Saturday, May 31, 2008

Test Results.

In an effort to keep down the cost of health insurance, the company where I work is providing a free, on site clinic for the employees who have the company's health insurance.
To take advantage of this, I had to have a medical evaluation which included a blood test. The results of the test came in a few days back and I had my consultation with the nurse practitioner Thursday.
Most of my numbers look fine.....with the exception of my triglycerides and LDL which were both a little too high.The NP remarked how pleasantly surprised she was with the level of my HDL. She said most men have very low levels of HDL.....far below the 40 mg/dL minimum. Mine was 51 which puts my LDL/HDL ratio at 3.2 which ain't bad. I believe the HDL number I have comes from my eating a lot of fish and drinking a lot of tea.
Still, even with the 3.2 ratio, it's a good idea to reduce my LDL. The NP recommends I try omega 3 fish oil supplements. I'm also going to cut down on the fried foods, egg yolks and switch from whole milk to low fat.
I've an appointment to have another blood test in August so we can see if changing my diet can change my bad cholesterol levels.
I'm optimistic.

Silly Susan.

I wish I had a dollar for ever time a Hollywood celeb announced that if "such and such" Republican candidate is elected President of the U.S., they've leave the country.......but are still here in spite of what they'd promised.
Now it's Susan Sarandon's turn. She said recently, that if John McCain is elected, she'll move to Italy.
Odd, she should choose Italy, considering her dislike of Pope Benedict XVI. She is quoted as saying,
"This particular Pope is not one of my favourites," she says.
"I am pretty suspicious of him and my only message to him is that he should become more compassionate and more involved in what the world needs now instead of his archaic kind of outdated, misogynist infrastructure the Church has going now."
My choice for Pres. is Libertarian, Bob Barr, but I'd like to see McCain win - if only to see her leave.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Vatican Confirms Excommunication of St. Louis Group.

Today, I read an article in Zenit about the decision by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to confirm an earlier declaration from the St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke to excommunicate the board of directors of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Corporation ( formerly, St. Stanislaus Kostka parish ) and their priest, Marek Bozek.
Of the priest, Zenit has this;
"The priest involved, Father Marek Bozek of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, had left his priestly assignment against the expressed will of his bishop, Bishop John Leibrecht, in order to be hired by the St. Stanislaus Kostka Corporation."
In an interview from April, 2006 Bozek said,
"In November, I asked Bishop [John] Leibrecht for a leave of absence from Springfield. I explained that I felt called to serve these people without sacraments. A few days later he called back and said the archbishop didn’t want me in St. Louis. On December 2, I told Bishop Leibrecht that I needed to follow my conscience."
Now, less than five years after he was ordained (on his 28th birthday) in the diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Bozek finds himself excommunicated.
In Archbishop Rayond L. Burke's weekly column in the St. Louis Review , the Archbishop writes,
"On December 15th of 2005, I was obliged to declare the excommunication of the members of the Board of Directors of Saint Stanislaus Kostka Corporation because of their persistence in schism. The members of the Board had committed the most grievous delict of schism by hiring a suspended priest, that is, a priest not in good standing in the Church, for the purpose of attempting to celebrate the sacraments and sacramentals at Saint Stanislaus Kostka Church, all outside of the communion of the Catholic Church. The priest in question, the Reverend Marek B. Bozek, a priest of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, had left his priestly assignment against the expressed will of his bishop, Bishop John Leibrecht, in order to be hired by the Board of Directors of Saint Stanislaus Kostka Corporation."
From the Archdiocese of St. Louis web site:
Background to the Decision of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Issued May 15
December 15, 2005: Archbishop Burke declares the members of the Board of Directors of the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Corporation excommunicated because they formed an "independent entity" outside the Church and hired a suspended priest as their pastor.
March 23, 2006: The Board of Directors appeals the archbishop's decision to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office that has jurisdiction over matters of schism.
May 15, 2008: The Congregation rejects the appeal made by the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Board, because the Board was "negligent" in fulfilling formal requirements for an appeal. The Congregation confirms the Decrees of Excommunication issued by the archbishop, because the Board members continue to operate in a state of schism.
The Congregation encourages the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Board members to withdraw from their schism. They have 30 days to exercise their right to present an appeal to the Congregation's "Cardinal and Bishop members."

The church's web site has this,
"2005 - Despite many efforts to solve the property dispute with the Archdiocese, which involves administrative rules only and not dogmas or morals, Saint Stanislaus was left without a priest and sacraments for over seventeen months. Upon receiving the approval of the Parish vote, the Board of Directors began the search for a priest courageous enough to minister to Saint Stanislaus parishioners with or without the Archbishop’s permission. On December 2, Father Marek B. Bozek from the neighboring Springfield – Cape Girardeau diocese was hired to be our Pastor. On December 16, both the Pastor and the members of the Board of Directors were excommunicated by Archbishop Burke and all Catholics were warned that participation in any services in Saint Stanislaus constitutes a mortal sin. On December 24, the first Mass was offered in our church in over seventeen months, the Christmas Midnight Mass. Over two thousand people gathered to celebrate the birth of Jesus and rebirth of our Parish. Appeal against excommunication was filed with the Holy See."

The St. Stanislaus Kostka Corporation claims this is just a disagreement over property rights.....the Archbishop ( and now the Vatican ) say it is about the group not accepting the authourity of the Catholic Church over the local parish.
"It is evident that the Board Members have committed the delict of schism by constituting St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish as an independent entity capable of appointing its own clergy apart from the hierarchy of the Church," wrote Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

I've seen photos of the church on their web site and it's very beautiful and I can understand the attachment the parishoners have for it, but they have removed themselves from the Church and are now excommunicated because of their love for something "material" ( a building ).

Relevant links:
stltoday.com
creativeminorityreport.com
Recent Decisions of the Holy See Regarding Saint Stanislaus Kostka Corporation

Thursday, May 29, 2008

NAUMANN VERSUS SEBELIUS.

An article on the http://www.catholicnews.com web site reports that Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City imformed Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius that she should stop receiving Communion until she changes her stance on abortion.
Archbishop Naumann has met with Gov.Sebelius on a number of occasions and expressed his concern over her receiving the Blessed Sacrament while maintaining her public support of abortion and abortionists.....particularly the infamous Dr. George Tiller.
According to Operation Rescue, Gov. Sibelius likes to hang with Tiller and has been known to party hardy with the not so good Doctor.
At one time, Sibelius was on the short list for running mates for Barack Obama (should he win the nomination). I don't know the status of that list, now. Is it possible that she may be too much of a political hot potato for the VP slot ? With Democrats, you never know. She could be seen as a way for Obama to placate the white, feminist Democrats he dissed with his usurpation of the nomination from Hillary.
Relevant links:
http://www.lifenews.com/state3266.html
http://causa-nostrae-laetitiae.blogspot.com/2008/05/sibelius-and-tiller-partners-in.html
http://causa-nostrae-laetitiae.blogspot.com/2008/05/kansas-coercion-and-flying-monkeys.html
http://thekansasrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/05/kathy-sebelius-and-george-tiller.html



Wednesday, May 28, 2008

More on the Savannah Trip.

I'm quickly using up my vacation days for this year; we've had a number of extra days off and I used up a few by getting vacation pay for those days.
We received a stimulus check from the Feds but it was going fast as well.
So, we decided to use the Memorial Day weekend to take a vacation while we still have a few extra dollars.
We arranged to meet some friends (who live in Greenville, SC.) in Savannah, GA. I found a motel that still had rooms available (at a reasonable rate) though we had to get rooms about 20 miles from the beach.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of using Mapquest for directions to the motel. Steps 9 to 12 were wrong:
9: Merge onto GA-21 S via EXIT 164A.
10: Turn RIGHT onto GA-204 W/ABERCORN ST
11: Turn LEFT onto MALL BLVD.
12: End at 114 Mall Blvd Savannah, GA 31406-4728

Step 9 took us WAY off course.

We did manage to find our way to the motel, and the trip was, otherwise, enjoyable. I'll be writing more about the trip in a few days after my photos return from the lab (my wife uses a digital camera, but I prefer the old SLR).

More on the Barr Candidacy.

No doubt, the Libertarians made a good choice picking Bob Barr as their presidential candidate.
The second place choice, Dr. Mary Ruwart, would have been a disaster. She reportedly signed the, so called, "911 truther statment" and made some disturbing statements in the past concerning child porn:
"Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will." (from "http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126164.html").
I'm not so sure about the Libertarian candidates for other offices. I'm not impressed with the Party's candidate for the U.S. Senator for Georgia, Allen Buckley.
With Barr, the Libertarians may, for the first time since 1980, capture more than 1% of the popular vote and might actually receive an Electoral College vote......something they've only managed once before (in 1972). Would it be too optimistic to hope they could carry one State?
Barr may not be able to do what no other Third Party candidate has ever done, but, he will have an impact on this election.... if only as a spoiler.

More on Google Earth.

The Google Earth program can be fun....but it has it's limits.

I like seeing over head shots of the city where I live.The photo above shows where the Oostanaula River and the Etowah River come together in Rome, Ga. to form the Coosa River.

In select cities, you can zoom in and get 3D images of buildings like the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Atlanta, seen below.(This is the church where my family went to Mass when I was growing up and it has a sentimental value to me.)


The photo below is of Dumaguete, Philippines.....my home away from home.


Google Earth is interesting, but honestly, I doubt I will get a lot of use from it.There's just so many over head geographic shots I want to see.
Oh, yeah.....the flight simulator might be more fun if I didn't crash every time.

Memorial Day 2008. Savannah, GA.

A photo of me and J.P., taken on Memorial Day (2008) in Savannah near St. John the Baptist Cathedral.

Libertarian Party Selects Bob Barr as 2008 Presidential Nominee.

Libertarian Party selects Bob Barr as 2008 presidential nominee.
Wayne Allyn Root selected as vice presidential candidate.
I don't know anything about Wayne Root, but, as I've already said, should Barr get the Libertarian nomination , I'll vote for him over McCain and whoever the Democrats pick.
Now, it's official.

Google Earth Photo.

I downloaded Google Earth and the first thing I did with it was zoom in on the apartments where we live.
This photo was taken with the Snipping Tool that comes with Windows Vista.
The apartment is, more or less, in the center of the photo.The roads form a sort of triangle on the bottom right.You can see six apartment buildings up from the upper tip of the triangle.Ours is the second from the left end.

Friday, May 23, 2008

My Neighbor's Method of Child Rearing.

It's not quite 9:00 AM. Outside, the air is cool and, rather than turn on the air conditioner, I've opened the front door of the apartment.
My neighbor has stepped outside and is using his cellphone. He's talking rather loud and it's impossible not to overhear his side of the conversation. He's upset; he was called to the High School yesterday because his teen aged son was thrown out of school. The offense: it seems Jr. cut his hair into a "mohawk" and dyed his hair purple.
I'm trying to imagine how my dad would have reacted had I done the same.He would not have been happy.
Now, my neighbor wasn't happy, either. But, where as my dad would have been upset with me for acting like an idiot, my neighbor was upset at the school for having sent his son home.
While talking to whoever on the cell phone, my neighbor felt the need to let loose with every obscenity in the English language.(It seems he may be one of those folks who can't complete a sentence without the words F#$% or S%^& in it).
He told the person on the other end that the school Principal advised him that he would have to watch his language or he'd be escorted from school property.
The school authorities had given him the option of taking the son home and washing out the purple color.......purple hair is too much of a distraction to be allowed at school. "Well", my neighbor told them, "F#$# school policy!!!!".
Just another example of our culture going to hell in a hand basket.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Caps Lock Dysfunction.


Today's topic, ladies and gentlemen, is the correct usage of the Caps Lock key on your computer's keyboard.

One would think that such a topic would be unnecessary; after all, the when and how to use the Caps Lock key should be basic common sense. Sadly, that isn't the case.
We are all familiar, via chatrooms, text messages and emails, with someone who types everything with the Caps Lock on.Wikipedia says this;

"On Internet chat systems, forums and Usenet, typing a sentence in all capitals is considered rude, the large letters akin to shouting or yelling within the social context. On a more practical level, text written in all capital letters, a result of engaging the caps lock, may be difficult to read. The 'Caps Lock Theory', is often referred to in Internet chat forums and states that there is an inverse relationship between a person's use of the caps lock and their knowledge of a particular subject. There are known groups of people whose Internet communities are based entirely around the use of the caps lock key."

Very little has been written, though, on the writer who, like some ee cummings wannabe, types everything in lower case.I came upon one such writer this morning and I have to say that his use of all lower case letters was very distracting.It was difficult to concentrate on the subject of his blog. I got the idea that he was just too hip, just too cool, just too avant garde.

The third example of Caps Lock Dysfunction may be the most irritating of all. There are people (usually young girls) who actually type alternating upper and lower case letters in the same word. (THis iS ReAlLY ANnoyiNG BeYOnD woRds.)

The motto seems to be,
"If you have nothing worthwhile to say, then alter the rules of grammar, case and/or spelling."
For those of you who are ignorant of the proper use of letter case, this from Wikipedia should help;

"In English, capital letters are used as the first letter of a sentence, a proper noun, or a proper adjective, and for initials or abbreviations. The first person pronoun "I" and the interjection "O" are also capitalised. Lower-case letters are normally used for all other purposes. There are however situations where further capitalisation may be used to give added emphasis, for example in headings and titles or to PICK OUT certain words (often using small capitals)."

The Foundling.

She and I had known each other for a little over a year when she confided in me her belief that she was not the biological daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B., as most thought, but was instead, a foundling left on the door step of the B. family house not very long after her birth.

My first thought, upon hearing this, was one of automatic disbelieve……do mothers abandon their infants on door steps and would the authorities allow the finders to keep the child ? I set aside this disbelieve, considering that she was speaking of a different time and place. She was born in Mindanao in 1968 and it’s quite possible that such a thing as that could have happened then and there.

She told me that many times as she was growing up, Mr. B. would, in a joking sort of way, tell her friends that she was not his daughter. It was he that first mentioned that she was, indeed, a foundling although he always acted as if he was only playing and having fun. Sadly, one could never be certain whether the tale was true or just the product of a warped sense of humor.

At one point, I’m not sure at what age, she decided to take the matter up with Mrs. B. to determine if she was, indeed, a foundling. She told me that when she asked Mrs. B. for the truth, the woman could only cry and would not answer the question directly. She reasoned , quite correctly I think, that a biological mother would have not had any hesitancy in telling her child, immediately upon hearing that question, that they were mother and daughter.

People talk and she would hear the occasional story about her biological mother. She learned, from these rumors, the identity of the woman and would spy her from a distance though never getting the nerve to confront the woman face to face.

The woman is dead now, so the foundling would never be able to talk to her and find out the full story. Why was she abandoned? Who was her father? These questions would go unanswered.

Mr. and Mrs. B. had several other children; one daughter just a year older than the foundling ; the rest born afterwards. None of the B. children would be able to enlighten her.
The youngest of these "siblings" is a girl, twenty one years her junior. This girl is now nineteen.

I’m no longer in contact with these people, but I have seen recent photos (thanks to the Internet and Friendster). I was taken aback when I saw the most recent photos of the younger “sister”. Now that she has matured into a grown woman, the resemblance between the two women is very remarkable and striking.

How can they look so similar if there is no biological connection?

I, of course, have no evidence, but it seems logical to me that the reason for the physical resemblance between the two is because they share the same father. I suspect that Mr. B. is the father of the foundling.

Did he commit adultery 40 years ago ? Did the foundling’s mother choose to abandon the infant at the B. family house because Mr. B. was , after all, the father of the child?

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

A Patel Quien Jelo Update.

Not long after posting the series on Patel Quien Jelo, I attempted to continue the series by posing as another potential victim for Ms. Jelo (using the name Wanda Tuinphro).
Unfortunately, the scammer didn't take the bait.....actually said that Wanda's ID looked fake!

Yesterday, I received this comment on The Adventures of Patel Quien Jelo; Part 1 from someone going by the name Tash.
"Tash said,
hey there! just looking up what gold durst exactly was only to discover that QUIEN JELLO is also a LETISHA AISHA EZEH????
yeah she contacted me last saturday and it didnt open it until monday...Wow this chick is full on hey? she'll try anything by the souds of it..
I have to say the biggest thank you to you all for this blog and sharing your stories on here..
I was going to fall for it too!!
and would have if i wasnt searching for wat this "gold durst"
was...so whats happens now? has she never been caught?"

So, it looks as if Ms. Jelo may have felt that identity was vulnerable, so she (?) has morphed into Letisha Aisha Ezeh.
That's good to know. Should I ever receive an email from that one, I'll know to use someone other than Fred, Misty or Wanda to reply.

Friday, May 16, 2008

California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban.

California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban.
The court decision.....4 to 3. One judge holds the power to decide.
For thousands of years marriage has been defined as the union between a man and a woman.
One judge......

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Extraterrestrial Life and the Vatican.

Fr. Jose Gabriel Funes, head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict, said recently that there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
I was sent a link to the story by a non-Catholic friend (without editorial comment).This fellow often sends links to any story that mentions the Vatican.....I'm not sure why he sent this one.
Was he trying to get a rant from me?
I don't have a problem with anything the good Father said.He didn't say the universe was populated by little green men with antenna, but rather, that it's conceivable that life exists outside this planet.Is that so far-fetched?
Reuters reports this concerning Funes and his remarks,
"How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere," he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview in its Tuesday-Wednesday edition, explaining that the large number of galaxies with their own planets made this possible.
Asked if he was referring to beings similar to humans or even more evolved than humans, he said: "Certainly, in a universe this big you can't exclude this hypothesis".
George Noory of Coast to Coast AM sees this announcement by Funes as a way for the "powers that be" to prepare us for an upcoming announcement that we are already being visited by ETs. Of course, Noory never met a kook he didn't bond with and I can't take seriously anything he has to say on the matter.

Lake Winnepesaukah.

Last weekend, Cathy, J.P. and I ....along with our friends, Lowell and Grace, went to Lake Winnepesaukah . Lake Winnie is an amusement park in north Georgia not far from Chattanooga Tennessee.
Growing up in Philippines, Cathy and Grace weren't veteran thrill riders.
Lowell and I were able to get them onto the Scrambler.......but the Wild Lightnin' was another story.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

How Big Oil Offed John Lennon.

I'm not able to listen to Rush Limbaugh's radio program as often as I'd like......usually only on the way to take J.P. to the baby sitter and then on to work.
Sometimes, like yesterday, I get lucky and can hear something really out of the ordinary during that brief time period.
Just before 2:00 o'clock yesterday, I listened as a self described liberal caller told of Big Oil's role in the assassination of Beatle John Lennon. The caller explained how Big Oil.....through it's agents, Reagan and Nixon....used Stephen King to kill Lennon because they (Big Oil) realized that had Lennon lived to 2003 he would have been able to prevent the current Iraq war, which Big Oil desperately needs to help keep gasoline prices high.
Here is the transcript of that call:

RUSH: Here is Ken in Brooklyn. Ken, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. You're next.

CALLER: Nice to be on your show, Rush, thanks.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: You know, for once I agree with something you said.

RUSH: What's that?

CALLER: I'm a typical, you know, quote, unquote, liberal. That we should open up more refineries and produce more, not drill more, not go into ANWR, not do a lot of things, but produce more, yeah.

RUSH: Well, how are we going to produce more? How are we gonna refine more if we don't have more to refine?

CALLER: Well, it goes back to the merger I think a year ago with the two biggest oil companies merging, made the biggest corporate merger in history. We have to realize that the man behind the curtain in our government is Big Oil. They own presidents; they rig elections; they are in complete control; they are aligned with the military. In fact, every time a war breaks out, gas spikes 50 cents a gallon.

RUSH: Hm-hm.

CALLER: And we have to deregulate. I mean, we have to unmonopolize the oil business. We have to not be under their thumb and not, you know, be the people ignoring the shoes and the cuffs behind the curtains, we have to stand up to Big Oil.

RUSH: Hm-hm.

CALLER: Now, that doesn't mean not producing more petroleum refineries.

RUSH: Uh-huh.

CALLER: But I think we're being strong-armed by Big Oil with high gas prices --

RUSH: Hm-hm.

CALLER: -- to make us say uncle for ANWR.

RUSH: Hm-hm. What do you mean, uncle for ANWR? What do you mean?

CALLER: I think they're raising the prices to make us cry "ouch."

RUSH: So that they can grab more oil to monopolize us with?

CALLER: So that they'll ply us away from resisting ANWR.

RUSH: I see, the lights are going off now. So this is all a ruse to get us to drill for more oil so we'll have even more monopolistic control over us?

CALLER: Pretty much, yeah.

RUSH: Okay. So you think Big Oil is pretty much unregulated, they get to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it?

CALLER: Well, did anyone see a trial for John Lennon's murder? They own the media.

RUSH: I see your point.

CALLER: And, by the way, did you know Bill Clinton met with Stephen King in the mid-nineties in the White House?

RUSH: Stephen King or Stevie Wonder?

CALLER: Author Stephen King --

RUSH: Stephen King.

CALLER: -- and Bill Clinton met.

RUSH: That's right, I forgot, damn it, you're right.

CALLER: And Nixon and Reagan used him to kill John Lennon.

RUSH: Well, you can't leave Stephen King out of this.
CALLER: No, he's the evil ogre that haunts us in the middle of our dreams.

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Nixon and Reagan used Stephen King to wipe out Lennon --

CALLER: (plug)

RUSH: -- and Monday Night Football so that Cosell would be able to announce the assassination.

(crosstalk)

CALLER: Like the Roman arena. And we never did see a trial.

RUSH: No, but I mean the lunatic that shot Lennon got sent up.

CALLER: A year-and-a-half after the murder he pled guilty behind closed doors. There was no trial.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Yoko didn't complain. She used Nixon as the ace-in-the-hole.

RUSH: And Big Oil was behind this?

CALLER: Well, Big Oil wants that oil, and they knew John Lennon was the one thing that would have stood up to this war and united the public against it.

RUSH: John Lennon would stand up to which war?

CALLER: This war we're in right now. They had to plan 20 years ahead --

RUSH: You mean Big Oil working with Nixon and Reagan and Stephen King wiped out John Lennon back in, what was it, the seventies?

CALLER: 1980, December --

RUSH: 1980.

CALLER: On Jim Morrison's birthday, 1980.

RUSH: That's right. No coincidence there, either, is there?

CALLER: No.

RUSH: So you have 24 years ago Nixon and Reagan conspiring with Stephen King to convince some idiot to go out and waste Lennon because they --

CALLER: No, no, no, no, no. Stephen King --

RUSH: Well, because they knew 24 years later we'd be in Iraq, and only John Lennon could stop it?

CALLER: That's right.

RUSH: Okay!

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Okay, that last caller, what was that last caller's name? Ken from Brooklyn. He was right about two things. He was right when he said that we haven't built a refinery in too many years, and he was really right when he said he was a typical liberal. I, ladies and gentlemen, had planned on offering -- because he was talking about oil and pollution -- I was going to give him a Rush PAC. I was going to give him a Rush PAC from Allen Brothers, great steaks and hamburgers and hotdogs, I was going to give him one of those just to be nice, but I gave up the plan halfway through the call because I figured all the guy would do is take it out and lay it at the grave of John Lennon and who knows what would happen to it then, so I decided against it.
END TRANSCRIPT

Mehmet Ali Agca's Assassination Attempt.

Today is the 27th anniversary of Mehmet Ali Agca's assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square.
On June 26, 2000 Pope John Paul II released a statement in which he said that AÄŸca's assassination attempt was the fulfillment of the Third Secret of Fatima.

The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fátima, on 13 July 1917.
I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.
After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.
Tuy-3-1-1944

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Bob Barr For President.

It's not often that I find myself in disagreement with Michelle Malkin, but she doesn't like the idea of a Bob Barr Candidacy .
I'd been hoping for a top notch Libertarian to run for the Presidency and with his announcement that he will try for the Libertarian Party nomination, Bob Barr appears to be the one I've been waiting for.
With Barr as President, we won't be seeing the wild Federal spending that both the Democrats and Republicans are so fond of doing.
An Obama Presidency would be a disaster for this country......and McCain is a closet Democrat.
I supported Barr when he was the Congressman representing my district.You couldn't ask for anyone with better Conservative credentials.
There's already talk that Barr will take away votes for McCain giving Obama the edge.This wouldn't have happened had the Republican party stayed true to it's core constituency.
If Barr becomes the "spoiler" then so be it.
If he gets the Libertarian nomination, he'll have my vote in November.
LINKS:
Barr launches Libertarian White House bid
Libertarian Barr announces run for president
Barr '08

Monday, May 12, 2008

Mr. Hollywood.

Mr. Hollywood on his way to the amusement park.

Texas man arrested trying to cash $360 billion check.

A Fort Worth Texas man by the name of Charles Ray Fuller was arrested for trying to cash a $360 Billion personal check.
Charles Ray said he wanted to start a record company with the cash.
Maybe they should have cashed it......they could've paid Charles Ray in Ray Charles dollars.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

"His Noodly Appendage" ?

Regular readers of this blog know that I appreciate a good parody. I've had a few posts using a parody news website to try and get a few laughs.

This past week, I've been looking into the, so-called, "science" of Intelligent Design (ID) and saw immediately that ID deserved being parodied. But, before I could come up with something really funny on my own, I came upon "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster". (CoFSM).

The parody religion is the brain child of Bobby Henderson, who, for his own amusement, sent an Open letter to the Kansas School Board after he learned the school board was holding a hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution.

Wikipedia has this;
"Because intelligent design implies the existence of an intelligent, but not necessarily omnipotent or omniscient designer, some, like Henderson, argued that this designer could, in fact, be anything imaginable."

That, really, isn't too far removed from what Voltaire said about "The Watchmaker Analogy" from which Intelligent Design , huh, evolved.

"[F]rom this one argument, I cannot conclude anything more, except that it is probable that an intelligent and superior being has prepared and shaped matter with dexterity; I cannot conclude from this argument alone that this being has made the matter out of nothing or that he is infinite in any sense [i.e. that he is God]."

From that letter to the Kansas school board, the "religion" - whose members call themselves Pastafarians - has spread at a phenomenal rate.

The CoFSM is popular with atheists and agnostics (known by Pastafarians as "spagnostics") who use it in their attack on religion, but to me, it is more an attack on ID and those who attempt to force their beliefs on others.

The CoFSM web site is located here:

Thursday, May 8, 2008

The Matsya Avatar and the Flood.

Not at all happy with evolution and other assorted scientific theories, a group of Protestant fundamentalists have come up with the "science" of "Intelligent Design".

Having read a few of their ideas, I'm reminded of a quote from Voltaire, who said,
"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."

Likewise, Intelligent Design isn't an Intelligent Design.

Among some of the ideas favored by the ID folks is the claim geological evidence proves that a world wide, great flood had occurred in ancient times.That evidence, they say, proves that the flood mentioned in Genesis happened just as the Book says and is not a religious allegory.

But, isn't it just as likely that the flood evidence might, instead, prove that the Hindu tale found in the Satapatha Brahmana - known as the flood of Manu -could have happened rather than Noah's tale.

In that story,while washing his hands,Manu came across a fish which (it turns out) happens to be Vishnu's Avatar Matsya. At one point in the tale the fish says to Manu,
"In such and such a year that flood will come. Thou shalt then attend to me (i.e. to my advice) by preparing a ship ; and when the flood has risen thou shalt enter into the ship, and I will save thee from it."

To make a long story short, the world is destroyed by flood and only Manu is saved....his boat coming to rest upon a mountain.

Ah.....I guess not. That story is much harder to fathom than the story of Noah's Ark. (he said, tongue firmly in cheek).

Operation Chaos.

First, a bit of background information for my readers outside the U.S..
Quite a number of conservative Republicans have blamed Democrat and independent voters, who crossed over to vote in the Republican primaries, for John McCain's success in those primaries thereby giving him the momentum to capture that party's nomination.
Republicans in the later primaries really had no choice.......voting for a different Republican candidate would have been a wasted vote.
Along comes radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh with his plan for Operation Chaos.For months, Rush has been asking Republicans to cross over and vote in the Democrat primary.....for Hillary Clinton.
There seems to be little doubt that this has had an effect on the primary.It's difficult to determine exactly how many Republicans have done as Rush asked, but Hillary has managed to remain in the race longer than she would have without these crossovers.
Of course, many in the mainstream media have misunderstood the motives behind Operation Chaos. The liberal talking heads say that Republicans are trying to get Hillary chosen as the Democrat candidate because she will be easier for McCain to beat.They've missed the point.The objective of Operation Chaos is to keep the Democrat primary process going on as long as possible so that the Democrats will continue their in-fighting......thus causing chaos within the Party.
Operation Chaos has been more successful in this than could have been imagined.As long as Hillary remains in the race the more likely there will be further chaos at the Democrat National Convention.
It's not going to be pretty.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Family Photo.

I've spent most of my blogging energy, lately, putting in posts that do not have anything to do with my life.
As a change of pace, I want to put up a recent photo of me, my wife and our son.

Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68.

On Yahoo news, I read,
"Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died."

The stories, found elsewhere, go on to say,that Mildred Jeter was 11 when she and 17-year-old Richard began seeing one another.Mildred became pregnant and she and Loving got married in Washington, D.C. in 1958, when she was 18.

Five weeks after their wedding,in Central Point, Va., the county sheriff and two deputies, acting on an anonymous tip, burst into their bedroom.The Lovings were arrested.
The couple pleaded guilty to violating the Virginia law, the Racial Integrity Act. Under a plea bargain, their one-year prison sentences were suspended on the condition that they leave Virginia and not return together or at the same time for 25 years.

At the time, it was one of 16 states that barred marriages between races.
Most of those states outlawed marriage between whites and blacks, although Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia outlawed marriage between whites and "all non-whites".
Mississippi and Missouri outlawed the marriage between whites and "blacks and asians" while Texas specifically banned the marriage between whites and Filipinos.

Thanks to the Lovings, the Supreme Court case "Loving v Virginia" put an end to, so called, anti miscegenation laws.

On the 40th anniversary of the ruling in Loving v Virginia, Mildred Loving has released a public statement .There were comments given after the statement.One idiot had this to say,
"Obviously Loving was a case of activist judiciaries run amok. These activist judges have overturned the solemn will of the lawfully elected legislatures in all fifty states. This type of meddling in the name of ‘unenumerated’ rights can not be allowed to continue despite what the ninth amendment may or may not say."

Richard Loving died in a car accident that also injured his wife.
"They said I had to leave the state once, and I left with my wife," he told the Star in 1965. "If necessary, I will leave Virginia again with my wife, but I am not going to divorce her."

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Philippine Surgery Video Update.

According to Google Analytics,my April 18 post on the Philippine doctors who removed a cannister from a man's rectum [Video of Surgery could put Philippine Doctor's Future at Risk] received the highest number of hits of anything I've posted.
With that in mind, I'm posting an update.
An article in the Cebu Daily News tells us,
"The medical personnel involved in the Internet scandal at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) will be reassigned to other departments in the hospital while waiting for the results of the investigations of the Health Department and the Ombudsman."
At the time I posted the previous entry, the video had been removed from Youtube but now, it seems, it has returned. The video cannot be embedded but I can provide a link to it.
Incidentally, the canister was identified as "Black Suede Body Spray."
[Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital Scandal]

Update:
embedded video now available.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

The Adventures of Patel Quien Jelo; Part 11.

Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 04:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: Re: From Quien I await your response
To: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Dear Quien,
I must think deeply about what you wrote in your last email.
You have hurt me before and now I must be sure that your love for me is real.
I was so hurt by your angry email before. You must prove that you love me.
Misty

Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 09:28:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: From Quien I await your response
To: "Misty Meaner"
MY dear love how do you want me to prove to you hince am not there with, okey i love you. or do you want materialistic love from me? .

Please comply to the lawyer so that i will know my stand here.
Quien.

Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 10:00:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: prove your love for me.
To: patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Dear Quien,
There is a way for you to prove your love for me. It is very simple.
I want a photo of you holding a paper that reads "I LOVE MISTY MEANER".
That will prove to me that you care for me and love me enough to show your love.
Misty

[NOTE: Misty has not replied to this last email sent Friday. I am assuming that it is now over.]

The Adventures of Patel Quien Jelo; Part 10.

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 00:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: I am Misty's sister
To: "Misty Meaner"
Sorry for my sister bad heath condition please let me have the hospital contact and telephone where she is hospitalized because i want to speak with her and the hotel management also want to speak with her so that the can release my passport to me.
Looking forward to hear from you
Quine

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 04:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: the hospital
To: patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Dear Quien,
it is only by luck that I checked Misty's email today. I was not expecting a reply from you.
My sister is in Howard University Hospital in Washington.
The main switchboard number is 202 865 6100. Misty is in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) When you call, tell the operator you want extension ICU812. I know Misty will be very happy to hear from you.
Take care,
Felony

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 07:03:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: I await your response
To: "Misty Meaner"
My Dear I'm writing you this email with great annoyance cos i copy the telephone number you gave to me as the hotel number and went to the attorney's office so that he can call you, as he is asking to hear from you, after all he try calling you the hospital management said he couldn't find someone like that.
Please i do not like one turning me around after all i have explained to you, please if you are not in good sharp to assist me now please let me know.
I await your response
Quien.

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 10:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: Re: I await your response
To: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com

Dear Quien
Why are you so angry with me !!!???
I have only just arrived home from the hospital and I find hard words to me in your email.
I know my sister told you about what happened. She said you promised to call me at the hospital.....but you did not call me !!!!!
I am in tears now.
After I was released from the hospital, my father agreed to give me the money you need but now you are angry at me and I do not know why !!!!
I love you Quien and you are breaking my heart.
Please tell me all is well between us.
Misty.

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 19:14:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: From Quien I await your response
To: "Misty Meaner"

My Dear Misty,

Nice to hear from you again, i must confess why am angry with you, like i told you that i joined the lawyer in his office to communicate with you by the telephone number which your sister gave me as your hospital number we tried our possible best to reach you but to no avail, Misty I'm very sorry for what happened to you for my sack, thank God you are back from the hospital you know i miss you.
Misty you know that here is strange to me and the only confidence i have here is the lawyer who is assisting us to the finance house, but now he complained that i have not given any money to him still yet i delay his time, did you receive the last email i sent to you before your sister informed me about you been hospitalized? I stated that the hotel management here have seize my passport because of our accumulated bills that is why i request $500 from you in order to upset the bills so that i can have my passport back from him, I know now that you will be very tied to move around now as you just return from the hospital, can't you give the money to your sister so that he will send it over to the lawyer enable him conclude with finance company so that the transfer my fund to your account for us to start coming to USA, have you given your account details to the lawyer were this my fund will be transfer to? .
You are well come once again please note that the lawyer is waiting to hear from you urgently as he said that approve fund is not allowed to stay over 48 hour after approved please respond to him so that he will let me alone please, Hope you are recovering from your illness now am sorry that all this happened to you all for my sack i count on you.
i Miss you the way you do remember that i am alone here only my younger brother who i chat with.
Looking forward to your email But please remember the lawyer communicate with him so that i will no my stand here.
Yours Quien.


Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 20:34:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Sanford"
Subject: what has happened?
To: "Patel Quien Jelo"
Dear Quien,
What has happened?
My friend tells me that his contact in Benin says you have not picked up the 1000 USD.
Are you in danger? I have asked your lawyer many times to verify his self and his standing but he has not done so. I believe he is trying to steal the millions from you.
Please let me know that you are well and not hurt.
Contact me soon.
Uncle Fred

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 20:37:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Sanford"
Subject: Where is Quien?
To: kenamaandassociates@gmail.com

Where is Quien Jelo?
Have you harmed her? She has not retrieved the money I have for her in Benin and has not responded to my emails.
If I do not hear from her soon I will have to alert the authorities about you.
If you have harmed her you will be in danger your own self.
Fred Sanford

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 21:26:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: what has happened?
To: "Fred Sanford"

Dear uncle Fred,

You are wasting my situation here i now urge you to live me alone, you pritend as if you want to help but all the information you are giving me is not correct, i told you to send this money with the hotel manager's information but you refuse rather direct me to unknown hotel, after my explaination to you that i am new in this country and have no access for movement, if you are not fake, why didn't you provide your freind telephone number here or call me once all these while. even the telephone number you provide is incorrect, each i call one person or the other will pick start telling what i will not understand at the end.

I guese you stop writing me i see you are the in position to help instady of opening up to me but you want wast my time.

Bye,
Quien.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

The Adventures of Patel Quien Jelo; Part 9.

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:13:37 -0700
From: "KENAMA AND ASSOCIATES INT.LAW FIRM LAW FIRM" kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
To: mistymeaner
Subject: ATTN. MISTY MEANER .FUND TRANSFER NOTIFICATION.

THOMPSON & TOMPSON ASSOCIATE CHAMBERS LLP.
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
....NOTARY PUBLIC ...
RC. No. = 887 689 701 B.P. = 9001
LOT. 58 RUE DU SEGBEYA COTONOU BENIN- REPUBLIC
CONTACT LAWYER : ALFREDO THOMPSON (ESQ).
FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
TEL : +229 93 41 83 88
Email: kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
=========================================
ATTN:MISTY MEANER ,,
DEAR,
ATTACHED BELLOW IS THE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OF LATE MR PATEL JELO WAS ALSO PRINTED OUT TODAY AND A COPY ALSO ATTACHED. BANK LAW ACCOUNT ACTIVATION REQUIRES THAT YOU MUST ENDORSE YOUR SIGNATORY AT THE LOWER LEFT CORNER OF THE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT AND RETURN BACK TO THIS CHAMBER WITH OFFICIAL ACTIVATION FEE OF THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EUROS(¤3,500). AND PROVIDE BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THE TOTAL SUME OF (USD15,500,000.00) LEFT WITH LATE MR PATEL DORMANT ACCOUNT WILL BE TRANSFER.
HERE IS THE INFORMATION YOUR REQUIRE TO SEND THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EUROS(¤3,500) REACTIVATION FEE THROUGH WESTERN UNIOUN MONEY TRANSFER.
RECEIVER NAME..............MR ANAYANWU ODOCHI COLLINS
COUNTRY .......................COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC
QUESTION......................YES
ANSWER....................... YES.
MTCN......................................
THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING YOU BETTER.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
BARR.ALFREDO THOMPSON PRINCIPLE ATTORNEY/FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
THOMPSON & TOMPSON ASS. CHAMBERS LLP./HEAD CHAMBER
COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: I am Misty's sister
To: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Dear Ms. Jelo,
I am Misty's older sister,Felony.
My sister has confided in me about you and it is her wish that I contact you know by way of her email address.
After her last email to you, my sister went to our father's house to ask him for five thousand dollars. When she could explain to him why she needed the money, he refused to give it to her.
Misty was screaming and crying and was very upset with our father.A few hours after she ran out of his house, she attempted to kill herself. The doctors say the poor girl took an overdose of docusate calcium and she is lucky to still be alive.......thanks be to God for that.
Misty is still confined in the hospital. A full recovery is expected. I saw her in the hospital and she asked me to send this email to you.
She will contact as soon as she is released. I will contact you should things take a bad turn.
Take care.
Misty sends her undying love,
Felony Meaner.

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:05:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Sanford"
Subject: Re: the lawyer
To: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Dear Quien,
I have a friend here in Canada who knows someone in Benin.That man's name is Houngbo Albert Sègbégnon. Send me the name of your hotel and Houngbo Albert Sègbégnon will bring you 1000 USD.
Do it right away.
Your uncle,
Fred

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 00:01:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: the lawyer
To: "Fred Sanford"
Dear Uncle Fred
Please for the security's reasons i don't give any body my hotel contact because all the fund documents are with me here and wouldn't want to lose it carelessly give me the telephone number and address of your Friend here in Benin republic so that i will contact him and have the money enable me pay my accumulated bills from the hotel management and have my passport back
Send me your correct telephone number or you call me because i have try to reach you with the telephone number you sent to me but to no avail
Looking forward to hear from you
Quien

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 03:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Sanford"
Subject: the contact
To: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Dear Quien,
You can meet Mr. Houngbo Albert Sègbégnon at the Croix du Sud Hotel in Cotonou.Ask for him there.
You must bring an ID with you so he will know he is giving the 1000 USD to the right person. We do not want the money to fall into the wrong hands.
Uncle Fred

The Adventures of Patel Quien Jelo; Part 8.

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:04:20 -0700
From: "KENAMA AND ASSOCIATES INT.LAW FIRM LAW FIRM" kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
To: fredsanford
Subject: ATTN:FRED SANFORD ,

KENAMA & TOMPSON ASSOCIATE CHAMBERS LLP.
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
....NOTARY PUBLIC ...
RC. No. = 887 689 701 B.P. = 9001
LOT. 58 RUE DU SEGBEYA COTONOU BENIN- REPUBLIC
CONTACT LAWYER : ALFREDO THOMPSON (ESQ).
FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
TEL : +229 93 4183 88
Email: kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
=========================================
DATE: APRIL , 2008.
ATTN:FRED SANFORD ,
DEAR ,
THIS HONOURABLE CHAMBER WRITES ON INSTRUCTION OF MISS QUIEN WHOSE LATE FATHER WAS YOUR BUSINESS PARTNER.
I PERSONALLY VISITED THE BANK TODAY TO ASSERTAIN WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO EMPOWER ONWARD TRANSFER OF THE FUNDS TO YOUR DESIGNATED BANK ACCOUNT OVERSEAS AS REQUESTED.
THE BANK REQUIRED LEGALISED AND NOTORISED AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM SWORN IN YOUR NAME AT THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE FOR THE CLAIM.IN THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM,CHANGE OF FUND BENEFICIARY WOULD BE EFFECTED IN YOUR FAVOUR.
ACCORDING TO THE BANK,SUBMISSION OF THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WOULD EMPOWER THE BANK TO CLOSE INITIAL DEPOSITOR'S FILE RECORD AND PROCESS THE FUND TRANSFER IN YOUR FAVOUR AS WOULD ORDERED BY THE LAW COURT.WITH THIS ARRANGEMENT,THE BANK WILL PRINT OUT ACCOUNT STATEMENT OF THE LATE DEPOSITOR FOR YOU TO SIGN AND RETURN BACK FOR IMMEDIATE ISSUANCE OF FUND TRANSFER APPROVAL CERTIFICATE.ACCORDING TO THE BANK,IT WOULD TAKE ONLY FOUR BANK WORKING DAYS TO REGULATE FUND TRANSFER PROCEDURE REQUIREMENTS TO ENABLE YOU CONFIRM THE FUNDS IN YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT IN CANADA.THE METHOD OF TRANSFER WOULD BE KTT WIRE TRANSFER.
AN APPLICATION FOR AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM HAS BEEN SUBMITTED ON YOUR BEHALF TODAY FOR AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM.ACCORDING TO THE COURT CLARK,THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WOULD BE READY FOR COLLECTION TOMORROW AFTER OFFICIAL PAYMENT.YOU WOULD BE CONTACTED TOMORROW IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM IS READY FOR COLLECTION.
THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING YOU BETTER.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
BARR.KENAMA THOMPSON PRINCIPLE ATTORNEY/FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
KENAMA & TOMPSON ASS. CHAMBERS LLP./HEAD CHAMBER
COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:41:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Sanford"
Subject: Re: ATTN:FRED SANFORD ,
To: "KENAMA AND ASSOCIATES INT.LAW FIRM LAW FIRM" kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
Dear Sir,
As I told Ms. Quein Jelo, I am sure you are a trustworthy lawyer but for my own peace of mind, I would like for you to sent me a photo of you as well as an ID stating you are indeed as you say.
As a man of business, I am sure you understand my request.
Fred Sanford

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:07:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: for you dearest love
To: patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
My dear Quien,
I was so happy to see your new photo.I am so excited to have it.
I am sending two new photos of myself that my sister, Felony, took yesterday. I hope you like them :) ( they are a bit sexy....he he he)
My father is out of town today on business but will return tonight. I will approach for the money then. But, we must keep our love secret from him until you and your brother arrive.
Oh, my dearest Quien, I do not know what I will do if my father refuses to give me the money. If he does not I will have no other way to see you !!!!!!
Oh ! I will be lost without you.......life would not be worth living if we are not together.
I hope and pray that he will give the money to me.
I love you so much.
Goodbye for now my love.
Misty







Date:
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:02:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: for you dearest love
To: "Misty Meaner"
Misty Meaner ,
Thanks for your nude pic, is not just a little bit sex, but sexy and attractive, and i love.
Dear you no you are the closest person i have now and i don't wish to hide any thing to you my situation is bad here i can not pay my bills the hotel management has seized my passport because of my accumulated bills please try and send me 500 dollars today so that i will settle the hotel management bills and have my passport back.
Also try your possible best to send the requested fee to the lawyer enable him go to the bank and sign the release of money to your bank account there in the state because i want to join you with my younger brother by next week as soon as the money transfer to your bank account.
I do not know any one here in the country to assist me ,The future hope of me and my younger brother is this money my late father left for us which we are transferring to your account in USA
Please use the name bellow is the name of the hotel manager and send me USDA500 dollar today by western Union transfer and send me the payment information's to my email so that i will pay my accumulated bills and have my passport back from the hotel management,
NDU CHUKWUMA RAMZI,
COUNTRY . BENIN REPUBLIC
Please try every possible to contact the lawyer and send the requested fee to him so that he will go to the bank and complete the transfer with out much delay because i want to meet with you in USA by next week.
Awaiting the payment information of the USDA 500 from you.
Yours
Quien

The Adventures of Patel Quien Jelo; Part 7.

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:35:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: Dear Quien
To: patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
My Dearest Quien,
I was so happy to receive your last email to learn that you will stay here with me when you arrive in the US. I am longing for the day that we can be together.
I must confess that I have fallen in love with your photo.........I want to cover you in sweet kisses !!!!!
Can you send more photos?
I will go to my sister's place and get her camera and I will take photos of myself to send to you. (They will be sexy photos, of course....he he he )
Email me again soon my love.
Forever yours,
Misty

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:50:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Sanford"
Subject: the lawyer
To: patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Dear Quien,
I have not heard from the lawyer. I hope he will contact me soon.
Did you give him my email address?
Quien, I know that you met this lawyer thru your pastor at church and I am sure he is a trustworthy man.....but contact him and tell him that I will need photo and ID from him when he contacts me. You are an innocent young girl and it would be easy for someone to take advantage of you and your good nature.
The houses are very expensive here but you will have millions so you can surely afford a nice home for you and your brother.
Take care for now. I will email you when I receive anything from the lawyer.
Your Uncle,
Fred.

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:00:26 -0800
From: "KENAMA AND ASSOCIATES INT.LAW FIRM LAW FIRM" kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
To: mistymeaner
Subject: ATT.MS MISTY MEANER,FUND TRANSFER NOTIFICATION.
THOMPSON & TOMPSON ASSOCIATE CHAMBERS LLP.
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
....NOTARY PUBLIC ...
RC. No. = 887 689 701 B.P. = 9001
LOT. 58 RUE DU SEGBEYA COTONOU BENIN- REPUBLIC
CONTACT LAWYER : ALFREDO THOMPSON (ESQ).
FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
TEL : +229 93 41 83 88
Email: kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
=========================================
DATE: APRIL 21, 2008.
ATTN: MS MISTY MEANER,
DEAR,
THE BANK HAS APPROVED TRANSFER OF THE US$9.5M TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IN LINE WITH THE ORDER BY THE BENIN HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.SEE ATTACHED COPY OF THE APPROVAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED TODAY IN YOUR FAVOUR.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OF LATE MR PATEL JELO WAS ALSO PRINTED OUT TODAY AND A COPY ALSO ATTACHED. BANK LAW ACCOUNT ACTIVATION REQUIRES THAT YOU MUST ENDORSE YOUR SIGNATORY AT THE LOWER LEFT CORNER OF THE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT AND RETURN BACK TO THIS CHAMBER WITH OFFICIAL ACTIVATION FEE OF THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EUROS(¤3,500).
DEPARTMENT OF THE BCEAO INCHARGE OF INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER REQUIRES YOU TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING CLEARANCE TO EMPOWER THE BANK TRANSFER THE APPROVED FUNDS TO YOUR DESIGNATED BANK ACCOUNT IN U.S.A WITHOUT DELAY;
* ECOWAS RECOGNITION CERTIFICATE
* CLEARANCE FROM BENIN INLAND REVENUE BOARD
* FUNDS TRANSFER CLEARANCE FROM BENIN MINISTRY OF FINANCE.
THE BANK LAW REQUIRES THAT THE FUNDS WOULD BE TRANSFERRED UNDER 24 HOURS IMMEDIATELY AFTER SUBMISSION OF THE CLEARANCE IS MADE.
BASED ON CONFIRMATION FROM THE MINISTRY AND AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR ISSUANCE,IT WILL COST YOU FOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED EUROS ONLY(¤4,100).THERE IS HUNDRED PERCENT ASSURANCE THAT THE CLEARANCE WILL BE ISSUED TOMORROW IF PAYMENT IS MADE TODAY AND THIS LEGAL FIRM WOULD ALSO ENSURE SUBMISSION IS DONE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF THE FUNDS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IN U.S.A.
THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING YOU BETTER.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
BARR.ALFREDO THOMPSON PRINCIPLE ATTORNEY/FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
THOMPSON & TOMPSON ASS. CHAMBERS LLP./HEAD CHAMBER
COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.


Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:55:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: the lawyer
To: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
My dearest love,
I received an email from the lawyer and he says the transfer has been approved but I must pay some sort of fee to have it completed.
Dearest, the amount is thousands of dollars!!!!!!
I do not have the money yet, but I will go to my father and try to get the money we need. I will keep the reason secret from him because he does not approve of me having female lovers.
Please, do not forget to send me another (sexy?) photo. I will send you nude photos of me when I get the camera from my sister.
I will email you as soon as I get the money from my father.
Please email soon. I cannot do this without you.
Take care, my love,
Misty

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: My Dear Misty, How are you today from Quien
To: "Misty Meaner"
My Dear Misty,
Thanks for your update so far.
Dear i must tell you the truth, you see we are no longer comfortable here in the hotel because our access of moment is very poor now, and we
are still new in the country no friend to chat with and no relation too, the only happiness i have now realize on you, please always put it in mind that i am not comfortable here now.
Misty i hope you are not flattering me with your words of love? i believe you are God sent in my live, i want you to assure me that you will raise the money and settle the lawyer
this week so that my fund will be transfer to your account, for us to start coming to united state, immediately you confirm the money in your bank account which will enable you
buy our flight ticket for us to start coming.
Attach below is the another of my picture and it is to expose i want you to keep it for yourself alone I hope you will not transfer my picture outside accept for yourself, this is the
last picture i have now after this no other picture to send to you till we meet their, then me and you will have one first, before we take some copy with my younger brother.
Hope your parents will not grow anion with you for my sick, please remember to keep every thing secret until this fund is confirmed in your bank account there in united state
immediately you must have finish paying the lawyer for the transfer.
Dear do not flatter okey.
Yours Quien.

Friday, May 2, 2008

The Adventures of Patel Quien Jelo; Part 6.

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:59:20 -0800
From: "KENAMA AND ASSOCIATES INT.LAW FIRM LAW FIRM" kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
To: mistymeaner
Subject: ATTN MISTY MEANER/ FROM.KENAMA & TOMPSON ASSOCIATE

CHAMBERS LLP.BENIN REPUBLIC.
KENAMA & TOMPSON ASSOCIATE CHAMBERS LLP.
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
....NOTARY PUBLIC ...
RC. No. = 887 689 701 B.P. = 9001
LOT. 58 RUE DU SEGBEYA COTONOU BENIN- REPUBLIC
CONTACT LAWYER : ALFREDO THOMPSON (ESQ).
FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
TEL : +229 93 41 83 88
Email: kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
=========================================.

ATTN: MISTY MEANER,
DEAR,
THIS HONOURABLE CHAMBER WRITES ON INSTRUCTION OF MISS QUIEN WHOSE LATE FATHER WAS YOUR BUSINESS PARTNER.
I PERSONALLY VISITED THE BANK TODAY TO ASSERTAIN WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO EMPOWER ONWARD TRANSFER OF THE FUNDS TO YOUR DESIGNATED BANK ACCOUNT OVERSEAS AS REQUESTED.
THE BANK REQUIRED LEGALISED AND NOTORISED AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM SWORN IN YOUR NAME AT THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE FOR THE CLAIM.IN THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM,CHANGE OF FUND BENEFICIARY WOULD BE EFFECTED IN YOUR FAVOUR.
ACCORDING TO THE BANK,SUBMISSION OF THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WOULD EMPOWER THE BANK TO CLOSE INITIAL DEPOSITOR'S FILE RECORD AND PROCESS THE FUND TRANSFER IN YOUR FAVOUR AS WOULD ORDERED BY THE LAW COURT.WITH THIS ARRANGEMENT,THE BANK WILL PRINT OUT ACCOUNT STATEMENT OF THE LATE DEPOSITOR FOR YOU TO SIGN AND RETURN BACK FOR IMMEDIATE ISSUANCE OF FUND TRANSFER APPROVAL CERTIFICATE.ACCORDING TO THE BANK,IT WOULD TAKE ONLY FOUR BANK WORKING DAYS TO REGULATE FUND TRANSFER PROCEDURE REQUIREMENTS TO ENABLE YOU CONFIRM THE FUNDS IN YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT IN KENYA.THE METHOD OF TRANSFER WOULD BE KTT WIRE TRANSFER.
AN APPLICATION FOR AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM HAS BEEN SUBMITTED ON YOUR BEHALF TODAY FOR AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM.ACCORDING TO THE COURT CLARK,THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WOULD BE READY FOR COLLECTION TOMORROW AFTER OFFICIAL PAYMENT.YOU WOULD BE CONTACTED TOMORROW IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM IS READY FOR COLLECTION.
THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING YOU BETTER.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
BARR.ALFREDO THOMPSON PRINCIPLE ATTORNEY/FINANCIAL ATTORNEY.
KENAMA & TOMPSON ASS. CHAMBERS LLP./HEAD CHAMBER
COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:16:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Misty Meaner"
Subject: your email
To: kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
Dear sir,
I was told by my dear friend Quien Patel Jello that you would be contacting me.Thank you for your email. I must tell you that I do not understand everything in the email. I have a hard time with legal language.
I hope you can put your emails into simple words.
Thank you,
Misty Meaner

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: the lawyer
To: "Misty Meaner"
DEAR MISTY MEANER ,
GOOD EVENING AND GOD BLESS YOU.I HAVE BEEN PRAYING AND THANKING GOD FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW YOU.I BELIEVE THAT MY KNOWING YOU WAS DESIGNED BY GOD TO HELP ME AND MY BROTHER.
I AM HAPPY TO READ FROM YOU THAT THE LAWYER HAS CONTACTED YOU AND THAT YOU WILL SIGN SOME DOCUMENTS.I WILL BE GOING TO THE LAWYER OFFICE TOMORROW MORNING TO KNOW THE STAGE HE HAS REACHED AND ALSO DEPOSIT THE ONLY 350 EUROS WITH ME FOR HIS CONSULTATION FEE.THE LAWYER TOLD ME YESTERDAY TO DEPOSIT AT LEAST 600 EUROS FOR HIS CONSULTATION FEE AND PART PAYMENT OF THE COURT FEE FOR THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM.
THANKS FOR YOUR INQUIRY ON THE HOUSE ISSUE,.ME AND MY BROTHER WE STAY WITH YOU BEFORE BUYING HOUSE AND INVEST IN ANY BUSINESS BRING GOOD PROFIT.,
KINDLY CONFIRM FROM THE LAWYER IF HE CAN OBTAIN THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM TOMORROW AND SUBMIT TO THE BANK THE SAME TOMORROW TO ENABLE THE BANK TRANSFER THE MONEY TO YOUR ACCOUNT IN USA.IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE I WANT TO TRAVEL TO COTE D' VOIRE ON WEEK END TO BRING MY BROTHER SO THAT WE CAN MEET YOU IN AMERICA IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THE MONEY IN YOUR ACCOUNT.
CALL ME TODAY BECAUSE I WILL LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY AT LEAST TO HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE.
GOD BLESS YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS PRAY AS I HAVE BEEN PRAYING TILL WE CONCLUDE THIS TRANSACTION THIS WEEK.
YOURS SISTER
QUIEN.

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:45:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Sanford"
Subject: Re: Dear Mr Fred, Thanks for rising my spirit again,
To: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
My Dear Quien,
you will find my data below.
Name
Fred Sanford

Address
7575 8th Street NE
Calgary, AB T2E 8A2
Canada

Phone
403 699 2400

Call me for bank account information.

your friend,
Fred
[NOTE: Fred's address and phone number is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Calgary.]

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:49:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patel Quien Jelo" patelquienjelo@yahoo.com
Subject: THANKS FOR THE REQUIRED INFORMATION
To: "Fred Sanford"
DEAR FRED,
THANKS FOR THE REQUIRED INFORMATION YOU SENT .I HAVE SUBMITTED YOUR INFORMATION TO A WELL RESPECTED LAWYER HERE FOR THE CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP OF THE FUND IN YOUR NAME FOR THE CLAIM .
THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH I ATTEND HERE WAS THE ONE THAT INTRODUCED ME TO THE LAWYER AS A GOOD LAWYER AND I HAVE SO MUCH REGARD AND TRUST IN THE LAWYER AFTER VISITING HIS OFFICE TODAY.I AM VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT ,IN FACT EVERYTHING IS WORKING AS GOD PLANED IT.
I INTRODUCED YOU TO THE LAWYER AS MY LATE FATHER'S BUSINESS PARTNER AND FAMILY FRIEND,I ALSO SUBMITTED YOUR FULL CONTACT INFORMATION(EMAIL ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER) TO THE LAWYER AND THE LAWYER PROMISED TO CALL TO YOU TODAY AFTER VISITING THE FINANCE HOUSE AND APPLYING FOR AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM IN YOUR NAME AT THE HIGH COURT TODAY.
THE LAWYER ADVISED THAT IT IS BETTER TO SWEAR AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM IN YOUR NAME AT THE BENIN HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE WHERE YOU WILL BE LEGALLY BE POSITION AS THE BENEFICIARY OF THE DEPOSITED FUNDS.ACCORDING TO THE LAWYER,SUBMISSION OF THE AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WILL WARRANT THE FINANCE HOUSE TO RELEASE THE FUNDS TO YOU AS ORDERED BY THE LAW COURT.
HERE IS THE CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE LAWYER:
KENAMA & TOMPSON ASSOCIATE CHAMBERS LLP.
ALFREDO THOMPSON ESQ.
EMAIL: kenamaandassociates@gmail.com
TEL: +229 93 41 83 88.
PLEASE TRY TO CALL THE LAWYER TO FOLLOW UP THE PROCESS DESPITE THE LAWYER PROMISED TO CALL YOU AFTER APPLYING FOR YOUR AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM IN YOUR NAME AT THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.
BROTHER FRED HONESTLY I HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE IN YOU NOW AFTER SEEING YOUR PHOTOGRAPH AND INFORMATION.I TRUST SO MUCH IN GOD AND BELIEVE THAT HE WILL ALWAYS LEAD US SUCCESSFULLY TILL THIS FUNDS IS RELEASED TO YOUR ACCOUNT IN CANADA BEFORE WEEKEND.KINDLY TELL ME WHERE WE CAN INVEST THIS MONEY TO MAKE GOOD PROFIT AFTER THE CLAIM.I WILL LIKE TO BUY A GOOD HOUSE FOR ME AND MY BROTHER IN CANADA WHERE WE CAN LIVE TO CONCLUDE OUR EDUCATION.HOW MUCH DOES HOUSES GO FOR?
YOUR SISTER
QUIEN.