RENTAL HELP

NBC-6;"Can you imagine living and sleeping in your car? It happens more than you might think. Many people struggle financially living paycheck to paycheck, but they also have a difficult time finding affordable housing. Many people struggle financially every month living paycheck to paycheck. Finding affordable housing is a problem that seems to be rising. Housing and Finance Association offer the federal Section 8 (tenant-based) Rental Assistance program. IHFA director says the program is provides a housing choice voucher to qualified renters. "We get funding through HUD to subsidize the rent of low-income families." The household in need pays 30% of income toward rent and the balance is paid by program. 40-50 people come in a week looking for assistance. "Waiting list is growing; a year ago our wait was about 12 months now it's 22 to 24 months, a real need for help." Another program offered under Section 8 is project-based assistance. It works similar to tenant-based, but the subsidy is tied to a specific rental complex. It is unbelievable how many people need help. "We see people living in there cars; young mothers that need a place to go."

I had to post this when I saw it because. Yesterday I was in a counseling office talking to someone about something to do with my-work and, we ended up chatting about housing for some reason don't remember why. But he was telling me that he had tried to get one of their clients on the housing list just here in Pocatello Idaho, and the sign-up list was CLOSED!! Closed that's really stupid!!, he claims that they said it was a waste of everyone's time to even take app. For housing when the list is already looking at, year-2006 before you would even get to the waiting list to be able to get a voucher to get (low-income housing). So why waste peoples time,blew me away to hear this...My boy-friend is on the Fair-Housing Board here in town and I talked with him about this awhile back and he told me then that the had a government cut on housing Vouchers. I believe he said in the figure of 800 less!!! I tell you somebody better Pull their heads out out their butts!! Real soon up their on Capital Hill, and find some more money I don't care what it takes. Or start making these Land-Lords stop jacking up their rent prices-quote- From a rental angency here in town; " we keep our prices higher on our nicer places to keep out the low-lives ( which means poor) And we also can rent a 3-4 Bedroom house to a bunch of collage kids and charge them triple + deposits each and make more money, for us and the owner of the house. She said its nothing personal. Just- that, they are in the field to make money not rent housing only. But that too, the provide a service to the owners of the rentals for a fee!!...Plus the get to pocket the deposits on all the rentals if they don't give it back.......Maybe I should become a slum lord too!! And not a human....Don't thinks so, its not in me to be selfish to that point.

Bush And Kerry Not Invited Dinner

NBC-6;"The potential for a food fight was apparently too high. Neither George Bush or John Kerry will be invited to this year's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. Its sponsor, the Archdiocese of New York says campaign issues could detract from the traditionally lighthearted affair. The annual dinner, this year less than two week before the election, will instead have former President Bush and former Democratic New York Governor Hugh Carey speak. Alfred Smith was a Democratic New York governor who died in 1944. He's best remembered for being the first Catholic to run as a major party's presidential candidate. He lost the 1928 race to Herbert Hoover."

Well wonder if the meal was good? Just goes to show you if your going to be babies about every thing no body wants you around, these to men need to grow-up

CONJOINED TWIN COMPLICATIONS

NBC-6; "Doctors say they "had to go into emergency mode" during surgery to separate twins joined at the head when one girl developed an irregular heartbeat and low blood pressure. The lead surgeon says the Baltimore medical team was about three-quarters through the long operation when the one child's condition deteriorated. The twin with the complications died shortly after the operation. Johns Hopkins Children's Center doctors say the other is in critical but stable condition. The lead surgeon says it's too soon to say if the surviving one-year-old German girl has any brain damage. But he says barring any serious complications, the girl will grow up to "lead a normal, independent life."

This is so sad.. Because these little girls and their parents went thru so much to have this done, to get to America to just do it. Now one of the twins died, and the other may have brain-damage from this. I ran the article when they first did the surgey because, I thought this was a good thing in today's medical world. I'm not saying its still not, but I wish it could of turned out better for this poor family...I home we all will remember them in our prays this week and hug our own children. Because we are So...Lucky, because our own never had to go thru this and they are still alive and well with us. This is a mother's pain feeling for another mother......

Careful Your Bookmarker Is A Weapons

NBC-6 ; "A weight may soon be lifted off a Maryland woman charged with carrying a concealed weapon in an airport. It wasn't a gun or a knife. It was a weighted bookmark. Ms. Harrington was flying home from vacation last month when screeners at the Tampa, Florida, airport found her bookmark. It's an eight-and-a-half-inch leather strip with small lead weights at each end. Airport police said it resembled a weighted weapon that could be used to knock people unconscious. So the 52-year-old special education teacher was handcuffed, put into a police car, and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
This weapon thing has gotten really out of control...What next we will all be made to walk NAKED on to planes and get our personal items on the other end when we land? Well if that ever happens...Bet it would sure jack up their flying-head count...(Party in the sky) Would take on a whole new meaning to....... MILE-HIGH CLUB...hehe ( think I'll take the bus)

Actor Jailed for helping Lobsters

NBC-6; "Edward Furlong tried to free some lobsters and landed in jail instead. Furlong was arrested on a charge of being drunk in public in Florence, Kentucky. He spent about an hour and a-half in jail before he got out. Furlong is accused of trying to take some lobsters out of a tank at a grocery store."

LOL - Come-maybe he just wanted a pet and he thought they were cute..

Court Rules Vomiting Is A Private Matter

sfgate; "Helena, Mont- Even if you're puking, the potty is private, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled. The high court says a police officer went too far when he walked in on a young woman while she was vomiting into the toilet during a loud house party. The 6-1 decision Tuesday said the unconstitutional intrusion into the privy means evidence that Ms. Smith had been drinking illegally, she was only 18 at the time, could not be used to prosecute her. Merely hearing someone vomiting behind a closed door was not sufficient reason for Dillon Police Officer to open the door, the court said. The case arose from a complaint about a loud party at a Dillon apartment in. A party guest allowed officers to enter the apartment. When the Police-officer heard someone vomiting in the bathroom, he opened the bathroom door without knocking or asking permission and found Smith vomiting in the toilet. She was convicted of underage drinking and given a deferred sentence. On appeal, she argued the search of the bathroom was unconstitutional and evidence obtained by the officer could not be used against her. The Supreme Court agreed. Since the apartment owner never objected to the officers' presence, no one at the party could have expected privacy in the "common areas" of the apartment, the court said. But the same is not true for the bathroom, it said."

Hey this young Lady is smart!! Wonder if she ever considered going into Criminal Law? Heck with that, I bet after this case she could charge all her Collage buddies to just go to court for them and probley win too. From the looks of what she did to her own case...You go Girl!!

'Secrets' Santa Claus Perplex

washingtonpost.com; "A former dictator's cocktail preferences and a facetious plot against Santa Claus were classified by the government to prevent public disclosure. Also stamped "secret" for six years was a study concluding that 40 percent of Army chemical warfare masks leaked. These, as well as other examples of classification were cited last week by members of Congress and witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing into the Sept. 11 commission's conclusion that secrecy is undermining efforts to thwart terrorists.
Some classifications were made in error or to save face. The CIA deleted the amount Iraqi agents paid for aluminum tubes from Page 96 of a Senate report on prewar intelligence. The report quoted the CIA as concluding that "their willingness to pay such costs suggests the tubes are intended for a special project of national interest." That price turned out to be not so high. On Page 105 of the same Senate report, the same security reviewers let the CIA's figure -- as much as $17.50 each -- be printed along with other estimates that the Iraqis paid as little as $10 apiece. "There are too many secrets" and maybe too many secret-makers, said Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee's national security panel. There are 3,978 officials who can stamp a document "top secret," "secret" or "confidential" under multiple sets of complex rules. No one knows how much is classified, he said, and the system "often does not distinguish between the critically important and comically irrelevant." The problem is growing, said J. William Leonard, director of the National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which monitors federal practices. Officials decided to classify documents 8 percent more often in 2003 than in 2002. Total classification decisions -- including upgrading or downgrading -- reached 14 million. "The tone is set at the top," Shays said. "This administration believes the less known, the better," added the Connecticut Republican, noting sadly he was speaking of a GOP administration. "I believe the more known, the better." The panels ranking Democrat, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio, noted that former President Bill Clinton directed that in cases of doubt, the lowest or no classification be used. But in 2003, President Bush ordered officials to use the more restrictive level. Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' project on secrecy, said some classification was designed to conceal illegality or avoid embarrassment, even though that is forbidden.Aftergood cited the "secret" stamp on Army Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba's report of "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" inflicted on Iraqi inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison."

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Coffee Talks-thoughts ~

You know the more I read about Bush, I'm beginning to wonder why this was all kept hidden for so long, And why someone is finally finding these lost files and bringing them out? I am at the point after dealing with all the Bull-Crappy from these two guys I'm beginning to wonder if they should just LET...US MOTHERS run this damn counrty....Hell... We multi-task intire countries alone just within our homes, with out families. And to top it off we have one or more wars going on at least every-day, and we bring everyone out still breathing!!!...Well Moms what do you think?
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"Collectors of information can never know how it could best be used," have said. "We have to move to a user-driven environment." Leonard, the Archives official, said another obstacle to sharing anti-terrorist data as the Sept. 11 commission envisioned was that federal law divides the authority for writing the rules that govern secrets. The CIA director has authority to protect intelligence sources and methods, the Energy Department has power to write regulations to shield nuclear secrets, the Pentagon has control over classifying NATO data and the National Security Agency can define eavesdropping communications secrets. "All these variations have nuances that impede cooperation," Leonard said. Aftergood, who is fighting in court to declassify the overall budget for intelligence agencies, argued that declassifying that total "could break the logjam" of overclassification. That was also recommended by the Sept. 11 commission. Leonard said a 2000 law created a public interest declassification board to recommend release of secrets in important cases, but the president and Congress never appointed members. For the curious: The CIA classified for 20 years longtime Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's preference for pisco sours, according to subcommittee staff members citing previously classified documents published by the National Security Archive, a private anti-secrecy institute at George Washington University. And a CIA employee made up a story of a terrorist plot to hijack Santa Claus and inserted it into classified traffic."

If George W. Bush had been president in 1941,

Bush/Views; "If George W. Bush had been president on Dec. 7, 1941, he would have declared war on a country like Spain rather than on Germany and Japan. Despite the fact that it was Japan which had attacked the U.S., Bush would have argued that Spain was the real threat to world security.Bush would have noted that Spain possessed "weapons of mass destruction" and that the Spanish government had tortured, murdered and bombed its citizens. An attack on Spain would have distracted the voters from the damage Bush's policies were doing to the country while showing that he was taking forceful, action against a rogue state. The fact that Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperialist Japan were left free to wage war on the rest of the world would have been ignored, thanks to a barrage of publicity about how Bush was a strong, forceful leader who was smoking the terrorists out of their holes in Spain. If you think this is an absurd analogy consider this: It was Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that financed and supported Osama bin Laden, and it was Saudi Arabia which provided 15 of the 19 hijackers, yet Bush has not dealt with those sponsors of terrorism. But then, Bush's father and Dick Cheney have benefited financially from Saudi Arabia, so one must not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. If you still think the analogy with Spain is absurd, consider this: Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, sold war bonds for Hitler, so why would a Bush declare war on Hitler?....(Note): The information on Prescott Bush's dealings with the Nazis was taken from the Introduction (written by Toby Rogers and Nick Mamatas) to the book, "Fortunate Son, George W. Bush and the Making of an American President" by J. H. Hatfield."

Yes I know more slam on the good ole boy Mr. Bush!! Just can't help myself their so funny and do make you think because their is some truth in them...Sure their is read it again!!

The Story Of * Apocalypse Bush! *

Okay... Everyone I know its a long article, but I think you will enjoy reading it if nothing else then for the dry humor I found in it...We all know how grand Bush says he is well this does it in a way that is worth thelaught...Least I thought so...

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Apocalypse Bush; "Why Care for the Planet When the End Times are Almost Here? Vote Bush and Hop On the Salvation Train! This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't have to give a damn. Take the environment. I mean, isn't it just a little pointless to care so damn deeply about the air and the soil and the water and the stupid little disposable animals on this silly spinning ball of expendable rock when the Second Coming is imminent and a blood-soaked fire-breathin' Jesus who looks remarkably like Mel Gibson will return very soon to smite the heathens and the gays and the vegetarians and the Francophiles, and who will rescue all those who worship patriarchy and country music and blue-chip oil portfolios? You're goddamn right it is. Look. This much has become clear. Bush is, more than anything else, an extreme fundamentalist Christian. He is widely regarded as the most openly pious and sanctimonioous president in modern American history. He actually preaches the GOP screed in evangelical churches across America. He panders so slavishly to the anti-choicers and the Bible-thumpers and the homophobes it makes Jerry Falwell swoon and giggle. And Bush actually says, out loud, that God speaks through him, and that God is on our side we bomb the living crap out of Afghanistan and Iraq and that it is the Almighty's wish that we take control of these angry pip-squeak nations and in so doing kill thousands of civilians and tens of thousands of young Iraqi soldiers,as over 1,000 American soldiers are now dead over a makeshift cause that never really existed. God wanted it this way, that's why. Bush has called Jesus his "favorite philosopher." He has claimed that the act of being "born-again" saved him from a long, sad life of vaguely homoerotic frat parties and repetitive binge drinking and going AWOL from the National Guard, all so he could turn his full attention to righteously ruining multiple businesses and then making Texas the most murderous and polluted state in the union. But, you know, why stop there? God, of course, isn't just about the current Iraqi war. Bush understands this. Nor is God just about slamming gays or creating nasty, isolationist foreign policy. God is not merely about setting those gul-dang Muslim heathens straight about who is the supreme big-daddy all-powerful mega-righteous SUV-drivin' American-flag-wavin' God and who is just a dimestore wannabe false idol scruffy Allah. Because above all, God is nothing if not all about putting a quick and fiery stop to all this Earthly nonsense ASAP. He is nothing if not all about the coming apocalypse. And He is nothing if not all about saving those who believe, as Bush does, that he is among the chosen to be saved. This is the fundamentalist truth. And this is the BushCo maxim. The End Times provide the ultimate meaning, the final straw, the only thing worth caring about, because it defines the BushCo worldview like nothing else except maybe embarrassing grammar and crushing deficits and a secret craving for gin. You can see it in his sad, vacant eyes: Bush is absolutely convinced that God is a Republican. Why else would He create all those cool M-1 tanks and oil refineries and those neat deer-antler chandeliers? Exactly. Do you see? Do you get it? If not, you haven't been reading nearly enough of those silly pulpy sociopathic gazillion-selling "Left Behind" doomsday books so frighteningly adored by the Christian Right. It's simple, really: The world is gonna end real soon. The End Times are comin'. All the signs are in place -- famine, war, disease, sodomy, fires, hurricanes, Avril Lavigne -- and Bush, by instigating holy wars and inciting more terrorism and burning through the planet's natural resources as fast as humanly possible, is merely hastening the blessedly inevitable. As his fellow fundamentalists say, God bless him. Hey, it explains a lot, this view. It explain how Bush can just smirk and mumble and, with one big, heartless shrug, dismiss the complete lack of WMD and the loss of 1.6 million U.S. jobs and the nation's staggering $422 billion budget deficit. Pay down the national debt? Bah. Planet's going to hell anyway, people. Stock up on nuclear missiles and get yourself an escape pod. Can't afford one? Whatta shame. It surely explains the general GOP hatred of gay marriage, of open-hearted sex, of those wicked, sin-inducing vaginas (that harlot Eve is gonna pay, dammit), of environmentalism, of caring about air quality and water quality and the EPA and organic foods and homeopathic medicine and resource management and the Alaska Wildlife Refuge and the U.N. and any country that doesn't have a McDonald's and a Starbucks and a decent strip club for lonely gin-soaked Republican expats. And it explains not only the outright contempt for any view other than Bush's own, but the willingness to legislate that hatred, codify it, to make it outright illegal to think or feel or love otherwise. Look at it this way: When you have an angry, patriotic God and the red-hot promise of the juicy apocalypse on your side, there is no such thing as a counter-argument. There is no such thing as competition. There is no such thing as giving a damn what anyone else thinks. How else do you explain it? How else can you understand the most aggressive, war-hungry, abusive, nature-loathing, isolationist administration in American history? How else can you explain BushCo's overall "F" grade from every environmental organization in the world? How can you explain his mauling of long-term Social Security planning? The decimation of the idea of universal health care? A pre-emptive, attack-first-ask-questions-never, warmongering policy that creates more anti-U.S. hatred by the minute? How can you explain the fact that every human rights organization on the planet is appalled by Bush's actions? Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib to John Ashcroft to the Patriot Act to gutting funding for international women's health care. Hey, if God had wanted us to care about other viewpoints, He would've made everyone speak English. Can I get a "hell yeah?" This lust for apocalyptica, then, is perhaps the best way we have to at least partially understand the shamelessness of this administration's policies and its blatant disregard for international law, its open hatred of any nation that disagrees with us and the deep, profound concern only for nations that either cower in our God-flexin' presence and/or have resources that Bush's corporate pals are salivating to exploit. And it is the perhaps ultimate explanation for the Right's final cattle call, its bitter war cry of a message, its exact parallel to every pseudo-religious evangelical scam artist on late-night cable TV. Listen, good people of America. If you just send your money to the party and give up all that careful, nuanced thinking, if you just quite questioning our decisions and load up on blind faith, it will all be OK and you can have all the guns and fast food you want and those terrifying gays will leave you alone because BushCo will take care of you and God will reserve your seat on the glory train to salvation. Deal? Praise Jesus! Praise Bush/Cheney! Hallelujah you are saved! Even as we are, you!!........ know, your-doomed."