When loading these blogs takes longer than it did to write them...
When all your freinds say they quit reading your blog because it took too long to load...
Well, it time to let it rest for awhile....so i am blogging on blogger for now..
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
TEMPORARY( I Hope) SIGN OFF August 06, 2008
Blogs...so many choices
I have blogs like this one on Yahoo 360, Multiply, MySpace...although I like Yahoo, it is unsupported by Yahoo, and is at times a real pain to deal with.
I think I like it because it is so different from this one, not in what it can do, but in the look and "feel" department.
While bloggin, I can see a lot of other information, simply by clicking another tab and looking at what I have previously done...
Not that one is better than the other. Blogger (or blogspot?) is pretty useful as well, and some say it is way better about allowing freedom of expression, as in not coming in behind you and removing stuff. That has happened at Y 360, although I am not sure it was censorship as much as technical problems, but there have been issues. I had to remove a picture of myself from my Y 360 profile, because it had been flagged as inappropriate. I still haven't figured out that one...it was a simple picture of me, fully clothed sitting on the edge of my bed...no cleavage, no Sharon Stone open leg shots, nothing. So I wrote Y and they never responded. Big surprise...Oh well, another corporate decision arbitarily made I suppose.
Blogs...so many choices
I have blogs like this one on Yahoo 360, Multiply, MySpace...although I like Yahoo, it is unsupported by Yahoo, and is at times a real pain to deal with.
I think I like it because it is so different from this one, not in what it can do, but in the look and "feel" department.
While bloggin, I can see a lot of other information, simply by clicking another tab and looking at what I have previously done...
Not that one is better than the other. Blogger (or blogspot?) is pretty useful as well, and some say it is way better about allowing freedom of expression, as in not coming in behind you and removing stuff. That has happened at Y 360, although I am not sure it was censorship as much as technical problems, but there have been issues. I had to remove a picture of myself from my Y 360 profile, because it had been flagged as inappropriate. I still haven't figured out that one...it was a simple picture of me, fully clothed sitting on the edge of my bed...no cleavage, no Sharon Stone open leg shots, nothing. So I wrote Y and they never responded. Big surprise...Oh well, another corporate decision arbitarily made I suppose.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Religious Holidays August 05, 2008
Come with me on a little journey here:
Somewhere in America, say a quarter of the car factory employees are devoted Russian Orthodox, and they demand the union contract be revised to reflect what they believe, and celebrate Christmas on January 7 . That other Christmas would be a work day.
I imagine that there would be a lot of news, "Factory Dumps December 25th as Christmas" or something akin to that. Yet it was purely accidental that I found this REAL news story online:
Union workers at a Shelbyville Tennessee Tyson Food poultry factory will not get paid to barbecue chicken this Labor Day. A new five-year contract makes a paid holiday trade, Labor Day for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr. Instead of marking the end of summer, the employees will mark the end of Ramadan.(Even if they are non-Muslims? And Ramadan varies year to year, according to our calendar?)
| 2008 | end Ramadan | 30 September | |
| 2009 | end Ramadan | 23 September | |
| 2010 | end Ramadan | 9 September |
Tyson says the switch has nothing to do with religion (Even though the contract also calls for a designated prayer room), but is instead a contractual agreement reached because the majority of the workers asked for it. Union leaders and supportive employees think it makes sense to accommodate the Muslim workers, too. Other workers lament the loss of an "American holiday," and it appears that they are not alone. Some in the community are calling for a boycott of all Tyson products, arguing that immigrants need to adapt to the American way of life.
Monday, August 4, 2008
August 04, 2008 - More rumors of Zawahiri's death
A Pashtu-language Pakistani television channel has reported that deputy Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri was killed in a July 28 US airstrike on a madrassa in the Pakistani tribal belt along the Afghan border, sources informed Stratfor on Aug 1. AVT Khyber TV quoted unnamed sources in its July 29 news broadcast as saying that al-Zawahiri was among three Arabs killed in a strike against the seminary in Zeralita village in the Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan agency in the Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (FATA). The channel also interviewed an official from the Pakistani army's Inter-Services Public Relations directorate who said the military was aware of the incident but could not confirm the report.
At this stage, it is very difficult to say whether Al-Zawahiri or Al-Masri or another Al-Qaeda leader was killed in the July 28 strike. It is interesting, however, that there have been no denials from the United States, Pakistan or the jihadists (though we have heard rumors of a possible pending announcement by the United States). At the moment, it appears the Khyber TV report should not be dismissed as just another rumor.- AP
In October 2001 my cousin visited and told us all he had decided he could no longer work for Morgan Stanley, and was going to volunteer to go back into the Army. It took ahile, but he finally did, and since then he has been to Afghanistan, Iraq, Fort Irwin CA, Iraq, Fort Irwin and Afghanistan. During a 9/11 memorial in Iraq, he was featured in this article, which the AP carried from Stars and Stripes:
"During a memorial service to remember the September 11th victims at the Armor Regiment dining facility, what started out as an ordinary reading of the timeline of events on that tragic day suddenly became riveting for those in attendance. That’s because when Captain T of the 490th Battalion, a reserve unit ...attached to the 3rd Brigade, came to the events on the timeline at 8:01 a.m., they became very personal to him.
“8:01 a.m., United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants leaves Newark, New Jersey for San Francisco.” Cpt. T said reading from the timeline. What he said next is what got everyone’s attention. At the time I had just arrived for work, on the 61st Floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.”
I remember vividly the last time we spoke, we exchanged small talk as we ate lunch at a popular restaurant. I asked if he was sure he wanted to go back into the Army. He said he was, not out of patriotism, but because "them sum bitches killed over 3,000 Americans , they tried to kill more", and then looking like he was going to tear up, "cousin, they tried to kill me, and they want to kill us all."
I went back to work, and on my way home I stopped and bought a bottle of really good American sparkling wine (aka champagne). When I got home, honey asked what we were celebrating, and I said I wanted to keep this until the day they said the main people behind 9/11 were captured or dead. I have never felt that way before, I mean really wanting to hear someone is no more, but I made an exception for bin Laden and Zawahiri, or as honey call em the beard and knot head. I know this means I am not as forgiving as my faith asks me to be. Still, I have the champagne on ice....
Islamophobia - an entirely rational recognition of the threat posed by radical Islam.
Racist/Fascist/Islamophobe/Etc. - anyone who recognises said threat or attempts to resist the global jihad.
Friday, August 1, 2008
August mOON - August 01, 2008 Group Offers Bipartisan Energy Package
The proposal, which the politicians expect could be brought to the floor in September, appeals to both parties by taxing Big Oil and funneling those funds into alternative and renewable fuels - but opens up major portions of the Outer Continental Shelf currently closed to exploration.
Party leaders may have difficulty whipping members into line to support their presidential candidates' policy positions after lawmakers come back from the August recess, where they'll likely receive an earful from voters angry at Congress for not passing any legislation to cut record oil prices.
"Nothing gets done in this body without 60 votes, and you don't get 60 votes without a true bi-partisan effort," said Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who along with Kent Conrad, D-N.D., led the "Gang of Ten" Senators - five Democrats and five Republicans - who formed the proposal.
"It hopefully does break down some of the barriers around here," said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.
Conrad said a number of Senators had already expressed interest in the proposal.
While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he didn't agree with all of the provisions in the proposal, he said, "I am hopeful this plan can begin to break the current legislative stalemate on the Senate floor."
He later told reporters the package stood little chance of passing, indicating the comprehensive energy bill was unlikely to be voted into law in the run-up to November elections.
Specifically, the proposal would open up sections of the OCS 50 miles off the shores of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia and off Florida's west coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the House, another bipartisan group of legislators has offered a similar proposal and has said they would work with their Senate colleagues to gather support.
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As a teen (decades ago-
As time went on, so did my musical tastes- this one because of my daughter- she used to dance in her room to this song by U2
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Massage anyone? July 30, 2008
I put my back out of wack Saturday just standing in the cornor hanging a hat rack. Nothing too stressful, simply turned to walk away and felt as though someone had punched me in the small of my back. This happened to me the first time when i was 23 (can you believe it?) and on and off over the years only lately, say the last 14 years, with some regularity.
As usual I went to the quack-o-practor to have my back realigned. He off course has me lay on my stomach and proceeds to push on my back, over and over..ouch! So this time I ask if him if a massager works at all. He says a good massage does help relieve stress and tension, but I should focus on ice pack on my back for now.
I have had massages before, but never have owned a massage machine.
My dad had one that I always though was shaped like a ...Johnson, get your Johnsonville here. And when my in laws had both passed, i found this gizmo that looked like an electric razor, only it had a 10 foot cord, and instead of blades, it had this solid chromed piece, with two distinct points about 3 inches apart. I tried it as a neck massager, and figured it was not meant for that, because it seemed more desisned to fit the anatomy elsewhere....
So I am Kohl's (in case you don't know, its a department store, sells mostly clothes and some other stuff, small appliances for the kitchen) and at the check out is this cute little gizmo, and I have no idea what it is, I pick it up, and read the label...its a massager! I won't plug the brand, but its available everywhere.
It does seem to work, in some ways WAY better than others, so as they say...Say hello to my lil friend!
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