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The Ambler
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Spite? What is ...spite, anway?
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: Science and Health

Keith Jensen of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and his colleagues conducted a pair of studies that looked at whether chimpanzees believed in fairness - the idea that all should share the same advantages and disadvantages ..

http://www.livescience.com/animals/070716_spite_chimps.html

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But anyway I had just hung up the phone with a loved one from my old hometown.

She, apparently, was in charge of an Estate, a Last Will and Testament from a relative who has passed away from lung cancer since over two years ago.

An thoroughly annoyed looking lady had looked at me somewhat irritatingly and needled me for a reply as to how long I would take on the phone. I held up the sign for peace (or victory) knowing she  would stupidly think this means two minutes. Anyway, anyone frowning at me and smoking a cigarette and getting antsy about my use of a public phone thinking I might kowtow to such a response has something else coming.

But the bus shows up, she leaves her half smoking butt on the sidewalk and she hops on the bus.

I hang up a few minutes later. The bus stop seems awash in second hand smoke and smokers. I pick off some relatively young guy who looks like he might need some health care debate in his life. WOuld he be willing to chat about his right to smoke impedes upon my right and the rights of others for unadulterated air?

If it was just me I could have just sauntered away. But there are loads of retirees here. And small children visiting grandparents too. I zeroed in on his profound ignorance. Assaulted him with my logic ...wondering aloud how anyone could put up with insolent attitudes like his. He was probably about 3o years young.

But I felt like I was also speaking for the little elderly lady five feet away, waiting for the bus, possibly contemplating the autumn of her years, and how precious life really is.

I left him alone though after a few more cross words. I left him talking to an 911 operator. I glanced back at him a few yards away.......white as a ghost.

Will he honestly think after a while that that was somebodys mother on that bench ? Who knows.

 

I never felt better though. Only more bitter.

In a constitutional battle of wills, the right to have clean pure air as a significant, no-,...neccesary part of a persons right to have happinesss and security as a person. Free from another persons second hand smoke vicariously "assualting" another persons health as a byproduct............with rising health care costs, more people realizing the ill health effects........the right to pollute, granted by a right to smoke and endanger the health of others around you

...must not supercede or impede on a persons right to clean air.

This is why I have invented the Good Neighbor Act...and with enough votes in Congress...and youre help and youre support

 

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Joking aside, cancer, lung and heart disease are serious issues. Dont smoke the constitution near me thank you very much.

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 2:54 PM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:03 PM PDT
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Monday, July 23, 2007

Mood:  incredulous
Topic: Science and Health

An astounding 20% to 40% of cancer patients die from causes related to malnutrition, not from the cancer itself.

In addition, if the malnutrition is not addressed, it can lead to a condition called "cachexia," defined as a wasting syndrome that results in compromised immunity, weakness, and a loss of weight, fat, and muscle.

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Google. 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 1:11 PM PDT
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Cheap cut and paste job
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Scheiss !!!!
Topic: Entertainment

VFS Acting grad Stefania Putnam recently wrote to us from her home in Thailand with a terrific account of her experience working on the set with Christian Bale in acclaimed German director Werner Herzog’s latest feature film Rescue Dawn, due out this summer. The film is based on Herzog’s own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Learns to Fly, about the U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler who was shot down and made a prisoner-of-war in Laos during the Vietnam War. Seeing as Herzog is one of only a handful of truly visionary directors working today, creating awe-inspiring films that blend fact, fiction, the impossible and the unbelievable, it’s easy to understand why Stefania was so thrilled to have the chance to work with him. What follows is the complete story of her time on set (complete with a few handy acting tips), in her own words:

 

here! 


Posted by mach1231 at 12:59 PM PDT
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Book promo for summer....cruise specials
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Travel

"Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here . . . and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world, yet to follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. . . . It is not a single way, but many: a web of choices. Mine stretched seven thousand miles, and is occasionally dangerous."

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"Call it coincidence, or "consilience," if you prefer"..

 

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/8545352.html

 

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Silk-Road-Colin-Thubron/dp/0701173637

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Click the link above! Shadows on the Silk Road.

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The QE2 is to retire next year and become a big shop in Dubai.

The Guardian asks plainitivley: "The QE2 was the last beautiful ship - why are her successors so ugly?"

 

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Posted by mach1231 at 4:40 PM PDT
Updated: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:51 PM PDT
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Trial of the Century?
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: News on News

Following Conrad Black Trial. Look @ this  from......

 

DECEMBER 1st............2003.

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 10:20 AM PDT
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Before I forget...
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Science and Health

The gene responsible for causing breast cancer in women comes from the man.

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Astronomers have found a new planet.

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They have also found the first planet  outside of our own solar system to contain water. Its only super heated steam but it has to have a source doesn it? The rest of the planet is gas. It raises the hope that the substance most vital for life is more ubiquitous in the universe than previously thought. - 2005

 

There has been a recent discovery regarding HIV, human and man related to genomics.

 

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Battling depression. Gone to clean my gun. Wish me luck. I am in the jewel of the west coast but my spirit is elsewhere. I am here in physical form only. Far away, away from paradise...in a monochromatic world of green that threatens to turn black, and shines luminescently when the moon is full. When wild mimicry sounds alarms and pushes the skin against bone and corpuscle. The road is neither dust nor mud. Neither dirt nor gravel. Its trodden. Its a makeshift breakshift unsteady rollicking path. Born of inccessant needs from men with infantile demands. For more air, for more space, for more trade, for more water and for more oil and for more banana crops. For more war. The tracks are from armoured tanks. Birds swooping into the trees along the way whistle shrilly. Dogs prance silently instep with their command to hurry on, dont question, sit and worship...they prattle and tip toe away. Sheepish and scared, startled by memories engraved in the landscape dep. the scars beckoning for a healing  only a Mother could provide. Up ahead...a man holds his head high. Tired, Thirsty. He has run away from paradise.

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 9:39 AM PDT
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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Mood:  bright
  "Canadians should not be surprised to learn that South Africa modelled 
its
system of apartheid after the Canadian Indian reserve system." - ?
 
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Who said that and in what year? Alex? No, Alex you give the answers I ask the questions.
What? Who said what? What WHO said what? WHAT WHO SAID WHAT?
 
 

Posted by mach1231 at 7:45 PM PDT
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
NYC in the dark
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Crime and Punishment

Probably Kurt Eisner of the Black Flag Cafe. He was bragging about working for the New York Subway and has also conspicuously enough worked for the Museum of Modern Art. Of this he has made no effort to conceal, and is practically public information.

 I can just see him using his hacker skills to change the security codes for the museum or something.

Usually only used to break out American spies from Chinese prisons.

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Unlike some certain other things concerning the negative detritus from peoples sordid lives.

The only reason RYP dislikes me is I had discovered he was friends with pro-South African apartheid supporters. Or had friends who were against anti-aparthied activists if you'll have it that way.


Posted by mach1231 at 3:23 PM PDT
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
La Prensa
Mood:  sharp
Topic: Crime and Punishment

This film has won so many official Selections at Film Festivals, you may end up breezing right passed it at the DVD/VIDEO store aisle.

Uhmmmmmm......

This film has won so many official Selections at Film Festivals, you may end up breezing right passed it at the DVD/VIDEO store aisle.

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 http://palmpictures.imeem.com/video/oUkaT2-I/cronicas/

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Great bonus features. Its worth seeking out as Ecuador's film industry is so small, the Bonus features on the DVD show and tell

a lot behind the scenes of this country.

 

 

 

A Miami reporter travels to a small Ecuadorian village to cover a series of brutal murders and get the biggest story of his career, tracking a possible serial killer dubbed the Monster of Babahoyo.


Posted by mach1231 at 9:25 PM PDT
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
See you in the movies
Mood:  celebratory

HONG KONG 1941

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=5da7cb9d-39b0-472d-93e4-70c995ffa273

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Gotta do something about these trademark and film pirates before we are all poisoned ..................with lies, and damned lies.


Posted by mach1231 at 9:41 PM PDT
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