Read about how Bush's war in Iraq has created a "training ground" for new young idealistic terrorists. Republicans talk about "family values." What about the value of families? Obviously, this war is destroying families on both sides. That seems to matter very little to the Bushite hawks who can only see dollar signs.
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Monday, June 20, 2005
Cruise Handles A Practical Joke With Great Self Control
In the film clip (follow above link), Tom Cruise is being interviewed by a man who then squirts him in the face with water. Instead of pushing or hitting the man, Cruise told the man not to run away and asked him if he enjoyed doing mean things to people. By keeping the man with him for another minute and confronting him, he made the fake reporter look like a fool. I am very impressed with Mr. Cruise's handling of the situation and wish more people would maintain their dignity and self-control in such situations.
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Sunday, June 19, 2005
Another Impeachment?
Will we have yet another series of impeachment hearings? From what I have read on the "Downing Street Memos," if there ever was a case for impeachment proceedings, the memos provide more than enough evidence to get them started. Do any Republicans in power have the courage and principles to move forward with such hearings? That remains to be seen.
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
The Fall of Professional Sports
FOXSports.com - MLB- Pine tar feud still simmering
I don't know what most other folks think, but I believe that professional sports are in a general decline. When hockey cannot survive without fights and baseball cannot thrive without pine tar, the games do not deserve our attention. Do we need new policing agencies to check all equipment and run drug tests before each and every game? Should we have the little boys hand over their gloves before they go on the field, so "daddy" can make sure they aren't doing anything naughty. It has become ludicrous to assume that men being paid MILLIONS of dollars a year will play by the rules. The money is such a "turn off" for me that I have not watched professional baseball nor football in years. With all the steroids, mult-million dollar contracts, unprofessional behavior on the field, etc., I would rather just watch a good movie. I've become so cynical as to think that the Boston Red Sox winning the Series again was another "setup," - just an attempt to bring back baseball's "Glory Days." I pray that's not true, but it's difficult for me to believe in the magic of it all when corporations control state legislatures and city councils so they can build huge stadiums at taxpayer expense.
Perhaps the decline in popularity of professional sports will be good for this country. We might begin to participate in other activities that are more beneficial to our own well being. Instead of purchasing tickets to professional sports events, maybe we will get ourselves a membership at the local gym, buy a bicycle, or take up some other sport. One can always hope.
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I don't know what most other folks think, but I believe that professional sports are in a general decline. When hockey cannot survive without fights and baseball cannot thrive without pine tar, the games do not deserve our attention. Do we need new policing agencies to check all equipment and run drug tests before each and every game? Should we have the little boys hand over their gloves before they go on the field, so "daddy" can make sure they aren't doing anything naughty. It has become ludicrous to assume that men being paid MILLIONS of dollars a year will play by the rules. The money is such a "turn off" for me that I have not watched professional baseball nor football in years. With all the steroids, mult-million dollar contracts, unprofessional behavior on the field, etc., I would rather just watch a good movie. I've become so cynical as to think that the Boston Red Sox winning the Series again was another "setup," - just an attempt to bring back baseball's "Glory Days." I pray that's not true, but it's difficult for me to believe in the magic of it all when corporations control state legislatures and city councils so they can build huge stadiums at taxpayer expense.
Perhaps the decline in popularity of professional sports will be good for this country. We might begin to participate in other activities that are more beneficial to our own well being. Instead of purchasing tickets to professional sports events, maybe we will get ourselves a membership at the local gym, buy a bicycle, or take up some other sport. One can always hope.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Easy check fraud technique draws scrutiny - Consumer Security - MSNBC.com
Easy check fraud technique draws scrutiny - Consumer Security - MSNBC.com
THE BANKS AND QCHEX DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR SECURITY
The article that is linked above is a required read for anyone who has a checking account. If you have a checking account, you could already be a victim of check fraud, especially if you do not judiciously follow your account activity. All that anyone needs in order remove money from your checking account is your bank's routing number and your account number (located at the bottom of every check). Don't believe me? Read the article. This is a fraud of epidemic proportions. From the article:
"the attorneys general letter to the Fed said one community bank surveyed demand drafts and found 73 percent to be fraudulent"
I urge everyone to thoroughly examine their bank statements and contact your bank immediately if there is anything questionable.
THE BANKS AND QCHEX DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR SECURITY
The article that is linked above is a required read for anyone who has a checking account. If you have a checking account, you could already be a victim of check fraud, especially if you do not judiciously follow your account activity. All that anyone needs in order remove money from your checking account is your bank's routing number and your account number (located at the bottom of every check). Don't believe me? Read the article. This is a fraud of epidemic proportions. From the article:
"the attorneys general letter to the Fed said one community bank surveyed demand drafts and found 73 percent to be fraudulent"
I urge everyone to thoroughly examine their bank statements and contact your bank immediately if there is anything questionable.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
PGP Desktop 9.0
PGP Support Forums
I have long been a user of PGP and a happy customer for years. However, I am very dissatisfied with PGP Desktop 9.0. This product is sub-standard and unfit for distribution but was rushed to market with MANY complaints unresolved. If you wish to see for yourself, click the link to the support forum and read some of the issues that have been addressed there. PGP Corp seems to have no intention to resolve any of these issues in a timely manner. There are a few caring technicians from the company who have come on the forums and attempted to help. However, the company management has given no assurance nor apologies for the problems that continue to plague the program. One begins to wonder if PGP Corp is taking its customer service lessons from Microsoft. This is disheartening. Until the company makes corrections to this software, I recommend that you stick with version 8.1 of PGP desktop. Any review that comes out in support of PGP Desktop 9.0 before these corrections are made is simply not giving you the whole truth. BUYER BEWARE!
I have long been a user of PGP and a happy customer for years. However, I am very dissatisfied with PGP Desktop 9.0. This product is sub-standard and unfit for distribution but was rushed to market with MANY complaints unresolved. If you wish to see for yourself, click the link to the support forum and read some of the issues that have been addressed there. PGP Corp seems to have no intention to resolve any of these issues in a timely manner. There are a few caring technicians from the company who have come on the forums and attempted to help. However, the company management has given no assurance nor apologies for the problems that continue to plague the program. One begins to wonder if PGP Corp is taking its customer service lessons from Microsoft. This is disheartening. Until the company makes corrections to this software, I recommend that you stick with version 8.1 of PGP desktop. Any review that comes out in support of PGP Desktop 9.0 before these corrections are made is simply not giving you the whole truth. BUYER BEWARE!
Friday, January 07, 2005
t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Heroes
t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Heroes
In this post, I would simply like to recognize Mr. Pitt for his dedication to the truth and for his humility in recognizing so many others who are fighting the good fight to bring the truth to light. In his online publication, "truthout," Mr. Pitt does whatever necessary to get to the truth, and he does so with bold courage. Thank you, William Rivers Pitt.
In this post, I would simply like to recognize Mr. Pitt for his dedication to the truth and for his humility in recognizing so many others who are fighting the good fight to bring the truth to light. In his online publication, "truthout," Mr. Pitt does whatever necessary to get to the truth, and he does so with bold courage. Thank you, William Rivers Pitt.
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Hey, Sleepwalkers, your president authorized torture!
Well, I hope you Rethuglicans and other NeoCons are happy with yourselves. Your president authorized the use of torture on prisoners of war (many of them boys under the age 18). And his FBI that is investigating the matter has attempted to cover it up. Add to this the election fraud, false pretenses for war, keeping a Secretary of Defense who could not care less for our men and women in uniform, giving incentives to corporations to ship high-tech jobs out of the country, et cetera, and you have quite the leader on your hands. So, let's just throw a party for all those elections officials who were paid off to install voting machines which could be hacked and would provide no paper record of the vote. Let's give a loud "Hooray!" for those in the FBI, CIA and Pentagon who "play ball," making certain that the plans of this administration are carried out and covered up. You all are real heroes. I can only hope you get what you deserve.
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Saturday, October 30, 2004
More about my head...
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As I mentioned in my last post, I have hydrocephalus, which you can read more about by visiting http://www.hydrocephalus.org. It is basically an excess buildup of the cerebral-spinal fluid that surrounds your brain. Although I was not diagnosed until I was in my late 30's, I have been living with the condition since birth. The cause of my "hydro" is a sub-arachnoid cycst which blocks the CS fluid from freely flowing between my head and my spinal column. This causes pressure to build up in my head resulting in headaches, balance problems, short term memory deficiencies and other issues. Somehow, for almost the first 40 years of my life, my head compensated for the excess pressure by expanding in size. Many doctors will tell you that is not possible because of the hardening of the "plates" in your head during childhood. Well, they are full of crapola, because I have actual measurements of my head size from childhood until now, and my head has grown quite a bit. And even though my plates have hardened considerably in recent years, they are still somewhat flexible. I know this because since I have had a shunt placed in my head (a common treatment for hydro), my head has decreased in size. (Never again will I use the expression, "I need that like I need another hole in the head." As it turns out, I did need the extra hole.)
As I mentioned in my last post, I have hydrocephalus, which you can read more about by visiting http://www.hydrocephalus.org. It is basically an excess buildup of the cerebral-spinal fluid that surrounds your brain. Although I was not diagnosed until I was in my late 30's, I have been living with the condition since birth. The cause of my "hydro" is a sub-arachnoid cycst which blocks the CS fluid from freely flowing between my head and my spinal column. This causes pressure to build up in my head resulting in headaches, balance problems, short term memory deficiencies and other issues. Somehow, for almost the first 40 years of my life, my head compensated for the excess pressure by expanding in size. Many doctors will tell you that is not possible because of the hardening of the "plates" in your head during childhood. Well, they are full of crapola, because I have actual measurements of my head size from childhood until now, and my head has grown quite a bit. And even though my plates have hardened considerably in recent years, they are still somewhat flexible. I know this because since I have had a shunt placed in my head (a common treatment for hydro), my head has decreased in size. (Never again will I use the expression, "I need that like I need another hole in the head." As it turns out, I did need the extra hole.)
Getting Personal
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Hi All,
It's been a very long time since my last post. I'm not sure that matters since I cannot be certain that anyone except me reads this Blog. On the chance that there are others out there reading what I write, you have undoubtedly noticed the rather political tone of my previous posts. Well, despite the fact that the elections are days away, I have decided to make a sharp deviation from my previous path and begin discussing my own person. Although I am not at all certain that anyone will be interested in knowing the things that I will be sharing, I feel that it is important for my family, friends and myself that I document the experiences of my life so that we all can perhaps better understand who I am and the relationships we share. Ok, now where to begin...
Well, perhaps I should explain why I have decided to venture down this path of self exploration. Here is how it began. Just hours ago I began thinking about when I worked for Sprint - yes, the telecommunications company. Although I was dismissed from my position there (more about that later), I have mostly fond memories of the people and the work that I did for the company. This reminiscing led to the remembrance of a major project that began when I was there - the building of the current Sprint World Headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. Well, one thought led to another and eventually I decided that it would be nice to try to get back in contact with some of the people with whom I had worked. Unfortunately, due to a condition I have called "hydrocephalus," I cannot remember most of the names of former friends and co-workers. This makes it rather difficult to contact any of them. 8-)
From this realization came the decision that perhaps I should just put some information about myself out there on the web where someone who might be as curious about me as I am about them could do a search and perhaps find my blog and contact information... and hopefully contact me. Then it occurred to me that most people I have worked with throughout my life have no idea of my condition since I learned of it only months after being dismissed from the company. Anyway, since I don't have addresses, neither email nor postal, for most of these good folks, I have decided to post some information about myself on the web to make it easier for them to find me.
oooo, geez, this post is getting long... ok, well, I'll post more today after getting some sleep. Take life "Head On."
Lon Diffenderfer
diffie1-yahoo-com
(formatting my email address that way
to help keep the spammers away)
Hi All,
It's been a very long time since my last post. I'm not sure that matters since I cannot be certain that anyone except me reads this Blog. On the chance that there are others out there reading what I write, you have undoubtedly noticed the rather political tone of my previous posts. Well, despite the fact that the elections are days away, I have decided to make a sharp deviation from my previous path and begin discussing my own person. Although I am not at all certain that anyone will be interested in knowing the things that I will be sharing, I feel that it is important for my family, friends and myself that I document the experiences of my life so that we all can perhaps better understand who I am and the relationships we share. Ok, now where to begin...
Well, perhaps I should explain why I have decided to venture down this path of self exploration. Here is how it began. Just hours ago I began thinking about when I worked for Sprint - yes, the telecommunications company. Although I was dismissed from my position there (more about that later), I have mostly fond memories of the people and the work that I did for the company. This reminiscing led to the remembrance of a major project that began when I was there - the building of the current Sprint World Headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. Well, one thought led to another and eventually I decided that it would be nice to try to get back in contact with some of the people with whom I had worked. Unfortunately, due to a condition I have called "hydrocephalus," I cannot remember most of the names of former friends and co-workers. This makes it rather difficult to contact any of them. 8-)
From this realization came the decision that perhaps I should just put some information about myself out there on the web where someone who might be as curious about me as I am about them could do a search and perhaps find my blog and contact information... and hopefully contact me. Then it occurred to me that most people I have worked with throughout my life have no idea of my condition since I learned of it only months after being dismissed from the company. Anyway, since I don't have addresses, neither email nor postal, for most of these good folks, I have decided to post some information about myself on the web to make it easier for them to find me.
oooo, geez, this post is getting long... ok, well, I'll post more today after getting some sleep. Take life "Head On."
Lon Diffenderfer
diffie1-yahoo-com
(formatting my email address that way
to help keep the spammers away)
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