Watching a squirrel make a nest.

I don't see this to often but when I do it's real neat. Theirs a squirrel stripping bark from a cut down apple tree. As she pulls of long strips and hold them in her mouth she stops and reworks the pieces turning thing into long stringy parts to the nest. I've seen them also cutting fine blades of grass sorting them all out to 1 1/2 inches long. The strips she's cutting today look like they are around six to eight inches.

 

Since it looks like it's going to rain again, it throws off the critters timing. When the clouds come over they think it's getting dark and need to eat for the evening. When the sun comes out it's time to play.

 

Well, the clouds are really coming in now. It's a real dark gray sky and it doesn't look like it's going to be a outdoor day. I wanted to do some weed eating but that looks like it's going to have to be put off. Same with the foundation fix, the ground is to wet and muddy. It's only in the 50's today. I noticed that there is a lot of cherries on the ground because of the rain. It's been too windy for the fruit to stay on the branches. If things keep going like they are there won't be any fruit this year.

 

The turkeys are walking down the road thinking it's going to get dark soon. I've been able to gauge what time it is by watching the wild life and where they are moving during the day. Right now it looks like it would be around 7:30 PM on a normal day. Some times I like dressing up nice and warm and getting outside. Being cold is okay but cold and wet is another. There was a day when it didn't matter to me but getting old and slow moving makes staying inside seems the thing to do.

 

It's turning into a feeding frenzy for the smaller birds. The jays and pigeons and out in force. When I see them eating like there's no tomorrow then I know that the rain will be here soon and maybe for a long time. They say it's going to be in the 80's later this week but you couldn't tell that from the way it looks now. I'd be taking pictures but there is not enough light even using 800 ASA film.

 

Looking out the window I can see things are getting wet. No down pour, yet. This winter has thrown a lot of curves. Hot where you can be out in shorts then rain then hot again. Some of the weeds are almost full grown while others have just started. Well better check the NOAA website and see what's going to happen. Yesterday they had tornado warnings out and had some funnel clouds. I missed most of that real bad weather mainly because it went around me.

All weather all the time

Dark, rainy and want to sleep but I had to go down the hill to the doctors. What a journey this was. Rain, hail , fire brimstone, funnel clouds. There was a brief period that it wasn't raining but for the most part it rained. Saw a couple cars on the side of the road that smacked into each other. One was on the side of the hill going the wrong way. Right at that time was when I hit a squall line so I guess they got caught off guard and smacked into each other. Like the rain hit and one bone head slammed on the breaks forgetting people were behind them.

Hand has lost it's numbness after the cortisone shot. I feel the cortisone part as a stiffness but the lidocaine wore off. It'll be a couple days before I start having better hand function.
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Back at home.
The deer stopped by. Big Buddy, Stumpy and one guy last year was big buck on campus and now has a limp and Marty Feldman eyes. I thought he was going to die he was in such bad shape. One of his eyes last year was closed and his antler were knocked off. It looked like he dislocated his front left leg but it's seem to heal sort of well. Still he has a limp. Don't think he's going to be that same scrappy young thing he was last year.

It's nice having it stay light so late but today it just was one of those days. It just had a red dark fade to night.

24
Only two more episodes left. What city will get blown up! Let see the little places I used to see around Los Angeles that are suppose to be else where. Still, the series has a lot of great tension. The best way to see 24 is to rent the whole series and watch them all at one time. You don't even want to pause the DVD play to take a pee.

Good day for the critters

Sort of sunny today. Some high cloads so the sun comes out in spots. Had five deer here a few minutes ago. Have six squirrels outside right now chowing down. I guess it's going to rain again because every one is eating early. Usually this part of the day every one is kicking back in the trees and don't come back out until 3 PM. Grampa Tommy and one of his young hens are outside too. Since the turkeys have all mated they are out nesting. The only hens are one year old and daddy bird is watching the youngsters. It so cute to see the young squirrels. They like doing squirrel things to make them into a strong squirrels. They play chase and bounce off trees. The grosbeaks are becoming more visable. guess it's because there is more of them. The young squirrels are so small you could put one in your hand. I can get close to them but not that close. Everything here is wild and I bilieve that it's because of trust that I can get as close as I do to them. Well, done with my coffee and watching, better hop in the shower and get out and do something before it rains.

Rainy day but the little critters are out.

New "Life" in spring.


A great looking flower with some great detail.


Lazy day and a little hen getting some rays.


Big Buddy stealing the birds food. He lost a lot of weight since the rut and he's growing new antler.

Last night I had a bunch of deer eating in the field. There was Big Buddy, Stumpy fellow, Friend, Mom Girl and the two babies which are one year old now.

There are a lot of quail and grosbeak out today. My favorite little bird is the nuthatch but the little guys won't sit still to get the picture taken.

You can tell you have a healthy forest by the amount of birds you see. At least that's what I'm gauging my forest by.

I saw Mr. Stinkers last night. I didn't see him come on the porch but I did hear him pushing things around.

I see evidence of the bobcat coming around but I haven't seen him in a few month.

With all the rain we have been getting everything is growing so fine. Going to have a lot of fruit and berries. I think I picked up a little poison oak but it's not bad yet. It's just that I've got the scratches all over. I think what happened was the oil from the poison oak soaked through my sweaty cloths. Well it's sprinkling again and all the little critters ran off for shelter.

When I hear that Kansas is having talks on intelligent design and no science people are there to debate it, it shows me that the country is going backwards as far as science goes. Without people going into the science industries we are just making a country of burger flippers. It's one thing to have faith but to make that faith the law of the land is like Islamic countries making it the law of the land. That's why we went to war in Iraq and won't let them have an Islamic government. So why does Bush keep pushing the Religious Right as the Germany did before WWII? Unless this is a ploy to do the same thing that Adolph wanted to do in making it a "Christian" country. But no one learns from history these days. Hell, you don't even know what you did last week. To ask you what you did last year would be a pipe dream.

Getting ready to rain

Have all my toy put away and ready for the rain. Did some more forest cleaning today used the chain saw like crazy. Well, here comes the quail. They're here early. Then again every one ate early getting ready for the rain. It looks like it's going to rain 3 or for days then a one day break and rain another 4 days. Looks like inside work for me. As it is right now I'm still drying out from my forest fun. Been dragging a lot of trimmings that the power company has left be hind after there trimming. Makes a lot of sense to put a pile of dried wood under the power line so if one breaks and drops to the ground it could start a good fire. The bad thing about them trimming trees is they don't know how to. They cut the top of a pine tree off then it turns into six or eight trees growing up. Not to mention the branches they leave hanging in other trees as they fall. To avoid any clean up work the push the branches under other bushes. If it's one thing I learned in life, short cuts will come back to make problems. Last year when I complained to the tree service the power company uses they said they don't have to clean up in a forest but it was my back yard so I don't get it. Last year they started a very large fire in the county and it was totally out of control. Highway 50 was closed. Then it rained which put out the fire but also caused a land slide. I just wonder how many people have no idea they are sitting on time bombs.

Long day

It's been a long day of tree trimming. The good part of the day was watching the birds and squirrel. I never get tired of watching them. Saw two grosbeak today. Friend showed up, a young Stumpy Fella's son. Never thought I'd be naming all the deer but when you can tell them all apart and see how they all act it make them rather special. Trimming the forest of the dead wood to make it look like a fire has cleaned it out is a job. I did that on the south end of the property over three years and it's growing great. Now to the north end where the poison oak bushes are as big as trees. Took a few picture with my 500 mm lens with the Pentax, they came out rather well. Using the Canon they didn't. Not sure why that was, the Canon always worked well. Think it has something to do with no f stop. Thing is I had a Phoenix lens with no f stop and it work well. Maybe the shutter is hanging up. I don't use it enough. Although it will work with a 200 mm zoom lens with f stops. The Pentax I can control that problem. Think I'll be getting a lot of pictures this year. I've been slacking off the past year. Funny, a few years ago I was shooting 12 to 24 rolls a week.

Well, had a nice sit down with my Big Buddy. We both heard a noise of towards the creek then Mr. Stinkers popped up on the road. I see he's wandering up this way and will be here when it's a little more quiet. I know Buddy will run off as soon as he sees Mr. Stinkers. Later this summer I'll keep trying to get close to the little guy. Last year I was laying in the door way and he came right up to may face. Skunks got a bad rap. Then have such a nice coat of fur, it's just amazing. I hope to see some raccoons this year. The first year there was mom dad and the four babies. The deer didn't know what to think of then and the babies didn't know what to make of the raccoons. The deer did try to give them a sniff.

Have my coils almost finished to do my low frequency studies of the magnetic field of the earth. I'm sure I could read more on it but there is some new facts happening to the earth magnetic field. Could we be instore for a polarity shift? Again? From what I've read in college it looks like they happen over a 100 year cycle. So looking a Polaris might be the south pole. What they didn't say about polar shifts is does the planet turn over. That would be a real drag. But it could happen to keep order to the solar system. The suns pole has been constant as far as we know. I still look at it as our planet if like a spark from a welder that is cooling off with the hottest parts keeping it moving until it's cold like mars.

First grosbeak today

Saw my first grosbeak today. Got out the 500mm but he was gone by then.

Big Buddy and Friend came by and had dinner. I sat outside with them till they left. I don't think many people can say they can walk around with wild deer. When I bump into them in the thick forest and they can't see me, I give them my whistle and then they stop running because they know it's me, their friend.

I gave a whistle this morning and five young squirrels came running down with mom. They knew I had place sunflower seeds out.

The pigeons are coming back. They are good looking birds and they are wild but they are destroying my paint job on my car.

Having a good herd of quail this year too.

Saw the Jack Rabbit the other day. What a great looting creature. I was folding socks and I think it saw me move and took off running. It was just a few feet from my telescope and that was about 30 feet from my bed.

Rainy day and everything is so green outside

Nice and warm inside but cool and wet outside. It really came down last night. I saw a flash of light and started counting, one, almost two, bang. It was really close. I was waiting for hale but it was just water. My burn pile went out and smoldered like a camp ground trash fire, with it's camp ground odors.

Flying

Started raining about midnight lastnight. The wind was wiping though here at a unbelieveable speed. I thought it was going to rip some of the trees out. The oak tree in the front yard was moving inches which I never seen before because it was close to the base of the tree.

That flying of the ladder number I did last week has still slowed me down. You don't get to fly 10 feet into the ground and feel good over night. This sleeping is getting to be excesive. The pollen is doing a number on my too. The runny wet eyes and wet nose make me feel some what dinged out. Well the pollen from the Walnut tree is almost over.

Think I'll take advantage of the cold spell and do some work in the attic. Need to get my alarm in, put some foil on the roof to reflect the heat. Need to work on the venting too. The fan works but when the vent closes the air can't get out. Then there is the problem of no screen on that vent.

Well it llooks like it's going to be an early night tonight. Just haven't been able to wake up all day. Must be the rain and dark day.  Maybe it will be better tomorrow, maybe see some sun. I've always been one to be a sun peson. If I'm in the sun durring the day then I like to or able to stay up at night.

Histroy Repeating It's Self

Been a not so long time for me to be a grumpy old man at history.

I've been watching the BBC series on "The Wars of Britain."

Looking at what the English have done over the years have to be worse things then the, Roman's, Napoleon his French Army, Bo-Park, The Japaness,

Gengous Con

 

Cheaters always prosper.
and good guys always finish last.

 

 

Flying

Started raining about midnight lastnight. The wind was wiping though here at a unbelieveable speed. I thought it was going to rip some of the trees out. The oak tree in the front yard was moving inches which I never seen before because it was close to the base of the tree.

That flying of the ladder number I did last week has still slowed me down. You don't get to fly 10 feet into the ground and feel good over night. This sleeping is getting to be excesive. The pollen is doing a number on my too. The runny wet eyes and wet nose make me feel some what dinged out. Well the pollen from the Walnut tree is almost over.

Think I'll take advantage of the cold spell and do some work in the attic. Need to get my alarm in, put some foil on the roof to reflect the heat. Need to work on the venting too. The fan works but when the vent closes the air can't get out. Then there is the problem of no screen on that vent.

Well it llooks like it's going to be an early night tonight. Just haven't been able to wake up all day. Must be the rain and dark day.  Maybe it will be better tomorrow, maybe see some sun. I've always been one to be a sun peson. If I'm in the sun durring the day then I like to or able to stay up at night.

AOL

I guess you get what you pay for. Since it's free I guess that why is doesn't work. The 45 day of free service won't work until they start reaming you with a high bill. I bet this post won't even get to my blog. To bad, I feel sorry that people don't know they could get the came service or more for less then $10 per month.

Still trying to get AOL to work on my computer, it's been 4 days so far to try this out.

AOL Hell, You get what you pay for, iff it's free you don't get much

I guess you get what you pay for. Since it's free I guess that why is doesn't work. The 45 day of free service won't work until they start reaming you with a high bill. I bet this post won't even get to my blog. To bad, I feel sorry that people don't know they could get the came service or more for less then $10 per month.

Saturday, rainny day blues

Started raining about midnight lastnight. The wind was wiping though here at a unbelieveable speed. I thought it was going to rip some of the trees out. The oak tree in the front yard was moving inches which I never seen before because it was close to the base of the tree.

That flying of the ladder number I did last week has still slowed me down. You don't get to fly 10 feet into the ground and feel good over night. This sleeping is getting to be excesive. The pollen is doing a number on my too. The runny wet eyes and wet nose make me feel some what dinged out. Well the pollen from the Walnut tree is almost over.

Think I'll take advantage of the cold spell and do some work in the attic. Need to get my alarm in, put some foil on the roof to reflect the heat. Need to work on the venting too. The fan works but when the vent closes the air can't get out. Then there is the problem of no screen on that vent.

Well it llooks like it's going to be an early night tonight. Just haven't been able to wake up all day. Must be the rain and dark day.  Maybe it will be better tomorrow, maybe see some sun. I've always been one to be a sun peson. If I'm in the sun durring the day then I like to or able to stay up at night.

How do you know when you live in a big city?

Twenty some years ago I was working in Los Angeles, that when I noticed the rush hour sirens. Every afternoon about 3 PM the sirens started. At first I was like a moth to a flame running outside to see what was going on. My older brother ask, "What are you doing, it's only a siren." I could get over the amount of sirens every day. Living in Orange County I didn't hear the sirens like that every day. It wasn't until a few years later then I started to notice the sirens about 3 PM every day. It was slow in coming but it came as the county developed and more traffic.

Moving to the mountains and in a small town, I noticed the same thing, the 3 PM sirens. People coming from down the hill coming home a break neck speed rushing through traffic like it was some sort of race course. Every day there is the "they stopped and the others couldn't." Then there is the one car roll-over's or one car crashes. Going to fast for a turn, listening to the radio and changing the channel or talking on the phone and forgetting your on the road. I can't see how some one can be on the phone, driving and shift the transmission. Some how that doesn't make sense at all.

All in all, you know that the city is getting to big when you start hearing the 3 PM sirens.
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Quail are up side. They look so cool running around in pairs. Turkeys are on the fence picking feathers. I went down the road with the weed eater today. The birds love it. I can see them scratching through the cuttings.

I put some dried cherries on the porch today and the squirrels found them. There's only little scrapes left when I checked where I put them.

Well, time to kick back and take off my boots. I'm glad I took the time to clean up my old boots. If you take care of boots they can last a long time if you buy good boots. These are, my old good old climbing boots made by Lowa in Germany. I haven't seen any boots like this in any stores these days. I paid $225 dollars in 1972. I wonder how much they would cost today. Funny thing, these are 5 pounds each and these aren't my heavy boot. The other boot, my High elevation boots are two boots in one. You put on the first boot which you can use to walk around camp and stuff. Then you put on the other boot over the top. Lowa made a pair like that to go to the top of K2 and Everest. These are Swiss made for there Army. How about that, Swiss Army Boots.

Evening time to fade away

Nice sight, four quail feeding until dark. I was rather supprised to see them out so late. That must mean they live or are staying real close tonight. I didn't hear them fly away so I guess they walked home.

Rather productive day, even if I was limping around. I know I did well today, my body hurts, just a little more then normal. Still need to clip that screw off one of the squirrels houses. At least I got the ladders there to use tomorrow. Antenna is finally finished and working good. Still might try putting an amp right at the antenna but might have to pad it at the house. For living in the forest with the trees blocking the signal, its working rather well. I can get the San Francisco stations now, no great but I can get them.

Squirrels went crazy today. They got under the house and were fighting down there. At first I thought it was the Bobcat chewing one of the little guys. It turned out a young male wanted to mate and wasn't taking no for an answer. I think there was two males fight for this one female but not sure. I did see this one squirrel running down the road to it's nest but not before I noticed that it's eyes looked chewed out. It might look worse then it really is because there was a lot of dirt on it's face. I know the oak tree that the little guy lives in so I'll check on him tomorrow. Since my first year here when I noticed the minor patterns that they have in their faces, now I can tell which family groups they are from a far.

Had a visit from my Big Buddy around noon today. I was wondering what he's been up to. I see his antler are coming in and the skin is bleeding on the right side. That causes flies to get on their face and go for the blood. If only I could wash them down the flies wouldn't bother them. Later in the summer when their coats are thin, the flies take bites out of them. If you ever just see a deer standing there and all the sudden take off running it's either a fly, bee or wasp landing on them. Two years ago, Mr. Fuzzy antlers had a wasp sitting on his nose. The deer didn't move a muscle until the wasp flew off. Then again, while foraging with Mr Fuzzy Antlers he just bolted and ran down to the creek jumping and bucking all the way. So I can only guess it was a big bug on him.

Speaking of big bugs, I was one land on the screen while typing away one night. It was at least 3 inches long. The antenna were a couple inches too. I should have took a picture and tried to capture it but instead I flicked it with my finger. Took a couple of flicks to knock it off the screen.

Well, better see how the sauce is doing. Doing "SPAG" tonight. To lazy after today. Foots throbbing, back is stiff and I'm starting to slouch, neck is going out too. Guess it's going to be a night with PBS and the Nova programs.

Will my copy of "Apple Quicktime" ever stop asking me if I want to update?

Word of advice....

Always leave enough food outside for the critters. If they know your home and didn't come out, they become revengeful. They start chewing on anything and everything like Kenwood speaker grills you have on the porch. Didn't matter there wasn't any food value it was my value to them that the squirrels attacked.

I had a squirrel a couple years ago take a brass water fixture up the tree and drop it when he was over me from some 100 feet up. As I went for the nozzle, then I was attacked by red ants where the squirrel dropped the nozzle.

I also had them run off with one glove and then hide it from me. Drove me crazy looking for it


Still trying to recover from the fall the other day. Been sleeping a lot and not moving to fast. I feel like I've been in an auto accident. Have to keep reminding myself, I'm not a kid, I'm not indestructible, and what I see on TV I can't do. (Ha-Ha)

Lower left quadrant is still hurting and been having the skidders since I fell.

It Not Facsism if you do it right.

Fascism \ Fash-iz-em \ n 1: often cap: the body of principles held by Fascisti  2: a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and race and stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

 

When You hear the bush-it that come out of the republicans, I wish the news services would use profilers to tell who is telling the truth or lying. Maybe use stress meters to see the lies. I notice that the republicans tend to be very animated when it comes to head movement.

 

I had a friend that every time he was lying he would tip his head. In watching the cop shows, they say looking up and you are making it up and looking down and your lying. If you turn your head diagonally to keep your eyes looking forward isn't that the same as looking down?

 

UNITED STATES of AMERICAN, Inc.

 

Today they call it reform but it's reform so the rich get richer and the poor and middle class eat it. As Mrs. Helmsly once said, "Rich people don't pay taxes,"  and the republicans are working to make that happen too.  They did away with inheritance taxes which would have been only paid by the top three percent.  In the bankruptcy laws they made it easier for the rich to claim bankruptcy and hide there money but the poor need to pay back every last dime. Next they will be asking for their first born sons, oh they are and they send them off to war. A war for oil. To make the rich richer and the poor without sons.

 

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Darn bi-focals, took a step off a latter today and ended up on the ground. It looked like it was a just a step down and turned out to be about six feet. I ended up on the road laying they stunned. I don't know if I was knocked out but I was stunned. I'm still feeling stunned and the pain is coming. It felt like a shock wave ran up to my brain. My hip hurts and back isn't doing the best. I was hungry before that but not anymore. I feel sort of tipsy like I've been drinking. To bad I stopped that 20 years ago. My left wrist is cramped up from trying to break my fall. My right wrist is cramping. Think I'll lay back on the heating pad. Took a hot shower and that felt real good. I don't know why my lower abdominal area is hurting too but it does. Doesn't look like I'll be doing to much tonight. I wanted to paint the trim on the bedroom door but it can wait. I have the door just about done. That's going to be an expensive door when I finish fixing it. It might have been cheaper to buy a new door. The door should look good with the burlap on it.

 

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Pinheads send the flu to the labs in 18 countries. It only took 6 months to figure out it was a real dangerous. They said they are documenting the destruction of the flu vials but can't guaranty it. 

 

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Regards,
Bob

 

Air, you can't live with out it.
Out at Bob's
http://www.bigbirds.home-page.org
http://outatbobs.blogspot.com

What a good day to be a live until I ran out of gas.
Gas can $10 bucks, gas $5 bucks.

Went to church today, what a first in a while. As in the song I once heard, does a ritual make it right. They were talking about "The Hunt." What I saw there was real Hollywood. Selling Jesus as a commodity. A good show but what it make me think of is the physics of the universe. I think Jesus was an understanding person. Far to all and placed blame where it was needed. Then a movement saw it could be used to make money. First knocking off the trimming of the males for a little cash. Then it was Jewish light in diet. Give some more money and you can eat what ever you want to. Now it's lights camera action and the show is on.

The tid bits of the Bible and the way it's used is like saying Newton said, an apple fell there fore it must be fruit. And since it's fruit it has to be sweet fruit. It must be a color we all like too but with out an observation it a good fruit. That's a good deduction isn't it?

I keep looking at String theory and my idea of what I'd like to think it's more descriptive of it that is nodes. Interference patterns like a hologram. It's a matter of just knowing where the big bang started and where we are in relationship to where we are now. Everything we see is from the past. We need to find a way of projecting the way things are now in the universe.

Google Looking at me

What about data mining?

I was just think, again, that the "Patriot Act" where as the government gets to check out our reading habits at the library, is more then just that or could be. We know how credit card companies use our buying habits to predict what your going to buy next. Even what food you like and car you drive and want to drive. Where you want to go on vacation. Did you ever think what OnStar does for the government? It's like LowJack keeping track of you and your car. What about that cell-phone? A little GPS sending unit that keeps track of your where "abouts" going from cell site to site. As they used to say, close enough for horse shoes and hand grenades. Now the government is using data miners to predict your habits too. Is he a terrorist or could he be one. What's he reading on the web? What politics do they want to hear. What will they believe. It's a media circus and the G-Men are pulling the strings. They sold us a war and blamed it totally on the people that were suppose to know what's going on in the world. When they called it a rush to war, it was because if we hung out to long we would find out the truth and then no war. Right now the government is fighting the VoIP companies becasue the signals are encrypted. You can do that with your e-mail but like anything it can be cracked.

 

Tom Delay said it was ten year in the works but in Mike Moore's movie it's evident that no one read the bill that they were signing. I guess you can compare it to the credit card companies telling you 0% interest, then the fine print says for 6 month. Then after that the annual interest will go up to 18 percent. Then more fine print, if you screw up in any other part of your finance your rate will jump to the max of 25% annually. They used to call people like loan sharks but that was when life was still the American Dream and you could have one.

Good morrning "Critters"

Event one's here, well not everyone Bug Buddy and four of his friends. The boy's really didn't hold back from me today. Big Buddy was always in the front of the pack. One of the guys which I should call him "Mister Magoo Eyes" because of the loose skin around his eyes. You really can see the emotions of the deer when he looks around. They all have little buds starting on their heads. Wish I could find out where they drop all their antlers. They still have their winter coats but that should thin soon. One of the turkeys was trying to protect the pile of grain I tossed but that didn't keep that long.

 

Have one hungry squirrel on the porch already. No hens yet.

 

The Republicans keep saying the Demarcates need to put a fix on the table but it just shows that the Republicans have nothing going on. The Republicans are a bunch of whinny name callers and that is getting old. Bush keeps telling people to invest in stocks and bonds but what if they are all junk bonds like what went down during the first Bush administration. That's when they Wall Street walked off with 7 trillion dollars. Sure they were fined but it was only $1.2 billion dollars which just shows you how insecure the stock market is and how much you can loose.

 

Bush wants to give us a "New Deal" it's "kiss your ass good bye deal."  If I didn't know better, it looks like he's trying to make the world so unstable so the rich can pick up the pieces after the worlds economy collapses. He got his drilling in Alaska, He's still working on drilling in the "Rocky's." Why aren't they going for the oil off Florida, because Jeb says no, no he want' Jeb to look good enough to run for President then they will start drilling there. If you ask me, Bush wants to send everyone into poverty for low wage workers. It's not about just the old but there is a lot of people collecting because they became disabled or parents have died. If anything we need to cut the retirement founds going to Congress and the Senate. For every one congress person, you could take care of a 100 people. Congress people are generally rich people anyway so why do they need to take such a cut of the taxes.

What a great day.

Foot is killing me but I did get a few things done around here.

Had my big boots on the Lowas.

 

Turkeys hung out most of the day until dusk.

It's fun watching the birds but I found a dead robin.

I think he died of the cold.

Don't know if it might be something else like some virus.

 

Worked on a couple antennas.

One for the alarm and the other for the TV.

That beam should make things come in a lot better.

 

The little squirrels can't stop eating.

One day one of them will explode from eating to much.

 

Haven't seen any deer in the last couple days.

Bobcat was here last night for the turkey and chicken bones.

That could have kept them away but I have noticed when the weather is bad they come around.

 

All and all the day was rather warm and sunny.

Hope tomorrow is as good.

Maybe I'll hang the TV antenna.

 

Right now, getting tired and need to eat.

Then maybe sleep or watch a movie.

Nothing on the Tube but junk so I might put in a DVD.

Marburg Spreads in Angola as Death Toll Hits 174

By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for stepping up measures in Angola to halt the further spread of the deadly Marburg virus, which has killed 174 people mainly in the north of the country.

The United Nations agency said a first case of the incurable disease had been found in Kuanza Sul, the sixth province in the northwest to be hit, while a suspect death was also under investigation in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

There was an unusually high death rate among the 200 cases identified since October, mainly in the northern town of Uige, with an overwhelming number of initial cases striking children under 5 years old, the WHO said in a statement.

"The situation right now in Angola is not under control yet...This is still a health crisis at the national level and requires a profound commitment both from national authorities and the international community in order to contain this disease," Mike Ryan, director of WHO's alert and response operations, told a news briefing.

Some 50 international experts have been deployed in Angola, where 27 years of civil war have left weakened health systems and staff untrained for coping with a major epidemic, he said.

By isolating victims and tracing their contacts, officials were "breaking the chain of transmission" in Uige, he said.

Two deaths have been confirmed from Marburg in Luanda, a teeming capital of 4 million people, where six more cases are being investigated, Ryan said.

There was no evidence of transmission within Luanda, where the two deaths have been a 15-year-old boy and a nurse, he said.

But Ryan noted the densely populated city saw "movement and exchange of people between all areas of Angola," adding: "Therefore it is crucially important that the surveillance systems and isolation units have to be fully established in Luanda, both to maintain confidence in travel to Angola and also to protect that population. That is ongoing."

Separately, the United Nations issued an emergency appeal to donors for $3.5 million to combat the virus, one of the most virulent pathogens known, over the next three months.

The rare haemorrhagic fever, related to the deadly Ebola virus, is characterized by headaches, nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhea. It is spread through close contact with bodily fluids including blood, saliva and semen.

The outbreak has surpassed the previous record of 123 deaths in a 1998-2000 epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The hospital itself in Uige, a town of 500,000, may have contributed to spreading the virus, according to Pierre Formenty, a WHO expert on haemorrhagic fevers.

"There is a possibility ... that the hospital served to infect children who came to be treated there. It is not confirmed, but it is a hypothesis," Formenty told reporters.

Twelve health care workers were among the total 200 cases.

Medical anthropologists were enlisting tribal leaders to inform the often illiterate population about the dangers of contracting the disease while caring for the sick or preparing bodies for burial, Formenty said.

"Our simple message is very clear: don't touch sick patients and don't touch bodies," he said.


04/08/05 09:52

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Still raining.....

Well, having a bad weather day, again. The sky is getting lighter but the storm is still moving this way at 10 miles per hour. From what I hear on the radio there is a tornado and severe storm warning until 6:50 PM.

Now that Terry and the Pope have past, what about that "Marburro Virus" in Angola? Just a passing threat or something to worry about. Well, it's in Africa and for the most part it's been hands off for the white countries. Let them run themselves into the ground and let the White's pick up the pieces when the worst is over, I guess. They say this virus is worse then the E-Bola virus. Wonder why it's not in the news?

Been going over some of my old notes and videos. Forgot so much over the years. For that much the world has forgot so much. It's day to day and hour to hour and not year to year, no long term planning. It's what's the price of gas today. "Oh, by the way, we are going to drill for oil in Alaska's wild life sanctuary."

I can hear the 2 meter hams coming up the hill complaining about the weather. Good thing I'm inside.

Going to cook a turkey tonight, not one of my buddies but a store bought one. 12 pounder. That should last me a couple weeks.

Been changing my front side bus clock and it seems to speed up the computer. Not sure if it's hurting anything. If I can I'll keep pushing it until it's not going to run any faster but stable. So far the front side bus clock is set at 142 and that works out to 284 and that pushes the system to 2.0 gigs plus as it says in easy inspection. Good thing I have lots of fans in the cabinet. Think I'll get off line and push it 2 more and see what happens. The worst is that it locks up and I have to rest the BIOS.

Lot of one car accidents out today. Morons racing home in the rain rolling over.

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WET Out

Yes it's raining again. Critters are outside getting a bite to eat. Some of the hens are walking up onto the porch but the squirrels chase them off. Sunflower seeds are everyone's favorite. I still see them eating corn and bugs. The bug patrol is when they are scratching the leaves and looking of the good juicy bugs.

 

Think the pentax battery is dead. Can't get the LCD to come up. Was trying the 500mm lens on it since something isn't working well with the Canon's. I'll figure it out but not right now, it's raining and I want to just lay down and stay warm. Such a nice green outside with the low soft light. I'd need a long exposure to get one of those. Maybe I'll try it with the 10 second countdown.

 

 

 

Bob

 

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Didn't get to much rain last night. The thunder storm was a lot of bite and barking too. I broke my toe as I went to the door to see if there as a strike. The thunder and lightning happened at the same time so it was real close.

Have two ups units going, now. One will be just for the alarm system. The other one will drive the computers. It's just a matter of power distribution. Going to try to make something that would be more solar over the next year or so. The wind turbine with the pulse generation of power. Not to many people use this system since I seen it used on a BSA motorcycle.

This "March Madness" is a great marketing ploy. Myself, I can't see it. I liked playing sports growing up but I can't see sitting on the couch and getting fat.

Latest NOAA Pictures

Latest NOAA Pictures




Dream Speakers, again.


Been thinking of making the same speakers but using 10 inch speakers and miniturize the cabinets. Need to do the math to see how the back pressure works out. See if I can get things in phase.

Usually this works good with Foxfire but this time it looks better with IE.

Ohhh, my little toe.

The first lightning strike knocked me off the couch. I ran to the door and looked outside to see if a tree hit the house or if the lightning bold hit any trees. My right ear is still ringging. The lights went out and I could see the flash of the bolt. I tripped on a bunch of tool boxes that I'm going to take down to the tool shed. Well, those tool boxes stayed right there and my toe cracked into it. The power has gone off and back on a half dosen times so far. I have my laptop set up on the ups unit but I'm one the big computer right now. It looks like the cell has moved over us. The rain is still coming down on a 45 degree angle. There was another flash about a half second away. going to get off this computer befor I loose power or get hit. Need to check NOAA site for strikes.

Long day

Had to take a mid-day nap today. Put in the new spot light, light in the kitchen. Started that at 7 AM and finished around 11 AM. Had to take in my Saturday morning NPR Station.

Was thinking about Greene's 11 dimension string theory, which I like to call wave node theory, it's just a little cleaner that way the way things work out.

Been thinking of a way of setting up a multi-visual astronomy base here. Going from low frequency to light. If I could get the e-ray maps to fit to my system it would give you a good view of what's out there and what time it is. The question what time is it really? Speaking relative to the rest of out known universe. Based on the big bang and constant expandtion, there must be other "universe" out there too. It's just that we never over lapped or maybe we did and haven't seen them yet. They are to far in the past. It's to bad we can't make a computer model to place the universe as it is now, in real time. No lag time like the edge of the big bang. Some where in space there is a large shock wave traveling out there. Wonder if it's slowing and at what progression. We know the heat decay.

Rain is on the way, going to check NOAA before I get off here. Need to find out if I can do some of the concrete work to seal the one side of the foundation.

The apple tree that fell over last storm I propped up and it seems to be growing again. Thing I'll give it a vitamin fix tomorrow. I just hate working in pouring rain. And to think, there was a day I'd think anyone that couldn't drive a bike in a driving rain or snow storm was a woos. Must be getting old. Had to use bi-pods to set the tree right. Those days of muscling up a tree with out aids are over. Bi-pods, tri-pods, pullies and ropes and cables are the way to do it. It takes longer and I never thought I'd be applying physics this way instead of making tin cans land on a dime. Wonder how Robin's father is doing, he did do the equasions for the "Apollo" moon trips. Some thing cool to through on your resume.

The other Robin, Wonder if she still where's the ring I gave her. That was a love that just went wrong but we needed to grow. Wonder what would have happened if we would have gotten married. It would have been a real difffernet reality.

Great Observation

The little fuzzy thing I thought was an ugly cat turned out to be a Bobcat. Just a bit bigger then the house cat. Looked like it had a mind of it's own and was using it.

I hooked up my squirrel cam. Not to good at night but good at dusk settings. Going to set it's focus real close and put a pile of seeds in from of it see how many pictures I can get. Close-ups!

Wrist are still feeling funky after the two cortisone shot in them. I think they will feel better in a couple days.

Still working on my horizontal TV antenna.. Just doing a bit of beefing up and making it a bit stronger and more directional.

Happiness is a working calculator!

Bed room door is almost finished. Need to do some shaping and sanding. A little filling of the molding and screws.

Need to do some chain sawing after this last rain. Got 12 - 14 inches in a bucket which works out to 12 - 14 feet of snow up top.

Living here it's either wet, wet or dry, dry, dry weather. Prevention of water damage is very important. Also, dry wrought is an summer destroyer. It's amazing that anything is still standing here after 150 year. The stone work was don good. The Victorian houses did a good job of following good building practices. I've seen some wood work that is failing after just a few years. Craftmanship is something that is dying out.

Week in review

There was a few more jolts in the Indonesia area. I know a person there and she seem to give me a real and different take of what is going on when the earth shakes there. Speaking of the earth shaking, PBS just had a special on earthquakes in the cascade range. Which is a fault like the one that made the Andes where the Incas go. "Carve up a hill, for a ship to land in the Andes, PARK IT, PARK IT." Excuses me, couldn't resist Frank Zappa humor. Ha, they even named a rock after the place, "Andisite". Which is a rock that comes from a subduction zone, just like the subduction zone that runs along the North West coast. Did you catch the week in review? Bush says all life is precious and then signs a bill to drill in a "Wild Life Sanctuary." Sanctuary, isn't that like going to a church or being in a church? You seek "Sanctuary to be at peace or to run from danger. Mean while around the world 90 plus countries hate the United States and want to do everything they can to get rid of it. Now to tie this all together. Gas is up, thinking are down and the world can live with out us again. Yes it gave us another warning this week. Remember what happened to the world the last time Krakatoa past some gas. (1400's 1800's it blew ash around the world for 150 years the first time thus calling it the dark ages. In the 1800's the shock wave was heard around the would and dimmed the sun for two weeks. I'd like the two week version rather then the 150 years without sun light, make it hard for plants to grow.)

 

 

Bob

 

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Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

I was taking some close up pictures of moss and flowers. What I forgot to rmember is to look what I'm laying in and on. I'm sure this is going to be a good case of posion oak. There are some bumps on the back of my neck and head that are killing me. I'll have to call the doctor tomorrow,

Well, no more flower pictures for a few days. The rain has started. I had to do some dirt moving the last few days. The rains really was coming down in the last storm, about 9 inches. I noticed a oil film coming down the hill from the east side. Also the rain gutters don't tip down hill. The water is leaking into the house from the south side and I just had the celler dried out.

Been getting a lot done here as far as the closet goes. I can put 10 more boxes of cloths in there.
Well, on coat hangers. Still have about six boxes to unpack. I need a 1x12x5 feet for the shelf. I used a couple of thos parts of the closet orginizer. Going to put some more shelves in the second bed room. Need to do some thing about the closet in that room.

Well, well, Jordan's on so it's getting close to bed time.

What a week!

What happened to the past week, as a mater of fact what happened to the past two or three weeks, I let my computer set the time "Automatically": but it doesn't seem to work since I re installed everything getting rid of those pesky programs, My hibernate doesn't work. I need to figure out this modem sharing.

 

Well, Easter tomorrow, guess I'll do some painting. The pains are still going on the right side of me. Still I think this has something to do with my knee.

 

Working one a hybrid antenna into a super TV antenna. Two Verticals, one high gain horizontal beam. Some of the channels are coming in better but some others are not so good. When I get the horizontal beam it should work better on the low end. It's been about two years since I haven't been able to receive the channel guide. At least that's working now.

 

The apple tree that fell over was made a bit shorter and modified like a trout mask replica. The roots are in the ground and the ground has been packed in. I also gave it some miracle grow. maybe I can get the parts that were growing can get going. 

 

I'm so worn out from the rain the fast few days. Working in the rain just suck the heat from you. Then when something smacks you in the head it's a real shock to the head. Speaking of head my sinuses are doing me in. It's those oak trees, My car turns this sort of powered yellow. Well I'm going to call it a night and what ever needs to get done will have to wait.

 

 

Bob

 

Air, you can't do with out it.
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Cheaters always prosper.
and good guys always finish last.

 

 

More Smoke and Mirrors

The news is crying out, save the brain dead lady.

No one's talking about who is going to pay for this but it has to be done.

It's not coming out of George's Medical Budget this year or any year in the future.

 

Oh, and by the way, we are going to start drilling in a "Wild Life Sanctuary in Alaska."

Ya, we can get a million barrels of oil per day just like that BP pipeline that should go online this years some time.

 

For those of your listeners who don't remember what happened when the oil companies couldn't get their way for the first Alaskan Pipeline. We forget the long lines and the even and odd days in which you could get gas. Then when the pipeline was put in the price of oil dropped a little but not much. I guess that's where we get the term, "they got you over a barrel."

 

For a President that claims to be doing common since things I have to question is that something a drunk would come up with?

What the real cost are

The insurance companies are like the mafia, you pay them so nothing happens to you.

You have to remember that insurance companies are not just into one service.

If you make a claim on your car because of an accident, the money doesn't come out of just one company but a insurance corporation.

Look are "General Insurance Corporation," "and their little lizard commercials" "Sears, and All-State the largest credit lenders in the nation." Nation Wide with all their subsidiaries. I haven't even started on the Health braches of insurance companies. Remember, they are corporations and not just companies. They make money by investing in places like the stock market, loaning money to banks and you pay for their investments because you are the end sucker that nothing is suppose to go wrong in your life. How about that life insurance, you get to collect after your dead, what a deal.

 

Well, lets start at the bad energy investments in Mexican energy back in the 70's and 80's that went bust?

What about those earthquakes in California?

What about all those "Tornados" and "Hurricanes" in the South East?

What about those real bad investments in Wall Street?

Remember Wall Street sucked 7 trillion dollars from people.They had to only pay 1.2 billion in fines and were asked not to do it again. No one went to jail either. This same group was a large contributors to the "Republican Party."

 

Why did the price go up in California? Because they would pay it.

Why does your car insurance in California go up, because they made it the law to have it.

This made it so every one had to buy insurance and now they could charge anything they wanted.

 

When it comes to insurance companies paying out money they drag their feet.

There are people that still haven't been paid for the devastation of the earthquakes in California.

There are some people that still haven't been paid from the Hurricanes in Florida like hurricane Andrew some 15 years ago.

 

 

The only way that we could make this all fair to all the people of the United States is to Nationalize Medical Insurance, We need to nationalize medicine too.

This will be the only way that it would be fair to all.

You could also work "Social Security" into this same program.

This would make the United State the biggest investor in the world and would make us a better country and not a country of people that spend all their time thinking of ways to steel money from others with in the laws we have set up.

 

 

Bob Sakall

Hot day.

Second day of wearing shorts. Taking a break and having some coffee. Need to get outside and change my oil next. So many projects but I feel so much better now that I've been on Prozac. Before that, I was just draging form day to day.

The smell of something dead under the house is almost gone so I'll be going under the house soon. I'll let the fans run for a few more days.

The amount of flowers popping up is unbelievable. Every day there is dosens more. You can tell it's spring the bugs are coming out.

Don't believe it. Must be the Bushniks sensering me

Just got done writing for two hours. Then when I went to check the spelling I lost everything. That darn MS firewall crap came up and asked if I wanted to permit the pop up. I pressed yes. Then every thing was gone.

More later.

Don't believe it. Must be the Bushniks sensering me

Just got done writing for two hours. Then when I went to check the spelling I lost everything. That darn MS firewall crap came up and asked if I wanted to permit the pop up. I pressed yes. Then every thing was gone.

More later.

Late night and nothing on but repeats

Was outside until 6:00PM to night. My legs hurt from all I've did today. Doesn't seem like much but it was. Lot's of little things. Picked up a end table and little TV at the thrift store. Good twenty dollar investment. The only thing is I can't find a remote for the TV. For now I'll use the VCR tuner. Going to have to run to the box store and see if they have one.

myATI - Thank you

myATI - Thank you


Can't keep up with drivers and new chip sets

What a time trying to get updates to my ATI video board. Looking at the list of video boards that they have made in the last four years is totally amazing. My board alone have a good dozen or so. Not only did they change the chip, they changed the drivers. The driver that are the latestdon't work with my board. I thought it was the FCC law that you had to give 10 years of support. Don't ask for a schematic, they will think yuo want it to copy their junk. Well, when the price comes down on the new board I want I'll get it. This one will move down the line to my other desk top where I do scanning and printing. That's something else I need, a printer that will print tabloid size paper.

It's to bad I was struck down with all these illnesses. From the Hep-C which took three years out of my life. Even more if you count the recovery time. Now my back is doing it again. I've been through two operations so far and it seems like it took about 3 years each to learn to walk again. To top it all off, my eyes are going. For some one that enjoys looking at nature and seeing the beauty in most every thing you see, it's rather depressing. I thought when I moved here I was going to die but I went through the hep-c treatment again which almost killed me.

This being poor crap is very depressing too. I used to make rather good money. Nothing to be called rich. Just where I could get anything I wanted any time I wanted.

What about the people that go out of there way to steel from you!

There's a girl in Fullerton that I have a real dislike or anger towards. It must have been from all the drug use and the people they hung around with. They all were professional criminals. I never met any one like them before. What I'm getting at is I was living with some friends and had all my stuff in storage. Her and her boy friend I thought were friends at least in the way they wouldn't steel from you. They all turned out to be real losers. Wendy Weidman and Jaime Hacke had a child together. They also liked dancing. A mutual friend ask me to come out to one of there camp outs to take pictures of the event. After going to there houses for several years, I thought I could call them friends. I should have been warned when Jaime was busted for transporting pot for Jesse. I didn't know how involved they all were but it was a living. They didn't need to work what we call a regular job. From the growing of pot on indian lands to the distabution parties. I thought it was just a group of people getting to gether but it turned out to be the dedicated buyers and sellers.

Well, my dilema, I loaned them my "Stereo and TV." Not just any stereo but a 450 true RMS watt output tuner with all the video in and outputs. It was set up for a daul Cassete or tape drives, CD's, Laser Disks, 2 VCR's, and phono input for a magnetic cartridge. That was just the tuner. The TV was a Sony Trinitron with picture in picture. It had 3 audio and video inputs. Lets see, one CD player, One dual cassete deck, one turn table, one VCR. I think this is all the electronic parts. Then there was the speakers, the two fron speakers were custom made 5 way speakers. The center speaker was a radio shack shealded speaker. The rear speakers were two to small ones that went with a sub-wolffer. Then there was the two Altec "Voice of the theater" speaker in oak cabnets. Wendy told me that last time I talked to her that the TV didn't work. I can imagine how lazy she is because her daughter threw the remote on the floor. Then when Jaime picked it up he set it on a table, where she picked it up again and put it in a large glass of water. Wendy doesn't remember that because of her drinking. Drinking does that to people.

Still raining and still back pain

Been raining on and off today, mostly on. Turkeys all showed up and the boys were showing off for the girls. There has been several new little squirrels coming out with their mothers. Didn't see any deer today. There is one flower that had opened up. I'll have to post it.

The back pain is just un-believable. It reminds me of when I had surgery. The pills don't work are all. Well, they do, I do bump into things but the back pain going from my waste down to my toes. I can't stand for to long, only a few minutes before I have to sit or lay down.

Had to re-format my drive on the desk top computer. It started acting weird, dialing the phone and restarting. I had to much junk on it anyway.

PAIN and NO SLEEP

Well, things were much easier 18,630.75 days ago. Now this old body is giving out from too much fun. Yes, too much fun. Too much sex. Too much running. To much falling of big rocks. And worst of all was the legal stuff I drank. Yes, "alcohol damages every body." I ruins the integrity of every cell. You could say it's like a paper bag. While the bag is dry it's rather strong. Get that bag wet and it falls a part.

To top it all off, my hard drive on my desk top is giving me some problems. Maybe it's only a virus or bad ATI software drivers. Having a hard drive fail right now would ruin me financially. I know I do want to get a big drive but I don't want to have to be forced to doing that. I'd buy a tire for my car if I had any extra money.

Well, had my morning cup of coffee and maybe I can fall a sleep. I've on;y slept 2 hours so far tonight. I hear the turkeys signaling each other as they wake up. Soon they will be mossying this way.

Das Bush Sides with EVIL-DOERS

Bush gets his way and helps out the corporate evil-doers. Now it's easier to harm people and get away with it, just like it was in the 1800's. Get a bad product, tough. Das Bush is getting worse then the "Bin." Why fight a war over seas when your president is working against you. Let's not forget how we got here. Bush lied to get into office. He lied about what Saddam had or didn't have or see. He's pushing the Social Security reform saying there is a big immanent problem. That's just like he did when he sold the media blitz on the war with Iraq. "We have to go to war" Bush said. Now he's saying, "we must attack Socail Security because it will kill you with a mushroom cloud." For a guy that says he has such high morels he's sure killing a lot of Iraqis. What about the babies and the unborn, I'm sure your bombs have killed a few by now. Estaments have it around 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. For a president that says "We have to support the troop, he's cutting medical care for the wounded. He's cutting benifits to the National Gaurd. He's keeping the troops in longer then they signed up for." I know he's breaking contracts left and right on the "Bush Crusaides." It's to bad we have a former drunk in the whitehouse. It's to bad he never went to AA to get on the right track. All the people that went to churchs instead of AA are still drunk. I really believe he's in charge and he's not getting manipulated. With everyone looking under every rock to find a terrorist, it's the Joe McCarthy era all over again. To bad it's going to take years to recover from all this Bushism.

Put you marals behind you and get on the corparate band wagon. Learn how to take advantage of the system and do on to others and get rich.

The Meek Get Squat

All men are created equal? We are all Gods children? The meek shall inherit the earth? As Frank Zappa said a few years ago, "The meek shall inhered nothing." It's the rich not just the well off but the fascist right rich that are going to be on top. Looking at the days of the Ferro's, could that have been the way things played out? Did the "Ferro's" once control the world? Did we, the people of the earth all beg for work on the Ferro's projects? Why is there a desert there?

It's been shown that in mexico that that fall of the oldest group of Aztecs died out because they cut down the trees to make plaster. Was that their downfall? Just trying to look nice and stylish? With all the wood they needed to make plaster itstriped off the land which let the rain wash away the top soil which caused thecrops to fail. Did this same thing happen in Africa? Did they burn so much of the forests to make plaster for the temples and pyramids? After the trees were gone, then the desert started and kept going to what we see today?

It's a passing thought along with the ideas of what has happened in the world in the name of some bodies God or God's. Adalf mobilized the Germans which were of a Christian nature. Bush mobilized the people of the United States telling them that he had values. We found out his values, oil and money are his values. Yes his rich friends rule and the rest of us are just a burdon to him unless your putting money in his pocket. The United States mobilized it's people to fight off communism saying a free market is the way. Which means that man with the most makes the laws. The American Indian was the first group of people that opperated a communist type of government. Unfortunately it was in deep decline when the first Europeans came to the new world. Why there was this decline has most people questioning. I think it was because of the have nots wanting more and the chiefs elivating themselves to the point of Gods.

It's money that matters and not what you know. It's who you know and how much you can grease the wheels. "Bribe" is a bad word facing extinction. People don't bribe others these days we call them "contributions." Thous making might with money makes right.

Speaking of might, have you noticed that cops don't wound people anymore? Why, thay might get sued. Kill them off and silence them. It's been changing though, the new use of media is becoming like a gun. If you condem a person so much that they have to leave the world with their tail dragging. Bush's Karl Rove used thisto make Kerry look like a boob. What's the funny part of it is that the people of the United Stated believed him and re-elected "Das Bush." Most of the "Bush Sheep" believe Bin and Saddam are linked and that WMD have been found., even though the bi-partisain report said that they didn't.

How soon every one forgets these days. No one remembers the days of Nixon. The only reason the Gingrich Republicans went after Clinton was because they could. Now when Das Bush talks about the lack of judges we need to look back to the 90's when the Gingrich Republicans were in office and what they all did. This push to maake it like it was in the 1800's and to cut peoples rights is slow coming but it's coming. "Das Bush" doesn't have to get re-elected so the Religious Right don't have to get their way and can be tost a side. The Neo-Cons idea of a world controled by corperations is coming saying freedom and free trade is the way. It's a demactatic way. The Eyes have it and the the meek get it where the gay boys want it.

Looking back in time where the church used the people to go on the "Crusades" saying that these people are heithens. That they are Godless. That it was their duty to rape, pilage and plunder the middle east for fun and pleasure. It was you duty as a Christain. Now with people like Condo Rice telling the world, "Well that's old news, lets put that behind us."

We only have one world and throwing out the parts that make the world work is a wrong idea. We need to work towards a society (world population) that will work for all and not the rich. If everyone was able to do what every they wanted for the good of the people of the world and not what's good for a few then we would end starvation, poverty and war.

It must be the flu

I thought I escaped the flu but it looks like I didn't. I had my usual aches and painds today but tonight it just hit me. My head feels like it's going to explode. My body hurts all over. This would explain the skidders for the last couple days and I thought it was just the change in medications. With my luck it's going to be some sort of bird flu with all the birds I have out here. The turkeys all look well even though it's been raining. Standing up I'm so dizzy and almost fell over walking into the bedroom. Time for the electric blanket.

What will be our end times be after the 100 year war

Well, the Bushster has really got us into it. When the Iraqis ask why we are building permanent camps, no one has any answers. At first I was hooked on the dribble the administration had said. The talk that "Bin" and "Saddam" slept together didn't seem to fly when Bush kept fighting to go to war instead of inspections. Bush and the TEAM (Neo-Cons) did the best sales job on this country just like selling a car or some fancy new record player. Karl reminds me of "The Brain" from Pinky and the Brain cartoon. Every night the Brain schemes to take over the world. If we didn't find those WMD and no link to Bin then WHY should we believe any other thing he has to sell us. If you bought a used car and it was a lemon would you go back to the same sales man.

With the biggest telescope in space which can look back in time to the beginning of the universe, don't you think we could turn the scope and look down to earth and see something. Oh, That's right the military has their own telescopes that look at the earth. From a USGS report while I was in college, they had showed a date on a dime from space. That was in 1976. That was before we had good optics in space and good microprocessors. Back then a minicomputer was running at 10 megahertz and 16k of memory was a big thing. That's when I first came across Fairchild's optic chips. At that time 64 bits was a big thing in optic chips. That group was sold to the Japanese and the rest was history. The video camcorder was born.

The biggest mistake that could happen to science is the loss of the Hubble Telescope. Bush's idea of science is breading cows or making H-bombs. Those ideas that came out briefly a couple years ago while we were in Afghanistan. Bush or some one at that time was talking about "Bunker Buster A-Bombs." It didn't dawn on me then but when they started talking about Iran's enrichment program and their sites were underground then it all started to make sense. Yes George, I can add two and two and come up with oil the chief export of Iran. Lets not forget the BP pipeline running from just north of Iran to Turkey. Is it about democracy or is it about oil, since all your fathers friends are tied to oil.

The Girls are back

The hens all stopped by today. All three dozen of them. I haven't seen the girls in a couple weeks or so. The boys did the "I'm hormoning number." Flashing their feathers and standing with their heads in the air.

The deer also stopped by after dark. Last night, Big Buddy walked up on the porch and looked in the window. I startled Big Buddy as he was looking in seeing me laying down watching TV.

These new meds. really knock me out. Well you have to do what you have to do to stay alive. To bad my bones aren't doing so well. Going in for a cortisone shot in my lower back. I still don't have any answers for my shoulder pain. My knee is giving me problems again just like before my knee surgery. Maybe I'll have to get something done to make it feel like it's not a ball joint dangling in the wind. The pain in my legs is back too. Guess cooking tonight was to much for me. Terrible when you can't even cook dinner for yourself without causing yourself so much pain you can't even stand.

Have you ever notices, Doctor Condo Rice looks like an alien from the side.

Also noted that on the news they referred to Bush republicans and the "Neo-Cons" as"Fascist Right." I'd say the republicans are a bunch of Fascist making everyone do what they want by manipulating the media for their fascist views. What gets me is they call it being a "Christian."

Still later that same night

Have the feeling that I'm on a boat. The way I'm moving around it must be some sort of new problem that I need to find out what's happening. It seems like that same thing Mike Fox has. Mr. Shaky deciese. The electric shocks and migraine is still going. It felt good in the morning until I sat up then it all started coming back. I hate my back because it's so hard to sit up. Standing is really becoming a broblem. Well Charle Rose is on so I'll listen to that. I missed Frontline and I wanted to tape that one too.

Capital hill is in the dark again, here comes the sales program

Dr. Rice says lets what happened in the past four years go. Just forget what Bush said and has done. It's all good. Now we can work together for The Bush agenda, with the direction of the "Neo-Con's" and the "Vulcans"

Bush said his new budget is a good one but if your poor your out of luck since the poor don't make any contribution to the Republican party. That's right, they are poor, they don't have money. If they had money then they wouldn't be poor.

Sprinkles but rain next week

Rained today, it started this morning. Don't feel like doing much my electric head ache has combined with a migraine. Now I shake in the dark. Every little noise is so loud. I hear the battery operated clocks clunking as the arms turn. Nothing like watching TV with your eyes closed. Seems my blank times are getting longer. I'll be talking and forget where I was. Almost to the point of not knowing where I am. It will take some time but I'll remember where I am. Not sure why my ears have a ringing to them. Tonight it is screaming blocking all the other sounds out. I hear them but they are irritating. I guess I'll go back to bed. See if I can wake up and be drenched and have to change my cloths. I was asked earlier if I was dizzy or loose my balance. If sitting here and loosing my balance is anything then I'm dizzy I guess. I need to find out why my eye hurts. Well, it's more like my brain or skull above my eye. Feeling my head it feels like the skull is cracked and the part is sticking out. Like there is swelling behind my skull pushing it out. I wish I could have told my doctor how I feel in words that he would understand. I feel like I' crying with no sound, the tears are there.

Sorry no animal stories tonight.

Another Late Night

Late night again. Those two cups of espresso got me going. My eyes are burning and my bones are aching so much that I can hardly sit up. Been diddling with my web site I'm starting. I put some links in going here. Also added the "google Adsense" things so I can get advertised and they put stuff on my page. Also added a search thing from google.

To my web site
just in case you want to check it out.

This was a long day. I woke up at 4am, well, it was a couple minutes before that. Played on the net until 8am then fell a sleep waiting for a download listening to NPR. Woke back up at 9am, long sleep but I've been going since then. Yes, I'm ready to fall over really. Why I'm doing this I don't know. I have noticed that when your working with computers it's hard to un-wind. It's not like chopping trees down or running a marathon. When I get to bed my brain will still be going. 1:31am and will I wake up at sunrise?(like every other day) Some how, living in the forest it's not a chore to get up early. It's different then in the city, must be all that noise. I remember going to a house five miles from the freeway and it took a week for me to get used to hearing the noise of the freeway. Here, it's just the critters I hear. There is a deer that likes to sleep or hang out by my bed room but on the outside of the house. It's a nice wood deck with a cover. Good in the rain for him. The turkeys last year would come right up to my bed room window and gobble to get me up. I wasn't in the mood back then because of the treatment I was going through. I'm glad that's all over. Thought I was going to die. It mentally burned me out. They said many of the people going through the treatment killed themselves. I can see why too, it's real hell.

The turkeys will be here early and if I'm not out there for them they start calling me. At first it's quiet and then it keeps getting louder and louder. So cute looking out the door seeing those black necks sticking up and those beaks all looking at me. They are all the ones I watch grow up this year. Their mother would take them around to show them places to eat and get bugs. I haven't mowed the lawn in two year now since they all have been coming around.

What a day.

Turkeys came in for a landing this morning right next to the house. Thought he was going to run into a tree or the house. One of them ran into my telephone line and tumbled into the house then clipped the apple trees before landing in the yard. The phone line snapped back and landed on my TV antenna. Well they all landed safe today. I don't know where the rest of the herd is but the four boys hung out here all day. Haven't seen any of the girls in several weeks. I did see any of them mating yet this year so I don't believe they are off nesting.

Was took out to lunch at a real nice German restaurant up the hill. Snow! The American river was cooking. When I went to the same place a couple years ago in the summer the river was down to a trickle compared to today. It must have been something when we had the two week storm. The people east of here are such wimps, the storm dumped most of the water here before going east. They only got a couple feet of snow compared to the 20 plus feet here.

Had a doctors appointment today. No help. He thought I was depressed because I said I wasn't eating a whole lot lately. This doesn't explain the pain from my waste down. If I was a doctor I guess I could diagnose myself then I wouldn't have to waste my time seeing these great wonderments. If I knew what was wrong with me I think I'd fix it or see some one that could. Oh, that's right, that's why I went to a doctor.

Q. What do you call a med. student that was last in his class?
A. Doctor. (and Bush wants to cut out malpractice suits)

I guess I'll have to call the neurologist to find out what's up with the electric head aches. I hate these jolts of electricity running through my body every time I blink or hear a load noise.

Well, it's that time for the four poster. I'm dragging. Too much house work. That dusting will be getting to my nose in the middle of the night. I think I need to get rid of these nick-nacks. Get up tomorrow and do it all again. Maybe I can get some work done on my tool shed. I need to finish the shelf I was making. So far it's looking good and strong.

Haven't found the little squirrel with most of her side ripped off. I can only think the worst but hope for the best. She was moving too slow so the wound is really hurting her. I still see the pain in her little face. I don't know what attacks the squirrels. I see the squirrels chew on each other. I don't believe they can chew such a large bit out of each other. From what I've read about squirrels that most of them die in the first year. I have been seeing a hawk flying around. I've seen how the turkeys react to the shaddow flying over. It makes them freeze up in the shaddows. There all seem to make little cherps to each other. From being around them so much I could tell they weren't happy.

More Bush Lies

The Bushster is at it again with a pile of lies. Lies like flies on a pile of compost. He keeps saying he's helping but he need some one to tell him what his speech writers wrote in his speeches. Clean skies, what a joke, lets go back to the nuke water heaters to make electricity. He just said that we, the United States doesn't have the right to impose their right on other governments but what are we doing in Iraq then, imposing something over there. More empty ideas or as he says it, "Idear's."

It looks like Cheney is ready to go to bed he keeps checking his watch to see when he can leave. Notice that the democrat's do clap or stand like the Republicans do.

His idea of "fighting terrorist in Iraq so we don't have to fight them at home," is a fantasy. Is he ever going to "Get Real" and tell the people that his pursuit of the middle east is for oil. Sure a stable middle east is great for getting oil out with out having to fight off the locals. So far the "Body Count" is climbing over 100,000 people and he's talking about cherishing life. Saddam didn't kill as many people in two year as Bush did. It would have taken at least 20 years to do what Bush did in the past two years.

Private account in social Security? When Bush took office the Stock Market ripped off the American people to the sum of $7,000,000,000,000.00 dollars and he want us to trust him. All the "Brokers" back the republicans.

Bush keeps talking about all the stuff the he's doing to create safety in the US but the people in the trenches say that they are not being funded. If we can't even protect the country agenst the flu how is he going to protect us against a biological attack?

The man was a drunk for to many years and has brain damage. His father has to be running the show or at least all the friends of his father are doing it.

Yes it looks like American Imperialism is on the rise. I can't say, American because that is a big group of countries which most people don't count. What about Canada, Mexico, Brazil don't they count?

Laura is sitting there looking like Homer Simpson with flies going through her head.

These past 4 years have been the best con job on the United States people. The Republicans are for big business not the little guy. They could care less about the little guy. He could die in his car where he's living.

He said he's going to raise the PEL Grant which turns out to be $100 dollars per year. Wow, I can buy a book.

In the 60's we had a war on crime and poverty but now the criminals are making the laws. The only thing I didn't hear is insurance reform to cut medical costs. For a President that wants a smaller government he sure spends a lot of money.

Electricity doing the thing through my brain, again.

It's back, the electricity jolting through my brain and body. I complained to my doctors before and they kept saying "Migraine." What ever I said it always came out migraine. I guess it's easier to say "migraine" then "seizure." It's not flop on the ground type but it is annoying. Trying to stop smoking may ad to this and isn't the most fun but it's about time I did this.

Had a great day here, sunny, fresh air and turkeys. Took a few pictures. Hanging out watching them do their day to day turkey things is so interesting. I don't know what excites me so much. Is it the size of the birds working around me. I find the little birds just as interesting. The squirrels are the most interesting and the best characters.

Beside the brain sparks, my back has been killing me. It almost feels like I have a hernia again. The symptoms are all the same as far as I see. The "Back" is really bad. Did you ever feel so bad you wanted to cry because of the pain but crying won't impress any one here because your all a lone. Is that the best way to say it? Lately, my spine is poking out my back. It's spreading my tendands and I can feel the bone under the skin. I don't want to have surgery unless I can get replacement disks. Fusion is no good because you can't bend after that. It might solve the pain problem or at least some of the pain problem.

"Nightlines" discussion tonight was about "Social Security." From one report I watched on TV where a reporter went to the Social Security office to the great lock box. In there, is $74 trillion dollars worth of IOU's. The Bushster want to sell something like Weapons of mass displacement. The only people that will make out is wall street. Just like they did when Bush took office the first time and they walked off with $7 trillion. That's not including the companies that went under. Why would anyone believe anything Bush has to say now after what he had to say about Iraq. No one remembers when he said that they need to privatized the nation starting with the oil fields. Like in VP's big plan, the big energy bill. How can those flat landers vote for Bush. I've heard a person try to support Bush but it wasn't in his words it was in the words of the radio and TV. No original thought just the one planted in his head.

What about those base camps for our boys in Iraq? From one report they had said, The camps are being made because they plan to be there for 5 years. When you here the troops these days, they have "cue cards" to tell the truth of the mission. Nothing like a good propaganda program. I don't even listen to what the troops have to say these days because it's so scripted. You know it is because the guy is using words he's never used before in his life. Nothing like using a word with the wrong context.

Bush is suppose to be a leader but how can you be a leader if people are telling you what to do and what to say. Since "The Bushster" is reporting to the corporations and the corporation are not bound to any country then Bush isn't bound to any country. It's all about the bottom line and not about people.

Besides all that, watch Frontline tonight. I had seen it before about credit cards and the companies policies of lending. What a bunch of cheesy people. The one guy that they were interviewing about changing you pay ever month or the minimum payment and this guy came up with this idea. He's like a clone of Mike Powell, no emotions at all. When he was taking about making money you could see him getting excited. Not much but he heard profit and it was like an orgasm for him. The credit card companies are giving out cards left and right. It doesn't matter if they can pay, they are going to look for every reason to jack up you interest rates. The way they are going is going to cause the end of them. Lend out all your money and when you all want it back and the people say, o'well. That's really going to fix them right up. It's just like some of the different countries that money has been loaned. They can't even pay their interest and what are you going to do, for close on a country? Well they all can eat crow as far as I'm concern. They go out of their way to make people poor. What a service! No good people there and the worst part of it all is that it rubs off on the employees. Then those people go out in the world with this twisted version of life that is perfectly all right to ripe off people that aren't paying attention. What gets me about these same people will go to church and think they are the most perfect person.

Electricity doing the thing through my brain, again.

It's back, the electricity jolting through my brain and body. I complained to my doctors before and they kept saying "Migraine." What ever I said it always came out migraine. I guess it's easier to say "migraine" then "seizure." It's not flop on the ground type but it is annoying. Trying to stop smoking may ad to this and isn't the most fun but it's about time I did this.

Had a great day here, sunny, fresh air and turkeys. Took a few pictures. Hanging out watching them do their day to day turkey things is so interesting. I don't know what excites me so much. Is it the size of the birds working around me. I find the little birds just as interesting. The squirrels are the most interesting and the best characters.

Beside the brain sparks, my back has been killing me. It almost feels like I have a hernia again. The symptoms are all the same as far as I see. The "Back" is really bad. Did you ever feel so bad you wanted to cry because of the pain but crying won't impress any one here because your all a lone. Is that the best way to say it? Lately, my spine is poking out my back. It's spreading my tendands and I can feel the bone under the skin. I don't want to have surgery unless I can get replacement disks. Fusion is no good because you can't bend after that. It might solve the pain problem or at least some of the pain problem.

"Nightlines" discussion tonight was about "Social Security." From one report I watched on TV where a reporter went to the Social Security office to the great lock box. In there, is $74 trillion dollars worth of IOU's. The Bushster want to sell something like Weapons of mass displacement. The only people that will make out is wall street. Just like they did when Bush took office the first time and they walked off with $7 trillion. That's not including the companies that went under. Why would anyone believe anything Bush has to say now after what he had to say about Iraq. No one remembers when he said that they need to privatized the nation starting with the oil fields. Like in VP's big plan, the big energy bill. How can those flat landers vote for Bush. I've heard a person try to support Bush but it wasn't in his words it was in the words of the radio and TV. No original thought just the one planted in his head.

What about those base camps for our boys in Iraq? From one report they had said, The camps are being made because they plan to be there for 5 years. When you here the troops these days, they have "cue cards" to tell the truth of the mission. Nothing like a good propaganda program. I don't even listen to what the troops have to say these days because it's so scripted. You know it is because the guy is using words he's never used before in his life. Nothing like using a word with the wrong context.

Bush is suppose to be a leader but how can you be a leader if people are telling you what to do and what to say. Since "The Bushster" is reporting to the corporations and the corporation are not bound to any country then Bush isn't bound to any country. It's all about the bottom line and not about people.

Besides all that, watch Frontline tonight. I had seen it before about credit cards and the companies policies of lending. What a bunch of cheesy people. The one guy that they were interviewing about changing you pay ever month or the minimum payment and this guy came up with this idea. He's like a clone of Mike Powell, no emotions at all. When he was taking about making money you could see him getting excited. Not much but he heard profit and it was like an orgasm for him. The credit card companies are giving out cards left and right. It doesn't matter if they can pay, they are going to look for every reason to jack up you interest rates. The way they are going is going to cause the end of them. Lend out all your money and when you all want it back and the people say, o'well. That's really going to fix them right up. It's just like some of the different countries that money has been loaned. They can't even pay their interest and what are you going to do, for close on a country? Well they all can eat crow as far as I'm concern. They go out of their way to make people poor. What a service! No good people there and the worst part of it all is that it rubs off on the employees. Then those people go out in the world with this twisted version of life that is perfectly all right to ripe off people that aren't paying attention. What gets me about these same people will go to church and think they are the most perfect person.