don't try this at home - bike vs cab - not good

so today - one of my nightmares of taxi driving came true - I hit a bicyclist

and as the nightmare goes, the reality followed the script pretty well - careless, reckless bicyclist does something in front of me that I cannot protect him from ...
blessings/prayers all around - he had a head wound - no helmet - but was conscious- mostly lucid, and mobile - that didn't make me feel any better when i saw the EMT's slicing up his pants, putting him on the spinal board

from in front of a bus - man takes the middle between lanes, then cuts across me hard left , perpendicular to traffic - right in front of me - he almost made it - and while I hit the brakes, I still couldn't help popping his back frame/back tire, and watched him fly, possibly bouncing off my fender (bodily, after bike/car impact) before hitting the pavement - witnesses, lucky for my ass - verify his foolishness - my ride waits the half hour the cops take getting their report together # 081195985 - I get her home - no charge -

at which point all my shock came up and I wanted to totally puke - then of course - I had to fill out the company report for the taxi

I am in no way comparing suffering - i pray he's all right for his sake, and far more marginally, for my peace of mind

I always dreaded this kind of incident and pray I never see it again - because sometimes I cannot do anything to prevent an accident, except pray a bicyclist never makes such a foolish and dangerous move in front of me again

more later - once I process - I am so freaked right now - I just had to blog it

I was on my last f*ng ride with ten minutes left on my day - both me and bike/vicitim almost cleared

but instead - we both get to live with this

and tomorrow I get to go out and face it again

and he gets to deal with ambulance/hospital bill, a head wound, his bike, and a new outlook, I hope, on how he'll use the road from now on

please oh please oh please if you bike in the city - be smart and responsible and remember that no matter how good of drivers we are or aren't around you - nothing is a better assurance of your safety then your safe use of the road!

okay for like the 87th time

here I am reposting this blog .. now where's that lady in the cow suit???

for starters ...
www.suntimes.com/news/mitc...10.article - this will probably be the first last and only time I'll ever say this : you GO girl!

I guess I'm not alone in losing some good stuff on the home pages, huh?? I know my last few blogs weren't that special but damn - something bad went down huh??

this one isn't that special either - but it is loaded with links!

nothing news in my world - had a great political falling out with my Mom (don't disbelieve - your Mom really is always right - and don't you dare challenge that to her face!)

halfway thru the 'final' edit on my book before I find a professional to help me go from finito to perfecto (that was one of my nifty blog entries, now MIA)

made amends enough with the 'What would You do?" friend - which is cool - but I am still chary and confused, frankly

and I still miss you all terribly - but I know I have not helped myself there - I seem to be getting more antisocial with age

I really, despite certain comments from certain people (who I adore, nonetheless - honest friends are the only friends I want) amuse myself with my links, and will continue to do so - and I hope I amuse some of you too - I am one of those Ripley's Believe it or Not lovers, and also - as a poet, a huge fan of life's poetic irony, justice and injustice - that's why I like to share it

I may revise my format though, to entice and aid navigation for the discerning peruser - here are the highlights :

>>>> Sarah Palin baby name generator : politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09..._13.html - I would be "Chisel Dustup Palin" as her child *shudder*

>>>> Ohio self-underage-phone-porn ... what??? the weirdest interpretation of the law I've ever heard of - how the fuck can you child pornograph yourself???? www.newser.com/story/3947...-prank.html

>>> goats for hire ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7609704.stm

>>> visual delights! awesume fruit and veggie closeups ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...7591649.stm

>>>> and should you remember the guy with 86 wives ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7591037.stm

>>> the real danger of mixing drinks - check out the combo ... long island iced tea and super sangria are both plenty fucked up mix-drinks - I wonder what this thing is called ... sounds fucking awful! I mean even without the head swelling ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...7598614.stm

and the best of the rest >>>>>>>>>>

God sued ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7673591.stm

Colin Powell raps ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter...7670788.stm

who says brain surgery and banjos don't mix ?? ? news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...7665747.stm

online.wsj.com/article/SB...921201.html - you didn't see this coming???

www.weau.com/home/headli...0650259.html - I'm with stupid

nature's bank needs a bailout ... ain't that the truth news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...7662565.stm

monkey porn and more! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7662627.stm

a house divided ... sitcoms come to life! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7661786.stm

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660409.stm ... time for a new clock

that's cool, ultraviolet cool news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...7658945.stm

WHO wants to feed the kid to the crocodile? anyone anyone??? little fuckin misfit needs a new home .. In A Cage!! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7649876.stm

this is where I break with cultural sensitivity - oh Taleban - fuck you and your Koranic misinterpretation - and if it's the correct interpretation, then fuck you too, Muhammed news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7640263.stm

zoom zoom! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7637811.stm

bow before your capitalist godhead! www.capitalism.org/faq/profit.htm

greeeattttt! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7635169.stm

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...7626256.stm - oh - we haven't collided the beams yet? so, ummm - we could still rip a hole into the very fabric of space-time as we know it? oh, heh heh, umm ... c- c- cool ... I think ...

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7596067.stm ... that is just weird beyond weird

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/techn...7625815.stm ... and that, might be weirder, actually

backwardsthinking! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7621823.stm

excessive! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl...7619179.stm

www.allswellpdx.com/ - ... Just the Name ... why are proctologists always the funny ones??

uh ... that's umm - how is anyone supposed to believe that?? news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7610744.stm

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...7599899.stm ... maybe because he's scottish? really likes golf but can't swing a club for lack of thumbs??? where did his food go???

GIANT ROBOT SPIDER!!! Suavage Suavage Ouest, dans Liverpool news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter...7600126.stm

that - is - too - weird ... a sixty year old hanging paratrooper covered in moss news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7595869.stm

now why would good patriots doing God's mission ever falter enough in their morale to want to commit suicide???? news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080...ry_suicides

oh and about that photo www.9news.com/news/waterc...article.aspx
<<<<<<<

wait, wait a minute, are you serious?

first off - I gotta say - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me was exquisite this week www.npr.org/templates/ru...s/rundown.php

especially the bit about how cows are magnetic - serious, satellite photos show cows are always grazing pointing north or south - this is the funniest bit of education ever ... and the drug dealing pigeon ... and the last lightning fill in the blank - elderly woman in Sweden puts herself on airport conveyor belt/baggage shoot

lolololololololololololololololol

then there's this - read about "out of left field" at the bottom - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_fielder ... truth is so much stranger than fiction ... I thought left fielders were just more prone to be crazy, you know, like drummers

oh yeah - the crazy crab baseball tie in - I went to his bobblehead night - but I lost the bobblehead ... homerderby.com/archives/2362 - introduced as an anti mascot - an invitation for the home team fans to boo - it's clever and stupid and rather obnoxious - I think I'd rather just have a traditional mascot - you know - the kind you ignore ...

or better yet - my team - the Bewers - who have an unofficial mascot of a beerbarrel man, officially their logo back in the day - another guy - Bernie Brewer who goes down a slide for home team home runs- but in the old park, he was sliding into a giant beer barrel! www2.jsonline.com/sports/br...081400.asp - and of course - the sausage race! www.youtube.com/watch

one of the many reasons I love my team - they know what baseball is really about

Obama : Yo Mamma

before I elaborate on my title - I want to digress on a strange thing I saw - Commercials in the Movies!

now -what rock have I been hiding under, you may ask? I believe the rock is called Netflix - and something about the total crap that we get for movies now-a-decades - but yeah - I haven't been to the movies in a couple years (I think I saw Star Wars III last)

I remember Coke and other vendors tangential to Cinema that were doing it for the last several years - but they were silent slide-shows for the most part - so I go in to see 'Traitor' (which was a great look at all sides of the "War on Terror(Freedom)" btw ) - and I get four commercials for Dove hygiene products and a few other whatevs - but it's loud and THX and frickin MTV paced - WTF!?!?!?! I am old enough to remember the snot on the screen that passed as visual diversion whilst waiting for the previews to begin - there were even some classy old theaters in my podunk town that had curtains that would open right at the lead in to the previews (I'm sure they do commercials now, too) - what really amazes me is that noone thought of this sooner - but it is just another reason I doubt I wlll be seeing any movies at the theaters in the coming years

.... okay - I have googled for the last half hour trying to find some ref to my nostalgic movie mucus - no luck - am I crazy? does anyone else remember this? or was it an anomaly in my town only?? I know you remember Renea! shit - Machesney Park all the time - but at Cherrry Vale too, I'm pretty sure ... anyway - my search led me to the pic - which I do love - so at least it wasn't a total loss

back to Obama:

Good god I hope he has policies to go along with the brilliant politicking - can't wait for some head-to-head debates - Obama is the verbal smackdown king - the Repubs keep coming up with these snivelling little complaints and jabs, and Obama makes it look to easy - way better than "You're no Jack Kennedy"

"Sen. McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush was right more than 90 percent of the time?"

it's statements like that that leave no doubt in my mind how this guy got to where he did with little more than a "speech in 2004"

I started falling for him with his response to accusations of a 'pre 9/11 idea about national security' (believe I got it from Doonesbury's mudline) he came back with : 'I'm not going to take any advice from Republicans about how to keep this country secure' or something like that

wherever he goes - this guy was born to hold office

now there's McCain's veep hole-ace - I like this sort of thread here: newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa - reminds me how we got into the W mess in the first place

why is it that so many people who need to say something have next to nothing intelligent to say?

that's why I like to plagiarize and disseminate the verbage of others ...

sticks and stones: I always thought that something like this was the case news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7587780.stm

I like the bit about 'never seen that sort of behavior from a parent' at a little league game?? are you kidding!?!?
msn.foxsports.com/other/sto...g-too-well

air guitar championship: still hilarious news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7578909.stm - one guy fractures his thumb - go easy on your air whammy bar, baby!

la de da

so here I am in week 3 of total denial of ever having written a book

well - sort of - I ponder critically every once in a while, like when I see something in another book or a movie and want to go back and edit mine NOW! or am reminded how things do and don't work in other stories - (like bad puns - how come that never ever ever helps a work ... am I right here?) ... I love puns - and cheese is as cheese does - can any of you think of a movie or book where a good pun or a cliche works??

of course - I would love nothing more than to have my book packed off to an editor yesterday - but I have to give it one more read through myself for edits and story/plot changes, i.e. major overview of what does and doesn't work ... I have been getting some distance so I can come back as a reader and not the 'author' ... it hasn't been easy - but I have not even looked at it in a couple weeks, so I'm doin it right as far as that goes

I'm not saying I haven't enjoyed my little 'vacation' - but I am anxious to get back and get to the next level of 'finished'

in the meantime - I have been caustically and critically assailing politicos thanks to this site www.thepetitionsite.com/ - it's great - I was feeling very politically motivated but terribly uninvolved - I know I could do so much more, but I like this as a start

>>>>>>>
offshore drilling:

We can argue ad nauseum about the need for corporate strength, the lack of infrastructure for alternative fuels, and the needs and desires of an oil-consuming American public ... or we could just face the fact that the only people who are in any way benefitting from this horrendous economic and environmental crisis are big oil companies, who -surprise surprise- have made record profits every quarter for the last several years. That's funny isn't it? How is it their success is so unfettered, even counterplayed, to the failing economy and depressed public?

No more OIL! History will remember the heroes, the politicians with the courage to move our world forward, and it will remember the patsies who tried to hand over the future of our society and our planet to a few big rich bastards who could care less about all the harm they do, as long as they can add another few million to their billions.

Who do you serve? The people? Or the parasites?

Do not support offshore drilling! IT solves NONE of the problems that America is suffering right now. Not even gas prices.
>>>>>>
Bush's latest attempt to control women's reproductive rights:

Let's pass on the latest of the perpetual lies of the oligarchy!

This is no Christian issue - this is no evangelical dogma that is being thrust upon all women - regardless of their religious, moral, or personally free stance.

This is about keeping the poor in the dark and providing a steady stream of labor for the great industrial machine that makes the rich richer VS. the opportunity for indivuals, fully endowed citizens of this country, to make educated decisions of their own volition based on the options indicated by an honest and forthright professional medical industry, (that has no right to make or preclude any choice for these citizens).

Seperate Church and State again! No more selective medical advice, no more lies about the rights of every citizen in this country, and no more SHELL GAMES with personal health choices.

.....
over the top - sure - but how else do you get someone's attention in the multitudes of email petioning??

>>>>>>

newsie tidbits and OOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMFFFFFFFFFFFGGGGGGGGG that is so gross I have to look at it again ... almost the nastiest thing ever news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pi...7574943.stm - you'll know which pic I'm talking about - YIKES!!!!

ladies? opinions?? how come wymyn can go on and on about there appearance in deep rifts of negativity - but this sort of thing will always piss women off? why is honesty about women's appearances always a bad thing for men? seriously...?
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7567239.stm

fun for the dead! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/progr...7562898.stm

well, now we ALL oughta know www.newser.com/story/3496...g-song.html - I love this tune, btw, along with all the other tough chick fuck you to the ex break up songs (you never call me when you're sober, et al)

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080...es_revealed - there's microfiche in the poissons!

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7559996.stm - oh .. I'm sure the old white boy's club will still be running things ... unfortunately

www.newser.com/story/3469...danger.html - a little compassion goes a long way

this newser site is pretty cool www.newser.com/

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7555206.stm ... well what do you know - we've been at it for more than 300 years!

today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26044556/ - now that is special! where's my BBC??

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7547148.stm really now

the snoop story just gets better all the time news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south...7549301.stm

hands up - who loves LEGOS??? www.mocpages.com/ and if you saw the OMFG that's gross - you'll understand why I chose this pic for the blog - www.mocpages.com/moc.php/62872 - no need to express your gratitude, it goes without saying ...

damn, now Isaac Hayes too?

my funky brother my man

www.latimes.com/entertainm...hotogallery

www.youtube.com/watch

finito but not perfecto

damn I hate rewrites! my browser crashed - and it wasn't even tribe's fault this time ... I think ...

okay - so here's what I had to say

I'm done with my book!!!

I had an alternate caption: "" I'm so close to the end I can taste it! "" - but that was a bit much, even for me

thhbbbbpplllllllltttt LeFey!!!! (Love ya Rozeekat!)

it's a M O N S T E R !!!!!

442 page word document that I estiimate would make a 600+ page paperback - about 193,000 words!

yowza!

about two weeks ago I put the last words to 'THE END' .... spent one week reviewing the latest material - spent this week trying not to think about it so as to come back with a fresh perspective to:

the god knows how many months of editing! any y'all know some good (and cheap!) editors??? a dollar a page (paperback) would equal my rent!!

I love and miss you all - hope to be dawdling and procrastinating in the threads with all you too-cool-kids soon!

I have many linked news and novelty tidbits here, and you can't go buffet-style - you have to read them ALL

okay - I'm kidding - but there are a lot of tasty treats in here, so don't be shy

>>>>>>>

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7544749.stm - 'years' of foreplay? we guys just can't get it right, can we

does it have to say 'Police' on the bra??? news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7541675.stm - not that I mind, actually - it would be hot for the 15 minutes a day someone might see it

holy soot! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7539277.stm

one step in the right direction ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7538480.stm

apparently humor used to have an even lower brow ... because at least the Family Guy is funny ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7536918.stm

god I love this shit - and it ain't hyped and hullabullooed - pretty straight and scientific www.world-mysteries.com/index.html

Thailand is the only place more ahead of the GLBT curve than SF news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7529227.stm

most alcoholic mammal is neither dog nor man! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...7530720.stm

that's how we do things in Wisconsin! show that mower who's boss! what? news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7526628.stm - oh, like this would even be in the news if it was from TX or FL ...

a level of fascism surprising even for anti-smokers news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...7524526.stm

once again, a pet acts to save their food-servants news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7524561.stm

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7522952.stm - once again - high justice has to protect kids from social discomfort

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7520149.stm - you mean we're not just seeing what we want to see??
funny how people can't find a 'sign' outside of their own religion


news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7520343.stm - so anyone can call anyone lesbian for any reason? great!

oopsie baby news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...7518937.stm

bang your holy head Brother news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7513571.stm - RROOOOOAAAAARRRRRRRRR

what N-word??? Nutella? Nostrodamus? Nabob??? Nazi??
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080...kson_n_word

speaking of Nazi's - can you find Dr Death?? It's like Where's Waldo, just less fun, but way more gratifying ... news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080...a_nazi_hunt

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter...7510072.stm - whoa whoa whoa back up - hands up! who thinks it's even possible to become 'addicted' in the chemical dependancy sense of the word, to LSD???

aha news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7509357.stm

this is too sick even for me to joke about ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7508694.stm

US war on terror efforts ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south...7504574.stm - making new friends all the time

normally don't go for a woman in uniform, you know - but i do love a badass news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7503061.stm

no dogmeat!?!?! I'm offended by *that* news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...7501768.stm - I understand the Chinese word for 'bark' translates to 'wang' www.gamesbids.com/forums/index.php - no really do a find: wang on that page

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7501015.stm - there's something you don't see every day

elections.foxnews.com/2008/07...on-ebay/

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7499631.stm - umm - I accidentally found this - but I swear I had no idea before I turned it over ...'sniiiffffffff'

Rev Jackson: "I want to cut his nuts off..."

you just *cannot* make that shit up - hey Jesse Jackson said he was so mad he wanted to *bleep* Obama - bleep = what? ... maybe if you knew the Rev then you would have guessed right off - still too weird - here's the story w/vid/audio and apology
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7498995.stm - but the whole whisper thing makes it kind of - I dunno - 900-#-ish

yes - they are real fish!
www.zimbio.com/pictures/M...3CZ2Go-m5n8

From the Rev to the Rev:
ha! the best little cafe this side of Amsterdam maps.google.com/maps if you rotate to tview the NorthEast corner you'll see The Revolution Cafe, baby!!!!! ... this pic must have been last year - before they painted the porch benches which here are (somewhat) clearly naked wood - now they have a dark brown finish

septaugenarians getting more laid than me:
good news that we don't necessarily want to hear news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7494731.stm

that's right plant 8 trees, because the 80 million y'all have cut down won't be missed!
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...7494891.stm
once again, world leaders prove that they cannot do shit without the approval of their industrial benefactors
(Go Hemp, Go!)

"we believe in free speech in America" news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7491278.stm as another free speaker is dragged off to serve time for speaking freely - why? because, Bush was speaking - they were "disturbing (his) peace"

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7491280.stm - zhoo vill not define my peoples!

once again - Florida rules in stupid crime, or, er, just people being stupid, I guess news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7489263.stm

The WTC Tower 7 review news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7491020.stm - interesting... - no belittling the horror - but that woman's scream, damn was she feeling the pain (of no oen, because it was empty by then, but she didn't know that)

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7490995.stm - wow, welcome home, Ingrid Betancourt!
There's so rarely good news, you want to hear this about our heroic soldiers all the time, this is what the CIA and FBI and NSA could be focused on, but they are having more fun with rendition flights and illegal wiretaps and making sure the President isn't interrupted during another riveting and deeply relevant bit of rhetoric

pregnantman, deadredneck, cutiecats

but y'all really have no comment on my high school chum and his 13 year prison debacle???

okayyyyyyy - well I dare you to resist the kittens (pic by Jo people.tribe.net/34e2a6a3-...725826a3c)

if you , like me, cannot get enough super cutie kitty pics - Jo's cat had a litter in the spring ... people.tribe.net/34e2a6a3-...1d0e560198 - thanks Jo!!!!!!

they are SO FRICKIN KITTEN CUTE!!!!!!!!!

again - I repeat... some people *should* die - pity this maggot didn't die about 40 years sooner ... I will be good-riddance toasting his bucket-kicking with some lesbians, gays, and negroes later, anyone care to join me?
read the good stuff in 'controversies' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms ... news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080.../obit_helms
go ahead and keep whistling dixie down there in hell you ... aw fuck it - there's no cute epithets here, the dude was almost as evil Hitler, but I guess, in fairness, nowhere near as evil as Dick Cheney

>>> dispatch, it's the moon
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...7489457.stm - a waist of time, sure, but is it any more superfluous and fatuous than bureaucracy?


>>>>>>wait wait - are we sure Nelson Mandela is not a terrorist?? he's a serious threat as an idealist who succeeded without arms in subverting a despotic aprtheid - so he would be very dangerous to the American Reich, too - ahhh, bureaucracy at it's finest
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7484517.stm

speaking of terrorists, how about the slavemasters at arms??
what's that ? the US gov't/millitary fucking over its own??? unbelievable! news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080...tan_marines


>>>>> - oh - that pic is creeeeeeeeeeping me out, and I don't creep out easily:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7488894.stm
reverse cartman's mom scenario, so the 'mother' *is* the denver broncos?

>>>>>> care2.com
okay - so the frequent petition 'spam' thing could be annoying - except I have yet to see a petition I wouldn't happily sign, and I don't even get one a day, more like one every other day ....
animal rights, endagered species watchdog, and environment priorities - I highly recommend this site to any armchair activists like myself

>>>>> one more plug on my new pet topic - actually - I remember in college first toking up and thinking, this shit will save the planet - let's get on with that, shall we?? ....
www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/1...mpregulation/
the burden on law enforcement!?!?!? criminalization of a virtually harmless drug (way more harmless than most pharmaceuticals, people) has put the burden on law enforcement - maybe law enforcement needs to focus on more important things - like stopping victimed crimes, and not worry about frickin Doobie Gillis, meanwhile, our future is running out while we rape the planet for all the things that hemp could, and did, provide for millenia
... once again - the case for hemp :
students.ou.edu/W/Elicia.A...sofhemp.htm
www.brianrwright.com/Coffee_...Weed.htm
hemporganic.com/whyhemp.html
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/...-284.html
www.recipenet.org/health/ar...s_hemp.htm
www.clipmarks.com/clipmark/...3E8093254/

stronger than fiction

and as dramatic as any frickin Law & Order episode, just not quite so condensed for the story-telling...

it's pretty funny seeing "Convicted Murderer" under a name, isn't it - I mean - you just automatically interpret that as truth, not fiction, you see that and 'know' it's accurate, not misleading, and that the person behind that label is actually guilty of committing murder ... hmmmm ...

Alan Beaman:
the last time this guy was breathing free air: Clinton was wrapping up his first term, Michael Jordan had just come back from his first retirement, cell phones still weighed about 20 pounds, and bin Laden was still on the CIA payroll, or still remembering it fondly, as the Afghan-Soviet war had wrapped up a few years before - but you get what I'm saying

a funny friend of mine ... www.rrstar.com/communitie...es-sunrises

I was in plays with this guy in High School - we weren't terribly close, but we were certainly friends enough to keep in touch back then - I went to college just across town from where he went and the murder took place - I smoked my first cigarette, his, at a party our freshman year - I smoked pot for the first time the following summer, with him and a couple other friends

so he just got released after 13 years in prison (for a murder he may never have committed) when a State judge vacated his murder conviction - because the DA failed to mention another suspect, and the jury didn't hear all the evidence (good going 'justice' system)

www.rrstar.com/archive/x1...ond-tonight

here's a little more of the backstory - pantagraph.com/articles/2...3720437.txt - the Pantagraph! the newspaper of my college-town, what a flashback!

did he do it? I don't know - I don't think so - but I'll say a prayer for him anyway ...

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cool - but would you live there?? news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl...7472722.stm ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7472559.stm

ahhhh Amsterdam news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7477181.stm