Thursday, October 27, 2011

Looking for a "pimp"?? Well, Derek Avery needs new clients between 13-15...he's got his fedora ready moms

Accused sex trafficker set to change plea - JSOnline:

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Summary: On again, Off again, self-professed PIMP, Derrick Avery is ready to change his not guilty plea in exchange for a lighter sentence but the details of the agreement have not been disclosed. Avery is charged with prostituting 2 girls who were as young as 14 and 10 women over a span of 8 years and beating and torturing them if they didn't make him enough money. He appeared on "The Jerry Springer Show" as a self proclaimed pimp and appeared in a documentary called "Pimp's Up, Hoe's Down" in 1999. On the contrary though, Avery has professed on other websites that he is not a pimp but just an actor "playing" a pimp. When he was arrested he was living in Las Vegas but the charges originated in Milwaukee where he was the highest profile case in a string of sex trafficking offenses. 

My take: More of the scumbags like these need to be the target of investigations in the cities throughout the united states. I know prostitution is illegal but as far as i'm concerned what a women chooses to do with her body is her business. Whether it's a drug addict that offers to sleep with a guy if he gives her that next fix or the pta president sneaking out after work and getting a hotel room with his mistress that has him leaving $300 light in the wallet who cares? Is it morally wrong in my opinion? SURE. But, who am I to judge what they do in their free time? What business is it of mine? I gamble on cards and bet on football games, maybe that pta president finds that morally reprehensible. We all have our vices, to each his own I say.


 The part of this story that bothers me isn't really even highlighted in the piece, did you notice it? What fact sticks out to you the first time you read the article? There were 2 girls that were as young as 14 that were not only beaten and tourtured if they didn't make him enough money but just think how they were getting that money. These are girls that are about middle school age, maybe barely a freshmen in high school but more likely MIDDLE SCHOOL. They should be having sleepovers and too shy to talk to boys on the phone so they text, anxiously awaiting that boy they like to ask them to dance at the winter festival, instead there being violated by strangers 5/6/10 everyday to pay this asshole's bills? What is wrong with us right now? Get angry, please, we need to start doing something about this stuff, a slap on the wrist fine and a few years in jail isn't going to cut it. 


If a grown women wants to sleep with men for money all the power too her, it needs to be legalized around the country so that the state can tax the income and the industry can become safer and absent of diseases both deadly and the least of your problems, embarassing.

+Joshua Hastings
@joshuadavid1121
www.MassAuthentics.Ecrater.com
http://massauthentics.tumblr.com/

Monday, October 24, 2011

BBC News - Give An Hour: Opening up a new world

BBC News - Give An Hour: Opening up a new world:

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Summary: The "Give an hour" campaign is encouraging people to give an hour of their time to spend with people who have NEVER or basically never used the internet. It seems like EVERYONE is online, especially with the increase of the social networks and the visability of them combined with the fact that computer prices have dropped thousands from when they first came on the market. In London out of the 10% of people who have not used a computer in their life 43% are over the age of 55 and without someone to bridge the gap this can lead to isolation and frustration.


My take: This seems like a great program and a fantastic idea. I can remember learning the basics myself and how big of a deal it was when we got a computer room in my elementary school back 15-20 years ago. Now there are millions or options and i'm sure it's very confusing for that older generation that hasn't been exposed to them, imagine how daunting just walking through the computer section of Best Buy would be. Article is def worth the read and I commend them for the innovative thinking. I believe I heard something in my local town about having a class at our senior center to teach computer basics actually so that's something i'm going to look into. As always, let's try and help other people in our neighborhoods, someday you could need something and they will be there for you too, pass it on and it will come back over and over....

+Joshua Hastings
@joshuadavid1121
www.MassAuthentics.Ecrater.com
http://massauthentics.tumblr.com/

Hard to be humble when you stuntin on a jumbotron - I'm glad everyone likes our poster campaign :)

Click this link to check out the original post from SAUCY-SARAH ON TUMBLR.COM....Hard to be humble when you stuntin on a jumbotron - I'm glad everyone likes our poster campaign :):

'via Blog this'


The Won't Sell Em' A Dream But The Inspiration Is Free poster campaign is bringing the "were a culture, not a costume" "This is NOT who I am and this is NOT ok." message straight to your home. The overall message is global acceptance of all different cultures and those different in society who have faced mockery and ridicule at the hands of peers dating back generation after generation.




+Joshua Hastings
@joshuadavid1121
www.MassAuthentics.Ecrater.com
http://massauthentics.tumblr.com/

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network

Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network:

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Freedom Hosting is the name of a hosting service for websites that want to keep their user list confidential. By Anonymous hacking Freedom and eliminating the MORE THEN 100 GB OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OFF just 1 of over 40 of these child porno websites that Freedom had hosted they are taking a small step in eradicating the abuse of minors. Obviously we will never rid the world of evil, we will never free our town, state, country or world of all of the sickness and depravity that exists in vile people such as the assholes that enjoy looking at our innocent children being sexually abused. However, each time Anonymous gets one more list of customers, one more file of the users, that's the chance to save 1 more little girl from being hurt next year, or that little boy from facing the darkness every day of his life after the suffering at the hands of these bastards.


I understand the hacking that anonymous does makes some people feel uncomfortable, saying the means don't justify the end result. I typically agree but I don't think it's as black and white in this specific situation, there's a grey area that exists with child abuse that will always take precedent in my mind. Someone's name and address don't just magically appear on a user-list of pedophiles visiting a kiddie porn website. Yes, there could be situations where someone with ulterior motives could hack in and add their cheating x boyfriend to the user-list before releasing it or something similar and that's way way beyond the line. But i'm going to take the Anonymous groups word until they give me a reason not to and just appreciate the fact that right now there are a few less pedophiles sitting in their moms basement watching video's of some poor innocent kid that has been abused for years and years be violated.


Until the next anonymous project gets underway, I say thank you again, it's important work, and if our government has guidelines and laws that these monsters can hide behind then i'm all for not just the hacking, shutting down and releasing of usernames but how about the police and prosecutors take notice and start looking into what charges they can file? It's not like Anonymous is being instructed to do this as a government agent so the information they obtained should still be permissible, GET THESE BASTARDS OFF OUR STREETS AND AWAY FROM OUR KIDS!







+Joshua Hastings
@joshuadavid1121
www.MassAuthentics.Ecrater.com
http://massauthentics.tumblr.com/

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Man, Husband, Father, Grandpa, great-grandpa but you mean so much more!



Photo courtesy of the talented Lisa Mikulski


Robert Rivet 3/21/39-5/24/11
I will never forget you and you will always have a special
place in my heart grandpa



It seems like it was just last week that I was talking with you on the phone grandpa, why did we happen to talk that night? May 23rd will forever be in my head because you said I love you to me after our conversation and I paused after we hung up and thought for a while. I really sat down while different scenario's ran through my head and then I smiled thinking about how much fun we used to have and went to work trying to find you the information you wanted. (He fixes tv in his spare time, he's one of those old kinda fix everything electronic guys and he had a bunch of old big tvs that wouldn't really work unless you had that adaptor now so he wanted me to use my online saavy and website to see about finding a vintage tv store or somewhere that may be interested in buying them/he didn't even want any money, he said for my work I could just keep it, that's the kind of man he was).


 Before I ever got a chance to talk to him again and show him what i'd found he was gone. He had died unexpectedly after having a heart attack while driving going straight through a T intersection and over an embankment. From what evidence has been gathered he passed away before the accident so he didn't suffer anymore pain. The first thing I asked when I heard was did anyone else get hurt because he went through a red light and it was the middle of the afternoon. To the letter almost every person that knew him said that is what wouldve been most important to him was that no innocent bystanders were hurt due to his passing. That's the kind of man that he was. That is the man I am proud to say is my grandfather. 


Rest in peace grandpa, I know your smiling when you read this and were all going to make it, I'm going to make you as proud as you made me I hope.





+Joshua Hastings
@joshuadavid1121
www.MassAuthentics.Ecrater.com
http://massauthentics.tumblr.com/

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Operation Darknet....Karol Oilbhreis


Below is the timeline of events from an online group that is dedicated to eradicating the internet community of the filth that is child pornography.....Some people such as myself find it absolutely disgusting and think that the violators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law but are powerless to do anything about it except let +Karol Oilbhreis know what a great job I think they are doing. I am proud to say that I shared this and hope every single person that reads it does also. Even if it just helps one more site get shut down, then that's a step in the right direction.


Karol Oilbhreis  -  10:30 PM (edited)  -  Public
Operation Darknet
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Timeline of Events
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At apprx 8:30 CST while browsing the Hidden Wiki we noticed a section called Hard Candy which was dedicated to links to child pornography. We then removed all links on the website, within 5 minutes the links were edited back in by an admin. For this reason, we will continue to make the Hidden Wiki unavailable.
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At apprx 8:45 CST we noticed 95% of the child pornography listed on the Hidden Wiki shared a digital fingerprint with the shared hosting server at Freedom Hosting.
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At apprx 9:00pm CST on October 14, 2011 We identified Freedom Hosting as the host of the largest collection of child pornography on the internet. We then issued a warning to remove the illegal content from their server, which they refused to do.
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At apprx 11:30pm CST on October 14, 2011 We infiltrated the shared hosting server of Freedom Hosting and shutdown services to all clients due to their lack of action to remove child pornography from their server.
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At apprx 5:00pm CST on October 15, 2011 Freedom Hosting installed their backups and restored services to their child pornography clients. We then issued multiple warnings to remove all child pornography from their servers, which Freedom Hosting refused to do.
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At apprx 8:00pm CST on October 15, 2011 despite new security features, we once again infiltrated the shared hosting server at Freedom Hosting and stopped service to all clients.
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Our Statement
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The owners and operators at Freedom Hosting are openly supporting child pornography and enabling pedophiles to view innocent children, fueling their issues and putting children at risk of abduction, molestation, rape, and death.

For this, Freedom Hosting has been declared #OpDarknet Enemy Number One.

By taking down Freedom Hosting, we are eliminating 40+ child pornography websites, among these is Lolita City, one of the largest child pornography websites to date containing more than 100GB of child pornography.

We will continue to not only crash Freedom Hosting's server, but any other server we find to contain, promote, or support child pornography.

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Our Demands
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Our demands are simple. Remove all child pornography content from your servers. Refuse to provide hosting services to any website dealing with child pornography. This statement is not just aimed at Freedom Hosting, but everyone on the internet. It does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target.

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Images & Misc
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Dead Server Screenshot: http://i55.tinypic.com/vy9w7k.jpg
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Freedom Host PR Screenshot: http://i53.tinypic.com/o5qlip.jpg
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Our Manifesto: Anonymous - Operation Darknet
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#Antisec | #Anonymous | #FreeTopiary | #AnonOps | #FreeAnons | #OccupyWallSteet | #OWS


We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.


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Server Information
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phpinfo() of FreedomHosting:
System FreeBSD server 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:45:57 UTC 2011 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Build Date Aug 26 2011 03:00:30
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Registered PHP Streams php, file, glob, data, http, ftp, zip, compress.zlib
Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg
Registered Stream Filters convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, zlib.*

Configuration
apache2handler
Apache Version Apache
Apache API Version 20051115
Server Administrator you@example.com
Hostname:Port xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion:0
User/Group www(80)/80
Max Requests Per Child: 10000 - Keep Alive: off - Max Per Connection: 100
Timeouts Connection: 900 - Keep-Alive: 60
Virtual Server Yes
Server Root /usr/local
Loaded Modules core prefork http_core mod_so mod_authz_host mod_file_cache mod_cache mod_disk_cache mod_filter mod_deflate mod_env mod_expires mod_headers mod_setenvif mod_mime mod_status mod_autoindex mod_dir mod_alias mod_rewrite mod_bw mod_php5 mod_alias_basedir mod_vhost_alias_frdmhst

Apache Environment
Variable Value
HTTP_HOST xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion
HTTP_CONNECTION close
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0)
HTTP_ACCEPT text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_DNT 1
HTTP_COOKIE visitz=0; sort=0a
PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bsd:/usr/local/bin
SERVER_SIGNATURE no value
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache
SERVER_NAME xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion
SERVER_ADDR 10.0.1.2
SERVER_PORT 80
REMOTE_ADDR 10.0.1.2
DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/fh/www
SERVER_ADMIN you@example.com
SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/fh/users/l/i/lolitacity/www/index.php
REMOTE_PORT 56818
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0
REQUEST_METHOD GET
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REQUEST_URI /users/lolitacity/index.php
SCRIPT_NAME /users/lolitacity/index.php
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

On a scale of 1-10 how funny is rape to you???


When I hear the term "RAPE PAGES" I have a lot of different things run through my mind. None of them positive. You hear a lot in advertising and business there is no such thing as "bad" publicity.....and we've all seen it in action. Something like one of the many lawsuits that were brought against the owner and creator of Girls Gone Wild by parents of minor's that had been filmed, young women who had "performed" on video but don't remember consenting because of all of the alcohol they consumed, or just girls that say they didn't realize the paper that they signed was consent to have the images appear in ads/video's that were going to be distributed throughout the country and world. No one can say these were positive news stories for Joe whatever his name is, owner of the multi-million dollar franchise "girls gone wild" but guess what>? Every time that those images came across the scroll on channel 3, or another reporter brought the story to millions of homes across the world that was one more potential customer that had the chance to buy another dvd. 

Did he make his money in the most straight forward, 100% honest, integrity in-tact way? No, i don't think he'd even say he is proud of some of the stories that have came out about his cameramen plying young girls to go further and further with excessive amounts of alcohol. But, and this is a big BUT...the idea was ingenious, and in general what he did was perfectly legal.  The women that appear in those video's flashing their breasts to the camera knew what they were doing, they signed a consent form and put themselves in a position to be video taped because it sounded fun at the time, or their friends were doing it or for whatever other reason. Most of these "girls gone wild" tapings are not done at a random party where they just show up with a camera and an idea, there is massive amounts of advertising that goes into these events. 95% of the people that are at an event where they are taping, went there knowing either they wanted to go see some pretty girls that were drinking and going to be half naked, or knowing they wanted to flash the camera so they could get a free GGW t-shirt or hat. What i'm saying is, it's not usually a girl that went out to have a drink with her boyfriend and watch a baseball game on tv and relax and while her bf is distracted some shady character sneaks a roofie in her drink and sneaks her off to the basement to take advantage of her. 

Save your outrage and anger for the women out there that deserve it. Rape is a huge problem throughout the world, whether it's a 3rd world country where rebels rape and pillage while causing a rain of terror or in downtown boston while a student walks home from a night out with her girlfriends, these disgusting actions can occur anywhere.  I use the above example of Girls Gone Wild for a reason. The fact that facebook has decided to take a stand on something as ridiculous as what you will read below amazes me. In a time where they are potentially in the fight of their life to maintain there market share and this is the type of people you want to stand up for? I'm all for freedom of speech, but when they are clearly using it to incite these vile discussions among children it disgusts me. FACEBOOK IS SOMETHING THAT IS TARGETED AT KIDS in my opinion, I know kids as young as 10 years old that are on there and now they are exposed to things like "rape pages" where people are talking about rape fantasies, and other extreme examples openly? This is something your ok with your kid seeing? There is no verification to make sure only people over 18 look at it, no even place to ask that you check this box to signify that you are of legal age which would be nothing more then pretending your trying to keep kids out because anyone can just check the box but at least your pretending.....IT'S CLEAR TO ME WHY THINGS LIKE THIS ARE STILL OPEN.....BECAUSE THEY GET TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC GET'S ADVERTISING DOLLARS AND ADVERTISING DOLLARS ARE IMPORTANT TO FACEBOOK, all i know is I will never have a facebook account and if after reading this you think you or your kids should then i think you need to read it again. 


Controversy ... Facebook has refused to remove a page about rape. Photo: Getty Images
Nobody knows better than MJ Stephens that rape is no laughing matter. So as the victim of a sexual assault, she was horrified when she encountered the contents of a Facebook page full of jokes about rape and violence towards women.
But worse was to come when the young American tried to argue with people who had attached comments to a page called: "You know shes [sic] playing hard to get when your [sic] chasing her down an alleyway" - most of them teenagers and young adults from Australia and Britain.
In sickeningly explicit terms, several of them threatened her and expressed the wish that she be raped again.
Such pages, full of ugliness, aggression and pornographic language are multiplying on Facebook, drawing lucrative user traffic to the social networking site.
Now it has emerged that one of the "administrators" of the page - users with the right to edit its content - is believed to be a British schoolboy linked to a network of hackers in Australia, Britain and America who have set up Facebook pages featuring offensive sexual and violent content.
Micheal O'Brien, a Canadian computer systems engineer who co-founded the Rape Is No Joke (RINJ) campaign to pressure Facebook to delete "rape pages" via petitions and boycotts, has tracked the activity on several such pages and contacted participants online.
He told London's The Sunday Telegraph that associates of 4chan, a loose-knit collection of international "cyber-anarchists" who champion absolute online freedom, including the right to share pornography, have founded and administer several of the pages.
The RINJ's own website has been attacked by hackers and campaigners have been subjected to virulent online onslaughts since they started to draw attention to the 4chan connection last week. Pro-4chan images have also been posted to the "alleyway" page.
Facebook protects the identity of those who set up and run pages but Mr O'Brien has identified several posters as likely page administrators, including college students in Australia and a teenage boy in Britain.
With nearly 210,000 people indicating that they "like" it, and many million of monthly visitors, the "alleyway" page is the most popular. Others include "Abducting, raping and violently murdering your friend as a joke", "Pinning your mate down while someone HIV positive rapes him for a laugh", "Police call it a restraining order, we call it playing hard to get" and "Turning into a chain smoking sexual predator when you drink".
Many of the regular users who "post" on the pages are young Australians and Britons- many still at school, judging from information on their own Facebook profile pages. The website allows any child aged 13 or older to open an account.
Activists and victims' support groups in Britain and America, where Facebook is based, have urged the social networking site to shut down and remove the pages. But despite an online petition signed by more than 200,000 people worldwide, the internet giant is refusing to do so.
Facebook did not respond to repeated requests for comment by The Sunday Telegraph. But in response to previous complaints about the pages, the company has said that while they may express "outrageous or offensive" opinions, they do not violate its rules banning content that is hateful or incites violence.
"It is very important to point out that what one person finds offensive, another can find entertaining," a spokesman said. "Just as telling a rude joke won't get you thrown out of your local pub, it won't get you thrown off Facebook."
An administrator of the "rape page" posted an online defence in response to the controversy, insisting that he did not support or promote rape but then directing a sarcastic barb at critics.
"i d[o] not support rape this group doesn't," the person wrote, with a lack of grammar and in internet shorthand characteristic of many postings. "thanks for supporting us uve made us get even more likes i thank u for that but this group has not dne anything wrong according to the terms and cnditions f facebook groups s if it does get taken down it will result in court because it has done nothing wrong."
Jane Osmond, co-editor of the Women's Views on News website, which has led the campaign in Britain, said: "It's ludicrous to compare the content on this page to pub humour. Rape is a crime and we live in a society where the threat of rape is in the mind of every woman who has walked down a street alone at night. Making a joke about rape is not just not funny. It allows people to dismiss it as something not serious.
"Those who post in this way are certainly mostly teenage boys and young men saying inappropriate things, but we do believe that these sites have attracted sexual predators too. It is a dangerous group with some dangerous users."
Activists who have gone online to make their case, and to publish images for a campaign promoting consensual rather than forced sexual activity, have been subjected to such a violent response that some have complained to the police.
Campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic have now switched their attention to businesses as they believe Facebook is inclined to allow the pages to continue because of the viewers and hence advertising revenue they bring in.
"Facebook will only listen to money, so we are now targeting the advertisers who have appeared on their pages," said Miss Osmond.
Major companies that advertise on Facebook were furious to discover that their advertisements were appearing on the "rape page" and demanded they be removed. They included Barclays, 02, John Lewis, Sony, BlackBerry, American Express, Groupon, Heinz, National Lottery, the White Company and PepsiCo.
After complaints from several businesses to Facebook, the "alleyway" page was "whitelisted" last week, meaning that no adverts could be rotated on it. But advertisements continue to appear on other pages where the content was just as offensive.

Monday, October 17, 2011

You cant break. . . When you're already broken., Im a casualty of love.

You cant break. . . When you're already broken., Im a casualty of love.:

'via Blog this'

Summary: This was a goodbye letter/suicide note that this kid posted to say goodbye to his friends and parents and apologize for what he's about to do, things like this are just so sad that I don't even know what to say. I know people who have felt like this, I have a friend who walked in to find his father hanging from the doorway in his basement before he was 10 years old, I had another friend overdose 'accidently' after about his 4 try at doing as many drugs as he could buy for a week and trying to complete the suicide before it finally happened, and I have personally felt so far down that I didn't think i'd ever find my way back to the light....sometimes it really is a miracle when kids make it through but they are resilient and more then anything they are all worth what it takes to help them.

 If you think someone might be in trouble offer to talk, or better yet offer to listen, sometimes all it takes is someone understanding to vent everything that's been building up....


This is the kind of thing that happens when a child is abused sexually, mentally, physically, bullied, pressured to succeed by adults or not having anyone to show affection or love so they have the feeling of worthlessness or they are just plain overwhelmed with no one to go to....these are all things that kids can go through that many do and end up happy healthy adults because of the support system they have whether it's a friend, parents, uncle, aunt, teacher, coach ect. None of these have to result in tradegy but all of them can and have, everyday kids are exposed to choices that will affect them the rest of their lives.

Things like should they sneak out to that party down the street, should they drink at the party, should they leave with that boy they like, should they say no because there isn't a condom available, these are all common choices that instead of happening your junior and senior year of high school are now happening everywhere by 12-13-14 years old, and i'm serious...if you think that your kid hasn't been exposed to some pretty adult stuff by that age then either your really really sheltering them or your home schooling them and they don't have any friends.

Rather then pretending these scenario's don't exist educate and explain life as you go. You kid is better off hearing about sex and being a little embarassed about it from you then watching a porn with his friends at a sleepover and then at the next party thinking that he just should expect girls that are alone with him to have sex. Most porns don't have actors wearing protection either, that something you want your 13 year figuring is the right way? Put it this way, is it going to be more uncomfortable for you to explain to your son about what's going on before he's sexually active or have your son explain to you what his plan is for that girl he doesn't really know that's having his baby in 8 more months he just found out?

Friday, October 14, 2011

Stanley Cup riots -- Vancouver spa offers rioters incentive to turn themselves in - ESPN

Stanley Cup riots -- Vancouver spa offers rioters incentive to turn themselves in - ESPN:

'via Blog this'

This is a unique way to fight crime, well I guess your not really "fighting" crime, more like your massaging the evil out of the body, mind and soul, haha. Probably one of the strangest proposals I have ever heard and the advertising/marketing ploy has been met with some negative reactions from people like Charles Gauthier of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association. The promotion is being run by Eccotique Spa which is in the Vancouver area but at press time no one has taken them up on their offer in exchange for confessing.

Personally, I think this is stupid but when people hear things like there is no bad press, just good and great things like this come to mind. How about you try rewarding the mature citizens who didn't destroy over a million dollars in property throughout downtown. Run a sale and match whatever they donate to help maintain all of the damage. Take a day off and have all your employees volunteer with cleanup and maintenance to help fix the problem instead of making a joke of it. Rioting after loses AND WINS has become a huge problem in the US lately. I live within 15 minutes of the University of Massachusetts and was present during a few of the recent championship victories of Boston Area teams like the Patriots, Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox and have seen the kind of damage that can happen. It turns into a mob mentality and goes from just kids cheering to throwing things and breaking everything in sight instantly. It needs to be taken seriously and making a joke of it like that isnt helping.... 

Sunday, October 9, 2011

It's 3 simple words but you deserve so much more "I love you"

Sometimes we all forget just how lucky we are to have someone in our life that loves us unconditionally, is always there whether you struck out in your
little league game, missed the game winning shot in the basketball game, tripped
and fumbled and cost your team the football game, got a C on the paper you spent
all night writing, waiting till the last minute to tell them about the cookies
your supposed to bring to the party for the whole football team, or even if you
call at 3 am needing a ride home because you don't think you should
drive........

My mom has been there for me through everything above and that is just a
small slice of what we have been through together, I will never take what she
has done for granted and I smile just thinking of how amazing she is. Anyone who
is lucky enough to spend time with my mother knows immediately why I feel this
way. From giving friends a place to sleep when they had no where else to go,
offering rides to friends that couldn't call their own parents and bother them
when they have work in the morning because they can't drive even though she gets
up everyday at 4:30 am for work, and everything in between that I can't fit in
this short story or it would be 1,000 pages. I can't put into words how
important you and everything you have done has meant to me but you've taught me
what it means to be a good person, about morality, standing up for what I
believe in even if its not popular and being kind to everyone whether you agree
with them or not you can always treat them with respect.

Now this time I have 4 words that you deserve to hear more but I will never let you hear
them less, I LOVE YOU MOM.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Better then most-1

The first memories I have of my parents together they were always smiling, kissing, laughing together, dad playing catch with me outside, mom cooking lunch inside for us and watching my sister while my little brother tried to play catch too but wasn't quite old enough to really do it. It was as good as it got I think looking back, it got worse and worse every year that I can remember, almost everything i've known is gone now but that's a later story.

Growing up in my house was as all-american as you could get. My dad coached every sports team my brother and I played on until I got to high school and even then he coached 2 different teams at my high school. There was 3 of us kids, I'm Kaleb the oldest, then came Kyle who was 2.5 years behind me and then Kristen who was 3 years behind Kyle. My mom was a stay at home mom for most of our childhood because that's just how it was normally. I didn't think she minded until later on when things started getting bad, then again I don't know if they were ever actually "good", maybe I just saw what I wanted to see when I was younger. On the outside looking in we had the perfect family, at least that's what everyone in town thought. Dad was perfect, went to the army right out of high school, came back and became a police officer, after working his way up made it to chief of police, always around to coach, good husband, father, son. That's the side of dad everyone on the outside knew, the sober, police officer, coach, and husband....

Ok, a little backround to start. I was born on an army base because obviously my father was in the army which he enlisted right out of high school and was based in the South. My mother got pregnant with me when she was 18 and they were living together, I was born when they were only 19. This was not that unusual in that time though, in the early 80's a lot of people got married around that age. This was November 1983 and their families were both so excited to see me arrive, I was the first child in the family that generation.

Now a backround of how my parents grew up so you'll understand how I was punished, rebelled, spoken to, lived, and reacted to how I was brought up. Both parents had a pretty middle class white typical upbringing but their parents were polar opposite in their beliefs.

My mother's parents were together since they were in grade school and were still together until this past August when my grandfather died of a heart attack out of the blue while driving. It was really hard on my grandma, she has never known anything but him, never been apart for more then 2 weeks in the last 56 years and those 2 weeks were vacationing visiting my moms sister, my aunt, in Florida and they talked everyday. They were both laid back, quiet people who were active in their kids lives and community but passive personalities. They had 4 kids, all girls and my mother was the oldest.
My parents grew up in a towns that were both mostly white at the time and they lived about 5-10 minutes apart. I can only remember my grandfather raising his voice about talking level 1 time in the 27 years I knew him and that was yelling at a baseball game when I stuck someone out, it was one of the best memories of my childhood with him. He was a churchgoing man and that was very important to him, much more then to the rest of our family. My grandmother was a closet alcoholic for almost her entire life. I didn't know this until she was arrested for a DUI about 2 years ago. It was a family secret that was kept just as that, a secret. She hid it well, only vodka, straight, and only did it in private, i never saw her drink even a glass of wine in my life.

Up until the divorce though or at least up until they fought so much we knew eventually they would get divorced they still played the happy family everything is beautiful bullshit part in public. Almost no one even had any clue it was coming when they started telling ppl because that's just how fake it was. It was be a smile and a pagent wave walking in the house and the as the door closes you'd hear, "your such a god damn asshole, couldn't even help me carry all this" then "just shut up, i'm so sick of listening to you complain, everyday it's the same bitching". They pretended for my brother to a point and then gave up, but a lot of it was for my sister, she was still pretty young and didn't understand what was happening.

Dad's home life growing up was somewhat like mine probably, or at least it had similarities. His parents divorced and both remarried just like mine, his dad had a temper that could get pretty volitale and his father drank. They didn't talk for many years after he was older and moved out and that's something I went through too. His father was a lot more strict then his mother just like mine and he started drinking and partying pretty young from what i've been told just like me. You'll hear the details of all of this and some of the stories later on. My father played sports growing up just like I did, but his dad and grandfather owned a farm so they wern't as into sports. I think that's a lot of the reason he always tried to be around to coach my teams, he felt like it's something he never had and wanted it to be different for me.

People don't know exactly how hard it is to play for your father, especially my father. Some dad's are the ones that favor their kids and show them off, brag about them when there not athletic ect....that wasn't my dads way to do things. I had to try twice as hard as the other kids just to not be doing something wrong, I had to not just be good, I had to do everything perfect. I had a year in little league that I literally gave up 2 hits. Not gave up 2 hits in a game I pitched, I LITERALLY WAS A PITCHER THAT THREW 8 NO HITTERS AND 2 GAMES I GAVE UP 1 HIT EACH. A total of 2 hits the entire year off me. I think I heard something about that from him twice, and that was a few years later.

Now that you have a little backround I'll get into when I had my first drink, when I was 11, and when I was arrested for the first time, when I was 12. It's going to be a story with a lot of highs and a lot of lows but I made it through college and out into the world but it's wasn't easy and I didn't have very much support as you'll see.....hope you get something out of this, that's why i'm telling my story, cause maybe there's someone out there that thinks no one will understand, and they can't take one more bad thing their kid does. I've done more things wrong then I can fit into this book and i've had supportive parents at times and i've had absentee parents for a lot of age 16-23 but I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. Some of it made me stronger, some showed exactly what I don't want to be like or what I don't want to say to my kid when I have one. If there is anyone reading this that needs someone to talk to ever, just let me know, i'm more then happy to help, it's what i've been put on the earth to do now, teach....