My Rant & Rave Blognoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:29:59 -0700Blogger http://www.blogger.com22125http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/en-ushttp://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/stun-guns-might-kill-people-so-cops.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:03:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110862738947941296Yahoo! News - Deaths prompt concerns, reviews on use of stun gunsStun gun or Tazer use by police resulted in over 80 deaths so far and the Chiefs of Police, the Justice Department and even the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are all conducting their own reviews to decide if this weapon should be used by law enforcement in the future. The chiefs of police support the use of this non 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/power-hour-drinking-and-stupid-laws.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:19:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110818915359776787Yahoo! News - State Seeks to End 'Power Hour' DrinkingIn an attempt to end the practice of "Power Hour" birthday celebrations where young people try and down 21 shots of alcohol in the first hour they are 21, North Dakota lawmakers want to pass a law making it illegal to purchase alcohol until 8am on your 21st birthday.Ok, drinking 21 shots unless you weigh 7 or 800 lbs is just stupid. Bars 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/miller-brewing-fires-man-for-drinking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:02:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110818813012922769Yahoo! News - Wis. Man Says Beer Choice Cost Him JobIsac Aguero, 24, of Racine Wisconsin and a forklift driver for four years at CJW Inc., a Miller Brewing distributing company, was caught by the local paper while out partying on a Saturday night drinking a Bud Light. When his picture hit the streets on Monday in the "On the Town" feature of the paper covering the local night life, his employers 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/syracuse-radio-station-offers-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:42:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110818697088342275Yahoo! News - Station Offers Free Valentine's DivorceThis is just gross. But we have all learned to expect such things from rock radio stations whose listeners eat this up. They need to make their listeners happy, so I won't blame the station like many.K-rock in Syracuse NY is giving away a divorce for Valentines day. It has a retail value of over $1400 and is for the people whose valentine's day0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/glitch-puts-gas-price-at-19-cents.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:28:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110818608997409598Yahoo! News - Glitch Puts Gas Price at 19 Cents a GallonIf the gas pump machine makes a mistake and only charges you .19 cents for gas you know costs much, much more, what would you do?Customers in Overland Park Kansas would steal the gas, that's what they would do.It seems a computer glitch at George Riley's Phillips 66 gas station lowered the price of gas from $1.83 per gallon to .19 cents for 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/north-korea-demands-two-way-talks-us.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:22:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110818213482263338Yahoo! News - North Korea Demands Two-Way Talks, U.S. RefusesNorth Korea says it wants to have direct talks with the United States because the only reason they are in possession of nuclear weapons in the first place is to defend themselves against American aggression. But the US refuses and want's them to talk to their neighbors first in six way multilateral talks instead.Condoleezza Rice says "0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/robo-kids-school-requires-radio-id.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 04:03:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110811982887435182Yahoo! News - Parents Protest Student Computer ID Tags An elementary school in Sutter California is requiring students to wear radio badges that track their every movement at school. Some parents at Brittan Elementary are outraged their kids will be subjected to such seemingly unimaginable things. Administrators say it's a way to simplify attendance and will help cut down on vandalism. 1http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/california-lawmaker-to-introduce-ban.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:25:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110811750414534623Yahoo! News - California Considers Ban on Pet Cloning Well, it's about time someone got around to this.Got $50,000? One company in California will clone your cat and is currently working on a dog cloning process, but if one California lawmaker is successful, they might be out of business before they even start.Citing the millions of unwanted pets euthanised in America every year, and the effect 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/abbas-sacks-palestinian-security.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:26:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110811400176137243BBC NEWS | Middle East | Abbas sacks security commanders Looks like Abbas is very serious about the ceasefire between Palestine and Israel. He just sacked a General in charge of security and their national police chief because they failed to stop a rocket attack by Hamas. The dismissals are "punitive measures" against officers who failed to do their duty, a spokesman for Mr Abbas said." Hamas0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/reggie-on-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:46:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110809944706150040I thought with Valentines day coming up and all I would do a post on Love. This is a talk I gave two years ago at a church young adult group's Weekend of Christian Living and is the best thing I think I've ever written on the subject of what love is to me. It was quite a hit with the audience then, so I thought I would share it with the rest of you now.Keep in mind some of this references other 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/in-god-we-trust-because-one-man-spoke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:01:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110809446249921592Fun Facts about the United States Mint has a very interesting entry about how "In God We Trust" got on US money. Who says one man can't make a difference?From Treasury Department records it appears that the first suggestion that God be recognized on U.S. coinage can be traced to a letter addressed to the Secretary of Treasury from a minister in 1861. An Act of Congress, approved on April 11, 18640http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/whiners-are-jerks-too-complaining.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 9 Feb 2005 05:52:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110795374059901978I went to a dollar movie tonight and there was a nice looking and well dressed family at the front of the ticket line. They had a lot of kids and I was trying to count them all as I heard the young 20 something mother inquiring if they needed four or five kids tickets because of the year and a half old baby in the father's arms. At first she said she needed four tickets and the ticket lady 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/why-are-we-jerks-when-we-drive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:34:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110795214828765535I went out to dinner and a movie today and once again I encountered more than my fair share of jerks while driving. The rudeness and dangerous behavior of what seems to be most drivers is just very disturbing to me and I think it shows an underlying problem in our society that is waiting to rear it's fully grown and very ugly head with many disastrous consequences. People in general do not care 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/sharon-and-abbas-declare-cease-fire-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 9 Feb 2005 02:57:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110794304755590855Yahoo! News - Sharon, Abbas Declare Cease-Fire at SummitDo I dare hope? Do we all dare dream? Someone is actually working towards Peace in the Holy Land? Could it be true or is it all just another round of the same old same old?"What we agreed upon today is simply the beginning of the process of bridging the gap," Abbas is quoted as saying.Well, that's nothing new. Everytime the Palestinians and 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/kuwaiti-prisoner-abuse-reported-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Tue, 8 Feb 2005 06:27:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110786925188154052US News Article | Reuters.com Lawyer Says U.S. Forces Abused Kuwaiti Prisoners reports this morning of more prison abuse accusations from terrorist suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay. 11 Kuwaitis being indefinately incarcerated by the United States as foreign terrorism suspects claim abuse at the hands of their American captors, the worst dating back to January of 2002 while they were in 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/boy-4-gets-behind-wheel-to-get-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Tue, 8 Feb 2005 05:28:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110786569532526256IN A MINUTE: Boy, 4, gets behind wheel to get to storeOver in Sand Lake Michigan, about 15 miles north of Grand Rapids, there is a Sgt. Jay Osga who was amazed when he pulled over a four year old boy for driving a car late at night. It seems the boy wanted to go to the store while everyone else was asleep and decided to borrow his mom's car for the trip.After learning the store was closed, and 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/girls-fined-for-giving-neighbor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:13:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110782522287025693Girls fined for giving neighbor cookies: "DURANGO, Colorado (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 (480 pounds) for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts." Can anyone believe this? These teenaged girls, then 17 and 18, decided not to go to a teen dance scheduled for that night because they did not 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/google-ads-for-ebay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:51:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110811010425767263Now here is something that really makes me mad. In the old days Google would keep these guys from advertising, but today it seems a search for just about anything you type is going to be advertised for sale on Ebay by some affiliate with a Google Ad.Try it. Go to any Google search page and type in the most outrageous stuff. You will probably see an ad in the sidebar for "what ever you typed" 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/contacting-reggie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:41:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110810111737774463I no longer post my email address in public and I've seen a decline in the number of "make your penis bigger", "save on RX", "get cheap stolen software" and "see Britney Spears Naked" emails I get. I don't need your drugs, or your porn. I weigh 130 lbs so I don't think I need a diet and my boobs are quite large enough for me since I'm a man and I've never had any complaints about my penis size, 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/reggies-privacy-policy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:37:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110810043399503798I do not collect email addresses for any reason, nor do I sell any info to anyone. If you wish to post a comment, you can supply your email address so others may contact you to continue the discussion or you can choose not to. You can supply your username or you can post comments annonymously. It's all up to you. The only time your comments will be deleted is if they contain vulgarities or are 0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/reggies-fun-stuff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:32:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110809997185299515Here are some links to some fun stuff for you to enjoy.0http://reggiessoapbox.blogspot.com/2005/02/interesting-links.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (RegManabq)Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:30:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10669179.post-110809987858082304Here are some Interesting Links I have found in my travels in no particular order:Reggie Links Reggie- The domain name software. This is a program that helps you find recently expired domain names and info about currently registered domains. While grabbing up expired domains is not my cup of tea as a marketing tactic, in the right hands this could be useful software. Reggie the Rally Rig. 0