Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

Just an area for what I’m doing on an everyday basis.

Stunning…

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3801167&page=1

A judge in Philadelphia has come under fire for a controversial ruling in which she reduced charges so that a man accused of raping a prostitute at gunpoint faced only robbery charges for “theft of services.”

Municipal Judge Teresa Carr Deni earlier this month dismissed rape and sexual assault charges against Dominique Gindraw, who is accused of forcing a prostitute at gunpoint to have sex with him and several other men. Deni left intact charges of armed robbery for theft of services against Gindraw.

Prosecuting Gindraw for rape, the judge said in a subsequent newspaper interview “minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped.”
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So now prostitutes are not human and can be raped without fear of prosecution….

Nice…. really  nice….

How Do I Feel?: pissed offpissed off

Thanks Kathy!

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Harold’s Mom Kathy sent an email with the id of this flower.  It a Clematis.  When I looked it up online, I found sites with tons of different types of Clematis.  It was almost like roses, never knew there were so many of them.
I thought that was pretty cool and tickled me pink.  =)

Nothing much …….NewsFlash

Feeling much better today.  Actually felt normal.  Spent the day working.  The 1st and the 15th are the work intense days of the months.

Don’t really want to be in front of the pc anymore, but don’t feel like anything else.  I put “O’ Brother, Where Art Thou?” in.

Tomorrow we are thinking of heading to Sears to get our rear tires taken care of, did the front ones about 6 months ago.  We put sand in the back of the truck a few weeks ago.  Just trying to get it ready for winter.

Catholic Principal Cited for Prostitution Charge 

**Now I don’t care what consenting adults do and enjoy.  But you have got to love the hypo critics………..lol

Rumsfeld’s Snowflakes

**After reading this, how can you not say that this administration uses fear to get their way.  After watching the movie V for Vendetta They really sound like that, creepy.

Which this story goes to prove how much they use “war” to get their way : Bush: No Attorney General if Not Mukasey 

Other then the news flash, I have nothing tonight.

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Nothing Much, But a Ton of Fall Pictures

Ironically, I was just thinking of this group last week : 13 years later, Arrested Development returns

I’ve just been taking care of little work stuff. I really need to focus on expanding the online store. I have a few ideas.

I went for a walk today, the longest one yet………went to a totally different part of the neighborhood. So here is another blog with a ton of pictures. =)

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That is the main road that we live next to. It goes straight to Portland. When you face the other way, you sometimes can see Mt. Hood dead ahead.

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I was actually taken this picture against the sun, wanting to see how it would come out.

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Now for some flowers. =)

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I found a rose bush that I just had to play with on taking pictures.

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I love the different colors that are blurred in the background.

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I really enjoyed this blending of fall colors.
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This was neat with the outline of white.
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For this walk, I seemed to have found more pink flowers then purples.
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Trying to capture the lushness.
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At the Halloween party I was giving this really beautiful rose.
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Unlike most of the roses I have had, this one isn’t falling apart as quickly.

Unorganized Babble & Politics

The Halloween Party was interesting. Not use to going to actually parties where people really dress up. So our outfits worked. =)

The blue dye made my roots looked grey and the adding the purple made my hair look black…………strange…..lol But our bathtub is blue. I’m going to wait a week for our hairs to bleed out before scrubbing again. Plus I need to get some different soft scrub, I picked a lemon one for the smell and read later that it is bleach free. Well, I can’t have that and get rid of stains.

I’ve been meaning to make this observation for a while, but I don’t know what has gotten into our cat Alexis. She use to be a little bit chunky, but now she has lost weight……looks like she did when she was younger. I don’t know if the cross country trip did it. She is also acting more like a kitten and her spazing out, more ballsy. And what really throws me is she has been yelling at me when I’m in the kitchen. This is a cat that never would drink milk (I haven’t tried it lately), barely lick the juices off of tuna and would have nothing to do with human food. Now she’ll nibble on a very small piece of cheese, tried a piece of chicken and luncheon meat………..and eat some tuna! It is all so strange! She is like a different cat………I was worried that she was sick, but as much as I clean out the litters everything seems normal………she still has her strange fetish of constant water.

Today was just get things back together in terms of laundry, trash and whatnot. I got a few things done online. Trying to think where I need to start tomorrow. I know I have errands 1st thing.

This article is music to my ears : The Evangelical Crackup

There are many related ways to characterize the split: a push to better this world as well as save eternal souls; a focus on the spiritual growth that follows conversion rather than the yes-or-no moment of salvation; a renewed attention to Jesus’ teachings about social justice as well as about personal or sexual morality.

Wow, what a concept………..Christianity focusing on the teachings of Jesus! About time! It is a very interesting, but long read.

I will say this for the NY Times, they really explore an issue. Just wish more papers did that.

Of course, that article made me think of the music from O’Brother, Where Art Thou? I hate the extreme right-wingers that preach hate, but I like simple bluegrass gospels that harmonizes and has heartful feeling. But then when I use to go to churches of my choice when I was a kid it was the spirited gospel ones of the Black Baptist. Boy, if you didn’t feel the lord and spirit during one of their sermons then you were in the wrong church………lol Those were fun.

I think I’m going to surf for some more news.

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