May 2007

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Yet Another Breach In Security

I see that we have had yet another breach in security at the Baghdad site for the U.S. Embassy currently under construction. The detailed plans were seen on the internet. Even though this was a sensitive project with extremely tight security, the plans were posted on the web by the Kansas City, Mo. architectual firm that was working on the projectioned computer-generated embassy. This is to be a heavily fortified structure. The plans were only removed after the State Department contacted them.

The 10 images included the overall layout of the compound plus individual buildings including the embassy itself, office annexes, the Marine Corps security post, a swimming pool, a recreation center and the ambassador's and deputy ambassador's residences.

The parent group of the Kansas City architech firm, contractor Louis Berger Group, says that the whole thing is very preliminary and would not help anyone wanting to attack the compound.

The government officials do say that damage "may" have been done but they will not state what amount.

Meanwhile, the construction itself is under heavy guard, highly secure, only those with special passes are allowed inside. The compound is surrounded by very tall concrete blast walls and impossible to see except by air. The 104 acre site will include twenty buildings and a highly secure, classified structure and housing for 380 embassy families.

The U.S. Senate foreign relations committee says that the compound will have extraordinary security. Uh, sure. There has been a breach in security and it has not even been finished yet. If I were part of the embassy family group, I surely would not want to live there. I'll stay in the good ol' U.S. of A. thanks.

Catantics

We have two cats, one is going on 9 and the other going on 5 years old. The older cat, a female named Kitty (We had little imagination with her name. It is actually Kitana but has rarely heard it.) is getting a bit grouchy in her older age. She has no use for the younger cat, a boy named Gizmo, who is still quite like a kitten. He plays with his food and Kitty's tail.

These two are a comedy act a good deal of the time. If left alone, Gizmo will get on a chair and Kitty will go under the chair. At that point, Gizmo is looking for her to show up. He tries to see her under the chair. He knows the drill, of course. She, on the other hand, is plotting a plan of attack by way of the tail that drapes over the edge. Gizmo is "kitty fishing". Kitty will then attack said tail which is whipped around as he bats at her. Kitty bats back. They are batting each other's paws. This lasts for a little while. Then Kitty gets "in a mood" and hisses at Gizmo. A good man, he does not take this personally or seriously. Usually, he jumps over her to escape. He runs through the house meowling (A cross between a meow and yowl) at the top of his voice, I suppose to tell all that he escaped. We are not sure about that.

When the girls go to school, Gizmo meowls through the house telling all about that too. In fact, he is the town crier. Kitty's job is to monitor the water bowl. If it should get low, as in less than half full, she sits behind it to get someone's attention. Should that not happen, she pushes the bowl to the center of the room without regard to the level of water in the bowl. We frequently find out about the bowl from the spilled water. The bowl is now empty and really in need of filling.

Kitty is also the food monitor. She alerts all to the emptiness of a food bowl, hers. However, she does not tell us truthfully because her bowl is usually about a third full with a huge crater in the middle. This suggests emptiness therefore the alert. She is also the caretaker of the "kitty potty" and alerts us to the condition of said potty. Of course, quite often it is she who has fouled it in the first place.

Gizmo has potty duty too. His chore is to bury Kitty's leavings because when Gizmo joined the family, Kitty decided she did not have to do this little job anymore.

If you have furr people like we do, you know it is a blessing. We are truly blessed by them and the oldest member of the animal group, Jaz, our Shi Tzu Poo who has some type of strange allergy that leaves her without hair. She is almost 13 years old and will have absolutely nothing to do with the felines. She is the old lady of the bunch and I suppose she feels she deserves to be left alone. They are gracious enough to do that.

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Cold War Comes To The New Century

Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, has declared that new Russian missle tests are in response to Washington's intended deployment of defense missles in Europe. The Russian leader has suggested that we are involved in a new arms race.

For those of us who lived through the "Cold War" of the 50's and 60's, it isn't a great thing to be hearing the same war murmurings again from the leaders of the world. Putin criticized what he calls imperialism (the usual name given to the United States during war talk) in worldwide affairs and warned that Russia will strengthen its military potential to maintain a global strategic balance.

Putin claims that they (the Russians) are not starting this new arms race. I'm sorry. That statement does not hold water. Our country is deploying defense missles much like those we have already had in other countries with agreements. We have had this for a multitude of years. Only now does this so-called leader of the Russian people decide that we are starting a new arms race.

If what he is saying is true, then they could certainly be one of the most dangerous countries to us on the planet. However, my guess is that the missles that Russia has out there will be more likely to aim at Israel and the northern part of the United States than anywhere else in the world. He states that they have done tests of a new ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads and a new cruise missile. These are part of the Russian response to the planned deployment of new U.S. military bases and missile defense sites in ex-Soviet satellites in Central and Eastern Europe.

Frankly, Mr. Putin, this all sounds like sour potatoes to me. Sounds like you didn't get there first, didn't think of it first. As a major power in the world, we have an obligation to protect ourselves and our friends. If that hurts your pride, sorry about that. If it hurts you politically, can't say I am sorry about that.

Last Thing We Need...More Harry Potter

I realize that there are a whole load of Harry Potter fans out there but I am definitely not one of them. With the books teaching our children to be wizards and casting spells, I think that the books themselves are dangerous. Now they want to have a Harry Potter theme park. Oh no way!! But they will whether any of us like it or not.

So, the only way to deal with the problem is to boycott the theme park when it opens or put up enough blogs and articles online to tell the people building this that it is not acceptable. Unfortunately, a lot of Potter fans are going to embrace the idea of the park.

Universal Orlando Resort is opening "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" in 2009 complete with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Forbidden Forest and Hogsmeade village.

What is particularly scary to me is that teens and smaller readers of the books are anxiously awaiting the opening of this park because they would rather be on a Harry Potter ride than go to Disney World in Orlando. Some of these teens cannot seem to get enough of the books already. Some have read all the books, seen all the movies.

While 325 million copies of the books have been sold, they have also been translated into 65 languages as well. Isn't it about time that the Christian community addresses this problem and problem it is. Our young people are being subjected to this spiritual trash just as they are with the heavy metal bands out there. When are we going to wake up?

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TB Carrier In Treatment

The guy who had TB and traveled on an airplane is now in treatment in Denver where they specialize in this type or resistant TB. The man, who ironically is a personal injury lawyer, knew that he had TB when he boarded a plane for Europe from Atlanta in mid May. The tragedy is that he was headed there for his wedding and honeymoon and could have infected many people in the process. He says that he did NOT know that the particular extremely dangerous strain was drug resistant until he got to Rome.

Unfortunately, this is a person who does not listen to advice well since he was told not to board another long flight by federal health officials but he did that anyway on his way home for the treatment of the TB. Federal officials then quarantined in the first action of it's kind since 1963.

Also ironic is the fact that his new father-in-law is a CDC microbiologist specializing in the spread of TB. He says that he gave the young man of 31 some "fatherly" advice. Apparently since then, the man sought treatment.

Officials at the Denver hospital believe that he is in the early stages of the disease and appears to be healthy. They are optimistic that he can be cured. They have quarantined him in a room he will not be able to leave for several weeks.

In the meanwhile, health officials in Europe and North America are trying to track down some 80 or so passengers who traveled on the same flights with him as well as the short flights he took while in Europe.

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In the past, I wanted to get more education than I had already so I went to a college locally (where I was livng at the time). Had I had the opportunity to take courses online and earn any one of several online degrees available, it would have been so much better because I had a child to raise. School would have been so great but I never did finish. Today, we all have the opportunity to get a much better education in the comfort of our own homes.

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Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Together And Nice! WOW!

Huge rivals, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who have been at war with each other for years, have come together in one place to talk nicey nice about each other. Have I landed in the twilight zone? No, they showed up to have a 90 minute chat with Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg and technology reporter Kara Swisher at the newspaper's "D: All Things Digital" conference.

Both guys were going back over the things they have accomplished over the last years. One of the people, Swisher, asked about the misunderstanding that has been in the way for years, the reply was "We've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now." joked Steve Jobs.

"Neither of us have anything to complain about, in general. It's been fun to work together." said Bill Gates.

Microsoft and Apple worked together for some time in the 1970's but they are still big rivals.

And The Spammer Went Down

Yesterday, one of the top spammers in this country (USA) was caught and jailed. Hats off to the law enforcement people involved in catching the guy who has been a huge problem for all of us who have email. That would be almost all of us. The non affected people would likely be those whose email is on a website instead of coming directly to the computer like mine does.

Here was a guy who took full advantage of the recent technology and used it to get people to his site. They then could sign up for him to send out thousands of emails which would then make a computer a "zombie" meaning that it would send out emails that the owner of the computer did not know anything about. The person who paid this guy, I guess, thought that it was a legitimate business option and paid out $495 for the service. The man, Robert Alan Soloway, has been a thorn in the side of thousands of people worldwide with his tactics.

Last week, a federal grand jury returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway. He is now residing in federal custody.

All I can say here is HALLELUJAH!! Thank goodness, they finally got him. According to officials at Microsoft, who believe that he was a huge problem for their customers, emails should be far less likely to have as much spam as in the past. I'm really ready for less spam.

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Scam Alert For Pet Lovers Everywhere

The latest in a long list of internet and email scams has surfaced, this time trying to take the money of unsuspecting pet lovers. Absolutely adorable pictures of puppies are posted. The person or people posting say they are breeders who are having to sell or even give away the puppies.

Usually the so-called breeders say that the pups need some type of medical care or that the breeder is relocating to some other country and need a home in the United States for the pet. The folks who go for this are looking for rare breeds or want something no one else has. So, the "breeder" communicates by email to tell his plight.

As is no surprise to those who watch these things, Nigeria is one of the chief places where these scam emails comes from. Scammers lift the pictures from legitimate breeder or pet owner websites.

What happens is the scammer lures the person to a website. When the unsuspecting person sees the puppies' pictures, they feel sorry for the pups or they want a bargain so they send in the money, sometimes hundreds or thousands of dollars. First they get the person with the shipping which is extremely high. Then, what follows are certain costs like innoculations, taxes, customs. The puppies are never delivered.

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You Know You Are In The Twilight Zone When....

I noticed in the news this morning that in the Netherlands, they have I guess you would call it a reality game show called "Big Donor Show". Contestants vie for the grand prize, a kidney from a young lady, 37 yrs. old, who is terminally ill. Unlike what it sounds like, the lady is fine with this since she wanted to know who was going to receive the lifesaving organ before she died.

The program will air on Dutch TV on this Friday evening. The contestants tell their stories and share what day to day life is like for them in a bid for, not only the sympathy of the donor, but also, more importantly, the audience. This is a 90 minute show that will include interviews with the family and friends of the people who need the organ.

The chairman of BNN, the network in the Netherlands, that is broadcasting this game show, says that the whole thing is tasteless but it brings in viewers. He feels that it is much more tasteless for these poor, ill people to have to wait it out on a donor list for years. He goes on to say that "at least the contestants in the show have a 33 percent chance of getting a new kidney. They would have to wait much longer in real life for the same deal." Despite his beliefs on the subject, the Dutch politicians and the media have censured the network for allowing such a show to air and for exploiting such a serious issue just for a ratings grab.

Not only is this tasteless but it is definitely exploiting the catastrophy of people's lives. It puts the plight of these folks out in the public eye, which in some cases could be great, but in this case is simply exploiting them, getting their hopes up when they should not. This is not right and it sets a horrifying precedent that we will not want to have in our future.

What happens when another idea comes floating in about a TV show that has contestants vie for the next body part but this time it's for parts of a guy who is NOT sick. Maybe they get volunteers (people will volunteer for anything these days) or it might be someone who did not volunteer but is captured. No way, you say. Not in this country! Yeah right.

This country is totally free too, right? We do not have laws that will harm us someday soon, right? This country is free politically but you can't protest in front of a President or candidate. They show you the " free speech zone" as the person passes you by. This country is free religiously but in the Capitol building you cannot pray openly in the rotunda or you will be escorted out. It is against the rules in the same place that has prayer before they open their meetings. This country is free except when you want to show the Ten Commandments in a government building, owned BY THE PEOPLE, I might add.

Are you kidding me? If people had a clue about all this, they would band together like they did after September 11th. (remember that? Everyone had something to say about the towers and what the enemy did to us. No one does that anymore.) They would get together to take out these stupid and extremely damaging TV shows. It is not about TV shows. It is about our very heritage, our beliefs, our freedom, the thing that our forefathers fought for in the wars, to preserve our freedoms from harm. Is this keeping us from harm to have such shows? No! Then do something about it. Take up the cry. This is going to bite us one day if we do not.

Violent Crime Stats Rising--Why Is This A Surprise?

The newest report from the FBI, there always is one from somewhere, says that violent crime is rising. Well DUH! There are more murders, robberies and other felonies and the numbers are rising for the second year in a row. What a surprise. Not really.

When a society has no problem whatsoever in putting out trash like the violent, graphic games for PC and game boxes, then why be surprised that it is coming back to haunt us. Over and over we are told that children and young adults that go on killing sprees or have some encounter with weapons in a threatening manner have done some horrible thing like kill people and then these same people are surprised.

Parent--"Sonny isn't capable of that!! No way!!"

Detective--"Did you buy your child the PC game he has been playing for months?"

Parent--"Well, yes but that had nothing to do with these murders, nothing at all. It's harmless."

Detective--"Harmless. Guess that's where the kid learned to kill people because it's harmless. Right lady. Do you know what the game does?"

Parent--"No, my child says it's a fun game. I have never seen the game myself. He plays it all the time with his friends. It keeps him from doing bad things like drugs."

More games of the violent nature are sold each and every year. What is really horrifying is that the parents are buying the games for the kids when the rating for the game is MATURE instead of FOR ALL AGES. The kid begs and begs or acts up until the parent gives in and gets the thing. Then the parents wonder why the child has done some horrible deed. They start to wonder where they went wrong. Gee, I wonder too.

Of course, it is not totally the parent's fault here. The game makers have a role too. They put this trash out for the world to see just how incredibly stupid the makers can be. Are you kidding me? These games are filled with murder, theft of police cars, no less, and other moronic things that teach the young person that these things are okay to experience. The makers say that the kid gets it out of his system this way. Uh, excuse me? They say it's fun. Sure. It's fun to have virtual sex with a prostitude and then murder her. I am sure it is for the perverted minds that think up these things.

For the record, I am so totally against these trashy games that I hope the factory does a meltdown sometime really soon. Is today too soon? Nope.

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Even The Reporters Blow It Once In A While

Remember the New Jersey Governor that didn't have his seatbelt on when his car crashed? He did some heavy time in the hospital and recovery. Jon Corzine was riding in the front seat of a State Police driven SUV when the near fatal accident occurred. Because he did not have a seatbelt on, he was seriously injured.

Matt Lauer interviewed Corzine about that crash and the lack of seatbelt. Naturally, the Gov. was not happy to have broken the laws in his own state. Of course, Mr. Lauer apparently did not learn from the lesson either. A few weeks later, Lauer was on the Today show, in the back seat of an SUV Republican Presidental hopeful, Mitt Romney. Ahem. Neither person was wearing a seatbelt!

The boo boo was noticed before the show aired today but Mr. Lauer needed to address the situation as did Mr. Presidental hopeful, Romney. Both were sorry about the oversight. Uh, guys? Law of the land. Newscaster is one thing...he should set a good example. However, Mr. Romney wants the highest seat in the land but does not want that seat to have a seatbelt!!! Set a good example, Mr. Not-ready-for-primetime politician.

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Thompson Possibly Running For Pres.

After viewing some of the candidates for the Presidental run I have to say that my choice is not final. There just are not a whole lot of good choices here. Frankly, I do not find any really good picks for the hotseat at the moment. The one that might just get out in the front with a bunch of work is John McCain but that's a stretch at the present time.

Now, if Fred Thompson chooses to run, I just might want to see more of him. He was senator from Tennessee from 1994-2003. Yes, he is an actor but then, actors are doing pretty good in political life. Let's see, there was Ronnie Reagan. Not bad there. He got all the way to the top. Then there is the former wrestler that made Gov. in Minnesota. How about Arnie? He can't be Pres. but he does the Governator thing. Anyone remember Gopher on the Love Boat? His name is Fred Grandy and he ran for and won 4 terms as senator from the state of Iowa. He left congress to run unsuccessfully for Governor.

Thompson hasn't declared his intentions yet but if he does run, I will want to hear a whole lot more from him!

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Cleavage In The Workplace-Yes Or No?

A current controversial debate is about cleavage in the workplace. The question is...is it appropriate? You might be surprised to know that most women AND men believe that it does not belong. It is entirely too distracting for everyone.

The problem is that what might be appropriate for a sexy night out on the town is definitely not right for the office where people need to dress for success. The success is not to get the latest boyfriend but to get ahead in the business world.

The question then becomes, do you want to be taken seriously? For those ladies who do, the secret is to show some breast but not to show it all. Recent studies, whereever anyone chooses to study such things, have found out that a medium breast size is generally taken seriously, unlike the very large and the extremely small. Go figure.

Frankly, my opinion of this is that a woman should dress conservatively and very businesslike. That would be taken seriously. Breasts in the workplace? What's wrong with this picture?

Technology Comes To Your House In Pictures

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The frames are very stylish, fitting into any situation you choose, a man on the go, businesswoman or a family setting. Imagine your wedding photos on the wall changing as you remember each event. How about that video, including sound, showing your favorite moments in time. And, they will include a 128 MB memory card with any 9 and 10 inch frame order. They ship fast too. Order today and they ship tomorrow. The shipping is worldwide.

Virtual Tour Makes It Seem Real From 2000 Years Ago

People in Cincinnati are able to take virtual tours into the Ohio River Valley, now in development, and see brillant green grasslands and beautiful sparkling blue lakes and rivers. They will see the area as it was some 2000 years ago. This is achieved by a computerized fly-over. This wonderful virtual tour is at the Cincinnati Museum Center's interactive video tour of Fort Ancient and other earthworks.

Today, museums and educators lean heavily on video with animation, graphics and technology we once only dreamed about in order to show what historical texts and maps could not.

Cincinnati is not the only place doing this. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is currently creating a recently found theater in Williamsburg which is the 18th century capital of Virginia. They plan on adding animation as well as creating a virtual tour of the whole town.

Virtual heritage tours and exhibits are getting quite popular in Asia, Europe, Japan, Italy and Germany. These were novel ideas a number of years ago, written about in science fiction but not a reality until recently. And now they are gaining interest in the United States as well.

This is extremely fascinating to me and I cannot wait until this is available to those of us who are in the boonies.

You Can Own It---A Couple Of Thousand Years From Now! Cheap!

Some guy is planning to sell real estate from Hawaii. The catch is that the land that he is planning to sell does not actually exist as land right now. He is about to launch a sales campaign to sell oceanfront property that won't be available for many years to come. Currently, the land is about 3000 ft. below sea level. This whole deal is on a volcano that is located about 20 miles from Honolulu.

His website, which will be up and running soon, will allow prospective buyers to purchase land for the bargain basement price of $39.95. The sucker...er, buyer gets a brochure and a "deed". However, it would be sort of like the guys who are selling stars in the "yeah right" dept. You would get the paper but is it worth the ink and paper it is printed on. Most say "nope".

Sounds too much like a scam. For instance, you would not be able to stand on the land in your own lifetime. Oh, you want to deed it to the kiddies? They probably wouldn't be able to stand on it either. It appears to be "wait a few millenia" type thing. I do not believe we have that long in any event. Jesus is coming back and soon. I do not believe that you will need property that He will own anyway. Just my take on that.

PayPerPost Goes Direct

One of the things you will notice on my blog page, if you scroll down on the right side, you will see a button that says to hire me to write for you. That is called PayPerPost Direct. It gives you an opportunity to hire me to use blog advertising for your site, thank you!

There has been a new release of PayPerPost.com and the posties are the winners with the new addition of PayPerPost Direct. The competitors charge up to 50% and 100% markup on a blogger's post, keeping a lot of the money, and has a middle guy in the deal. PPP Direct cuts out the middleman which is a genuine savings for the blogger. PPP Direct only charges a small fee of 10% for services, 5% of the fee is usually for Paypal and credit cards. And your blog is generating the advertising lead. Everyone wins!!

The widget (click button) on the blog site makes the whole thing painless and truly easy to use for everyone, certainly for the advertisers. Advertisers, you can use a credit card and bypass the process at Paypal. It could not get any easier than this. Click, fill in the info, click for credit card and you have made the offer available to the blogger. Bloggers, you simply either take the offer, negotiate or turn it down. What could possibly be easier?

Give PPP Direct a try like I have done.

For Those Who Just Need To Make A Buck Or Two, This Is For You

For those of you who are trying to answer the eternal question "Where can I find a way to make money online" it's possible I have an answer or two for you. One person I know has a blog that she uses to give out tips for how to sell on Ebay. She has sold on Ebay herself and has a tips column on her blog about that. It is well worth the trip to her site for this information. Her blog is called " Homesick For Home Business". I think you with find her quite informative.

Beyond that, she also homeschools and has information on that. In this day and age, it is much more likely that parents and guardians feel the need to homeschool rather than send children to the happy hour places that the school systems laughingly call bastions of education. So, homeschooling is a very good option, depending on your particular states regulations concerning this. Her site is well worth the look for that too.

Free Credit Score

One of the things I have found that is very important if you want to buy a house, car or even have a credit card is having the information of what your credit score is. Now, there is a website that will give you your free credit score online.

Picture Credit has a load of information on credit such as how to repair damaged credit. That one pops up occasionally, doesn't it? They can teach you how to improve your credit score. In fact, they will allow you to check you credit report and score for free. Picture Credit can also help you with any of your financial needs.

If you have ever wanted to know how credit scores are calculated, they can help you. They have information on the three major credit bureaus and much more on the website that has articles every week on various subjects, all there to help with gaining knowledge concerning credit. There is an article database for all sorts of subjects related to credit.

Doctor Death Is About To Be Back

It has been 8 years since we last saw Dr. Kervorkian also known as Doctor Death. He has been in prison for that time. His sentence was for 10-25 years in the death of a Michigan man. However, he has assisted in too many deaths to count. His release from prison on June 1 is, in my opinion, entirely too soon. He is coming out of prison to find that only one state has actually adopted the assisted suicide law, Oregon. All other states that put it on the ballot found out that people do not want an assisted suicide law in action. Even Oregon has found out that few people want to end their lives prematurely.

What has happened instead of following in his footsteps, people have now become more aware of taking care of terminally ill patients. We now have more hospice caretakers and better pain management than ever before.

Now that Kervorkian is coming out of prison, he has promised he will never again advise or counsel anyone about assisted suicide once he's out. We shall wait and see about that. This is yet another sign of the time of the end of the age. We are so close to the final seven years of this age prior to Jesus coming back to take His throne in Israel. But people need to see their need for Jesus as their Savior before this happens. The world is getting more and more evil as we wait. It will not truly get better until Jesus steps back onto this earth and cleans it up again.

Storms Can Make The Prices Rise Some More

Take note of the gas prices and other items' prices because should the hurricane season start off with a bang instead of a whimper, it is possible that you will see those prices no more. For instance, if another monster-type storm like Rita and Katrina come calling, the petroleum industry may throw it's collective hands up. They have just spent two years working on repairs on the refineries, pipelines and platforms. The problem is that this area, the gulf coast, produces about 25 percent of the nation's oil and 15 percent of the nation's natural gas.

NOAA says it is predicting about 13-17 tropical storms this year, much higher than usual. Worse, they expect about 10 to become hurricanes. If this happens, this will be one busy year. The average year is when about 10 storms form, only a few become hurricanes. From what I have gathered, the El Nino has a whole lot to do with what happens to storms in the Atlantic. If El Nino is present, the hurricanes are dissipated without coming ashore anywhere. If El Nino is not present, like this year, the storms have nothing to stop them.

As far as gas prices go, they have shot higher than post-Rita or Katrina. The analysts expect the price of gas to shoot to over $4. At the same time, most people do not seem to cut back. They are accepting the higher prices without an argument. The experts that have watched this say that the people will not truly complain or do anything to change their habits until it reaches $5-$6 a gallon. Frankly, if it hits that high, I have no doubt that my family will be staying home a great deal and cut back on a whole lot of things we do right now. We live in a rural area where nearly everything is somewhere else. I have no idea how we will manage other than trusting in the Lord for all of our needs. I certainly cannot trust in the government to do anything about this. They haven't stopped any of this so far. I do not expect any help now.

What Is Hillary Doing Now?

I will tell you up front that I am definitely NOT a fan of Hillary Clinton. She has had a background of things that I will not back going into the White House, no matter how many years she has already lived there before now. While it may not be out there for the world to see since it has apparently been buried, she was involved in some things that were and are being hidden from the public. The problem I see is that people have either forgotten or do not care what the character of the person about to live in the White House has. Do we really need yet another Clinton in that house with all the intrigue and "don't know what is is" crowd? Not really.

But now, she has asked the audience of You