After wrestling for days with Windows Movie Maker, here is my answer to NewtsNook's Labor Day tag challenge.
Because of injuries from an accident, I've got the "Labor Day Weekend Blues".
Thanks   more...to the other tag-ee's for their inspiration. Labor Day is now history, so the tag stops here..:) Thanks for watching!  less

Livevideo is invited for lunch. A labor of love

Please take time and watch all of this....especially if you are a concerned citizen. Very very very valuable information in this clip.

Ferdz want to see it so here it is :)

This has got to be one of the best editings I have done yet! It had me laughing in stiches! Enjoy a good laugh! Jesse :)

http://www.ralphbuckley.com Recorded live in my kitchen. 08/05/2008, If you're interested in obtaining a copy of the mp3 just let me know. email me at ralphbuckley@ralphbuckley.com

pigs in our backyard..

update!!

Another walk with Lulu. We touch on multi-site membership, vloggerheads, the Harley Birthday party and burrs.
Sorry, this is really long – over 14 minutes.

One of my goats, Sugar, having babies. March 30, 2008. The last 2 years, I have missed seeing her kid. She has 2, a black boy and a white girl. I love the markings! So cute!

COLUMBUS, OH -- Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the son of a Teamster truck driver and the oldest child in a paycheck-to-paycheck family of seven children, brought his life's experiences   more...and his legislative record to an AFL-CIO town hall meeting in Columbus (OH) today and told his union brothers and sisters, "This campaign is about jobs. It's about jobs. And it's about jobs."

"It's the workers of this country who are going to determine who the president is going to be," the Cleveland Congressman told the cheering crowd. And that next President, he said, must be committed to creating new jobs, making health care available to all Americans, securing workers' rights and pension rights, and improving education for the next generation of American workers.

Introduced as "Ohio's favorite son," Kucinich, the only card-carrying union member in the Democratic field, had the audience on its feet several times. He vowed to cancel the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has resulted in the out-sourcing of millions of American jobs. He promised a national, not-for-profit health insurance system that would cover all Americans. He pledged that the Justice Department and the Labor Department would enforce workers' rights, especially the right to organize.

His deep and sincere commitment to those issues and his legislative record separate him from the other Democratic candidates, Kucinich said.

"Do you think I could stand up here and talk like this if I was owned by Wall Street," Kucinich asked? "I'm someone who can not be bought. I'm someone who can not be bossed. I'm someone who can not be intimidated."

On health care, he said the other candidates "get too much money from the insurance companies, they can't break the hold." On foreign trade, other candidates are proposing to "fix" trade agreements, instead of scrapping them, and those promises are "weasel-wording" what they really plan to do: "nothing."

In a poignant story taken from his early years as a newspaper copyboy in Cleveland, Kucinich's eyes welled with tears, as did many in the audience, when he told of going to the homes of families to pick up photographs of their children who had died in the war in Vietnam. In vivid, emotional detail, he described their modest, working-class homes "and their hands...rough hands...like they had been working their whole lives...and just barely making it." He used the story to illustrate the personal impact that wars on the other side of the world have on families in Ohio and across the country. The war in Iraq, he said, must be brought to an end and America's service men and women must be brought home as soon as possible.

"You're looking at the only candidate to vote against the war and all of the appropriations" since, Kucinich said.

He added, "Ohio has the chance to be heard and change the election." As an Ohioan, "one of you," Kucinich said, "I'll never forget where I came from."

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COLUMBUS, OH -- Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the son of a Teamster truck driver and the oldest child in a paycheck-to-paycheck family of seven children, brought his life's experiences   more...and his legislative record to an AFL-CIO town hall meeting in Columbus (OH) today and told his union brothers and sisters, "This campaign is about jobs. It's about jobs. And it's about jobs."

"It's the workers of this country who are going to determine who the president is going to be," the Cleveland Congressman told the cheering crowd. And that next President, he said, must be committed to creating new jobs, making health care available to all Americans, securing workers' rights and pension rights, and improving education for the next generation of American workers.

Introduced as "Ohio's favorite son," Kucinich, the only card-carrying union member in the Democratic field, had the audience on its feet several times. He vowed to cancel the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has resulted in the out-sourcing of millions of American jobs. He promised a national, not-for-profit health insurance system that would cover all Americans. He pledged that the Justice Department and the Labor Department would enforce workers' rights, especially the right to organize.

His deep and sincere commitment to those issues and his legislative record separate him from the other Democratic candidates, Kucinich said.

"Do you think I could stand up here and talk like this if I was owned by Wall Street," Kucinich asked? "I'm someone who can not be bought. I'm someone who can not be bossed. I'm someone who can not be intimidated."

On health care, he said the other candidates "get too much money from the insurance companies, they can't break the hold." On foreign trade, other candidates are proposing to "fix" trade agreements, instead of scrapping them, and those promises are "weasel-wording" what they really plan to do: "nothing."

In a poignant story taken from his early years as a newspaper copyboy in Cleveland, Kucinich's eyes welled with tears, as did many in the audience, when he told of going to the homes of families to pick up photographs of their children who had died in the war in Vietnam. In vivid, emotional detail, he described their modest, working-class homes "and their hands...rough hands...like they had been working their whole lives...and just barely making it." He used the story to illustrate the personal impact that wars on the other side of the world have on families in Ohio and across the country. The war in Iraq, he said, must be brought to an end and America's service men and women must be brought home as soon as possible.

"You're looking at the only candidate to vote against the war and all of the appropriations" since, Kucinich said.

He added, "Ohio has the chance to be heard and change the election." As an Ohioan, "one of you," Kucinich said, "I'll never forget where I came from."

Video by Chad Ely  less

Tommy Emmanuel plays and teaches solo guitar selections from his albums - Endless Road, Only and The Mystery.

COLUMBUS, OH -- Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the son of a Teamster truck driver and the oldest child in a paycheck-to-paycheck family of seven children, brought his life's experiences   more...and his legislative record to an AFL-CIO town hall meeting in Columbus (OH) today and told his union brothers and sisters, "This campaign is about jobs. It's about jobs. And it's about jobs."

"It's the workers of this country who are going to determine who the president is going to be," the Cleveland Congressman told the cheering crowd. And that next President, he said, must be committed to creating new jobs, making health care available to all Americans, securing workers' rights and pension rights, and improving education for the next generation of American workers.

Introduced as "Ohio's favorite son," Kucinich, the only card-carrying union member in the Democratic field, had the audience on its feet several times. He vowed to cancel the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has resulted in the out-sourcing of millions of American jobs. He promised a national, not-for-profit health insurance system that would cover all Americans. He pledged that the Justice Department and the Labor Department would enforce workers' rights, especially the right to organize.

His deep and sincere commitment to those issues and his legislative record separate him from the other Democratic candidates, Kucinich said.

"Do you think I could stand up here and talk like this if I was owned by Wall Street," Kucinich asked? "I'm someone who can not be bought. I'm someone who can not be bossed. I'm someone who can not be intimidated."

On health care, he said the other candidates "get too much money from the insurance companies, they can't break the hold." On foreign trade, other candidates are proposing to "fix" trade agreements, instead of scrapping them, and those promises are "weasel-wording" what they really plan to do: "nothing."

In a poignant story taken from his early years as a newspaper copyboy in Cleveland, Kucinich's eyes welled with tears, as did many in the audience, when he told of going to the homes of families to pick up photographs of their children who had died in the war in Vietnam. In vivid, emotional detail, he described their modest, working-class homes "and their hands...rough hands...like they had been working their whole lives...and just barely making it." He used the story to illustrate the personal impact that wars on the other side of the world have on families in Ohio and across the country. The war in Iraq, he said, must be brought to an end and America's service men and women must be brought home as soon as possible.

"You're looking at the only candidate to vote against the war and all of the appropriations" since, Kucinich said.

He added, "Ohio has the chance to be heard and change the election." As an Ohioan, "one of you," Kucinich said, "I'll never forget where I came from."

Video by Chad Ely  less

Just kidding.
It's just me, cleaning my room.
It was my mom's deal with me to let me have the camera to make a video.

The music;
Inside Out - Eve 6
Crazy Mary - FM Static

CHIBA, Japan, Jan. 30 2008 KYODO
A total of 10 people have suffered food poisoning, with one of them in a serious condition, in Chiba and Hyogo prefectures after eating Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings,   more...the health ministry and police said Wednesday.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry decided to urge Tokyo-based importer JT Foods Co. to stop imports and sales of the dumplings, while notifying China of the situation through the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo.
JT Foods announced Wednesday evening that it would pull from store shelves two kinds of gyoza dumplings that are believed to have caused the food poisoning and 21 other items made at the same production plant in China.
The police have detected traces of an organophosphate called methamidophos inside packaging which is often used in China as a pesticide but is rarely used in Japan.
The police said they believe organophosphates may have been mixed into the dumplings during either production or packaging and they will investigate the food poisoning as possible attempted murder.
According to the health ministry, the dumplings involved in the cases in Chiba and Hyogo prefectures were ''Tezukuri Gyoza'' (handmade gyoza dumplings) and ''Tezutsumi Hitokuchi Gyoza'' (handmade bite-sized gyoza dumplings), respectively.
Both products were made by the same Chinese company and imported by JT Foods.
Of the 10 victims, five members of the same family in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, complained of diarrhea and vomiting after eating frozen dumplings and were admitted to hospital.
One member of the family, a 5-year-old girl, was in a critical condition after temporarily losing consciousness. Her parents and two other children were also seriously ill, according to the police.
None of the victims is in a life-threatening condition, they said.
Two people in the city of Chiba and three in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, reported similar symptoms, but all of them have been released from hospital.
Gyoza dumplings, wrapping ground meat and vegetables fillings in a thinly rolled piece of dough, are a popular food item.  less

Every now and then perform some good, tough, manual tasks. Street-smart stress tips based on acclaimed book 400 Ways to Stop Stress Now and Forever! by stress management coach G. Gaynor McTigue. Visit   more...www.pickmeupbooks.com  less

Well were at it again! Time to have a laugh, enjoy!

Flik I put together concerning wal-mart's Bs business practice's and child labor in China which is wal-marts number 1 supplier.

My message and scripture for today is concerning
"Endurance, How to stay in the Race". In summary,
endurance is a quality of life that enables us to keep
on keeping on. Many wonderful promises   more...are extended to
those who will endure til the end. lst Corinthians
15:57-58: "But thanks be to God! He gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58Therefore,
my dear brothers, (and sisters) stand firm. Let nothing
move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of
the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord
is not in vain". Amen!  less

Raw video footage from the Labor Day Parade, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, 2005. See you in Jamaica.

Spice having her babys. The first one came out breech (backwards) so she struggled with him. Both were healthy little boys

Houseboating Video - Lake Shasta - Labor Day 2007

Fishing at Kern River 2007