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Aside from being called the Land of Smiles , Thailand 's capital, Bangkok , has won the image of men's paradise and sex capital of the world even though there are more hookers per capita in Taipei and Manila . But Bangkok may well be the sex capital of the world for Westerners and Asians, as some of the most famous sex travel forum members refer to as LOS .
The sex tourist is more likely to visit a bar or a massage parlor than a traditional "closed" brothel. Bordellos, strip bars, blowjob bars, sex shows, body rubs, beer bars, massage parlors, and night clubs in Thailand have experienced a soaring season between the months of November and January during recent years. Still, there are many low and attractive travel packages for holidaymakers and sex adventurers from all over the world at any moment of the year.
In towns like Pattaya on the Gulf of Thailand , on Phuket Island and in the sex trade districts of Bangkok , they run beer bars, hotels and brothels, mediating the transactions between male tourists and Thai women. There are also tastes for the gays and bisexuals, or for the adventurer straight that will like the extremely prevalent lady-boys, so be aware that not all 'ladies' are as they might appear at first glance!
Walking or riding on a noisy Tuk-Tuk (motorized rickshaws) in the surroundings of the main nightlife streets of Bangkok becomes a sex trade parade involving local girls, lady-boys or katoeys , and horny men which is nothing strange or new in Thailand, where selling and buying sex is illegal but well known by the government arcades. Men from east Asia, and the brothel-lined towns on Thailand's Malaysian border, and the entire streets of Bangkok that are devoted to sex clubs for "Japanese only," are evidence of the sex trade designed for the region.
One may easily get as many BJ, BBJ and HJ maneuvers and do some DATY to Thai girls during the daytime as one desires due to the 24/7 services available in many "barber shops", commonly sex places in disguise. And when the sun falls down to sleep, thousands of Thai chicks come out from the five "Sex Meccas": Pattaya, Bangkok , Phuket, Chiang Mai, and Hat Yai. And there they are… thin, obedient, and beautiful young Thai woman inviting foreigners -called farangs -with their charmed smiles, some of them wrapped in silk, to be their all-purpose sex companions.
Thai law declares that those actively involved in the sex trade must undertake a HIV test. Doctors are supposed to issue HIV-free certificates to those tested negative. As in Patpong, Bangkok's red light district located in the Silom area, where bunches of prostitutes and businesses hung license plates proclaiming "HIV Free" that are now favorite hotspots for northern nation male clientele.
Few sex travel forum members, like in World Sex Guide (www.wsg.com), acknowledge the meaning of the word erotic after the sex shows here, in the land of smiles. In Bangkok , dozens of girlie bars and bars with hostesses are to be found on the pavements of Nana Entertainment Plaza, Soi Cowboy and Patpong . Its neighborhood s ports at least a few barber shops, massage parlors and brothels, usually disguised as karaoke bars, mostly for Thai men while most bars and strip clubs at Patpong rely on international customers. Some brothels in Thailand have a window shopping , like at a department store, but inside you'll get numbered girls in lingerie waiting to be selected.
The attitude of the prostitutes selling sex in bars and as freelance is one of Thailand 's greatest attractions as a sex travel destination. Most will care for farangs as their boyfriends from the time they meet you until the time you depart company. It is this experience that truly makes Thailand one of the most exceptional and exotic sex travel destinations in the world.


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Lake Effect
by K
Issues #2, 32 pg. at quarter-letter size
Issue #3, 28 pg. at quarter-letter size
$2 each from Stranger Danger Distro, or from the author
I don't know about where you are, but here, a windstorm yesterday blew all the handsome leaves off the trees, so now it's just cold, time to buckle down, lay in supplies, and get cozy with some zines. I also feel like, for people who live in places where it's winding down into winter, this is a time of year for introspection, since you've probably got more quiet time at home, rather than being out and about in the sunshine.
About a year ago, I wrote about the first issue of Lake Effect zine, which was a split with Your Secretary, both halves of which were so good. Remembering how much I liked #1, I recently ordered issues #2 and 3 from Stranger Danger Distro.
Issue #2 has a fun concept: it's about clothes that have been important to K. at various times in her life, for various reasons. She even includes a little paper doll of herself that you could dress up if you are feeling especially ambitious/creepy. It could have been pretty silly, but she touches on some serious and scary events.
Heather of Stranger Danger Distro wrote of Issue 3, "This is hands down one of the best zines I've read in the nearly 20 years that I've been into zines." Since her knowledge of zines is profound and her taste exquisite, I knew I had to get a copy of this.
This is a not-especially-long quarter-size zine that feels much more substantial. It's elegantly put together and easy to read, and damn K's writing is good.
She writes about a health scare, about visiting friends in the hospital, about driving to a wedding listening to Exile in Guyville (yesss), about having a concert ruined for you by a creepy dude, and about getting shot with a BB gun. It's understated but powerful, and it captures well how the big feelings in our lives play out in small moments.
I really admire writers who can write very specifically about small moments in a life, but also imbue them with gravitas and feeling without, y'know, saying "this was a moment imbued with gravitas and feeling", or having anyone dropping to their knees and weeping.
Lake Effect #3 shows how friendships and relationships are made and broken with minute gestures of care or its absence, and how decisions hinge on small moments of recognition— this is the stuff lives are made of. I recommend Lake Effect wholeheartedly!
- Lily Pepper

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My sister wanted cheesecake for her birthday. I gave her cheesecake.
This was also an experiment for a mini-cheesecake pan I had gotten. It looks like I'll have to look into edible mini cupcake papers.
Minis (top to bottom): Blueberry, Lemon, Turtle.
In the pan: Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Cheesecake.


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I love that only Angelina can convince Louis Vuitton to be in a third world country
I have been back to the motherland twice in the last two years.
I have been in Australia since I was four years old and our family kept postponing the trip back for many reasons. We wanted to wait until the youngest sibling turned 18 (I am one of six) so that chewed up a lot of time. We wanted to make sure everyone's finances were in check. We wanted to make sure everyone had enough holiday leave to make worthwhile.
Perhaps the real reason was that my parents needed time to heal from their trauma surviving the Khmer Rouge regime.
The first time I went back - the experience broke my heart yet it also gave me hope.
It made me question so many things in my life that appeared important yet compared to what Cambodians faced daily, was actually trivial.
I love that everyone who I have spoken to who has visited Cambodia whether they are Cambodian or not, all sing the same tune.
They love the people.
They love the resilience and despite their dire circumstances are still positive. Despite their horrific past, they still look to the future.
I love that Angelina Jolie herself feels that way too. It doesn't matter what your social standing is, when you witness pain and suffering like that, how does your heart not feel empathy? When you see their smiles and hear their laughter despite their poverty, how does your spirit not sing as well?
While I may have been the educated one, they taught me one thing my primary, secondary and tertiary school education couldn't give me.
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NORTH PORT, Fla. - No more "rocket's red glare" or "bombs bursting in air?" Residents are fuming in the La Casa community near Warm Mineral Springs. They say their freedom of speech...and songs are being silenced.
"Who says that we can not sing the National Anthem? Nobody has the right to tell us that," Patricia Sheppard said.
She and her husband "Shep" Sheppard say this time, the La Casa Activity Board has gone too far. "I'm proud to live in this community," Patricia said. "This is an embarrassment to the people in this community."
In the July-August newsletter, Board Presiden Clint Van Tassell wrote that bands performing, "for instance, at the end of a dance, are not to perform the "Star-Spangled Banner' or 'O Canada.'" Instead, they "are requested to use 'God Bless America'. It is the feeling of the board that this covers all of the Americas adequately."
"The Canadians, they put their money into our economy here in North Port," Patricia said. "They're fine. They're wonderful. It's out of respect, we should be able to sing our National Anthem, we should be able to sing their National Anthem."
About 15% of the residents at La Casa are Canadian. But when some American residents heard "O Canada" at social events, they took offense. Van Tassell would not go on camera, but says this whole thing has been blown out of proportion. He says it is simply a "request" not a "demand," and at a later meeting, clarified that patriotic holidays should have patriotic music such as the "Star-Spangled Banner."
Still, the Sheppards say the damage has been done. "This is not the way we are in La Casa," Patricia said. "This is an opinion of few and definitely not the majority."
Patricia Sheppard says she plans to bring her concerns to the next H.O.A. meeting if this hasn't been settled or the board hasn't apologized.
You can read more in today's edition of the Charlotte Sun at http://sunnewspapers.net/articles/tsnews.aspx?ArticleID=459663&pubdate=7/8/2010


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Biography of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes lived in a time of uncertainty; a time when social, political, and philosophical orders were crumbling before his eyes. He was born in 1588 in Wiltshire, England, to a father with a penchant for the drink. His father worked as a fairly unaccomplished vicar. When Hobbes was only four his father was engaged in a fight outside of his own church, and eventually fled in fear, abandoning his three children and leaving them to be raised by his brother.
When Hobbes was fifteen he began his study at Oxford, where he focused mainly on travel and cartography. Five years after graduating from Oxford he gained a job tutoring the son of the Earl of Devonshire and began an intense study of the Greek and Roman Classics, particularly poetry, history, and philosophy. During his time as a tutor the world of upper class society was opened to him, and he was able to travel abroad with his pupil and his family. It was probably during his first trip to France and Italy in 1610 that Hobbes was exposed to the radical new ideas of Galileo and Kepler, the first of many signs that the old philosophical order was changing.
While the seeds of Hobbes' philosophy were laid during this first trip abroad, upon his return he directed his energies to Classical studies. In 1629 he published his first work, a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Hobbes revealed much later in his autobiography that Thucydides appealed to him because of the historian's exposure of the crumblings of democracy.
During this same year Hobbes traveled abroad again to Paris, becomming enamored with Euclid's Elements. In this geometry Hobbes saw a methodology that he would later apply to his philosophy, whereby one could go through arguments step-by-step, and arrive at logically sound conclusions. After being recalled to England one year later to teach the son of his late pupil, he published his first philosophical work, A Short Tract on First Principles, in which he applied this geometric methodology to the question, "What is sense?"
In a third trip abroad he met Galileo and became inspired by the idea that motion was the underlying force in all of reality. He then planned an ambitious three part project of explaining nature, man, and citizenship based around this idea of motion. Yet when he came back to England in 1637 unrest gripped the country as the parliament and monarchists struggled for power. Rather than publish the part on nature first in 1640 he published The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, which dealt first with man and second with citizenship. In this work he argued in favor of the royalists, and when the situation became particularly unruly, he fled to Paris.
In Paris Hobbes worked on and expanded his work on man and citizenship (De Cive, 1647), and eventually became a mathematics instructor to prince of Wales (later Charles II). Then in 1651 he published his seminal work, Leviathan, which drew upon his previous political philosophy and added his additional philosophy concerning religion. Hobbes' argument that the subjects of a commonwealth could choose a new form of government when theirs no longer protected them offended royalists in exile following the death of Charles I. They believed Hobbes was trying to curry favor with the new government. Yet Hobbes found little favor in France: his lengthy and at times virulent attack on the papacy made him powerful enemies in Catholic France, and Hobbes eventually returned to England at the end of that year.
His return to England did not mark the end of controversy for Hobbes. In Leviathan and elsewhere Hobbes attacked the philosophy of Aristotle and the university system that perpetuated what he believed were false (and dangerous) doctrines. He became involved in a series of spats with professors concerning the place of motion in natural and political philosophy, as well as problems of geometry and physiology.
Following the Restoration of 1660, Charles II, Hobbes' former employer, invited Hobbes into the King's court and even paid him a monthly stipend. While Hobbes was still a controversial figure amongst members of the court, the King enjoyed Hobbes' intellect and sense of humor, and even had a portrait of Hobbes hung in the royal closet.
The last major controversy of his life came in 1666 when the parliament introduced a bill criminalizing atheism. While Hobbes explicitly distanced himself from atheism in Leviathan, many parts of it were contrary to established religious doctrine (Catholic or not). The bill was never passed, but Hobbes was no longer allowed to publish anything concerning man or religion. Hobbes then lived out his last days writing his autobiography and returning to his Classical studies. In 1675 he published an English translation of Homer's Odyssey, and a year later one of the Iliad. He worked until his last days, promising his publisher another work in English shortly before he died in 1679.


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The midge is a humble pest.
Growing to about the size of a mosquito, but without the bite, they swarm by the tens of thousands around lake shores across the state.
It was one such swarm in the summer of 2002, when the residents of the Loch Lomond subdivision in Saratoga Springs decided they had had enough. The nettlesome bugs were blanketing their homes and residents were afraid to open their doors for fear the cloud of insects would gush inside.
So they turned to one of their neighbors, an outspoken young mother transplanted from Connecticut, to go to demand the developers address the problem.
Eventually, the developer relented, agreeing to spray weekly and the midge plague was resolved.
It was a small victory over a tiny bug, but it earned Mia Love a reputation as a neighborhood fixer that grew from there and set her on a path that could ultimately lead this suburban mother of three from her lakeside home to the halls of Congress.
But growing up, Love didn't dream to be in the spotlights that she basked in as a featured speaker at the Republican National Convention in August. Instead, she dreamed of the lights of Broadway.
Another life • The 1970s were a time of turmoil in Haiti. Poverty was crushing and the island nation's dictator, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, ruled with an iron fist, subjugating the people through a mix of voodoo mysticism and sheer terror.
His special police force, the Tonton Macoutes — Creole for "bogeymen" — tortured and murdered opponents, sometimes leaving a severed head as a warning.
As a young man coming home from the movies one evening, Jean Maxime Bourdeau was confronted by the Macoutes. Fearing for his life, he ran and was chased through town until he hid in a drainage pipe, where he cowered through the night.
His mother feared he was dead or kidnapped. But Jean returned home, as Love tells it, determined that his children would not live in fear.
In 1974 Bourdeau, then about 30, received a tourist visa and joined the waves of hundreds of thousands of Haitians fleeing to the United States. He left his wife, Maria, behind with their young son, Jean, and infant daughter, Cynthia, and settled with an aunt and sisters in Brooklyn.
While prohibited for tourists, he — like many immigrants at the time — sought work. His wife joined him a few months later.
Love has told the story of her parents' journey to American with $10 in their pockets over and over during the campaign, including her speech at the Republican National Convention.
In his first interview since his daughter announced her bid for Congress and became a national political celebrity, Jean Bourdeau, a burly man now in his late 60s with gray stubble on his head and a thick Haitian accent, expressed immense pride at never receiving welfare.
"My family helped me to get my start, to put my feet on the ground," he told The Salt Lake Tribune, speaking outside of his home in Stratford, Conn. He is retired now, but drives a school bus and works other odd jobs. He is a member of the Freemasons and a man who has fallen deeply in love with the United States.
He saw this country as his only hope of providing his children with a stable life.
Bourdeau also confirmed he was only able to legally reunite his family in the United States after he and his wife had their third child, Ludmya "Mia" Bourdeau, who was born in December 1975, an American citizen by birthright.
Her role as the family's "ticket" to America under a lenient immigration law, which was later repealed has stirred some controversy and raised questions that Love has refused to answer, considering them an unfair attack on her parents.
"Mia is a citizen born in this country and at that time the country was favorable for children," Jean Bourdeau said. "It was very easy to do things legally by immigration way."
"The country of up "• The naturalization process was simple: The Bourdeaus received an information packet within a day of making inquiries with immigration officials. They were interviewed and passed a test and within a few years the family members became U.S. citizens.
By that time the Bourdeaus had left the high-rises of New York for the more suburban surroundings of Norwalk, Conn., a diverse city of about 78,000, which has maintained a strong Haitian community, and where Maria Bourdeau had relatives.
Working long hours as a janitor and factory worker, Jean Bourdeau was able to move his family into a three-story home on Ponus Avenue, a winding highly traveled two-way street that alternates between cozy tree-lined neighborhoods and dense business districts.
On Sundays, Maria Bourdeau would be in the kitchen, cooking up a meal for whatever family or friends or neighbors happened to stop by. "That's the way she showed love. She feeds people," said Love.
The Bourdeaus enrolled their children in Catholic elementary schools before moving them to public schools, and their parents emphasized the importance of gaining an education.
"I want them to be something what I never be in my country," said Jean Bourdeau. "I want them to go to school, to learn. This is the country of up. You can be whatever you want to be."
It may not have been an idyllic neighborhood — Love says that when she threw a party, a friend's mother was reluctant to let her son travel to the rough side of town to attend — so the parents kept their kids busy in after-school programs, summer camps and extracurricular activities.
Love was in the choir, where she demonstrated some talent. When she reached high school, she was in the color guard, traveling on weekends to competitions with the school's top-ranked marching band, and keeping a grueling schedule.
Then she got involved in theater, landing the role as "the oldest woman alive" in the musical "Barnum."
"I fell in love with it," said Love.
Performing • Jeff Smith, her music teacher in Norwalk, Conn., remembers how Love had to climb into a full body suit and cake on makeup to make her appear to be the oldest woman alive. Students wheeled her out on a cart before she belted out the song "Thank God I'm Old."
"She was a very outgoing student," said Smith, who retired in 2010 and moved to New Hampshire. "A very strong young lady and a very powerful personality."
In "West Side Story," she sang a duet with Becky O'Dowd, who was a year older and a friend of Love's sister, Cynthia. They remain close friends and, after graduating from Norwalk High School a year early, Love followed O'Dowd to the University of Hartford's Hartt School as a musical-theater major.
Love was one of 11 to qualify for the program, which was still new but seen as a potential stepping-stone to Broadway, a path many graduates have taken.
The Hartt School was demanding: Dance lessons each morning followed by acting and voice lessons and then play rehearsals in the evening, all wrapped around the traditional slate of college courses. It left time for little else and Love's drive and ambition chafed some of her fellow performers.
"She was very intense with the way she approached her work in the theater, almost in a way that was off-putting to some of us," said Rachel Mansfield, a theater teacher in Connecticut, who was one of Love's classmates.
Love and Mansfield played rivals in their senior year production of "42nd Street," Love as the fresh-faced Peggy Sawyer, the musical's main character, while Mansfield portrayed the aging actress Dorothy Brock.
Near the beginning of "42nd Street," Love performed a duet with Kevin Duda, who went on to appear in Broadway productions, including his current run in The Book of Mormon musical. Duda is a few years younger than Love and remembers looking up to her, calling her a "leader" in the department.
"Whether it was musical theater or not, you knew she was going to succeed at something because she had such a strong will," said Duda, who hasn't been in contact with Love since college.
He didn't remember any unusual strife between Love and her classmates, brushing it off as the standard drama within a drama department.
Love was "an excellent dancer" and a driven person, Mansfield said, but also "competitive but somewhat aloof." She said Love aggressively pursued friendships with people she felt were talented, but kept herself apart from her classmates at large, a number of whom she has lost contact with entirely.
O'Dowd sees that as a sign of Love's character.
"One of the things I like about Mia is that not everybody likes her, not because she isn't a nice person but because she didn't always go with the popular thought," she said.
Politics seemed unlikely, however, especially Republican politics, since so much of the theater community at the school was liberal.
"If she had the views she has now [back] then, she didn't speak of them," said O'Dowd.
But a chance encounter with a Mormon missionary altered the course of her life, leading her away from the theatrical stage and toward a political one.
A mission and a missionary • The Bourdeau children were raised as faithful Catholics, so Jean and Maria Bourdeau were puzzled when their oldest daughter, Cynthia, decided to convert to Mormonism.
Love, who was very close to her older sister, was sent on a reconnaissance mission, to gather intelligence on her sister's newfound faith and report back to her parents.
"I was going to investigate for my parents, and I ended up [joining]," she said. "It wasn't as odd or different as I thought it would be, and it was good. I ended up wanting to be part of it and the LDS faith just kind of worked for me."
Two missionaries, Elders Ryan Hill and David Valletta, taught Love about the faith. At one point, she briefly crossed paths with another missionary from Utah serving in the mission, Jason Love.
She barely remembered him, but he said he remembers her "very distinctly."
"It was this beautiful girl, and the thing that stood out to me was she was singing show tunes. I think she was singing something form 'Les Mis,'" said Jason Love. "I was star-struck."
Not long after she graduated from college, Mia Love was baptized into the LDS Church, a decision her father has accepted.
"Everybody got their opinions about how you see things, but always believe in God," he said. "I sent them to school. They can do whatever they want to."
O'Dowd said the conversion was unexpected. "It threw me for a loop, totally," she said. But in typical fashion, Mia Love pursued the faith with vigor, the way she approached everything, O'Dowd said.
After school, Mia Love decided to spend a few months sorting out priorities before she figured she would dive into serious Broadway auditioning.
She landed a job as a flight attendant for Continental Airlines, which allowed her to be based anywhere in the country and, as a new member of the church, she wanted to be closer to an LDS temple and decided to move to Utah in 1998.
She got an apartment with a Utah Mormon who had nannied in Connecticut and called one of the few people she knew in her new town — Craig Smith, one of the missionaries she had met — to see if he could help them move in.
Smith was busy, but suggested she call Jason Love, who brought a friend and helped the women settle in. They barbecued afterward, and Mia Love got the idea of playing matchmaker between Jason Love and her roommate.
The four spent time together hiking or miniature golfing, but Jason Love had his eye on Mia. In September they went on their first date — shooting shotguns and pistols at a gun range, a first for Mia, but an activity she enjoyed.
"I thought, OK, I'm really going to like this girl," said Jason Love. "She always had a sense of adventure, always willing to try new things."
Within weeks they were engaged with the wedding set for mid-December. A few days before the wedding, Mia Love got an unexpected call offering her a leading role on Broadway in the musical "Smoky Joe's Café," which she had been in as part of a national touring company, but they wanted her in New York by Wednesday, two days before their wedding.
Broadway had been her dream, but the wedding went ahead.
Metamorphosis • It was the end of one act in Mia Love's life and the opening of a new one. She continued to do plays and community theater and taught music and acting at nearby schools, but she largely shelved her Broadway ambitions for a domestic life and, soon, motherhood.
She also shifted toward politics. She had been brought up believing it was important to vote — her father speaks with pride of casting his first vote as a citizen for Ronald Reagan and equal pride in his most recent vote for Barack Obama.
"That was my dream come true," he said. "I said to Mia: 'You can vote for whoever you want. Me? I vote for Obama.' I never thought black would become president."
Mia Love cast her first presidential ballot for George W. Bush, but her relationship with Jason Love pushed her much deeper into the political world.
"When she became a Mormon and she strongly found faith and she moved to Utah, that was a real metamorphosis," said O'Dowd. "And then all of a sudden she is in politics."
Jason Love's father was a software engineer and was politically active, drafting his sons to canvass neighborhoods and pitch in on local Republican political campaigns.
"All of the things my parents were teaching me, it kind of fit" the Republican philosophy, Mia Love says. "It started clicking, so even though I knew very early on I was Republican, I started actively getting engaged after I met my husband."
In 2002, after being drafted to win the "War of The Midges," neighbors turned to her to help solve other problems, squabbles with developers or the City Council.
About the same time, she was deeply disturbed by a California court case seeking to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and it prompted her to teach her 1-year-old daughter, who barely could speak in complete sentences, to say the pledge.
She and a neighbor, Aubrey Ewing, began attending City Council meetings to voice their frustration with this issue or that in their subdivision, which was seen as the problem community on the outskirts of the city.
"Even though we would come and voice our opinion, they did what they wanted anyway," said Ewing. "She [Love] said, 'I guess really the only way to make things happen is to be part of the decision-making.'"
The next year, several seats on the council opened up, and with Jason Love pounding in lawn signs and Mia Love and Aubrey knocking on doors, Mia Love was elected to the City Council.
After six sometimes-turbulent years on the council, she decided to run for mayor of Saratoga Springs and won handily, becoming the first black female mayor in Utah.
At her swearing in, her parents sat nearby in the audience, beaming with pride.
"I smiled inside of me. I smiled all of my fibers," said Jean Bourdeau. "I said 'wow.' I am glad to see Mia go wherever she wanted to go."
Editors Note • Matt Canham reported from Connecticut.
Correction: Mia Love's first presidential vote was for George W. Bush, not George H.W. Bush.
Mia Love bio
Age • 36
Family • Husband, Jason Love, and two daughters and a son.
Education • Bachelor's in performing arts, University of Hartford Hartt School
Birthplace • Brooklyn, N.Y.
Occupation • Flight attendant, call center manager, fitness instructor and mayor
Hobbies • Music, long-distance running


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I'm pretty sure this goes down as one of the most bizarre and fucked nights I've ever experienced. What started off as a night hanging out at The Redwood with some friends ended with the Occupy LA raid. By the end of the night I had talked my way out of getting arrested, watched innocent people get run down/arrested by the police and had a friend get beaten and arrested by the LAPD for taking photos of the event. (You can read about that here.)
This was shot at the corner of First and Broadway. The police had already cleared out the main gathering area for Occupy LA and had moved on to this corner. They had given a five minute warning and told everyone to move out of the street and onto the sidewalk otherwise you would face arrest. Most of the people, at least those around me felt that they were safe on the sidewalk, they had done what the police had requested. About halfway into the video the police get to business and charge up the street taking out those who had refused to vacate the street. However, instead of just clearing out the street the cops branched out and started arresting the people on the sidewalk as well. They circled around the crowd and trapped people who moments earlier thought they were doing exactly what the police had asked them to do. At that point I had to stop filming as the cops were beginning to arrest the people around me and I needed to get the hell out of there. My plan to get out of there almost went perfectly except for the part when the cop grabbed my arm to arrest me. I still have no idea how I managed to talk this cop into letting me go. I was surrounded by people freaking out and cops arresting them. All I remember saying to him was that I wanted to get to the top of the street and that I wasn't trying to start shit with him. I don't even know if I ever said anything else or if i just kept repeating what could have been the worst argument for letting someone walk away. For whatever reason he decided to let go of my arm and let me go but not without first shoving me with both hands directly into another cop.
The next morning, listening to the mayor and police pat themselves on the back for a job well done was one of the most disgusting things I had ever heard. There was nothing good about what went down in Los Angeles that night. Hundreds of people, interested in having a peaceful protest, were arrested and abused by those who are supposed to protect us and our rights. I hope the mayor and LAPD have figured out how to wipe those smug looks off their faces, if not there are hundreds of pissed off people ready to do it for them.


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ION Longbow Vs. Tiberius T9 Elite This is going to send me to the crazy house!
Posted 17 February 2009 - 02:26 AM
(Also this is my first poll thread so if it's messed up you know why.)
Posted 17 February 2009 - 02:40 AM
Ion is a piece of trash. Not worth the money people spend on it. It is the tippmann of the electro world. They buy a $200 marker and then spend hundreds "upgrading it". Becomes a huge money pit, you never get back what you invested in it when you sell it, and overall, i just don't like them.
T9, nice marker. I liked my T8. Don't know if i'd want it full sized. As to the sniper rounds...do you really want to spend $6-$8 for 10 shots?? Seriously??!!? I play pump, i know about shooting less than 100 rounds a day, still even then i WOULD NOT in any way shape or form, fork over that much cash for 10 shots. You'd damn well bettter make sure they hit or that was a huge waste of money.
I see those rounds how Chris Rock sees bullets, Every bullet should cost $20,000, that way no innocent bystanders would be hit ever, you'd always get your mark, cause you sure as hell aren't wasting $20K on an innocent.
Personally, look into automags or cockers. Both are much better markers overall and can be "Modded' to perform better than either of those two.
Posted 17 February 2009 - 07:31 AM
WITHOUT: Yes, the Ion can be used for speedball and woodsball. However, so can the T9. Personally? I play with my T9 Elite ST setup in it's minimal pistol form for speedball, and with most of the attachments....well, attached... for woodsball. Not knowing you, or your playing style, will make my opinions moot. I like running. I like being way too aggressive in movements. So I naturally love speedball with a pistol. It's not for everyone, but that's me. I played with an Ion set up for speedball, and it's ok. Unless you're dumping in more and more for upgrades, you might as well have started with an EOS. Or a Shocker. (that is, if you stick with Smart Parts). Plus, I like the fact I don't have to deal with a tank and/or remote line. Yes, extra magazines cost $40. But I don't have to worry about snagging on a branch or tree, and it just...feels...more.....natural. IMO.
WITH: Again, I'd still recommend the T9 Elite. Why? My warped sense of logic suggests that since Tiberius Arms is releasing this new type of paintball, their markers will be the first ones to get some sort of retrofit kit (or the outright release of a marker or new marker) that will load these new paintballs with ease. When will other manufacturers come out with a similar kit for their markers? Who knows. Again, this is my logic, not the truth or reality.
For fun, I did waste some time making a review of the T9 Longbow setup, and a short vid of an Ion Longbow firing. It's on YouTube. I can't search for the link, but search for my user ID, tunerwerkz.
Let me know if it helps.
Posted 17 February 2009 - 09:25 AM
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Posted 17 February 2009 - 10:03 AM
I have never shot a Tiberius, I've held them and find them quite nice. It's the prize for my fields sniper contest, again, in March, so it can't be that bad of a gun. I do think it is just a tad overpriced and I wish I could find a way to make one to my specs..
edit: also I'm probably going to be the only person to vote ion, lol!!!
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Posted 17 February 2009 - 02:36 PM
If you are concerned about the traditional way to play speedball then the T9 wouldn't work as well because it doesn't have the high rate of fire the ION is capable of. That being said, there's no reason a mech can't be used to play speedball (they are used all the time). The T9 does have hopper & constant air adapters so you obviously don't have to use limited paint & air while playing speedball.
I like the comparison Leg made about the ION - they can certainly be a money trap as much as a Tippy. By the time you upgrade the ION to perform like a high-end, you could have just bought a high-end to begin with. Of course though, Special Ops doesn't make super-elite-sniper mods for EGO's...
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You bought the brand, not my allegiance.
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Its a Tippmann(It probably has the stock Accuracy of a Grapefruit) -----destoryka
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HeadshotPhantom, on Feb 17 2009, 05:26 PM, said:
Someone else here mentioned an Automag, and you can get a classic or better for under $150 or even $100 if you do your research. Just check on eBay, and you'll have a much more durable, easier to maintain gun for woodsball. For barely a little more (depending on your luck) you can get an Automag with a purely mechanical, level 10 bolt that will easily outshoot an electric Ion.
WTB Tac-One Warp Right Body
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Posted 31 March 2009 - 02:39 PM
T-9: biggest limitation is ammo capacity. I'm not a big sniper player, so this was a huge drag, as reloading every 30 seconds in a firefight is a big disadvantage.
Longbow: Again, see above. Well balanced and ergonomic marker though.
Q-bow: A great compromise between ergonomics and firepower. the 100 rnd Q-pod gives you enough firepower to effectively extract yourself from an overwhelming engagement.
Blackcell/hopper: My usual setup. Since I'm quite often in the thick of a firefight, firepower trumps. The ion will get you great bang for your buck, and there are plenty of upgrades as your budget allows.
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Approve of Occupy Oakland? Don't Approve? Either Way, Jean Quan F*cked Up
Whether you support Occupy Oakland or if you think they should not be at Ogawa Plaza at night, there's one thing everyone can agree on: "Mayor" Jean Quan is a complete f*ck up. Her lack of leadership, lack of accountability, and past failures regarding public safety came to a head and the result is that now people worldwide know just how much Oakland sucks.
Listening to Jean Quan's babbling at the press conference, it was clear she was in way over her head, and resorted to invoking Bil Keane's "Not Me" as often as she could. Apparently Ms. Quan (the same "Mayor" who can't be bothered to maintain her home) had plenty of excuses, but never once said "the buck stops here" the way a real leader would.
Quan has never had a strong record on public safety to begin with, firing lots of Oakland police officers (only to have to re hire many once the crime rate soared) and the epidemic of violence plaguing the city, particularly African American citizens, has never been a priority for Quan to begin with. Heck one of her top advisors is a pro-criminal attorney (who, in an ironic twist, will represent protestors from Occupy Oakland).
Now, she's found a new way to piss off everyone. For those who wanted the protestors out of the plaza at night, as per "the rules" she has failed miserably. The heavy handed response (which included critical wounding of an Iraq war vet) was way out of proportion, and inflamed the situation. Now, we have more people in the park, tensions are higher, and in response, last night Quan decided to let the protestors stay.
In other words, she was for beating them down before being against it. One day it's a threat to the Republic if the protestors stay past 10pm, the next it's peachy keen. What the f*ck? No matter which side you're on, we can all agree that this isn't how to run a city.
Quan's non-management had an impact far beyond Oakland, however. Any plans by the SFPD to clear out the encampment at Justin Herman Plaza went out the window, because the last thing Temporary Mayor Lee's political advisors were going to do was allow him to pour more gas on Quan's flames. More importatnly, the images of Oakland went worldwide, and today we have people marching all over the world, protesting Quan's incomptence and mishandling of a delicate situation.
Finally, a word about the ranked choice system that gave us Jean Quan in the Mayor's office: it sucks. She never had much support, her election was due to a flawed system, and now, thanks to that, we have a so-called "mayor" who isn't up to the job, and has no support.
One wonders what will happen on Election Day in SF as voters are subjected to this bullshit system and who might end up as Mayor. No matter what happens in November, I predict we in SF will show once again why we're better than Oakland, and send RCV to the dustbin of history so we avoid the potential of a Jean Quan in office here at home.
UPDATE: Now Ms. Quan has completely capitulated to OccupyOakland. So basically all the violence and cracking veteran's skulls were totally unecessary. She's now pissed off everyone at City Hall and everyone at OccupyOakland because, well, she has no idea what the f*ck she's doing. Time to resign, Jean, you're just not up to the job.
Also, if you'd like to help out Scott Olsen, the vet critically injured by Quan's indecisive "leadership, here's a link to some resources so you can get involved.


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Multi-booting Windows 7
A few months ago I bought my first Apple Mac and pretty soon used Boot Camp to install Windows 7. So now, I can now dual-boot between OS-X and Windows. Along the way there've been a few hiccups so I decided to clone my Windows partition so that I'll have a fallback option if ever the main Windows 7 partition refuses to boot. The Mac's (GPT) partition table now looks like this:-
PARTITION 1) EFI primary partition (200MB) PARTITION 2) HFS primary partition (88.88GB) - Mac OS-X 10.6 UNALLOCATED) Free space (128MB) - Needed for Windows on a GPT drive PARTITION 3) NTFS primary partition (88.85GB) - Windows 7 (C: Drive) UNALLOCATED) Free space (256MB) PARTITION 4) NTFS primary partition (88.85GB) - Cloned Windows 7 partition
[boot loader] timeout =4 default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows 7" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows 7 (fallback)"
[boot loader] timeout =4 default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows 7" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows 7 (fallback)"
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|30 May 2010
Windows 6.1
In windows of 6 series (Vista, Seven, 2008) boot.ini is no longer used. To modify boot options you have to use bcedit.exe command line tool.
But because of different drive letters you will not be able to boot cloned Windows partition anyway (I'm quite sure of this).
Try installing Windows copy to the second partition.
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|30 May 2010
Follow up....
Follow up - I came across this tutorial:-
BCDEDIT - How to Use
which explained that Windows 7 apparently doesn't use the older system with boot.ini etc. I need to use a new utility called "bcdedit". This does seem to make some provision for dual-booting into a legacy OS - and I can even get a boot menu on my screen now - but it doesn't seem to cope very well if I simply want to have a fallback copy of Windows 7 on the same drive.
What am I missing? This was always possible with previous versions of Windows. Surely it must still be supported in Windows 7 ???
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Thanks Antans, you just beat me to it. I'm astonished that this isn't supported any more. Sometimes I feel that computers take one step forwards and two steps backward!! I think I prefer the older system.
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|30 May 2010
In a dual boot the actual boot files (boot loader) may not be on the partition windows 7 is installed too. Without the boot files the OS won't load. I can't speak for OS X but I know when dual booting XP and windows 7, when XP was installed first, windows 7 will put it's boot loader on the XP partition basically replacing the boot.ini and other boot files with it's own. It has to do this for the dual boot to work. You could probably put the cloned drive in and do a repair to get the boot loader back. You may still have problems though if the drive letter changes from what it was. A lot of stuff in the registry will be referenced to the old drive letter, so a lot of your programs might have to be reinstalled to fix it. The dual boot adds some complications to what you want to do.
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Another possibility then... does anyone know if Windows 7 (or even XP) can be loaded from an external drive (a USB drive, for example)?
If I could install my fallback option onto an external drive it would obviously be excruciatingly slow to use - but than, I'd only be expecting to use it on very rare occasions
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News Flash, liars lie. Does anyone believe anything from the LSM anymore?
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Washington Post is as bad as the New York Times. I wouldn´t line a bird cage with this paper.
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To liberals like Milbank, the truth is irrelevant, as long as the underlying phony narrative fits your agenda. The narrative here is that the Heritage Foundation is made up of haters... racists, sexists, homophobes, and of course Islamophobes. So that is what he wrote. The fact that he is still employed tells you about the state of the print media today.
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I have quit caring about Dana Milbank.
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Any westerner who is not an Islamophobe is a fool.
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I will always remember the night Dana Milbank showed up on some talking head show during the Bush administration, the night after Dick Cheney accidentally shot the lawyer from Austin with buckshot.Dana dressed up like Floyd R. Turbo (remember the bit that Johnny Carson used to do as Floyd Turbo doing a TV-editorial response).Only differences were (1) Carson´s sketch was supposed to be funny and (2) the only funny thing about Milbank was that he looked like a dork.
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Milbank only appears on Mornin´ Joe on MESSNBC so that explains his take on reporting what has been said........his version differs constantly from facts.
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Limp wrist Dana following perfectly the foundation laid by Dan Blather: "Fake but accurate reporting".
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Media bias is so bad that the viewer can no longer blindly accept what is being reported. The media lies on a regular basis. Dana Milbank is an excellent example of media bias. The only questions I have is are they true believers or have they been bought off.
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Allow me to amplify on #5´s post:There is no such thing as a "Moderate Muslim" [Every Muslim will benefit from the Global Caliphate]
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Milbank, and in large part through him WaPo, have long since stopped reporting truth or news, they just spew all day long.
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#2, I would line a birdcage with both of those papers cause catching bird droppings is the only use for them. But, I´d only do it if someone gave them to me, would never buy one!
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A boy named Dana.
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"Phobic" is a suffix with the same nasty impact as ´Denier´.But it is those who fear the brutal be-headings of the Islamists who label others as Islamophobes.Fear of the notion of homosexuality and it´s cultural impact should not be conflated with the totally rational ´fear´ of those who will kill you if you oppose them.The true "Islamophobes" are those who dare not speak against Islam for fear of their lives.Do, let us get this straight.
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It is unfortunate that real people in the real world have to contend with the bias of the left and the PC crude that is corrupting the thinking of millions. This PC crude has been a long time coming. I´ve been out of college for almost 50 years but I remember sitting in a class the name of which I can´t remember, listening to some professor telling us a whole slew of PC balderdash. What all these moonbeams need to understand and to study is the history of the "Mohammedan" religion (more a fascist political system, wrapped in religion) and how they conquered most of the middle east. As they conquered they gave the captured populations three choices, convert, pay taxes, or die. There is no turning the cheek with these people, their plan is to conquer or kill. The demographic math is frightening, there is 1.6 billion of these monkeys, even a small percentage of them being jihadist is way too dangerous. Further since their minds are firmly in the 12th century they really don´t care about anything but killing.
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How shocking! A liberal columnist that has massively distorted the facts of a meeting, in order to smear conservatives. Who could have imagined such a thing happening?Well, anyone that ever read Milbank and can think, knows that he is full of bull hockey. Add in the normal tendency of liberals to lie (few people would support liberalism if the truth were not always carefully obscured) and this is not surprising, but wonderful proof of the worthlessness of this slimeball. By inference, we should be able to judge the validity and value of his points of view.
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Why is Dana Milbank such an angry woman.Must be the Hormone replacement therapy,
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Tattoo Horror Story
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Something seems wrong with this girls' story. Eighteen-year-old Kimberley Vlaminck says she asked the tattoo artist for three small star tattoos on her face, but he evidently misunderstood her, and then she fell asleep while he was tattooing her. When she woke up, there were 56 stars on her face. The tattoo artist says she definitely asked for 56 stars, and that it's simply a case of tattoo regret. The Daily Mail, among others, has the story. I imagine it would be hard to sleep while someone is tattooing 56 stars on your face, so I'm more inclined to believe the tattoo artist. Though he…
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China's Fountain of Youth
Posted by The Curator on Mon Jun 15, 2009
ABC News has a report on the village of Bama, "China's Fountain of youth." People there are said to live unusually long lives. Out of the population of 500, six people are over 100 years old. The locals attribute this longevity to pure water (which is "a striking blue because of low alkilinity"), simple home-grown food, and a special magnetic field. Bama has become a big tourist destination in China. Billboards promote its special powers. New hotels are being constructed there. And you can shop at a store that sells products labeled "The 100-year-old Man." But the key phrase in the report is that "there are no birth…
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The Barrel Monster
Posted by The Curator on Fri Jun 12, 2009
Proof that the art of the student prank hasn't quite died. N.C. State University student Joseph Carnevale has been arrested and is facing misdemeanor charges for damage to property after creating a "barrel monster" that menacingly pointed its finger at motorists on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. The creation of the monster is documented at nopromiseofsafety.com. I couldn't get it out of my head. Its that itch, that need to make real an idea that has rolled around in one's head for days, snowballed itself into a temporary obsession that just…
Sprinkler System Activated
Posted by The Curator on Fri Jun 12, 2009
A telephone caller, posing as a representative of a fire alarm company, convinced employees of a Comfort Suites Hotel to activate the sprinkler system, which resulted in thousands of dollars worth of damage. (tricities.com) This type of prank is definitely a recurring theme (see the rectal exam prank call, strip-search prank call, and satellite medical exam call), but I'm not sure what to call it. Maybe the "manipulative phone call prank," though that's not very catchy.
Little April Rose
Posted by The Curator on Fri Jun 12, 2009
Recently a woman who identified herself only as "April's Mom" started blogging about how her unborn child had been diagnosed as terminally ill. And yet she had decided to go through with the pregnancy anyway. Her blog quickly became popular with the anti-abortion crowd. On Sunday "Little April Rose" was born, but died soon after. But skeptics noticed something strange about the picture of Little April that April's Mom posted on her site. Little April looked exactly like a reborn doll called Avery manufactured by Bountiful Baby. Soon after, April's Mom was unmasked as Beccah Beushausen of Mokena, Illinois. Her entire blog had been fiction.…
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Diversity, Toronto Style
Posted by The Curator on Fri Jun 12, 2009
Another case of cut-and-paste diversity. The city of Toronto wanted to feature a racially diverse assortment of people on the cover of its summer Fun Guide. Unable to find a photo that met that criteria, it created one via photoshop. The original is on the left, the altered cover on the right. (That's a really bad photoshop job.) The alteration was noticed by a graphics editor at the National Post. The most famous case of cut-and-paste diversity was the cover of the 2001-2002 University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate application, mailed out to 50,000 prospective students, in which they inserted the head of a black guy into an all-white crowd…
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Richard Strandlof, phony veteran
Posted by The Curator on Fri Jun 12, 2009
Another case of a phony veteran. Rick Duncan claimed he survived the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon, that he survived a roadside bomb in Iraq, and that he had a metal plate in his head. None of it was true. Not even his name, which was really Richard Strandlof. He also says that he's not a pathological liar. But then, what else would a pathological liar say? link: CNN
Journal Accepts CRAP
Posted by The Curator on Thu Jun 11, 2009
Cornell grad student Philip Davis describes on Scholarly Kitchen an experiment he designed to test the peer-review process at Bentham Science, a publisher of "open-access" journals. (Open-access journals charge authors for publication, but make the articles available for free.) He used software to create an article full of computer-generated nonsense, such as, "we discuss existing research into red-black trees, vacuum tubes, and courseware [10]. On a similar note, recent work by Takahashi suggests a methodology for providing robust modalities, but does not offer an implementation [9]." He told Bentham the manuscript had two co-authors from the Center for Research in Applied Phrenology (CRAP). Four months after submitting it, a Bentham…
Frivolous (fake) lawsuits
Posted by The Curator on Thu Jun 11, 2009
The Lebanon Daily News confesses to coming down with a bad case of the Gullibility Virus. In a recent article they whipped themselves into a state of righteous indignation about a series of frivolous lawsuits. They had read about the lawsuits in an email. (Best part: they titled the article "Sad but true"). A reader later wrote to them: Austin woman awarded $80,000 for tripping over her own son in store? Fabricated. Los Angeles man trying to steal hubcap gets $74,000 when target vehicle runs over his hand. Never happened. Pennsylvania man gets half a million for…
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The South American Reetsa Expedition
Posted by The Curator on Wed Jun 10, 2009
If you're well-versed in hoax lore, you might have heard the story of the South American Reetsa Expedition. It's a hoax attributed to the New York City prankster Brian G. Hughes, who was active as a hoaxer from around 1895 to 1910. (He died in 1924.) He pulled off quite a few hoaxes. Around 1895 he submitted a cat to the New York cat show, claiming it was a rare breed known as the Dublin Brindle. After it won a prize, he revealed it was just an alley cat. A few years later he tried a similar stunt at a horse show, submitting a horse named Puldeca Orphan. It was really a street-car horse from the railway…
Pareidolia Roundup (June 2009)
Posted by The Curator on Tue Jun 09, 2009
Virgin Mary Air Conditioner Antonia Ruiz of Texas noticed a stain on her air conditioner that looked to her like the Virgin Mary. Therefore, she built a shrine around the air conditioner. Cheeto Jesus A bag of Cheetos bought by Dan Bell at a North Texas gas station yielded this "praying Jesus". The couple have nicknamed it "Cheesus." (Note: there was a similar Cheesus in the news last year.) Tortilla Jesus Lloyd Osborne's wife had thrown away the packet of tortillas,…
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Online Pseuicides
Posted by The Curator on Tue Jun 09, 2009
Howard Swains recently reported in Wired on the phenomenon of fake online deaths. He writes: Many online tales of death and suffering are works of complete fiction, "pseuicides" dressed up as real-life catastrophes. Some are contrived to titillate or garner attention, some result from something more serious, and some are the result of a uniquely modern psychiatric disorder known as Munchausen by internet. And: In two investigations between 2007 and 2009, I encountered countless examples of fake deaths in…
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Fooled by Crunchberries
Posted by The Curator on Sat Jun 06, 2009
This case sounded so stupid to me that at first I thought it had to be a joke, but here's the actual ruling, Sugawara v. PepsiCo, Inc., so apparently it's true. Janine Sugawara filed suit against PepsiCo, maker of Cap'n Crunch's CrunchBerries, alleging she had been deceived by their marketing into believing that crunchberries were real fruit, only to learn, to her dismay, that the product contained "no berries of any kind." The judge threw the case out, noting, "The survival of the instant claim would require this Court to ignore all concepts of personal responsibility and common sense." Sugawara is a…
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Are senior pranks a disappearing tradition?
Posted by The Curator on Fri Jun 05, 2009
The Dallas Morning News worries that in many Texas schools the senior prank is a fast disappearing tradition. The reasons for its departure: high-tech security and stricter discipline standards. One senior is quoted as saying, "Maybe we'd do something if there weren't cameras everywhere and punishments weren't so crazy." Well, it's not disappearing everywhere. This year students at Fort Walton Beach High School slipped the "F word" into the yearbook by spelling it out in red letters spread across several pages. Students at Christian Community School ordered 5100 free priority mail boxes from the post office and stacked them floor to ceiling in the school hallway. And some students at
The Next Mr. Rogers?
Posted by The Curator on Fri Jun 05, 2009
18-year-old Michael Kinsell has a dream of being the next Mr. Rogers. Last year he started telling people at his school that he was filming a show called Michael's Enchanted Neighborhood, and that it was going to be aired on PBS. The show was modeled closely on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. From pointweekly.com: Each show will begin much as Mr. Rogers' did, with Kinsell singing a song, "It's a Lovely Day Today to Play," as he puts on a sweater and sneakers. Then a "neighbor," such as an artist or plumber, will drop…
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Sleep apnea in gulf war illness forum – yuku, I think there will in the end be many conditions that will become presumptive. it is my opinion that the gulf war veteran was poisioned. just as the agent orange vets.
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I found some fresh eggplants at the farmers' market this weekend which made me think of preparing moussaka. I had made a simple one-dish version several times before, but, this time, I wanted to upgrade my recipe a little. Sooo, … Continue reading
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