Well, sorry I haven't been able to post anything for the last two days, we had a slight connectivity problem with the DSL line....as in the connection was non-existant. Seems that one of our pets that decided that the data cable looked really tasty and ate a piece out of it. Of course we didn't discover it until AFTER the tech had been called out to check our outside lines.

Then it was a matter of finding some old passwords we haven't used since we first set up the system, to be able to reboot the DSL modem. Don't you just LOVE modern technology?

I will return after I get reaquainted with whats going on in the world and try to put up a semi-decent post....meanwhile I have a Rat to nab.

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Bookmark the Cassandra Page for your handy reference page on MSMS bias, and it's myriad forms.
It's all laid out for you, with examples of each type and ways to determine "hidden" spin and bias by ommision.

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The Florida Legislature has passsed a bill that allows a person to meet force with force, even when it occurs outside the home. Prior to this legislation, it was incumbant on a person assailed to "make reasonable efforts to retreat" from confrontation.

The GFW's, as usual, are predicting a bloodbath to ensue in the cities of Florida if the bill is signed into law by Gov. Bush. And, as usual, I am positive that the facts will refute their contentions several years from now.

Every time legislation passes that reaffirms the individuals right to protect themselves from attack, the GFW's trot out the same dire predictions of "bloodbaths" and "wild West mentalities" running rampant, yet in every case, the result of such legislation has resulted in the lowering of violent crime rates in every instance. Yes there are a few incidents of criminals getting their just rewards, but the victoms in those incidents have been found to be justified in their responses in every case, and susequently, criminals are more circumspect in their predations, knowing that the risk to themselves in their actions have been greatly increased. As in any business, criminals weigh risk to benefit ratios in their decicions to commit crimes, the weaker their target is, the more likely they are to prey upon them.

To say that an individual has a duty to retreat in the face of violent crime is to give power to the violent criminal, and to suggest that an individual has to retreat in the face of aggression within their own home is to negate the very foundation of the idea that we have the right to be safe (defend) in our person afforded us by our Declaration of Independance....Remember? That right to pursue LIFE, Liberty, and Happiness?

Congratulations to the Florida Legislature to bringing common sense back into the law. I trust that Gov. Bush will sign the legislation, to the betterment of all law abiding Flordians.

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Hugh Hewitt has a good piece demonstrating the MSM's ignorance of the internal workings of the Roman Catholic Church. They seem to look on the Church as a social welfare organization that is beholding to the vagries of an everchanging social morality du jour. His Holiness was not as conservative as the media would have you believe, he just held the ground for the core values of the Church in the face of those that would bend the Church to the fluidic morality of the situational ethicists and Humanists. I did not always agree with His Holiness on some issues, but on the core issues, I believe He was correct.

In some ways, I am more conservative than He was, I still believe that switching to the Vulgar Mass was a mistake, but that is just a matter of form, not a core value. I disagreed with Him on birth control, but I could see his reasoning, and believed He had a valid point, just that the exingencies of modern life required a bending of orthodoxy in that case. On abortion He was correct. On the sex scandals that plauged the American Church, he was remiss...although I believe that by that time, he was not in the best of health and not totally in "the loop" of what was actually occurring. People forget that, in many ways, the Papacy is a golden cage, many decisions are carried out on levels below the Pope without his being aware of the totality of the situation, He was still remiss, as it is his responsibility in the end, but I am willing to allow him the benefit of the doubt unless and untill I can ascertain just how involved he really was in the cover-up.

John Paul ll was a prolific writer, and it will be decades before the extant of his knowledge will truly be plumbed for it's wisdom. The fact is that he was a practical man that still managed to keep his spiritual core intact and strong, it will be a long time untill we have the privalege of seeing his like again.

"A flame rescued from dry wood has no weight in it's luminous flight yet lifts the heavy lid of night".

Today is Mamamontezz's Birthday, so I don't have the time to blog, even if I had the energy after fighting this damned Bronchitis....go over and wish her a all the best, it would be the best present ever to get a bunch of comments for the day!

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I'm sick and tired of everything serious and mournful, so I'm just going to post some humor for the rest of the day. No more about Terri Schiavo or Pope John Paul ll, god rest both of their souls. No more about Michael Schiavo, may he suffer as did his wife.

Some humor, maybe a little warped by some people's standards, but I thought they were funny anyway, and since this is MY Citidal, if you don't like these little tidbits, too bad, so sad for you. Besides, I have to clear some of these out of my inbox

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1 Thud and The Mammogram are my choices, too funny, thanks for brightening my day.

Posted by: Jack at April 03, 2005 06:48 PM (/Qf+F)

2 Well glory be, these sure have brightened up my day. You know I'm gonna have steal a couple of them to share with my blog buddies. It's nice to take a breather now and then.

Posted by: wanda at April 05, 2005 08:04 AM (1ivbm)

3 Thanks for the giggle

Posted by: Theresa at April 05, 2005 06:23 PM (nDaxF)

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I just got back to the Citidal after a full day of educational fun at the "Ideas 2005" sponsered by the Engineering Student Council of Purdue University.
The idea was to introduce engineering and science concepts to 4th and 5th graders to try to encourage an interest in the hard sciences among grade school children. The registration was to begin at 8:00 AM; and as I had slightly overslept, we didn't leave the Citidal untill almost 7:20, with 68 mile drive ahead of us. I ignored common sense and the speed limits, and we arrived at the registration area by 8:15, in spite of missing the first turn into Lafayette from l-65. The whole affair was run, led and instructed by Student Council members, and I would like to give them kudos for an enjoyable time.

It was truly a joy to watch these fresh faced youngsters on a quest for knowledge. I think the highlight of the day for Anna was when they got to try to fly the Alka-Seltzer rockets they had built in the Quad. Really quite amazing to see these little constructs made of film canisters and paper plate fins and nose cones hurl themselves up into the air, powered by alki-seltzer tablets and water. I think the top flier went almost thirty feet into the air. A close second was the ice cream the kids made themselves as a demonstration of chemical engineering.

Anna didn't want to leave, and wanted to know if she could go to a couple classes there this week to as she put it, "check out the teaching style of the professors" and see if she wanted to go to Purdue when it came time for her foray into higher education. If the goal was to excite young children to the possibilities of an education in science, I do believe it was a success.

After we were released from the activities, Anna and I talked to a young student named Frank in the Engineering Quad as he and his lovely girlfriend were walking their dogs. Of course Anna fell in love with the dogs and gave them a good hearty romp, chasing and fetching. Anna wanted to add these dogs to our growing menagerie, but I managed to convince her that they were happy with their present owners The first thing she did when we finally arrived home was to go into the back yard to lavish some needed attention to our own canine companions, I hust hope she doesn't get dirty before her sister comes to pick her up for a dinner out with the "out-laws", as Mamamontezz refers to them. (not describing their typical behaviour, just an amusing way to refer to my ex and her family, with whom we are still close to) As for me, I'm looking forward to a quiet evening at home alone, untill Mama gets home from work.

I'd post some pictures, but as Mama has kept the arcane knowledge of how to transfer pics from the camera onto the computer from her technologically ignorant spouse, it will have to await her return.

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From New Scientist.com come 13 interesting anomolies that prove that science isn't really as all knowing as it presumes to be.

Think about it the next time you hear "most scientists agree" (which they really DON'T) that Global Warming is a fact and that it's caused mainly by human activities. They keep finding things that belie the "basic facts" of physics as we know it, yet they are "certain" that we have to commit economic suicide to prevent the destruction of the world as a habitable planet.....Oooookay....

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