In case any of you forgot twenty years ago today the Berlin Wall fell.
Nov
09
. . . but this is for real. An older person, a woman, and Oriental. Cha Sa-soon, 68, (South Korean) took only 950 times and $4,200 to pass her written drivers test. I cannot make this up here is the article.
I just have nothing else to say . . . other than if you see this woman on the road, RUN!
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Nov
08
This is one of epic proportions. A 6 month old boy is in a stroller on a train station platform in Australia, mom turns the stroller and it rolls off the platform to the tracks about 4 feet below as a train is pulling into the station. The stroller and baby are pushed 130 feet and accept for a bump on the head which looks like it occurred when the stroller hit the ground the child is OK.
It is unfathomable to me how the mom did not see the stroller and baby rolling away until it was too late. I wonder how intently this incident would have been investigated if the dad were in control or lack there of the stroller.
I think I would have realized that it would take toomuch time to reach and pull my child back up onto the platform and I would have jumped down and moved baby and stroller off the tracks.
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Nov
07
This is bunk. A person is beaten. Is his or her pain diminished or death have less meaning because they are not gay or visibly ethnic? Hate crime legislation diminishes the value of my white heterosexual son’s life so I find this legislation very offensive. A person who harms or kills my son will serve less time because he is not homosexual or visibly ethnic. It is that simple. Call me what you want but I will not back down form this because it is wrong from the word go. There is no denying it and no defending it. Give me one good intelligent, clear reason that the constitution should be ignored for gay or visibly ethnic people. That is what is happening; this law makes a provision for others to not be protected equally under the law no matter how you slice it.
I am tired of the crap and vote. I will remember that when I enter the election booth.
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Nov
06
Notice: For those in the Erie County, Town of Tonawanda, New York area; I spoke to the owner (a very friendly and approachable guy) just over a week ago and Tiffany’s Club is slated for its Grand Opening on or about November 12, 2009. The owner said he is going to make it couples friendly.
He has turned a run down abandoned building into a remarkably classy building for an industrial area and it seems that the owner is attempting to put his best foot forward and also be neighbor friendly despite the objections that he faced.
At least he did not tear down any woods and call the business “something” woods to build a building for his business and used an existing building which there are plenty of in the town. There is no reason to make our town look like a city when there are plenty of vacant buildings that we have to fill.
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Nov
05
This article does not have to use 2/3’s of the population to distort its numbers like when “mostly women and children” is so often used. On the Titanic of the approximately 1509 people that died about 1339 of them were men. In all the years that this story has been told I have never heard once that “mostly men died” as so often that we hear in many other situations “mostly women and children.” Funny that the only stories that came out about men were not about brave or the foolhardy that would not get on a life boat even though when launched many were going less than half full because a stupid code of chivalry. What a waste of life and talent. No, instead we heard about fictitious stories about “cowardice” where men dressed in women’s clothes to be saved, again even if true (but these stories have all been debunked) in more than half empty life boats, what was the harm?
This is how we still look at these me 100 years later; there is a stigma of cowardice if a man was saved. Did I mention that many life boats were half or better empty? Other men survived by enduring the cold water or on makeshift flotation devices. Did I mention that the lifeboats had room for 1.088 and the pulled away with only 653 people (mostly women).
THOSE POOR AND NOBEL WOMEN
Only 74% of the women survived (all classes) and 50% of the children (all classes). That is messed up considering that about 98% of all first class women survived.
What a jackass society we live in.
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Nov
04
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Perhaps the most intriguing and convenient tool on Star Trek was the “replicator.” It could make any part that was needed and had other applications such as making food and making meat like food “where no animals were harmed.”
Unlike what the article says the Star Trek replicator did not create something from nothing it did rearrange molecules into a new matrix to create what was needed parts or food.
There have been things similar to this invention and are scanners that view an object and can make it out of plastic, make a mold and the part can be replicated. Jay Leno for instance uses one to make parts for his antique cars. They have been around for some time. This one promises to go right to the metal fabricated part ready for use. It should save time, money and further the possibility of long distance space travel and colonization because of the ease of accessing replacement parts.
It is amazing how one man has envisioned and inspired so many inventions that have made our lives so much easier.
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Nov
03
New York in its infinite wisdom has decided to put a deposit on bottled water. Although I have less objection to the attempt to control pollution, they are in fact creating pollution. The reason for this is that no company or business can sell bottled water without a $0.05 deposit label on it, if they do they are subject to a $6,000.00 fine, my sources say. Some vendors are going to put stickers on their product (the store cannot because that is illegal) that make the $0.05 deposit known, others are not. This country goes trough about 11 million gallons of bottled water a day. I am not sure how much of that is sold in NY but my 7 – Eleven states that they expect to return about one weeks worth of water. This is a waste of water; all those bottles will end up in a land fill (about 4 per gallon) with their labels and caps. If you ask me it should have been mandatory to have to add a label for deposit but of course that causes extra pollution also.
Hey every little bit counts, and I am not really big on this problem but when it is legislated there should have been just a tad more forethought that went into it.
Governor Paterson issued a statement on Friday saying that 80 percent of unclaimed deposits would go to the state as much-needed revenue. OK so the vendors and the stores that have to do all the work to enforce this law receive only 20% of the unclaimed deposit and no money for the bottles returned. Think about it, now there has to be more employees, trucks, use of fuel, and storage. This dramatically adds to the carbon and diminishing fossil fuel problem that people are complaining about, and we as consumers are going to have to pick up the extra cost of the additional manpower, equipment, and fuel that is going to be needed for this product.
There is no way in hell that you can convince me that this lessens the pollution problem it just changes it from one form to another.
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Nov
02
MISPLACED EMOTIONS
There is one woman that states her husband will leave her if she has her brest removed and one of the trainers replied to her “he’d leave you for that, he’s not worth having.” This must be ther reason for the stigma and the fact that 2/3 of women in undeveloping countries go undiaganosed until it is to late. There is no way in hell that you can ever convince me that is the underlying problem for the undiaganosed brest cancer patents in developing nations. Remember they are in developing nations, you know, poor, uneducated, isolated, substandard and distant health care, no transportation, no time to take a day off of survival to see a doctor, etc. That has nothing to do with this problem at all.
Let me add that the article also states that in developng nations “. . .they’ll be home to 55 percent of the world’s 450,000 expected breast cancer deaths this year.” Why is that so bad?!?
PERSPECTIVE
As of 2008 according to the United nations There are 6.7 billion people on this world, 1.2 in developed nations and 5.5 in developing nations. That is 17.9% of the population in developed nations and 82.1% in developing nations. Yet we are to have bleading hearts for the developing nations. It sounds to me like people in the developed nations have an exceptionally high disproportunate rate of cancer, almost half of it for about one sixth of the world population. So I ask you, where does the real problem exist with breast cancer? It is obvious to me.
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Oct
31
There were bodies everywhere. The walking wonded, the dead, the injured, the purely evil, abound and the good were there also. It was a horrific site, met by laughter and fun all night long. It is said that you cannot have a funeral without fun and slaughter without laughter. This was the case a a friends wedding on Halloween.
My family and I wish Joe and Laura all the best in their future life together.
Here is a preview of some of your pictures (pending)
