This Afternoon and my dream(open to interpretation)

I had the day off from work today. Yes, occassionally I do take days off. Well, I did accomplish a few things today. Did a little cleaning, and finally got my hair cut and eyebrows waxed. They needed it because I had not had it done in a few months and I was getting kind of hairy , heh. Well, I came home, had lunch then emailed a few friends, posted on my favourite boards, then decided to take a nap. What was supposed to be a nap turned into a full fledged sleep, and I dreamt about. I dreamt that I was at an Elvis Presley concert , and I bumped into Johnny Cash. Talk about fun. I encourged him to get up on stage with Elvis and sing some songs. I must have been singing and dancing in my sleep and everything seemed so real! I also remember the feeling sort of like I was floating in and out of reality, completely painless, and laughing a lot.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

My computer keeps freezing up on me. Pages take forever to load. I cannot play my games on pogo.com because my screen freezes up there and I have to reboot! Fuck!!!!!!!!!!Yes, I have a great antivirus program updated every day. Pages are slow to load, and I have to reboot often. Any suggestions would be great.

Borrowed from somewhere on the net

Ok, I know that this article is dated August 2006, but that is still fairly recent. What do you folks think? The 1,800-Fold Price HikeA maker of the pill sticks it to family-planning clinics.By Amanda Schaffer
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006, at 1:12 PM ET
No one much noticed, but thousands of family-planning clinics across the country went into a tailspin last month. They were reacting to a drastic price increase by Ortho-McNeil, a major supplier of birth-control pills and maker of the popular contraceptive patch. The company used to charge publicly funded clinics as little as a penny a pack for the pills. Then, as of July 1, the price of some pills jumped to more than $18 a pack. Ortho's move was apparently legal under federal pricing rules. But it's anybody's guess as to why the company chose to do this now, without giving the clinics any real notice.

As a result of the price hike, publicly funded clinics from Maine to New Mexico are running short on popular contraception products, scrambling to find reasonably priced generics, and scaling back on the choices they offer low-income women. Chronically underfunded, the clinics are in no shape to absorb this blow, especially now. The number of women in need of subsidized contraception is rising, while new and expensive advances in screening and prevention, like the HPV vaccine, are coming on line. Yet the national press has ignored the story of the Ortho price hike, which the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia broke in late July.

Ortho-McNeil has historically offered birth control to public clinics at a far lower price than it retails to women with private insurance, allowing the clinics to offer free or low-cost pills to many patients. The company's low prices—pennies for a month's worth of birth-control pills, $10 to $12 for the popular one-month contraceptive patch Ortho Evra—came through the federal program 340B. Using a complex formula, 340B sets upper limits on what companies can charge to clinics that receive funding from Title X, the federal family-planning initiative. There are about 4,500 Title X clinics serving around 5 million patients. The current funding is $283 million a year—an amount that's supposed to cover not only birth control but also treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, screening for breast and cervical cancer, pregnancy tests, and counseling. (Title X funds may not be used for abortions.


Ok, Just my humble opinion here, I could afford the price hike, but some poor woman without insurance may not. Moment of clarity: Even with the price hike, it is still cheaper than an abortion or gestating a pregnancy then giving birth.

Guilty Pleasures

Dennis has been one of my guilty pleasures. He is big in every sense of the word:). However, I have not seen or heard from him lately. Personally I think he is kinda pissed because I won't come over and drop his drawers whenever he wishes me to. I would like to, but I cannot do it at 11 pm when I have to work in the morning!LOL. Yes, I have not heard from him in about a month and a half.. oh well, life goes on. Looks like I will have to find another guy.. right now another guilty pleasure of mine is the Comedy Central tv show South Park. I love it. They insult EVERYBODY.

Thanks, Glenn Beck! This is sweet, so I just had to add it here

Focusing on Our Kids

It has been a tough week and its only Wednesday. And yes, while all
weeks seem pretty tough these days, this one has seen kids suffering the
most. Thankfully that predator Mark Foley is finally out of
commission, but we didnt catch another dangerous nut soon enough before his
senseless attack on an Amish schoolhouse left us all devastated, none more
so than those little girls' parents. Of course, I have lots of thoughts
on these two stories and youve been hearing them on the radio and TV
shows, so Id like to make a different point here. If youre lucky enough
to have children of your own, you know what a profound blessing that
is. If you dont have kids, I pray you still have your parents with you
and know how fortunate they feel to have you in their lives. To have or
be a happy and healthy child is something to celebrate and never take
for granted. I hope youll join me in taking that to heart.

Were all busylife is complicated and time is the one thing there never
seems to be enough of. But when you really think about it, what could
be more worth making time for than our children? I love my kids more
than words could ever say, and one of the ways I especially feel that is
when I read to my son Raphe. Hes 2 years old and while he especially
loves Green Eggs and Ham, I think hed be just as happy if I read to him
from the phone book. Its not what I read to him, but that I read to
him. Its time we spend together, just us. I draw strength for my day
from those nighttime moments that we share. Even though my life and
schedule are more hectic now than theyve ever been, I know I must never
forget whats really importantwhats essential for me as a dad and him as my
son.

We should remind ourselves not just how much we love our kids, but how
much we really like them. And if you dont have kids of your own, call
your folks and tell them what they mean to youwhat its meant to you to
have been their child. Try to keep that feeling with you all the time.
Im going to, and Im sure itll make the tough weeks just a little
easier.

See you tonight, Raphe. Sam I am

-glenn

Foley

Foley is a sick asshole for doing what he did to that Page. I hope that he goes to prison for a long time. I guess now he is in seclusion somewhere getting 'treatment' for alcoholism. Bullshit. Let him go to prison, where he will find a 'husband', to take care of him.I saw the picture of him along with John Walsh of America's Most Wanted. I kinda feel sorry for Walsh, now that his image is probably tarnished by being seen with asshole Foley.To think, Foley was a huge backer of some sort of legislation to stop cp. I hate him. I know that it is really not constructive to hate, but this guy has violated the trust of so many that he deserves to be hated. Everyone is right. He is an asshole douchebag pig.

Lola!

She is ADORABLE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTDQDFLUgc8

Southpark

I love Southpark! And the new tv episodes are supposed to come out today. Life is sweet.

From Comedy Central

A blonde walked into a gas station and said to the manager, ''I locked my keys in my car. Do you have a coat hanger or something I can stick through the window to unlock the door?''
''Why sure,'' said the manager, ''we have something that works especially well for that.''

A couple minutes later, the manager walked outside to see how the blonde was doing and he heard another voice. ''No, no! A little to the left,'' said the other blonde inside the car.

Joke

Homer, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58pm. He sat down next to a blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV. The 10:00 news was now on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a tall building preparing to jump.
The blonde looked at Homer and said, "Do you think he'll jump?"

Homer said, "You know, I bet he'll jump."

The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't."

Homer placed 20 dollars on the bar and said, "You're on!"

Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy did a swan dive off of the building, falling to his death. The blonde was very upset and handed her 20 dollars to Homer, saying, "Fair is fair. Here's your money."

Homer replied, "I can't take your money, I saw this earlier on the 5 o'clock news and knew he would jump."

The blonde replied, "I did too, but I didn't think he'd do it again"

Homer took the money.



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Tomorrow Tomorrow

Well, tomorrow, I get to take my car in for an estimate for a traffic accident that I was involved in last Thursday. Not at all my fault, so my insurance does not have to pay anything. Once everything is in order, I will probably have to wait to get the parts in for them to start fixing it. I hate the wait. It usually is not too long, still it is a bit of an inconvenience. It scared the crap outta me when the woman hit me. She swerved over into my lane, like she didn't even see me. I did not say too much, but I was polite when we pulled over. She was very young, looked to be in her early twenties, so I just remained in my car and waited for the cop to show up to take the report. He was a cute cop:).

Les Miserabe

Still miserable today with this cold. My eyes, which have been draining a ton along with my nose. Tis the season. I started taking something called azithromycin today which seems to help, because I am actually feeling better since I took the pills. If you are a diabetic, then a cold can sometimes do wonders for your bloodsugars(not in a good way). To change the subject a little, I don't think that I will hear from Dennis again. I think that he is still traveling alot these days, with the shows and the group he performs with. If I do hear from him, or I don't, it is no skin off my nose. Its not like I am waiting to hear from him LOL. Oh well, on to much needed sleep

Today I feel miserable.

Sore throat. Congestion. Watery eyes. Drowsiness. Irritability. Sneezing. Chills.Yep, I have got it all. I believe that what I have is what is known as the common cold. YUCK. I believe that I contracted it sometime last week, because that is when I had a mild sore throat. I became sicker today at work, and was congested for most of the day. Can't call in sick tomorrow, as tomorrow is payday, and I work the payroll! Adding to my frustrations , I was involved in a minor traffic accident Friday and now I have got to hassle with an insurance company. We all know how much fun that is, HA!. Well, at least the accident was not my fault, and I did not get cited for anything. Right now, I am waiting for my binky to get done in the dryer, so after my shower I can wrap it around me to keep me warm. My mother has gone to Tyler , Texas to visit her Godmother who is in the hospital, and will be home tomorrow. I hope that she gets home ok.

Sad news:(

This is coming from my local newspaper. Very sad and depressing.: Second-grader liked soccer, library, brother

A D V E R T I S E M E N T
By Hal Lockard and Barbara Hollingsworth
The Capital-Journal
Noah Garey and his brother, Chandler, were discussing their reading homework and who was going to read to whom Tuesday night as they sat in their father's car at a stop light at S.E. 29th and West Edge Road.

They hadn't reached an agreement before tragedy struck from behind, sending Noah to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. He died Thursday at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

Mark Garey said Friday that he and his sons were returning from Lake Shawnee, where Garey coached Chandler's soccer team practices twice a week. Noah, also a soccer player, attended the practices.

"He liked to play soccer, to play with his cars and he liked to be around his big brother," Mark said of Noah.

And that was why he tagged along on those cross-city excursions to Chandler's practices. It was a drive the three had made "a couple times a week" for a long time, Mark said.





Submitted
Noah Garey
Click here to check for reprint availability.Noah was born June 6, 1999, in Grand Junction, Colo. The family moved to Topeka six years ago. The children attended Indian Hills Elementary School, Noah, 7, in second grade and Chandler, 9, in third grade.
Mark said Noah enjoyed mathematics and going to the library, "and he liked being around his friends."

"We've heard from many of them already," the father said.

The accident Tuesday occurred at about dusk when a pickup truck struck the Garey car from behind, according to the Shawnee County Sheriff's Office. The wreck left the Garey's Geo Prizm crumpled alongside westbound S.E. 29th Street. Passers-by slowed to near stops, looking curiously at the wreckage while firefighters had to exert authority to keep traffic moving.

Mark recalled the moment, saying he sensed the gravity of Noah's injuries.

"I pulled him from the car. I knew what the injuries were," he said.

He said his wife, Heather, was doing "as well as can be expected," leaning on the strength of their Christian faith.

The Gareys are members of Light of the World Christian Center, and Noah had early in his life expressed interest in becoming a minister.

"He wanted to be a minister because he loved Jesus that much," Mark said.

News that a classmate had died was spread in a short statement Thursday afternoon at Indian Hills Elementary School.

"We have some sad news to share with you," began the statement that was to be read simultaneously in second- through sixth-grade classrooms throughout the 575-student building.

"It's like losing a part of your family," principal George Huckabee said in an interview Friday. "There were tears, and that's OK."

Letters also went home with students Thursday afternoon warning parents that their children might respond in different ways. They could become clingy, sad, angry and even feel guilty. Their heads might hurt and their stomachs might ache, the principal wrote.

Parents, he said, should reassure children that they are safe as are others important to them. They should help children understand that it is OK to be sad and have all sorts of feelings about Noah's death. And Huckabee urged parents to maintain normal routines and spend time with children.

A school counselor and psychologist were on hand to work with students Thursday and Friday. If more assistance is needed, the district can draw from its larger pool of school psychologists and counselors, said Martin Weishaar, communications coordinator for Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437.

"It's a difficult time at the school," Weishaar said, passing along comments from Huckabee. "Of course, the family is in their thoughts. They are doing everything to maintain to keep things normal."

Information about services for Noah weren't available Friday.

A Noah Garey Memorial Fund has been established at Commerce Bank & Trust, 3035 S.W. Topeka Blvd., Topeka, Kan. 66611.

Barbara Hollingsworth can be

From wikipedia

Car accident
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The result of excessive speed, this cement truck rolls over into the front garden of a house. There were no injuries, but significant damage was caused.A car accident is a incident whereas an automobile either departs from regular pathway into a ditch, or collides with anything that causes damage to the automobile, including other automobiles, telephone poles, buildings, and trees. Sometimes a car accident may also refer to an automobile striking a human or animal. Car accidents — also called traffic collisions, auto accidents, road accidents, personal injury collisions, motor vehicle accidents, and (particularly by American radio traffic reporters) crashes — kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times this number (WHO, 2004). The term "accident" is considered an inappropriate word by some, as reliable sources estimate that upwards of 90% are the result of driver negligence. In the UK the Department of Transport publish road deaths in each type of car. These statistics are available as "Risk of injury measured by percentage of drivers injured in a two car injury accident."

These statistics show a ten to one ratio of in-vehicle accident deaths between the least safe and most safe models of car.

A vehicular collision in Yate, near Bristol, England, in July 2004. The car failed to stop when the truck stopped at a roundabout. The car's bonnet can be seen deep under the rear of the truck. There were no injuries.The statistics show that for popular, lightly built cars, occupants have a 6%-8% chance of death in a two car accident. (e.g. BMW 3 series 6%, Subaru Impreza 8%, Honda Accord 6%). Traditional "safety cars" such as the Volvos halve that chance (Volvo 700 4% incidence of death, Volvo 900 3%).

SUVs are better for their occupants in two-vehicle crashes than 'safety cars', with the Jeep Cherokee and Toyota Land Cruiser giving 2% incidence of occupant death in actual crashes. However, in multiple-vehicle crashes SUVs are probably between three (Bicycle Safety Almanac) and six (International Injury & Fatality Statistics) times more likely to kill the occupant of the other vehicle (car, cyclist, or pedestrian) than cars.

Overall the four best vehicles to be in are the Jaguar XJ series 1%, Mercedes-Benz S-Class / SEC 1%, Land Rover Defender 1% and Land Rover Discovery 1%.

Motorcyclist deaths within England and Wales stand at 53% of the annual road death statistics. Scooters/mopeds up to 50cc only account for 3% of those deaths. 2% of the scooter deaths were 16-19 year olds who had not taken CBT (Compulsory Basic Training). Studies show that the #1 cause of car accidents in North America is automobiles.

(Statistics taken from 2004/2005 DSA annual road deaths percentages)

Contents [hide]
1 First fatality
2 Responsibility of car manufacturers
3 Trends in collision statistics
4 Types of collisions
5 Legal consequences
6 Rubbernecking
7 Backup accidents
8 Collision prevention
9 See also
10 External links



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First fatality
The first fatality in a steam-driven vehicle may have been Mary Ward who on 31 August 1869 fell under a steam car in Ireland.

In the UK, the first person to die in a petrol-driven car collision was a pedestrian, Bridget Driscoll, in 1896. The first driver/passenger deaths occurred on 25 February 1899. A 6 HP Daimler, driven by 31-year-old engineer Edwin Sewell, crashed on Grove Hill, a steeply graded road on the northern slope of Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, now in north-west London. A rear wheel collapsed after breaking its rim and the car hit a sturdy brick wall. Sewell was killed immediately when he and his passenger, a Major Richer, were thrown from the vehicle. Richer died 3 days later in hospital. The spot is now marked with a commemorative plaque.

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Responsibility of car manufacturers
Car makers have been both accused of making cars that go too fast, and praised for the safety measures (such as ABS) found in new models.

A number of books have critically analysed the responsibility of car makers for safety. The most famous is probably Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, and more recently Keith Bradsher's High and Mighty: the dangerous rise of SUVs (in Europe subtitled the world's most dangerous vehicles and how they got that way) has discussed popular concerns with the rise in popularity of the SUV.

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Trends in collision statistics
Road toll figures show that car collision fatalities have declined since 1980, with most countries showing a reduction of roughly 50%. This drop appears to confirm the efficacy of safety measures introduced thereafter, assuming that driver behaviour has not changed significantly.

In the United States, fatalities have increased slightly from 40,716 in 1994 to 42,643 in 2003. However, in terms of fatalities per 100 million miles driven, the fatality rate has dropped 16% between 1995 and 2005. Injuries dropped 37% over the same period. (National Traffic Safety Administration, 2006)

It has been noted that road fatality trends closely follow the so-called "Smeed's law" (after RJ Smeed, its author), an empirical rule relating injury rates to the two-thirds power of car ownership levels. Others claim that road safety improvements, not Smeed's law, are the dominant cause of lives saved. An analysis by John Adams can be found here.

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Types of collisions
A rollover in Sydney, Australia on Christmas day, 2001.Car accidents fall into several major categories (whose names are self-explanatory):

Head-on collisions
Rear-end collisions
Side collisions
Rollovers
Single-vehicle collisions
Multi-vehicle collisions
Backup accidents
Level crossing accidents
Suicide
Collisions can occur with other automobiles, other vehicles such as bicycles or trucks, with pedestrians or large animals (such as moose), and with stationary structures or objects, such as trees or road signs.

The result of a side collision; most cars are not as structurally sound side-to-side as they are front-to-back and damage can be more severe to the vehicle and the occupant than at the same speed in a rear-end collision.In a collision between two cars, the occupants of a car with the lower mass will likely suffer the greater consequences. See: crash incompatibility.

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Legal consequences

Pogo

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Life is good 2

I am back. Have not heard from Dennis in a while. Kinda frustrating because I am feeling kinda horny LOL. Maybe tomorrow night I will try IMing him. Meanwhile I must sleep. Zucker was driving me crazy tonight with her little squeak toy. Now she is calm.I MUST sleep. Cannot miss tomorrow.

Thank You, Mr Simon

For writing and playing this song. Great childhood memories I have of my mother playing that song! Late In The Evening

The first thing I remember
I was lying in my bed
I couldn’t of been no more
Than one or two
I remember there’s a radio
Comin’ from the room next door
And my mother laughed
The way some ladies do
When it’s late in the evening
And the music’s seeping through

The next thing I remember
I am walking down the street
I’m feeling all right
I’m with my boys
I’m with my troops, yeah
And down along the avenue
Some guys were shootin’ pool
And I heard the sound of a cappella groups, yeah
Singing late in the evening
And all the girls out on the stoops, yeah

Then I learned to play some lead guitar
I was underage in this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke myself a “J”
And when I came back to the room
Everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and began to play
And it was late in the evening
And I blew that room away

The first thing I remember
When you came into my life
I said I’m gonna get that girl
No matter what I do
Well I guess I’d been in love before
And once or twice been on the floor
But I never loved no one
The way I loved you
And it was late in the evening
And all the music seeping through

KState!

K-State Wildcats beat Marshall. Final score was 15(I think. I left just right when the final quarter had started because hey, it is a long assed walk back to the car)to Marshall's 7. It was a good game. I promised myself that I would go to one football game this year, and yesterday, I kept that promise. Yesterday after we got home, I was exhausted! I must have walked at least 3 miles. Ok, that may not be a lot for some, but it is a lot for my father and I! And today I am very RED. Why, you ask? Because yours truly, yes ME, forgot to bring sunscreen. Now I am paying for it. My neck is so red and splotchy now that it ain't funny!