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Thursday, September 17th, 2015
1:09 pm	"Friends Only" Disregard the futuristic date for this journal entry. Much as we might hope for, time travel is still not possible. The futuristic date merely allows this introductory entry to appear ahead of all the others. For a variety of reasons, I've decided to make my journal "friends only." Becoming a friend isn't really all that hard. Drop me an email and let's talk about it. Chances are, I'll reciprocate and we can add each other to our respective friends lists. M_P milespost *ampersand* aol *dot* com Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: "Only The Beginning" by Chicago (32 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
1:59 am	Maybe There's Something To Be Said For Good, Old-Fashioned Road Maps . . . Oh, but wait! We now have a generation of people who don't know how to READ road maps. They're too busy texting, Twittering and emailing on their iphones (while driving). Who needs road maps or a basic knowledge of geography? Idiocracy is upon us. M_P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GPS typo sends Swedish couple 400 miles off course by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) on Jul 28th 2009 at 1:00PM A Swedish couple screwed up their vacation when a simple typo sent them 400 miles away from their desired destination. When entering the Italian island of Capri into their GPS, they accidentally entered Carpi. The two destinations couldn't be more different - Capri is a lovely island off the coast of Naples, Carpi is an industrial village in the middle of nowhere, It isn't uncommon for someone to make a spelling mistake on their GPS, but you'd expect that most people be able to notice they are not on an island, and that the drive was about 6 hours shorter than expected. Sadly, this couple had no idea, and when they couldn't find the famous blue caves of Capri, they asked the local tourist office. It was then (most likely after the laughter stopped) that they were told they were in the wrong town. The couple then popped the correct destination into their GPS and headed towards the correct Capri. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 8th, 2009
5:37 am	Today's Rant, A Contribution To A newspaper That Was Censored & A Modified Song We had a burglar alarm installed Wednesday. I wanted a really good system with window sensors, motion detectors and a link to a command center that can call the police. For that, I had to shell out $1,148. At about 0730 AM last week when I was out of town, some asshole tried to enter the house through the side window in the dining room while my wife and three-year-old daughter were still in bed. My wife heard some unusual noises and the dog in the neighbor's yard was barking a little more than usual. She got up and pulled the drapes back on the window and saw the guy, face-to-face. He was maybe 4-5 feet away. She wasn't wearing her contacts, so she didn't get a good description of him. He already had the screen off and dropped it as he fled. My wife was so shaken up by the incident that she was LITERALLY shaking when she called 9-1-1 and had trouble remembering what our address is when the operator asked for it. The people on both sides of us have been broken into so I figured it was time to do something. We've had people stealing mail out of our mailboxes also. The mailman told me a guy got robbed at gunpoint several blocks away a couple months ago. My neighborhood is really going to hell in a handbasket. There have been quite a few homes in the tract that have been foreclosed, and they're starting to look like dives. Some of them have been rented out and some really creepy low-lifes have moved in as tenents. They all look like gang-bangers. They probably are. Another indicator of how things are going to hell are the number of shopping carts strewn on the streets between me and my closest supermarket. And then, not all that far away from where we live, there was that home invasion where the little three-year-old boy was abducted and hasn't been heard from since. That's received national news coverage. I wrote the following in the "Comments" section for the latest LA TIMES article about that kidnapping. Of course, it goes without saying that the editorial staff of the paper apparently classified my contribution as hate speech, because they deleted it shortly after it was up on their website. What a surprise. The fact that it's all true doesn't enter into the equation. They're just worried about upsetting people. Here's what I wrote: Get used to it, LA. There's going to be a lot more stories just like this. Remember the little kid that was kidnapped in Las Vegas as "payback" because his grandfather double-crossed some Mexican drug dealers? There was a LA TIMES article not too long ago that said Phoenix was the kidnapping capital of the USA due to illegal alien smuggling, drug smuggling and an influx of criminals who should not be in this country in the first place. I guess LA is just playing "catch up". My guess is that either the father or the two oldest sons were/are involved in some shady transaction(s) with the wrong people and this is "payback." Interesting that the news media hasn't explored that angle or whether or not any of these people are here legally. I guess, in these politically correct times, none of that is relevant or it would be considered too "invasive". We might hurt their feelings if we asked questions with a "negative" tone. Regardless of whether or not all the members of the family in San Bernardino are here legally, it's still appropriate to add kidnapping to the list of "enhancements" that illegal aliens are bringing to this country. This list includes graffitti, over-crowded schools and hospitals, drive-by shootings, illegal alien "drop houses" where "coyotes" harbor twenty or thirty victims until ransoms are paid, "anchor babies", garages illegally converted into living quarters, street vendors violating health codes, billboards written solely in Spanish, roosters crowing in your local neighborhood, depressed earnings in professions that used to pay a liveable wage, having to "press one" for English, hit-and-run car crashes because the motorists don't have insurance and are afraid of being deported . . . the list goes on and on. I've only scratched the surface here. As another reader said not too long ago, LA is quickly becoming a Third World cesspool. But, amazingly enough, some people just look upon all of it as "cultural diversity." Go figure. And, finally, as a friend and I were commiserating on the decline of our respective neighborhoods and the deterioration of the quality of life here in what used to be the United States of America, he took the time to write the following updated lyrics to a popular folk song from the 1960s. He's really good at writing poems and re-wording songs for any occasion. The original song was performed by Peter, Paul & Mary. Where have all the white folks gone? (sung to the tune of "Where have all the flowers gone") Where have all the white folks gone? Long time passing Where have all the white folks gone? Long time ago Where have all the white folks gone? Been replaced by Mex-i-cans When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Where have middle-class folks gone? Long time passing Where have middle-class folks gone? Long time ago Where have middle-class folks gone? Taken-out by Wall Street scum. When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Where have union workers gone? Long time passing Where have union workers gone? Long time ago Where have union workers gone? Been replaced by A-li-ens When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Where have all the ethics gone? Long time passing Where have all the ethics gone? Long time ago Where have all the ethics gone? Guess it’s not to Wash-ing-ton. When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Where have honest leaders gone? Long time passing Where have honest leaders gone? Long time ago Where have honest leaders gone? Bought by lobbyists and cons. When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
1:37 pm	Hmmmm.... I wonder if I'll somehow be branded as a racist for going to the trouble of including photographs of these barbaric animals? April 16, 2009 Prison for Detroit couple accused of trying to grill son's body BY BEN SCHMITT DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER A Detroit couple accused of trying to cremate their dead 2-year-old son on a barbecue grill, and then hiding the remains while collecting welfare benefits for the child, were both sentenced to prison today. Nickella Reid, 23, pleaded guilty last month in Wayne County Circuit Court to involuntary manslaughter and welfare fraud in connection with the death of her son, Deuntay Miller. She was sentenced today by Judge Michael Callahan to 10 to 15 years. Joseph Miller, 28, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder for Deuntay's death. Callahan sentenced him to 22 to 50 years. The case broke when Reid and her mother took Deuntay's 1-year-old brother, Nicholas Miller, to Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit on Nov. 11, 2007, for second- and third-degree burns. Prosecutors said at the time that 35% of Nicholas' body had been burned, and he is still recovering. Miller also pleaded guilty to first-degree child abuse for the burns Nicholas sustained. The toddler, who needs additional surgery, is in foster care, Miller's attorney, Gabi Silver, previously said. There have been no family visits. Police said Reid told investigators that Miller scalded their son with water in their home on Lillibridge in Detroit. Reid then told police of Deuntay's death and directed them to Miller's sister's home on Lappin, where the toddler's remains had been sealed in the ceiling. Officers from the Violent Crimes Task Force made the discovery. Reid and Miller told police that they tried to cremate Deuntay in a barbecue grill to avoid funeral costs. Prosecutors previously said that Deuntay had been dead for nine months to a year when police found his remains. Police later learned that Reid had been collecting welfare and food stamps in the names of Deuntay and four other children. Medical experts said examination of Deuntay's skeletal remains showed healed breaks in both of his legs and signs of malnutrition in the development of his bones. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 20th, 2009
6:06 pm	When Should A Contract Be Ignored? This guy makes a good point. Apparently, the sanctity of a contract extends only to white collar business executives. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Re “Hands off the bonus, Obama,” LA TIMES Opinion, March 17 Jonah Goldberg argues that taxpayers must subsidize $165 million in bonuses to AIG executives because a contract is a contract. Logically, then, it's safe to assume that Goldberg and like-minded conservatives also would argue that taxpayers must subsidize the pension and health benefits of retired autoworkers because a contract is a contract. Right? Ross Brown Westlake Village (Comment on this)
Friday, February 6th, 2009
8:36 pm	Responding to hexkitten's journal entry of February 06, 2009 at 0906 hours: I'll start right off the bat by saying that, yes, I voted for California Prop. 8. It seems to me that, in the final analysis, this whole controversy is a battle by the gay community over the useage of the word "marriage." If they already have all of the benefits and characteristics of a union between a man and a woman in the form of a "civil union" or a "domestic patnership", what's all the fuss about? And it's not like they're being denied service at a lunch counter. That "violation of my civil rights" argument doesn't hold water, at least in my book. Blacks are insulted by it as well. And, I suppose since I have the unmitigating gall of having a differing opinion, my house will be vandalized and people will be marching in picket lines out in front of it ---- similar to the people who made financial contributions to Prop. 8. Freedom of Speech and Expression? Yeah, as long as you agree with us. What a joke. M_P (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 30th, 2009
8:41 pm	First Class Gets The Life Boat -- Steerage Gets To Stand In The Water . . . And who says we're not a class-conscious society? M_P (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
8:04 pm	This Explains Why The U.S.A. Is Going Bankrupt . . . This was the substance of one of those forwarded emails that I seem to get from a lot of people. As we all know, a lot of those mailings are peppered with falsehoods and misleading information. That's where SNOPES.com comes in handy. However, SNOPES doesn't have anything on this yet. Something tells me that all of this is probably true. They give sources as to where the information was obtained. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why is the United States nearing bankruptcy? When did common sense go out the window? You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this: OH! Now I understand! I was confused. We have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/21/ldt.01.html 5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & Social Services by the American taxpayers. Verify at:http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html 9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html 11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht 12. The National Policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period. Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation 13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm 14. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes are committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. Are we THAT stupid? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, we are. But the news media really doesn't like to discuss this issue because it's too much of a political hot potato. The bleeding-heart liberal belief that "no human is illegal" and the mindset that people should be able to roam freely around the world in search of employment and free health care is spreading like wildfire. The illegal aliens have basically won over our "hearts and minds." It's hard for a news-writer to write something negative about illegal immigration when he has an illegal alien mowing his grass and another babysitting his kids. M_P (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
1:34 pm	Sarah Palin As Rosie The Riveter Here's a famous World War II-era poster that's been slightly modified to become a 2008 campaign poster: . . . and here's an interesting Letter To The Editor of the Los Angeles Times: I find it oddly appropriate (though infuriating) that supporters of John McCain and Sarah Palin have hijacked the image of Rosie the Riveter, superimposed with Palin's photo, for their campaign posters. Rosie is, of course, the symbol of thousands of women who were encouraged to enter the workforce during World War II to help the war effort by building ships and doing other jobs vacated by the men at the front. What some might forget is that as soon as the men who had been fighting overseas returned home, those same women, having been given a taste of independence, were removed from their jobs and told to go be good little homemakers again. It makes me wonder what McCain and his cronies have in mind for Palin should she help the Republicans win this election. Will she be relegated to the role of window-dressing, as it seems some in the Republican Party already regard her? (They have, after all, kept her well protected from unscripted, solo public appearances.) Perhaps, rather than setting women back 100 years with her ultra-conservative beliefs, Palin will be good for women. It was, after all, those very same Rosies who started the tremendous wave of feminism not too long after World War II ended. Perhaps there will be yet another resurgence from women who are tired of being used as, and seeing our peers used as, pawns. Patti Reis Camarillo (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
11:16 pm	Man, This Girl Can REALLY Sing! All That Karioke Paid Off! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charice_Pempengco http://www.charicepempengco.com/ On the link above, go to the "videos" page and click on the segments from the Oprah Winfrey Show and Paul O'Grady's show. Very impressive. M_P (Comment on this)
Friday, September 5th, 2008
4:17 am	How To Piss Off PETA And The ASPCA . A HUNTING TROPHY: In this undated photo, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and one of her daughters pose with a caribou she shot. Caption This Photo! Here's my contribution: "After this, Bristol, let's go to the Saint Lawrence region of Quebec and club some baby seals to death!" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The following was lifted, without permission, from throwingstardna's journal. It's good and worth reproducing here: Things I like about Sarah Palin: She's pretty. She speaks well. She has fought some entrenched interests. She likes guns. Things I don't like about Sarah Palin: She supports teaching creationism in schools. She had her first child 8 months after her wedding and her unmarried teenage daughter is 5 months pregnant, yet she supports abstinence-until-marriage education. It don't work. People are gonna fuck before marriage (and I think they should), so enough with the "chaste until marriage" fantasy. She didn't even have a passport until a year and a half ago, and has only left the country once. Canada doesn't count. Two months ago she didn't even know what the VP did. Things that are irrelevant to me about Sarah Palin: Her husband was a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party. Meh. Her Pastor has preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell. I didn't care about Obama's goofy preacher dude and I don't care about hers. I expect these people to say dumb stuff. She is the least qualified vice presidential candidate in modern history. I am less concerned with experience and more concerned with judgement and the candidate's vision. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * M_P (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
4:48 am	This Election Is Becoming More Absurd With Each Passing Day So, let's see. <> All of the Blacks will vote for Obama because he's Black. <> All of the women will vote for McCain because Ms. Palin fits their bill in what they're looking for in a vice-president. It looks like we're pretty far removed from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "dream" that a person (or persons) could be judged not by the color of their skin (or gender) but by the content of his/her character. I deeply resent the Democratic and Republican parties, or, more specifically, Obama and McCain, trying to play me like a Stradivarius violin. And if people are going to constantly bring to our attention that Obama's name sounds a little too similar to that Islamic fundamentalist leader of Al Qaeda who's hiding in a cave in Afghanistan . . . . . . might I remind them that Sarah Palin's last name sounds just a little too similar to the Prime Minister of Russia's --- that EVIL EMPIRE that likes to invade places in eastern Europe. Lou Dobbs is looking better and better all the time. http://loudobbs4president.com/ M_P (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 8th, 2008
3:56 am	Why Does China Have A Police State? Because We Help Them. China will ALWAYS have a police state. As long as U.S. corporations keep selling them the hardware and technology to make sure of it. The United States of America should be re-named The United States of Corporate Greed. M_P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Another technology that raises concern involves the new identity cards China is phasing in for its 1.3 billion citizens. The cards, developed with help from Plano, Texas-based China Information Security Technology, carry radio signal devices and a chip that records not only a person's height, weight and identification number, but also health records, work history, education, travel, religion, ethnicity, reproductive history, police record, medical insurance status and even his or her landlord's phone number."(Emphasis added) SOURCE: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-snoop7-2008aug07,0,7333292.story " . . . ONI found the primary focus of China's filtering system to be on political content. Public security organs and Internet service providers employ thousands of people – nationwide, at multiple levels – as monitors and censors. Their job is to monitor everything posted online by ordinary Chinese people and to delete objectionable content. The key to the filtering system, however, is automated technology – equipment and software courtesy of US companies – enabling China's service providers to enter hundreds of thousands of banned keywords and web addresses for automatic blocking.(Emphasis added) SOURCE: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5928 (Comment on this)
Friday, July 25th, 2008
5:13 am	When Bleeding Heart Liberalism Goes Way Overboard . . . Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 24, 7:42 AM ET The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left. But authorities say that was enough to cause Edwin Ramos to unload an AK-47 assault weapon on a man and his two sons, killing them. The deaths immediately drew public outrage, which intensified when authorities revealed that Ramos, 21, is an illegal immigrant who managed to avoid deportation despite previous brushes with the law.( CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY ) See also: http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html And remember, folks, both Obama and McCain want to set up some sort of "pathway to citizenship" for the estimated 14 million law breakers. That's just a fancy phrase for amnesty. Why can't we have a political candidate who has the guts to talk about deportation? The "pathway to citizenship" will just send a message to 14 million more of 'em to come on in. I think I'm gonna write in Lou Dobbs' name on the ballot. M_P (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
7:26 am	Where I've Been visited 50 states (100%) Create your own visited map of The United States visited 10 states (4.44%) Create your own visited map of The World (Comment on this)
Friday, May 9th, 2008
5:16 am	Living On Borrowed Time And Borrowed Dimes This little essay really hits the nail on the head as to what's wrong with this country. I'm beginning to wonder if it's too late to turn things around. The New York Times, May 4, 2008 Who Will Tell the People? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Op-Ed Columnist( CLICK HERE ) M_P (Comment on this)
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
10:06 pm	These Had Me Laughing . M_P (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, April 21st, 2008
12:59 pm	The Future Of America . . . . . .these are the people who will be taking care of us in the old folks' home. M_P (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
3:36 am	This Explains Why My Taxes & Health Insurance Premiums Are Sky High Here's another bleeding-heart liberal article from the LA TIMES that's supposed to make us feel sorry for the plight of illegal aliens. I'm beginning to think the LA TIMES is getting money under the table from the Mexican Government and special interest groups like Mecha, MALDEF, LULAC -- groups that are promoting and are in favor of illegal immigration. Amazing that my tax dollars are paying for free health care for people who have illegally invaded this country. I wonder how many American kids who needed kidney transplants have died because the kidneys were going to illegal aliens? I wonder if Mexico will ever start taking care of its own people . . . Why do illegal aliens get better health care than some legal citizens? Long story, so ( CLICK HERE ) M_P (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
4:43 am	"The Shining", Recast As A Romantic Comedy!! An episode of the Glenn Back Show turned me on to this. There's a new rage called "Trailer Mash" where people mess with movie trailers. Well, Glenn Beck explains it best. You won't find this funny unless you saw the original version of "The Shining." M_P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BECK: All right. The hottest thing that you`ll see on YouTube is something called "Trailer Mash". I read this story, I don't know, a few days ago. I can't wait to show you this stuff. What it is, people basically take a traditional movie trailer, they reedit it, add some new music and you've got a whole new movie. And if that isn't a big enough twist for you, check out this version of "The Shining". In this imaginative version, "The Shining" is recast as a romantic comedy. I've got to tell you. I watched this on YouTube the other day. "The Shining" is the best one. I laughed, I don't know for how long. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frbao8Tst_Q (Comment on this)