Left Coast Righteo and the Starrettwire

I should have posted this sooner but. Here it is...

For a few weeks now my friend, Doc Mike (Michael Harris) and I (Paul Young) have been doing an online radio show on Blog Talk Radio (BTR). We named the show "Left Coast Righteo". It was designed to allow people to the west of Illinois a place to go after Cyber Pastor and AnnieB finished their Christian, Pro-Troops, Right of Center "Do the Right Thing" radio show also on BTR.

Their show ends early (midnight or later their time) on the left coast and late on the right coast yet there were friends and an online community still clamoring for more online radio with Blog Talk Radio.

As a result Doc Mike and I decided, to fill the void, to do a show together from the Pacific coast on Tuesdays (9:30 PM Pacific) and Thursdays (8:30 PM Pacific). We simply chat and take calls from listeners. Often times we amaze each other with our knowledge and wit. Religion, Politics, Humor, and Animal Husbandry are frequent topics. As is food. We do talk about food quite often too. Doc is Host and I am the sidekick. That is unless I am doing the hosting and Doc Mike is sidekicking. To be honest I prefer kicking his side over his kicking mine...

Why will Thursday, July, 23 209 be special?

This Thursday night (23July09) we are having a special guest and I decided to post this on my blog and to email the link to friends. That is in hopes of you getting this in time (prior to 8:30-10:00 PM Pacific), Click this link and get prepared for when the show is on to join in the fun. When you get to BTR you can register (make up a screen name or use one you already have and join for freeee!), log in and join the chat room. If you click the link too late for the show then you can download the archive and listen in after the fact. Either way I hope you enjoy the show.

Grant Starrett of the Starrettwire will be on the air with Doc Mike and Prying1!

Now you ask, "Who is Grant Starrett and why should I care?" For those who do not get the "Starrettwire" chances are you don't know him. For those who do get the Starrettwire You still don't know him. This is your chance to get educated. I think Grant Starrett is a name you will see in the news in future years.

The Starrettwire is a "Newslinkletter" which comes out of the friendly fingers and mousework of the aforementioned Grant Starrett. As he peruses the daily news he adds articles and cartoons of interest to the Starrettwire which he emails FOR FREE to those on his list. He sends out 3 to 5 Newslinkletters a week. Never any spamming and your name is not added to nefarious lists because he alone controls the whole shebang.

Real simple to get on the list too. Simply email Grant at starrett@stanfordalumni.org and say, "Put me on the list!" If you don't like it simply email back and ask to be removed.


Here is a bit of a bio:

Student/Graduate of Stanford University, Founding member/President of "Stanford Conservative Society". (proving that students can attend a major university and still come out without need of a foil hat.)

(Ex-)Staff writer for The Stanford Review

National Chairman of "Students for Mitt (Romney)" (Do we see a trend here?)

He has worked for: FoxNews; White House; Mitt Romney for President, Inc.; Republican National Committee; U.S. House of Representatives; Eurobuilders.

Currently Accepted/New Student at Vanderbilt Law School - Nashville, TN

And in the mix of all this the great disseminator of interesting Newslinks and Opinion Cartoons through The Starrettwire.

By the way. Doc Mike also has a BTR show on Saturday mornings called Homestead in which he talks of self sufficiency, homesteading and the homestead lifestyle. Food production and preservations, politics, energy, repairs, how to's and so much more. Ask him about the beast that shall not be named.


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EARTHQUAKE WATCH 2008

I figured that title might get a few extra hits from Google. Here in L.A. the same thing happens with the news whether it is a few sprinkles and we have STORM WATCH 2008 (Camera shows a puddle with drops of rain hitting it), a hillside fire, FIRESTORM WATCH 2008 (Stock footage of Malibu fire) or a trembler that knocks some cans and jars off some store shelves, EARTHQUAKE WATCH 2008 (Concerned newsreader asking, "How will the aftershocks affect YOU? We'll tell you at ten!"

Don't want to sound blase' concerning tragedies but after a certain point...

Even Reuters has this story listed on their website as, "reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN29374340"

Anyway. My story for EARTHQUAKE WATCH 2008 is:

I was pushing by hand a 4 wheeled cart loaded with paper (I work at a printing shop) across a blacktop parking lot and I missed the earthquake. The only vibrations I felt were from the loaded cart and I was traveling in the same direction the quake was going. That is, from east to west.

When I came through the door into the shop all the hanging fluorescent lamps were swinging and I thought, "This load isn't that heavy to cause that much vibration." - Once again proving I'm always right! -

I'm located around 50 miles from the quake's epicenter and from talking with those that felt it there was a rolling sensation such as one would feel on a road with several close small hills and valleys. Sometimes there are sharp jolts as a corduroy dirt road might give you but today's was not one of those.

P. S. My daughter missed it too. She was at her work.

Update: Wifey-poo missed it too. - Hey that rhymes!!!

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Imus and the Virginia Shooter

I have not, until tonight, posted on either Imus nor the Virginia shooter. Now I am posting and connecting the two...

Went to church tonight. Wednesday night prayer meeting that started out with a bit of praise and worship.

One of the things that was mentioned during the praise and worship was the scripture:

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord... (Eph 5:19)

These days there are many that would say that for me to post the above quote from the Bible is an evil thing to do and that I'm trying to force my beliefs on them and that I'm just a hypocrite anyway, why should they listen to me, etc.... I used to have a snappy line for people like that but a Christian buddy of mine, upon hearing me say to a couple of guys, "OK! Go to hell then!" told me it was an unchristian thing to say. So I won't say it to those who thought that quoting Bible is evil etc...

I explained to my buddy the point I was trying to make is that it is peoples own choice that sends them to an eternity without God or into his embrace. God is ever trying to draw people to Himself. Not to an established religion but to Himself. - People get turned off by the way they see "religious" people act and attribute it to God. - Doesn't work that way. - God does not ask people to follow other people. He wants US (you too!) to follow Him.

Hence we get scripture that tell us to:

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
Phil 4:4

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How can we help but to rejoice when we realize that "God IS!" and he does concern Himself with our affairs.What a great God! He wants us to be happy. ALWAYS!!! (He said so)

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Well suppose that Imus and the Virginia shooter both had taken these scriptures to heart. WHAT IF (words that never really mean anything because time, as we know it, cannot be turned back) but WHAT IF Imus and the Virginia shooter spent some time, even if it was just minutes, singing praises to God?

Not god as they know him. Not god as they think of him, not god as even you nor I think of him, but God as He is!

Realising their insignificance compared to the Creator of all that any man's senses can appreciate. The only true God that stands outside of space and time so that even scientists, philosophers and poets cannot find ways of proving His existence. The God that offers grace, mercy, friendship and love freely and only requires that a person give to Him that which is owed to Him.

The only True God who can only be reached by faith.

Had either of these men spent a minute portion of their lives learning the benefits of Praise and Worship they most likely would not have had their names in the papers for the reasons they did.

Imus was crass and lowbrow. The Virginia shooter as filled with evil. Neither of them needed to be. They had choices as do we...


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P.S. Imus gets a second chance. Yahoo News says, target="_blank">"Advertisers want Imus back" and a San Berdoo Station is playing "Best of Imus"

P.S. (again) The Virginia shooter does not get a second chance... - People will spend a lot of time trying to figure out "WHY did he do it?" - What they learn about the man will most likely not apply to the next evil person that performs similar acts. His reasons were incomprehensible as will be the next...


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C-Span Changes Copyright Rules To Favor Bloggers

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, used a C-Span video in/on her blog promoting Democrats. It was against the law. She has been forgiven and C-Span is changing it's rules to give more leeway to the use of it's material.

Officials for the cable TV network that provides daily gavel-to-gavel coverage of House and Senate proceedings at first said the blog was in violation, then announced it wasn't. On Wednesday, they said that it was but that they're changing their policy so that it won't be in the future.

The new copyright policy will allow non-commercial Internet users to share and post C-SPAN video as long as they attribute it to the public service channel.

"Given our background and our history, an open approach is the most consistent with our mission," said Rob Kennedy, C-SPAN's president. "We are now saying under the new policy that that will be OK, for her or any blogger or citizen journalist" to post C-SPAN video online.

A C-SPAN statement Wednesday said the network is implementing a "liberalized copyright policy for current, future, and past coverage of any official events sponsored by Congress and any federal agency ... which will allow non-commercial copying, sharing, and posting of C-SPAN video on the Internet, with attribution."

both blockquotes from Yahoo News

Speaking of attribution. Hat tip and thanks to Warner Todd Huston for his posting on this subject.

prying1 sez: No telling how far this will go. Freedom of speech and fair use is on the march. - At least in the U.S. - Overseas it is a different story. Warner Todd Huston has another story posted - France Makes Effort to Criminalize Bloggers, Internet News Sites - which tells of a different state of affairs way over in France.

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
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HEY! WAIT A SECOND! Who uses film anymore? It is all digital or tape.

I can see it now. Youths rioting, looting, pillaging; the French police ignoring them and instead attacking and beating a bystander that is catching the action with a cell phone.

It is a topsy turvy world we live in.


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Florida Death Penalty - - They Need to Study Veterinarians

Last Saturday I had to take my dog to the vet and have her put down. Old age and she could hardly take the single step up into the house.

I held her to keep her from being scared and not once did she even shiver or tremor. Completely painless except for one needle puncture. Less than 5 minutes from the time I picked her up onto the table to the time she started getting cold. Not a bit of pain or discomfort on her part. I'm positive I felt more hurt than she did. I cried. She didn't.

I asked the doctor why it was so easy for my dog to be put to sleep and yet with criminals it is such a long drawn out process?

MIAMI, Dec. 14 — A convicted murderer was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday, but he took more than a half-hour to die and required a second dose of the chemicals, prompting Gov. Jeb Bush to call for a review of the execution.

The convict, Angel N. Diaz, 55, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m., 34 minutes after receiving the first lethal injection at the Florida State Prison in Starke, 23 miles northeast of Gainesville. Normally, death occurs within 15 minutes.

Witnesses said Mr. Diaz appeared to be moving after the first injection was administered, seemingly squinting and grimacing, at times appearing to mouth words.

NYT - 15 Dec 06
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Fox News has an article stating that the needles were inserted through the vein and into soft tissue.

The doctor's reply, simply stated was that the authorities have a series of procedures that is needless. They make it chock full of unnecessary rules that prolong the process.

I was not going to mention on my blog about putting my dog down but then I came across a post over on Bill's Comments with the title, Hi-tech death. His bottom line and a statement I agree with is, "...this attempt to be humane when executing convicted killers and those convicted of treason, is an oxy-moron. Humane is getting it over with, not trying to make it painless."

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