Jake in Trees

I was watching the new show "Men in Trees" last night. It is a pretty good show to watch. Nothing to horrible yet. Anyways.... last night her fans thought she had died because she did not show up for some appearances, it turns out that she is in Alaska. Well.... I am not dead. I have not abandoned my blog.

Studio 60 - a funny show that my friend Nate Torrence is in. Actually I don't know of he is my friend or not anymore. We went to church and youth group together. Went on a missions trip to Guatemala together. When he and his wife moved to LA and went out and visited them and was actually at their little studio apartment. I've e-mailed him a few times but never get a response. Maybe he thinks I am trying to hang on to his coat tails or something like that. I'm not. I'm just trying to remain his friend and be supportive of him. He has come a long way from Berlin, Ohio to LA. A major accomplishment. Go Nate.

-later
-peace out
-see you on the flip side

Guatemalan Prisons

Prisons in Guatemala are not the same as the ones in the United States, at least the one I visited. When you walk into the prison you have your passport with you. Prison officials take your passport, look it over and then put a stamp on your hand saying that you are a visitor so that you can be let back out of the prison. Not to bad. Except they keep your passport.... and if your stamp wears off your hand you could possibly spend time in the prison while everything gets straightened out. So you walk in the prison following a guard carrying a sawed-off shot gun. You follow him into a room that they probably use to serve meals in or something that one side is open to the "outside" which is the courtyard in the middle of the prison. So everyone gets situated and we talk to our interpreter a little. I look around and our guard has disappeared. So we are with about 45 or so prisoners with no guard with us. Fun. I look across the court yard and spot two guards standing in the corners on top of the fence holding their shotguns. Great. Like they can make it over to this room in time if something breaks out. And I am the one who is suppose to be talking in front of these guys. Now, what is the last thing you think a prisoner wants to hear from a greengo? Hmm, you might have guessed it right. They don't want to hear that they are a guilty prisoner. Guess what. That is what I told them they were. I compared them to the prisoners on the cross next to Jesus. I asked which one they wanted to be. The one that died not acknowledging Christ or the one that accepted Christ during his last hour(s) on Earth.

Imagine this

Imagine you have 2 children. You have a 9 year old boy and a 6 year old girl. The boy becomes very jealous of his little sister for various reason. The boy starts being abusive to her. It finally communalates into the girls being murdered by her brother.
As a parent you are waken up by your son saying that his sister is dead and he has admitted to killing her. What would you do? I think as a parent you would do everything in the world to protect your son. It would be a double edged sword, hard to swallow isn't it?

Is it possible this could have happened in the Ramsey household that terrible night/morning on December 25-26, 1996? Colorado has a law which states a child under 10 years old cannot be held accountable for murder. So in the law's eyes in Colorado, it would be like JonBenet was never murdered. Protecting the privacy and the interest of the child which committed the act supercedes any wrong doing by the family.

Blogsvertise!?!?!

Blogsvertise. What is it? Blogsvertise is a new and unique way companies attempting to tap into the blogging sub-culture of America. Think of the possibilities you can have as a blogger. You are e-mailed assignments to complete. You in turn have about a week to complete these assignments. No I'm not talking about school work type of assignments. You actually look at a web site and then write a review tying in three (3) links to the url in your blog. Like what I am doing with this post. You don't have to be supportive of the product either, your allowed to write a negative review. You get to pretend you are a book or movie critic. But wait, there is more. You can actually make money doing this. You will make at least $10 per assignment possibly more once you get settled in and Blogsvertise likes what they see on your blog. So how about it? Go ahead and sign up for it at Blogsvertise, it's free, no it's better than free you get paid for blogging.

Searching for JonBenet

It's amazing how quickly a story can drop from the headlines. I had to actually search for JonBenet news. It wasn't on the front page on websites. It looks like John Mark Karr got what he wanted. His 15 minutes in the spotlight. It is sad how by him saying a few simple words can garnish so much attention. It also allows a little peak into society. Society still has a curiosity for the JonBenet case. Who dunit? My personal opinion is that someone from the inside had something to do with her death. I'm not saying they killed her but they know more than what has been said.
John Mark Karr had an outstanding warrant for child pornography. He needed to be arrested. But my question is, why couldn't they have taken DNA samples long before trotting him off to Boulder like a circus show.
My theory -- I blabbed about being there when JonBenet was killed so he wouldn't be in the general population of prison when he was sent there for child pornography. What do you think?

-later