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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Missing planes and government brains.

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I am going to get cookies today.

Please watch the video below. Be prepared to be a proud American with tears on your cheeks;

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Iwa-lSVqA1M&vq=medium

Now isn’t this good to know. Why are we telling the terrorists and other criminals how to evade our tracking efforts? Just another thing to worry about our expensive government cannot keep a handle on.

The Federal Aviation Administration is missing key information on who owns one-third of the 357,000 private and commercial aircraft in the U.S. This gap, the agency fears, could be exploited by terrorists and drug traffickers not to mention airplane thieves.

The records are in such disarray that the FAA says it is worried that criminals could buy planes without the government's knowledge, or use the registration numbers of other aircraft to evade new computer systems designed to track suspicious flights. It has ordered all aircraft owners to re-register their planes in an effort to clean up its files. Apparently this order has no penalties for non-compliance. Even if there was a penalty attached for non-compliance, why would a terrorist or criminal register a plane? They are breaking the law or planning a terrorist attack. They are not afeared of a potential reprimand from a government bureaucrat.

About 119,000 of the aircraft on the U.S. registry have "questionable registration" because of missing forms, invalid addresses, unreported sales or other paperwork problems, according to the FAA. In many cases, the FAA cannot say who owns a plane or even whether it is still flying or has been junked.

Already there have been cases of drug traffickers using phony U.S. registration numbers, as well as instances of mistaken identity in which police raided the wrong plane because of faulty record-keeping.

Federal law requires all U.S. aircraft owners to register their planes with the FAA and carry the registration certificate on board. The registration number - all U.S. registrations start with the letter N - is painted on the fuselage or tail. The numbers are used on flight plan forms and by air traffic controllers to communicate with aircraft in flight. Won’t the registration certificate burn or be destroyed in a crash?

Next year, the FAA will begin canceling the registration certificates of all 357,000 aircraft and require owners to register anew, a move that is causing grumbling among airlines, banks and leasing companies. Notices went out to the first batch of aircraft owners last month.

"We have identified some potential risk areas, but I think we're trying to eliminate as much risk as possible through the re-registration process," said FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. Isn’t this reassuring talk from a spokesperson; “…some potential risk…we’re trying to eliminate as much risk as possible…” They haven’t identified all areas of the risk and are only trying to eliminate some of the risk. Isn’t it hard to eliminate something you have not identified?

"Anybody with a roll of duct tape can put any number they want on an airplane," Stephen Lathrop, who had his plane number stolen said.

The FAA says security isn't the only reason it needs an up-to-date registry. Regulators use it to contact owners about safety problems, states rely on it to charge sales tax and some airports employ it to bill for landing fees. Also, rescuers use the database to track down planes that are missing. Taxes are always the cause. If something does not make sense, it is the money.

A public funeral service for Elizabeth Edwards has been scheduled for Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and will include eulogies from her oldest daughter, Cate, and two close friends. As you'd expect, gathered mourners won't be hearing a eulogy from her estranged husband John Edwards, but that doesn't mean he won't be there.

"Elizabeth would want it this way. She hated what John did but never stopped loving him," a family friend tells me. "She died in the home she built with John, surrounded by loving memories of their time together and at peace." The former presidential hopeful was with Elizabeth on Tuesday when she died following a six-year battle with cancer.

Elizabeth will be honored Saturday at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh. The public is allowed to attend the 1 PM service. Given her popularity, there will be no shortage of notable political figures in attendance looking to be caught on camera. They do not want to be associated with John Edwards but his dead wife is another story.. The absence of any public appearances on President Obama’s schedule for Saturday has also fueled speculation that he will travel to North Carolina to pay his respects.

As I mentioned yesterday, Westboro Baptist Church will be there, hopefully as sniper’s targets.

Dick Van Dyke was forced to cancel a one-man show about his show business life set to run in Los Angeles through Jan. 16, 2011. He reinjured an Achilles tendon injury from his past and was told to stay off his feet. Dick Van Dyke turns 85 on Monday.

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Friday, December 10, 2010

Aurora, bad city! bad city!

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Today is: December 10 is … Festival For The Souls Of Dead Whales. Let’s all eat some blubber.

Every year I go to local cookie sales at various churches in the area. Saturday, December 11^th is a cookie sale at the Hinckley Church. It starts at 8:00 a.m. Cookies are $6.00 a lb. They always have a great assortment of homemade cookies and candies. This is a great way to get a start on the holiday treat season before you or the wife or significant other get a chance to do your own baking. Next Saturday, December 18^th, the Catholic Church in Maple Park has their annual cookie sale, starting at 9:00 a.m., also $6.00 a lb. You can call both Churches to place advance orders. Get out and support the local Churches and have some good home baked goodies. ENJOY.

Stop the BLOG!! Oprah is not gay. She is not a lesbian. Hey Oprah, nobody gives a sh *t. Just go to your own network and die a quiet death. You do not need to manufacture news to keep your name and large face before the public. You are yesterday’s news. Accept it.

Wesley Snipes turned himself in to federal authorities to begin serving his three year prison term for tax evasion yesterday. He is in a Pennsylvania federal prison to start with.

The City of Aurora is trying to illegally keep nearly $200,000.00 the city police confiscated from two brothers on Oct. 18, 2010. The brothers are suspected of being drug dealers but neither has a criminal record and neither was arrested at the time the police made a traffic stop on a car one of the brothers was driving in October, searched the car, found no illegal substances but found the $190,040.00 in cash. The City of Aurora is attempting to have the money forfeited to it. A Judge in Kane County ruled against the city, ordering Aurora to give the money back to the brothers. The City of Aurora refuses to abide by the Court Order.

That amount of money may arouse suspicion but it is not illegal to own cash, yet. In fact, our folding money states right on it “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” That seems pretty clear to me.

If you cannot tie the money to illegal enterprises and prove the funds are a direct result of your illegal activity and you came into possession of the assets as a result of your gains from illegal actions, the government should not be able to just take your money. Due process is afforded all people in the United States even illegal aliens. That is why we have Guantanamo Bay prison. We deposit suspected criminals there so they do not get into the United States and have Constitutional Rights attach to them.

What the City of Aurora is doing is wrong and they have been told so by a Judge. The brothers will have to continue to fight in Court to prevail, paying a lawyer along the way thereby depleting the original amount of money.

The house the police discovered in San Diego several weeks ago filled with explosives will be destroyed. Thursday morning, after rush hour, the police will burn the house. They have determined it is too dangerous to enter and empty. They arrested the owner when they discovered the house. Neighbors were advised to leave the area Thursday or at least keep their windows closed. Why not send the owner into the house and force him to clean it out, similar to community restitution hours we sentence DUI drivers to and other minor criminals? If the house blows up, it is destroyed and we won’t have to spend money trying the owner or housing him in prison for life.

The Westboro Baptist Church has announced it will picket and protest at the funeral for Elizabeth Edwards. This is the same Topeka, Kansas church that protests at funerals for fallen military personnel. I think it is time one of the nuts running around this country does some good and takes out these protesters. Let them go protest in heaven or, more likely, hell.

Notable births on this date:

1787 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Philadelphia PA, pioneer of educating the deaf
1794 James Wolfe Ripley Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1805 John E Feisser theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1813 Zachariah Chandler US, merchant/politician (founder of Republican Party)

1851 Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey created Dewey Decimal System for libraries He’s the one!

1911 Chet Huntley Cardwell MT, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)

1914 Dorothy Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer] New Orleans LA, actress (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth) Bob and Bing loved her.

1929 Dan Blocker Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza) What is a Hoss?

1941 Tommy Kirk actor (Old Yeller) Disney Movies would not exist but for him.

1952 Susan Hallock Dey Illinois, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law) She is older than me.

1969 Darren Berry cricketer (Victorian wicket-keeper since 1989-90)
1969 Nadim Khan cricketer (brother of Moin Pakistani lefty spinner 1993)

Notable deaths on this date:

0969 Nicephorus II Phocas Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered What a guy!

1896 Alfred Nobel Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63 Won first Nobel prize?

1909 Red Cloud Sioux Indian chief, dies

1946 Damon Runyon US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 66.A great sportswriter. He wrote Lemon Drop Kid. Wonderful Bob Hope Christmas movie that introduced song “Silver Bells”
1946 Walter Johnson great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 59

1967 Otis Redding singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26 Where were you?

1990 Armand Hammer CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92

1996 Faron Young country singer/actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34. Hello Walls.

Notable events on this date:

0741 Zacharias becomes Pope
1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar

1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money. We haven’t quit borrowing since.

1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1^st) “God help us if we ever give them the vote”, Rooster Cogburn 1887.

1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3). No 3 point shot?

1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam. We are still trying to collect smaller countries.

1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled. Wish I had one.

1926 1st radio broadcast in the Springfield IL area (WCBS)
1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville TN
1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1^st

1935 A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000. Half the ball player of Jimmie Foxx.

1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson. True love!

1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people"
1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 Australian Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wickets

1963 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show. I am older.

1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress. What happened to it?

1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB). Pass me the joint.

1995 Michael Slater scores 219 vs Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Australia vs Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982

" If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. "

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

$3.00 gasoline by Christmas; likely for good

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Well the world got the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Do you feel safer? I do not think it should be illegal to embarrass people, especially people who should be embarrassed themselves by their conduct. The sexual crime charges brought against Assange seemed trumped up to me but they could be based in fact or greed.

Dandy Don Meredith, the Dallas quarterback and Monday Night Football color guy died earlier this week. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears but never signed or played with them. Someone turned out the lights for good; Don Meredith’s party is over for good.

December 9 is … National Pastry Day. Have a donut for me.

Crude oil prices hit a two year high Tuesday, topping $90.00 a barrel. It is expected gas prices will top $3.00 a gallon by Christmas; they already are over $3.00 in some places and then pull back moderately. By spring they will be on the way up again. Once they get over $3.00 a gallon for an extended period, the driving public will get used to it and prices will not go below $3.00 again. The industry is always blaming some obscure world event to justify rising gas prices. This time they claim it is the demand for diesel in China.

America has never had $3.00 a gallon gasoline at Christmas mostly because the shorter daylight reduces use. That will change this year.

For those of you wondering; (from Wikipedia)

The standard barrel of crude oil or other petroleum product (abbreviated bbl) is 42 US gallons (34.9723 imp gal; 158.9873 L). This measurement originated in the early Pennsylvania oil fields, and permitted both British and American merchants to refer to the same unit, based on the old English wine measure, the tierce. Earlier, another size of whiskey barrel was the most common size; this was the 40 US gallons (33.3 imp gal; 151.4 L) barrel for proof spirits, which was of the same volume as 5 US bushels. However, by 1866 the oil barrel was standardized at 42 US gallons.
Oil has not actually been shipped in barrels ^[1] since the introduction of oil tankers, but the 42-US-gallon size is still used as a unit for measurement, pricing, and in tax and regulatory codes. Each barrel is refined into about 19.74 US gallons (16.44 imp gal; 74.7 L) of gasoline^[2], the rest becoming other products such as jet fuel and heating oil, using fractional distillation.^[3]
The current standard volume for barrels for chemicals and food is 55 US gallons (46 imp gal; 208 L).
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of vertical wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. Traditionally, the barrel was a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, a beer barrel was originally a 36 gallon capacity while an ale barrel was a 32 gallon capacity. Wine was shipped in 31.5 gallon barrels. Barrels are one size of cask. Other cask sizes include, but are not limited to, pins, firkins, kilderkins, puncheons, rundlets, tierces, pipes, butts, and tuns. Someone who makes barrels is a cooper. Modern barrels are also made of aluminium, stainless steel, and plastic.
Barrels have a variety of uses, including storage of liquids such as water and oil, fermenting wine and sake, and maturing beverages such as brandy, sherry, port, whiskey and beer.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Imagine there's no John Lennon

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Elizabeth Edwards, RIP. The last several years she was on this earth, her husband managed to make her life gossip headlines. She deserved better. Perhaps she has it now.

A judge in California has voided a marital settlement agreement between Frank McCourt and Jaimie McCourt. This leaves the ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers still to be decided in one of the most expensive divorces in California history. A good pre-nuptial agreement could have avoided this. A good post-nuptial agreement could have helped. I can see a few lawyers in California checking with their malpractice carrier today, expecting to be sued by Frank McCourt. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that will quit fighting. He has fought his wife for years. I do not think it will bother him to sue a few lawyers after he loses, hoping to win by attrition.

Imagine if there were no heaven. Imagine if there were no John Lennon. In 1980, Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside his apartment building in New York City. John Lennon was 40.

December 8, 1980 was a Monday. The killing occurred during Monday Night Football. I remember sitting at a bar in Bloomington, IL and hearing Howard Cosell, in his monotone, slow voice announce John Lennon had been shot. He added he arrived at the hospital DOA.

As Wikipedia reports:

At around 10:50 pm on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in The Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 pm.^[122] Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.^[123]
Ono issued a statement the next day, saying "There is no funeral for John," ending it with the words, "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him."^[124] His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields memorial was later created.^[125] Chapman pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life; as of 2010, he remains in prison, having been repeatedly denied parole.^[126][127]
This is another example of a wasted, useless person ruining something good, beautiful and decent in the world for everyone else. I was never a big John Lennon fan. He was not my favorite Beatle but he was probably the most talented. Much of his work gets better with time and my advancement in years.
“Give Peace a Chance” is a fine song. “Imagine” is even better;

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
JOHN LENNON

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy!

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Pearl Harbor Day, a date that will live in infamy. NEVER FORGET. We can get over it but better never forget it. As we were reminded in 2001, surprise attacks can happen anytime, anywhere.

Notable events on this date:

1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1941 Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps

Go to this web site for a good telling of the story of the USS Arizona;

http://www.buckeyewebdesign.com/pearl/pearlharbor.html

As FDR put it, December 7, 1941 was a date that will live in infamy. The news dispatch from Pearl Harbor that Sunday morning was as follows;

On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. A total of twelve ships sank or were beached in the attack and nine additional vessels were damaged. More than 160 aircraft were destroyed and more than 150 others damaged.

A hurried dispatch from the ranking United States naval officer in Pearl Harbor, Commander in Chief Pacific, to all major navy commands and fleet units provided the first official word of the attack at the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base. It said simply: AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL

It is hard to write anything new about the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by an arrogant, inferior and ignorant race of people, The Japanese of 1941. Adolph Hitler knew bringing the United States into the war in 1941 was a bad idea that would prolong the war if not lead to its failure. The Japanese would not listen and paid the ultimate price, a nuclear attack on itself 3 ½ years later. The news as it was gathered and reported at the time follows;

The following day, President Franklin Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of Congress, called December 7 "a date which will live in infamy." Declaring war against Japan, Congress ushered the United States into World War II and forced a nation, already close to war, to abandon isolationism. Within days, Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States, and the country began a rapid transition to a wartime economy in building up armaments in support of military campaigns in the Pacific, North Africa, and Europe.

Also on the day following Pearl Harbor, Alan Lomax, head of the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song, sent a telegram to colleagues around the U.S. asking them to collect people's immediate reactions to the bombing. Over the next few days prominent folklorists such as John Lomax, John Henry Faulk, Charles Todd, Robert Sonkin, and Lewis Jones responded by recording "man on the street" interviews in New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. They interviewed salesmen, electricians, janitors, oilmen, cabdrivers, housewives, students, soldiers, physicians, and others regarding the events of December 7. Among the interviewees was a California woman then visiting her family in Dallas, Texas.

"My first thought was what a great pity that… another nation should be added to those aggressors who strove to limit our freedom. I find myself at the age of eighty, an old woman, hanging on to the tail of the world, trying to keep up. I do not want the driver's seat. But the eternal verities--there are certain things that I wish to express: one thing that I am very sure of is that hatred is death, but love is light. I want to contribute to the civilization of the world but…when I look at the holocaust that is going on in the world today, I'm almost ready to let go…"

Lena Jamison, "What A Great Pity," December 9, 1941,
John Lomax, interviewer.
After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor

NEVER FORGET

Congratulations to the NIU Huskies. They will play in a bowl game. Northern Illinois will close out a record-setting season with an appearance on the "blue turf" of Boise's Bronco Stadium in the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl it was announced Sunday night.

The Huskies (10-3, 8-0) will face Fresno State (8-4, 5-3) of the Western Athletic Conference in the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Fresno State beat the University of Illinois on Friday night, Dec. 3, 2010. The game will kick off at 3:30 p.m. (Mountain)/4:30 p.m. (Central) and be televised nationally by ESPN and can be heard on ESPN Radio.

Tickets for the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl game can be purchased for $25 through the Bowl Central page on the Northern Illinois Athletics' website at www.NIUHuskies.com, or by calling the NIU Athletics Ticket Office at 815-752-6800 during regular business hours.

Coach Jerry Kill will not be the coach of the Huskies. He has accepted the head coaching job at the University of Minnesota, a Big Ten school. One of the downfalls of having a successful program is that your coaches are always being interviewed and considered for other jobs. The Big Ten is a step-up on the coaching ladder for Jerry Kill. Good luck to him. Be careful who you run the score up on in the Big Ten. Big Ten coaches have long memories, perhaps longer than your career in the Big Ten.

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