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surprisedChip Reese, High-Stakes Card Champion, Is Dead at 56
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Floyd Mayweather: an enigmatic boxing genius
Oh yah right, what kind of genius do you need to let your opponent knock you senseless and give you permanent brain damage.
Serious stuff. I betchya the Britster wins.
The concussion time bomb. New research suggests head injuries can trigger a descent into dementia, madness and maybe even murder..
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"He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem"
But if you cant sit ringside, or afford PPV, you can always catch that inspiring melodramatic flick.
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a-okGreat impromtu stlye free written breezy style post by Mike "The Hack" @ the Black Flag Cafe.
Since another American mall style shooting can't bring the brunt of Flaggers to give pause for thought on the needless and senseless and moreover: violent... loss of life, in a serious way,...
seems like violent acts are what turns the waterwheel for what passes for conversation over there, without which, their meagre mainstay diets would have to satisfied with the few morsels coming out of Iraq or Afghanistan.
So now that the laughter from the jokes have died down they figure its time for seriousness...
Perhaps it's time we did the people of Omaha Nebraska a favor and indeed the world and worked towards a prescription for the ills of the world, perhaps as a starting and shooting off point, help eliminate the potential for the type of macabre commenting I had noted in my blog entry a day ago, by proscribing certain types of on-line behavior.
Shooter: dressed in camo (how surprising!), previously medicated (of note are the number of times Flaggers have repeatedly referred to people and other posters as being: "off their meds") and of course as usual: young.
No one over there would seem to have enough sense to give pause for thought or reflect on the fact that five women seem to have died at the point of a gun in this mall massacre. Almost exactly to the day that we Canadians are all searching ourselves for that moment in time to try and commemorate the lives of 13 women gunned down so many years ago at a Montreal University. Memory may fade but its hard not to let this last incident serve as a shocking remnder.
So ye Flaggers you can joke and post your bathroom wall type humor all you want, not one word of your posts from thereon in deserve to be taken seriously. Mind you
Mike "the Hack" does seem to provide some much needed balance.
Each situation seems to be different when shooters are involved. One will waltz into a room of small school children and hold them hostage, one will barricade him self in a tower and sniper shoot from a distance, another will burst onto the scene through corridor doors and take rooms one by one advancing down a hallway, and yet another will take an elevator to the third floor, wait for the doors to open before announcing hes robbing the store before indiscriminately firing into crowds of workers, shoppers and on-lookers before killing himself.
That we here in the virtual world of reality, mentally bonded to our locales in our own individual communities could only speculate on our own reactions is almost like a bit of a no-brainer. Its as difficult a choice to imagine as trying to pick out the next target or method of the next shooting incident. But have you got your jokes handy and ready now?
The common denominator? Drugs? Youth? Ease of access to a weapon? There are a lot of kids like that.
I would say just plain crazy is more like it. And crazy with ease of access to guns purely dont make for a good combination and don't mix as lessons of the last shooting in America show.
But don't let anyone ever try and tell you that the BFC is a turnstile for idiots to yank comments from their joke arsenal to post. That fact would only seem to be self-evident.
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caffeinatedHong Kong and Kuala Lumpur both moved their airports in 1998 and the Athenians moved theirs in 2001.
Meanwhile this article states: after decades of aviation misery, campaigning and protest, it is time to face the truth and admit the problem: Heathrow is in the wrong place....
Problem: Heathrow's in the wrong
Times Online, UK - 23 Nov 2007
Ask Kit Malthouse. In life, as in like politics, you have to know when to stop digging.
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Speaking of digging, when digging for answers and digging for the truth, always be careful, especially when it comes down to having to answer to male superiors. We've seen this before.
Ms. Turpel-Lafond, a Saskatchewan judge who took a leave from the bench to help rebuild B.C.'s troubled child-protection system has had her request for adequate funds denied. I take it the upbraiding she gave the government was taken 'that' type of , seriously.
Child advocate's cash request denied
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I was surprised at the amount of discussion taking place over the airports problems. Whats stopping peoples from discussing these other things. Are they too far from home to matter?
Five Best Airport to City Rail Connections
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Heathrow Airport passengers could find themselves with a wider choice of options for travel to Europe in the future, with plans drawn up for a rail service. Heathrow to Paris @ 186 MPH?
Plans to link Heathrow to Paris
brightLeading Canadian building owners, developers and design professionals know how to deliver large scale and permanent reductions in GreenHouseGas emissions.
Over the past five years, these professionals have designed, constructed and operated hundreds of green, energy-efficient buildings across Canada with the support of Natural Resources Canada’s Commercial Building Incentive Program (CBIP).
Recently-announced federal initiatives give no meaningful support to the building industry and cancel the CBIP funding that has helped improve energy performance of buildings since 1998.
“The government should build on the demonstrated success of CBIP rather than canceling it, and not putting anything new in its place,” .. “..we urge the government to entrench a stronger federal role in green building development and support the momentum of the Canadian building industry.”
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"I think it is just foolish to try to exempt the big polluters from taking meaningful action" - John Baird, Canadas Environment Minister speaks
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Greenhouse-gas reductions likely overestimated, panel says
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is overestimating the amount of greenhouse-gas reductions that will be achieved through its climate-change policies, a federally funded panel of business and environmental experts reports.
September 21, 2007
cheekyMommy Santa is wearing lipstick! -lol. Just a little added joke about the song that Mom was seen kissing Santa Clause.
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While researching for my last blog entry, I chanced upon a PR release disguised as story that told how L'Oreal Paris has improved their web site with an extensive and sophisticated diagnostic tool.
This interactive features a tool that prompts users to answer a series of questions, guided by videos of L'Oreal Paris experts. Once the questions are completed, a complex algorithm determines a customized solution from thousands of possibilities.
I was just wondering though, how do users know if they are not actually being answered by "ARTIFICIAL" intelligence?
Lol.
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Ha ha...dirty Santa..."It's all over the Internet now!!!!!!!!"
Microsoft Spikes Dirty Santa Bot
Microsoft Silences Santa Sex Talk
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Definintely, 'not what you think' Dept. material.
don't askMore proof that we need a National Youth and Child Welfare and Safety Minister.
Remember the Hong Kong company that manufactured millions of poisonous toy beads in mainland China? No? Me neither all the warnings issued over toxic toys and recalls has been a absolute blur, but in any case they have issued a public apology.
Company that made toxic beads apologizes
Wow. I dont know how heartfelt such an apology might be, or the extent of its reach. But does anyone actually believe a PR supplied type of apology would honestly SUFFICE?!
Mind you when we read that China is tearing down some food facilities , we hope we are not being dumbed down or treated like a Motley Fool.
Because have you heard of www.americanmadetoysonly.com yet there China?
While you are busy with the wrecking ball and opening curtains for 2008 Olys, we hope you are as concerned about chemicals in children's cosmetics as everyone else seems to be:
Annual report lists unsafe toys as holiday approaches
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Well even as admit I have no idea there would even be cosmetics for kids as toys, its not a problem for just the wee ones. The adults in the room want to set an example as well-lol
Newly Launched Skincare Company Teaches Kids How to Prevent Colds
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Dangerous Beauty: Taming Toxics in Everyday Cosmetics
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Img courtesy ragingrouge.com
...happy safe shopping...uhm(!!!)
don't askRYP what's this story? Led Zeppelin hasn't toured since 73 and talks of a reunion are largely speculation, rumour and innuendo (kinda like yellowcake from Nigeria and lost WMD's huh?)
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I think I might just start on a personally approved mission of sorts to promote Robbie Young P's "Black Flag Cafe"
(sounds kinda like a name for a new super fried cool brand of hot chile sauce doesn't it?)
far and wide as a great place for losers to hang out, get accepted and post and vent their frustrations about life.
While many people might stereotypically complain about an excess of excess holiday shoppers, long lineups and stores running out of the toy
"my little Johnny really really really wanted",.. we usually don't worry too much as we are going to a mall about being shot.
Nine dead in Nebraska shooting
While Flaggers view the story and event to cap each other with their wit and reserve placemats for themselves to use the event as an excuse to engage in faux imitation gallows humour (gallows humour involves larger amounts of people dying and is typically used when the situation is particularily grave or dire with humour as a healthy valve or release,) and crack wise, I guess we are supposed to presume some of them have "earned" that right.
And how? Is the right to preserve a sanctity for death something that someone should have to "earn"?
While the site may not worry about optics, it definitely looks like the posts are made in poor taste. What medals of honour or badges of courage handed out also serve as free passes to make popcorn light jokes about people dying? A passport stamp? The events are both tragic and recent, and the jokes fresh as footprints in a newly minted snow. Theres something about this that bodes ill.
The Flaggers may not like it, but they are inviting the world into their living rooms to watch the events as told by tv/internet news to witness their comments.
They should be promoting themselves as a place where depressed , sporadically employed and troublesome youths with split parents can come and gain acceptance and comraderie.
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Guess they wont talk too much about Springsteens Grammy nod (Grammy subplots) (although hes hated at the Flag, he oughta write a song about this shooter in that Tom Joad I Don't Like Mondays kind of way!), an ABBA Museum in Sweden(good clean sporting fun for them) Plans unveiled for Abba 'museum' and singer Frank Sinatra making his way to being on a U.S>postage stamp. Frank Sinatra to feature on postage stamp
Maybe they could even tell us how the phrase Number One with a Bullet came into use on music trade magazine Billboard while they are it. In between flying jokes that is!
don't askA truck driver was in the news today for an accident that happened about an hours drive from here.
I was initially all over the press via email in an attempt to try and garner more national acclaim for the story; more indepth coverage because I wanted people far and wide to be aware of the dangers of this highway.
Especially since looking out my window to the street below from where I live affords a view of this very same highway where this accident took place.
Because accidents are always in the news and you can just as easily forget about one as easily as you remember hearing about another.
Somewhere; someplace.
Our retention for odd assortments of facts doesn't allow for easy compression for retrieval later for just when it's handy.
But when you hear a story about a story, or a story within a story, or when backdrop is created in a story, put some focus on it...enlarging detail, its not as easy to forget.
This is a highway already notoriously dubbed the Highway of Tears, in light of the fact of the high number of native women the highway has seemingly swallowed whole; never to be seen or heard from again; missing women.
And now it has taken the lives of 4 children and their mother.
With the weather predicted to be the "worst in 15 years", my instigation to further spotlight cover this story grew from an impetus to share the information that this seems to be a deadly highway of sorts; in more ways than one; and if more people knew about it, the more they might take care when traveling.
Apparently, the driver is quite devastated even though we are left honestly to presume he is not at fault. This last accident is just the very latest in a string of incidents that would make anyone question their resolve to continue life. His own son has suffered permanent brain injury from an auto accident and his older sister took her own life some time later.
Even though the community from which they are from may be 3 hours or less from here, the accident scene an hour away, its hard not to get the feeling that;.. as we drive and go about our business and routines, getting from one place to another in the turbulence of winters worst bitter cold, the seasons piling snow, fog, blizzards and icy roads....that there are not a lot of people concerned with selfish pursuits of getting somewhere in a hurry or complaining too much about it.
In my mind, there doesn't even seem to be a corner that has not been turned, a snowbank not left curtailed in a turn without being checked twice first, without the gravity of thought weighed towards considering how instantaneously we can be here one minute and gone the next.
There may even be hundreds of people arriving to come and pay respects, say hello or goodbye, pat a shoulder, wipe an eye.
It's certainly not too hard to imagine.
