Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Holy crapzor Batman! Here's a little article I just happened across dated Jan 17, 2001 from the beginnings of the Bush regime and his one of his early press conferences. It's so scary how so much of this has come to pass as foretold... Read the full item below:

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Picasa Web Albums - Nate - Nate and Robb... - florida 036.jpg

Here's a weird pic I took in October while in St. Augustine, FL. I took this in a small room just outside a "secret" room which was discovered several years back which contained human remains. Note the orb shaped object toward the upper left corner which looks like it has a face in it.
When I opened the album after downloading my pics, this was the first photo I opened for some strange reason. It gave me goosebumps when I saw that object.
You be the judge!

From Nate and Robb...

Picasa Web Albums - Nate - Nate and Robb... - florida 036.jpg

Truth About Halloween

Here's a great article and information about the true origins of "Halloween" or more correctly Samhain. Don't buy into the propaganda spewed forth from the religious right. Learn for yourself.

Truth About Halloween

Day of the diesel car for U.S.? - Forbes.com - MSNBC.com

Go diesel! Being a motorist who drives a Jeep Liberty Diesel I can really appreciate this article. One glaring omission is the lack of mention of BioDiesel. Check it out.

Day of the diesel car for U.S.? - Forbes.com - MSNBC.com

Animal Liberation Display

Animal Liberation Display

Here's some food for thought. An excerpt from the essay:

Today as many as 115 million animals are tortured and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year. Many of these experiments—including infecting dogs with diseases, blinding kittens, dripping caustic chemicals in rabbits' eyes, and force-feeding poisons to monkeys—are paid for by taxpayers' dollars even though we are now in the 21st century and have progressive, animal-free alternatives. Animals in laboratories suffer and die only because they are considered "different" and "inferior" and are powerless to defend themselves.

Welcome to Writely

Welcome to Writely

Yay! Writely is back in business allowing new signups.

Writely is an online wordprocessor type of service, offering doc creation and storage as well as collaboration. I've used it and found it user friendly and easy to use.

And it's free! Brought to you by the good folks at Google! Click on the link above to check it out.

Fluffy lounging about

 

Roadside Zoo Busted on Wildlife-Trafficking Charges

Here's a prime reason NOT to patronize those seedy little holes known as roadside zoos!  Read on:

PETA's Get Active Center :: Action Alerts :: Roadside Zoo Busted on Wildlife-Trafficking Charges

Best IM client! GAIM!

Gaim Instant messenger

Check it out. It replaces all the standalone IM clients you have allowing a combined buddy list and separate windows for each chat - no more having to open MSN messenger, YIM, AIM, etc.

Supports multiple cool plugins similar to Trillian!

And best of all - it's open source! That translates into free software! Of course donations to the project are welcome but not compulsory.

I've used it for a while and it seems stable under XP. And since it's open source, there's a decent sized developer list and active development.

Give it a try at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Useful Websites

Here's an interesting and useful website/utility I've found. Writely.com is a full featured online word processor with online storage of your docs! Very useful for on the go sorts or peeps who forget to grab their docs on removable media when out and about. Just sign in or set up sharing and you're set!

Best of all it's free! In the future they're planning to add some premium features, but who'd begrudge a little dinero for an ad free alternative to MS!

Bollywood Macho star gets jail term for killing deer

GOOD! Why do people think it's cool or macho to slaughter the innocents? I hope he becomes someone's beotch real quick.

Story below:


Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Some Deep and Profound Thoughts

1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died
peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the
passengers in his car."

--Author Unknown

2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you
get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle:
"Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."

--Author Unknown

3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a
support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they
meet at the bar."

--Drew Carey

4) "The problem with the designated driver program, it's
not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into
doing it, have fun with it At the end of the night,
drop them off at the wrong house."

--Jeff Foxworthy

5) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball
and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the
infant's life without even considering if there is a man on
base."
--Dave Barry

6) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and
we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend
wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice.
There should be severance pay, the day before they leave
you, they should have to find you a temp."

--Bob Ettinger

7) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in
the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, "Mom, they weren't
trying to teach you how to swim.'"
--Paula Poundstone

8) "A study in the Washington Post says that women h ave better verbal
skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study:
"Duh."
--Conan O'Brien

9) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway
through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating
a slow learner."

--Lynda Montgomery

10) "I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New
York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just
isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"

--Richard Jeni

11) "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the
impersonators would be dead."

--Johnny Carson

12) "Sometimes I think war is god's way of teaching us geography."

--Paul Rodriguez

13) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty
and that's the law."

--Jerry Seinfeld

14) "Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of
fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest
to tallest What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn
slower?"

--Warren Hutcherson

15) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the
same."

--Oscar Wilde

16 ) "Suppose you were an idiot ... And suppose you were a member of
Congress... But I repeat myself."

--Mark Twain

17) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At
least they can find Afghanistan."

--A. Whitney Brown

18) "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."

--Billy Crystal

19) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give
you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've
thought of that!'"

--Dave Barry


20) Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease"
was taken.

--Unknown, presumed deceased

Borrowed from a forum sig:

10,000 dead

50,000 wounded

200,000 future PTSD patients

no weapons found

no link to terrorism

150,000 dead Iraqi's

1000's torture at Abu Ghraib

Iraq left in complete chaos { insurgents, crime, rape, kidnapping }

Osama still not caught

Gas price = $3 a gallon

$8 Trillion National Debt

shrinking middle class

jobs being outsourced



Proof that George W. Bush is the Greatest President Ever !

This is scary! I hope the ACLU and others are working on this one.

"A Cincinnati company is requiring any employee who works in its secure data center to be implanted with a microchip."

Read about it here: www.worldnetdaily.com

Windows Media Player 10 - pffft!

Arrggghhhh! What ails M$?! They add insult to injury after Win Mobile hoses itself, necessitating a hard reset of my device (an opportune time to do a firmware update btw), then when I try to access tunes stored on the damn SD card via Mobile Media Player - NADA!

All the tunes I legally purchaced are no longer licensed and won't work. Now i have to remember how I fixed it the last time, find the annoying files for the DRM (digital rights management license thingy) and clean them out and do a clean sync.

Wouldn't it behoove the "World Class" (that term is sooo annoying not to mention overused and under defined!) music player to HAVE SOME SORT OF READILY AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON HOW TO RESET YOUR DRM LICENSES IN THE ALL TOO FREQUENT SITUATION DESCRIBED ABOVE!?

If anyone reading this knows of some info somewhere dealing with the above situation please comment below.

Read more at www.microsoft.com/windo...

Windows Media Player 10 - pffft!

Arrggghhhh! What ails M$?! They add insult to injury after Win Mobile hoses itself, necessitating a hard reset of my device (an opportune time to do a firmware update btw), then when I try to access tunes stored on the damn SD card via Mobile Media Player - NADA!

All the tunes I legally purchaced are no longer licensed and won't work. Now i have to remember how I fixed it the last time, find the annoying files for the DRM (digital rights management license thingy) and clean them out and do a clean sync.

Wouldn't it behoove the "World Class" (that term is sooo annoying not to mention overused and under defined!) music player to HAVE SOME SORT OF READILY AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON HOW TO RESET YOUR DRM LICENSES IN THE ALL TOO FREQUENT SITUATION DESCRIBED ABOVE!?

If anyone reading this knows of some info somewhere dealing with the above situation please comment below.

Read more at www.microsoft.com/windo...

‘Munsters’ star ‘Grandpa’ Al Lewis dies at 95

This is a sad day indeed.

Read more at msnbc.msn.com/id/106632

Here's a nice bio on the Munsters main site: www.munsters.com

Brigitte Bardot slams Romania for dog cull - Yahoo! News

It's disgusting how we treat our "best friend", as well as the rest of the non-human species. Typical "let's let it become a crisis then we'll take the most drastic action possible" sort of approach governments are famous for, eh?

Read more at news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200...

The truth about Plasma Lightsabers

Wouldn't this be fun - real Star Wars lightsabers!

Read more at www.exn.ca/starwars/pla...

Quotable Quote:

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."
-Franz Kafka

"Eckie with feathers"

"Eckie with feathers"
Originally uploaded by NateC.

Here's a shot before he chewed off most of his feathers.

Natural Bridge, VA 

This is a test

This is a test of the Blogger api or whatever it’s referred to for submitting from MS Word.

One of Max's Baby Pics

Picture 003
Originally uploaded by NateC.

Here he is when he was just a little pup!

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Sunset @ Mallory Square, Key West, Fla. Oct 2003

Can't wait to be there again! 

A Picture Share!

Eckie in Singsing!

Chron.com | Eminent domain activists try to evict a court justice

This is a great idea! "Subject a supreme court justice to the conesequences of one of his own decisions"! Imagine that. Judges having to live by their own mandates - it's brilliant.

This article is about some very resourceful individuals who are planning to use the "eminent domain" travesty to seize the house of one of the facist judges who sided with the developers to seize private homes in New Hampshire last year and give them to developers seeking to make a fast buck.

"It's almost as if they are trying to intimidate judges," said Kurk, a Republican. Pfft.

See the article:

Chron.com | Eminent domain activists try to evict a court justice

Robertson Links Sharon Stroke, God's Wrath - Yahoo! News

Pat Robertson - what an asshole. Check it out ->

Robertson Links Sharon Stroke, God's Wrath - Yahoo! News