Here I am again, plus another week. Not much going-the usual. We’re going to DeBenneville Pines Camp for a UUCLB! church retreat this weekend-the kids are psyched-they packed their backpacks last week…
The recap: went to dinner at B.J.s with the Pembertons. Erika went to a stamp show, went to Alta Laguna park for a church picnic, got to fly my deca a little, ate at Texas BBQ Pit after-YUM!!! church Sunday, meeting afterwards, didn’t sleep well and was tired Monday, it rained, Erika got the car tuned up for the drive to camp, worked on computers at Journey school. I’m the computer guy there now.
Here’s a quickie week in review-I don’t know if I have the energy for more…Executions have stopped in CA. The CA Supreme Court ruled that a medical professional needs to verify that the process isn’t cruel and unusual punishment. And no anesthesiologists are willing to participate in an execution. Something about the oath they take saying “FIRST DO NO HARM”. A Dubai co financed by the emirate wants to buy a UK firm that runs several shipping ports. This has touched off a bit of light and heat for BushCo. Apparently the public and Congress doesn’t like an Arab run co knowing how port security operates. And it was approved over objections from law enforcement. Oops. South Dakota legislators have passed a law banning abortion, and the gov. is going to sign it. And immediately after that, Planned Parenthood is going to file a lawsuit, a judge will issue an injunction, and the thing will wind its way up the federal courts. I have no idea if this will end up on the Supremes’ desk, probably, the problem here is whether Robscalito will want to get into overturning the Roe precedent in such a sharp manner. I think not. Ohno won the 500M race, leading the whole way. He was happy, he skated well. A bunch of inmates took over a prison in Afghanistan, and BushCo visited. We’ve had riots here in LA jails recently too. TIA is alive under another name. Scary. Especially with the domestic spying stuff. Six months after Katrina, it’s still a mess there. The conclusion-don’t rely on the Feds for anything after a disaster. And a video briefing surfaced pre Katrina showing that BushCo was warned. Which means Bush lied when he said no one could’ve predicted it. Enough already. I agree with the assertion that in a more normal system, a vote of no confidence would’ve occurred, and BushCo would be out. <sigh> And now I just heard that the Patriot act passed. Dude. Get these guys out of here! 10 No votes. That’s just wrong. Shame on everyone who voted for this, especially the Democrats.
I finally got around to burning some of the CD’s I have backlogged. It meant getting a ton of conversion software: dbPowerAmp, 4Musics WMA to WAV Converter, lame, razorlame, oggDropXPd, MPC utilities, Xilisoft MP3 WAV Converter.
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