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Wordrider's This and That is a mixture of poems and song lyrics about a range of feelings. Words about love, broken hearts, things that might be silly, and abuse by husband, boyfriend, friend or family member.
I try to convey feelings that might have you touching the sky, walking with a rain cloud overhead, or maybe shaking your head in wonderment. You might laugh, cry, or be left scratching your head.
My hope is that my poems or songs will let someone know they aren't alone in what they have been through, and that tomorrow can be better. That faith will see you through.
I give thanks to God for giving me these words to write. I dedicate this book to my mom, my family, my friends, and each and every person, who has helped me along the way, even the ones I don't know. I thank them, one and all, each one that took time to read my poems even though they might not have wanted to read them.
Some people say some of my poems or songs lyrics are off the wall or too much about love. To this, I can only say:
"The reason I write off the wall stuff is I play on the ceiling a lot." and "It may not be love but it is close enough to chocolate to taste good."
Moment Can Be Found
As each day takes from us, a little more time, a little more trust, we look around hoping a moment can be found.
When we look at ourselves and know we give people help, let us pick up the pieces that fall. So, God, our soul will call.
For our hearts to light then what is in them must be right, so, as we make our way, through this old world each day,
we will come to know, that heaven is our home. Then we will everyday be glad, knowing once there, we will no more be sad.
A tear froze
A tear, froze, in time, in a picture someone took, that one tear was mine, oh, how I shook,
a tear caught in midair, oh, hanging all alone. A tear with all that power, knowing that love went wrong.
A tear out of place, a picture for all to see, no smile on my face, how can, that really be?
When a tear rules, as a wish on a star is make, you have the blues, as you try to live day after day.
George Platt began writing what he calls "nonsense poetry" when he was a member of the Army during the Vietnam War. He was later stationed in Germany, for three years, where he continued his writing, sometimes writing love poems or cards for his fellow GI's. He is a featured author on elyrics.com. His poem, "Please God," was the winner of the Elizabeth Anderson Campbell Award and "Him Lying There" was a winner in appreciation of WOSL Members Editors Choice Award. His motivation for writing has always been to bring a smile or a thoughtful moment of reflection to those who read his writings. Mr. Platt currently lives, where he was raised, in the foothills of the beautiful Ozark Mountains in north central Arkansas. He can usually be found at one of the local restaurants, pen & paper in hand, passionately writing or he can be contacted by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bell city, the gift that keeps on giving
April 28th, 2011, 6:18 am by Brian CalleThe Bell city saga continues with investigates uncovering more shenanigans by the former city manager, Robert Rizzo, the city council and other city workers attempting to enrich themselves at the expense of taxpayers. the latest developments shows evidence of a secret pension fund of $4.5 million meant to give extra retirement benefits for up to 40 government works.
Many pundits have voiced the obvious concerns about this latest scandals. Most notably, is the degree of greed Rizzo and his allies demonstrated. After all, Rizzo's pension, without any secret funds, would have around a million dollars. His annual compensation was about $1.5 million. And other employees that sought to benefit from the secret pension already had generous pension benefits legally guaranteed from the city, like most public workers in the state that have lucrative benefit formulas.
But what is most disgusting about this newest development is that it illustrates just how many people were in on the corruption in Bell. This shows that dozens of workers, government employees, knew that something was going on and rather than blow the whistle decided they too would cash in on it. There is no such thing as public service anymore. Enrichment at public expense is more like it.
Here is the whole story from the LA Times:
Bell officials said they are trying to determine whether they can use any of the $4.5 million discovered in a supplemental retirement account former city administrator Robert Rizzo created for some city employees. Read the rest of this entry »

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CTI/PCRLP File Emergency Rule Petition to Protect Patient Privacy
ACTION ALERT: Email & Attend Board of Health Meeting on Wed.
For immediate release: Dec. 17, 2013
{Denver} -- The Cannabis Therapy Institute and the Patient and Caregiver Rights Litigation Project have filed an Emergency Rule Petition to the Board of Health, which oversees the medical marijuana Registry. The Emergency Petition asks the Board to discontinue the practice of sharing confidential patient information such as patient ID numbers, plant counts, and dosage recommendations with the Department of Revenue for the purposes of verifying the DOR's Marijuana Inventory Tracking System (MITS) online database, accessible to all law enforcement.
MITS AND PATIENT PRIVACY INFO: http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/patients/privacy/ http://www.coloradoindependent.com/145244/pot-regulators-tracking-plants-play-down-privacy-concerns
The Colorado Board of Health will hold their monthly public meeting on Wednesday. Two medical marijuana issues were already on the agenda. One agenda item is titled: "Presentation: Update on Department Activities following the State Auditor's Medical Marijuana Regulatory System, Part II". This will be an update by Registry Director Ron Hyman on the Auditor's report that CDPHE failed back in June.
The other agenda item will be a formal public rulemaking hearing regarding lowering patient fees from $35 to $15. Since the CDPHE has failed to keep the Registry confidential and since the CDPHE has a $13 million surplus in over-collected patient fees, patients believe the Registry should be free.
The Emergency Rules petition may or may not be acted upon by the Board of Health on Wed. Patients and their advocates are encouraged to attend the meeting at 10:00am, to support the Emergency Petition during Open Public Comment.
======================================== ACTION ALERT SEND EMAILS NOW Please send an email to the Board of Health supporting the CTI/PCRLP Emergency Rules Petition
SAMPLE EMAIL Dear Board of Health: This letter is in support of the CTI/PCRLP Emergency Rules Petition to stop the practice of sharing confidential patient Registry information with the Department of Revenue (DOR) for the purpose of regulating Medical Marijuana Centers (MMCs) through the Marijuana Inventory Tracking System (MITS) online database. Information from the Registry is only supposed to be shared with law enforcement when they have "stopped or arrested" a person who presents them with a Registry ID card. The MITS database has nothing to do with patients being stopped or arrested. It is used to track sales at MMCs. Please stop sharing information with the DOR in this manner. Sincerely, Your name
EMAIL SUBJECT: Support for CTI/PCRLP Emergency Rule to Protect Patient Privacy
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Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013 Board of Health Public Meeting Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Sabin-Cleere Conference Room 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver, CO 80246
Rulemaking Hearing: Proposed changes to Medical Use of Marijuana Regulations, 5 CCR 1006-2, Regulation 7 to lower the Medical Marijuana Registry Patient Fees
Time: 10:00 am (the agenda says the marijuana information will start at 12:20pm, but the Emergency Rule petition will be discussed at 10am during general public comment. Please sign up when you arrive.)
Click here to view agenda: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=CDPHE-Main%2FCBONLayout&cid=1251635552089&pagename=CBONWrapper
LISTEN REMOTELY CDPHE says that citizens can listen live remotely via telephone. Phone: 1-877-7831 Access code: 647688# This will only allow people to listen, not participate, so send your emails!
PATIENT PRIVACY IS PARAMOUNT If it becomes known that a person uses marijuana because of privacy breaches of the confidential Medical Marijuana Registry, that person faces discrimination and potential harm in employment, housing, child custody, health insurance, veteran's benefits, organ transplants, automobile insurance, firearm ownership, occupational licensing (including real estate, medical professionals, construction trades, and teachers), student loans, loss of right to due process, interactions with law enforcement (loss of freedom), and incrimination in federal crimes.
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NOTE ON IMPORTANCE OF PARTICIPATION It has taken CTI and PCRLP over 200 hours of unpaid research to uncover abuses of patient privacy being undertaken by CDPHE and DOR. Please take 2 minutes to send an email to show the government that the public is aware of and supports our efforts.
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{Denver} -- The Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry wants to lower fees for medical marijuana patients who volunatrily register with the state from $35 to $15, but patients and advocates feel that the fees should be eliminated altogether until the CDPHE can guarantee that the Registry is confidential and until the CDPHE has depleted or refunded $13 million in over-collected patient fees.
The Board of Health (BOH), which oversees the Medical Marijuana Registry, is having a public final rulemaking hearing on the issue Wednesday, December 18. Patients are encourage to attend and send public comments by email in advance.
SEND EMAILS NOW! Please send an email to the Board of Health asking them to eliminate the Registry fee for patients until they can guarantee the Registry's confidentiality and until their $13 million in over-collected Registry fees are depleted.
SAMPLE EMAIL Dear Board of Health: This letter is in regards to proposed changes to the Medical Use of Marijuana Regulations, 5 CCR 1006-2, Regulation 7. I support lowering patient Registry fees, but I think $15 is still too expensive. There should be NO FEE until the Registry can be guaranteed confidential as required by the Constitution and until the CDPHE has depleted or refunded the $13 million surplus budget of over-collected patient fees. Sincerely, Your name
EMAIL SUBJECT: Public Comment on Proposed MMJ Rule Change Regarding Registry Fee
DEADLINE Send comments by Dec. 18 at 10am.
ATTEND HEARING Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013 Board of Health Public Meeting Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Sabin-Cleere Conference Room 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver, CO 80246
Time: 12:00 noon (the agenda says 12:20pm now, but please arrive early in case the agenda item is moved up)
Click here to view agenda
SURPLUS BUDGET WAS OVER-COLLECTED FROM PATIENTS The CDPHE has a $13 million in Registry fees that it over-collected from patients over the past 13 years. The state has been trying to "re-appropriate" this money for years. However, under the Constitution, the Registry can only use the money to pay for administrative costs of maintaining the Registry.
Recently, the state has tried to steal $7 million in Registry money again, under the guise of using the money to promote "legitimate research" into cannabis.
REGISTRY IS NOT CONFIDENTIAL In addition, patients feel they should no longer have to pay for the Registry, since it can no longer be called a "confidential" Registry. The CDPHE has allowed law enforcement to have direct access to the confidential Registry without any oversight, and many security breaches have been uncovered recently.
Cannabis advocates have uncovered that the information in the "confidential" Registry is being illegally shared with law enforcement. Any local, state, or federal law enforcement official nationwide now has access to the Registry through the CCIC crime computer, run by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), with no supervision by the CDPHE. The Director of the MMJ Registry, Ron Hyman, has said repeatedly that "We don't control what law enforcement does with the Registry information."
Most recently, it has been revealed that law enforcement agents from the Colorado Department of Revenue's Marijuana Criminal Enforcement Division (MCED) are somehow confirming patient numbers, plant counts, and dosage recommendations for patients that are provided to them by MMCs for inclusion in their new Marijuana Inventory Tracking System (MITS). The MCED claims they are getting that information from the CDHPE MMJ Registry, but the CDPHE denies it.
MMJ Registry Director Ron Hyman has stated flatly, "Medical Marijuana Registry (MMR) information is not shared for the purpose of maintaining or updating the DOR MITS database."
Julie Postlethwait of the MCED denies this. "We request the info on a specific card number and they (CDPHE) confirm it is current and the recommended plant count," she said.
In June, the Colorado Office of the State Auditor gave the CDPHE an "F" for maintaining a confidential Registry. The Auditor uncovered many privacy breaches.
REGISTRY IS VOLUNTARY The Registry is and always has been voluntary. However, the state destroyed the caregiver model in 2010 with House Bill 10-1284, so patients have become reliant on Medical Marijuana Centers (MMCs) to get their medicine. You don't need a Registry ID card to obtain medicine from a caregiver under the Constitution, but you do need a red card to purchase cannabis at an MMC under statute. If the Registry is not confidential, why pay $15.00 to have your name accessible to law enforcement on demand?
FORMAL OPINION FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL Attorney General John Suthers has been asked by CDPHE to issue a formal opinion on privacy breach legal issues that were uncovered by the Office of the State Auditor in their report on the CDPHE's performance in maintaining the MMJ Registry. CTI encourages AG Suthers to issue a formal opinion quickly, on the matters in the Auditor's report and on the privacy issues concerning access of law enforcement through the CBI/CCIC direct-access online interface and the DOR/MITS online interface for MMCs. If a patient's privacy is breached only once, it can have catastrophic consequences.
If it becomes known that a person uses marijuana because of privacy breaches of the confidential Medical Marijuana Registry, that person faces discrimination and potential harm in employment, housing, child custody, health insurance, veteran's benefits, organ transplants, automobile insurance, firearm ownership, occupational licensing (including real estate, medical professionals, construction trades, and teachers), student loans, loss of right to due process, interactions with law enforcement (loss of freedom), and incrimination in federal crimes.
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BACKGROUND A new online police interface gives all law enforcement access to the Registry through the CCIC/NCIC national crime database. An agreement between the CDPHE and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) allows the CBI to have real-time, unmonitored access to the confidential Medical Marijuana Registry. CLICK HERE TO READ CBI/CDPHE DATABASE AGREEMENT
Colorado patients have been complaining that they are getting pulled over by law enforcement in other states, and that the police know whether they are currently or were previously a medical marijuana patient on the Registry.
On Aug. 21, 2013, the Cannabis Therapy Institute presented an emergency petition to the Board of Health requesting that the CDPHE disable the direct interface of the national CCIC/NCIC crime information computer with the confidential Medical Marijuana Patient Registry. The petition was denied by the Board of Health on the grounds that they deemed it was not an emergency.
However, they confirmed everything we suspected about parallel databases, having multiple copies of the Registry in multiple places, and having no control over outside agencies that accessed the Registry. The Board was unapologetic and refused to do anything to make improvements. They even refused our request to notify patients of the new online police database, the Auditor's report, or the confirmed breaches of confidentiality.
The BOH admitted they could not control what law enforcement does with the Registry. The "Quote of the Day" from the Aug. 21, 2013 BOH meeting came from Ron Hyman, MMJ Registry Director, and he did say it three times:
"We don't control what law enforcement does with the Registry information." "We don't control what law enforcement does with the Registry information." "We don't control what law enforcement does with the Registry information."
Click here for CBS 4 coverage of the patient protest at the Aug. 21 meeting: Colorado Marijuana Patients Protest Privacy Breaches, August 21, 2013, 4:20 pm
The Constitution requires the CDPHE to keep a confidential Registry of medical marijuana patients and states that law enforcement can only receive information from the Registry if they have stopped or arrested someone who presents them a with medical marijuana Registry ID card.
At the Oct. 16 meeting, they will consider whether to accept any of the proposed changes in the CTI/PCRLP petition and whether to begin formal rulemaking procedures. Based on past actions, CTI expects the Board of Health to deny their petition again.
June 2013: CDPHE Fails Auditor's Report for breaches of Regsitry Privacy Click here to read the Auditor's Report on the Medical Marijuana Registry
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Medical Marijuana Registry Confidentiality Breached by Law Enforcement
CTI and PCRLP File Emergency Rules Petition with Board of Health
[April 15, 2013 - Denver] -- An investigation by the Patient Advocacy Project of the Cannabis Therapy Institute (CTI) and the Patient and Caregiver Rights Litigation Project (PCRLP) has uncovered that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) has been illegally sharing confidential medical marijuana Registry data with law enforcement through the CCIC/NCIC national online criminal database, administered by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI). CTI and PCRLP have filed an Emergency Rules Petition with the Colorado Board of Health to stop this practice, which they plan to discuss at the Board of Health's next meeting on Aug. 21, 2013.
AUDITOR'S REPORT: CDPHE PROVIDES TOO MUCH INFORMATION TO POLICE The CTI/PCRLP investigation was triggered by a report released by the Colorado Office of the State Auditor on July 15, 2013 that first revealed details of a new online database that allows law enforcement direct access to the confidential medical marijuana patient Registry.
Relevant parts of the June 2013 Auditor's Report on the CDPHE start on Page 59: http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/legal/colorado/audit/
The Constitution requires the CDPHE to keep a confidential Registry of medical marijuana patients and states that law enforcement can only receive information from the Registry if they have stopped or arrested someone who presents them a with medical marijuana Registry ID card. Since the Registry was created in 2001, law enforcement has never had direct access to the Registry. CDPHE employees always handled all law enforcement inquiries, and the Registry was always on a single computer in a locked room and was not accessible through the Internet. The Auditor's Report states that the new "CCIC-Registry Online Database" went online in April 2013 and may be giving law enforcement too much information on patients, such as the plant count and quantity of cannabis a patient is allowed to possess. The Auditor writes, "It is not clear that Public Health has constitutional authority to provide information about patient plant and ounce counts through the Registry-CCIC interface."
The Auditor also uncovered 15 reported confidentiality breach incidents, including an incident where 5400 caregiver names were "inappropriately provided to the State Auditor." The caregivers whose confidential information was breached were never notified.
CTI/PCRLP EMERGENCY RULES PETITION On August 15, CTI and PCRLP filed a 10-page Emergency Rules Petition to the Board of Health seeking to stop law enforcement from gaining direct access to the Registry. The Petition argues that any and all law enforcement access to the Registry is illegal. The Emergency Rules Petition provides further details of confidentiality breaches and states:
"Over 200,000 patients, former-patients and caregivers have had their confidential data compromised in unknown ways. The many documented leaks of Registry information reported by the Auditor constitute a substantial failure of the CDPHE to protect the confidential Registry as required by the Constitution. It is unclear what information was given to whom and when, or even how many copies of the Registry exist. Because of these massive failures, the Registry must be presumed to be breached in its entirety. Even one breach of the registry is too many."
"Patients can no longer trust the CDPHE to maintain the confidential Registry that they paid them to maintain. The current Registry must be disabled, and an entirely new system must be devised to create a new Registry that is truly confidential."
CDPHE MISSING CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS The Auditor's Report also reveals many other areas where the confidentiality of patients has been violated, including access by state agencies and outside contractors to Registry data that the CDPHE cannot directly control. One of the entities that has full access to the Registry is an outside contractor operating the COHELP hotline, which is the state's main BIO-TERRORISM hotline. However, according to the Auditor, 95% of COHELP calls concern the Medical Marijuana Registry. CDHPE has no contract with COHELP and has no direct oversight. Because of this, the Auditor concludes, "The medical marijuana program does not have control of the work performance of COHELP staff."
In addition, the Auditor stated that CDPHE was unable to provide signed confidentiality statements of 30% of the people that they checked in their random sample. A Colorado Open Records Request (CORA) from PCRLP revealed that the CDPHE has confidentiality statements from only a fraction of the people who have had access to the Registry. To get the other missing confidentiality agreements, the CDPHE directed PCRLP to contact the following outside entities and private contractors: Express Employment Professionals (a temp agency that the CDPHE hired to enter Registry applications), Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration, Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, and the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT). This is more proof of the Auditor's concerns that the CDPHE does not have direct control over the people and entities that have access to the Registry.
PARALLEL DATABASE AND PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION In addition to the Auditor's report, the official Agreement between the CDPHE and CBI regarding "Law Enforcement Queries of the Medical Marijuana Registry Information" dated October 2012 (obtained through another CORA request) provides more details on law enforcement access to patient data.
The CBI/CDPHE Agreement on page 3-4 states: "The CCIC transaction log . . . records every inquiry made through CCIC as well as the provided response . . . The log's record of prior transactions is maintained for at least five years and its access is restricted to CCIC support personnel at CBI only."
This means the CBI is keeping all results of its queries to the Registry, including names of patients, in their own "parallel database". Since only the CBI can access this data, no one can determine how the CBI may use or abuse this confidential patient information.
A recent Reuters' story uncovered the common police practice of "Parallel Construction", where law enforcement will use unlawfully-obtained secret tips to begin investigations on people. There are no safeguards in the CBI/CDPHE Agreement preventing law enforcement from using confidential Registry information in their "parallel database" to begin investigations into people, and then use "parallel construction" to cover-up the original source of information.
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MARIJUANA USERS All marijuana users, including patients, face discrimination in employment, housing, veteran's benefits, child custody, health insurance, automobile insurance, organ transplants, firearm ownership, occupational licensing and in interactions with law enforcement. The main purpose of the Registry was to allow patients to use medical marijuana in a confidential way. With all the leaks of this private information reported by the Auditor, the Registry can no longer be trusted to protect patient information, and the sanctity of the Registry may never be repaired.
DONATE TO CTI Help us continue to pursue this issue. This research effort has taken many hours of work, and there is much more work to be done. Please be generous so we may continue our efforts: http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/donate.html
2010: DOR PREDICTS LAW ENFORCEMENT REGISTRY BREACHES Three years ago this month, Fern Epstein, a consultant with Rebound Solutions who was hired by the Department of Revenue to help design the seed to sale tracking database, gave an overview of the plan to breach the Registry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuYn9C_BbjM
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Posted on 12/14/2012 6:33:44 PM PST by marktwain
Should Michigan's governor sign a bill on is desk that would allow concealed weapons in former no-gun zones, like schools?
The question is timely for two reasons:
* Under legislation that passed the House and Senate in Michigan this week, gun owners with concealed weapon permits could carry a gun into schools, daycares, hospitals or public arenas if they get extra training. The bill is awaiting Gov. Rick Snyder's signature, according to MLive.
* And on Friday, a gunman opened fire in a school in Newtown, CT, killing at least 27 at an elementary school, including 18 children.
(Excerpt) Read more at northville.patch.com ...
wide open carry.
Requires registration — no thanks.
One armed teacher or administrator would have saved dozens of lives today.
I tried but it wants me to join whatever it is.... I think such a measure is long overdue. The only time I don't have a gun around is at work. The rest of the time, there is at least one handy. And I hate the thought that one day I would have to face off against an armed man with only the sharp end of a broken yardstick.
Adam Lanza walked into a CT school today with no permit whatsoever. How in the hell could we trust law-abiding citizens with guns in schools? /s
Thanks! Excellent idea!
Twitter is pretty handy for that sort of direct access sort of thing. Snyder appears to have someone on twitter pretty much all the time.
They should train all teachers who desire, to be reserve police officers—problem solved.
Fake it. Type in anything (like hsgbdbnh). Then firstname.lastname@example.com. It doesn't matter. It'll take it.
It seems to work well for the Israelis.
Michigan is gun country and I can't remember the last mass shooting like a school. There was a pretty serious shooting at a police station in Detroit a couple years ago.
You know, I've come on here for years, trolling you people by posting the dumbest sh1t I could come up with and laughing while you agreed with me and sent me PM's out of solidarity. It was a guilty pleasure. I'm not proud of it, nor should I be. But, at long last, I will at least admit it.
But seriously, when you conclude that the answer to stopping school shootings is allowing more guns in school, you have reached a level of stupidity that is simply beyond the pale. 20 babies lie dead, their bodies so destroyed that no transport to a hospital was forthcoming. More guns, that is the answer. Congratulations, you have achieved the pinnacle of stupid; you are the ultimate "freeper".
Yes, I have trolled here, because I knew that the more I fed the flames of your distorted thinking, the more I was doing to make sure those you support are unelectable. But this.....this is just dangerous.
You fools realize that the answer to decreasing teen sex isn't providing more opportunities for sex. The answer to abortion isn't increasing more opportunities for abortion. The answer to higher taxes isn't more opportunities to tax. Why do you see the answer to gun violence as increasing the opportunities to acquire weapons?
Other than David Koresh, I can't recall anyone using assault weapons to thwart the advances of an aggressive government. Yet, those same weapons, which have demonstrated zero utility to law abiding citizens, have been used to kill thousands of us, and today one killed babies. Those who continue to cheer on such weaponry have divorced themselves from the rational universe. Well done, freepers. At the root of the problem lies you.
I've always wondered what kind of things turn up in Michael Moore's stool.
Now I know.
Got a live one here...come play before the mods find it.
Here it comes, folks. And our good friend SAR just showed us exactly what they're going to say and how they're going to say it.
So when you hear someone like SAR saying this stuff to use it to strip you of your God given and Constitutuonally protected 2nd Amendment rights remember this. SAR hand those like him or her have addresses. They go to work, they go shopping, they go to the bar, they go to the movies. It's simply impossible for them to maintain a security perimeter of any kind indefinitely. Use that.
And remember this, anyone who wants the Government to disarm you wants to do something to you and they don't want you to be able to resist.
Think about that for a minute.
Sleep well SAR. We all have to sleep sometime.
Tough and armed vets as teachers are the way to go. They can clear the way for our women to properly teach kids who show respect and an interest to learn.
My swim coach was a veteran of Guadalcanal. My algebra teacher landed at Normandy. My English teacher was really cute, and she wore low-cut blouses.
We were able to bring guns to school for hunting into the 80s. Still no shootings at my old school. (or thousands of others)
I made sure to save the text of the post to notepad for educational purposes.
well, bye.
One armed teacher or administrator would have saved dozens of lives today.>>>>>>>>>>>
Thats a fact. And on top of it the teachers of today are " in loco parentis" they have a duty to keep students safe.
That duty can only be discharged completely if a teacher is carrying, or has ready access to a classroom/school arms locker.
Thats a pure fact. But today the large majority of teachers are so 2nd amendment challenged that they cannot even contemplate the necessit involved.
Obama will attempt to make us all into sheep once again, using this tragedy.Eff him and his whole crew.Our schools need to be kept safe, and this can only happen if teachers carry or have access to self defence arms at school.
Connecticut has gun control laws, but a fat lot of good they did.
If Lanza know that he may be facing a weapon other than his own at the school, he would have finished himself off at home.
Thank you. This one had been around since 2005, IIRC. There really are sleeper agents in FR.
IOW, you only hear/read about the bad events that receive the media coverage. You don't hear about them when a person successfully defends him/herself with a gun.
You are a sick little liberal fascist.
Thousands of one room school houses across the nation were kept safe by a shotgun standing in the corner, over these last 100 years.
Come to think of it, you can come on over here, I 'll give you my address, and I would be happy to show you exactly what I mean. Or perhaps visit a school district in Israel?
The duty of teachers is to keep children safe at school, they stand in loco parentis. That danger now includes shooters who would enter the school and kill students. The answer, and the only answer of any American who has an ounce of sense is to arm teachers and make sure they are trained to discharge their duty to keep students safe.
Its just that simple.Meanwhile you think that disarming law abiding citizens is the answer, so that they too will be victims to the next crazy a$$hole like you are who comes along armed?..... Making Americans all into sheep who must depend on others for self defence, one of the most basic human rights of any civilized nation?
Buahahahahaha! Take a long walk of a short pier you flaming liberal fascist idiot.
Been reading through it's posts. Pretty much tried to fly under the radar from what I can tell.
I have met the enemy and they is...you!
Dang, you wander off to clean up the kitchen and you miss a lot!
BAM! Zotted!
Dang, you wander off to clean up the kitchen and you miss a lot!
BAM! Zotted!
What an idiot, and what ridiculous arguments. You can't stop teenage sex with more teenage sex. You can stop an evildoer with a gun, using another gun, and it happens all the time.
"The answer, and the only answer of any American who has an ounce of sense is to arm teachers and make sure they are trained to discharge their duty to keep students safe."
Amen, Amen, Amen...!!
Nice shootin'.
What an idiot, and what ridiculous arguments. You cant stop teenage sex with more teenage sex. You can stop an evildoer with a gun, using another gun, and it happens all the time.
What's really annoying, is that the guy joined up here and lied about himself to get in our good graces. Typical liberal. I'm sure he feels smug and self-righteous about cheating and lying to fool a community of people who trusted him.
SAR, I know you're reading here and having a laugh, but the joke's on you. What you did was wrong, and no amount of gloating on your part will change that. You put a black mark on your own heart, and you're gonna carry that weight, my friend.
While I believe no gun control policy could stop mass shootings like this and therefore calls for more gun control in order to stop these massacres are in vain, I have to say I don't see how the usual response from 2nd amendment activists that "if only an armed citizen could have been there to stop this" can apply here. Who is armed, the teachers? Should we have armed patrols at every school in the country?
Well interesting enough we put armed Sky Marshals on airliners and now have pilots armed on the planes. There is a difference?
you don't seem to realize that if the perp had known that EVERY TEACHER, CUSTODIAN, COUNSELOR, ETC. was armed in that school he would not have even considered invading it???????
That guy is brain dead. His logic is a half-arsed as it gets. Oh, well! One less 0bama Zombie troll.
and if the principal had been packing and knew how to use it, there may have been a very different outcome.
See pic in post #13.
That teacher is packing some serious heat!
Yep, seems his stupidity knows no bounds!
They should make it mandatory that a percentage of the staff is trained and armed. Maybe even pay the armed ones a little bonus for pulling double duty.
Actually, I think you're lying. I think you've been an indecisive mush all along, and now with a terrible incident, you're just swaying in the wind again. Whichever way it blows.
Where did you get that picture from? It's awesome.
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Here it is: George F. Will, Washington Post – Climate Science in a Tornado [2/27/09]
Updates to follow, prior coverage here.
[QUICK UPDATE: Early reactions:]
Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker/TPM – In New Column, Will Sticks To His Guns On Global Warming [2/26/09]
A. Siegel, Get Energy Smart Now – Will's whining … defending the indefensible … [2/26/09]
Carl Zimmer, The Loom/DiscoBlogs – George Will: Locked In Ice! [2/26/09]
Curtis Brainard, The Observatory/Columbia Journalism Review – The George Will Affair [2/26/09]
Jamison Foser, County Fair/Media Matters – WaPo goes all in [2/26/09]
A. Siegel, Get Energy Smart Now – Will directly lies … again … and again … and again … [2/26/09]
Carl Zimmer, The Loom/DiscoBlogs – Unchecked Ice: A Saga in Five Chapters [2/27/09]
Eric Boehlert, County Fair/Media Matters – WashPost's Fred Hiatt plays dumb for George Will [2/27/09]
Chris Mooney, The Intersection/SciBlogs – George Will Lies; His Editor Does Nothing [2/27/09]
Chris Mooney, The Intersection/SciBlogs – My Email to Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post [2/27/09]
Andy Revkin, Dot Earth/New York Times – Experts: Big Flaw in Will's Ice Assertions [2/27/09]
Isabel Macdonald, Huffington Post – Challenging George Will's Reign of Climate Error [2/27/09]
Attaturk, Rising Hegemon – Shorter George Will [2/27/09]
Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker/TPM – Hiatt: Will Challenging Climate Change Consensus Is "Healthy" [2/27/09]
Josh Dorner, The Sierra Club/Huffington Post – Will-ful Deceit at the Washington Post [2/27/09]
Mitchell Anderson, DeSmogBlog – George Will's Big Climate Change Adventure [2/27/09]
James Hrynyshyn, Island of Doubt/SciBlogs – Once more into the breach [2/27/09]
Senator John Kerry, Huffington Post – Facts Are Stubborn Things: George Will and Climate Change [2/27/09]
Coby Beck, A Few Things Ill Considered/SciBlogs -Things Break takes down George Will's latest [2/27/09]
John Fleck, Inkstain – In Defense of Walter Sullivan [2/27/09]


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1970 Pontiac LeMans Sport Vert.
"My Keeper"
1970 Chevrolet Camaro
"Texas Ranger"
Head to Head
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After a massive restoration, it is worth WAY more to me than to anyone else.
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Have owned the car a little over year. Bought it completely stock w/ the original interior and paint.
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We look at the current state of Occupy San Diego; possible SD school closures and a ballot measure that could abolish the death penalty in California.
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states' rights Introductionstates' rights, in U.S. history, doctrine based on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The term embraces both the doctrine of absolute state sovereignty that was espoused by John C. Calhoun and that of the so-called strict constructionist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, which reserves to the state governments all powers not specifically granted by that document to the federal government. A states' rights controversy is probably inherent in the federal structure of the United States government.Sections in this article:
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The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France celebrates Pierre Boulez
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A celebration of the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Pascal Rophé.
Premiered in 1946, but reworked in 1989, Le Visage nuptial ("The Nuptial Face") is one of Pierre Boulez's most lyrical pieces. Written after a poem by René Char (excerpt from Fureur et Mystère), this secular cantata for soprano, contralto, women's choir and orchestra is a sensual work which evokes the colourful sonorities of Debussy. Divided in five movements, Le Visage nuptial is made up of contrasting musical parts bearing witness of the different influences that have marked Boulez's artistic path. Laura Aikin and Hilary Summers join forces with Pascal Rophé to perform Le Visage nuptial, a masterpiece wich, according to Dominique Jameux, "holds the 'aura' of works that have taken on mythic status."
This concert, broadcast live on medici.tv from the Cité de la musique (Paris, France), will also be the opportunity to discover the French premières of Armonica by Jörg Widmann (with one of the greatest performers of glass harmonica, Christa Schoenfeldinger) and Change by Johannes Boris Borowski. The two works were both premiered under Boulez's baton, respectively in Vienna in 2007 and in Lucerne in 2008.
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Broadcast date : Feb. 25, 2014, 7 p.m.
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé
Chœur de femmes de Radio France
Catherine Simonpietri chorus master
Laura Aikin soprano
Hilary Summers contralto
Christa Schoenfeldinger glass harmonica
Movie director : Christian Leblé
Location : Philharmonie de Paris – Philharmonie 2 (former Cité de la musique) (Paris, France)
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Thanks to London's incredible season-driven markets, diverse ethnic influences, and internationally acclaimed chefs, it's no longer fashionable to claim that British food is bad.
But now that the Olympics are here, with tourist numbers swelling by the day, I have to wonder: what will all of those visitors eat? Sure, the venues will sell fish and chips (and £4.20 Heinekens), but people will still need to venture into the city.
Will they stumble into the nearest Italian restaurant or seek out a good Sunday roast lunch? Will they choose a burger or a bacon butty? Shrimp cocktail or potted shrimps? After spending several weeks researching and eating quintessential London foods, I can only hope that Olympic tourists explore the host city's real food in between all the games.
To that end, here are 10 must-eat British foods for visitors to track down while in London, listed in order from low-end to high, along with suggestions for finding them in the vicinity of Olympic venues and viewing areas. Put down that chicken burrito and go get some bacon butty!
10 Must-Eats in London
Pie and Mash with Liquor Sauce
Bacon Butty
Chelsea Bun
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Toasted Cheese Sandwich aka Cheese Toastie
Scotch Egg
Roast Bone Marrow
Potted Shrimps
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Jeffrey McBride steps up to the microphone, prepared to ask political leaders not to be so hard on sex offenders.
It is mid-May, and Huntington Beach is the latest city debating the Orange County District Attorney's high-profile campaign to ban offenders from parks, beaches and other recreation venues.
McBride appears professional as he steps to the wooden lectern, a thick stack of paperwork in hand. The 44-year-old wears a dark suit, dark red tie and dark brown hair, much like in his clean-cut picture on the California Megan's Law website.
It has been nearly four years since the longtime Orange County resident went to prison for possession of child pornography, the start of a long journey through the legal labyrinth Californians have constructed to keep kids far away from people convicted of sex crimes.
On this Monday night, McBride has turned out to share what the experience has taught him, albeit without mentioning his past. He will say that, in his mind, government is trampling on constitutional rights with increasingly stringent laws. He will say that Orange County cities are about to make matters worse, spreading their resources thinner and making it more and more difficult to focus on the worst of the worst.
"Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council," McBride says, his voice steady, his mind hoping somebody is listening.
Registration of sex offenders goes back to 1947 in the Golden State, but many of the most noteworthy restrictions – often conceived after headline-grabbing rapes and murders – are a recent phenomenon.
Megan's Law was expanded in 2004 to provide residents with click-of-the-mouse access to offender information. Voters passed Jessica's Law in 2006, mandating lifetime GPS supervision of felony sex-offender parolees and preventing them from residing within 2,000 feet of schools and parks. Legislators in 2010 adopted Chelsea's Law, increasing time behind bars for many sex crimes.
"California's system of sex offender management was created – for the most part – piece by piece through separate and uncoordinated legislative and administrative actions," the state's Sex Offender Management Board said in a January 2010 report highly critical of the current framework.
"Although various components of the system have learned to work together, the overall system could not be described as coherent, cohesive and coordinated."
On top of statewide provisions, local lawmakers often pursue their own policies. In Tustin, officials have created a patchwork of "child-safety zones" designed to bar sex offenders from loitering near day cares, parks and nearly two dozen community events, including a chili cook-off, community yard sale and Easter egg hunt.
Orange County supervisors in April banned sex offenders from county parks, beaches and harbors. Since then, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has been hopscotching around O.C., lobbying city officials to follow in the supervisors' footsteps and winning support in Westminster, La Habra and Los Alamitos.
As more towns act, Rackauckas has raised the specter of those that resist new restrictions becoming havens for offenders. "You don't want to have it be legal in your city," he told Irvine leaders, who adopted a limited ban.
At a glance, McBride is accomplished and unassuming. He was raised in Mission Viejo, graduated from UCLA in 1990 with a psychology degree and until recently held down a sales-related office job.
But he is not the ideal spokesman for relaxing sex offender rules, partly because he has a long list of unrelated convictions.
He's pleaded guilty to hit-and-run, battery, resisting a police officer and evading a police officer. Court records show at least three DUI convictions, including a felony that resulted in prison time.
"Everybody's tired of Jeff screwing up, including Jeff," he says, attributing many of his troubles to alcoholism. In mid-October, just a few weeks after uttering these words, McBride found himself back behind bars on a parole violation.
The child pornography case, in McBride's telling, began when he downloaded a video of two minors having sex.
"Misguided curiosity for a brief period of time," he says. "A lot of bad decisions were made under the influence," he adds.
McBride's undoing came when he asked an acquaintance to clear viruses from his computer; the acquaintance came across the pornography and brought it to the attention of law enforcement.
In court papers filed by McBride, the video is said to involve "two adolescent males allegedly 16-17 years old, faces not shown, engaging in sexual activity with only each other and with no other persons over or under the ages of 18 involved."
But documents filed by the Attorney General's office suggest that description is something of a whitewash.
"Although in his petition McBride attempts to minimize his conviction by claiming that he only possessed one video of two anonymous 16-17-year-old boys engaged in consensual sexual activity, his actual criminal conduct was much more extensive," the paperwork says.
"During the course of their investigation of McBride, police investigators recovered from McBride's computers several movies and photographs of minor boys involved in sexual acts with other boys and adult men that were stored electronically under file folder names such as 'Nekked Boys!,' 'Gay Kids Boys,' '8 Year Old Boy,' and 'Pre-Teen Incest.' "
McBride received a 16-month sentence, of which he served eight months, and so began his effort to overhaul California's approach to sex offenders.
Across the United States, laws on sex offenders have proliferated. Though broadly supported in elections and opinion polls, they have occasionally led to what some see as unintended consequences.
Over the summer, two New Jersey boys were required to register as sex offenders for life following an apparent prank in which they, when 14, placed their buttocks on the faces of two classmates.
In Florida, legislators this year rolled back laws on "sexting" following reports of teenagers being charged with sex offenses for sharing lewd images with significant others.
The question for public officials is when sex-offender laws become too broad. Is it just when joking teens or lusty high-school kids go too far? Or is it also when people like McBride, who were never convicted of contacting a child, are subject to lifetime monitoring?
"It's really important to point out that ... not everybody who is on the registry should be on it," said Janice Bellucci of the California chapter of Reform Sex Offender Laws. "These people, they did commit a crime, they've been punished for their crime, and the question is, what about the rest of their lives?"
Most of the crimes that result in registration involve sexual contact. Those that don't include possession of child pornography, indecent exposure and pimping that involves a minor. Statutory rape doesn't automatically require registration, but courts can order it.
According to the Sex Offender Management Board, only California, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida mandate lifetime registration for all sex offenders. Most states, the board says, have shorter registration durations for nonviolent offenders.
In a time of state budget woes, some say California can't afford its laws. The state spent $65 million in 2009 for GPS monitoring, covering more than 6,000 offenders, according to published reports.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) this year introduced a bill, which is pending, to create 10-year, 20-year and lifetime registration tiers.
"With the skyrocketing costs of corrections in California, we need to base our management and enforcement of sex offenders on the research and data available rather than emotion," Ammiano said by email. "This means focusing our efforts and resources on the most dangerous offenders to ensure that the registry achieves its primary goal – to keep our children and communities safe."
A 2010 recidivism report by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation found that sex offenders, during the first three years of parole, were slightly less likely to be returned to prison than other ex-convicts. Five percent of sex offenders who did end up in prison again were returned for new sex crimes, 9 percent went back for other crimes and 86 percent returned for parole violations.
Many observers note that child molestation and other sex crimes often go unreported, and to the extent recidivism is reduced, they credit tough laws.
Others, including the Sex Offender Management Board, argue that certain laws – especially the 2,000-foot residency restriction – prevent offenders from rejoining society and increase their odds of violating parole.
More and more, judges are agreeing with the latter point of view. Hundreds of challenges to the 2,000-foot rule have been filed with Southern California courts, and one year ago, McBride became the first Orange County resident to win an exemption, at least temporarily, from that element of Jessica's Law.
Much of McBride's life is contained within the four walls of his hotel room, and it doesn't add up to much. There is a small pot of coffee next to a party-size tub of red licorice. There is a rack with hanging dress shirts and a laptop computer.
"I don't expect anybody to have any sympathy," McBride says, his voice competing with vehicles roaring by on the busy street outside.
But, he adds, "I hope people realize there's a big difference (between) looking at pictures and actually going out and doing something to someone."
Beneath white socks and cuffed jeans, there's a bulge where a GPS device is attached to McBride's ankle. He continues with various pleas for understanding:
"I want people in the community to understand I am remorseful."
"I believe in protecting children."
"I'm not advocating for child predators to have it easy in this world."
He is instead advocating for more nuance in the public's view of sex offenders. Life in prison for rapists would be fine, he says. But banning all sex offenders from parks and beaches violates constitutional rights, McBride says.
Several local officials have voiced similar concerns, and also have noted that sex crimes committed by registered sex offenders in parks are extremely rare.
"What is the problem we're trying to solve here with an ordinance?" Laguna Hills Councilman Joel Lautenschleger said as his colleagues discussed the matter in September. "I think a full-scale prohibition like the county did was just simply a solution looking for a problem."
Jessica's Law – which the Sex Offender Management Board blames for a 24-fold increase in homelessness among offenders on parole – also goes too far, McBride argues.
Last year, the California Supreme Court left the door open to individual challenges to the residency restriction in Jessica's Law, saying the constitutionality might vary case by case because of different housing situations in different areas.
McBride started his legal fight by taking a boilerplate petition from the nonprofit Prison Law Office, adding personal details, and filing it in Orange County Superior Court. He won a stay of the restriction, and when back behind bars for a parole violation, he filed a 10-page rebuttal, written in pencil, to the Attorney General's case against him.
Since then, he has found courtroom allies. Matthew Missakian, the deputy public defender on McBride's case, calls residency restrictions "ineffective" and "extremely counter-productive."
In an August report, the Sex Offender Management Board concurred, saying that "there is no evidence that residence restrictions are related to preventing or deterring sex crimes against children."
George and Sharon Runner, the husband-and-wife team that co-authored Jessica's Law, suggest there is room for improving the 2,000-foot provision, perhaps by giving cities authority to adopt less-restrictive rules.
"There is little empirical data regarding the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of the 2,000-foot rule," said Sharon Runner, Republican state senator of Lancaster.
But both also argue that the fundamental idea of Jessica's Law has solid support. "What is certain is that Californians do not want sex offenders living directly across from an elementary school or playground," Sharon Runner said.
George Runner, a former state senator, added that "the Sex Offender Management Board is just out of step with what the public believes."
That's hard to dispute, as Jessica's Law passed with 70 percent of the vote.
Harriet Salarno, president of Crime Victims United of California, noted that any attempt to relax sex-offender laws will likely run afoul of majority sentiment.
"We worked so hard to get these laws through," Salarno said, "and the public was entirely behind us when they passed all the initiatives on Jessica's Law and so forth, and now they're trying to go back and take us back and undo the laws that the public wants."
Among elected officials, it's unclear much enthusiasm exists for differentiating between sex offenders.
Supervisor Shawn Nelson, reacting to comments by McBride at a public meeting, offered a strong defense not only of the status quo, but of going further.
"When people have been found either guilty or pled to felony conduct of having photographs of children involved in sexual behavior, frankly that is exactly why we want to keep those people out of parks," Nelson said before he and colleagues unanimously backed the ban.
Rackauckas, in an email, had this to say about someone possessing child pornography: "If this is what they are fantasizing about, they are certainly dangerous to our kids."
Under the vaulted ceilings in Huntington Beach's council chambers, McBride lays out his case, his message coming just after a young man calls for banning plastic bags and just before a school board member bemoans the size of one campus' locker rooms.
"I understand the public's fear of sexual predators, and that they are interested in protecting children from those predators," McBride begins. "I am here today to educate the citizens of Huntington Beach on the differences between sexual predators and everyone else on the registry.
"Not all registrants are the same, but due to myths of high recidivism rates and 'stranger danger,' the public views all registrants as posing the same threat. The facts do not support this position. The research I have here tells the facts, not the myths as the D.A. would have you believe."
"I urge the city of Huntington Beach to stop any further consideration of the Orange County supervisors' misguided decision to unconstitutionally ban American citizens from beaches, parks and other recreational areas," McBride concludes. "Thank you for your time."
Three seconds pass as McBride gathers his paperwork, and then a loud applause goes up from the crowd. McBride swings around to look at the audience, freezes briefly, gives a quick nod and returns to his seat.
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June 24, 2008, 12:48:45 AM »
It's been 3 weeks now & I think Miss Ginny the Guinea is going to live! Something attacked her whilst sleeping on her nest. I usually try to make sure she is in a tree but was busy that evening & forgot. I went running out there as soon as I heard her screeching but all I could find was a pile of feathers. Looked, looked & looked somemore but couldn't find her body. Not unusual cause we live in the woods. Anyways the next afternoon I was in the storage part of the barn for something & saw a movement. It was Ginny, soaking wet (rained all night & morning). All the feathers on her back were gone, her little tail looked like a chicken in the store..As I examined her I was shocked, most of the skin on her back was gone, huge holes, I could hear air coming out holes in her side when she struggled. She had the energy to squawk though. So I took her in the house & put her in a box. Got the dog kennel, it's fairly large for an aussie & got it ready. Then went to the feedstore & got terramycin for cattle, poultry & amazingly bees! & bluecote wound stuff. Put her in a towel, tried to dress the wounds, took 20 minutes to pick the vinca leaves out of the meat & from under the skin on her back..whatever was eating her alive! She has big chunks missing. She was getting stressed, no wonder so quickly put on Blue Lotion, made sure she had the water/antibiotics, food & put her in the box with a little prayer. She didn't move much for a week but ate & drank. I put the antiseptic on every other day.**.warning**,a half dead Guinea can fight & Blue Lotion doesn't come out of clothes or your skin! The second week she was moving about the crate, looking @ whatever I put in there. She loves the mash I make for my cockatiels. Yesterday Amanda & I got the chain link 5x5 dog pen ready..put 2 layers of chix wire under it, wrapping it up & attaching it to the sides...wiring all loose points down. Put a slab of plywood on the top for the rain & shade. Brought her out in the kennel, put it in & out she came. She was making those cute little noises they make, so happy to be back outside, although upset being confined. I locked her in the plastic kennel in the dog pen for the night cause she is still weak & not perching right. Today she has been toddling around the pen, picking & eating grass making happy little noises. We did put another coat of antiseptic on her before letting her loose in there. Amanda now knows 1st hand that Ginny can fling the stuff onto your neck & clothes. I told her she can tell her boss it's a "Buckley hickey" Ginny still isn't completely out of the woods yet, the wounds were horrific so infection is still a possibility & she limps a little. Don't know if she will ever get feathers on her back but some are starting to grow on her tail. She is such a cool little thing so ugly she is cute. Better get out & make sure she went into the plastic kennel for the night. This is why I didn't realize the bees were starving. Saw a bunch by the hives but Ginny had been in the house so I thought it was just that she wasn't outside to eat the dead ones, well until there were masses & some were still moving
Animals are amazing at what they can handle & survive! Jody
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June 24, 2008, 09:30:08 AM »
I am always amazed at the amount of damage a bird can take and live, now that I've been reading about chickens and some horrific predator attacks, it's truly awesome that they can recover from such a horrible thing. Good for her! I hope she makes it all the way back. :)
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Jody, what an ordeal!!! I can't believe what happened to Miss Ginny, I am amazed that she has pulled through like she has. It was your loving, motherly hand that did this for her, yeah!!!
Now when you get your bees to produce honey, and that day will come. Use honey in your home as a first choice for antibiotic, before any other antibiotic. There of course other circumstances when actual phamaceuticals must be used though too. I have a bottle of honey that I have propolis suspended in. That is my first choice for any kind of wound dressings, and I have seen miracles with this little jar of medicated honey. I kid you not. Honey is becoming so widely accepted in the medical field as an antibiotic, many of the modern medications don't work any more, but honey does. So does colloidal silver water....we have that in our home too. I make the silver water myself and it costs only pennies.
The other day I found a chicken in the chicken coop that had got her leg stuck in a crack (that crack is now closed). She must have been hanging upside down for a good many hours, maybe even overnight. I had my doubts that she would ever be whole again. I put her in a small cage so that she could only rest and eat. A few days later, she laid an egg. Wonders. I let her out of the little cage into the place where we are keeping the chicks until they are old enough to go with the friends in the chickenyard. She walked reasonably well and yesterday, I would say she should be going back home with her other boys and girls. She has 100% recovered. Yeah!!!!
Animals do have an amazing instinct to live....we see that time and time again. Beautiful day in this wonderful life. Cindi
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