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Recently I downloaded Google’s attempt at a web browser. For the most part it is impressive. It seems to handle css rather well. I would compare it to using firefox. It does not suffer the typical issues of the IE variations out there, it does not suffer the same issues that Apple’s Safari browser has with redirects or other header calls. Overall it is well thought out and works great. More or less it is like they stole all the good ideas from the leading browsers and put it all together into a mash that they call Chrome. One issue I have noticed so far is rather trivial but could be viewed as a bug. I have included a little image to show the one and only issue I see so far.

There is a red box I have drawn in the area where an input box would normally be. The fact that they do not show the input box for a file upload is right on since it is not a user editable field anyway but the one thing that is a bit off is that if you click your mouse anywhere in the area that the input field would have been then it is as though you clicked the “Choose File” button. As I said I don’t know if this should be considered a bug but it could be an annoyance anyway.

Google Chrome Upload Field

So this post does not strike you as odd, I am the admin here and yes I am a Reverend as well so with that said today I was looking through the bible to prepare a reading for a wedding this weekend. While I read it made me think of some of the past posts I have made like the recent one about the state of the world today. I cannot help but to constantly wonder what causes a human to think they are doing God’s work by killing. Killing in the name of God they say so proudly. Now correct me if I am wrong but is pride not one of the greatest of sins? Anyway what I found was this little passage in the bible that makes my beliefs ever more prominent.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8a

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Love never ends.

What this says to me is that God is the one who has shown and given us all love, it tells me that He is not a spiteful, arrogant or resentful God. We “men

Recently my uncle Kenny D. Shaw asked me to take a look at his upcoming children’s book and after sitting with one of my daughters and reading it from cover to cover we both decided it was surely a great book and looked forward to its upcoming release. It is now about a month later and the book is finally here as with an optional cd to accompany the book.

The idea for the book originated from a poem written by a Donald L. Slater. Donald came to my uncle Kenny and asked him to record the poem. The outcome of the recording was so uplifting to the two men that they decided they could play their part in making the world a better place by writing a children’s book with beautiful pictures of gods creations on display and the words from the poem. All of this and a cd to go along with it for families to use as a tool to instill love and togetherness into their children before mainstream music and media gets their claws into them.

You can find out more about the book titled It’s a brand new day and purchase it by visiting It’s a brand new day.net

Global Warming, Genocide, Terrorism, War. That is all I hear about anymore. I must say I myself am seriously sick of it. Is this all really called for? Are we really that ignorant a species to not realize we are only killing ourselves and not so much ourselves but our children? Just think they will have to spend 50 years of their life or better cleaning up our mistakes if they are actually still alive and able.

You know the thing that bothers me most about it all is this. Global Warming… They try to blame society for use of products such as hairspray. Although I am sure that is not very good for the environment I am sure the missile and bomb tests have a far greater effect than the whole of us and our damaging products yet they still go forth with them.

Now we see flash floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and tidal waves in places that it was unheard of. Who is to blame for all of that? Well all of us for not doing anything about our terrorist countries that we reside in. Yea that’s right I said it so shoot me, it will only further prove my point.

Of all things I hear the other day that the Russians are reinstating their air force and tactical training and boast about the money they have to drive another arms race, which brought them in range of our airspace. Is this necessary? It has been about 15 years since any such thing. Have they been attacked, harmed or otherwise ill-treated? Not that I am aware so why now. Ill tell you why. Greed! Greed for money, Greed for power and the strong urge to DIE! Other than that there is no reason outside of pure ignorance and disregard for our own kind.

Start a movement, bring the masses together and put an end to it once and for all and no I do not mean by bombing the shit out of the planet. I mean get together. Grab a neighbor. Enjoy the presence of life because we are borderline on not having it and our governments don’t give a rat’s ass. They will be all hidden away in their copper lined caves while everyone else sits out here and vaporizes. Do you have children? Imagine sitting at the table for morning coffee as your child plays in the back yard. Next thing you see a flash of light and your kid turn to ashes split seconds before you follow. Yea that’s what I am looking forward to aren’t you?

So to close I have one more thing to say. Smarten Up!

For about 6 months now we have been providing a unique type of web service to the new wave of Internet users. Our children. This is a very fast paced world out here on the Internet. A lot of things can go un noticed and with our children now using the internet for things such as gathering information for school, playing games, talking with friends and so on we have now end up with a playground of a whole new kind only it has no playground attendants or monitors. This is a very scary thing if you think about it.

Even though the Internet is such a useful day-to-day tool for us and provides us with so many great things there are very dark sides to it as well. You can think of all the scams you have come across online and possibly even a few of you have experienced threats and harassment online. Our children are subject to all of these things as well but on a far greater scale because of their undeveloped minds and their constant sense of security from not knowing.

What we been doing for the past 6 months has been running a beta of this service to see how it works out and so far results have been spectacular. We have very specific rules for the website and any others that are created like it. Each website is monitored on various levels. We call this Safe Monitored Online Youth Interaction (SMOYI) Playground.

What this means is that each site has at least one Adult monitor. This can be the site Authors parent or one can be hired and appointed to monitor the SMOYI Playground.

Each must have at least one Author or Editor. The author(s) or Editor(s) have slightly different rolls. An Editor has the ability to create and edit pages, blog posts, links and comments as well as approving comments. This is for more mature children. Authors can only write blog posts that must be processed by the playground monitor(s). All comments to posts are treated the same way. Page creation, categories and sidebar links are not allowed for an author.

There are ban word filters in effect for all content that is posted including the shout box posts. The shout box is a place where viewers can leave a real time publicly viewable note that is also filtered. No links are allowed in the shout box to prevent abuse. Words in the ban list are replaced with *** in the output for the entire site but are stored in their raw form in the database for investigation by the monitor(s)

All content that is added to any of these sites should always be monitored by an Adult to insure that there are no links to questionable content. Any content that is found that is of an adult nature or otherwise inappropriate should be removed as soon as it is found. If someone has found content matching this description it should be reported immediately to the monitor. This is a 0 tolerance playground.

What we have found in our test run is that the users of the test site have followed the guidelines that have been laid out completely. The Editor started out as an Author and progressed to an Editor over the past 6 months. The rules were explained. The reasons for the rules are the key to this as with communication. This has been an experiment really and the results have been phenomenal. The way this started was that my child had absolutely no responsibilities and any she had previously had (mice, hermit crabs, etc) did not work out very well. She had taken an interest in what I do for work but at her age surely cannot jump in that far so I decided to give her Author rights on one of my own sites, Asylum-ET. Very quickly I decided that the mash in content that would create was not so hot and so I gave her a sub domain and her own site on it. She took to the idea of being able to write and express her self very quickly.

Since then it has become an automatic thing that she comes home from school, does her homework, goes online to her website, checks comments, makes post(s) and so on. While she sits in a #php help channel on irc. I do not recommend the irc portion to anyone for their child unless they are monitoring it as I do. I am an operator in the help channel and she is restricted to only this channel. Not by anything other than her own conviction. I monitor all network traffic on my home network. Connections that are made from her laptop report to me live. That is all together another story though but it is more evidence that this playground works.

With this she has acquired a great deal of knowledge and has been given many skills that can only grow, she has the ability to be creative with the world to see. She has shown powerful concern for some serious issues as with basic html, she is reading, writing and even calculating. But most of all she is being responsible. All things we want for our children. The thing that is most amazing to me is that of the friends that have visited, they all have enjoyed their stay followed the rules and return. They also expressed some of the darnedest things that make you know that everything is going to be all right. The more time they spend in our playground is less time they spend in other places online.

Places like Myspace are scary. The way it is setup there is no possible way to have a safe and clean environment. The way this works is on a much more personal basis. I know the majority of the registered members parents in one way or another. As simple as a phone call to authorize their use, a note or whatever have you. Just an acknowledgement that the child can come to the playground is what I have decided is sufficient at this time since the users are all local.

Eventually we want to provide games in these playgrounds so we can start to eliminate some of the advertising we have had to run to levy some of the costs of providing this service. So far this has been 100% out of pocket expense that has to this point had absolutely no income whatsoever. We do need to have a form of income to continue to provide such a service and if it grows the cost will be greater so for lack of a better idea for that yet we have advertising

What may be an option here is as I mentioned before a paid monitor, volunteers would be great, game token purchase (rather not) or the latest idea I have is maybe a small monthly subscription to the playgrounds. That way everything is internal and we can eliminate advertising altogether.

I have just found this article about implanting microchips in humans. The point of these things as it is told to us is seemingly a good cause. You can store medical information on them that can then be accessed by the doctors if you are in emergency treatment with the doctors having no previous record of you. Well that in itself is all fine and dandy but this raises serious concerns for me, as should it with every citizen of the world.

So far there are about 1,000 people implanted with one of these chips worldwide. It is claimed by the chipmaker that the implants are intended to easily track disoriented Alzheimer patients and to give quick access to complex medical records as with restricting entry to high-security areas.

Chip designer Dr. Richard Seelig told a federal panel last January that because it is imbedded in the flesh, the tag can’t be lost or stolen. “It is always there when needed,”

The microchips, a form of RFID or radio frequency identification are also used for tracking products from their origin to the store shelf as with tracing pets or livestock movements. And now the chips are being used to tag humans.

Keyword there is TAG. So now we know that you can track where someone is and what he or she are doing with one of these things. Not necessarily such a great thing. As for the medical advantage well you will only have an advantage if the clinic or hospital you are rushed to has the capability of reading one of these things. The makers statement about not being able to steel it, well if someone wants it bad enough they surely will get it. Aside from all of that so they say the data on it is secure yet can be accessed from anywhere. It is far from secure. How long did it take hackers to get peoples stats from their Nike pedometer shoe inserts?

There is even talk about having to get an implant to use as a drivers license. Well I have a few choice words to say that I will refrain from but if that ever happens then I guess I will be a criminal because there is no way I am getting a chip in my arm to drive a damn car. If they think that will fly then maybe they have spent a little too much time with puff the magic dragon

A few days ago someone I know had shown me a white 95 honda civic in fair condition. It had a ton of miles on it but ran very good and had a good amount of work put into it so for the price of $800 it would still need a little bit of money and work to make it road worthy but that was a good price. I told him if he had it in a few days to get back to me because I would be interested in buying it from him. He told me well it is my wifes and we do have another guy looking at it but if not they would let me know.

Alright so here it is a few days later. This guy stops by my house with the car, his wife and brother. He asked if I was still interested and I told him I wanted to take it out for a test drive and then we will see. So we take it out, all goes well, get back to my house and tell him that they will have to give me a ride to the bank to get the money for the purchase. This is not an issue so we go to the bank, get the money and arrive back at my house. He said that they would like to take it and go empty their belongings out of it and would return shortly.

Now at this point you are surely thinking OMG what an idiot he gave them the money and now he is letting them bounce with his ride. Well no that is not what happened. I told them that would be fine and that I would pay them when they returned after signing a bill of sale. I have been ripped off enough to know you don’t do that. So anyway now it is about 5 hours later and I am working when I hear yelling that someone is steeling my car.

I prepare myself and run outside to find a man about 8 inches taller than I who must outweigh me by at least 65 pounds or so with his foot inside my car with the door open. He tells me he is repossessing the car and shows me a paper that was not even completely filled out or notarized for that matter. I pointed this out and he said it didn’t matter. I said fine I will call the police and see what they have to say about this as I stood in front of the vehicle to block him from leaving from that direction anyway. Others at this time started to go towards the back of the vehicle to stop him from leaving that way either. He drove the car into my legs and continued to drive so I had to get out of the way at this point or be run over.

The police show up about 20 minutes later and there is nothing they can do. The vin number that I verified in the window tag on the dash to match the bill of sale does not return any results for any vehicle. The officer even went as far as to try other possible variations in hope to find anything but nothing. Ok great so now we do not know who this guy is, what the real vin is for the car or anything for that matter other than what I have given you already. The man arrived on foot with a much younger female. He drove off to the opposite end of the street from which they came and she disappeared back the way they came.

There is no need to use full names for these individuals because it is already known amongst so many who they are so we can stick with a first name basis.
Now assumptions have been made here. The sellers of this vehicle Timothy and his wife Sabrina kept a separate copy of the bill of sale for themselves and after selling the car made no rush to leave so this was not a w00t we got the money and we are out. No no not at all. After utilizing my own resources to gather information we have a few theories but most prominent is this.

3 or more parties involved in a plot counts as conspiracy. We have the the wife who signed as buyer, I who signed as buyer and then the husband who signed as witness. Two other parties come in while one drives off with the car. It is suspected that the man is the wifes father or other relative. The three or more individuals plotted this out for days or more hence the copy of the bill of sale and the extended visit after the sale because they were not worried about anyone looking for the car or the alternative.

The married couple who were selling there car because they needed rent money and food for their kid… Ok I will stop that right there. Whatever if this was not plotted out the people who arrived how did they know to come to my house to get the vehicle in the first place. Yea well anyway justice will be served. Hands are tied for the police due to legalities and other political nonsense like budgets and all but they are not overly tied for me. The police need enough to go on before they can proceed. I am willing to bet money that what I gather is enough to convict every one of them for this and more. The reason being that after some thought into this it is really simple and the thought is that this is not the first time for this group and it is not just cars.

The officer did ask me why I did not stop the man from taking the car but I want to know as a citizen what more do I have the right to do. The only thing I can think of outside of what I did could endanger the lives of people surrounding me. A vehicle is a deadly weapon and even though I will use excessive force to stop someone from harming another person I don’t think this situation would call for that. Maybe if I were out in the back woods or something but this is a city street. The only person in harms way was myself for putting myself in his path. So I counted on the police for support here and let this crook drive away. All I have left to say is karma can be a very interesting thing and everything in life comes full circle and it helps to know people.

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I have known many people who have been to treatment centers and I must say that The Stone Hawk drug treatment center is amazing. They know where you are coming from because they have been there so being able to relate is not an issue.

The Stone Hawk has an astonishing success rate of 76% and counting. I highly recommend this treatment facility mostly due to their views on recovery. I do not want to knock the 12-step program but I have rarely if ever known it to have a high success rate. The fact that the Stone Hawk treatment facility has a strict no drug policy meaning you do not take drugs to get off drugs goes to show you that they really mean business. They do not want to substitute your one addiction for yet another and in their methods maintain that your body is being cleansed of not only drugs, but also the need to have drugs in your life.

This method allows for you to lead a normal productive life without feeling the need to go to meetings regularly/habitually. This is an absolutely wonderful facility and I personally hope that many people find the help they so rightfully deserve by stumbling onto this post.

I think MENJ is a towering individual because he speaks out in his writings. He is a clean cut, handsome individual. This is MENJ.
What do you think? I have been over at his blog reading for some time now and I must say that MENJ has some interesting posts. His post about the crypt that allegedly held the body of Jesus is great and the statement

I can put up any “religious” view that I want, this is my blog and there-is-nothing-you-can-do-about-it.

I think MENJ’s egoism is of incredible value to his viewers. Like I he will write anything he feels like and no one can stop him especially if he believes in something.

Well this is only one opinion of many but I have to comment on this. Saddam Hussein, a man of great disgust to me and to many others I am more than sure. He was hanged to death tonight. Are we out of our damn minds? With this gesture that was made in his hanging we have made it very clear. Not only are we just as bad as Saddam Hussein but we are worse as a people. This disgusts me to no end. How are we any better than he? We publicly murdered this man, a real human being. Despite what he has done he was still a human. He had a name, a family, and even if I do not like to admit it I am sure he had friends. He was born of 2 parents. Not only did we publicly murder him but also people rejoiced at his death.

Let me ask a few questions here.
Would we hang a prisoner or would we use a more humane method such as lethal injection?
I am lead to believe that we would use the needle.
How long has Saddam Hussein been in custody and was he still a threat to anyone after his capture?
I think not. Not unless our prison system is lacking which in the case of such a fowl person as Saddam Hussein I think that we would have made absolute sure he would never get out.
Do you feel better to know that now that Saddam Hussein is dead others will follow?
Do we not realize that an eye for an eye only results in everyone becoming blind?

I don’t know. All I can say is I hope that the world learns a great lesson from this. The first one all of your parents should have taught you long ago. Two wrongs do not make a right. The other lesson I hope we all learn is that in order for the violence and hate to end the bigger man has to be just that. You may think I am out of line or hate me for this post but I really do not care. I speak from experience here. I once had a beautiful wife and someone that I once called a friend killed her. I hated him for this for the longest time and I even had the greatest of opportunity to kill him and many would say it was within my right. Well I gave him one look. This worthless used up excuse for a human and I then raised my eyes up and what did I see. His children. What kind of man would I be if I took their fathers life away to satisfy my feelings of hatred and need for closure? The fact that life was lost is enough for me to say that no more shall be. There is only one being that has the right to give and take life. That is God! The one we as a great nation live under. So please think on that a bit. We are not here to have war or to kill. We are here to live, love and die naturally and that is all. Remember the one guarantee you have in life is that it will come to it’s own end without help and when that time comes you will have to answer for your every decision you made in life.