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A VERY BORING

NEWS DAY

There is a new ad showing on late night television for the energy drink AMP. I am not sure I would call it funny but it is a testimonial to our social mores. Couldn't find a version on YouTube or Google, so here is the actual website. Walk Of No Shame.Com. Check it out and possibly relate. LOL!

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As anticipated, HRC won West Virginia by a 2-1 margin. YAWN. The Congressional seat in Mississippi's 1st Congressional District is now back in Democratic control for the 1st time in almost 14 years. It also marks the third Republican special election loss this year. Cheney's visit didn't help one iota.

Out in the middle of America, four salt domes are almost totally full (97%) of crude oil. Called the Strategic Oil Reserves, they were created after the Arab Oil Embargo of the early '70's. Yesterday both Houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly to halt purchasing any more crude to add to the reserves. Dubya had initially stated that he would veto any such legislation but reality has bit him in the ass. Now he isn't being so belligerent. He is only expressing disappointment. He can't afford to have another veto overridden. Before he is finally history, there will probably be a lot more disappointments in store for him.

In the closest thing to an admission of "Oops", Dubya now says he received flawed intelligence reports, but wasn't misled, in the build up to the Iraqi invasion. He is a legend in his own mind. Sad.

Out in California, the "Governator" wants to borrow against future lottery profits to balance the State's budget woes.

And there might be another Cyclone headed towards Burma/Myanmar. The Christian Taliban must be ecstatic seeing so many heathens being wiped off the face of the Earth.

In China, their military is using every means possible to get troops into the disaster area. The full scope of death and destruction still hasn't been totally determined but could easily exceed 100,000 souls and a 10,000,000 population center gone. Completely.

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Not a lot of cheerful news. Sorry. Thanks for coming by. I appreciate it. Back later with more.

Mahalo

Aloha

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WANNA HAVE SOME FUN?

A popular activity in South America, Zip-lining is becoming a popular tourist activity on Mau'i.

Here is a great news story about it from a local (Honolulu) TV station. Be sure to watch their news video also. The company has 2 locations on the island. One up on the side of Haleakala and a new venue in Kaanapali, over on the "Westside".
This is some video that a tourist took of his adventure.

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Just to bring everyone up to date on what I am doing:

Work has been impossible to find due to many factors. But an opportunity has opened up for me. Completely out of "left field". I'll be returning to California around the end of the month. Getting a passport and then I'll be heading for Asia, most likely Korea, to teach conversational English. It just seems like the perfect job at this point in my life. This blog will always remain up and running but the locales I "broadcast" from are going to vary.

I am excited!

Oh, my kitty Bear is going to be adopted by my "daughter", Amber.

I'll relate more about all this later.

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YOU"LL PICK YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS TOO

FROM THE BOTTOM OF A LONG BLACK TUBE

While everyone claims it would be unethical to produce genetically modified humans, we all know that some day it will happen. Another step along that path was quietly reported last year but it took this long for there to be any concern expressed. Tinkering with our genome is a new field of science. There is still along way to go until you can preselect eye color, intelligence, athletic ability. What concerns me more than parents trying to give their babies the best are the governments and multi-nationals who will try to produce a work force capable of only performing certain limited tasks, albeit quite well. Breed out desire and ambition, breed in what the current market place requires. Disposable quasi-humans. Creations that, in the "Bladerunner" sense, could only function in distant alien environments. Human in name only.

The power brokers of the world would breed into their lines perfect health, longevity, beauty, intelligence, maybe even immortality. At which point they will effectively become gods to the masses.

Just something to think about.

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Another entry for my LEX LUTHOR DOESN'T EXIST category.

And another one.

I should begin compiling these into a book.

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This one doesn't fall under the LLDE category but the end result was the same. - JAIL

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Another tiny piece of the puzzle of the make-up of our mysterious Universe has been discovered. The more we learn, the less we know.

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Finally, if you are interested. The new X-FILES movie is coming out on July 15th. Here's a trailer:

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DAILY CHUCKLE

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THIS BLOG IS...

80% ENTERTAINMENT BY VOLUME

In a last minute 11th hour attempt to save the Mississippi 1st Congressional District from falling into their enemy's hands, Republicans resurrected "Dirty Dick" Cheney from his hidden secret bunker to be a keynote speaker at some rally. They are hoping his speech will generate $120,000 in campaign donations. Of course $30,000 of that must go to cover the cost of having Cheney appear. The political tide is turning against the neocons and they are scrambling.

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The death toll in yesterday's earthquake has risen to at least 10,000 known fatalities. And they've just started recovering bodies. In one school at least 900 children were killed when their brick school house collapsed. Millions of survivors have only the clothing on their back.

This should be a wake-up call to those of you living in the mid-west. If another New Madrid quake occurs most of your homes, schools and offices will suffer the same fate. Because most of these structures are comprised of brick. A building material that fares very poorly when the solid Earth isn't so solid. There are retrofits available that are very practical. Look into it. The historic New Madrid quakes were about 80 times stronger that what China hit yesterday. Think about it.

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Well, Dubya leaves today for his "spring break" trip to the middle-east. I wonder if he'll also stop over in Iraq to check out those reports on corruption there? Maybe he hasn't received his "finders fee" yet. At least it'll keep him out of Mississippi. I may have missed it but I can't recall him being asked by any candidate to assist in a campaign this year. Can you?

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Microsoft is going into competition with Google Sky. They have launched Worldwide Telescope. I have just started playing with it. The images are in some form of 3-D. Looks kewl.

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Finally, in case you've forgotten, West Virginia holds their primary election today. But none of us really care anymore. Do we?

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Thanks for stopping in. I always appreciate the time you spend here.
I'll be back later with more. Have a great day, okay.

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SOMETHING AIN'T KOSHER

Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement divison of DHS raided a meat packing plant in Iowa. At least 300 persons were arrested for immigration and identity theft violations. Their employer, Agriprocessors, is the largest kosher beef processor in the nation. Doesn't it seem a wee bit odd that an employer would have that many illegals working for them? And that nobody in their Human Resourses dept. noticed anything odd about the names not really matching up with obvious cultural distinctions? No word yet if the DHS plans to file charges against the company. They should.

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One thing the bad guys should learn. When you fire a weapon at someone while commiting a crime, the chances, especially in Texas, are the person might just return the favor. And be a better shot. My newest candidate for the Lex Luthor Doesn't Exist prize.

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Former Chicago police officer and former actor on the tv show "Law & Order", Dennis Farina was arrested and booked yesterday on a felony charge of attempting to board a plane at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) with a firearm in his carry-on luggage. He claims he forgot it was there. Another Barney Fife Syndrome candidate.

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In an obvious power play, NBC-TV has announced a shake up in their late night scheduling. Jay Leno's contract ends in June of 2009 and network execs are already expressing doubts that the two parties will be able to reach an agreement on a new deal. Just their little way of telling Leno that they have no intention of paying him the big(ger) bucks he is worth. To see how the deck is being reshuffled, just check this out.

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ARE WE AN EASY "MARK"?

When Oliver Wendall Douglas and his beautiful wife, Lisa Douglas, moved to Hooterville from New York City, they bought a farm from the local conman, Mr. Haney. No matter how many times Haney swindled the Douglas', they always returned to him to buy items of need. In today's world, the USA portray's the Douglas' and China is our Mr. Haney.

Toys covered in lead paint. Contaminated pet food. Pharmaceuticals that kill rather than heal. Now the latest is the "knock-off" computer equipment they've marketed to our gov't. I guess we are as stupid as those "marks" who buy genuine "Rolex" watches from a street vendor for $35. I guess we could be compared to a tenent behind in their rent who'll do whatever their landlord wants, as long as he doesn't call in the debt. China owns most of the US debitures and I guess, if we don't play as their patsy, they could actually force our nation into bankruptcy. Which probably explains why we removed ourselves from the M-3 reporting and run the money-making machines 24/7. Our debt is in US dollars, not gold, and we can pay anytime they want. Of course the currency would be worthless, but we already know that, don't we. China really doesn't care though. They just purchase our stocks, bonds, whatever and, since they think in the "long-term", they know that given enough time they will own everything in America. To them its like a chess game. The experts plan their moves 15-20 spaces ahead. We are the amateurs playing in reaction to only the move in front of us. Being led to our own ruin.

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Televison as we know it is about to make another drastic change. When I was a kid most communities were lucky if they could even receive one station from a distant city by erecting antennas a few hundred feet high. And the broadcast business was controlled by three major networks. In the '80's cable-tv made massive inroads and we could get 36 channels and didn't have to rely on just the big 3 for our entertainment. The number of channels grew, direct satellite TV service came into existence. Along the way the internet grew. Connection speeds increased to the point where we can now watch live broadcasts from anywhere in the world. Through all this the TV networks market share has dropped steadily. The next step in TV will be people totally forsaking traditional broadcasts. Instead they will seek out those feeds that fill their niche needs. If you do a google-news search, you'll see that the next step will be to interlink your digital-TV with the web. The direct satellite feeds, the cable providers and over-the-air broadcasters don't have the bandwidth to provide the necessary HD and super-HD channels that are in our near future. Only the web will be able to satiate the publics desires. Eventually all web programming will ignore local, regional and national boundries. Television, ver 7.0, will be truly global. Advertisers will be able to market to exactly the demographic market they desire. Tailoring their ads for each specific segment of their audience.

Theaters are also losing market share. With the new digital big screen sets, theater quality (or better) home sound systems and the ability to "pause" when necessary, why bother even going to a movie house anymore. We can now purchase and download movies on the same day the DVD goes on sale. How much longer before it'll be cheaper and easier for the studios to just go to direct release rather than waste money on antiquated distribution systems? For the consumer its not a bad idea. The costs of the tickets and knoshes at a theater for the entire family are way more than what a download would cost.

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From today's Overheard In New York:

Comedy guy: I like your accent. Where you from?
Tourist: Ohio.
Comedy guy: You sound disappointed.
Tourist: Have you ever been to Ohio?
Comedy guy: Good point.

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