STACKED HOUSE

 Saw this on Bob's FB and the answer to this question is probably the same as the question Douglas Adams wrote about in his book "Life, The Universe And Everything".. Where the answer is so complex and yet so simple..   It's how you arrive at the answer that is so complex..

 The site I have with boots has this version of "Fried Alive" supposedly a lesser quality version.. There are so many bootlegs of the same concerts that have a different date and location and sound identical to the original.. There are only a handful of quality shows by KISS.. The rest are same concerts, different dates and venues..

 Cats are supposed to be stupid... 

 Justin Who??

 ONE NATION, UNDER ROCK.. NO TECHNO SHIT ALLOWED!!!

 Skootr is moms supervisor, she watches mom every step of the way on every thing she does.. The dishes, a couple years ago Skootr would try to grab moms hand and even grab her by the mouth.. What that was about we still can't figure out.. (putting her hand in her mouth.. Screwy cat)

I thought I had this entry done two days ago.. That is what happens when you do entries ahead of time and use the delayed entry link..  I thought I was set for today.. Won't be an entry tomorrow.. Or will there be..

Had the greatest game of Scrabble last night.. Playing the veteran setting and timed (mom can't believe I play timed on the upper levels)  I was down at the very end and figured I lost.. Played my final tile and went from being down by 11 to winning by one.. 277 - 276.. Quite the game indeed... 

BH

(it's like) THERE'S A CLOCK IN MY HEAD

is it "blood money?" you don't think he would handle american lives the same way...squeezing the maximum life out of the 99%?

....the romneys were reported to have invested at least $1 million in elliott associates, l.p., a hedge fund specializing in “distressed assets.” elliott buys up cheap debt, often at cents on the dollar, from lenders to deeply troubled nations such as congo-brazzaville, then attacks the debtor states with lawsuits to squeeze maximum repayment. elliott is run by the secretive hedge-fund billionaire and g.o.p. super-donor paul singer, whom fortune recently dubbed mitt romney’s “hedge fund kingmaker.” (singer has given $1 million to romney’s super-pac restore our future.) - vanity fair

is this the really the type of president we want? the president our country can afford?

Is it impeccable timing I guess:

 Google's personalized homepage will no longer be available starting from November 2013. The official explanation is that "with modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for iGoogle has eroded over time".

iGoogle started as a custom Google homepage that allowed you to add gadgets for weather, news, mail and more. "The goal of this initiative is to bring together Google functionality, and content from across the web, in ways that are useful to our users," explained Google in 2005.

Just like My Yahoo, Netvibes and other custom start pages, iGoogle became a dashboard that gathered your favorite content from the web. It was a simplified feed reader, a platform for mini-apps and games, a great homepage for your browser. Social networks and smartphones addressed most of these use cases and iGoogle's popularity declined.

Most likely, Google will promote Google+ as an iGoogle replacement, even though it lacks many of its features. Google+ apps, themes and maybe even a dashboard-like interface could fill iGoogle's void.

I was just thinking a couple of days ago that I should look at getting a different homepage, something close to what I have on I-Google but less of a strain on resources.. If there has been anything that I don't care for on the i-Google it is upon start up it takes quite a while to load and it causes every browser to lock up for a short time which can be an eternity when you need to see the weather or something else important..  And then I start up the browser with the homepage and that little note was tacked to it.  "i-Google no longer available after November 2013"... There were doubts by me that this homepage would last much longer, the gadgets were getting stale or going stale.. There hadn't been a new gadget in quite a while and some of the gadgets have many complaints none the least of which are the ads and the size of the ads.. I have some that are huge where the gadget might could be a smallish box.. What I will miss about i-Google??  There are some gadgets that can't be replaced.. I've gotten so used to them that they are very valuable to me for their information and concise amount they contain.. Just about perfect..

So I searched for me a new homepage, and I think I will do the same as I did before.. Back in November I was searching for something new to replace whatever I had and stumbled quite literally upon the i-Google homepage and it was a nice adventure getting the gadgets and deciding which ones to keep and which ones were crap.. Now I will try to decide by having three or four load simultaneously the way I did before and then click each one and decide.. I even had Bing as my homepage.. It wasn't that big of a stretch to think that Bing could be the homepage or a nice second started at startup.. The thing is I am looking at Opera and it could be my homepage.. The Opera speed dial could be the home page/browser since you can't have one without the other.. The possibility of having Chrome be the main browser (since it is the default browser) has occurred to me but I have sworn I would never rely on that browser ever again, so using it as the go to browser in default means I trust it when I need it for certain things but not on an every day basis..

The homepage I am leaning towards is Yahoo, and My Yahoo.. But I think I will have three or four to choose from; Yahoo (My Yahoo) MSN, Bing and My Homepage.. The last one reminds me of i-Google so right of way I am thinking to NOT  try that again.. I can personalize the Yahoo set where MSN hs so much to look at which it good.. I'm gonna look at different homepages and hopefully decide by .. believe it or not November again.. This November not next year at the cutoff date..  I've also said I am probably going to drop Google+.. As much as I wanted it to be THE social site to replace Facebook, until more people use Google +, I can't see it being viable.. 

I have this way about me.. I use a timer on the grass, for the watering.. I want to know what I am watering, the true time or as close as I can to it.. I don't like to guess, put the sprinkler on the lawn and think has it been ten minutes when it has been a half an hour.. I like to know that what fifteen minutes of a sprinkler being placed in a certain location will amount to the grass being green.. What I don't know for certain is how much water (volume) is being applied to the grass this way.. I think it is about a third of an inch because it seems to do fine, look alright.. I have started the alternating days idea watering the front Tues, Thurs, Sat.  And watering the back Mon, Wed, Fri... With Sunday being spot watering both front and back with a soaker type of sprinkler.. I hope the lawn doesn't slide back to the way  it looked in May, the effort was fairly daunting to get the grass back to fair looking.. But like I said I won't water if it just goes overboard to keep it looking good.. The front will get water regular, the back will get a cut rate amount.. Just the way it is..

Anyway when I set the water (timer) and go in the house or whatever it's like I have  a clock in my head and I go out just as the timer shuts the water off.. It's like I'm watching the watering stop, but I'm not.. Sometimes I hear the click of the timer, the clunk of the water suddenly stopping flowing.. Sometimes it's just plain shit assed luck..


The fireworks the town set off are small by comparison to Silverton, in fact nowhere else does it that way that is the size of the town Silverton is... NO ONE!!  Our neighbors next door did some of those mortar type fireworks.. i think mom thought they might be about to invade.. They are loud in the house here the launching of the shells.. But like I always said, even if they shot that many off every day that they are legal I wouldn't care  it's just ten days.. A lot of people don't like them (fireworks) and I hear the complaints on the scanner, but all I can say is stop worrying, these people (kids included) will only be  a bigger pain in the ass if you complain.. The neighbors wrapped up at about ten, and others were shooting off a bit later but they all got done by ten thirty at the latest.. It was a fully uneventful holiday.. 

BH

(P.S. the cat burger part of yesterdays entry was a joke.. I think Skootr would be a weeeee bit NASTY  tasting ..  that would be NASTY  with a G   ...  Ga NASTY.. )

the BUBBLE HEADED BLEACH BLONDE

 One I forgot, or couldn't find for the forth of July..  Hope you had a good one..

 The other day I worked on the computer, blew it out, cleaned the keyboard, chased the dust bunnies and I did it all without the help of one miss Skootr.. But she did manage to help a little.. I use one of those little empty carmex lip balm holder things to hold my screws in and after all was said and done and after I got the computer back together and put on line I started putting the tools away and something was missing.. The lid to that lip balm cup thing.. Where was it??   Skootr has that innocent cat look of "what"  "sure blame the cat"  look on her..  Still haven't  found it.. Must be in the twilight zone.. Or the basement, where all her toys eventually end up..

 The above picture appeared in our local paper.. Pretty cool picture of a new born girl.. We done thought it was  a cool picture.. Sometimes people think of the coolest pix poses.. 

Slim fast really works FAST..


Donald, Lucy and Harry Hudini Jr. came for lunch on the forth and it was nice, sort of.. It was a quick throw together type of thing that happened nearly last minute.. We had really next to nothing to eat so we had cat burgers.. Cat burgers are made from...  well cats and who knew Skootr was so damn tasty.. I mean she was so stinky, I would have never guessed she would taste that good.. The Chinese are right, cats is good eatin'..

Anyway we are sitting around the table after lunch and Lucy asks me if there is anyplace to get music and I tell her I-tunes.. She means get music, you know.. It felt like she was wanting permission to get the kind of crap she likes to listen to.. I told her there are several sites free and clear that offer music (bootlegs) that are really good, however they are rock music and I know they don't listen to rock anymore...  I told her where to look and just now did send her the search sites for the music she might want.. The site she was getting music from is now blocked by Google here in the U.S... I so badly wanted to tell her there are so many ways around that but I don't think she would understand what I am talking about nor that she might get it even if she read it.. Maybe I should show her that.. She then said or you (meaning me) could get it for her.. I could get it for her but since I would rather listen to cats fighting than that shit I declined..  If she wants it bad enough she can get it her self..  I'd rather not take a chance on music that I deem dogshit worthy..  Or I should say NOT even dogshit worthy...   That's my rant for the day, carry on my wayward lot..


BH

SECOND AND 4th

Balladeer’s Blog wishes a happy 236th birthday to the USA! What happened in early July of 1776 certainly needs no rehashing (the Green Bay Packers won the very first Superbowl) so in keeping with my blog’s theme of addressing more out of the way subjects this post will examine various events that took place on other July 4th’s throughout American history.
JULY 4TH, 1778 – George Rogers Clark led his rebel forces in taking the British stronghold of Kaskaskia, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Kaskaskia Rivers. Clark and his Rangers were on a mission for then-Virginia Governor Patrick Henry.
JULY 4TH, 1783 – The Massachusetts Supreme Court is finalizing its written decision holding that slavery has been illegal in the state since adoption of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights in 1780.
JULY 4TH, 1788 – The Constitution of the United States is finally in full effect, instituting the government we are still officially ruled by. First elections are scheduled for later in the year.
JULY 4TH, 1789 – Back in the days before the country took pride in masochistically subordinating its own best interests in order to please all the countries that hate it, it was on this date that Congress passed a tariff that taxed goods imported in American ships at a rate 10% lower than on goods imported in ships under foreign flags.
JULY 4TH, 1794 – The “Whiskey Rebellion” is underway in western Pennsylvania. Farmers protesting a federal tax on grain alcohol act against it by refusing to pay it and by tarring and feathering the revenue agents sent to collect the tax money. They also take to burning down the homes of revenue officials. The rebellion ends in November.   
JULY 4TH, 1797 – The Judiciary Committee of the House of Represenatives was preparing to exercise its impeachment power for the first time. Senator William Blount of Tennessee was the target. Blount would be accused of attempting to provoke a war between the USA and Spain by using clandestine agents to incite the Cherokee Indians into staging attacks on frontier outposts of both nations. The full list of charges was submitted to the House on July 7th, and though impeached, Blount was found not guilty by the Senate on January 14th, 1799.
JULY 4th, 1814 – In War of 1812 action General Jacob Brown and his troops celebrate the USA’s 38th birthday in Fort Erie on the Canadian side of the Niagara River. The previous day Brown and his men had taken the crucial fort from the British in battle.   
JULY 4TH, 1817 – New York’s Governor DeWitt Clinton marks the 4th by breaking ground at Rome, NY for the building of the Erie Canal.
JULY 4TH, 1820 – The capital of Alabama is moved from Huntsville to Cahawba … forever changing the course of American history. 
JULY 4TH, 1826 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only U.S. Presidents to have signed the Declaration of Independence, both passed away on this date, the 50th anniversary of that document’s signing. 
JULY 4TH, 1831 – The very first public singing of the song America, by Samuel Francis Smith, takes place in Boston, MA to mark the nation’s 55th birthday. Also on this date former President James Monroe tried to extend the tradition begun by Adams and Jefferson by passing away, but, oddly, no other former presidents have followed his lead on this.  
JULY 4TH, 1836 – The House of Representatives marks the USA’s 60th birthday by passing a resolution recognizing the nation of Texas, a sister republic that has just fought its own war of independence from the tyrannical Mexican government.
JULY 4TH, 1848 – The cornerstone of the Washington Monument is laid at a public celebration of Independence Day in Washington, DC.   
JULY 4TH, 1863 – The Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, MS is surrendered to the Union forces led by General Ulysses S Grant. Because of this, southerners being as strange as they are about the Civil War, Vicksburg would not celebrate the 4th of July again until World War 2. I’m serious.
JULY 4TH, 1876 – On the nation’s Centennial, an African American painter named Edward M Bannister wins first prize for his painting Under The Oaks, presented at the celebration in Philadelphia.
JULY 4TH, 1881 - Many in the nation are praying for the survival of President James Garfield, who was shot by Charles Guiteau two days earlier. Garfield would linger until September 19th before passing away.
JULY 4TH, 1894 - This date is deliberately chosen to announce the proclamation of the Republic of Hawaii, led by President Sanford Dole, in one of those simultaneously stirring yet repulsive moments in history.  
JULY 4TH, 1902 – President Theodore Roosevelt marks the nation’s 126th birthday by literally “declaring victory” in the undeclared war with Philippine nationalists that has been raging since February of 1899. This marks the end of hostilities everywhere except in the Moro province of the southern Philippine Islands where slave-holding Muslim forces remain under arms. The undeclared war against these forces would continue until June 15th, 1913, when Bud Dajo, the last bastion of Moro resistance fell after a frontal assault that lasted for three days. Bud Melman fell one day earlier. (I’m kidding!)  
JULY 4TH, 1910 – Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W Fuller passes away after heading the Court for the past 22 years. Future Chief Justices see through this transparent attempt to start a “let’s die on the 4th of July” custom like Adams, Jefferson and Monroe did for Presidents and refuse to follow suit.   
JULY 4TH, 1946 – In a ceremony in Manila, the Philippine Islands are granted their full independence from the United States.
JULY 4TH, 1976 – The nation celebrates its 200th birthday as everyone collectively catches their breath after the Vietnam War and the Watergate Scandal.

THE GREATEST DOCUMENT EVER WRITTEN

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton

BH