http://ponderings.today.com Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:51:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Read this   http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/081103/canada/calgary_taser_calgary_police_1 The line that stands out the most in this article for me is this:” Lindsay said until there is conclusive evidence that stun guns are dangerous, police will be able to use them.” I don’t know how much more conclusive they need it to be.  A man died.  ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/11/04/man-dies-from-being-tasered-and-official-says-there-is-no-conclusive-evidence-tasers-are-dangerous/ Whether TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION works or not on a long term, bigger scale is yet to be seen. The accompanying price tag for treatment as it is currently is in the article, $6,000 to $10,000 is something many people couldn’t handle financially and I’m guessing that most insurance companies don’t ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/10/23/magnetic-stimulation-to-help-treat-depression/  Read here about Two Britons Jailed for Sex on Dubai Beach Along this subject, there are a few really basic rules of thumb to follow when you travel to another place, even one closer to your own home sometimes. These are sort of no brainers, but obviously not everyone uses their ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/10/21/two-britons-jailed-for-sex-on-dubai-beach/ For a really hair raising experience that outdoes any thrill ride at an amusement park, try visiting an air force base museum along the lines of Travis Air Museum. I took my daughter and a friend of hers to the museum a couple of days ago while she is on ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/10/13/26/ Wednesday night was church night. I was rushing trying to get to there on time. I look forward to it. It is a place to rewind, to find positive messages and guidance and for me there is hope there. At the last second I remembered I didn’t have enough gas ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/10/11/angels-watching-over-me/ I read this story and was very pleased such great effort was made to save wildlife and sadness that so many were lost.  For some peculiar reason envisioning THIS air force flight set my imagination going and had me chuckling. There are the definite makings of an animated movie in this. ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/10/07/penguins-in-the-airforce/ If you have ever seen the 1976 movie “The Food of the Gods”, you may remember the oversized rats and insects that fed on a manmade concoction. I think there is a 1989 version of it too. The food made normal sized things turn into monstrous unnatural sizes and huge ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/09/21/the-food-of-the-gods-and-gargantuan-food-creations/ All of mankind’s power, money and influence can’t stop Mother Nature from doing what she is going to do. We can take preventative measures and plan for the worst, but we can’t keep the storm from coming. Storms like Ike are a great equalizer. He didn’t care who he hit, ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/09/17/i-don%e2%80%99t-like-ike/ Today my12 year old daughter came up to me while she was mixing some brownies to bake. She brought in the concoction in a white plastic mixing bowl and said, “Doesn’t this look like a volcano?” It was a glob of half melted butter on top of the half mixed ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/09/11/unmixing-the-cookie-dough-the-world-through-a-child%e2%80%99s-eyes/ Yesterday I was talking to a dear friend Cindy on the phone. We started talking about the difficulties of a family living apart, the intense pain. In my case it is money that we are trying to raise and I know it is torture for me to be away. Imagine ... http://ponderings.today.com/2008/09/09/mommy-lives-in-the-telephone-a-soldier-away-from-home-in-iraq/