I forgot to add this in my last post. For any of you who didn't know already or are interested in more info about the visitation and what happened. Here is a link to Rusty's blog, Rachel has posted more information on it.
Rusty's Blog
Saturday, April 25, 2009
My friend, you will be missed.
Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. My good friend Rusty, died in a motorcycle accident, late Thursday night.
When I had first met Rusty, it was of course at work. I had seen him around a lot, he was a very tall impressive man so he would be hard to miss. Anyway, I was getting some water from the cooler which was right by his desk at the time. I saw he was reading a Rifts campaign sourcebook. I was very impressed, previous to that I thought I was the only one in the company that had even heard of the game, much less played it. So I had to stop and say Hi and let him know how cool it was that someone else enjoyed the game I had so much fun with in highschool.
From there we became friends. I think we became real good friends the day a tornado hit his Mother’s house in a teeny town in Iowa. He wanted to ride his motorcycle down to help her, I just happened to be spending the night over there after a game night. Well there was no way I was going to let him ride his motorcycle through a tornado producing thunderstorm so I took the day off work as well and gave him a ride down and helped out all that day.
Rusty was a good guy, he cared for his friends, he touched a lot of lives. Our office damn, near had to shut down yesterday because of all the people who loved him. So I know he is going to the right place. But he will certainly be missed by all of us who knew him.
I’ve often had the feeling in the past, what would happen if I just suddenly disappeared. I’d be able to escape my pains, my responsibilities, everything. Now, now I know the answer to that question. And all the lives it would affect. No longer will I question.
This is a hard blog to write. The hardest one I have ever written. I know most of the people reading this knew Rusty and are just as distraught as I am. I know this though, Rusty would be happy knowing that we are all here for each other, and care for each other in this time of great need.
God speed Rusty, we’re going to miss you.
When I had first met Rusty, it was of course at work. I had seen him around a lot, he was a very tall impressive man so he would be hard to miss. Anyway, I was getting some water from the cooler which was right by his desk at the time. I saw he was reading a Rifts campaign sourcebook. I was very impressed, previous to that I thought I was the only one in the company that had even heard of the game, much less played it. So I had to stop and say Hi and let him know how cool it was that someone else enjoyed the game I had so much fun with in highschool.
From there we became friends. I think we became real good friends the day a tornado hit his Mother’s house in a teeny town in Iowa. He wanted to ride his motorcycle down to help her, I just happened to be spending the night over there after a game night. Well there was no way I was going to let him ride his motorcycle through a tornado producing thunderstorm so I took the day off work as well and gave him a ride down and helped out all that day.
Rusty was a good guy, he cared for his friends, he touched a lot of lives. Our office damn, near had to shut down yesterday because of all the people who loved him. So I know he is going to the right place. But he will certainly be missed by all of us who knew him.
I’ve often had the feeling in the past, what would happen if I just suddenly disappeared. I’d be able to escape my pains, my responsibilities, everything. Now, now I know the answer to that question. And all the lives it would affect. No longer will I question.
This is a hard blog to write. The hardest one I have ever written. I know most of the people reading this knew Rusty and are just as distraught as I am. I know this though, Rusty would be happy knowing that we are all here for each other, and care for each other in this time of great need.
God speed Rusty, we’re going to miss you.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Bull Shit!
First of all please read this article. When I first heard this story I envisioned some crowd yelling and screaming and thowing things. When I dug a little deeper (and I think this is the best article of the ones I read) I found that this "unruly crowd" was simply cheering for what they liked and booing what they did not like. This is a public hearing, yet the public was thrown out because they (and I) vehemetly disagree with this new tax law.
Once again my friends, right here on your very doorstep. The government is blatently and visably ignoring you. I bet if you got one of those muckity mucks to talk off the reccord they would tell their side of the story as something similar to "Those peasants, don't have any respect. They are obviously too stupid to understand what we are trying to do. We are better than them!"
Cheering and booing people. That is enough to get hundreds kicked from a public hearing. A publc hearing! What is a public hearing, without a public to hear anything?
Let me back up for a bit. The hearing was about House File 807, a new tax bill which would take a way your ability to deduct your federal witholding from your state tax, umung other things; but that is the meat and potatos of it. What that means is if you make over 40k/year (if you do the math, but for some situations it would be over 125k/year) you would see a tax increase. Yay, just what we need in an economy going down the crap shoot.
Wether you are for or against the tax bill (that is for you to decide on your own), you have to agree this incident is just a slap in the face of the voting public. But you will see, the media is either going to downplay the event or it will exaggerate or twist the story to make those in the crowd seem like they were crazed crack heads who shouldn't be taken seriously. Remember, all they were doing, up untill they were all thrown out, was cheering and booing.
If the governmet thinks cheering is disruptive enough to eject an entire crowd from a public hearing, just wait till people really protest. If they keep this up, that is exactly what is going to happen. I'm not talking about the usual hippies that turn up to try to legalize pot, in numbers of a hundred or less, but masses of people organized by proper leaders.
Remember this event when its time to vote for your local officals again.
Once again my friends, right here on your very doorstep. The government is blatently and visably ignoring you. I bet if you got one of those muckity mucks to talk off the reccord they would tell their side of the story as something similar to "Those peasants, don't have any respect. They are obviously too stupid to understand what we are trying to do. We are better than them!"
Cheering and booing people. That is enough to get hundreds kicked from a public hearing. A publc hearing! What is a public hearing, without a public to hear anything?
Let me back up for a bit. The hearing was about House File 807, a new tax bill which would take a way your ability to deduct your federal witholding from your state tax, umung other things; but that is the meat and potatos of it. What that means is if you make over 40k/year (if you do the math, but for some situations it would be over 125k/year) you would see a tax increase. Yay, just what we need in an economy going down the crap shoot.
Wether you are for or against the tax bill (that is for you to decide on your own), you have to agree this incident is just a slap in the face of the voting public. But you will see, the media is either going to downplay the event or it will exaggerate or twist the story to make those in the crowd seem like they were crazed crack heads who shouldn't be taken seriously. Remember, all they were doing, up untill they were all thrown out, was cheering and booing.
If the governmet thinks cheering is disruptive enough to eject an entire crowd from a public hearing, just wait till people really protest. If they keep this up, that is exactly what is going to happen. I'm not talking about the usual hippies that turn up to try to legalize pot, in numbers of a hundred or less, but masses of people organized by proper leaders.
Remember this event when its time to vote for your local officals again.
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