Mood:  caffeinated

Update on an old thread for the Flaggers...

 As such, in similar vein, Order of Canada recipient, former soldier

David Ahenakew's hate crime conviction has been overturned by a Saskatchewan judge

Shame on the Flaggers. As if they know of such a thing as shame. 

 Next step for the Courts is for them to decide if they even want another trial or if its worth it. 

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In other news you wont find on the Flag, a kidnapped 15 year old native american girls captors have been arrested and charged.

It is known the 15 year old girl was a My Space user and believed to have met her captors through the Internet.

 http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/3403656.html

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Posted by mach1231 at 12:22 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, July 23, 2006 2:48 PM PDT

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Mood:  crushed out

Gak! Pamela Anderson...you are so a-bweu-ti-ful. I wove you!

See: Pam officially engaged to Kid Rock(again!), marriage in St Tropez July 29th, pregnancy rumours abound, Kid Rock jailed in Switzerland 

 If I use my imagination, I can reason that Kid Rock looks a little like me...

Aw, shucks but I aint no bad boy. Damn. Too bad. 

Posted by mach1231 at 11:27 AM PDT

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Mood:  bright

Jump in Flaggers. Jump in cold. 

http://boards.vanityfair.com/thread.jspa?messageID=18188

Posted by mach1231 at 12:15 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, July 23, 2006 2:50 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

DJ Moby is related to the renowned author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville.

Nicknamed Moby, Richard Melville Hall was born September 11, 1965, in Harlem, New York.

http://www.comebackalive.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19364&sid=77a19c68492bd2e71137f3ab4aac0f25

Bet Moby reads Rolling Stone. Don't you?

 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,  began as an article in the rock no roll industry magazine. Henceforthly next a movie.

If profits drive corps. to fatten chickens faster and grow them closer together and obesity rates rise and bring harm to our failing health care system (cliche!) ...we would all do better to give some pause for thought on our tacit support of the fast-food industry. It would probably help.

Think about your idling engine next time youre at a drive thru.

But speaking of Lebanon, heres an old film from almost two decades ago that shows why it may be better to feel depressed at news filtered through the "glass tit" and refuse to blame MTV for wars in the Middle East and just watch what you eat (garbage in-garbage out) than ......anything else.

Heres the review from the WP from Sep 11, 1987

"If senseless killing, random bombings, a confusing array of political factions, deserted children and jaded journalists have anything to do with Beirut -- and we know they do -- then "Deadline" is right on the mark. A movie ostensibly about a journalist stuck in this recent mess, "Deadline" reiterates the news-as-usual about war: Man is one lethal and stupid creature"

Read the rest here..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/deadlinerhowe_a0b0fa.htm

Not a bad little film btw. You can get it on DVD if you know where to look..

Posted by mach1231 at 8:34 AM PDT

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Mood:  a-ok

A new study from the University of California on twins and smoking has come up with some casual causal explanations as to why men and women take up the deadly habit.

Women seem to be more influenced by environmental factors and men: genetics.

Interesting study.

http://www.emaxhealth.com/58/6391.html

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Posted by mach1231 at 11:08 AM PDT

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Interesting blog comments made about the death of Assistant Secretary of Commerce
William Lash, also Chairman of the U.S. Iraq Reconstruction Task Force

http://www.rec-dev.com/conferences/conferences/past/irs/feb10_04/index.asp

Professor Lash was apparently father of an autistic child. Just last week, a trailblazing pioneer in the field of studies of autistism died at the age of 79.

http://www.newsobserver.com/161/story/458599.html

http://www.blackprof.com/archives/2006/07/professor_bill_lasch.html

Posted by mach1231 at 5:29 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:39 PM PDT

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 Limited movie selection here in Prince George BC. Oddly enough, I don't go to movies too often here even if the city-town is boring. So when the choice came down between seeing Superman or The Devil Wears Prada it was a cinch. Blue tights with red undies is poor fashion sense in any case.

But the real super-boss for Vogue had three newspapers and one magazine delivered daily along with her barristra prepared coffee : The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post (in THAT order) and Womens Wear Weekly  at the side.

I cant recall if they showed this in the film though. 

In any case, the director, David Frankel , is teamin up again with a

Aline Brosh McKenna to adapt the bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson .

According to Random House Publishing , the idea for this novel now being made into a big-screen film came about when a survey in Good Housekeeping reported that half of all working mothers were worried the relationship with their husband was suffering because of a: " terrible ‘time famine.’ "

Two-thirds were too exhausted to have sex. Three-quarters felt they never had time to do things properly (but, of course, that didn’t stop them from trying). And what did these poor demented creatures want for Mother’s Day – flowers, chocolates?

 No. A  bit of time to themselves.

Hmh. The thought is not lost on me.

Just BTW here, I have counted just 3 degress of seperation in the Kevin Bacon Game between

Vogue boss Miranda Priestly and Carl Bernstein who wrote for the Washington Post and broke Watergate if we are to believe the accounts told on books made into film.

Meryl Streep played Priestly but also previously played in a film called Heartburn in 1987 (a semi-autobiographical tale) written by Nora Ephron.

And Nora 

was once married to Mr. Bernstein! Cool, huh! later gators! 

Posted by mach1231 at 5:41 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:09 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

How to live dirt cheap on just 250,000 dollars a month

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13774724/

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Yet I also noted theres enough in the news about legal drugs and teens to make your head spin... 

Just query "kids teens prescription drugs" in the Google news section...

Posted by mach1231 at 1:09 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, July 9, 2006 1:30 PM PDT

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Mood:  don't ask

A story located here

reports that Ken Saro-Wiwa has taken a job in his dad's former country.

Ken Saro-Wiwa 's dad and 8 others were hanged while under military dictatorship rule and henceforth Nigeria was ejected from the Commonwealth.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:15 AM PDT

Updated: Friday, July 7, 2006 11:23 AM PDT

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