Howard's Notebook

No word yet regarding my son

May 202013

It has been almost 36 hours since my son took off walking. It was about 2 AM that he left here walking. He had no money. He has no friends.
He had seen the sky and it looked blue to him. He was sure that a meth lab had blown up or was going to blow up and that we all would die from the toxic smells.
He would not listen to me and I could not change his mind. It had been days, I think, since he got any sleep.
I told him he could sleep at our place if he wanted.
I told him if he would take his medication and sleep that I would give him some money and then he could leave the apartment complex and go to the mall and get something to eat.
But after a bit he left and I was thinking he was going back to his apartment. But he went home for a little bit and then left walking and walked to a 7-11 and called the fire department and told them that that he smelled chemicals and there was going to be a fire or something. The fire department sent firemen to his and his mother’s apartment.

Today his mother filed a missing person’s report with the police department.
They checked with the hospital and the jail and they do not have him.
We have been worried but the first 24 hours or so we expected him to come back or that someone would report a strange acting person.

Now we are in super worry mode.

We live in the Fort Worth (TX) area. The Fort Worth Police Department non-emergency number is: 817-335-4222.

Do not wash your Internet router

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May 192013

It is a good idea to keep your computer components clean. Dust is an enemy to computers and computer hardware.
We also hear a lot about bugs.

But washing an Internet router in the bathtub is not a good idea. You know that and I know that. But just in case you are wondering what happens when you wash an Internet router I can tell you. It breaks the router and all you have is a paper weight or a door stop.

   I have a family member that has major psychiatric problems. I guess there is nothing wrong with taking five or more showers a day. After all they say “cleanliness is Next to Godliness” right?
   Nothing wrong with taking them fully-clothed right? You could be saving water by not having to use the washing machine.

   It is not easy to see someone or live with someone that has obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder and a panic disorder.
Someone that has delusions and hallucinations is sad and scary.

   Yesterday was not a good day for me. Worst day for my family member.
   If I told you all that took place you would not believe it. It is hard to believe it even when it is right in front of you.

   The family member was filled with panic about what he felt was going on all around him and what was about to happen to all of us.
   He left about 2 AM and called the fire department from a 7-11 to report the disaster that was about to take place!
   He then took off walking. He had no money with him. He has no friends.
   That was about 16 hours ago. We have no idea if he is OK.

   It is going to be a long long night. I did not get much sleep last night. I am not sure I can sleep tonight.

I just wanted to tell you … Do not wash your Internet router.

C Crane CCRadio-SW

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May 192013

Well I did not win the PowerBall Lottery!

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May 182013

The PowerBall number tonight is: 10 13 14 22 52 and power ball number of 11
I had four chances to win and I did not even get one number.

    Not a good day for me. This night is not going to be a good night for me.
    Got some family problems.   Not sure what is going to happen tonight.
    The last time the police came here they told us they could not be responding on calls like this.

Cuban Radio Stations

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May 182013

I got my new radio yesterday. It does receive shortwave radio better than the old radio. I have heard Radio Marti on 7365. It is, of course, being jammed by Cuba.

One thing you can hear for sure hear in the United States is Radio Havana Cuba. I do not think it has ever had very good programming. I did hear a DX program, in English, from them yesterday. ( I did a DX program over WRUL radio back in the 50s! )
I remember listening to radio stations in Cuba before Castro and after Castro.
I listened to Radio Swan and got a QSL letter from the CIA. Of course, they did not say they were the CIA.
I remember listening to Radio Free Dixie on the AM broadcast band in Kansas City (MO). That was a surprise and a shock. Not getting AM reception from Cuba but the content of the English broadcasting.
Do not tell anyone, it is embarrassing, but I listened to Radio Havana Cuba from time to time during the Bay of Pigs Invasion expecting them to go off the air or to hear the freedom fighters enter to studio and take control. That was April 17 to 19th of 1961.

I also picked up Radio Rebelde on 5025 kHz today. There English web site is: http://www.radiorebelde.cu/english/ If you want to listen to them on a player: mms://media.enet.cu/radiorebelde
I got a “missing plug-in” when I attempted to listen.

You know I can not recommend shortwave listening now to young people. Just as a sample if you want to listen to radio stations in Cuba just go to this Streema Cuba page.
I just went to that page and I am now listening to Radio Rebelde their FM 96.7 and it is loud and clear. Much better than me trying to hear it on 5025 kHz. They are doing a call in program right now.
By the way I do not speak Spanish.

Mike Huckabee sinks lower and lower

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May 172013

I blogged about Mike Huckabee in the past. I always felt that he was a pretty decent man. He just fell in with a gang, the Republican Party, and they pulled him down.
In the past I said that I felt he was a decent good man at heart and that if he was not a Republican he might do some good.

Well then he got hired by Fox News. Time after time he has followed their party line. He did not stand up to them. He lacks integrity and bravery now. I think he had integrity in the past but Fox News has killed it. What a shame.

Today I heard him on the radio (AM radio). He was attacking the President of the United States.
What did the President of the United States do today that was the cause of the attack from Mike Huckabee?
President Obama and the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan held a press conference outdoors. It started to rain, a soaking rain, and President Obama had two Marines to hold umbrellas over him and Recep Erdogan.
That is it!!!
   Now let me make it clear the USMC is at the White House to look good and open doors and do other services. It is an honor to appointed to the White House detail.
   They are NOT there as a protection force for the President or the WH.
   Now would it have been better to find someone not in uniform to do that chore? Yes, sure.. I do not even like to see them opening doors.
   But Mike Huckabee and others on the right are going to try and use this against President Obama. It will fail and they will end up, again, just looking stupid.

Want to see the photo?     NY Daily News

Want to see the HATE and disrespect for POTUS? Free Republic

New radio is here

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May 172013

I got the new radio today. It is the C Crane CCRadio-SW. It is model CSW-TCF.
It does not feel as solid and well built as the Sangean ATS-909X.
Reception on shortwave appears to be better. I will hold off until tomorrow and see what I can hear tonight.
One thing for sure the higher band reception is much better than the Sangean. I was picking up CB operators on 11 meters.

There are a couple of things I am not crazy about. Not having built in SSB is a pain. I spent $60.00 to get an external SSB detector from Hong Kong.
The other thing I am not crazy about is that you have to switch to three different SW bands. With the Sangean you just kept on tuning or you could punch in the QRG. I can live without a keypad on the Crane but I don’t like having to switch a band switch. On the other hand, I suspect, that there are filters and coils that make each band better because it is tuned better and sharper. That maybe the reason I see better reception about 17 mHz.

Between the two radios ….If you do not care that much about shortwave I would go with the Sangean ATS-909X for sure.
When I play with this radio a bit more I will make a little video for YouTube. Right now I got the radio set to 15.016 mHz. That is a USAF QRG. It was SAC in the old days. I am not sure what it is now.

Refund is in the bank

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May 172013

Amazon put the refund in my account already. I love the way Amazon does business.
There are others that I love doing business with. Netflix is one. Hulu is another. They make it easy to sign up AND to cancel your subscriptions.
I hate the sites that you sign up for something and they make it impossible to cancel. If you want to stop them taking money out of your account you can not find the link.

Amazon has the right business plan.

Google Adsense and PayPal and YouTube do not have the right business plan. At least not to keep customers happy.
They can say you broke some rule and here is what we are going to do to you and fuck no you can not talk to anyone or do anything about it.
I suspect eBay is the same way.
Well sort of like going to a BestBuy store with a problem. Their policy is you paid for it and we do not care what the problem is you are stuck with it. BestBuy will soon be out of business.
Radio Shack will soon be out of business but they took care of customers when it came to returns and things like that…. Part of the problem with Radio Shack was how they treated their employees. So you had big turn over of employees and so you would go to a RS store and the employee could not help you. They had no idea what you were talking about.

New AM-FM Shortwave Radio tomorrow

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May 162013

I like doing business with Amazon. Yesterday UPS picked up the radio that I am returning. They will get it about the 21st of this month.
But today I got an email from Amazon saying that they would be refunding my money in about two days. Pretty neat.
So I ordered a C Crane CCRadio-SW (Model CSW-TCF) from Amazon.

I already have the TG37 SSB BFO Adapter for the radio. In fact you can see in the photo of me above.
So if I get the radio tomorrow I will be doing a YouTube review of it and of the TG37.
Then I will have my radio for the special broadcast on May 18 from Radio Prague. They are going to be broadcasting on a 1KW German transmitter. I will see if I can pick up that broadcast and get the special QSL card. I have not got a QSL card in 40 years.

I was a Chrome lover

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May 162013

I have to give up on Google Chrome. I been using it for a long time on Windows and Ubuntu. I been having problems for sometime with it. It is not getting better.
In the last week a couple of times I even uninstalled it and did a re-install and that did not help.
The biggest problem has been webpages loading slowly or not loading at all.

This last week I would have a problem with Chrome and re-boot and when I attempted to start Chrome webpages would not load. I would run Task Manager and there appeared to be a whole bunch of Chrome task running. I could not even stop them with Task Manager.
So, sadly, I have remember Chrome from Windows. I will miss it. I do not care for Firefox and IE anymore. I will have to learn to like them.

Republicans can win the IRS audit story

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May 162013

Republicans have been stupid for a long time now. They have been so out of touch with the real world. The attacks on President Obama about him being a Muslim and saying that he was not a Christian and all the other things were just so stupid on their part. They just hate President Obama so much that they can not see the real world. They live in their own little world.
The Benghazi story is another example of them chasing their tails. Sort of like that cat that will chase a laser on wall. You see it and you just laugh.

The IRS audit story is not the big scandal that they think it is… They think they have pure gold. They think they can impeach President Obama.
We played that game before with the impeachment of President Clinton.
The American people are not going to play that game again.
It the Republicans try and make this into a get that man out of the WHITE House they are just going to end up losing again and looking even more stupid.

How can Republicans win? They need to make this story that you can not trust government. They need to make this story that government is to big.
After all that is what Republicans want to do. They want to bring down government. They want to make sure that government cannot govern. They do not want the government to have the ability to offer benefits to citizens. They do not want the government to have the ability to regulate.
They want the government to wage war. They want the government to spend massive amounts of money with big corporations but they want no regulations.

They have had a good hand dealt to them. No one likes the IRS. This looks like an attack on religion by the government. Every “non-profit” group is going to want to hammer the IRS to make sure they keep their non-profit status.
So the evil empire, the Republican Party, have a great hand but can they play the cards?
I think they will blow it because they have crazy stupid people that speak for their party.

What should the Democrats do if they see that they are going to get hammered by this IRS story?
What I would do is have a plan that I would pull out and it would call for doing away with the IRS! No more IRS. The tax laws would be re-written. No loop holes. No corporate welfare. A flat rate tax that everyone would pay AND a national sales tax.
The flat rate tax rate would hurt the little people and the fat cats would love that. But make the flat tax something like 10%. But make it apply all the way to the top. No limit. It should apply to stock profits. So it would not just be the worker paying 10% that is a welder or works at Burger King but it would be the CEO of banks and corporations and it would apply to their stock profits and any other sort of income that they have that has been tax free in the past.
Then on top of that add a national sales tax of maybe 1% or less. That alone would bring in all the funding that the government would need. The government then could offer free education, health care and other social programs.
Soon as the flat tax was in effect and the national sales tax then no more IRS agents. No more IRS.

ShowMeBlog YouTube Video for 05/15/2013

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May 162013

UPS pickup

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May 162013

I was wondering if UPS was going to pick up the AM-FM-Shortwave radio that I am returning to Amazon.
Today the UPS man came with the shipping label and I gave him the package. He left a customer receipt. It has a tracking number on it.
Well I just put the tracking number in to check it out.
It shows that UPS came to my door on 05/10/2013, 05/13/2013 and 05/14/2013.
I was home on those days. I did not hear anyone come to my door and they never left a note or anything that they had come to the door.
My guess is that if the guy had not knocked this time they would not have made any more attempts to pick up the package.
Amazon should get the package on 05/21/2013.
Not sure when they will refund my $235.00 for the radio.
When they refund the money for the radio I will turn around and bye one of the following. Which one do you think I should get?

Billy Graham "Evangelistic" Assn targeted by IRS

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May 142013

Many Americans have respected Billy Graham for many years. Many of us did not see him like those other radio and TV ~~God~~ con men.
I did not have a problem with Billy Graham until recently. I do not blame him however because he is 94 years old and in very poor health. His son is running the company business now.

Now keep in mind that the word “targeted” is a loaded word. We will be hearing that a lot now from the right wing.

The Internal Revenue Service informed the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association on September 6th of 2012 that they were going to do an audit of their taxes. I have been audited in the past and I bet many of you have been audited by the IRS in the past.
Keep in mind that the “association” is a non-profit organization and pays NO taxes. They are allowed to be non-profit and pay NO taxes as long as they follow the rules and the laws.

Keep in mind that the “association” and it’s other front groups, all “non-profit” had run ads telling voters to vote for “biblical values” so that America “will remain one nation under God.” The advs that they ran were clearly telling people to vote for Republicans and clearly attacks on Democrats and President Obama.
It was clear from the wording. But Fox News in all their broadcast, with joy, made it very clear that “America’s pastor” was telling you to vote Republican.
Billy Graham endorsed Mitt Romney in the election. But Billy Graham has been in such bad health that I am sure it was his son that did the “endorsement.”

I do not see that the IRS did anything wrong. I hope they will do audits of all the “non-profit” organizations.
But there is going to be a LOT of screaming and crying from people about the “audit” of a church they are see it as an attack on religion.
All the churches and religions will come to the defense and aid of the groups that were sent audit notices. They are a powerful lobby. They are more powerful than the NRA, the unions or ANY lobbying group in Washington DC.

THAT is why they need to be audited. If we collected taxes from these groups that were in fact not obeying the law we would not have any problem funding the government.

God bless the Internal Revenue Service and I will say a pray for all the employees that work for the IRS. God bless and keep up the good work.

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