"Vatican offers 3 reasons it's not liable for abuse"
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A new low in moral judgement!
Just the headline is enough...the article references LEGAL reasons...wow...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Letting the world come together...
Dear Holly, your terrific signature line "Winners make things happen~~ Losers let things happen." prompted the following memory.
In 1990, while working for IBM in the U.K., my friend Howard S. and I went to Nice France visiting the IBM Telecom Lab there, for a planning session for a really big Telecommunications Trade Show and Conference in Geneva, called Telecom '91.
It was such a big deal even COUNTRIES had booths!!!
(For example, the IBM booth had three stories and an elevator...and they flew in 900 Executives from all over Europe for meetings with IBM execs...must have cost 10 million bucks...)
Brits were in charge of "messaging" and came up with the IBM Theme:
"IBM - Letting the world come together".
Now, Howard and I were about the only Yanks in the audience, made up of a few dozen French and loads of other International IBMers...
So, we immediately (after we finished our uncontrolled long and loud laughing) stood up and proclaimed "NO F---KING WAY" or words to that effect...first because it was so passive, and second, well, once the French IBM Lab Director was informed what "come together" could mean in American English (not British English obviously), he nixed the theme immediately.
Whereupon, I suggested:
"IBM - Bringing the world together"
which became the theme...
There are a hundred other stories surrounding this event, but I'll relate just one more...
Desert Storm (the "first" Iraqi war) was about to start, so we had to sign a release just to get on the plane from London to Nice before the conference, holding IBM free from liability should something bad happen! The war started during the conference, and we were within SCUD range, which was mildly alarming.
Howard and I returned to London from Nice on an Airbus that had more Flight Attendants than passengers. They had all 10 passengers sit together, over the wing, and then opened a bottle of champagne for each of us on a plane that could hold close to 300...
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Missing Woman Found Under Hotel Mattress in Memphis (thought I was done with headlines...but hey...)
Missing Woman Found Under Hotel Mattress in Memphis
FOXNews.com
Sony Millbrook had been been renting a room at the Budget Inn, which suddenly stopped receiving payments at the end of January, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
Memphis authorities are baffled as to how a mother who disappeared in January ended up dead under a hotel mattress -- and wasn't found until nearly two months later.
Sony Millbrook had been been renting a room at the Budget Inn, which suddenly stopped receiving payments at the end of January, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
That was about the same time that relatives grew concerned because she didn't pick up her kids from school. The family members went to the hotel but didn't find Millbrook there, and she was reported missing Jan. 27.
The hotel boxed up her belonging and released the room for rent. Since then, it has been rented out about five times and cleaned by hotel staff numerous times, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
The missing person case quickly turned into a homicide investigation when her body was found under the mattress Monday. No suspects have been identified, but police have charged Millbrook's boyfriend, LaKeith Moody, with a gun violation and consider him a person of interest in the case.
Longtime police officials have noted they've "never heard of anything like this," Joseph Scott, Memphis police's deputy chief of investigative services, said. "It's stranger than fiction."
The bed where Millbrook was found is a metal box frame that sits on the floor, and the box springs and mattress are set inside the frame, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
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Cheers,
Frish
Drought Headline we Ought to see...
Here are some of today's headlines...
"Southern China suffers from drought"
"Severe drought grips southwestern China"
"Drought Creating Drinking Water Shortage in China"
"Drought continues to wreak havoc in Southwestern China"
"Waiting for a miracle called rain"
"Severe drought cracks runway at China airport"
"China drought leaves millions short of water"
"20 million face drinking water shortage"
Now, if I were a journalist...same story, different perspective...
"Too many Chinese for nature to support"
Frish
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Intolerance - it's what's for dinner!
My Brightness (natural is all there is after all), which is only exceeded by my radical childlessness (given humanity's trajectory, it's the only moral choice!), makes me a few standard deviations away from "normal". Hence the "funny" subject line....
First, this gem:
I mean, c'mon. Who cares? and why???
Of course, the fact that homosexuality is demonstrated in hundreds of species won't sway anyone's opinion...
I mean, just because something is natural, doesn't mean it is tolerated....
As long as there is intolerance, no one is safe...it stems from an "us versus them" mentality, which is as integral a part of human nature as anything can be...
The "dumbing down" of our educational system is exemplified by how Prom Night could have been a learning experience, and a joyous event of inclusion, instead of an insane myopic display of unreasonable fear.
Dedicated to all who "chose" Heterosexuality...lol...
Cheers,
Frish
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Yellow-Spotted Bell Frogs...
From the article referenced below:
"The rediscovery of the yellow-spotted bell frog is a reminder of the need to protect natural habitats so "future generations can enjoy the noise and color of our native animals," said Frank Sartor, minister for environment and climate change."
Actually, having future generations enjoying the sights and sounds of species is not much of a goal...
We have no clue of the role of each distinct specie (most of which we have yet to even discover (since most species are microscopic)) in the interdependent web of chemistry known as life on Planet Earth. So, one would think keeping ALL species around would be the smart thing to do...
Individually we are smart. As a group we seem unable to act with wisdom.
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Cheers,
Frish
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