The Dark Tower

Sheeple

2011-04-12T22:00:00.001-05:00

Get out and see some live music today!

Meet the Baby

2011-03-09T22:40:00.001-06:00

Athena.
Godess of love and war.

john Arthur martinez

2009-11-15T21:53:00.000-06:00

I know I have been remiss in keeping up my blog, that's because I have been busy with travels and family. I also am stagnant because I was wanting to give this young man a rave review. We have been to see him twice lately and will continue to visit his shows when ever he is withing driving distance.

When we first discovered jAm, I blogged about him here. Now this should not be taken lightly! I, after all, am the one that discovered Willie Nelson! Yes. Back in the mid seventies I saw him on some obscure late night TV show called Austin City Limits. I told all my friends that they were going to have to see this guy. Sure enough. Willie's career sky rocketed! So I am telling you now, this guy is going places.

I was going to blog about his talent but in researching I find that everyone is impressed already with his talent. Not only is his writing technically sound, his voice is pleasing to the ear.
Dan Schneider on john Arthur Martinez
If you have an iPhone you need this app.
Of course, there is his web site where you can sample his music and find links to his social sites. A great place to connect and find more on this great artist.

So there is nothing more I can add about his musical talents but there is much more to the man. (Darn, that sounds like a line from one of his songs, Man Who Holds the Bow)
He starts his day by waking his wife to her favorite cup of coffee. If he has some free time he might play a little tennis. Afternoons are for his family, sorry, no promos when they need him. His work could start in San Antonio for a charity and end in Dallas for a radio interview. He is that hard working. Just try to follow his tweets.
Same goes for the guys he works with.
The point is, these are not just "bar room buddies". These are the people you would invite into your home. People you respect for their hard work, talent, morality, and family ethic.

If you are in Texas, you have to see one of their shows. If you are not, pick up one of jAm's new cds.
You won't be sorry.

Obama Calls Kanye a Jackass

2009-09-16T22:03:00.000-05:00

I may not agree with a lot of the things that Obama has been doing but I must say that he does have his endearing moments.

To hear him comment on on something like the MTV Awards makes him more like a real person.

Reporter: Were your girls as mad as mine were that Kanye gave Taylor Swift the Joe Wilson treatment?
Barack Obama: I thought that was really inappropriate. You know I mean it’s like she’s getting an award what are you butting in? I hear you, I agree with you.
Reporter: Does that count as the first question?
Barack Obama: The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, she’s getting her award, what is he doing up there? He’s a jackass. No all this stuff…I’m assuming all this stuff…where’s the pool? Come on guys cut the President some slack I got a lot of other stuff on my plate. ‘Cause I remember last time there was the fly thing that was the highlight…
Report: That worked out well for you, you were a ninja.
Barack Obama: Not really, except PITA.
Reporter: You got the chopsticks this time?
Barack Obama: Yeah right.

Jackass? JACKASS!!!!
Yeah, he said jackass.
Well, finally something we can agree on.

Sex With Farm Animals Always Leads to an unStable Relationship

2009-09-04T09:34:00.000-05:00

Conway, South Carolina... Rodell Vereen, 50, has had his love affair with Sugar put on hold after being caught and held at gun point by the horse's owner, Barbara Kenley.
This is the second time Vareen has been charged with having sex with his darling at the Lazy B Stables. Last year he was sentenced to three years probation for buggery, ordered to undergo mental evaluation, and prohibited from going near the stables. It looks like his unwillingness to give up on his romance will now find him serving his three years behind bars.
On Monday night, Kenley said she went to check on the horses and saw an unknown vehicle parked near her property.

In 20 years I've never had a problem like this,'' Kenley said. ``I never knew people did such a thing.

Kenley found Vereen behind a barn where the horses are kept and pointed a shotgun at him. Kenley called police on her cell phone and waited for officers to arrive.
Bail for Vereen is set at $30,000. He was being held Wednesday at J. Reuben Long Detention Center.
Sugar could not be reached for comment but friends inform us that she just never could say "neigh."

Preceeded in Death by Mary Jo Kopechne - Ted Kennedy

2009-09-04T09:15:00.000-05:00

It was July, 18, 1969. Ted Kennedy was having a party with some friends in Chappaquidick, Mass. Six young, "Boiler Room Girls" and six gentlemen. It seems the wives were never invited to this party.

According to his later testimony, Ted Kennedy chose to not drink that night, and when Mary Jo Kopechne (a 28-year-old political worker) said "that she was desirous of leaving, if I would be kind enough to drop her back at her hotel". Ted, although his driver was present at the party, took the keys from him and offered to drive her. Kopechne told no one that she was leaving with Kennedy, and left her purse and hotel key at the party.

Even though Ted Kennedy hadn't had a drop of alcohol, he became lost. Kennedy's 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 was spotted where he pulled off on a cemetery road and a police officer approached the car to ask if needed help. But Kennedy chose to speed away from the officer in a cloud of dust.

Kennedy made a wrong turn onto Dike Road, an unlit dirt road that led to Dike Bridge. Dike Road was unpaved, but Kennedy, driving at "approximately twenty miles an hour", took "no particular notice" of this fact, and did not realize that he was no longer headed towards the ferry landing. -- until he plunged off the side of Dike Bridge. The car sunk in the water, and Ted swam to shore.

He was tired, so he rested about fifteen minets and walked back to the party. Kennedy denied seeing any house with a light on during his journey back to Lawrence Cottage. His route back to the cottage would have taken him past four houses from which he could have telephoned and summoned help; however, he did not do so.

He returned to the scene of the accident with his cousin and a friend that later became the Attorney General, with the hope of rescuing Mary Jo. Kennedy said he was worried for the others safety, so he didn't bother telling them about Mary Jo Kopechne. The guys tried to free her body from the car for a while, his friends drove him to the ferry where he swam to the other side and went back to his hotel room.

"I almost tossed and turned and walked around that room ... I had not given up hope all night long that, by some miracle, Mary Jo would have escaped from the car."

Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party. By 7:30 am the next morning he was talking "casually" to the winner of the previous day's sailing race, with no indication that anything was amiss. At 8 a.m., Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at his hotel where they had a "heated conversation." According to Kennedy's testimony, the two men asked why he hadn't reported the accident.

Earlier that morning, two amateur fishermen had seen the overturned car in the water and notified the inhabitants of the nearest cottage to the pond, who called the authorities at around 8:20 am. A diver was sent down and discovered Kopechne's body at around 8:45 am. The diver, John Farrar, later testified at the inquest that Kopechne's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted this to mean that Kopechne had survived for a while after the initial accident in the air bubble, and concluded that

Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.

When Kennedy, still at the pay phone by the ferry crossing where he was calling friends, saw that the body had been discovered, he crossed back to Edgartown and went to the police station; Gargan simultaneously went to the hotel where the Boiler Room Girls were staying to inform them about the incident.

Rest in Peace, Ted.

Wal-Mart Baby Slapper in Aisle 3

2009-09-04T09:03:00.000-05:00

Roger Stephens, 61, was just having a routine shopping experience until a two year old ruined it by screaming.
Stephens politely ask the mother, Sonya Mathews, to

"shut that kid up or I will shut her up for you,"

according to the police report.

A few moments later, in another aisle, Stephens grabbed the 2-year-old and slapped her across the face four or five times,
Stephens then told Mathews, “See, I told you I would shut her up,” according to the report.

Mathews was detained by a bystander until police arrived. When questioned, the 61-year-old man explained that while he had indeed slapped a strange baby across the face, he apologized to her mother afterward. Although he was ever so polite, he was arrested anyway for felony cruelty to children.

Look At Us

2009-07-13T14:18:00.004-05:00

July 9th Here is to another 24 years together.

Thank you for loving me, Darling.

Right to Carry Challenged by 20/20

2009-07-13T11:14:00.001-05:00

Seems the networks are looking for ratings again.
Some of you may remember when NBC's Dateline reported on General Motors trucks "blowing up" in a wreck. Dateline showed footage of their test. It was later found that they had planted explosives in the trucks. All this to prove the conclusion that the trucks were unsafe.
Now ABC has come up with another test. Taking a hard line against our rights to bear arms, 20/20 claims that an armed citizen would be ineffective against a mass killers armed attack. Not only are they implying that we should not have rights to own firearms, they are claiming that we are too incompetent to protect ourselves.

Here is the set up:
They take college student and teach them how to fire a gun. They take each student and place them in the front-center chair of a simulated class room with other students and a teacher.
At some point a professional police instructor barges into the room and fires once at the teacher then at the front-center student.
If the student is able to get his gun out from his holster and from under his shirt and make a direct kill shot... the student wins.
If the professional gunman can get in both hits whether they are kills or not... mass murderer wins.
Of course there was no training on HOW to carry the weapon. Ill fitting holsters under baggy clothing does not fare well in a showdown.
Even as one student gets a hit, we are told that the shot to the leg was ineffective and the perpetrator was able to deliver a deadly shot to the chest. Sure! if it is just a damn paint gun. Let me take a whack with my .44 and see if he can still get a shot off after a little leg wound.
They really try to pass this off as a real world experiment. If one of the students were armed in this scenario, the armed student would not always be sitting in the front center of the class and the assailant would not know where his target would be. Although the attacker may be skilled, anyone that had experience in carrying a personal protection firearm would have, at some point, practiced and know the best way to have his weapon accessible.
Even after one girl fought it out and hit the intruder in the shoulder, it was pointed out that she came "within inches of hitting her fellow students." No mention that she had just stopped a crazed killer. All of the commentary seemed biased in every test. But then, they were out to "prove" that a professional gunman was no match for an untrained college student.
In April, a CNN poll showed that only 39% of the people surveyed wanted stricter laws - down from 50% in 2000.
And a poll sponsored by no less than ABC news found that 61% favored strong enforcement of existing laws vs 27% who want stricter laws.

Perez Hilton Takes Beating for Straight Bashing

2009-07-13T10:56:00.002-05:00

Perez is the gay guy that discovered the nuances of Microsoft Paint and started a blog about celebrities. He then started billing himself as a "Gossip Blogger" but all he seems to do is slander everyone that does not make nice with him. His favorite is to post a picture of the celebrity with crude and vulgar text across it. He is also fixated on another sexual perversion in his illustrations. He eludes that the person in the image has just had messy sex. His trade mark is the alterations are very crudely done with white Paint. Please let your imagination run as wild as it likes on this or check out his site if you have the stomach for such things.

He is best know for three things; being a flaming gay, insisting others are gay, and being as obnoxious as he can about being gay.
He wants to proclaim gay rights but is quick to use obscenities to describe anyone that is not of that particular sexual persuasion.

Can you imagine one of his buddies being little child star, Miley Cyrus? If I was her daddy and caught her twitting to this low life pervert, I would rip the number pads off her iPhone.

"You’re a faggot, will.i.am! You’re not a f—ing artist"!

You know, Wii.i.am, the artist picked by Micheal Jackson for a new album.

So he is busy publicly slurring a well known singer, calling him a faggot, when fist started flying.
One little tap and he runs to his hotel room and gets on his cell phone. To call the police? No. To Tweet about it. He actually ask people on Twitter to send the cops because he was bleeding!

Now the public is beginning to turn against him and say he had it coming. Well, that's not going to stop him from suing. Poor guy has to make money someway. Surely not with talent.

I think a group of gays should get together and bash this guy! He is hiding behind his sexuality to be the biggest asshole since Rush Limbaugh.

Why would we compare Lincoln to King?

2009-04-29T21:03:00.002-05:00

Granted... both were great men but we see more and more reference to Lincoln as a friend of the black man. Do we really need to credit a white man with the strides that the black man has gained through the years? No! I believe it was great black men that we have to thank. Fredrick Douglas maybe. Certainly not Lincoln.
It was Fredrick Douglas that gave Lincoln's Emancipation creditability with the black slaves at the time. Other wise it would have just been another political move to win favor for an unpopular war. Does "weapons of mass destruction" ring a bell?

Abolitionists were considered a rouge movement at the time. Lincoln sent his troops to put down abolitionist before the war. And guess who he sent to do this? Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee.
Lincoln had confirmed that the War had nothing to do with slavery.

After the bloody battle of Antietam, support for the War was at a low and there was pressure to end it. Lincoln was a great politician and ceased upon the anti-slavery movement to gain support.

From a British newspaper analyst:

Lincoln, as a result of Antietam, converted the war to a higher plane, again the master politician. He announces the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Of course, it doesn’t free a single slave in revolt, frees only as a war measure and only frees a slaves in states where the Confederacy is in control.

and the same after the War.

...and certainly as many people today do not realize, that the Emancipation Proclamation did nothing to get them their freedom.

So my question is: Does so much racism still exist today that we have to give credit to a white man for the successes of the back race?
Don't get me wrong. Lincoln was a great man and tried hard to bring our nation together, but to him slavery was a political tool not a moral aptitude.
This is evident in his plan for the emancipated slaves. He wanted to send them back to Africa and the Republican plan for reconstruction was non existent.

There are too many real black heroes to waste claims that Lincoln freed the slaves.
I think that Obama's admiration of the man is based solely on Lincoln's endeavor to bring the people of the nation together than on what he did to end slavery.

Obama referenced the 1860 Inaugural Address, in which Lincoln dramatically called on a deeply divided nation to choose peace instead of civil war.

Though civil war does not threaten the nation Obama has been elected to lead, it is nontheless deeply divided. Indeed, partisanship has stalled the political process in recent years.

Will Obama prove to be a post-partisan figure, capable of bringing Democrats and Republicans together, within his cabinet and Congress? Of course, only time will tell.

Bigger Boobs with Bust Up Gum

2008-11-17T20:26:00.003-06:00

Grow those breasts! according to B2UP, the special ingredients, "extracts from the Pueraria mirifica (Kwao Krua) plant, makes a woman's breasts grow as well as improving their shape and tone."

Second Life sex causes divorce | Metro.co.uk

2008-11-15T16:56:00.001-06:00

A couple are divorcing after a woman found her was husband cheating – with a virtual character in an online world.

Amy Taylor caught estranged husband David Pollard having sex with an animated woman in Second Life.

I just couldn't believe what he'd done,' said Ms Taylor, 28. 'I looked at the screen and saw his character having sex. It's cheating, as far as I'm concerned.'

The couple met online in 2003 and, within months, she had moved into 40-year-old Mr Pollard's flat in Newquay, Cornwall.

They spent hours together on Second Life, where players create fantasy lives, with jobs and relationships.
After two years, the pair married – in real life and in the game – but Ms Taylor said she knew something was wrong.

'I had my suspicions about what he was doing in Second Life,' she added.

In February last year, she caught her husband's avatar, Dave Barmy, having sex with a call girl avatar in the game.
Her character, Laura Skye, hired a virtual private detective to investigate his online adultery.

But Mr Pollard apologized and begged for forgiveness.

But the final bombshell came this April, when she caught her husband with his new online flame, Modesty McDonnell.

Laura Skye....her husband, Dave Barmy.... and his mistress, Modesty McDonnell

'I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate,' said Ms Taylor, who filed for divorce the next day.

'He confessed he'd been talking to this woman in America for weeks and said he didn't love me any more.'

Ms Taylor said she was down for a while – but now has a new man, who she met in the online game World Of Warcraft.

Have you ever been awaken from sleep by your wife hitting you because she dreamed you did something wrong?
I thought that was bad!

Woman Takes Out Ad to Sell Breast Milk

2008-11-14T10:26:00.000-06:00

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A woman who doesn't want her breast milk to go to waste has taken out a newspaper ad in hopes of selling it. Martha Heller, 22, of Tiffin, took out the ad in The Gazette, offering 100 ounces of her breast milk for $200 or the best offer.
Heller said her freezer is overflowing with breast milk that she has pumped since August. Her 4-month-old daughter won't drink from a bottle and the supply is piling up.
Heller now donates to the University of Iowa's Mother's Milk Bank, but the 100 ounces of milk she wants to sell was pumped before going through the screening process for the bank and cannot be donated.
Linda Klein, a lactation consultant at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, said breast milk can generally be stored in a freezer for up to six months.
Heller said she researched laws regarding the sale of breast milk and couldn't find any in Iowa.
Don McCormick, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Public Health, said he was not aware of any laws in Iowa restricting the sale of breast milk, but that state health officials advised against it.
Heller said she hasn't received any legitimate calls about her ad.
I'll be looking for this to show up on eBay.

2008-11-14T10:09:00.000-06:00

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
You can have an allergic reaction to condom use. The cause is a protein in the latex used to make condoms. Allergies to latex condoms occur in both men and women. Symptoms include a hives-like rash and itching, dryness and, sometimes, shortness of breath, welts, and eczema. Latex allergy can also lead to life-threatening anaphylactic shock.

Overall, estimates of the prevalence of these reactions range from less than one percent to six percent of the U.S. population. People who are allergic to latex also may be sensitive to foods that contain similar proteins: bananas, avocados, chestnuts, kiwi fruit, and tomatoes.

If you are affected, you can opt for polyurethane condoms, which protect against pregnancy just as well. Polyurethane is thin and strong and effectively conducts body heat and, according to some reports, is more compatible with sexual pleasure than latex. However, the polyurethane products have higher breakage rates than latex condoms and therefore may not be as effective in preventing transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Condoms made of lambskin are available, as well, but are too porous to prevent transmission of disease.

F Cup Cookies - A sweet way to grow bigger boobs

2008-11-13T23:18:00.000-06:00

Yet another natural breast enhancement innovation from Japan.

Each F-cup Cook¡e contains 50mg of the herbal breast enhancer Pueraria Mirifica. Pueraria Mirifica is the same safe and effective, natural breast-enhancing ingredient found in B2UP Body Make Gum (Bust Up Gum).

As the name implies, F-cup Cook¡es will help you achieve larger breasts while you relax and enjoy a tasty, low calorie cook¡e. (An F cup size in Japan is like a DD cup size in the U.S.).

Only $26 for a box of 14.

Please post your before and after photos.

Watch your Penis

2008-09-25T21:21:00.000-05:00

Here is some advice, guys. If you ever have to be operated on for anything, before you go under, grab the doctor by the collar and tell him,"No matter what... Don't cut off my penis."
A Shelby County, Kentucky man and his wife said two doctors amputated the man's penis without his consent, and have filed a lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Philip Seaton went to have a circumcision last October. Seaton said when he woke up from the procedure, he realized his penis had been amputated.
The lawsuit states that Patterson received consent to perform a circumcision and only a circumcision, and that Seaton did not consent to his penis being removed.
Kevin George, the plaintiff's attorney, said the doctors amputated the organ after finding cancer, but he only had consent to remove the foreskin.
Seems there was some debate as to exactly how much skin to take off.
I guess someone has to make the hard choices.

Gentlemens Duel - at CyberThing.net

2008-08-21T17:35:00.001-05:00

Texas Courthouses

2008-03-29T22:36:00.000-05:00

I have just added a new album of Texas Courthouses to my Picasa page. Now all I need to do is learn how to link it to this post.

2007-08-12T12:07:00.001-05:00

Love

Prayer

2007-08-03T10:10:00.000-05:00

Prayer: " Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing
Sing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in
his cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pins
whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or
1.17 millimeters in diameter. Under 500 magnification it was
found that the tiny etchings seen on the heads of the pins
were the words to The Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and
254 letters long. Of the seven pins, six were silver and one
was gold - the gold pin's prayer was flawless and a true
masterpiece. Schiller had spent the last 25 years of his life
creating the pins, using a tool too small to be seen by the
naked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 sepatate carving
strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his
artwork."

The Gunslinger

2007-08-03T08:10:00.000-05:00