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Occupy Fort Worth

  Yes, there is an Occupy Fort Worth movement.  I have not been down to the park yet.  But it is at Burnett Park and I can get to it by bus.  This is the time of the month that I am broke so I will wait until I get my Social Security money and then I can buy food and something to drink and make a donation when I go down to the park.  I will take photos and videos. 
  I will make every effort to not get arrested.  My Social Security money would not be enough to post bail.
 
  The group has agreed to some rules, I think that is very smart of them, there will be a General Assembly at 1030, 1500 and 1930 hours.  They will have Marches at noon and 1800 hours.
  Poor Bank of America is right across the street from Burnett Park. 

Winter time in Fort Worth

  It is 59 degrees in Fort Worth right now (0400 hours).  It feels like winter time.  I forgot what weather like this felt like.
  I am stuck in Fort Worth.  I got family here.  I can not afford to movie again.  Each time I move it cost so much and I end up starting over but I hate the summer weather here in Texas.  It is to hot here in the summer.  I hope next summer is not like the last one.

North Texas Balloon Project

  See North Texas Balloon Project web page for more information.

NTBP 19
Summer 2011, September 17, Hillsboro, Texas
Backup or Second Flight, September 24

Flight Announcement

NTBP is a group of amateur (HAM) radio operators from Fort Worth and has launched balloons from Cleburne, Clifton, and Hillsboro Airports since 1991. This is the first launch during this last year and is funded by the amateur radio operators associated with the NTBP.  Follow us on Twitter@NTEXBP for in time information on launch day.

Saturday's Launch 9.17.11 will show on APRS as W5SJZ-11

Please send an email to webmaster@ntexbp.org for further information or to make reports during or after the actual launch. The back up date will be September 24, 2011.

NTBP FLIGHT 19, “Salute the Shuttle, Thirty Years in Space”
Hillsboro Airport, Exit 3 on Interstate Highway 35W
9 am, Sat, Sept 17, 2011
APRS 144.390 MHz, W5SJZ-11
HF Launch Net on 7260 +/- 5 kHz, LSB and 1430 +/-
Crossband Uplink is 445.800 MHz and downlink is 147.560 MHz
2 mtr Beacon, 146.560MHz
10 mtr Beacon, 28.274 mhz
Launch Net will be Friday September 16^th at 8pm on 147.28 and carried on Echolink at K5AMM-R (Area 5 US). Live broadcast will be attempted on (www.batc.tv , member streams, K5PHD).
Tommy Davis, W5TCD Launch Director
Larry Westmoreland
K5PHD

Texas may get some rain

  It is 91 degrees right now here in Fort Worth (TX).  It is 8 PM.
  We may get some rain for the next few days.  Any rain will be welcome.  If we get rain I will get naked and run around outside in the rain.  Yes, I will post the videos on YouTube.
  OK OK.. I am not going out and get nude and make people sick from seeing a fat old man nude.  Plus I do not want to be arrested. 
  But I am going to enjoy the rain, if we get it, and I may borrow my son’s water proof camera and go out and stand in the rain.

  It has been so hot this summer and no rain…  I hope we get some good rain.
I hope we get some cool weather for a few months.

  Russell has been sick and he missed three days of work.  He missed two days and then worked a day and then missed another day.  They are going to have him work tomorrow which should have been his day off and that way he will end up only missing two days.

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My Energy Usage

   When you look at my electric power usage above you will notice the very low power use during Feb, March, April and May.  The air conditioner was running very little and we did not run the heat much.  Now you see the cost of running the air conditioner.
  Right now my electric bill is at estimated to be $142.82 for this current month.
  Last month I paid $92.94 so when I get the next bill it is going to hurt bad. 

Green Chicken Curry

  I walked over to the Tokyo Steak House and got a carry out of green chicken curry.  I just went to their web site and the address is not correct so I think it is an old site.

They are located at:   8742 Camp Bowie West, Fort Worth, TX 76116  and their phone number is:  817-560-3664

  They got a nice place with lots of room.  I never see a lot of cars in the parking lot so I wonder how much business they do. 
 

  I was not crazy about the green chicken curry but Russell like it.  I am going to try something different next time.  I have had their buffet lunch.  It is from 11 AM to 3 PM and it was excellent.  I may go over tomorrow and have it again.

102 degrees at 8 PM - looking for 104 next week!

  I have never been a person that got real upset over hot weather.  I worked for years as a welder in very hot conditions and sometimes my shirt or pants would catch fire.  Or some hot metal would fall into my work boots.
  I spent years working security outside in very hot weather weighed down with a radio, gun, ammo, night stick and with a bullet proof vest on.  I been hot in my life.
  It is winter weather that I always hated.  No matter what you do when it is very cold you just can not get warm. 

  But now I am 70 years of age and got a pacemaker in me and I am fat (220 pounds) and I am living in Texas.  When I step outside now it feels like I am walking into a blast furnace. 
  Again let me tell you I been in hot conditions.  When I was a welder sometimes I had to weld metals that had to be pre-heated.  So a couple of guys would be using acetylene torches to heat the metal and I would be welding it.
  Texas is to hot.  We should never have taken it from Mexico.  I wonder if we could make a deal and give it back to them.

  I never been to Alaska but since Sarah Palin said “I can see Russia from my house” I wonder if we could make a deal with Russia.  Russia could have Alaska, and Sarah Palin, and they could run a big fat pipe line down to the lower 47 (I am not counting Texas) filled with oil and gas.  Sounds like a good deal to me.

  I should have stayed in FL.  But I got family here.  I got a son and grandson and an ex-wife.  I guess I will just have to be like a bear and do hibernation.  They do it during the winter but I need to do it during the summer. 
  Just put a catheter in me, start an IV on me and put a diaper on me and wake me when summer is over.

The Texas TSA pat-down bill dies

“AUSTIN -- Legislation to ban invasive pat-downs by federal airport security screeners collapsed in the Texas House on Wednesday as the 82nd Legislature finished a protracted 170-day workathon, including 30 days in overtime…”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/29/3189812/blame-game-ensues-after-tsa-pat.html#ixzz1QlCLAGkR

 

  I wish the fucking bill had passed.  Of course President Obama and the TSA, FAA and Justice Department would not have had the balls to fight it like they should have… They would have gone to court and of course the federal government would have won in court.
  But if I was President of the United States I would have had the TSA and FAA ban all International fights in and out of Texas after 9/11 of 2011.
  Texas would have gone to court right away to prevent it but at the same time they would have done away with the fucking law so fucking fast.

“…The bill, which had a die-hard fan base of largely conservative supporters, would have expanded the federal definition of "official oppression" to prohibit federal employees from improperly touching a person's private areas. Violations would constitute a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a maximum $4,000 fine…”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/29/3189812/blame-game-ensues-after-tsa-pat.html#ixzz1QlDrEzSV

 

  The people that want the pat-down bill passed are so fucking stupid.  The law would not be legal and the courts would toss it out.  Also even if it became a law and went into effect no one would pay any attention to it.
  You would have stupid low IQ right wing nuts screaming in the airports from time to time but no real law enforcement officer would arrest a TSA security person for “improperly” touching someone during a security pat-down.  Police officers do pat-downs every fucking day.  

  I did a “pat-down” on the husband of an ER patient one time.  He was a pain in the ass all the time. He and his wife were coming to hospital ERs all the time to get drugs.  He owned a small business in the area with x number of employees.
  I had worked at another hospital for a year and he had shown up over there and made threats that he was going to kill the ER doctor and staff.  Then later I was back working at another hospital and he and his wife showed up and he was acting in his nutty way..Refusing to stay out of the exam room and then when he went in with his wife he would close the door and the staff asked him to keep the door open.
  I just fucking took him out of the room and did a pat down on him.  He got so pissed off that he left the hospital and as he was leaving he said is this such and such a hospital and it was not the hospital and I told him “yes” and he left.  Right away his wife was ready to be released and he was not there but they called him on his cell phone.  When he pulled into the ER garage I refused to let him get out of his fucking car.
  Now was that “improperly” touching someone?  I don’t think so.. I think when you got a guy saying he is going to kill a doctor and staff because they will not give him drugs that you would be a piss poor police/security person if you did not do a pat down.

  We have not heard the last of the pat down bill in Texas.  I am sure the right wing conservative government hating nuts will bring it up and keep bring it up until they get something passed.  I think anyone with an IQ higher than 40 knows it is not legal and is a stupid law.  So people will water it down until it is just a worthless scrip of paper and pass it just go get the nuts off their backs.  What they should do is tell them you are fucking stupid and get he hell out of my office you piece of shit.

Star-Telegram: TX Law on Airport Pat-downs

  I am going to print this entire story so you can understand it.

“BY DAVE MONTGOMERY

dmontgomery@star-telegram.com

AUSTIN -- The Texas House on Monday gave preliminary approval to legislation that prohibits invasive pat-downs by federal airport security agents after incorporating changes that led House Speaker Joe Straus to drop his resistance to the bill.

The Senate passed its own watered-down version of the bill Monday night. The measure now goes back to the House for another vote today.

The substantially reworked measure, however, ignited a new wave of hostility from another direction as scores of former supporters staged a noisy protest inside the Capitol to denounce the changes. Austin radio talk show host Alex Jones, who led the rally, said the changes "completely gutted" the bill.

The controversial measure, which has drawn national attention, also faced another adversary: time.

Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, chief sponsor of the bill in the Senate, acknowledged that it will be a challenge to get the measure to Gov. Rick Perry's desk before the Legislature's special session ends Wednesday.

Despite all the obstacles that have arisen, the bill showed unexpected signs of life just days after Straus denounced it as a "publicity stunt" and vowed that it would not come to the House floor in its original form.

The reworked House bill emerged from talks between Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, and senior members of Straus' leadership team.

Straus said that "after substantial revisions to the bill," he was satisfied that the legislation "lets Texans travel safely, protects the privacy of citizens and enables law enforcement to do its job."

The bill would expand the federal definition of "official oppression" to ban federal employees from improperly touching a person's private areas. Violations would constitute a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a maximum $4,000 fine.

The Transportation Security Administration opposes the measure and has threatened legal action if it becomes law.

The revised bill has changes urged by the Texas attorney general's office to help counter possible constitutional hurdles. One key change allows agents to argue, as an element of defense, that they believed that they were acting within the scope of the Constitution.

Another major revision changes the proposed standard for conducting searches from "probable cause" to "reasonable suspicion" of wrongdoing. The Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas said a "probable cause" standard would unduly restrict law enforcement searches.

But, conversely, supporters of the original bill said permitting "reasonable suspicion" as a basis for airport screening allowed a more relaxed standard that would give TSA agents broad latitude to conduct pat-downs. The bill applies to searches involving people seeking access to public buildings or transportation.

At least 75 protesters led by Jones crowded outside the House and Senate and packed into the governor's reception room to assail the House bill.

Patrick and Simpson defended the changes as necessary to get the bill passed. They predicted that it would force the TSA to make policy changes to prevent abusive behavior.

Dave Montgomery is the Star-Telegram's Austin bureau chief. 512-476-4294”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/27/3183731/texas-house-senate-approve-reworked.html#ixzz1QZvevVrK

 

  I have commented on this bill in the past.  I see they made some changes to it.  Those changes were made to make it constitutional.  Which it still will not pass the constitutional test.  Plus it looks like even if it passes it will not make it to Gov. Rick Perry in time to be signed.
  I think the legislature now knows that this is a crazy and stupid bill but they do not have the guts to tell the right wing nut cases that are supporting it to go to hell.
  I HOPE Texas passes it.  If I were the TSA/FAA I would just not allow any international flights in or out of Texas. 
  See how long it takes Texas to repeal that law then.