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9696 – Wednesday

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Trees out side are sexing up the world – yellow dust everywhere.

Back to work tomorrow – Got approval for light duty until at least my next epidural (in about 2 weeks)

Meanwhile, I’m catching up on my older emails and getting back up to speed, so work doesn’t hit like a ton of bricks.

1 year ago – back better, explicit name pic, no word from bro, new plants added, forbidden kingdom, red robin no go – hit CB2 instead, tf2 and counterstrike, naughty newt, Gordon Ramsay’s expletives, disease outbreak dream with sheldon

2 years ago – garden work / computer work, one word meme, shorpy

3 year ago – rough day, socialist apes

4 years ago – droopy dan, mlm scam, petroglyphs, wifi via airship, science fiction, local graffiti pics, newt on kittenbreak and kittenwar

5 years ago – Team Laser Explosion Secret Fan club, Eels, ADP sassmouth, php nuke is el-sucko

6 years ago – Travel plans, work, finn’s karma, Saw Murray

7 years ago – May Day Coming, Snuggles Newt, Super power, Chupa Blabs

8 years ago– web poll, dj poll, bit o’ fiction, My pet Skeleton, naughty news – lots of breasts, a bunghole, creed and a mime, mum.org letter for menstrualhutGeotarget

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9676 – Friday

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Was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I received a pair of Skullcandy skullcrusher Bass Headphones in the mail – I won them online in the mountain dew voltage contest website. I’ll probably use them mostly for playing fallout 3 or other shooters, rather than listening to music.

BHK got a summons about the gunslinging the car chase through our neighborhood nearly 2 years ago.

No Franklin this morning – BHK let me sleep in and drove me to work!

Also form BHK – fresh flowers opening up in the garden! The Green Glow is really starting to shine!

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1 year ago – flickr adds video, ice cream truck, stuffed puppers, Buzz Aldrin punches Bart Sibrel, Gygax Memorial

2 years ago – salsaritas, lunch, Chris & BHK dine with me, BHK’s peridot ring/ first thoughts of the lime-vanilla ice ring. Tiger / Tigger, tough doing daily entries, Dani likes grindhouse

3 years ago – GP & Kat in FL, fonts, Who, lj radio, Herc speaks, mp3 links

4 years ago – Sleepies, poorhouse, two zombies later, passwords, silent running – smokey bear

5 years ago – CoH, religion update, nerd-o-meter, beheading, old pic of me and newt and cpap

6 years ago – Iraqometer, internal debate, reminding myself of people’s value

7 years ago – Just learning Crystal reports, about animal crackers,(including history and combat rules) China’s First Emperor killed by a meteor ?, David Hasselhoff video, attacked by Newt, Discovery of the naked robot monkey, playing freedom force.

8 years ago – Food PlansGeotargetVisitor Map

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9671 – sunday

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Back at the in-laws to watch Tigger – caught up a bit with work reviews missed while at home… documentation and editing of info, primarily.

Kicked back, relaxed for a few – and then headed home.

taken via cameraphone  – the wind was blowing cloud shadows everywhere.

Fw: spring pics.
Fw: spring pics

It’s getting warmer out – I can’t wait to go kite flying with BHK!

1 year ago – cherry blossoms, FDR memorial, spam journals on LJ, BHK sneaks on my journal

2 years ago – 3-d movies, snow, jd, county work review, petals falling, karaoke, What in Sam Hill?, psptv

3 years ago – zombie horde counterstrike, pyramid house, bugs bunny, tmbg, devo, tom delay, top40,

4 years ago – Badge shape pref poll, flickery power, Jasmine, stupid comic deaths, Dr Who episode 2, KANG KANG KANG KANG!, Monkey awe, hukilau, driver 8 pic, 23/5 bibliomancy

5 years ago – Itchies, chocolate dodge, Miami fires, sweetalyssm.com goes down due toa hack. (sadly, never to return), palm-doodle entry, Denny’s lunch

6 years ago – hung out with [info]ldy & grrwoo, JKG wants me, prep for TAG

7 years ago – Freedom Force, Poem tag, new tech, THE poll.

8 years ago – morning walk, goals, online people, people that didn’t want my help, kindness triage, cartoon stereotypes, Hey, The Dusty Miller, hair color pollGeotarget

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9664- sunday

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Beautiful Spring day today – Back is sore and tummy still upset, but it’s hard not to love the weather. If anything, it’s a bit warm – thank goodness for the breeze off the bay!

Opened up our windows, and let the kitties sniff the fresh air… good to air out the house. Lots of green glow outside, flowers are blooming like gangbusters.

All of our neighborhood kitties were running around, too… most were too fast for the camera, save the chubby polydactyl girl that lives off of 7th and F. She is a master of using her little mitten-hands, too! I fear for the day we ever own a cat with opposable thumbs… our boys are tricky enough without manual dexterity.

Also discovered that the critter up the road we call "Dirty Cow Cat" (sung to Foreigner’s "Dirty White Boy") is really named Zorro.

Pyewacket was at the Window, mewing loudly as BHK picked at the catnip out front… I took a time out from what I was doing to dose both the boys up with a little bit of the kitty-weed.

Saw Chicken Dawg walking around while the in-laws were working in the garden. He was having a grand ol’ time, and smartly stayed out of the road.  (Chicken Dawg is named such, because the first day we saw the beagle/basset mix, he was running down the street with a chicken carcass in his mouth – looks like he got it from a trash can. He high-tailed it before we could take it away from him.)

Pictures from walkabout – lots of plants, with the occasional kitty or lawn.

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1 year ago – aquarium trip, cherry blossom fest plans, new avengers, metro cars cracking, fights / passivity

2 years ago – BHK ill & irritated, free psp t-mobil wifi, north beach link, I’m swiss, haiku, D&D gaming grant

3 years ago – coloring book wakes up, zefrank’s log pretty keen, y/n meme, gesture poll, monkey doodle, abstract doodle

4 years ago – Dizzy bear flashbacks about GP, Kat, Danny, and past game group members, blackstronauts, newt angles, alex toth, nameless dread, click to save the world, lunsford

5 years ago – lemon fanta, diet pepsi slurpees, pet sweaters, bro stuff, awesome man,Galaxy Quest, mp3s, virus, apt/newt pics, chernobyl cyclist

6 years ago – There, light bulb pops, the rack, TAG approaches, heroX=mediocre

7 years ago – ice dreams, mock French, animal cams, keywords, yahoo plays bad, peep research, hut destroys a troll

8 years ago – Random Mail, music mix, palm BS picture, pantywaist poll, storms, blogger downGeotarget

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9655 – Friday

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At last!

Springtime… the weekend!

I’d like to take BHK to Annapolis this weekend, do a little walkies and just enjoy each others company. That’s the plan, anyhow!

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BHK got this recently, regarding Prince George’s County SWAT issue back in August. I feel that it’s worth sharing, dear journal.

I write these many months later to thank you for reaching out to comfort my family and I after last summer’s terrifying SWAT attack of our home.  The tremendous outpouring of support that we received from our friends, neighbors, and so many complete strangers sustained us through the worst of it, and I continued to find comfort in the kind words as I read the emails well into the fall.

Trinity and I continue to heal, and we always will miss Payton and Chase terribly.  One thing that has helped is that we’ve adopted another black Labrador, Marshall.  As you can see from the picture, Marshall has brought incredible joy to our lives.

After the incident drew international attention and outrage, Prince George’s County police finally exonerated my family and me of any wrong doing.  However, they have refused to apologize and continue to defend their actions in my case.

Over the last several months, I have undergone a personal journey to try to understand how this terrible incident could happen.  My initial reaction was that it was a terrible mistake.  However, as I have learned more, I have come to understand that what my family and I experienced is part of a growing and troubling trend where law enforcement is relying on SWAT teams to perform duties once handled by ordinary police officers.

In our case, the police deployed a SWAT team without performing basic investigatory work and apparently without considering more measured approaches.  Prince George’s County recently has acknowledged that it indiscriminately deploys SWAT teams to serve drug warrants.  Preliminary estimates suggest that the county deployed SWAT teams as many as 700 times a year – that is twice a day!  Other counties in Maryland also report hundreds of SWAT team deployments a year, and we have uncovered numerous other stories of botched and inappropriate raids, innocent families terrorized, and family dogs killed.

In fact, the inappropriate use of SWAT teams seems to be a national problem.  The number of SWAT team deployments nationwide has grown exponentially from about 2,500 per year in the early 1980s to over 50,000 in 2005.  SWAT teams used to be reserved for unusually dangerous situations such as the arrest of major criminals known to have hig h-powered weapons or hostage situations.  However, many police forces are using them today against people they suspect of recreational drug use and other much smaller crimes.

The more I have learned, the more I feel obligated to do everything I can to rein in over-aggressive policing.  I am working with Maryland lawmakers to pass legislation requiring the number of SWAT deployments and their outcomes to be regularly reported to civilian authorities.  By shining a light on paramilitary police activities, law enforcement agencies should find it in their best interests to change their practices and limit the use of SWAT teams to situations where the charges are grave and a violent response can be reasonably anticipated.  The Senate passed SB 447 unanimously yesterday, but we expect to run into more resistance in the House of Delegates.  As soon as we enact this legislation in Maryland, I intend to work with lawmakers in other states to pass similar legislation. We are also considering actions that can be taken on a federal level.

To help in this effort, we have created a web site, www.protectourliberties.com, which tells the stories of a number of innocent victims of traumatizing SWAT raids.  It also contains media clips of the coverage we’ve received and information about our legislative work.  If you are interested in staying informed about this issue, please sign up for updates that I’ll send every month or so.  Also, if you could volunteer for citizen advocacy or policy development work, I would really appreciate your help.  Our next citizen advocacy project is a Lobby Night on Monday, March 23rd at the Maryland Capital.

Thank you, again, for your support and encouragement!  
Warm regards,
Cheye
Make Maryland Great, Inc.
P. O. Box 4343
Annapolis, MD  21403
(410) 757-2811

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1 year ago – colored egg pics, encounter critical, orange team, maryland cell phone driving, journaling and domain ownership, rival kenyan tribes fighting with bows and arrows

2 years ago – first full day at the calvert gig, bhk and I go shopping for work clothes, grownup table talk, spam attractive entry

3 years ago – rebis picture, deaf language, chacarron, math, phallic removal, open source, fake cigs as meds, prisoner comic book

4 years ago – Brady Kids welcome the equinox, shamrock shake, cosmic truth, mp3s,experimental gameplay, get your tasty hot sweet potatoes in Japanese,teen kidnappers, good advice, invisible mermaid airfare

5 years ago – openoffice, Visited w Dan, open door poll, people of worth

6 years ago – Al gore, Blue’s clues, Cranky Finn

7 years ago – Spring!, Socks, overturned issues, Linda let go from FMM, LJ directory, cool picture link

8 years ago – walkies, 2 chris-sites, both have long since been left dormant, lj brokenGeotarget