Family Care Foundation Is this a joke?

Within hours of the tsunami tragedy that struck Asia in the last days of 2004, Family Care Foundation (FCF) responded with immediate assistance for victims in India, Thailand and Indonesia.

Ok so they did something decent once. Oh and for a foreign country, thats beautiful. Its day 5 of post-landfall for Katrina, where are these people? They are braging about getting aid to a country that is half way around the world, and they did it in HOURS! Did I mention this is day 5? People are dying from dehydration and infection on US soil! I find this disgusting and horrifying. How can we as a country take 5 days to respond to our own friggin people?

I have a few ideas about that. One maybe the rest of the country really just doesnt care much about helping out the hicks in MS, LA, AL. If thats the case we are truely living in very very sad days. Another lil nugget of thought, what if we were not spending billions of dollars fighting a war and start spending money on helping out the citizens of this country that are truely in danger. But who am I? Appearantly not the guy in charge that feels that its better to destroy another country so we can have something to rebuild since our ecconomy is about to take the big sleep.

There are people falling out dead, yes dead, in the streets of New Orleans. They say war is good for the ecconomy, I always figured that is it was good for the ecconomy via population control. Less people, more money. Is this disaster just an added bonus to the population control? I mean the people that are left seem to be the poor and the minorities. Who cares about them? Right? They dont have water! Its a city on a river and by the ocean and they dont have water. Eerily prophetic words were never writ ... 'water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.' Spooky.

And dont get me wrong, I think its a great thing that we are able as a country to help those in need of help in a matter of hours. But cant we take care of our own first and formost? If we dont take care of our own citizens and we are expected to be the ones that are to be the shining example, shouldnt we show that we can handle our own issues immediately and without hesitation? Isnt that what we are supposedly fighting for in Iraq? So that they can take care of themsleves? Anyone remember Bush Sr. saying that the Gulf war was not going to be the next Veitnam? How long ago was that? and yeah sure there was a break for a few years...... oh yeah that Clinton guy was in office. I didnt even mean to get on this line of thinking. But Good God man! People help in any way you can. The entire city of New Orleans is looking at being displaced for possibly a yr, and thats on a REAL possitive outlook. These people are going to be in our citys and towns. They will need work, they will need living space, and most of all they are going to need some help. Alot of them that stayed only have what they have on thier backs. If anything of thiers did happen to survive the storm they will probably never know. Have you ever had to start over from scratch? I have on several occassions, mostly by choice. Its not pretty, I can only immagine 10s of 1000s of people having to do it at the same time.

Sorry for the long winded pointless rant. I just had to say something. It really makes me mad though. Some people have the arrogance to go about talking like we are the harbringers of good will, yet turn a blind eye to our own citizens in thier time of need.

http://www.redcross.org/

http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm

A Whole New White

Ok is it so wrong of me to find that there was an article about the previous leader of the 'Church of Jesus Christ Christian' or otherwise known and 'Aryan nation'. This article says that they have gone belly up and their Headquaters is up for auction since they have not paid their mortgage for several months now. How is it that a group known as hate mongers could possibly get by with naming a church after JC? If there was one thing that just about everyone can agree on is that JC was a man that stood for peace, love, and acceptance. Im not saying that this is necesarrily the traditional Christian view, just Jesus'. To add an even added bonus to this little snippet of news, the page that was displaying the article was also running an ad.

The following ad was displayed next to the article.

Not only is this hillarious, but I wonder if it had been planned. I know that the ads on yahoo are supposed to 'go hand in hand' with the displayed article but I think that this might be a little over the top. Do they mean that since the Aryan Nation is crumbling that there will be a whole new white? Do they mean that since the Aryan Nation is gone the rest of the world might now see the 'white blight' as maybe a contributing member of our global community? Or do they just mean that since they have improved their product that what we once considered white will appear dingy compared to the new and improved bleach? I was pretty sure that since chlorine was a naturally occouring chemical that there really wasnt much to improve upon. But hey Im not a scientist or nothing like that.

I havent had much to say lately but this little bit of news was such a gut buster (at least for me) that I thought I would share it with you, the few, the invisible, the non-existant. However I should get my typing fingers out and scoure the news sites for something worthwhile to talk about. Maybe not so worthwhile, but something that might interest someone. It seems whenever there is a worthwhile cause that nobody hears anything, or just the opposite, that everyone has an opinion and the truth gets burried in the madness. I just couldnt let this one go. Maybe Ill get around to making some posts here in the near future. Until then remember.......

...first you pillage, then you burn.

Walk The Line

Ok so I finally have a release date for Walk The Line (I cant believe the the only link I could find was from some review site). Anyway the date is Nov 18 2005. 'Whats the big deal?' you might say 'Are you a huge Jonny Cash fan?' Well there is no denying that I do like a bit of Mr Cash's work, but thats not the point. The point is that when the movie was being shot, I lucked into a job painting different sets and some of the props for the movie. I dont mean anything special or nothing. I just got to paint some walls and some desks and trash cans. The link takes you to a page that has a link to the trailer. Of course I was obsessing over trying to see if I recognized any sets that I may have worked on. At the very very end of the trailer it showed him inside Sun Studio looking out from the control room. I painted the trim and helped faux finish the walls of that set. Thats pretty cool.

I also worked on several sets at the airport in Millington. There were at least 3 different sets that I worked on out there. I was kinda funny. We were painting an old old airport to look like an old beat up air force base but with a fresh coat of paint. Then we aged it so that you couldnt tell it was fresh paint. I discovered there that a medium grey is alot more burnt seina than you might think. We were touching up some desks before we distressed them. Right? So we touched up spots where the paint had flaked off, then we used more paint to make it look like the paint had flaked off. Yeah you read that right. It was kind of a surreal experience if you could imagine.

My step-brother, Spencer Schilly, shot a film in memphis last year called 'Send In The Clown'. I could find anything that linked directly to it so I just didnt. however I did find a way for those of you that care about indie films and would like to help support this film click here and buy the 'clown' shirt. The $35 is supposed to go to helping fund this film. The best of luck to ya brother.
I hear that there is another movie about to be shot in Memphis. Maybe Ill get a call about them needin a painter. I wont hold my breath. That was a really cool gig.

I do actually have things to say other than just blabbering about indie films and me getting to get in on painting the sets. However I dont really feel that I have it in me to go into all the other stuff at this time. No, it wouldnt be prudent at this juncture.

And oh yeah, heh what do you think of the new layout? I just moved somethings around a bit. Im thinking of tweaking the color scheme abit as well just probably wont get to that tonight.

Random Google Link

Spooky-ish

I just logged into /. (slashdot for non nerdy news readers) and I stumbled across my journal entries. I have been on slashdot for quite some time now I think I started back in 99. But I made my first journal entry just last Nov. The last post that I made was from Jan this year. It was kinda funny and just creepy to see where my head was just 8 short months ago. Some things change, others, not so much. Im not really sure how to take the prophetic words that wuz writ 8 moons ago. I still have most of the same goals that I have had for a very long time now. Some what altered but with a similar if not identical end result.

On a different note. I do have some very short term goals that I think are reasonably attainable.
1st I want to get my hands on a Google Map Once I get the map hosted I should be able to plug in markers at any zoom level. This could be a killer little application/service that I might be able to provide to all sorts of businesses.
2nd I also have a little more lernin to git did on that PHP stuph and maybe even a new look into XML. I know I know. Geek outbreak alert 'Sound the Horn!' It shouldnt be that bad.

I just havent been on the ol puter much for the past month or so. I have been slackin on my slackin. Go figure. Its not that Im a procrastinator, I just like to put stuff off, for as long as possible, alot. Hey Im a product of the 70s, short attention span/advent of a remote/saw Al Gore claim to 'invent the internet' (I bet I helped more than he did, and Im not tellin the world) er I guess I just did -heh- anywho Im starting to ramble on and on alot more than I had ever inteded. Well when I get the map thingy going there will definitely be a link.

Subtle Changes

Well if you have been here before, I cant believe you came back. On the other hand if you have never been here, you wouldnt know about the changes that have occoured. I have been playing around with the template, I decided black was too dark, so now it is 2 shades of blue lighter, or would that be off-black? Anyway I think I am going to wind up using a earthy toned color scheme, but it may just stay blue-ish. Also have added some new links to my listings. If you havent visited those sites I recommend them all for a good read.

There have been many opportunities for me to post some bit of rage here and there, but I just havent had the 'blogging' spirit as of late. Im going to try to make a better effort at updating/posting on a more freuent basis. Its just that I have been to THAT blog that didnt have anything to say, except that they felt the needed to post something, and ta da, this is it! I really dont wanna be that blog.

Anyway Im going to be tweeking the template periodically, so if something changes, dont panic, it will probably just be a temporary thing. Im mostly playing with fonts/colors so the basic layout will be the same (at least for the time being). I do actually have a few things that I want to get off of my chest but I gotta do a little more research before I let loose. I may also create another blog that will be for web information, how tos, where, whatever. Until then --

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Prejudice is a great time saver. It allows one to form opinions without having to get the facts.

Preemptive Random Synapse Firings

Ever wonder if the warhead that has been hurled at a speed of +26,000 MPH at a comet passing near the earth was such a good idea? Well now would be a good time as any. Although I have just discovered a rather dissapointing fact. We will not be able to see the impact as had been previously believed. Appearantly the impact will occour somewhere west or east (depending on your point of view) of Hawaii. In other words somwhere between Hawaii and Japan. This will occour around 1:52 am July 4th +/- 3 mins EDT. Im sure there will be a live webcast from NASA's site. Hopefully this wont be catastrauphic, lest the rest of this post be in vain. I have added an image link to One.org This is a good cause, however I feel that they are overlooking the cases of domestic extreme poverty. Dont get me wrong Im all for what they stand for. If there is a way to stamp out extreme poverty world wide, Im inline to help where I can. But I do find it a bit arrogant to take on global poverty when there is such a high rate domestically. No one wants to admit it but there are A LOT of poor families in America. I would think that if the statement 'Its America's time to shine' that America would take care of its own poor first. But dont let me discourage you from checking out One.org by all means lend a hand where you can. There is a HUGE International musical festival going on over the next several days. the long walk to justice All they ask for is you to sign a letter (presumably to have it printed out and handed to the powers that be) , and post a picture with your name. They will be lining the streets with the photographs in the city where a meeting is taking place with 8 of the most powerful politicians in the world. I sent mine in. Who knows some accidental photograph of the pictures will have my face plastered all over national and international papers/news shows. HEH HEH my shot at fame. And I have finally almost finished out as much as I can for Lisa Laurens site which I am upgrading via Grinz Control Dock. I have been working on this site for what seems like ages. I dont know what it was that took so long. There were some minor details that got overlooked when I started, and these led to major issues on down the line. I think I have gotten most of the bugs worked out. I still have a few things that need finishing up but I dont think they are out of my grasp. Also I have my own site through Control Dock, unfortunately it is not available to the public until I get my own domain name. This should be in the very very near future. But I have been using it to track my progress along the learning curve of Control Dock. All of which is about to be archived and maybe available to the public but the site itself will be getting overhauled once I get the domain. Im still not totally sure which direction I will be taking with the site but Im sure I will find some way to take up a little bit more of cyber space. I dont know if you noticed, heck I dont know if there is a you out there or not. Not that it matters, not to say that I want anyone that is comming to stop. But noone ever writes, and I feel so unloved. Even the folks that came to harrass me have quit posting. Of course I havent been very diligent in updating this blog. Maybe I have a rather dull life and dont have much to comment on. Thats just sad. Anyway Im off to see the fireworks downtown. Is it just me or is Memphis the only city to decide that city wide we will celebrate holidays on whatever day they choose? I mean Halloween fell on a Wed night, they decided to celebrate the Fri night before hand. Now its July 3rd and we are going to shoot fireworks off celebrating the 4th...... Did I mention random?????

Slackers B Us

So here we are a week later and I havent done anything with this site. Ive just been so busy lately. Trying to work on several sites. These are past due and I have not made the progress that I had originaly hoped to make. However I think I have alot of the difficult stuff handled. Not that there wont be more comming down the line any second now. But the stuff I have been working on has beat me up for many days now. I totally went the long way about doing things. I seem to do this alot. Over complicate simple tasks. I would love to say that Im getting better at it but I dont want to lie to myself or anyone else for that matter. So it looks like its going to be back to coding late into the morning and then getting up early and painting whatever I can find to paint. And maybe just maybe going back to work for the local Stagehand Union. That is one of the few jobs that I have had that I KNEW I was good at, and thoroughly enjoyed. And still I have done nothing to this site except get some stuff off my mind and out my fingers.

I think I am about to start reading/studying Power Programing For PHP 5. Maybe that will help to get me out of this mental funk Im in. Im hoping that since I dont have the graphic software at the moment that I might be able to express my creative side through programing. I dont know if Im all that creative in that department. But Im going to give it the good ole college try. (albeit Im no college grad)

Until next time --
Knowledge is Power

This is the full back peice

Lower Back piece

Tribal Flower

Fine but (censored) you

Ok some guy has a blog that I ran across see :(censored) idiotS!
I used some foul language, he called me on it. I thought about it and decided that even though I dont know what Im gonna do with this site I would like to be able to invite my children and parents to see it. So I decided to attempt to not use foul and offensive language on my site. So Fine but (censored) you.

Anyway, I think I have some more art that Ill be posting in the next few days. Unfortunately for me I am no longer in posession of Photoshop so Im currently rather limited in creative freedom, and I lost over 6 yrs of art that I had been saving since 97/98. I have made some cool tribal stuff that may get posted. Anywho I should really be working on a database import but Im quite frustrated at the moment.

Im almost sure I have worked out most of the bugs but, I have tried and tried and continued to find new ways to screw it up. so im kinda burnt for a min. Im not sure if Ill try again tonight, its 1:10 am and im kinda tired. I dont know if I could get it right at this point, on the other hand we had discovered that after a few days of limited sleep you get into a zen like state. Of course this time Im not downing pots of coffee and eating penuts 4 - 5 days a week, and if we were really lucky we got fresh bread thanks to the bread dude next door. But hey, I think I AM going to go work on that import, like I said I think I got it figured out and if I do it wont take but a few minutes, and if I dont have it all worked out, that wont take but a few minutes to figure out either.

Seen on fortune cookie:
That wasnt cat!

My baby is all grown up.

Ok my oldest is all grown up. She graduates tommorrow. I almost missed it too. I barely was able to catch a ride from my mother and her husband to go make the graduation. Ill be posting (maybe with pics [crossing fingers]) and I havent seen my kids in a long time. Im really looking forward to this visit. So enough of this I have to finish packing and gettting ready before my ride shows up. But I wanted to get this up before I left.

(Censored) idiots

Ok so I was surfin the blogs on Blogger.com and I came across this:

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Abolishing America - one immigrant at a time
Abolishing America: Prophet and Loss
James Fulford, VDARE.com

"The problem is that Islam has very different moral standards from those practiced in America, and those standards haven’t changed at all. Whatever Christianity and Judaism may have been in the past, they’ve modernized, civilized, and liberalized to the point where we don’t stone people to death (but Muslims do, because it’s traditional), we don’t own slaves (but Muslims do, because it’s traditional), we don’t beat our wives (but Muslims do, because it’s traditional), et cetera.

In recent years millions of Muslims have moved to America, England, and Western Europe, bringing their religion and their customs with them."

Perhaps our greatest stupidity as a nation lies in our failure to recognize that not every person, or cultural group, is compatible with or healthy for our future. We fret endlessly about Africanized bees and all other sorts of invasive plant and animal pests that can and do harm us, but we get all conflicted about having the same kinds of concerns about importing PEOPLE who may harm us in both the short and long term.

What's up with that?

posted by Katie's Dad at 10:52 PM

I responded thusly:

Ill tell you whats up with that. People are not pests, animals, lower life forms. The political RIGHT would like to assume that ALL of america is nothing but sheep and numbers. I refuse to take this stance. America was created BY and FOR immigrants. If we begin to treat PEOPLE like (censored) animals/pests/irritants then we will be no better than that of Orwelian prophecy! Whats amatter you scarre some (censored) immigrant(animal) might be smarter than you and take your job? Do you fear that the Almighty God might be offended at the thought of blending races? When babylon fell He didnt seperate the people into races, he seperated the tribes. There is no race but the human race and as long as idiots like you spread the poison of ignorance and intolerance the longer we truely stay in the dark ages.

Now WTF is wrong with this guy. America is already hated by more of the world population than is healthy for any US citizen. Do we really want to be a country scared of immigrants? Do we REALLY believe that the (censored) 'governing powers that be' have all the answers? ME not a chance. The world of intolerance and ignorance is now a dark shadow of the past I hope. And whenever it isnt that way I will rant and rave and stir up as much (censored) as I can before 'they' shut me down. I refuse to be a dumb (censored) lemming that follows orders without hesitation and without thinking of the consequences the norm is totally (censored) up. People want to call me a (censored) freak. (censored) THEM I wont stand by silently while we turn America into the Russia we made fun of when I was a child. Did you know that there are 2 bills up for vote. BOTH of which stem from pure Orwelian thinking. The first is an extension of the patriot act. Isnt that name refreshing? I mean the word Patriot inspires thoughts of standing up for freedom and defending against cruelty. When in fact the patriot act stands for the exact opposite of its definition. It requires that we as U.S. citizens get ourselves a (censored) Federal ID(walking papers????)
Federal ID
This will require that first you go to the DMV of your state, drop off your info then leave with nothing. Then in a few weeks or a month you return and pick up your Federal ID. States will have 3 yrs to comply if the state does not comply then the citizens of that state that dont have Federal IDs will not be able to fly, take a train, a bus, or travel out of country. Hopefully the beginging numbers wont be 666 but hey I wouldnt be shocked. The second bill is a requirement to report any drug activity to the authorities within 24 hrs of 'knowing' about it failure to do so will result in a mininmum 2 yr sentance.
Check this out:
New Drug Laws

Am I paranoid??????????????????????????

Eye Candy

So I thought that after that depressing sorry ass post that I would share some genuine happiness and joy (not to mention I just figured it out) So I posted some of my original artwork. For ALL the WORLD to see, ok so maybe just 1 or 2 people will ever know about this site and yet again no one will relish my artistic superiority .... er um I mean no one will ever have a good gander at my 'art' heh

Do U C a dog? 

Splashdown!! 

Chess anyone? 

Bleh bleh bleh

Ok today was absolutely worthless. Not only did I get nothing accomplished but I also found out that I have forgotten even MORE stuff. So now I have to relearn some coding that I had no idea that I even had known to begin with. Also I d/ld picasa from google, will be checking out Hello in a little bit tonight. Maybe even get around to adding some fru fru to this blog. I dont know what I really want out of a blog or site. Im a graphic artist/ web application developer but the stuff Im developing is propriatery(sp?) in other words it aint mine. I guess I could offer my services as a stand alone type gig, but really im in this other thing with a friend and it would be undercutting his gig which would in turn be undercutting myself. So what to do what to do...... I just dont know . I could try to offer my art for sale but I dont think that would draw that big of an audience. So anyway I just had to vent somewhere . And Im sure Ill be back with some witty blahbady blah blah bleh later maybe even tonight until then

you will be comming back cause it works...................

Oh yeah Im supposed to be working on a documentation presentation for the end users of our product, and I gotta tell ya. When I get done with work ( at least for the moment) I am dog ass tired and dont really (censored) feel like typing out the how tos and the FAQS but hey I was just bitchin bout that in yesterdays post.

Day 1

Ok so now this is my 3rd or 4th attempt aside from my site at grinz.com I dont really know what I want a blog for. Its not like Im famous or even a popular person. Noone will come to read my rants and or articles. This will probably wind up being tied in to my other site via controldock. One of these days Im going to have a tech support site that covers just about every aspect of personal computing. I have started on that project several times, but it is amazing how many people that I know that are rather well informed about computers but are not willing to sit down and take the time to type up a how to or come up with questions for FAQs. Well its terribly late and I gotta get up and get to work on a couple of sites in the morning but now that this site is up Ill prolly end up swapping info back and forth from my other site to this site and vice versa.