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not sureMight be my last entry in a while (hello?-lol..yak yak yak)
as Im out of disk space and might have buy more who knows maybe go Pro
or just cut away to make more room.
I have a very old cheapo computer to work with here with an old OS. It finds it hard to accept fast moving graphics and frequently feels overwhelmed. It finds it hard to work with Java and I usually more often than not turn Java 'off' and do not load images to save having to re-boot 15x a day.
That said, this frequently makes posting a pain and esp editing and removing entries no longer valid as that work requires the use of Java.
Just wanted to say I have no grudge or personal problem with the BFC or any posters there but dont feel this should limit my personal view and criticism to mere mumbling and grumbling at the keyboard and montitor: I have spoken my mind. I am glad the BFC realizes that our feelings are mutual.
Thank you for your consideration poster RYP and I am sorry for the initial misunderstanding miscommunication comedy of errors that precipitated my small little inconsolable : "rant'. Of which by now is a mystery to many by now anyway so sorry I have not had time energy effort left to align my blog with what has taken place.
THanks for reading and visiting and I suspect entries will not match the high standard to which I currnelty aspire until I can buy myself a new computer.
Bestest regards to all my enemies old and new at The Black Flag Cafe
Its been a slice as well as an education.
Sincerely
Mach aka Machiz or Max
Mark my words, you are not , any on you, going to get a truer picture of Iraq than you are right now. Nothing. Nada. There will be no spice. There'll be sugar and some things nice. But, no. No spice. Theres an occupation there and attacks daily. Its a minority attacking a majority. But the inner pulchritude of any country will be lost with your constant and never ending stream lined focus on whats scary or whats dangerous about a country.
Meanwhile the world in its entirety has left your kind behind. People are not all that stupid. They know the world is a dangerous place. They are inundated with such reports as daily as you are. Albeit this is the BFC's bread butter and pickles, while acting as if you have some type of exclusitivity amongst your selves as being the ONLY people or posters with temerity to travel to or bring interested in dangerous places on earth its sad to see so much self-deception concentrated in one place.
The difference is people may embolden themselves and may not have the devil may care attitude prevalent at the Flag but will act and do with sublime quiet confidence, whilst all people at the Flag do is engage in their utter yack and banter.
The people of the Black Flag Cafe...make that, the posters of BFC(a-hem cough cough cough heave cough)
are currently engaged in the height and very epitome of self-delusion. And I mean entirely.
Its occasional relief marked with topics away from its focus on its self or canned humour usually contain some vague essence of the hint of danger but nothing so far to indicate it has not strayed so far from its original raison d'etre or reason for being that it has re-claimed a position where danger was the modus operandi. These days the BFC has a moderator who quotes in his signature: I knew violence wasnt the right option...I got it wrong on purpose.
This means the Black Flag Cafe has become a spot for people to feel entertained. It is not a place where people who have a "special angle" on these places that flash in and out of the "news" congregate to openly talk without worry of names or surnames.
Granted if the world in general has become a safe place over the past 6 months to a year, you might think this would be a natural outcome for so many people stuck with so much idle energy to defuse from the news of the day through humour.
Perhaps with this blog I am stuck with the same thing. The difference is in the level of self-awareness.
One post about 32 ways to bite the big one on a construction site receives 123 views and 7 replies.
A post about a new pill to increase sex dive in women while they lose weight? 23 replies and 314 views(and counting). Now I have nothing against the original story at all, or its being posted but for the amount of interest it generates, it clearly indicates the priority level of its regulars.
The whole world is a dangerous place and if you guys think you got some type of corner and angle on it with your formerly little greasy backwater joint catering to people with such proclivities.....you are mistaken.
Theres warriors, theyre are scribes to the field..and then theres the rest and the lot of you ..the equivalent to a group of extras on a film set. Or consider yourselves the moral equivalent of a comedy act where the main performer plys and stacks the audience with his friends to both assuage his ego and try to boost his ratings to promoters.
The original idea, the book itself A Guide to the Worlds Most Dangerous Places was a great premise, but Flaggers have carried it to such extreme that it is not such as a cloyed taste thinking people like myself have with it more than mere distaste. Thanks to so many people whose lack of chagrin goes and in hand with the indifference many people feel. But I guess all in all its a bad time to be from the US.
One day will come when there will be a self help group on a private portion of the web for certain Flaggers who like to target other posters,--..I mean people. It will be to help them stop focusing on themselves and enable them to receive the real life affirming therapy so many of them need. And poster RYP will lead and be group leader.
I t happens. It happens in real life.
caffeinatedSo I'm all caught up in the latest news about the wars in Iraq and the delivering of aid to Afghanistan and the perils fraught therein. My last thought on that matter was why is not Canada in a place right now where it really matters, like Darfur. Not that Afghanistan does not matter, Afghanistan has always "mattered". (Kinda thought a 'but' would come up didnt you?) But we need to grasp the significance of our work there as as a country. Before we lose direction. Drawing as an example the war in Iraq, the Bush house is in tatters and shambles for clinging so tightly to its mandate as a figurative outreach of Blairs office to "contain" Saddam. Even George Tenet is coming out swinging in an unmitigated effort at self-preservation, taking long drawn out pot shots at the crass rule by proxy of VP Richard Cheney and C.Rice. Meanhile, in another area of the deep dark forest of political speculation where agendas are all not as hidden as they are muted, Bush has been likened to a "blind man in a room full of deaf people". A frightening analogy to consider, but boding well for reality when cross-compared with the recent reports of suicide bombings out of Iraq. Almost 100 US soldiers in one month dead in April 2007? How far does your memory serve to the year 2003? How many more times will we hear the phrase tersely uttered: "in one of the worst months for casualties since the invasion began"? All in all, it IS beginning to take the same shadow outline form of that last helicopter exiting Saigon in 1973. So not that things have not been as exciting here in Canada. How could they not be with the fire and brimstone preaching from his holier than thou environmental platform Mr John Baird(party news release) on how nasty the Liberals have been the past ten years. Every single accusation leveled at the response from his government on the threat of man and his impact on the environment has been met with nothing but a large open vitriloic mouth and a firm finger pointing (make that poking) at the past Liberal government. And yet his new plan to encounter this little business of Global Warming has been thoroughly ridden over roughshod with few mincing of words from preminent environmentalists and scientists, one of them happening to be one Dr.David Suzuki who all agree on one word and one word only when it comes down to either a)his message,b) the communication of his message. It, in a word: stinks. So, between that and calls for the Defence Ministers resignation over our intermediary role and not intercendiary role in handing over Afghan detainees to be tortured in which NATO supports an inquiry of sorts, and stale accusations of Harpers taunt at the Liberals that they might be actually Taleban friendly (no one has forgotten)...its been a rough week for Stephen Harper. Big shoes to fill and I tend to think even he could not have been possibly prepared for what he has been wading into. When the Canadian people again sing O Canada with the same depth and feeling that stood for us proud moments in our countrys birth , evolution and growth...it will be about a lot more than a hockey game.
But the whole raison d'etre for this blog entry has been to skip over all of that. I just wanted to write a brief encapsulation of the world as portrayed and filtered through the media (human interest stories anyone?) and get to the real reason for this entry. I'd like to provide something with more distractive quality.
Lingerie Purveyor Victoria's Secret Names Justin Timberlake Sexiest Male Musician
1) I have never seen Mr.Timberlake with a musical instrument or play one so dont know if he qualifies as a musician.
2) I was shocked to see this because for all the beauty glorification this lingerie line does for women, had they not bothered to stop and consider the degradation Justin portrays in his videos?
They are not without controversy.
I had personally seen his video in which he undoes decades of hard work hard working women have sought to attain for themselves as a priveleged position in society not to be considered objects to be owned,possesed,domineered...let alone chased to their deaths..which is efectively what Mr Timberlake does in his video. IN addition to using violence against his friend. In short he is the angered male, acting irrationally...much like a road raged driver does. To instill this attitude, this GLORIFIED attitude, in our young people is like playing with fire.
Timberlake's lyrics send wrong message to kids
What a girl wants: changes
Baltimore Sun, MD - 22 hours ago
Shown on overhead screens midway into the show, the video is part of Lifetime Networks' "End Violence Against Women" campaign
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But....why is this newsworthy and worth blah-gging about?
This article I found says thus: "If you're interested in learning about women's history during the past 175 years or so in the United States, just take a look at the lingerie they wore ..."
Lingerie has always reflected a woman's place in society.
But I'm with you anyway, after we hear from Us Magazine and People Magazine...who really cares what or who a manufacturer decides to call sexy.
myLACYS Celebrates Product Launch With Introductory Pricing
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Ciao, bellas.
www.lovable.com.au/www/endorse/hawkins/undies/lol.html
www.lovable.com.au/www/211/1001127/displayarticle/1358442.html
This book addresses theoretical and practical issues relating to the reliability and authenticity of records created in the electronic environment by organizations of all kinds.
See also
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Interesting...
http://www.afghanistan-parsa.org/
loudRecommended reading for Black Flaggers
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For whomever: Knapp, Caroline,--d. 2002. Appetites : why women want / Caroline Knapp.
Gordon, Joanne. Be happy at work : 100 women who love their jobs, and why
For "RYP": Andreas, Joel. Addicted to war : why the U.S. can't kick militarism
Sherk, Bill,--1942-
For coldharvest: 500 years of new words : [the fascinating story of how, whe
For Kurt: Kellerman, Barbara,--1949- Bad leadership : what it is, how it happens, why it matters
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Legault, Michel,--1959- Think! : why crucial decisions can't be made in the blink o
For anyone:
Braly, James. Dangerous grains : why gluten cereal grains may be hazardous
McWhorter, John H. Doing our own thing : the degradation of language and music
Gonzales, Laurence,--1947- Deep survival : who lives, who dies, and why : true stories
Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy. Einstein never used flash cards : how our children really
Norman, Donald A. Emotional design : why we love (or hate) everyday things
Best, Joel. Flavor of the month : why smart people fall for fads
Heath, Chip. Made to stick : why some ideas survive and others die
Jones, Gerard. Killing monsters : why children need fantasy, and make-beli
Rapaille, Clotaire. The culture code : an ingenious way to understand why peopl
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And finally, last but nether the least , I would highly recommend the following book to Kurt as it seems he may finally discover the usefulness for people engaged in the profession of sociology
Why? : [what happens when people give reasons-- and why
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He might also want to check out:
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Fearful rich keep poor at bay with gated homes and razor wire
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 24 Apr 2007
Maristella Svampa, a sociologist who has written a book on gated areas, linked the rise of such communities to the psychological impact of Argentina's 1990s
a-okLooking for a book on climate change?
“The closest living thing to Indiana Jones, and just in time.”
http://www.mark-bowen.com/book.html
