they're more vulnerable to attack. INEEL's new Control Systems Security & Test Center tests power systems codes for weaknesses, and makes recommendations for changes. Robert Hoffman is the manager of the INEEL's cyber security research department. He says the agency's own network gets as many as 7,000 attacks every day. That's how they became experienced in cyber security. Now they're using the expertise they built to help other critical utilities bolster their own network."

I know people who work at INEEL, from where I live it is like maybe a hours drive at the most! It a scary thought in my mind after post the article I found about all the things that are happening over the Inter-net and how easy it is for someone to do something if they just slip in with the right code or password. I have gotten to the point even with my E-mail box, if I am in question? I delete it or mark-spam it, to just be safe!

Messages of Terror

I know this is a really long post but, felt it was worth reading as it is some pretty heavy stuff to think about. As we all know who spend a lot of time on the inter-net also receiving mail, thru the E-mail systems today on-line. Abit scary to me when I think about what this article says and ,Yes how easy it is to do things over the inter-net and thru chat-rooms today...

washingtonpost;"He calls himself Abu Maysara al Iraqi, or father of Maysara the Iraqi, and he's a master at being everywhere and nowhere in the virtual world, constantly switching his online accounts and taking advantage of new technologies to issue his communiqués to the world. American Internet sleuths know next to nothing about him, whether Abu Maysara is his real name, whether he's an Iraqi or even whether he's in Iraq. What is clear is that he is one of the most important sources of information from the country's insurgency, getting his message out through the Internet, and U.S. authorities are trying to silence him. His updates, terse and businesslike, are released several times a week on radical Islamic Web sites. Acting as a spokesman for Abu Musab Zarqawi, the most wanted guerrilla leader in Iraq, he variously reports attacks on U.S. soldiers and killings of hostages. His words and images reach millions of people when they open their newspapers, turn on their TV's or go online in search of news. There's no way of stopping it anymore, "It's extremely frustrating. They can send out quality videos to millions of people uncensored." As the 2004 presidential election approaches, the Bush administration finds itself in a propaganda war, trying to promote a picture of security and progress in Iraq. Half a dozen federal agencies have assigned teams to monitor sites that carry postings from Abu Maysara and other radicals. The Justice Department has tried, with limited success, to use the authority of the Patriot Act, passed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to shut down Internet sites that carry such postings, on grounds that they incite violence. Another problem is that U.S. legal authority stops at the borders. Many of the sites with the target postings are located in other countries, so U.S. officials must depend on the good will of foreign governments to shut down the sites. Radical groups have also used the Internet to research potential targets, communicate with each other, plan attacks and raise money. After the 2001 attacks in the United States, federal agents found a lengthy electronic trail. They believe that the hijackers coordinated their movements via e-mail, booked their tickets online and used the network to research such subjects as how to spread pesticides by air, has allowed terrorists to wage psychological warfare as never before, because they have direct control over shaping their own image and that of their foes. The beheading videos, for instance, are set up like a stage. Many of the sites are as slick as those of Fortune 500 corporations. One radical Islamic site displays pictures of President Bush and his main ally in the war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, with stitches covering their bodies and promises that this scene will be "coming soon." It also urges boycotts of Coca-Cola Co., Nike Inc. And other U.S. corporations with an extensive presence overseas. With more than 1 billion linked computers, the Internet is an ideal hiding place for underground groups. The technology allows users to mask their identities and change them on a whim by throwing away old e-mail accounts and creating new ones. Location can be hidden by hopping virtually from computer to computer. A message that appears to come from Australia, for instance, may actually come from someone who has accessed the Australian computer by going through the Netherlands via South Korea after originating in Jordan. Secrecy is helped by the proliferation of free e-mail and Web hosting services that require users to give a minimal amount of information, which is rarely verified. Terrorism investigators first began to see the name Abu Maysara in January in the Muntada Al-Ansar and Islah chat rooms, which are password-protected and only available to users who pass a background screening interview with a battery of questions including such things as whether they have ever attacked U.S. citizens and whether they have been imprisoned. Abu Maysara confirmed Zarqawi's presence in Iraq and took credit for several attacks on U.S. and other coalition troops. Investigators believe it was the Ansar site that, in May, carried the first video depicting the beheading of Nicholas Berg, the young Pennsylvania businessman who was in the country looking to make money repairing radio towers. For months, U.S. agents had been chasing the site, which was once based in Alexandria. By the time Berg was killed, the site had been moved to Malaysia. Authorities managed to get it shut down again, but only temporarily. Ansar recently reappeared on a server in West Lafayette, Ind. In June, the government's legal assaults suffered a setback when a computer programmer in Idaho was acquitted of a criminal charge that he had run a Web site that included edicts calling for violence. Feeling the pressure, Abu Maysara has been experimenting with new ways to get his message out effectively, investigators said. The problem with the Berg posting was that it was relatively easy for authorities to stop its distribution because it was only placed on one or two Web sites. E-mailing the video was out of the question because the file was too large. Abu Maysara could not use the free Web hosting services from Yahoo or other companies because those services limited the number of people who can view a file. But some time last month, Abu Maysara found a silver bullet, a technology called YouSendIt. Developed by three Canadian programmers in Silicon Valley in California, it allows senders to create multiple links to a large file so it can be viewed by an unlimited number of people. Users type in their e-mail addresses, upload the file and YouSendIt creates a free, anonymous Web page for them. To distribute videos of the contractors who were kidnapped this month, Abu Maysara created dozens of links using YouSendIt and sent them to chat rooms all over the Internet. He compressed the files, or made them as small as possible, investigators said, so that they could be copied more quickly. By the time U.S. officials got word of the videos, they had been anonymously copied from computer to computer as fast as a Top 10 music hit would have been during the peak of the music service Napster's operations -- making it impossible to locate, much less destroy, all the copies of the video. Khalid Shaikh, president of YouSendIt Inc., based in Campbell, Calif., said he created the program to help families trade pictures and videos and to help colleagues at work share files such as multimedia presentations. He said he was surprised and saddened to hear that the technology was being used to spread violent messages. Shaikh said he had not been contacted by any law enforcement authority regarding the use of his service by terrorists but that he would be eager to help U.S. officials. But, he said, since there are more than 1 million file transfers a day on YouSendIt, it would be impossible for the company to monitor them all. "It's almost like policing a society," he said. He also said the company's philosophy is to let users monitor each other. The company recently added technology to allow viewers to have a link deleted if they deem it offensive. The messages from Abu Maysara follow a rigid format. They are always in Arabic and open with a standard greeting such as, "In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful." Then comes the heart of the message, written in flowery language, recounting an attack. Abu Maysara favors ellipses, writes in half-sentences and mixes the details of an incident with religious invocations. In some chat rooms, Abu Maysara and his collaborators are hailed as heroes. On Sept. 22, after he announced the beheading of Eugene "Jack" Armstrong, 52, a native of Hillsdale, Mich., dozens of people on one Web site thanked him and Zarqawi. "I love you, I love you, O slaughtering Sheikh!" one person wrote, according to a translation by the SITE Institute. Another said that he would "pray to Allah that He protect you, O Mujahideen of Iraq." On occasion, chat room participants act like fans and pummel Abu Maysara with questions about his background and how and why he joined the group, said Kohlmann, the terrorism expert. All they get from Abu Maysara is silence. "He doesn't respond to requests for information. He's never replied to any message. He's almost like a robot," Kohlmann said. "He never gets involved in the discussion. He never explains himself." Still, many of the people who read Abu Maysara's postings follow up with advice about new attack strategies. In the past, Katz said, Abu Maysara seemed to ignore them, but in recent days Katz noticed something that was either a remarkable coincidence or a change in Abu Maysara's habits. In a posting on Sept. 22 at 3:46 a.m., time zone unspecified, a person calling himself Nimr suggested that the group make Kenneth Bigley, the 62-year-old British citizen who had been kidnapped with Armstrong and another American, Jack Hensley, 48, of Marietta, Ga., beg for his life to the "tyrant." A few days later, a clip appeared on the Web site with a distraught Bigley pleading to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to save him."