Mood:  not sure


We need more legislation to protect children and not less.

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In British Columbia, the government
waived the requirement for a person under the age of 16 (basically a child) to have both parents signed permission and consent before allowing children to work for a living.
The question is: why?

Black History Month continues
Mood:  blue
Topic: Crime and Punishment

In order to help commemorate Black History Month, in arm in arm solidarity to our cousins in the South, with plenty of hand holding...OK, maybe not all that..but for todays special Machs Cafe is serving up a tribute of sorts to American photojournalist, author and filmmaker Gordon Parks.

Mr. Parks was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in 2002.

He was the first black photographer to shoot for Life and Vogue magazines. Parks is also an accomplished movie director and music composer. He directed the movie "Shaft" in 1971 and has composed a piano concerto, a symphony, two sonatas, a ballet and three film scores. He is currently at work with cellist Yo Yo Ma on another composition.

For the photo below, Mr.Parks risked life and limb taking photos in a volatile South in steeped atmosphere of vapid and often violent racism



Yestreday, Friday, Feb. 10, Mr. Parks was honoured as the recipient of the William Allen White Foundation's 2006 National Citation, whost past recipients include
James Reston, 1950; Walter Cronkite, 1969; Arthur O. Sulzberger, 1974; James J. Kilpatrick, 1979; Helen Thomas, 1986; Charles Kuralt, 1989; Bernard Shaw, 1994; Bob Woodward, 2000; Molly Ivins, 2001; Cokie Roberts, 2002; and Gerald F. Seib, 2005.

A list of past recipients is available at www.journalism.ku.edu.

And Mr.Parks thought provoking and illustrious body of work can be sampled here

http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/parks/


Parks has also just released two books, "Hungry Heart," a new memoir, and
"Eyes With Winged Thoughts", featuring his poetry and photographs.

"Gordon Parks: No Excuses,"
a children's book by Ann Parr of Lindsborg,
comes out next month

Where were you in '84?
Mood:  caffeinated
Hahahhaha Mulroney.

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Theres on old saying in politics: "Once a Turner guy...always a Turner guy."

This is funny.

The Right Honourable
John Napier Turner

News Conference to Call an Election - July 9, 1984

Q: BOB EVANS (CTV News) -- Prime Minister, while he was out west, Brian Mulroney mentioned on several occasions that he was driving a truck in Baie Comeau, while you were dancing with Princess Margaret. I was wondering weather you consider that a trivialization of politics and if not which would you consider the image that has more vote-getting character, being a truck driver or ballroom dancer.



A. I like the question but I am really going to be sticking to the issues.

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Maclean's December 1, 1997

Author BRUCE WALLACE

The Canadian Encyclopedia ? 2006 Historica Foundation of Canada

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John Turner once privately predicted no prime minister would ever put (Lloyd) Axworthy in foreign affairs because the newspaper clippings file was too thick with quotes from Axworthy bashing Washington.

Global Commons, touchy-feely "people power" language that can still evoke sneers from the clubby diplomatic elites who insist they still shape the world. In Ottawa, the skeptics are already whispering that Axworthy is overestimating Canada's weight in the world. It will all come crashing down on this crazy small-arms control plan he is floating, they say. Not sexy enough. You might reduce the number of small arms, but you will never get rid of them. "We'll see," says Axworthy with a tight smile, still dreaming in a cynical age where the realists are writing him off again already.

far flung off tidbits
Mood:  accident prone
flotsam and jetsam etc

NEW! ! !LINKS...NEWS

Lets play name that headline

recently added to the World Monument Fund's 2006 Watch List of the 100 most endangered sites on earth.....

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The existence of this species was reported by Dr. Jared Diamond in Papua New Guinea in 1981, and since then it became a topic of discussion among mammal experts for 25 years.....

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found wooden boxes, covered with gypsum, bearing the inscription "Wonders of the land of Punt."

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"Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery"
a reference to the 'lost world' recently discovered in PNG, but easily just as attributable to any visitor to Machs Cafe-lol

Topic: Crime and Punishment
Who is more slower here? The writer of the article
or the person who posted it. I guess 'normally'
I wouldnt be recriminating, BUT!, since they enjoy continually bringing it up...

My point is that the article writer may be wide eyed and scratching his arm pits like King Kong and pounding his chest but authorities have been concerned about GPS devices enabling stalking for years.

This guy does something on a lark, gets dizzy contemplating Pulitzer and scratches out an article
meanwhile this type of thing has already been done
in rl applications in exactly the method ascribed.

Oh well kudos to him for raising awareness about this issue. Hope he cashes in the
loot from his Pulitzer prize wining article by
buying rounds for his mates at the local pub.

Why doesnt he go for the Pulitzer by writing about
sex trafficking in the UK and tweenies using heroin.

And then MiketheHack can follow-up by making a post about it.

Amidst a story about a 100lb pound haul of crystal meth and a James Bond film director cross-dressing, one 13-year-old Quebec girl who went into a coma after apparently experimenting with the drug ecstasy has died.

That really sadly summarizes the state of our world doesnt it?

But speaking of fictional spy's, cameras rolling but no action for Bond.


(Lee Tamahori may all of James Bonds quips visit you in prison-joke,joke)

Mood:  party time!
Topic: Entertainment
Always wanted to sing ''Sweet Home Alabama'' along with Lynyrd Skynyrd?

http://www.ebay.com/grammy

I went to see a film called 'Darwins Nightmare' last night.

In between frames and the blinking of my eye, I tried to recollect a few frames for my own reference
to a book I am ploughing and trudging through
called The Culture of Defeat.

It seemed irrevelant and revelant at the same time.
I guess because when trying to be immersed in a
film and gather its message small factoids the brain interjects at once seem both bothersome and inevitable.

It makes me thing of how potent movies are with
their distinctly visual medium. If Darwins Nightmare was a boook, would anyone read it>?

Would the imagination be even capable of contemplating the depth of impovershedness suffered
by the people of Tanzania on one side and the scale of thought required on the other to reach what might be called a pinnacle of sheer irony? And rest easy?

Anyway, in the morning , I surfed around and found this.

Topic: Crime and Punishment
Floated to me via Warren Kinsella and his blather, pardon me, bloggerings..

Viewed 332,080 times in the last 9 days




Globe and Mail also runs a story about the incident

The Revenge of Gaia ?
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Science and Health
Great! Amidst the joy of reading headlines that jubilantly cry that the Ozone layer gets thicker and Pacific Nations Move To Phase Out Ozone-Depleting Substances
...I need to read that

sometime within the generation of your grandchildren the entire world will be a droopy mass of melting goo, an overspilling boiling cauldron mixed with the sizzle of fried skin and brutal warlords fighting over water and last remaining supplies of freon gas.

Welcome to the next worlds most dangerous place,
a literal live hand to mouth cage match
free for all with melting ice caps, dwindling resources, high currents and...more people to share all the spoils.

http://www.boris-johnson.com

Stephen King take it easy, your last seller is
still ready to crack top ten. Leave some alone-lol

More seriously, its a scary proposition IMHO
one not easy to contemplate but ample reason to
sit up and take notice of I believe...

Meanwhile a litle clsr to home, if you live in the East in Canada, this
letter writer might want to make you believe there is cause for alarm.

Just for the record...call me a "normie". Don't worry. -lol

Glad to assist Stephen Kings viral marketing..personally I was hooked just from
reading the back cover.

Machs Cafe issues forward looking statements all the time
Mood:  d'oh
..although offers no disclaimers.

NEWSFLASH

Greenspan bids farewell with another rates hike discusses and weighs policy over financial prudence.

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Been sneaking in the backway (who knows if the same thing has been happening to my computer?) vis
a vis Waybackmachine to the Black Flag Cafe and I wonder what the heck they associate their messageboard
with dangerous travel anyway...for instance,
check out these links

why would you want to even go there?

if anyone wanted proof-positive of sans respect and
"irreverence", simply visit here to read a nice touche finale from poster 'flip-flop'
on the initial diarrheatic type responses the original post initiated.

As for Google, perhaps it might be wiser to speculate that the company deserves a cooling
off period, to simply avoid the boom bust
echo phenomenenon.

But anyway, why are these doodes and dudettes discussing puts and shorts amidst all the
ephermal carnage of the world ?

Heres a list..



of recent discussions.

Notice how instead of talking about spies, hazing, proposed Russian militia response calling for"reform" and Chechnyan Mothers or even (ahem) China and Internet censorship, they discuss lawnmowers, TV and ?

All I am saying is: for example. It speaks for itself.

Any why do they exercise such non-prudence when
further causing stress for non-named individuals
and also print my private email(s) naming me for public consumption? Perhaps the info autobahn is a one-way street after all. No comments yet. Post the fact all Comments are moderated before being posted.

Meanwhile, a quick phone call to my broker and he had four words: Buy low, sell high.

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