Archive for June, 2007

Jib Jab Style.

The Jib Jab guys do it again.

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We have three different stories in the past few weeks that have national media attention.

Bobby Cutts, Jr. is accused of killing Jessie Davis, the mother of his son Blake and Blake’s soon to be little sister Chloe. Chloe’s death, unfortunately, was incidental to her mother’s death. Blake was physically unharmed in the incident.

Chris Benoit, a pro wrestler, apparently smothered his son, strangled his wife, and then, a few days later, hung himself in his exercise room.

Chris Vaughan is accused of killing his wife and children in their SUV while on the way to a water park. The story goes that they stopped on an access road so Vaughan could fix the roof rack. Then, says Vaughan, his wife Kimberly took out a gun and shot him in the leg. He says he ran off for help. When he got back Kimberly and the children were dead.

Different endings, different motives, different stories, but so many people’s lives have been turned upside down.

In the first case, the death of the mother meant the death of the child. In the second, the death of the child may have then resulted in the death of the mother and the self induced death of the father. The third case may have been an attempt to “wipe the slate clean” and avoid paying alimony and child support.

I was thinking about the third case. If my husband and I were in the truck with the three kids on our way somewhere and stopped in a semi-secluded area to fix something and I had taken out a gun and shot him in the leg, he wouldn’t have run away. He would have done whatever he needed to do to get that gun away from me. If he were the one with the gun he would have to kill me first and fast because I would do all I could to get the gun away from him. Neither one of us would leave the children at the mercy of an obviously unhinged adult.

My prayers go out to the families of these victims.

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Jessie Davis murder update..<br />
Bonnie's Blog of Crime has a quick update on the Jessie Davis story, one that I had not found while reading the news today. <br />
Not only did the accused killer allegedly kill his lover and unborn daughter, as well as have multiple children with diffe..

Fox News is going to show the documentary that PBS funded and then refused to broadcast.

It will be broadcast on Saturday night at 9 pm EDT, 8 CDT. My Directv schedule is still showing Heartland with John Kasich at that hour, but the special will be broadcast instead.

My TiVo is set.

Welcome Gateway Pundit Readers!

UPDATE: Patrick in comments note that the documentary will be aired Sunday evening at 9 pm EDT, 8 pm CDT, Monday at 2 am GMT. I also just saw a commercial on Fox News that confirms this.

Update 2: It’s on!

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Electric Venom is musing with Nine Nibbles

Maybe we can get people to use less energy if we raise the price of energy so high that we can force people to use less. Or we can just fine the oil companies for “excessive” profits. They won’t pass the costs onto consumers. No they won’t.

We can also mandate higher MPGs on new cars and trucks. The costs of that won’t be passed onto the consumer either, will it? With all the potential legislation mandating lower future need for petroleum products, why should the oil companies invest in facilities to produce more petroleum products?

Then there’s ethanol. We’ll mandate the use of ethanol, but we’ll use food to make it with. That one’s really smart. In addition to raising the cost of fuel (since ethanol is more costly to produce {and less efficient, and uses more fossil fuels to produce than it replaces}) we will also raise the cost of lots of food items. Popcorn, canned corn, corn on the cob, beef, chicken, pork, lamb (fed with corn), candy, soft drinks, juice drinks, canned fruits, Marshmallow Fluff, and other products that use corn syrup as an sweetening ingredient, also any product containing corn oil which can include the french fries at your favorite fast food place now that they’re not using trans fats anymore. There’s an idea, fuel vehicles with trans fats since they are no longer good for fueling people.

One thing that seems to be forgotten in all of this is that if you raise the cost of energy you raise the cost of EVERYTHING! You raise the cost of everything that is physically transported anywhere. Electricity, while providing “clean” transportation in San Francisco, uses some kind of fuel to make at the electricity plant. Be it natural gas, oil, coal or wood, it may be clean at the far end (running the lights in your house, running the electric buses and trains) but it costs where it’s made.

We can reduce our dependence on foreign oil if we work to get more of our own, off the coasts and at ANWR. Raising the costs of fuel to try to reduce use of fuel is the wrong answer. The costs of everything will rise and so will inflation. We can expand our limited refining capacity by reducing all the boutique blends to one for the winter and one for the summer. Refiners have to decide what volume Chicago is going to use versus what volume Atlanta will use and try to produce accordingly. If demand in Chicago rises and the supply of refined fuel is the Atlanta blend, Chicago’s out of luck until the refineries can retool and refine more of the Chicago blend.

We can reduce the costs of fuel by building more nuclear power plants. That allows more of the fuels that are currently being used to produce electricity to be freed up to produce something else.

Don’t use food to produce any kind of fuel (except human fuel). It raises the cost of food for all, but doesn’t really do much to reduce dependence on fossil fuels or improve fuel economy.

Congress needs to think carefully about the ramifications of legislation and not just legislate from the seat of their pants, reactive rather than proactive… Don’t raise our costs without giving us something real in return.

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Just how did Michael Westen become persona non grata?

It was February, near Athens. Michael Westen had arrived a few days earlier finally catching up to the man known as Stavros Medina. Michael was going to try to find out about Stavros’ next arms delivery. Who it was to be delivered to, and when and where it was to be delivered.

Michael found a way to “bump into” Stavros at a local, exclusive nightclub and later Stavros invited Michael to his villa. Laying out by the pool were two young girls, about sixteen years old. Stavros introduced them as his niece, Isabella, and her friend, Illianna. Soon, more people arrived and the pool area became quite crowded. Isabella and Illianna were often seen with their heads together, giggling.

Michael saw Stavros duck into the library with a couple of men. He went to an outside window to try to overhear what the conversation would be about. Illlianna quietly followed him as she was smitten with him and wanted to find out if he was equally smitten with her. As she snuck up on him, Michael’s training kicked in and he struck out against her. He realized, just in time, that this was a sixteen year old girl and not an enemy, and he didn’t hurt her. He did, however, scare her tremendously and this alerted Stavros to his presence.

He left immediately. Michael was not able to complete his mission, but the worst part was that Illianna was the daughter of the Romanian Ambassador. This was a mistake that could not be left unpunished.

Was this how Michael was burned? We’ll all find out next Thursday on USA Network’s Burn Notice.

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It’s wonderfully cool and breezy today so, with the windows wide open, I can bake without heating the house up too much and definitely without running the air conditioning.

I sliced and roasted one red pepper, one onion and two small zucchini with a little garlic, sea salt, and olive oil on foil in a 400°F oven until they smelled really good. Once done I added a package of cream cheese and a package of neufchatel cheese to the food processor and added the roasted veggies (just dump off the foil). Process and you have a wonderful roasted vegetable cheese spread for sandwiches or on crackers. Yum. On a hot day, you could prepare the veggies on a foil sheet on the grill. Watch to make sure it doesn’t burn too badly.

Right now there’s a pan of brownies and a pan of “blondies” in the oven. The brownie recipe was off the Ghirardelli ground chocolate container and the “blondies” are Tollhouse™ pan cookies.

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out and I am being forced to listen to Mexican Polka as the man across the street is using his pickup as a boombox.

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Ann Althouse has it embedded in a very insightful post.

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VK linked to a hilarious video starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. (I’m sending you to VK’s to link to the vid – link whoring…

Make sure your mouth is clear of beverages and, to be safe, set any beverage down before viewing.

LOL =))

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I share my birthday with: Joe Piscopo, Mark Linn-Baker (Perfect Strangers), Diane and Erin Murphy (Tabitha on Bewitched), Kami Cotler (Elizabeth on The Waltons), Linda Chavez, Mohamed ElBaradai, Newt Gingrich, Barry Manilow, MC Escher, Igor Stravinsky, Ken Livingstone – Mayor of London, Edward I of England, Dan Jansen – Olympic speed skater, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Farrelly (Farrelly Brothers), Burt Rutan (X-Prize), Ralph Bellamy, Stringbean from Hee-Haw, and Jack Murtha (D-PA) among others.

June 17th is also famous for the Watergate break in and the OJ Simpson slow speed Bronco chase. The Watergate break in wasn’t covered on the 17th, and I was pretty young, so there was no real connection between my birthday and Watergate until I was older. On the other hand, with no TiVo yet, the networks pre-empted regular programming to cover, from all angles, a white Ford Bronco driving very slowly on LA freeways and surface streets.

I received two boxes this week and have been waiting patiently until this morning to open them. Kate from Electric Venom sent a wonderful sewing box that came with some supplies. I had one that broke and replaced it with another that is way too big for a sewing box. It has wheels and a telescoping handle. I’m using that for craft supplies now. This little box is just terrific. Thanks Kate! Jeanette from J’s Cafe Nette sent me a mandolin slicer which will come in very handy this summer as my garden starts producing tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, and cucumbers. MMmmm. Thanks Jeanette!

The kids gave me a couple of tank tops for summer. Thanks kids.Hubby’s birthday is July 8 and we are planning on dinner and a show next Saturday to celebrate both. We’re going to Morton’s for dinner, then off to Chicago Improv to see Jeff Dunham. We’re going to have fun.Oh, and Happy Father’s Day to all the Fathers out there!

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Electric Venom is musing with Happy Birthday!