The smell is so bad that it is reportedly even making residents sick, though officials in NYC are not ready at all to admit that.
As a Coal Regioner, I have smelled bad smells. Centralia. Sulfer. All that. I cannot even imagine what a 70-foot-deep sinkhole in a sewer may smell like.
Maybe the crowned jewels are so miraculous that they find them necessary to be shown to the world. But does that explain the Dutchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, buffing it up as well.. She was photographed by a French magazine topless. Much to the chagrin of the Royal Family, those pictures were published.. she isn’t getting the star treatment that Prince Harry got for his wild sex romped weekend in Vegas. Middleton was more demure in her attempt to be wild. She was topless but there is no other evidence of orgies or all night pool parties with stars.
And this time, the Royal family is going to take action. They are going to sue the French Magazine closer FOR PUBLISHING THE PHOTOS.
Unfortunately if the Royal Family doesn’t think hundreds of other publications are already publishing the photo they are wrong. Forever now, Middleton’s bare-breasted day in the beach will be fully able to be seen, so as long as there is a free net and free speech.
Despite doom and gloom and news of fiction and non, this blog is a little bit family friendly. So you’ll only get a censored image from me. You can do the rest of the world yourself should you be desperate to see Kate Middleton’s breasts. Here’s a secret, though: They look like everyone else’s. Nothing Royal about body parts in the end…
I have been doing some thinking lately about all this violence, chaos, and nonsense surrounding us on this planet. I haven’t posted anything overly meaningful here in quite some time, so no better time than the present, I suppose.
I look at most things now through vision of a father. I became a proud dad almost two years ago. The world hasn’t changed much since my son was born. Sadly it’s degenerating quickly now. Talk of war, acts of violence.. machines taking over.. a mechanical and technological future of dictatorships and mobile devices that will track you and track everything. Jobs are scarce.. But people are abundant. There is a disconnect there and I don’t know how that will turn out. Do you?
But the most immediate concern seems to be, as usual, the Middle East. Talk of war between Iran and Israel at an all time high. Even China and Japan are in the midst of newfound tensions. And as we know, Libya is .. well, Libya. Lots of other embassies look like our embassy in Libya, too, as violence spreads.
All due to a movie? A MOVIE?
Somehow I don’t buy into that theory.
Nonetheless, it’s happening, and it’s the current theory offered by the powers that be. So for the sake of argument we’ll just go with that..
But as a dad, I think: How do you explain a world of senseless violence and cruelty to a child—a child who just wants to live, learn, and love?
Sadly lots of people ask themselves that daily.
No one to date has found an answer. From the Crusades.. to the Jonestown Massacre.. to our current day insanity of war and needless violence, how can it all keep going like this? Humanity has learned nothing since day 1.
Think about the basic invention that catapulted technology and travel: The wheel. Man created a wheel and from that point we decided to put weapons on it to make them move faster.. and that is about it.
Weapons and war and battle and death. A long trail of tears is dragging behind the human race.
I think during trying moments in history, the bad always got worse and the good always got better. So hug your kids and love your family, laugh with friends and just smile at a sunset. Because it’s quite frankly all we have to grasp.. Madness is taking place outside our homes. We can lock ourselves in and fear it.. or simply open the window, hear it.. and live our lives anyway.
Any site registered with GoDaddy.com is down. GoDaddy.com is down. Oh, and their phone isn’t working either.
Congrats Tumblr, it’s not you.
If you want to know why the GOP is bound to lose in 2012??? just watch their convention!
They can’t dance. They have awful elevator bumper music. Their outfits are atrocious.. they … just … are… lame!
Just when I felt better, increased by vitamin intake, and began to exercise again, enter this scenario: My wife and I took Ayden to eat some pizza at PIZZA HUT today for lunch and we casually brought up to the younger waitress how we used to love the ‘book it program.’ She gave us a strange blank stare, smiling saying, “I never heard of that.” She seemed stunned of the knowledge we had on the past! It was like we told her we saw the ‘wheel’ get created.
She went on to tell us that her “older” manager “always talks about old days” of Pizza Hut.
I began to get stunned. And feel really old.
The waitress was only, say, ten years younger.. and I thought to myself in horror, when did “book it” end!?
I even told the server how, back in ‘the day,’ there would be a grand pizza party during the last week of school. I didn’t tell her, but I even have a newspaper clipping somewhere in my possession showing me and my friend Kevin in third grade waiting in line for pizza. Third grade for me was … the late 1980s. So the age begins to show, I suppose..
Soooo.. I did some research! AND feel a whole hell of a lot better!
BOOK IT STILL EXISTS! That’s right, server! Young punk! take your no-knowledge of anything and shove it! I have proof that YOU don’t know your own trade! ha!
I still feel old, though.
After all, perhaps BOOK IT would work better if Pizza Hut changes it to “Kindle it.” Just saying.
Greetings earthlings across the pale blue dot.It’s the weekend. Are you ready? Summer seriously winding down.
The crickets are chirping loud.. I see some yellow tint to some leaves. I just can’t believe that the long hot summer was so short..
This time of year may be the best. Now until October. Beautiful nights.. amazing mornings.. Sunny and warm but not oppressive.
But this time of year goes by rather fast, too.. Gone soon will be the noise of leaves rustling in a summer breeze. Soon a howl of cold wind
But we cannot be depressed. The midsummer night’s dream turns into an autumnal depression.. followed by winter suppression.
But at least we have Christmas……. And the Mayan calender excitement on 12/22.. if we make it through December we’ll be fine.
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Attention parents out there.. what is the deal with Caillou? My son loves him.. but I don’t get him. Is he real? an illusion?
Perhaps he is just an enigma. The imagination of an insane older grandmother who is intent on believing he exists.
I cannot imagine a father in reality like Caillou’s. Or a mom. Or even a sister. No fighting!? No drugs!? No alcohol at an early age!
No, Caillou must be fake. He carries no knives, no weapons. Not like the reality of kids today.
But the fact he likes making crafts and enjoys doing laundry makes me happy my son watches him.. after all, Caillou is a boy of peace. I think. OR a villain waiting to rear his ugly head..
Just the facts first: A Republican named Todd Akin in Missouri was a favorite to win this fall in a Senate race against incumbent Claire McCaskill. Then he said this: It seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare, If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” .. Enter the firestorm. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have distanced themselves already, Akin has Tweeted constant sorrys from his account.. and he has vanished from the media glare as the firestorm continues across the political landscape. Now a woman who was set to lose in the fall, McCaskill, may have an issue, a new fire to hit back, and a chance to win and keep the Senate for the Democrats in November.
Second, this one more obscene than the ‘legitimate rape’ stupidity: A Republican Congressman named Kevin Yoder from Kansas went to the Sea of Galilee last year with lots of other Republicans. They decided to get really drunk and party, and in a sign of stupidity, immaturity, and absolute disrespect for where he was, took his clothes off and went skinny dipping into the sea. And now the FBI is looking into it! Other Republicans were there, too—including former Vice President Dan Quayle’s son Ben.. OH, and one Congressman’s daughter swim with all of the others.. Hmm.. Yoder, thus far, is the only one making ‘waves’ for being completely in the buff in the historic sea of Galilee. He also Tweeted a sorry, too.
These two stories have intense political significant, and pop culture repercussions, too. Legitimate rape? Swimming nude in the Sea of Galilee? If this is how Republicans are without the media spotlight, just imagine how they’ll act next week at their own convention!?
It’s about time we have a super sonic jet for public use. If aliens can use them why not us.. Or maybe the fact the military is ‘designing one’ means they have had one, and those little green men have never been little green anythings but instead fat earthlings testing new equipment.
Nonetheless here is the DAILY MAIL article about a potential future in which a supersonic jet will be able to transport you at 4500 mph. That’s pretty darn fast.
Funny enough, I am a little scared about air travel. But if a flight could last only that long I’d be much more inclined and quite excited about going around the one in just an hour or two.
Some air travel lovers may argue that it would eliminate those beautiful and breathtaking images you can see our of a window. But if you’re afraid of heights you’ll go so fast it wouldn’t matter. And in the event of a crash you’ll never know what hit you.
