um, yes ! He is :)
Thanks for the review.... The trailers and previews were all so good but I just couldn't go see it when it was in theaters. I knowwhatchamean, I can't take movies that make me cry that much.
Posted on 06/11/2006 7:39:20 AM PDT by Mo1
Just got the cable back on. We've had terrible storms all day. We had a small tornado touch down right near us..and Al and I actually had to go to the cellar. It was even more scary than going to Nully's basement.
What a mess of blown leaves, branches, and rain. Our driveway was so over-taken with rain the four inch PVC pipe that drains out below the barn couldn't handle it. First time it flooded the yard and entered the garage. Luckily all our packed boxes were in a dry spot.
It's been constant loud thunder and rolling storms all day since 10:30 this morning. We just got a break in it to grill our potatoes and steak outside. Jessie dropped in for supper. Sneaky little devil... she must haved smelled it. ;)
We watched the movie Eight Below..(Disney)as we had no TV or puter all day, and I was never so scared and I cried and cried. I can't take those kind of movies anymore. I was exhausted when it was over. Wonderful movie tho..and the lead guy was an absolute hunk girls!!!
If you cried over Old Yellow (Yella?) you'll sob with this one.. sighhhhh...
Got slammed by pop-up storms here.
Will be heading out tonight later on.
Yeller
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All these trees seem to have a cooling effect. Yes, I am in the Ozarks. It gets quite muggy in the evenings, but most nights ther's a lovely breeze with the windows open and I keep the fans going all the time. There's a ceiling fan in the living room, but I use regular fans in the bedrooms and this room...not really sure what you would this room...sort of a combination sitting room, dining room and office. Every now and then I break down and turn the air on for awhile in the afternoons, but mostly I've gotten by without it so far.
Oh, and to think, I almost let Tyler talk me into getting that movie tonight. Glad I didn't. I hated Old Yeller and don't like tear jerker movies. We ended up getting Doctor Doolittle 3, Yours, Mine and Ours and Flight 93.
Good Night, Westy
Hope Wednesday turns out sunny and cheerful.
Have some fun with the head butts! http://www.isnichwahr.com/redirect12982.html
Where is everybody?
Hehehe... I'm thinking if one is good, two must be better. :)
Goodness ! So glad to hear that things have settled down up there and the damage is minimal.
um, yes ! He is :)
Thanks for the review.... The trailers and previews were all so good but I just couldn't go see it when it was in theaters. I knowwhatchamean, I can't take movies that make me cry that much.
Sounds nice. Growing up, we always spent several weeks every summer in the Smokies. It was wonderful. The world was kinder and "gentler" then and we were able to sleep with the windows open. The nights were so chilly that we'd have to use blankets. Its almost always so hot and steamy here at night that we could never sleep w/o a/c. :) We use ceiling fans to reduce the demand for a/c so I sleep with the a/c on and for good measure the ceiling fans, too. LOL.
Yesterday, that worm, Chirac, gushed with praise for and welcomed Zidane as if he were a returning hero.
BQ, where are ya ? :)
The Mule Day Parade in Columbia, Tenn., is one of many targets listed in a federal database whose "criticality" is not apparent, a report says
WASHINGTON, July 11 — It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street.”
But the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, in a report released Tuesday, found that the list was not child's play: all these "unusual or out-of-place" sites "whose criticality is not readily apparent" are inexplicably included in the federal antiterrorism database.
The National Asset Database, as it is known, is so flawed, the inspector general found, that as of January, Indiana, with 8,591 potential terrorist targets, had 50 percent more listed sites than New York (5,687) and more than twice as many as California (3,212), ranking the state the most target-rich place in the nation.
The database is used by the Homeland Security Department to help divvy up the hundreds of millions of dollars in antiterrorism grants each year, including the program announced in May that cut money to New York City and Washington by 40 percent, while significantly increasing spending for cities including Louisville, Ky., and Omaha.
"We don't find it embarrassing," said the department's deputy press secretary, Jarrod Agen. "The list is a valuable tool."
But the audit says that lower-level department officials agreed that some older information in the inventory "was of low quality and that they had little faith in it."
"The presence of large numbers of out-of-place assets taints the credibility of the data," the report says.
In addition to the petting zoo, in Woodville, Ala., and the Mule Day Parade in Columbia, Tenn., the auditors questioned many entries, including "Nix's Check Cashing," "Mall at Sears," "Ice Cream Parlor," "Tackle Shop," "Donut Shop," "Anti-Cruelty Society" and "Bean Fest."
Even people connected to some of those businesses or events are baffled at their inclusion as possible terrorist targets.
"Seems like someone has gone overboard," said Larry Buss, who helps organize the Apple and Pork Festival in Clinton, Ill. "Their time could be spent better doing other things, like providing security for the country."
Angela McNabb, manager of the Sweetwater Flea Market, which is 50 miles from Knoxville, Tenn., said: "I don't know where they get their information. We are talking about a flea market here."
New York City officials, who have questioned the rationale for the reduction in this year's antiterrorism grants, were similarly blunt.
"Now we know why the Homeland Security grant formula came out as wacky as it was," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said Tuesday. "This report is the smoking gun that thoroughly indicts the system."
The source of the problems, the audit said, appears to be insufficient definitions or standards for inclusion provided to the states, which submit lists of locations for the database.
New York, for example, lists only 2 percent of the nation's banking and finance sector assets, which ranks it between North Dakota and Missouri. Washington State lists nearly twice as many national monuments and icons as the District of Columbia.
Montana, one of the least populous states in the nation, turned up with far more assets than big-population states including Massachusetts, North Carolina and New Jersey.
The inspector general questions whether many of the sites listed in whole categories - like the 1,305 casinos, 163 water parks, 159 cruise ships, 244 jails, 3,773 malls, 718 mortuaries and 571 nursing homes - should even be included in the tally.
But the report also notes that the list "may have too few assets in essential areas." It apparently does not include many major business and finance operations or critical national telecommunications hubs.
The department does not release the list of 77,069 sites, but the report said that as of January it included 17,327 commercial properties like office buildings, malls and shopping centers, 12,019 government facilities, 8,402 public health buildings, 7,889 power plants and 2,963 sites with chemical or hazardous materials.
George W. Foresman, the department's under secretary for preparedness, said the audit misunderstood the purpose of the database, as it was an inventory or catalog of national assets, not a prioritized list of the most critical sites.The database is just one of many sources consulted in deciding antiterrorism grants.
The inspector general recommends that the department review the list and determine which of the "extremely insignificant" assets that have been included should remain and provide better guidance to states on what to submit in the future.
Mr. Agen, the Homeland Security Department spokesman, said that he agreed that his agency should provide better directions for the states and that it would do so in the future.
One business owner who learned from a reporter that a company named Amish Country Popcorn was on the list was at first puzzled. The businessman, Brian Lehman, said he owned the only operation in the country with that name.
"I am out in the middle of nowhere," said Mr. Lehman, whose business in Berne, Ind., has five employees and grows and distributes popcorn. "We are nothing but a bunch of Amish buggies and tractors out here. No one would care."
But on second thought, he came up with an explanation: "Maybe because popcorn explodes?"
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