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The Wank-O-Meter for Android Phones

  Yes there is a Android application for that and not only that Jim Howard shows you in the following video how to use it!

 

 

  The web page that I went to and was on the screen was the Android Police web site.

Coulter: Radiation is “Actually Good For You”

How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

  CNN Money has a page and a tool that will tell you how close your home is to a nuclear power plant.  CNN Money Power Plant Page

  You put in your ZIP code and it shows a map and tells you the closest plants.  In my case I live in Fort Worth (Texas) and my ZIP code is:  76116.

  I live near the following nuclear power plants;  Comanche Peak 1 and 2 (35 miles), South Texas 1 and 2 (283 miles), Arkansas Nuclear 1 and 2 (300 miles), Grand Gulf 1 (376 miles) and River Bend 1 (384 miles).
 

“If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major catastrophe. In 50 miles, food and water supplies may be unsafe.”

 

I guess you have to wonder about the people in the control rooms.  How much education do they have?  Where did they get their training?  I hope they had good teachers.  How good is the security for these plants? 
  I wonder if for all new plants if no one should live within 50 miles of the plant?

  Something to think about.  I just read or heard on TV that, here in the United States, 20 new nuclear power plants will come online in a few years. 

TX Committee OKs Bill to Allow Guns at Colleges

“AUSTIN -- After an emotional 51/2-hour hearing, the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee voted 5-3 Wednesday night to advance legislation to allow concealed handguns on college and university campuses.

House Bill 750, by Rep. Joe Driver, R-Garland, would allow holders of concealed-handgun permits to carry their weapons in campus buildings. It would keep a ban on guns in bars, churches, hospitals and athletic events at colleges.

Public colleges and universities would be required to comply, but private institutions, such as TCU and Texas Wesleyan University, could opt out after consulting with the faculty and students.

The vote was along party lines. The five Republican committee members voted in favor. Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, voted no, along with Reps. Armando Walle, D-Houston, and Barbara Mallory Caraway, D-Dallas.

James Spaniolo, president of the University of Texas at Arlington, and the school's student congress have opposed the legislation. TCU officials, in a statement this week, also opposed it.

"The ramifications of allowing an individual with a concealed handgun license to carry a weapon on campus would create dangerous situations and in essence, put faculty, staff, students and University guests in the line of fire," the statement says.

Dozens of students, gun-rights advocates, law enforcement officials and education advocates, testifying into the evening, offered sharply divided views.

"We're basically fish in a barrel," said W. Scott Lewis of Austin, representing Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. "This is about changing the odds."

But others, including Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, warned that introducing weapons into the sometimes emotionally charged social atmosphere s at colleges could expand the potential for violence…”

 

  There is nothing that makes me feel more secure and safe than a bunch of young men, with hormones raging, and armed with a handgun.  
  If there is a shooting on a campus and if they try and help out and fire shots then we are going to have to wait and see if they shot the bad guy or if their bullet hit the victims or the police. 

  Welcome to the wild wild West.
  Now this bill has just been approved by the committee it has not become law yet but this is Texas so I suspect it will pass.  
  Mom and Dad now when you send your son off to college, here in Texas, make sure he has a credit card a laptop computer and a handgun.  Do not forget the hollow point ammo.

Japanese Response To Disaster

    My God you have to admire the Japanese people’s calm and orderly response to this disaster.  Just think if this was happening in the United States.  
    We can learn from the Japanese people. 
    I am not sure how their political system works.  That is one problem we have. 

    Take a look at Hurricane Katrina.  President Bush made a total mess out of that. 
On top of that you had a large number of people blaming the mostly black people of New Orleans.  There is no question that Fox News and right wing Republicans would have felt different if it had been Dallas and not New Orleans.
    You also had Republicans blaming the state government of Louisiana and pointing out that it was Democrats in control of the state.  You had state leaders blaming the federal government.
    
   The looting and violence that took place in New Orleans shows the difference in American cities and states and Japan. 
   We need to study what took place with Hurricane Katrina and see what we can do to help change things and improve things.
   The people of the United States opened up their hearts and pocket books to the people effected by Hurricane Katrina.  Texas took in more than 300,000 refugees and made them welcome. 
   There is nothing wrong with the American people.  I think there is something very wrong with the way our system is working. 

    I fear things are getting much worst for us.  The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.  The rich people feel “I got mine” and fuck the rest of you.
   Our public infrastructure is getting older and older and is falling apart and there is no real desire by the American people to fix it.  
   We have never funded a real social safety net for Americans and the very limited one we have is about to be cut big time. 
   It is again politics that is the problem.  It is also our system.  Republicans also want zero regulations. Then our system of government makes it very hard.  You have states and cities that do not want anyone telling them what to do.  You have people like the Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) that wants to make Texas friendly to big corporations so he does not want any federal/national regulations on things like air and water.  He wants each state to control things like that. 

  One problem is money.  The Republicans have been very successful in making not only “Democrats” a bad word they have also made “taxes” a bad word.
  They even started a major war costing tons of money and refused to tax people to pay for the war. (I am talking about the Iraq war.) 

  I think we got some real hard times ahead for all of us.  I hope we are not tested like the people of Japan.  I hope when our time comes that we can act more like the people of Japan. 

  Japanese people are teaching us many lessons I hope we can learn from them.

Shooting Death in Gun Class

“SPRINGFIELD | Questions are being raised after a man died in a class that is required to obtain a concealed weapons permit in Missouri.

Sixty-three-year-old Glenn Seymour accidentally shot himself in the chest earlier this month in Douglas County while trying a new technique with a weapon he wasn’t familiar with using.

Douglas County Sheriff Chris Degase is looking into whether what he was learning was appropriate for a class that often includes people with little to no training.

The Springfield News-Leader reported that Seymour was right-handed, but was practicing drawing a semiautomatic 9 mm handgun with his left hand, taking the safety off and shooting.

That skill is not required to get a concealed weapons permit in Missouri.

Instructor Paul Richard Williams called Seymour’s death a “tragic accident.”

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/12/2720515/sheriff-investigating-death-of.html#ixzz1GRltk2tg “

Fort Worth student brings …

Fort Worth student brings sackful of change to school so teachers can keep their jobs
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/02/2891670/fort-worth-student-brings-sackful.html#ixzz1FXHfdit8

 

“BY EVA-MARIE AYALA

[email protected]

FORT WORTH -- Second-grader Maria Meneses is afraid of losing her teachers.

She considers those at Diamond Hill Elementary School her friends, and if the Fort Worth school district has to lay off any of them, the 8-year-old would be sad.

So she walked into the school Wednesday morning with a sackful of change and handed it to her principal.

"I thought I would bring some of my money from my college fund to my school so more teachers wouldn't get fired because I don't want anyone to go away," Maria said.

"I had to do something to try and help them because they help me. Every single teacher I've had has helped me."

Maria said her classmates have been talking about how teachers might lose their jobs. When she saw more stories about school budgets on the news Tuesday night -- Fort Worth is facing up to $80 million in state funding cuts over the next two years -- she decided to help.

Principal Ellen Verreault and many office staffers cried at the girl's gesture, surprised that students are so aware of the financial struggles…”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/02/2891670/fort-worth-student-brings-sackful.html#ixzz1FXHqp110

 

  I wonder if Fox “news” and other right wing blogs will be reporting this story.  My guess is they will not.  Or they will report that teachers and union thugs held a gun to the head of the little girl and made her do it.
  Or Fox “news”  and RedState blog will report that it is some sort of Communist plot.
  This story so much shows how important teachers are to children.  It also shows the heart and soul of real America.

Solidarity is not a bad word

  Fox News (The Republican Broadcasting System) has attempted to make “liberal” a bad word.  They try and make “unions” a bad word.  They pretty much have made “Socialist” a bad word.
  They call workers “thugs” and “out of control.”  
  If workers ask for their rights they say we are trying to force our “demands” on them.
  The new word that they are attempting to turn into a bad word is “solidarity.”
  Anyone ever read the book “1984?”

  When you think of surveillance, mind control, control of humanity and a Ministry of Truth who do you think about?  You think of the right wing and the Republican Party.

  So for now because of the workers protesting here in the United States Fox News and the right are going to try and make it look like liberal, Socialist, Communist union thugs are out of control and comrade they are trying to re-write not only government, history, religion but the English language.  That might be why the right wing and Republicans hate school teachers so much. 

Republican House Eliminated Funding for Public Broadcasting

    The Republicans gave billions and billons of dollars to the rich.  Now they are going to do something for me.  They are going to save me $1.35 next year by doing away with funding for public broadcasting.

    There are 368 public television stations and 934 public radio stations.  They got about 11% of their funding from the government.  I don’t know about you but I think $1.35 a year  was a pretty good deal for public TV and public radio.
    The Republicans have hated public TV and radio and wanted to get rid of it for years.  They think it is liberal and left wing.

    Now the actions of the House may not stand.  
    If it does stand I am sure that public broadcasting will not go off the air.  They will have to cut some services, cut some programs and cut some staff. 
  
    I think the Republicans may have made a big mistake.  If they had left PBS with even 1% funding then those 368 public TV stations and 934 radio stations would have worked very hard, as they have been doing, to be “fair and balanced.” 
    If public broadcasting is getting zero money from the government then if I were them I would tell the truth fully and direct and without any holding back. 
    If I worked for PBS I would decide it was time for some pay back.
    
    I sure been getting a deal for my $1.35 each year.  Now since the GOP is saving me that $1.35 each year I will have to decide how to spend it.  OH, I will add some to it and donate it to the Democratic Party.
    If I were PBS I would change the name of the network. 
    How about the Progressive Network?  The PBS – Progressive Broadcast System.

Three children and mother shot

“(CNN) -- Three children and their mother who were found dead inside their partially burned house in southern Indiana had all been shot in the head, police said Saturday, with an internet rant tied to the woman drawing investigators' attention.

Results of a preliminary autopsy, conducted by the Kentucky Medical Examiner's Office, released Saturday revealed that Amanda Bennett, 30, had died from a gunshot wound to her head and smoke inhalation.

The same causes of death were listed for her 9-year-old daughter, Katelynn Bennett. Jasmine Abbott -- 14 and also Amanda's biological daughter -- was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, as was the woman's 4-year-old son, Ryan Bennett.

Shortly after 4:20 p.m. Friday, Austin, Indiana, police forced their way into the victims' residence after getting a request from a relative to check on them…”

  It sounds like the mother killed her children, with a gun, and then herself.  If she did not have a gun around would this still have taken place?  I do not know.
  The NRA would say if the children had been armed they could have defended themselves from the attack. 
 
  The number of gun deaths in the United States is very high. We are number one.  The number of gun deaths in the United States (1994) per 100,000 people was 14.2.
  Number #2 was Brazil with 12.9 and #3 Mexico with 12.7.
  France was 5.2, Canada 4.3, Sweden 2.1 and England and Wales it is 0.41.
 
  If you want to know deaths by state here is the link:  Firearm Deaths by State
  Now these numbers are per 100,000 and the first thing I notice is that DC is number one with the rate of 31.2 and then the next is Alaska with 20. Here are a few ofthers:

  #3  Louisiana (19.5), #4 Wyoming (18.8), #5 Arizona (18) and then just let me list three that interest me;  Missouri is 19 with 12.3, Florida is 24 with 11.1 and Texas is number 26 with 11.  Oh,  California is #30 with 9.8 and east coast states are at the bottom of the list except at the very bottom of the list #51 is Hawaii with 2.8 deaths per 100,000 people.
 
  We need better gun laws in the United States. 
There is no telling if the story at the top of this blog would have been any difference if we had better laws.  But we need better laws and let me say I am NOT NOT NOT saying ban guns or take guns away from people.  I am saying we better gun laws.