Mood:  don't ask

A riveting true life story that spawned 2 books and 2 movies

It was 35 years ago on this date, December 29, 1972  that

just hours after departure from New York City an

Eastern Air Lines flight crashed into the Florida Everglades

It was the first crash of a wide-body aircraft.

Final reason be there such a thing at the final tally?

Two tiny malfunctioning light bulb indicators that had burnt out.

To make it all the more harrowing, although 101 people would die in the mishap, stories survive to be told to this day of spirits from the crash that may not have found their rest .

Posted by mach1231 at 10:54 PM PST

Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:01 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

Apparently Bhutto was killed neither by shrapnel from a suicide bomber nor gunfire but from a fall inside her car as she hit her head on the sunroof lever after the blast.

It may be the last saving grace for a leader so loved by her supporters and hated and envied by her detractors.

For any vicious competitor intent on securing an election, or any terrorist group thirsty for revenge or in tacit support of hating America, it may the last bit of final information regarding her death that could snatch from their gnashing jaws any bloodlust driven feelings of vindication resulting from their murderous actions.

While a country and world leaders mourn, a precipitous election is less than two weeks away.  Its interesting that America vis a vis Bush would actually encourage the country to hold steadfast on the path to elections instead of  a few weeks to encourage calm and allow the mourners to adjust their visors. Is this pure canned Western thinking?

In any case, despite  rumours and innuendo disinformation which might become post-mortem facts regarding monetary corruption, she will indubliably be remembered as the worlds first democratically   elected female Muslim leader before then being remembered as a martyr. It is what captures and fascinates the Western publics imagination the most while still regaling from the shock of what must have been a brutal maddening and sickening event to witness.

Meanwhile

Soldiers killed in ambush near military base in Mauritania

updated:  Mauritania killer manhunt spreads to Senegal and Mali

AFP Mauritania orders military to secure Dakar rally

Qaeda wing claims attacks on Mauritania soldiers-TV

Messy Kosovo breakaway stokes fear of partition 

Kosovo's President Condemns Serbia Move
The Associated Press -
PRISTINA, Serbia (AP) — Kosovo's president accused Serbia of aggression Thursday for passing a parliamentary resolution that calls for reconsidering ties ...

And also this little also ran...Serbia announced on Thursday that its selling its sole car maker Zastava, producer of the

Yugo hatchback...

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Now hit the road you jacks and jills 

 40 travel trends and tips for 2008

Posted by mach1231 at 11:35 AM PST

Updated: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:23 PM PST

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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.

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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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