What do you think about VehicleGARD Window Film?

Jan 26

Posted by Cody S. Alderson in Consumer Product Information | 1 Comment

I do not own this particular product. It is a product that is shipped directly to the end user for installation at home. The video makes it look like it would give a few precious extra seconds to evade, escape or defend.

You have to see it for yourself at:

http://www.shattergard.com/home.html

No, they aren’t paying me to post this. I just thought it looked like a product worth taking a closer look at. If it does work like they say it does, I’d be glad to promote it. It is so easy to get carjacked, especially with the distraction schemes they use. Keeping that glass intact can make it so you can get away.

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News Article Resources Missing From CCR Article

Jan 23

Posted by Cody S. Alderson in Self-Defense | 2 Comments

The news story resource articles that did not make the final edit of the Concealed Carry Report article published on January 20, 2012 appear below.

News Articles Resources:

13-Year-Old Sociopath

80-Year-Old Pennsylvania Woman Murdered

Pauline Jacobi

11-Year-Old Jordan Brown Kills Pregnant Stepmother in PA

Sanctity of Life Sunday – My Grandmother Wanted Me Aborted

Jan 22

Posted by Cody S. Alderson in Editorial | No Comments

Warning: Following this editorial article are two extremely disturbing videos that show the truth about abortion. They are medical videos that show deceased human beings. I cannot say  for certain that the procedure and the other video show children that died as a result of an abortion procedure. Though unlikely, the possibility still remains that the babies in the video could have died in the womb of other causes. Still, this is exactly the result of abortions. You will not get these images out of your head if you watch.

“The terror of our nation is that children can be murdered on demand.”
—Cody S. Alderson

I feel shame and a deep heart of sorrow for those in the medical community who perform abortions and I pray for their souls. I feel sad for mothers who are in the position of ever having to even consider abortion. Let it be absolutely clear, I outright reject any sort of violence against anyone who performs or has an abortion performed on them. The simple fact remains that even a change in legislation will not change the hearts of the people. The sin remains even if the act is declared illegal. The hope is to change hearts to value every human life from conception to the grave.

Jesus is there and waiting to hear from any repentant heart.

Sunday January 22, 2012 is Sanctity of Life Sunday

Before I was born, my grandmother wanted my mother to have me aborted since her son was not my biological father. Notice I said, “I.” It was me then just as I am me now. I am not the “me” that I will be tomorrow yet I am fully human today just like I was yesterday and just like I  will be human tomorrow if God permits me to live another day. Do not misunderstand me. My grandmother was a decent woman. She was angry at the time my mother’s pregnancy became known. I remember my grandmother as being kind and making great potato soup. When I was little, I used to bathe in the sink in the pantry of her apartment. She did love me—the baby boy that was allowed to be born. I remember that.

The circumstances surrounding the pregnancy of my mother angered my grandmother. My father (not the biological one) made a mistake against the fidelity of marriage. Then my mother did the same thing. I was the result of that mistake. Since I have direct experience with almost becoming the victim of abortion, I think it is appropriate for me to write about it.

I could write until the end of time and there will always be another opinion. It is what we humans do. We form opinions. My opinion is that life should be lived. My opinion is that I was a human being from the moment of conception. Here’s what God had to say about the prophet Jeremiah:

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).

What is the fact? The fact is that I am irrefutably a human being. When did that happen? Did it happen when I was born or conceived? Is it just a legal issue? Does legislation decide when I become a human? If it is legislation that decides it, what is the basis for the legislation? Is it medical science? Is the “when” of when I became human and not permitted to be killed established by fact or opinion?

If it is up to medical science, what happens if my point of becoming human is changed to when I learned to speak? Wouldn’t that be better? That way we can make sure I can communicate effectively with other legally certified human beings.  How about after I no longer needed to be fed and diapered? Would that have been a good time? My non-biological father I knew and loved is the man  who raised me. He and my mother who gave birth to  me both went back to needing to be fed and diapered before they passed away. Should they at some point have been declared to no longer have been human so the system could save valuable resources?

It would have been so much cheaper to abort my mother when she reached her seventies and needed placed in a nursing home. My dad went into a nursing home  years before my mother did. It cost the rest of us human beings in the United States to keep my dad cared for since his final years were spent in a Veteran’s Affairs medical facility. They don’t call it abortion when it applies to the certified human beings. They call it euthanasia. That is a disgusting thought for many reading this, but it is actually a well established opinion of many that it is okay to euthanize our elderly infirm. I am glad I do not believe in that at all just the same as I reject abortion.

Like I said, I could write to the end of time. Let’s let these two videos help with forming an opinion based on what abortion looks like. Let us see what the doctor sees. Are these human beings or just tissue? If you watch, you will walk away changed. You cannot say I did not warn you.

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At the end of this page is the original article I wrote in June of 2008. It is posted if the reader would like to read it too. There were no videos available at that time to show what actually happens. I don’t think a single person even commented pro or con. Maybe more people will take notice this time.

These videos will start playing if you click on them. DO NOT DO IT IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE IMAGES OF MUTILATED HUMAN  BABIES. This is not special effects. These are medical videos that laypersons rarely get to see, but what is seen on them is just routine in abortion facilities worldwide. You agree that you are of legal age to view such content by clicking to watch them.  Since in some jurisdictions one can be quite young and get an abortion, I cannot specify who should or should not watch.

Disclosure:
The website these videos are hosted on is Medicalvideos.us. They use advertising to support their website since they have a lot more medical videos than these ones. It is a good teaching service open to the public. If these videos first run an ad, it has nothing to do with revenue for Alderson Arts. It is advertising that supports the medical videos website. The ads that appear on this article page separate from the videos are those for the Alderson Arts website.

Are you ready to see the truth of what happens? The Pro Life Action League states that 1,200,000 abortions are performed each year in the United States.

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Medical Video – Abortion Procedure
WARNING! MEDICAL VIDEO

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Medical Video – The Results of Several Abortions
WARNING! MEDICAL VIDEO

The following was originally published at AldersonArts.com on June 16, 2008.

I Was A Victim Of Attempted Murder

Monday, June 16. 2008

Once you read this you may be either approving or disapproving of the title of this article. I wrote about it in Matters Of Faith before,but after I saw a website today I thought that I would mention it again.

I had an Endoscopy the other day and I was looking up information on the Internet about the Twilight Anesthesia that they used on me. When I did a search, one of the websites that came up was an abortion website. It mentions how that type of anesthesia is used sometimes during abortions.

I went to the site and started reading because of what my grandma wanted to have happen to me before I was born. Since my grandmother’s son was not my real dad she thought that I should be aborted. And since I am a living, thinking, and feeling human being I see it as an attempt on my life. In other words grandma wanted to have me murdered.

Since I am typing this article right now on my computer keyboard, how is it that I could have ever been considered not human, not a person, not a life worth letting live? Someone arguing the semantics on what I was at the moment versus my potentiality at the time I was still in my mother’s womb is only an argument to rationalize whether or not it was okay to kill me.

I didn’t have a mouth to speak with at the time that my grandmother wanted to have me killed, so since I have a mouth now I am telling everyone that I want to live! Since my brain hadn’t developed to the point where I could think these thoughts I have about abortion, and since I didn’t have the fingers I have now to type out an article, I am certainly glad that my mother decided to advocate for my being given the opportunity to be born.

I must say for the sake of my grandmother that she loved me unconditionally after I was born. I didn’t find out about her plan until long after she had died, and I hold no hatred in my heart for my grandmother. She made the best potato soup that I ever tasted! And I remember being around two years-old bathing in her large pantry sink playing with the hand-cranked mixer in the soapy water making bubbles.

At the time of this writing it has been a little over forty-four years since the attempt was conspired against me to end my life. And a life it most certainly was, at that time the same as it is now, for the mere fact that you are reading this is a testament to what I was. Only time stood between me being a so-called fetus and the person who is communicating to you, the reader, now.

Anyway, as I read a little bit of the information on the abortion website it seemed so sterile to me, and so lonely. I could picture in my mind the frightened women and young girls who must visit the site for information. Oh how I wish I had opportunity to at least share this story with them. I can understand the fear. I can understand the desperation. I can almost feel the tightness that they must feel in their chests with the anxiety of being faced with an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy. I can barely begin to imagine what it must be like to be pregnant as the result of a rape.

My God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).” I don’t make any claims of being a prophet, but I do hold to what God said to Jeremiah about knowing him before he was even born. I believe the same holds true for me—for everyone.

Even if you, the reader, do not believe anything about God or the Bible I was wondering how you can reconcile that grandma wanted to kill me, that mom decided not to kill me, and that I am a full-fledged human being now. I say to you that my position is that I was fully a human being when God began my development in the womb.

The only factor in the equation that is significant between what I was then and what I am now is time. There wasn’t a magical moment after I came out of my mother that I suddenly became a human being. It is only a convention of other humans as to whether or not an unborn child is a human or not. Which is another reason we should look to God for answers.

I say that just as I am fully human now, I still am not what I will be even by next year. I will learn more, I will have more information to make decisions with, and I may change the way I look at some things. I will still be developing, but I will still be a human and hopefully still alive. One thing I won’t change my mind about is that I choose life for myself today, tomorrow, and even oh so many yesterdays ago.

Concealed Carry and Geographical Boundaries

Jan 22

Posted by Cody S. Alderson in Editorial, Firearms, Legal Concealed Carry | 2 Comments

I went to Frostburg, Maryland tonight to pick up my brother in law. The engine on his 2004 F-150 Pickup truck blew. He says that by all indications, there is a design flaw in those Ford engines for that year.

I do not have to go about unarmed here in Pennsylvania. I’m “permitted” to have a handgun on me to defend myself. I have always found it interesting how an imaginary line running through the landscape or the threshold of a door to a “No Weapons” building can instantly turn a law abiding citizen in to a felon.

Of course, I left me weapon at home. I can also point out that nothing happened. That is a good thing. However, it is disappointing that I did not have the freedom to legally be armed in Maryland. I was still the same regular law abiding guy there as I am here in PA.

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Avoid Survival Food Failure

Jan 19

Posted by Cody S. Alderson in Medical Training, Preparedness | No Comments

Simply eating undercooked food or not practicing proper hygiene can bring these creatures and even worse ones to your insides. Not drinking properly filtered and prepared water can do it too. It also takes more than just washing your hands before eating. All of the food handlers need to do it. The surfaces, utensils and containers also need to be cleaned with clean water.

One can infect himself by simply splashing parasite infected water on his face. It is easy to get infected from containers, plates and utensils that have not been thoroughly cleaned in non-infected water after a meal. Is your survival plan ready to accommodate these needs?

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Is There Legislation to Restrict the Internet?

Jan 18

Posted by Cody S. Alderson in Editorial | No Comments

Many are concerned that the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) legislation proposals will be revived. So much so that websites such as Wikipedia, Google and Mozilla are part of an Internet blackout on January 18, 2012. Well, Google only went as far as putting a black bar over their latest graphic. After all, lots of money is at stake. A total blackout probably would cost more than most of us could make in several lifetimes. Mozilla.com still had a clickable area in the footer of the web page to be able to go ahead and download their free web browser Firefox.

Wikipedia  shut down the most content. Trying to use Wikipedia on Wednesday has the content page load for a few seconds and then it goes to an ominously dark screen with the headline that reads, “Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge.” The blackout was only on the English version of Wikipedia, and it can be circumvented to view Wikipedia content by disabling Java Script on the computer accessing the site. The site is also available, according to Wikipedia, on mobile devices and smart phones. This Wikipedia quote explains their motive for the blackout, “Our purpose here isn’t to make it completely impossible for people to read Wikipedia, and it’s okay for you to circumvent the blackout. We just want to make sure you see our message.”

I think it is interesting how we got here in the first place—to this supposed need for legislation. In noticing patterns established over time and having a God given gift of being able to see where behaviors will eventually lead, let’s take the briefest look in retrospect. Back in April of 2002 Metallica sued Napster for copyright infringement.

We have a generation of, then, young men and women raised on such lyrics as:

“Were not gonna take it.” Twisted Sister

“You’ve gotta fight for your right to party.” Beastie Boys

“No one but me can save myself, but it’s too late. Now I can’t think, think why I should even try.” Metallica

“Our brains are on fire with a feeling to kill
And it won’t go away until our dreams are fulfilled
There is only one thing on our minds
Don’t try running away ’cause you’re the one we will find.” Metallica

“I’m a (expletive deleted) cop killer!” ICE T (Who, by the way, now plays a TV cop on Law & Order).

Most everyone grows up and has regrets about some of the things they have done in the past. I have no idea what, if anything, has changed in the mindsets of those who originally wrote these lyrics nor in the minds of the performers who sang these songs. We have had years of protesting and clamoring for rights for this and rights for that, and we have had musical artists come and go that touted anti-establishment lyrics. Now that we have artists and media moguls who have made incredible fortunes on the manipulation of youthful emotions, it is interesting that there is lobbying seeking to control the little monsters they helped to make.

Not many foresaw what the Internet would bring. Most of it is for the common good. However, there are bad neighborhoods on the Internet just like we have them in towns, cities and villages around the world. The masses should not be punished because of the poor behaviors of a few. I do not like copyright infringement. I had to order my own work to stop being used by a website that reposted my articles. They had advertising on their website and reposted my content without permission. They removed it as soon as I requested they do it. I give them credit for that. However, it bothered me. I have no idea how much they earned in advertising for the time my work was on their site. I am not a rich man and I have a family to feed, and they were making money on my intellectual property.

I get it. It makes those who own intellectual property mad. It makes me mad when I catch people doing it. It is one thing if a guy is just showing an article to friends. I give permission to people all the time to use my work for free. It bugged me to see my articles reposted on a site filled with advertising. I just do not see the solution to the problem being with this legislation.

 

Results Not Typical

Jan 16

Posted by Cody S. Alderson in Editorial, Humor? | No Comments

Truth in advertising has a vast margin to the left and right of center as to what exactly is the truth (compare this statement with politics) and what actually needs to be told to consumers. Also, the disclaimers and side effects that have the man speaking at 800 miles per hour or written print so small that an amoeba would need a magnifying glass are curiosities in their own right.

The “results not typical” are interesting along with the absurd disclaimers we see in television ads where a product, often a motor vehicle, is used in some insane way that touts its toughness. Nissan is one company that uses such advertising. The disclaimer that you can see in barely discernible print seems ridiculous when it reads, “Fictionalization. Do not attempt.” (See videos at end of article). Seriously? Is it really necessary to warn consumers that a truck cannot be used to take the place of the front landing gear of a passenger airliner? I suppose it is the same need for posting that disclaimer to the public that makes it possible for the, “results not typical” disclaimer to have little effect on stopping that same public from buying an advertised product.

According to what we have seen in Consumer Reports, Nissan doesn’t seem to make the worst products. In fact, the ones we looked at seemed to have rated quite decently. We do not know why this style of advertising was chosen for this car company or any of the others that use it.

It seems as absurd as the super duper diet pill that will melt off a hundred pounds of fat and turn you into the most desirable human being on the planet in four weeks! Or, our favorite, the colon cleanse pills that will have all those old boots, lost socks and dust bunnies hanging around since the early 80s in your colon gracefully shooting out in one fell swoop into the porcelain bowl of truth!

I am basically sick of some of the marketing. So sick that I do not need a colon cleanse pill. It is even worse when it comes to Internet marketing. We despise deceptiveness. There is the legality of certain advertising tricks and the morality of it. Just today I saw an ad that read exactly as quoted here:

“Overstock iPads 2: $43.20 Today Only: Get 32GB iPads for $43. 1 Per Customer. Limited Quantities.”

Does that sound like you can buy it outright for $43.00? You would probably think that you would at least have to pay shipping and handling, right? Maybe we would even allow them to be generous with what they wanted for the so-called “handling.” After all, forty-three bucks for an iPad is a steal! Of course it is! That’s why we are not getting one from the website connected to this ad. No, not that they are stolen, but that it is an auction site. One of those penny style auction sites where you pay to buy bids.

The thing is that the rest of the website this iPad is advertised on at $43.00 is a site where you can just buy things outright. No bidding. They have deep discounts on, well,  mostly stuff folks like us probably aren’t that interested in. In fact, much of the items I saw are things that no one is interested in and that is why they are being sold out at super low prices.

I don’t know what came over me. Even super suspicious me clicked on the ad and even gave them one of my email addresses so I could follow through to see that iPad 2 on sale for less than $50. I am so ashamed. At least I was smart enough not to give them a primary email address that very few people have.

I really would have liked it if it were true. Why? Because I told my wife I wanted to get her one for Christmas. We couldn’t afford it, but it is the thought that counts. At least that is what I am told. I told her how I would have liked to get her one because she could check her email, study the Bible, take pictures and video, check Facebook, read books and even watch movies and TV on it. The device is so thin and light that she could have it with her everywhere. She could use it to read on the couch or before we fall asleep at night.

I told her how it works and how it is responsive to gestures to zoom and crop photos and to flip through pages. It really is a cool electronic device. She didn’t really want one until I advertised it myself to her by just telling her all the things it does and how well thought out the device actually is. Hopefully I can get her one some day, but it won’t be one for forty three bucks.

Nissan Ads – Pay attention to the disclaimers.
Funny ads. And no, Nissan nor any other company or product has given me a plug nickel for an honorable mention in this post. I just want you to see these ads with the disclaimers. However, I’m not saying I would turn down an offer. :)

Both ads are obviously not real things the trucks can do. It is incredible that disclaimers are necessary!

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