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The Ambler
Saturday, November 10, 2007

Mood:  celebratory

Just a reminder...in the spirit of Mariah Carey I will no longer be posting for a while

watch this space forfurther updates of my not posting any more blog entries

 

Meanwhile..

 

Thirty-two miners were killed in a coal mine gas leak in southwest China's Guizhou Province and three others are missing

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKSP12650820071109

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A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep..

...over time, the Buddha's nose turned black and curls of hair began to fall from its head.

The culprit, it turned out, was the region's growing number of coal-fired power plants

Coal's Other Victim: China's History

 

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It takes five to 10 days for the pollution from China's coal-fired plants to make its way to the United States

World's Coal Dependency Hits Environment

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 4:43 PM PST
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
From the: "And did you know th@" Dept.
Mood:  loud

AND DID YOU KNOW TH@

Japan Street in San Francisco no longer exisits?

Germany street either.!

Somebody should get a petition going!

Click here if you wanna know what I mean if you know I mean.

Gotta be at least one sushi bar there now one would tend to think.

You think? 


Posted by mach1231 at 7:23 PM PST
Updated: Thursday, November 8, 2007 7:31 PM PST
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Dont they have this for hockey too?
Mood:  energetic

Eye on the ball dept.

New camera angles around tennis courts allow the matches to be seen in a breathtaking new light - check out some of the highlights. 


 

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5027276-5007150,00.html

 

 

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Anybody going to be in or plan to visit Detroit next month?

"Detroit is a car manufacturing center. I think what we're looking at is not something that can be done in a normal way. . . . It needs an Internet approach, a Google approach."

How Silicon Valley could become the Detroit of electric cars 

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 Having eliminated more than 44,000 jobs, Ford Motor Co. is on track with its turnaround plan but looking to cut more jobs in the face of a softening auto market.

Silicone Valley anyone?

 

 

 

                                    

But heres a new incentive to visit Detroit other than Russian hockey players @ Joe Louis arena, and the Pistons ..and all the other things associated with Motor City.

Think: a wine list with more than 100 different wines, available in several different pour sizes, a full bar, cheeses from Italy, France and Spain, Italian-style paninis, caviars, hand-made chocolates and other small-plate dishes.

   A guy can always dream!

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 6:47 PM PST
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I assure you I never post when I am...
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: I am trying out some new blog outfits

 

I am announcing I am refraining from further blog entries as I no longer know who I am posting for or who my audience is. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

say, does this oufit make me look...

tough?

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Posting from a library, the venerable institution owing a debt to A. Carnegie, in which as a patron of the arts one long lost lonely

Elvis A. Presley once attributed to have said gave him :" licence to dream" , and in the spirit of Mariah Cary (whom Im sure has many more lost items in the stacks than on loan)....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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...Machs Kick Butt Blog Cafe is temporarily closed

BUT, I promise to be back to be more or less in your face

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...like a San Francisco treat..new and improved. 

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Isn't it funny all the things you find along the way when you are searching for something else?

But remember this the next time your on an Interstate and can't find El Camino Real.

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Anyway, that little blip of the future goes with a hat tip

to Ad Gabber: a Social Network For the Ad Industry .

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While savoring the delight of a bite of premium dark chocolate, have you ever wondered what it might feel like, what it might look like, to actually be in the center of the sensuous, ebony morsel?

Personalize a holiday-themed snow globe on

http://www.ShareSomethingSweet.com

into an e-card.

For the first 20,000 e-cards sent, Ferrero will donate $1 each to Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading organizations working to end childhood hunger in America and a co-beneficiary of SWEET, together with the Food Bank of New York City.

 

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With the holiday season and colder weather rapidly approaching, Consumer Reports tested 10 popular hot chocolates. Topping the list and rated Excellent were Ghirardelli Double Chocolate and Cacao Reserve Mayan Blend by Hershey's


Meanwhile..chaos Pakistan

 

Last Tuesday the owner of Geo, Pakistan's largest television station, sent an email to his senior editors.

"I have received [a] threatening telephone call last night from ISI," wrote Mir Shakil ur Rahman, referring to the powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency. "They have taken me to a house in Islamabad."

Mr Rahman did not describe what happened at the spy safe house, but the following sentence suggested it was not pleasant. "I would like to advise you to please follow the laws specially [sic] the newly promulgated law."

He also attached an email from "Sabir".

"Pakistan Army is the backbone of Pakistan, don't try to damage it, if u do, u and your family who have looted billions would be hunted down like rats," it read. "It will just take a few hundred people to smash ur studios, offices, vans."

News media feels force of Musharraf crackdown

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But hey have you had a chance to slow down enough to hear about the recent oil spill in San Fran? Like nearly 60,oo gallons. For those of who have difficulty imagining the scope of such a spill, jsut imagine: THATS A LOT! Should we worry for the ducks? Try not we worry.....

you know

in 1847 some guy named Lick (Lick?) left Peru for San Francisco, taking 600 pounds of his neighbor Ghirardelli’s Chocolate with him.

Luck of the draw, he had a good neighbor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardelli_Chocolate_Company

Funny, how life does goes on..and on

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 5:39 PM PST
Updated: Friday, November 9, 2007 2:23 PM PST
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007


Posted by mach1231 at 10:20 PM PST
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Hah hah - lol
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: News on News

This  little pussy of a blogger banned me from posting on his blog-lol.

Below are my comments to his little mini-rant on our Constitutional protection of the values we espouse

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He writes:

 

"In other words, there is absolutely no need to waste Canadian tax dollars on them -- not even a penny!"

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So I take it you would feel the same way then, my
fellow Canadian, when it comes down to paying
for the corrupt Afghan judiciary, yah?

Seeing how youre such a wise penny pinching Canadian
why dont we cut off all aid altogether until they
get their "accountablity" shit together?

I am referring to our country paying the police in cold hard CASH rather than the Afghan provinces who were supposed to disperse the funds but keep it for themselves.

That we would provide training and expertise (yes your tax dollars at work) so that people can be tortured without
benefit of trial is to epitomise despicability and
work in opposite towards the goals we are trying to achieve?

OR did you forget our soldiers are there for a reason other than to die so that Afghans can be tortured?

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 1:31 PM PST
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
Headlines that ran (and also ran) : )
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Oh my digitally re-mastered
Topic: Entertainment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back when the original Bladerunner came out..it actually lost money.

Thats what happens when you release a film to compete

against a green martian who loves M&M's that children flock to.

By this I mean to refer to a movie called: . E.T.

But few movie goers today would have trouble recognizing the name Sir.! Ridley Scott

as being synonomous to one the best reputations in the business

for delivering top notch sure-fire entertainment.  

 Meanwhile here in the virtual world of reality, more eye

catching headlines destined to make table top and dinner

conversations irresistably more endearing.... 

 cannabis replacing opium poppies in Afghanistan.

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 But I'll tel yuh this...heres a real must have for Vancouverites on

that evening winter stroll down Granville Street, jah?

Meanwhile, I do not think such a faux art neveau would be of

much benefit at my present locale..

nice contrast though.....



Click here if you are drop dead tired of reading about

new Michael "Yawn" Mann films (Alex Litvinenko spy thrills anyone?)

in the works!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still SuperNatural Beautiful BC...at night when the stars are out

OKAY, I am joking (kinda seriously not really) 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 2:55 PM PDT
Updated: Thursday, November 8, 2007 4:26 PM PST
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
And ran..and ran..and ran
Mood:  flirty
Topic: News on News

Headlines that also ran (double entendre intended) dept.

Black gold medalist at '36 Olympics dies in F.H.

PHOENIX - John Woodruff, who joined Jesse Owens as black Americans who won gold medals in the face of Adolf Hitler and his "master race" agenda at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, has died at an assisted living center near Phoenix.

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Gorilla advertisement stolen in Killeen
Watch Video

Updated: Oct 22, 2007 5:25pm
A 200 pound gorilla is missing in Killeen, and the owner wants him back

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http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=14186

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Lingerie ad in Gilbert called ‘pornography’

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/100863

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Tsk, tsk...

tsk.


Posted by mach1231 at 3:44 PM PDT
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Hey...you know newsprint sales are down down down?
Mood:  energetic

By at least 5.5%!

 

 

Attention Canadians: capitalism has been invaded by a "faux democracy".

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This is the age of media irresponsibility. And poor media accountablity.  Print media is running scared.

Fuck'n funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPp3UKUgGg4

Between 1945 - 1975 represented a time that marked the smallest gap between the super rich and the super poor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC0ISbGpeN8

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Who has time for this stuff?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 9:21 PM PDT
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Mood:  irritated
Topic: News on News

Arms dealer implicates Canadian ex-prime minister in cover-up 

 http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/canada_germany_justice_schreiber_politics_mulroney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney allegedly tried to hide cash payments of 300,000 dollars he received from an arms dealer now facing charges in Germany the CBC reports. 

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This reminds me of when the leader of the U.S. met with the leader of Canada prior to entry in the last world war, just off the eastern coast of Canada. Apparently, Germany had a spy planted at the Swiss Embassy in Europe who lifted secret plans that had been relayed there from the Swiss Embassy in the U.S. This came about because the American VP at that time was congenial enough with the Swiss diplomat to share information (being his sisters husband), although he never knew he was a Nazi dupe.

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"Henry Wallace, the Vice-President, was an even greater liability, happily confiding his plans for world peace – and his disparaging view of FDR – to a Russian spiritualist, from whom they no doubt quickly made their way to others. Worse still, Wallace’s sister Mary was married to the Swiss Ambassador, Charles Bruggmann, whom Wallace would ring on a daily basis, passing on everything said in Cabinet as well as FDR’s most secret conversations with Churchill. Bruggmann dutifully cabled the lot back to Berne, from where ‘Habakuk’, a Nazi agent inside the Foreign Ministry, passed it on to Hitler."

Source: 

 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n07/john01_.html

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Posted by mach1231 at 3:25 PM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:42 PM PDT
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