Can't sing, can't dance, and he looks like Pyle (from Full Metal Jacket)

Oh, baby! You, you got what I need! But you say he's just a friend.

Her name is Blah Blah Blah, that was probably a clue that it wasn't going to work.

pitiful

Smashing Ruxpins

I was struggling not to point out the obvious, but why would you stand in line to buy a new console and smash it? I remember so many fads that were "must haves", but a console at $300 - $500 smashed? Crazy I tell you, crazy. Now, burning it in effigy, that I can see. I suppose next year I can buy the newest foreign compact (not Japanese), but Indian and smash it. I suspect it will go over like the Yugo. Yugo nowhere fast in it. Not only is the engine small and the car small, but so was the time spent in assembling it. Get a good bike, it will last unlike the car.

Don't you believe it

MR blogged on ad nauseum about it, but it's true -- that line of thinking (linking) just outright doesn't work. I know, I've tried it about every week or so. It is unrelated to anything other than a study in aggression. I have a yahoo ID and it outright said no, then yes ... then failed. The same line of thinking as carrying a door in the desert, if it gets too hot, you roll down the window as opposed to his comrades, one chose a hat, the other a canteen.

New blogger is like the new Windows 3.1 or original Win 95 with so many bugs, it was a New York sewer. Roaches, bugs everywhere. If you get the message to get your new blogger beta, skip it.

The Panda does what?

Eats shoots and leaves is what the Panda does.

Farts then laughs

A fart gag, Stinky Beans (WTH?), teen fart, little boy laughs at old photos, peek a boo laugh, stereo laugh

When you're down, your up

Nutty Buddy

Yep ... that's about what I'd say. I would not test a testicle protector with a baseball pitching machine, but this guy would. "Nutty Buddy" goes in the pants ... ball goes into groin. What happens next?

What's sad is the testimonial of the baseball player who had his typical cup shattered by a pitch, "Well, that didn't feel too good." Wow! That's a nice understatement!

Picking my nose

When I was picking my nose with a shotgun, I heard a loud sound. There wasn't a lot of damage done, for the gun was then empty and my mind always was. The sad thing ... I longed for another shot.

"No put [the gun] in your mouth. It might go through your ear and come out the other side."

"Wait. What are you doing?"
"We're going to empty your mind, much like we would empty your pocket."
"Please don't. I've spent my life trying to fill it."
"Begin."

"Get a brain you morans!"

"The greatest thing about Nigel is that he's almost completely stupid."

"You feel this? That's sawdust they put in there after the surgery. They removed part of my brain!"

If you spent your time trying to find the quotes ... you have too much time on your hands.

Good, simple adivce

Gain experience from everything. In each day, learn ... learn something new, learn something again, but learn. Though I did not return to Indy for the sales job, I took away from it: advise your family and friends.

Get an education. Go to college and get a degree. It doesn't matter in what, for most people after a few years are not working in a field relevent to their degree, but you need one.

Be honest. If you aren't honest with yourself, you aren't honest with anyone. If you are dishonest with others, you are then alone. Alone is a terrible thing to be.

Give thanks, not only to someone who does something extraordinary, but also thanks for the "extra napkin", the "hello from somebody or nobody", to friends and family. If you believe in a higher power, thank that entity too.

Talk when you can; walk when you can. Talking is exercise, walking is learning and healthy. Both use your mind and refresh your blood.

Make entertianment. I mean make, for watching hours of mind-numbing TV isn't making anything other than you stupid. Make entertainment by playing games, writing, drawing -- just doing!

Love others. If you don't love you, then start there. After that, love others -- it's more important and helpful than can be expressed in words.

Cloning vs polygenics

I can scarcely decide which is truly scarier: cloning or polygenics. Quickly, polygenics is used here to define a unrestrained proliferation of genes or 'many procreative partners'. I have experienced this in teaching, where there are around eight kids genetically linked to four people. I dare not call them parents, for none raised one child, but did fascilitate their being. Moreover, hyper-polygenics, where incest at some level is included, say parent-child or sibling-sibling (half or full) or rarely, but not unheard of grandparent-child.

Given the state of polygenics, I'm almost for cloning or eugenics. The prinicple seems diabolical and will undoubtedly lead to evil, but the concept of limited cloning is not evil. Full-human embryo cloning will lead to murder in every sense of the word. By that I mean that generally a clone is developed as a spare-parts model. I could cite many fiction references, but the read can find those. If I were to suppose that the consciousness of one person be transplanted into the other in full, then still -- in another sense it is murder.

A person, grown (shudder), still has development. To stop congitive development requires either chemical castration of many sensory areas, wich may not grow back or the known extraction of the brain. While the brain is not the housing for the soul, nor is the organ the heart, clearly to remove a person's brain is to murder what that person was physically. Spiritually is another matter that I may not address here.

Even with invetro infertilization, there are often too many living embryos to successfully survive. While science has kept extracted infants less than one pound alive, it is a miracle, to say the least. Many premature children have development problems and many do not survive. In some cases when the lives of the infants are at risk, someone -- the mother -- then has a grave choice, which ones will live and which ones must not.

In this sickening mess of science and spirituality and ethics and health, I suggest that full-human cloning is not a good idea. Though the belief that a non-genetic blood substitute was to be released this year, it is not yet here. Treated bovine blood has been used on the field in places where their is little refridgeration. This treated bovine blood can be kept unrefridgerated for months. Organs, including skin, are not so universally accepted by the body. Xenotransplantation is a desperate measure that generally leads to weeks of life, not years. The cloning process of self-use only organs is a viable and inarguable need. The problem is the limitation of cloning and by what means it can occur.

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For this important need, stem cell reaserch is important. While some material can be gained from infantile foreskin -- it is not as usable as other obtained material (fetus). To discontinue this reasearch is patentedly stupid. It is not and will not be the be-all, end-all source and holy grail of organ growth, it is important. Already it has shown signs of success in some areas. While repugnant and sinful by some or many, it is a research worth pursuing, however it comes at many costs that are not financial.

You can wipe off that grin

I know where you've been. It's all been a pack of lies! I feel it in the air tonight ..

Intellus won't tell us. I purpose they rename it, "unintellus" or "whydon'tyoutellus", but I guess it would be more accurate to call it, "chargeusthentellus". You can't find it, but you'll charge me for it. Yeah, that makes sense. I'll go get my credit card right now.

watch salesman

Hey, buddy. I'll sell you a list of jobs for $70.
No thanks.

But you see ... these jobs here aren't listed.
Mm hmm.
So, if you don't get the job within a year, we'll refund your money (Dawg!).
Um, no.

Are you sure that's a real rolex?

Squeals of joy!

She called ... she called ... she called! (much like Rudolph's, "I'm cute!" repeated). A local job called back for an interview. Hey, that might mean that I could get an Indiana job! That would be so splendid! I won't presently disclose the compnay's name.

redefining "insurgants"

We have people redefining enemies and categories, why not use something already in place -- "feral". Here's a site on Feral Children +, though really if you know the term feral it is not complimentary. Feral animals are introduced into an area and cause havoc and destruction, such as hooved animals in Australia as well as cats there. Killer bees are a feral species and Hawaii is plague by many invading species of plants and animals. I therefore, submit, that children can't be feral, but some people can be.

I can think of many times when dealing with a few people that they were feral, menaing that they should not have been there and really caused only trouble and havoc.


+ one video, for skeptics like myself, clearly shows the Ukranian girl isn't moving in a way akin to fast or varied terrain movement. That is a tabloid story. The other notable historical accounts are to be taken with some skepticism, as they generally lacked real validation. How many people were exposed to the "wild child". Generally, these children are taken in and hidden away, later shown to have been wild. Gosh -- lack credibility, but you'd think that a village might step up and take on the challenge or, better still, call the police and government about it. That is never the case.

I would suggest that there are feral groups in areas, coming in from Syria, Jordan, Iran, etc. to areas of Lebanon and Iraq. One thought would be that the US and "coalition forces" are the feral people, and others might contend that destabilizing groups are the feral people. Regardless, if you want to succeed in propoganda, use "feral" for it really smacks of "vile vermin, insideous rats infiltrating the ranks and consuming and ruining".

Just like the video games

"We are definitely going to kill you boy!"+
Robbery suspect shot after failing to answer the door. While I am not sure I understand the shooting, which is being investigated, I don't mind telling you that the robbers assaulted the victim. Clearly, despite the "pettiness" of the theft, violence in connection with robbery is a serious issue. It would not surrprise me if the two suspects would have escalated their crime sprees later, making them a greater threat. It seems likely that the theft was for personal use, not to sell the unit, but assaulting someone to get what you want takes a criminal mind.

+ Grand Theft Auto sound

Lucrative deal sinks sailor

I think I'm turning Viennese, oh yes, I'm turning Viennese, I really think so. Sailor steals laptop, sells content, pleads guilty. Aboard the aircraft carrier, justices carry out the more typical penalty espionage convicts -- put on jet catapult and flung far off the ship, benefits to kin increase with each skip, as the convicted is propelled along and through the water at break-neck speed.

Well, stupidness aside, yes ... they got one, a traitor. Now what they need is a real process for keeping sensitive material, you think?