Mood:  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.

A Brief History of Anxiety

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

Posted by mach1231 at 11:49 AM PDT

Updated: Monday, April 7, 2008 12:52 PM PDT

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Mood:  vegas lucky

I change my mind I change my mind I change my mind

I want the smart guy to win

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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.

It's interesting that Greenspan as early  (or as late!)  as last year made

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

A crusader in clover 

Most recently the author of a book called

Here he is weighing in on the last election in Sept 2004.

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript339_full.html 

Posted by mach1231 at 10:55 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, April 7, 2008 11:04 AM PDT

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Mood:  cheeky

headline makers in the news...

 see if you can gesss who I am with these clues... 

• 50 years ago this year I started filming in the Academy Award winning fim Ben Hur as its main star
• Just 3 weeks ago I celebrated  my 65th Wedding Anniversary
• I was past President of the Screen Actors Guild and the National Rifle Association 
  

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.

http://www.armyarcherd.com/ 

Posted by mach1231 at 10:07 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, April 6, 2008 10:23 PM PDT

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Mood:  lazy

US May Heighten Travel Alert to Mexico

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.

14 slain in drug shootout near US border

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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

Posted by mach1231 at 6:47 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, April 7, 2008 11:08 AM PDT

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Mood:  special

 Hollywood 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.

Posted by mach1231 at 1:17 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, April 5, 2008 2:19 PM PDT

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Mood:  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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Mood:  special

I am posting neat videos I found on YouTube to my own blog. 

•  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmu2FTHhqQg

I don't care. This is fun. 

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Posted by mach1231 at 10:43 PM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 9:47 AM PDT

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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.

(Still waters run deep. )

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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.

And btw were are still chums.

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. 

Posted by mach1231 at 11:01 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:38 PM PDT

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Click me! 

Posted by mach1231 at 1:24 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 1:34 AM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

A blog is: an on-line quasi-historical electronic documenting tool that records the thoughts, feeling(s) and live views of the participatory members of an free online internet community.

By rote of participation,  members are free to opine,judge,assert and offer to others their own free wheeling record and view on the window of the world as events large and small intersect to form unique precepts on how mass media has shaped our lives, tastes and contributed to stereotypes and misconceptions.

So, saying adieu and to hell with all of that nonsense ...

Ladies and genetlemen of the blogging stratosphere and purveors of the internet universe, I offer you Ms Denise Richards looking particularily happy of late...

The ever beautiful Ms. Richards finally won the right to legally reclaim her maiden name - two years after her divorce from Charlie Sheen had been finalised.

My whole life I had never ever heard anyone call DR by her former married last name. Had you?

Not even from a tattoo fairy....

Posted by mach1231 at 12:06 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:54 AM PDT

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