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Saturday, 19 April 2008
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I'm bringing Xanga back - drop a comment if you're with me!
Sunday, 02 December 2007
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Imus continuuuues
Imus returns tomorrow morning 6am and I'll be there live at Town Hall. I'm sure I'll have thoughts afterward.
Until then read my first article at DigitalJournal.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/246866/The_Birth_of_the_I_Nation
Peace all,
Hand Happy Imus All
PTB
Sunday, 18 November 2007
Monday, 12 November 2007
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Never Let the Facts Get in the Way of a Good Story
This is an interesting opportunity to see how the Main Stream Media slants the news, through editing, to sensationalize or to angle toward a specific viewpoint. And before you all start pointing fingers at the "Liberal Media" or "The Right Wing Conspiracy", they all do it. FOX News or MSNBC doesn't matter, it's all filtered and packaged and Edwin R Murrow is spinning in his grave. I'll bet Uncle Walter cries him self to sleep every night.
This is a spot from a "CNN News Special" on Pro Wrestling.
http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/none/2007/november8-14/5834560
That's how it aired on CNN Now watch the unedited interview.
http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/none/2007/november8-14/5832704
If they're willing to do that with something as meaningless as Pro Wrestling, I wonder what they're doing to the real news.
Thursday, 09 August 2007
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What To Do In Duluth MN at 3 in the Afternoon
One of the blogs I read regularly had a cool post.
http://www.xanga.com/peachjolyranchr/598646107/those-polish-sailors-need-me-damm\
it.html?nextdate=last
And it got me ruminating...
I spent a week in Duluth one afternoon(just kidding, i loved Duluth.
In Fact I applied and was accepted to UMD but chose to go in the Navy
instead(and no Em I wasn't searching for Polish Sailors(Not that
there's anything wrong with that))
I was this kid see, 14 yrs old and my parents sent me to what's now
Voyager Outward Bound School in Ely. 21 days of canoing the BWCA and
rock climbing the north shore of 'the lake that they call
Gitche-Gumee'. (Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the
gales of November come early but I wouldn't know cause this was in
June and nobody died.)
It was the bestest, i saw a moose like 10 ft away looking right at me
when i was on my solo. And one time we were canoeing across this big
lake (did you know they have 10,000 of them up there? I'd swear we hit
at least 7,473 of them) and out of the sun swoops down a Bald Eagle.
He snags a fish and flies out. I was in the back of the canoe but my
partner could have smacked him in the head with the paddle. I'm glad
he didn't cause he'd probably have tipped us.
So any ways after 21 days of living as much like a "savage" as one
could in 1978 They drop me off at the grey hound station in Duluth
around noon. My bus didn't leave till around 6. So for 6 hrs I
wandered around Duluth. Had my first burger and fries with a coke in
three weeks. Played "Only the Good Die Young" on the juke box 5 times
straight before the owner asked me not to play it again. I told him
that it was the only song on the Juke box that i really knew and i
that i had been out on Outward Bound for 21 days. Then I told him all
about Outward Bound and the moose and the eagle. and flap jacks. and
bulgar. (I wasn't a particularly shy kid.) And about...
He gave me a dollar, (9 songs for a dollar), But made me promise not
to play "Only the Good Die Young". He also gave me a piece of
Chocolate Cake, said i reminded him of his grandson.
The one song he did make me play was "The Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald" Then he told me all about it. He had been a sailor on the
lake when he was younger. It was one of the coolest afternoons of my
life. In Duluth MN at 3 in the afternoon.
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