Jaiden's video

Well Australia Zoo is having another video contest. This year Jaiden wanted to submit a video for Robert Irwin birthday party. The rules have changed a bit. Please register and vote for Jaiden. She is already keeping track of how many votes she is getting and is very excited about the contest.

Here's the link: http://freetrip.australiazoo.com.au/?p=watch&v=26937-1219856253

I am so confused

Yesterday Joe Biden said "I have never seen Washington so broken". Hasn't he been in Washington since the 1980s? Why has he not tried to fix it? He's been in Washington for a long time. He is obviously part of the problem. Does Biden believe he'll be able to 'fix' Washington as soon as he's VP if he wasn't able to do it before?

Obama has campaigned for the last year on 'change.' Yet he pick Biden a Washington insider (who has a son that is a lobbyist, another for a hedge fund company) as VP. What will this 'change' be? I think it'll just be a change in their position and paycheck. These two people have not changed anything since they have been in the senate. Obama usually votes 'present' he has made no effort to change anything in his two glorious years in the senate.

Obama talks about redistribution of wealth, yet this millionaire senator from IL has a brother living on $12 a year living in a hut in Kenya! Send your brother $20! Do not talk about redistributing my wealth through taxes when you don't do it. Moreover why is the redistribution of wealth even talked about? Anyone who took economics 101 will tell you that is socialism. Why should I work hard if these jerks in Washington are going to take my money and give it to a Meth head? I guess I should do like most politicians and shelter their money in Off-shore accounts.

The democrats warm us of global warming and the fact that Washington needs to control our thermostats, yet they fly to the DNC on private jets and have huge video monitors everywhere taking huge amounts of electricity. If they really believed in global warming wouldn't they be more concerned. But then again Pelosi didn't even know where natural gas came from! Scary!

It all seems to be more of the same to me. Just a big old fashion pile of BullS$%T

Look at Obama's resume, two years in the senate and before that a community organizer. The majority of his decisions in the Senate have been marked 'present.' He has never made a hard decision in his life. I wouldn't hire him to work for me! never mind accepting his resume to lead the greatest military in the world as Commander in Chief with control of the worlds largest nuclear arsenal! Would you?

How do these people get in charge?

The Democratic speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi seems to be very confused on the source of natural gas of which she is a strong supporter of. On Saturday 23AUG08 she appeared on “Meet the Press” and stated her support of natural gas to rid us from fossil fuels. She states “I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” and at another time she stated natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.”

Well Nancy, perhaps in the month you had off from Congress (you remember when some of the republicans were trying to discuss the energy policy and you refused to call the house back in session); you could have watched the Modern Marvels episode on oil refining. Natural Gas is refined from oil! Just because it says natural in the name does not mean it is not produced by the ‘evil’ oil companies from fossil fuels.

It really scares me that these people are in Washington trying to debate an energy policy when they do not even know the very basics of energy production. When politicians are stating they want to rid the world of oil, do they realize that jet fuel, plastics, mineral oil, baby lotion, suntan lotion, lipstick and many other products are made from oil? What are we expected to fly planes on, solar?

Pigeon and stuff

Well it seems we have a love connection. The new pigeon, Windy is getting along with our old pigeon, Snowy. Now we are not sure who's a boy, who's a girl. It's like we can look under the tail or something. Snowy is big and aggressive, so we believe he's a boy, while Windy is very quiet. We put them in the same cage and observed their behavior and they seem to get along. Windy has mites in her feathers so we've been spraying her with meds. Poor Snowy the only girls he's seen in years, and wouldn't you know it, she has bugs.

Anna returned from her trip in Florida with Ginger. She had a good time, did allot of back to school shopping. She went to Universal studios and went on a bunch of rides. Anna said she wimped out of going on the Mummy ride though. It's good to have her back, we all missed her.

New pigeon

Oh yeah, on Saturday we got another pigeon. Believe it or not Hailee and Lynne found another carrier pigeon when they were walking out of blockbuster video in Richmond. The pigeon was very ill and dehydrated. It was so dehydrated it looked like her eyes were about to pop out. Well Hailee got a hold of her and brought her home where she ate and drank for about an hour straight.

We still have snowy our other pigeon and the two are being introduced to each other. We have not put them in the same cage yet.

How weird is it that Hailee has caught two pigeons in three years?

Fishing

Well this was a good weekend. The weather was beautiful. Some of my friends and I took a half day Francis Fleet boat out fishing for Fluke. It was great. We were killing them. Fluke, Sea Bass, Pogy, you name it. When we were getting ready to pull back in, I caught something big, most likely a big striper. Well he dragged me around the boat, then he broke free and the only thing on my hook was a small starfish. It looked like that starfish ate my bait and was pulling me everywhere! It must have been one of those Central Falls starfish!

Sunday morning Jaiden and I went to the Aquarium. It was really nice. Jaiden got to play with the new baby sea lion Boomerang. I posted a video of the sea lion chasing her.

Another reason to hate Disney

As if the Hannah Montana craze was not enough to make you hate Disney. Here is an article about Disney manufacturing some "High School Musical" girl's underwear with the suggestive statement "Dive in" printed on them!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1556538.ece

Anna

This morning Anna went to Florida to visit Ginger for two weeks. I was a nervous wreck. This was the first time Anna flew alone. It was a direct flight to Orlando where Ginger was going to be waiting at the gate to meet her. There was no problem with security walking her to the gate. But man, you mind wonders when your put you child on a plane to fly 1000's of miles away!

Everything worked out. Ginger was waiting for her there and they are off to have fun and go shopping. Jaiden cried for about an hour after Anna left.

USS Houston Problems

Well the USS Houston has made the home page of CNN again about the secondary coolent leak.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/07/navy.sub/index.html

For all that don't understand, the secondary coolant is that coolant that never touches the reactor. The primary coolant that touches the reactor core heat ups and transfers this heat to the secondary coolant, which turns the turbines and makes electricity.

Secondary coolant is safe. I guess this valve on the Houston has been dripping for two years (I'm not sure how that happens without notice) and sprayed an enlisted guys in the Engine room. After the Enlisted Men had to field day the mess up, have reconstruct and an investigation on PMS practice, they took him to the hospital (just a joke guys, we all know the Nucs payed World of Warcraft during field day).

Well anyways the news people are freaking out because of the word 'nuclear.' The radiation level is less than a bag of fertilizer or a smoke detector. That's the way it is designed. It is not because the navy caught it before it could have gotten out of hand. It is because the radioactivity of the secondary loop is very small. Admiral Rickover drank the coolant in front of Congress!

Well anyways it is just another reason to clean the bilge.

The Montauk Monster

Man the web sites are blazing with pictures of the Montauk Monster. Many of the web sites say this is some animal experiment from the USDA research facility on Plum Island. Believe it or not, there is no Dr. Morrow crap happening on Plum Island. The 'monster' from the beach is just a poor old dog, most likely it was a pit bull with a decayed nose.

Here's the original photo:

Here is a picture from another angle:

http://forgetomori.com/2008/criptozoology/the-montauk-monster/

Notice in both pictures the sand is altered around the head, someone moved the corpse around. also notice that there is nothing to compare the size of the corpse to. There are no flies on the corpse. Also in the first picture there is something on the forearm of the animal. What appears to be a beak is just the upper jaw of a carnivore.