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I got this email from my daughter today and she sent it out as a warning. The child in the email is her S/O's niece. _________________________________________________ ________________ We got a call today from Donald's family that his 9 year old niece had been burned and airlifted to Little Rock. She had knocked over a gel candle and it exploded, setting her shirt on fire. She started running and her dad caught her and ripped her shirt off (his hands were also burned.) Luckily, the doctors say she only has second degree burns on her hands, arms, chest and face. It also burned most of her hair off, but she should only have to stay in the hospital for a couple of days, and there should be no scarring. I googled "gel candle danger" and saw quite a few other stories about these candles exploding. Then I checked it out on Snopes and this is what they had to say. I bought a DVD/VCR gismo today and when I went to hook it up, my TV doesn't have those receptors that are yellow, white, and red. The new machine doesn't have the cable plug. What's up with that? Do I have to buy an adaptor box in addition to the recorder/player? Inever had this problem with my old, old one, but the last one was difficult to operate. It had all the gizmos but was not user friendly. This newer one is a mess...any suggestions? If not, it's going back to the store. I hate all this blasted new stuff..what was wrong with just plug to recepticle and back? <a href=><img src="http://i198.photobucket.com..." border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>
In case you missed Freds announcement on the Tonight Show, here's the clip. Below is what appears to be a commercial you might get used to seeing. The Hunt For Red November. http://fredthompson.blip.tv... 9/11 + 6 By Jeff Jacoby The Sunday, September 9, 2007 http://www.boston.com/news/... If there was one thing we all knew after Sept. 11, 2001, it was that another massacre was coming. The next terrorist attack on Americans weren't the only ones who expected al-Qaeda to commit another slaughter. Al-Qaeda did, too. Earlier this year, terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed that in addition to 9/11, he had been planning to attack the None of those attacks occurred. In the six years since 9/11, Islamist terrorism has led to scenes of horrific carnage in, among other places, There is no definitive answer to that question. But surely the place to begin is with the belated recognition that we were at war. The jihad against us didn't begin on 9/11. It had started long before, with the seizure of the The blood and horror of 9/11 ripped away such comfortable misjudgments. President Bush declared at once that we were at war with terrorism, and likened it to the global wars against Nazism and Communism. (A few days later he was more precise about the nature of the enemy, calling it "a fringe form of Islamic extremism.") The An all-but-unanimous Congress enacted the Patriot Act, which authorized many of those expanded powers and tore down the wall that had barred federal law enforcement and intelligence agents from sharing information. Terrorist funding channels were choked off. Reliance on human (as opposed to electronic) intelligence was dramatically expanded. American counterterrorism officers worked closely with their counterparts in friendly countries to identify jihadists and -- as with last week's arrests in Germany -- foil deadly attacks. Taking the war to the enemy in But if the terrible events of that day finally concentrated American minds on the deadly threat from radical Islam, the Had al-Qaeda known what 9/11 would trigger -- the toppling of its Taliban protectors, the strangling of its financial network, the death or detention of thousands of its lieutenants and foot soldiers -- would it have gone forward? Having reaped the whirlwind once, would it be more inclined to risk it again? Or less so? It is a contrarian thought, but Daniel Pipes, a noted expert on Islamism, argues that "terrorism does radical Islam more harm than good." That is partly because "it alarms and galvanizes Westerners," stiffening their resolve and intensifying their counterterrorist efforts. And it is partly because "terrorism obstructs the quiet work of political Islamism" -- it impedes the radicals' long-term goal of making Islam ever more dominant within Western society. What is in the enemy's mind we cannot know for sure. What we do know -- what 9/11 made brutally clear -- is that we are at war. The enemy is in this till the finish. We had better be, too. (Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.) 
John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets", and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs (for you city folks).
The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch s bell hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result...the judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well. Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention? Most of us have used the "Time" feature on the phone and are familiar with the recorded voice. Well, if you want a bit of nostalgia you'd better hurry because it is soon coming to an end. http://www.switched.com/200... Our land line phones have provided us with all manner of conveniences and those who are of a certain age (cough) will remember the busy signal and how you could speak between beeps. Party lines have been mentioned before and while fun to spy on your neighbor, tied up the phone when YOU wanted to use it. Information has been replaced with an automated system that will even dial the number for you..for a fee. As we move farther into the electronic age, we lose a lot of the personal touch. Press one for...press two for... But no one actually there to hear us swear at the inconvenience. Better? I don't know. What I do know is that I miss having somone actually on the other end of the line so that when I say "Good Morning", they'll say "Good Morning" back. News reported that the original Time Lady passed away some years back and was replaced but we hardly noticed. Will we miss that feature? Only "Time" will tell. Can you cry under water? ------------------------------------------------- ------------------- IS CRAIG REALLY A HYPOCRITE? By Jeff Jacoby The Sunday, September 2, 2007 http://www.boston.com/news/... And so Craig becomes the latest in a depressingly long and bipartisan line of ex-members of Congress done in by their libido -- Wayne Hays, Wilbur Mills, Robert Bauman, Dan Crane, Brock Adams, Bob Packwood, and Mark Foley, to mention only a few. He probably won't be the last. Craig's behavior was lewd and dishonorable, but -- have you noticed? -- that isn't the main reason he has been excoriated. In much journalistic and political commentary, the senator's real crime is not that he was trolling for anonymous, adulterous sex in a public bathroom, but that doing so supposedly proved him a hypocrite. "Savor the rank hypocrisy of Craig's personal and public behavior," wrote Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, in the Los Angeles Times. "An arch-social conservative, Craig voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act . . . and he is a strong supporter of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage." Representative Barney Frank -- a beneficiary of the above-mentioned I find Craig's behavior odious, and I think it right that he was shamed into leaving office. What it isn't clear to me is that he was a hypocrite. In the first place, opposing same-sex marriage doesn't make someone a "foe of gay rights" or of gay people; redefining marriage is a controversial political issue on which reasonable people can disagree. But even if you do characterize Craig's public record as one of hostility to gays and homosexual behavior, his behavior in the A furtive surrender to temptation may indicate lust or stupidity or a failure of will, but it takes more than that to prove hypocrisy. The H-word gets thrown around with abandon these days, but generally what is meant by it is *inconsistency* -- failing to live up to one's words, falling short of the values one espouses. Thus a politician who calls for more compassion yet rarely gives a dime to charity is inconsistent, but not necessarily hypocritical. A gun-control advocate who shoots an intruder with an unregistered handgun can be faulted for not acting in keeping with his beliefs, but that alone doesn't make him a hypocrite. A woman strongly opposed to abortion who gets one herself when she becomes pregnant hasn't practiced what she preached. But those aren't instances of hypocrisy -- not unless they never meant what they preached in the first place. Hypocrisy isn't merely saying one thing but sometimes doing another. Nor is it simply having a double standard - lionizing Anita Hill, say, but trashing Paula Jones (or vice versa). Hypocrisy is worse than that. It's a form of duplicity. A hypocrite is one who *doesn't believe the moral views he proclaims* and violates them routinely in his own life. So who is a hypocrite? The antidrug zealot who cheerfully tokes up with his friends. The "family-values" politician who blasts the sins of others while blithely carrying on affairs of his own. The public champion of women's rights who privately treats women like dirt. The cleric who preaches chastity and abstinence, but is a serial pedophile behind closed doors. Hypocrisy is deceit, not weakness; a vice, not a blind spot. Larry Craig has much to atone for. But the charge of hypocrisy seems to me a bum rap. (Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.) 
-- ## -- Ryan Mathews will publically start his college football career tonight when the Bulldogs take on the Sacramento State at home. See article here. http://gobulldogs.cstv.com/... Motopoet is there in person....I'm stuck with the radio. :-) |
