Because all gave some, and some gave all

I ran across a very moving presentation on Annika’s Journal today and absolutely MUST share it with y’all.

Warning: grab some tissues first!

Click: We Support U

God bless our military men and women. Amen.

Genius I tell you!

I’d had an idea spark while working on my cooking site. I decided that it would be really cool to set an alternate style sheet for my brother’s site for printing — only it would print only the post content and prefix a scan of his letterhead up top.

“Genius!” I thought to myself. “After getting the Now We’re Cookin’ print template nailed down, this will be easy peasy.”

After wrestling with it for about an hour, it hits me — I had been messing with the background-image attributes in the header class, and most browsers are configured NOT to print background images. Thus, any background attributes are naturally going to be ignored by the printer.

D’oh! :mad: *proceeds to slap self*

Yep, I am such a goober.

Anyways, I adjust the header template by putting the letterhead image in its own class. In the main style sheets I set display to none, and fixed the printing style sheet to the desired specifications … and Voila! Printed out a nice letterhead for every page on the site.

Hey, I’m allowed to have my blond moments too … :razz:

Morning funnies

Teresa greeted me this morning with some jokes in my Inbox:

The Ear Ring

Maybe this is why I see so many married guys with ear-rings………

A man is at work one day when he notices that his co-worker is wearing an earring.

This man knows his co-worker to be a normally conservative fellow, and is curious about his sudden change in “fashion sense.”

The man walks up to him and says, “I didn’t know you were into earrings.”

“Don’t make such a big deal, it’s only an earring,” he replies sheepishly.

His friend falls silent for a few minutes, but then his curiosity prods him to say, “So, how long have you been wearing one?”

“Ever since my wife found it in my truck.”

My blonde wife

My wife, who is blonde, came running up to me in the driveway, the other day, just jumping for joy! I didn’t know why she was jumping for joy but I thought, what the heck and I starting jumping up and down along with her.

When she said, “Honey, I have some really great news for you!”

I said, “Great. Tell me what you’re so happy about.”

She stopped jumping and was breathing heavily from all the jumping up and down, when she told me that she was pregnant!

I was ecstatic!

We had been trying for a while, so I grabbed her and kissed her on the lips and told her, “That’s great! I couldn’t be happier!”

Then, she said “Oh, honey. There’s more.”

I asked, “What do you mean ‘more’?” She said, “Well, we are not having just one baby. We are going to have TWINS!”

Amazed at how she could know so soon after getting pregnant, I asked her how she knew. She said…..

(You’re going to love this!)

“Well, that was the easy part. I went to Walmart and they actually had a home pregnancy kit in a twin-pack. Both tests came out positive!”

This one came from one of our sales reps:

Big people words

Mrs. Jones was talking to her kindergarten class about using “big people words” when speaking. She proceeds to ask several students for examples:

“Johnny, what did you do this weekend?”

Johnny replies, “I went to see my Nana.”

Mrs. Jones corrects him, “No, Johnny, you went to see your grandmother.” She continues, “Amy, what did you do this weekend?”

Amy replies, “I rode on a choo-choo!”

Mrs. Jones corrects her, “No, Amy, you rode a train.” She turns to Timmy and asks, “Timmy, what did you do this weekend?”

Timmy replies, “I read a book.”

Mrs. Jones says, “Oh? That’s wonderful. What’s the name of the book?”

Timmy thought for a moment then said, “Winnie the Shit.”

Familial matters and musings

I’ve been out of it lately, plagued mostly by headaches and terrible side/stomach pains. Jim keeps urging me to see the doctor, but I know it’s stress. They always act up when I’m stressed.

Let’s see … where did I leave off last?

Dad spoke to me on my birthday, but I haven’t heard from him since. I’m not fooling myself here, I don’t expect a miracle, but the call was a good start in the right direction … let’s just hope I don’t go 6 months without hearing from him again.

Mom invited me over Saturday. Jim’s going to be working and Jess will be at her mother’s so I think I may go. I miss hanging around with my mom, and I know she’s got to miss having me around too. Besides, I need to clear up a few things … something tells me that she and Dad must have the wrong idea about *something* and that’s got to be what started this whole mess.

Jessie’s been acting out at school again. A lot of talking, not paying attention, kid stuff mostly … but she’s also acting out at home (my house AND her mother’s). She’s starting the pout and pity act again, and the smart mouth is only getting smarter.

I dread her teenage years …

She’s now convinced that one of the little girls in her class is trying to steal all of her friends from her. (This is the same little girl who was always getting into fights with Jessie and they were told to stay separated.) I think the little snotwad is a brat, but I highly doubt she’s doing what Jessie claims … she says that every time she plays with a kid, the little girl tries to be-friend them and get them away from Jessie. Of course, what she usually leaves out of the story is that she constantly plays near or with the same set of kids that the other little girl plays with, LOL.

Jessie’s amazed that they get along fine for one day, then the little girl’s a little potty-mouthed wench to her the next. I think they both are going through mood swings myself, heh.

Anyways, next year should be better. We are going to request that the girls be in separate rooms next year because they simply cannot get along well enough to be in the same class. Another thing that will help will be Jessie being in another teacher’s class. I am not at all pleased with her teacher this year, and the school WILL be hearing from me at year’s end. I’ve already prepared a statement with events that should not have happened in a competent teacher’s classroom along with a little piece of my mind. This woman is crazy and should not be teaching at all, much less in an elementary school.

One example would be where Jessie was in the girls’ bathroom with a classmate. I think the teacher was in there with them. Jessie has a tendency to be bossy, but doesn’t mean anything by it, she just hasn’t learned tact yet. That’s from her father, LOL. Anyways, Jessie tells the little girl that she needs to wash her hands. As I see it she was trying to be helpful. Jessie’s teacher goes off on her; she told Jessie that she was getting a note home for being bossy and that she is not that little girl’s mother and if she doesn’t want to wash her hands, she doesn’t have to and lectures her on being her own boss rather than worrying about anyone else.

Ok, I can understand that, and we get on to Jessie for things like that from time to time, but I thought the next step was taking it a bit too far.

The little girl Jessie had spoken to told the teacher that it was OK, that she had forgotten to wash her hands and that it was good of Jessie to remind her. (she and Jess are friends and she seems like such a sweet little girl) The teacher then tells the little girl that she chose not to wash her hands and must “deal with it” THEN refuses to let the girl wash her hands for the rest of the day!!!

WTF!? :shock:

I don’t understand this woman. Her methods of teaching the children are overall OK, but I do not like the way she handles children. She does not discipline her students other than the blank notes that she sends home. She leaves it up to the student to provide the explanation of what he/she did wrong … this has taught Jessie to lie to us about what happens at school — something that she has NEVER done until this year!

Also, we have sent several requests for more information about incidents and the woman almost never responds … the old bat will not return phone calls, and will only meet with parents during her lunch break at 1 in the afternoon. She does not get to school early or stay late, so us meeting with her has only happened when we take off work to go see her. I’ve often requested her to feel free to call us at home and gave her our work and home phone numbers but she will not make an attempt to contact us unless we complain to the school first. Even worse, when we *have* gone to the school to see her, she would interrupt our conversations to go talk to someone else. This has happened on three separate occasions and I told Jim after the last time that any further incidents I will handle through the principal because I was tired of dealing with that stupid woman.

What gets me is that this is the same woman who told us during orientation last August that she prefers “constant communication with parents” and will always call parents at home to discuss incidents with students “before they become a problem”. Yet she has not done that with us, and Jessie has been labeled “a problem” because she doesn’t pay attention enough in class, and talks in class. TALKS! Every kid talks. I did. Jim did. The woman is a pushover, and the kids in her class have literally “run all over her”. (a direct quote from the parent of one of Jessie’s classmates)

What I find amusing is that Jessie doesn’t much like this woman either, which doesn’t help her behavior any. LOL In fact, she rarely refers to her by name, she always calls her “Teacher”. I’ve never seen her do that with any of the other teachers or staff there at Gardendale. Apparently another kid (who’s been labeled a troublemaker) does that to get on the woman’s nerves and Jessie thought it was a good idea to do it too, LOL.

What happened to the really good teachers? I went to a back-woods small country school, a public school even, and I had great teachers. We never got out of hand. I talked a lot in class and day dreamed, but most of my teachers found ways to keep us entertained and made learning seem fun. I don’t think I started hating school until junior high, LOL.

Let’s see … what else?

This week I received the invitation to Matt and Kelly’s wedding, though I keep forgetting to mail off the RSVP.

Sorry guys! I’ll get it out to you soon, I promise! :oops:

Oh, any MACESS-ites still hanging around? I heard from Joe Pizzitola recently. We’ve chatted back and forth via email. He’d asked about Bob Burchett, whom I hadn’t heard from in what seems like decades, LOL. Bob, Ange …. call me you buttmonkeys!

Speaking of MACESS … anyone remember Tim Walter? I found him on Monster.com a while back. They have that networking thing where you look up people based on skills, job, or employers, and I looked up MACESS peeps. He’s listed as being in Atlanta, though I couldn’t email him. Monster charges you if you want to actually CONTACT anyone you find in their networking thing.

Those nudnicks. :evil:

I also saw Grady Dill on there, as well as the little VB coder who used to tease me about listening to old NIN rather than their new stuff. (I’ve already forgotten his name, but he had a hawt car!)

Anyways, so it was cool to see a few people I knew on there.

I think I’ll look up CDO next and see who shows up. :cool:

He was simply doing the right thing

I was too young to remember this happening, but I do vaguely remember hearing about it while growing up: the story of a young Cubbie named Rick Monday, who became an American hero by doing what he felt was the right thing.

Monday was playing center field for the Chicago Cubs on April 25, 1976, at Dodger Stadium when he noticed two protesters kneeling on the grass in left-center, intending to burn the American flag. He immediately bolted toward them and snatched it away.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of his saving the American flag on April 25, 1976, the Los Angeles Dodgers will recognize Rick Monday on Sunday, April 23 with a video tribute. Monday, a Dodger broadcaster, will also be on hand to throw out the first ceremonial pitch.

Monday has been quoted as saying that were he to do the same thing today, he might be arrested for violating someone else’s rights. “But to hell with them,” he said. “They can come and lock me up right now because if they did it again, I’d do the same thing.”

Hell yeah, good on ya brother!

Sources / Suggested Reading:
Washington Post, BAD.org (archived), Michelle Malkin

Google Cheat Sheet

I smurfed this from Solereaper at Johnny.IHackStuff.com’s forums, it’s a “cheat sheet” for Google — full of Google-Goodies from Googlebot’s IPs to all the Google URLs to special searches, etc.

http://www.feedsforme.com/google/

Thought some of you lot would get into it.

How much is a life worth?

I was browsing Michelle Malkin’s blog and she had a post relayed from John Hawkins of Right Wing News about Andrea Clark. This post was based on a series of comments/threads on the Democratic Underground site, and tells about how Andrea, who has literally been sentenced to die by St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, TX due to her respirator and dialysis treatments. Apparently the hospital has deemed Andrea to be a “medical futility” case, and once a patient has been declared as such the hospital discontinues all treatments, despite reports that one of the doctors there believe that she has a chance to recover. The staff has increased Andrea’s pain medication and have basically anesthetized her unconscious and plan to let her die in a about a week, against both her and her family’s wishes.

Furthermore, Houston hospitals have a policy in that once a patient has been deemed “medically futile” no other hospital in the area will allow that patient to be transferred to their facility. This means that if she is to be treated elsewhere, it would have to be a great distance away.

Honestly, this blows my mind. This is nothing like the Terri Schiavo case. This woman, before being medicated into a coma, was cognisant of her situation and surroundings and was vocal, and had clearly expressed that she did NOT want the hospital to kill her.

The family is calling out for help from anyone and everyone and my heart certainly goes out to them. While I am nowhere near Houston, the very least I can do is post the links here.

Fingers are being pointed in every direction for this result, one of which is pointed at Andrea’s insurance company, another at the hospital staff and social worker in charge of Andrea’s care, and so on. Which makes me wonder: in places like Texas, where a Futile Care Law or something similar exists, who makes the final decision to end someone’s care and/or treatments?

In short: How much is a life worth?

Yahoo Mail Beta

I smurfed this from Jark who smurfed it from Cybernet: how to access Yahoo’s new Mail Beta system from your own account.

1. Login to Yahoo Mail.
2. Select Mail Options.
3. Select Account information from the left panel.
4. Go to Member Information > General Preferences > Preferred Content.
5. Select Yahoo UK.
6. Select Finished.
7. Go to Yahoo Mail.
8. A page will be displayed that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.”
9. Click on “Try Beta Now”.
10. You can then change your Preferred Content setting back to normal by repeating the steps above.

Looks like Yahoo’s giving Google a run for their money … sweet. :twisted:

New theme: I am American

I was feeling a little patriotic this morning and decided to create another look for my site.

The background image courtesy of slonecker at stock.xchng. Coding was the easy part, the rest was all airbrushing the fsck out of that flag! ;P

Need proof of assimilation?

This is something that’s been a burr in my fur for a while, but I’d not yet posted my thoughts regarding. I was just reading The Illegal Alien Anthem on Michelle Malkin’s blog, and I’ve got to say it — Enough is enough!

It’s bad enough that I’m seeing everyday things in English and Spanish but I draw the line at the National Anthem. When you go to other countries, you don’t hear their anthem played in English unless it’s their mother tongue do you? No.

This stunt is clearly another feeble attempt to pressure Congress into passing an amnesty bill. The strikes didn’t work, so this must be Plan B? Someone’s been dipping into the Kool-aid again I see.

Look people, it’s simple:

Welcome to America. If you plan to stay, get your citizenship the legal way. Everyone else does, and so will you. We speak English. If you plan to stay, YOU need to learn to speak English. Everybody else does it, and so will you. If you plan to stay, you will need a job. Everybody else does it, and so will you. You will be expected to obey our laws. Everybody else does, and so will you.

I don’t know about you lot, but I am sick of pandering to proverbial party crashers, nambypamby leftist bed wetters and other pea brained pundits wanting to slowly turn my country into theirs. If we stand idly by and do nothing, these events could metastasize into a full-on assimilation. Put simply: the USA becomes New New Mexico.

Hillbilly White Trash said, “This, like the Mexican flag waving protesters and the planned strike (which will go down in history as “The Day the Leaf Blowers Went Silent”) will backfire. Average Americans, even in Blue States, are fed up and want action to secure our borders.”

Let’s hope he’s right.

In the words of Earl Pitts, “Wake up, America!”

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