DaytonaFrank's Blog

In a place where the roll of the dice can make or break you, OJ rolled a 13!

He was convicted of a robbery staged on Sept. 13.

It was on the 13th anniversary of his aquittal for a double murder.

The jury deliberated for 13 hours.

The trial lasted 13 days. 

He will be sentenced on the 5th of December, but it should be the 13th!

Will he get 13 years?

LOL!

CHAMBLEE, Ga. -- Fear rippled through a group of Latino parents in suburban Atlanta when a friend was deported to Mexico and temporarily separated from her two young U.S. born children. The kids weren't able to immediately join her because she and her  husband hadn't gotten passports for them.

More than nine months later, anxiety about being taken from thier children is still palpable among the members of the support group for Spanish speaking parents, most of them undocumented.

To guard against such separations, a widely decried effect of recent large scale workplace raids, social workers and activists are urging undocumented immigrants to put together emergency kits similar to the kind emergency officials encourage people to keep in case of fire or natural disaster.

The immigrants kits include passports for US born children, contact info for an attorney, information on thier legal rights and other material that can keep families together or help relatives retrieve a last paycheck.

--Associated Press

Well, I don't know where to start on this! Have a field day!

Hulk Hogan and his wife are wrangling over how much money the celebrity wrestler is worth, and how much they each spend a month. According to financial affidavits filed in divorce court near Tampa.

Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, claims his net worth is $32 million.

His wife Linda disagrees. She claims it is $26.7 million.

The affidavits also lay out thier spending habits.

Linda Bollea spends $7,000 on clothing, another $7,500 on maid service, and about $1,700 on jewelry. That is each month.

Hogan also reports impressive monthly expenses, but none greater than the $38,000 he spends on legal fees. 

-Associated Press

WOW! 7 Grand on clothing each month? Sounds like my ex-wife, or at least what would have made her happy! Who could wear that many clothes? Are they one time use only?

I wonder what us regular folks think of this. Post your opinions here!

People worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmer's Almanac, which predicts below average temperatures for most of the US.

"Numbs the word," says the 192 year old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance.

The almanac's 2009 edition, which went on sale Tuesday, says at least two thirds of the country can expect colder than average temperatures this winter, with only the far west and southeast in line for near normal readings.

"This is going to be catastrophic for millions of people," said almanac editor Peter Geiger.

The almanac predicts above normal snowfall for the Great Lakes and Midwest, especially during January and February, and above normal precipitation for the Southwest in in December and for the Southeast in January and February. The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions will likely have an unusually wet or snowy February, the almanac said.

- Associated Press

Gorebal, um, I mean "global" warming at it again? LOL! What do you think?

Will you take the word of a 192 year old publication, with an 80-85 percent accuracy rate, or the bizzare theorys of an former vice president, with absolutely no meteorology education whatsoever?

Blog your opinions on this.

DAYTONA BEACH - Detectives went undercover at two adult nightclubs, arresting three dancers and a manager.

Two "detectives" watched as a dancer danced in the nude. They were joined by two more to observe this crime.

The manager was charged with violating the city's public nudity ordinance.

How pathetic the Daytona Beach Police department is. With two unsolved violent crimes in the heart of Daytona Beach, the Ocean Walk, and the parking garage area that supports the Ocean Walk area where these crimes, a rape and a shooting occurred, they would send FOUR detectives to a club that people go to SEE nudity!

Where do the prioritys of the Daytona Beach Police Department lie? Obviously they have nothing better to do than hang out in adult clubs on US 1, while letting the violent crime on A1A slide!

Chitwood is slipping. His prioritys are totally askew!

FOUR DETECTIVES IN A BLEEP BAR!

HOW MANY WERE IN THAT PARKING GARAGE, THAT TWO VIOLENT CRIMES HAPPENED IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS?

I guess the assignments that are the most fun, get priority. Regardless of threat to society!

Any thoughts on this? Should adult clubs be the top priority over unsolved violent crime in the core tourist area?

WASHINGTON-  The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration's power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S. - Mexican border.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has used authority given to him by Congress in 2005 to ignore environmental and other regulations to move forward with hundreds of miles of fencing in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.

The case rejected by the court involved a two-mile section of fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Arizona. The section has since been built.

As of June 13, 331 miles of fencing have been constructed in the afore mentioned four states.

"I am extremely disappointed in the court's decision," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said.

Thompson chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. He and 13 other House Democrats filed a brief in support of the environmentalists' appeal. 

Russ Knock, a spokesman for the Homeland Security Department, said: The American people expect this department to enforce the rule of law at the border. He added that the department is happy with the courts decision.

- -Associated Press

Are you happy with this decision? Or not happy with it?

What are your thoughts on this?

If you read my first post on this topic, you are up to date. So to continue.....

Three hundred feet below  France and Switzerland is a machine that could not only destroy the earth, but the universe as well!

This summer they will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful atom smasher.

Seventeen miles in circumference, it collides counter-rotating beams of protons and detects the showers of subatomic particles with precision detectors that are seven stories high.

The protons make 11,245 laps around the 17 mile beam tube each second!

Although the proton beam has a mass of only one ten-thousanth of a grain of sand, it is moving so close to the speed of light that it has the energy of a 30,000 pound fighter jet moving at 500 mph!

The control of the proton beam is such that it travels through a tube less than 3 inches in diameter.

The machine is designed to re-create conditions of the so called big bang theory. If it works as expected, it could be a crowning achievement in quantum physics.

However, many believe this machine could actually create a black hole, that will grow to not only swallow the earth, but eventually the entire universe as well!

So the question here, as before. Should they be allowed to start up this machine?

What if they are wrong? What if it does create a black hole that cannot be suppressed?

Does this handful of scientists have the right to gamble with the future of matter itself?

Once upon a time ago, it welcomed many people into this country, that wanted to come here to be Americans, and were willing to sacrifice everything to do that, and come here legally.

All my grandparents, paternal and maternal came here through Ellis Island, and were proud to be American, and I have nothing but pride in the way they came here and went through all the legal channels to gain the coveted American citizenship.

What does the statue mean today?  Nothing! We should pack it up and send it back to France!

Surprising coming from one that is French-Canadian eh? 

That statue today calls out to every illegal from ALL nationalitys to sneak into this country, and get benefits many American born citizens cannot get.

Including, but not limited to:

Free health care.

Welfare.

Food Stamps.

They can even get voting rights!

Does this statue really represent America anymore?

This statue has lost all meaning.

Am I wrong on this?

Did you ever have a sense you have already read something, or been somewhere before?

This eerie experience was dubbed deja vu by scholars who obviously thought the English "already seen" lacked cachet. According to an article by Alan S. Brown in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, new medical tools and imaging systems, plus an evolving grasp of the human brain are enabling researchers to zero in on deja vu and its causes.

Researchers now know deja vu is an illusion, a vivid mental trick played by the mind on itself. Only we are too dim to get the joke.

Have you ever walked into a room for the first time, and could swear you have been there before?

Have you ever been in a place that you know in your heart you have seen in the past, even though you haven't? Doing the same thing you are doing? 

What is really happening is your brain is processing the experience along several neural pathways simultaneously. They all meet in the brain's higher processing centers and get filed into memory as one incident.

But sometimes one copy of the message takes a shortcut and zips into the memory first. When the other identical messages arrive, the processor announces, accurately, that they are exact repeats.

To the brain, this means you have been there before.

Two of every three people report having had the experience. 

Wait a minute.  Didn't I write this blog before?  LOL!

Have you ever had this experience?

Blog it here!

Two men have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii over what they perceive to be a doomsday machine.

They believe a giant particle accelerator will produce a black hole that will grow to swallow the earth.

Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho say that  the European Center for Nuclear Research have trivialized the chances that the collider could produce a small black hole that could eventually consume the earth. 

The Large Hardon Collider, (no kidding, that is what it is called!) will fire up protons to energies of 7 trillion electron volts before banging them together.

This is boggling to the mind. 

While it is no real biggy in the atmosphere, as it happens thousands of times there, this is different.. It is being done in a laboratory environment far below the atmosphere.

Who gets to say yes or no to take this risk? Scientists?

Do you think this experiment should be allowed to proceed?

Do you think they should stop it, before it is too late?

What if they are wrong?

Read over the "news" FRONT PAGE here on the blogs, and give me an honest opinion of how many are "news", and how many should have been posted under other categories.

This goes for Fox people, as well as my fellow bloggers. The news category moves the fastest, but it is because every Fox person that is blogging, posts under "news" !

Regardless of whether it belongs there or not. 

Fox claims this blog would not be possible without bloggers, but it is getting painfully obvious they do not care about bloggers input other than commenting on thier blogs.

I always go to "see all " , and NEVER click on a front page blog. This is because I know the real blogs, from real bloggers, are there and not on the front page.

I have seen many blogs ignored, that SHOULD have made front page of news, and so many that made front page that should NOT have been there!

Recipes, and baby names, is not news! But if you are a Fox personality, you get put up! 

Am I alone on this? Is this some wacky conspiracy theory I dreamed up?

See for yourself, then let me know. (if I have not disappeared)