Retooling, reordering and willing...the melancholia is worse though

This is the month where things inevitably — and irreversibly — change.

Last Warning territory: hedge funds are hedging against a collapse on the first of next year due to the continued lifting of heavy Greece.  Quantities of gold are being bought by Russia, China, and, of course Soros.  There are six mega-banks, and they believe they control the world.

Martial law threatened again w. financial pressures, billions backing $1.5 quadrillion, just as Henry Paulson pressured the U.S. banks in 2008.  Training of welfare dependents and mil. vets against the little guy (not the media host), it’s no longer “conspiracy theory,” it’s going public; they think people will stand down in destruction of sovereignty and the Constitution w. NDAA and laws that bypass Congress.

Pick up your responsibilities.  Join the non-violent resistance.

Come a year or so from now, Obama-care will take 1% of every banking transaction made by a citizen.  Well, it’s only 1%.  It’s not like these Progressive taxes get wor... —Wait.

2012.08.31

Princess Diana (Frances Spencer), born 1961.07.01 died this day in 1997, in a Paris car crash.

Mag.-7.6/7.9 quake off Philippines causes panic but minor damage.

Jackson Hole, WY: Ben Bernanke leaves the door open for more damage by the Fedl. Reserve.

NBC-4, NJ: gunman, 2 dead in grocery store shootout.

Chobani, a Greek yogurt company, becomes a $6 bn. in the U.S.

Oogieloves: G-rated box office disaster.

Terrence Malick’s habit of leaving big names on the cutting room floor: Rachel Weisz will not been seen in his new film.

Daily Caller: Reporter’s notebook: sh*t Occupy Tampa says.  There were some saying they represent booted Ron Paul supporters, and some danced to Lady Gaga music.  Black bloc protester “Mike”: Gaga identifies with neither the 99% nor the 1%, but I personally think she’s a c--t.  One shirtless woman (w. bra) said, I don’t give a f--k about that materialistic sh--.  They did, however, pick up trash and feed the homeless, but only after the fact that a Tampa ordinance makes it illegal to do so.

2012.08.30

Reuters: Russian border guard kills six at border post, Interfax reports.

Tue.: unexploded 1.5-tonne WWII Nazi mortar bomb forced evacuation of 3,000 in central Warsaw.

Reuters: Senegalese President Macky Sall joins intl. appeal to Gambia to halt executions.

Iconic photographer Malcolm Browne dies.

L.A. plans to charge families of Good Samaritans’ Irma Zamora and Stacy Schreiber, electrocuted 8.22 rushing to car wreck site.

OH man put up ‘Please Hire My Wife’ résumé billboard for Holly Stuard, a fmr. U-Toledo grad.

RNC: director Clint Eastwood addresses the next President...talking to an empty chair.

Not Die Hard 5: Bruce Willis parodies Twilight on Late Show with David Letterman.

CoD for Sage Stallone, 36, who died last month: heart disease.  Toxicology results showed only a min. amt. of hydrocodone.  With his father, he debuted in Rocky V (1990), and appeared in Daylight (1996).

Sci-Tech:

NASA launches twin satellites today in exploration of Earth’s ‘treacherous’ radiation belts.

Sticky bolts too much for spacewalking astronauts; new power-switching box left dangling.

Jupiter-bound spacecraft, in heading back to Earth, set for key maneuver.

Professional network site LinkedIn to expand to Sunnyvale, CA.

Amazon: first-gen. Kindle Fire officially sells out as new model is expected during holiday.

2012.08.29

Reuters, Bolgar, Russia: female suicide bomber kills Sufi Muslim leader Said Atsayev, 74, 5+ of his followers.  Putin calls for end to religious violence.

RNC officially nominates Willard Mitt Romney for the GOP ticket.

Michael Jackson’s birthday.

Environmentalists praise fuel efficiency standards, saying they will lower costs and pollution.

‘Mass. doesn’t have in-state tuition.’  A man from NH went to MA illegally and got tuition.

Forgotten?: MA Dem. primary starts next Thu.

Isaac aftermath: New Orleans mayor put up dawn curfew, told citizens not to flush toilets (backed-up sewer system).  Isaac has now been downgraded to a tropical storm.

The most transparent admin...
Obama got involved in the Abramoff case on influence peddling, but now he targets American vets for retaliating in ads that slam W.H. source leaks made for pol. reasons.

RNC coverage: while one of the big military figures in the Party voted for Obama...

The RNC makes official rule changes, dissolving anything grass-roots.

Actual grass-roots delegates, who’ve always voted R: Ron Paul supporters treated as outcasts.

Silver content of a 1938 quarter buys you the same amount of gasoline today.

T.Boone Pickens at the RNC: we have three times what Saudi Arabia has in nat. gas.

Mon. TV ratings (in millions): FNC topped at 6.9; broadcast NBC, #2 at over 4; CNN and MS-NBC tied at 1.47.

Minds Closed: negative RNC media coverage

Brian Williams tried to spin everything Marco Rubio said.

Overheard on audio, fmr.-ABC News’ David Chalian talking about the Romneys: “when black people are drowning, they like to be out there partying.” [Employee laughs.]

There haven’t even been any reports of drowning.  Yahoo has since fired David.

Juan Williams calls Ann Romney a “corporate wife.”  Who are you going to believe; she is a very rich woman.  When has she ever worked a day... —what, got $160K/yr. for so-called ‘community outreach’ like Michelle Obama?  Mitt took a salary of $1 a year when he was governor.

While Fox’s coverage is ratings-oriented, MS-NBC deliberately cuts away from non-white speakers to maintain their ‘racist’ narrative.  Chris Matthews tries to out-Sharpton Al Sharpton.  There are no black people on his staff.  With ‘no chance of winning the presidency,’ a woman goes on and on about how the Rs want to win the presidency for the ‘land of white people.’

“God is against Republicans” jokes.
Among the actors/activists, Ellen Barkin wishes the storm kills ‘these racist, homophobic...’  Samuel L. Jackson is disappointed that the storm missed the Rs but hit New Orleans.

Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

Ann Coulter, in her new book, which was fast-tracked to print (there are some errors that will be corrected), makes a list of things now called ‘racist’—unless you’re hitting a conservative.  I may’ve added a few.

Ds continue to say they’re Fighting for the poor.
You’ll get decent health coverage only if you can afford it, or have connections in govt., or are here illegally.

Blah

I wrote yet another blog post that didn’t meet quality standards.  It has little to do with liberty, and I’m not updating it.  So I put it here.  (It did, however take hours to write and rewrite, over two days...  I know; I’m horrible.  That’s why I’ll be using my next pay check to down an entire package of sleeping pills, and donate the proceeds to charity.)

2012.08.28

49th Anniversary of the I Have a Dream speech; MLK, Jr. went to college at age 15.

Reuters World:

Syria refugee exodus raises pressure for buffer zone.

France opens murder investigation into Arafat’s [2004] death.

Fedl. appeals court: IN’s sex/violent offender registry violates due process rights over inability to fix mistakes.

NY “stop and frisk” class action suit filed in 2008 set for Mar. 2013.

San Francisco archbishop-elect apologizes for drunken driving.

U.S.:

Isaac, now a hurricane, threatens New Orleans.

Private solutions...: U.S. Postal Service is using FedEx, UPS.

Sly loses another: half-sister Toni Ann Filiti, 48.

AP: last Dec., four Army soldiers based in S.E. GA killed a former comrade, Michael Roark, 19, and his 17-yr.-old girlfriend, Tiffany York.  Prosecutors said the militia called themselves Forever Enduring Always Ready (FEAR), and “did it to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks.”  Michael Burnett, 26, pleaded guilty Mon. to manslaughter.  Prosecutor Isabel Pauley said the group believed it had been betrayed by Roark, and set up a fake target practice to silence the two.  Out of $500K in insurance and benefits from the death of Pvt. Isaac Aguigui’s wife, they bought land, $87K+ in semiautomatic assault rifles, other guns and bomb components; authorities found those in their homes and a storage locker.

Bad/Weak Movies

Both movies being reviewed here think that certain characters in certain settings, being only crude and offensive equals funny.  Both are superfluous with language, low in depth, and drag on.  Both need shortening of scenes and better dialogue.  What am I saying— no improvements will be made!

Your Highness stars Danny McBride, James Franco, Justin Theroux, Natalie Portman and Zoe Deschanel (she sings).  It depends on sexual reference-based humor (e.g., kicks to the balls, a plot event named “The F--kening”), and has no real story but water-thin quests with witches and other misused folklore.  Franco’s character must go on a quest or be banished.  Highness gets old very quickly and may be unrecoverable in its form; the actors couldn’t save it.  I had trouble watching it.  Year One is decent in comparison.  Grade: D+.

Bindlestiffs literally translates to ‘hobos.’  The low-budget movie, available on RedBox, centers on the fact that one of the three teenage leads that wrote the script gets drunk and has sex w. an old homeless woman.  It has a young security guard getting drunk while driving, and getting off during beer can target practice, yelling Dammit! after missing.  The Romeo & Juliet ending revision sounds passable (for its place), but that was cut from the movie.  “Behind the scenes” shows the “#1 fan” filling his stomach w. bacon, beer, etc. in effort to vomit for the hobo-hurling sounds.  Grade: C-.

2012.08.27

ABC News: teacher subdues gunman; student critically wounded on first day of school.

California: a series of small to moderate tremors, so far, have only done minor damage—cans rocked from San Diego store shelves.

Two members of Pussy Riot flee Russia to avoid jail.

The Venezuelan Poodle Moth is, of course real.  I’ve seen funkier moths...

Nixon had a speech planned in case the Apollo 11 mission turned disastrous.

Rosie O’Donnell had quietly married Michelle Rounds months ago.  [It was 6.09.]

England: OwnFone, the dumbest dumbphone; it only handles calls.

Blue moon Fri.: two full moons in Aug.

Bill Nye goes out all anti-Creationist.  (As if he needs to.)

Swedish scientists say, with scarce water, the 9 bn. human pop. in 2050 will have to go vegetarian.

Reuters: Apple Inc. to seek preliminary ban on U.S. sales of eight Samsung mobile products, pending a final injunction in its bigger patents.

Todd Rutherford made $28K/yr. for positive fake book reviews; Amazon and Google caught him.  1/3 of all internet reviews are fake, according to Bing Liu, U-IL data-mining expert.

2016: Obama’s America becomes the year’s top-grossing documentary.  Not only did The Hollywood Reporter call the $9.2 mn.-grossing film anti-Obama (it’s not), they considered Expendables 2 more important, as the clip ad is readily available.

Aqua Something You Know Whatever, originally Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters sequel Death Fighter is back on, after pre-production, and canceling, and more production—the all-too-common flow for Williams Street.  The release is now scheduled (and may be subject to change again) for Dec.-Jan.

Wonders of the Mind: Tetzlaff and Sachs in The New Yorker, 2012.08.27

Sei Solo can also be rendered as ‘You are alone.’
In Profiles: String Theorist, by Jeremy Eichler, we meet a man that believes interpretation is “ultimately an act of compassion.”  From years of long study Tetzlaff sticks to his interpretation of how the violin should sound for each setting, against the common practice for concerts to sweeten the ugly like the good.  Beauty is the enemy of expression! he maintains.  The musical works of Schütz, Bach and Brahms are performed the way he came to understand they should be performed.  And in his experimentation of study he has come to play one artist through another, Schoenberg’s “dissonant themes as though they were melodious tunes by Tchaikovsky.”  He has been thorough, playing even Berg’s from friend to a friend secrets—materials never intended to be played in the concert hall.

Tetzlaff started at age six, but he’s no wünderkind; he took his time, and was engaged to perform the Shoenberg Concerto at twenty-two.  At home, he is a father.  In the hall, he is a ruthless violinist that puts incredible stress on his hands.  And you don’t know stress till you see how undermining neurodermatitis is for a violin player; with fingers severely dry, during symptoms he is forced to press harder into the metal strings.  In dealing with his condition he’s used the fingertip of a cotton glove, rode a bike to increase circulation (heat helps), and has dipped his fingers in honey.  And like many soloists constantly holding their index finger in position, his right warped rightward.  Through all of the “unchecked fury” toward his instrument, This is the great mystery of Christian Tetzlaff, says former teacher Uwe-Martin Haiberg to Eichler.  He can create a catastrophe on his violin where he has never known one in real life.

It did not seem at all strange to me that a spider should say hello...
Oliver Sachs gives an in-depth history of a wilder side of his career, the side where he took a host of drugs.  In 1953, he crossed that threshold of staying objective through only reading about substance-induced experiences to objectively tripping on his own, writing about his psychedelic journeys and mentally-generated battle scene reenactments, with such scenes as to include his beloved indigo, fighting other colors.  And after taking too little one time, he often took way too much thereafter.  For the most part, the drugs he took then are either illegal or mixed with pesticides today. ... Sachs didn’t just ‘trip’.  He became the writer of his time on this kind of neurological study.  And he knows it.

»read the full cover

2012.08.26

Venezuela: gas explosion kills dozens at refinery; govt. hastily pressured restart.

AP, Berlin: Tiger shot dead after escaping, killing keeper.

Texans especially angry w. forced Smart meter installations; snooping their bigger concern.

2012.08.25

Fox News outs the SEAL writer for UBL raid book; the U.S. and al-Qaeda put targets on him.

Tropical storm Isaac may become a hurricane tomorrow; 3 deaths blamed.

Intl. Cycling Union want an explanation from the U.S. on Armstrong racing in Aspen, CO.

“Occupy” disavows involvement in “Vex” vandalism.

The RNC will convene on Mon., and recess after due to Isaac.

Out of 177 delegates for the Repub. Natl. Convention, all 10 ME delegates for Ron Paul have been replaced to speed the nomination of Mitt Romney.

Who isn’t arrogant to the point of stupidity at the White House?

Stephanie Cutter doesn’t bother to spell-check in responding to a joke by Romney about his own birth certificate: America Is Better Then (sic) Birtherism.
You don’t see David Plouffe in the news anymore since being caught giving speech(es) to Hezbollah.
W.H. Senior advisor Valerie Jarrett also believes that it’s a good thing to weaken ties with Israel, as if terror sponsors like Iran don’t see through negotiation tactics...

Apathy, voyeurism and the deliberate dumbing-down

It’s not just in China, where you have people that don’t bother to get fire crews out to put out burning buildings because they don’t want the trouble.  In New York, you have people staring out windows instead of calling police, enabling the activities.  These cases include an officer run over, who could’ve been saved but bled to death, beatings, shootings and rapes.

And you have the dumbing down of societies to the point of selecting the worst of jury members.

FreedomToFascism update:
To this day, written involuntary rule for the income tax has not been found; the IRS does not have the right to come after people for failing to file income taxes.  Illegal tactics are used for those who don’t file, and the employers are pressured.

The founding documents were written in cursive.
The teaching of cursive is being removed in the classroom, with the excuse, ‘it reflects the Aristocracy.’  Uhm, no, it exists for the purpose of speed—fast writing after practice.

Open or closed, tyrants seek power of attention.

Hitler couldn’t make people gaze at his paintings, so like all socialist totalitarians he got people to see emblems, mass control and graves.
The biggest of control freaks assemble crime syndicates in their desperate show for power.

Obit

Neil Armstrong, 82, dies from complications after heart surgery.  Part of Apollo 11, he was the first astronaut to walk on the moon.  He considered himself a nerdy, pocket-protector White Sox fan.  He insisted he actually said, when taking that initial step, That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.  (The tape didn’t pick up the ‘a’.)

2012.08.24

Apple wins $1.5 bn. suit against Samsung; countersuit struck down by jury.

The U.S. has the biggest prison population in the world, not just per capita.

Paul LePage will not attend the RNC.

Disgruntled worker kills boss for firing him.
Shots fired outside the Empire State Building, 34th/5th Manhattan: shooter and another dead; 10 injured; veteran patrolmen among the wounded.
Update: some of the injured might’ve been hit by the 16 rounds fired by the two police officers.

Lance Armstrong, tired, and not wanting his family to go through it any longer, drops counter-suit.  Corrupt/envious media find him guilty of doping despite passing 500 drug tests—a no. of them random; no (uncontaminated) evidence, and Armstrong says that Anti-Doping Agency has none.  Not only is he now banned from competitive cycling tours, and his medals are disqualified, but they will continue in their quest to bleed him dry.

Institutionalization Epidemic: “Broadly Defined As...” Virginia law

Don’t sign a form over, currently, PTSD.  Facebook decries keep popping up.
Hundreds to thousands of cases: an epidemic of institutionalizing members of the military.  In its signing, the patient is subject to 30 days away from civilization, without court, action by a judge or a lawyer, where doctors can force drugs.  And the govt. ends up pushing these forms for political reasons.

Along with so-called ‘orientation’ and ‘thought’ disorders, the loose language contains “broadly defined as” so personal interpretation is encouraged in the intimidation/coercion tactics used to get people into ‘signing their life away.’  While the govt. is cutting funding for the military, a Nothing is Free agreement strips ownership of arms for benefits; they are essentially set up to be bribed into relinquishing Second Amendment rights.

Remnants of reeducation, off-site institutions and 501(c)-3 churches... Item #39 of Communism: dominate the psychiatric system.

More flags planted in the Republic

Monopolistic control: state and corporate government collusion.  Work accounts frozen in holding.  It’s been here for some time.
As with Weimar, you have both Communist and Fascist forces working together to overthrow the Republic.  And in some areas they will succeed.  It will then be a battle of who takes the spoils.  With Islamism and other forces of altered and perverted teachings of religion, the believers are the stronger; this necessarily includes the Caliphate and the Catholic Church.

It is of the individual, in his/her practice of the pursuit and protection of truth to remain fearless.

Video: a high Labor post, at Occupy stated, “Progressive labor is an org. of revolutionary change, with the goal of tearing down the U.S. system, replacing it with Communism.”

New Blank Panthers audio: we are militarizing.

Documentary: 2016 reveals the Shrine of My Father

Rated PG, 2016: Obama’s America is out in theatres.  Love him or hate him, you do not know Obama until you see this clinical examination of a documentary.

‘Sell-outs’: anti-colonialist Barack Obama’s grandfather and brothers George and Mark—independent and Conservative views, Barack disowned them, seeing their views or opposition to their father as not only wrong but evil.  Along with the mentor of Frank Marshall Davis, communist ideas would be engraved into Barry; no ideas of individual independence and wealth were allowed.  Barack Obama, Sr. was abusive to the mother, and Barry was the only son to carry his dreams, going as far to change his name to Barack.

2012.08.23

Legal/Resolution:

S. Africa: memorial observed for Lonmin Platinum Mine, where police shot and killed 34 miners.

IN, authorities: 40 people indicted in meth op run by a convicted murderer.

Russia’s own rights ombudsman decries the Pussy Riot verdict; will he be jailed too?

ABC News: Passenger charged w. groping sleeping woman on 11-ht. flight.

NY: Mark David Chapman denied parole for seventh time; convicted of killing John Lennon in 1980.

Rodney King CoD ruled accidental.

Prosecutors want James Holmes’ notebook.

Reuters: Christian activist Xavier William says he visited the Pakistani Christian girl named Rimsha Masih, 8, first at the police station where she was held, then at the prison.  She was frightened and traumatised, William said.  The mentally-disabled girl suffered a mob attack after being accused of blasphemy.  She was assaulted and in very bad shape.  She had bruises on her face and on her hands.

Health:

West Nile outbreak considered one of the worst in U.S. history; 43 deaths in 2012; 640 reported cases in TX alone.

IN farm tied to salmonella outbreak.

ABC News, reddish-purple rash in NY: Doctors are tracking [a] rare tattoo-related infection.

Biz:

Microsoft revamps logo; first time in 25 years.

HP: $8.9B loss on expected charge for EDS.

Amer. Airlines shorten leg room in some areas for more in others.

The avg. family wastes $2,275.

Sports:

Sanctions could include a lifetime ban and strip him of his titles.
With an Austin, Texas federal judge backing, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong faced a deadline to formally challenge the charges issued by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.  Armstrong has had to ride an anti-doping control bus.

Movie: Niceness trap in north-east Texas

Love lifted me.
Bernie (Millennium Entertainment, 2012).  Rated R for language, and Bernie treating a corpse with make-up and superglue (for the eyelids) in an on-stage demonstration, and a frozen Shirley McLaine.

The original writer that covered the actual story teamed with director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, School of Rock) for the screenplay.  Much like Bernie’s ability to liven up cadavers, Black was chosen in casting for his ability to liven up a part that’s ordinary and good at cooking but a bit effeminate.  McConaughey is from Texas, but he ended up sounding like...McConaughey with a Texan accent.  I found the film incomplete as either a documentary or as a comedy; it needs better punctuation.  Grade: B.

» read the full review

2012.08.22

Ecuador, Tungurahua eruption: 110 families evacuated.

Syrian army uses tanks and helicopter gunships to shell parts of Damascus; 47 killed.

Endangered whales invade Calif. coastal waters; some whales nearly sink seacrafts.

Prosecutors say accused Army Islamist gunman Major Nidal Hasan must be compelled to shave his beard.

Angela Merkel tops the Forbes list of most powerful women in the world; H. Clinton, #2; Brazilian Pres. Dilma Rousseff, #3.

Court strikes down EPA rule on coal pollution.  Find loopholes, push harder, hide things?

Ca. AG release appeal loop hole: Daniel Larsen’s still in prison more than 2 yrs. after his felony conviction was overturned.

“Drowning and other undetermined factors” amended to Natalie Woods’ CoD.

As tropical storm Isaac nears, Tampa may evacuate RNC.  They have no plans to move.

Space:

Monday: spacewalk to hang station shields.

Mars: Curiosity makes its first test drive.

Pol.Ent:

Buckingham Palace confirms: Tue.-TMZ-released photos of a naked Harry, 27, playing strip pool, are real.

Big Time Rush backs Michelle Obama’s ‘fit campaign.’

Politician FCC test: there’s Shark Week, and then there’s a pol. ad that calls their opponent a jerk-off.

UBL raid book to be released on 9.11; the date is not the only reason some don’t like the release.

Piers Morgan thought it was poignant to show an empty chair after Todd Akin bails.

TomKat’s over, finally: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ divorce finalized.

Live with Kelly & Michael: NFL player Staharn wins out.

AP and Jason Sickles, Tennessee: Stephon Tull finds lost 1960.12.21 audiotape of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am convinced that when the history books are written in future years, historians will have to record this movement as one of the greatest epochs of our heritage, King says on the tape.  Tull’s father interviewed King in Chattanooga, but never finished a book he planned using the research materials gathered.  The tape, which also includes details about King’s activities in Africa, may be sold privately.

  Art  

This is the first “Art” subject started on this site, from 8.16.  I have a vested interest in it.  The work of some artists speaks to me.

Ray Ferrer has gotten over 10% at the time of this writing of what he needs in funding for the arts.  Go look at the amazing mural work he’s done and feel free to pledge something.  Ferrer can bring a family photo to life for you too.

Humor

You taste like a burger.
Space Gallery presents: the pre-I Love You Man, brilliantly idiotic Wet Hot American Summer.  And by the time you’re reading this, it’s too late.

Comics:
Last week was Zits/Pierce folding his pizza into an Italian-Japanese fusion origami.
This week’s Portland Phoenix/Big Fat Whale (actually, from 2010) features the ONE NIGHT STAND-EGRAM:
September x, 2010: Yeah, we boned STOP Please don't call or write or friend request STOP

Obit

Tony Nicklinson, 58, who had locked-in syndrome died today in Melksham, western England after his condition deteriorated with pneumonia.  He had a stroke on a business trip to Athens that left his body nearly completely paralyzed but conscious.  He was denied the right to assisted suicide by the High Court on 8.16, where he broke down in tears after hearing the verdict, calling his condition “pure torture.”

Original Big Kahuna of Malibu, surfer Terry “Tubesteak” Tracy, 77.  Born in 1935, he was raised by his grandparents in the Wilshire District of L.A. after his parents split in 1941.  By 1950, he had joined a growing number of surfing teenagers.  Tubesteak often said that “Mickey (Dora) ruled the surf,” yet Tracy never “picked on the little guy.”

2012.08.21

British/Beyond Petroleum recalls bad gasoline in IN, but after $1,200 in repair bills for some drivers.
“A higher than normal level of polymeric residue” contaminated 50K barrels of regular unleaded from its Whiting refinery shipped during 8.13-8.17.

Regressive Progressives in the Republican Party.
Decision expected today on whether ME GOP delegation [will be allowed by RNC] seating for Ron Paul supporters.

Lymphoma?

The tooth root, growth and abscess, whatever-down-to-the-jaw line has gotten larger!
There’s pain around the area of the lymph node on the right, jaw/neck-wise.  I know a part of the immune system was knocked out with the antibiotics, leaving me with some intestinal pain, as the capsules depleted the good bacteria in the GI tract.  Well, that and the stale cookies I ate—they were originally hard.  The trip to the dentist has seem[ed] to have just increased the risk/status of cancer.

(Comment commented and converted to shorthand due to low ratings and low self-esteem in its writing.)

Who wouldn’t want to kill his/herself, in my shoes?  ...my completely worn shoes...

And speaking of poisoning:
Nabisco (Kraft) Newtons are the worst; they still have transfats and induce headaches the fastest for me.

2012.08.20

Egyptian diplomat’s car of blown up in Benghazi, Libya.

$621-$664 mn.: Apple becomes the biggest stock ever...if you don’t adjust past ones for inflation.

7 homes destroyed: lighting believed cause for Ponderosa fire.

Viral video diary: CO student Lexi DeForest, 21, breaks ankle on mountain, dropping 8' into trench.

All-male Augusta National Golf Club admits fmr. SoS Condoleezza Rice and business exec. Darla Moore.

U-WV is #1 again as the top party school.

Rosie O’Donnell, with 99% blockage, has a massive “widow-maker” heart attack.

Steve Harvey to end ended stand-up career on Thu, 8.02, at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, PPV.

Maine Mercy Health System purchase letter of intent: this would be first hospital to be sold to a private company, to Steward Health Care System LLC, based in Boston.

On time and exactly as expected: Chinese announces suspended death sentence for Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted party Chief Bo Xilai, for the alleged murder of a U.K. businessman.

Old Ironsides: historic U.S. warship USS Constitution set sail Sunday in a rare 17-min. trip to commemorate its famous victory during the War of 1812.  It hasn’t run on its own power since 1997.

Big Breaking B.S. news!  [Missouri Republican Senate candidate] Todd Akin makes stupid, awful comments on how the female body somehow prevents pregnancy from rape.
Liz Warren could not pass up the opportunity to spread the “news,” that his comments reflect the Republican agenda, in an ad on her Facebook page, despite all Rs in the spotlight condemning Akin’s comments.

Music for 8.25

CCSO TRIAD program and ECMG present Maine’s own Rustic Overtones, at Deering Oaks.  That’s vocalist/guitarist Dave Gutter, drummer Gary Gemitti, trombonist Dave Noyes, saxiphonists Jason Ward and Ryan Zoidis, bassist Jon Roods, and Mike Taylor on keyboard and vocals.  This comes after the release of their new album, and they will play with Eric Bettencourt and Velourosaurus.

Movie: handcuffed to a stranger for the night

Tonight, You’re Mine (2011, Sigma Films).
Rated R for language, drug references and a band manager so drunk as to stumble around, unable to stand on his own.

I found the “I Want You Instead” stage performance particularly cheesy, but other than that, this movie is a classic, and it deserves all the awards it gets for its difficult feat.  Grade: A-.

» read the full review

Obit

British-born filmmaker Tony Scott, 68, died Sunday after jumping from Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, Los Angeles.  A source tells ABC News that he was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.  He did Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Top Gun and other memorable movies.

Legendary comedienne Phyllis Diller, 95, died at home, while in hospice care for a hurt hip and wrist in a fall.  The wild-haired, six-decade stand-up legend was self-deprecating, and will carry her trademark persona with the cigarette holder to her grave.  (The holder will probably go up for auction.)

Starting her career in 1952, Diller appeared on the “seminal variety show” Laugh-In, shows alongside Bob Hope in the ’60s, and shows of her own based on her act/routine, The Phyllis Diller Show and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show.  Her final appearances were pretty recent, with the offensive language line-walker The Aristocrats (2005), and The Tonight Show for a performance in 2007, at age 90.

Television actor William Windom, 88, died Thursday at home in Woodacre, CA.  He won an Emmy® in 1970 for My World, and Welcome to It, a show based on James Thurber’s humorous essays and cartoons.

Comedy writer Sidney Reznick, 92, dies.  He wrote for Bob Hope, Jack Paar, Jimmy Durante, as well as for Johnny Carson as a staff writer on The Tonight Show.

2012.08.19

China quickly aims to claim world dominance, with military threats and buyouts.
In TX, China aims to set up $8 bn. in infrastructure.
China tries to buy Hunkerbeach(?) craft, currently under Chapter 11, for $1.8 bn.
In contract with the DoD, they say they won’t use the contract to hack the Defense computers for information... Uh-huh.

This is a time to embrace Afghan security forces... yet another “insider” attack kills U.S. soldiers.

Wildfires are still burning: four homes destroyed from Fresno, CA fire(s).

80% cannot go a day w/o their cells; 50% sleep with their phone next to them.  Restaurants are now promoting the EMF hell by giving discounts.

West Nile virus: pesticide spraying in Texas was delayed due to weather.
Cases of mosquitoes testing positive in New York has led to warnings for even Maine: avoid staying out at dusk.

Sovereign Citizens, on the FBI’s domestic terrorism watch list.
They’re Americans, they follow their own laws, and some have shot at police, killing six since 2000.  Some have created their own license plates.  They’re in the news because... what— the Birther movement has no traction in trying to promote the Obama administration?

Those that enslave distract and call/want the opposition to be what they are

If you don’t vote for Obama...
Joe Biden, to an African American audience: Romney in his first 100 days of office is going to let the banks write their own rules [crowd reacts]...unchain  Wall Street. .. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

A black guest on an NBC network goes as far as to say, with the opposition, we’re going back to the days of the “angry black man” stereotype, with “I know this is heavy,” before “otherization” and “N---erization.”

’S’amazing I’m still alive

I found a nodule sitting around the Adam’s apple.  It must be part of the pain I’ve been having around that area.  The stress in not letting my voice box rest may’ve promoted this, but like all things growing in my body it’s just plain ridiculous what I have at this age.

Movie

If you had the opportunity to control (your partner), would you take it?
What’s the logical end to that scenario?

Ruby Sparks is the R-rated coming-of-reality story of an introverted man and the character he’s written come to life.  The “fractured fantasy,” with satirical elements is both sweet and creepy, as Ruby, the colorful woman of Calvin’s literary, boredom-solving and hole-filling dreams, starts to physically rewrite herself after the initial appeal wears and their ideals clash.

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2012.08.18

Now I have more confidence Nah, see what happened was...

The Ademo case hasn’t dimmed—a story exploded just before the Free Talk Live show last Saturday.
A misdemeanor at worst, when actually applied to the laws on the books: a man recorded the phone conversation with a police officer for their comment after saying ‘questioned for comment.’  You’d think ‘being recorded’ would be just a tad bit implied there.

The prosecution filed felony charges, the judge didn’t bother to read and verify them, and the defendant was convicted of three felonies.

Television: At #3, NBC has had to make cutbacks, which includes a pay cut to Jay LenoHe made the decision after the show fired 20 staffers.  Leno says he has not used the money made from the show, but rather what he makes from books and stand-up gigs.

The DNC will be using words put into Ayn Rand’s mouth for a political bit run on the Channel 5 TV show Usually Reserved.

Socialized medicine, Government that owns you

Right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness:
Quadriplegic man with locked-in syndrome in the U.K. has been denied by judge the right to assisted suicide.  At least one state in the U.S. allows it.

Crowd-sourcing, and where the youth are

Kickstarter has really blown up.  (Be sure to see the tally when you pledge.)
A group that needed only $100K for a project to make watches w. different faces got over $10 mn.
A guy needing money for comic book delivery got over $1.2 mn.

MySpace is pretty much dead as far as finding people in the now...
Since the downfall of Facebook among the youth, and the stupidity of twitter (not to mention all public tweets subject of being copied to the Library of Congress), kids have been using Instagram, posting random photos, using the comment section to communicate text.  And I guess that’s going to stop since certain sites, news and the Kim Komando show have exposed the trend this weekend.

Facebook status updates include: “It hurts when I pee.”

Crowd-head scratching

The lax success at Microsoft for its hardware products, as it’s mainly a software industry of a company, has led to products unveiled that people aren’t even allowed to touch.  The new prototype, that mimics the iPad, has mini-USB 3.  No exact shipping date: some don’t even think the product is even going to production, let alone mass production.

The Cloud: centralized, server-dependent, disaster

Steve Job’s ain’t here to make things work.  (And that’s if you call ditching OS Classic to the point of hatred “making things work.”)  Apple rarely talks about a product before its release...—the recent Apple news isn’t over a product.  It’s the same cable/satellite provider, but with the Cloud.

Some at Apple don’t like the Cloud, some of those from the start, because it’s a bit insane, storing the information not on any local machines, as with search engines, but only on a few centralized servers.  If those particular servers or clusters go down — or worse, and still relatively easy, all of them — the data’s gone.

The reality: nothing on the internet is secure; store your stuff on disc and flash.  And you can’t hack paper.

2012.08.17

EBay bans magic, psychic readings.  Stuck with Craigslist...
Too far: it’s one thing to ban things that aren’t objects, but EBay is also banning images of holy figures (e.g., the Virgin Mary).

AP, Afghanistan: NATO official says another Afghan policeman has turned his weapon on U.S. allies; 2 service members dead.

NYT, Marikana: South African police shoot at striking miners.

The USS Miami was severely damaged in a fire on 5.23, at Portsmouth, NH, allegedly set by Casey James Fury, a former shipyard worker there.

Obama admits on 93.3 KOB FM (Albuquerque) that he’d like a ‘weird superpower’: the ability to speak any language.

Chaos broke out in-and-outside Moscow courtroom during proceedings

Three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced today to two years in jail for hooliganism.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 were arrested on 3.03, several weeks after the performance they were charged over, and were never released, bail or otherwise.  They laughed behind the glass-walled cage inside the courtroom during the Judge’s verdict reading.

Ent|Spo:

Troubled Real World-2008 star Joey Kovar dies at 29; overdose suspected.

MLB fan dies at hospital after heart attack at Blue Jays/White Sox game and CPR.

Blossom star Mayim Bialik injured in car crash.

CT: $16 mil Special Roadster Mercedes sat in shed since ’59; German baroness put it in storage.

Canadian actor Michael J. Fox (actual middle name Andrew), 51, is scheduled in 2013 to appear in a TV show, that is to an extent about him and his Parkinson’s, despite online obituaries, such as WikiObits and en.necropedia.org.

2012.08.16

Rain, with the leaks in the bedroom, forces me to sleep in the chair; different positions, for about an hour. ...

U.K. may barge in to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after Ecuador grants him asylum.

Inmate mails own severed finger to French minister in hopes of being moved to another prison.

NaturalNews: Enormous, possibly radioactive sinkhole swallows an acre of Louisiana, causes forced evacuations.

First Facebook lock-up ended today; 271 mn. shares freed; major sell-off followed.

The Lookout: Jan Brewer denies deferred action recipients drivers’ licenses; will other governor[s] follow suit?

SoPo apartment at 554 Main St. destroyed Wed. by a fire traced back to a light fixture.

Chester Township: Angela Prattis, w/o zoning variance could be fined $600/day for handing out free lunches to disadvantaged children.

Natural brands betray consumers over GMO labeling: NaturalNews issues boycott of Kashi, Silk, Larabar and more.

Seven things your hands say about your health.
We need to get back to (doctors looking at the hands for clues to important health overall), says endocrinologist Kenneth Blanchard of Newton, Mass.  Because hands can tell you a great deal about circulation, hormones, and thyroid function.

A persistent red-hand is a sign of liver disease; ring-longer-than-index, sign of osteoarthritis or prostate cancer; swollen finger, hypothyroidism sign; slow pink returning, sign of anemia (iron deficiency); splinter hemorrhages, subacute bacterial endocarditis sign; “clubbing,” lung/heart disease sign; and bluish, numb fingertips, sign of Raynaud’s syndrome.

AP | The Sideshow: more than 400K pages of evidence causes charges against fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo to be dropped; the [more than] 2 TB of server space reportedly amassed to five percent of the DEA’s worldwide global storage net.

Serling had to promote himself, and now he’s a household name

Rod Serling’s daughter, Anne, is writing a memoir about her father, the brilliant mind behind The Twilight Zone, the sci-fi series he created and wrote for to get around the censors on drama plays that predated Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek.

Movie

This one time, at “bang” camp, we [...] and licked [...] >>—Okay!
American Reunion is — hopefully — the final installment of the American Pie movies, where several original cast members return to for the Class of 1999... a 13th anniversary.  Odd.  (And prime.)  Tables are turned a bit; Eugene Levy (Jim’s father) gets to professionally act drunk and stoned, having awkward moments with Jennifer Coolidge, getting advice from Jim (Jason Biggs) on dating...to online dating, with JDate, and needlessly running from the police.  Stifler didn’t change much, until his friends put him in his place— “but you’re our dick.”  Sean William Scott is an exec. producer, believe it or not.

Some characters that went their separate ways return to past loves.  John Cho (Harold and Kumar Escape Guantánamo Bay) sports a mustache, the girl Jim babysat comes on to Jim, and some characters you might’ve forgotten show as well.  There’s also a lot of implied commentary on how wild teenagers supposedly are these days, compared to the Pie group’s past, anyway.

While the contrived scenes were taken down a notch for this 111-min. feature, there were a few contrived shots.  There is good material, but unfortunately, there’s filler too.  Rated R for language, reunion sex and nudity—Jim tries to cover his junk with something he doesn’t know is transparent.  And to think the original would’ve gotten an NC-17 if another version of him humping a pie was used.  Grade: B-.

Obit

SXSW creative director Brent Grulke, 52, died Monday of a heart attack.  The abbreviation stands for South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival, and he was the longtime creative and driving force behind it for twenty years, playing a central role in its transformation since its creation in 1987.  He didn’t like the usual and mundane, said director and co-founder Roland Swenson.  He was open-minded enough to know that his taste wasn’t always the most important thing, so he was open to new things.

Born in Nebraska, he moved to the Houston area, attended U-TX, became a sound engineer and utilized his abilities for Austin bands on the road.  He worked for Alejandro Escovedo, the True Believers, and hundreds more.  He was even involved in introducing Amy Winehouse to the U.S.  He made Austin a popular attraction site, helping its economy to the tune of $167 mn. in 2011.

Boston Globe: “crisis management master” Peter Morrissey, 59, died of complications from brain cancer on 8.03 at Mass. General Hospital.  With his illness only getting worse, he e-mailed Morrissey & Co. senior associate Aimee Charest, Keep learning.  Knowledge is more valuable than money.  Happiness more than anything.  He believed it and that’s how he lived his life, said Charest.  He was a very happy person.  You didn’t hear him complain about anything.  He leaves his wife, Carey Sherman, three children and five sisters.

Born in Boston, Morrissey was the fourth in eight siblings.  He graduated from English High School and graduated from Boston U. in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in communications and public relations.  In the early 1980s, the associate professor of PR became high-profile, and one of the “22 people who should be on the speed dial in a crisis” (John N. Frank, PR Week, 2004) during and after the 22-year poisoning and tampering case that involved the makers of Tylenol.  He divorced once, and married Sherman in 1984.  Just over twelve months before Morrissey’s death, he wrote a blog post called Guidelines for Creating Your Personal Reputation as Someone Worth Knowing, offering advice that owed as much to his values as it did his career.

NYT/Rich Goldstein: “Red Sox fixture” Johnny Pesky, 92, died Monday in Danvers, Mass.  His death was announced by the Red Sox.  A shortstop in the 1940s, Fenway Park player in the ’50s, Pesky became a manager, coach, broadcaster and instructor.  He hit better than .300 RBI in six of his seven full seasons with the team, and still wore a Sox uniform in his 80s.

2012.08.15

Julia Child, born in Santa Barbara, California, would turn 100 today if it wasn’t for kidney failure and death in Montecito, two days before her 92nd.  The popular French chef and Office of Strategic Services typist probably would’ve died of old age anyway.

Kabul, near Iranian border: multiple suicide bombings kill 46, mostly civilians.

Defense secy. Leon Panetta says Iran is adding to the killing as it tries to bolster its regime.

Albany: Standard Chartered Bank settles Iran money inquiry for $340 mn.

Fmr. premier Riad Hijab says Assad’s regime is crumbling.

Canberra, Australia: court upholds logo ban on cigarette packs.

Rev. Billy Graham back home after hospital stay for bronchitis.

AP, Va.: Pastor Kenneth Miller, 46, convicted in custody battle; aided Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella out of the country a mo. after he agreed to turn them over to Janet Jenkins, now 47.

Kariem MacFarlin, 35, arrested 8.02, and charged w. residential burglary; stolen property at the home of the late Steve Jobs (died 2012.08.20) totaled $60K in computers and personal items.  MacFarlin saw the renovations underway and thought the area was insecure enough.  His first hearing is on the 20th.

2012.08.14

We have to wake up real fast.

Despite efforts of child advocates and fedl. highway safety officials, 8 children died in hot cars in a single week.

Mayo clinic doctors say Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is under treatment for bipolar disorder.

Prime-time: Chris Christie will be the key note speaker at the Republican National Convention.

Las Vegas: CJ the chimp escapes again—second time in four weeks; caretakers plan to move the sanctuary.

Oklahoma City: IRS building evacuated; unattended suitcase found nearby; people allowed back in by midmorning.

Muslim ex-employee sues Disney over policy.

Linda McMahon wins Joe Biden’s former senate seat.

Partial collisions: New cars may be less safe.

Police ID TX A&M shooter as Thomas “Tres” Caffall, 35; he killed Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann according to College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum, and also killed a 65-yr.-old woman.  Caffall, whose stepfather says was a ticking time bomb, was killed in the shootout.

Ent.:

Paranormal State star Ryan Buell diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

New TV provider midnight standoff: Dish and Sinclair.

On-set injury leads Kristin Chenoweth, 44, to leave The Good Wife after Season 4 premiere.

Nickelodeon cancels Victorious.

Scary Movie 5 opener kills off Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan.

Lefty media losing grip: A specter is haunting Ohio: Will Paul Ryan lose OH for the GOP?

USA Today/William Mattox: Forgetting our frugal roots.
Willow Tufano of North Port quickly learned the used goods market, reselling “trash”  She saved her earnings, amassing $6,000 over 18-mos., then bought a foreclosed home for $12,000, where her mother put in the other half the funds.  She’ll use the $700 each month collected from tenants to pay back her mom.  Willow, who is only 14 years old, notes, If it weren’t for FLVS, I’d never be able to do this.

More Revelation...Revealed on Coast To Coast AM

Apostasy of the Pope?: a guest in the first hour tells of all religions, all false religions promoted and gathered, including agnostics and Catholics that approve of abortion.  Europa, Europe; the hill, Rome.  ‘Many’ was changed to ‘all,’ altering the words of Christ, and Benedictus comes to 666?  The traditional Catholic sells a product for $10, and did not give a yes/no answer to the question of whether he hopes all the bad stuff he believes may happen won’t.  What am I to think about all this?

Second guest: a writer on The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce...a shy guy named David, firing the book writer maybe three times.
When you’re naturally changing your persona in communicating with someone on the phone, you’re channeling.  When do you know you’re channeling something positive?  Positive utilizes what’s behind, is loving and co-creative; negative is to suck life out of the lower, generates fear and is co-dependent.  If you aim for a “positive timeline,” your individual world will go there; if you allow the forces of the negative realm to succeed, they will.  The oneness is inevitable, and you are a creative individual.  Wynn Free also wrote The Creator Gods of the Physical Universe.

Movie

I didn’t come here by chance.
Bel Ami is set in France, during a time when the women seem to have all the control of the wealth.  The film stars Robert Pattinson as George, the penniless man who works his way up the chain as a journalist, or so-called — his reaction to his dismissal was to pull some strings, and get the gossip column.  He is spiteful, toward his past, and eventually toward the ones around him.

The female lead roles needed good actresses.  Christina Ricci plays Coltilde, the true friend and lover...where George overlooks the relationship.  Uma Thurman plays Madeline, the dominating wife that was more enthused with politics and couldn’t wait to be independent again.  Kristen Scott Thomas plays Virgine, the one who “never had a lover,” and one to fall victim to George’s brutality physically.  All of them would be hurt emotionally.

George’s rage is subtly provoked by Monsieur Forestier (Colm Meaney), the new boss, after the old one contracted tuberculosis, coughed blood and died.  Three affairs juggled, love lost deliberatelyThere is no next life, and I.. am.. going.. to live.  Like George, France invaded Morocco for its resources.  That is the parallel here.

While the material is great, the screenplay doesn’t allow the actors to go the extra mile; more points are needed to convey the story adequately.  It just fades out to white.  Rated R for language and sexual content.  Grade: B-.

Related: The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947), with George Sanders, Angela Lansbury and Ann Dvorak.

Obit

Original reporting by the Associated Press and Yahoo! TV/Claudine Zap.
Welcome Back, Kotter co-star Ron Palillo, 63, dies from a heart attack.  His longtime partner, Joseph Gramm called 911 over heart-related difficulties in the early morning.  Palillo was rushed by ambulance to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.  The U-CT grad spent his last three years teaching acting at the G-Star Academy charter school.  Friend Greg Hauptner noted whooping cough, that Palillo’s health wasn’t the greatest.

Born Ronald Paolillo, on April 2, 1949, in Cheshire, Connecticut, Ron went into theatre after his mother thought it would be a good idea, on account of Ron’s stuttering and the death of his father when he was only ten.  At U-CT, he would eventually get parts in Shakespearean productions.  In memory of his father, who died of lung cancer, he added a wheeze to the laugh of Arnold Horshack, the nerdy Sweathogs member on Kotter (1975-79) known for always knowing the answers to teacher Kotter’s questions, shooting his hand straight up, yelping “Oooh, ooh...!”

Through depression in not getting work, and despite often being typecast as Horshack into the 1980s to the point of never wanting to do the character ever again, Palillo had roles and many appearances on other shows, including Laverne and Shirley, The A-Team, Love Boat, and gave his voice on Disney’s Darkwing DuckHe was a fantastic teacher, recalled Hauptner.  The kids adored him.  They’d find old recordings of ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ and watch Ron.  The kids are coming back to school next week.  They’re going to be crushed.

2012.08.13

The worst type of slave is the ordinary individual who thinks he/she is free.

Mag.-7.1/7.3 quake hits northern Japan; 3 on the Japanese scale, out of 7.

Commission report finds Anders Behring Breivik attack could’ve been prevented; he claims “self-defense”...

AP: Pope Benedict XVI’s butler Paolo Gabriele and second layman face trial in document theft case.

Indonesia: bird flu claims ninth victim this year.

Palestinian inmate has son after sneaking sperm to wife.

From $3-20+ bn.: auto bailout losses was 15% worse.

Another suit for the DoJ to ignore: House cmte. files suit against Eric Holder on Fast & Furious.

New York Times: Paul Ryan, based on voting record, is one of the most extreme VP candidates in the past century.

The Lookout: greening vacant lots may reduce violent crime; residents near urban gardens say they feel safer.

Dirty Electricity on Coast To Coast AM

Not only are smart meters hackable, and they generate and receive dangerous microwave wavelengths, but they also create power supply switching feedback, like all electronic devices/computers on an AC line.  “Dirty electricity” has also been known to start fires, as before the building codes upgraded to a larger gauge, the smaller gauge couldn’t handle the high frequencies generated by DC filters.  Dirty electricity has even affected farm animals—the case where they can’t stand still, and cows can’t produce milk.

Cell phones: correlation found in the location of tumors to the location where people put [the cell] on their head.  Infertility is promoted when having them on in pants pockets.  People who’ve vacationed away from electricity for days, weeks felt better.  Ailments were alleviated for a kid that used a cell a lot when they took the cell away.

Unavoidable = Problem: neighborhoods full of smart meters, no matter how people push to opt out for analog.  One woman hypersensitive to EMFs had insomnia even before her installation.  MyFi: personal WiFi; people putting boosters in cars.  And the seemingly endless numbers of cell towers...  So many people are sick or will be.

Cases of tumors popped up continuously after X-rays for lice.  And don’t I know of the dangers of dental X-Rays; after I asked how many RADs the machine gave off, the assistant said the exposure is comparable to exposure under the sun.  Yeah, more like exposure under the sun if there wasn’t an ozone or geomagnetic protection from the Earth.

Disorders cured by eliminating dirty electricity.
Promethean boards, WiFi in schools... you have teachers encouraging mini-laptops to children in place of books.  Not only is hyperactivity promoted, but you have EKG monitoring and defibrillators in store—these are children!  You think teachers promoting this stuff are going to help with peer pressure among the children to stay on the EMF-riddled band wagon?

Headaches, fuzzy thinking, insomnia, tinnitus — all of these are symptoms of microwave radiation poisoning, and the Russians published their research on it 30 years ago; the KGB did a lot of experiments.  And if you don’t get tumors, there’s nothing like getting a fever from sitting around unshielded microwave ovens boiling the water in your brain, right?  Be sure to insulate walls with thick aluminum or microwave-canceling mesh, and try to opt out, even if it means a monthly cost of having readers come out — the medical bills will cost more!

G.E.: we bring evil to Life...
One of the main manufacturers in parts for the Fukushima plant in Japan, which is still pouring out radioactive isotopes into the water supply in the Pacific, creating mutant butterflies and damaging the future of the Japanese race, General Electric also manufactures smart meters.

Positive news?  You have electric blankets that are designed to cancel out generated radiation.

Obit

USA Today/Craig Wilson and AP/Karen Thomas: “The quintessential Cosmo girl,” Helen Gurley Brown, 90.  The editor in chief of the 64 international divisions of Cosmopolitan brought the publication from a dull “women’s magazine” to becoming the “Bible for single women.”  She introduced sex, the territory few dared to go at the time.  She was about forty years ahead of Sex and the City, and was wildly influential; Sex and the Single Girl was published in 1962.  Brown was famous for never slowing down.  During a visit with USA TODAY in 2007 at her Upper West Side apartment, she showed that she still had it at 84.  In 1997, the tiny, 99-pound waif-like woman-child told The Guardian, I came from nowhere, had nothing, couldn’t have been less prepossessing and did well.

She had a long life of financially supporting her family.  Born in the Arkansas Ozarks on 1922.02.18, to teachers Ira and Cleo Gurley, Helen’s father Ira died in an elevator accident when she was just ten.  Her mother and sister had contracted polio, and depended on her for the rest of their lives, according to Hearst, the owner of Cosmopolitan.  She took on menial secretarial jobs before becoming an award-winning copy editor for ad agencies into the 1940s.

2012.08.12

Reuters: two earthquakes in Iran kill 300; injure 5,000; hospitals overcrowded; rescuers rush to remote villages; people in streets over fears of aftershocks.

ABC News: USS porter collides with oil tanker in Persian Gulf.

Reuters: confused civilians swarm into Syrian battle zone, against checkpoints, into sniper fire despite warnings.

Reuters: Egypt’s new Islamist pres. Mohamed Mursi fires Cairo’s two top generals, cancels mil. order that’d reduce his power.

Kuwait opposition attacks plan to change election law.

AP: Billy Graham, 93, has been admitted to NC hospital for infected lungs.

ABC News, Xanax defense: mistrial declared in case of woman who allegedly hit husband w. SUV.

ABC News: jet skier breaks through JFK Airport’s $100 mn. security system.

AP: PA bride-to-be Na Cola Darcel Franklin, 31, accused of stabbing fiancé Billy Rafael Brewster to death on their wedding day; police found Brewster, 36, bleeding from his chest; authorities say an argument was involved.  In court, Franklin slowly drew out the words to say she didn’t mean to kill him.

Reuters: knife-wielding man who pulled screwdriver before shot dead by police in NY Times Square today.  Police spokesman Paul Browne said Darrius Kennedy, 51, was apparently smoking [a] marijuana cigarette, got agitated and broke from an officer’s grip, pulled out his 6" blade, ventured South through dense pedestrian and vehicle traffic as more police arrived, was pepper sprayed and repeatedly told to put the weapon down.  Refusing to comply, two officers shot Kennedy; out of the twelve total: three hit in the chest, two in the left arm, one in the left calf and one in the groin.

The city’s so-called stop-and-frisk policies, plus racial bias to a degree—Kennedy is black, has promoted another case of fear-based death-by-cop.

Tech, Ent., Pol.:

Google to downgrade pirate sites in engine search results.

FTC finalizes privacy settlement w. Facebook.

Blizzard video games’ online accounts hacked.

Bourne Legacy, Campaign bump The Dark Knight Rises from #1 spot.

Mitt Romney’s Paul Ryan pick for VP dominates Sun. talk show discussion, name-calling.

GA Tea party activists helped kill a proposed sales tax increase.

Gabrielle Giffords, husband Kelly are moving back to Tucson.

2012.08.11

Portland Press Herald, Belfast: jury found Luke Bryant guilty Fri. of recklessness in the shooting of Tyler Seaney, in Knox last year.  First he claimed the .12-gauge shotgun went off when he was cleaning it, and then he said he fired it to scare his friend.  His girlfriend told investigators she’d seen them play the game before.  Held w/o bail, Bryant’s first sentencing hearing is set for 10.03.

Symptoms of aches, fever and headache, within two weeks of tick bite: 38 cases of the bacterial infection known as anasplasmosis have been reported in 2012, according to state health officials.  Ticks, which appear more in late summer and fall, are more commonly known for Lyme disease.

2012.08.10

I started the blog.  No ideas: 1 post.  No headline to see here.

AP: Obama admin. sets new, largely symbolic, sanctions on Syria’s state-run oil company and Hezbollah.

Fanny Lecluyse, a Belgian swimmer the latest Olympian booted for drunken behavior.

New York Daily News | The Lookout: David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” serial killer now prays for his 6 victims.

ABC News, WI: Gov. Scott Walker praises the Sikhs at a memorial service for their handling of the shooting, saying, they’ve “shown us that the best way to respond is with love.”

ABC News, New Orleans: a man whose heroics and mistaken arrest after Katrina were chronicled in a book is now facing charges that he solicited an inmate to kill his ex-wife, her son and another man.

Those who promote bad gun control have little self-control.
Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria suspended for lifting several paragraphs; he has since apologized.

U.S. teams in the Olympics:

4x100 relay: Sallyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter set record.

‘Ignored’: women’s basketball team are the dominant.

4x400 replay: Manteo Mitchell breaks leg during race, runs two extra metres for qualification.

Sci, Biz, Pol.Ent:

SPACE.com: amateur astronomer in CA snaps photo of three erupting plasma tendrils on the sun.

NM finance officials arrested for faked audit.

Racetrack applies for MA casino license.

Yahoo US News: 10 annoying bank fees — foreign transactions and certain behaviors may be nickel-and-diming you.

1873 dime fm. Carson City, NV sells at auction for $1.84 mn.

Photos: Nik Wallenda performed unharnessed tightrope walk across Niagara Falls.

The Sideshow: mother bear, cubs break in and destroy cabin, reportedly eating all food and drinking 100 beers.

Newt Gingrich wants a Regis and Kathie Lee-style show with his wife.

Portland Press Herald: LePage threatens to skip GOP convention, and lobster processors hope for policy changes in meeting with the Gov.

Yahoo/Movie Talk: Darlene Cates, 64, the actress who played the morbidly obese mother in Who’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), has shed 250 lbs, and says she plans to lose 100 more and get back into acting.  After serious health problems that landed her in the hospital, with three NDEs, she no longer has diabetes.  She is still bedridden.

Obit

The Atlantic Wire: writer David Rakoff, 47, died after a battle with a malignant tumor since 2010.  Known for his funny and cynical essays, he made frequent appearances on This American Life.

2012.08.09 — H3s are now click-linked

Unlike ethanol, alcohol can work with gasoline and clean engine parts.

Al-Qaida in Syria; one side to ruthlessly conquer the other; the victor to threaten the world.

After bridges to nowhere, an expensive pipe to nowhere: Obama agrees to the Southern half of the “infamous” oil pipeline.

White House cherry picked “the good” from the auto bailout; 75% in pensions evaporated at GM-Delphi.

Levi Aron pleads guilty to chopping up a kid.

Sparkle, the last film that Whitney Houston appeared in, opens in theatres next week.

Google agrees to pay $22.5 mn. to settle FTC charges that it bypassed privacy settings with Safari.

Glass Slipper “vows to keep guns out” after double-shooting at strip club the Hub yesterday.

Fmr. pres. candidate T. McCotter (R-MI) is trying to clear his good name; four that worked for him broke the rules.

Daily Mail (U.K. on U.S. news is what we’ve come to), Montana: Joseph Baken confesses to making up the story of being beaten for being gay; anonymously-released footage got out of him doing a back-flip, hitting his face.

After a return of leprosy, and then EEE again

Boston Herald/Renee Nadeau Algarin: State urges caution after man diagnosed with EEE.
A Middlesex man, 60, was diagnosed with the mosquito-borne Eastern equine Encephalitis, a disease that causes the brain to swell.  The man lives in an area where mosquitoes test negative, but he recently traveled to a mid-Atlantic area.  Mosquitoes are testing positive in certain areas of Mass., and the spraying of pesticides have had limited effect.

Herald Exclusive: Bay state targets 477,944 welfare recipients for enrollment

Boston Herald: Liz Warren defends daughter’s role in bid to get out the welfare vote.
Scott Brown: Professor Warren’s daughter sues the state to make this happen.  It smacks of hypocrisy.  You get it, I get it; everybody gets it.  Amelia Warren Tyagi, Elizabeth’s daughter and chairwoman of Demos failed.  Demos turned up a compliant plaintiff with a mysterious past, and before there’s even any discovery in the lawsuit, the state waves the white flag.

Howie Carr notes how the Mass. commonwealth is now paying $275,844 (2011.06.01-2012.05.31) for the “layabouts,” where each recipient is also sent a letter with the form.  The letter reads, Please note that DTA does not verify whether or not public assistance applicants or clients are currently registered to vote or eligible to register to vote.  There you have it; it’s clear on the state’s support for illegal aliens.  DTA stands for Department of Transitional Assistance, yet the system has been transitioned to keep people on welfare.

Also: Welfare-cheat tips pouring in as agency launches 64 probes — John Zaremba.

Saving us from ourselves?  ‘We’re getting to a place where there are more have-nots than haves.’

More than any “fair share”: the 1% pays 61% of all federal taxes.
Moonbats, paid or not keep Facebook flooded with blame—to blame Bush, Romney, etc. for everything.  Heads exploding: James Koch to appear at the Repub. convention.  Oh the —predictable— horror!  Even though most people on welfare are white, Rachel Maddow says that welfare being brought up is a ‘dog whistle of racism.’

Assimilating, but not into the work force.
Center for Immigration study on the U.S.: 36% of immigrants, 57% of households on welfare.  1/3 of their children are poverty-stricken.  They’re each supposed to have a sponsor to keep them on track.  You used to get in trouble without keeping a card up to date.  Compare those welfare nos. to 13% in Canada and 10% in Germany.

The Excuses and Beer Trap card has been used to buy crack.
Maine used to be known as the “rock-ribbed” state, but now, according to Paul LePage one third of the pop. is collecting unemployment benefits, simply waiting for “free stuff,” while those that work pay check-to-pay check get $10K less per year.  The “Reelect Obama” campaign HQ here sits above a store going out of business.

The Democrats don’t support people who work for a living; they support illegal aliens and welfare recipients—Howie Carr.  ...But if you’re a Christian on the freedom trail, we can’t have that.  There was a sign that said, You can’t buy cooked lobster with your EBT card, but you can buy uncooked lobster (with it).  I’m not making this up.

Does the Rapture happen at a converged point of time, or does it occur individually?

To smear and lecture on civility

Mitt Romney was gone for nine years, the factory closed for 5-6 years, but the husband of a wife who died of lung cancer five years later blames Romney for her death.  On the ads, We don’t have anything to do with them.  That doesn’t sit with a conversation in May.  The same Obama camp — and felon? — Stephanie Cutter that claims she doesn’t know Joe had a phone call with him: Thank you, Joe.  We appreciate...  On Priorities USA, By law, we’re not allowed to coordinate with them.  As if they think FEC rules apply to them.

Movie

Without your faith YOU ARE NOTHING!!  YOU- ARE- NOTHING!!  YOU- ARE- NOTHING!!
In Being Flynn, Robert De Niro plays Jonathan Flynn, the writer.  Paul Dano plays Nick, the son, who learns to tolerate his father, a ranting drunk that left his mother (Julianne Moore).  Based on Nick Flynn’s memoir another bullsh*t night in suck city, the movie tries to be decent, reducing the negative effects; it only shows Nick’s reaction when he finds the body of [guess].

Working at a homeless shelter and writing himself, Nick discovers his father ordering a ticket for clothing, at his window.  And Jon is a pain in the ass, gradually losing coherence; he gets suspended from the shelter.  The forger of checks, and absent in Nick’s youth, Jon causes emotions to surface.  Narc-Anon and personal losses force genuine reflection out of Nick.  After his girlfriend says “We’re done,” he asks, D’you think I’m my father?  I think you need to get some help, she responds, adding that her brother also became an addict.

I did’t see the film excel past telling the story.  Rated R for language, some portrayed drug use and violence—Jon experiences the homeless getting beaten and robbed.  My Grade: B.

Obit

Medical pioneer James W. West, 98, died of causes related to old age in his Palm Desert, Ca. home.  Dr. West was part of the team that performed a kidney transplant from a cadaver.  The efforts influenced the medical establishment into using organs from refrigerated bodies, paving the way to the after-death Organ Donor card.

Lecturer, military historian and writer John Keegan, 78, died of undisclosed causes at his Kilmington, England home.  His quickly-established fame came in 1976 with The Face of Battle, a book that put focus on the Battle of Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815 and the Somme (1916), and examined the psychological aspects of war on common soldiers, using letters, memoirs, official reports and eye witness accounts.  After Six Armies in Normandy (1982), he retired from his quarter-century teaching job at Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst to officially join the Telegraph in 1986.

Prior to Keegan’s temporary assignment for the Telegraph to Beirut in 1984, he’d never physically been on an actual battlefield due to orthopedic tuberculosis during his teenage years.  And although he considered himself a pacifist, telling the Chicago Tribune that he’d hope one would run the world without having to resort to war, the soft-spoken Keegan was praised for being a master of war and military tactics, writing brutally detailed accounts of life and the evolution of warfare, shrapnel and all.

Additional titles include The Mask of Command (1987), The Second World War and The Price of Admiralty (naval warfare) in 1989, A History of Warfare (1993), The Battle for History (1995), The First World War (1998), The Iraq War (2004) and The American Civil War (2009).

Self-described “global shopping goddess” Suzy Gershman, 64, died July 25, a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer.  She wrote Born to Shop (1986) and 15 other books over three decades.

2012.08.08

Pink slime on roof, abt. a year ago... Chem-trails leave a metallic smell.

Russian booster rocket failed to place two satellites in target orbit Tue.

Mexico slaughters 8 mn. chickens, vaccinates 66 mn. more amid bird flu outbreak.

AP: defecting Syrian PM arrives in Jordan after hiding.

AP: Greece: Amnesty Intl. slams mass migrant roundups.

AP: German cos., including Daimler and Siemens urge lawmakers to ratify anti-graft deal.

AP: UT military camp wildfire burns near artillery.

Judge rejects Buju Banton plea for new U.S. trial, claiming, ‘no need because of a prev. appeals court ruling’.

CA HS arson case: professor online-searched guns, gun laws, ammonium fertilizer and auto explosions prior to attack.

OH: 15-yr.-old collapses after 4-day Xbox marathon in his room.

July, 2012 is being recorded as the hottest month in the continental U.S.

Opening today: Woody Harrelson directs the play Bullets for Adolf.

British actor Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) to retire after Parkinson’s diagnosis.

He was trained into psychological warfare.
Police: WI shooter Wade Michael Page fatally shot himself in the head after being shot in the abdomen.

...‘In case someone wants to sign my book’...
Joan Rivers chains herself to a shopping cart at Costco after the store chain banned her book, I Hate Everyone ... Starting with Me because “readers may find the words on the back cover offensive.”

Biz, Tech:

Record quarterly loss for Hewlett-Packard Co.—$9 bn.

New York Times Co. to sell fin.-troubled About.com to Answers.com for $270 mn.

Senior note offering: Sirius XM Radio plans to sell $400 mn. in debt, due in 2022.

Square-Starbucks deal weighs on VeriFone: down 11%.

Android continues to exceed dominance over iPhone in global smartphone market.

Millions in settlement: Blackwater, now Academy.

Gift to U.S. government??: Popular torrent site ‘Demonoid’ shut down.

Aqueduct racino: Record $1.13 bn. wagered in July.

It’s Rapture, then Sorrows, on Coast To Coast AM

The pyramids are pointed at Orion: Sirius.  Humans possess an adaptive language gene that came out of nowhere; scientists don’t know where it came from; it’s not found in any other species.  Authors of Alien Agenda: the Return of the Nephilim put a picture of the “forbidden history” together, and foretell the future, as written in the texts.  We are currently in the “birth pains.”  And if you thought what’s been happening these days is bad... It’s been bliss compared to what’s to come.

Fallen angels: giants and hybrids.  They include “humans” with cat eyes.
One of the seven kings, the Antichrist will appear during great distress.  “To clean up the mess,” he will come peaceably...from a bottomless pit.  He will look every bit human, but will call himself God, or a god.  He will preach an ancient failed religion, and in the process will gradually turn the world on its head, turning people against their own; against each other and God.  How to identify him?  He will be blinded in the right eye in an attack, making his right arm useless.  Number of the beast: A caller notes how God numbered the angels, and proposed a theory that 666 is the index for the big one.

Future chronology is always elusive; it’s always after the event that dates can be placed.  And we’re entering times where it’s difficult to recognize the successions.  Things are degrading—even time.

Movie

Blue Like Jazz is the film version of the book by Don Miller.  For the film, some alterations were made to the story...so it wouldn’t be so “boring.”  Marshall Allman plays Don, escaping the role of assistant youth director, growing up in “the most conservative Church community, going to the most liberal College.”  You get some wacky characters in this somewhat dramatized version: protesting robots, “babies,” the “Pope” of the campus...  The parents are separated, the father is “liberal,” the mother needs attention and the new lesbian friend (actress from Lost) at the college tells “Don” to keep his religious background “in the closet.”  There are many creative visuals, but so much is obvious.

When production was put on hold, crowd public support tallied nearly three times the $125K needed in remaining funding for the film.  The DVD extras add a lot of humor; the ‘directing the actors’ VO bit includes directing a bridge: “okay, bridge...”  Rated PG-13 for profanity, book burning and a large “rubber” fit onto a church steeple.  My Grade: B.

Obit

AP: British electrochemist Martin Fleischmann, 85, died Friday after a long illness.  He had Parkinson’s. Fleischmann “stunned the world by announcing that he had achieved cold fusion in a bottle.”  No multi-billion dollar feat: at the University of Utah, the reaction Fleischmann and his lab partner, Stanley Pons, got appeared to give off little radiation.  After scientists failed to replicate the experiment, or even try, their work became ignored.  This has been a terrible experience, Fleischmann told German news site Telepolis in 2005.

Popular composer Marvin Hamlisch, 68, died Monday.  He wrote for Broadway and film.  His compositions include scores for Sophie’s Choice, Take the Money and Run and Scott Joplin’s ragtime music in The Sting, wrote with Carole Bayer Sager for Nobody Does It Better and contributed to the music for the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.  Hamlisch won three Academy Awards, four Emmys, two Golden Globe Awards, four Grammys.  He also won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for A Chorus Line.

2012.08.07

Obama: It’s like Robin Hood in reverse.  [Laughter]  It’s  Romney-hood.  Obam-ics.

Bashir Assad came out of hiding to quash the rumors that he’d been killed in a ‘Free Syrian’ attack.

Mass. Most Wanted: picture of woman suspected of robbing several banks causes family to turn her in.

Perv Epidemic!: more guys putting cameras on shoes, other low places — voice activated, even — to peek under passing skirts.  A new case in Manchester...a repeat offender.

AZ shooting trial: after Jared Loughner was found competent to stand trial, the process quickly moved forward; he has agreed to change his plea to ‘guilty’ in a deal , granting life in prison w/o parole instead of execution if/when found guilty by a jury.  Gabby Giffords and her family say they’re satisfied the deal, saying, “We can move forward with our lives.”

Romney should release more of his tax returns after Obama releases his college records/transcripts

Wayne A., known for making good predictions in Vegas — ??? — writes a piece.
Obama rarely attended Columbia (class of ’83, for pol. science), if at all; WSJ said Fox News could not find anyone who saw him there, out of 400.  He may have visited as a foreign exchange student, as Barry S.  Did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen (of Hawaii) after being a student in Indonesia?

Obama refuses to release anything now, abbreviated or not — $4 mn. to keep his college records sealed.

Government involvement gets out of control when people refuse to be their brother’s keeper

Taking money from needy children and poisoning the water; pushing grandma off the cliff; mean-spirited and Draconian cuts — 1995 Democrats.  “Reverse-Robin Hood,” part of the newer mantra of “government is the solution”—now promoted by Obama in his speeches, after all of talking heads and corrupt lawmakers in Congress repeat the phrase, a phrase ironically getting the terminology wrong too.  The real Robin Hood story was one that led to the Magna Carta — the document that limits government power and even mentions God several times.  God over kings.

Corrupt proxy worsens a problem; it’s supposed to.  In reality government control, especially with bloated government, becomes corrupt proxy.  The U.S. government has literally blocked efforts for individuals to personally feed the homeless.  It’s “you can’t do it yourself,” by forcing in a middle man with power and taxpayer money in their “salary.”  The New Deal, plus The National Recovery Act, was calculated to have prolonged the Great Depression by 12 years.  The Federal Reserve, which is not a government entity but a corporate entity used by Congress and gradually granted power over the Treasury, has only added debt and prolonged recessions and depressions.  See: 1920 Depression — little to no intervention, out of it in months; compared to now, stuck for years.

It’s much worse today, with bad regulations on everything financial.  The IRS clamps down on people for their political aspirations, and the EPA’s deliberate — insiders know — efforts of putting the coal industry out of business with ridiculous regulations, such as mercury levels that are so negligible that CFLs easily and already add more Hg to the waters.  And remember the propaganda efforts on promoting CFLs?  Such efforts of shutting people down only promote poverty and add bureaucracy that would make it more difficult to literally keep the waters clean.

We are certainly dumber as a society to consider gossip over genuine truth, and allow deceptive rhetoric and lobbying on public territory to continue.  Public: You have the right to change things!  Washington, D.C. is not the solution; helping out in your own community is.  Keep a journal (preferably including a camera) to document all of the efforts of govt. to stop you from doing that; this kind of govt. does and has.  And those with a god complex call you insane.

Climate Changes, on Coast To Coast AM

When the Vikings were in Greenland, the lands were lush and green, hence the name.  A record was broken on the amount of time without a hurricane.  The sun?  Other planets have been heating with Earth.  And changes in the tilt of Earth have caused the sun to rise and set differently.  Land takes more heat than ocean; there’s less land toward the North; there’s more warming at the North Pole and no warming at the South.

When it’s dramatically cold, the Global Warming crowd becomes silent.

Obit

Independent movie observer Judith Crist, 90, of a long illness.  A fierce critic (L.A. Times called her the “most hated by Hollywood”), she wrote for the New York Herald Tribune, New York magazine, People and TV Guide.  Roger Ebert credited her with helping to make all film critics better known, including such contemporaries as The New Yorker’s Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris of the Village VoiceEntertainment Weekly.

2012.08.06

Cass Sunstein walks out of Washington.

Usain Bolt beats his run in Beijing: 9.63 sec. in 100m dash.

Household survey: 195K lost; no gains for 4 yrs; 8.3% unemployment is artificially low.

OK fires rage on: conditions hot and dry, possible lightning storms.

Custer, SD: Bear Gulch Fire covered 25 acres Sun.; they thought they’d contain a small fire; no buildings threatened.

Pennsylvania, Pocono Raceway parking lot: Lightning strike after NASCAR event kills one, injuries multiple.

USA Today/Sharon Jayson, Orlando: Avoiding lies can improve health.
Tests done, involving 110, show building trust reduces counts in physical and mental health complaints.  It’s certainly a worthy goal to have people be more genuine and interact with others in a more honest way, said psychologist Robert Feldman, of UMA-Amherst.

Polemics first, facts last

The left start the blame game for the WI shooting yesterday.  Michele Bachmann is targeted for “anti-Muslim rhetoric,” even though Sikh is not Muslim.  In fact, the Sikhs have been violently attacked by Islamic extremists around the globe.  If you believe in personal responsibility, you’d target the shooter, an outcast of a skin-head — someone who was demoted and kicked out of the U.S. Army, and called ‘crazy’ and a ‘coward’ by a no. of white supremacist web sites.

Politically Correct Police call the shooting “domestic terrorism,” while Fort Hood was an “isolated incident.”  The Ft. Hood shooting was inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki, whom the govt. declared a terrorist.  You can’t have it both ways.

Decent people v. all forms of fraud

The shouters, each time, compensate for the lack of facts with...more shouting.  This means less representation of reality and actual self, with paid bloggers and comment posters.  Louder and more infantile, the many; mocking, pretending and infiltrating, rising.

Matters are made worse every time legislation is added in attempt to prevent illegal aliens from acting like citizens, getting free booze and health care.  Call me crazy, but I’m against mandatory photo IDs in voting; it adds yet another cost in being a citizen, whether paid out-of-hand (another Progressive penalty) or by the state (adds to the deficit).

The powers that be need irresponsible voters

Ohio: Once the three-day head start for voting was turned armed forces-only, the Democrats sued to strike that down.  Out of administrations recent and current that have done everything to abuse and shred the Constitution, the current one says this provision is unconstitutional.  This kind of provision is, however, something applicable to valid state law; it applies to the Tenth Amendment and does not violate Equal Protection.  E.P. exists on behalf of a person’s unavoidable creed, and says nothing of military service.

Early voting may be necessary for our armed forces.  Military members don’t have the time when active to vote, and often have to vote absentee.  Voting absentee, especially overseas is largely unreliable; so many that have voted absentee have experienced mail loss or fraud, including the author of this text.

Those who serve selflessly: the most responsible of citizens

With the gross irresponsibility and invasiveness of government these days it’s no wonder that those who rise in its power believing in the power of a gun over truth, such as Eric Holder, are still doing all they can to block the process of cleaning voter rolls of hardened felons and illegal aliens.  Our toughest service members are known for being the most responsible of citizens, and that’s reason for these powers that be to suppress them, of course after using them for their wars, foreign and eventually domestic (national service).

David Axelrod recently told Chris Wallace that he, they, or whomever left in [a platform with] dwindling Independent support ‘support the troops,’ even as Obama leaves ‘the troops’ the tab, and Axelrod expects to get the same limited reaction as when he lied to CNN’s Candy Crowley, that the Washington Post was backing the admin.’s false claims.

Brainwashed supporters

The worst voters, in a sense, are not the idiots who believe in politicians that at best prolong problems as ‘the lesser of two evils,’ but those who believe that these corrupt lawyers of politicians who refuse to be his/her brother’s keeper will pay their bills.

Remember this audio?  When asked on where this ‘Obama money’ is coming from, one literally said, “I don’t know...his stash.”  The recording ends with the chant “Obama, Obama!”

Obit

Penn.: Garrett Reid, 29, son of Eagles coach, found dead in training camp dorm room; past includes prison, court-ordered drug rehab—USA Today.

2012.08.05

WI shooting: one suspect shot at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, say police; 6 others dead.  A veteran officer was shot multiple times; taken in for surgery.  Three victims were admitted for injuries at Froedtert, and other area Hospitals were told to take in as many as 20.

Mars: “Seven minutes of terror,” NASA calls the attempted landing for the Curiosity rover; it will plummet 13,000 MPH, and cover 352 mn. miles over 8 mos.

Olympics: swimmer Michael Phelps finishes his career with 22 medals, 18 of them gold.

They say they’ve seen dead fish before, but nothing like this.

With some waters reaching temperatures in the 90s, plus low dissolved-oxygen levels, massive numbers of fish, including sturgeon, have been found dead.  Dead fish have clogged certain water intake for a power plant, forcing a generator to shut down.

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission estimate 3,000 for the Petit Jean River, most of those crappie, freshwater drum, gizzard shad, minnows and sunfish.

NC-17 movies, not necessarily in theatres

Racy action and abusive nature; merely add ‘no pants,’ get an NC-17 rating.  The documentary that at one point flashed frames of oral sex from Deep Throat easily got the 1990-on rating that sits in between “Restricted” and ‘X’.

Killer Joe is not expected to take in nearly as much as Showgirls, which grossed $20 mn.  And then, again, there’s no nudity or anything stronger than many R-rated movies today in Orgasmo— er, the movie by the creators of South ParkIt’s basically an ‘R,’ but with content that parents aren’t comfortable letting their children see at all.  And most of the Saw movies, which all got Rs but serve no purpose for children, are full of graphic violence, its victims mutilated.

Movies, out on DVD

My Way tells a story of two childhood friends growing up into athletic running.  That is, until national tensions separate them; a marathon riot steers both of them into war, into WWII.  Jun-shik Kim is Korean; Tatsuo, Japanese.  Two of Jun-shik’s friends turn dictatorial.

Through thick and thin, suicide missions and frost-bitten limbs, captured and forced to turn coats, they are reunited yet hostile toward each other in the “fight” for the Japanese, then the Soviets, then the Germans...  They witness war, executions, hari-kari, and the torture of a female sniper.  There is also a depiction of the invasion of Normandy: the air assault and being forced to shoot at allied forces.

While the direction has some trouble separating the dramatic from the mundane, My Way doesn’t lose heart.  Long, bloody, gunfire and explosion sequences: it’s rated ‘R’ for graphic war violence.  My Grade: B.

Brake is not for the claustrophobic, like its lead actor — now that’s method acting.
Stephen Dorff plays Jeremy, a Secret Service agent with a gambling problem, in New York to attempt to pay off his debt with Morgan.  And then he wakes up in a clear box, in the trunk of a vehicle and interrogated on one question that would compromise POTUS’ “Roulette” of bunkers.  He’s now in Maryland, able to communicate via CB, then via cell when one of the “terrorists” becomes a body.  His wife (Chyler Leigh, Not Another Teen Movie), separated over the gambling, is dragged into it.  And everyone, including a reporter, is strangely demanding answers.

All but the ending is set in the box, and Dorff’s able to act his way out of it.  Our lead’s tossed and smashed around, wounded by shrapnel, and stung by bees—while allergic.  (Most of the “bees” were actually bits of paper blown around.)

Rated ‘R’ for violence and lots of language (‘get me the f--- out of here!’).  Tom Berenger’s acting is...not the best.  Grade: B+.

This Means War was done by a director of commercials, and is predictably “hyper-kinetic.”  This big-budget flick is not a serious one.  After a more legit mission, there’s the invasion of privacy on the target of a bet (Reese Witherspoon).  And the writers reduce all of any concern on that to a few words: “Patriot Act.”

One of the two betting leads that face only the consequence of desk job is played by Tom Hardy (with hair and a face this time), as the safe yet oscillating Brit; the other, Chris Pine (Star Trek’s Kirk) is fake and obnoxious...until he isn’t.  There are a few real moments.  Just a few.  But that’s action-comedy for you.

Rated PG-13 for plenty of action and some sexual content (a “plexi-view” delivers the sight of bikini-clad girls in a pool, above), plus Chelsea Handler using language that’s normally bleeped on E!.  (Being veered off into a large pool, in slo-mo: “Oh, shhh[....]t!”)  My Grade: C+.

Obit

Vienna: Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, found dead in her apartment, of brain hemorrhage.  She was playing at 5, under communism before the Soviet Union fell.

2012.08.04

Prep for blackouts in 2012-13: While solar storms flare, Earth’s geomagnetic field weakens.

Syrians move missiles to Lebanese border.

AP: Syrian regime pleads to Russia for loans, oil.

A “New” Draft floating around: a “national service” option is added to make the non-optional Draft, not used for decades, more “appealing.”

Over 8% of all 955 mn. Facebook accounts are fake; over 46 mn. are duplicates, over 23 mn. accounts aren’t even for people (e.g., pets).

Chem-food: Most “food” in the middle of the store is really chemical food

Not only is estrogen in all dairy products, but preservatives in your food freezer section like TBHQ are hydrocarbons used in machines and anti-freeze may be used in some cake/cakey products — I remember eating a Great Value (Wal-Mart) flakey cake-bar thing with [esters of] propylene glycol.  Artificial raspberry uses a bowel organ from an animal, just as pig snout was used for gum...now gum’s plastic.

propylene glycol (n.): colorless viscous hygroscopic liquid, CH3CHOHCH2OH, used in antifreeze solutions, in hydraulic fluids, and as a solvent.

Portland Daily Sun: My next life as a cadaver

Crash Barry, in today’s cover story, makes light of the fact that he has donated his body — after death — to science.

2012.08.03

5 hrs. sleep to find teeth need to be pulled.

Recommended Movies, seen in July

Answer This! is an indie that tells a story of a teaching assistant, helped by — and somewhat suffocated under — his father in the process of getting tenure.  He’s stuck on his final dissertation.  His escape?  The TA enters a trivia contest with “Ice” and his Latin-quipping friend.  He also literally bumps into a female student that helps him release, in all senses — it’s PG-13.  And then the alcohol reveals a world of hurt.

This movie was filmed on a real campus, co-starring a real, retired instructor for the literature-teaching father and features a former SNL player for the host of the trivia contest.  The DVD title screen is, however annoying and reflects more of beer and girls than the movie.  My Grade: B+.

Friends with Kids stars Adam Scott (Parks & Recreation) as Jason and Jennifer Westfeldt (Julie), the director of the film.  It’s about two friends who devise a plan after seeing the lost romance of other couples...particularly their friends.  The plan?  Because these two are not sexually attracted to each other, they believe they can make a baby without all the turbulence of a sex-dependent relationship.  To the surprise of the others it seems to work, raising a child and dating again.  And then, of course, it falls apart.

The cast includes Jon Hamm (Ben), Maya Rudolph (Leslie) and Megan Fox (Mary Jane).  Megan beats Adam at Gears of War for real.  Rated R for mostly language—they got a little kid to repeat the F-word.  My Grade: B.

2012.08.02

Running up against the clock in the early morning to work a schedule...

Congress is now proposing legislation to tax online sales across states?
The United States and North Korea are the only nations to tax their citizens for existing (no matter where they are).

2012.08.01

Ecuador wants to avoid J. Assange’s extradition to Sweden.

ABC: Serious sugar ‘High’: Meth found in fake Snickers™ bars.

AP: the U.S. Postal Service is bracing for a first-ever default on billions in payments due to the Treasury, adding to widening uncertainty about the mail agency’s solvency as first-class letters plummet and Congress deadlocks on ways to stem the red ink.  Congress instead aims to rename Post offices—60 bills.

Obsolescence...in deceptive consciousness

Arrested development...

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.  I have to sleep when it’s not raining in this dump!  And no one disagrees on whether it’s a dump.

Work on understanding others before wanting to be understood

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