AS IT STANDS

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

SARAH PALIN POSTER SAYS IT ALL!

Father kills family and shoots himself over financial distress!

Is this tragedy a sign of the times? Click here to see why a man killed himself and his family because he lost his job.

Karthik Rajaram once made more than $1.2 million in a London-based venture in his capacity as a finance manager.

This kind of thing happens when money becomes more important than family. I think anyone who takes so much stock in material things is headed for disappointment throughout their life.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

ONE FALL DAY'S VISITORS TO THIS BLOG

Organic beauty in the Arcata

Bottoms at the Warren Creek

Farm today. Below are some

visitors to this blog in the

last 24 hours.

From overseas someone in Sutton, United Kingdom came by, and blimey(!), there was another Brit from South Shields, South Tyneside, United Kingdom who stopped in too. Also from California, there were visitors from; San Leandro; Danville; Winsor; Oakland; San Jose; Fortuna; Eureka: Bayside: Arcata; and McKinleyville.

From other points in the USA there were visitors from Killeen,Texas; Washington DC; Tacoma,Washington; Seattle, Washington; Las Vegas, Nevada; Estacada, Oregon; Silver Spring, Maryland; Bergenfield, New Jersey; Jackson, New Jersey; and Columbus, Ohio.

SO WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE? HOW DID YOU FIND THIS BLOG? IT DOESN'T MATTER THOUGH...THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!

WORLDS TALLEST MAN NOW TALLEST FATHER!

Bao Xishun, the worlds tallest

man (7' 9"), now has a son who was

22" long (normal size) at birth.

Bao married XIA Shujan (5' 6") last year in a huge wedding that was sponsored by 15 companies. The former goat-herder from Inner Mongolia is making a good living marketing himself out for special events.

More Endangered Animals Make List

Scientist have determined that about one-quarter

of the world's 5,487 species of mammals are

threatened with extinction. About one-third

of marine mammals face a serious threat of being

wiped out, according to an international survey.

Monday, October 6, 2008

One of my favorite emails today...

Dave – thank you for the informative article on Army domestic operations. Each day, the state Speaker of the Assembly sends out the top dozen or so news stories of the day from throughout the state to every Assembly employee. This was one those dozen today – and rightfully so. Thank you for keeping us all informed…as frightening as it may be.

Nancy Starck, Field Representative

Office of Assemblywoman Patty Berg

235 4th Street, Suite C

Eureka, CA 95501

phone: (707) 445-7014

fax: (707) 445-6607

U.S. stocks sink as financial fear goes global!

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American stocks are plummeting as investors look at European recession. Click here to read the details.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

International Hits from around the World Recently & other Ruminations

In the last week this blog has had hits from the following countries:

Mississauga,Ontario,Canada; WaterLoo,Ontario,Canada; Frankfort,Germany; Szeged,Hungry; Singapore,Singapore; Idrija,Bohinj,Slovenia; and Coro,Falcon,Venezuela.

Sometimes I'm amused at the statistics my little Stat Counter comes up with and sometimes I get paranoid. Just who are these people from points beyond America?

Perhaps their "mistaken hits" and when the person realizes this is just some dumb old local northern Californian blog they flee...never to return again.

Most of the people who read this blog are from points all over California. There's some input from other states, but the majority of my visitors are Californians.

I really enjoy playing around with this blog and find it's a good way to stir what little gray matter I have left!

I've thought about doing one of those Polling Things and to see what reader's thought about this blog. Then I realized, I don't care!

It appears that I do have a tiny core group of 10 that come back every day-whether to get sick or to be amused I'm not sure. Just an observation. Anything you see here has some symbolic, silly, or serious, reason to be posted.

Today's column in the T-S has garnered enough interest to be #1 in the Most Viewed and Most Emailed counter on their online front page.

My column on the 10th Amendment three weeks ago stayed on this Most Viewed top spot for 11 straight days. I'm still waiting for the editor's confirmation that this was a T-S online record for viewership. I suspect it was. I also suspect this Sunday's column will be well-read too.

I'll tell you a secret; it's fun to state your opinion about something and to stir the pot while you do it. I'm a research freak too. It gives me a reason to surf for knowledge. A habit I hope I never lose. I've always thirsted for knowledge and now the Internet gives me access to things that use to take a long time to document.

Hello World...I'm watching you too!