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Actress Jane Russell dead at 89

“Actress Jane Russell, a veteran of five decades of films including "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," in which she co-starred with Marilyn Monroe, died Monday morning, her daughter-in-law Etta Waterfield said. Russell was 89.

Russell was "a pillar of health" but caught a bad cold and died of respiratory difficulties, Waterfield said.”  CNN

 

“…Russell has had three husbands: Bob Waterfield, a UCLA All American, Cleveland Rams and Los Angeles Ramsquarterback, Los Angeles Rams head coach, and Pro Football Hall of Fame member (married on April 24, 1943, then divorced in July 1968); the actor Roger Barrett, (married on August 25, 1968 through his death on November 18, 1968); and the real-estate broker John Calvin Peoples (married January 31, 1974 through his death on April 9, 1999). Russell and Peoples lived in Sedona, Arizona for a few years, but spent the majority of their married life residing in Montecito, California. In February 1952, she and Waterfield adopted a baby girl, Tracy. In December 1952, they adopted a fifteen-month-old boy, Thomas, and in 1956 she and Waterfield adopted a nine-month-old boy, Robert John. Russell herself was unable to have children and, in 1955, she founded World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), an organization to place children with adoptive families that pioneered adoptions from foreign countries by Americans.^{[citation needed]}

At the height of her career, Russell started the "Hollywood Christian Group", a weekly Bible study at her home which was arranged for Christians in the film industry.^[4] Russell appeared occasionally on the Praise The Lord program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian television channel based in Costa Mesa, California.^[5] Russell was at times a prominentRepublican Party member who attended Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration along with other notables from Hollywood such as Lou Costello, Dick Powell, June Allyson, Anita Louise and Louella Parsons.

Russell resides in Santa Maria Valley along the Central Coast of California…”

Last day of February 2011

Today is the 28th of February. This is the last day of February.
Tomorrow I am going to the Mall.  In the parking lot there is a lab so I can get my blood work done tomorrow.  Doctor wanted it done a month ago.  I am a bit slow.

  I was going to check out BestBuy for a DVI to DVI cable.  Good thing I just checked.  The docking station has a DVI outlet but on my monitor I have a HDMI outlet.  So I guess I need a DVI to HDMI cable if I want to hook the monitor into the hub and see if it works.

  I got a number of small items being sent to me and I think I will get something today.  I may get a different pair of 3D glasses and a hard faceplate cover case shield for my Samsung Intercept.
  I should get two hard crystal snap-on case covers for the Samsung Intercept today.
  I have a couple of black horizontal leather pouch cases coming for the Samsung Intercept but I do not think I will get them today.

  NOW that I got stuff coming for the Samsung Intercept I am starting to think that I should have gone with the Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V phone!

  I got another electric bill for $33.00 and I think it is for the last days at the old place or for the first few days of this place.  I was happy I had the electric bill paid for this month.  Oh well.. You have to expect to get these little surprises when you make a move.

Wisconsin Protesters Need To Leave the Building

“(CNN) -- Union workers and activists celebrated in the Wisconsin Capitol early Monday, as police relented and let them spend another night on the marble floors of the building's rotunda.

"This is a huge, huge moment and that's why you are seeing dancing and hearing drumming," protester David Wasserman told CNN affiliate WISN. "It's a party."

Authorities had given demonstrators until late Sunday afternoon to leave the building, saying it needed to be cleaned after roughly two weeks of protests…”

 

  Most of the protesters have now left and others say they will leave.  They should all leave. They did their protest. 
  Some protesters say they are not going to leave and will be arrested.  That is OK if they want to do that form of protest.  They should NOT however force the police to carry them out.  The police support them and their cause but carrying dead weight out of the building is going to be hard.  It will be hard on the offices backs for one thing.  So if they want to be arrested they should tell the police they refuse to leave but if they are arrested they will walk without resisting to the police cars.
 
  Gov. Scott Walker left the police and fire unions out of his union busting plans for this first go around.  That was smart of him but the police and firemen all know that when he is done with these unions he is going to bust their unions next.  They can bet their lives on that fact.

  What the workers of Wisconsin need to do now is make sure that in one year that Gov. Walker is removed from office by a re-call election.  They need to send a message nation wide to the Republican corporate shills that they will pay a heavy price for worker bashing and union busting.
  Labor unions more than anything else made America great for people.  (The other thing that made America great for people was the WWII GI bill of rights.)

  It looks like, for right now, Gov. Scott Walker is going to win his battle.  He has the power and he has the votes.  There are also a lot of stupid Americans that do not know history and also that are jealous of the benefits that union workers got over the years by membership in a union.

  My father was a union man his entire life.  When I was in grade school I think the rate of pay for workers was about 50 cents an hour.  My father made $4.40 an hour.  My father was a boilermaker.  (Local 83 of The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers.)

  There are dark days ahead for all of Americans except for the rich fat corporation cats.  The Republican Party, at last, is going to have their way and turn back history.  Workers are going to end up being slaves of rich men again.  There will not be a union to stand and fight for us.  We will be alone naked standing against the powerful corporations. 

Our Kitchen Cabinets

  I made a video for YouTube and it was to show the video from the Kodak PlaySport.  I made the video inside to show what you could expect from an indoor video with the camera.
  Part of the short video showed our kitchen cabinets and the contents.

 

 

  YouTube video viewers are pretty sharp.  They commented that the cupboards content is not very healthy and look more like the content of a dorm room.
  They are correct.  I guess we know why my feet are swollen and I am an over weight fat dude. 

Last U.S. World War I Veteran Dies

“Washington (CNN) -- Frank Buckles, the last U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110.

Buckles "died peacefully in his home of natural causes" early Sunday morning, the family said in a statement sent to CNN late Sunday by spokesman David DeJonge.

Buckles marked his 110th birthday on February 1, but his family had earlier told CNN he had slowed considerably since last fall, according his daughter Susannah Buckles Flanagan, who lives at the family home near Charles Town, West Virginia.

Buckles, who served as a U.S. Army ambulance driver in Europe during what became known as the "Great War," rose to the rank of corporal before the war ended. He came to prominence in recent years, in part because of the work of DeJonge, a Michigan portrait photographer who had undertaken a project to document the last surviving veterans of that war.

As the years continued, all but Buckles had passed away, leaving him the "last man standing" among U.S. troops who were called "The Doughboys."

DeJonge found himself the spokesman and advocate for Buckles in his mission to see to it that his comrades were honored with a monument on the National Mall, alongside memorials for veterans of World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam…”

People of WI in their own words

We Are Wisconsin from Finn Ryan on Vimeo.

Review of Toshiba Dynadock U Docking Station

Docking station - YouTube video soon

  I got the Toshiba Dynadock U docking station yesterday.  I was waiting for it and looking forward to it.  I am not all that keen on it now that I got it.
  I will post a video on YouTube, and here, about it later today.
  If I plug my 23 inch LCD monitor into the docking station the movement on the screen lags a bit.  Just not the same as when I go direct from my monitor into the laptop.  It is no problem.  I will just keep my monitor plugged direct into the laptop.  But I think if I attempted to use an additional monitor hooked up that display would be slow.  But I will post a video on it soon.

  I am going to head out and get something to eat and get some sort of additional ant killer.  I just had an ant fighting me for control of this keyboard.  This is my blog and I am not going to have an ant posting to my blog.

MoveOn Rallies in all 50 States

“As I write to you, working families across Wisconsin are making an historic stand. Using the state's budget deficit as an excuse, the governor of Wisconsin and his allies in the legislature are attempting to strip workers of one of their most basic rights: the right to collectively bargain.

And Wisconsin is just the beginning. In many states across the country, legislation has been – or soon will be – introduced that would drastically curtail the rights of workers to negotiate wages and working conditions. But in order to stop these attacks, we need to show that thousands of people are willing to publicly stand in support of working families.

To help make this happen, our friends at MoveOn.org are organizing rallies in all 50 states on Saturday to show solidarity with the working families. Click here to find a rally near you.

To help underscore why Saturday's rallies are so important, Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and President Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employee International Union joined Catholics United and some 400 people of faith on a conference call yesterday.

Bishop Zavala reminded us that the Catholic Church has long recognized the rights of workers but stressed that now is the time for us to stand with them in solidarity. And President Mary Kay Henry pointed out that the budget deficit in Wisconsin wasn’t caused by middle class workers. The crisis was caused by tax giveaways to corporations and the reckless actions of the financial industry.

It's time to set the record straight and stand up for the poor and middle class families. Will you join one of the rallies taking place near you?

Let's bring the voice of conscientious Catholics and people of faith to Saturday's events. If you make to one of the rallies, take photos and send us a report and we'll be sure to profile it on our blog, www.ourdailythread.org.

Sincerely,
Chris, James and the rest of the Catholics United team”

Gov. Walker not one term but one year

  I bet that there is a re-call election in one year for Wisconsin Gov. Walker. I think he will be voted out of office.  So he will not even be a one term Gov.  He will be a one year Gov. 
  That will be the end of his plans to be run for President of the United States in 2012.
  Even the GOP is not going to run a man with little to no success in politics that was kicked out of state office after one year.