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Help me with YouTube

  As many of you know YouTube has a "partners" program.  If you are a partner you can have adv on your YouTube page and you will earn some money from those ads.  
  YouTube does not come out and say you have to this or that.. They just sort of look over you page and then make a decision.  I heard from someone that you have to have at least 200 subscribers.  I have 120 subscribers.
  So if you use and visit YouTube please go to this link:  My Page  It is free of course and does not cost you anything.  Just click on Subscribe.
  I do not think that even 200 subscribers will get me in the partner program but I would like to at least hit that number and give it a try.
 

  Thank you very much.

15 years for Facebook Sex Scam

  The headline at kansasCity.Com got my attention:  Wisconsin teen gets 15 years for Faceboox sex scam.
  I had to check out that story.  It seems that 19 year old Anthony Stancl, a male, posed as a girl on Facebook and tricked 30 of his male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves.
  Are you still with me?  OK OK.. it gets better now… He then blackmails them into having sex with him.
  It must have been high school because he pleaded no contest to two felonies including repeated sexual assault of a child.
 

  I did a little searching and came up with this additional information if you are interested and these sorts of things interest me for some reason.

  Anthony Stancl – Encyclopaedia Dramatica
  Has a photo of him and  says he created two fake 16 year old girl profiles on Facebook.  He also had a 13 year old victim.
  It said the he told the boys that they would have to perform sexual acts on the girl's male friend first.  I am starting to like this guy!  Smile
  He took photos of all of this activity and if the boy would not do it he would make the threat to post their nude photos. 
  Get this …  How do you think they got him?  You think one of the boys said go to hell. 
  No Mr. Stancl wanted to get a day off from school so he called in a bomb threat.  The FBI came and got him and decided to take a look at his computer.  
  I take it back I am not starting to like this guy.  Smile
  Well now young Mr. Stancl is going to spend the next 15 years around a lot of grown up men.
  Mr. Stancl may be Miss Stancl when she comes out of jail.

Praying for Cheney to die

"Washington (CNN) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney suffered a mild heart attack Monday when he complained of chest pains and was hospitalized, his office said Tuesday.

"Lab testing revealed evidence of a mild heart attack," the statement said. "He underwent a stress test and a heart catheterization. He is feeling good and is expected to be discharged in the next day or two."

During the catheterization, which took place at George Washington University Hospital, doctors examined blood flow to the heart and tested how well the heart was pumping.

In the procedure, a doctor inserts a catheter, a thin plastic tube, into an artery or vein in the arm or leg and threads it into the chambers of the heart or into the coronary arteries. The test can measure blood pressure within the heart and how much oxygen the blood contains.

Two sources said Tuesday that Cheney, 69, was in his hospital room, where he had lunch with family members. He also was working with them editing a chapter of a book he is writing.

He was described as being in good spirits…"

  As you know I am NO fan of Dick Cheney.  But thank God I am a better person than many right wing Republicans.  Many right wing Republicans have been praying for Democrats in congress to die.  Even some have been praying for the President of the United States to die.
  I wish no harm to fall on Dick Cheney and I have not been praying for him to die.
  Now I have not been praying for his good health but that is because I do not pray for things like that anymore.  The last time I can remember praying for something like that was when I was in a Catholic high school and prayed all day at school and on the bus heading home.  I was praying that my dog, Lady, would be OK.  She had been sick and my dad refused to spend money to have a vet check her.
  I found her dead in front of the ice box when I got home.  I think I decided then that praying for the heath of a dog was not a good idea.

Gingrich says Obama is a Socialist

  Newt Gingrich says on Fox "news" that President Obama is a Socialist. 
You can see the video here. 
  I am a left wing Liberal.  President Obama is not a Socialist.  Hell I wish he was a Socialist. 
  If you search ShowMeBlog for "Newt Gingrich" you will find that I have said very little bad about him and in fact I have said a lot good about him.  
  That was a mistake.  I will not make that error again.  New Gingrich is a very smart man and he knows very well that President Obama is not a Socialist.  So Newt is not being honest to his training, his education and it is clear he will say or do anything.  He is just the sort of person you do not want in government.
  It is a shame… I wanted to believe that there were a few educated smart Republicans that could hold office.  There does not appear to be any.  At least none that are honest and truthful.  They will say and do anything to win.  
 
  What is the point in getting an education if you are going to toss it out and lie about history and political facts?  Plus he is a college history professor! 
  What a shame that a man will say or do anything to become President of the United States.
  Now if Sarah Louise Palin says that President Obama is a Socialist or a Communist it would not brother me one bit.  She is stupid.  She does not understand the United States Constitution or how our system of government works.  I am sure she has no idea what Socialism or Communism is or any other "ism."  So if Sara Palin says President Obama is a Socialist I just smile and feel sorry for her. 
  But Newt Gingrich knows better.  It is shame.  I wanted more from him. 
  He is just a Republican. I should never expect anything from them except dishonest lies and stupidly.

Life magazine April 12 of 1948

  For the first time in my life I went to Google Books.  I did not have much of an idea what in the hell it was… But I just went to it and I decided to try it out so I picked “Life” magazine the April 12 issue of 1948 to check out.
  I would have been 7 years old then and I could have seen the magazine and even read it at that age.
  Well here I am at 67 years of age reading the magazine online.
  I am shocked.  I sort of knew that the magazine was right wing conservative but my God it is worst than Fox “news.” 
  Just as an example see this story in the issue:  Wall Street Warfare

It is a story about a strike by the United Financial Employees union.  It was a union for 5000 Wall Street stock exchange employees (like clerks). 
I am not making this up you can read it with that link above the magazine calls some Seafarers International Union members “a squad of horny handed sailors. “  The police beat the workers for a “lie-down” tactic. That is the union members laid down to block the entrance to the stock exchange. 
The magazine did not even make any attempt to be fair in their reporting.
The writing in the magazine is also very bad.

Oh something else I would like to mention… Those Seafarers union members…Keep in mind this was in 1948.  WWII ended in 1945 and if I remember right the Seafarers union lost the most men in World War II.  You were better off being in any branch of the military than being in the Merchant Marine.  During WWII those “horny” Merchant Marine (Seafarers union members) died at a rate of 1 in 24 for the United States.
In 1988 President Reagan signed a bill into law granting veteran status to merchant mariners who served in WWII.

In the same issue you might want to read:  The Democratic Plan to Draft Eisenhower.  It says "President Harry Truman stands no chance of re-election."  HST was re-elected by the way.
It also says that General Dwight D. Eisenhower has rejected a political career and is a man of integrity and his statement must be accepted.  Of course Eisenhower did run four years later as a Republican and won.

Now I do know that Reader's Digest was always very right wing conservative.  I used to like read the magazine.  It had some good stories it it and some nice features but they would toss in some right wing Republican conservative garbage in each issue and I just got fed up with the heavy handed unfair lies and I gave up reading it and still will never pick up an issue and read it to this day.

My time of the month

  This is the time of month that I run out of money.  Just a few days before I get my SS money.  
Back a few weeks ago I sent off an application for food stamps.  I never heard a word from the agency that takes care of that program here in Texas.
  You would think they would sent back a form letter saying they got the application.
  I never got welfare in the past.  I am not sure I will get it this time.  I am not sure I would accept it.  I would like to see if they say that I earn so little that I could get food stamps and how much they say they would give me.

  Having to pay this year part of the cost of medications has not been to bad.  I have been able to come up with the money.  I have not seen my new doctor yet and an office visit will only be $10.00 and I can come up with that.  I did sign up for an additional rider for my insurance and that is going to cost me an extra $40.00 a month and that is going to hurt each month.
  That will have me paying about $135.00 a month for my Medicare insurance.
  I have not got a Texas state ID yet.  I think that runs about $25.00 for it and I will have to pay bus fare of about $4.00 on top of that.  I have not looked into a discount bus pass yet.  I think you have to have a Texas ID.

  I need to have some dental work done. If I have to pay extra for that I will have problems coming up with the money.  I may have to have just one thing done each month. 
  I have not got my new Medicare (AARP) insurance card yet and have not got information on the dental rider.

  If my grandson could get a job and if he would help out a bit we would be OK.  He has not got a job yet here in Texas.  

  But having said all of the above I am much better off than a lot of people.  I am living in a place that I can afford and I do have an income (Social Security) each month. 

  
  

Fewer but Stronger Hurricanes

  The World Meteorological Association says that because of global warming we are going to get fewer but stronger Hurricanes.  I feel sorry for people that live in FL.  I guess I feel sorry for all tax payers because we will end up paying money for recovery.
  Of course Republicans need not worry about this because they do not believe in “global warming.”  They make fun of the idea of global warming and they have a real hated for Al Gore.  I guess with Ted Kennedy dead they have to hate someone.

  One reason I “hate” right wing Republicans is because they make me into a bad person.  I always was a nice easy going guy that never got mad at anyone and would forgive and make excuses  for people.
  At some point that all changed and now they piss me off big time and it has turned me into a person that I do not want to be…  I guess it started with President Bush.  It was not him that turned me into a angry yelling screaming person but his followers and supporters. 

  I spent a little over six years in FL.  I spent five years in Miami.
  I love the weather and the beaches.  I did not like a lot of the people.  I hate the fact that in Miami if you speak only English you are treated like you are not an American.  I agree with that ass hole Republican that Miami is like a third world country. 
  I wish I had done more when I was in Miami. 
  I am in Texas now.  I am in  Fort Worth.  I have not seen much of Fort Worth but what I see I like and the people seem very nice.
 

  I wonder if global warming will have any effect on tornadoes? 

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New cameras

  I hate being poor.  There are more and more neat cameras hitting the market.  I wish I could buy a bunch of them.  They just keep getting better and better and cheaper and cheaper.
 
 

  Above is just a few of the ones that I like.  The Kodak Easyshare Z915 is one hell of a camera for the price.  I am not crazy about the looks of the Sony DSC-TX5 but it is a hell of a camera.  The Canon PowerShow SX20IS is a little bigger than I like now days.  But it is a hell of a camera with a 20X wide angle optical zoom!  It would be hard for me to decide between the camera but I think the Sony DSC-HX5V would be my pick for today.  A lot of people go for the most MP and that has never been something that matters to me. 

  I am not sure if I can every afford a new camera.  Well I could come up with money for the Kodak Z915 if I do not eat for a couple of weeks next month.

  What I do want to get right now is a Hauppauge 1200 WinTV HVR-850

 

  I am getting my TV over the air. I am using an old TV that Jimmy and Dar did not need and a digital converter box that I sent them. They have cable TV now.
With the above device, it is USB, I could get TV on my computer LCD screen.  So I could watch TV in a little window on my computer monitor or full screen if I wanted.  Plus I could have the computer record to the hard drive a TV show for me.
  Plus I could grab a screen shot of the TV screen or some video if I wanted to show a bit here on the blog.
  I have had Hauppauge devices in the past. In fact I gave Jimmy my PCI Hauppauge card when they got cable TV so he can watch cable TV on his LCD computer monitor.
  I am not sure if I can afford the Hauppauge 1200 this month or not. 

Changes to Social Security

  Republicans have always hated Social Security and wanted to do away with it.  They had to learn to hide their plans.  Then they could get elected.  President Bush made an attempt to turn Social Security over to Wall Street, the insurance corporations and the banks.  Thank God that did not happen..Think about what would have happened if he had got that done.
  Democrats have always been for Social Security, Medicare, employment pay and every other thing for the working man.  They have never been for touching Social Security.
  Now for the first time that I can remember Republicans AND Democrats are saying that changes will have to made to Social Security. 

  What is going to happen to Social Security?  Well as I look into my glass ball I see one hell of a fight in congress.  The Republicans will be so happy they have wanted to cut and gut it as much as they can.  They been wanting to do it since FDR created in 1935. 
  Democrats are going to be sick.  The Republicans have always looked at Social Security like it was Communism.  The Democrats see SS as American as the flag, apple pie and mom.
 
  I am 68 and on Social Security and I do not think there will be any big changes for me.  In fact I do not think there will be any been changes for people that are near SS retirement age.  I am not sure at one age they will decide if you are younger than such and such an age then the changes will effect you. 
  For those younger people I think they will have to retire at a older age. 
  I think we will soon start hearing ideas for changes to be made to Social Security.
  Old people, like me, are going to have to understand that they are not going to make any major changes that effect us.  The changes are going to apply to younger people.  It is going to be one hell of a fight in congress. 
  It would be good if the Republicans would attempt to help.  But they will be out to hurt Social Security as much as they can and hope that someday they can do away with it.