Mood:  cool

Nothing yet about this on the Black Flag Cafe, I guess one quick look over there and you can easily see the place is a blast off point for little more than RYP-sque ice cool jokes

Al-Qaeda link to gang that killed tourists

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Reminds me of my new year resolutions this one

you know, in with the old, out with the new, er, pardon me

I am still in the I Hate my PC Club

US Army to Instigate Wider Mac Implementation

But things are bound to change 

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Heres one of those things you just barely glance at 

 Local driver races more than 2000 miles in Mexico

before happily continually on day dreaming  while stuck in traffic

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Or yet another when youre thinking of trading in a hard job for an easy one  

Racing: A jockey's life: Anything but an easy ride

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 or in case you thought you saw that UFO in the desert? Maybe it was a new Corvette

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 Nineteen men were in the race, but I was the only one who could finish it. There was a snow storm and it was very cold. The snow was very soft and when that ...

Christian Schiester on the run at the “Antarctic Ultra Race”

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Traveling at the Speed of Dog

Posted by mach1231 at 4:06 PM PST

Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:28 PM PST

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Mood:  irritated

Thank heaven for religious schools — they keep our public system honest

is what this former government education minister  now columnist once wrote.

In her article column she adroitly refers to some guy named Bill Vander Zalm and makes the case that there is a catalyst way to keep the public school system "honest", if only we look hard enough.

Perhaps she might do well to remind her self as long as she mentions honesty and crooked politicians in the same column that Bill Vanderzalm had to resign admidst a scandal.

globeandmail.com: Ex-premier's legacy gone to seed

 And this is the guy we should rely on as a catalyst for bringing in this so called honesty? 

Thats like a bad joke.

 We should have a choice...

The choice to pay for faith based education your self or send your kids to public school where by educational rote: the nuts and bolts of life are given with tools to get by in life. And leave ones 'choice' for religion out of equitable equations of tax dollars at work.

Another thing is that public funded schools bring public accountability, but faith based funding schools simply have to answer to themselves or

don't you know how long the religious community in Bountiful BC "resisted" intervention into their religious based instruction?

As the link shows, until recently that is.

If nothing but a sick contorted tale of religious gimmickery and the enslavement of people its still a precedent that predates out and out 100 hundred percent unequivocal support for taxes going to religious schooling. With a cautionary tale to the ongoing corrolary of politics, state intervention and publicy funded schooling.

Besides where dolalrs are concerned, religious education should be free anyway. Does it cost you money to give your kids a religious lesson at home? How much Christy without reaching into the taxpayers pocket first?

Zero.

Christy writes: "public schools have long resisted differentiating themselves from one another."

Resisted? Thats really funny coming from someone who has previously worked in government education like  Christy has.

As if public schools have advertising budgets or something or name brands no less, or have some type of sanction put on them by the government that gives them money that would even allow them to "differentiate" themselves from one another.

Its almost like saying having the CBC around like a canard keeps corporate media honest. Almost but not quite.

 At least we have one Judge in BC who knows better. Hope its a lesson we dont perpetually ignore.

Posted by mach1231 at 1:09 PM PST

Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:25 PM PST

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Spotlight on Nation

Flaggers, lets be straight up for once, youre all a bunch of whining crying babies sucking RYPS left tit and not his right because he saves that one for his wife

RYP RYP RYP dont you wish you were anonymous like me

RYP RYP RYP dont you wish you were anonymous like me

RYP RYP RYP dont you wish you were anonymous like me

ON the Internet, Santa can be a raindeer(sic-lol) or a dog.

And he/she only exists in fairy tale virtual world of cyber-slop-space. 

Posted by mach1231 at 1:03 AM PST

Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:31 PM PST

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Mood:  rushed

A mystery link !

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http://www.tomtom.com

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Heres a list of belated gift ideas, this first one might beat a travel zone alarm clock to the top of the wish list:

a personalized framed wall map allows travelers to chart their voyages around the globe by marking all destinations past, present, or future

BUT 

hey how 'bout this one, do you really need an excuse or reason like Christmas to adopt a stuffed animal>?

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 Hmmh, does DIGITAL HERO  have any special connotation for any web surfer wanderers out there?

Try your luck with this link.

Or here if you really want to brave the waters.

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The LA TIMES wants you to know you can turn any lounge into an office ......an airport lounge no less. 

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Best wishes to Machs Cafe visitors and Seasons Greetings.

Make love, you're goal.  - -

Gunmen kill Philippine journalist on Christmas Eve

 Colombia grandma wants hostages free for Christmas

No Christmas joy for Zimbabweans

White-knuckle Christmas for British fogged-in flyers

Christmas road toll climbs

No Christmas sentence cut for Corby

Christmas in Kandahar not quite the same without snow and family
Windsor Star

Celebrating Christmas in Iraq means compromise for US troops ...

Posted by mach1231 at 12:12 AM PST

Updated: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 12:45 AM PST

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Mood:  on fire

Meet Tyrone everyone. He's a real nice brother and from now on in case anyone wants to make bad comments about Mach Daddy(lol) on this cafe or anyone else's...your comments are gonna have to get by Tyrone first. So say it to his face like it were mine.(lol)

Hes been hired ! So take care.... 

 and he hates being call 'Swagguh'. So don't even try it. Youve been warned- (lol)

Posted by mach1231 at 8:38 PM PST

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Mood:  happy

Hey!

Anyone want to take @ look @ my desktop?

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Hey, anyone interested in seeing my latest video?

Heaven is a Place on Earth 

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 .

Posted by mach1231 at 6:57 PM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:57 PM PST

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Mood:  lyrical

As a great scientist one said in an esssay called 'The World as I see It'.

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."

Posted by mach1231 at 6:56 PM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:59 PM PST

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Mood:  suave

You know ...

Schengen zone enlarges on Dec. 21

Private security guards will patrol the nightly streets of the village Deutschkreuz near the Austro-Hungarian border

Austrian village hires private security for Schengen enlargement

Visitors to UK face tough new visa rules

.....there was a time when a country called Finland vowed to use its position of Presidency of the European Union to disallow non-potato or grain based vodkas to call themselves: "vodka".

This would have meant that many European vodkas made from molasses, sugar beet or grapes (mainly produced by UK, Hungary and the Czech Republic) would have to re-name themselves: 'spirit drink' .

At the time, the Finnish State Secretary for Agriculture, was "~very confident~" Finland would succeed in legally restricting the use of the name 'vodka'.

Part of the argument against such a change, in addition to forcing up the price of certain brands as they switched raw ingredients or require producers to change their labels, was the sentiment stated by EU Corporate Relations Director Alan Butler on the company's premium brand Ciroc ( made from French grapes)

"I can't envisage any British people going into a bar and proudly asking for a 'white spirit/martini'.."

 But now, almost two and half years later,

liquor companies including Diageo Plc will retain the right to label spirits made from grapes as ``vodka'' under a European Union accord 

EU Rules `Vodka' Can Be Made From Grapes in Victory for Diageo

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".... it's in the potato"

 Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2007

All eyes on Russia as UN Security Council takes up Kosovo talks 

EU decides to deploy police mission to Kosovo

Kosovo, Serbia to Square Off at UN

German Ambassador Wolfram Maas says, for his country, Serbia’s EU integration and Kosovo are completely separate issues. 

Issue and analysts say Vladimir Putin's backing of Belgrade is likely to make it more difficult for western nations to push through Kosovo's secession .

China, and especially Russia, oppose independence for Kosovo against Belgrade’s wishes and argue that more talks should be held.

(Russia calls EU Kosovo mission illegal: Interfax )

Posted by mach1231 at 8:17 AM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:01 PM PST

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Mood:  cool

 here.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:39 PM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:47 PM PST

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In 2005, a small Perth company, Range Resources Limited, signed a mysterious deal with the Somali government for exclusive mineral and oil rights, but now, with the a dissolving of cabinet recently

and soon after the Somali state created an oil ministry amid renewed clamour for resources.

 It was kind of interesting especially along with news reports that the 'Business as usual’ approach to a country called Somalia

will no longer work.

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 And what with sea pirates ,

children dead now in the country from war shelling 

and Somali drugs(khat) maybe funding terrorism

in a country where war is followed by disease 

See also :

Major Increase In Black Fever Found In War-torn Somalia

and (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071030220112.htm )

 and at least one French journo hostage

and journos facing persecution or worse ,

theres a combat raging on in Somalia that is no better than Darfur

And a year after the US-backed Ethiopian army toppled a hard-line Islamist regime in Somalia, the country has become a country where no place is a safe haven for families

... - -but, (BUT?) now

Saudi could lead new Somali peace drive-UN official
Reuters South Africa, South Africa - 17 Dec 2007

See also Somalia: A nation in ruins
. .

Belgium opens first European embassy in Somalia since 1991

"Peace"keepers???

Health tourism booming in Belgium

Posted by mach1231 at 11:55 AM PST

Updated: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:12 AM PDT

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