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Friday, June 4, 2010

Radiohead - Creep

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

Come to think of it, if Machs Cafe and Blog were a concert or a song I think this is the one I would be.

Dude arent you jive to the cool energy? Please leave then, ok ? theres the door.

 


Posted by mach1231 at 11:00 PM PDT
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 Woman.

Bizarre Brides And Weird Weddings

Is that so bizzarre or gorgeous? Are these people bombed? Shes gorgeous aint she?

:)

http://www.djmick.co.uk/really/bizarre-brides-and-weird-weddings-100-pics/

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Come to think of it, it is rather a bizzarre look. But anyway, onto the gusto as they say. 

See what I mean dear? These ARE the grown-ups Im telling you!


Posted by mach1231 at 9:13 PM PDT
Updated: Friday, June 4, 2010 9:38 PM PDT
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Good ol' Conrad
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: Crime and Punishment

Just gotta love The Establishment Man these days. Everyone in Canada secretly has some corner of their heart reserved, in the abscence of everything related to chucking out corporate documents and gaining some British peerage,....for some genuine heartwarming for our patroned former media baron currently doing time in prison. You cant be envious of anyone in prison.

"If society puts a high value on the talents of a Lady Gaga, (Stephanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta, of the New York Germanottas), no one has the right to say that those talents as a vocalist and showman should be surtaxed. (I have never heard or seen her, other than in still photographs, but I must say that a 23-year old woman from a working-class home in Brooklyn, who has five best-selling song recordings in one year and whose informal motto is “I get up on stage in front of the whole world in my underwear and I don’t give a f… if they like me or not” has earned her money, no matter how screechy, trashy or outrageous she may be.) " - Conrad Black

The Lady Gaga guide to capitalism

Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/05/22/the-lady-gaga-guide-to-capitalism/#more-1330
 
"We must banish to the proverbial dustbin of history the heirloom of Fabian attitude that any benefit to society’s short-changed must be wrung from the sweat of the diligent and transformed into the penalization of success."- Conrad Black

Posted by mach1231 at 10:40 AM PDT
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Listening to Dep Lepperd
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Entertainment

Yesterday. Really am enjoying the weather. Cool First few hours of rain here in over 2 weeks. (Not quite like sunscreen and Raybans, more like "sunny England".)  I really felt sorry for my friends in Vancouver. Some day I'll stop being such a softee. Until then I'll quit worrying about it.....

I think I enjoy this music more than ever I did-lols,haha..I have more appreciation for quality. Def is a supergroup with no equal. Like no southern Texas rock band can duo ZZ Top.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlulT5Yk0t8

 

 

I....... like his white pants on stage in this vid. I understand a lot of teen girls and hot women were just totally gaga over this guy back the

in the day , and probably just as many are today

 

Pretty well sums up how I feel. "Cos baby I'm not"..;)-lol's

I'm with the guys who play the type of music that are glad no "whorld leaders" like them :)

"So we were never driven to do the mascara thing or whatever these bands did. They didn't have any substance musically, I don't think, in comparison to us, so we didn't feel we needed to do it. Bands that do that are doing it to cover up the fact that there is no substance in their music." - Joe Elliot , Lead Singer of Def Lepperd

And according to Wiki, as a songwriter, Elliott has drawn from his eclectic tastes in music (ranging from pop-rock to folk) as sources of inspiration ...

He also often comments that the lyrics to Def Leppard's music are almost never personal; they are meant to be easily accessible to the listener.

Take care.


Posted by mach1231 at 1:22 AM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 10:48 PM PDT
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When is News not News?
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: News on News

Canadian Commnader of US Forces in A Sordid Love Affair

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/documents/TheGuardian/menard-cp-7684509.jpg

 Does that sound like a luridly conceived tabloid headline to you?

This is pretty hot. If this were America, CNN would be all over it. The reason why it would get some traction main stream over there is because for starters , our Canadian home boy was in charge of American lives and in the cauldron of controversy over the loss of them, but even after that, theres just something more to be said beyond goadedness, and a high moral ground, something instead which represents that slender portion of the American conscience we rarely see,..that helps define who they are both at home and overseas. And comes closer to the heart of what it truly means to be a real soldier.

But it is funny that the media wont touch it. Its all over the Internet.

So it's news, that much is true.  News that is that's about as cheap as it gets: free.

Thanks to a few emails...

General toppled by a corporal’s revelation

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/817125--general-toppled-by-a-corporal-s-revelation

What it  says those about our people at the top are playing a very dangerous game of self censorship.

They can say anything under the blanket of a national security interest, even if its to save themselves from embarassment .

If it were not for war time reporters like Micheal Yon

half of this story would be a pure ancedotal story with details about a gun misfiring nearly killing someone, a presumed responsibility for the death of a US soldier, and fraternizing with staff....all one in all, buried beneath headlines of government denying knowing anything about handing over soldiers for torture to Afghan authorities.

 

 


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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The Tough Go Shopping
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Business

This blog told me a few days ago that I was out of disc space and I couldn't even edit a previous entry. And now it is letting me post with abandon!

Anyway, lots of anticipation in BC and wayward eyes towards the introduction of a "Harmonized Sales Tax" here in BC. I have to admit,the actual idea of a single 12% percent tax on the bill and at checkout is gratifying in a way and somewhat, if I can get away with this in the same sentence as a tax: tantalizing.

But this whole public relations maneuver and showboating a promised savings to consumers I think is a little like wrapping a smelly fish.

I remain convinced that if the government were not so plagued with a  general sense of mistrust in far too many corners of government, the new tax would be a little like voters and consumers happily taking some fruit flavored cough medicine, not the bitter pill they are taking now. Accepting it feels like a moral compromise (even if it isn't).

 But anway, apart from the most basic opinion about that as a consumer, the tie in for todays entry is that this morning as I tuned into Voiceprint on my television (my trade secret is Voiceprint. I urge every reader to support this enterprise. There is no more pleasurable way of keeping up to date and informed than having the news read to you. ) a story ran about internet shopping.

To save you the trouble of wading through my commentary on this story, the link is directly below this paragraph.

Happy shopping!

Internet shaping the way people buy, retailers told-  - --

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Personally my self, I find the best way to 'save' cash  while shopping (inevitably to spend on other things; I find)  is to go downtown or the mall without my wallet or debit card and make a mental list of which store is offering the best deals on the things I really need. The return trip is mostly worth it (I proffer a hesitation only because at the moment I habituate a city 1/10th the size of a large city like Vancouver.) 

and not only 'prevents' impulse buys (and sometime buyer remorse) but also puts a stop gap mechanism in "shoppers ouch" when you discover your best bargain-lol,.....advertised even cheaper later on at a different section of the shopping-sphere.

 


Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) has launched what it says is Canada’s first online financial management tool integrated into an online banking system.

 

Investmentexec.com/rb-offers-new-service

 

 


It's hard to disagree that the Internet is changing and shaping  the way we think about shopping and buying things.

Meanwhile, lest we be considered dozers at the wheel when it comes to feeling alive and awake about climate change, Gary Mason of the Globe and Mail offers this thoughtful summarization about how the spirited future of business might be kept alive and well even as the new models of doing business and reducing our collective impacts on Mother Nature are thrust upon us.

The way he puts it, the key is: to just be really,really sneaky. And that's using government as an example. There's still money to be made yet.

But be careful for cripes sake...what if consumers got word.

"A strange silence has fallen over much of the climate-change debate,  .." - Gary Mason

Carbon trading system will have profound implications for B.C. businesses

http://tiny.cc/zi850

 

 

 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 10:10 AM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 11:07 AM PDT
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Have a great summer...do you remember??
Mood:  cool
Topic: Just4Fun

Oh yeah? Watch this!<3

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

It's another world at night.

 





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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Whats -on- *your* mind?
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Science and Health

Are you kidding? There is probably not a blog out there with out at least some jibe,mentioning of Britney Spears. Its practically synonymous with mickey mouse ears...and hey, it rhymes. Sort of.

Anyway! On with the show this is it..in a world crammed with shows like Desperate Housewives, MAd MEn, Sexy and the City programing and 1 and 2, and films like My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Mamma Mia screaming for our attention

It would be a real tragedy if we didnt set aside some quality time to reeducate ourselves-,... in this thoroughly modern age-,... about this newly introduced contradiction on the paradigm of successful sexual achievement satisfaction (called for our purposes: SSAS! laughs)

 

You absolutely must see the web site...if not the film it self.

Orgasm Inc.

 http://www.orgasminc.org/

 

 (note: she had initially took a job editing erotic video for a pharmaceutical company's clinical trial of a Viagra-type drug for women, of course not knwoing the end result would be ten year sojourn documenting pharmas search to unlock the secret to unlocking female sexual desire)

FDA considers endorsement of drug that some call a Viagra for women

The New Panty-Dropping Pill from Germany

 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-it/201005/the-new-panty-dropping-pill-germany



Will it cause more panties to drop than sugar pills?

picture of couple kissing passionately


 


I dont care if its from Monrovia.
I am a firm beleiver that in our increasingly modernized and tech dependent society, in a sea of sexualized images through advertising and magazine covers, stress and hormones have more to do with unacknowledged impact on such conditions than we care to admit. Stress is probably a bigger precursor that leads to such things as depression and other conditions more than we have time to contemplate. From lack of interest in sex to depression....effectively countering stress with bolstering back ups is probably such a wonderful simple effective solution that is not well examined enough because its just too boring.

At least thats what I used to think. Lol. Note: you can watch the whole film here. Fascinating stuff.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:02 PM PDT
Updated: Sunday, May 30, 2010 10:37 PM PDT
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Bet Facebook is glad they dont have user controls for design schemes. Heh. Not as happy as I would be though, joke,joke.

 


 

Took this screen capture from one of 'the Brit`ster's videos. The design elements are good. Rich.

 


I thought this was good, too. Brit leaves a salon. Must be her bg behind her. Clicking pic below enlargens photo.

 


Posted by mach1231 at 12:56 PM PDT
Updated: Sunday, May 30, 2010 1:42 PM PDT
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

http://hydraulx.com/2008/03mv/music.html

Posted by mach1231 at 11:54 PM PDT
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