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My kids used to love Halloween. I suspect they still do! Picking out a Halloween Costume costume was always a big deal and they always had very definite ideas of what they wanted to wear on any given year. My daughter was a witch so many times that I lost track!

I know its not Halloween, but there’s nothing wrong with playing dress up year round. My husband’s grandchildren love to play dress up and I have bought them costumes on several occasions so they could be princesses or whatever they wanted to be.

Finding good kids costumes can take some time, but there are some safe and creative designs out there. There is a wonderful selection at InCostume! I hope you’ll check it out. You are sure to find just the right thing whether its for the kids or yourself, for Halloween or any other special occasion.

Nora Ephron exposes herself as a racist and a sexist (again) while claiming that everyone else are racist and sexist. Well, at least white men in Pennsylvania are.

Nora Ephron (Photo)

It is beyond anything that I can comprehend when I try to figure out how someone like Nora Ephron thinks. Instead of giving myself a headache trying to figure out what kind of though process goes on in someone’s head that thinks they have to focus completely on race and gender in virtually everything they do, I’ll just tell you what she’s written now.

Nora Ephron has indicted virtually everyone in Pennsylvania. Its convenient that she’s done this on the eve of the primary there. That way, regardless of the outcome, she’s already determined that its the people of Pennsylvania who can’t tolerate women and black people. She’s so open minded! Not unlike her candidates.

According to Ephron, white men are a plague on society and there is not a lower creature on the face of the earth than the white male.

…. white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them.

I’m sure Ephron feels perfectly justified in making a sweeping indictment like that. After all, no one gets upset when you slam white men. They aren’t among the many groups of people that are off limits to insult. All I can say is that she obviously hangs with a completely different group of white males than I do. I kind of like white men. My father, my husband, my brothers and my son are all white men and they are all fine men. That doesn’t mean that other men AREN’T fine - and that’s the difference between me and Ms. Ephron. In my mind it doesn’t have to be one or the other. Just because you like one group of people doesn’t mean you have to hate another group of people. I’m sure she doesn’t understand that concept, unfortunately.

She goes on to the irony that it is white men who will decide the fate of Hillary and Obama.

But now there are two and we’re facing Pennsylvania and whom are we kidding? This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can’t even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder — after all this, they turn out (surprise!) to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn’t believe any of those articles.)

To put it bluntly, the next president will be elected by them: the outcome of Tuesday’s primary will depend on whether they go for Hillary or Obama, and the outcome of the general election will depend on whether enough of them vote for McCain. A lot of them will: white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them. And McCain is a compelling candidate, particularly because of the Torture Thing. As for the Democratic hope that McCain’s temper will be a problem, don’t bet on it. A lot of white men have terrible tempers, and what’s more, they think it’s normal.

So any complaints white men might have are ’stupid’ (as she puts it) and if Obama or Hillary don’t get elected President it will be because these ’stupid’ white men who have never been out of the holler and seen nobody no diff’rent then they r are just too bigoted to vote for a woman or a black.

It seems that in Ms. Ephron’s mind that Obama is exactly the same as all black men and Hillary is the same as all white women. If you don’t like Obama, then you don’t like black men. If you don’t like Hillary then you don’t like white women. I don’t like Hillary OR Obama. I guess that means I can’t like any black people or white women.

What a pathetic view of the world this woman has. She really needs to get out and meet some people who don’t live in New York or San Francisco. She might even find a decent white guy out in Middle America somewhere who doesn’t beat on his women!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go back to clinging to my guns and Bible since I’m just an ig’rant Middle American who isn’t enlightened enough to know I don’t need guns and religion.

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Leonids Meteor Shower (Photo)

There’s supposed to be a Leonids Meteor Shower tonight that should be visible to our side of the earth. Some reports call them Leonids and others call them Lyrids. I don’t know which are supposed to be seen tonight or if they are the same things and someone just doesn’t know how to spell it.

Leonids Meteor Shower comes around once a year. They should be visible in the early morning dark hours if the a full moon doesn’t wash out the view. The meteor is the remnants of an ancient comet that is visible as the earth flies through its debris.

Below is a video of a previous Leonid meteor shower.

This video has been viewed something like 300,000 times since it was uploaded a few days ago. It seems that Nicholas White was working late one Friday night. About 11 p.m. that night he went out for some cigarettes and got trapped in the elevator on his way back to his office. He says that once he realized he was stuck, he knew he was in for a long wait since it was the weekend.

This all happened in 1999 and I guess Mr. White didn’t have a cell phone with him.

The The video was uploaded as an accompaniment to is a piece by Nick Pumgarten, Up and then Down in the April 21st issue of The New Yorker.

Nicholas White is pretty good humored about the popularity of the video. I don’t know why he wouldn’t be. He won his lawsuit against the McGraw-Hill Building and the elevator company.

I’m betting that just about everybody has heard of the company Lifelock by now? I saw the CEO of the company on television the other day and realized that his company is just exploding with growth. He obviously hit on a much needed service for the internet community!

I’m always looking around to see what kinds of jobs are available and ran across lifelock jobs. That’s right, they are hiring. I can see that as a fantastic opportunity considering how new the company is, the level of enormous growth they’ve experienced and the demand for their services. Its got all the elements of a real opportunity to grow with a great company.

As you undoubtedly know, Lifelock is the pioneer of the identity theft protection industry. They became so well known because the effective advertising campaign of the company CEO. He drives around in a truck with his social security number on it and has his social security number plastered at the top of his website in huge impossible-to-miss lettering. He does that because he’s so confident in the company’s ability to protect identities that he doesn’t need to hide his social security number.

Lifelock is currently providing identity thief protection for companies like AAA New Jersey, NextAdvisor.com, Ohio Valley Bank, Heartland Credit Union, Ident-A-Kid, US Airways, NARFE Premier Federal Credit Union, AAA Carolinas, Founders Bank, Michigan International Speedway, Gillett Evernham Motorsports, and Willis Group. They just announced this month that they have signed a multi-year agreement with Chicagoland Speedway to be the title sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race. They will be at the 1.5 mile tri-oval with this years race.

It looks to me that this is an opportunity to get in on a good thing. They are looking for people in numerous areas, from sales to human resources to public relations and more. If you are looking for a good job, this would certainly be worth looking into!

Prince William, second in line for the British throne, seems to think what belongs to Britain belongs to him and apparently doesn’t understand the meaning of military discipline.

Prince Charles and Prince William

I’m not a critic of the British royal family. In fact, I think they are kind of interesting. Its cool that there is still a European royal family that at least pretend to be enthroned. Its a throw-back to days long gone and all that. Still, sometimes their complete lack of having any limits in their lives is pretty astounding.

As I understand it, since Prince William will undoubtedly be King one day, he is supposed to get training in every branch of the military service. His most recent training has been with the Air Force. He’s been learning to fly planes and helicopters and the like. He was awarded his wings recently.

In the past month there have been two incidents (that people know about) of Prince William using Chinook helicopters for his own pleasure. Prince William flew a Chinook to London to pick up his brother, Prince Harry. Then he flew the two of them to the Isle of Wight for a weekend of partying with their cousin, Peter Phillips who is Princess Anne’s son. Another time he took a Chinook he was training in to his girlfriend, Kate Middleton’s house. He practiced landing and taking off from a field behind her house.

The problem is that he seems to think that the military vehicles that are acquired at the expense of the tax paying citizens of the United Kingdom are his very own personal play things. Or perhaps its that his superior officers are either afraid to tell the future King that he can’t do these things or are so enamored with his royalty that they approve such misuse of military vehicles. Either way, there’s something terribly wrong when Prince William is allowed to use helicopters and airplanes for his personal use.

Meanwhile, British troops in Afghanistan are dealing with a shortage of Chinooks and other equipment. But why should a little thing like that bother a future King. He’ll never have to deal with shortages when he’s deployed. Oh wait. He won’t be deployed so there really isn’t a need to worry about it at all!!!!

I do think it would do him a world of good to have to actually do something with all the training he is getting. He should have to be deployed. It would help him grow up and certainly would help him get a better understanding of what the troops, who will one day be under his command, have to deal with. A callus or two on those perfectly manicured hands would make him feel better about himself as a man.

After all, that’s how his ancestors became Kings in the first place.

The video above is the US Army Chorus performing “Battle Hymn of the Republic” on White House Lawn for Pope Benedict on April 16, 2008. It is absolutely fantastic!

tiara tip: Fausta’s Blog

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If you need proof that many people who go out to protest whatever they are protesting on any given week, don’t really understand what it is they are protesting, then please, just read the above sign.

I have long believed that protesters who take up a cause are really just going along for the ‘good time’ and have a shallow understanding of the issues at best.

That sign is proof of my point.

There’s definitely something wrong with our education system.

Mereana Mordengard Glasgow (also known as Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv) is a pretty creepy internet legend. Its also hard to find any information on it. So, for your weekend reading pleasure, I present the creepy story (probably urban legend) of Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv. [pretend you are hearing Dark Shadows theme song here].

Apparently, at some point in time someone uploaded a video onto YouTube that was/is bewitched. The video shows a man’s face through a red filter for two full minutes. In the last seconds of the video there is a close-up of the face and the man is smiling. The video was titled, Mereana Mordengard Glasgow and is also called Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv.

YouTube removed the video from the internet after 153 people who had viewed the video gouged their eyes out and mailed into the YouTube offices in San Bruno. These people were said to have committed suicide in various ways. Its not known if they mailed their eyeballs into YouTube before or after they committed suicide (just kidding). Its also reported that they had carved a cryptic inscription into their forearms that no one has been able to decipher. [insert Dark Shadows music here]

Periodically, YouTube puts the first 20 seconds of the video online in order to stop people from looking for the real video and uploading it. Only one YouTube staff member watched the video itself and that staff member screamed hysterically after watching the video for only 45 seconds. He has not been able to recall what he saw and has required medication since. The other YouTube staff who were in the roo at the time turned the video off when he started screaming and were too frightened to look at the screen themselves.

No one has ever been able to identify the man in the video and the IP that uploaded the video doesn’t exist.

That is the legend of Mereana Mordengard Glasgow.

Sweet dreams ……

TechnoPatriots are a new kind of border guard!!

TechnoPatriots

The Minutemen have a new partner in their efforts to guard our southern border. This new group of citizen border guards are using high end technology to keep an eye on the border. This new incarnation of Minutemen are called TechnoPatriots.

Currently, there are about 90 TechnoPatriots around the country. They can provide help with watching the borders regardless of where they are. All they need is a computer that is networked with a system of cameras that are on the border. Any one of them can use their mouse to maneuver the camera to pan the area he’s watching. TechnoPatriots are as far away from the border as New York or Nebraska.

The TechnoPatriots claim that from the program’s launch in November through late March, they made 160 sightings that led to 118 people getting caught. The Border Patrol could not confirm those numbers, saying it does not log the names or affiliations of tipsters.

Even if the number is accurate, it is an extremely small share of the more than 1,000 people caught every day in the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, which includes most of the Arizona-Mexico border.

Nevertheless, Tucson sector spokesman Jesus “Chuy” Rodriguez said of the TechnoPatriots: “Any time that you can get people to call in and report illegal activity, that’s helpful to us. If we can go out and verify, that’s a good call.”

It seems to me that this is pretty much the American way. We have always been a self-reliant people and it looks like most of us still are. If there’s something that needs doing, we don’t generally wait on ‘the government’ to do it. Most of us understand that WE are the government and when there’s work to be done we just need it hike up our pants and do it.

Good for you guys! I’d love to watch the border some myself.

*snort*

Despite Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee Chairman and Overall Jackass, officially stating the democrats would not use John McCain’s age as an issue in the presidential race, they are. Of course, we know that Howard Dean has almost no credibility with anyone and certainly doesn’t have any control over the democratic party … but still. He really should quit making statements because when everyone ignores him and does whatever they want anyway it just makes him look even sillier than he already looks.

Steve Rosenthal is a senior democratic operative and he has started a website for the specific purpose of making fun of McCain’s age. The website is called ‘Younger than McCain’ (and no I’m not linking it). Right now it has one video that lists things that are younger than McCain. As you can imagine, they are coming up with stuff like the Golden Gate Bridge, Coke in a can and the like. Har-de-har-har

Keep in mind that Rosenthal is a former political director of the AFL-CIO and executive director of America Coming Together, an organization specifically set up to provide soft money for the 2004 presidential race. He is now a partner in The Organizing Group.

This comes right after the 75-year-old Saboteur John Murtha made his statements about John McCain being too old while he was introducing Hillary Clinton to speak to a group of union members.

The site is not funny as Mr. Rosenthal states its intended to be. Instead, it comes across as mean-spirited, negative and juvenile. Pretty much in line with the democratic party as a whole.

The democrats hope to make a contrast between John McCain and democratic nominee in waiting Barack Obama. They think that the 30 year age difference between the two will be striking and will work in their favor. I agree, the difference between the two WILL be striking, but not because of the age.

John McCain is not afraid of anything. Barack Obama is still whining that he got asked some difficult questions at a debate last night and is refusing to do another debate. He’s taking his ball and going home :pout:. Yes. There’s a huge difference between the two. The more they both talk the more obvious the differences are.

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