March 5, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

A little more than two years ago (about Nov. 2008) I joined facebook.

Until a few days ago, I did not make much use of it.  Facebook felt uncomfortable because, once anything is posted there, it often seems impossible to make corrections.  What bothers me most about using the features of facebook is that it is not always obvious how something that one enters there will be displayed and that, if things turn out differently than expected, corrections or required edits cannot be made anymore to change something into becoming more appealing.

Well, so what?  I will just have to learn to think things through a bit more before I post them; perhaps not quite like putting one’s brain into gear before putting the mouth into motion but maybe — to put it more aptly — to learn by trial and error.

A few days ago one of my daughters convinced me that faccebook is a practical tool for staying in touch.  After a few days of making more use of facebook and exploring its features, I must say that she is right.

I should have made more use of facebook much sooner.   Now I want to try and figure out if it is practical to show facebook items as links in a blog entry.  Here goes:

Walter H. Schneider

‎”The days of permanently available electricity may be coming to an end, the head of the power network said yesterday.”
You can see the whole article if signing on for free 1-day trial subscription and searching for “electricity” after clicking on the link for the article.

Telegraph e-paper

dailytelegraph.newspaperdirect.com

Walter H. Schneider Oops, should have stated that the power network of concern is that of the U.K. and that the routine and frequent outages are to be expected because of the vagaries of the weather. In other words, the availability of electric power in the U.K. is blowing in the wind.

And here is another one:

 Walter H. Schneider recommends a link.

 Miss. mom charged after son’s body found in oven

www.foxnews.com

A Mississippi mother was arrested Wednesday in the death of her 3-year-old son after authorities said they found the child’s burned body in an oven. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said…

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December 24, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Having trouble with keeping up on what is new at your favorite blogs?

Here is a video on what subscribing to RSS can do for you, how easy it is to subscribe to, and how it can make your life much easier.

The subscription details for the RSS feed for this blog can be accessed at the bottom of the left side-bar menu at this blog page, or via the following links.

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It may happen that you will see only a bunch of HTML tags.  If so, just, just press the <refresh> button on your browser, and the display should straighten itself out.

The tips offered in the video will work for subscribing to the RSS feed of any other blog.

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September 18, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

URGENT – A call to action for the WUWT community

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Anthony Watts

I need your help, they need your help. Please read this whole story and consider if you can help. WUWT readers may recall this story: Death of a Feedlot Operator

In which the anal-retentive government of West Australia has “licensed” a family farm out of operation due to some shonky science and arbitrary application of the “sniff test”. Yes that’s right, cattle farms smell, so do pig farms, as does any farm. But now it’s reason to shut one out due to baseless complaints from the local greens. And, it all started when Matt Thompson started doubting global warming and talking about it publicly.

I’ve never made a plea to the WUWT worldwide readership for help, I’m making one now to donate to these people to stave off eviction. If nothing else, do it to spite the government of Western Australia and the greens (Environmental Defender’s Office WA)  that have turned farming into a “crime”. The real crime is that government listens to these hotheads. From Jo Nova’s website:

4 days notice! The Thompsons are served notice of eviction.

Will, Abbey, Janet, Luke, Matt and Kate on their farm. April 2010

From Agmates (and many emails), news comes that The National Bank served notice today that the Thompsons have to be off their property in four days.

This is a family with four young children, who ran a profitable business; they filled in every form and ticked every box. They have broken no laws, and there are no outstanding environmental notices, but yet, they came to Western Australia with their life savings and they are losing everything. (Note: Matt and Janet are from the USA, Hugo, Oklahoma – Anthony)
Continue reading →

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September 17, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

A few days ago I sent out a list of links to recent posts at Dads & Things.

On 15/09/2010 11:15 AM, Samuel M. Polhamus wrote back and stated:

Dear Walter,

Thank you for sending these articles out. I still am, and always will be, forever indebted to the contributions you’ve made for fathers and the rights of them and their children. Yes, as a political force to be reasoned with, we’re still fragmented and ineffectual. Yes, I agree, what our government does with our children once they are able to get their hands on them through the family courts is as leading an indicator that our freedoms are being stripped and socialism is on the march as any indicator available.

We fathers are typically left destitute and demoralized after our experiences. Demoralized poor people make for a poor fighting force.

Our children were fortunate; after the family courts stripped us of all our wealth (minimum of $250,000.00) and left our kids to live with the one parent who treated them as income producers, our children’s pleas to their mother to live with me were finally answered. As my fight was about the commitment to keep our children in their passion - successfully competing with their horses in the rodeo arena - my spare time is devoted to constant rodeo practices and competitions - and two part-time jobs to finance this endeavor. Our kids are now overwhelmingly happy and there have been huge and positive adjustments in their academic and social skills.

I will never forget how government intrusion nearly totally ruined our lives. Not to the point that I throw away the reason I fought the fight - keeping our kids interest first. However, our youngest is thirteen and once they’re on their own I look forward to rejoining the father’s rights movement at a fanatical level.

I have a close friend who, I strongly believe, is going to be elected our new state senator in November. We’ve got some plans to help his campaign in the next month and I strongly believe we’re going to have a very strong father’s advocate in our state government. Presumptive Equal Placement, I like to believe, is close to becoming law in Wisconsin. With this law, I am convinced, most of the problems associated with divorce will go away.

Again, it was awesome to see you still on the look out for us and helping us educate ourselves.

God bless you and Ruth.

Samuel M. Polhamus

Sam, many thanks for that.  –Walter and Ruth

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September 10, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Note 2010 09 13:

The posting of comments appears to be possible again as of now.  I hope that the fix that 1and1.com devised will be a permanent solution. –Walter

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Note 2010 09 10: 1and1.com, the web host for this blog, is presently experiencing a problem that prevent anyone (even the moderator) from posting comments to any of the blog entries.

1and1.com is in the process of fixing the problem.  The ability to post comments will be restored as soon as 1and1.com is done with finding the cause of the problem and fixing it. –Walter

Update 2010 09 11: 1and1.com is still working on resolving the problem.  I have now spent a considerable amount of time discussing the problem with a number of people on their staff, but as of now it appears that their work on the problem resulted in no improvement or solutions.  However, the second-last and last user reps. I spoke with both told me that the problem (involving a WP Hashcash error message being received instead of an acknowledgment that sending a comment was successful) requires “escalation”, with the last one of them telling me that it would now be escalated by sending a problem ticket to “the back office”.

It is great to know that, but will that now truly happen, and is it standard procedure that four or five calls are required with time-consuming and repetitious explanations for people of whom some obviously have trouble navigating a blog even with instructions before anything will actually be done?

It remains to be seen how long it will take to fix the problem their software is causing.  In the meantime, the commenting function at the blog is still not functioning, and Dads & Things is effectively out of commission, other than that postings and updates to postings can be made and viewed.

I am not impressed at all with the performance of 1and1.com.

Oh, and I should mention that the WordPress version used by 1and1.com for this blog now tells anyone who cares that five comments were made for this posting, but only four comments are shown.  Moreover, I made more than a dozen attempts to post a comment to this posting, but the error message I receive keeps telling me that I failed to be successful on only four previous attempts.

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September 3, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Heidi wrote:

what about mothers for life.????

I am quite resentful for this, as it is a one sided  coin…   I am a single mother.. who left an emotionally abusive relationship.. where my children were being hit.  My ex stopped bothering with the kids.. of which only one was his… years passed… and he was reported for income tax fraud .. he spent multitudes of thousands  of dollars.  To get custody of my son…. separate him from his siblings and mother… only to be fired into programs to enable his father to continue the same life he had before… no alterations to my exes life at all… just  child care programs added to the bills. MY son was removed from my home and taken   4 days drive away .. into another country. My child must feel like he has been kidnapped by  his estranged father…. the one who made the choice to  walk out and bandon him years before. The father that didnt call..the father that didnt show up for visits… and when he did..  he had his new woman… nice….  Some fathers are not worthy of their kids.

As Always…… Heidi

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Response by F4L:

Heidi, you don’t specifically state what you are resentful about, but, judging by the header of your message, it seems that you resent the name of the website of Fathers for Life.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to respond to any valid causes of your resentfulness, because the ostensible reasons you seem to offer are complaints about your ex-husband, for which we must apparently just take your word, as we do not get to know his side of the argument.  Still, far be it from me to become involved in your divorce-and-custody squabbles, as even the worst judge makes at least a pretense of where between the stories by the two sides in such an argument the truth may be.

However, you project from your displeasure with your ex to make a moral judgment on others, and from there you make a leap of faith by using your displeasure with your ex to fuel your displeasure with the name “Fathers for Life”.  How do your personal problems fit into that, and why do they make you resent the name of the website of Fathers for Life?

Heidi, you live in a free country.  Nothing prevents you from fighting back with a website of your own that you may wish to call “Mothers for Life”.  It would be for a good cause.  Go for it!

–Walter

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August 31, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Got a news item or comment that does not fit one of the existing discussion threads?  Post it here as a comment.

For URLs, make sure that you just copy and paste them as simple character strings.  Do not use any HTML tags for URLs.

Do not post complete news articles.  Usually the headline and identification of the source, date, URL and a short explanation are sufficient.

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August 31, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

[Name not shown] wrote:

Hey my name is [not shown] and I just wanted to thank you for your website. I only recently discovered it and I’m happy and proud there are people out there who are trying to redeem something from this crap we’re in as men.

I’m only 19 years old but I already see how we’ve been sold a lie and everything normal and stable is being destroyed. Unlike most guys I know and see, I want a partner and family sometime in the near future, but I find it difficult and frustrating when I go out and see amongst the groups of young women who debauch themselves and act like sluts.

Luckily though, most of my close friends want what I want, both male and female, and in some ways I find it relieving that there are some out there who wish for a normal, stable, heterosexual relationship.

Thanks again

Response by F4L: Thanks for the thumbs-up.

I probably don’t have to tell you any of this, but just in case you want to have a check-sheet that you can also give to some of your friends, these ideas may help you to find the right woman to share your life with.  It takes a bit of common sense and open eyes.  You have more than enough of that.

Messages like yours convince me that I have not wasted a good portion of my life and resources with writing about such things.

All the best,

Walter
http://fathersforlife.org

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