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Wednesday, March 09, 2005



Hey thanks to all the readers who posted on the blog; just wanting to make sure I wasn't type typing away for nothing. Now I will really try to exert some 'communist propaganda' on you all. And the only thing I ask, as this blog has yet to cost you any money, is that you pass it along to friends/coworkers/family/lonely societal rejects, just to keep the slow march to worldwide domination moving along.

And I am sorry if my recent anti-Kuwait blog annoyed some of you. I'm not that sorry, mind you, but maybe just a little bit. I will explain once I am back in Canada why living in Kuwait can get a little stressful. Yes, bloggies, the stories, the stories...

Ok, I am starting to wonder a litte bit about who this Birdbrain fella is. He seems to have a more unhealthy relationship with Keanu than I do. I hesitate to give him too much press, as I am sure his somewhat egocentric alter-ego persona will be only too happy to put up a massive comment. Hmmm. I will continue to think, but as stated above, the more the merrier. Welcome to the club Birdshat, glad to have you aboard.

And from the BBC, things are looking worse and worse for Jacko, as his accuser took the stand the other day, claiming among other things that they shared a bed and looked at porn on the net. A brief setback happened when the accuser's brother admitted some errors in his testimony, but I think the "Save Michael" ship is starting to take on a lot of water. How is this being covered in N. America? It is hard to figure it out over here, but judging by the internet, it must be getting a lot of press. Is it like OJ? Or more of a Kobe Bryant level of media frenzy? Anyone?

I stumbled across this story on Yahoo the other day...

Adult film company New Frontier Media has something new for cell phones: ring moans....Wireless content company Brickhouse Mobile on Tuesday said that under an agreement with New Frontier it would begin offering ring tones for mobile phone users featuring porn stars making groaning and moaning noises from the suggestive to the positively tantalizing.....The company said it would also begin offering sexually explicit "wallpaper" for cell phone screens and adult videos for download on mobile phones under its brand The Erotic Network, the television subsidiary of New Frontier Media Inc.

Imagine that going off in church. Or during the Boy Scout meeting. Or when you are having dinner with Grandma. I dunno, maybe I am way off on this, but some things are best never brought to market.

When I was in Ireland, this story was breaking. A young father was killed in a pub fight as he tried to separate two other guys who were fighting. The Catholic guy who died was killed by IRA (which is Catholicism-based) members. Read on....

But the ugly Belfast pub brawl that resulted in the slaying of a 33-year-old Catholic man by members of the IRA has seriously tarnished the organization's image among its grass-roots Catholic supporters, especially after the victim's five sisters defied the IRA's unwritten code of silence and publicly demanded that their brother's killers be brought to justice.....The Jan. 30 murder of Robert McCartney has underscored the increasing criminality of the IRA and dealt a serious blow to the electoral chances of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing......In an extraordinary admission of just how damaging the incident has become for the IRA, its leadership issued a statement Tuesday saying it had met with the McCartney sisters and offered to impose a "punishment shooting" on the four men it says were directly responsible for McCartney's death. Two of the four are said to be IRA members. Punishment shootings are the IRA's preferred method of rough justice. Normally they are not fatal. Yahoo

I find it fascinatingly morbid that the IRA would offer to impose a punishment shooting on the four men responsible. If you can get past the fact that these four men are seemingly free and not in prison, the idea of a punishment shooting is even more bizzare. From what I understand, the shooting is usually through the hands, as they are held as if one was praying. Eye for an eye leaves everyone blind, so said Ghandi.

I am currently reading Micheal J. Fox's memior Lucky Man. Will post a review when I am done. So far it is good, altho he can get a little off topic from time to time. But for a Hollywood guy, he seems very grounded. But he was raised in Canada, so there ya go.

Huh, as I was just looking out the window, thinking of what to rant about next, a truck drove by at about 60km/hr with it's passenger door wide open, swinging in the breeze. What a crazy ass country.

I'll write more later, I got a whole weekend to kill here.....

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