Back home

After spending the last nine months teaching at Sahuarita High School and living nearby in Green Valley AZ we are now home. The position ended so I'm out of a job.

My provisional teaching certificate in Arizona requires a math test which I've taken, but don't know if I've passed (It was really hard!) and SEI (structured English immersion) which I'm taking online right now. If I don't pass the math test I won't be able to teach in Arizona. I had one interview lined up but now it's a middle school position, so I think I'll cancel. I've had some nibbles, one interview resulted, but nothing else. I'm not sure if I'm going to be teaching at all next year at this rate. It's all very frustrating.

Home is a mess because we're in the middle of a big remodel. I wish I could just retire in peace, but we can't live only on my retirement. I wouldn't mind writing books but I need some immediate income, not something that might come about down the road.

I'm kind of floating with no idea where I'm going right now.

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Moving to Arizona

I've settled in here in Arizona. I received the job offer and moved down here to Green Valley (which is just south of Tucson) the same day. Sahuarita High School is a great little school. The staff is excellent and the students are for the most part great. It's difficult leaving the grandkids but it needed to be done.

I'm now officially a double dipper. I'll be getting retirement from Nevada and working in Arizona. If my wife was still working we'd be on easy street. Without her income we're taking in a little less, but that's the way it goes, I guess.

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Why won't things go right?

I retired in June and although I fully intended to get another job, I was in no hurry. Then my wife lost her job and we were facing two thirds salary for me and 50% (unemployment) for her. I started looking. I had several interviews and almost got a position in Idaho, but a former supervisor, who I shouldn't have used for a reference because we disagreed a lot, but did, because my other references were unavailable in July, backstabbed me.

Then a had a phone interview and got a position in southern Arizona. I was offered the position on Friday and school started on Monday. We packed up and arrived Saturday morning. I spent Monday and Tuesday fighting with AZ certification, and finally had to go with a sub certificate. We almost went home Monday night, but tried again to get licensed and got the sub certificate on Tuesday.

We immediately moved out of the motel, signed a lease and are living in a comfortable, small apartment.

Then I couldn't get my wife's computer to work with the wired internet. Mine worked fine! I messed with it until it worked and went to bed. Today I was in the classroom for the first time and loved it, but when I got home I was anxious to get some work done online.

Now my computer wouldn't work with the wired internet. My wife's was still working fine. So down to BestBuy for a wifi router and a printer--wireless of course! Router worked great. Printer connected to the router just fine. Computer wouldn't communicate. I finally had to plug the printer into the router directly and low and behold it finally worked! So once again I'm going to bed very, very late!

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The real temperature graph

So called scientists named Mann and Briffa created hockey stick graphs that supposedly prove global warming. When Steven McIntyre requested the raw data he was refused which is unprecedented. After taking legal action he obtained the data and quickly found why the men wouldn't release it. It was so badly flawed that it was meaningless! The accompanying graph shows the real temperature change of the last 2000 years using raw data from Mann's and Briffa's studies and other sources. It is clear we are no where close to as warm as it was 1000 years ago.

The graph and above information is found here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/04/jo-nova-finds-the-medieval-warm-period/

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Paving company damages my son's car!

We've had a company putting in a new sewer line the last few months. Today they were paving the road where they had dug. Unfortunately they had very narrow pathways through the cut in the asphalt which was about a foot deep. I say unfortunately because my son missed the path and dropped his car into the hole. Two popped airbags are the result! When we went back for these pictures they were widening the path through the cutout. You can see (kind of) how deep it is. When I called the company I used the word "pothole" and the man said in a sarcastic way, "We don't put potholes in the road, Sir!"

I told him "You most certainly did! You cut the asphalt out of the road!" He's sending a claim form.

I'm not feeling too charitable about it. My son is very upset, his car is damaged, and everyone knows how expensive airbag replacement is. When he got home he was coughing and choking from the fumes caused by the airbag explosions. The dashboard was still smoking!

I'd followed a truck pulling a trailer through the same spot about an hour earlier. The truck made it through, but the trailer dropped into the hole. The path was very narrow and very hard to see. The paving company widened it after my son dropped his car into it. They better pay for the damage, or else.





















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Unbelieveable survey

I just received a phone survey. The questions were as follows:

1. How likely are you to vote in November? very likely, somewhat likely, not likely. I pressed 1
2. Are you more likely to vote Republican, Democrat, or independent? I pressed 1
3. Are you more likely to vote for Sharon Angle, Harry Reid, or someone else? I pressed 1
4. What is the best reason to vote for Harry Reid? Sharon Angle is dangerous or Harry Reid can do more for Nevada? Say what?

I waited in disbelief for more options, there were none. I hung up. If this is the kind of biased, unfair surveys Dingy Harry's people are using he's in deeper trouble than he knows!

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Our great nation in peril...

For those who may be discouraged because we have a president that hates this country and is doing all he can to destroy it:

Men may fail in this country, earthquakes may come, seas may heave beyond their bounds, there may be great drought, disaster, and hardship, but this nation, founded on principles laid down by men whom God raised up, will never fail. This is the cradle of humanity, where life on this earth began in the Garden of Eden. This is the place of the new Jerusalem. This is the place that the Lord said is favored above all other nations in all the world. This is the place where the Savior will come to His temple. This is the favored land in all the world. Yes, I repeat, men may fail, but this nation won’t fail. I have faith in America; you and I must have faith in America, if we understand the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are living in a day when we must pay heed to these challenges.

I plead with you not to preach pessimism. Preach that this is the greatest country in all the world. This is the favored land. This is the land of our forefathers. It is the nation that will stand despite whatever trials or crises it may yet have to pass through.

(Harold B. Lee, an Apostle of Jesus Christ quoted from Ye Are the Light of the World 350-51)

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Brown is beating Coakley!!!!

The revolution and repudiation of Barack Hussein Obama is on!

The following is found here at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_massachusetts_senate

BOSTON – Striving for an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown pushed ahead of Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday in a U.S. Senate election that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his first year.

A loss — or even a narrow victory — by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century in this Democratic stronghold could signal big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

More immediately at stake was a critical 60th vote for Democrats to save their health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. A 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate could allow the GOP to block the president's priorities with filibusters.

With 60 percent of precincts reported, Brown held a steady lead over Coakley.

Let's hope the lead continues!

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Is Barack Obama a fascist?

Is Barack Obama a fascist?

According to the Britannica Online Encyclopedia:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from each other, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.

Hmmm, sounds like Obama!
According to the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics:

Fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism

Well, Obama has talked about the need for government intervention to prevent "bubble and bust" economics.

Jerry Doyle, former Wall Street broker, actor playing Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5, and now the 7th biggest talk show host points out in Human Events that:

Economic fascism can be defined as government control over the four P’s: Product, Price, Profit Margin, and People

Then he uses Obama's takeover of Chrysler to prove that Obama has taken control of all of them. Let's examine this. Obama didn't like the product so he's requiring Chrysler to make cars no one wants (claiming they were already doing that and now he's going to fix it); he doesn't like the price so he's going to set the price, he now controls the profit margin and finally, he has taken control of the people that are allowed to have jobs and how much they are paid and has even seized the assets of investors and given those investment shares to the unions.

So is Obama a fascist? YES!!!!!!!!!

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Fixed the link!

I fixed the tag below so that when you click on "If you're seeing this blog in a frame..." It actually works when you click it and will actually take you out of the frame!

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