DIRECTIONS TO NEW BLOG

This blog is no longer active. My new blog is here: Gayle's Cyber Place

UPDATE: Except for the fact that I'm having a problem getting HaloScan to work on the new blog, I seem to have gotten the new blog up and running faster than I thought. The new link is: www.gaylescyberplace.blogspot.com.
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It may take awhile, but I'm going to have to start a new blog. I worked for hours attempting to figure out why my blog is loading so slow. I resized many videos and made them smaller, and got rid of some stuff on the sidebar, but all to no avail. When I get the new blog set up, I'll post the new URL here and send out e-mails to those readers that I can. I don't know how long I'll be gone, because I'm also busy with planting and a lot of other mundane chores. *sigh* Such is life! LOL!

I really hate this, but one has to do what one has to do.

In the meantime, keep on trucking! (We Texas Rednecks say stuff like that.)

Good News Re: Cap-and-Trade and Other Stuff

I don't often recommend movies, but when I do it's because I find it to be truly exceptional and last night Walt and I watched one that fits into that category. "The Ultimate Gift" is outstanding. It came out in 2007, but I'm sure not all of you have seen it. NetFlix doesn't have the trailer, but you can go here to watch it. If the link doesn't work, copy and paste this URL to your browser:
http://www.spike.com/video/ultimate-gift/2829978?cid=YSSP

It's shocking, I know, but even God is included! :)

On the political front there's a bit of good news. The Senate Passes Republican Bid to Slow Cap-and-Trade. (I love political "good news". It's so rare!) From the link:

“Tonight an overwhelming majority of the U.S. Senate slammed the door on using the fast-track process to jam through a new national energy tax,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican. “This is good news for families, taxpayers, and job creators.”
*snip*

You bet it is!


On a personal note, we’re postponing the new truck I’ve been wanting because we’ve decided to put in a wind turbine instead. Because we use electricity for our house, our huge greenhouse and the trailer our hired hand lives in, our electric bill is really high, especially in the summer. It’s not too bad in the winter because of our fireplaces. We have ceiling fans in every room except the bathroom, but in Central Texas in the summer, ceiling fans don’t begin to cut it. I don’t know how the settlers ever made it, especially the women with all the heavy clothing they wore back then. The winds blow hot in the summer, at least in the daytime. They must have been miserable.

I wonder if they’ll still be making trucks by the time I get around to buying one? I sure hope so! When you haul lumber you need a truck, and we often purchase lumber and other large items for projects and repairs around here. We also need a truck to take produce to the market. How do the moonbats expect farmers to run farms without trucks? Is it possible they’re trying to do away with farms? I wonder where they think their food comes from!

In spite of all the BS going on in the news, try to have a wonderful weekend, friends. There are silver linings out there… somewhere.

"What? Me Worry?"

North Korea Makes Final Preparations for Rocket Launch

SEOUL, South Korea — Reclusive North Korea pressed ahead Friday with final preparations to blast a multistage rocket over Japan as world leaders scrambled to forge a united stance on how to punish Pyongyang for the launch.
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Here's some information on Taepodong-2 missiles:

The article says "all existing descriptions, especially of the Taepodong-2, include some speculation and guesses", but if you scroll down to the sub-title "The Threat", the article says that "These missiles only make strategic sense if they are intended for a limited number of high leverage targets.
But the good news is that there's nothing to worry about. Obama has told North Korea not to launch and so what's the problem? Doesn't everyone do what Obama tells them to do?

I'm going to go pot some plants. It's one of the things I do that keeps me balanced... more or less. Perhaps we should replace all politicians with potted plants. At least they wouldn't be able to do any damage!

Letter Received from the Mayor of Houston, TX

Houston’s Mayor Bill White Should Be Replaced

The above link is to a post I wrote on March 13 in which I sent a snail mail to the Mayor of Houston, Bill White, regarding an illegal alien cop killer in Houston and the mayor's ignoring of same and passing the buck to the Federal Government.

I promised I‘d post a response if I received one. The following is the response I received yesterday, in which he passes the buck to the Federal Government:

Thank you for your letter I recently received. I appreciate your writing to me, and I understand your concern.

I agree that the borders ought to be more secure and we need to do a better job of protecting our officers. However, cities cannot be the enforcement arm of the federal government. We have neither the manpower nor the resources.

The Houston Police Department has been cited as a model for cooperation with federal authorities on immigration issues. We cooperate fully with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and participate, for example, in raids on illegal gangs and human traffickers. Everyone who is arrested and booked into Houston jails is asked about their citizenship status. We have fingerprinted thousands of suspects and checked them through federal databases, and have turned over hundreds of criminal illegal aliens to ICE for deportation. ICE and other federal authorities have full access to our jails.

In addition I have personally lobbied the last two U.S. Secretaries of Homeland Security and other high federal officials to give federal agents the resources to get these people off our streets and secure our borders.

If you would like to receive periodic e-mails from my office and the City of Houston, please go to http://www.houstonx.gov/ and register with CitizensNet.

Sincerely,

Bill White
Mayor

If all the above is true, why is it that in Houston “lawmakers were considering termination of a local policy that bars police from inquiring about immigration status or acting to detain suspected illegal aliens"?

I write a letter to the Mayor accusing him of passing the buck to the Feds regarding the shooting of Officer Salter by a drug dealer living in a $40,000 home with $50,000 worth of security on that home, and the good mayor responds with a letter passing the buck to the Feds.

Perhaps I’m being too harsh!