INTERESTING: How does this happen?

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/early-playboy-playmate-and-b-movie-acress-yvette-vickers-found-dead-in-benedict-canyon.html

Mummified body of former Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found in her Benedict Canyon home

May 2, 2011 | 2:21 pm

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Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.

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Sad. How does this happen? A year? Auto bill pay? Reminds me of the Beatles’ song.

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MEMORIES: Sitting in …

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Here I am sitting in Panera to convert one of my e-friends into a non-e, …

… and two guys sit down at the next table and hae a very LOUD conversation about Juvenile Diabetes and how terrible a disease it is.

… … and on and on. With a litany of symptoms and how terrible terrible it is.

I just bite my tongue. They have no way of knowing who’s sitting next to them.

And, I have to learn to just deal with it.

But they are loud!

Argh!

Maybe the Universe has sent them to teach me to deal with the “ouchies”. Rip that bandaid fast, please.

Drip, drip, drip … …

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TECHNOLOGY: Yeah, a centuries old stone is technology; it’s a warning

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42688590/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/

Tsunami warnings, written in stone, saved some
Sentinels mark previous waves: ‘Do not build your homes below this point!’
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
A stone tablet in Aneyoshi, Japan, warns residents not to build homes below it.
By MARTIN FACKLER
updated 4/20/2011 5:55:02 PM ET

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ANEYOSHI, Japan — The stone tablet has stood on this forested hillside since before they were born, but the villagers have faithfully obeyed the stark warning carved on its weathered face: “Do not build your homes below this point!”

Residents say this injunction from their ancestors kept their tiny village of 11 households safely out of reach of the deadly tsunami last month that wiped out hundreds of miles of Japanese coast and rose to record heights near here. The waves stopped just 300 feet below the stone, and the village beyond it.

“They knew the horrors of tsunamis, so they erected that stone to warn us,” said Tamishige Kimura, 64, the village leader of Aneyoshi.

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Technology is in the eye of the beholder. These stones were placed for the purpose of warning their descendants.

Now the Japanese government is looking for a 21st Century equivalents.

Seems like those stones were are pretty good equivalents!

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RANT: BHO44 kills OBL and rejoicing

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4673555/usama-and-us/

Judge Andrew Napolitano

Did President Obama have the moral or legal authority to kill Usama Bin Laden?

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As pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I’m not sure this (i.e., BHO44 killing OBL) is a good thing.

And certainly not something to cheer about.

An eye for an eye …

And it doesn’t bring back those lost on 9-11!

No, this isn’t a happy day.

Donna Nobis Pacem!

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