| WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE ABOUT THIS ARTICLE IS THAT MY FRIEND MARK AND I USED TO PLAY IN THE VERY PLACE THESE ROAD KILL HAD BEEN DEPOSITED! WE USED TO RIDE OUR 10 SPEED SCHWINNS UP HWY 9 TO A GRAVEL QUARRY, AND "SKI" DOWN THE GRAVEL SLOPE NARROWLY AVOIDING GETTING BURIED BY THE SLIDING DIRT... I WAS 10 - 12 AT THE TIME. THE COASTAL MOUNTAINS IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ARE QUITE IMPRESSIVE, BEAUTIFUL PINES AND REDWOODS... Sunday, September 30, 2007 (09-30) 14:24 PDT SARATOGA - -- Three Caltrans maintenance workers have for roughly the past decade violated agency policy by dumping roadkill - the remains of deer, raccoons, opossums and other wild animals struck by vehicles - into a ravine off windy Route 9 west of the city of Saratoga, a Caltrans spokeswoman said Sunday. After learning of the practice Thursday, the agency is now investigating who owns the land in unincorporated Santa Clara County where the animals were dumped and whether their decomposing carcasses could have polluted nearby Saratoga Creek, spokeswoman Lauren Wonder said. "We are doing our investigation with staff and will take appropriate disciplinary action" against the workers, Wonder said. "We will not tolerate this inhumane treatment of animals nor the violation of our policies." Caltrans will do its best to clean up the site, she said. In addition, all maintenance workers in the South Bay will be given additional training on the proper disposal of roadkill. Wild animals, Wonder said, are supposed to be taken for rendering to the San Jose Tallow Company, while pets must be delivered to one of two area animal shelters. Caltrans learned of the dumping Thursday after inquiries were made by a KPIX (Channel 5) television news reporter, Wonder said. One maintenance worker, she said, subsequently admitted the violations had gone on for about 10 years. "It sounds like it's not a regular practice, though," Wonder said. "They've used the area on and off." |
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Caltrans workers dumped road kill in ravine near Saratoga
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
This is Precisely WHY VHEMT is TRUTH...
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 26, 4:36 PM ET
WASHINGTON - A day before President Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations said Wednesday the need to provide food, shelter and clothes for their citizens must come ahead of global warming concerns.
Mexico's environment minister agreed. "We have always to bear in mind that half our population is at the poverty line," said Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada. "We are also extremely concerned about the consequences, the adverse affects of climate change."
They expressed a strong preference for the climate negotiations later this year sponsored by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, instead of Bush's meeting Thursday and Friday for 16 "major emitter" countries, including China and India.
"All these discussions should be taken within the framework of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol," Xie said.
The 175-nation Kyoto pact rejected by Bush requires industrial nations to reduce carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases and set an average target of a 5 percent cut below 1990 emissions levels by 2012. A U.N. climate summit Monday in New York sought to inject momentum behind December's annual climate treaty conference in Bali, Indonesia, for discussing what will succeed the Kyoto climate pact that expires in 2012.
Sergio Serra, Brazil's first ambassador in charge of global warming issues, said the United States must realize that developing countries are trying to curb their emissions while also lifting the welfare of their citizens.
"It is a myth to think the developing countries are doing nothing to address climate change," he said.
As for the U.S.-sponsored talks later this week, he said, "We saw this as ... a very positive sign that this country is resuming the leadership that it always should have had."
Portuguese environment minister Humberto Rosa, whose country currently holds the European Union presidency, said it would be unfair to expect developing nations to adopt firm targets for cutting carbon emissions, the way the biggest industrialized polluters should.
"We want developing nations to do their share. This is not a moment in time for them to have such targets," he said. "We don't depart from the same situation; we do not have the same responsibilities."
On Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the U.N. negotiating process as "the only forum" where the issues can be decided. Before 80 world leaders, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for "action, action, action."
At a House hearing Wednesday, three U.N. envoys on climate change and the German environment minister urged U.S. lawmakers to commit to binding caps on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Many of the visiting officials have sought to blunt an argument made by the White House and some congressional allies that mandatory caps would harm the U.S. economy. The visiting officials have been arguing that new markets in carbon trading and in technology to reduce emissions are economic opportunities. They say that improving energy efficiency will improve economic efficiency.
"The European Union is convinced that our climate protection efforts provide great opportunities and the transformation to a low carbon economy will enhance our competitiveness," Germany's environment minister, Signmar Gabriel told the panel.
But lingering opposition to mandatory caps was evident at the hearing.
"A decade after Kyoto, it is clear to me that the treaty produced far too few results. It is a failure," Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told the officials.
The chairman of the panel, Democratic Rep. Edward Markey, said that the visitors have a difficult case to make in persuading the White House of the need for mandatory caps.
"The world has been asked to Washington to discuss this issue this week," said Markey, D-Mass. "But it is a little bit like being invited to a prayer breakfast with a group of fellow believers, but the meeting is hosted by an atheist."
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Associated Press Writer Desmond Butler contributed to this report
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Superficial characteristics means more babies fathered! Ah, Sex, ain't it a mystery!?!?!?
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=20d865fc-cd62-4944-896a-6582fc0adc31&k=67686
Man's voice an indicator of sexual potency: Canadian Research; Men with deep tones produce more children
If a recent study holds true, having a voice like the late Barry White, (oh, baby), can be the key to sexual potency.
Tom Blackwell, National PostPublished: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
For many women, the deepness of a man's voice is one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs, a new study co-authored by a Canadian psychologist suggests.
All else being equal, males with lower voices produce more children than their higher-pitched counterparts, concluded the researchers in a search for evolutionary explanations of sexual attraction.
The study looked at Tanzania's Hadza tribesmen, one of the world's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies, because the Hadzas never use birth control, a complicating factor that makes it impossible to do such research elsewhere in the world.
The discovery that the pitch of their voices was a major determinant of how many children they would father underlines the deep-seated roots of the seemingly superficial human trait, said David Feinberg, a psychology professor at Mc-Master University in Hamilton, Ont.
Previous research has indicated that a deep voice signifies robust genes, in evolutionary terms.
The findings, however, can not really be put into action on the dating scene, stressed Prof. Feinberg, a co-author of the study.
"This doesn't mean, go out and find a guy with a low-pitched voice if you want to have lots of babies," he said. "[But] it tells us a bit about where we came from and where we're going."
The findings, though, came as no surprise yesterday to professionals in the dating world.
At Toronto-based Misty River Introductions, billed as a "traditional match-maker," men with deep voices always seem to do better, and are much more likely to move beyond the initial stage of a telephone conversation with their potential date, said manager Linda Miller.
"We've had certain clients, you couldn't tell if they were men or women when they called in. They don't do terribly well," she said. "And then you have men who have radio-annnouncer voices, they have that great masculine timbre, and every call is a hit."
Some of Ruth Claramunt's female clients at Hearts Canada, another match-making service, have actually specified that they like men with low voices.
"Or if someone has a squeaky little voice: 'Oh, I didn't really like him,' " said Ms. Claramunt.
"They could be a great big hunky guy and if they have a squeaky voice over the phone, it's sort of a negative."
Prof. Feinberg said he has been trying to see whether human males attract their mates with the same kind of "ornaments," like a peacock's plumage or a deer's antlers, seen elsewhere in the animal world.
Earlier in human evolution, it appears that the appeal of a deep voice was linked to testosterone levels. Deep voices are caused by high testosterone levels in adolescent. Large volumes of the hormone can also prompt immune suppression in a weaker person, so someone who survived to manhood with a deep voice would necessarily have a strong genetic makeup, said the psychologist.
No one, however, has been able to test until now whether the attraction of a deep male voice translated into their having more reproductive success.
For the study, Prof. Feinberg and his colleagues, anthropologists at Harvard and Florida State Universities, looked at 49 men and 42 women among the 1,000-strong Hadza people, who choose their own mates but have a fairly high divorce rate in an informal system of "serial monogamy."
The participants spoke into sensitive microphones and had their voices analysed with sophisticated electronic equipment. The pitch of the men's voices accounted for about 42% of the difference in number of children between fathers, the researchers found.
Although other studies have suggested that men are more attracted to women with high voices, the study found that the pitch of the women's voices did not predict how many children they would have.
tblackwell@nationalpost.com
Republicans vs. our kids (((Another Good Excuse for a Vasectomy!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Noah T. Winer, MoveOn.org Political Action moveon-help@list.moveon.org Date: Sep 24, 2007 1:26 PM
Will you write a letter to the editor demanding that Republican leaders stop blocking kids' health care?
http://pol.moveon.org/lte/?lte_campaign_id=85&id=11284-4946138-93kkOH&t=3
Monday, September 24, 2007
Poems from another website...
| Originally Posted by june sparky is a baker and a maker of all sorts of things like onion rings and cheesy things sparky is a baker that's why he is a maker and a trainer of the baker that bakes bread good, i like this!  |
fed up hearing malarky
he stood on his head
kneading special bread
T'was pumperknickel darky!
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Vandals egg house of local atheist
Going house Egging
Brought out my chalk, criss crossing
Jesus Mis-spelt? How???
Vandals egg house of local atheist
Daily Herald Staff Reports
Published: 9/23/2007 3:00 AM
The home of a local outspoken atheist was vandalized overnight Friday, police said -- with eggs tossed at the house and cars, and crosses and religious words scrawled in chalk on the driveway.
A church bulletin also was stuck on the front door.
The incident comes days after Rob Sherman's daughter, Dawn, led a successful effort to have the song "God Bless America" yanked from Buffalo Grove High School's homecoming celebration. Dawn Sherman is a freshman on the student council.
The vandalism likely was the retaliatory work of youngsters, police Sgt. Mike Millett said -- since it came on the heels of the school incident and because one of the chalked words, "Jesus," was misspelled.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Using "GOD" in advertising, is it "beyond the pale"?
On the other hand, the idea of Christ...Man-God, Virgin Birth, Mithras coincidence, no historical record, rewrite and selection of liturgy in Nicea, walked on water...perhaps isn't something the church ought to be so defensive of in the first place!
Pot-bellied Jesus ad irks Church
By Frances Harrison BBC religious affairs reporter
Catholic bishops in Belgium have protested against a TV ad depicting Jesus as a pot-bellied hippy picking up half-naked women in a nightclub.
The advertisement is being aired on the country's main TV channel to promote youth channel Plug TV.
The Catholic Church says this sort of portrayal of Jesus is disrespectful to believers and that it is wrong to use him for advertising.
However, Plug TV denies that the advertisement is blasphemous.
'Number one dad'
The ad shows a long-haired hippy Jesus grooving along as he tries to get into a nightclub and is refused entry by the bouncers.
Jesus makes the sign of the cross and sweeps aside the bouncers, shrinking them so they are left in his wake as dwarves.
This Plug TV version of Jesus then drinks whisky at the bar and magically turns two brown haired frumpy women into blonde babes wearing bikini tops and red horns.
The Jesus character then disappears into a huge limousine with the women but his attention is distracted by an advertisement for Plug TV before he is recalled by God who is standing on a cloud, wearing a T shirt with "Number one dad" written on it.
The God figure tells Jesus off for wanting to watch Plug TV as well as everything else - saying "you still want more".
The Catholic Church has expressed its disapproval to the TV channel - saying advertising is not the same as journalism and should not share the same concerns about freedom of expression.
The Church believes this advertisement "crosses the limits of respectability".
Plug TV however argues it is not blasphemous but contains a message about a "laid-back Jesus addressing youth".
Let's celebrate "Lasts"!!!
Now, here is an interesting fellow, the last Jew in Afghanistan! Hopefully, over the coming decades, we can celebrate the "lasts" of many different interesting folk!
Last Jew in Afghanistan marks Yom Kippur alone by Beatrice Khadige
Sat Sep 22, 12:42 AM ET
KABUL (AFP) - Zebulon Simentov, the last Jew in Afghanistan, is once again marking the Jewish holy day of fasting in solitude, in a deserted synagogue in the capital of a devoutly Islamic nation.
"I have everything I need for the 24 hours of praying and fasting," Simentov tells AFP before the start of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, at sunset on Friday.
Around two decades ago, there were still about 20 Afghan Jewish families living in Kabul, although all were from Herat -- the largest city in northwestern Afghanistan near the border with Iran.
Through the Soviet occupation of the 1980s, the subsequent civil war and the Taliban's 1996-2001 regime, all went to Israel or moved to neighbouring former Soviet republics -- undoing a Jewish presence built up from the seventh century.
Only Simentov has been left behind, becoming by default the guardian of Kabul's empty synagogue.
The room where he receives visitors was once a prayer room for women. On the wall are pictures of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the late ultra-orthodox Lubavitch rabbi, Menahem Scheerson.
Adjoining this room is the bare-walled "small synagogue" for men, where he prefers to pray.
Simentov, approaching 50, dislikes the "big synagogue" across the corridor -- another large and dirty room in which stands only a platform traditionally reserved for the rabbi.
A cupboard built into the wall faces Jerusalem. Its doors are open and it has been stripped of its treasure, a scroll of the Torah.
The precious document was stolen by a Taliban during the rule of the Islamist movement which was driven from government six years ago by a coalition led by the United States.
The man "wanted to sell it, thinking it was valuable," Simentov says in Dari, one of the main languages in Afghanistan. He says he reads Hebrew perfectly but prefers not to speak it.
"Today that Taliban is jailed at Guantanamo Bay and I am waiting for him to be freed so I can ask him to return the Tables of the Law," says Simentov, who wears a Jewish cap called a kippa, but is otherwise dressed like an Afghan.
Simentov is alone. His wife and two children are in Israel, which he says he has not visited since 1998.
"I have been the only Jew in Afghanistan for two years," he says. Ishaq Levin, the synagogue's former guardian, died from illness two years ago aged around 80.
Simentov says it is not easy to practise his religion alone.
But he has obtained special permission from a rabbi in Tashkent, capital of neighbouring Uzbekistan and home to 15,000 Jews, to slaughter his own meat in the kosher way that can normally only be done by a special rabbi.
Otherwise this former carpet salesman appears perfectly integrated into Kabul, where he is well-known by people who live around the synagogue, and warmly greeted when he is outside.
Jews have lived in several regions of Afghanistan and legends abound about their presence.
One says the Pashtuns, one of the main ethnic groups in Afghanistan, descended from a tribe from Israel. Another says the name Afghanistan comes from Afghana, grandson of King Saul -- the first king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Back from the dead, the fear of being buried alive, etc.
Mon Sep 17, 8:53 AM ET
CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding.
They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.
Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
American Bandstand meets the Information Highway
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070921/ennew_afp/entertainmentmusicdancefrance_070921160955
From the Article:
Tecktonik, judged by the videos on YouTube and displays at the Techno Parade, is a mix of break-dancing, hip hop and techno, featuring flailing arms and quick foot movements.
In appearance, fans share similarities with the new-rave scene in Britain, where fluorescent colours, armbands and tight t-shirts are back in fashion in a clear tribute to the 1980s rave music scene.
"I started to practice at home by looking on the Internet," said Jackie, a 20-year-old regular at the Metropolis who works with young people in a northern suburb of Paris.
"It's a real pleasure to dance the whole day," including on the street, he adds.
Internet searches on YouTube and Dailymotion turn up a series of videos, including one by Jey-Jey, downloaded a million times, who demonstrates his take on Tecktonik in his garage.
Another by Cali, who dances in his living room, also appears to be popular.
"A lot of young people don't have the courage to dance in nightclubs because they are worried about the prejudices of others. The Internet enables them to familiarise themselves with the dance," says Blanc from Metropolis.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
WHAT IS THE STATE'S INTEREST IN PROCREATION?
The court also found that the state has an interest in promoting procreation and that the General Assembly "has not acted wholly unreasonably in granting recognition to the only relationship capable of bearing children traditionally within the marital unit."
(If they have "not acted wholly unreasonably" how unreasonably did they act? The decision is a bad one, since there is no connection between
"granting recognition of traditional marriage" and any state interest, except to create more taxpayers. Certainly marriage does not change the capability of procreation...or, confer much benefit to either partner or children, and marriage is the cause of every divorce!!!!)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_re_us/maryland_gay_marriage
I think that the "state's interest" may be in non-creation instead of procreation, if there is to be a "state" in the future...
Les, if you've answered this on the website, please point us to it, otherwise, I think we ought to establish exactly what the "state's interests" are, from OUR perspective (the state (at least in the USA) is NOMINALLY We the People~...).
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Man, missing 30 days, found on his lawn in chains, AND THAT'S NOT THE WEIRD PART!!!
Went to the post office and was "kidnapped in front of his house", according to his brother.
Just Googled "Solomon Templo" GOOGLE RETURNED nothing EVEN THO' I'VE SEEN THE VIDEO...AND HE'S BEEN MISSING FOR A MONTH???
SOMETHING REALLY WEIRD HERE!
http://cbs2.com/video/?id=48237@kcbs.dayport.com&cid=71
As of today (9/19/07) besides me, and a very few news sites, this blog also mentions the incident! The comments on my blog are also unique, thanks neighbors!
http://blogging.la/archives/2007/09/they_shot_an_episode_of_the_sh_1.phtml
He lives in the neighborhood and had the signs for Solomon Templo plastered on his property by the crew of "The Shield" that shot on his block. Guess his block looks "tough enough".
For those who have not seen it, "The Shield" is the most intense television show ever, bar none.
No Sweat - the chemistry of perspiration and attraction!
By Julie Steenhuysen Sun Sep 16, 1:09 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When it comes to a man's body odor, the fragrance -- or stench -- is in the nose of the beholder, according to U.S. researchers who suggest a single gene may determine how people perceive body odor.
The study, published online on Sunday in the journal Nature, helps explain why the same sweaty man can smell like vanilla to some, like urine to others and for about a third of adults, have no smell at all.
"This is the first time that any human odorant receptor is associated with how we experience odors," Hiroaki Matsunami of Duke University in North Carolina said in a telephone interview.
Matsunami and colleagues at Duke and Rockefeller University in New York focused on the chemical androstenone, which is created when the body breaks down the male sex hormone testosterone.
Androstenone is in the sweat of men and women, but it is more highly concentrated in men. How one perceives its smell appears to have a lot to do with variations in one odor receptor gene called OR7D4.
"It is well known that people have different perceptions to androstenone. But people didn't know what was the basis of it," Matsunami said.
To find out, researchers in Matsunami's lab tested sweat chemicals on most of the 400 known odor receptors used by the nose to sniff out smells and chemicals.
They found the OR7D4 gene reacted strongly with the sex steroid androstenone. Next, they tested whether variations in this gene had an impact on how people perceived the smell of androstenone in male sweat.
They took blood samples and sequenced the DNA of 400 people who participated in a smell perception test done in Leslie Vosshall's lab at Rockefeller.
What they found is slight genetic variations determine whether androstenone has a pungent smell, a sweet, vanilla-like smell or no smell at all.
The role of androstenone is not well understood in humans, but in pigs it sends a powerful sex signal that puts sows in the mood for love.
"It facilitates the courtship behavior in females," Matsunami said.
"There is some evidence published showing this chemical can modify the mood or hormone
levels in humans," he said. "What we don't know is whether the receptor we found was in any way involved in this process."
He and colleagues will further study this aspect to understand how smelling these chemicals might affect human social and sexual behavior.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
An extraordinary statement in an article about OJ's memorabilia, and him stealing it back!
I may finally have to agree with O'Reilly. American "morals" have reached a new low.
He was referring to last week's Brittney Spear's middriff sighting worldwide on whatever awards show she shouldn't have been anywhere near.
It was even more awkward than Miss South Carolina's fumblings regarding America and South Africa, availability of maps, and education!
All of this is such "pop" culture that I'm not sure why it is here, except to show the state of most people's preoccupation, and it isn't with the health of the biosphere...
HEADLINE WE HAVEN'T SEEN BUT WE'VE LIVED:
Brittney Danced while the Earth Burned.
Just to tie it all up with another recent set of events:
Minneapolis is the nexus of the total collapse, literally and figuratively, of "American Culture".
First, the bridge collapse, not exactly a symbol, so much as the actualization of our rotted infrastructure.
(Spending tax money on roads and bridges would be providing a public good, so is not within Republican consciousness, and they've had control for the past 7 years...)
Then, Senator Craig is caught with his pants on in a toilet stall playing footsie with another patron and ADMITTING TO picking up toilet paper from the floor of a men's room...how weird is that?!?
Minneapolis, it is the low point of American Culture, both social and physical!
We can point to this date, as the crux of the beginning of the end of western civilization!!!
Larry Craig's Pants! ON!!!
I-Thirty Five Double U
Foreshadows Collapse
Global Climate Change How drought and hunger allow bears to hibernate less!
My uncle died a while back, I think it was 1989. My sister, her baby and I, drove from Connecticutt to DC for the services drove back the same night.
On the return trip, I hit a deer in the NJ Turnpike. That's a long story all by itself, for another place and time.
My point here is, I had the Officers sign off on the fact that "The deer hit my car" and not the other way around!
There is a similar perspective within the words of this article: Bears are a "plague"!
Hungry bears plague US west after record drought
by Judith Crosson Sat Sep 15, 11:03 AM ET
DENVER, United States (AFP) - They hosed the black bear with water, threw things at it and yelled, but the stubborn animal refused to move from its perch in a tree above a quiet neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado.
Pushed from their homelands by a drought and pulled by the scent of human food, black bears across western US states are breaking into homes and tearing up garbage cans in a desperate search for nourishment ahead of hibernation.
Fires across the west also destroyed bear habitat, and the animals face the continuing peril of losing their living space to urban development.
The bear in the Boulder neighborhood finally came down from the tree and fled. The animal was lucky -- it wore an ear tag, meaning a previous run in with authorities.
Authorities would have killed the bear if they had caught it, said Tyler Baskfield, spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
This year is on target for approaching the 2002 record of 404 bears killed or euthanized, Baskfield said. Colorado has a population of between 8,000 and 12,000 bears.
"We had a late freeze in June which killed the acorns and berry crop. We had a very dry mid-summer and grasses in the high country dried up. That pushed the bears down into the valleys where we have people," Baskfield said.
It is a similar story in much of the western United States.
"Just everybody is seeing bears everywhere. That's the unusual part of it -- in places where they haven't been seen before," said state of Idaho Fish and Game wildlife biologist Bret Stansberry.
"It's a fairly severe drought and that's essentially the root of the problem. There is very little natural food for them to eat. They're coming into orchards, getting into apple trees," Stansberry said.
Adult male black bears, which weigh between 68 and 160 kilos (150 and 350 pounds), usually eat for up to 20 hours a day just before hibernation in November.
State wildlife agencies are constantly urge residents to use bear-proof garbage cans and make sure no food is left outdoors, with mixed results.
Chris Healy, spokesman for the state of Nevada Department of Wildlife, said bears are posing increasing problems. "We had one up a tree today near the university," he said.
Any area that has trees and shrubs resembles a bear's natural habitat, and when the bear spots a human it usually flees up a tree, Healy said.
Nevada has a small population of black bears, mostly concentrated in the Lake Tahoe region near the California border.
"In Tahoe people are not taking care of their garbage. Once the bears start breaking into houses it's a danger to humans," Healy said.
Bear attacks on people are rare, although there was a fatal attack in July when a bear dragged an 11 year-old boy out of his tent during a camping trip in the state of Utah.
Bears are causing plenty of trouble in California, said the state's Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Jason Holley.
"They can blow the door off the hinges. This time of year we're having at least three break-ins a night around Lake Tahoe," Holley said.
Eating human food such as donuts, hamburgers, or ice cream fattens the bears up and allows them to have more cubs. "We're developing an alarming trend -- ten percent are not
hibernating," Holley said.
Black bears in California have not faced competition from their natural rival, the larger grizzly bear, for nearly a century. The last known grizzly in California was shot dead in 1922. California however still has a grizzly bear on its state flag.
There are about 30,000 black bears in California today, up from 12,500 bears 12 years ago, Holley said.
In Montana, a non-profit group has come up with an original way to chase bears away from camping areas.
The Wind River Bear Institute trains Karelian dogs, a species from northern Europe, to use their scent to detect bears, program biologist Russ Talmo said. "The dogs are barking, we're yelling at the bears, we use noisemakers," Talmo said. The dogs, which resemble huskies, are nimble and can herd a bear away from the area, although the dogs are always close to humans.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Chimpanzees sharing their food for Sex, a quick reaction
Cheers,
Frish
Michael W. Frishberg
Makes me want to move to Russia (on Wednesdays anyways!)
By James Kilner
ULYANOVSK, Russia (Reuters) - The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work on Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia's low birth-rate.
And if a woman gives birth in exactly nine months time -- on Russia's national day on June 12 -- she will qualify for a prize, perhaps even winning a new home.
"It's normally something for the home -- a fridge or a television set," Yelena Yakovleva at the Ulyanovsk regional administration press office, said.
"It doesn't matter if it's a girl or a boy."
Newly-weds Karina and Anton Bukhanovsky walked hand in hand down the main street of the regional capital of Ulyanovsk. They live in St Petersburg but travelled to Ulyanovsk to soak up the atmosphere on Wednesday.
"I used to live here," said Karina, aged 19.
"We plan to come back on the same day next year and try for a baby and the prize nine months later," she said.
Anton, aged 21, kissed her gently on the cheek and they strolled off arm in arm.
Regional governor Sergei Morozov told employers to contribute to a Kremlin campaign to boost the birth rate by giving couples Wednesday off to have sex.
Russia wants to reverse a trend in which the population is shrinking by about 700,000 people a year as births fail to outpace a high death rate boosted by AIDS, alcoholism and suicide.
This is the third year Ulyanovsk region, famous as the birthplace of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin, has dedicated a day to encouraging couples to produce more babies.
Prizes will extend equally to unwed women who produce children on the right day, though the biggest prizes will go to married couples.
On Russia Day this year, a family won a jeep after their fourth baby was born on the holiday.
Next year, the top prizes will include an apartment, Morozov told Reuters. "We need more people," he said.
This year a record 78 babies were born on June 12 at the main hospital in the regional capital of Ulyanovsk, beating the 2006 total of 26, said chief doctor Andrei Malykh.
"The scheme is working. People want the prizes," he said.
A mass wedding and special lessons for children at school on how to deal with having a brother or sister are also planned in Ulyanovsk city, which is about 900 km (560 miles) from Moscow.
At the town's central post office, a sign urges locals to write love letters for free to anywhere in Russia, with postage pre-paid.
This week First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a possible successor to President Vladimir Putin, said he wanted to stabilise the population at about 142 million by 2015 and boost it back to 145 million by 2025.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
It is frightening how little reporters "get" Science
I'll wager there is no perpetual energy system here, it costs to create enough energy to "weaken the bonds" of the water molecules at least as much as the hydrogen's energy can release.
There are HUGE inefficiencies here, converting electricity to radio waves and then releasing the heat of the hydrogen into water, a nice insulator, and a good conductor of heat energy too...still, if they can get 25-50 percent efficiency in creating electricity they'd be way short of enough (and they can't!). However, this is going to get some main stream media play until the truth comes out several years from now. This ain't no panacea!
Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water
By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tue, 11 Sep 2007, 11:41AM
ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.
"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."
Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.
The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.
"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."
The potential for bogus is huge.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Some people are definitely luckier than others.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — It was embarrassing enough that Mark Stahnke woke up in a neighbor's yard without his pants. Then he remembered they contained a cashier's check for $41,093, meant for his son, and several hundred dollars in cash.
But he got it all back Friday, including the pants, thanks to a man and his dog.
Stahnke said he doesn't know what happened between when he left the bar and when he woke up the next morning, and police were skeptical when he filed a report on Monday.
"We're used to hearing weird stories, but with his intoxication we figured this one would be different, that the amount of money wouldn't be exact," Police Lt. William Graham said. "How do you get so intoxicated that you lose your pants?"
Stahnke said he had met his son at a bar and doesn't remember much afterward.
"I woke up cold not knowing where the heck I was, and I didn't realize it at first because I still had my shoes and socks on," he said. "When I got up, I realized, my God, I don't have any pants."
Tim Curzan's dog, Joe, found the pants at an intersection, according to a police report. He found the cashier's check and tried twice, unsuccessfully, to deliver it and the cash to where he thought the owner lived.
On Wednesday, the pants were still at the intersection, so Curzan took them to the police, who contacted Stahnke to claim his belongings.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
GITMO News, oh, they are reviewing and it is confusing!
By ANDREW O. SELSKY and BEN FOX, Associated Press Writers 25 minutes ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - After years of indefinite confinement, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay say they feel they may never receive justice, according to transcripts of hearings obtained by The Associated Press. Fewer than one in five of detainees allowed a hearing last year even bothered to show up for it.
The frustrated words of men, some of whom admit to fighting with the Taliban but swear they would go peacefully home if released, illustrate the seething tension at a prison where hundreds are held without charges. The transcripts also underscore that the U.S. allegations against the men are often as difficult to substantiate as they are for the detainees to refute.
Sometimes the allegations alarmed even the panels of military officers charged with determining whether a detainee should be freed.
Rahmatullah Sangaryar stood accused of "planning biological and poison attacks on United States and coalition forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan" and of possessing anthrax powder and a liquid poison.
The Afghan detainee said he was captured only with muddy clothes, possessed no anthrax and never planned such an attack. The officer in charge of the panel seemed to grope for a response.
"Do you know of anyone who would accuse you of such an act? This is so serious," the unidentified officer exclaimed. "I am trying to understand why it is here in front of me, this allegation against you."
The military has released a greater number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay than the roughly 340 men who are there today. As of Sept. 6, the U.S. had transferred or released about 435 prisoners from Guantanamo to more than two dozen nations since the detention center opened in January 2002. Most were subsequently released by their home countries.
But last year, the Administrative Review Board panels determined that 83 percent of the detainees whose cases they deliberated were too dangerous to be sent away, and authorized only 17 percent for transfer to other countries.
After AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request, the Pentagon on Friday handed over transcripts of 64 hearings in which the detainees appeared in 2006. In a letter to the AP, the government said it was withholding three transcripts because they would undermine
"particularly strong privacy interests."
The transcripts provide a rare opportunity to hear from the detainees themselves, and show increasing despair and frustration.
"It appears that our lives don't mean anything to the Americans ... I have a feeling that I might be here until my death," Mohammed Nasir Khusruf, a 60-year-old detainee from Yemen, told the ARB — the second to hear his case.
At the ARBs, conducted in a trailer inside the Guantanamo detention center, detainees are unable to confront those who have made statements against them. They are not provided with attorneys. The Bush administration has denied the Guantanamo detainees access to civilian courts and only three are charged with war crimes under a new military commissions system that has already run into a legal snarl.
"I am entering the fifth year," detainee Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan al-Wady of Yemen told his panel. "I want to see American justice. Where is it?"
The unidentified military officer heading the panel told al-Wady that this was his opportunity to "clear up some of the allegations that have been presented to us."
Yet in case after case, the source of often very serious accusations against the men is unclear, hamstringing detainees' efforts to contest the allegations.
In a case that illustrates the frustration, a military panelist told Mohammed Ali Salem al-Zarnuki that "a senior al-Qaida operative" had claimed he was seen in Kabul "at the front lines." Al-Zarnuki, a Yemeni who was arrested in Pakistan, had repeatedly denied ever being in Afghanistan.
"As I had said before, I don't know Afghanistan," al-Zarnuki insisted to his military panel. "I wish you would bring that guy so I can talk to him. Maybe I look like someone he knows."
Sometimes the frustration seemed to come from the other direction, as in the case of an Afghan detainee who insisted he was a simple merchant.
"I am very curious as to why a shopkeeper would be here. I find it very puzzling," a panel member said. It was impossible to gauge from the transcript whether the officer was salting his remarks with irony.
Only about 18 percent of detainees showed up for the ARBs out of the 330 cases considered last year, the military said. It was the second round of panels which determine whether a prisoner should continue to be held or be transferred from the base in southeast Cuba. Most of the first round of ARBs was held in 2005.
The detainees who chose to participate, for the most part, were cooperative and polite, at times admitting they attended combat training camps in Afghanistan or fighting for the Taliban against the rival Afghan Northern Alliance.
Some said they were simply farmers or shopkeepers swept up by U.S. or allied forces in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. None acknowledged any major role in international terrorism.
Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, a doctor from Yemen, acknowledged treating wounded al-Qaida fighters at Tora Bora in Afghanistan, but said he was forced to do so. He said he wasn't a terrorist.
"I deny these allegations against me," Batarfi said. "It is the same information used against me last year. ... I don't want to be back to the same point again next year."
Some detainees, explaining how an innocent man could wind up at Guantanamo, said they had been captured in Pakistan and sold for bounties to U.S. forces — a practice that has been denounced by Amnesty International.
"You did not catch us in Pakistan — we were sold in Pakistan," said Abdennour Sameur, an Algerian. "The Pakistani army was very poor, that's why they were selling us to you."
Al-Zarnuki said he was also sold for a bounty, and added that his own money went missing during his arrest in Pakistan.
"So the Pakistani government made money twice, from our pocket and from your pocket," he told the military panel.
In contrast to the others, one Yemeni detainee proudly proclaimed himself a holy warrior and "an enemy of the United States."
Abdul al Rahman al Zahri praised the Sept. 11 attacks and other terrorist strikes and said they were retaliation "for your criminal acts and your military invasion (of) the Islamic countries."
(This version CORRECTS SUBS 13th graf to correct nationality of detainee al-Wady to Yemeni sted Afghan; Multimedia: A pdf document is located in yemeni_guantanamo in _documents.)
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Psycho Songs - Room Full Of Mirrors Jimi Hendrix
ALL I COULD SEE WAS ME
WELL I TAKE MY SPIRIT AND I SMASH MY MIRRORS
NOW THE WHOLE WORLD IS HERE FOR ME TO SEE
I SAID THE WHOLE WORLD IS HERE FOR ME TO SEE
NOW I'M SEARCHIN' FOR MY LOVE TO BE
HEY!!YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!
BROKEN GLASS WAS ALL IN MY BRAIN
CUTTIN' SCREAMIN' CRYING IN MY HEAD
BROKEN GLASS WAS ALL IN MY BRAIN
FALL IN MY DREAMS CUT ME IN MY BED
FALL IN MY DREAMS CUT ME IN MY BED
I SAID A MAKIN' LOVE WAS STRANGE IN MY BED
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!
ALL RIGHT
OOO OOO
YEAH YEAH YEAH
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH
NO PLACE TO STUMBLE
NO PLACE TO FALL
CAN'T FIND WAR
NO WHERE AT ALL
SEE NOTHING BUT SUNSHINE
ALL AROUND
LOVE COMES SHININ' OVER THE MOUNTAINS
LOVE COMES SHININ' OVER THE SEA
LOVE WILL SHINE ON MY BABY
THEN I'LL KNOW WHO'S EXACTLY FOR ME
LORD, I'LL KNOW WHO'LL BE FOR ME
IN THE MEANTIME, WHICH IS A GROOVY TIME
Expressions from the Online Dating Scene
While reviewing various profiles I found the following gems, tonight:
can except me for who I am
I am multi dimentional in many ways.
love the beach at 5:30am but can dance until 3am.
Im a young, vibrant 45 yr. old
A job is a good thing for him to have.
Most importantly, he doesn't have to look as good in jeans as in an evening gown.
I love my work (and my days off), getting together with friends and family, love my kids and dog (not necessarily always in that order) do things I enjoy.
Interested in traveling, quite times at home and "exploring" the city!
He should also have a social conscious (believes in helping others) and is kind to animals!
is open to the fact that I do not eat meat (I eat fish)... But... I don't mind if he does!
I have had the good fortune of exploring the world we live in
not intimidated by a woman who is self assured and passionate.
i want someone who enjoys spending time together, but who can have a life of there own.
Friday, September 7, 2007
ATHEISTS HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON!
)PRESERVE
)RESERVE
)DESERVE
) ALL OF THE ABOVE AND MORE...
THE RIGHT
TO NOT BELIEVE
ANYTHING
I HAVE TO TAKE SOLELY ON FAITH.
ATHEISTS HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON.
THERE WERE 358 HITS FOR THAT PARTICULAR EXPRESSION, BUT NONE WERE SENTENCES, ALL WERE PHRASES AS FAR AS I COULD SEE. THEREFORE, I'M COPYRIGHTING THAT EXPRESSION AS OF THIS DATE AND TIME.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
"Do you no Hindi?"
Problem : priority code 4344889765 Someone said they'd call us back in 2 minutes, 20 minutes ago. Your download failed midstream. therefore we have NO ANTI-VIRUS on our system. Help Rafraff : Hello Frish. My name is Rafraff .
Rafraff : Welcome to Symantec Customer Service
Rafraff : Hello Sue, How are you doing today?
Frish: don't even ask that. I've been hassling your software for 4 hours now, and your promises are useless
Rafraff : Sue, May I please confirm that the issue you have described is that you need help in downloading the product. Is that correct?
Frish: yes
Frish: download failed, and so, now what?
Rafraff : What is the exact error message that appears on your screen?
Frish: the download simply stopped, the button said resume so we did...it stopped again, then eventually, it said that our run.exe or some such was corrupt and that was it.
Frish: downloaded about 52MB when it eventually totally failed.
Rafraff : I really apolozies for the inconvenience caused.
Frish: just fix it
Rafraff : May I know the operating system you are using?
Frish: xp
Rafraff : Is your internet connection a high speed DSL/ cable or dial up?
Frish: dsl
Rafraff : May I know whether it is Xp sp1 or Xp sp2?
Frish: sp2
Rafraff : Thank you for confirming your details. Please make a note of this case no. 3714392755 for your future reference.
Rafraff : May I know whether you have disabled the firewall and tried to download the product?
Frish: by the way, I've done this already today with someone elwse. and I have a case number and a priority number that I typed in. I also used to work down the hall from John Thompson, the CEO of Symantec...lol
Frish: 3714392734
Frish: was my other number
Rafraff : Okay.
Rafraff : Please follow steps..........
Rafraff : Please log on to the www.symantecstore.com/trialware and select Norton Internet Security 2008 - 15 Day Trialware
Rafraff : 1.Please download the 15 days trial ware from the link.
Rafraff : 2. After 15 days, Norton product will prompt you with three options. Check mark the option "I have already purchased a product and have a product key"
Rafraff : 3. You can enter the product key JQ7JPYRUUDYYTTBCJPDJCIIYEMMMS999#
Frish: fascinating.
Rafraff : It is a trailware product. You can use the product for 15 days and at the end of the 15 day it will ask the product key to enter, then please enter the product key you have and activate it ..
Rafraff : Please download the product on your computer and save it on your desktop.
Rafraff : And after downloading it you will get a Norton Icon tab on your desktop.
Rafraff : Please double click on it.
Rafraff : You will get the option Run.
Rafraff : Please click on it.
Rafraff : The product will be installed on your computer.
Rafraff : Once the product is installed on your computer the older products on your computer will be uninstalled automatically.
Rafraff : And then activate your product.
Rafraff : Please try with the steps and if you have any issues please contact us again with the above case ID.
Frish: ok
Frish: I'll try it
Frish: ciao
Frish: namaste
Rafraff : Do you no Hindi?
Thanks for your evenhanded article
I believe you are correct in your assessment, as far as it goes. And, atheists are hard to corral into a group, no question, since all we have in common is a non-belief! We come from all backgrounds, religions, races, heights, ages and fitness...literally we have NOTHING in common!
Yes, those amongst us who are not superstitious, who do not rely on myth and legend for our world view, are becoming more politicized, and outspoken. Partly this is in reaction to the theocratization (actually Evangelical Christianization) of various parts of our government and political lives. (Partly it is because we feel we can, and must, before our very low social status (least desirable to date your child: an atheist!) causes reactionaries to react!)
It is also clear to me anyway, that a rational, non-faith-based view of the natural condition must be undertaken if we are to avoid (or quiesce) the chaos we've created in the biosphere and therefore simply survive the next 150 years.
Those who are "faithful" are also potentially very dangerous, if their faith causes them to make irrational decisions concerning global warming, Islam, Israel, and other important issues.
However, there is another part of the story. We know much more know than we ever have about how the universe works, and we're learning more every day. (And, not just the Universe, but how our own brains function is finally beginning to be described.)
So, the interesting question of our age:
Will science develop enough of the answers in time to convince enough voters to ensure further progress in knowledge and application of science, or will the faithful win enough governmental clout to foil those efforts (stem cells for example!)?
Either way, it is a toss up as to whether humankind can survive the chaos we've created in the biosphere. Simply by having the atheists/deist debate is a waste of very precious time that ought be spent solving how humanity will survive into the year 2150.
(I often have wondered when the atheists and theists team up to help the Earth survive! Where are those Christians who feel they are not Dominionists, but Shepard's of the Earth?)
Your article follows, as I've copied some interested parties, thanks! I also have a final comment below, thanks again:
Despite his later influence, scholars say, Nietzsche was not highly regarded before his death in 1890. But nowadays, critiques of religion, his specialty, are popular.
Just check out the New York Times bestseller list.
Christopher Hitchens' God is not Great spent the past 16 weeks in the top five of the list after making its debut in the top spot. Still ranked among best sellers, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is holding out in the top 30 despite being published last September. Other prominent authors include Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett.
According to activists, this band of atheist authors heralds a turning point in American society -- when the irreligious stand up and take their place at the table of political power.
The success of these authors is directly proportional to the dramatic rise in religious conservatism and public piety in national politics, said Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry, a magazine published by the Council for Secular Humanism.
"With (President) Bush trumpeting his faith-based initiatives in the face of the separation of church and state, you have a lot of those in the nonbelieving community who feel their civil liberties are in danger," Flynn said.
Add that to the growing number of American atheists and you have a recipe for political activism, he added.
Record numbers of people are living without God, according to a Pew Charitable Trust study conducted by researchers at the University of Akron for the 2004 presidential race.
The study found the highest share of people yet, 16 percent, who said they had no religious affiliation. Some of those were actually nonspecific spiritual seekers or people between denominations, but almost 11 percent of the respondents said they were atheist or secular.
"And if you know anything about minority politics, 10 percent is the magic number," Flynn said. "All of a sudden, you have a place at the table. I think that has a lot to do with the sudden popularity of atheism and these books."
But the Rev. Martin Marty, an author, Lutheran minister and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, said just because the books reveal a cultural current in America, don't expect a march on Washington.
The history of the various agnostic and atheist movements in this country, he said, is one of a failure to organize.
"Religions have the power to form groups," Marty said. "When you look at the intellectual expression of atheism, it is very individualistic."
The run-of-the-mill atheist is less concerned with the trappings of religion than its political influence, said Marilyn Westfall, a lecturer and board member of the American Humanist Association.
She said there is genuine concern about the strength of the religious right in this country.
"It seems that humans have gone through cycles in which religious fervor must be opposed for the sake of ethics," Westfall said.
Amy Birtcher has seen this thought reflected in Columbus. As president of the Humanist Community of Central Ohio, she has watched the organization's numbers swell from the historic average of about 40 to almost 100 in the past two years.
She said people are turning to atheist authors' works because they validate what they have been thinking for a long time.
"New members tell us quite regularly that the Bush administration and the current wave of conservative politics brought them out of the closet," Birtcher said.
Still, she said, atheists remain one of the most maligned minority groups in the United States. Political polls reveal that people are less likely to vote for a nonbeliever than for a homosexual, she said.
"A lot of people are afraid," Birtcher said. "They can't tell their families. They can't tell their co-workers because they fear real reprisal."
The Rev. Richard Burnett, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church Downtown, said he can understand how invocations of the divine by public officials can feel alienating to unbelievers, though unintentionally.
Having read Hitchens' book, Burnett said it's a good read for Christians, if only to help reaffirm their belief. He suspects that the book's best-seller status is due in part to the faithful trying to find out "what the devil it's all about."
"When we are honest with each other, I think there's a great potential to find truth," Burnett said about the dialogue the books have created between the faithful and nonbelievers. "When the discourse is mocking or trying to score points for either side, I don't think it is helpful."
He said it's important to remember that God does not need to be defended.
Flynn predicts that the popularity of these books is the first step in a coming wave of atheist activism. "It took a very concentrated effort on behalf of the gay community to make people realize you know a gay person," Flynn said. "People realized, 'Hey, I have a gay co-worker, and they're fine.' We need to do that for the nonreligious."
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The gay analogy is interesting but not quite spot on, since Gays have a natural reason to form a group and atheists don't, except to be defensive of our fragile civil rights to be Free To Believe or Not as we so desire! Seems so simple and nothing to argue about really, I respectfully request the right not to believe anything I have to take solely on faith...
Cheers,
Frish
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Psycho Songs: "I'm happy I live in a split-level head"
I’ve lived in apartments, I’ve lived in a home
I traveled in trailers when I used to roam
But now in these places you won’t have me dead
‘Cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
I do what I want to; no worries, no cares
If anyone bugs me I climb little stairs
Way up to a level where I feel no threat
‘Cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
The stair climbing's nothing, I couldn’t care less
I don’t rush for busses and trains are a mess
There’s no one to care for, I don’t make a bed
‘Cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
I like how I’m living, I’m nobody’s slave
My head’s above water, so don’t make a wave
There's no door to lock and no dog to be fed
‘Cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
So why should I move when the neighborhood’s right?
No taxes to pay and no landlord to fight
Now I call this living, what’s more, like I said
‘cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
Now you keep your ulcers, your ills, and what's new
You sure couldn’t have them and live like I do
You think I have problems, but you do instead
‘Cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
I live with two people, I like both of them
He likes both of me and I like both of him
They’re my alter-egos and to them I’m wed
‘Cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
There’s no civil status in my neighborhood
And its that kind of thinking, that keeps it so good
I don’t take the lead but I like to be led
‘Cause I’m happy I live in a split-level head
Lenovo, the Chinese Company that owns IBM's PC line has a set of really weird videos...
This is one weird video, there are more of them.
They want to be the "Chrysler" of PC's - Best Engineered!
What a losing proposition, ah, the tech marketers of today, making the same mistakes as their forebears, since, history repeats itself, and old men like me are let go from the ivory towers of marketing...
I warned the PC guys they were on the wrong path in 1993, in St. Louis, at an IBM program for field sales reps and techies...
