Sunday, November 11, 2007
A Small Tribute
I would like to say thank you to all those who have dedicated their lives to protect & fight for our right to live as we do.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
The Muppet Personality Test
This is cool. I just found it over at Book of Thoth. I always enjoyed The Muppet Show. That was frigging crazy. Especially AN-I-MAL!!! If you ever wondered which of those zany muppets you would be, here's the chance to find out.
WooHooo!!!!!!!! I always wanted to be like Animal. (Hasn't everyone?)
You Are Animal |
 A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts. You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary. But you sure can beat a good drum. "Kill! Kill!" |
WooHooo!!!!!!!! I always wanted to be like Animal. (Hasn't everyone?)
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Mother Jailed, Put on Trial for Curing Her Son of Melanoma
After I read this story of a lack of common sense & human compassion. I knew I had to share it. I wasn't sure at first how to do it so I chose to post the link for the blog & paste the whole story here as well. I can't put to words the emotions I felt so I'll leave it to whoever reads this. I do hope you will pass along this story. It is very important. I left the comments section to the original blog.
Mother Jailed, Put On Trial For Curing Her Son Of Melanoma
An unholy alliance of California Child Protective Services (CPS) with a hostile doctor and judge is attempting to railroad Laurie Jessop, framed as a threat to her son and the establishment for finding a way to cure him of malignant melanoma. She is now on trial, under a gag order, since she had gone to the press. When she was arrested, she was put in maximum security, solitary confinement, in the Orange County, CA jail. They claim that everything about. her says anti-Establishment, so she was told, as she was considered a threat in starting a riot.
On the morning of Sept. 12, Gary Null read on KPFK, a Pacifica station in Los Angeles, an e-mail from Ron Miller, who had met Ms. Jessop at the Cancer Control Society annual convention during the Labor Day weekend. They had discussed this persecution by Big Brother in the guise of saving her son from this evil mother who has failed to protect him! She disobeyed doctor’s orders and found a natural way to cure her son. These forces arrayed against her and insisted he must have the cancer removed surgically and attacked with the standard chemical fare. The cancer is gone, but nobody in authority will accept that because her doctor doesn’t believe that’s possible.
The initial biopsy of the mole was done in February. Their regular doctor was on leave when test results came in. A nurse informed them of the bad news. On May 8, Chad Jessop had a follow up appointment with a medical group doctor, by the name of Dr. Masciana, who insisted he needed surgery to excise the site within a week, or he could die any day now! This doctor is a general practitioner, not an oncologist or qualified to do cancer diagnosis or surgery. Chad and his mom decided to pursue holistic treatment for him. Incensed, the doctor reported her to Child Protective Services on the grounds of gross negligent child endangerment. She yelled at Laurie “all of you Jehovah’s Witnesses are all the same,” never mind Laurie and Chad are not Jehovah’s witnesses. Dr. Masciana also told Laurie, with her son present, that his death was imminent. At the close of the appointment, Dr. Masciana informed Laurie that she was referring the case to Social Services. In further investigation, Child Protective Social Services is a misnamed government agency whose employees get paid bonuses every time they take children away from their parents.
That evening Laurie called an attorney who advised her that she had 48 hours or less before Social Services showed up. If she could not prove she was following doctor’s orders, they’d take her son. Since Dr. Masciana had created such a traumatic experience for Chad, he feared the doctors and threatened to run away. In honoring Chad’s wishes for continued holistic care, Laurie took her son to San Diego to continue holistic care using a number of various alternative treatments such as: ozone, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, hydrogen peroxide, energy work, Rife, nutritional supplements, and deep emotional work. Laurie also used “black salve” that she purchased from Canada to remove the mole tissue. Black salve was developed by Native American Indians more than 200 years ago, and used in the treatment of skin lesions, cancers, warts, and moles. Figures our FDA banned it, because it works.
When Chad insisted on hitting the road to continue alternative therapies and getting further diagnostics, that left a question as to where Laurie’s daughter Crystal would go. A close friend of the family and Crystal’s best friend agreed, and this felt like a perfect fit under the circumstances, so Laurie legally signed Crystal over to the family and gave them all the necessary medical insurance information. On May 22, the local sheriff and CPS had taken her daughter out of class, interrogating her mercilessly, telling her lies about her mother, trying to force her to reveal where Laurie and Chad had gone, and then forced her to go on a police joy ride and show them where they reside. All of this was done against her will and carried on for six hours!
They applied “Black Salve” directly to the area in question, thus giving Chad a holistic version of a large border excision. It took about two and a half weeks for the wound to heal. When it was healed Laurie took Chad to a Del Mar dermatologist for a biopsy. The test results were negative of any signs of melanoma! The next two weeks were concentrated on once again healing the tissue to get another biopsy. Upon the wound site being healed, a melanoma specialist did a punch biopsy and a complete lab analysis on Friday, June 15. Again, no sign of cancer could be found in the biopsy and the blood work was in healthy ranges with no distinguishing markers that would otherwise be present in a patient that would have advanced stage four melanoma, as had been previously reported! Was it a miracle, or an activated immune system in a healthy young man, with some useful help, that healed the melanoma?
The following Monday, June 18th, Laurie and Chad turned themselves in to the San Diego Social Services office, with all of their documentation. They were detained for 4 hours, then told that arrest warrants for Laurie and Chad were issued from Orange County. Chad was locked up at the Palenskie Center in San Diego for one night. He had 2 guards watching him around the clock, since he was considered a flight risk. When Laurie went to visit Chad they could not have any privacy, as both guards listened to every word that was said. Laurie spent over nine thousand bucks in San Diego for the treatments done over the five week period of time, and has all the receipts as proof. A new social worker, David Harper, was put on the case. He picked Chad up in San Diego transporting him to Orangewood Children’s Home in Orange County for the next two weeks, where he got fed spaghetti and meat balls, food not fitting one healing from cancer. One aspect of Chad’s treatment was a healthy diet of living foods, but Ms. Jessop’s requests of this social worker that Chad get proper food fell on deaf ears. He did tell her she was allowed to see her daughter graduate from Junior High School. She told him nobody could keep her away without a court order, and that she would be there! The social worker informed Laurie that he completed the paper work to lift the warrant order on her.
After her daughter’s graduation, on June 21st Laurie went to make academic arrangements for her son, having missed five weeks of school. Laurie showed the documentation to the principal and vice principal. The Vice Principal knew Chad well, as Chad did his Eagle Scout project for him at the high school. Chad is now an advanced Eagle Scout. No matter, the VP called police to arrest Laurie at the school and haul her off to the county jail. The arresting deputy harassed her. When Laurie protested, the officer told her she didn’t have to like her or be nice to her. After arriving at the county jail, her first telephone call had been to the social worker, David Harper, although he did nothing to get her out of jail, nor was he willing to help correct the record. Laurie was physically abused, they spread her legs twisting her knee, when she complained they called out “Resisting…Resisting” then they pushed her violently to a cell wall (behind the cameras) causing her to twist her neck, shoulder and arm. After being worked over, they took away her jacket, shoes, socks, and toilet paper, and locked her up. Her holding cell was extremely cold and she was deliberately denied toilet paper. She asked for toilet paper, only to be answered it must have been taken for good reason and she was not getting any. She was denied toilet paper from approximately 3:30pm until 11:00pm. One has to wonder, what was she going to do with the toilet paper, hang herself? By 11:00 pm Laurie got taken to be assessed. She asked “is this a madhouse run by animals, who is running this place?” Laurie told this officer her story for half an hour. He let her talk, then said he sees all kinds of characters, his job is to ascertain threats. He told her she has the fire, the spirit and the power to overturn the system and create a riot. He informed her she’d be put in solitary confinement, but she might get a roommate, probably a drug offender. She was forced to take a chest X-ray against her will, without any explanation and ridicule from the officers. Laurie and her two children have never been in any type of trouble with the law, but were treated like hardened criminals. She was shocked to learn women taking showers have no privacy, that male guards are watching. The next night she got a 58-year old roommate charged with kidnapping her children from her husband 20 years ago, after being extradited from Tennessee on outdated bogus charges tagged with 200 thousand bail. It would appear that Orange County is desperately trying to maintain job security at the expense of the innocent!
Laurie was released on the streets of Santa Ana after midnight, in an unsafe area of Southern California for a woman, after five days of incarceration. Upon Laurie’s arrest, officers impounded her van and turned it upside down looking for drugs. She had to pay over 300 dollars in impound fees to get the van back.
Social Services approved the foster families that Laurie had arranged for Chad and Crystal. Now Laurie is on trial, forbidden to speak under a gag order, by the very judge that had issued the bench warrant for her arrest, because she refused to go along with orthodox medicine. The dermatologist, appointed by Social Services, testified in court that the melanoma is playing hide and go seek, that they’d have to subject Chad to unnecessary and dangerous further biopsies and medical procedures to find where it migrated to. The dermatologist further stated that the melanoma had become even more deadly, claiming it has now traveled to different organs. The prescription for surgery is a large border excision to the skullbone. Chad says he is old enough to defend this country’s freedoms, but he is denied that same freedom of choice when it comes to his own health and he is also under gag order. Ms. Jessop intends to sue anyone who touches her son against their wishes. All Chad’s blood tests are consistent with a healthy 17 year old 6′2″ young man. They refuse to tolerate anyone trying to clear their conscience at his expense. Laurie says her record stands, she will not back down, and she wants parents to know they do not have to be intimidated by this system! The judge has stated twice that she doesn’t want Chad to die while she is on the bench; which sounds like she has bias in the case! Surgery and chemotherapy had been intended for the following week. The doctor is still of the mind Chad could die any day now. When giving testimony, the dermatologist was asked if he could perform surgery on Chad, knowing that Chad would not cooperate with any Western medical butchery. His answer was emphatic No, he could not perform an operation on anyone against their will.
What Big Brother has been doing to Ms. Jessop and her children is unconscionable, beyond outrageous, a gross miscarriage of justice and an abuse of authority. Many families have been torn apart by lesser abuses of CPS and modern medicine. The Jessop family is very united and strong in their convictions, very aware of their constitutional rights, and will not give up to our corrupt system. Being a single parent for the last 11 years, Laurie has done herself proud raising her children and is extremely close to both of them. Laurie and her children have stood the test and this hellish ordeal has brought them closer together as a family. She said at the press conference, “I am a mama bear and no one is messing with my cubs!”
Laurie’s deadbeat ex-husband, Marcus, has never voluntarily paid for child support or any of the children’s medical bills, even though he is legally bound to pay for half according to their divorce agreement. She has had to drag him into court to get a judgment and garnish his wages in order to collect on past due medical bills. It so happens Marcus is in agreement with the state, he wants his son, (having had no contact for the last 10 years) to be butchered and drugged to eliminate this incredible cancer, that refuses to carry out its death sentence and is too clever to show up on tests. Marcus is in court with his own public defender, pushing for this even though he has no legal or physical custody, not even any visitation rights. If he was in agreement with Laurie’s medical beliefs, this court probably wouldn’t allow him in the courtroom. Our tax dollars, hard at work!
In the state of Virginia, a brilliant 17 year old young man went through a very similar ordeal, but won his battle with CPS. Once his case was over, he was instrumental in passing a new law in the state of Virginia. Abraham’s Law, that gives a minor the right to make their own medical decisions when they are bright and understand their choices. Laurie wants to get her story out and push through a similar bill in California, called “Chad’s Law,” so that other families do not have to go through the abusive nature of a department that is supposed to be protecting our children. As “Roy of Hollywood” stated on KPFK recently, who is protecting us from the Child Protective Social Services Department? Pushing through a bill like this may be very expensive, but once Laurie makes up her mind that she is doing something, she is all steel, determined, and will persevere to find a way to make this happen. If you can help her in any way, please contact me via e-mail.
Orthodox medicine is unwilling to admit it does not know everything, and it hates competition. Its methods of treating cancer are not the only ways that can work. Ms. Jessop believed she could find another way, and her son, given a diagnosis of imminent death, is now free of cancer. Never mind, the doctor is sure it’s still there, so Big Brother intends to make an example of her as an unfit mother for disobeying her doctor, putting her son in mortal danger. That’s not happening, but truth often doesn’t matter to Big Brother, as is apparent in most government policy. If Chad were actually endangered by not getting conventional treatment, the authorities might have a leg to stand on, but in this case, it’s not his mother putting him in jeopardy, it’s the system! The doctor has egg on her face, because she was sure Chad would die quickly without aggressive conventional treatment, and she has been proven wrong! Instead of learning from her error, she wants to make Ms. Jessop and her son pay for showing her up!
I’m helping her get her story out. One newspaper did a story, but in general, very little has been reported so far. I tried to find the story online, but no luck. A press conference was held on Sept. 6th, just before court. Two of the major TV news stations and one of the largest AM radio all news stations showed up. KFWB radio ran the story immediately that day. As soon as court started the judge announced that there was a gag order on this case and threatened jail time and contempt of court to anyone (including the minor in question), that spoke to the press or anyone else for that matter. One of the TV news stations didn’t want to run the story without interviewing Chad and getting his viewpoints. The judge denied a continuance six different times, ignoring all six times valid reasons for the requests. The judge also denied Laurie the right to hire her own attorney! She retained a law firm with her own money, but the judge insisted she has to keep her Public Defender, presumably as a public servant easier to control than a private attorney not so dependent on the system.
If anyone reading this wants to help get the story out, feel free to blog away.
Mother Jailed, Put On Trial For Curing Her Son Of Melanoma
An unholy alliance of California Child Protective Services (CPS) with a hostile doctor and judge is attempting to railroad Laurie Jessop, framed as a threat to her son and the establishment for finding a way to cure him of malignant melanoma. She is now on trial, under a gag order, since she had gone to the press. When she was arrested, she was put in maximum security, solitary confinement, in the Orange County, CA jail. They claim that everything about. her says anti-Establishment, so she was told, as she was considered a threat in starting a riot.
On the morning of Sept. 12, Gary Null read on KPFK, a Pacifica station in Los Angeles, an e-mail from Ron Miller, who had met Ms. Jessop at the Cancer Control Society annual convention during the Labor Day weekend. They had discussed this persecution by Big Brother in the guise of saving her son from this evil mother who has failed to protect him! She disobeyed doctor’s orders and found a natural way to cure her son. These forces arrayed against her and insisted he must have the cancer removed surgically and attacked with the standard chemical fare. The cancer is gone, but nobody in authority will accept that because her doctor doesn’t believe that’s possible.
The initial biopsy of the mole was done in February. Their regular doctor was on leave when test results came in. A nurse informed them of the bad news. On May 8, Chad Jessop had a follow up appointment with a medical group doctor, by the name of Dr. Masciana, who insisted he needed surgery to excise the site within a week, or he could die any day now! This doctor is a general practitioner, not an oncologist or qualified to do cancer diagnosis or surgery. Chad and his mom decided to pursue holistic treatment for him. Incensed, the doctor reported her to Child Protective Services on the grounds of gross negligent child endangerment. She yelled at Laurie “all of you Jehovah’s Witnesses are all the same,” never mind Laurie and Chad are not Jehovah’s witnesses. Dr. Masciana also told Laurie, with her son present, that his death was imminent. At the close of the appointment, Dr. Masciana informed Laurie that she was referring the case to Social Services. In further investigation, Child Protective Social Services is a misnamed government agency whose employees get paid bonuses every time they take children away from their parents.
That evening Laurie called an attorney who advised her that she had 48 hours or less before Social Services showed up. If she could not prove she was following doctor’s orders, they’d take her son. Since Dr. Masciana had created such a traumatic experience for Chad, he feared the doctors and threatened to run away. In honoring Chad’s wishes for continued holistic care, Laurie took her son to San Diego to continue holistic care using a number of various alternative treatments such as: ozone, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, hydrogen peroxide, energy work, Rife, nutritional supplements, and deep emotional work. Laurie also used “black salve” that she purchased from Canada to remove the mole tissue. Black salve was developed by Native American Indians more than 200 years ago, and used in the treatment of skin lesions, cancers, warts, and moles. Figures our FDA banned it, because it works.
When Chad insisted on hitting the road to continue alternative therapies and getting further diagnostics, that left a question as to where Laurie’s daughter Crystal would go. A close friend of the family and Crystal’s best friend agreed, and this felt like a perfect fit under the circumstances, so Laurie legally signed Crystal over to the family and gave them all the necessary medical insurance information. On May 22, the local sheriff and CPS had taken her daughter out of class, interrogating her mercilessly, telling her lies about her mother, trying to force her to reveal where Laurie and Chad had gone, and then forced her to go on a police joy ride and show them where they reside. All of this was done against her will and carried on for six hours!
They applied “Black Salve” directly to the area in question, thus giving Chad a holistic version of a large border excision. It took about two and a half weeks for the wound to heal. When it was healed Laurie took Chad to a Del Mar dermatologist for a biopsy. The test results were negative of any signs of melanoma! The next two weeks were concentrated on once again healing the tissue to get another biopsy. Upon the wound site being healed, a melanoma specialist did a punch biopsy and a complete lab analysis on Friday, June 15. Again, no sign of cancer could be found in the biopsy and the blood work was in healthy ranges with no distinguishing markers that would otherwise be present in a patient that would have advanced stage four melanoma, as had been previously reported! Was it a miracle, or an activated immune system in a healthy young man, with some useful help, that healed the melanoma?
The following Monday, June 18th, Laurie and Chad turned themselves in to the San Diego Social Services office, with all of their documentation. They were detained for 4 hours, then told that arrest warrants for Laurie and Chad were issued from Orange County. Chad was locked up at the Palenskie Center in San Diego for one night. He had 2 guards watching him around the clock, since he was considered a flight risk. When Laurie went to visit Chad they could not have any privacy, as both guards listened to every word that was said. Laurie spent over nine thousand bucks in San Diego for the treatments done over the five week period of time, and has all the receipts as proof. A new social worker, David Harper, was put on the case. He picked Chad up in San Diego transporting him to Orangewood Children’s Home in Orange County for the next two weeks, where he got fed spaghetti and meat balls, food not fitting one healing from cancer. One aspect of Chad’s treatment was a healthy diet of living foods, but Ms. Jessop’s requests of this social worker that Chad get proper food fell on deaf ears. He did tell her she was allowed to see her daughter graduate from Junior High School. She told him nobody could keep her away without a court order, and that she would be there! The social worker informed Laurie that he completed the paper work to lift the warrant order on her.
After her daughter’s graduation, on June 21st Laurie went to make academic arrangements for her son, having missed five weeks of school. Laurie showed the documentation to the principal and vice principal. The Vice Principal knew Chad well, as Chad did his Eagle Scout project for him at the high school. Chad is now an advanced Eagle Scout. No matter, the VP called police to arrest Laurie at the school and haul her off to the county jail. The arresting deputy harassed her. When Laurie protested, the officer told her she didn’t have to like her or be nice to her. After arriving at the county jail, her first telephone call had been to the social worker, David Harper, although he did nothing to get her out of jail, nor was he willing to help correct the record. Laurie was physically abused, they spread her legs twisting her knee, when she complained they called out “Resisting…Resisting” then they pushed her violently to a cell wall (behind the cameras) causing her to twist her neck, shoulder and arm. After being worked over, they took away her jacket, shoes, socks, and toilet paper, and locked her up. Her holding cell was extremely cold and she was deliberately denied toilet paper. She asked for toilet paper, only to be answered it must have been taken for good reason and she was not getting any. She was denied toilet paper from approximately 3:30pm until 11:00pm. One has to wonder, what was she going to do with the toilet paper, hang herself? By 11:00 pm Laurie got taken to be assessed. She asked “is this a madhouse run by animals, who is running this place?” Laurie told this officer her story for half an hour. He let her talk, then said he sees all kinds of characters, his job is to ascertain threats. He told her she has the fire, the spirit and the power to overturn the system and create a riot. He informed her she’d be put in solitary confinement, but she might get a roommate, probably a drug offender. She was forced to take a chest X-ray against her will, without any explanation and ridicule from the officers. Laurie and her two children have never been in any type of trouble with the law, but were treated like hardened criminals. She was shocked to learn women taking showers have no privacy, that male guards are watching. The next night she got a 58-year old roommate charged with kidnapping her children from her husband 20 years ago, after being extradited from Tennessee on outdated bogus charges tagged with 200 thousand bail. It would appear that Orange County is desperately trying to maintain job security at the expense of the innocent!
Laurie was released on the streets of Santa Ana after midnight, in an unsafe area of Southern California for a woman, after five days of incarceration. Upon Laurie’s arrest, officers impounded her van and turned it upside down looking for drugs. She had to pay over 300 dollars in impound fees to get the van back.
Social Services approved the foster families that Laurie had arranged for Chad and Crystal. Now Laurie is on trial, forbidden to speak under a gag order, by the very judge that had issued the bench warrant for her arrest, because she refused to go along with orthodox medicine. The dermatologist, appointed by Social Services, testified in court that the melanoma is playing hide and go seek, that they’d have to subject Chad to unnecessary and dangerous further biopsies and medical procedures to find where it migrated to. The dermatologist further stated that the melanoma had become even more deadly, claiming it has now traveled to different organs. The prescription for surgery is a large border excision to the skullbone. Chad says he is old enough to defend this country’s freedoms, but he is denied that same freedom of choice when it comes to his own health and he is also under gag order. Ms. Jessop intends to sue anyone who touches her son against their wishes. All Chad’s blood tests are consistent with a healthy 17 year old 6′2″ young man. They refuse to tolerate anyone trying to clear their conscience at his expense. Laurie says her record stands, she will not back down, and she wants parents to know they do not have to be intimidated by this system! The judge has stated twice that she doesn’t want Chad to die while she is on the bench; which sounds like she has bias in the case! Surgery and chemotherapy had been intended for the following week. The doctor is still of the mind Chad could die any day now. When giving testimony, the dermatologist was asked if he could perform surgery on Chad, knowing that Chad would not cooperate with any Western medical butchery. His answer was emphatic No, he could not perform an operation on anyone against their will.
What Big Brother has been doing to Ms. Jessop and her children is unconscionable, beyond outrageous, a gross miscarriage of justice and an abuse of authority. Many families have been torn apart by lesser abuses of CPS and modern medicine. The Jessop family is very united and strong in their convictions, very aware of their constitutional rights, and will not give up to our corrupt system. Being a single parent for the last 11 years, Laurie has done herself proud raising her children and is extremely close to both of them. Laurie and her children have stood the test and this hellish ordeal has brought them closer together as a family. She said at the press conference, “I am a mama bear and no one is messing with my cubs!”
Laurie’s deadbeat ex-husband, Marcus, has never voluntarily paid for child support or any of the children’s medical bills, even though he is legally bound to pay for half according to their divorce agreement. She has had to drag him into court to get a judgment and garnish his wages in order to collect on past due medical bills. It so happens Marcus is in agreement with the state, he wants his son, (having had no contact for the last 10 years) to be butchered and drugged to eliminate this incredible cancer, that refuses to carry out its death sentence and is too clever to show up on tests. Marcus is in court with his own public defender, pushing for this even though he has no legal or physical custody, not even any visitation rights. If he was in agreement with Laurie’s medical beliefs, this court probably wouldn’t allow him in the courtroom. Our tax dollars, hard at work!
In the state of Virginia, a brilliant 17 year old young man went through a very similar ordeal, but won his battle with CPS. Once his case was over, he was instrumental in passing a new law in the state of Virginia. Abraham’s Law, that gives a minor the right to make their own medical decisions when they are bright and understand their choices. Laurie wants to get her story out and push through a similar bill in California, called “Chad’s Law,” so that other families do not have to go through the abusive nature of a department that is supposed to be protecting our children. As “Roy of Hollywood” stated on KPFK recently, who is protecting us from the Child Protective Social Services Department? Pushing through a bill like this may be very expensive, but once Laurie makes up her mind that she is doing something, she is all steel, determined, and will persevere to find a way to make this happen. If you can help her in any way, please contact me via e-mail.
Orthodox medicine is unwilling to admit it does not know everything, and it hates competition. Its methods of treating cancer are not the only ways that can work. Ms. Jessop believed she could find another way, and her son, given a diagnosis of imminent death, is now free of cancer. Never mind, the doctor is sure it’s still there, so Big Brother intends to make an example of her as an unfit mother for disobeying her doctor, putting her son in mortal danger. That’s not happening, but truth often doesn’t matter to Big Brother, as is apparent in most government policy. If Chad were actually endangered by not getting conventional treatment, the authorities might have a leg to stand on, but in this case, it’s not his mother putting him in jeopardy, it’s the system! The doctor has egg on her face, because she was sure Chad would die quickly without aggressive conventional treatment, and she has been proven wrong! Instead of learning from her error, she wants to make Ms. Jessop and her son pay for showing her up!
I’m helping her get her story out. One newspaper did a story, but in general, very little has been reported so far. I tried to find the story online, but no luck. A press conference was held on Sept. 6th, just before court. Two of the major TV news stations and one of the largest AM radio all news stations showed up. KFWB radio ran the story immediately that day. As soon as court started the judge announced that there was a gag order on this case and threatened jail time and contempt of court to anyone (including the minor in question), that spoke to the press or anyone else for that matter. One of the TV news stations didn’t want to run the story without interviewing Chad and getting his viewpoints. The judge denied a continuance six different times, ignoring all six times valid reasons for the requests. The judge also denied Laurie the right to hire her own attorney! She retained a law firm with her own money, but the judge insisted she has to keep her Public Defender, presumably as a public servant easier to control than a private attorney not so dependent on the system.
If anyone reading this wants to help get the story out, feel free to blog away.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Home Town, Bonavista
I live in Bonavista, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. No doubt the greatest place on the planet. It is found on the far eastern coast of Canada, on the northeast tip of the island of Newfoundland. We are almost jutting out into the middle of the north Atlantic, with the open ocean on 3 sides, leaving us some shelter from the south. Bonavista was discovered by John (Giovanni) Cabot (Cabotto) on June 24, 1497, 5 years after America was discivered by Christopher Columbus.
Instead of finding a trade route to Asia via a northern route, he happened upon the greatest fishery on the planet. He was able to throw a weighted basket over the side of his ship, The Matthew, & bring it back full of cod fish. This was the staple of Europe at this time & was running out. Then BOOM, a mass of codfish unheard of. Once a fishery was up & running, other European Nations jumped on board. There were British, French, Portugese & Spaniards vieing for the best grounds & the best harbours & bays. Oh, before I forget, Canadians, like the British add a "u" to certain words like "harbour & flavour. I don't know why but.
Up to that point, England had a weak navy. It was no threat to the other nations in the region at all. It was the Newfoundland fishery that netted England its finances to back a powerful navy. With the well trained fishermen, they grew formidable even to the Spanish Armada.
Now this is off the topof my head so I'm going to pause here so I can get some facts & figures together. This island, including Bonavista, where it all started, has a rich heritage that I am very proud to have born into. I can add that Newfoundland is the closest point in the western hemisphere to Europe. We have our own time zone, shared with a small island off Brazil's easternmosr tip. Newfoundland Standard Time is 1/2 of an hour ahead of Atlantic Standard Time, in which the mainland portion of the province, Labrador, also lays.
I wanted to share my thoughts & the history of Newfoundland for some time now so I decided to start off right now. I'll restart this as soon as I get some of the good stuff. There is a lot to post about. See you in the funny pages gang.
Instead of finding a trade route to Asia via a northern route, he happened upon the greatest fishery on the planet. He was able to throw a weighted basket over the side of his ship, The Matthew, & bring it back full of cod fish. This was the staple of Europe at this time & was running out. Then BOOM, a mass of codfish unheard of. Once a fishery was up & running, other European Nations jumped on board. There were British, French, Portugese & Spaniards vieing for the best grounds & the best harbours & bays. Oh, before I forget, Canadians, like the British add a "u" to certain words like "harbour & flavour. I don't know why but.
Up to that point, England had a weak navy. It was no threat to the other nations in the region at all. It was the Newfoundland fishery that netted England its finances to back a powerful navy. With the well trained fishermen, they grew formidable even to the Spanish Armada.
Now this is off the topof my head so I'm going to pause here so I can get some facts & figures together. This island, including Bonavista, where it all started, has a rich heritage that I am very proud to have born into. I can add that Newfoundland is the closest point in the western hemisphere to Europe. We have our own time zone, shared with a small island off Brazil's easternmosr tip. Newfoundland Standard Time is 1/2 of an hour ahead of Atlantic Standard Time, in which the mainland portion of the province, Labrador, also lays.
I wanted to share my thoughts & the history of Newfoundland for some time now so I decided to start off right now. I'll restart this as soon as I get some of the good stuff. There is a lot to post about. See you in the funny pages gang.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Our Avian Masters
Birds are best known for their ability to fly. It has always been the dream of humanity to be able to soar like eagles. It had repeatedly been attempted my countless inventors & the adventurous. That is not the only thing we have learned from our winged friends.
Before we discovered the secret to human flight, we did utilize the properties. Kites were used to fish by dangling bait from the tail. They were once used to lift observers, in war, to get a vantage point over their opponents. The story of Ben Franklin & electricity is famous. There is a famous photograph of Marconi on Signal Hill, just outside St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador in which he is raising a kite antenna to receive the first radio signals from across the Atlantic Ocean, in December 1901. This was all fine and dandy, but we were tethered. We did gain a bit more of a vantage point & we found a way to fish from the air, like the birds do. We managed this after learning how to make pieces of material soar & glide like birds.
Long before the power of human flight came into being, the feathers of birds were commonly used for other purposes. Basically, feathers consist of a tube with smaller tubes running the length of it at regular intervals, with smaller tubes running the lengths of these & so on. This makes feathers very lightweight & strong. They can be very soft as in the down we use for pillows. They are used as insulation as in our clothes. We were once using feathers as pens. We knew about their aerodynamic value in arrows. Feathers can be used to absorb or repel moisture. Furthermore, as in the male birds, they have been widely used as an extravagance.
A lot of birds also utilize air bags throughout their bodies which makes them a lot lighter than they look & creates buoyancy. This is great for impacts, which they would presumably get as most travel off of the ground, usually at speeds greater than the other animals. We use air bags to reinforce the interiors of certain structures as well as to cushion the impact of accidents in automobiles.
Those very cleverly adapted beaks were once used as punches for tailoring clothes. In some birds like gulls, salty water is expelled through the beak. The beak makes an important part of their respiratory or ventilation system. We utilize the same characteristics in moving vehicles to push cool air through the heated bodies of vehicles.
What makes a bird so light in weight, as in eagles and gulls? Their skeletons consist of a honeycomb-like structure. The bones are filled with holes. This allows air to fill the space of bone. It also gives the bones a more rigid construction. How does an hummingbird or a songbird manage to not break its bones, tiny bones, whenever they land or squeeze into their nests. They are very strong. It also protects those deep diving penguins. It explains the forces they exert on their bodies during flight. Peregrine falcons can dive at an higher velocity than any other animal can move, including humans. Gannets can dive from great heights head first into the ocean. They don't break any bones. This honeycomb structure has been copied throughout history by people.
Then we have the power of flight. We did manage to glide & soar with a little assistance. We first had to figure out the aerodynamic properties of feathers & their setups on different birds. The gliders we fly, have long rigid wings like gulls & other seabirds. Human powered flight had been tried, and still is, using our own muscles to propelled the wings. We need a way to dramatically enhance what meager power we possess. Even the most powerful person on the planet would not be able to sustain flight. The largest part of a birds anatomy is the chest muscles or the breast, along with a very strong sternum. But it is the wings that we learned from in order to create a machine that could fly. We figured out the shape, strength, & size of the wings of a vehicles to get it off the ground & stay there. We used these same properties to further customize the ability & to make it more comfortable & efficient through the advent of wind tunnels. Now, some planes have a short, wide wings for maneuverability like some of the predators of dense forests. They have long slender wings for long travel. Some are made to be quieter, as in some owls.
Some of these advances by humanity may or may not have been directly attributed to birds. Some may have been enhanced from later knowledge of birds. What else can we learn from these unique animals. Can we figure out why vultures can tolerate such extremes conditions as rotting, disease ridden flesh. The optics associated with some birds may greatly enlighten our view of our planet. Can we discover anything from their method of giving birth? Some early peoples, no doubt, starting building nests as birds did leading to dwelling in trees. Can we figure out what makes birds so highly adaptive? Several bird species have been trained to mimic noises. They actually do this in the wild with birds of different areas using different animal calls. There is much research on birds ability to navigate great distances. What more can we learn from the masters of the air?
Before we discovered the secret to human flight, we did utilize the properties. Kites were used to fish by dangling bait from the tail. They were once used to lift observers, in war, to get a vantage point over their opponents. The story of Ben Franklin & electricity is famous. There is a famous photograph of Marconi on Signal Hill, just outside St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador in which he is raising a kite antenna to receive the first radio signals from across the Atlantic Ocean, in December 1901. This was all fine and dandy, but we were tethered. We did gain a bit more of a vantage point & we found a way to fish from the air, like the birds do. We managed this after learning how to make pieces of material soar & glide like birds.
Long before the power of human flight came into being, the feathers of birds were commonly used for other purposes. Basically, feathers consist of a tube with smaller tubes running the length of it at regular intervals, with smaller tubes running the lengths of these & so on. This makes feathers very lightweight & strong. They can be very soft as in the down we use for pillows. They are used as insulation as in our clothes. We were once using feathers as pens. We knew about their aerodynamic value in arrows. Feathers can be used to absorb or repel moisture. Furthermore, as in the male birds, they have been widely used as an extravagance.
A lot of birds also utilize air bags throughout their bodies which makes them a lot lighter than they look & creates buoyancy. This is great for impacts, which they would presumably get as most travel off of the ground, usually at speeds greater than the other animals. We use air bags to reinforce the interiors of certain structures as well as to cushion the impact of accidents in automobiles.
Those very cleverly adapted beaks were once used as punches for tailoring clothes. In some birds like gulls, salty water is expelled through the beak. The beak makes an important part of their respiratory or ventilation system. We utilize the same characteristics in moving vehicles to push cool air through the heated bodies of vehicles.
What makes a bird so light in weight, as in eagles and gulls? Their skeletons consist of a honeycomb-like structure. The bones are filled with holes. This allows air to fill the space of bone. It also gives the bones a more rigid construction. How does an hummingbird or a songbird manage to not break its bones, tiny bones, whenever they land or squeeze into their nests. They are very strong. It also protects those deep diving penguins. It explains the forces they exert on their bodies during flight. Peregrine falcons can dive at an higher velocity than any other animal can move, including humans. Gannets can dive from great heights head first into the ocean. They don't break any bones. This honeycomb structure has been copied throughout history by people.
Then we have the power of flight. We did manage to glide & soar with a little assistance. We first had to figure out the aerodynamic properties of feathers & their setups on different birds. The gliders we fly, have long rigid wings like gulls & other seabirds. Human powered flight had been tried, and still is, using our own muscles to propelled the wings. We need a way to dramatically enhance what meager power we possess. Even the most powerful person on the planet would not be able to sustain flight. The largest part of a birds anatomy is the chest muscles or the breast, along with a very strong sternum. But it is the wings that we learned from in order to create a machine that could fly. We figured out the shape, strength, & size of the wings of a vehicles to get it off the ground & stay there. We used these same properties to further customize the ability & to make it more comfortable & efficient through the advent of wind tunnels. Now, some planes have a short, wide wings for maneuverability like some of the predators of dense forests. They have long slender wings for long travel. Some are made to be quieter, as in some owls.
Some of these advances by humanity may or may not have been directly attributed to birds. Some may have been enhanced from later knowledge of birds. What else can we learn from these unique animals. Can we figure out why vultures can tolerate such extremes conditions as rotting, disease ridden flesh. The optics associated with some birds may greatly enlighten our view of our planet. Can we discover anything from their method of giving birth? Some early peoples, no doubt, starting building nests as birds did leading to dwelling in trees. Can we figure out what makes birds so highly adaptive? Several bird species have been trained to mimic noises. They actually do this in the wild with birds of different areas using different animal calls. There is much research on birds ability to navigate great distances. What more can we learn from the masters of the air?
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Ice Shove at Mile's Cove, Newfoundland & Labrador
This is apparently the best video footage of an ice shove or ivu. It occurs in the northern parts of the world when conditions are right. The following link shows some nice images of huge ice shoves, which can get up to 50 feet high.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivu
PEACE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivu
PEACE
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