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Sunday, March 4, 2007 07:53 PM
Original article: Oprah's ugly secret

Don't confuse Oprah with The Secret

I have never cared for Oprah. I thought that the free home makeovers and free cars were unnecessarily materialistic.

It is also easy to bash new age roll-your-own religions, where you pick one from column "a" and another from column "b" and ignore what doesn't matter to you personally.

I myself don't believe in 'one size fits all' religions - I accept anyone's choice of faith and understanding, just don't expect me to go along.

While I don't agree with the beguiling slickness of "The Secret" I tend to agree that we do attract what we resonate, we each create our own reality and generally get what we ask for.

I believe this because my personal life experience has pretty much proven it true for me.

I am not going to try to reconcile this philosophy with the Holocaust or world AIDS crisis, because neither of these things currently have any direct effect on my day to day life.

If this is doublethink, so be it. I don't care for Oprah nor do I care for Dr. Phil, the 'amazing' James Randi, Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" or Peter Birkenhead.

With the exception of this letter, I have little to say about all of the mentioned parties. Getting riled up 'a la O'Reilly' just directs mental energy in useless directions.

When you let someone get under your skin enough to piss you off, you are giving that person control, intentionally or otherwise.

It is easy to mock and criticize the beliefs of others. It seems to be harder to keep one's opinion to one's self.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 09:14 AM

Justice obstructs Justice

The Justice Department releases DIGITAL INFORMATION in PAPER FORM so that nobody can index and search it easily.

More than 3000 emails are released as paper, though the information would easily fit on one CD-ROM.

All of this information could be created digitally in about an hour. Instead, they wait until the last minute and print it all out. Crazy, like a Fox . . .

They don't want anyone to be able to quickly index and cross reference this information. Computer data, printed on paper, scanned optically back into a computer in a form that is not easily searched or indexed. What a joke. What a travesty.

Looks like obstruction of justice to me.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 03:28 PM

going to the mat?

or, as in the Godfather saga, 'going to the mattresses . . .'

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 08:43 AM
Original article: The K Chronicles

only in LA

would copromania become a trend . . . then again, look at the movies they make there. . .

Thursday, March 29, 2007 05:15 AM
Original article: Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0

She posted her resume on her web site . . .

. . . says she knows HTML, but her web design skills are atrocious. The site is as ugly as it is vapid . . .

Friday, April 13, 2007 09:02 AM

i guess it's like smoking pot

there's no effect the first few times, and then . . .

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 05:43 PM

these things never work

not on my PC not on my Mac - if its not a video I can play - why bother?

Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:48 PM
Original article: Beyond the Multiplex

'Zoo' adds a whole new dimension

to the term 'opens for wider release'...

Friday, April 27, 2007 06:28 AM
Original article: Ask the pilot

Thanks for the KLM 747 Maho Beach shot...

...from St. Maarten. That airport has been replaced with a shiny new one, neither KLM nor Air France fly 747s into St. Maarten anymore (though charter airlines still do), and I don't live there anymore, but I well remember people hanging on the fence in the jet blast (they still do it) and removing the gravel embedded in their foreheads afterwards...

Sunday, May 6, 2007 07:24 PM

i've said it before

I am amazed at the difference between the money given to George H.W. Bush (mere millions), Cheney, Rumsfeld, 'W', Tenet, and our esteemed congressmen and senators...

...and the billions that the military industrialists and oil companies make. The flunkies get chump change, while the rich get richer.

You pay peanuts, you get monkeys...

Thursday, May 10, 2007 05:53 AM

the irony is inescapable

Bush stole the election in 2000, and likely in 2004, yet pushes 'voter fraud' as an answer looking for a problem.

When are we going to be RID of these people once and for all??

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 06:56 PM

It's very simple . . .

When someone uses you for a reference, the prospective employer usually asks 'Would you rehire this person?' This is the secret HR code that avoids lawsuits and bloodshed.

When you say 'yes', that is a positive recommendation. When you say 'no', that is a negative one.

If they don't ask, and you don't want to lie, just say 'I would not rehire that person' and leave it at that.

If someone is rude enough to use you for a reference without asking, you can be factual about their qualifications for the job without directly disparaging them.

Sunday, May 20, 2007 09:11 PM
Original article: This Modern World

absolutely freaking hilarious

coffee shot out of my nose...!!!

Monday, May 21, 2007 08:00 PM
Original article: WayLay

when the virginia tech tragedy happened . . .

. . . it did occur to me that such a level of carnage occurs every day in Iraq. Unlike the previous poster, I do believe that man is more civilized that he used to be. Like the previous poster, it seems to me we have quite a way yet to go.

Good one, Carol . . .

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 02:12 PM
Original article: George Allen, pundit

I didn't vote for George Allen . . .

and I live in Virginia, but, he lost by less than 10,000 votes out of millions - this is not exactly a decisive loss.

No need being snide about his losing - it was a very close race, and his words speak for themselves . . .

Thursday, May 31, 2007 07:56 PM
Original article: Ask the Pilot

JFK? LGA?

neither is on the top ten busiest list? wow!

Friday, June 1, 2007 08:53 PM

you two don't know what the . . .

**** you are talking about...

Some things are beyond hype, SPLHCB is one of those.

The rest are like these two 'reviewers' . . . lame, lost, ignorant.

And 'Some Girls' was the best Stones album ever... period.

Monday, June 4, 2007 07:31 PM
Original article: I hate my cat!

bogus letter alert

this is obviously a fake

Friday, June 8, 2007 11:35 AM

What will suck about the iPhone is . . .

All of the blogging pundit idiots like John Dvorak not having a clue...

Most of the ignorant ranting against 'the iPhone' assumes there will be only one version over the next two years, sold only to work on AT&T's network, and no revisions or upgrades.

Apple will constantly reengineer, update, upgrade, sell millions, make a tidy 25+% margin on each one, open up entirely new markets and craft a cell phone that 'doesn't suck' . . .

. . . and they will ultimately open the platform up to third party development.

As far as I am concerned, the last good cellphone was the original Motorola StarTac - it has been downhill ever since...

Friday, June 8, 2007 06:39 PM

I was suffering from Paris fatigue...

...so I went on the P2P networks and downloaded 'A Night In Paris' - you know - THAT video.... and watched it.

...kinda puts things in perspective.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 06:09 PM
Original article: Start believin'

No...

Journey sucks...

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