How awful for that poor girl.
And what of the children, not even having any schooling...

Well, I did it!!
It was approved by my wife!

Woooooohoooooo!!!

she approved a purchase of a new PC for me..

I am in process of loading all bookmarks and stuff to it now.

WTG!

sigh...one more bill added to the pile. Hopefully this year we can get rid of a few bills. Enjoy your new PC beloved.

huggers
Cori

I received this in an email, thought it was appropriate.

NEW
PREAMBLE TO THE
CONSTITUTION


This
is one of the best e-mails I've seen in a
long, long time. The following has been attributed to
State Representative Mitchell Kaye
from GA. This guy
should run for President one
day...



************************************************************************************************************






We
the sensible people of the United States, in an
attempt to help everyone get along, restore some
semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our
nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the
blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our
great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to
ordain and establish some common sense
guidelines for the terminally whiny,
guilt ridden, delusional. We hold these truths to be
self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused
by the Bill of
Rights and are so dim they require
a Bill of NON-Rights.'



ARTICLE
I:

You
do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or
any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can
legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing
anything.


ARTICLE
II:

You
do not have the right to never be offended. This
country is based on freedom, and that means freedom
for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room,
turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.;
but the world is full of idiots, and probably always
will be.


ARTICLE
III:

You
do not have the right to be free from harm. If you
stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more
careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make
you and all your relatives independently
wealthy.


ARTICLE
IV:

You
do not have the right to free food and housing.
Americans are the most charitable people to be found,
and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are
quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after
generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve
nothing more than the creation of another
generation of
professional couch potatoes.


ARTICLE
V:

You
do not have the right to free health
care.. That would be nice, but from the
looks of public housing, we're just not interested in
public health care.


ARTICLE
VI:

You
do not have the right to physically harm other people.
If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill
someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to
see you fry in the electric chair.


ARTICLE
VII:

You
do not have the right to the possessions of others. If
you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services
of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of
us get tog ether and lock you away in a place where you
still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or
a life of leisure.


ARTICLE
VIII:

You
do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want
you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in
hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the
opportunities of education and vocational training
laid before you to make yourself
useful.


ARTICLE
IX:

You
do not have the right to happiness. Being an American
means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness,
which by the way, is a lot easier if you are
unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws
created by those of you who were confused by the Bill
of Rights.


ARTICLE
X:

This
is an English speaking
country . We
don't care where you
are
from, English is
our language. Learn it or go back to
wherever you
came from.




Lastly

ARTICLE
XI:

You
do not have the right to change our country's history
or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in
one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to
believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at
all; with no fear of persecution.The
phrase IN
GOD WE TRUST is
part of our heritage and
history, and if you are uncomfortable with
it, TOUGH!

I like that bro.
Thanks for sharing it.
I really enjoyed it.
It has a lot of my feelings about the way things are in it.
We Americans are always bending backwards for non-Americans,
so that we will not offend them.
Well I have bent backwards so much that now I am offended.
I say no more!
Great post bro!
(((HUGS)))

glad you liked it Maidenn

awesome post

Beloved,
I agree with the others although the last one about God I'm not all for. Thanks for the read I enjoyed it.

36 Forevers
Cori

whisperin_willow wrote:

damn,
that's a might fine vehicle
mighty fine


i'll take one in blue

Well, imagine this.

One of those in mdnight blue with silver flakes in the paint, with no other markings.
It would look like a starry night. ")

I thought this was an interesting read. While I placed the article on the forum, I thought i would post the link also.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8297467.stm



Royal blood disorder identified



















The mutation was transmitted from Russian Empress
Alexandra to her son
Crown Prince Alexei













DNA analysis has revealed the identity
of the "cursed blood" disorder that afflicted the British Royal Family
in the 19th and early 20th centuries.Scientists say the
disease inherited by Queen Victoria's descendants was probably a severe
form of the blood clotting disorder haemophilia B. The scientists examined DNA samples extracted from the skeletal remains of Russia's Romanov family. The research is published in the journal Science. Their analysis included the remains of Queen Victoria's great grandson Crown Prince Alexei. Scientists already knew that males of the Royal Family at that time suffered from a type of haemophilia. But their latest analysis of the remains of Victoria's Russian descendants helped identify the exact form. Modern analytical techniques allowed the scientists to amplify the very degraded DNA. They
discovered a mutation in a gene on the X chromosome that codes for the
production of Factor IX, a substance that causes blood to clot.

Queen Victoria's great grandson Crown Prince Alexei was a haemophiliac

This genetic mutation is the cause of haemophilia B. Because
this blood disorder is linked to the X chromosome it passed on through
the maternal line, but is only manifested in male descendants. This is because males have only one X chromosome, so the mutation on that single chromosome is "expressed" as the disease. Females only carry the disease, because their second X chromosome is extremely unlikely to have this same, very rare mutation. Dr Evgeny Rogaev from the University of Massachusetts led the research. He told the BBC that it was the "final chapter" in the confirmation of the Romanov family's remains. He added: "We have resolved a medical mystery from the past."

here is the link also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8294544.stm

Q&A: Phishing for your precious data

About a third of phishing targets banking and financial institutions

"Phishing" - an increasingly diverse and sophisticated suite of
methods to trick people into parting with their precious personal data
- is at a two-year high. Here the BBC takes a look at the phenomenon and how to protect yourself.What is phishing?Phishing
is a broad term for any effort to gain personal data, directly from the
user - login details, passwords, bank account details, etc. - by
tricking them into entering it into a website or email. It is a
form of "social engineering", where the real power lies in the
manipulation of behaviour, rather than technological prowess. As such,
careful consumers can often avoid falling into the phishing trap. How does it work?Most
often, a phishing attempt will direct a user to a "spoof" website,
designed to look like a user's legitimate banking site, payment
service, or social network site. This may be by sending an email purporting to be from a legitimate site, linking to a spoof site. Although
they are not strictly a phishing measure, past attacks may have relied
on key-logging computer code, which simply stores each and every
keystroke on your keyboard. Such software can be hidden within
an e-mail attachment, be downloaded from a "spoof" website, or
masquerade as another kind of program. An old standby for
malware in general being brought into the phishing tackle box is pop-up
advertising that offers updated system performance or anti-virus
software. Instead, users may be installing a key-logger that reports
back with any passwords or details entered thereafter. What is the scale of the problem?

Social networks are a growing target for phishermen

While credit card fraud this year is decreasing nearly across the
board, online banking fraud is conspicuously on the rise, up 55% on the
same time last year, according to industry body Financial Fraud Action
UK. Phishing is likely to contribute greatly to this rise. According
to security firm MarkMonitor, the level of phishing so far this year
has matched a peak that came about in 2007 as a result of the use of
networks of infected computers to carry out phishing expeditions. MarkMonitor's
report suggests that the traditional phishermen's targets for
high-value information - banking websites - have taken a backseat to
payment websites such as PayPal. Since such payment websites work by
linking a user to his or her bank account, they can act as a proxy to
gain the same information. Payment sites account for about half
of all phishing attempts, while traditional banking websites have
slipped to about a third. Social networking sites are also seen
as a breeding ground on the rise for phishing; attacks against social
network brands are at an all-time high, with three times as many
occurrences than the previous peak at about the same time last year. How do I avoid being phished?First
and foremost, having up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware programs is
the best first line of defence. Some security software suites such as
that from AVG provide a constantly updated list of unsafe websites,
warning before you even visit them. Also, always remember that
your bank and most reputable third-party payment services will never
ask you for your password; were they legitimate, they would already
have that information.

COMPUTER SECURITY TIPS Make sure you have good anti-virus software which regularly scans for spyware Make sure you use a firewall, spam filter and security software that keeps an eye on you while you browse the web Avoid keeping passwords stored on your computer and disclosing them to anybody If you are accessing banking details from a computer that is used by other people, ensure you do not click on "save" password, as another user could gain access Check your bank statements and receipts carefully to ensure there are no fraudulent transactions Google targeted in e-mail scam

More difficult are the phishing attempts that direct users to spoof
sites that can be difficult to distinguish from the real thing. As
always, be wary of the source of emails and the web destinations they
may attempt to send you to. While the name tagged to an email sender
might suggest "NatWest Bank", a nonsensical email address or one
clearly outside the country should raise suspicion. Attachments
to e-mails remain a particularly easy place to store malicious code of
all sorts, so be sure of an attachment's provenance before you open or
save it. Though it is relatively easy to mock up a website, it
is much more difficult to mask exactly where that website sits in
cyberspace. For users, it is always worth checking the URL of
the site where they are being directed; in most browsers, it suffices
to hover over a link and look in the browser's lower-left hand corner. Just
like the source of a potentially phishy email, the URL that you are
being sent to may be easily spotted as a fake. One typical approach is
to transpose a couple of letters within a URL, so that a quick glance
wouldn't pick it up: www.bankingwesbite.co.uk. It's worth
knowing what your trusted sites' URLs look like and keep an eye out for
any changes to the site as you conduct your business. And be
careful with any site asking you to install a program, no matter how
beneficial it may seem - if it seems too good to be free, there might
be something phishy about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8297934.stm



Tiny 'nuclear batteries' unveiled

The team hopes to make nuclear batteries much smaller still

Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized "nuclear battery" that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes.As radioactive substances decay, they release charged particles that when properly harvested can create an electrical current. Nuclear batteries have been in use for military and aerospace applications, but are typically far larger. The University of Missouri team says that the batteries hold a million times as much charge as standard batteries. They
have developed it in an attempt to scale down power sources for the
tiny devices that fall under the category of micro- and
nano-electromechanical systems (Mems and Nems). The means to power such devices has been a subject of study as vigorous as the development of the devices themselves. Liquid solutionNuclear
batteries are an attractive proposition for many applications because
the isotopes that power them can provide a useful amount of current for
phenomenally long times - up to hundreds of years or more. As a
result, they have seen use in spacecraft that are fired far off into
the cosmos. But for applications here on Earth, their size has limited
their use. The Missouri team, led by Jae Wan Kwon, employed a liquid semiconductor to capture and utilise the decay particles. Most
nuclear batteries use a solid semiconductor to harvest the particles,
but the particles' extremely high energies means that the
semiconductors suffer damage over time. This means that to build a battery that can last as long as the isotope inside, they must be built larger. The
team's solution incorporates a liquid semiconductor, in which the
particles can pass without causing damage. They are now working to
further miniaturise the batteries. And although the whole idea hinges on the use of radioactive materials, the devices are safe under normal operating conditions. "People hear the word 'nuclear' and think of something very dangerous," Dr Jae said. "However,
nuclear power sources have already been safely powering a variety of
devices, such as pacemakers, space satellites and underwater systems."

My Lovely wife sent this to me, where she got it is unknown to me as she is at work right now.

WETPANTS

Come with me to a third grade classroom......


There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and
all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his
feet and the front of his pants are wet. He
thinks his heart is going to stop because he
cannot possibly imagine how this has
happened. It's never happened before, and
he knows that when the boys find out he will
never hear the end of it. When the girls find
out, they'll never speak to him again as long as
he lives..


The boy
believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his
head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this
is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes
from now I'm dead
meat.'


He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher
with a look in her eyes that says he has been
discovered.



As the
teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named
Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled
with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher
and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the
boy's lap.

The boy
pretends to be angry, but all the while is
saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you,
Lord!'


Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of
ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy.
The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym
shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All
the other children are on their hands and knees
cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is
wonderful.. But as life would have it, the
ridicule that should have been his has been
transferred to someone else -
Susie.



She tries to help, but they tell her to get out.
You've done enough, you
klutz!'


Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for
the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and
whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?'
Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once
too..'

That was cute bro

DarkMaidenn wrote:

That was cute bro

Thanks sis,
Glad you both liked it.

Redd

I saw this ad in a video off of youtube.
I thought it was funny.

WANTED:
A tall well-built woman with good
reputation, who can cook frogs
legs, who appreciates a good fuc-
scia garden, classical music and tal-
king without getting too serious.

But please read only line 1, 3 and 5.

YOU HAVE TO LOVE HIM....A MUST READ...HE MADE THIS SPEECH IN NEW YORK .
AS IT TURNS OUT, I CHECKED SNOPES, THIS SPEECH WAS NOT FROM ROBIN WILLIAMS.

The Plan



Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says 'I love New York ' in Arabic.

You gotta love Robin Williams........Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message. Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'

1) 'The US /UK? Canada, AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.

6) The US /UK Canada, Australia will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

ROBIN WILLIAMS DID SAY THIS THOUGH:
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '

I loved reading all the info you had posted here bro.
The hemophilia one was especially interesting.
My husband has ITP short for idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura.
In another words, a blood disorder. Its like hemophilia, but its not.
Idiopathic means they have no idea why...
Very interesting.
(((HUGS)))

Wow! how does that effect his wounds? does he bleed alot, or is that aspect normal?

something to think about.

years ago, I taught my daughter to howl.
I remember, she and I would step out and howl at the moon.

tonite after her bath, she wanted the wolf towel to dry with.
As i handed it to her, we began to howl together.

It was a very interesting bonding.

Try it!

Peace and Love,
Redd

ReddpaW wrote:

Wow! how does that effect his wounds? does he bleed alot, or is that aspect normal?

Yes, he bleeds a lot.
But surprisingly he heals fast...
It is getting better though.
His platelet count has been going up.
Platelets are what makes your blood clot.

Redd, I was reading on-line, as usual, and I run across this link.
Maybe it might come in useful some day?
http://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html
I believe it hides your ISP or IP, or something like that...
I did not read up on it a lot though.
Just thought it sounded interesting...
(((HUGS)))

thanks maidenn, appreciate it.