Ham Radio News And Views

I SAW YU55 FLYBY THE MOON Did anyone else see this?

2011-11-10T10:29:00.008-06:00

I'm going to try to describe what I saw on the night yu55 flew by. It crossed directly in front of the moon from where I live in Nashville Tennessee. I don't know if it would have looked different from other states, if it would have been lower or higher visually than the moon, but from here, it was crystal clear skies and it flew from my right looking at it, to my lower left of the moon. The moon was glaring so brightly through that telescopic lens and the asteroid looked dark black, the comparison of the two was so clear, very eerie and it was followed by two very long tails streaming behind it. In relation to the moon, the asteroid was about the size of an eye if the moon had a face. The tails were very long and wide. It had me shaking because I thought it was over and I wasn't going to see anything, then here it was, and it looked so large through the telescopic lens. I was expecting something a lot smaller. I got a very strange feeling that this is definitely a sign from God that he intended for all of us to see who had the opportunity to do it. And since I knew when to look up from the http://events.slooh.com/ website. There was a countdown, so I knew exactly the time otherwise it would have been hard to hold that gun still very long to look at it.

Now you tell me, where is the video from all the amateur astronomers that had these precise details as I did as to when it would be visible? There must be someone out there that has a setup a whole lot bigger and better than I with a good camera that was ready and very able to record this event. Please I beg of you please upload to the internet so everyone else can see what I saw.

If anyone else has seen the YU55 FLYBY, PLEASE post what you saw. I am anxious to hear what it looked like to you.
I am also going to try to draw a picture of this for you to see. Nasa surely has the footage. What is up with this? Maybe they think
everyone will be frightened if they see how it really looked. I am a Christian, and I believe Jesus is coming soon and this event has made me know that it is definitely nearer than I even thought. It was scary looking , seeing it from here. Believe me, it was scary. If that thing had hit us we would all have been annihilated. You could tell when it passed on the left lower side of the moon that it kind of went farther away, you could see it wasn't going to hit us. I have never experienced anything like this in my life, and I am not sure that I ever want to again.

I hope I have explained it well enough here. God bless.

What I don't understand is why isn't anyone else posting this information? I know somebody else saw this, they must have. I have looked, searched all over the internet and nothing much out there on this.

Amateur Radio can Prevent Age related Dementia

2010-09-24T11:07:00.004-05:00

From the AMERICAN CHRONICLE
Amateur Radio can Prevent Age related Dementia
Daniel Taverne
September 23, 2010
Dementia, simply put, is a decline of mental ability, usually associated with age. Folks with dementia typically have problems functioning and performing activities of daily living.

Well, a Study in Sweden suggests that mentally and socially stimulated people reduce their risk of this diagnosis.

Data from the 1987–1996 Kungsholmen Project, a longitudinal population-based study suggests that "stimulating activity, either mentally or socially oriented, may protect against dementia, indicating that both social interaction and intellectual stimulation may be relevant to preserving mental functioning in the elderly."

Wouldn't you agree that we Amateur Radio operators are mentally and socially stimulated? I know I am. Both on and off the air, we hams have plenty to do, and plenty of fine folks to do it with.

In a side note: Ham radio ruined one of my previous "activities". Now I'd rather have a great time interacting on a roundtable than a boring time passively watching some mindless TV show!

The study itself didn't expressly mention Amateur Radio; I'm claiming this based on the study's conclusion.

I think on some level most hams feel the importance of their role, and would look at this reduced-dementia-risk-benefit as a fringe benefit of a hobby that is rewarding in so many other cherished ways.
Well, a Study in Sweden suggests that mentally and socially stimulated people reduce their risk of this diagnosis.

Amateur Radio can Prevent Age related Dementia

2010-09-24T11:07:00.001-05:00

Amateur Radio can Prevent Age related Dementia
Daniel Taverne
September 23, 2010
Dementia, simply put, is a decline of mental ability, usually associated with age. Folks with dementia typically have problems functioning and performing activities of daily living.

Well, a Study in Sweden suggests that mentally and socially stimulated people reduce their risk of this diagnosis.

Data from the 1987–1996 Kungsholmen Project, a longitudinal population-based study suggests that "stimulating activity, either mentally or socially oriented, may protect against dementia, indicating that both social interaction and intellectual stimulation may be relevant to preserving mental functioning in the elderly."

Wouldn't you agree that we Amateur Radio operators are mentally and socially stimulated? I know I am. Both on and off the air, we hams have plenty to do, and plenty of fine folks to do it with.

In a side note: Ham radio ruined one of my previous "activities". Now I'd rather have a great time interacting on a roundtable than a boring time passively watching some mindless TV show!

The study itself didn't expressly mention Amateur Radio; I'm claiming this based on the study's conclusion.

I think on some level most hams feel the importance of their role, and would look at this reduced-dementia-risk-benefit as a fringe benefit of a hobby that is rewarding in so many other cherished ways.
Well, a Study in Sweden suggests that mentally and socially stimulated people reduce their risk of this diagnosis.

Data from the 1987–1996 Kungsholmen Project, a longitudinal population-based study suggests that "stimulating activity, either mentally or socially oriented, may protect against dementia, indicating that both social interaction and intellectual stimulation may be relevant to preserving mental functioning in the elderly."

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response

2010-06-24T02:40:00.003-05:00

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The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill
Key contact numbers

•Report oiled shoreline or request volunteer information: (866) 448-5816
•Submit alternative response technology, services or products: (281) 366-5511
•Submit your vessel for the Vessel of Opportunity Program: (866) 279-7983 or (877) 847-7470
•Submit a claim for damages: (800) 440-0858
•Report oiled wildlife: (866) 557-1401
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Phone: (713) 323-1670
(713) 323-1671

The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill

Prepared by the Joint Information Center

UPDATED June 23, 2010 7 PM

* For a full timeline of the Administration-wide response, visit the White House Blog.

PAST 24 HOURS

Admiral Allen Provides Operational Update on the BP Oil Spill Response

National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen provided a briefing to inform the American public and answer questions on the progress of the administration-wide response to the BP oil spill. A transcript is available here.

Allen was joined by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Jordan Barab, who discussed his agency’s efforts to protect the health and safety of workers participating in the response. OSHA has more than 150 personnel in the Gulf to monitor worker safety and health and inform workers on how to best protect themselves—which includes distributing educational materials in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Containment Cap Operations Suspended; Severe Weather Impacting Today’s Cleanup
While the capture of oil and gas through the blowout preventer’s choke line to the Q4000 vessel on the surface continues, the use of the lower marine riser package (LMRP) containment cap was temporarily suspended today when a discharge of liquids was observed from a diverter valve on the drill ship Discoverer Enterprise. As a precautionary measure, the LMRP containment cap system, which is attached to the Discover Enterprise, was removed to ensure the safety of operations and allow the unexpected release of liquids to be analyzed.

Severe weather conditions across southeast Louisiana also impacted some of the regularly scheduled cleanup and response efforts in the area. Safety of all personnel is vital to the success of this operation, and crews will resume cleanup operations as soon as possible.

Prior to the suspension, the Discoverer Enterprise and the Q4000 recovered more than 27,000 barrels of oil in the most recent 24-hour period—the largest daily collection amount to date.

Administration Releases its First Scientific Report on Subsea Monitoring Data

NOAA, EPA and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today released the first peer reviewed, analytical summary report about the subsea monitoring in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead—which contains analysis of samples taken by the R/V Brooks McCall, a research vessel conducting water sampling from half a mile to nine miles of the wellhead—part of continued efforts to engage the brightest scientific minds to confront the worst environmental disaster the country has ever faced.

The report comes from the Joint Analysis Group (JAG), which was established to facilitate cooperation and coordination among the best scientific minds across the government and provide a coordinated analysis of information related to subsea monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico. This comprehensive analysis helps define the characteristics of the water and presence of oil below the surface in the area close to the wellhead from May 8-25.

Federal and Local Officials Hold Joint Open House Meeting in Orleans Parish

As part of continued efforts to inform Louisiana residents on the BP oil spill response and available assistance, representatives from the Coast Guard, Fish and Wildlife Service, EPA, and state and local governments held their fifth joint open house meeting in Orleans Parish.

Experts from the various agencies participating in the BP oil spill response were on hand to discuss a variety of topics with Parish residents—including the claims process, volunteer and contracting opportunities, environmental quality, worker safety and the various tools, equipment and strategies being used in the response. Previous meetings were held in Cameron Parish, St. Bernard Parish, Jefferson Parish and St. Mary’s Parish.

FWS Returns 63 Birds to the Wild in Largest Release of Rehabilitated Birds to Date

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 62 rehabilitated brown pelicans and one rehabilitated northern gannet at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas Coast—the largest release of rehabilitated birds since the spill began—part of continued efforts by FWS and National Park Service personnel to protect Gulf Coast wildlife and habitats from the effects of the BP oil spill. Currently, FWS has 499 personnel in the Gulf to coordinate and supervise search and capture for oiled wildlife and help facilitate recovery and treatment.

Oil Removed from Water by Controlled Burn Operations Surpasses 10 Million Gallons

As part of a coordinated response that combines tactics deployed above water, below water, offshore, and close to coastal areas, controlled burns efficiently remove oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and wildlife. In total, 275 burns have been conducted to remove more than 10 million gallons of oil from the water.

NOAA Opens More Than 8,000 Square Miles of Fishing Closed Area in the Gulf of Mexico

NOAA has opened more than 8,000 square miles of previously closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico, because the agency has not observed oil in the area. The most significant opening is an area due south of Mississippi. Additionally, some smaller areas were opened off the Louisiana and central Florida coasts. These areas were initially closed as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of seafood from the Gulf because oil was projected to be within those areas.

The closed area now represents 78,597 square miles—approximately 32.5 percent—of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. This closure does not apply to any state waters. This leaves more than 67 percent of Gulf federal waters available for fishing. Details can be found at http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/.

Approved SBA Economic Injury Assistance Loans Surpass $5.94 Million

SBA has approved 98 economic injury assistance loans to date, totaling more than $5.94 million for small businesses in the Gulf Coast impacted by the BP oil spill. Additionally, the agency has granted deferments on 465 existing SBA disaster loans in the region, totaling more than $2.13 million per month in payments. For information on assistance loans for affected businesses, visit the SBA’s Web site at www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance, call (800) 659-2955 (800-877-8339 for the hearing impaired), or email disastercustomerservice@sba.gov.

Administration Continues to Oversee BP’s Claims Process

The administration will continue to hold the responsible parties accountable for repairing the damage, and repaying Americans who’ve suffered a financial loss as a result of the BP oil spill. To date, 72,563 claims have been opened, from which more than $123 million have been disbursed. No claims have been denied to date. There are 731 claims adjusters on the ground. To file a claim, visit www.bp.com/claims or call BP’s helpline at 1-800-440-0858. Those who have already pursued the BP claims process and are not satisfied with BP’s resolution can call the Coast Guard at (800) 280-7118. Additional information about the BP claims process and all available avenues of assistance can be found at www.disasterassistance.gov.

By the Numbers to Date:

•The administration has authorized the deployment of 17,500 National Guard troops from Gulf Coast states to respond to this crisis; currently, 1,585 are active.
•Approximately 35,600 personnel are currently responding to protect the shoreline and wildlife and cleanup vital coastlines.
•More than 6,300 vessels are currently responding on site, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts—in addition to dozens of aircraft, remotely operated vehicles, and multiple mobile offshore drilling units.
•Approximately 2.57 million feet of containment boom and 4.17 million feet of sorbent boom have been deployed to contain the spill—and approximately 790,000 feet of containment boom and 2.1 million feet of sorbent boom are available.
•Approximately 25.4 million gallons of an oil-water mix have been recovered.
•Approximately 1.47 million gallons of total dispersant have been applied—972,000 on the surface and 493,000 subsea. More than 445,000 gallons are available.
•275 controlled burns have been conducted, efficiently removing a total of more than 10 million gallons of oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and wildlife. Because calculations on the volume of oil burned can take more than 48 hours, the reported total volume may not reflect the most recent controlled burns.
•17 staging areas are in place to protect sensitive shorelines.
•Approximately 166 miles of Gulf Coast shoreline is currently oiled—approximately 34 miles in Louisiana, 41 miles in Mississippi, 43 miles in Alabama, and 48 miles in Florida. These numbers reflect a daily snapshot of shoreline currently experiencing impacts from oil so that planning and field operations can more quickly respond to new impacts; they do not include cumulative impacts to date, or shoreline that has already been cleared.
•Approximately 78,600 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters remain closed to fishing in order to balance economic and public health concerns. More than 67 percent remains open. Details can be found at http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/.
•To date, the administration has leveraged assets and skills from numerous foreign countries and international organizations as part of this historic, all-hands-on-deck response, including Canada, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization and the European Union's Monitoring and Information Centre.
Resources:

•For information about the response effort, visit www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com.
•For specific information about the federal-wide response, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/deepwater-bp-oil-spill.
•To contact the Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center, call (713) 323-1670.
•To volunteer, or to report oiled shoreline, call (866) 448-5816. Volunteer opportunities can also be found here.
•To submit your vessel as a vessel of opportunity skimming system, or to submit alternative response technology, services, or products, call 281-366-5511.
•To report oiled wildlife, call (866) 557-1401.
•For information about validated environmental air and water sampling results, visit www.epa.gov/bpspill.
•For National Park Service updates about potential park closures, resources at risk, and NPS actions to protect vital park space and wildlife, visit http://www.nps.gov/aboutus/oil-spill-response.htm.
•For Fish and Wildlife Service updates about response along the Gulf Coast and the status of national wildlife refuges, visit http://www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/.
•For daily updates on fishing closures, visit http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov.
•For information on assistance loans for affected businesses, visit the SBA’s Web site at www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance, call (800) 659-2955 (800-877-8339 for the hearing impaired), or email disastercustomerservice@sba.gov.
•To file a claim with BP, visit www.bp.com/claims or call BP’s helpline at (800) 440-0858. A BP fact sheet with additional information is available here. Those who have already pursued the BP claims process and are not satisfied with BP’s resolution, can call the Coast Guard at (800) 280-7118 (800) 280-7118 More information about what types of damages are eligible for compensation under the Oil Pollution Act as well as guidance on procedures to seek that compensation can be found here.
•In addition, www.disasterassistance.gov has been enhanced to provide a one-stop shop for information on how to file a claim with BP and access additional assistance—available in English and Spanish.
•Any members of the press who encounter response personnel restricting their access or violating the media access policy set forth by Admiral Allen should contact the Joint Information Center. Click here for more information, including a list of regular embed opportunities.
For information about the response effort, visit www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com.

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What Is A Wouff-Hong?

2009-11-16T22:17:00.005-06:00

The Meaning of the Wouff-Hong in Amateur Radio

"The Wouff-Hong is amateur radio's most sacred symbol and stands for the enforcement of law and order in amateur operation."The Radio Amateur's Handbook, 1930, page 11

The Wouff-Hong and Rettysnitch Legends
This site reachable athttp://wouff-hong.com - OR - http://wouffhong.org as well as at http://rettysnitch.org/

Amateur Radio's traditional and most sacred symbols
Two gruesome instruments of excruciating torture used toenforce law, order, and decency in Amateur Radio operation.,

The Wouff-Hong and Rettysnitch Legends

By Rob L. Dey, KA2BEO1 - September 1997
A wonderful article about these two legends was written by L.B. Cebik, W4RNL2, and appeared in September 1996 QST, on pages 59 and 603. Cebik offered that "We should not be troubled by the size of the task at hand: Curing Amateur Radio of its illegalities and indecencies. We have many more folks available to wield the Wouff-Hong and the Rettysnitch. No, not on others, but on ourselves - to make sure that we set a model for how amateur operations ought to be conducted."
The Wouff-Hong

The Wouff-Hong is used to enforce law and order in Amateur Radio operating work.
"The Old Man" (T.O.M.), originator of the Wouff-Hong and the Rettysnitch, is known to be the one and only Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW, founder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)4 in 1914. T.O.M. wrote his first mention of a Wouff-Hong and a Rettysnitch in 1917. In 1919, the league received an actual Wouff-Hong specimen directly from T.O.M. The first photo of the Wouff-Hong was published in July 1919 QST.

The Rettysnitch

The Rettysnitch is used to enforce decency in Amateur Radio operating work.
In 1921, the Washington DC Radio Club presented the Rettysnitch to the league's traffic manager. According to legend, the club received the Rettysnitch specimen from "The Old Man" himself. Cebik stated that "Even at its first public appearance, two of its teeth were missing, suggesting a long history of necessary and effective use. However, to this day, the Rettysnitch has lost no further teeth. It was ordered to be displayed by its mate." The Wouff-Hong and Rettysnitch stories were retold by Rufus P. Turner, when he wrote "Hamdom's Traditions: A Bedtime Story for Young Squirts" in May 1934 QST. According to Cebik, "In 1930, The ARRL Handbook had pictures of both instruments of enforcement. By 1936, only the Wouff-Hong appeared. By 1947 the Handbook had deleted both photos." An editorial on the Wouff-Hong (without the hyphen) appeared many years later in February 1961 QST. Presently, both of these legendary instruments are on display at the ARRL museum in Newington, CT.
Do the Wouff-Hong and Rettysnitch still hold their mystical power over us today?
L.B. Cebik, W4RNL, answered this question well, when he asked "Why were the Wouff-Hong and the Rettysnitch so powerful to those early hams? Because those hams cared about Amateur Radio in their hearts. They desired that which they knew they could never have: A perfectly law-abiding, decent radio service that would inspire young and old alike to become hams or, lacking the inclination to electronics, to become admirers of hams. Every minute of on-the-air time was a chance to show how noble a pursuit Amateur Radio was and should always be. They feared the Wouff-Hong and the Rettysnitch as instruments of their own consciences, as they strove to meet the standards they set for themselves. And that is where you will find the Wouff-Hong and the Rettysnitch today - deep in your own conscience. If they seem to hold no power, then you know it’s time once more to elevate your standards a notch higher, and then to strive to achieve them perfectly." He added, "May you never deserve their sting."

Saturday Night Live Finally Jabs at Obama

2009-10-08T14:27:00.016-05:00

As an avid SNL watcher through the years, I couldn't help but wonder how long it was going to take before SNL would attempt to make fun at Obummer. Sure there were a few slightly funny times before the election when they made the disciples of Obama look stupid, but they were the target not him. And they were pretty funny I'll admit. While they were hesitant in making fun at him, they spared no expense or time, getting Tina Fey to viciously attack Sarah Palin, blasting her and her family. Making them out to be incestuous even. That was the time I had decided not to watch this show ever again. What a disappointment they were to me. They did everything they could to bash her holding back nothing. Maybe they are feeling a little bad now for the way they treated her. If not, then they should be. They sure have treated Obama with kid gloves, and why? Well they did what they could to get him elected, there is no doubt. Yes maybe they could be feeling a little bit bad right about now.

As I sat there watching Saturday night, I couldn't help but yell....FINALLY!!!! Do I seem happy? You betcha I am. Fred Armisen did his impression of Barack Hussein Obama this past Saturday night. I'll admit, he doesn't do the greatest impression of the president but the message was there, loud and clear on prime time, albeit big time network tv. This is very telling of what people are thinking I believe. Looking back, SNL did not fail to show before the election just how silly people looked in their reverence to Obama with the Obama girl and other things portrayed. And they always never failed to make Bush look pretty stupid over and over again. As I said, I've been an avid SNL watcher for years and it seems to me that they pretty much have their finger on the pulse of what America is thinking and feeling.

Now after all this time,they are actually taking a stab at Obummer. Well how about that? I thought this one was surely a long time coming. I'm glad that SNL had the guts to do this. And make no mistake, it did take some guts, or maybe Obama is just not funny material in the way that Bill Clinton is/was. Yes they do make fun of Clinton and it is funny. But at this day and hour, maybe it is the pulse of America who is screaming out loud, ""Obama made all these promises", "you have control up there in Washington" "what is your problem" "you said, you would do this, and that, and everything else," and he's not doing anything.

But yeah, the Nicholas Fehn that Fred plays is great. Hope you can catch Fred Armisen doing some other great characters. He also plays this crazy hippie guy who thinks he's still living in the 60's , and he does Hugo Chavez, and others but Nicholas Fehn is my favorite character.

ARMISEN (as Obama): When you look at my record, it's very clear what I've done so far. And that is...nothing.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

ARMISEN (as Obama): You think I'm making it up? Take a look at this checklist. Now, on my first day in office...

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

ARMISEN (as Obama): On my first day in office I said I'd close Guantanamo Bay. Is it closed yet? No.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

ARMISEN (as Obama): I said we'd be out of Iraq. Are we? Not the last time I checked.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

ARMISEN (as Obama): I said I'd make improvements in the war in Afghanistan. Is it better? No. I think it's actually worse.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

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After the SNL episode, CNN blew a gastric bypass, wasting no time in coming to the rescue of the ONE. Like he's this poor helpless defenseless lamb who needs defending. Where were they when SNL spit and slandered Sarah Palin? I don't think their was any outrage on their part at all. This is really interesting to see their reaction to this. They took this so serious, and had to go into all this fact checking and crap. Fact checking my arse. SNL ought to take advantage of this and do some CNN imitations . This could get very interesting.

DYLAN RATIGAN: Saturday Night Live taking on President Obama.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Saturday Night Live was a little rough on the president.

WOLF BLITZER: How should this White House deal with a Saturday Night Live skit like this? Do they just ignore it?

BILL O'REILLY: Saturday Night Live actually mocked Barack Obama.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: With friends like these, the president does not need enemies. Saturday Night Live just skewered the president.

RICK SANCHEZ: What's insult to injury? It's when Saturday Night Live starts to take notice.

LARRY KING: Saturday Night Live skewered the president. Is it a sign of tough times to come?

STEPHANIE MILLER: This sketch missed the mark, because great comedy is based in truth. I'm like, "Are you kidding me?"

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL: There's a role for humor, but come on.

2009 Huntsville Hamfest - 3980khz Pics From Cactus K4YMB

2009-08-17T12:06:00.049-05:00

Pictures are from Cactus K4YMB. Thanks Cactus!

Cactus writes:
We all had the best time today ( Saturday ) at Huntsville.. I talk to hundreds enjoying the show.. I am not going the even begin to put names and calls on all these folks... So please forgive me... I believe this is largest crowd ever at Huntsville... So here we go with the pictures... You may be in some of them.....

Ted Randall's LIVE short wave Radio Show was a big hit...

Ted and family are real professionals...

Nobody does this as well..

Check out the bone yard which was in the main Arena....

Standing room only.....

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The Commercial Venders were in the North Hall..
I might add... I believe the North Hall is at least 3 miles from the main Arena,
We all walked our OLD feet OFF !!!!

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Below are my 2 pics:
The Huntsville hamfest this year was massive. I agree with Cactus the Dealer area did feel like it was three miles from the bone yard. When we were in the boneyard, you could hardly get around there were so many people. We were there on Saturday for a few hours. It was huge. This is the hamfest floor. As you can see the whole floor was covered with ham radio stuff. From push up poles to laptop computers.

Click on these two pics for a larger view. These are large photos.

Ham Radio Q Signs And CW Abbreviations

2009-04-05T21:21:00.007-05:00

CW ABBREVIATIONS Prosigns in < >

AA - All after End Of Line AB - All before ABT - About ADEE - Addressee ADR - Address ADS - Address AGN - Again AM - Amplitude Modulation ANI - Any ANS - Answer ANT - Antenna <AR> End of message Stand by; wait - used for the @ sign for E-Mail Addresses New proposal is AC run together	BCI - Broadcast Interference BCL - Broadcast Listener BCNU - Be seeing you BD - Bad BK - Break, Break in BN - All between; Been Separation (break) between address and text; between text and signature. BTH Both BTR - Better BTW - By The Way BUG - Semi-Automatic key BURO -Bureau B4 - Before	C - Yes, Correct CB - CallBook CBA - Callbook Address CFM - Confirm; I confirm CK - Ckeck CKT - Circuit CL - I am closing my station; Call CLBK - Callbook CLD - Called CLG - Calling CMG - Coming CNT - Can't CONDX - Conditions CPI - Copy CQ - Calling any station CRD - Card CS - Call Sign CU - See You CUAGN - See You Again CUD - Could CUL - See You later CUM - Come CUZ - Because CW - Continuous wave
DA - Day DE - From, This Is DIFF - Difference DLD - Delivered DLVD - Delivered DN - Down DR - Dear DSW - Russian CW abbreviation for goodbye. DWN - Down DX - Distance	EL - Element ES - And ENUF - Enough EU - Europe EVE - Evening	FB - Fine Business, excellent FER - For FM - Frequency Modulation: From FONE - Phone FQ - Frequency Freq -- Frequency FWD -- Forward
GA - Go ahead; Good Afternoon GB - Good bye, God Bless GD - Good, Good Day GE - Good Evening GESS - Guess GG - Going GLD -- Glad GM - Good morning GN - Good night GND - Ground GP -- Ground Plane GS - Green Stamp GUD - Good GV - Give GVG - Giving	Error in sending HI - The telegraph laugh; High HPE - Hope HQ - Headquarters HR - Here; Hear, Hour HRD - Heard HRS - Hours HRD -- Heard HV - Have HVG - Having HVY - Heavy HW - How, How Copy?	II -- I Repeat Short form of - Repeat, Say Again INFO - Info JA - Japanese Station K - Invitation To Transmit KA Beginning of message KLIX - KeyClicks KN Go only, invite a specific station to transmit
LID - A poor operator LNG - Long LP - Long Path LSN - Listen LTR - Later; letter LV - Leave LVG - Leaving LW - Long Wire., Long Wave	MA - Millamperes MGR - Manager MI - My MILL - Typewiter MILS - Millamperes MNI - Many MOM - Moment MSG - Message; Prefix to radiogram MULT - Multiplier	N - No, Negative, Incorrect, No More N - Nine (as in Signal Report) NCS - Net Control Station ND - Nothing Doing NIL - Nothing; I have nothing for you; Not In Log NM - No more - Number, Near NW - Now; I resume transmission
OB - Old boy OC - Old chap OK - Correct OM - Old man OP - Operator OPR - Operator OT - Old timer; Old top OW - Old Woman	PBL - Preamble PKG - Package PSE - Please PT - Point PWR - Power PX - Press, Prefix	R - Received as transmitted; Are; R - Decimal Point (with numbers) RC - Ragchew RCD - Received RCVR - Receiver RE - Concerning; Regarding REF - Refer to; Referring to; Reference RFI - Radio frequency interference RIG - Station equipment ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing RPT - Repeat, Report RTTY - Radio teletype RST - Readability, strength, tone RX - Receive, Receiver
SA - Say SASE - Self-addressed, stamped envelope SED - Said SAE - Self-Addressed Envelope SEZ - Says SGD - Signed SHUD - Should SIG - Signature; Signal SINE - Operator's personal initials or nickname Out; clear (end of communications, no reply expected.) SK - Silent Key SKED - Schedule SN - Soon SP - Short Path SRI - Sorry SS - Sweepstakes SSB - Single Side Band STN - Station SUM - Some SVC - Service; Prefix to service message SWL - Short Wave Listener /ST short timer on check in	T - Zero (with numbers) TEMP - Temperature TEST - Testing or Contest TFC - Traffic TIA - Thanks In Advance TMW - Tomorrow TKS - Thanks TNX - Thanks TR - Transmit T/R - Transmit/Receive TRBL - Trouble TRIX - Tricks TRX - Transceiver TT - That TTS - That is TU - Thank you TVI - Television interference TX - Transmitter; Transmit TXT - Text	U - You UFB - Ultra Fine Business UNLIS - Unlicensed UR - Your; You're URL - Universal Resource Locator Address For a WebPage URS - Yours
VE Understood (VE) VERT - Vertical VFB - Very fine business VFO - Variable Frequency Oscillator VY - Very	W - Watts WA - Word after WATSA - What Say WB - Word before WD - Word WDS - Words WID - With WKD - Worked WKG - Working WL - Well; Will WPM - Words Per Minute WRD - Word WRK - Work WUD - Would WW - Would WX- Weather	XCVR - Transceiver XMAS - Christmas XMTR - Transmitter XTAL - Crystal XYL - Wife
YF -Wife YL - Young lady YR - Year Z - Zulu Time	30 - I have no more to send 33 - Fondest Regards 55 - Best Success 73 - Best Regards (NOT 73'S) * 88 - Love and kisses (NOT 88'S) 161 - 73+88=161" first came about in FOC circles (First-Class CW Operators' Club, founded by Louis Varney G5RV a number of years ago). The essential meaning is "Best regards to you and your XYL".	? question (like QRL?)

* 73 IS BEST REGARDS. 73'S (PLURAL) MAKES NO SENSE AND IS IMPROPER USE.

The RST (Readability-Strength-Tone) System

The RST System of Signal Reporting has been used for years (circa 1934) as a shorthand method of reporting Readability, Signal Strength and for CW, Tone (i.e., quality of the CW tone). For voice contacts only the R and S are used. The S component is usually not the same as your S-Meter reading as most S-Meters aren't calibrated to track the RST System. The RST is also reported on QSL Cards and must be filled in correctly -- e.g., a 569 report for a Voice Contact is invalid. Note that many DX operations and contest stations merely report 59(9) as a convenience to avoid having to log each of the real reports. A questionable practice but a fact of DXing/Contesting

READABILITY
1 -- Unreadable
2 -- Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable
3 -- Readable with considerable difficulty
4 -- Readable with practically no difficulty
5 -- Perfectly readable

SIGNAL STRENGTH
1 -- Faint signals, barely perceptible
2 -- Very weak signals
3 -- Weak signals
4 -- Fair signals
5 -- Fairly good signals
6 -- Good signals
7 -- Moderately strong signals
8 -- Strong signals
9 -- Extremely strong signals

TONE 1 -- Sixty cycle a.c. or less, very rough and broad
2 -- Very rough a.c. , very harsh and broad
3 -- Rough a.c. tone, rectified but not filtered
4 -- Rough note, some trace of filtering
5 -- Filtered rectified a.c.but strongly ripple-modulated
6 -- Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation
7 -- Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation
8 -- Near perfect tone, slight trace of modulation
9 -- Perfect tone, no trace of ripple or modulation of any kind

Infrequently used is the addition of a letter to the end of the 3 numbers.
These are: X = the signal is rock steady like a crystal controlled signal;
C = the signal is chirpy as the frequency varies slightly with keying;
and K = the signal has key clicks.

X is from the early days of radio when such steady signals were rare.

Today most all signals could be given an X but it is hardly ever used. It is helpful to report a chirpy or clicky signal by using the C or K, e.g. 579C or 579K.

It is very common to send RST reports in abbreviated form, for example 599, is sent as 5NN. "N" in place of the number "9". Also another time saver is for the zero using a long "T". "T" is sent in place of the number zero as in "POWER HR IS 3TT WATTS". There is a number code for all numbers, however, the N and T codes are the most common ones.
Also CW stations sometimes report their zones as "A4" or "A5" instead of sending "14" or "15".

1 = A, 2 = U, 3 = V, 4 = 4, 5 = E, 6 = 6, 7 = B, 8 = D, 9 = N, 0 = T

NEW SYSTEM FOR PSK REPORTING

READABILITY
	R5	95%+	Perfectly readable
	R4	80%	Practically no difficulty, occasional missed characters
	R3	40%	Considerable difficulty, many missed characters
	R2	20%	Occasional words distinguishable
	R1	0%	Undecipherable

	STRENGTH
	S9	Very Strong trace
	S7	Strong trace
	S5	Moderate trace
	S3	Weak trace
	S1	Barely perceptible trace

	QUALITY
	Q9	Clean signal - no visible unwanted sidebar pairs
	Q7	One barely visible pair
	Q5	One easily visible pair
	Q3	Multiple visible pairs
	Q1	Splatter over much of the spectrum

Q-Signals For Amateur Radio Operators

Q-Sig	Message
QRA	What is the name of your station? The name of my station is ___.
QRB	How far are you from my station? I am ____ km from you station
QRD	Where are you bound and where are you coming from? I am bound ___ from ___.
QRG	Will you tell me my exact frequency? Your exact frequency is ___ kHz.
QRH	Does my frequency vary? Your frequency varies.
QRI	How is the tone of my transmission? The tone of your transmission is ___ (1-Good, 2-Variable, 3-Bad.)
QRJ	Are you receiving me badly? I cannot receive you, your signal is too weak.
QRK	What is the intelligibility of my signals? The intelligibility of your signals is ___ (1-Bad, 2-Poor, 3-Fair, 4-Good, 5-Excellent.)
QRL	Are you busy? I am busy, please do not interfere
QRM	Is my transmission being interfered with? Your transmission is being interfered with ___ (1-Nil, 2-Slightly, 3-Moderately, 4-Severly, 5-Extremely.)
QRN	Are you troubled by static? I am troubled by static ___ (1-5 as under QRM.)
QRO	Shall I increase power? Increase power.
QRP	Shall I decrease power? Decrease power.
QRQ	Shall I send faster? Send faster (___ WPM.)
QRR	Are you ready for automatic operation? I am ready for automatic operation. Send at ___ WPM.
QRS	Shall I send more slowly? Send more slowly (___ WPM.)
QRT	Shall I stop sending? Stop sending.
QRU	Have you anything for me? I have nothing for you.
QRV	Are you ready? I am ready.
QRW	Shall I inform ___ that you are calling? Please inform ___ that I am calling.
QRX	When will you call me again? I will call you again at ___ hours.
QRY	What is my turn? Your turn is numbered ___.
QRZ	Who is calling me? You are being called by ___.
QSA	What is the strength of my signals? The strength of your signals is ___ (1-Scarcely perceptible, 2-Weak, 3-Fairly Good, 4-Good, 5-Very Good.)
QSB	Are my signals fading? Your signals are fading.
QSD	Is my keying defective? Your keying is defective.
QSG	Shall I send ___ messages at a time? Send ___ messages at a time.
QSJ	What is the charge to be collected per word to ___ including your international telegraph charge? The charge to be collected per word is ___ including my international telegraph charge.
QSK	Can you hear me between you signals and if so can I break in on your transmission? I can hear you between my signals, break in on my transmission.
QSL	Can you acknowledge receipt? I am acknowledging receipt.
QSM	Shall I repeat the last message which I sent you? Repeat the last message.
QSN	Did you hear me on ___ kHz? I did hear you on ___ kHz.
QSO	Can you communicate with ___ direct or by relay? I can communicate with ___ direct (or by relay through ___.)
QSP	Will you relay to ___? I will relay to ___.
QSQ	Have you a doctor on board? (or is ___ on board?) I have a doctor on board (or ___ is on board.)
QSU	Shall I send or reply on this frequency? Send a series of Vs on this frequency.
QSV	Shall I send a series of Vs on this frequency? Send a series of Vs on this frequency.
QSW	Will you send on this frequency? I am going to send on this frequency.
QSY	Shall I change to another frequency? Change to another frequency.
QSZ	Shall I send each word or group more than once? Send each word or group twice (or ___ times.)
QTA	Shall I cancel message number ___? Cancel message number ___.
QTB	Do you agree with my counting of words? I do not agree with your counting of words. I will repeat the first letter or digit of each word or group.
QTC	How many messages have you to send? I have ___ messages for you.
QTE	What is my true bearing from you? Your true bearing from me is ___ degrees.
QTG	Will you send two dashes of 10 seconds each followed by your call sign? I am going to send two dashes of 10 seconds each followed by my call sign.
QTH	What is your location? My location is ___.
QTI	What is your true track? My true track is ___ degrees.
QTJ	What is your speed? My speed is ___ km/h.
QTL	What is your true heading? My true heading is ___ degrees.
QTN	At what time did you depart from ___? I departed from ___ at ___ hours.
QTO	Have you left dock (or port)? I have left dock (or port).
QTP	Are you going to enter dock (or port)? I am going to enter dock (or port.)
QTQ	Can you communicate with my station by means of the International Code of Signals? I am going to communicate with your station by means of the International Code of Signals.
QTR	What is the correct time? The time is ___.
QTS	Will you send your call sign for ___ minutes so that your frequency can be measured? I will send my call sign for ___ minutes so that my frequency may be measured.
QTU	What are the hours during which your station is open? My station is open from ___ hours to ___ hours.
QTV	Shall I stand guard for you on the frequency of ___ kHz? Stand guard for me on the frequency of ___ kHz.
QTX	Will you keep your station open for further communication with me? I will keep my station open for further communication with you.
QUA	Have you news of ___? I have news of ___.
QUB	Can you give me information concerning visibility, height of clouds, direction and velocity of ground wind at ___? Here is the information you requested...
QUC	What is the number of the last message you received from me? The number of the last message I received from you is ___.
QUD	Have you received the urgency signal sent by ___? I have received the urgency signal sent by ___.
QUF	Have you received the distress signal sent by ___? I have received the distress signal sent by ___.
QUG	Will you be forced to land? I am forced to land immediately.
QUH	Will you give me the present barometric pressure? The present barometric pressure is ___ (units).

Note that Q signals can take the form of a question when followed by a question mark.

Listen to Ham Radio Online From Tennessee

2009-03-26T18:53:00.010-05:00

Well It looks like there is quite an interest in this online ham radio streaming. And thanks to QRZ and others, people now are becoming aware of what we are trying to do here. It's exciting people are coming from all over the world. Through the years I have been streaming in various ways, trying different methods. I have used all sorts of ways, and finally I came to believe that this way was the most user friendly working across all browsers with the least amount of difficulty. The only thing about it is, depending on Ustream to store the recorded sound clips and trusting that they will not go out of business one day and you face risking the possibility of losing these files. Besides that, I don't see a problem with it when it comes to streaming. Almost everyone already has the swf flash plug in downloaded.

So now, I thought it might be time to share, and try to stir up some interest with the hams. Also this is a great way to introduce ham radio to the non ham world. This internet streaming is the way I was made aware of ham radio myself. I heard those hams a' talking on there all together like and having such a great time, that I just had to get my ticket and join in.

I really think it would be great if a lot more of these receiving stations would be set up, all up and down the bands. Then we could all link up through a website, There are numerous servers available now, to make it possible to stream virtually to an unlimited audience. Since what we do is usually just audio anyway. There really isn't any reason why we can't accomplish this if enough people are interested. Most everyone has high speed internet and an extra unused receiver laying around somewhere. As intelligent as hams are I'm sure they can do this. And I would be glad to help out any way I can.

This is definitely a hobby in which I have learned so much. I think it has helped me to communicate better in the world since on the radio since, you cannot rely on your facial expressions to get your point across. You have to be more clear and it has been fun trying to learn how to do it. I do want to share this hobby, but not JUST the hobby, but the people, the hams themselves I wish to share with the world too. Many of them have already lived a lifetime and have so much to tell us about.

I'm sure I'm going to want to listen to 3980 and 3878. Really the best time for 3878 is from 4 in the morning to about 9:00 am. I can pick up 3840 in the mornings, but those guys are already being streamed by http://www.3819khz.net/ who is much closer to them. Usually the best time for 3980 is around 9:00 am, so that would work out well I think. Also 3878 has been trying to get on around 7:00 p.m. lately.

Dalton Georgia Hamfest Photo's 2009 Mississippi Magnolia Net

2009-03-01T08:53:00.060-06:00

Mitchell KC4BRH, Larry KB4UCB and Lee KO4KT

This is Rick N8RYE sporting one of his unique one of a kind 60's memorabilia shirt and having too much fun with Angie KE4DQF, Sharon (wife of T-Ron), and Deb

WA8DOG Net Control Op, with some beautiful Young ladies

WA8DOG just couldn't stay away from those ladies.

A Group Photo of Magnolia Net Members with Brian KE4UKE striking quite a pose at the bottom far left there.

I believe this is Tony KO4ZB from Florida

The Bunkster WA4RZE just can't keep his hands off those tubes

And Lord have Mercy if it ain't Festus, I can't believe it's Richard KO4ZU. Now that's a shocker.

This picture includes right to left Sam K4SWM, Tony KO4ZB, and Lee KO4KT standing with a smart looking gentleman, oh it's John KJ4DA.

What a nice Photo of Danny Ball N4CEH. But he looks like such a nice dude.

This here is a stunning profile shot of KD4QDG Mark, but some people call him Markeepoo, wink wink Richard. Can't you just picture that profile on a coin?

This is KE4DKK Richard eyeing Oops's large box of moon pies. And who is that decked out in Overhauls? Why, it's none other than Jerry KF4DPF who happens to have a callsign that is almost impossible to remember, but that's ok Jer'-rry'

WA4KSS OOps Ron gazing upon his new mini cam possibly thinking, "I wonder how long it will take me to learn how to use this thing?"

Probably the wisest Magnolia Man we know, AF4IZ Mike from Chattanooga, Tn.

WD4OUM,Terry Kingsport Tn and One of the Net Control Ops for the Magnolia Net

Bill KC4OVY with his RV talking with Woody KB8SGO. I don't know bout you, but it must be pretty serious, whatever they are talking about.

For more information check out the Mississippi Magnolia Net
And KB8SGO'WEBSITE

What Will Happen December 21, 2012?

2009-03-01T04:01:00.003-06:00

Dec. 21, 2012
Geophysical and cosmological

What will happen on this date? John Major Jenkins and others[11] believe that an alignment will occur when the sun rises above the horizon on December 21 2012, at which point the sun will rise in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus causing an alignment between the earth, sun, and the galactic center.[12] It is suggested that this event will cause numerous changes on Earth. However, the event is only a visual phenomenon from the Earth's perspective, which is caused by the precession of the equinoxes or the 26,000 year wobble of the earth, and thus only changes our perspective, not the actual position of the earth in relation to the galaxy. In short, there is no gravitational force or radiation to be expected from this event because other than the tilt of the earth; nothing will be any different from what occurs in any other solstice. [13][14][15]

Michael Tsarion [16] and others think that an actual physical alignment of our entire solar system will occur with the horizontal plane of the Milky Way Galaxy on that day. The solar system is moving around the center of the galaxy every 225 million years or so, and while doing so is moving up and down in a cycle crossing the plane every 33 million years. According to the Journal Nature, however, there is evidence of the solar system crossing the galactic plane 3 million years ago. This would mean that we are moving away from the galactic plane, not toward it, and we will not be due to cross it for another 30 million years.[17]

There are also theories that a currently unknown planet, sometimes referred to as planet x or Nibiru, which has an odd orbit that only enters the local solar system every 3600 years will return in 2012 causing many problems. [18] The idea is traced back to Zecharia Sitchin's translations of Sumerian texts, and specifically to his interpretation of the VA 243 cylinder seal, which he says shows that the Sumerians knew of 12 planets (sun, moon, and ten others). This idea has been challenged by his peers, most notably Michael Heiser. [19] [20]

Among other possible scenarios is that a shift of the Earth's magnetic poles may occur, and that this will leave the earth vulnerable to harmful radiation from the sun.[21] According to NASA magnetic pole reversal does not occur on a particular day or year, but over the course of thousands of years. Furthermore, the magnetic field does not vanish during this natural cycle, but becomes more complex as it makes the transition.[22]

Some proponents of the pole shift scenario claim that this shift would be a physical movement of the poles of the earth, and not simply a magnetic shift. This event is called a true polar wander. Earth has experienced a few degree shift in the past, but nowhere near a reversal, and there is no reason to suggest this is likely or even possible. According to William Sager, a Texas A&M Oceanographer, a slight shift in the physical pole occurs at a rate between 5 and 10 degrees per million years, which means that this event could not happen on a particular day or year but only over a long period of time.

Custom Countdowns & MySpace Layouts

My Pictures

2009-02-18T16:18:00.015-06:00

Beginning of Turkey Season 3-29/09

And this is Sadat the twenty five year old gelding who lives just too close.

Here is the OM My Silver Fox

More photos Http://www.patriciaray.net/oldphotos.html

Direct Tv Is Running A Scam Beware and Be Advised

2009-01-17T11:13:00.023-06:00

Direct TV's Corrupt Business Practices:

I'm not even sure if I can tell my story as well as some, but I will do my best to explain what happened to us just the other day. I want to get the word out about this scam. Everyone needs to know about this.

In December we paid for a HR22 DVR Receiver from Best Buy to replace the one which had just quit on us after owning it for two years. It had been an HR20. We had paid for this one also from Best Buy, and NOT from Direct TV.

Now, When I went to look at my bill the other day,I was really upset because they were charging me $724.00 and I had no idea what in the world was going on. Usually our bill is around $100.00, so we called them to find out what was going on. They said it was because we hadn't returned a receiver to them. And they said they tried to send a recovery box and it was returned. What the? That was the first we had heard about having to send a receiver to them. We paid for it at the store. Well we never received any boxes, or receivers or anything from them. They had also over charged us, double billing us for services we didn't order.

It seems as though when we activated our new receiver and card, they turned on every package we had ever had with the company from day one. So I looked back and sure enough they had taken out of our checking account $285.00 which was around 165.00 more than it should have been for last month. Since we were set up on auto pay, they had no problem doing this. And they were about to take out another $724.00 out of it, had I not caught this in time. The $724.00 charge was for, $470.00 for the receiver that we had not returned that we bought. And the approx 165.00 in overcharges Can you imagine what would have happened had I not caught this and they had taken this out of my account? What they do is, the people who don't pay what they say is charged, gets turned over to collections. Time and time again I read other peoples stories about this. They are in a sense stealing from us. Stealing is stealing. We, like many people, are trying to cut costs everywhere we can right now, and we sure don't need this. And to tell you the truth, I want to just cut them off completely, especially after all this. I can get along without satellite tv. We can get quite a lot of good HD stations off the air with our HD antenna.

But these charlitans don't want to answer when you ask them, "can I turn off this service?" "Or I want to cut this service". To tell the truth, I was hesitant to press this issue at this time, because of this huge bill they are trying to charge me right now. I wanted to settle this first. So they said, nothing when I casually made a comment about stopping the service, there was a pregnant pause, so I quickly went on to explain about the overcharging. Trying to get them to look at the bill. I thought, "let's get this taken care of first." She then said in broken English, ok, she says, "it will show up in three hours your updated bill with the overcharges taken off." That was the first phone call. This call, Took about 45 minutes that time.

That was Friday. Then came Saturday midday, no change to the bill. Later that evening, on Saturday, my husband said I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. You know how men are. So he really gave it a go, talked to a really informed person after going through three other people, he got to talk to Amanda, someone who spoke english and seemed to have a good head on her shoulders. And we were very happy because Amanda, said, oh, yes, I see, they really have ripped you all off, we will take care of this immediately. That call was another 50 minutes. We felt sure this was all settled.

Another day, goes by. Sunday, then Monday, still no change on our bill. So my husband calls again, and had to go through the same thing again, telling the story about the receivers, and letting them know that those receivers we bought, not through them, but through a store. They said, "sir there was print on the box that should have told you that you were getting into another two year contract with us, and that this is leased equipment from Direct Tv." It was not. There was Nothing on the box that stated this was leased equipment or anything. They evidently try to say that it is a verbal contract, a verbal contract? When do they think we made any verbal contract? That's what I've read from other people's postings. We never got into that part of it on the phone with them. We never gave a verbal statement that we wanted to renew a two year contract. This call took another hour or more.

Well shoot me in the back. There was nothing like this on the box when we purchased this equipment. Nothing except "No Returns without access cards." I'm looking at the box right now in the corner. Yes I still have it. There's nothing on it about leasing anything. That's all, A yellow sticker with black text, "No returns, without access cards". Well that sure isn't what the Direct Tv customer service said. No she said, "it is printed on the box about the lease." Well it wasn't on ours. Now if you ask me, this is criminal, business practices. I have done some research on this now, and found out that there are some lawsuits against them. And people like me are furious. They must know that this is no way to keep people as customers. Especially since we have been good paying customers for 9 years, means nothing to them at all. They think they've got us all by the "you know what" and they don't have to be nice and try to help you. I tell you, I have never in my life. I'm dissatisfied with them to no end. I'm still waiting for the correct recovery box at the moment, and this is very important. Because they sent a recovery box for our new receiver, with all the RID numbers and such on the labels. Now why in the world would we want to send back our new receiver we just bought. I don't know, we finally got them to take off the charges that they put on my bill. Thank God I caught this, and canceled my card so they couldn't take out anything from my account. I don't think I should have to be bound to them for two more years, either. This is an outrage. Many people have been charged a lot of money for canceling their service. We haven't signed anything to bind us to these corrupt people. We paid for our receivers ourselves, the guy brought out the 5 LNB dish, and installed it two years old.

Now from what I hear when we finally do cancel, we will have to return our receivers, all of them, to this company, or they will charge me for each one. This is not explained on their website or anywhere. They tell you nothing, then they charge you outrageous amounts . How do they get away with this? Huh? I mean isn't this criminal? Why doesn't the news do a story about this? could it be because they are indebted to DirectTV for carrying them? Oh they don't want to offend them? Probably so, because the news media should be telling us informing us of what is going on to protect us. But no, that's right, real journalism has died.

So we have to send back receivers we bought. Still Not sure about what we would do about the dish. But, IMO this is just an outrage. One or two of the receivers I bought at a yard sale, and had to pay 20.00 a piece for cards to work. If it weren't for a few channels, I wouldn't want this service at all . But at this point, I wouldn't mind doing without it for sure. We have a good HD antenna outside that picks up a lot of local channels.

Most people are not aware of the corrupt business practices of Direct Tv. I have just been through this myself so I know first hand. And when I did some research, I found out that many people have been done this way and are not afraid to spill the beans on this company. And still I have yet to resolve some of the issues. Waiting on them to get their act together and send us the correct recovery boxes to return the old receiver which I purchased myself from Best Buy.

My advice to anyone, stay away from DirectTV, as far away as you can. They are so outrageous, they are ridiculous.

Someone really needs to sue the pants off these people. They need to be taken down by somebody.I don't want to pay for tv then get all these ads. It's like paying for a signal that is in the airwaves already, then being charged for listening to all those ads, it's ridiculous. I hope I can get out of this very soon. I will let you the readers know here how it goes. You know, the thought of us NOT being able to get out of it, makes me want to get out of it even more.

IMO, I think what they are doing is, after about two years, they have a timer set in these receivers to go off, and shut it down, and make you have to buy or get another receiver and then claim you have another 24 month contract. For the cheaper receivers it is 12 months, or so I hear. Then the receivers that shut down, and you send to them, they reprogram and reset them, and send them on to other unsuspecting customers who directly lease from them. Thats what it's looking like to me. This receiver died two years after we bought it. If this ain't a scam I don't know what is. That is why they are so implicit that you send the receiver back to them.There was no reason that the receiver should have stopped working. No thunderstorms, or anything happened. It just quit one day for no apparent reason. Oh and another thing, when the last customer service person got her supervisor on the phone to talk to me, I had to go through the whole thing again, then I mentioned something about all the lawsuits against them, that's when she said, I will take these overcharges off now. then I said "well what happens if it doesn't go through, like all the other times we called and it didn't happen," she said "oh it's done, I just did it". Yes, the mention of lawsuit did get their attention.

Below some other people write about their experiences with Direct Tv.
http://chris.leckness.com/2007/12/03/open-letter-to-direct-tv-warning-to-consumers/

All you hams out there, let's make an effort to inform the FCC and the BBB about this. At least we have a license which is approved by the FCC. It might make an impression and help other people out there. Some who could be hurting more than we are. I don't think people know about this. I really don't.

Amateur, Broadcast, Aviation And CB Radio Frequencies

2008-12-28T06:45:00.027-06:00

U.S. Amateur Radio Bands

The lowest-frequency Amateur Radio Bands

The Twelve Lowest-Frequency U.S. Amateur Radio Bands

Band Name	Frequency Range	Spectrum Region
80 Meters(1)	3500-4000 kHz	High Frequencies
60 Meters	5331-5406 kHz(2)	High Frequencies
40 Meters	7000-7300 kHz	High Frequencies
30 Meters	10100-10150 kHz	High Frequencies
20 Meters	14000-14350 kHz	High Frequencies
17 Meters	18068-18168 kHz	High Frequencies
15 Meters	21000-21450 kHz	High Frequencies
12 Meters	24890-24990 kHz	High Frequencies
10 Meters	28000-29700 kHz	High Frequencies
6 Meters	50000-54000 kHz	Very High Frequencies
2 Meters	144000-148000 kHz	Very High Frequencies

The upper portion of the 80 Meter band also is known as 75 Meters.
60 Meters consists of five discrete channels rather than a continuous band of frequencies like the other Amateur Radio bands.

Each Amateur Radio Band above is divided into sub-bands where various modes of communication, transmitting power limits, and license requirements apply. See the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) US Amateur Radio Frequency Allocations page for more detail.

160-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

1800-1830 kHz	CW, RTTY and other narrowband modes
1830-1840 kHz	CW, RTTY and other narrowband modes. Intercontinental QSOs only
1840-1850 kHz	CW, SSB, SSTV, other wideband modes. Intercontinental QSOs only
1850-2000 kHz	CW, phone, SSTV and other wideband modes

80-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

3590 kHz	RTTY DX
3580-3620 kHz	RTTY
3620-3635 kHz	Packet
3790-3800 kHz	DX window
3845 kHz	SSTV
3885 kHz	AM calling frequency

Extra Class Phone operations now start at 3600khz -4000khz on 75 meters. General class operators start at 3800khz for phone.

Novice and Technician classes:

3.525-3.600 MHz: CW Only

General class:

Advanced class:

Amateur Extra class:

60-Meter Amateur Radio Band FCC Allocations

5332 kHz	5330.5 kHz Amateur Tuning Frequency
5348 kHz	5346.5 kHz Amateur Tuning Frequency
5368 kHz	5366.5 kHz Amateur Tuning Frequency
5373 kHz	5371.5 kHz Amateur Tuning Frequency
5405 kHz (US & UK)	5403.5 kHz Amateur Tuning Frequency

60 Meters: Five Specific Channels

The FCC has granted hams secondary access on USB only to five discrete 2.8-kHz-wide channels. Amateurs can not cause inference to and must accept interference from the Primary Government users. The NTIA says that hams planning to operate on 60 meters "must assure that their signal is transmitted on the channel center frequency." This means that amateurs should set their carrier frequency 1.5 kHz lower than the channel center frequency.

General, Advanced and Amateur Extra classes:

Channel Center	Amateur Tuning Frequency
5332 kHz	5330.5 kHz
5348 kHz	5346.5 kHz
5368 kHz	5366.5 kHz
5373 kHz	5371.5 kHz
5405 kHz (common US/UK)	5403.5 kHz

Amateurs may use USB *only* with a maximum effective radiated power (ERP) of 50 W. Radiated power must not exceed the equivalent of 50 W PEP transmitter output power into an antenna with a gain of 0 dBd. For details, see the 60 Meter FAQ page.

Novice and Technician classes:

7.025-7.125 MHz: CW Only

General class:

Advanced class:

Amateur Extra class:

Note: Phone and Image modes are permitted between 7.075 and 7.100 MHz for FCC licensed stations in ITU Regions 1 and 3 and by FCC licensed stations in ITU Region 2 West of 130 degrees West longitude or south of 20 degrees North latitude. See Section 97.307(f)(11). Novice and Technician licensees outside ITU Region 2 may use CW only between 7.050 and 7.075 MHz. See Section 97.301(e). These exemptions do not apply to stations in the continental US.

30-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

10130-10140 kHz	RTTY
10140-10150 kHz	Packet

Maximum power, 200 watts PEP. Amateurs must avoid interference to the fixed service outside the US.

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:

10.100-10.150 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data

20-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

14070-14095 kHz	RTTY
14095-14099.5 kHz	Packet
14100 kHz	NCDXF Beacons
14100.5-14112 kHz	Packet
14230 kHz	SSTV
14286 kHz	AM calling frequency

General class:

Advanced class:

Amateur Extra class:

17-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

18100-18105 kHz	RTTY
18105-18110 kHz	Packet

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:

15-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

21070-21100 kHz	RTTY
21100-21110 kHz	Packet
21340 kHz	SSTV

Novice and Technician classes:

21.025-21.200 MHz: CW Only General class:

Advanced class:

Amateur Extra class: 21.000-21.200 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data
21.200-21.450 MHz: CW, Phone, Image

12-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

24920-24925 kHz	RTTY
24925-24930 kHz	Packet

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes: 24.890-24.930 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data
24.930-24.990 MHz: CW, Phone, Image

10-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

28000-28070 kHz	CW
28070-28150 kHz	RTTY
28150-28190 kHz	CW
28200-28300 kHz	Beacons
28300-29300 kHz	Phone
28680 kHz	SSTV
29000-29200 kHz	AM
29300-29510 kHz	Satellite Downlinks
29520-29590 kHz	Repeater Inputs
29600 kHz	FM Simplex
29610-29700 kHz	Repeater Outputs

Novice and Technician classes:

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:

6-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations
All Amateurs except Novices:
50.0-50.1 MHz: CW Only
50.1-54.0 MHz: CW, Phone, Image, MCW, RTTY/Data

2-Meter Amateur Radio Band ARRL Recommended Allocations

144000-144050 kHz	EME (CW)
144050-144100 kHz	General CW and weak signals
144100-144200 kHz	EME and weak-signal SSB
144200 kHz	National calling frequency
144200-144275 kHz	General SSB operation
144275-144300 kHz	Propagation beacons
144300-144500 kHz	New OSCAR sub-band
144500-144600 kHz	Linear translator inputs
144600-144900 kHz	FM repeater inputs
144900-145100 kHz	Weak signal and FM simplex (145010, 30, 50, 70, 90 are widely used for packet)
145100-145200 kHz	Linear translator outputs
145200-145500 kHz	FM repeater outputs
145500-145800 kHz	Miscellaneous and experimental modes
145800-146000 kHz	OSCAR sub-band
146001-146370 kHz	Repeater inputs
146400-146580 kHz	Simplex
146610-146970 kHz	Repeater outputs
147000-147390 kHz	Repeater outputs
147420-147570 kHz	Simplex
147600-147990 kHz	Repeater inputs

All Amateurs except Novices:
144.0-144.1 MHz: CW Only
144.1-148.0 MHz: CW, Phone, Image, MCW, RTTY/Data

1.25 Meters

The FCC has allocated 219-220 MHz to amateur use on a secondary basis. This allocation is only for fixed digital message forwarding systems operated by all licensees except Novices. Amateur operations must not cause interference to, and must accept interference from, primary services in this and adjacent bands. Amateur stations are limited to 50 W PEP output and 100 kHz bandwidth. Automated Maritime Telecommunications Systems (AMTS) stations are the primary occupants in this band. Amateur stations within 398 miles of an AMTS station must notify the station in writing at least 30 days prior to beginning operations. Amateur stations within 50 miles of an AMTS station must get permission in writing from the AMTS station before beginning operations. ARRL Headquarters maintains a database of AMTS stations. The FCC requires that amateur operators provide written notification including the station's geographic location to the ARRL for inclusion in a database at least 30 days before beginning operations. See Section 97.303(e) of the FCC Rules.

Novice (Novices are limited to 25 watts PEP output), Technician, General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:

222.00-225.00 MHz: CW, Phone, Image, MCW, RTTY/Data

The Radio Spectrum

What is the radio spectrum and what does it contain?

Radio transmissions are regulated in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The FCC is an independent regulatory agency which administers spectrum for non-Federal Government use. The NTIA is an operating unit of the Department of Commerce which administers spectrum for Federal Government use.

The FCC and NTIA arbitrarily define that the radio spectrum in the United States is that part of the natural spectrum of electromagnetic radiation lying between the frequency limits of 9 kilohertz and 300 gigahertz. That is a merely legal definition for regulatory purposes. There is no scientific reason that radio transmissions cannot be made at lower or higher frequencies, although there are serious technical problems associated with using lower or higher frequencies in most practical radio applications at the current state of the art.

The electromagnetic spectrum is divided various ways into many individually-named sub-spectrums. The following names are commonly used to identify some of the lower portions:

3 kHz to 30 kHz	Very Low Frequencies (VLF)
30 kHz to 300 kHz	Low Frequencies (LF)
300 kHz to 3,000 kHz	Medium Frequencies (MF)
3,000 kHz to 30,000 kHz	High Frequencies (HF)
30,000 kHz to 300,000 kHz	Very High Frequencies (VHF)
300,000 kHz to 3,000,000 kHz	Ultra High Frequencies (UHF)

Those named portions are all within the larger portion arbitrarily defined for regulatory purposes as the radio spectrum, except for the small 6 kHz portion from 3 kHz to 9 kHz. Each of the portions above are further subdivided into many other sub-portions or "bands." For example, the American AM Broadcast Band extends from 535 kHz to 1705 kHz, which is within the portion known as Medium Frequencies. AM Broadcast Band stations are therefore Medium Frequency stations, but not all Medium Frequency stations transmit within the AM Broadcast Band.

Examples of other named "bands" are the Amateur Radio Bands, Citizen Band, and International Broadcast Bands. Those bands are named by their approximate wavelengths (although some have more than one name). Band frequency limits vary to some extent in different countries, but many are the same or similar. They also are subject to regulatory changes from time-to-time.

Broadcast Radio Bands

U.S. domestic and international shortwave AM broadcast bands

Broadcast band allocations vary from country to country. The bands marked (U.S.) below are allocated for broadcast use in the United States. Because the demand for High Frequency (HF) broadcast frequencies far exceeds the capacity of U.S. allocated bands, the FCC has authorized broadcast use of certain frequencies outside allocated bands on a non-interference basis.

Allocated Broadcast Radio Bands

Band Name	Frequency Range	Spectrum Region
AM Broadcast (U.S.)	535-1705 kHz	Medium Frequencies
120 Meters	2300-2495 kHz	Medium Frequencies
75 Meters	3800-4000 kHz	High Frequencies
60 Meters	4750-5060 kHz	High Frequencies
49 Meters (U.S.)	5950-6200 kHz	High Frequencies
41 Meters (U.S.)	7100-7300 kHz	High Frequencies
31 Meters (U.S.)	9500-9900 kHz	High Frequencies
25 Meters (U.S.)	11650- 12050 kHz	High Frequencies
22 Meters (U.S.)	13600-13800 kHz	High Frequencies
19 Meters (U.S.)	15100-15600 kHz	High Frequencies
16 Meters (U.S.)	17550-17900 kHz	High Frequencies
13 Meters (U.S.)	21450-21850 kHz	High Frequencies
11 Meters (U.S.)	25600-26100 kHz	High Frequencies

U.S. 11-Meter Citizen Radio Band

The U.S. 11-Meter Citizen Band Extends from 26960 to 27410 kHz.

U.S. Citizen Band Channels

CB Channel	Frequency	Spectrum Region
1	26965 kHz	High Frequency
2	26975 kHz	High Frequency
3	26985 kHz	High Frequency
4	27005 kHz	High Frequency
5	27015 kHz	High Frequency
6	27025 kHz	High Frequency
7	27035 kHz	High Frequency
8	27055 kHz	High Frequency
9 Emergency	27065 kHz	High Frequency
10	27075 kHz	High Frequency
11	27085 kHz	High Frequency
12	27105 kHz	High Frequency
13	27115 kHz	High Frequency
14	27125 kHz	High Frequency
15	27135 kHz	High Frequency
16	27155 kHz	High Frequency
17	27165 kHz	High Frequency
18	27175 kHz	High Frequency
19	27185 kHz	High Frequency
20	27205 kHz	High Frequency
21	27215 kHz	High Frequency
22	27225 kHz	High Frequency
23	27255 kHz	High Frequency
24	27235 kHz	High Frequency
25	27245 kHz	High Frequency
26	27265 kHz	High Frequency
27	27275 kHz	High Frequency
28	27285 kHz	High Frequency
29	27295 kHz	High Frequency
30	27305 kHz	High Frequency
31	27315 kHz	High Frequency
32	27325 kHz	High Frequency
33	27335 kHz	High Frequency
34	27345 kHz	High Frequency
35	27355 kHz	High Frequency
36	27365 kHz	High Frequency
37	27375 kHz	High Frequency
38	27385 kHz	High Frequency
39	27395 kHz	High Frequency
40	27405 kHz	High Frequency

Where can aviation signals be found?

Aviation Radio Bands and Frequencies

A large number of aviation frequencies can be received by the Kenwood R-5000 receiver at this website.

Types of Aviation Radio Signals Some aviation signals can be classified as being purely for navigation (NAV) or communication (COM), but others are used for both. For example, some aircraft navigation beacons and VHF Omnirange (VOR) navigation stations also transmit voice communications.

The Low Frequency (LF) Aviation Band
Low frequencies were very important to air navigation years ago, but became increasingly less important as more reliable systems operating at higher frequencies were developed and became widely available. Many Low Frequency navigation beacons were decommissioned long ago because of that. The few that remain primarily provide backup navigation in the event of primary navigation system failures, although some are used routinely even today in the execution of instrument landings.

Long ago, before VHF Omnirange (VOR) and other superior navigation systems were developed, that band contained AN Radio Ranges and Non-Directional Beacons (NDB's). 344 AN Radio Ranges still existed in the United States in 1959, but none exist today. Some NDB's are all that remain.

The Low Frequency (LF) aviation band extends from 200 kHz to 415 kHz with some internal gaps assigned to other services. The entire Low Frequency (LF) aviation band can be received by the receiver at this website.

Medium Frequency Aviation Band Usage
The only portion of the Medium Frequency spectrum allocated for aviation use is the 2850 to 3000 kHz portion of the 2850 to 3155 kHz Aviation Band. However, most aircraft are equipped with radio direction finders than can receive Medium Frequency AM Broadcast Band.

High Frequency (HF) Aviation Bands
High Frequencies were widely used for domestic aircraft voice communications years ago. Nearly all that traffic moved to Very High Frequencies long ago and domestic aircraft use of Medium Frequencies is now very rare. However, international flights still use the High Frequencies bands routinely for voice communications, because of the much longer distances over which they can be used. All these frequencies can be received by the receiver at this website.

High Frequency Aviation Bands

Frequency Band	Allocation
2850- 3155 kHz	Aviation (2850 to 3000 portion is MF)
3400- 3500 kHz	Aviation SSB (3 KHz Channel spacing)
4650- 4750 kHz	Aviation
5450- 5730 kHz	Aviation SSB (3 KHz Channel spacing)
6525- 6765 kHz	Aviation
8815- 9040 kHz	Aviation USB (3 KHz Channel spacing)
10005- 10100 kHz	Aviation
11175- 11400 kHz	Aviation USB (3 KHz Channel spacing)
13200- 13360 kHz	Aviation SSB (3 KHz Channel spacing)
15010- 15100 kHz	Aviation
17900- 18030 kHz	Aviation
20005- 21000 kHz	Aviation & International
21850- 22000 kHz	Aviation
21964 kHz	Aviation SSB Aviation Pacific
22720- 23200 kHz	Fixed Aviation & International
23200- 23350 kHz	Aviation
23350- 24890 kHz	Fixed Aviation & International

Very High Frequency (VHF) Civil Aviation Band
The VHF Civil Aviation Band extends from 108 to 136 MHz with the allocations shown below.

The VHF 108 to 136 MHz Civil Aviation Band

Frequencies	Allocation
108.000- 112.000 MHz	Aviation Terminal VOR and ILS Navigation (80 Channels)
112.000- 117.950 MHz	Aviation VOR Navigation (120 Channels)
118.000- 136.000 MHz	Aviation Communication (720 Channels)
121.500 MHz	Aviation Distress
121.600 MHz	Civil Air Patrol (Authorized use only)
121.700 MHz	Aviation Ground Control
118.000- 121.400 MHz	Air Traffic Control (Towers and ARTCC's)
121.600 MHz	Civil Air Patrol Training Beacons
121.650 MHz	Aviation Ground Control
121.700 MHz	Aviation Ground Control
121.750 MHz	Aviation Ground Control
121.775 MHz	Civil Air Patrol Training Beacons
121.800 MHz	Aviation Ground Control
121.850 MHz	Aviation Ground Control
121.900 MHz	Aviation Ground Control
121.900 MHz	Flight Schools
121.957 MHz	Flight Service Stations
122.000 MHz	Flight Advisory Service
122.025- 122.675 MHz	Flight Service Stations
122.250 MHz	Balloons
122.400 MHz	Flight Service Stations
122.600 MHz	Flight Service Stations
122.700 MHz	Aviation UNICOM Uncontrolled Airports
122.725 MHz	Aviation UNICOM Private Airports
122.750 MHz	Aviation Air to Air Communications
122.775 MHz	Air Shows & Air-to-air Communications
122.800 MHz	Aviation UNICOM Uncontrolled Airports
122.825 MHz	ARINC
122.850 MHz	Aviation Multicom
122.875 MHz	ARINC
122.900 MHz	Aviation UNICOM Uncontrolled Airports and Search and Rescue Training
122.925 MHz	Aviation UNICOM/Multicom/Air Shows
122.950 MHz	Aviation UNICOM Controlled Airports
122.975 MHz	Aviation UNICOM
122.975 MHz	Airplane to Airplane (high altitude airliners)
123.000 MHz	Aviation UNICOM
123.050 MHz	Aviation UNICOM
123.050 MHz	Aviation Heliports
123.075 MHz	Aviation UNICOM
123.075 MHz	Aviation Heliports
123.000 MHz	Aviation UNICOM Uncontrolled airports
123.025 MHz	Helicopters Air-to-air Communications
123.050 MHz	Aviation UNICO Heliports
123.075 MHz	Aviation UNICOM Heliports
123.100 MHz	Search and Rescue/Civil Air Patrol
123.125- 123.476 MHz	Flight Test
123.200 MHz	Flight Schools
123.300 MHz	Flight Schools & Balloons
123.325 MHz	Air Shows
123.350 MHz	NASA
123.400 MHz	Flight Schools
123.425 MHz	Air Shows
123.450 MHz	Air to Air (trans-ocean unofficial)
123.475 MHz	U.S. Army Golden Knights
123.500 MHz	Flight Schools & Balloons
123.525- 123.575 MHz	Flight testing
123.600- 128.800 MHz	Air Traffic Control (Towers/ARTCC's)
126.200 MHz	Military Airport Towers
128.625 MHz	NASA/NOAA Research
128.825- 132.000 MHz	ARINC
130.650 MHz	Military Airlift Command
134.100 MHz	Military Airports - Ground Control Approach (GCA) Radar
135.850 MHz	Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
135,950 MHz	Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Other Aviation-Related VHF Frequencies

Frequency	Allocation
136.000- 136.975 MHz	Air Control/Unicom/Future Use
148.125 MHz	Civil Air Patrol Repeaters - Secondary
148.150 MHz	Civil Air Patrol Repeaters - Primary
156.300 MHz	Aircraft-to-Ship - Safety
156.400 MHz	Aircraft-to-Ship - Commercial
156.425 MHz	Aircraft-to-Ship - Non-Commercial
156.450 MHz	Aircraft-to-Ship - Commercial
156.625 MHz	Aircraft-to-Ship - Non-Commercial
156.690 MHz	Aircraft-to-Ship - Commercial

Thought Crime Prevention Bill And Internet Radio Hosts (free speech in jeapardy)

2008-12-16T21:14:00.021-06:00

House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill
10-25-2007
www.roguegovernment.com

"They call it thought crime but they're going after Internet radio hosts? They're trying to stop free speech!"

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.

This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism.

If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism.

Amazingly, 404 of our elected representatives from both the Democrat and Republican parties voted in favor of this bill.

There is little doubt that this bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution. First let's take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as defined in Section 899A of the bill.

The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda.

Since the bill doesn't specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government. Considering how much the government has done to destroy the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system.

Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system.

Essentially they have defined violent radicalization as thought crime. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below. `(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.

The definition of homegrown terrorism uses equally vague language to further define thought crime. The bill includes the planned use of force or violence as homegrown terrorism which could be interpreted as thinking about using force or violence. Not only that but the definition is so vaguely defined, that petty crimes could even fall into the category of homegrown terrorism.

The definition as defined in the bill is shown below. `(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. Section 899B of the bill goes over the findings of Congress as it pertains to homegrown terrorism.

Particularly alarming is that the bill mentions the Internet as a main source for terrorist propaganda.

The bill even mentions streams in obvious reference to many of the patriot and pro-constitution Internet radio networks that have been formed. It also mentions that homegrown terrorists span all ages and races indicating that the Congress is stating that everyone is a potential terrorist. Even worse is that Congress states in their findings that they should look at draconian police states like Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom as models to defeat homegrown terrorists.

Literally, these findings of Congress fall right in line with the growing patriot community. The biggest joke of all is that this section also says that any measure to prevent violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism should not violate the constitutional rights of citizens. However, the definition of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as they are defined in section 899A are themselves unconstitutional.

The Constitution does not allow the government to arrest people for thought crimes, so any promises not to violate the constitutional rights of citizens are already broken by their own definitions.

`SEC. 899B. FINDINGS. `The Congress finds the following:

`(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.

`(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.

`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens. `

(4) While the United States must continue its vigilant efforts to combat international terrorism, it must also strengthen efforts to combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States.

`(5) Understanding the motivational factors that lead to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence is a vital step toward eradicating these threats in the United States. `

(6) The potential rise of self radicalized, unaffiliated terrorists domestically cannot be easily prevented through traditional Federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts, and requires the incorporation of State and local solutions.

`(7) Individuals prone to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence span all races, ethnicities, and religious beliefs, and individuals should not be targeted based solely on race, ethnicity, or religion. `

(8) Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. `

(9) Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations. Section 899C calls for a commission on the prevention of violent radicalization and ideologically based violence.

The commission will consist of ten members appointed by various individuals that hold different positions in government. Essentially, this is a commission that will examine and report on how they are going to deal with violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.

So basically, the commission is being formed specifically on how to deal with thought criminals in the United States. The bill requires that the commission submit their final report 18 months following the commissionï¿½s first meeting as well as submit interim reports every 6 months leading up to the final report. Below is the bill's defined purpose of the commission.

Amazingly they even define one of the purposes of the commission to determine the causes of lone wolf violent radicalization. (b) Purpose- The purposes of the Commission are the following:

`(1) Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or `lone wolf' violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.

`(2) Build upon and bring together the work of other entities and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of-- `(A) the Center of Excellence established or designated under section 899D, and other academic work, as appropriate; `(B) Federal, State, local, or tribal studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence; and `(C) foreign government studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence.

Section 899D of the bill establishes a Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States.

Essentially, this will be a Department of Homeland Security affiliated institution that will study and determine how to defeat thought criminals.

Section 899E of the bill discusses how the government is going to defeat violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism through international cooperation. As stated in the findings section earlier in the legislation, they will unquestionably seek the advice of countries with draconian police states like the United Kingdom to determine how to deal with this growing threat of thought crime.

Possibly the most ridiculous section of the bill is Section 899F which states how they plan on protecting civil rights and civil liberties while preventing ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism.

Here is what the section says. `SEC. 899F. PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE PREVENTING IDEOLOGICALLY-BASED VIOLENCE AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.

`(a) In General- The Department of Homeland Security's efforts to prevent ideologically-based violence and homegrown terrorism as described herein shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

`(b) Commitment to Racial Neutrality- The Secretary shall ensure that the activities and operations of the entities created by this subtitle are in compliance with the Department of Homeland Security's commitment to racial neutrality.

`(c) Auditing Mechanism- The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Officer of the Department of Homeland Security will develop and implement an auditing mechanism to ensure that compliance with this subtitle does not result in a disproportionate impact, without a rational basis, on any particular race, ethnicity, or religion and include the results of its audit in its annual report to Congress required under section 705.' (b) Clerical Amendment- The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting at the end of the items relating to title VIII the following:

It states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.

Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately.

The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush.

Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=4682

Is Global Warming Is A Hoax?

2008-12-03T16:10:00.016-06:00

WITH understandable reluctance, Prime Minister John Howard recently donned the political hair-shirt of a carbon trading system.

On the same day, NASA chief Michael Griffin commented in a US radio interview that "I am not sure that it is fair to say that (global warming) is a problem that we must wrestle with".

NASA is an agency that knows a thing or two about climate change. As Griffin added: "We study global climate change, that is in our authorization, we think we do it rather well. I'm proud of that, but NASA is not an agency chartered to, " battle climate change."

Such a clear statement that science accomplishment should carry primacy over policy advice is both welcome and overdue.

Nonetheless, there is something worrying about one of Griffin's other statements, which said that "I have no doubt ... that a trend of global warming exists".

Griffin seems to be referring to human-caused global warming, but irrespective of that his opinion is unsupported by the evidence.

The salient facts are these. First, the accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998. Oddly, this eight-year-long temperature stasis has occurred despite an increase over the same period of 15 parts per million (or 4 per cent) in atmospheric C02.

Second, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements, if corrected for non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, show little if any global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric C02 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).

Third, there are strong indications from solar studies that Earth's current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few decades.

How then is it possible for Griffin to assert so boldly that human-caused global warming is happening?

Well, he is in good company for similar statements have been made recently by several Western heads of state at the GS summit meeting. For instance, German Chancellor Angela Merkel asserts climate change (i.e. global warming) "is also essentially caused by humankind".

In fact, there is every doubt whether any global warming at all is occurring at the moment, let alone human-caused warming.

For leading politicians to be asserting to the contrary indicates something is very wrong with their chain of scientific advice, for they are clearly being deceived. That this should be the case is an international political scandal of high order which, in turn, raises the question of where their advice is coming from.

In Australia, the advice trail leads from government agencies such as the CSIRO and the Australian Greenhouse Office through to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations.

As leading economist David Henderson has pointed out, it is extremely dangerous for an unelected and unaccountable body like the IPCC to have a monopoly on climate policy advice to governments. And even more so because, at heart, the IPCC is a political and not a scientific agency.

Australia does not ask the World Bank to set its annual budget and neither should it allow the notoriously alarmist IPCC to set its climate policy.

It is past time for those who have deceived governments and misled the public regarding dangerous human-caused global warming to be called to account. Aided by hysterical posturing by green NGOs, their actions have led to the cornering of government on the issue and the likely implementation of futile emission policies that will impose direct extra costs on every household and enterprise in Australia to no identifiable benefit.

Not only do humans not dominate Earth's current temperature trend but the likelihood is that further large sums of public money are shortly going to be committed to, theoretically, combat warming when cooling is the more likely short-term climatic eventuality.

In one of the more expensive ironies of history, the expenditure of more than $US50 billion ($60 billion) on research into global warming since 1990 has failed to demonstrate any human-caused climate trend, let alone a dangerous one.

Yet that expenditure will pale into insignificance compared with the squandering of money that is going to accompany the introduction of a carbon trading or taxation system.

The costs of thus expiating comfortable middle class angst are, of course, going to be imposed preferentially upon the poor and underprivileged.

The case is made about the polar caps melting and some very intelligent scientist believe this is caused by underground volcano eruptions not the so-called atmospheric global warming. Seventy percent of all volcanoes in the world happen on the ocean floor. Over 400 astronauts have now traveled into outer space but only two men back in 1962 have ever explored the deepest part of the ocean 7 miles into its deepest trench. There is all kinds of things happening under the ocean, from earthquakes equaling atomic bombs to massive volcanoes. Scientists have only studied 10 percent of the oceans depths.

THE Earth's climate is changing in a dramatic way, with immense danger for mankind and the natural systems that sustain it. This was the frightening message broadcast to us by environmentalists in the recent past.

Here are some of their prophecies.

The facts have emerged, in recent years and months, from research into past ice ages. They imply that the threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. (Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist, in International Wildlife, July 1975)

The cooling has already killed thousands of people in poor nations... If it continues, and no strong measures are taken to deal with it, the cooling will cause world famine, world chaos, and probably world war, and this could all come about by the year 2000. (Lowe Ponte, The Cooling, 1976)

As recently as January 1994, the supreme authority on matters environmental, Time magazine, wrote:

The ice age cometh? Last week's big chill was a reminder that the Earth's climate can change at any time ... The last (ice age) ended 10,000 years ago; the next one— for there will be a next on—could start tens of thousands of years from now. Or tens of years. Or it may have already started.

The scare about global cooling was always the same: unprecedented low temperatures; the coldest weather recorded; unusual floods and storms; a rapid shift in the world's climate towards an icy apocalypse.

But now, the scare is about global warming. To convert from the first scare to the second, all you have to do is substitute "the coldest weather recorded" with "the warmest weather recorded". Replace the icicles hanging from oranges in California with melting glaciers on Mt Everest, and the shivering armadillos with sweltering polar bears. We were going to freeze but now we are going to fry.

Even the White House is making cautionary sounds about warming.

What facts have emerged to make this dramatic reversal? Well, none really. The most reliable measurements show no change whatsoever in global temperatures in the past 20 years. What has changed is the perception that global warming makes a better scare than the coming ice age.

A good environmental scare needs two ingredients. The first is impending catastrophe. The second is a suitable culprit to blame. In the second case, the ice age fails and global warming is gloriously successful. It is not the destruction itself of Sodom and Gomorrah that makes the story so appealing but the fact that they were destroyed because they were so sinful.

One of the real threats to mankind is the danger of collision with a large asteroid. It has happened in the past with catastrophic effect, and it will probably happen again. But there are no conferences, resolutions, gatherings, protests and newspaper headlines about asteroid impacts. The reason is that you cannot find anyone suitable to blame for them. If you could persuade people that President Bush or the oil companies were responsible for the asteroids, I guarantee there would be a billion-dollar campaign to "raise awareness" about the asteroid danger, with sonorous editorials in all the papers.

Global warming has the perfect culprit: naughty, industrialized, advanced, consuming, Western society, which has made itself very rich by burning a lot of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). This, so the scare goes, is releasing a lot of carbon dioxide. which is dangerously heating up the world.

THERE are two facts in the scare. First, it is true that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas one which traps heat on Earth. (Without it, the Earth would be too cold for' life.) Second, it is true that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising. The rest is guesswork.

The global warmers said the most accurate measure of climate change would be air temperatures. For the past 20 years or more, air temperatures have been measured with extreme accuracy. They show no warming whatsoever.

Surface temperatures are much less reliable since the recording stations are often encroached on by expanding cities, which warm the local environment. The curve most often used by the global warmers is one showing surface temperatures rising by about half a degree in the past 100 years. (The curve, incidentally, is a bad match against rising carbon dioxide but a good one against solar activity, which suggests the sun might be the reason for the warming.)

However, there are accurate methods of measuring sea temperatures going back much further. Past temperatures for the Atlantic Ocean have been found by looking at dead marine life. The isotope ratio of carbon-14 in their skeletons tells you when they lived. The ratio of other isotopes tells you the temperature then. Thus we are able to know temperatures in the Atlantic and northern Europe going back thousands of years. They make nonsense of the global warming scare.

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Temperatures rose to the "Holocene Maximum" of about 5000 years ago when it was about l.5°C higher than now, dropped in the time of Christ, and then rose to the "Medieval Climate Optimum" in the years 600 to 1100, when temperatures. were about 1°C higher than now. This was a golden age for northern European. agriculture and led to the rise of Viking civilization.

Greenland, now a frozen wasteland, was then a habitable Viking colony. There were vineyards in the south of England. Then temperatures dropped to "The Little Ice Age" in the 1600s, when the Thames froze over. And they have been rising slowly ever since, although they are still much lower than 1000 years ago.

We are now in a rather cool period.

What caused these ups and downs of temperature? We do not know. Temperature changes are a fact of nature, and we have no idea if the claimed 0.3C heating over the past 100 years is caused by man's activities or part of a natural cycle.

What we can say, though, is that if Europe heats up by 1°C it would do it a power of good. We can see this from records of 1000 years ago. Moreover, increased carbon dioxide makes plants grow more quickly, so improving crops and forests.

The Earth's climate is immensely complicated, far beyond our present powers of understanding and the calculating powers of modern computers. Changes in phase from ice to water to vapour; cloud formation; convection; ocean currents; winds; changes in the sun: the complicated shapes of the land masses; the ability of the oceans to absorb carbon dioxide — all of these and a thousand other factors operating with small differences over vast masses and distances make it practically impossible for us to make predictions about long-term climate patterns, and perhaps make such predictions inherently impossible. The computer models that the global warmers now use are ludicrously oversimplified, and it is no surprise they have made one wrong prediction after another.

If the global warming scare has little foundation in fact, the ice-age scare is only too solidly founded. For the past two million years, but not before, the northern hemisphere has gone through a regular cycle of ice ages: 90,000 years with ice: 10,000 years without. The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago. Our time is up. The next ice age is due.

We do not know what causes the ice ages. It is probably to do with the arrangement of northern land masses and the path of the Gulf Stream, but we do not know.

However, a new ice age, unlike global warming, would be a certain calamity.

It may be that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are actually warding off the ice age. In this case, we should give tax relief to coal power stations and factories for every tonne of carbon dioxide they release.

When the global warmers tell us the stakes are high, they are quite right. Global warming has become an immense international gravy train worth billions of dollars. It is now one of the largest recipients of government research money in the world.

It finances jobs, grants, conferences, international travel and journals. It not only keeps a huge army of people in comfortable employment but also fills them with self-righteousness and moral superiority. It enables the green movement to say: "The end is nigh unless you give us more funding, repent, and do what we say."

Behind these exhortations is the vision of Rousseau, of a retreat from the evil industrialized world of motor cars and electricity back to the simpler, nobler world of nature (except for the green priesthood who will still be allowed to fly in jet planes to conferences).

When President Bush denounced the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases, the global warmers said: "It's payback time." They were referring to the oil companies which had supposedly made big donations to his election campaign.

But if Al Gore had won and given even more funding to the warmers, it would have been payback time in a more pointed way. The oil companies can easily diversify out of oil and into other forms of energy — they are already doing so; BP is the world's largest producer of solar panels.

The global warmers are a more constrained vested interest. They depend on frightening the public and need global warming. This is why they get so furious when anyone dares to challenge the scare. The fraud of the warming scare is seen most vividly when the warmers propose their remedies for it. The best technology for avoiding the emission of carbon dioxide is nuclear power. In operation, nuclear power plants release no carbon dioxide and over their whole cycle (construction, fuel processing and decommissioning) they release the least carbon dioxide of any energy source, including wind and solar power. Half of the 272 million tonnes of man-made carbon dioxide that South Africa produces comes from coal power stations; South Africa could halve its total emissions simply by turning to nuclear power for electricity generation.

Nuclear power has by far the best safety record of any large-scale source of electricity. The worst accident at a nuclear power station in the West, at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979, killed no one, injured no one and had no ill effects afterwards. By contrast gas, oil, coal and hydro accidents almost routinely kill thousands of people every year. The Chernobyl accident, which after 16 years has killed about 40 people, was caused primarily by bad reactor design, which would never be allowed in the West. The waste from nuclear power is small, solid, stable and of finite life. Nuclear power is the only large-scale source of electricity that has procedures for disposing of its waste (which is easy to do). The waste from coal stations is enormously larger, much more dangerous and longer lived; it includes heavy metal toxins, which last for ever, and radioactive elements such as thorium, which has a half-life of 14 billion years.

COAL waste is simply thrown on to open ash tips or hurled into the air we breathe. But the global warmers fiercely resist nuclear power. They do not want it precisely because it offers the world bountiful electricity. What they want is to turn away from the modern world of plenty to a primitive world of scarcity. They do not want people in the poor countries to obtain higher living standards; they want them mired in noble poverty.

One of the biggest sources of carbon dioxide is motor vehicles. If your speed doubles, you emit four times as much carbon dioxide. Some European politicians, especially in Germany, are very concerned about global warming. So how about imposing a 80km/h speed limit on all roads in the European Union and limiting engine size to 1000cc? Ask German politicians who back the warming scare, which is more important, the future of the world or an infantile desire to travel at high speed. The answer is clear: speed. So much for serious debate.

The global warming scare uses almost every propaganda device. There are continual appeals to scientific authority. The propagandists pretend there is scientific consensus that man's activities are definitely changing the climate in a dangerous way.

This is an outright lie. You will find no reputable scientist who says so. Graphs are carefully edited so that parts showing cooling are removed and those showing warming are kept. Cooling incidents, such as thickening of ice caps, snow in Saudi Arabia and record low temperatures, are ignored. Warming incidents, such as breaking ice shelves and record high temperatures, are headlines. This is not a co-ordinated conspiracy but a fashion in which self-interest and ideology combine, and green activists, politicians and journalists help each other to get more funding, more sensational stories and more enemies to blame.

The climate of our planet is far too important for this nonsense. What we need is more genuine scientific research. If we do decide on the "precautionary principle" of keeping carbon dioxide levels stable, we can turn to those many technologies, proven or in prospect, which release no or little carbon dioxide. Nuclear power is the obvious first choice.

There is no reason the world economy cannot continue to prosper with lower greenhouse emissions. But, for heaven's sake, let's start by telling the whole truth and giving all the facts.

Here is a news story from 1975 about global cooling. People just didn't buy it like they did the global warming theory.they

http://www.iceagenow.com/

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2008-11-22T23:40:00.006-06:00

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The Truth About General Motors

2008-11-19T08:20:00.027-06:00

Does GM deserve a loan of 25 billion? I admit I had to change my opinion of this after much thought and after listening to the mainstream media and hearing the views of Nancy Pelosi and congress. They are against helping them, so it must be the right thing to do. OK They should give GM whatever help it needs, since they are supposedly giving trillions to foreign banks. Two trillion unaccounted for. You Betcha!

For years and years we bought GM vehicles, and were proud to say we bought American. We always felt that these were very well built cars, the best the middle class could buy. GM is like an American Institution, and the truth is, they are suffering because of the fall of wall street and the bumbling idiots who implimented Fred and Fannie housing debacle, namely Bill Clinton. GM is placing a full page ad in the Tennessean today which says, "GM Facts and Fiction", albeit they don't mention anything about 300 million dollars they spent this week to open a plant in Russia. Oh well. They even flew separately in their private corporate luxury jets to Washington, making their pitch and trying to plead destitution yesterday. Come on, don't anyone have some common sense at that place? You don't drive up to the soup line in a limousine.

But even with that, it is my understanding, that GM is wanting a LOAN of 25 billion, emphasis on the word Loan, which is different than the 5 trillion dollars given to the offshore foreign banks. I can't help but believe (the first bailout plea by Paulsen and Frank back in Oct) was manufactured, by design IMO. I don't think it was a real problem. You can't have that many corporations, institutions, businesses, etc. going belly up all at the same time. Something suspicious about this. They start a problem, then provide the solution. All in an effort to control us, to put us in slavery. So that just a few elite ones can control the world.

In the beginning of all this mess, Paulsen, and Frank said the money was going to go to the mortgage holders, homeowners, then they changed, and said no it's not going there but to the banks. A bait and switch. There are Two trillion dollars that doesn't even have to be accounted for, with Paulsen having full control. Surely you would think they are going by the book, everything dotted and signed all legal and everything. And we sit here helpless, not knowing what the heck is going on, and them laughing at us, without a worry in the world except making sure all their assets are neatly tucked and hidden away in those foreign banks somewhere, while the majority of American's voted these same criminals back into the house and senate. It seems to me this is giving them a false message if our election process is even accurate. I give up. How many more times are we going to be raped by these bastards? Are we to let them keep on doing this? This stinks to high heaven. They want us to go down. They want our country to be gone and incapacitated. Right now, We are like one lying a table with an oxygen mask not able to breath or move or do anything. They are well aware of what they are doing to us. If Obama would make a statement and persuade the public he is going to cut taxes even for the ones making 150,000 dollars a year, the market would probably heal itself. But they don't want to fix this imaginary problem because it is causing real problems and that's what they want.

I was against the bailout when it was first announced, but they HAD to have it right now or it was going to be awful, the world was going to come to an end. Then they got the bailout and did whatever with it, but that wasn't enough they had to have more money. It is just ridiculous. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but it feels like a plot against us, where we are forced to get those crooks out of a mess they made, raping and pillaging the American people. But they HAD to get their hands on that first 5 trillion, bailing out Leeman brothers, their friends, their own pockets. I still think some of these people should be thrown in jail. I imagine that congress is calling for them to come back the first week in December to get something to put on the table, a plan, but at the same time, you can bet that congress is going to be working overtime to put in place Their Own stipulations, because they WILL want to control it, yes, they will give out 25 billion dollars under their own terms I would imagine. So I think GM needs to be prepared for this, and be ready for anything when they go in there and state their plans for the future in December. Yes at this stage, GM deserves it as much as anybody else. GM still seems to be something separate from these criminal bankers. I believe GM is having a real problem, and their success can possibly keep workers busy even here in America. But they need to have a overhaul from the top down or vice versa.

After all is said and done, the workers union has made sure that GM employees in Michigan receive approximately $74.00 an hour including benefits. Most other car manufacturing facilities like Nissan are getting about $40.00 per hour. They are going to have to take a chapter 11, and then start over somehow. Get rid of the unions, and change the management. The inefficiencies and lack of oversight has been just outrageous at GM. But if the others got a deal, then I think GM really deserves one too. The thing is, those criminals up on the hill are not wanting to give it to them, makes me believe that GM is one, that is more deserving of it ~ Trish
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GM opens USD300 million assembly plant in Russia

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2008/11/07/224691.html
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Update: Nov. 22, 2008
Since I wrote this, I have found out that GM already had given to them 25 billion before now. So in light of that information I am forced to believe that they should just go bankrupt. What did they do with the previous 25 billion. I was totally unaware that they had already received so much and that this was their second begging episode. I mean this is unbelievable. I take back what I said earlier. No they had better get their house in order, they are so stupid. Still I think if they go down, then the economy will take a whole lot longer to pick up. Trish

Woman Divorces Husband For Virtual Adultery Game " Second Life "

2008-11-14T07:27:00.007-06:00

14th November 2008

The new fiancee of Second Life love rat David Pollard, whose marriage crumbled when his wife caught him 'having online sex with her', was unmasked today - and denied the pair had had a cyber-affair.

Linda Brinkley, 55, known on the multi-player online game as Modesty McDonnell, revealed that since her online fling with David Pollard the couple had become engaged in real life.

But Miss Brinkley today denied that her internet love affair with Mr Pollard had led to the break-up of the 40-year-old's marriage to ex-wife Amy Taylor.

When their computer-generated selves clapped eyes on each other, she said, it was 'love at first sight'. But she claimed they weer only friends until David split with his wife.

The other woman: Linda Brinkley, now aged 55, and her avatar Modesty McDonnell

Miss Brinkley fell for David after her online character Modesty McDonnell began working as a hostess in the nightclub he runs on the web-based reality game.

Their bond in the game is now so strong that they have become engaged in real life - despite never having met outside the computer-generated world.

In the Second Life world players adopt a new identity and can move around, work and socialise in a computer-generated environment.

Miss Brinkley, of Arkansas, USA, said: 'When we first met it was at a fancy dress night on the game and he noticed me across the room and said he felt something special.

Happily married in Second Life: Modesty McDonnell (Linda Brinkley) and Dave Barmy (David Pollard), who are also engaged in real life

'I felt it too so it really was like love at first sight. It was kind of strange at first because I never thought anything like this would happen to me.

'But we gradually built up our relationship and got closer until he proposed to me online for real. I was surprised but part of me knew it was coming and of course I said yes.

'He's told me that his relationship with his wife was over way before I came along and he's been very honest with me so I take his word for that.

'We've never met in real life but we've got each other's pictures. I'm really nervous about meeting him but at the same time I'm looking forward to it more than you could know.

'It's amazing that we've found each other across so many miles and we love each other very much. It's my dream to finally to meet up with him and it's all because of the game.'

David and Amy in their real life wedding and their online Second Life wedding, before their marriage crumbled

David was dumped by first wife Amy after she allegedly caught his character Dave Barmy cheating with Modesty McDonnell, who she claimed was a prostitute.

But Modesty insists her avatar is a 'hostess' in Dave's online nightclub 'Holodeck'.

In the game their characters married after a whirlwind romance at a small ceremony attended by just seven guests.

Just weeks later David, of Newquay, Cornwall, proposed to Linda for a second time and the pair now plan to marry for real.

Amy Pollard, above and her online character Laura Skye. Amy has filed for divorce after she caught her husband Dave having a 'virtual' affair online with a computer-generated female character

David Pollard, above, and his Second Life character Dave Barmy, as he prepares to get married

Linda, who has four children from two previous marriages, only started playing Second Life a month before meeting Dave so she could stay in touch with her sister.

She added: 'I would say I'm in love with Dave. I've been married in real life before but they weren't really good relationships and I haven't had much luck with men until now.

'I chat to him on the phone over the internet for at least two hours every night. We are always together. The only thing stopping us meeting is the distance and the money but we have exactly the same goals in life.

Linda, a former special needs carer, is currently unemployed but intends to take an online degree in Religious Studies and hopes to work as a missionary.

She has three children aged 35, 33 and 30 from her first marriage and another son aged 15 from her second marriage.

David also insists he and Linda were only 'hanging out' together in Second Life and never indulged in cyber-sex before his real marriage to Amy was over.

'We weren't even having cyber sex or anything like that we were just chatting and hanging out together," he said.

Leggy: Linda Brinkley and (below) her 'hostess' Second Life persona

'It was nothing really major but then Amy found out about it and went mad I don't think I was really doing anything wrong.'

Yesterday it was revealed that David and Amy had met while playing the game before marrying in real life.

But while the internet brought them together, it eventually tore them apart.

One day, Miss Taylor, 28, found Mr Pollard at the computer - watching his avatar having sex with a prostitute in Second Life.

She said: 'I went mad - I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done.

'I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It's cheating as far as I'm concerned.

'But he didn't see it as a problem, and couldn't see why I was so upset.

'He said I was just making a big fuss and tried to make out it was my fault for not giving him enough attention.'

Using the virtual world's own special currency, she hired an online private detective to investigate his adultery.

However, back in their real lives, the Pollards managed to patch things up.

But then in April this year Mrs Taylor caught her husband's avatar in another compromising position.

She claims he was having ' cybersex' with a female player in the U.S. - chatting intimately in the virtual world.

Although Mr Pollard and the woman had never even met outside the game, Miss Taylor said that she was devastated by what she considered to be his very real betrayal.

She said: 'I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate.

'He turned off the computer monitor and I turned it back on and demanded to look at his chat history.

'But he turned off the computer so the history was all deleted - and I ended up going off in floods of tears.

'He confessed he'd been talking to this woman player in America for one or two weeks, and said our marriage was over and he didn't love me any more, and we should never have got married.'

The next day, Miss Taylor went to a solicitor to file for divorce from her 40-year-old husband of three years on the grounds of ' unreasonable behaviour'.

Luckily, she now has a new man in her life - whom she met while playing the internet fantasy role-playing game World Of Warcraft.

From her home in Newquay, Cornwall, she said yesterday: 'It has been a very difficult time for me. I am now just trying to move on with my life.

People find love in lots of different ways. Ours was a very serious marriage.

'It may have started online but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts just as much now it is over.'

She added: 'His was the ultimate betrayal and I felt absolutely terrible.

'I know it sounds bizarre but he had admitted to an earlier incident and he knew how I felt about it.'

Miss Taylor said: 'I still go online and play Second Life but not as much. There's still a chance I could bump into him on there.

'I have met somebody new and we are living together. I am very happy. I know it all sounds pretty strange - but it works for me.'

Her ex-husband, who would only speak to the Mail through his character on Second Life, said yesterday: 'I don't think I was really doing anything wrong.'

And he claimed that the problem was not Second Life, but his real life relationship with Miss Taylor.

'Amy never did anything around the house,' said Mr Pollard. 'She just played World of Warcraft all the time.

'If I wanted to spend time with her I had to ask - but it was always too much trouble for her to come off the game to spend time with me.'

Ham Radio Q Signs And CW Abbreviations

2008-11-14T07:12:00.004-06:00

CW ABBREVIATIONS Prosigns in < >

AA - All after End Of Line AB - All before ABT - About ADEE - Addressee ADR - Address ADS - Address AGN - Again AM - Amplitude Modulation ANI - Any ANS - Answer ANT - Antenna <AR> End of message Stand by; wait - used for the @ sign for E-Mail Addresses New proposal is AC run together	BCI - Broadcast Interference BCL - Broadcast Listener BCNU - Be seeing you BD - Bad BK - Break, Break in BN - All between; Been Separation (break) between address and text; between text and signature. BTH Both BTR - Better BTW - By The Way BUG - Semi-Automatic key BURO -Bureau B4 - Before	C - Yes, Correct CB - CallBook CBA - Callbook Address CFM - Confirm; I confirm CK - Ckeck CKT - Circuit CL - I am closing my station; Call CLBK - Callbook CLD - Called CLG - Calling CMG - Coming CNT - Can't CONDX - Conditions CPI - Copy CQ - Calling any station CRD - Card CS - Call Sign CU - See You CUAGN - See You Again CUD - Could CUL - See You later CUM - Come CUZ - Because CW - Continuous wave
DA - Day DE - From, This Is DIFF - Difference DLD - Delivered DLVD - Delivered DN - Down DR - Dear DSW - Russian CW abbreviation for goodbye. DWN - Down DX - Distance	EL - Element ES - And ENUF - Enough EU - Europe EVE - Evening	FB - Fine Business, excellent FER - For FM - Frequency Modulation: From FONE - Phone FQ - Frequency Freq -- Frequency FWD -- Forward
GA - Go ahead; Good Afternoon GB - Good bye, God Bless GD - Good, Good Day GE - Good Evening GESS - Guess GG - Going GLD -- Glad GM - Good morning GN - Good night GND - Ground GP -- Ground Plane GS - Green Stamp GUD - Good GV - Give GVG - Giving	Error in sending HI - The telegraph laugh; High HPE - Hope HQ - Headquarters HR - Here; Hear, Hour HRD - Heard HRS - Hours HRD -- Heard HV - Have HVG - Having HVY - Heavy HW - How, How Copy?	II -- I Repeat Short form of - Repeat, Say Again INFO - Info JA - Japanese Station K - Invitation To Transmit KA Beginning of message KLIX - KeyClicks KN Go only, invite a specific station to transmit
LID - A poor operator LNG - Long LP - Long Path LSN - Listen LTR - Later; letter LV - Leave LVG - Leaving LW - Long Wire., Long Wave	MA - Millamperes MGR - Manager MI - My MILL - Typewiter MILS - Millamperes MNI - Many MOM - Moment MSG - Message; Prefix to radiogram MULT - Multiplier	N - No, Negative, Incorrect, No More N - Nine (as in Signal Report) NCS - Net Control Station ND - Nothing Doing NIL - Nothing; I have nothing for you; Not In Log NM - No more - Number, Near NW - Now; I resume transmission
OB - Old boy OC - Old chap OK - Correct OM - Old man OP - Operator OPR - Operator OT - Old timer; Old top OW - Old Woman	PBL - Preamble PKG - Package PSE - Please PT - Point PWR - Power PX - Press, Prefix	R - Received as transmitted; Are; R - Decimal Point (with numbers) RC - Ragchew RCD - Received RCVR - Receiver RE - Concerning; Regarding REF - Refer to; Referring to; Reference RFI - Radio frequency interference RIG - Station equipment ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing RPT - Repeat, Report RTTY - Radio teletype RST - Readability, strength, tone RX - Receive, Receiver
SA - Say SASE - Self-addressed, stamped envelope SED - Said SAE - Self-Addressed Envelope SEZ - Says SGD - Signed SHUD - Should SIG - Signature; Signal SINE - Operator's personal initials or nickname Out; clear (end of communications, no reply expected.) SK - Silent Key SKED - Schedule SN - Soon SP - Short Path SRI - Sorry SS - Sweepstakes SSB - Single Side Band STN - Station SUM - Some SVC - Service; Prefix to service message SWL - Short Wave Listener /ST short timer on check in	T - Zero (with numbers) TEMP - Temperature TEST - Testing or Contest TFC - Traffic TIA - Thanks In Advance TMW - Tomorrow TKS - Thanks TNX - Thanks TR - Transmit T/R - Transmit/Receive TRBL - Trouble TRIX - Tricks TRX - Transceiver TT - That TTS - That is TU - Thank you TVI - Television interference TX - Transmitter; Transmit TXT - Text	U - You UFB - Ultra Fine Business UNLIS - Unlicensed UR - Your; You're URL - Universal Resource Locator Address For a WebPage URS - Yours
VE Understood (VE) VERT - Vertical VFB - Very fine business VFO - Variable Frequency Oscillator VY - Very	W - Watts WA - Word after WATSA - What Say WB - Word before WD - Word WDS - Words WID - With WKD - Worked WKG - Working WL - Well; Will WPM - Words Per Minute WRD - Word WRK - Work WUD - Would WW - Would WX- Weather	XCVR - Transceiver XMAS - Christmas XMTR - Transmitter XTAL - Crystal XYL - Wife
YF -Wife YL - Young lady YR - Year Z - Zulu Time	30 - I have no more to send 33 - Fondest Regards 55 - Best Success 73 - Best Regards (NOT 73'S) * 88 - Love and kisses (NOT 88'S) 161 - 73+88=161" first came about in FOC circles (First-Class CW Operators' Club, founded by Louis Varney G5RV a number of years ago). The essential meaning is "Best regards to you and your XYL".	? question (like QRL?)

* 73 IS BEST REGARDS. 73'S (PLURAL) MAKES NO SENSE AND IS IMPROPER USE.

The RST (Readability-Strength-Tone) System

READABILITY
1 -- Unreadable
2 -- Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable
3 -- Readable with considerable difficulty
4 -- Readable with practically no difficulty
5 -- Perfectly readable

NEW SYSTEM FOR PSK REPORTING

READABILITY
	R5	95%+	Perfectly readable
	R4	80%	Practically no difficulty, occasional missed characters
	R3	40%	Considerable difficulty, many missed characters
	R2	20%	Occasional words distinguishable
	R1	0%	Undecipherable

	STRENGTH
	S9	Very Strong trace
	S7	Strong trace
	S5	Moderate trace
	S3	Weak trace
	S1	Barely perceptible trace

	QUALITY
	Q9	Clean signal - no visible unwanted sidebar pairs
	Q7	One barely visible pair
	Q5	One easily visible pair
	Q3	Multiple visible pairs
	Q1	Splatter over much of the spectrum

Q-Signals For Amateur Radio Operators

Q-Sig	Message
QRA	What is the name of your station? The name of my station is ___.
QRB	How far are you from my station? I am ____ km from you station
QRD	Where are you bound and where are you coming from? I am bound ___ from ___.
QRG	Will you tell me my exact frequency? Your exact frequency is ___ kHz.
QRH	Does my frequency vary? Your frequency varies.
QRI	How is the tone of my transmission? The tone of your transmission is ___ (1-Good, 2-Variable, 3-Bad.)
QRJ	Are you receiving me badly? I cannot receive you, your signal is too weak.
QRK	What is the intelligibility of my signals? The intelligibility of your signals is ___ (1-Bad, 2-Poor, 3-Fair, 4-Good, 5-Excellent.)
QRL	Are you busy? I am busy, please do not interfere
QRM	Is my transmission being interfered with? Your transmission is being interfered with ___ (1-Nil, 2-Slightly, 3-Moderately, 4-Severly, 5-Extremely.)
QRN	Are you troubled by static? I am troubled by static ___ (1-5 as under QRM.)
QRO	Shall I increase power? Increase power.
QRP	Shall I decrease power? Decrease power.
QRQ	Shall I send faster? Send faster (___ WPM.)
QRR	Are you ready for automatic operation? I am ready for automatic operation. Send at ___ WPM.
QRS	Shall I send more slowly? Send more slowly (___ WPM.)
QRT	Shall I stop sending? Stop sending.
QRU	Have you anything for me? I have nothing for you.
QRV	Are you ready? I am ready.
QRW	Shall I inform ___ that you are calling? Please inform ___ that I am calling.
QRX	When will you call me again? I will call you again at ___ hours.
QRY	What is my turn? Your turn is numbered ___.
QRZ	Who is calling me? You are being called by ___.
QSA	What is the strength of my signals? The strength of your signals is ___ (1-Scarcely perceptible, 2-Weak, 3-Fairly Good, 4-Good, 5-Very Good.)
QSB	Are my signals fading? Your signals are fading.
QSD	Is my keying defective? Your keying is defective.
QSG	Shall I send ___ messages at a time? Send ___ messages at a time.
QSJ	What is the charge to be collected per word to ___ including your international telegraph charge? The charge to be collected per word is ___ including my international telegraph charge.
QSK	Can you hear me between you signals and if so can I break in on your transmission? I can hear you between my signals, break in on my transmission.
QSL	Can you acknowledge receipt? I am acknowledging receipt.
QSM	Shall I repeat the last message which I sent you? Repeat the last message.
QSN	Did you hear me on ___ kHz? I did hear you on ___ kHz.
QSO	Can you communicate with ___ direct or by relay? I can communicate with ___ direct (or by relay through ___.)
QSP	Will you relay to ___? I will relay to ___.
QSQ	Have you a doctor on board? (or is ___ on board?) I have a doctor on board (or ___ is on board.)
QSU	Shall I send or reply on this frequency? Send a series of Vs on this frequency.
QSV	Shall I send a series of Vs on this frequency? Send a series of Vs on this frequency.
QSW	Will you send on this frequency? I am going to send on this frequency.
QSY	Shall I change to another frequency? Change to another frequency.
QSZ	Shall I send each word or group more than once? Send each word or group twice (or ___ times.)
QTA	Shall I cancel message number ___? Cancel message number ___.
QTB	Do you agree with my counting of words? I do not agree with your counting of words. I will repeat the first letter or digit of each word or group.
QTC	How many messages have you to send? I have ___ messages for you.
QTE	What is my true bearing from you? Your true bearing from me is ___ degrees.
QTG	Will you send two dashes of 10 seconds each followed by your call sign? I am going to send two dashes of 10 seconds each followed by my call sign.
QTH	What is your location? My location is ___.
QTI	What is your true track? My true track is ___ degrees.
QTJ	What is your speed? My speed is ___ km/h.
QTL	What is your true heading? My true heading is ___ degrees.
QTN	At what time did you depart from ___? I departed from ___ at ___ hours.
QTO	Have you left dock (or port)? I have left dock (or port).
QTP	Are you going to enter dock (or port)? I am going to enter dock (or port.)
QTQ	Can you communicate with my station by means of the International Code of Signals? I am going to communicate with your station by means of the International Code of Signals.
QTR	What is the correct time? The time is ___.
QTS	Will you send your call sign for ___ minutes so that your frequency can be measured? I will send my call sign for ___ minutes so that my frequency may be measured.
QTU	What are the hours during which your station is open? My station is open from ___ hours to ___ hours.
QTV	Shall I stand guard for you on the frequency of ___ kHz? Stand guard for me on the frequency of ___ kHz.
QTX	Will you keep your station open for further communication with me? I will keep my station open for further communication with you.
QUA	Have you news of ___? I have news of ___.
QUB	Can you give me information concerning visibility, height of clouds, direction and velocity of ground wind at ___? Here is the information you requested...
QUC	What is the number of the last message you received from me? The number of the last message I received from you is ___.
QUD	Have you received the urgency signal sent by ___? I have received the urgency signal sent by ___.
QUF	Have you received the distress signal sent by ___? I have received the distress signal sent by ___.
QUG	Will you be forced to land? I am forced to land immediately.
QUH	Will you give me the present barometric pressure? The present barometric pressure is ___ (units).

Note that Q signals can take the form of a question when followed by a question mark.

Joe The Plumber And The Early Pilgrims

2008-11-01T16:08:00.011-05:00

You know , with four days until election, I think it would be such a great move if McCain Palin would take Joe the Plumber over to Obama's aunt Zytootie who lives illegally in the slums of somewhere in a housing project and if they would bring her a whole pantry full of groceries and do some fancy plumbing work letting her have some hot water and let her know what real charity is about. I think that would be a fantastic move on the Republican party as a whole. The republicans have got to get in there and show these people what it's all about. Joe the plumber already has made history take a look at this Joe The Plumber

The fact is not very well known, how early socialism was started in the 1600's when the pilgrims first came over here and started to establish themselves.
Their initial ownership arrangement was communal property, you know, 'spread the wealth' doctrine. It was hard, and in fact the leader in those early days had everyone to pool their things together into one storehouse. And had them all share. The problem was, it ensued lazy people who just wanted to mooch off the others who worked, making it very unfair to the people. Pretty soon the hard working people said, 'why should we do all the work if we have to give it away to them'? The leaders knew very soon that this was not the way to go. But this is the thing Obama wants to do. We've already been there and done that ! Read the real story about the early pilgrims.

It is true that the colonists did feel “exploited” by the investors because they were eventually expected to surrender to them an undue portion of the wealth they were trying to create. It is as though they felt that they were being “taxed” too highly by their investors—at a 50 percent rate, in fact.

PRIVATE PROPERTY:
How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims

By Tom Bethell

When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story.

Election Poll Results Nov. 4, 2008

2008-11-01T00:30:00.045-05:00

My prediction:
McCain Wins 274 to Obama 264

Although Hollywood has made a tremendous effort to sway people to vote for this Obama person, (whom they know next to nothing about). And even though the left radical wing media has completely ignored all the important issues to place this man up on a pedestal, and again to influence the vote for him, although all this was against the republicans this year, I firmly believe that McCain still stands more than a chance to win this election. Real journalism died this year and a lot of the reporters were in a very mystical daze and a state of confusion. I believe the media has done everything they could, even the telephone pollsters (by the way , who even answers their phone these days? Really! give me a break, I don't believe them). All this combined was an attempt to depress discourage and deflate any enthusiasm towards the supporters for John McCain and Gov. Palin. It was undeniably obvious to those who were not in a trance. This is the way I see the final electoral voting turning out this year. Boy it sure has been a long drawn out thing, and I surely will be glad when it's over. I think a lot of folks share my view on this. This whacko baracko has been in our faces for 18 months now, trying to brainwash the masses. Regardless of what the daily polls are showing right now, I have a hard time believing them. After this year, I believe that the polls will lose all credibility as being a way to gauge the climate in any future elections. I still believe in the American people. I still think there are more patriotic ones out there who love this country and want the best for it.
The Electoral college adds up to these figures below. As I see it,
Obama will probably take Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, New York, Maryland, Iowa, New Jersey, DC and Hawaii. McCain will take all the rest. While I am not a pollster, I'm going with my gut here. We shall soon see if I'm close, right or way off wrong. To me it makes it simpler to just to pull the states out that I think bama might win, because those states are much fewer in number than McCain. On election night, I believe we will see a whole lot of red states. It's going to be close, but our man McCain will win! I believe that McCain will take most if not all of Hillary's supporters because they want her to be able to run again in 2012 and if Baracko the whacko wins, that one is out of the question. And now I have to say, thank God for Hillary's supporters and the big electoral state of Texas, and for miracles.

Click to enlarge My Prediction Map Election 2008

On second thought, I think it might go more like this. Click Below
McCain comes out strong with a big win 295 Electorate votes to Obama's 243

You can make your own map like the one I have above. Play around with it and see what you come up with. It's fun. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/campaign_plus/roadto270/index.html?SITE=YAHOO&SECTION=HOME

And just for the record this is what the majority of polls are showing with this map below

Presidential Poll Update

2008-10-28T14:12:00.011-05:00

Ya'll look here at the Gallup poll today, only a margin of 2 points difference in Obama and McCain. A big difference from just a few days ago. Still I think the traditional Gallup and the expanded Gallup show a big difference with the traditional poll being the most accurate. Still all the polls have Obama in the lead. Not one shows McCain leading as of today October 28, 2008. It looks like several polls have tried to narrow up the averages in the last day. Humm could some of the polls be worried that their credibility stands in jeopardy all of a sudden for giving false polling results? Oh my! This is way funny! Yes I remember some of those polls were in the double digits with Obama'O leading up to 15 ahead just a few days ago.
The media has pushed so hard to get obama in there, withholding real journalism and reporting, not asking Obama the important questions, and when the few times they did, the obama team has gone after them with unlawful searches into the backgrounds, ie; such as Joe the Plumber, and the Florida reporter also who asked something related to socialism and marxism. For sure you aren't suppose to ask the Messiah Obama questions like that? Don't you people know that? Of course not. That is blasphemy! Now they have banned certain people and news agencies from approaching them obama/biden with any more interviews. And please keep in mind Obama'O's favorite motto this year, "Remember to vote early and often"....... hey where have I heard that before?

Latest Polls Last Week Before 2008 Election

2008-10-28T00:10:00.004-05:00

Politics : Back In Time Reflections

2008-10-19T08:49:00.008-05:00

Just for a moment let's take a trip back in time. The year is 1980 the month is September the day is the 15th. Ronald Reagan, a former Governor of California is running for president. He really didn't have any experience. He was old. He was just a Governor you know like ...well you know. It is very interesting to read this taken from The Times Magazine. For those who were too young to have lived it or were too busy living to get involved in politics at the time. Even for those who were there, and involved, but need to refresh your memory, this will give you an idea of what was going on in the minds of voters in America in the 1980 Presidential election.

Taken from report
While some of the impulsive Reaganisms may have pleased his more conservative supporters, they feed the doubts about his judgment that bother other voters. Thus the tense staff is trying to set up "fail-safe" systems to protect Reagan against Reagan. his aides are more carefully reviewing every speech text for pitfalls and insisting that the Governor just stick with the typed pages.

Read the rest of the story
It is very very interesting.

http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9609/15/

2008 Presidential Election Polls For Archival Purposes

2008-10-15T21:41:00.011-05:00

Click on photos to enlarge

It is hard to find past presidential polls, they all but disappear after an election, it seems. So I am making an effort to document the polls results as of 10-15-2008 from different sources on the web.

http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/general-election/electoral-college-results.html

Sarah Palin Knocked A Home Run For The Gipper

2008-10-02T22:41:00.014-05:00

Governor Sarah Palin certainly connected with the public tonight and came across as a brilliant intelligent informed woman who is ready to serve as Vice President. She was cool calm and well, she just nailed it! I like the way Gulliani said it, something to the effect, "she slapped him with a velvet glove". Great wonderful job! Go Sarah........we are behind you. We are very proud to say we support you and John McCain. Joe Biden was wrong on so many of the things he said as in the way McCain has voted....he was just dead wrong. And checking the record proves it. I suppose he was off his game, or maybe thats the way he plays it. Bless his heart, he did the best he could. He was blushing , yes his face turned red......when she said that he, Joe Biden at one point, even offered to run with McCain. He didn't know what to say to that at all.......She just blew him out of the water. I have never seen a politician relate so well with the public since Ronald Reagan. He knew well how to do this, and we loved him. It just came natural with him as it seems to do with her.

And to whoever is reading this....remember it was the Clinton administration who implemented de-regulation bill which has played the major role in causing all of this economic collapse. It was Bill Clinton. And Barney Frank, just really upsets me, asking for help when he is the one who did this for the most part. Please keep this in mind when you vote in November.

Find out how your representatives voted on the bailout ...
http://fejta.com/record/1040/how-did-my-congressman-vote-today.html

Ed Koch Campaigns for Obama

2008-10-02T11:11:00.015-05:00

The following is from the Jerusalem Post
My remarks to Ed Koch below

Thursday Oct 02, 2008

Campaigning for the Obama-Biden ticket

Posted by Ed Koch

On Sunday, I flew to Florida at the request of the Obama-Biden Democratic campaign for the purpose of speaking on their behalf in the Jewish condo community. Four years ago, in the last presidential campaign, I had flown to Florida at the request of the Bush-Cheney Republican campaign to rally support for that ticket.

I had announced back in 2004 that I did not agree with President Bush on a single domestic issue, but that I concluded that of the two men running for president representing the two major parties - Republican and Democratic - Bush understood the danger to Western civilization of international Islamic terrorism and John Kerry, in my opinion, did not; and that Bush was willing to take on Islamic terrorism, no matter the cost, while Kerry, in my opinion, did not treat confronting Islamic terrorism as a priority. The danger to Western civilization included the danger to Israel, located in a sea of Muslim states intent on destroying it as an outpost of Western civilization.

Trish remarks: So he supported Bush, only because of his stance on Islamic terrorism? How he can go from Bush to Obama is weird. What does he believe, Obama thinks about Islamic terrorism? Maybe he should ask the terrorist organizations Obama has been associated with. He should also ask Obama about his membership for 20 years in Rev. Wright's anti-American, anti-Semitic church, and the Woods Fund and his relationship with terrorist.

Here I was, four years later in those same Jewish communities, consisting of many retired New Yorkers, urging the Jewish residents of Florida to vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. On this trip, I told the four Jewish communities I visited - about 1,000 Jews in attendance in the aggregate - why I was there and why I was supporting Obama.

I told them why I supported President Bush four years ago, and that I had no regrets. I said there was an important difference now in that I believe the candidates and the political parties they represent understand the existential danger to Western civilization posed by Islamic terrorism. Since the candidates and parties all recognize the need to prevail against Islamic terrorism, the issues which distinguish the Democratic Party from the Republican Party have become more than relevant, they are now essential.

On the issue of abortion, Obama and Biden will safeguard a woman's right to choose recognized under the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. How? By President Obama filling the two or more vacancies expected to occur on the US Supreme Court in the next four years with justices who support Roe v. Wade and preserving the right of abortion. In contrast, McCain would appoint judges who would override Roe v. Wade and allow abortion only in cases of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. If Palin were to succeed McCain as president, there would be only one exception to barring all abortions and that would be to preserve the life of the mother. A raped woman and a child raped by her own father - an act of incest - would be required to carry the fetus to term. How awful even to contemplate.

Trish's remarks: How many situations that incest plays a part in a pregnancy is I would imagine next to none, or rarely if ever at all. I believe that in that case , exceptions should be made. However, the left liberal wing nazi's want to use that to give anyone and everyone the right to kill babies. And that is murder. And in my opinion, that one thing is a major issue that has brought God's wrath down upon this nation. But then they want to call even embryo's in a petri dish as a living breathing person when it comes to someone fighting over them in our courts, but if it is inside the protective womb, as nature intended, then it's suddenly not a person, a living human being. Can't have it both ways, No wonder God is mad at us. Look what we have allowed in this country.

Obama and Biden would also protect the monthly Social Security stipends paid to beneficiaries. McCain and Palin would privatize Social Security which in today's stock market would have lowered the monthly amounts to be paid to beneficiaries and reduced their standard of living.

Trish remarks: How is he so sure Obama will do anything he says he will do. He is a socialist. I think Obama is a big time yes man and will do anything the powers that be tell him to do if he were to be president. He couldn't make decisions on so many things, voting, "present" instead of yes or no. I don't think we need someone who is waiting for someone else to tell him every move to make. Look at the candidates track record. Look at their history. It tells it all.

In the case of taxes, McCain would continue the practice of preferring the rich - the top two percent of taxpayers whose annual income exceeds $300,000, and who in the last Republican tax reduction legislation received 37 percent of the total tax reduction.

Trish remarks: Don't they know that it is capitalism and the business's those who give jobs to the masses who don't need to be overly taxed, else it will end up being added to anything we buy in the store and we will have to pay it anyway. Yes taxing the rich and leaving the rest to get tax breaks as Obama says it doesn't make any sense at all. We don't need businesses going abroad giving jobs to foreigners to avoid the high taxes here. No we need the work here.

On the issue of gay rights, McCain and Palin, would continue with the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of preventing gays and lesbians from serving in the US armed forces, while most of the NATO nations allow them to serve equally with heterosexuals.

Trish remarks: Who the heck cares what Nato nations does. We are a republic here, or at least last time I heard we were.

I told the audiences when McCain selected Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate that, based on, among other positions, her reported interest in censoring library books in the town of Wasilla, Alaska of which she was mayor, "She scared the hell out of me." Her lack of basic information when it comes to the conduct of foreign affairs which she again demonstrated in interviews in the last week has reinforced my fear.

Trish remarks: That is not even a true statement. It is an outright lie. She never burned any books. It just isn't so, the liberals want to spread fear in people that's all. It is liberal propaganda. They started this rumor and made sure it got around. She explained the details of all that in an earlier interview. There is a house full of teachers in her family. Education is important to her.

In one of the meetings I addressed, I asked the crowd of 300, how many intended to vote for the Democrats and how many for the Republicans. To my amazement, the overwhelming majority said they were voting for Obama and Biden, with three raising their hands in favor of McCain and Palin.

Trish remarks: In what meetings, a democratic luncheon or something?

I told the crowd that, clearly, they needed no convincing by me on how to vote, but they now had to take an oath. I asked them to raise their right hands and repeat after me, "I solemnly swear that between now and November 4th, I will seek out ten people who are committed to voting for Obama and Biden and make certain they go to the polls on Election Day. So help me, God."

They all took the oath and are now honor bound to do what they pledged to do.

Trish remarks: Clearly, this Ed Koch is deceived like so many other people. He cannot see the forest for all the glitter and glamor of this smooth talking messiah savior. God help us, if Obama were to win. Frankly, He scares the heck out of me.

****And remember if someone says Governor Sarah Palin has no experience in leadership. Well it was good enough that Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan. They too were governors.

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Comments:

1 | Alan-USA, Thursday Oct 02, 2008

"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore chose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." Deuteronomy 30:19 When you stand before The LORD, you will give an account for ALL the innocent blood shed by the votes you cast for candidates and judges and for the support for like-minded people. May HE have Mercy. But don't stand now and claim righteousness for yourself or Obama or Biden.

2 | Urpo M., Finland, Thursday Oct 02, 2008

Some of Obama's advisors have suggested a US military response to Israel's defensive measures against terrorism. Mr. Koch, what is your answer to these suggestions? Should the US/Obama turn against Israel and support the only the Palestinian views of the problems? Why do You support Obama, do You realize what his team is talking of? A war against Israel? Why would You want to change the realistic thinking of the US Jewry to help the Islamists gain their goals? You are very badly wrong.

3 | Marsha Brooklyn, Thursday Oct 02, 2008

With the economic situation as it is and the continued threat of terrorist nations as it is - why do you think Roe v Wade and Gay rights are a priority??? America's moral decline is obvious but if we do not restore the economy and keep the war on terrorism going there will be no America as we know it - it will be Ameristan and check out how the Muslims feel about abortion and Gays. You are out of touch with reality Mr. Koch, your political days are over along with the liberal geriatric community you represent.

4 | Eric, Haifa, Thursday Oct 02, 2008

Oh thank you Mr. Koch. You are just incredible...after eight years of wondering why you supported the current tyrannical regime, it is a breath of fresh air to see you back. Thank you!

5 | Ger---Raanana, Israel, Thursday Oct 02, 2008

Ed Koch still hasn't addressed the issue of Obama's membership for 20 years in Rev. Wright's anti-American, anti-Semitic church. He hasn't talked about Obama's foreign policy advisors, Brzezinski, Power, Rice, and Farley, who are vehemently anti-Israel. He doesn't mention Biden's rejection of John Bolton as Ambassador to the UN, one of the most pro-Israel Ambassadors. He talks of Roe v. Wade being overthrown--a Democratic Congress will not approve the nomination of a Pro-Life Justice. Koch has reverted to his Democratic roots.

Sold out by the Bail Out

2008-10-02T00:07:00.014-05:00

We've all been sold down the drain now. This is frightening! What more can I say. Our representatives in Washington did not listen to our voice. The Senate have gone ahead and passed it. It made no difference to them. I would like to see what "so called provisions" that were made. But we knew they would do this didn't we? The only satisfactions is, ... At least we made those crooks have to work hard for a few days.......Sheesh! This is bad, yes it's really bad. We have been sold down the river. What will be the value of our dollars now? Do you, like me wonder why this is happening NOW? Is this something that is meant to be?

This is the Jewish "Week Of Trumpets " and the preliminary decision was made on Tisheri 1 the new moon. I think it is very significant that such big events are happening at exactly the same time. I think this marks something we should pay attention to. Could this be a a sign of the end or the countdown to the final days before the end of the world as we know it? For some interesting reading..... on the Jewish Feast of Trumpets which has just ended, and how it numerically relates to our times now....... it is a lot of study but very interesting to say the least.......... This dude has figured all this up mathematically counting the days. Yes I know people have done things similar to this before, but you have to give him credit. He has gone to a lot of time and seemingly selfless effort to put this out there. And I think it is a great work worth studying. Check this out. Another possibly significant day this month could be the 10th.

WHEN THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, IN A GIVEN YEAR, AND THE DAY OF ATONEMENT 7 YEARS LATER IS SEPARATED BY 86 MOONS AND NOT 87 MOONS, (AND THIS IS OVER HALF THE TIME ACCORDING TO THE POSITION OF THOSE SEVEN YEARS IN THE 19 YEAR METATONIC CYCLE), THEN THE TIMESPAN ENCOMPASSING THESE TWO HOLY DAYS OR FEASTS OF THE LORD IS PRECISELY 2550 DAYS (INCLUSIVE). THIS IS THE EXACT NUMBER OF DAYS ENCOMPASSING THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL, (THE FINAL SEVEN YEARS OF THIS AGE) PLUS THE 30 DAY EXTENSION, (PROBABLY A GRACE PERIOD COINCIDING WITH THE 6TH SEAL), WHICH REACHES OUT BEYOND THE 1260 DAYS TO REACH THE 1290 DAYS SPOKEN OF BY GABRIEL IN GOD'S MESSAGE TO DANIEL THE PROPHET. (Dan.12:11) THIS MATCHING OF THE FALL FEASTS TO THE 70TH WEEK AND THE FINAL SEVEN YEARS OF THIS AGE IS A MAJOR DISCOVERY. IT SUGGESTS THAT THE FUTURE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY (DANIEL 9:27) WHICH ISRAEL WILL SIGN WITH A CERTAIN GLOBAL PEACEMAKER/MEGADEALER OR 'prince' WILL IN FACT BE SIGNED IN THE AUTUMN SEASON OF SOME FUTURE YEAR AND RIGHT ON A VERY AUSPICIOUS DAY ON THE HEBREW CALENDAR. ISRAEL, IT SEEMS, WILL SIGN THAT 7 YEAR TREATY ON A JEWISH NEW YEAR!
ELIGIBLE 7 YEAR SPANS ALONG THE 19 YEAR LUNAR-SOLAR METATONIC CYCLE), THAT HAVE A 7 YEAR TISHREI TO TISHREI TIMESPANS OF 86 MOONS, (NOT 87 MOONS), BEGIN IN THE YEARS 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014, .... ROSH HOSHANAH IS THE DATE FOR THE NEXT BIG EVENT IN HOLY HISTORY. IT COMES ON A NEW MOON, THE FIRST DAY OF TISHREI, IN OUR SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER AUTUMN SEASON. THIS IS THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, THE FIRST OF THE THREE YET TO BE FULFILLED FALL FEASTS OF ISRAEL. THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS IS THE VERY NEXT ONE OF THE OF THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL TO BE FULFILLED. THE JEWISH HOLY DAY (HOLIDAY) IS SITTING THERE AWAITING ITS ULTIMATE FULFILMENT! SEVEN YEARS LATER, ON THE 10TH DAY OF THE TISHREI MOON, THE FINAL CLIMACTIC BLOCKBUSTER EVENT OF WORLD HISTORY WILL UNFOLD. IT WILL BE THE EPIC ULTIMATE CLIMACTIC DAY OF ATONEMENT. IT IS THE FINAL WRAP-UP DAY OF ACCOUNTING, THE DAY OF RECKONING, AND THE LAST DAY OF THIS AGE. ON THIS DAY THE MOST SOLEMN HOLY DAY ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR WILL ERUPT INTO ITS ULTIMATE CLIMACTIC FULFILLMENT. IT WILL BE A BLOCKBUSTER DAY IN HOLY HISTORY AND IT MARKS THE "LAST DAY" OF THIS AGE. THE COMING MESSIAH WILL WRAP UP AND CONCLUDE ALL THE ACCOUNTS BETWEEN GOD AND MEN FOR THIS ENTIRE PAST EVIL ERA. THE BLOOD OF ATONEMENT SHED BY THE SACRIFICE LAMB WILL BE APPLIED TO ALL THE EARLIER ACCOUNTS PRESENTED TO GOD ON ALL THE PREVIOUS DAYS OF ATONEMENT AND ON ALL THE PREVIOUS BLOOD SACRIFICES PRESENTED TO GOD BY MEN OF FAITH IN TIMES GONE BY. THIS WILL BE AN AWESOME DAY OF ACCOUNTING, SOUL SEARCHING, AND REPENTANCE. IT WILL BE THE FINAL DAY OF RECKONING FOR THAT YEAR, FOR THAT SABBATICAL CYCLE, FOR THAT JUBILEE CYCLE, AND FOR THE WHOLE EVIL AGE THAT PRECEDED IT GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE FALL IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. THE LAST DAY OF THIS AGE WILL FULFILL THE JEWISH DAY OF ATONEMENT IN THE NEW COVENANT. THIS TENTH DAY OF TISHREI IN SOME FUTURE YEAR WILL BE THE DAY BEFORE JUDGEMENT DAY. IT WILL BE THE LAST DAY TO REPENT FOR THIS AGE. BECAUSE ON THE VERY NEXT DAY THE HEAVENS WILL BE OPENED INTO THE DAY OF THE LORD. JUDGEMENT DAY WILL HAVE ARRIVED! THE ANGELS OF GOD'S WRATH WILL DESCEND UPON THE WICKED. AND ON THAT DAY THE SPECTER OF THE GRIM REAPERS CARRYING OFF THE DAMNED WILL BECOME A HIDEOUS REALITY. (Mat. 13:30) THE BOWLS OF GODS WRATH WILL BE POURED OUT SPECIFICALLY AND PERSONALLY UPON THE HEADS OF THE WICKED. THER ARE MANY WHO SHAKE THEIR FIST AT THE RIGHTEOUS AND SOVEREIGN GOD OF ISRAEL AND HIS COMING MESSIAH. (Psalm 2) BUT FOR THEM WHO WAKE UP ON THIS DAY IT WILL BE A DAY OF SHEER HORROR AND STARK TERROR. THOSE WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO FIGHT AGAINST THE THE COMING MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF MESSIAH WILL BE PLUCKED UP FROM THE EARTH AS TARES, (OR WEEDS). (Mat.13:30) THEY WILL BE BUNDLED OFF FOR THE FIRES THAT AWAIT THEM IN THAT FINAL AWFUL HARVEST. THIS HORRIFIC GRIM REAPING OF REBEL SOULS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN BY EVIL ANGELS OF WRATH (Ps. 78:49) THIS WILL BE THE SCENE ON JUDGEMENT DAY. FOLLOWING THAT, ON A DAY UNKNOWN, COMES THE HARVEST OF THE ELECT AT THE RESURRECTION-RAPTURE. AND FOLLOWING THAT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES WILL CELEBRATE THE COMING OF THAT FUTURE HAPPY 1,000 YEAR ERA, THE MILLENNIUM OF MESSIAH.

THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, FIRST OF THE FALL FEASTS OF ISRAEL.
THIS IS THE NEXT BIG EVENT ON GOD"S AGENDA.

Feast of Trumpets is the only feast to come on the dark night of a new moon?

The Paulson-Bernanke Bank Bailout Plan

2008-09-23T22:16:00.016-05:00

NO No No No No No!!!!

So why doesn't congress take a poll on this problem? for that matter, why not put it on the ballot come November? Ask your constituents what they want to do about this.....call your people. Let the people speak to this most extreme dire circumstance that "some former elite people" find themselves in right now. Most will tell you heck no! we don't want to foot the friggin bill for this.......no way........under no circumstances! NO! Just say no to The Paulson-Bernanke Bank Bailout Plan. That is like rewarding someone for losing millions and millions of dollars and saying, oh that's ok....here's a billion more. Heck no. There is no way that this is a good idea. We have to pay the piper all our lives, doing the right thing. We should not have to feel like we have to fall for this. If Bush keeps trying to push this and I imagine he will, just like he did the war...........he'll keep on and on....wearing us down.....then saying something like, "well if you all don't pass this bill, then we won't or can't have an election, since this is such a great emergency and we are so pressed" ......he can just hang it up ......it ain't gonna work this time. I for one ain't buying it. No we don't have to do anything........ He will make us think we do...just like the war. This is not going to help John Doe down the road at all. Let wall street get off their proverbial tuckass'es and start over like John Doe has too.

I don't know I always thought that the international bankers who ran the banks were the ones involved in wall street to a certain extent, also ran the Federal Reserve. I could be wrong about this, but that is what I understood. Then with the no holds barred tactics emplemented by Bill Clinton with the de regulation they went wild, paid themselves unheard of salaries not to mention plus we don't know what all, etc etc. So now we Americans are suppose to bail them out. Excuse me, but I don't think so.

As for the mortgage problems, didn't you like me think it was so strange when all those new homes were being built, one friggin mansion after the other, subdivision after subdivision, and didn't you wonder who the heck is paying for this? And questions like, "How is this possible, with our up and down economy?" And I remember saying, "How many doctors or lawyers can there possibly be that can afford such homes?" Didn't you wonder? I sure did. Now it all makes perfect sense. They "some people" should be made to pay for what they've done. Big time.

I think it very strange that all this came tumbling down after palin was chosen for vp. I don't know I'm just saying. I think Bush warned his buddies to do this now before he leaves office.

It's Time To Predict This Years Winter Weather Conditions

2008-09-23T16:53:00.011-05:00

The Persimmon tree has always been right ever since I moved out here on this 12 acre farm and found out about this..which has been eight years now. This year the persimmon predicts a spoon here in Lebanon, Tennessee...........snowman anyone? ~trish

Winter and the Persimmon Seed

To find out what winter holds. look in a supermarket near you. There you should find a persimmon fruit. If you cut it open a seed may be another clue to winter weather. According to old-timers, persimmon seeds can be used to predict the severity of winter weather. When cut into two pieces, the persimmon seed will display one of three symbols. A knife shape will indicate a cold icy winter (where wind will cut through you like a knife). A fork shape indicates a mild winter. A spoon shape stands for a shovel to dig out the snow.

If you do open a seed, let me know where you are located and how the seed reads.

You know how everything is “bigger” and presumably better in Texas, well that may be true. One of the signs of a hard winter is the size and frequency of spider webs. In this morning’s paper an AP article captured the fact that entomologists are looking into the discovery of a sprawling spider web that covers a number of trees and measures 200 yards. Yikes. Located in Wells Point (Texas), it is so large that one person is quoted as saying “”Now it is filled with so many mosquitoes, that it has turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in the webs.” Experts are saying the web may be constructed by “social cobweb spiders”. I don’t know but if I lived in Texas, I’d dust off my shovel.

33 Comments

Bryan ~ Aug 14, 2008 at 9:35 pm

8/14/2008 Cut open a persimmon and have a spoon shaped seed. Snow anyone?
Josh ~ Aug 15, 2008 at 3:02 pm

Spoon here in South central Illinois. Ready for a snowy and cold winter, all the signs here point to it!!!
carl ~ Aug 20, 2008 at 5:50 pm

spoon here in arkansas looks like snow
megan ~ Aug 25, 2008 at 11:13 pm

A spoon in central arkansas
Kelly ~ Sep 1, 2008 at 9:46 pm

Found a spoon in NE Georgia.
Cassie ~ Sep 3, 2008 at 5:44 pm

I have a spoon in the piedmont of North Carolina, looks like the going shape, were ready for the snow:)
JODI ~ Sep 7, 2008 at 1:55 pm

9-7-2008 11:30a.m.
spoon in coweta, oklahoma
Paul ~ Sep 8, 2008 at 12:34 am

Found a spoon in NE Texas. Getting ready for a snow covered winter.
Jan ~ Sep 9, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Spoon in Missouri 09/08/08
Roberk ~ Sep 11, 2008 at 11:14 am

Just opened up 8 seeds, in Central IL… ALL SPOONS!
george ~ Sep 11, 2008 at 11:35 am

Cut open three seeds from local trees. Found 2 spoons and a knife. Better go cut firewood.
george ~ Sep 11, 2008 at 11:40 am

In my last comment, I should have stated I’m in northwest arkansas
Holly ~ Sep 13, 2008 at 3:23 am

Found a spoon in southwest Missouri.
Tony ~ Sep 13, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Found all spoons in south Arkansas
Tina ~ Sep 14, 2008 at 1:12 pm

September 14, 2008

I found 4 spoons and 1 knife.

Bring in the firewood and hunker down.

Eatonton Georgia
Wayne ~ Sep 15, 2008 at 9:27 am

5 seeds, all spoons in NE Texas
Ronda Holloway ~ Sep 15, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Found 4 spoons in Piedmont, Alabama.
nathan ~ Sep 15, 2008 at 1:31 pm

We found a spoon in Ledbetter, KY near Paducah, KY
Danny ~ Sep 15, 2008 at 11:15 pm

I found a spoon,9-15-08, Southeast Mo.
Jonathan ~ Sep 17, 2008 at 10:36 pm

found a spoon in Ft Leonard Wood MO 9-17-08.
Ryan ~ Sep 18, 2008 at 2:58 pm

all spoons in greenville missouri, williamsville. opened about 30 of them
Jan ~ Sep 19, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Spoon in Eastern Oklahoma
Melissa ~ Sep 19, 2008 at 3:25 pm

September 18,08 Clarksdale Mississippi all seeds were spoons
Marty ~ Sep 20, 2008 at 7:08 pm

Found spoons in Florence, Mississippi too. Wow, can’t wait to make a snowman this year!
Cleve ~ Sep 21, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Found spoons in Milltown Arkansas
Cheryl ~ Sep 21, 2008 at 7:37 pm

We found a spoon in Stroud, Oklahoma. (Central OK)
Angie Johnston ~ Sep 21, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Found five spoons in Mitchell, In. , Snow days ahead from work and school.
CAROL ~ Sep 22, 2008 at 12:07 pm

opened about 12-15 seeds all were spoons SEARCY ARKANSAS
Ashley ~ Sep 22, 2008 at 3:24 pm

In Central IL we opened 10 seeds all were spoons
KENT ~ Sep 22, 2008 at 4:07 pm

SPOONS IN NW ARKANSAS
Sue ~ Sep 22, 2008 at 10:21 pm

St. Clair MO (50 mi SW of STL)- 3 seeds, all spoons. If it snows like it rained this year, we’re going to get tons of snow.
Teresa ~ Sep 23, 2008 at 12:40 pm

3 spoons from 3 different trees near Hallett, Oklahoma (NE OKla)
Judy ~ Sep 23, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Several spoons in different locations in Sharp County, Arkansas. (NE Corner of Arkansa, almost at Missouri line)
trish ~ Sep 23, 2008 at 7:09 pm

Found spoon in Lebanon, Tennessee from our old persimmon tree .

When Good Men Do Nothing

2008-09-20T21:37:00.004-05:00

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’ (or words to that effect).

In other words.......well, you know what I mean. Let's not do nothing......let's do something good while we still can. I think that means women too.

Do You Care What Chevy Chase Or Lindsey Lohan Thinks?

2008-09-16T13:24:00.007-05:00

Gov. Sarah Palin was the light switch that helped me see John McCain for who he really is. I just couldn't see it before. Before I had been turned off of politics altogether and was not going to vote. But then Sen. McCain picked his running mate. Now I am rooting for him and her all the way to the White House. They both are very special people along with Mr. McCain's wife Cindy. They are Real people. Like you or I. I don't think that is a bad thing. I believe if necessary Palin will do a great job as President also. But they are not treating her fairly. Why don't they browbeat Biden like they are trying to do Palin? This is all whacked up and crazy.

With the world in the situation it is in right now, we need to feel some security that comes with a man in the White House who has real integrity who we can trust, who has been tried and proven true. A real hero who loves this country. One who has walked the walk, not just talked it. We can admire and respect these folks. I think we should always Vote for someone we respect. Some say Obama was sent back and forth from granny to his free spirited hippy mom and that had to cause confusion and not much stabilization, in his growing up years. I feel sad for him, but feeling sorry for him is no reason to vote for him. This guy is too questionable. These so called celebrities ( ie: Chevy Chase, Lindsey Lohan, Rosanne Barr, etc. ) know nothing about politics and definitely do not influence me at all. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,423126,00.html They really should keep their traps shut, because they stand to lose more than half of their fan base. It's really not a good move on their part. Chevy a lot of your fans were people like me... It is strange though, how the ones who are so outspoken and bold are the far left liberal Barak Hussein Obama lovers. I believe we have lots of closet conservatives out there....... This is an election that people will not forget. We will remember who was for whom and that sort of thing, and who didn't like our candidates, and what was said.

I use to be a huge fan of Chevy Chase. Along with Martin Short and that other amigo guy....I stopped being a fan of Chevy Chase when I saw on the internet...a story about a SNL fan who went to the show, and was dissed by Chevy and wouldn''t even sign an autograph for this dude. This fan who was so happy to be there, no doubt, had spent a lot of money to get there, and even missed seeing the show live, because the place was full of people...fire hazard and all that.....they turned him away, was then shoved aside by Chevy Chase in the SNL foyer saying "I''m too old for this ***".
Glad the dude still had a good time, and had pictures posted of him with the "stars of the show" The good people like Fred Armisen, and many others. Now why did you have to go and do that Chevy? That just doesn't look good. (When i saw this on the internet I have to say I was taken a back a bit, a little. I thought better of him) . Now I'll bet Chev could stand to lose more than half his fan base when word gets around. I really think, the so called "celebrities" should just keep their mouth shut when it comes to politics. It doesn''t help them out, career wise, (but his career is over, he isn''t funny) And it doesn''t help out those who they are trying to support either. it just makes them look bad. Maybe Chevy just wanted to get into the news again. And as for that Lindsey LoHan person (really who is she anyway?) she just can''t stand that someone else is taking up media space. I''m so sick of her. She is so transparent you can see right through her sick mind.

I very rarely watch CNN because they are so biased, NBC and ABC are too. Fox is more even. My God it's practically the ONLY voice the conservatives even have. I mean we didn't even have Palin's speech coverage on all the networks like Obama's speech was, still Palin raked in more viewers. What does that tell you? Everyone else, all these other media networks want Obama to win. That in itself is curious don't you think? Wake up people , you have to smell something stinky going on here.

For one thing, Barak Hussein Obama....
Why does he have such a name anyway? What do we really know about this dude? Is that his real name? If not why did he change it? Those are important questions, maybe more important than we think. The American people would have to be a fool to vote for him. The world is really going to think we're nuts, Especially the terrorist.

The Wolves Are Getting Angry

2008-09-05T17:24:00.014-05:00

What a complete turn around from just a week ago. I wasn't even going to vote in the election at all-----to, now being excited so much so, that I am making video clips of the RNC to upload to youtube. My husband told me the other night, "you know, I don't think we have ever watched a convention before." Well, He's probably right. And for years, I have been disillusioned by the whole process. I always vote for the man not the party. I voted for Carter, Reagan, Bush. Then I quit. Now I'm ready to vote again with a winning ticket like this....

And let's face it, these guys are different.....they are you and I. They are Us.....We are them. Think about it....look at them.....get informed.....hear what they have to say. Look at their stories. The choice is plain as the nose on your face who we should elect as president. We need someone we can trust to lead us now. Not someone who maybe could be ok. But someone who has been tested, tried and true and loves this country. Country first was the theme of the convention and a great theme it was. I believe we can trust them. McCain will stand up for you and me in Washington. He will say it like it is and not care who he is talking about or with. I like that. I want someone who is not so scared about partisan politics, but for the good of the country, will listen and take a different side sometimes.

The last few hours now, I have been uploading RNC video's, and I cannot believe, as soon as I upload a video pertaining to McCain/Palin, there is usually someone just waiting in the wings to post something very nasty. Who are these people? They seem to be very strange angry people. Wow..... they show themselves bigtime!

What a speech that Sarah Palin gave Wednesday evening at the Republican National Convention. How inspiring, uplifting and encouraging. As I have said, I haven't exactly been a part of any party, or excited about this years election at all. I even thought about not voting this year had it not been for McCain's choice for Sarah Palin as a running mate. She has been like a light switch . Now we can see John McCain.

Boy John McCain sure knew what he was doing alright, because it has made me want to fight and do and work for this campaign in any capacity I can fill. They are people who are doers. They walk the talk. They still believe. I believe They have courage and strength necessary to take us through this most difficult time in our nations history . When Rudy Guiliani said " this is no time for on the job training" wow.....what a speech. What a gifted speaker Guiliani is.

I believe they can put back the trust in our government that we so desperately need at this time. I am a ham radio operator, and I know I hear, and there has been such little positive talk in a long time about our country and government. People want to believe that we are going to make it. People want to believe in our country. People are hurting and I believe that McCain/Palin will fight for us, just like they said they would.

Well the liberal democrats (those angry wolves) are not happy that's for sure. It seems like just turning the light on the way Sarah Palin and John McCain have done, just being such lightgivers, helped us to see the darkness for what it truly is. Nothingness.....and the other side, with such little there is, is not exactly nothingness, but there is so little that is seems that way compared to the great light that these two ( McCain/Palin ) have.

I have never been this excited about a campaign before in my entire life. I am believing for victory this November. Will you vote with me? The choice is pretty plain to see. McCain voted for the surge when it wasn't popular, but he said that he'd rather lose an election than lose a war. This decision was proven as being the right decision, a turning point. Bush got us all in a mess and McCain will get us out of it......He'll finish it I believe. Vote for the man/ forget about party.....vote for the man with integrity, honor and respect. Someone who will fight for us as I believe John McCain will. Vote for McCain/Palin this November.

Thanks,

Trish- k4ze from Tn.

How Do Google Maps Get Street View Pictures?

2008-08-30T22:52:00.010-05:00

Ever wonder how google can zoom in and do a street view for their online google map? I did too. It is very interesting isn't it. I wonder if this is for real. This guy says its done by a car and a cam. To me, it is hard to believe, but I can't find any other explanation as to how they do it can you?

He says that those snaps are actually taken by a automatic 11 lens camera mounted on a top of a car running through the streets and clicking the roads.The camera is called Dodeca 360 which takes the snap and also records GPS co-ordinates for that place. I heard that the camera is 100 mega pixel camera which takes 30 frames per second. Google don`t do it themselves.A company named Immersive Media gets this job done for Google.This camera is capable of giving 360 degree view + Top view(i.e if you are on your vehicle then using this View you can see all the sides except just below you.) Excellent views, what else we can demand for ? Yes for Google map to have all the maps of the world they have to run the car throughout the world streets to ge it included in the map. Well its a hard way to do, but there is no shortcut for such tasks. The images are so crisp that you can read the Car Parking timings, hoardings and all which we can`t even see through naked eyes. Simply great. See the images of the car and the camera below, the real hero behind the "Street View"

The car carrying that Super-Camera:

The 11 lens camera at the top of vehicle:

We can guess where the future is going. First there were Paper Maps with rough maps. Since that was not enough more detailed street name maps came up. Then the digital form of it with Google Maps. While that was not enough there came satellite images and now street views. Still these are static images of the world we see.I guess with this pace people will wish that they could see the real 3D world that too in real time. Ya you guessed right for that you will require Video Camera shots from every nook and corner of the world instead of static images short and like we stitched images we will stitch videos to see everything come to life, real. Well just an imagination :)

We sometimes think that everything in technology is rocket science which is in reality based on such a simple aspect or idea on which Street view is based on. This street View concept is still new in the US, not even avilable in Japan, Europe yet, and Google is trying to cover US streets as far as possible.

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Rosanne Barr Bashes Angelina Brad Pitt and Jon Voight In Her Blog

2008-08-19T20:24:00.074-05:00

Well there isn't much going on in the ham radio world lately. It has been uneventful with not much to talk about. Sunspots have been not happening folks and blah blah blah. So my mind is in other places, such as:

Stars getting political. Here comes the blog wars. Here comes the Barr Bashing. Can't say as it comes down as anything but interesting to say the least, as the fall season swiftly approaches. Yes, Barr is trying to stir up a fight with John Voight father of Angelina Jolie in Rosanne World blog which is a blog where Rosanne rants and raves about stuff (seriously I'm not kidding, she even has a forum where they talk about all kinds of kabala /spiritual stuff and enlightenment they have received from somewhere). What about that? Maybe that is all well and good, I don't know. But I had no idea that she even had a blog until the other day when I was surfing the net, looking for the latest update on the Brangelina couple (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie). And lo and behold what pops up but Rosanne's diatribe. Seems she got all bent out of shape when Angelina said that she liked McCain and didn't know who she was gonna vote for. Whuuttt???? Ok. Whatever you say girlfriend. I really use to think you were funny and I still enjoy watching your show in reruns. I always loved John Goodman (great actor), but Come on Rosie, is this just some kind of menopausal thing going on? I'm a woman myself. I'm trying to empathize here, but "evil spawn" and "vacuous hubby"? Wow! Isn't that a little harsh and over the top girlfriend? Brad is not vacuous. At least he cares about things here at home, things worth caring about ie: the Katrina survivors in New Orleans, Louisiana. I think it is good for celebrities to have a purpose and to feel like they are needed and to be sure, They CAN be of great help - just by being interested in certain things and providing public awareness of things that people otherwise wouldn't be exposed to.

And this brings to mind why this possible bashing on Brad and AJ from Rosanne. Maybe she is planning a book tour (or something) coming up in the near future.

Anyway. To be honest, I'm not now, nor have I ever been crazy about Angelina, and that probably stems from the way she seemingly took Brad away from Jennifer Aniston when Jen and Brad were married, and she got preggers right away and you know the story. Jennifer wasn't ready to start a family. Brad's bio clock was ticking, and evidently Billy Bob her former husband didn't want anymore kids, and didnt want to adopt the first foreign kid maddox or so the story goes. So then it sounds like Brangelina's first meeting could have gone something like this.......

Angelina: "Hey Brad, this is a cool movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
Brad:" yeah, it is, we get to shoot guns and stuff and kill people the kind of movie i like, lots of action......
Angelina: yeah action, that's what I like and do you know what else I like?
Brad: no whut you dirty dirty girl you?
Angelina: kids, I want lots and lots of kids from all over the world, and I like to make out too.......
Brad: well hell, then we ought to get married, no we can't get married, i'm already married, we'll just pretend like we are....
Angelina: hell yeah, what r we waitin for.....let's make a baby right now.... yeah, we have so much in common.......ya'll"

end of dialog::::::::

I'm sorry....I know I know, my bad. It's been 4 years, why don't we just move on and get over it? We can and we will get over it, but we won't forget it. That's just the way it is. LOL But seriously, that whole thing just didn't go down well with the majority of the on-lookers of the world and fans of Brad and Jennifers. To them Angelina is seen as a home wrecker. Yes there is a line in the sand......Those who are in Jen's camp and those in Angelina's. Boy oh boy do people wanna take sides in this affair. Most are in Jen's corner though. Why do we always like to take up for the one who has been hurt maimed and scarred? Human nature I guess.

Yes I suppose I still have some issues with Angelina J. Of course I don't know her personally, but going by from what I see from the media, I have issues. For one thing, Why does she have to cover her body with so many tattoos? Is it like writing crib notes on the palms of your hands before taking a test? , so she won't forget something Important. She should get some post it notes already, the yellow ones, and put them up at eye level all over the house. I mean, wouldn't that be better? ok, I admit I'm being a bit facetious here but still. What's wrong with getting some framed art to put on the walls? Getting tattoos is one thing, but then adding on to them like building extra rooms, erasing then changing more and more, going crazy with them, not being able to stop doing it, then trying to remove them and start over and going through a do over just to cover the previous one up. What's up with that? I just don't understand why anyone, especially a woman would want to mess up her body like that. It is almost like a Michael Jackson and his facial surgeries through the years, he just couldn't stop it. And we all know what he turned out to be.

Wanted Movie tattoos above

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For another thing, Angelina really seems obsessed with having kids, african kids, kids from other countries, red, yellow, black and whiteish kids. Heck we have plenty of different colored kids here in the US who are desperate and in need. I think they should look at the orphanages here first.......but she needs more, and more and more kids for Brad to take care of. And she has to go to some other country to have them born in some foreign country. Why Does she want her kids to be born with dual citizenships? So well now you know what I think. But in case any of you care what Rosanne thinks, here is her website blog Rosanneworld.com with some her latest bashing of Jon Voight .

But John will not be bashed without a comeback. John fights back at his blog site Fadedyouthblog.com .

There are a lot of inconsistencies in some of these people, IMO. In how they live their life, and what they do, in things they say and in their way of thinking overall. It is funny to see and read about and I am not sure how much of it is just hype and what is true in most of it. For instance Edwards so called affair with someone, and a baby in the mix, but which isn't his. While I'm not condoning Edwards affair, still it is just too convenient for this to come out now. Yes, the news just had to come out right before Obama makes his selection for running mate.....This stuff just is amazing. Oh well.

Thoughts on upcoming election. Maybe I shouldn't even go here. Just keep my thoughts to myself. Some of you readers might think badly of me from mentioning my political views. Oh well, here goes. I really think McCain will win, especially if he gets someone like Thompson as his running mate. I thought McCain's spot on SNL was hilariously funny. I'm not saying a better actor makes a better president. But at least he can laugh at himself. I really can't see any humor in Obama at all. I can't imagine him even laughing. I think he'd be crazy to even consider Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Can you imagine? That man would totally have to watch his back in every sense of the word, every second of his life.

At some point, I had previously thought an Obama/Edwards ticket would have a chance of winning. But now I guess that's out the window. I thought about boycotting the election altogether and not voting. Make a statement. Like, get someone good for us to vote for and then we will vote. Take that! Wouldn't that be something? But when it comes down to it, I will probably wind up voting because in some way it feels too much like giving up, and that's just not the American way. I wish the best to all the players, really I do, and since I have had a nice chance to vent my feelings on these matters, I feel much much better.

That's my story and I'm stickin to it hopefully. What a wonderful world huh?

Trish

Here is a short video I made predicting the next president. I do my impression of a british lady, hick guy and psychic, but don't expect too much. This is a very low budget production lol.

Here again is Rosanne's website blog Rosanneworld.com with some her latest bashing of Jon Voight .

John fights back at his blog site Fadedyouthblog.com .

Tennessee Home And Farm Magazine

2008-08-14T11:26:00.005-05:00

Virtual Magazine

The Tennessee Home & Farm magazine is sent out in hard copy to all 633,900 Tennessee Farm Bureau Members.
Now you can Flip through the pages of the virtual magazine online. This magazine has many interesting articles in it this time. I think they are just getting better and better. So I thought I would post it here. Cover story: A guy in east Tennessee (in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains) who has built dulcimers since 1976, invented his own instruments as well. Also featured is the story about the Bell witch in Adams Tennessee, (which is about 50 miles from my residence here.) The story is widely known all over the country and people come from everywhere to see where the story took place. I have to say the virtual magazine is pretty awesome and the pictures in this fall issue are beautiful.

Flip through the pages of the Fall 2008 Edition edition of Tennessee Home & Farm. Using ActiveMagazine technology, you can flip through the actual pages of Images on your computer screen.

Quickly search for specific articles or topics
Instantly link to other Web sites offering more community information
Save the magazine to your computer for off-line reading

Read the Virtual Magazine

Poll: Should Ham Radio Be Streamed Over The Internet? Vote Now!

2008-07-16T14:03:00.009-05:00

For this post, I feel the need to put up a poll. Please take the time to vote. It is very important to know what you think about ham radio being streamed over the internet. It will be very useful in making decisions for the future. And many many people are no doubt as interested as I am, in what the overall opinion is. Let's talley the votes up and see what we see. The good bad and the ugly..... the positive, the negative, whatever it may be. I really want to know since I have been streaming for a long while now myself. Thank you so much, and 88's for your help in this. For non hams, 88's means hugs to you.... trish- k4ze

If you would also like to leave a comment here in this blog, feel free to do so as well.

High Strangeness Again, In Hendersonville, Tennessee

2008-05-30T00:25:00.009-05:00

April 20, 2008 - Another Aerial Dragonfly in Tennessee?

National UFO Reporting Center, Posted April 17, 2008.
Sighting April 8, 2008, in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

According to Linda Moulton Howle's website Earthfiles.com there is something still going on in Hendersonville, Tn.

Many of you may have heard me on the radio, tell the story, of what my husband and I saw back during the Clinton /Gore days in Hendersonville, Tn. It was the night when Mr. Gore was coming to town. We lived in Gallatin, Tn, about 10 miles away from Hendersonville at the time.

Well we had to make a trip to Hendersonville that evening when Mr. Gore was also making a visit here. Not that the two events have anything to do with each other, but they happened the same time. I think we had to go the Rivergate mall to shop. I really can't remember exactly why we went down that way, but on the way home, I never will forget what we both saw. And for the life of me, I don't know why we just didn't pull the car over and look longer at this object. We must have been in a hurry, that part is a blur. I guess everybody was in a hurry. We didn't have a camera to take a picture, and even if we did have a camera, I am not sure if we would have, because for some reason, we thought it very strange, but there was a mental fog associated with it or something. I don't know. Very weird.

But we "both" definitely saw this very large thing. It was very different though from the object in this recent picture. It was oval in shape and seems to be quite brightly lit up with a glow eminating from it somehow. And lights underneath I think. We both saw it and made mention of it and said what the heck is that?

Looking back after all these years, I'm still amazed at the strangeness of this whole thing. For one thing, why didn't we or anyone else pull over to the side of the road, to just look at this strange thing? I still can't figure it out. But tonight, looking at Linda's website I caught this story about this very familiar place where we also had a sighting although many years ago, and I thought it odd. We don't see things like this. This was a one time thing. I have never seen one at any other time before, or since that incident. But just for the record, I wanted to document this, for whatever good it may do.......I don't know. I don't know what it means at all, but I am fascinated by some of this paranormal stuff I will admit.

The thing we saw was just hovering, not moving just hovering right above the buildings and stores to the left of us. If I remember correctly, it was like hovering over a McDonald's , not more than 30 feet above. It may have been another restaurant, not sure. It was practically right over us. City lights shining and all. Cars going busily down the road, full of people. The traffic going through Hendersonville was always pretty bad and heavy at that time of night around 7:00 or 8:00 pm. It was right there, on our left as we were traveling North, going back home on Gallatin, Road. It was as plain as day. You couldn't miss it or mistake it for a balloon. It was silver-like, and huge. I would guess about 200-300 ft from end to end. Maybe someone else will remember this also. It would be great to find someone else who saw this same thing that we did. It would be amazing in fact, especially after all this time.

Anyway, it seems that there is more strangeness going on down there in Hendersonville, than meets the eye. Years ago when we lived there, there was talk about the high school being haunted. And you may remember, that, Hendersonville is also Johnny Cash' s home place too. I took pictures of his house before it burned. After Johnny passed away the house was bought by Barry Gibb (of the BeeGee's). Barry said in the closets there were so many unrecorded songs, just written down on many papers and stuff. Can you imagine? Oh well, I hope he tucked those away before the fire.

I am now living in Lebanon , another six miles further away from Hendersonville. I'm very glad Linda recorded this story. It sure is curious. What is it about Hendersonville, Tn anyway? Maybe somebody knows.

Trish

What's Going On At Ustream

2008-05-21T01:27:00.016-05:00

Ustream Broadcaster Tips
“What are the keys to a good stream?”
The basics are pretty simple - Make sure you have good lighting - This is super important. Make sure you have a good internet connection - this prevents frame loss and choppy video. Make sure you close programs on your computer that you aren't using - computers bogged down by other programs can cause your stream to be lower quality. Lastly - have good content!

50 Cent talked to his fans on Ustream!
50 chose Ustream as a way to connect with his fans. Joining him were rap stars Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks - they had a freaking blast. Answering Q&A and giving some pretty deep insight, everyone watching learned that theres more to 50 than just rap. Don't sweat if you missed it though! We got the recording right here. Watch this video and you'll see how hard it was for 50, what his morals are, and what a legit business man he is - [video]

Check out the Ustream Store!
Follow Ustream on Twitter
Join Ustream Forums
Subscribe to Ustreams Blog
Broadcast Now On Ustream

When? 5.22.08 at 6am pst
Where? Click here
Quick Summary? Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Google, will discuss Google's strategy for expanding access to the internet. He will take questions from the chat!

> When the sun is coming up on Thursday the 22nd of May, Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of the all mighty Google, will be live on Ustream. Aside from taking questions from the Ustream chat, Mr. Page will be describing Google's strategy for expanding access to the Internet and allocating the spectrum more efficiently. He will be explaining why opening the vacant TV channels for unlicensed access after February's DTV transition is the most important thing the FCC can do this year to promote broadband deployment and tech sector innovation.
[more information]

When? 5.22.08 at 11am PST
Where? Click here
Quick Summary? Larry LaRocco will, like many other politicians, take advantage of Ustream's power, and will be having a live town hall and taking questions from the chat room!

Larry LaRocco, former Congressman Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Idaho, will hold a live online town hall meeting to talk about his campaign, discuss the critical issues facing America, and answer questions from voters and supporters about his vision for change.

Come talk to us on the FORUMS, tweet @ us on TWITTER, or comment on our BLOG posts! We're always available and easily accessible.

All day everyday we're talking to our followers over Twitter - You have a question? @UstreamTV us and we'll answer. We have a question? We'll probably ask everyone! If you're following @UstreamTV on Twitter you'll get updates on upcoming events, contests, new features, and blog posts. [link to our twitter]

Join us on the forums as well - talk amongst other Ustreamers, exchange broadcasting tips, discuss the best ways to form a community, and anything else you can think of. You can log in with your Ustream name/password. [link to the forums]

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I thought I would put this information up to let you know what all is going on with Ustream.tv. And so maybe you might want to think about doing something yourself. Ustream.tv is making a name for themselves by providing a wonderful service to the internet audience.
Why don't we get a ham radio Ustream Network going. Let different people across the country do live audio feeds to the internet. This could be a lot of fun. Why don't U Stream? We are, live everyday 24/7 feeding audio to the internet from our ham radio station here in Lebanon Tn. I think it's great! Check out my Ustream Broadcast [click here] and also this [link HERE]

Trish-k4ze

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THIS IS THE NEXT BIG EVENT ON GOD"S AGENDA.