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The Coming Global Superstorm ?

2004-06-01T22:01:00.000-04:00

This from Amazon "Editorial Reviews" on the book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, I dont even know what to say, except, it must the President's fault....

It's time to stop talking about the weather and do something about it. Paranormal superstars Art Bell and Whitley Strieber bring environmentalism to the masses tabloid-style in The Coming Global Superstorm, a quick look at global warming and its potentially catastrophic effects. Like Old Testament prophets, Bell and Strieber embrace lovingly detailed depictions of global cataclysm; unlike them, our modern-day doomsayers have more to go on than that old-time religion. Their writing is clear and straightforward, interspersing hard data with dramatization and speculation to create an engaging, enjoyable, but thoroughly spooky warning of the next Ice Age. more...

Art Bell also has written this literary masterpiece, The Source: Journey Through the Unexplained, which was "reviewed" here

What was once considered impossible in a rational world, has, through indisputable evidence, become all too possible. From the undeniable accuracy of end-of-the-world prophesies, to an increase in paranormal sightings, as well as proven interactions with the other side, the field known as the "unexplained" has captured the interest of believers and non-believers alike. In this broad-ranging study, Art Bell and Brad Steiger-two of the most respected experts in the field-disclose their conclusions and theories about such subjects as: * End-of-the-world prophesies and prophets * Near-death and out-of-body experiences * Conspiracies and government cover-ups * The Roswell crash and other UFO sightings * Crop circles and other unexplained phenomena * Demon possession and poltergeists *

I promise to read these books the day after tomorrow...

Priorities

2004-06-01T17:16:00.000-04:00

U.S. Judge Rules Against Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

Dr. LeRoy Carhart, the lead plaintiff in the Nebraska challenge to the federal law, said, "The court in San Francisco recognized this federal ban for what it is: a threat to women's health. The court understood that the government has no business trying to come between doctors and their patients and telling doctors that they can't put their patients' health and safety first."

What about the babies health and life?

spam spam spam bacon eggs and spam

2004-06-01T10:47:00.000-04:00

I have an excellent email program simply called 'Mail' by Apple that runs on Mac OS X. It does a great job of filtering spam, and will automatically either delete it or send it to a 'Junk' folder. I have it send to the Junk folder, and then I check the folder to make sure it didn't miss anything, even though it never has before...I still check...So, as I was checking the junk this morning, I realized something...If I actually read all of that spam email, I would be one of the happiest people on the planet..

With subject titles like :

'Get a Free Camcorder!'
'Cheap Insurance'
'Cheeeap Geeneriiiic Viiiiiagra'
'Want to save on your auto insurance?'
'[flipflop] 63% off Windows XP Pr0 humans'
'Eradicate Your Bills - No Fees',
'Your Girlfriend will thank you BIG TIME!'
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'Get a Free DeWALT Power Drill!'

Quite possibly all the answers I will ever need have been in my 'Junk' folder the whole time..

Letter written by my Great-Great Grandfather

2004-05-31T11:08:00.000-04:00

Letter written by my Great-Great Grandfather, a Union soldier who served as assistant surgeon with the 12th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. It is written from the battlefield during the battle of Gettysburg.

Near Gettysburg Penn
July 3rd '63
My Dear Wife

I scratch this line under somewhat novel circumstances, a prisoner within the Rebel lines - about 50 feet from a Rebel battery that is under full play at our own men. 5 of us surgeons are here crouched under a stone barn to escape our own shells. We came up here, out of town, to operate on some of our men when the Rebels opened from the Batteries that are situated all around us on the hills. We have had a terrible battle on the 1st, 2 & today. Lee's whole army is here, as is also ours. I suppose there will be no cessation from fighting until one of the two armies is annihilated.

July 3th The fighting having somewhat abated we went further up, onto the battlefield where our dead and wounded still lay, we have done what we could for them but they suffer greatly for want of food although the rebels are very kind to them.

July 4th - A glorious Fourth! The Rebels have evacuated the place - we are no longer prisoners. The Rebels charged in vain on our position yesterday. Longstreet is killed. Genl. Archer taken prisoner. Their loss has been very great - they are probably retreating from the state. I have some news for you - I saw a Rebel yesterday that knows your brother - He is a Captain in the 51st Georgia - Longstreet's Corps - said he had seen him a few days ago - Having a Brother in the same Regt., I sent him my regards. The loss in our corps has been very great. I don't expect that there is many of our Regt. left. Capt. Clark is badly wounded - Also Col. Bates. I removed a ball from his throat. I expect he is taken prisoner.

July 5 The Col. is not a prisoner. I have gone up to our corps hosptl. Do no know how long I shall remain there. Shall send for you if I remain from the Regt. long. Visited the Battlefield this morning looking for our men - just saw the 115th - they suffered badly.Col. Ward is killed also Capt. Murkland. 70 left in the Regt. We have 60 left in ours. Do not know how long our Corps will remain here - A large portion of the Army have started in pursuit of the enemy. It is a complete victory. I will write again as soon as I can. I am very well. A mail line just came in. There are some letters for me but they sent them downtown I hope I shall get them today.

From your Husband,
Charles

Feels good to look back sometimes

2004-05-30T21:04:00.000-04:00

This was posted on rec audio pro a long time ago, and I just found a copy of it...

Feels good to look back sometimes.

Our century just past.....

If you are old enough...take a stroll with me...Close your eyes...and go back...before the Internet...Before semiautomatics and crack...before SEGA or Super Nintendo... way back

I'm talking' about hide and go seek at dusk. Sitting' on the porch, Simon Says, Kick the Can, Red light - Green light. Lunch boxes with a thermos...Chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, Mother May I? Hula Hoops and sunflower seeds, Mary Janes, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the name of cities on the bottom, running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mousse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty...all in black & white.

When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime, climbing trees, making forts, backyard shows, lemonade stands, Cops & Robbers, Cowboys & Indians, sitting' on the curb, jumping down the steps, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, getting "company," ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas Tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to church, walking to the movie theater, being tickled to death, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, being tired from playing'...Remember that?

Not stepping' on a crack or you'll break your mother's back...paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln & Washington...the smell of paste in school & Evening in Paris.

What about the girl that had the big bubbly handwriting, who dotted her "i's" with hearts? The Stroll, popcorn balls, & sock hops.

Remember when...there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyer) and the only time you wore them at school was for "gym". And the girls had those ugly uniforms.

When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog.

When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter, a huge bonus.

When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of you male teachers wore neckties & female teachers had their hair done everyday and wore high heels.

When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time.. And, you didn't pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.

When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and did!

When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the auditorium and we danced to an orchestra, and all the girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we stayed out all night.

When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.

And no one ever asked where the car keys were, cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key.

Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like "That cloud looks like a...."

And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game.

Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And...with all our progress...don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of today?

Maybe some of you can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk...as well as the sound of a reel mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

When being sent to the Principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we all survived because their love was greater than the treat.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that!!!!!

Tornado Warning

2004-05-30T19:42:00.000-04:00

We (southern Ohio) are under our second Tornado Warning of the last three days. I'm just sitting here looking out the window,
waiting to see if it is going to hit us...no basement to go to...cant wait...
it must be the Presidents fault...

Probally not a good idea....

2004-05-30T13:24:00.000-04:00

WOMAN ATTACKED BY LION
Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 11:59am
A woman bitten by her father's lion is in fair condition at Ohio State University Medical Center.
Lieutenant Dennis McKeever of the Ross County sheriff's office says 33-year-old Lisa Peters suffered injuries to her right arm yesterday when she reached into a cage to pet a lion kept at her father's home on Bowman Lane in Londonderry around 6:30pm.
Officials say Charles Peters, who lives next door to Lisa Peters in Londonderry, has a permit to keep the lions, one male and one female. McKeever says Charles Peters had to shoot and kill the female lion to free his daughter's arm.
Charles Peters was also taken to the hospital, suffering from chest pains.

No, really it's all TRUE !!!

2004-05-29T22:50:00.000-04:00

stole the 2002 election

knew ahead of time about 9/11

halliburton

lied about WMD

fired a bunch of people - then got a bunch of foreigners new jobs

raised the price of gas

ordered abuse of suspected terrorists

will cause the end of the world ( Day After Tomorrow )

Let'e see have I missed any ? Oh yeah, the President is stealing my socks....

One more for the list : Washingtonienne. Say Uncle spells it out

Gettysburg Address

2004-05-28T23:12:00.000-04:00

"We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

If Kerry wins

2004-05-27T23:19:00.000-04:00

Massachusetts Democrats are devising a plan to keep John F. Kerry's US Senate seat in their party's hands by blocking Governor Mitt Romney from naming an interim replacement if Kerry wins the White House.

Beacon Hill lawmakers want to pass legislation that would leave Kerry's seat vacant for two months or more, until a special election is held to fill it. That would prevent the Republican governor from naming an interim senator, as is currently required by state law. more

"as is currently required by state law"

That's easy, just change the law....

These people are insane

2004-05-27T21:13:00.000-04:00

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood activists unveiled a TV ad on Thursday to air over Memorial Day weekend accusing President Bush (news - web sites) and the oil industry of robbing Americans at the gas pump.

The Detroit Project, founded by political columnist Arianna Huffington and Laurie Davis, the wife of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David, funded the 30-second ad that is scheduled to appear on cable television starting on Friday, along with a print ad in the New York Times.

The spot is the latest in the Detroit Project's effort to galvanize Americans to demand stricter fuel economy standards and to wean the nation from foreign oil dependence.

Laurie David said the $100,000 campaign was planned for the first weekend of the summer driving season to capitalize on motorists' anger at rising gas prices.

"One of the reasons we are doing this ad is to connect the dots between the current administration and what's happening at the gas pump," David said. A Gallup Poll released this week showed that while Americans said record gas prices caused them hardship, only 5 percent blamed Bush or corporate greed.

The commercial, unveiled at a Los Angeles news conference, shows a woman standing at a gas pump watching the spinning dials as she fills her sport utility vehicle's tank.

She looks stunned as the pump shows $3.5 million in "Oil Company Contributors to Bush Campaign," $125 billion in "Record Profits for Oil Companies," and $48 billion in "US Tax Dollars Defending Middle East Oil" instead of her $50 gas purchase.

As she replaces the gas nozzle, the price gauge reads: $0.0 for "Bush-Cheney Solutions to America's Oil Addiction."

This is real

2004-05-27T15:20:00.000-04:00

You can actually buy this...
so you grill a chicken...with a can up it's........
OK i cant even say it - go see it for yourself

back when he used to vote

2004-05-27T15:05:00.000-04:00

"I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- John F. Kerry, Oct 2002

This is a test

2004-05-27T14:40:00.000-04:00

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.