Archive for July, 2006
July 30, 2006 at 3:23 pm Filed under News Items
Volunteer Mark Kelso picks his way through a trash-laden area that is a pickup site for illegal entrants, an illustration of the nearly 25 million pounds of garbage thought to have been dropped in Southern Arizona.
So, besides all the illegal immigrants the U.S. takes on, we have their trash too.
● In three years, federal money for environmental cleanup in Southern Arizona has:
- Cleaned up 250,000 pounds of trash.
- Removed more than 600 abandoned cars and 1,725 abandoned bicycles.
- Rehabilitated more than 50 illegally made roads and maintained 50 miles of legal roads.
- Installed 1,750 feet of guardrail along roads.
- Barricaded two riparian areas in Las Cienegas National Conservation Area from smugglers and installed two miles of fence in Ironwood Forest National Monument.
Apparently that only accounts for one percent, 99 percent is still out there!
July 29, 2006 at 9:06 pm Filed under Personal
I am sure something wicked has a hold of various items in and outside of our house… Here is a list of recent and known issues.
The front door screen
The back door screen
The pool filter
The A/C unit
The refrigerator
The VCR eats tapes
The soap dish broke
The toilet jiggles (Again)
Huge limbs falling off the trees in the yard
The microwave broke
The washing machine leaks
The oven
Almost every drawer and closet door in the house
Windows won’t stay open unless I prop them with things
Blinds
Ants in the bathroom (Its like taking a bath in a Dali Painting)
Chairs by the pool breaking
The deck is warped and buckling
As I write this I am reminded of the song “This Old House”
Maybe I am just getting “ready to meet the saints”
July 29, 2006 at 8:39 pm Filed under General
While reading my book “The Handwriting on the Wall” by David Jeremiah, I had to stop to read this quote twice.
When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
If this is true, where do you think we are?
July 27, 2006 at 11:26 am Filed under General
Ever think you were being clever as you wrote “wash me” on the dust on someone’s dirty car? Think again!
Scott Wade has turned it into an art form….
Have a look at Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art Gallery
July 24, 2006 at 10:44 pm Filed under News Items
Go to Milwaukee!
According to a recent study, the city ranks No. 1 in the country in terms of safety from a catastrophic natural disaster.
“SustainLane.com, a San Francisco-based online company promoting healthful living, measured the natural disaster risk to the 50 largest cities, factoring in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods and catastrophic hail. Milwaukee tied for No. 1 with Mesa, Arizona”
Well gee, my son lives in that area, and we were feeling sorry for him because of the harsh winters! Way to go, Enric!
More on the story
July 24, 2006 at 9:22 pm Filed under Personal
I finished reading my “90 Minutes in Heaven” book, and I must say I was very pleased with it. Glad my sister picked it up and passed it on. Now Laura is reading it.
I didn’t have anything new to read so I picked up one off my shelf that I read years ago. I suppose current events made me wish for a second look at David Jeremiah’s “Handwriting on the Wall”
David Jeremiah has a radio show that I like called “Turning Point”
In The Handwriting on the Wall, prophecy expert David Jeremiah shows how an understanding of prophecy, specifically that in the book of Daniel, opens a pathway to dynamic, faithful living today-with confidence and hope for the future.
The book of Daniel in the Bible teaches that the kingdoms of this world are passing away and the Kingdom of Heaven is coming to pass.
July 22, 2006 at 6:14 pm Filed under Personal
Since spending money isn’t easy for me, any new purchase is usually an agonizing process. (Not your typical woman, eh?)
Combined with the purchase, is that it is something that I have little knowledge and understanding of, other than I knew I needed one, the process became even harder.
So, after quite a few weeks of learning what it was I needed and didn’t need, I walked into Cingular at Marley Station Mall, and bought my new cell phone. My salesgirl was very friendly and helpful. She didn’t try to push anything on me that I didn’t want, and in fact, started to undersell, until she learned I was also going to need the phone for business.
Once I found a plan I liked, I had to run out of the shop and find my kids to help me pick out the actual phone. (The sales girl and the crew there kinda found that humorous). I came back with the children and together we decided on the one above.
My last cell phone was over 3 years old and this new one has a few more features.
I can also download ring tones, and would like one that is better than the ones already on there. There are so many songs I like, but can’t decide!
Any suggestions?
July 22, 2006 at 5:43 pm Filed under General
I remember this as a very fun year. Good music too.
This is my TimeLife collection and Winamp generated html playlist for Time Life’s selection as the top hits of 1974.
1. Al Green - Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) (2:59)
2. Al Wilson - Show and Tell (3:30)
3. America - Tin Man (3:27)
4. Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) (3:26)
5. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business (4:53)
6. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (3:38)
7. Bad Company - Can’t Get Enough (3:33)
8. Barry White - Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe.mp3
9. Billy Preston - Nothing from Nothing.mp3
10. Billy Swan - I Can Help.mp3
11. Blue Magic - Sideshow.mp3
12. Bobby Womack - Lookin’ for a Love.mp3
13. Brownsville Station - Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room.mp3
14. Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love.mp3
15. Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting.mp3
16. Carly Simon - Haven’t Got Time for the Pain.mp3
17. Carly Simon - James Taylor - Mockingbird.mp3
18. David Essex - Rock On.mp3
19. Dionne Warwick - The Spinners - Then Came You.mp3
20. Elton John - Bennie and the Jets.mp3
21. Elton John - The Bitch Is Back.mp3
22. Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff.mp3
23. George McCrae - Rock Your Baby.mp3
24. Gladys Knight & the Pips - I’ve Got to Use My Imagination.mp3
25. Golden Earring - Radar Love.mp3
26. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown.mp3
27. Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin’ On.mp3
28. Grand Funk Railroad - The Loco-Motion.mp3
29. Gregg Allman - Midnight Rider.mp3
30. Hues Corporation - Rock the Boat.mp3
31. Jim Croce - I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song.mp3
32. Joni Mitchell - Help Me.mp3
33. Kool & the Gang - Jungle Boogie.mp3
34. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama.mp3
35. Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis.mp3
36. Redbone - Come and Get Your Love.mp3
37. Rick Derringer - Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo.mp3
38. Steely Dan - Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.mp3
39. Steve Miller - The Joker.mp3
40. The Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine (2:37)
41. Wet Willie - Keep on Smilin’ (3:27)
July 22, 2006 at 3:48 pm Filed under General
Do you provide a service or do work that demands that you accept money that is not in the way of direct deposit or a personal check? I seem to have far reaching clients, all the way to Australia, that I either do web or graphic design for that seems to necesitate an easy way to allow others to provide payment to me. I am really enjoying how PayPal allows this. PayPal accept credit cards, bank transfers, PayPal, and more. You can even bill your customers through email and get paid fast - no website required.
This of course, is very beneficial for those of us offering services to those afar, however, I have found yet another benefit. Unless I put the money earned from Paypal into my bank account, it just sorta sits there and grows. I like the idea, and I have been told by more than one person that they have come to feel that their PayPal money is their “fun money” I agree!
July 21, 2006 at 12:41 pm Filed under News Items
No matter what your take on the Middle East is, that speaks volumes.
World Net Daily Writes:
Israel’s “occupation” of South Lebanon ended in 2000. As in Gaza, the purpose of the occupation was to prevent attacks against Israel from just across its borders in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah has done to South Lebanon exactly what Hamas has done to Gaza – turned it into a military base and terrorist operations center for launching war against Israel.
As we have seen repeatedly on television, South Lebanon bristles with Hezbollah’s thousands of new missiles from Iran and Syria that puts all of northern Israel in jeopardy.
By now, it should be abundantly clear to everyone that the “occupation” of Gaza and South Lebanon was not the problem. As soon as Israel traded these areas for the promise of peace, the attacks intensified.
Simply put, the goal of the vast majority of the Muslim world is the destruction of its mortal enemy: Israel. When they use the euphemism of “Israeli occupation,” they really mean Israel’s presence anywhere in the Middle East.
Hezbollah has been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom,the Netherlands,Canada, Israel and Australia, but not by the European Union.The U.S. Department of State accuses Hezbollah of killing up to 300 U.S. citizens (over 230 of whom were U.S Marines in Lebanon). Spain goes as far as anit-semitism becoming a new leftist trend. Prime Minister Zapatero claims to ‘understand Nazis’.
Ynet news writes:
Closing Hizbullah TV was another mission impossible for the man who understands the Nazis. It took more than a year to definitely close the channel connection to the Hispasat satellite, siphoning Latin America with more than a year of hate and Islamist propaganda.
In a country with the most anti-Catholic government in its whole history but with a multicultural obsession for Islam, A-Manar TV was part of the ‘freedom of press.’
The recent clashes with Hizbullah, however, have promoted the longest and hardest diatribes against Israel, forcing Zapatero to loose a cover for what it was long known in Spanish politics: His hate towards Israel, Jews and Zionism.
In the third day of such rants, before a gathering of the Socialist Youth Movement and a day before a demonstration against Israel, Zapatero showed at last his true colours: At the closing of the meeting he let the teenagers take pictures of him wearing a Palestinian kaffiyah.
July 20, 2006 at 10:38 pm Filed under News Items
A list of current wars ongoing at present around the world. Did you know all of these? I will admit to ignorance to most. Just shows you there are even too many even in this age of information to keep track of.
- 1964-present Colombian Armed Conflict (aka Colombian Civil War, Colombian Conflict)
- Late 1960s-present New People’s Army insurgency and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines
- 1983-present Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
- 1984-present Civil war in Papua , Western New Guinea, Indonesia
- 1984-present Kurdistan Workers Party/Turkey war
- 1986-present Lord’s Resistance Army rebellion in Uganda
- 1988-present Casamance Conflict in Senegal
- 1988-present Somali Civil War
- 1996-present Nepal Civil War
- 1999-present Ituri Conflict (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- 1999-present Second Chechen War (Russia)
- 2000-present al-Aqsa Intifada in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip
- 2000-present Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong
- 2001-present United States invasion of Afghanistan
- 2001-present Civil War in C�?te d’Ivoire
- 2001-present South Thailand insurgency
- 2003-present Iraq conflict, also known as Iraqi insurgency
- 2003-present Balochistan conflict, Pakistan
- 2004-present Waziristan War
- 2004-present Darfur conflict (Sudan)
- Chadian-Sudanese conflict and the Second Chadian Civil War, extensions of the Darfur conflict
- 2005-present Western Sahara Independence Intifada
- 2006-present 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis
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July 20, 2006 at 1:59 pm Filed under Personal
For all of my adult years now, I have struggled with an underactive thyroid. (hypothyroidism) I have been to numerous doctors, been through every test, and served as a medical guinea pig for more than 20 years till I finally just got off the so called merry go round. I learned the medicine they had been giving me since I was 20 years old wasn’t even FDA approved, and then I learned the side effects were almost worse than the disease!
So of late it has been about trying natural methods.
One such try came my way as a gift. Someone sent me Thyromine, an herbal supplement and I have been taking it for some weeks now. I haven’t noticed any change yet, except…my nails have taken a life of their own, and started growing like weeds! I even gave myself a french manicure yesterday. (well Laura did one hand I did the other).
This is a rarity, my nails have never been long enough for a french manicure!
I have a month’s more supply to go, I will see how it all goes!
You can try yours too!
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