The Coal Speaker

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Speak no evil.. Ottawa airport will now record all conversations

Blue skies.. Barfy burgers.. Girls.. The only thing that would make this sky better would be if it was overtop of a beach I was laying on.. But I will take beauty no matter what the landscape is.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Maybe America is kind after all

Remember a week ago when the author of a book about the kindness of America was shot?

It was a scam !

Depending on how old you are, this story may make you feel old: There are some people who stream music now so much that they have not BOUGHT music since middle school. I feel old

The continuing saga of Aimee Copeland.. first a flesh eating disease and now this: She is refusing morphine due to her personal dedication to holistic healing

Want proof that hard work in America doesn't pay off?

Here it is: Sacramento ‘Teacher of the Year’ laid off

I thought things online would be there 'forever'

I had a website YEARS ago hosted on Angelfire. I also had a Guestbook that, only this week, I found out was gone forever. Seriously.. they deleted it on me. You know, I guess… things change. So this guestbook existed since the year 1998. There were tons of memories in there. I signed up with an email address that is now non existent. So if I had an email that was existent as the main contact, I would have known since April it was going away. Alas! I didn’t.

So there goes that guestbook.. filled with as many memories as a photo album. Friends…long nights of messaging back and forth when the internet was in its infancy.. drunken stupors in text. All that in this guestbook. The world was able to read it.

And now it’s gone.

I know people say if you type something online “it will last forever.”

Tell that to people who had websites on Geocities. Or those who had Tripod guestbooks. Or slambooks (remember those!?) Or ICQ.

I hopefully think that somewhere, in the vast universe, the keys we stroked and letters we typed still exist. But with all these companies folding their ventures and replacing them with nothing, I dare to think that there are some things online that will never exist again. And that’s sad.

What will exist is Facebook. .Maybe Myspace? That’s up to Murdoch. Maybe Tumblr, that’s up to Karp if he makes money.. and Google blogger, which is probably up to the CIA more than anyone else.

Yes.. what you type may not exist tomorrow.

Kind of sad, in a way. Years of Guestbook entries back when the net was young have just been deleted from countless sites…

They better not get rid of Angelfire. Or else if they do, my entire 18 years old to 21 years old period of my life is gone. Forever.

The latest Lilo: Paramedics rushed to her due to exhaustion in her LA hotel.. but she wasn't taken to the hospital

THE MONEY QUOTE

Celebrity news website TMZ meanwhile reported that the 25-year-old had been working for two days almost non-stop, including shooting parts of the movie near the hotel.

Her spokesman Steve Honig told E! News: “Last night she worked from 7:00 pm to 8:00 am. She was exhausted and went back to her room to sleep.

"Producers were apparently concerned and called the fire department and paramedics found her sleeping but determined that she was fine, just extremely exhausted and slightly dehydrated.

The latest Lilo: Paramedics rushed to her due to exhaustion in her LA hotel.. but she wasn't taken to the hospital

I was a young subscriber to TIME magazine, and I remember getting this issue in 1993. I now look back … I was 13 then and I am 31 now. I am a father. Wow.. I am what I’d never thought I’d be when I was 13. But now I am completely fine with that… It just fascinates me how life changes. By the way, I am posting this while my son, Ayden, is messily trying to eat his chicken noodle soup. He got mad at first that there were no crackers in his soup… I am at his command.

Yes, indeed, how life changes.

I wonder what will be on TIME magazine when he is 13. I wonder if there will be a TIME when he is 13……….

(By the time I was done writing this post, at 7:13 pm EDT this Friday night, Ayden dumped the entire bowl of chicken soup on the floor. Guess he’s not hungry)

Pardon this interruption.. Daily Caller reporter heckles Obama in Rose Garden

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Amen!! Senator Bernie Sanders argues that Americans should know if food is GMO

No this is not a summer snow, this is a seriously bad hail storm that took place in Texas yesterday..

It all just seems to be getting a bit distressing lately in the weather department, don’t you think…?

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Too bad SNL is on summer recess. Fox and Friends had an issue this morning, as Gretchen Carlson walked off the set of the show after male hosts made comments on how ‘women are everywhere,’ such as the Navy, golf, and tennis.

Go Gretchen. Low cut blouse-high-skirt-Roger-Ailes-Girl power to ya!

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For those following, you know this: When there is dramatic testimony in the Jerry Sandusky trial that really means the news headlines should be rated X. Seriously, horrible stuff is coming to light. Today’s headline is that Sandusky referred to himself as the tickle monster. Even more, one witness said while a molestation occurred, he screamed in Sandusky’s basement while no one came to help..

All this in front a jury.. I can only imagine what is going through their minds this weekend.

"What was I going to do? Look at him, he’s a big guy, bigger than me. Way bigger than me."

That is what Victim Number 9 testified to today. This is why he said he took part in oral sex and all the like in Sandusky’s basement….

Happy valley indeed.

I am frankly at the point where I cannot even watch the news accounts of the trial or read dispatches anymore.. there’s no way I could have been on this jury. No way at all.

So you’re up next, Karl Rominger. And what say you defense team?

Jury Selection Begins In Sandusky Child Sex Abuse Trial

This one just fascinates me.. Hand prints in a cave so ancient, so old, so long ago, that they are not that of modern man. So modern folks weren’t the only artists .. Art began long ago in Spain.

The AP story on the Spanish cave paintings says this:

Testing the coating of paintings in 11 Spanish caves, researchers found that one is at least 40,800 years old, which is at least 15,000 years older than previously thought. That makes them older than the more famous French cave paintings by thousands of years.

Scientists dated the Spanish cave paintings by measuring the decay of uranium atoms, instead of traditional carbon-dating, according to a report released Thursday by the journal Science. The paintings were first discovered in the 1870s.

Did you read this? 40,000 years old

And here is more:

The oldest of the paintings is a red sphere from a cave called El Castillo. About 25 outlined handprints in another cave are at least 37,300 years old. Slightly younger paintings include horses.

So all those bad stories, bad press, and bad rumors about Neanderthals may have been false. Among them may have been a da Vinci, Picasso, or maybe even a Beethoven.

An amazing story…..don’t you think?