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not sureNever mind You Tube for a while. It's far too popular.
eg
A semi-trailer travelling the wrong way down Edmonton's Yellowhead Trail crashed and toppled off an overpass Monday, bursting into flames.
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Probably not the type of news footage to make your late night or supper time broadcasts.
You can see it here though.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d9_1207271125
don't aska new book out reveals that in at least one portion of Eastern Canada
the Provincial CORONER had altered the fill out form for the death investigation form to include whether or not the death was from a
'gambling related suicide'
http://www.gamblingwatchglobal.com/archives/culture-of-shame/
GAMBLING: IN THE NEWS
A BARMAID stole almost £9,000 takings from the Southampton pub where she worked and lived - and blew the lot at the casino opposite, a court heard.
Barmaid stole £8,800 and blew it in casino
Neck deep in debt from gambling losses, a 42-year-old drunkard strangled his wife on Sunday night and tried to kill his 11-year-old son, but the child bit his hand and escaped.
Man plots family murder for property
A confessed gambling addict, is suing a casino for the $30 million he says he lost during a 2005-06 gambling spree.
30? Thirty ...million?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23371596-421,00.html
A British court on Wednesday ruled against a gambling addict who sued a chain of betting shops after he lost more than 2 million pounds (US$4 million; €2.8 million) wagering on golf and horse racing.
The house always wins.
lazy
International health data suggests that Mexicans are relatively low in anxiety and depression compared to Canada and America ...
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Found this book online and in the news recently...
the author is sleeping in her apartment when the landlord repair guy comes by and knocks on the door as he has the task to come in and fix something.
... too embarrassed by the fact that its 11 o'clock in the AM and she is still in bed, she doesn't get up to answer and open the door.
So, ignoring him, he just uses the master key thinking no one is home.
So he comes in and by this time she is even more embarrassed so she hides under her duvet and tries to just go really still.
But then he comes in to the bedroom to use the phone and sits on the bed, the very bed she is hiding under her duvet, and parks his butt inches from her nose and all the while she's laying there while he is yakking on her phone thinking : "wtf am I doing?"
Yeah , I'll bet. Doesn't that just crack you up though?
Good thing is she has a book out now.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/mental-health/anxiety.html
Born in Mexico City into a Foreign Service family I spent my childhood trotting after my parents from country to country, occupying myself by writing stories and telling fibs.
One of which was that I was born in Mexico City “during an earthquake.”
This love of embellishment was tempered by a career in journalism, but has recently been given free rein again in my novels Playing House and Believe Me
vegas luckyI change my mind 
I change my mind I change my mind
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NBC: Secretive DC prayer
group has worldwide reach
Check this one out...
"The most important religious leader you've never seen or heard,"
so reports NBC's Andrea Mitchell.
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PS Andrea Mitchell? That would be the Andrea Mitchell Alan Greenspans (1987 to 2006 chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States) wife? Yes it would.
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claims Iraq war was really for oil
and yet this is his wife working as a foreign correspondent/reporter right? You think there may be a conflict of interest at work someplace somewhere?
Could be, maybe this is it here as this blogger alludes.
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So at least Clintons camp has some attitude and resolve to 'do something' about the sub-prime mortage "mess" which at least has something to do with a recession.
Whereas McCain's attitude seems to be read `em and weep. I mean literally weeeeeeeeep. Probably something he got drummed into him and leftover from ARMY boot camp. Good if you're a soldier. Not so good if you're a US Presidential candidate though. Or perhaps so will sayeth the US voters once they decide.
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I tell you one resoundingly intelligent guy I have heard of lately Peter. G. Petersen. But I don't think hes going to be running the Republicans campaign for them any time soon.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) headlined the article about him over ten years ago as
Most recently the author of a book called
"Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It"
Here he is weighing in on the last election in Sept 2004.
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript339_full.html
cheekyheadline makers in the news...
see if you can gesss who I am with these clues...
Yes, Sir, Mr.Charlton Heston has but gone on to bigger and better things.
http://www.agamemnon.com/upcoming.html
Obviously the world has yet to feel the full force and weight of the imprint the man has left as his legacy continues, I predict that the tributes will be long and forthcoming.
But mind you I have been wrong before.
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Army Archerd interviews Charlton Heston on the set of 'Ben-Hur' in Rome.
lazy
In recent years, Mexico has suffered a wave of organized crime and drug-related violence that killed more than 2,500 people last year alone and more than 200 people have been slain in Ciudad Juarez this year in what amounts to a turf war between drug cartels.
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Unlike the United States where criminal offenses are divided into "felonies and misdemeanors," in Mexico depending upon the seriousness, criminal offenses are categorized into the 'social value' established and protected by the law.
If you are a traveler to mexico and are detained by a police officer and accused of an offense, the first step is to declare that you know your rights and want to telephone your hotel or the U.S. Consulate.
Tourists are not required to go anywhere with the police until they have found someone to defend them.
Also, under Mexican law, a prosecutor must draw up papers and charge someone with a crime within 48 hours of arrest.
Recently, a Canadian college basketball star had been released from a Mexican jail after being arrested for vicious assault which his family contends he is innocent of.
Run-in with Mexican law a cautionary tale
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One more thing, if you are driving to Mexico, you may want to consider Mexican auto insurance. This press release explains why.
You could be jailed and your car impounded if you have an accident.
Thank you for visiting.
Machs Cafe today.
You can always learn up on your Mexican before leaving too. From the movies of course. Its another film put out last year now in limited release.
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Btw, ...chances are much of your car was built in Mexico.
Aircraft makers flock to Mexico
specialHollywood Parenting 101
Demi Moore beats her kids with a strap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxK7JGUqtBE
And also loves blood-sucking leeches and takes turpentine baths!
"I'm sure there are a lot of people who think I'm a bitch." Demi Moore
Isn't she great folks? 45 years old. smart, sexy, FUNNY! Married to a 30 year old though. How cool is that?
Great, great interview with David Letterman though in case youre interested... - -to promote her latest film 'Flawless' a diamond caper film which is set in the 1960's but opens with the camera angles focusing on women in various positions of power, from different backgrounds, most of them handling some kind of business on PDAs or cellular phone...
note: Flawless premiered 11 February 2007 in Germany. The film opened in limited release in the United States on 28 March 2008
Found a trailer for it but it wasnt easy. Yah, it was: hard to find. How fitting for a diamond movie . Is it a gem? Looks like it is. :)
Demi is the latest of celebs to travel to Austria/Germany for alternative health care. Last one I heard of was Farrah Fawcett who sought treatment in Germany and also created a mild brouhaha (47 people arrested and 17 police officers were injured) at the very mention of her BREASTS.
not sure
Turns out there may be charges laid after all.
UPDATE FOR RYP AND THE BLACK FLAGGERS OF YE OLD BLACK FLAG CAFE
on this thread and news story ..
the story has re-surfaced.
ABC NEWS has the goods to deliver. Is it for the Smoking Gun, is it?
Her memorial page has been viewed 90,000 times.
Personally< I feel so badly and sad for the parents of this little girl. The level of devastation they have suffered is as both heart-wrenching to watch as it is unbearable to contemplate.
They looked like such good and loving parents. They probably were. And are. It's a real sentiment that in my finest sense of hope, would be shared by this dearly departed angel winged girl, should she be viewing things from a different perspective above us all with the Lord.
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specialI am posting neat videos I found on YouTube to my own blog.
I don't care. This is fun.
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IN THE NEWS RECENTLY: Hot air balloons that carry passengers (for hire) should have safety standards equal to those required for other types of aircraft that fly commercially.
Click the pic.
Vicki Van Meter
Vicki was just 11 and in elementary school in Meadville, Pa., when she flew a single-engine Cessna 172 from Augusta, Me., to San Diego, Calif.
On June 4, 1994, the day after she graduated from East End Elementary School, in Meadville, she took off from Augusta in the other direction, and became the youngest girl to fly across the Atlantic.
Vicki was a graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a degree in criminal justice.
She served two years in the Peace Corps in Cahul, Moldova, and most recently worked as an investigator for an insurance company.
R.I.P Vicki Van Meter
http://www.daylife.com/article/0aBTf9Y8Hk0Et
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Garnett Edward Lowe Jr., credited with installing the first instrument landing and radar systems in airports in the Us and one of the pioneers of post-crash reconstructive investigations died recently at age 84.
And you thought the Cold War was either never started or never ended?
Trouble is always around the corner.
While Russia throws a wild curving pitch to Kosovo in the form of aid, Putin is also criticizing the US for arming the newly recognized country just as a Serb rail company has retaken control of rail lines in northern Kosovo.
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Indeed, 5 years after Serbias first democratically elected leader was assasinated, it still appears to be a country without a compass.
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As Poland and the Czech Republic <---(almost ready) are negotiating to host U.S. missile-defense systems Bush is adamant that these would be geared toward intercepting attacks from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East.
So Russia is opposed. But dont worry says Bush, this has nothing to do with Georgia or Ukraine joining NATO.
Hell, no, this aint Cold.
But Russia aside for a minute, at the moment 3 Balkan countries are having their NATO credentials considered (which Estonia, Latvia Hungary and Germany support) but at least one of them faces opposition from Greece unless they get their name changed.
And ahead of that curve, heres a guy who is already looking at Montenegro joining NATO.
And now Israel already wants to join NATO!?
Well, maybe not.
We are all getting a little bit ahead of ourselves arent we?
If these 3 countries get in, maybe one by a new name, and Montenegro joins NATO, Italy can off shore its nuclear power from there and get power from across the sea.
Hell, apparently they can already get smuggled cigarettes from there, so whats a little nuclear power between friends?
Not between old/old friends we hope. Especially if hes been huddling the mafiosa.
Something about having old friends like Milosevic, smuggling cigarettes, hiding the mafia....and Italian nuclear power ...might create instability in the region. Of course this is humour.
Make way for a Mediterranean Union.
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NATO is billing this week's summit as its biggest ever, attended by more than 50 world leaders. Next years in 2009 will mark the first time a NATO summit would be hosted by more than one country.
France and Germany both. Funny positions to be in since both oppose backing NATO entry for Georgia and Ukraine.
So will France block Ukraine from NATO, thereby appease Russia(?) and in turn not send more troops to Afghanistan?
Something tells me the implications on what happens on this could be enormous.
Even if we are lowering the bar of expectation for the meeting of 26 NATO leaders.
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Lets get together again. Next year.
