No time like the present. http://www.muduck18.com/blog Mark types out loud. Thu, 20 May 2010 14:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 At risk of causing contention again, I post political crap.. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=108 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=108#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 14:55:10 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=108 Caution: The following text comes from a Patriotic, Republican with relatives in AZ…
I would like to point out that aside from the obvious law breaking and tax avoidance, I have no beef with any Illegal Aliens that aspire to be law abiding Citizens. I do have beef with Citizens that seem to think we should Tip-Toe around peoples feelings when dealing with SOME people that break the law but not others. Imagine if Police were not able to ask a person if they have any prior’s, or imagine if Police were not able to run warrant checks on people to make sure they are not a parole violator.

Case and Point: Phillip Craig Garrido and the case of Jaycee Lee Dugard

“In 2006 one of Garrido’s neighbors called 9-1-1 to inform them there were tents in the backyard with children living there and that Garrido was “psychotic” with sexual addictions. A deputy sheriff spoke with Garrido at the front of the house for about thirty minutes and left after telling him there would be a code violation if people were living outside on the property.”

So three extra years that girl was there before she was found because the police did not check to see if the convicted rapist and kidnapper.. had kidnapped again.

I realize that is a stretch to connect immigrants and parole violators but law enforcement needs to be able to ask people to verify, they are who they say they are.

I have often said I strongly believe that NO other country is as welcoming to immigration, and paperless residents as the US 0f A. and if the US had several million citizens living in Canada without proper paperwork they would get rounded up and shipped out.. Same goes for Mexico.

While I was reading ABC news about The AZ law about immigration, and the Mexican President who was in Washington complaining about how the US is handling illegal immigrants…

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iWIFRAZgaPp88VR9tjCkLRyWCyJwD9FQIAV80

and

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/michelle-obama-caught-immigration-debate/story?id=10694734

and I found this comment on the post

Dear Mr. President Obama:
I’m planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We’re planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico , and we’ll need your help to make a few arrangements. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:
1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. Please print all Mexican government forms in English.
4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.
5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history. 6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.
7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico but I don’t plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won’t make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put U. S. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.
13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.
14. I want to receive free food stamps.
15. Naturally, I’ll expect free rent subsidies.
16. I’ll need Income tax credits so although I don’t pay Mexican Taxes, I’ll receive money from the government.
17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Gov’t pays $4,500 to help me buy a new car.
18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I’ll get a monthly income in retirement.
I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all his people who walk over to the U.S. from Mexico … I am sure that President Calderon won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. Thank you so much for your kind help. You’re the man!!!

We all know that is a bit of an exaggeration, but some of it is either perceived or true.  There are a growing number of US citizens that feel that they are being taken advantage of, by people ‘working the system.’  My response to them is simple: Why do we worry about the small percentage of Illegals that take advantage of the system when there is an entire class in our nation that is welfare dependent and living on the government. We have created these safeguards to keep our nation’s poor from going hungry, and so many have become so utterly dependent on it that there is no way to remove it now. Furthermore, the mass of the ‘government subsidized class’ have become a voting demographic that are turning our government into a piggy-bank.

Let Arizona deal with the population in Arizona. Everyone else go back to not caring like you have for so many years.

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=108 0 My wife is showing me up.. But I am ok with that. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=106 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=106#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:50:01 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=106 I keep pretending like I am going to do more, but it just doesn’t happen.
My routine is broken and I don’t know how to fix it.
I am beginning to wonder if I should give up on some things so I can free up some space in my life.

I set out to get into shape, and look better for my wife, and it seems she has done much better at what I set out to do.

I guess that really means I should ‘man up’ and finish something I start for once.

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=106 0 Walking is therapeutic. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=105 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=105#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:59:42 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=105 I took a nice mile long walk yesterday. It helps me think. Now If only I could think directly on to this page, there might be more posts and less 3 month blank spots.

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=105 0 I knew I would fail. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=104 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=104#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:08:44 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=104 I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep it up. Exercise is just too time consuming, and too low on the list of priorities.

What next? maybe I need to go for a run….
I walked yesterday about a mile.

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=104 1 down with the sickness http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=100 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=100#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:19:25 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=100 Tonight was the disgraced walk of shame back to the treadmill. It was standing there looking at me with a scowl, as if to say “I told you so: I knew you couldn’t hack it.”

But persistence is what it takes to overcome, and a two week absence is a tough thing to explain. But with a week of the flu, and then a week of hell at work, I let it go. But this is the turning point. This is where I stand up, and force my self to continue, force myself to get back on the treadmill. Because this is where I usually just let it go; but not this time. Today I made myself shamefully overcome my procrastination and started my goal over again. This time, however, I will make it, I will not let myself go anymore.

I ran 1.25 mi
15.02 minutes

Square 1 is not a bad place to be, but let’s not spend much time here.

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=100 0 Its cold outside.. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=97 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=97#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:33:26 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=97 Today was really hard to get out of bed and run. The temp outside was 30 degrees.

But I forced myself to get up and run before breakfast.

Some cool Statistics of the run

Some cool Statistics of the run

I got a lot of stuff done this weekend at my in-laws but I also ate a ton, and sat on the couch the whole time. This morning run was just what I needed to get my heart going.

Searchable Stats…

2.17mi

28.02 minutes

4.7mph average speed

12.52 min/mile

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=97 0 Always in a hurry. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=96 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=96#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:16:21 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=96 my time is/was limited tonight for exercise and typing.
So I ran faster.

1.02 miles
10.42 minutes.

Cheers.

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=96 0 Persistance is a virtue http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=94 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=94#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:29:41 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=94 Tonight I did 25 minutes on the eliptical.
And I have a lot more to say, but its too late tonight to say it. Maybe tomorrow.

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=94 0 Failure is opportunity in disguise. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=87 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=87#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:45:35 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=87 For some strange reason, after working 12 hours on Saturday I went to bed thinking “oh I have one more day to exercise before I miss my weekly goal”

My wife reminded me on Sunday that Sunday is the 1st day of the week. That painful fact led me to realize I had missed my goal for the week. Sadly my 3 month goal starts over now.

The whole time I was working out on Sunday I was thinking about how I was such an idiot for missing Saturday, and Friday I had the time, I had the equipment so that I didn’t have to run in the rain,but I just put it off.  Well I Can’t beat myself up for it. The truth is that I have been doing so well for more than a month I didn’t miss a week.  What I am getting out of this is not the reward that I am getting if I successfully complete 3 months of not missing a week.  The whole reason I am doing this is to bring life to my lungs again, to make my heart accustomed to strain and maybe, just maybe, help me to live longer and or feel better.

I wanted to loose my gut, and I am still going to do that.

The Goal stays the same 3 months of at least 2 workouts per week starting over now.

But the reward for the last month is more energy and better endurance.

Tonight I spend 35 minutes on the elliptical machine and curled 40# 35-reps. (don’t laugh they were fast reps :-P )

]]> http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=87 0 Family affair – Forrest Gump never had a treadmill. http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=86 http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=86#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:51:09 +0000 Mark http://www.muduck18.com/blog/?p=86 Mia and I worked out side by side tonight. After first putting the “big girl’ bed in Maura’s room and moving the newly acquired treadmill and elliptical machine into the spare room; Mia and I got our exercise.

The treadmill makes running in the rain totally out of the “must do to survive this challenge” and is now moved into the “if I am crazy and want to get wet” category.

I still like running outside, the fresh air, scenery and freedom that I feel running on the road is just great.

I don’t know my stats tonight. I know I ran somewhere around 2.3 to 2.5 miles. The problem is that I have not gotten the hang of the treadmill. When I stopped to address a belt rubbing issue, it reset the timer. And then when I wanted to see my speed instead of calories burned it reset again. It turns out the “display” button (the only button on the thing” resets the display. If you want to see speed, time, or distance, you have to wait for it to scroll into view. Its annoying, but better than nothing.
I had 6 minutes 30 seconds and .78 Mi on the first time it reset,
5 minutes 20 something seconds and .58ish Mi the second time.
and 13 to 15 minutes and 1.2 or 1.4 the third time.
Then I finished off with a 5 minute .39mi slowdown and quit pace.

next time, now that I am aware of how this display button is out to get me, I will be more careful to keep the thing going on uber slow so that it doesn’t reset when I stop to yell at Maura, or take off my shirt.

After all the running I also did 30 sit ups.
My tummy hurts now.
g-night all.

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