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Michael Jackson’s Mom Fears Looting

  Michael Jackson was strange.  I was never a fan of MJ but I got to admit he could sing and dance and he made some great music and videos. 
  The thing with the little boys…well..very odd…they way he lived was so odd that I just have to think that he had major mental problems.

  I did not hate Michael Jackson.  He was found not guilty of the child porn stuff and we have to go with the jury when they decide a court case.  I think now that the cover up may come to and end with his death.
  The world is going crazy right now with Michael Jackson love  and some of that may go the other direction when information starts to come to light. 

  What is making me sick is his family.  TMZ.COM and other sites are reporting that the family is concerned about other people looting and they want control of his bank accounts.
  Michael Jackson’s body was not even cold yet and I saw on TV that his father had sent a truck to the house were MJ died to get his stuff. 
  His father, Joe Jackson,  showed up on the red carpet at the BET Awards the other day.  His father had all sorts of gold hanging around his neck.  He just looked looked like a low life.  He said we just lost “the biggest star” etc.  If you want to see an interview with Joe Jackson on the red carpet here it is:
Michael Jackson’s father Joe Jackson BET Awards 2008 CNN.

  It seems that Joe Jackson is talking business and plugging new music projects.  I heard talk of concerts by other family members.  They wanted to do it in the past and Michael Jackson would not do it and they are saying now they may do it.

  Michael Jackson is getting a lot of love and tears from his fans.  I do not see tears in the eyes of his father and others…No tears just dollar signs.  
  It sort of seems like the good do die young.  Michael Jackson dead at 50 and his father still alive at 79. 

  I know I just said Michael Jackson was “good” and I am not sure about that. If what MJ said about his father was true then MJ problems and mental condition may not be his fault but we can lay at the feet of his father.

Oneirology

  I feel so rotten when I wake up.  My whole body hurts.  I feel heavy and I feel full.  I am not sure why I  hurt so much when I first wake up. 

  Last night I had a scary dream.  It is rare for me to have a nightmare but I had one last night.  I was moving around outside and there were stations set up on the street and they were killing people.  I woke up Thank God.

Obama Picks Camp David Church

By AMY SULLIVAN Amy Sullivan – 38 mins ago

“For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new - and uncontroversial - church home. Obama has even sampled a few himself, attending services at 19th Street Baptist on the weekend before his inauguration and celebrating Easter at St. John's Episcopal Church.

Now, in an unexpected move, Obama has told White House aides that instead of joining a congregation in Washington, D.C., he will follow in George W. Bush's footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David…”  See Yahoo News

  Sounds to me like they made a good choice.  I just wonder how far is Camp David from the White House?  How will they get to Camp David?  Do they drive each Sunday through traffic or do they fly him to Camp David?  I guess we will find out.
 
  History of Camp David

  Camp David - Wikipedia

Fox “news” hates Al Gore

  I have noticed that Fox “news” hates Al Gore. 

“…Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American environmental activist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He is an author, businessperson, and former journalist. In 2007, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Gore also starred in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award in 2007 and wrote the book An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, which won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in February 2009…^”

   I am not sure what it is that makes Fox “news” so filled with hate for him.  They been saying that he is trying to make money off of the environment. 
  I hope that someone inside Fox is keeping notes and will publish a book someday on the workings of Fox.
  It has been reported that Fox “news” gets their marching orders each day.  That someone from the top puts out the party line and that they have to follow the party line.  It seems to be true because they attack the same person and in the same way and use the  same words. 
  It just could be that Al Gore pissed off someone high up in the Fox “news” corporation and they are doing a pay back.
  It is just odd.  I was never a fan of Al Gore.  My feeling was anyone is better than Bush.  So now when they beat up on Al Gore I do not care…I just wonder why beat up someone that does not even hold any office.  He is just a private citizen that happens to have been the Vice President of the United States, has a Nobel Peace Prize, won Academy Award and a Grammy.  
  I think that Fox “news” has to have someone that they can attack ….I think their viewer want someone that they are told is evil and right now they can not do it to the current President of the United States.

The SysOp Next Door

Joe Taibi made a comment about your note "BBS: The Documentary Photos":

“I do remember you're doing something very similar and it was for that very reason i contacted you first when looking for people to join us in the Fidonet thing! I was a user of your BBS for some time before jumping in and doing it as well. By some time meaning a few months since we all know how fanatical we all were back then once we got the bug. And damnit I know you were blogging in the early 80's cause that's what Howard's NOTEBOOK was! A blog! Your Blog! But no one had coined that stupid bastardization of phrases yet! lol”

  If it is not in Wikipedia it is not true.  Smile
I use Wikipedia all the time to look up information.  I guess I need to get someone to enter the information into Wikipedia.
  I wish I had saved old messages and data that would be great.  I wish my memory was better.  I wish the guy that made “BBS: The Documentary” would post my two and a half hour interview.  He started posting some of the interviews with people on the Internet archive site but I guess he got tired of doing it.  It has to be a major amount of work because he interviewed over 200 people.
  If you watch his documentary you will see that many of the people he interviewed still had their old computers, BBS software and all sorts of things saved.  I have nothing.
  My mind is a  blank right now but the guy in Belton that was running the FidoNet hub there at the last…He owned a computer shop..I heard he died.  He was a nice guy but I did not hear about his death until later.  I think he was part of the Fido net wars that seemed to go on later.  You started up the Fidonet thing in KC but later toward the end, I think, there was some real fighting going on.  I was not part of it.  I just wanted the feeds and did not get into the fighting. 
  Jason Scott, creator of the documentary, asked me about FidoNet.  He had some stories about it.  It seems the fighting was taking place not just in KC but all over the United States. 
  There was a lot going on that I did not know about…I was sort of in my own little world and that was Howard’s Notebook. 
  Do you remember “The Sysop Next Door” series of stories that was posted on Howard’s Notebook and that many other BBS picked up and re-printed?  You do know who the author was?  After all these years it can be told.

I am so tired of the Michael Jackson reporting

  I am so tired of all the stories on Michael Jackson.  If the media was reporting news it would be different…but they are just talking..and they have little information.
 
  I guess I was wrong on Gov. Sanford.  I said he would be out of office in 48 hours and he is still there. 

  I put Fox “news” back in my channel line up when the Gov. Sanford story came out.  I wanted to see how they would report it.

  I am putting on weight and feeling bad again..  I feel so much better when I do not eat.  I had some Coke for the last couple of days…I will try and hold off buying any…but it taste so good with food.  
  My left foot has not been swollen in weeks but it is swollen up again.. food..salt..make it swell up.

  The new WordPress is real nice.  If you are thinking of setting up a blog and you do not want to pay for TypePad then use WordPress.

  I feel so good when I lay down and go to bed and I feel so bad when I first wake up.   I guess I will go to bed…0130 is early for me.

I should be nude

  This is National Nude Weekend and I should be out at Haulover Beach and be nude.  I been at home all weekend watching WordCamp on the computer.  I am watching it live via uStream. 

“Over 250 bloggers and new media types from all over the Dallas/Fort Worth area and as far away as Germany made our first WordCamp a smashing success in March, 2008. Capitalizing on the energy and excitement of the event, we formed the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress Meetup Group that has since grown to include nearly 200 members and is the 2nd largest WordPress Meetup group in the world!

This year, we’re moving WordCamp to the Richardson, Texas campus of the University of Texas at Dallas where we expect to have upwards of 300 attendees. The cost for the two day event is only $30 and you’ll get an official WordCamp Dallas 2009 t-shirt and be provided lunch both days. Check out our scheduled speakers, get signed up, follow us on Twitter (hash tag #wcdfw09), and come join us!”

  They are having an excellent event.  They only charge $30.00 for the event.  
  I have learned a few things and got some good ideas.  Plus they were showing the new WordPress upgrade and so I installed it. 

Jackson’s doctor cooperating with investigation

  CNN reports that Michael Jackson’s doctor is cooperating with the investigation.  Do you believe that?
  He got a lawyer and he is not going to let the doctor tell the police the truth.  In fact I do not think the lawyer would let the doctor say much.  I think the lawyer told the police that the doctor would only meet with them and “talk” to them if the police put out a statement saying that he was cooperating with the police.
  What is the doctor going to tell the police?  Is the doctor going to say I been getting drugs by fraud?  Each time he used a fake Rx or fake name or how ever he did it… each time would be a felony.  How many counts of drug by fraud do you think we are talking about?  How many times has the doctor committed a crime by breaking FDA laws?
  I have no inside information.  I have no contacts.
  Will I be correct in this matter?
  We will find out.  I am not sure if it is going to be next month or a couple of months but we will find out.

MJ Tribute

The Sarychev Peak Eruption – Kuril Islands

  I saw this on TV the other day.  I have heard people talking about it.  A friend, Dick, just sent me a link for the photo.  So take a look at what people are talking about.

“A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, and it is located on the northwestern end of Matua Island. Prior to June 12, the last explosive eruption occurred in 1989, with eruptions in 1986, 1976, 1954, and 1946 also producing lava flows. Ash from the multi-day eruption has been detected 2,407 kilometers east-southeast and 926 kilometers west-northwest of the volcano, and commercial airline flights are being diverted away from the region to minimize the danger of engine failures from ash intake…”   NASA Photo