From a spanish-language portal: Danger to child pornography

Portal reported that the rate of children addicted to pornography caused by very high inernet. With more than 130 million Internet users in the world with no boundaries and can be accessed anywhere and anytime. Causes of pornography is very difficult to prevent.

Many of the associations that use the webcam to take pictures or videos via chat which is then propagated to all the member associations.

Which can be inferred from the report portal are:
1. Internet has a negative impact for the child if there is no assistance from parents.
2. Internet dangers can be prevented by providing a useful lesson.

Let us reduce the negative impact of the internet for our children.

Internet very dangerous for childrens. Because, they cant different what think useful for them or dangerous.

Internet containing everything, science, health, bet site, casino, guns, etc.

So,if we want our children safe when using internet. We must know what their access in internet.

I've been taking care of small children for over three decades, and have been a father to four children over the past 19 years.  Today, BooBoo taught me something new:

When a small child Spiderman climbs up the back of your easy chair, does a leg-over maneuver that places him in your lap, grabs your ears, and head butts you hard enough that you see stars, that is a sign he wants you put the laptop down and pay attention to him.

Sorry for the lack of postings.  Real life is intruding into all of my hobbies.  Here's how it's been going:

The government has relieved us of the drudgery of deciphering the food pyramid.   Almost two decades of having to actually read and understand the ratios of fats, grains, meats, and sweets are over.  Let the parade begin!

Their new reminder on how they think we should eat is called MyPlate:






Here at DaddyBear Laboratories, we've come up with our own graphic to show the ratios of the principle ingredients in a good, healthy diet that will not only keep your body strong, but will make you happier:

As you can see, not only are the basic needs of fruits, vegetables, grains, and protein taken care of, but all of the things that make plain old nutrition into a meal have been included.  Please feel free to post this in your kitchen, school cafeteria, and anywhere else good people go to enjoy food and life.

From the Inspector Clouseau Department - Police say that a woman whose body was found stuffed into the box spring of a bed in a Salt Lake City hotel may have died under suspicious circumstances.  Are we actually paying for this hard charging bit of detective work?

From the Meet the New Boss Department - The executive officer of the aircraft carrier Eisenhower has been relieved of his position and re-assigned pending an investigation.  This is the third executive officer the Eisenhower has lost in the last year.  What is going on in the U.S. Navy?   It seems we can't go a month without a captain or his exec being canned.

From the Kobayashi Maru Department - A standardized math test in Great Britain included a problem that cannot be solved.  Maybe they were using this as a crowd-sourced try to see if it was truly unsolvable.  A million British teenagers banging away at a million math tests for two hours might just get us closer to an answer than we have ever been.

From the Nice Marmot Department - The Cincinnati Children's Hospital has announced that they will no longer be using live ferrets to practice intubating premature infants.  Instead they will be using a plastic model.  My guess is that the courses on reattaching fingers and treatment of injuries to the hands from weasels can't be far behind.



From the Mother of the Year Department - A woman has been arrested in Louisiana after she was found passed out in the ladies room of a gas station with drug paraphernalia.  The kicker is that she left her 20 month old son in the car with the body of another woman.  I'm not going to comment on this one.  For once, I'm speechless.

The Obama administration is attacking a report that calls for changes in how the global trade in illicit drugs is handled. Their contention is that following the recommendations of the study, including some legalization of drugs, would make the drug problem in the United States worse.

While I have mixed feelings about drug use (I've never tried them, nor do I want my kids using them, but I don't want the government to tell me or any other adult what they can or can't put in their bodies), I'm willing to admit that our current approach isn't working.  Before President Obama and Drug Czar Kerlikowske dismiss suggestions to change our approach, they should answer the following questions:

Since President Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971:

1. Has the number of people in the United States who regularly use illegal drugs gone down, either as a percentage of the U.S. population or in total numbers?
2. Have illegal drugs become harder or easier to get in the United States?
3. How many American lives have been saved by the current policy of prohibition?
4. How many excess deaths have occurred in the United States that can be tied to drugs or drug related crime, controlling for criminals who would have been killed anyway as a consequence of other crimes?
5. What else could have been done with the billions of dollars spent on incarceration and interdiction that would have had a positive impact on drug addicts, to include education, prevention, and treatment?
6. How many American citizens have been incarcerated as part of drug prohibition who broke no other laws?
7. How many countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia have had what passes for a functioning government destroyed by the corruption of drug money?  
8. How much time, blood, sweat, and treasure have we spent trying to stop Americans from using drugs, and what value have we gotten for those expenditures?

I'm not saying that anyone, of any age, should be able to get whatever they want at the local package store, but the current approach is not working.  All we have done is make drug use something that is done in the shadows.  Even casual users of drugs take their lives in their own hands since they don't know what their intoxicant of choice has been mixed with.  The amount of money that narcotics brings to traffickers has given them power to rival a nation state. 

Add to that the corrosive effect that drug enforcement has had on the relationship between police and the American population.  Were stories of people being shot in their own homes during raids, which even the police admit would not have led to arrests, common prior to 1971?  Did police regularly troll the interstate highway system looking for motorists who were carrying too much cash and impounding it?

Our failed policies on drugs need to change.  We need to admit that prohibition is not working, and allow adults to legally purchase and use whatever intoxicant they want and let them live with the consequences.  The safety of these intoxicants will go up as their production moves from Skeeter's garage to an inspected and regulated factory and their sale moves from a corner in a bad neighborhood to the local pharmacy or liquor store.  Our police will be able to concentrate on something other than drugs for the first time in a generation. Once the profits from narcotics trafficking dry up, the drug cartels will also dry up.  Money that would have been spent on interdiction, prosecution, and incarceration can be spent on education, prevention, and treatment, or not spent at all.

Yes, there will still be people who ruin their lives and the lives of others with drugs.  But the same happens with alcohol, gambling,  and other non-wholesome parts of our society.  Prohibition of alcohol was an unmitigated failure, and so is prohibition of drugs.

Technology is wonderful, just so long as we keep the retarded politicians (but I repeat myself) out of our business.  Let them shovel shit instead.  With some training in shit shoveling, maybe they could be of some small service to humanity.  I've done it.  It can be quite important at times. -- Lyle at The View From North Central Idaho

 This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is wisdom for our age.

The two individuals who snatched an 11 year old girl off the street, raped her, and forced her to live in their back yard for 18 years with the two daughters she conceived by the 'male' individual have been sentenced to long stretches in prison.

Philip Garrido has been sentenced to 431 years to life in prison, and his wife Nancy Garrido has been sentenced to 36 years.  I'm hoping she lives a long life and serves out every second of those 36 years.  As for him, I hope he sets a Guinness World Record for longevity and suffers every day.

When this story first broke, it really caught my eye.  Even more than the fact that a missing child had been found 18 years later, or that California law enforcement personnel had been to the house on multiple occasions without doing anything, it was the location.  When we left North Dakota, we eventually settled in Antioch, where the Garrido's would eventually hold Miss Duggard.  My step-father had grown up a couple of towns west of there, and he wanted to be close to his family.

All of this happened after I graduated and left for the Army, but my little sisters, one of which has a bit of a resemblance to the victim and was close to her in age, still lived in Antioch for several years.  If these sick bastards had decided to go hunting a little closer to home, it could have been my baby sister in that shed. 

The thing that really sent chills up my spine is I know the area where the house is.  I ran with several guys from that neighborhood, and dated a girl who lived a couple of blocks away.  When I read about what happened there, I could easily visualize the very small world that Jaycee Duggard lived in for a very long time.

As a father, this scenario is probably close to my worst nightmare.  All dads tell ourselves that we'll die defending our kids if necessary, but what do you do if someone snatches them when they're out of your sight, or when they're too far away for you to help and protect them?   How long do you keep hoping that they'll turn up before you hold a funeral mass?  And how, once your child is found, do you contain your rage and let the criminal justice system punish them rather than taking matters into your own hands and getting real justice for your child?

I sincerely pray that neither I nor any of you ever have to find out.  I also hope that these two live a very, very long time and come to know suffering that in some way compares to what they did to a beautiful little girl who was just trying to get to her school bus.

Dark.  Continued dark until morning, where we will see patches of light*

The weatherpeople are at it again.  They're predicting that this summer the midwest will be cooler and wetter than usual, the Mississippi valley will dry out and warm up, and the American Southwest and Central Rocky Mountain regions will burn to the ground.

I would hate to be a weathercritter in the United States right now.   The weather has been bipolar this year.  In Louisville we've had a very wet spring, with hot weather thrown in intermittently just to make the humidity noticeable, then it cooled off, and now it's in the 90's.  Friday I wore a sweatshirt to go to the range, and yesterday I had to stop and get a cold bottle of Gatorade on the way home to replenish fluids and electrolytes (Hooray for trucks with no air conditioning!).

While relief from the heat over what is normally a hot and muggy ordeal will be nice, cool and wet weather is not good for corn, wheat, and soybeans that are trying to grow in fields that are already waterlogged.  As much as I'd like to have another cool summer like we had two years ago, I'd prefer that the crops that have made it into the ground have good conditions to grow in.  I'm already preparing to pay $5 for a loaf of bread because of bad monetary policy.  Those prices don't need help from a true grain shortage.


*With apologies to George Carlin

The Norwegian government is reporting that for those who show a reaction to cosmetics and other methods of enhancing appearance, the use of hair dye is the number 1 cause of problems:

People who develop allergies to hair dye often have symptoms such as eczema, redness, blistering, and itching of the scalp, face and throat, the registry says. They also experience severe swelling on the forehead and around the eyes.

Something tells me that a lady with this kind of reaction to their hair dye realizes it's not a good look for them.

I know a lot of people, both men and women, who dye their hair.   While I just look at my gray hair and take that as a sign that life is about 1/3 over, others look at them as a sign of mortality.  I just hope that the rate of people who have these kinds of reactions is low.

Must have a large yard, access to gazelles for entertainment and nourishment, and be able to deal with living with the high squeaking call of a cheetah.

Someone in the United Arab Emirates forgot to bring the cat in for the night, and now the authorities are looking for them.  Their cheetah was found wandering the streets, apparently with no ID or microchip.

I've never understood the exotic pet thing myself.  I grew up with cats, dogs, and the occasional fish.  It never occurred to me to have a wolf, leopard, cobra, piranha, or Tazmanian Death Chinchilla that was smuggled across the Pacific in some guys jock strap as a pet.  To me, a pet is something that is a distraction from the insanity that life becomes, not something to add to it.  Although I have to say, Bluegrass and Timmy come close to causing insanity on a regular basis. 

Oh well, I hope that the people who took this beautiful animal out of the wild and used it as an ornament are caught and dealt with, and that the cheetah is either returned to the wild or placed in a good zoo.  I'm just glad the cat didn't mistake a small child as the slowest pig he'd ever seen.

Congressman David Weiner, Democrat of New Yawk, has had one of the following things happen:

1. He took a picture of his junk and sent it via Twitter to a woman he's not married to.
2. One of his staff took a picture of someone's junk and sent it to said woman using the Congressman's Twitter account.
3. Someone hacked into the Congressman's Twitter account, and all they did was send a picture of unidentified junk to one woman.

Considering my generally low opinion of poiticians in general, I'm leaning towards #1, with consideration of #2.  #3 isn't even in the running.  If someone actually broke into the Twitter and other accounts of a Congressman, then they would have done a heck of a lot more than send around underwear pictures.  Not to mention that the FBI would be all over this like ants at a picnic.  But that's just my opinion.

My guess is Mr. Weiner got caught with his hands in the cookie jar, and now he's in extreme damage control.  Apparently that includes stonewalling, pointing to earlier incomplete and inaccurate statements from his office, claiming that these allegations are a distraction, and calling a reporter a "jackass".

Now, don't get me wrong.  I've called reporters much worse in the past, including Christianne Amanpour, the diva of CNN's "Can't you see that somewhere in the world someone is suffering and why isn't the U.S. military doing something about it?".  But when the reporter is trying to definitively find out whether or not a member of Congress sent unrequested lewd pictures to a woman he's not married to, I'd say the jackass has a point.

Congressman Weiner needs to man up, and either admit he poked the pooch or offer up the offending staffer for public shaming.  Attacking the press for wanting to know the truth was slimy when Clinton and Nixon did it, and it's still slimy.  This time there won't be any blue dress, but I'm guessing there's enough forensic evidence in the logs between wherever the picture was sent and where Twitter accepted it that if someone really wanted to know who, when, and from where this happened, they could.  So the Congressman can either let the truth see the light of day, or deal with the consequences when a political opponent or journalist puts all the pieces together.