Mood:  blue

 Dixie Chicks - Everybody Knows 
 

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

Posted by mach1231 at 2:33 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, June 1, 2008 3:05 PM PDT

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Mood:  cheeky

Top 10 Most Unusual Places to Stay

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Endangered Destinations

Growing numbers of travelers venture to remote and fragile places knowing that their presence makes matters worse. Here's a solution:

Please Don't Go

Neurologist Sacks, choir explore music's healing power

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Dont forget Bourne though!

MoMA Presents The Bourne Trilogy of Thrillers as Part of Inaugural World Science Festival

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24468

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'Bourne' films viewed as art - and science - at MoMA program

 Bourne's anguish over not remembering his past rings true. On or off the screen, .., "we have this incredible, compelling need to create a narrative about who we are."

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

Posted by mach1231 at 12:44 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, June 1, 2008 2:58 PM PDT

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Mood:  accident prone

Over 7 years ago , on December 13th 2002...CBS news reported on how

19 Roman Catholic Bishops Have Resigned Since 1990

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Over 7 years before that on

March 17, 1995 the New York Times reported in an article entitled

Shredding Documents to Shield Victims of Sexual Assault

on the differences in rape-shield laws in Canada and the U.S., these laws prevent defendants from using the past sexual history of victims in court.

The news item states how the hopes of the unfairly accused, the victims right not to re-victimized twice and the rights of the woman to have enough evidence to bear scrutinty .....all fell under the same protective umbrella of protection and yet but also how the case of one Bishop Hubert O'Connor of British Columbia, Canada, charged in 1992 and imprisoned in 1996 for sexually assaulting two teenage girls as principal of a boarding school (one of the 19 mentioned in the CBS article) became the catalyst for change as the defense fo the women argued all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada against the release of the women's confidential academic, employment, medical and psychological records for use in a lower-Court.

(Basically they wanted to have it thrown out, arguing that the Crown has not done its duty in releasing files to the defense. Hubert had insisted the sex was consensual.)

From what I can see here, for these the accused was never charged or punished.

I suspect that the confidentiality laws had something to do with.(PDF)

Its interesting that the confidentiality laws differ in the US, and how it appears that the case of two young girls who matured in life to face their sexual oppressor were poised on the precipice to change how files are dealt with.

Any why should they not be. The fact that CBS did not mention that the girls were "native indian" and attended a government funded "residential" school doesnt alter the facts of their case.

But this is Prince George, a town wanna be city where even Provincial Court Judges are particapatory in sexual and vicious assaults on native aboriginal girls.

" I admit it"

So its also interesting on how document shredding became the answer whereas in the U.S., (or at least in some parts of it) you would hold no such worries when talking to your confidante.

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At the time of this blog entry neither the New York Times nor the Cable News Network had any interest in coverage of this story

Although the Times did report in March 7, 2004 that

"No comprehensive study has yet measured the full damage wrought by the schools."

Looks like all that is about to change. So how about some reporting from the NY TIMES and CNN?

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note: former Judge William Ramsay is also dead.

In the saddest collorary to this troubling tale, his teenaged victim died in her early 20's suffering from complications from hepatitis.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:44 AM PDT

Updated: Sunday, June 1, 2008 2:43 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

Do you ever feel bugged or bewildered by the number of books with

1001 in the title i.e. (must see things, must places to travel, must movies to see, must read books)...

Before You Die!! ?

 Theres even gardens you MUSt see in the series, albums you MUST listen to, and paintings you have to see

...

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I think, ok seriously...any number between 10-100 places to see is a serious challenge in the half-life I have but a thousand? Thank heavens the title is not meant to be taken without that proverbial grain of sand.

Anyway, Amazon has complied this neat little list of books called

Amazon.com Gift Cards Redeemable for millions of items, Amazon.com gift cards are the perfect gift for friends and family, as well as employees and clients. Gift Cards » E-mail » Print at home » Mail Corporate Gift Cards » Electronic claim codes » Mail

 naw maybe you shouldnt

Posted by mach1231 at 9:30 AM PDT

Updated: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:39 PM PDT

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Mood:  silly

Spare a thought for....

After months of experimenting with various fabrics and a
sewing machine in the bedroom of her New York apartment, 

Heather Thomson developed
this groundbreaking design and the new modern shaper was born. 

Trends for 2008

http://www.barenecessities.com/Yummie-Tummie_brand_324.htm

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Posted by mach1231 at 8:03 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, June 1, 2008 3:12 PM PDT

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Mood:  surprised

Surprised? 

I was Googling Pam Anderson regarding this story, she's lending her celebrity status to help out kids like these ones, and came across this dumb joke.

Yeah, where else but a web site for truckers?

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Shes headed to the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi to be received by His Highness Sheikha Sheikha Bint Saif Al Nayan.

Posted by mach1231 at 4:01 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:35 PM PDT

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Mood:  amorous

While headlines may from time to time read or say 'Oh those amorous French', or 'the prudish English'

in Italy, the headline ran regarding our Former Foreign Affairs Minister saying

"Lovestruck Minister Loses his Head and Documents."

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Oh those irascible Choleric Italians.

source; http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080529/national/bernier_fallout

Posted by mach1231 at 2:54 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:32 PM PDT

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http://www.thehiddengalleon.com/

Posted by mach1231 at 9:30 AM PDT

Updated: Saturday, June 14, 2008 3:28 AM PDT

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Mood:  not sure

Maximes ex-gf. She  does bear that certain

resemblance

to tv beauty Sofia Milos. But I know naught who would take it for the compliment.

Here she is getting off a chopper in The Border(YouTubed).

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Someone please tell me amidts all this navel gazing, cabinet shuffling and political haymaking that now is not a good time to be talking about a wireless spectrum auction.

Talk will be cheap when election fever ever hits, but it probably won't have anywhere near the same currency of conversation that must be reinvigorating watercooler discussions around the country.

But it appears there is little else in Harpers minority government that could go wrong. In fact if there were any time that it had been likened to a house of cards.......

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The fall guy or front man for the so-called Nafta-gate blunder has left office. He now being the prime minister's departing chief of staff, who else left to blame but Foreign Affairs?

But the man named Ian Brodie has left the building exonerated,  Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador in Washington is also guiltless of interfering in Americas Democratic party leadership nomination bid.

So why is Brodie leaving again? If FA is to blame I am not sure if I should be a concerned citizen- lol.

But why would Maxime be blamed? He only left confidential documents at his gf's apartment:... once!

Who's going to accuse him of being a reckless, forgetful, stumbling Foreign Minister who creates havoc wherever he goes?

But then again don't find my lack of concern appaling, neither is the Prime Minister, even it came from his office.

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I wonder what he has to say after calling Duceppe and Dion "quite a group of gossipy old busy-bodies", this is the party that reached a new low in gutter Parliamentary politics referring to departing floor crossing Belinda Stronach a dog.

So Harper and his party have the iron in their guts to say that certainly and for sure, at least he did not say gossipy old ladies

the Conservatives have the fewest women MPs of any party.

but what pet name then for the new Foreign Minister David Emerson will the Liberals think of?

Probably something nice. Maybe floor crossing ex-Liberals can help bring back a new level of austerity to Canadian politics, sadly missing the past 26 months or so.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:10 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:31 AM PDT

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It was April 29 of this year that the President of the country of Belarus denounced the West as having no right to demand the release of political prisoners. (He has scratched Putin from his Christmas card list saying: "we are no longer colleauges")

But it was a day later, Belarusian authorities gave 10 U.S. diplomats 72 hours to leave the country.

Dissidents are being rounded up. U.S. diplomats are being kicked out. And European officials are once again pointing accusing fingers at the continent's "last dictatorship."

"Soon I will...."

Does this guy use shoe polish on that bear semblance of a Hitler stache?

 http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/5/27/6902/

Posted by mach1231 at 9:50 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:33 AM PDT

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