GREETINGS FELLOW BLOGGERNAUTS! It's FRIDAY! Another week is almost done! At least for us, classes are OVER! All we have to do is get through finals and then WE ARE FREE!
Highlights from last night's talk radio: 9/11 was "allowed to happen" by those in the government who wanted us to have a reason to invade Iraq, and Afganistan. The theory is similar to the assassination theory -- they are "allowed to happen" by people who relax the normal security around the target. Evidence, NORAD is supposed to inform the Pentagon if any plane over the U.S. that is not responding by radio or IFF. On 9/11, NORAD did just that. However, the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, didn't hear about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center until 35 minutes after -- or about 60 seconds before the plane hit the Pentagon. Even then, other people who needed to hear about the nonresponding plane -- Air Force types -- didn't scramble the alert fighters at Edwards Air Force base, 5 minutes by air from Washington D.C. They scrambled fighters from too far away. So far away they had no hope if intercepting the airliners before they struck the second tower and the Pentagon -- while the planes that could have been WAITING for the airliners sat on the tarmac, fully fueled, fully armed with pilots standing by while the Pentagon and the other tower were hit. The reason? To cause something so catastrophic that the American people would be behind ANYTHING that our leaders said would keep something like that from happening again. That put us in Afganistan, and Iraq and who knows where else! Interesting.
I saw a dead cat in the middle of the road as I drove to work this morning. The poor creature was lying in the middle of the road. It had not been too long before I got there that the little calico cat was hit and killed. It really pissed me off. Why? Because the cat was in the center of the road! RIGHT WHERE SOMEONE WOULD HAVE HAD TO SWERVE TOWARD THE CAT TO HIT IT! In other words, IT WAS A DELIBERATE KILL! I hate people that do that! You have the steering wheel in front of you -- TURN IT or USE YOUR BRAKES AND STOP if a cat is in the road! You have the brains, you have the tools and you have the ability to judge where your wheels are -- cats don't. Okay, sure maybe someone didn't watch their cat close enough, or they should have kept their cat inside -- but when you hit a cat, you just might have killed a child's best friend in the whole wide world! Or the only thing that a widow or widower or lonely old person has to talk to or care about. To you it might be "just another cat" but it could be the center of someone's universe! It's not the cat's fault it's there, cats don't know about cars and how they can kill. Cats just know the way home! So even if you HATE cats (and there seems to be a lot of you out there) please swerve or stop! If not, you could be crushing someone's whole reason for living.
Lots of thunderstorms around the area at the moment. Most of them severe! Gotta keep an eye on the sky while I run "the Zone" on WMUW World Wide Web Radio www.muw.edu/wmuw Log on and listen!
Speaking of conspiracy theories CHECK THIS SITE OUT!:
Deep Throat Uncovered
http://deepthroatuncovered.com/
Last week at a conference held at the legendary Watergate complex in
Washington DC, Professor Bill Gaines of the University of Illinois announced
that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that
Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was the legendary "Deep
Throat" who provided information about the Watergate break-in that led to
the downfall of President Nixon. While Fielding has not spoken publicly
about this declaration by Professor Gaines, many people are convinced that
Gaines and his students may be correct. This site contains a great deal of
material related to the investigation conducted by Gaines and his students
over the past four years, including information about the documents they
reviewed, various media responses to their findings, a brief synopsis about
the Watergate scandal, and the clues that led the students to Fielding.
It's Derby weekend back home in Kentucky, and I don't get to go home to watch the horses run live! I guess I'll have to watch it in TV -- but I can still make myself a mint julip. (sigh) HAVE A SAFE AND GOOD WEEKEND!
posted by Eric at 2:05 PM
I just heard on an Atlanta talk radio station about a "gang rape" case in which a (then) 13 year old girl had sex with 18 different men! 18!!!!!!! The girl is now 16, and the Prosecutor said that even though the sex was consensual, there still might have been some intimidation because of "the shear number of men involved". Even though there was never a time when more than 2 or 3 of these men were in the girl's apartment at any one time. What I want to know -- how did the 18 men hear about this 13 year old? And after the first times -- why did she even answer the door?
I went to the local Lowes a few days ago to pick up some plants and plant "stuff" for the spousal unit so she could work in her garden. While there, I bought 5 bags of Black Angus Manure. BAGS OF COW MANURE!!!!! For $7.50 you can buy 50 pounds of cow manure! I grew up on a farm where you could collect as much manure as you could ever want for FREE!!!!! Now I am paying for it. One thing I did take away from the experience -- other than 250 pounds of cow shit -- is this: Whenever you start thinking that your job sucks, just remember there is someone out there who's job it is to measure, bag, seal, carry and load in a truck 50 pounds of cow shit! And I'd be willing to bet they don't make more than minimum wage either!
The WHO says that SARS is "under control" -- even though no one knows how many people in China actually have SARS. At least you can go back to Toronto! If, of course, you believe that there isn't anymore SARS in Toronto.
20 years from now -- do you realize how much "oldies stations" on the radio are going to SUCK?!!!!!
I have another reason to confirm that I am getting old -- I am invisible to teenaged girls! I walk by and they look right through me -- except when I'm on my motorcycle. Yesterday I pulled up to a stop sign, located next to some Tennis courts where a High School Tennis Tournament was being played. This really nice looking, blonde, WELL built young lady turns to me and asks "Will you give me a ride?" I wanted to say "Sure, then we'll go somewhere on my motorcycle" -- but I did the right thing and explained about helmet laws, and the fact that I had only one helmet. However I could start carrying a spare helmet! Nah, I would either get busted by the cops or WORSE by the spousal unit. Personally, I would rather NOT get busted -- but if I did -- I would want the cops to do it.
Last night, I was watching the local news when they showed the Crimestoppers segment, where a lady was shown suspected of stealing two checks from a local Doctor and cashing them at a local bank. When they described her, I thought that this person sounds a lot like my ex-wife. Then they showed her picture as taken from an ATM -- if it ain't my ex-wife, it's her twin sister! And she ain't got no twin sister. Before you ask, no I didn't call the Crime Stoppers hotline. At least not yet -- I'm waiting for the reward to go up.
We have the early total for money raised by our little "play" for the library -- $510.00! Not bad at all! We're probably going to do it next year.
Well, it's class time! TIME TO STAMP OUT IGNORANCE!
posted by Eric at 11:10 AM
HAPPY MONDAY! Here we are beginning the last week of classes at the hallowed hall of academic excellence at which I work! HOO-FREAKING-RAY! I am ready for a vacation!
The fence dudes showed up this morning to install the fence around the lot! I discovered that the electric and water meter people don't trust their customers! I wanted to lock the gates at the end of each driveway so that I don't have to worry about unauthorized entry. HOWEVER, the electric and water people won't let me call in my meter readings. OH NO! They have to be able to access their respective meters. And I can't lock the gate and give them a key -- no THEY provide the locks and I have to use THEIR locks (for a nominal fee -- for both the water and electric people). JEEZ! Back home in Kentucky, my folks have been calling in their meter readings for years with no problem! And if something happens to their water or electricity, then someone is out there in a few hours to repair it. Something happens here in Mississippi, unless it effects a bunch of people (with money) you don't see someone for a day or two.
Even drive throughs are different here. In Mississippi, you pull up to one window to order and pay for your meal, and a second window to sit and wait for someone to give you your meal. And if you're lucky, 2 out of 3 times they'll get the order right! I went to Kentucky to spend some time with my Dad. I went to a Wendy's in Elizabethtown, Ky. They only have one window so after I ordered at the speaker, I pulled around to the window. As I placed the car in Park, the lady HANDS ME MY ORDER! AND IT WAS RIGHT! In Mississippi, you pull up to the window and you have time to count our your money, call your broker, have sex and shave before you get your food. In Ky., it was RIGHT THERE! I was so freaked, I forgot how much the meal actually cost! When I tried to explain why I was so flabbergasted, the lady working there could not understand how ANYONE could keep working at a fast food place that was so slow!
We did the murder mystery play Saturday. It was sold out! We raised a BUNCH of money for the library! And it actually went well -- considering that the first time we went through the entire play with EVERYONE playing their parts was the night of the performance! All in all, I should say we pulled it off! Not bad for a bunch of teaching types who don't act full time.
An additional bit of information about my Meth cooking neighbors -- it seems that the 15 year old was spanked by her step-father for sneaking over to see her 18 year old boyfriend, so that's why she called 911.
Wouldn't it be funny if Scott Peterson were to be found innocent? I have two words for Fox News -- Richard Jewell. Remember him? He was the guy that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and NBC said was the Atlanta Olympics bomber. And he wasn't -- and he got millions AND a week's worth of apologies from Jane Pauley and her minions at NBC! If SP is innocent, I hope it becomes Peterson News! No, Scott News! Works better.
So gee, isn't it a pisser that the Shittes in Iraq -- who get to make their pilgrimages for the first time in 25 years without fear -- because of the US -- are now chanting on their way down the road for the US to leave? Not even a "thanks guys -- we'll take it from here." Man, some gratitude!
Thus begins the week of stress! The last week of classes which combines new and final projects to be assigned with all those projects that the students put off until the last minute. Boy I wish I had the Vivarin franchise for this market!
posted by Eric at 1:43 PM
