Well I am working on getting some pics of my wife and her Masters graduation. They should be done this weekend. Oh and by the way i went to two really good interviews this week. One with the local cable company which sounded pretty good. And the other one with a company called Air-Master. Just have to see what happens and i will let you all know....bye for now

good gosh it is October already. I cant believe it!! Already getting cool too. About ready to turn on the heat. I thought i would just put up some other pics for everyone to look at if ya dont mind. Enjoy!!!

These stupid gas prices are about to drive me up a wall! Geez almost three dollars a gallon. But an interesting thing here in springfield they have charged nine gas stations of price gouging during the Katrina hurricane. So they are going to take the fines that they pay and give it to the school district. Soooooooo i guess i dont pay enough taxes for da schools. Oh well, i guess if it isnt that is would be something else. Supposed to go to my sons place in Washington during christmas, and i hope that happens. The wife has never been to that state before. She would enjoy that. Oh this weekend i went to my rental house and caulked the windows, repainted the frames, and repainted the front porch railings. I would like to sell this house to this lady that is renting, but she said well if you would do this and do that i would buy the house, i said well i dont have a problem with doing that stuff. But it would increase the price of the house. She said heheh well i dont think i want to do that. Soooo i said no problem i will go ahead and fix this stuff but you can still buy the house if ya want to. We are kinda at a stalemate, but not really. This gal has a daughter, and she is on what we call section 8, which is welfare. So even if she wanted to buy the house she couldnt afford it. Basically it was a goodwill gesture for me to even offer her the house.

Well i got a beef. We got a new general manager in my office. Now this guy they hired dont know a thing about our type of business. Stupid. So hehe they want me to help this guy learn about the business. Can you believe that? So i told the District Manager,,,,not this time, i trained two others for you and i am not training anymore for ya for free. And besides why didnt i get the job? Geez pal i know all about this business! Well i think that you know this guy is younger than me, i am an old guy now, and you know they can get this young creeps to do a partial job, and depend on others to train them, and pay em less. But that is the way i see corporate america now. A person cant get any respect on the job after you reach a certain age. Why pay some idiot peanuts that will just leave you after he or she has learned all they want, when you can hire a seasoned person with years of experience, pay em a little more, but get professional people. Now that makes sense to me how about you? So hehehe this guy is coming around asking me questions, and i just tell him, hey general managers should know that stuff, you need to call your manager dont ask me. After all that is why you got this job is cause you know how to run this place right?? pffffffft sure....

By the way feel free to go through my archives on the main page you can see some pics there of the family etc. Well i think we got us a new house, just waiting for the papers to come in on the finance. MMMMM should hear in about two weeks, then yuk i got to move...I hate that moving stuff. cya

Me and the oldest son!!

now the part i wrote on sept. 1 about the levees being bombed by bush....satirical. Of course i dont believe that he caused it , i was just showing what some fool wrote about it. that stuff came from democraticunderground.com. thought i would just throw it in to show everyone how those people think.

Hurricanes and war!!

By the way, does anyone else think it is suspicious that the levees did not break until after the hurrican passed and it was clear the storm surge was not going to swamp the city. I would probably only take a couple of sticks of dynamite to get those things flowing. Seems like someone wanted Bush to have another pile of debris to climb on top of. I did not think of deliberate destruction of the levee, but that is sure possible. No one was there to see. I have been wondering why Bush looks so perky and happy, like he is very pleased about the hurricane. It seems like more than his usual sociopathic cluenessness. Is there something about the oil infrastructure, the neighborhoods that were destroyed, the probably availability of cheap land now that so much has been destroyed, or perhaps just that the cost of oil has soared so high? He is incapable of empathy, yes, but doesn't he seem really, really tickled to you? Like he has gotten something he thought he might not be able to pull off? Well there hou have it! George Bush may have ordered the flood wall in New Orleans destroyed for some political advantage. Pretty leftist I would say how about you? This was taken directly off the site called www.democraticunderground. com. Stupid fools if you ask me. I mean isn't really stupid to blame a president for the hurricane problem. Hehehehe they even blamed the hurricane on global warming, stupid again. Here is another article: It didn't take long for the media to blame the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina on global warming, even though most climate experts dispute the idea. In the Boston Globe which is owned by the New York Times, an avid provoter of global warming- Ross Gelbspan led off by informing his readers, "The weather service. Its real name is global warming." Gelbspan went on the state, "As the atmosphere warms, it generates longer droughts, more-intense downpours, more-frequent heat waves, and more-severe storms. Although Katrina began as a relatively small hussicane that glanced off south Florida, it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the relatively blistering sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico."

Experts: Global warming didn't cause Katrina by Phil Brennan Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005
It didn't take long for the media to blame the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina on global warming, even though most climate experts dispute the idea. Dr. Stanley Goldenberg, a meteorlogist at the huffican research division of the national oceanic & atmospheric administration (NOAA), told Newsmax.com: "I speak for many hurricane climate researchers in saying that claims like that are nonsense. katrina is part of a well-documented multidecadal-scale fluctuation in hurricane activity. This cycle was described in a heavily cited article printed in the journal science in July 2001." Goldenberg's colleague at NOAA, Chris Landsea, agreed that hurricanes have been going on for a long, long time. They date back to Columbus' voyages and the chinese have been writing about typhoons fo a thousand years. Hurricanes are cettainly a natural phenomenon. The question is are there any man made changes to hurricanes, and it is an important one to ask because we are changing th echemistry of the atmosphere. We are adding more carbon dioxide and methane and it does change the rediation and it is going to warm things, some say a moderate amount and some say by a small amount, which is open to scienftific debate. We also know that hurricans are heat engines-they axtract energy from the warm tropical oceans and release that heat in thunderstorm activity. Even if by the year 2100 there is a doubling of carbon dioxide emissiions and possibly a warming of the oceans by three degrees, the o9verall change in the energy available to hurricanes would be fairly small, said Landsea. Our best guess now is that in about 100 years we may see hurricanes about five percent stronger than they are today with about five percent more rain. A five percent change is so small that it would hardly be noticeable."Dr. Landsea concluded: "If you look at the raw hurricane data itself, there is no global warming signal. What we see instead is a strong cycling of activity. There are periods of 25 to 40 years where it is very busy and then periods of 25 to 40 years where it is fairly quiet. The last 10 years have certainly been busy but it is our suggestion that what we are seeing now we have seen before in the period from the late 1920's to the late 1960's, which was extremely active with Atlantic hurricanes. If you look at the raw data it does not show the last ten years to be out of the ordinary." Dr. William Gray, the professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University who issues annual forecasts for the hurricane season, says the severity of hurricane seasons changes with cycles of temperatures over several decades in the Atlantic Ocean. The recent onslaught, he explained is very much natural. According to Kenneth Chang, writing in the New York Times, Dr. Gray reported that from 1970 to 1994 the Atlantic was relatively quiet, with no more than three major hurricanes in any year and none at all in three of those years. Cooler water in the North Atlantic strengthened wind shear, which tends to tear storms apart before they turn into hurricanes. In 1995, he said, hurricane patterns reverted to the active mode of the 1950's and 1960's. From 1995 to 2003, 32 major hurricanes, with sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or greater, stormed across the Atlantic. It was merely chance, Dr. Gray told Chang, that only three of them struck the US at full strength. Historically, the rate has been 1 in 3. Then last year, three jajor hurricanes, half of the six that formed during the season, hit the US. A fourth, Frances, weakened before striking Forida. Dr. Gray states that we were very lucky in that eight-year period, and the luck just ran out.
And next I got some stuff for ya about the weapons of mass dstruction you won't believe this...gee how come we don't read about this stuff on the front page news? Think it is because of the bias?? The rattler thinks so!! Hereeeeeeeee it is: Posted 7/7/2004 "Usa Today" paper. United Nations (AP) The US did not have authorization from the UN nuclear watchdog when it secretely shipped from Iraq uranium and highly radioactive material that could be used in so-called "dirty bombs," UN officials said Wednesday. The nearly 2 tons of low-enrighed uranium and approximately 1,000 highly radioactive items transferred from Iraq to the US last month had been placed under seal by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the sprawling Tuwaitha nuclear complex, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the officials said. The American authorities just informed us of their intention to remove the materials, but they never sought authorization from us, said Gustave Zlauvinen, head of the IAEA's New York office. U>.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham disclosed the secret airlift from Iraq on Tuesday as a major achievement in an attempt to keep potentially dangerous nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists. The material was taken to an undisclosed US Energy Department laboratory for further analysis. The airlift ended on June 23, five days before the US transferred sovereignty to Iraq's new interim government.IAEA director General Mohamed ElBaradei said in a letter to the security council circulated Wednesday that washington informed the agency on June 19 that due to security concerns it intended to transfer some nuclear material stored at Tuwaitha to the US. Accordiing to the letter, the US informed the IAEA that approximately 1.8 tons of uranium, enrighed to a level of 2.6%, another 6.6 pounds of low-enriched uranium, and approximately 1,000 highly radioactive sources had been transferred. The US Energy Department statement said the US's consistent with its authorities and relevant United Nations resolutions, took possession of and removed the materials to ensure the safety and security of th IRaqi people. Iraqi officials were briefed about the removal and sources prior to evacuation. In 1992, after the first Gulf war, all highly enriched uranium which could be used to make nuclear weapons was shipped from Iraq to Russia, the IAEA's Zlauvinen said. Psssssst wonder where they got the stuff after 1992??

By Douglas Hanson
The American Thinker July 20, 2004

The UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency was very upset last week that the US had shipped about 1.8 tons of low-enrighed uranium adn other radioactive material out of Iraq for disposition in the US. One would think that th eIAEA would have appreciated our work i9n assisting them in the implementation of the provisions of the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) in this particularly volatile region of the world. But one could be wrong. The actions, or more appropriately, the inactions of the IAEA regarding Iraq since the end of Gulf War I, betray the agency's true agenda. Rather than inspect, report, and implement restrictions in accordance with the provisions in the treaty, the agency has in effect become an enabler of rogue nations who are attempting, or who have already succeeded in developing or acquiring special nuclear material and equipment. In other words, the IAEA is simply a reflection of its parent organization, which routinely delays, the efforts of the US and the UK in controlling banned substances and delivery systems. Time after time, the agency has either intentionally or naively bought into the lies and deceptions contrived by nations of the Axis of Evil during IAEA visits an inspections. In most cases, the IAEA avoids confrontation like the plague in order to maintain access to the facilities. If they are booted out, as was the case with North Korea, their impotence is on display for all to see. In other cases, the agency joins in the deception, thereby allowing these rogue states to level the nuclear playing field with the west and russia. Their reaction to the shipment of nuclear material out of Saddam's nuclear research center at Al-Tuwaitha is a perfect example of this tactic. The nuclear research center of Al-Tuwaitha is a 23,000 acre site located about 20 kilometers south southeast of Baghdad. Most reports of the transfer of the low-enriched uranium out of the country correctly refer to the source location of the uranium as at Tuwaitha site C. But there is much more material stored at this huge site, and there are more facilities at Tuwaitha that have contributed significantly to the overall capabilities of the research center. These key facilities are, of course, generally ignored in major press reports. Site C is a relatively small site as compared to the rest of the reservation, but the amount of material stored there is not insignificant. In addition to the nearly two tons of low-enriched uranium secured by the US, site C was home to an additional 500 tons of yellowcake uranium. This is a conservative estimate as initially reported by coalition personned from the US defense threat reduction agency. Ironically, this initial figure is backed up by, of all organizations, Greenpeace. Yellowcake is uranium ore that has been milled to produce a pure form of the substance known as uranium oxide. Further processe3s, such as conversion and enrichment, are required to make the yellowcake suitable for use as nuclear fuel in a reactor or for use in a nuclear weapon. Interestingly, a quantity of depleted uranium was also found at Tuwaitha. This implies that some enrichment processes occurred on site, as depleted uranium is the natural py product of the enrichment process. In addition to the yellowcake, approximately 300 tons of radioisotopes for industrial and medical uses were stored at primarily site B. these materials, numbering over 1000 radioactive items retrieved from the site, included Cesium-137 and cobalt-60. Both are extremely radioactive substances that are ideal for use in radiological dispersal devices, or "dirty bombs." There are also three key facilities on the Al-Tuwaitha reservation that are rarely mentioned in media accounts of the transfer. First, there is the French reactor at site B, better known as Osirak, which was destroyed by the Israelis in 1981 in operation opera. The second facility is the russian built reactor at site A, destroyed by the US in Gulf War I in 1991. The third facility is a fuel fabrication plant at site D, also destroyed in 1991. Al three have never been rebuilt. All spent fuel or fresh fuel was sent back to the country of origin after Gulf War I. Now, the IAEA complains that the department of energy shipped the radioactive materials to the US without UN permission. The rational is that there was concern about the legality of the transfer, and that the material was under the control of the IAEA. The material was characterized as being "under IAEA seal and control." All of this begs the question: why did th eIAEA allow Iraq to retain such massive amounts of nuclear material, when its three nuclear facilities had been destroyed over 12 years ago, and have never been repaired? Iraq had no legitimate reason to have possessed the yellowcake. It appears the IAEA is not really interested in non-proliferation at all or the material would have long ago been safeguarded in another country. The department of energy officials estimated that the twon tons of low-enriched uranium shipped to the US, given further refinement, is enough to produce one nuclear bomb. The number of bombs that could be made from the over 500 tons of yellowcake is frightening, and, had the coalition not attacked Iraq, the stockpile may have become reality. All I have to say is, thank goodness for the coalition. You can find this article at www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=14295. Hmmmm sounds interesting right? Also if that dont cure ya then you can buy the report that the government came out with which you purchase called "911 Commission." Okay now I said what I want to say about this riff raff concerning the war etc. You man want to also go to www.mnf-iraq.com and they will tell you all the really good stuff that is going on with Iraq that the media wont tell you. And it is the positive activities that are happening there.

Well today was interesting. You probably heard about the huge hurricane in the last four days. I got something to say about that. You know i do have sympathy concerning those people down there, but after all they were warned three days in advance about the impending danger of staying there in those areas. So when i heard about those people dying in those apartments i think it was thirty of them they found, well it is hard to feel bad about that. And those people looting tons of stuff, geez. Now i dont want anyone to take this wrong, but you know i realize that whites have as bad of a time as blacks or any other minority does. But those news reports showed all blacks and no whites wonder why?? Think that is mostly who was doing the looting? Oh and they did declare martial law in New Orleans good gosh!! I say shoot the sobs if they are caught looting the homes, stores etc. Naaaaaaaa that is probably the wrong thing to say. But there are so many of em that they cant catch them all for sure. They say that 80 percent of the town is under water. No electricity, no water, they even cancelled school for a minimum of two months. Tragic situation there. Well thought I would put up a pic of my youngest son, hehe we call him #3. Hope he doesnt mind~ We love him and he knows we do...take care until next time.

Well this evening i got to chat with a very good friend of mine in Seattle. He and i have known each other for oh boy mmmmmm 40yrs?? Long time. The oldest friend i have. We have a history that goes wayyyyyyyyy back heheh. Anyway i told him about the blog soooo who knows maybe he will come on and read it. Now if i only had a pic of him i could put it on here !!! Send me one rob!! heheh ..take care cya later on this week. oh it has really rained here today, but we needed it very bad.

Well today was interesting. My neice likes to watch that professional wrestling so i went to watch it with her. That was interesting. Plus i got to eat a lot of stuff heheh. Now tomorrow being monday is the first day at school for most everyone here in town. Plus my wife is back on her job working at three schools. I dont know how she does it but she does, goes to three schools every day. Oh and we are still looking for a house in town, something with three bedrooms and double car garage.

well it is the 16th of august and summer is almost over but the temperature is verrrry hot. The wife is getting ready to start teaching this year in three schools, what a job!! I am still looking for a job here in springfield. I got a job now, but am trying to get one here in town. The gas prices are killing me right now at 2.50 per gallon. So that 150 mile round trip is about to do me in. I went to several interviews this week and it is interesting that they want to pick your brains and pay you peanuts when they find out how much experience you have in management. That always gets me,,ever hear this after an interview?? Well we really liked you but we hired several people but we have your resume right on top of the pile?? Hahahaha aint that something? So you got my app on the top jusssssst in case you made a bad decision with the other creeps you hired so you can call me and offer me the position?? Balsyyyy right??

Well i thought about something and i dont think i have told you how i come up with the name of my blog...rattlersplace. well heheh i use irc quite a bit. for those that dont know, irc is actually called internet relay chat. there quite a history behind where irc or mirc came from but i wont go into that. anyway if you ever want to reach me on irc and i am there you can find me on dalnet servers on a channel called 40+tennesseefun. you can also find out more about irc at www.40tnfun.us if you ever got some time just to cruise the net. sooooooooo i am known on irc as diamondback,,,so now you know where the rattlersplace came from! take care cya later......

Well today is the 10th of august. And this weekend i am going to go and finish my moms ceiling in her entire house. I had to mud the whole ceiling and cause the sheetrock is old and brown, I have to put two coats on it. But she is excited about it and it will make her life better. The next project is to put new trim around the house, then repaint the house. It should all be done by the end of august. I am going to try to post some pics from my wifes graduation, and party. Give you all something to look at if you want.

There is several things that i forgot to mention. My sister in law is coming in this week for the graduation, and her daughter is coming with her. Sonya has not seen her in quite awhile. That will be good for the both of them. Also she is supposed to have a good friend from Illinois come also. Her name is Susan Johnson, longtime friend. I hope she makes it here also.

Well today is Sunday the 31st of July and it my sons birthday. Well i call him #2 heheh. Cause he was the second one born, and he is the one that looks like me. Also we sat down and planned more on the graduation party this coming saturday. graduation is this coming friday. Sonya went to Wal-Mart to get some of the supplies for the cookout. Oh boy this is going to be great!! I will let you know what is going to happen this week when it does happen.

You know this is an amazing time that I am living in. Today is the 27th of July, 2005. On July the 5th my wife will be graduating with her masters in music conducting. Incredible!! What a trip she has made thru this journey. I have seen her frustrated, happy, crying, laughing, I guess every emotion that you can imagine. But she stuck it out--and now the time for her to be recognized is finally here. On that coming saturday we are going to have this huge cookout boy that will be fun. I will be the honorable chef hehe. Tons of friends will be here to celebrate with us her goal. Oh did I mention that on the 4th of August is our wedding anniversary. So both of us have a lot to be happy about at this time. Hopefully we can get some pics on the blog so everyone can see them. But if i cant then email me at diamondback@linuxmail.org for your copies. All the sons doing fine. Chase is still in Las Vegas selling pool tables. He sells those high end tables. Right now it is 113 degrees there whew he says it is very hot. Brian is still here in spfld with Bank One. And the oldest is still in spokane washington in the usaf. Oh it rained last night and at least we got some rain to make the grass green again. Okie dokie. that is about all for today...cya later..

07-21-05

I am just starting to get this blog stuff under control heheh..but will be back later on this evening.

foolish day

what a day i had today....