Go breath some clean air

Well, I can't stand big cities.  Here is another reason for why rural living is a good idea. :)

BYU-HARVARD STUDY FINDS CLEANER AIR EXTENDS LIFESPAN

A new study by researchers at BYU and the Harvard School of Public Health shows that average life expectancy in 51 U.S. cities has increased by five months thanks to improvements in air quality. “Such a significant increase in life expectancy attributable to reducing air pollution is remarkable,” said C. Arden Pope III, a BYU epidemiologist and the lead author on the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January. “Not only are we getting cleaner air that improves our environment, but it is improving our public health.”

The Roach that almost got away

For Bev's sake, we can now forego the name of endearment "Stinky Face" and inlay his real name...Roach.  Ronnie Roach is his full name.  A 19 year old amateur, or slow learner in the family business.  He saw my '94 honda, and thought, "hey, no alarm, no microchip embedded key for ignition security, easy chop-shop money.  New dew rag and ear ring bling, here I come." I was told multiple times that slightly older Honda's are an easy target.  In fact, at the repair shop, the side panel and ignition were referred to as "the theft repair kit".  Oh, how comforting to know my leaky oil, cracking tire, slipping transmission, paint pealing honda, has a target painted on it.

Such a sad start to life in the adult world for the Roach.  He has not superseded his family name nor their business.  Oh, but Richard, how do you know it is a family business!?! You conclusion jumping profiler!  Well, the police records gave us the proof.  The more I think on the incident, the more I realize how very sad is this boy's start in life.  

It's like I always told the youth when I taught them in sunday school, and the same thing I told Ronnie Roach as he sat in the nice warm police cruiser as I sat in the cold filling out an incident report with frozen fingers.  "The actions you commit, directly affect both you and others".  

On al lighter note, this is also something to keep in mind when you mess with someone in the medical field.  :) My mom sent it to me...gave me a good laugh.  

A motorcycle  patrolman was rushed to the hospital with an inflamed  appendix.  The doctors operated and advised him that all was  well.  However, the  patrolman kept feeling something pulling at the hairs in his  crotch.  Worried that it might be a second surgery and the  doctors hadn't told him about it, he finally got enough energy to  pull his hospital gown up enough so he could look at what was making  him so uncomfortable.   Taped firmly  across his pubic hair were three wide strips of adhesive tape, the  kind that doesn't come off easily.   Written in large red letters was the sentence:  Get well soon... from the nurse in the jeep that you pulled over last week.

Look out little Roach!

How much would your virginity go for?

Virginity for sale anyone?  Wow, something so priceless...something so highly revered and sacred, has now been drug through the mud and out into the open by a "level headed" 22 year old Natalie Dylan.  She's holding an on-line auction held in Nevada at the Bunny Ranch.  Highest bidder, and a guy meeting her criteria will go to Nevada for the consummation.  

This girl apparently doesn't have any problems with prostitution.  It's one moral value that she doesn't hold in high regard or respect, and thereby justifies not giving it the esteem that everyone else does.  

She claims to have high moral standards, other than having "sexual experiences" with other boyfriends but it's not "intercourse".  The one moral value she decided was not up her eschelon of values is prostitution.

When asked if other moral codes could be broken like stealing, hurting, killing, she had a problem with this.  Those moral codes hurt or harm other people.  She doesn't feel that prostitution, or pornography (she didn't opt for the porn exposure because of too many people getting a peep at her...yeah right...)  are a problem because they don't hurt anyone.  She could never answer how many of those men offering her money for her virginity were married men.  

So, does pornography hurt others?  Does prostitution hurt others?

If they didn't, then WHY are there laws prohibiting them?  Yes, the self proclaimed title of "level-headedness", starts to look like a shoe that doesn't fit her stinky little foot.  

Apparently, prostitution is legal in Nevada.  From what I understand... soliciting it into a state that has it as illegal makes Natalie in danger of conspiracy for which she could get arrested.  As a U.S. citizen, you cannot take part in child prostitution, even in other countries where it is legal.  If there is communication, intent to act, then travel to that area with intent of the act, the law has been broken.  Although she is not under age, she still is soliciting sex accross state lines making it very illegal.  

Then again, she just might get lucky and end up with this guy...

Sex for money pic

Interview sources...

Laura Ingrum show

Glenn Beck show

Tyra Banks show www.dailystab.com

Obama, at it again...

Well, if he's planning on leaving his mark on this world, he sure is off on the right foot...or should I say "extreme left" in the moral sense of the word.  Maybe he has intentions to keep the worlds population under control.  That way, they can't overrun us with as many people after they own us monetarily.  After all, China could tell us to pony up the money we owe them, or else... then bam, it's like the movie "Red Dawn" all over again, only with Chinese instead of Russians.  It's a stretch, but hey, all the more reason to buy a gun. :)

Obama lifts ban, will use your tax dollars to pay for abortions around the world

January 23, 2009

President Obama has lifted a ban on federal funding for international groups that promote or perform abortions, reversing a policy of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Obama's actions mean that hundreds of millions of your tax dollars will go to help groups likePlanned Parenthood perform abortions around the world.

His actions came one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Courtruling that legalized abortion in all 50 states.

Random Vega thought

My dad used to own a Vega made by Chevrolet.  It was always breaking down, despite my dad's tireless maintenance regiment on it.  Finally it found it's place by our shed as a miniature playground.  

Click here for top ten worst cars.  

Is it any wonder why we started buying Japanese cars?  Now the companies are playing catch up to cover up their past.

Here is a yellow version of our old white one.

1971 Chevrolet Vega: Motor Trend Car of the Year

The Chevy Vega is on everyone’s short list for Worst Car of All Time. It was so unreliable that it seemed the only time anyone saw a Vega on the road not puking out oily smoke was when it was being towed.

That’s not to say the choice of the Vega as 1971 Car of the Year doesn’t make sense in context. This was the year Ford and Chevy introduced new small cars and compared to Ford’s Pinto, the Vega at least seemed better. The Vega handled more precisely, was available in more body styles, and, with styling cribbed straight off the Camaro, looked more attractive. The Vega’s aluminum engine block even seemed like a technological leap forward.

However, the aluminum block’s unlined cylinder bores scored easily and the (usually misaligned) iron cylinder head let oil pour into them. Every element of the Vega’s chassis was built about as flimsily as possible and the unibody structure’s metal was usually attacked by rust mere moments after being exposed to, well, air. It’s been 38 years since the Vega appeared, and the stink still won’t wash off.

How bout' dem actions?

No, not dem as in democrats... we'll see about those actions to come.  

It is a time to celebrate the integrity of our former president Bush!  One of the open wounds in America's eye has been sutured shut at last!  Hallelujah! The injustice stemming from, suprise suprise, a lawyer, has been redeemed by former President Bush!

So, those of you looking for actions and not just "hope, change, and a bunch of hooplah", look at the injustice of Ramos and Compean now turned into a justice.   

"President Bush has commuted the prison sentences of former Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean!"

I am so very excited about this.  My brother might have a government backing him up after all.

To diverge a little...

So, "sit back and wave boys", and lets see what some hope, change, and a democratic president and senate will bring America.  My hope is that he won't increase my tax burden and make the tax cuts created by President Bush permanent.  I want some more change in my pockets and not in the pockets of greedy trial lawyers, banks, wall-street, auto industry etc.  hmmm, I want the thievery of the hard working to stop.  Ah, America, you can study for 35 years of your life in hopes of making a good living, all the while living below the "set" poverty line.  Then when you start making money and fulfilling the American dream, you get punished for it by taxes, greedy trial lawyers, and those along for the free ride.  I feel my hope slipping.  SAVE ME OBAMA!

If I were a liberal

So, back to some controversial political talk...

If I was a liberal, would I be upset?  Yes.  When people don't live up to their promises I usually don't trust them.  Sounds like many of the promises Obama ran on during his campaign are morphing into something more, shall we say the word?, conservative.  Is he going to pull out the troops within 3 months? NO!  Is he going to raise taxes and smoke out the "rich"? No!  Is he going to close down the Guantanamo prison? NO!

Ya know... it's like being a nurse.  When you only understand half the picture, and then you start thinking, you start to think you are pretty smart.  Don't get offended here nurses.  I love you to death.  Without you, hospitals wouldn't function or exist.  We all know doctors are incapable of doing all the rigorous work you do.  However, I can tell you on several accounts, that if I followed the advice of a nurse on big decisions, the patient would be put in harms way.  The same exists everywhere.  Just as nurses aren't in the know about everything going on behind the scenes, nor are we as citizens or political candidates in the grand scheme of world events.  

We would like to think that GW Bush owned all the oil stock and thus the reason we are in the middle east.  Or is it because due to the hang ups, our country would fail if we didn't have the stuff?  Or is it because if things aren't controlled over there many more towers would be in a heap of rubble with many casualties?  Sure, Bush made several mistakes in office, but he stuck to his guns on what he believed.  And thus, if he says something, I tend to believe it.  I disagree on his illegal immigrant stance, but I respect him for it.  That's the difference between him and Obama.  Don't get me wrong here thouth, I'm glad Obama is coming to the conservative side of some issues now that he has access to more complete information, but he sways like a long green twig in the wind.  I just hope he surrounds himself with some level headed informants.  

Maybe Obama is actually a Republican.  After all, now it's not the REPUBLICANS that are spending our way to a China takeover.  He will be spending more than any other president, and doing it speedily in his first term.  It will be nice to tell our grandchildren how lucky they are because their dollars will help repay the debt we caused by letting these jokers exercise their governmental powers.

Third hand smoking

Here's some more info to put out there for those who tell me "But I don't smoke in the house, or in the car...if my kid isn't in it."

One day I asked a patient mother if she smokes in the home.  She said "oh no, I smoke up in my room ..."  She looked like a deer in the headlights when I told her that her room was actually part of the house.  Sometimes you have to think outside the bun.

A New Cigarette Hazard: 'Third-Hand Smoke' from The New York Times Third-hand smoke is a new term being used to describe the invisible yet toxic brew of gasses and particles clinging to smokers’ hair and clothing, not to mention cushions and carpeting, that lingers long after second-hand smoke has cleared from a room. The residue includes heavy metals, carcinogens, and even radioactive materials that young children can get on their hands and ingest, especially if they’re crawling or playing on the floor

Here's the link to the full article

It goes on to say...

“The central message here is that simply closing the kitchen door to take a smoke is not protecting the kids from the effects of that smoke,” he said. “There are carcinogens in this third-hand smoke, and they are a cancer risk for anybody of any age who comes into contact with them.”

Among the substances in third-hand smoke are hydrogen cyanide, used in chemical weapons; butane, which is used in lighter fluid; toluene, found in paint thinners; arsenic; lead; carbon monoxide; and even polonium-210, the highly radioactive carcinogen that was used to murder former Russian spy Alexander V. Litvinenko in 2006. Eleven of the compounds are highly carcinogenic.

To conclude... I had a pregnant lady in the office some months ago.  I told her that she needed to quit smoking for the health of the child.  She told me to stop and not talk to her about it.  She didn't care, she wasn't going to quit and was getting rather upset at me for even talking to her about it.  Yeah, I'm the enemy.  Poor helpless baby.

Tom Brokaw and a pun little potato story

Well, A Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other,

And finally they got married, and had a little sweet potato, which they Called 'Yam.' 

Of course, they wanted the best for Yam. 

When it was time, they told her about the facts of life. 

They warned her about going out and getting half-baked, so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and get a bad 
name for herself like 'Hot Potato,' and end up with a bunch of Tater Tots. 



 

Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a Rotten Potato out of her! 

But on the other hand she 
Wouldn't stay home and become a Couch Potato either. 

She would get 
plenty of exercise so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring 
Cousins.



 

When she went off to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Potato told Yam 
To watch out for the hard-boiled guys from Ireland . 
And the 
Greasy French guys from France.  And when she went out West, To watch out for the Indians so she wouldn't get scalloped. 



 

Yam said she would stay on the straight and narrow 
And wouldn't associate with those high class Yukon Golds, or the ones from the other 
side of the tracks who advertise their trade on all the trucks that say, 
'Frito Lay.' 



 

Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U., (that's 
Potato University ), so that when she graduated she'd really be in the Chips. 

But in spite of all they did for her, one-day Yam came home 
And announced she was going to marry Tom Brokaw. 



 

Tom Brokaw! 

Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset. 

They told 
Yam she couldn't possibly 
Marry Tom Brokaw 
Because he's just… well, he’s just… 


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