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I love the early morning. It's a shame that I can't do this more often. I went outside for a smoke just a little while ago and just sat listening to the birds. Near and far they were all chatting with each other. In the pre-dawn hour it was almost overbearing there were so many birds chatting with each other, but pleasant at the same time. As a matter of fact I think before I get ready for work I am going to sit back outside again for a few...

Speaking of birds, we have a Hummingbird Feeder mounted on our kitchen window just off the deck. As I sat there yesterday afternoon a little hummingbird flew up to feed. It only stayed a few seconds as I moved a bit trying to see if I had my camera with me. Of course not.

The Hummingbird returned a few times yesterday evening. By the time I located my tripod so I could go ahead and focus the camera and sit still it was too late and didn't come back. I think I will save it for today or tomorrow afternoon and get an earlier shot. Part of the fact that it didn't come back was the fact that the girls kept running out on the back porch like a pack of wild dogs every few minutes.

Even after having to get up so early yesterday I stayed up pretty late. Of course I should have been to bed early but we decided to sit down and watch National Treasure: The Book of Secrets. It was pretty decent actually. The wife turned off disbelief mode for a couple of hours and got to enjoy it with me. The thing about being married to a science teacher is that it makes it difficult to use your imagination and just enjoy shit that you know CAN'T possibly be true or couldn't happen. Hell, who gives a shit. It's a movie...

I probably should have already gone to work but I am going in a few minutes late today. Actually more like an hour and a half. The two manager trainees are just going to have to deal with it for a while. One of them was at my Tallapoosa store yesterday, which is about seventeen miles from my house. She didn't pull them enough food so the store was calling me at 11PM last night out of stuff. I ended up getting it to them but was not particularly happy about it...

This post is going to serve as my weekend open trackback post for July 25-27th. What's Open Trackback? Well, that's where you share your link to other people that might not have been to your site before. Share something witty, your best work, your wost work, or just slutty pictures of actresses. I don't care (up to a point). Ping or trackback this post and your link will show up here in the body of the post as well as on my main page for everyone to see. If you want to do something like that regularly then check out one of the trackback blogrolls from my blogrolls page or click the link on the graphic above for more information.

The larger than life legend and actor Charlton Heston, who has been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease for several year has passed away at his home.

According to IMDB, Heston has been in at least 126 TV and movie roles over the years although the last few years he has really been more interested in promoting American values, and gun owner rights. He was also very heavily involved in civil rights early on, before it became fashionable for stars to do so, having been a supporter of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a man of his convictions, much like many of the roles he played in the movies.

I get this weekly via email and try to have them up first thing Monday morning but sometimes things get in the way. I guess I must have gotten busy or something but now I am trying to get through a pile of about 400 emails. Just came across this one, thus the post :)

Without further ado, here's the post:

In this weeks show:

Us? Socialists? :)

100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?

And kidnapping: a defeated crime in America revived by our cheerful invaders.

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This is my open-trackback post for Wednesday and Thursday March 26th-27th (now that Wednesday is half over :)

We didn't plan on another 100% Preventable week so soon, but there were so many stories this week that will be ignored by the media we felt we had to. So without further ado we give you 100% 100% Preventable week!

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Apparently police were called to Britney Spears house Thursday night to mediate a custody dispute and in the process she was taken to the hospital to have tests done and see if she was under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Way to go Britney! Keep this up and you'll get mom of the year. I guess she's trying to gear up and be a responsible role model for her pregnant teenage sister.

The story at CNN says that their children were returned to Kevin Federline, who has primary custody, while the good doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles get to decided whether to hold her for psychological evaluation for 72 hours.

Although it's listed as 'breaking news' the only reason this story isn't on top at CNN and Yahoo is the Iowa Caucuses last night. There aren't very many things going on in the world today that our limited minds want to know more than another Britney scandal.

Apparently the argument at Spears' home lasted about three hours last night before police turned the children over to Federline.

I'm jealous. Last time I got drunk nobody called the fire department to my house. What'd she do, threaten to burn herself down? And that would be a great loss because?...

Now that's a crowd. "Hey Joe, you got your camera phone?"

According to Google the incident 'involved a family dispute that police worked to resolve peacefully by court order'. Looks pretty peaceful to me. Six police cars, and ambulance and a fire truck were called to her house at 10:30 last night to help resolve it peacefully. Perhaps they were having a donut party afterward?...

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Thursday night finally got to me and I don't think I have fully recovered yet. I had fully planned on sleeping in yesterday since I didn't get to sleep until after three yesterday morning. The wife and boy had to go out so I was up by eight. They didn't make it home until the afternoon and we ate and I got to nap for maybe an hour. Just not enough.

At that point the boy and I went out to pick out my Christmas present. They had looked at several different leather coats but it was decided that I needed to go pick it out myself. It just makes it easier to do it that way. I know it's supposed to be a surprise but I am funny about my clothes and if you are going to spend that kind of money it's best to try stuff on and see how it looks and fits.

It took forever to get in and out of the mall with the Christmas shoppers. Had to also stop by Wal-mart for a few miscellaneous items that they had forgotten on the trip earlier in the day. It was also pretty crowded but nothing like it will be this weekend. We finally got home around seven last night and had to wrap gifts since the girls were out with a friend.

I had planned on going to bed early last night as well but with the present wrapping and whatnot I didn't hit the sack until pretty late and it took forever to get to sleep. Maybe tonight I can get to bed at a decent time. I don't particularly want to face Christmas day with only ten hours of sleep between now and then. Luckily all of my managers are in place until Wednesday so I shouldn't have to go back in unless there is an emergency. I know a couple of them are behind on the prep work that they need to have finished and it's not for lack of me trying to have them do it, they are just dragging their damned feet. I guess they just magically expect for it to get done for them.

I will go to the bank this morning as I have to pick up the change for Christmas. It's a chunk at around $2200 for the two stores. I told them Thursday to make sure and wait on their deposits so that I could get the stuff. One can only hope that they followed directions. I don't have enough in my checking account to cover the change purchase if they didn't.

I am somewhat pissed off at the Marine right now. Originally he was going to get something for his mom for Christmas but he just doesn't have the money, so I told him I would get the expensive present and he needed to order the other one that she really wanted anyway. The kid waits until yesterday and wants to search online for it. Friday night before Christmas. It would be OK, he could just make her something and then get her the gift late but she refuses to help search for the damned program online and I can't find it. Whatever it is that she wants isn't something that's sold at Amazon or Borders and searching on the web doesn't bring anything up, at least on the first page or two and that is unusual, particularly since I was searching by name. My brother will be in town on Sunday night so they can just go the fuck out on Monday and find her something.

I went ahead and kept him on our cell phone plan because even with the unlimited data plan that he uses it will still only cost him about $50 a month, which is half what he would be paying on his own plan. I just deal with the family minutes and make him pay the $45 for the data plan and another $5 for the extra line, which is half the cost. He is supposed to have set up an automatic transfer to my account every month and hasn't. When I reminded him on the first he asked if he could pay it on the fifteenth and I told him no problem. I asked him again last night and am still waiting. With the data plan he's on my cell phone bill is touching just under $400 a month now and this time next month I am going to take the hit and cancel his phone. January thru March are the crappy times at work and aside from what I make online that we will use on vacation in February I am not going to have any extra since most likely I will owe the IRS at least a couple of grand and I have to make sure that's set aside. I don't have very much taken out of my check during the year since I'm not particularly impressed with the idea of giving the IRS an interest free loan during the year. I would rather owe them a bit at the end than get a chunk back. I like keeping my paycheck when I earn it personally.

He'll pay it, that I don't doubt. I am just slightly pissed off. He's spent seven months earnings on DVDs, music and game consoles, maxed out his credit card and has no money. I bought the bus ticket for him to come home for Christmas as one of his two Christmas gifts and he just needs to suck it up and start paying his fucking bills and saving some money. He still has yet to sign up for their retirement plan although he's had the paperwork since June. I guess most of it is the fact that he's been overwhelmed with his freedom to spend his money any way he wants now. He will figure it out, but with the fact that he will be stationed out in California he needs to figure it out soon if we wants to be able to fly home on leave next year.

I suppose that's about it this morning. I need to start getting ready for work but don't really want to. I just needed to rant for a moment. I am actually extremely happy he gets to spend the holiday here. This is just a rough time for me. I spend quite a bit of time at work during the holidays and it seems to get harder every year and there's not a lot of support from my family on that end and it seems to get worse every year as well. Sometimes it's hard being Mr Christmas Spirit around here. Sometimes I feel like the lone fucking ranger.

Now that I have that shit out of my system I think I will go listen to some Christmas music...

I don't normally rant and cuss in my open-trackback posts but since this is the only thing I am posting this morning it is going to be my open-trackback entry for the pre-Christmas weekend.

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Like I said in the last post, I am a bit behind this week. I arrived home from meetings around 9:15 last night and while I posted some news and pictures I darn sure didn't feel like thinking...

This weeks B4B Video Blogburst is up over at Freedom Folks, the body of the post is below in it's entirety but go check out their site for older weekly posts as well as other good stuff.

I have to go to a meeting/wrapping party tonight at six so this may very well be the only posting I do tonight. I am in the process of customizing my site at theapp.net so I spent most of last night pulling my hair out over there. If you've never been there, TheAppDotNet is my tech/entertainment blog. Nothing special but I am adding in some stuff to make it more community based rather than just a blog.

Anyway, on to the subject at hand...

In this edition...

LA Times caught lying about the invasion!

100% Preventable!: More American lives shattered by illegal aliens!

The Deportation Joke!: How much is too much?

Don't forget this week os the premier of our new half hour show hosted exclusively at TECHNOPATRIOTS.COM!

Rapist Rampage video provided by our friend LoneWolf!

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Apparently I was one of the few house, at least on my side of the neighborhood, that actually decorated for Halloween. There are quite a few people in my area of podunk Georgia that do the trunk or treat thing at the churches. Thanks but no thanks. Even our division (work) set up down there and gave out candy. That's why I scheduled myself off . More power to them but I enjoy the traditional scary Halloween.

Remember the artist in Denmark that drew Mohammed that received death threats from all over the world and prompted some publications to pull it and apologize? Swedish artist Lars Vilks has done basically the same thing but is taking a stand for his artistic expression, but he's making sure to look under his car for bombs now since Al Qaeda has put a $100,000 price on his head and offered an extra $50,000 for anyone that murders him by slitting his throat. That's one high-priced cartoon. His website is at http://www.vilks.net. Unfortunately it's all in Swedish and I haven't bothered to run it through babelfish yet so am getting most of this secondhand. He does have some depictions of Mohammed over there as well as other religious figures if you are interested in checking them out.

Vilks has been a controversial artist in Sweden for more than thirty years and his crude sketched caricature of Mohammed as a dog was a calculated move and he wanted to get a reaction. That he has certainly gotten. He receives constant death threats, and although he still works at home during the day he has to go to a safe house at night. Police have asked him to abandon his home completely to protect him from people such as the Swedish woman known as Amatullah who says that she hopes she can make good on the Al Qaeda threat and slaughter Vilks like a lamb. She has apparently already been fined for making death threats and claims that she will never stop taunting him.

I guess Lars Vilks should be glad he's not living in Bangladesh where they have detained a cartoonist for offending Islam by drawing a caricature of Mohammed as a cat. I have to tell you, my cat is extremely offended and thinks that his eyes should be clawed out for offending catkind everywhere.

You can see the drawing he did of Mohammed's head on a dog's body. Since Muslim's view dogs as being unclean I can see why they might be slightly aghast. Big hairy deal. If you don't like it, don't look at it. There are plenty of offensive things that we see every day, from stuff like the infamous Piss Christ to caricatures of the Pope along with plenty of political commentary.

Stuff like that get's everyone's panties in a twist and there is plenty of banter thrown around but the only time I ever hear of hundreds and thousands of death threats are when Muslims are involved, which just goes to show how truly primitive and barbaric the mainstream religion is. If it were just far removed wings of the religion we wouldn't see such impact but since the rest of Islam accepts their control that makes them the mainstream.

What I find really interesting is that most of us laugh and think just as I have said "God, what barbarians" and we go about our daily business thinking we are above those assholes. If that were the case then why under Chapter 272 of it's general laws is section 36 "Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior." Perhaps Muslims aren't the only intolerant ones...

...or thirteen places I have. Nothing too terribly exotic here but there are cool stories behind each.

1. Los Angeles - in 1987 my friend Chris that passed away last year was home on leave and wanted to take his pickup truck back to L.A. with him but didn't want to drive by himself. I've posted about the trip but long story short is that I drove him out there in three days, hung out in L.A. and flew back home and ended up getting a date with this hot girl on the flight back to Atlanta.
2. Las Vegas - This was a very SHORT stay. We stopped in Vegas on the way to L.A. in '87 overnight and since I wasn't yet 18 I got thrown out of Caesar's Palace.
3. New Orleans - I've been to New Orleans many times over the years, starting with road trips with my friends when I was 17 and most recently in 2005 with the wife. THAT one was a blast and the only one when I have been drinking. It brought a whole new atmosphere to the place.
4. Naples (Florida) - One of my friends and I rode his Goldwing down to Naples to a convention about 23 years ago. LONG trip on a bike. We stopped with my Great Aunt just north of Tampa and what I remember the most about the trip was going over the Sunshine Skyway. Portions of it are just metal grid. The bike slipped and slid the entire way across and you could see the ocean underneath your feet. Very unsettling but in a pretty cool way. Not that I want to do that again.
5. Miami - Just across Alligator alley from Naples. We drove down the same year as Naples. One of my ex-girlfriends was living down there and really had nothing to do with our trip down but certainly made it uncomfortable to be there. On the ride back we drove across Alligator Alley and then came up 75. Alligator Alley is pretty cool. Nothing but miles and miles of road, it's a rather difficult drive.
6. Daytona Beach - drove down there for another convention. A friend of mine had moved from Atlanta a few years earlier and worked as an aircraft mechanic. He had an apartment right on the beach and we hung with him on one of our many trips to Florida.
7. New York City. I drove up to Westbrook, Connecticut for a week and during that trip we got to pull up lobster traps and eat what we caught, and made a day trip into NYC. My friend's dad treated us to dinner at Trader Vic's. That's the first time I ever had swordfish and I have loved it ever since.
8. Natchez, Mississippi - This is a small town and doesn't seem really worth mentioning but it is one of the friendliest most beautiful places I have ever been. I was a history major during my short-lived college career and history has also intrigued me, so naturally I fell in love with Natchez.
9. Gatlinburg, Tennessee - This is a small town and pretty much a tourist trap. One one of our vacations to see my parents we stopped in Gatlinburg for the weekend and hung out. It was pretty fun but I would love to go back when there is snow on the ground, around Christmas. It's supposed to be very nice that time of year. It was pretty damned hot when we went and that always puts a damper on things.
10. Panama City Florida. The Redneck Riviera. I have been down to P.C. Beach many times. One November about 24 years ago, in November, a group of about ten of us decided that we wanted raw oysters and nothing would do but to make a drive to Panama City. This is when the great Car Wars happened. I can't find the link to THAT post so I guess I need to write about it some time soon.
11. The Grand Canyon - When I drove out to L.A. we decided that we couldn't make the trip without stopping at the Grand Canyon. We were both pretty whipped form non-stop driving so we got there, took a couple of pictures at an overlook, had a smoke and got back in the car and drove away I would love to go back eventually so that I could actually see the place.
12. Washington D.C. - My parents lived in the Arlington area for about ten years after my dad got transferred by MCI into Crystal City. We have made several trips up there, by car, plane and train and I always had a pretty good time there. I flew up by myself back in '92 and spent the week with my parents. I literally walked most of the city. Walking the entire length of the Mall will kick your butt.
13. Hilton Head, SC. Can't forget about this one. I love the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. I've been down to the low country countless times but always seem to find something new and cool.

Obviously I am not a world-traveler or anything, but I do like going to see new places with new people. Hopefully I will have thirteen more to post about in a couple of years.


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