...from the Brady Campaign!

http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/reports/fedleg/obama-1styear-report.pdf

"In just one year, Barack Obama has signed into law more repeals of federal gun
policies than in President George W. Bush’s eight years in office. From the repeal of
Reagan Era rules keeping loaded guns out of national parks to the repeal of post-9/11
policies to safeguard Amtrak from armed terrorist attacks, President Obama’s stance
on guns has endangered our communities and threatened our national security. "

Any time the Bradytards are pissed, and I'm tickled pink. :-D

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a band when you looked them up on wikipedia who had this on their page:

Associated acts:

Led Zeppelin
Queens of the Stone Age
Kyuss
Foo Fighters
Nirvana

Meaning that members of the above listed bands were in this new band. Well said band exists. And I'm about to review their debut album.

*edit post album listening*
Sorry to say it folks but Them Crooked Vultures is nothing but a vanity project meant to stroke the ego's of the entire lot of people involved in the project. and it shows very clearly. ugg.

And on an unrelated note..
Lio

 

October 8, 2009

Dear Patriot:

Please take your time and read this email carefully.

Because if a bill quietly sneaking its way through Congress passes, an email like this could be the last non-government message to ever hit your inbox.

In fact, someday you may even find yourself unable to log in to your email in the first place!

I know what you're thinking: Maybe this is just another Internet hoax.

I wish it was.

But Barack Obama and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) want to make this nightmare a reality.  That's why Rockefeller recently introduced S. 773, "The Cybersecurity Act of 2009."

Initial cosponsors include Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN), Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME).

You see, Barack Obama is seeking sweeping new powers to "shut down" all private internet in the event of a "cybersecurity emergency" — a vague term that the President can define at his discretion.

And Rockefeller's bill gives Barack Obama just what he wants.

That's why this expansive new power grab should really be called "The Internet Takeover Bill."

As you know, the Internet has developed into an independent sphere where 1st Amendment Rights can still be (fairly) freely exercised.

It's also become an important outlet for liberty-minded speech, cutting around the Obama-worship and corporate censorship of the mainstream media.

And we've already seen the Obama Administration's reaction to any online speech they deem "fishy."

In July, the Administration called upon Americans to report their friends' and neighbors' emails to help Barack Obama silence the "disinformation" about the Obamacare bills in Congress.

Well now Barack Obama wants to cut out the middle man.

If the Internet Takeover Bill passes, Barack Obama can silence his dissenters directly — by ordering a shutdown of the U.S. Internet.

That's right, under this bill Barack Obama can order all non-government U.S. networks to shutdown from the Internet.

But that's not all.

Even outside of periods of White House-declared "emergency," this bill mandates that private-sector networks only be managed by government-licensed "cybersecurity professionals."

If you think dealing with your office IT department is bad now, just wait until they're federally-licensed bureaucrats.

And God forbid you like to visit websites that spread "fishy disinformation" like free-market healthcare solutions; passing socialized medicine could soon become enough of an "emergency" for Barack Obama to shut them down.

You know, for the public good.

Well I know I like writing to you, and I hope you like hearing from me.

Or if not me, at least you probably like staying in touch with your family and friends, and having access to uncensored news and current events.

And that's why I hope you'll help Campaign for Liberty stop the Internet Takeover Bill by signing our Internet User's Mandate to Congress.

Today, legislation like this — built on the same statist principles as the infamous Patriot Act — must sneak through Congress quietly.

They know Americans are no longer willing to swallow this swill "for our own good."

And it's especially critical that Campaign for Liberty and other fellow R3volutionaries fight this power grab.

Can you imagine how easily those in power could fabricate an "emergency" on a big money bomb day for a strong liberty candidate threatening the establishment?

Or how about message boards vital to planning and freedom rallies and protests of socialized medicine?

With "right-wing extremists" freely and visibly exercising their 2nd Amendment rights at such events, no doubt the White House could declare "emergency" and shut down all online planning.

I don't want to see good politicians lose potential millions or demonstrations of liberty extinguished. I hope you don't either.

That's why I hope you'll sign your Internet User's Mandate and make a donation right now to Campaign for Liberty to make sure that never happens.

We're going to fight this bill hard, because it's clear that the Internet is the next frontier for liberty politics, and Campaign for Liberty is right on the forefront.

So please click here to sign your Internet User's Mandate to Congress in opposition to Barack Obama's Internet Takeover and Shutdown Bill.

And in addition to signing your mandate, please make a generous contribution of $250, $100 or $50 so we can fight this Internet takeover.

We need to fight to make sure Barack Obama doesn't disconnect your computer, shut down your favorite websites, or block all your emails. 

And frankly with Audit the Fed, Cap and Tax and socialized healthcare debates, Campaign for Liberty is stretched pretty thin.

And unlike the government we don't print, borrow or take money by force (taxes).  Our only revenue comes from voluntary contributions from liberty activists like you.

We need you to stay educated and active.

We've put too much time into building our pro-liberty online networks, websites and email lists.  We simply cannot afford to give Barack Obama the power to dismantle all that at the drop of a hat.

So please, click here to sign your Internet User's Mandate and if you can make a contribution of $250, $100 or $50 or whatever you want to Campaign for Liberty to stop this power grab...

...to defend our rights...

...and most importantly, to protect this movement.

I trust you'll join this fight to protect all the progress we've made.

In Liberty, 


John Tate
President

P.S. The Internet Takeover Bill (S. 773) is threatening to "unplug" private networks from the Internet on the order of the President and dismantle the online army we've worked so hard to build.

Click here to sign your Internet User's Mandate to Congress, and please make a generous contribution of $250, $100 or $50 to Campaign for Liberty so we can lead the fight against this Obama power grab


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Begin Randy's personal comments.

Now I personally am not saying you have to give money. I know i can't right now. However it doesn't cost you anything to contact your congress critters and let them know you oppose this bill. Please feel free to pass the link to this journal around to all your friends.

5 years ago today i was woken up by a phone call from my mother in law. My wife answered the phone and in my haze she told me to run down stairs and turn on the TV. I went down stairs,turned it on and saw smoke coming out of the first tower. About 2seconds after i turned it on we saw the plane hit the second tower. The first thing i did was to hop on the internet. At the time i was a DJ on an internet radio station, and we had a chat room that all the people from the station would go talk in. We got some first hand accounts from a guy who could see the towers outside his window. We watched in horror as the towers went down on TV and the guy was describing what he was seeing. It was scary as hell. Then we found out about the Pentagon getting hit. Then it was the plane in Pennsylvania. I was working the night shift at the time and usually didn't get to bed until around 4 or5 am or so. We had to have gotten the call between 7:45 and 8:03 so at the time i was working on at most 4 hours sleep. We kept saying to ourselves, what can happen next. I mean we thought it couldn't get any worse than the towers collapsing. And then it did. There was a plane down in Washington. And one down in Pennsylvania. And then it was like when the hell is it going to stop. I'm a smoker. That day i was chain smoking. I was wondering what was going to happen next. Shortly after the second tower went down the friend from the radio station chat room lost connection to the internet. It was another 3 days before we heard from him again. Everyone was worried sick. By the time it was time to go to work it seemed things had calmed down some. (I think i went into work at around 3 or 4pm.). If not calmed down then at least the sky wasn't't falling anymore. I went to work and everyone there was in just as much shock as i was. Someone had gotten some video from the TV that they could put on a CD and we were all gathered around my supervisors cube as we watched that second plane hit over and over again. Each time not believing it. The major thing i remember about that day was fear.The anger didn't really come until the next day, but that first day it was fear. The terrorists had succeeded, if only for a day.

One other note of memory from that day. I had a guy call me at work (we were an internet service providers tech support) saying he couldn't get connected to the internet. The company i worked for had some major routers for the entire north east in the basement of one of those towers, so when it went down the entire north eastern section of our customers went dark. No one could get on the internet. Now most people figured out that there was a reason things went dark. I had one guy call me, from inside NYC mind you, complaining he couldn't get connected to the internet. I was like "Did you not see those 2 huge buildings collapse? You're lucky you can get a phone line out at all to call me!" I yelled at the guy. My boss heard me, and understood, so i never got in any trouble for it.

The other weird thing was that work at night, no airplanes flying over when i went out to smoke. We worked right next to the air port, so that was weird as hell. There were always airplanes flying over. I do also remember a couple of nights later before the flying ban was lifted, there was one helicopter off in the distance. That was pretty weird too.

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The above post has become a bit of a tradition every year on this date. I put it up there because it is the freshest memory I have of it written down. It means a little more to me now than it used to. I've been to the place where those people died. I've seen the hole that was left in the ground from when those buildings that got knocked down. I've seen the hole in the skyline where the towers used to be. It's very difficult to see the following video, because I have seen personally the places pictured. It becomes a lot more real.




Today I put aside all the problems I have with this country. Even if it is just for a day. We are all Americans. We should all be proud. No politics today.







It's hard to tell, but that last pictures is where the towers used to be.

My top 5 since I like music so much! (in order)






Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah
Nine Inch Nails – My Violent Heart
KMFDM – Don't Blow Your Top
Nine Inch Nails – Survivalism
Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around

A good friend of mine passed away recently from cancer. I've not said anything about it on here until now, because I'm still kind of dealing with the grief from it. She was a friend and mentor to me at JP Morgan. She covered my ass several times to keep me out of trouble. I did the same for her in turn later on, after I was a bit more established. One of her favorite places to eat was Moo-Ya's. It was a hamburger joint. We went and had dinner there a number of times after we had a bad day at work. She will be very much missed. Here is her Obit from the Dallas Morning News:

Tammy Lima
Lima, Tammy Sue Passed away on August 25, 2009 from Inflammatory Breast Cancer. She was the daughter of Verie and Shirley Lima of Parker, Texas. She was born on 21 October 1966 in Dallas, Texas, sixteen minutes before the birth of her brother, the second set of twins born at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. She graduated from Plano East High School in 1985, then received her B.A. degree in Economics from Texas Tech University in 1989. She worked primarily in the banking industry, and was employed by JP Morgan for the last five years. She was an avid Ranger fan and enjoyed traveling. She will be missed by her two four-legged friends, the Siamese cats, Maggie and Emily. She is survived by her parents; brother, Rick, his wife Jeanie and their four children, Tiffany, Cody, Hayleigh and Aubrey of Plano, Texas; Jeff, her twin brother, and his friend, Debbie Krauss of the Bronx, NY; uncles and aunts, Robert Glass and wife Martha; Dewayne Glass and wife Shirley; Dorothy Gomes and Margaret Gall; and her special family friends, Gilbert Lima, his wife Pam and their three children, Kimberly, Heidi and Heather. She was preceded in death by her Grandparents, August and Emily Lima, and Walter and Eva Glass, and several aunts and uncles. A memorial service will be held at the First United Methodist Church of Plano, 3160 E. Spring Creek Parkway, at 2 PM on Saturday, 12 September. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the MD Anderson Cancer Center, or a charity of your choice.

New Texas laws that are going into effect posted below. my comments before.

HB 537 is STUPID!!!!!!!!!!

HB 2730 seems like a good idea.

HB 2664 makes me extremely happy. Esp. since my CHL is on its way in the mail. This was a big topic of discussion in my CHL class.



August 11, 2009
New traffic, criminal laws set to go into effect Sept. 1
HB 2730 is the DPS’s Sunset Legislation, and many of the DPS-related bills this session were included in HB 2730. Notable traffic and criminal laws that go into effect on Sept. 1 (unless otherwise indicated) include*:
Seatbelts:
HB 537 requires all occupants of a vehicle, no matter their age, to be secured by a safety belt, no matter where they are seated in the vehicle; changes the definition of a passenger vehicle to include a passenger van designed to transport 15 or fewer passengers including the driver; removes the current exemption for third-party Medicaid transportation provisions regarding the use of child passenger safety seats; and prohibits a motorcycle operator from carrying a passenger under the age of 5 unless the child is seated in a sidecar attached to the motorcycle.
SB 61 amends the existing statute regarding child passenger safety seats. The bill requires that any child younger than 8 years of age be restrained in an approved child passenger safety seat unless the child is at least 4 feet, 9 inches in height. The fine is no more than $25 for a first offense and $250 for a second offense. The law also creates a new court cost for conviction of an offense under this section to be collected and used by TxDOT to buy safety seats for low income families. The law becomes effective on Sept. 1, 2009, but tickets for this offense cannot be issued until June 1, 2010. Police officers are allowed to issue a warning before that date.
Driving:
HB 55 makes it illegal to use a wireless communication device in a school zone unless the vehicle is stopped or a hands-free device is used. Cities or counties wanting to enforce this law must post a sign at the beginning of each school zone to inform drivers that using a wireless communications device is prohibited and the operator is subject to a fine. It is a defense to prosecution if the operator was making an emergency call.
HB 2730 increases the penalties for driving while intoxicated with a child passenger by adding an automatic driver license suspension period for first-time offenders and an increased suspension period for repeat offenders. The driver license re-instatement fee for completing an education program will rise from $50 to $100. Closes a loophole so a person who commits an offense as a minor cannot circumvent the driver license penalty if the person turns 21 before their court date.
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HB 2730 allows a new Texas resident to operate a vehicle without a Texas license for 90 days instead of the current 30. (This provision went into effect on June 19, 2009.)
HB 2012 creates two new punishment enhancements: a Class B misdemeanor if a person drives with a suspended license and without insurance; and a class A misdemeanor if the person driving without insurance or a valid driver license has an accident and someone is seriously injured or dies as a result of that accident.
SB 129 authorizes neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) to be operated on roads with a posted speed limit of 45 miles per hour or less. The bill authorizes driver license holders to operate NEVs without having a motorcycle endorsement, clarifies that drivers and passengers in such vehicles are not required to wear helmets and specifies that enclosed three-wheeled vehicles as described in the bill are authorized to operate in preferential lanes.
Concealed handgun:
HB 2730 amends numerous provisions regarding concealed handgun licenses (CHLs), including eliminating student loan defaults as a disqualifier, to clarify that DPS must suspend or revoke a license when the licensee becomes ineligible and mandating that a magistrate suspend a CHL held by the subject of an emergency protective order.
HB 2664 provides a defense to prosecution if a concealed handgun license holder carries a concealed handgun into an establishment that gets 51 percent or more of its income from the sale of alcoholic beverages, but has failed to post the statutorily required notice that it derives 51 percent or more of its income from the sale of alcoholic beverages. (Under current law, a concealed handgun licensee can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor for doing this.)
HB 2730 removes DPS authority to suspend a concealed handgun license (CHL) for the holder’s failure to display the CHL to a peace officer on demand. It removes associated penalties and suspensions for the failure to display.
Driver license:
HB 2730 requires that all applicants under the age of 18 take the driving skills exam to receive a driver license. The law also requires that a provisional driver license (under 18) or instruction permit expire on an individual’s 18th birthday, removes the requirement that a provisional driver license or instruction permit be renewed annually and increases the fee for those licenses from $5 to $15. It also extends the current phase-two restrictions for holders of a graduated driver license from 6 months to 1 year. These restrictions include limited night driving, prohibited use of wireless communication devices and a limited number of passengers.
HB 339 increases the total hours of behind-the-wheel driving instruction a teen receives from 14 to 34 after TEA develops criteria for curriculum. (Goes into effect May 1, 2010)
SB 1317 creates a six-hour driver education course required for driver license applicants 18 years of age or older. It also mandates that applicants 25 or under must submit to an approved driver education course. (Goes into effect March 1, 2010.)
SB 328 gives DPS the power to suspend a minor’s driver license if they fail a breath or blood alcohol test while operating a watercraft. Chapter 524 of the Transportation Code also clearly defines the suspension period for an individual who was under the age of 21 at the time when the
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offense of boating under the influence or driving under the influence of alcohol occurred. The law also increases the reinstatement fee for a license suspended under sections 49.04-49.08, Penal Code from $50 to $100.
HB 2730 increases the driver license sanction from a one-year CDL license disqualification to a lifetime disqualification if a person uses a motor vehicle to transport, conceal or harbor an alien. If a child is engaged in conduct involving a severe form of trafficking persons, a judge at a juvenile hearing is required to order the juvenile’s driver license or permit to be suspended.
HB 2730 prohibits DPS from issuing a driver license or identification card to a person who has not established a domicile in Texas. The law specifies that an applicant may receive a driver license at a post office box only if the applicant’s residence address has also been provided, with some exceptions.
Crime:
HB 558 allows minors to be charged with public intoxication.
HB 2386 allows courts to immediately seal juvenile criminal records if the juvenile successfully completes a drug court program, or another special program ordered by the court.
HB 1282 makes it a Class B misdemeanor to steal a driver license, commercial driver license or personal identification.
SB 554 makes it illegal to own or possess dog-fighting equipment and establishes that such equipment and property where dogs are found to be engaged in dog fighting is contraband and is subject to forfeiture. The law also makes dog-fighting subject to the elevated penalties authorized in the Texas Penal Code, Section 71.02(a), in an effort to deter organized criminal activity.
HB 1813 makes it a third-degree felony to tamper with forensic, medical, chemical, toxicological and ballistic reports, as well as reports of certification, inspection or maintenance of instruments used to examine or test physical evidence. (Currently, someone who does this can only be charged with a state jail felony.)
HB 358 allows law enforcement authorities to store only a small part of gambling machines that have been seized, instead of storing the whole machine. They would be able to remove and store just the computer chips in gambling machines, which are the core of the machines and contain the information necessary for prosecutions to go forward.
Registered sex offenders:
SB 689 restricts Internet usage by certain registered sex offenders, and requires registered sex offenders to provide information about their e-mail addresses when they register.
Motorcycles etc.:
Senate Bill 1967 requires that applicants for an original class M license or class A, B or C driver license (including commercial driver licenses and permits) with authorization to operate a motorcycle, provide evidence of completion of an approved motorcycle operator training course. It also repeals the helmet exemption sticker program. Current law requires a person be covered with a minimum of $10,000 in health insurance for injuries incurred in a motorcycle accident to be eligible for an exception for the offense of operating or riding a motorcycle without a helmet. As of Sept. 1,
the minimum amount is removed. The bill requires the Texas Department of Insurance to prescribe a standard proof of health insurance for issuance to persons who are at least 21 years of age and covered by an applicable health insurance plan. The law also increases the penalty for failure to yield the right-of-way if there is a crash that results in injury to a person other than the motorcycle operator.
Miscellaneous:
HB 2730 increases the fine for a parking violation at the state Capitol from $10 to $25, and increases the late fee from $2 to $5.
SB 1188 authorizes a Texas resident to buy firearms, ammunition or firearms accessories in any other state, not just those contiguous to Texas, to reflect updated federal statutes.
SB 589 requires that window installers place a vehicle equipment safety compliance label on a windshield, side or rear window stating that the window tinting complies with the appropriate provisions of the Transportation Code. Failing to place the required label on the vehicle could now lead to a $1,000 fine for the window installer.
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Tis a sad day. The Pirate Bay is gone. I didn't use it for much of anything anymore, but still. It was nice they were there as a last ditch effort. If any of my friends who read this are still using TPB, I would say stop. Like yesterday. All the logs of stuff people have downloaded and shared are going to be up for grabs. Make sure you keep yourself out of trouble.

This is like Napster dieing all over again. A very sad day indeed.

action, not emotion

Serenity, by far. I cut my teeth on star trek the next generation, but Serenity just mixed Sci-Fi and Western in such a cool way. It was just one of the most amazing tv shows ever. I'm sad no more of it will ever be made. Though the fact that it was only 13 episodes and 1 movie long may be what made it so amazing. It didn't really have a chance to have any sucky episodes.

Long ago (way back in umm.. 2001, 2002, something like that?) I did an internet radio broadcast for a station called RagRadio. Ragradio has been out of commission for awhile. There were a few brief tries at restarting it (including one I posted about in this very blog), but we never quite captured the magic we had back then.

I realize this was supposed to be a post about Livejournal, but I'm making this post about ragradio damn it. lol.

Anyway, I had a friend who was a fellow broadcaster on ragradio named Nichole. She had a livejournal, which at the time you could only get an account by paying for one, or an already paying member inviting you. She invited me and I tried to start my own journal. It didn't last, and even today i couldn't tell you what the username for it was. That's the first place I heard about it.

Later on I tried to start blogging again, only this time I did it with blogger. I didn't like it as much and that ended up going by the way side. Then along about 2006 I decided to start journaling again, came across this website, and I've actually maintained it ever since. I go through rough periods where I don't blog very much, and I go through periods where I blog several times a day. I also do fits and starts in between. But I'm proud of the fact that I've managed to record the last 3 years of my life here on livejournal.

Going back about a year or so to the time frame during my divorce, its really difficult to read those old entries. I was very weak and really didn't know how to do anything on my own. I still don't for the most part, but for now at least, I've learned how to pay my bills online.

Back to ragradio for a few moments. I've written about it here before, but I'll write again as I might have new readers. Ragradio when it started was the first internet radio station I had ever heard of. A friend of mine Kellie introduced it to me. She also introduced me to the wonderful world of IRC. I should either thank her for that or shoot her. I'm not sure which. ;-)

Anyway, back in the day when Ragradio first started they streamed the radio at some incredibly low bitrate using some sort of Real (the company) streaming server. You listened with Realplayer (back before it was a giant, bloated, piece of spyware). At the time mp3's were still really new, and not supported by real player. (not to mention it took 5-10 hours to download 1 alubm on dialup). So we were limited to playing music by what CD's we had. You stuck a CD in the drive, selected your track, hit play, and away it went across the intertubes. You couldn't even tell if anyone was listening or not.

Kellie and I spent many hours sitting at my house broadcasting to the internet, unsure if anyone was even hearing us. We would stay up until all hours of the night, and well into the wee hours of the next morning talking into the microphone, arguing about what to play next, chatting on irc during songs, and just generally having a great time.

Then came the advent of Shoutcast. It was open source software from Nullsoft (later taken over by AOL) that allowed us to broadcast using winamp. That meant MP3's! Anything we could get our grubby little hands on in mp3 format, we could send out over the internet. It was also slightly higher bitrate, but we were on dialup, so great bit rates weren't really a posibility. Then there was the ever constant buffering, when you were listening to other people broadcasting. The things we put up with back then to listen to music over the internet would not be tolerated today. lol.

I don't remember what caused the music to die that first time around. Maybe it didn't die, and i just drifted away. I don't recall. But I do know a few years after that I came back to ragradio and things were still going strong. One thing about ragradio, it was always a drama. But it was a drama with good people. They sometimes made bad choices, and someone was always pissed off at someone else, but when it really came down to it we were all friends. Good friends, from all across the world. From Southern California, to New York, to across the pond in Portugal. There was of course myself, and Kellie from right here in Texas. I found lots of new music because of ragradio and my tastes expanded greatly. That's still reflected even today in the music I listen to. Mr. Johnny Cash is one of my all time favorite artists. The first time I heard a Cash song was on ragradio.

Over the years ragradio died. It's sad. I think it mostly died because the 2 great people running it (Mig and Ed) got tired of all the drama. They would never admit that (to spare the feelings of the people involved), but I personally think that was a lot of it. They always claimed it was things like getting shut down for running a pirate internet radio station and not paying any fees to do so. I don't think they were real worried about that though.

Anyway, after the demise of ragradio, I started up my own shoutcast station. I even set up a Linux box strictly dedicated to running shoutcast (and my eggdrop, L053r). I learned a lot about broadcasting, and how hard it is to maintain. I learned a little about programming, and how frustrating bugs in software can be. It was called freeradio. I got to experience some of the frustrations that come along with running an internet radio station. Also a little of the fears of being caught. Freeradio didn't really have a lot of steam behind it, so it died too.

Anyway, a little of my past there for folks. Ragradio introduced me to a lot, including livejournal, which is what the topic of this post was originally about anyway.

Courtesy of she is very creative!

I'm not so much worried about catching it as i am a government enforced quarantine. I've got extra food stocked up in case there is an extended quarantine, and I've got plenty of ammo for anyone who might think about breaking quarantine by coming into my dwelling place.

forever! Because i am Superman!

Forgot to add. I got some new A.C. Hall books in the mail this weekend!
The first one is called .9. Its a collection of four short stories.
The second is called This Fire Is Mine It is another collection of short stories.
The last book is called Pictures At An Exhibition.

Now I can't speak to all 3 of them yet. But I was one of the test readers on Pictures At An Exhibition, and it was a great book. Its a very epic sci-fi book that runs across another universe. It was a great read, and I can't wait to re-read it and see how the story improved since I first read it over a year ago. IF anyone is interested they can click on any of the 3 linked titles above and purchase the books. You can purchase the actual physical book, and have it shipped to your home, or you can purchase the less costly download of the book and start reading right now.

A.C. Hall self publishes his stuff. I think its important to support independent artists like him. Not to mention this guy weaves a great story.

Funny comics for the day!








Also on a non-funny note, link to information on the swine flu outbreak.
swine flu information

The answer to this would either be my sister Aubrey (aubreyandrews ). I've known her since she was born twenty some odd years ago. (trying to be a gentleman and not give away her age, even though i do know what it is.) Now she is technically family, and not friend exactly.

The person whom I'm not related to that I have known the longest would be my ever gun toting, and touting friend James(massajamesb ). I met him the summer before 8th grade, which would mean I've known him for 15 years this summer. Man we're old. lol.

I went to answer this question and I'm having a hell of a time deciding what my favorite song lyrics are. Finally I managed to settle on a couple lines from a song I've really grown tired of listening to over the years.

"Our little group has always been
And always will until the end"

Covers my true friends pretty well.

I thought of one other as a runner up.

"If you think I'm sick take a look at yourself
You got dead deer heads up on your shelf
On your key chain is a little baby rabbit's hand
And I'm still the dead body man"

The fact that I was going to try to take up blogging again. I questioned whether or not i would be successful with it. Turns out i have been mostly. I've missed some updates here and there, but for the most part I've done a real good job of keeping it up to date.

A 911 dispatcher had to tell a woman how to unlock her car on Sunday.A woman called Kissimmee police to say she was locked inside her car at the Walgreen's on John Young Parkway near Poinciana.

"My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car," the unidentified woman said.

"Nothing electrical works. And it's getting very hot in here, and I'm not feeling well."

The dispatcher asked the woman if she was able to manually pull the lock up on the door.

The woman said she would try, and then, she said, "Yes, I got the door open."

Woman calls 911: I'm locked inside my car -- OrlandoSentinel.com

Wasn't that a joke on Family Guy?