Kathryn Joosten dies at 72

“Actress Kathryn Joosten, best known as "Desperate Housewives'" most meddlesome neighbor Karen McKluskey, died Friday after a long battle with lung cancer. She was 72.

Joosten's death came less than three weeks after the emotional "Desperate Housewives" series finale, which saw the redemption and eventual death of Mrs. McKluskey as well.

Joosten won two Emmys for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her "Desperate" role, in 2005 and 2008, and was nominated for a third time in 2010.

Prior to her residence on Wisteria Lane, Joosten had another tony TV address: The White House. She played Mrs. Landingham, President Bartlet's (Martin Sheen) secretary on "The West Wing" for the series' first two seasons until her character died in a car accident…”  The HuffingtonPost

I never have seen “Desperate Housewives” and did not know she was on the show.
I did watch “The West Wing” and I loved her on that show.
Very sorry to hear that she has passed away. 

Google money

  This month I will get some commission money from Google.  I only earn about $20.00 a month from Google AdSense and that includes YouTube.  So it has been months and months since I got any money from them.
  I will get $117.69 later this month from Google.

  Some of you may know that I consider this extra money.  So I am a bit stupid with the money.  I do not use it for food or put it away for some emergency I spend it on some toy.  I think I always get something off my Amazon Wish List. 
  I am thinking this time I should get a 32 GB SD card.  The price is now down $26.98.  What do you think?
  I am also thinking of the Blue Microphone Yeti USB Microphone.  Amazon had it the other day for $87.00 but I did not have the money.  I see it is $100.00 today.  What do you think?
 
I will get my money from Google about the 25th of this month. 

Nearly Half of U.S. Citizens Are Creationist

  A blog called JobSanger has a post “Nearly Half of U.S. Citizens Are Creationist.” 
  That is sad and scary.  That means that half of Americans think the early is only 10,000 years old and they think that God made Adam and put him here on earth.
 
  I fear for the United States.  In this day and age we need smart citizens that can make good decisions about science and engineering. 
  We have to decide how to spend money and what achievements we want the United States to make to the world.

  If half of Americans are creationist then they may just decide that there is no need for education (science) and decide that all we need to do is just pray.  No need for a military we can just pray and protect or nation.
  No need to care for the old, sick and children we can just pray for them.

  I think knowing what I know now AND if I was a young man I would just move to some other nation.

  But then I do not know what people in other nations believe.  I sure would not move to Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia or the Vatican. 
  I sure would not move to some nation that was cold no matter what the people believed.

Pomeranian

  I just took the rent check over to the apartment office for my ex-wife.  I pay my rent online at their web page.
  The woman that works at the office had a Pomeranian (dog) at the office.  It looked, at first, like a fat cat. 
  I like large dogs but the dog was cute.  She said it was about six pounds over weight.
  It looked like an Orange Sable Pomeranian to me.  I am going by the photos on the Wikipedia page.  If I was going to have one that is what I would want.

  We do not have any pets.  I have a hard time taking care of myself.
My grandson, we share this apartment, would like a black cat.  But I know he would not take care of it.  He might feed it but he would not empty the cat litter or brush it or anything.
  So no pets for us.

Nuns come out swinging

  God bless the American nuns. 

“(CNN) – The leadership representing most of America’s nuns came out swinging Friday against the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, in the face of charges from the Vatican that the nuns are espousing “radical feminism” and straying from church teaching.

The Vatican’s criticism of the American nuns has “caused scandal and pain throughout the church community, and created greater polarization,” the Leadership Conference of Women Religious - which represents about 80% of American nuns - said in a statement Friday.

The board of the group had convened in Washington this week for three days of special meetings, provoked by an April assessment from the Vatican that said America’s nuns had largely gone rogue and warned that they could be a negative global influence on the church.

The Vatican report said that at an annual gathering of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, guest speakers who preached "radical feminism" went unchallenged. The report also said the nuns were too focused on social justice and not enough on opposing abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage…”

oh the joy of it… the jobs report… GOP is happy

  Today the jobs report came out and it was bad.  Oh my the Republicans are so happy.  They can blame President Obama and they can say see we need Mitt Romney.

  Truth is I have been surprised that the job reports for the last few months, until today, have been very good.  Because the Republican Party has been doing everything they can to bring down President Obama.
  They will not work with him.  They fight every program that he and the Democrats put forward.

  So is the jobs report today bad?  Yes it is.  I  blame the Republicans in Congress.  I blame the Republicans that are calling on business to not hire until President Obama is out of office.
  I blame Republicans that are telling investors and business people set on your money and do nothing… tell the American people you are not building and hiring because you are not sure about the tax laws and rules.

  Who will get the blame for the bad jobs report?  The President will get the blame.  We always blame the President.

  But oh the members of the evil empire (the Republican Party) are so happy today.

Voter ID Laws

  I have talked about this in the past… The Republican voter ID laws.  The problem in the United States has always been that not enough people vote.  Americans are to stupid and lazy to vote.  Our voter turn out is one of the lowest in the world.
  We have no problem with voter fraud. 
 
  Republicans are on the losing side of issues.  Their voters are old white men and they are dying out and younger people and the new voters are not voting Republican.

  Even the Republicans see the problem and have made a few attempt at getting the new voters but they have not had much luck.
  Instead of the Republican Party (the evil empire) changing they have decided to try and prevent Americans from voting.  So they came up with the idea that there is voter fraud.  The idea that people that are not citizens are voting.  So they are passing “voter fraud laws.”
  Those sort of laws in Ohio and Florida and other states are working for them.  The laws are going to keep some citizens that have the right to vote from voting and most of those are Democratic voters. 
  So the Republicans may steal this election and a few others but the time is on the side of the American people and justice and America.
  We are going to see “The Last Hurrah” of the Republican Party.
  We will soon live to see it go down in flames and cease to exist as a viable party.  We will read, in history books, about the Wigs, Know Nothing Party and the Republican Party and it will just be some strange old party from the old days.
 
  We have to suffer with the evil empire for a few more elections.  We need to make sure we all get out and vote.  Ever vote is going to be important.
  Everyone should send a message to the GOP and you do that by not voting for any Republican no matter what… If your father, mother, brother or no matter who it is… If they are a Republican you need to vote them out.  Anyone but a Republican.  The sooner we get them out of government the sooner we can get American on the right track and fix our problems and have a red, white and blue America again.

How BPH Progresses

  If you been reading my blog you have read a lot about my bladder problems and my prostate.  The following report from Harvard may explain better what has been going on with me for years.

“How BPH Progresses
Content provided by:
Content provided by the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School
Excerpted from a Harvard Special Health Report
As the prostate enlarges, it starts to press against the urethra and the bladder (see Figure 4), like a foot stepping on a garden hose or fingers pinching a soda straw. This gradually obstructs the flow of urine, forcing the bladder to work harder to push urine through the urethra. But straining to urinate, although unavoidable, only makes matters worse. Like any muscle, the bladder wall becomes thicker with work. This reduces the amount of urine the bladder can hold and causes it to contract even when it contains only small amounts of urine, causing more frequent urination. Eventually, the bladder becomes so thick that it loses its elasticity and can no longer empty itself.

What made my Mawson stock go up 47 cents?

  Here is the news releases that must have caused my 200 shares of Mawson stock to go up .47 cents a share today.

News Releases are added to our web site immediately upon release to the general public. If you would like to receive news releases via e-mail or fax, please send a request to our Investor Relations Department.

May 31, 2012
Mawson Drills 6 Metres at 617 g/t Gold Uncut at Rompas, Finland

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Vancouver, Canada - Mawson Resources Limited ("Mawson") TSX - MAW; Frankfurt - MRY announces the first drill results from the Rompas gold project in Northern Finland. Results from 14 holes from a planned 39 diamond drill hole program are available to date. The best result returned is 6 metres at 617 g/t gold from 7 metres depth in drill hole ROM0011.
Key points:

• Highlight is 6 metres at 617g/t gold from 7 metres in drill hole ROM0011 which includes 1 metre at 3,540g/t gold from 11 metres depth. This is the best result from surface sampling or drilling ever sampled at the Rompas property to date;
• Drill definition of a greater than 100m wide gold anomalous zone characterised by hydrothermal calc-silicate veining and alteration. Gold is associated with some calc-silicate veins;
• First drill testing of the Rompas project with a small percentage of the 6 kilometre long mineralized trend drill tested to date (Figure 1);
• Securing permits to test the best geological targets within the entire mineralized trend at Rompas now becomes even more of a priority.

Mawson Resources Ltd

  One of my stocks went up .47 cents a share today.  Sorry to say I only have 200 shares of the stock.

 

“IIROC Trade Resumption ? MAW

4 hours 45 minutes ago - Cnw Group

Trading resumes in: Company: MAWSON RESOURCES LIMITED TSX Symbol: MAW (All Issues) Resumption: 10:30 AM ET The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) can make a decision to impose a temporary suspension of trading in a security of a publicly listed company, usually in anticipation of a material news announcement by the company. Trading halts are issued based on the principle that all investors should have the same timely access to important company information. IIROC is the national self-regulatory organization which oversees all investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada.

IIROC: Resumption; MAWSON RESOURCES LIMITED

4 hours 57 minutes ago - Marketwire Canada

Trading resumes in / Reprise des negociations pour : SOURCE: Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC)

Mawson Calls Rompas Drill Intersection 'Extremely Positive Result' >MAW.T

5 hours 3 minutes ago - Dow Jones News”

The market value is only $298.00 for the stock.  If it would just go up a little bit more I could buy a new expensive ham radio.

CNN Hit 20-Year Primetime Ratings Low

“The bad news just keeps coming for CNN.

May was the network's worst month for total viewers during primetime in over 20 years. CNN drew an average of just 389,000 primetime viewers from April 30 to May 27. In comparison, MSNBC drew an average of 674,000 total viewers, while Fox News boasted an average of 1,692,000 total viewers.

It was also the network's second-worst month in primetime for viewers in the key demographic since October 1991…” 
The Huffington Post

 

  It is not a surprise.  Well I am surprised that MSNBC has twice the viewer of CNN! 
  I think I could fix their problems.  I have no background in broadcasting or TV.
  As I have said before the first thing you do is forget about Twitter and all of that other crap.  Put a link on the screen at the start or end of a show but never mention it. Have the links, of course, on you web site but on the TV don’t even mention it.
  Then fire a bunch of people.  Not the on the air people but the people that come up with the touch screens and all that flashy high-tech crap.
  Then they need to buy some desks.  Let poor Wolf and the others sit their fat asses down in a chair.  Copy Fox News and get some female anchors and we want to see their legs and thighs.  The woman need to be in short skirts. 
  CNN should not monitor Fox News to see what they are reporting but they should see just how much ass the women are showing and show more ass on CNN.  Not a news war but a legs, thighs and ass war is needed.
  You mean to tell me that CNN does not know that sex sells?
  The reason we got VCRs, CDs, DVDs and the Internet when we did was because of sex/porn. 

  Television now is entertainment.  All of it. 
  We do not watch CNN, MSNBC or Fox News for professional news reporting.  If we want that we will watch PBS or C/Span.  All the rest of the stuff on TV is just entertainment.
  The days of Walter Cronkite are over and gone. 
  The 24 hour “news” networks has killed professional journalism. 

  There is another department they should fire and that would be the department that collects ratings and gives out the ratings to the network people.  If I was running CNN I would fire anyone that looked at ratings or reported on ratings to the staff.  If I saw an employee at a desk looking at some rating report I would fire him on the spot and have security escort him out of the building.

Luka Rocco Magnotta

  Luka Rocco Magnotta is the 29 year old suspect in homicide and appears to be the guy that sent body parts to the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party in Canada.
  It appears that the guy is a adult film actor! 
  It appears he has been active on the Internet.
  I think he looks gay.  But that might just be me saying that because he looks like a pretty boy!  Not that there is anything wrong with that.
  You do not expect that sort of thing to happen in Canada.  I wonder if he will turn out to be from the United States.  

  Why would you send body parts to a political party? 
I guess we will find out when the police get this guy.

Face-chewing photos

  I saw the photos of the victim of the face-chewing attack.  I am NOT going to put a link to them.  I recommend you do not look at them.  They are gruesome.
 
  It seems like a world gone crazy often. 
  I have been on that street were the attack took place. 
  Orlando and Miami have a lot of homeless people and they are a pain in the ass.  And keep in mind that I am a bleeding heart Liberal.
  Homeless people also seem to be the victim of a lot of attacks.
  I think in this case that Rudy Eugene was just crazy from the “bath salts” and he would have attacked anyone.  Ronald Poppo was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  I have seen a bunch of comments on a right wing blog that everyone should be armed.  I guess we could pass out firearms to homeless people.  They are pretty easy to find.

  It will be interesting to see just what the toxicology tests turn up on Rudy Eugene.  I saw some reports that he had been arrested a number of times on marijuana charges.
  I have just about decided that we should make marijuana legal and tax it.  This might make me think about that decision.  I am sure marijuana did not make this guy eat a face but did this guy start out on marijuana and then decide to move on to other drugs (“bath salts”)?

Fixed my phone

  It is a shame that I had to do it… But I went to the Charter website and picked the option to have my phone only accept phone calls from numbers that I have entered.  I put in the number of my ex-wife and son.  I put in the numbers of my other kids.  I put in the apartment office phone number.
  I am now not getting phones calls from the people that want to give me a free alarm system.  I am not getting the phone calls about the credit problems of the woman that had this number before me.

  I had put this number on the national and Texas do not call list but it did no good.
  I also a few times answered the phone and hit the number to take me off the call list of the people calling but they still called again.
 

  I get a lot of junk emails.  I do not care.  I just do not want phone calls.
I am not sure how long this will work.  I suspect that I will run into some sort of problem.  Someone needing to call me and I did not know that I would be getting a call from them.