MOORE UNDER FIRE FOR SAYING GUSTAV PROOF ‘THERE IS A GOD’
by FOXNews.com
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise is calling on liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to apologize after he said Friday that the timing of Hurricane Gustav is “proof that there is a God in heaven,” since the storm approaching the Gulf Coast could disrupt next week’s Republican National Convention.
Moore made the remarks to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. Republicans have been monitoring the storm’s progress, considering whether to postpone their convention in St. Paul, Minn., if the storm wreaks havoc on the New Orleans area, just three years after Hurricane Katrina.
“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said. “To just have it planned at the same time, that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for Day One of the Republican convention, up in the Twin Cities, at the top of the Mississippi River.”
Scalise released a statement Saturday blasting the documentary filmmaker for the remarks.
“I demand an immediate apology from Michael Moore to the people of south Louisiana for his offensive and inappropriate comments,” said Scalise, a Republican. “People in Louisiana, regardless of political affiliation, are making plans to leave to protect their families from this serious storm, and the God I know would not share Michael Moore’s glee for our plight.”
Seriously, if a conservative Christian had said this, we’d be witnessing a live “crucifixion” on ABC’s Primetime Live. Not to mention the fact that it was just plain insensitive. I’ve watched a few of his documentaries, he makes some valid points, but I just lost what little respect I had for the guy. Thoughts?
The above is a picture Emerie drew and put on her door. I think it is a warning for Owen to stay out. I asked her what the picture was and she told me that it was Owen. It looks to me like he may be sporting a shiner. She told me her friend Abby had one and she was going to have one on her door too. So far, it has done nothing to deter him.
Today in the car today she said, “Mom, I want a little baby sister!” I said, “You do?”, to which she replied, “Yes, brothers are mean, I don’t want a brother!” I think he may be cramping her style a bit, but then again, we all cramp her style at times, she is the quintessential diva, we can’t help but love her:-)
Although, she doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting a little sister.
What a calculated move on John McCain’s part. I read that she is still somewhat less experienced than his other possible VP choices. Here is an excerpt from Fox News:
Palin brings to the Republican ticket a resume that challenges conventional wisdom while it plays into the party’s conservative base. Palin is, among other things, a former beauty queen, a mother of five, an abortion opponent, a union member, hockey player and moose hunter. She is said to be a reformer who takes pride in standing up to the “good ol’ boy network,” and she has served as the top ethics watchdog in her state.
She has FIVE kids! Her youngest is only 4 months old and he has down syndrome- you go girl! Talk about being able to relate to different kinds of people. I think it was a great choice, what do you think??
Microsoft’s latest Internet browser includes a piece of software that allows Internet users to hide the audit trail of websites they have visited.
The new InPrivate feature on Internet Explorer 8 — now in Beta release, and dubbed by many in the Web development community as “porn mode,” a nod to its most obvious use — when enabled automatically conceals sites visited by wiping clean browsing and search history, cookies, form data and passwords. It also clears the browser cache at the end of each session.
Once the setting is chosen, others using the same computer will not be able to see which sites have been accessed, the company said. Other browsers have similar functions, but this one is far more prominent. Although casual users cannot see the previous user’s search history, authorities such as the police will be able to access it if necessary.
Last night Emerie had her first non-familial sleep over. They went to bed about 9 pm, I got them all settled into her princess tent and 2 1/2 hours later we get this…
They ended up in the bed, not the tent. They came out of the room about, oh, 20 times at least. Complaints and/or concerns included, but were not limited to, bears, ghosts, noises, monsters, urination requests, lighting adjustments, bedroom door adjustments, and insomnia. Seriously, there were more, I just can’t remember them all. Finally, when I had just about had it, I found them asleep, and they slept until 7:30 am this morning, not too bad for a first sleepover.
We met Kaley’s mom Stacey, and her little sister Lexi, at McDonalds for lunch today. That was fun. Not. Owen has grown enough that he can climb into the dank, dark, cavernous, mystery that is McDonald’s play place. He was having a good time until he got stuck up near the very top. He began to cry, then really loudly cry, just short of scream, for quite some time. I was able to maintain eye-contact by standing on a chair and gently told him to just go on down the slide/(screamed at Emerie to help him). But to my dismay he just continued to cry while I stood there on my perch doing everything I could to coerce him down. Finally, some man yells, “Mamm, do you want me to go up and get him”? To this I replied, “No thank you, he’ll be fine”, knowing full well this was my cue that I needed to go in and retrive him. Society had had enough and was willing to put a stop to the drama to the point of asking a complete stranger if she wanted him to rescue her son. Ok, I get it, I said to myself, I need to go in. Thankfully Stacey had her spelunking equipment and I was able to get up into the nooks and cranny’s without event.
Then there’s that.
We are all safe at home now, kids have been put down for naps and I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my sister and her family. They are coming for the holiday weekend and should be here tomorrow night. Yeah!
My friend and I attended the Magnet conference last year. To have a hospital achieve magnet status is a very prestigious designation and very difficult to obtain. Several hospitals enter a video and art gallery submissions, so last year we thought it would be good to try and put something together for this years conference. This is what we came up with on limited time and budget. I think it’s pretty cool, but next year we hope to have something really great!
So much has been going on this summer. We had an awesome birthday party for Emerie and Owen at our community pool, we have been busy traveling here and there, visitors in town, life in general keeping us busy. So, every time I think of something to blog about something else comes along. So tonight I am at work, I can’t wait until this weekend, my sister and her family will be staying with us, they are coming up from Oklahoma. We are also having a neighborhood block party on Monday to celebrate Labor day. A few months ago we had a block party and Emerie has been praying every night that we will have another one. Seriously, every night. I will definitely try to get some pics up of that.
I am tired. I can’t wait to go to bed.
We are still on track with our Dave Ramsey Debt snowball, we just paid off the van. Seems so weird to think that we will be debt free other than the house by spring. It really feels awesome. Ok, enough of that.
This is just plain funny. If you are not familiar with the term, “Rick-Roll”, you have to remember the 80’s pop sensation, Rick Astley and his song, “Never gonna give you up”. Rick Rolling began as an internet prank, in which one would click on a link that navigated them away from the intended site, to a Rick Astley video page. Once the page opens the song/video plays very loudly and cannot be turned off. Lot’s of fun in the office I’m sure. There is also a prank-dialer site where one can put in the phone number of a victim and they receive a phone call blaring the song, “Never gonna give you up”.
“Rick-Rolling” further evolved to include pranks at sporting events, on television and radio, at scientology protests, and in local emergency rooms It’s basically a really annoying, or, hysterically entertaining joke, depending on your sense of humor, I tend to lean toward the entertaining side.
But, all this highly scientific background leads me to the newly created, “Barrack Roll” video. This is great. It looks to me like Rick Astley has some serious competition. I think it would be funny for Barrack to do a real rendition of this song on Saturday Night Live.
Enjoy!
Here are some more funny things Emerie said today: She opened a thank you note from a friend that had a Disney High School Musical theme, it was a boy and a girl jumping, she yelled, “Yeah Mommy! It’s a Riley and Cyrus, a Riley and a Cyrus one”! he he.
Then later, on a walk to the square she was telling us a story of the time she and a friend saw a “little rascal” jump out at them on the street. I think she was referring to the time we walked by a dead mole in that same area. Later, she saw a teenage boy riding his bike with no hands when she exclaimed, “Mom he’s talented, look mom he’s so talented”.
She cracks me up with her funny little personality. She is definitely a spitfire, 0-60 in 2.3 seconds. I really think she needs to be an actress or something dramatic.
So we had a little field trip today, it was either that or call in the fire department to remove the couch from my a#@, so I made the less invasive choice. We had a good time, we went to the square and froliced about in the fountains, then stopped for some Mexican from Los Compos. I am glad that we only ran into Anthony Richardson and not Dave Ramsey because it wasn’t really in the budget.
This morning I had to get the kids up early to go get Mesha from cross country practice. Consequently, they were both in their pajama’s and Emerie asked if they could get some cinnamon rolls from McDonald’s drive through. So, we carted off to pick her up and on our way home we stopped through the drive through. Mesha was staring off at one of Liberty’s newest eye sores, Priscilla’s adult novelty store, she was looking at the clothes in the window when I heard her exclaim, “I feel like going into that store just to look at the weird clothes”. To which I replied, “Mesha, they have more than just clothes in there, they have disgusting sex toys and stuff”. It was silent for a moment until I heard Emerie chime in from the back seat, “Yeah, and we can’t go in because Owen and I just have our pajama’s on”!
It’s basically a really annoying, or, hysterically entertaining joke, depending on your sense of humor, I tend to lean toward the entertaining side. 
