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Last night it was HOT in London. Hot and sweaty, the weather forecast stats that it will be even hotter tonight. It got hotter in Eugene, but I don’t think it was ever so humid, even in the 90s.
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reprinted from: Agencies Help Owners Take In Strangers To Keep Their Homes
â€Where we see it being of value is if someone is having short-term problems,†she said. “The average stay of a sharer is about a year, and some are much less. It’s good for someone leaving a marriage or a relationship, or going to school. You can’t count on it as a regular income. It’s a stopgap.â€
(STORY CAN END HERE. OPTIONAL MATERIAL FOLLOWS.)
After counselors from St. Ambrose interviewed Terry and Ongiri, Terry drove to the house where Ongiri was living alongside three men. Right away, Terry said, “I’m like, she don’t need to be living here with three males. I felt as if I could help her, get her out of that area and that living arrangement. I hoped she felt the same way.â€
Ongiri said she was relieved to know “I wasn’t going to move in and find the house was in foreclosure or something equally distressing.â€
Yes, that “STORY ENDS HERE…” section is in the actual article. I was looking for more about the subjects of the story and hit a bunch of reprints of the wire. Why post a story with no further research or at least a care for editing? This is just laziness on the part of the news director/editor from this site.
I went ahead and searched for that phrase on “the google” and hit upon a bunch of sites that just didn’t care enough to edit the newswire. It’s what passes for “news” I guess, it explains a great deal about how and why people aren’t up on the news and have their opinions formed by Talk Radio and Cable news, doesn’t it?
I looked at my stats today and saw this:
The “You have been Phished” article is no longer getting more daily hits than anything else! This is a big step forward! I hope that I can report that it has dropped out of the top 5 soon. Stay Classy Internet.
I write about my dreams here in the blog every once in a while, so I don’t feel too exposed when I say that last night I dreamed I was a super-powered spy. I had a watch that could be used to select from a series of super abilities (like a super powered jump or super strength) and a goofy robot companion.
In the part of the dream I clearly remember, my team leader was drawing out a super-spy villainess out of her bunker so that we could apprehend her. In true comedy action fashion, our goofy robot sidekick popped up and tipped her off, so she took off using her own super powers, while we gave chase. I rounded a corner, (using super jumping to catch up) and found her standing over the bodies of my team mates, laughing at me. I lunged at her and as I did woke up to find I was lunging at my wife in my sleep and apparently about to do her harm as I grabbed her. She said “Hey!” and shook me off and I woke up, feeling sheepish.
It was quite a wake up.
I looked over the accounts of the arrest and found this article at the Globe and Mail
Barenaked Ladies singer facing drug charges in New York state
Captain Bill Bleyle of the Manlius Police Department said yesterday that Mr. Page was arrested Friday along with two women in Fayetteville, N.Y., after officers observed a “suspicious” vehicle parked outside an apartment just after 2 a.m. When the two officers investigated, they found Mr. Page and Stephanie Ford of Fayetteville seated at the kitchen table, Capt. Bleyle said.
“Things seemed out of sorts,” the officer said. “And [police] determined that on the table they had what appeared to be powdered cocaine,” a fact, the police said, they later confirmed with a field test.
Note the lack of details about knocking on the door, making themselves known? No notes about, “an obviously innebriated or under the influence person answering the door” anywhere in the account. It’s almost like the police decided to just wander into his house to look for drugs on the basis that there was a shady looking car outside. Man, I’m sorry if my car is shady looking officer, but doesn’t give you the right to just wander in. This HAS to fail to meet the reasonable suspicion requirement of the 4th, right?
Then the following paragraph appears in the article:
Mr. Page, who has previously battled depression, has also been involved with several political movements, perhaps most notably as a vocal supporter of the federal New Democratic Party and as a board member of World Wildlife Fund Canada. In 2005, the Barenaked Ladies also wrote the musical score for the Stratford Festival production of As You Like It.
I can’t decide if the writer is trying to draw a line between supporting the NDP and doing Cocaine. It seems like they are, but maybe they are saying that there is a connection between hard drugs and Shakespeare?
Here is a slightly different account:
Bleyle said the arrest occurred at about 2 a.m. Friday after patrolling police noticed a suspicious car with its driver’s side door left open and found a man and woman in a nearby apartment with a white capsule in front of them. Bleyle said the pair were later found to be in possession of cocaine.
Again it’s the National Post that fills in the details that make the whole thing less shady (in terms of what the Police did):
“As [the officers] approached the apartment they saw people in the window sitting at a table and it looked like they were engaged in something. There was a white capsule and a white powdery substance that later tested positive for cocaine.” said Capt. Bill Bleyle with the Manlius Police Department in New York State.
See? Details that clarify WHY it was suspicious and a legitimate reason for them to enter the apartment, they observed possible criminal behavior through the window. It SEEMS legit, based upon this account.
Well, Mr. Page. The Ball is in your court, if you were snorting the Marching Powder, I’d plead out and do some time in Rehab if I were you. If you weren’t or the account by the police is false, fight it ’till your last eight-ball.
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Mike Meehan of “The Republican song” fame is a proud Republican. He’s also a Canadian. Expect A floppy head appolexy when it comes out that the billboard that misidentifies The World Trade Center being destroyed as a Democrat failure was sponsored by the same guy that wrote:
Why is so healthy, rational, and enlightened an outlook as racism smeared as “hate”? To prefer one’s family to the neighbors is not hate. To prefer one’s friends to strangers is not hate. To prefer Ireland to France is not hate. I prefer Whites to other races, but that fact alone does not mean that I hate other races.
or some gems like
If, however, the Catholic Church, the federal government, or the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society established a colony of Papuans, Aborigines, Pygmies, Bushmen, or Martians on my block, and I had to live in close proximity with them and, worse yet, subsidize them with my tax dollar then I probably would start hating them.
From another paper:
If there were a New Israel on the North American continent (no doubt on the East Coast), it would lessen direct Jewish power over Whites, but it would not stop the Jews from broadcasting filth and promoting decadence among us. Furthermore, why provide the Jews with another sovereign territory from which they can plot their global swindles and to which they can flee when their victims rise up against them?
Now, here’s the thing; I don’t know for sure that this is the same “Mike Meehan” so I issue this challenge. Would the Mike Meehan behind these posts on the Vanguard News Network step up and make themselves known?
Yeah, Well I got a big Rocky FIST! *Smashes Troll*
Published by NiteMayr on July 17, 2008If you’ve been under a rock and you’re not a member of the Extended Troll or Fairy family then you’ve been at least periferally aware that they made a movie where the Son of the Devil is the hero; and it doesn’t feature one song by Dio OR Slayer. Q’uell Suprise!
Yup, your faithfull blogger has been to see a movie in an actual theatre with real people and a screen and everything. A Chain theatre. Let me go off on a tangent for a moment to fill you with the type of terror I was filled with when I sat in said Chain Theatre. The SCREEN WAS NOT FILLED WITH PICTURES WHEN WE ARRIVED!!!! DUMM DUMM DUMM DUMMM! The screen was about 7/8 filled with the ads and previews. That’s it. AND IT WAS BLURRY!!!! WOOOOOOooooooo! Scary stuff, huh? At Nine Buck a pop it was. I was so worked up about it that if the screen had not become filled with sharp previews a full 10 minutes after we had arrived, I would have become PERTURBED! Please consider this tangent complete, save this one point. The “Dark Knight” line was empty. There are enough nerds in London to justify two comic stores in walking distance from each other downtown, and they are neither of them failing, one had to move to a bigger location recently. In a town that can support two busy comic stores SO CLOSE THAT THEY COULD TOUCH WEINERS, there should have been a line for The Dark Knight. I think that says more about the Theater than the town.
Anyway, the Son of Satan is back with another hit and now he is not tethered by David Hyde Pierce! We get all the Abe Sapien goodness with some heavy Hellboy asskicking; while Selma Blair pouts, looks cute but mixes it up as much as a woman in her condition should. Now at this point you are saying to yourself, why is Kevin getting down on the Crazy? Crazy heroes are the best! I mean, Ambush Bug, the Creeper, CandleJack the list goes on and on. But hold on, I’m not getting down on the Crazy. I love the Crazy and it’s twin the Zany. They are not at issue. I’m just saying that the action is great, the fights are awesome and even the wire-fu is weighty and meaty instead of fairy light and tepid.
Speaking of the Wire Fu. Why does the clearly “European” Elf even know that particular type of wire-fu. I could have accepted Savate or some kind of acrobatic fencing, but Kung-Fuy with a halbred? C’Mon. Not that the fighting was bad, but I half expected him to yell KeeeeyAAAAAA! Go Elf Prince and so on.
As for the Drama, the relationships on screen were great, there’s a great “guy” moment between Hellboy and Abe that has to be seen to be understood and Seth Mcfarlane does himself proud as the character with all the substance of a really good beer fart.
So, Yeah. You should go see HellBoy 2; it’s GREAT. Better than the first one by MILES!