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Major Mumbai Icon, the Taj Hotel on Fire

by ThePete 5:00 pm 2008-11-26

Gah… this is quite messed up… just capped this from CNN-IBN’s
coverage here: http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream2
 I have a feeling this is going to be referred to as India’s 911. Not
that I blame them–the Taj Hotel is apparently an amazing cultural
icon of Mumbai. It’s a hotel, but it’s also a piece of architectural
history and contains a lot of artifacts, as well, according to the
CNN-IBN anchorwoman. Apparently to create confusion, terrorists have
carjacked police vehicles and are doing random drive-bys. I’ve also
heard that these attacks are very organized, but anglos were
specifically targeted. Ah, this is the worst part of a disaster to
try to work out what the hell’s going on, but this is what I’m seeing
from my apartment in NYC–just watching the news streams.

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Here’s what that hotel looks like sans smoke:

Taj Hotel

I nabbed that pic from the official site for the hotel here:

www.tajhotels.com/

by ThePete 5:00 pm 2008-11-26 In TheNews, TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | Tags , , | $ |

Anybody Wanna Buy Some Toxic Waste?

by ThePete 7:10 pm 2008-04-02

So, I’m doing some quick research for my sister-in-law, Lisa, and lookie what I find on a government web page! (See the screencap. The original is here: http://energycommerce.house.gov/…dule.shtml but will probably be changed if it hasn’t been already.)

To me it looks like our government is looking to sell off it’s stockpile of depleted uranium! What’s depleted uranium? Well, it’s a bi-product of enriching uranium and it’s used for all sorts of things, many of which have to do with killing–ironically, none of which directly have to do with the fact that DU is just 40% less radioactive compared to the fully enriched stuff.

So, what the heck is our government doing selling off what is effectively toxic waste?

Good question. The Wikipedia.org article on DU (here: http://en.wikipedia.org/…ed_uranium) explains that:

DU is used for its very high density of 19.1 g/cm3. Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical radiation therapy and industrial radiography equipment, and containers used to transport radioactive materials. Military uses include defensive armor plate and armor-piercing projectiles.

Depleted uranium munitions are controversial because of numerous unanswered questions about the long-term health effects.

The article goes on to say that:

While any radiation exposure has risks, no conclusive epidemiological data have correlated DU exposure to specific human health effects such as cancer.

However, it also adds that:

…the UK government has attributed birth defect claims from a 1991 Gulf War combat veteran to DU poisoning,[4][5] and studies using cultured cells and laboratory rodents continue to suggest the possibility of leukemogenic, genetic, reproductive, and neurological effects from chronic exposure. Until such issues are resolved with further research, the use of DU by the military will continue to be controversial.

I’m thinking the stuff should be disposed of, not profited from.

To think I was only looking for info on a hearing held about virtual worlds!
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by ThePete 7:10 pm 2008-04-02 In TheNews, TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , | $ |

LAKOTA NATION SECEDES FROM USA

by ThePete 1:14 pm 2007-12-27

File this one in the Wishful Thinking category. The Lakota Nation (check out the above to see how big they are) have seceded from the United States of America. Here’s a quote from a December 20, 2007 article at TheRawStory.com detailing the Lakota secession from the USA ( http://snipurl.com/1vw5t ):

The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.

A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.

Pretty crazy, huh? I’m not anti-American in the least, but gee, do I wish the American government would practice what it preaches. So, in my mind, this should have happened a long time ago.

Sadly, this isn’t the first time this has happened ( http://snipurl.com/1vw5y ) so, I expect this story will simply fade into the aether in time, assuming the press doesn’t cover it. Which would be typical. They don’t like to broadcast this kind of extreme.

Still, I think it’s interesting and, to a certain degree, appropriate. The US Government has acted inappropriately toward the indigenous population of the Americas (and, some could argue, the rest of the world, too) since 1776.
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by ThePete 1:14 pm 2007-12-27 Politricks, TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | $ |

Bizarro Auto-Blogging For Google Adsense Revenue

by ThePete 6:00 pm 2007-11-19

This was a very strange thing to discover: a website that contained a blog that seemed to be auto-excerpting other people’s blog posts from other people’s websites, I’m guessing, without their permission. Here’s a screencap I took of one:


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Isn’t that bizarre? A headline, followed by two less-than subtle gAds followed by the “post” that begins with “nikes4wholesale had some great ideas on this topic” followed by an excerpt of an actual post someplace followed by a link to the original post. That linkback is nice and all, but, really, this is pretty sleazy. If I found someone pilfering my content like this I’d be really annoyed. I’m very curious how this works–the dude must be using a WordPress plugin that grabs feeds and then posts only excerpts with the beginning added in.

Of course, anyone who sees this blog will realize it’s fake when blogger names like “nikes4wholesale” and the one in the screencap below:


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Yeah, “unknown” sure does have some great ideas on this topic!

Now, it looks, to me, like that plugin must surf search engine results for cell phone-related posts because check out this next screencap to see what happens when it stumbles across a post about that mentions cell phones but isn’t really about them:


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And a couple more:


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WHOOPS! Now this site hates immigrants!

I’m really thinking that Google should do something about these people. For one, the people who run these kinds of sites are not real blogging. They’re not even providing original content–sure, blogs like mine and many others do post other folks’ content, but it’s not like I just post excerpts and walk away. Even my TheMiniBlog is more about pointing to things that are cool, rather than simply lifting other people’s content and making money off of it. The site that I stumbled across is obviously not being maintained by a human at all, which seems pretty skeezy. Granted, I don’t think it’s illegal, but I hope it’s against Google’s TOS. Hell, I’m not allowed to say “please click on my Google ads!” too often or I’ll get threatened by Adsense emails threatening to stop paying me. It’s actually happened to me.

Meanwhile, this dude gets away with it.

by ThePete 6:00 pm 2007-11-19 TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | $ |

eBay Auctions for Confiscated Knives, Scissors and More

by ThePete 4:11 am 2007-10-30

eBay auctions for confiscated knives, scissors and more

I'm not sure how sanctioned-by-the-NTSA these auctions are, but there seem to be some pretty good prices on knives, multi-tools and more.  All of the items are used (duh) and be sure to not try to take any items you win on a plane with you (also duh).

by ThePete 4:11 am 2007-10-30 TheHELL?, TheMiniBlog, ThePeteStuff | $ |

NEW PLAN FOR AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY FOUND

by ThePete 8:44 am 2007-07-13

OK, this is going to sound totally bizarre, but according to from WashingtonPost.Com available at MSNBC.com, a robber, broken into the backyard party of a handful of white folks in DC. He then held a gun to a 14-year old girl and demanded that they hand over their money or that he’d start shooting.

Instead of handing over their money, one of the women at the party offered the gunman a glass of wine.

He accepted, admitting “Damn, that’s good wine.”

The gunman then helped himself to some cheese on a nearby table and after a moment put his gun away and admitted “I think I may have come to the wrong house.”

He then asked for hugs from everyone and then one big group hug.

His request was granted.

He left the party with a full glass of wine in his hand.

Nothing was stolen, no one was hurt.

Now, give me one good reason why this tactic wouldn’t work against Al Qaeda.

Instead of tracking them down and killing them all (as if!) and instead of giving them what they want, we compromise and give them the (now) proverbial glass of wine in the form of certain concessions. We pull our troops out of Saudi Arabia and start negotiating for a Palestinian state.

Is being cordial to our enemies that absurd an idea?

What if that guy shot the people anyway?

Well, then they’d have died being generous, polite, civilized people. Isn’t that better than living as cold, greedy savages? .

by ThePete 8:44 am 2007-07-13 TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | $ |

SATURN LIKES GEOMETRY

by ThePete 12:00 pm 2007-03-29

Have a good look at that image. Yeah–that’s a crazy-ass storm on Saturn that is swirling AROUND a hexagon shape. Apparently it’s been there for a while. Nobody knows what it is. It’s more than twice as big as Earth.

That pretty much covers it.

However, if you’d like a more complicated explanation, here’s a cutting from at DailyMail.co.uk that makes it a bit more complicated sounding:

A mysterious giant hexagon lies above Saturn’s north pole, captured by cameras on Nasa’s Cassini Orbiter.

Spanning 25,000km - equivalent to the width of two planet Earths - the bizarre geometric feature appears to remain virtually still in the atmosphere as clouds swirl around it.

The infra-red images show the hexagon - which contains a smaller six-sided formation - extends about 60km down into the clouds.

The hexagon is similar to Earth’s polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal shape.

The six-sided shape is in stark contrast to the swirling, hurricane-like vortex at Saturn’s opposite pole.

The feature was first photographed more than 20 years ago by Nasa’s Voyager 1 and 2 probes, but this is the first time the hexagon has been seen in one image.

The latest pictures were taken at nighttime using infra-red because the pole is currently in darkness and the red colour indicates the amount of heat being generated from inside the planet.

Kevin Baines of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: “This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides.

“We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.”

Crazy.

Perhaps we should, oh, I don’t know, SEND A PERSON UP TO INVESTIGATE???

OH wait, we’ve already BLOWN $500 billion on a FUCKING USELESS WAR. God forbid we should spend some real cash on EXPANDING HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.

Nobody knows WTF that thing is up there, but thank God, 50,000 Al Qaeda chappies are being held at bay.

We are sooo dumb…

by ThePete 12:00 pm 2007-03-29 TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | $ |

TRIPPIEST DAMN ABANDONED HOTEL YOU’VE EVER SEEN

by ThePete 8:39 pm 2007-03-28

OK, so maybe you haven’t seen an abandoned hotel before. Well, look at this:

Now you definitely have.

This is a hotel complex in China, San Chih, just north of Taipei, to be exact. It was never finished because someone decided it would be too expensive for people to pay to stay there. I stumbled upon the above pic at Tranism.com in . In the comments people who know more about it than the original poster or me chimed in and explained the deal. Hit the link above for more pics and info or have a look at the aerial view below that I grabbed from FlashEarth.com.

Hit to explore this area of the Earth at FlashEarth.com.

by ThePete 8:39 pm 2007-03-28 TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | $ |

BODY FOUND ON FIRE BLOCKS FROM ME

by ThePete 4:02 pm 2007-01-27

This is not a huge deal on par with illegal stuff George W. Bush has done, but, in my mind, it’s worth posting about just the same. Last night I’m out with TheWife having dinner at the home of a friend of ours in Play del Rey. This area of LA is a lot like Marina del Rey (ritzy ocean-front property) only there’s no marina in the name and no ocean for the area to overlook (it is MdR-adjacent, however). It’s a quiet part of LA. If there weren’t so many people there, you might even describe it as sleepy.

We had a great time with our friend, his girlfriend and another friend who joined us. Finally, at around 12:45am we decided to head back to Westwood and go to sleep. Which is exactly what we did. However, about an hour after we left our friend’s place, a woman’s body was set on fire in a street less than ten blocks from our friends condo.

Yeah, what the fuck, right?

Earlier this afternoon, during my writing-preparation-ritual (procrastination) I checked DrudgeReport.Com to find a link to that informed me of what happened. Check out this cutting:

A smoldering body, believed to be that of a woman, was found on a quiet Playa del Rey street after residents called to report a rubbish fire.

Firefighters found the body in the 8100 block of Tuscany Avenue after receiving a call at 2:06 p.m., said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Los Angeles police spokesman Jason Lee said that the victim appeared to be an African American woman in her 30s but that her identity and the cause of death would have to be determined by the coroner’s office.

Humphrey said no one had come forward to give any information about what might have happened. Several people called the Fire Department to report a rubbish fire, he said.

Crazy, huh?

Life in the big city. Not sure what else to say, but I felt compelled to blog on this story for obvious proximity-related reasons.

Life is so weird sometimes.

by ThePete 4:02 pm 2007-01-27 TheHELL?, ThePete.Com | $ |

2 Fish for the price of 1!!!

by TheChad 1:21 pm 2006-02-08

by TheChad 1:21 pm 2006-02-08 TheHELL? | $ |

OUTSPOKEN BRIT MP GALLOWAY HAS MELTDOWN

by ThePete 6:00 pm 2006-01-25

[thepete.com/usgovs-worst-nightmare/|I actually thought George Galloway was pretty cool at one point.] Sadly, those days are gone. He seems like a fool who is intentionally ruining his own reputation.

See, if you click on that link above, you can read what I posted back in May of 2005 on Galloway who had totally slammed the USG for distracting from the Iraquagmire by accusing him of corruption. It was brilliant watching the dude nail senators to the wall on TV.

Well, now he’s showing his supporters what they don’t want to see on TV–Galloway acting like a freak. First, . Now, he’s shown up on the UK show Big Brother where

Why is it that the most outspoken critics usually end up blowing their own credibility?

I guess it teaches us to continue to trust absolutely no politician in any country.

Check out to learn just how much of his constituant’s money he is wasting while pulling these stunts.

by ThePete 6:00 pm 2006-01-25 TheHELL? | $ |

COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT ALMOST SHOT DOWN?

by ThePete 12:00 pm 2005-12-05

This is a funny one. KYW1060.com that the pilot of an American Airlines aircraft reported seeing a missile fired at his aircraft as he took off from LAX two Friday’s ago. Here’s a quick blurb from the rather short article:

Sources tell ABC News the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed.

The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit.

Thanks be to Drudge for posting a link to this story and a “bite me” to the mainstream press for not touching this story. I’m a big believer that the terrorist threat to America is a myth, but that doesn’t mean that when they do shoot spit balls at us I want it ignored.

Oh and, I meant “funny” strange, not “funny” ha-ha…

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by ThePete 12:00 pm 2005-12-05 TheHELL? | $ |

SEATTLE GYNECOLOGIST ONE TWISTED FUCK

by ThePete 10:00 am 2005-11-22

Sorry, there’s no other word to use to describe this guy than a “fuck.” Remember, this site is PG-13!!!

Anyway, so Reuters.com on a total, uh, well, fuck who called himself a doctor. He forgot that little oath all doctors take when they become doctors–first, do no harm. Well, he did plenty of harm. Check out this excerpt from the Reuters article:

A jury convicted a Seattle-area gynecologist on Wednesday of four counts of rape in the sexual assaults of two patients.

Charles Momah, 49, also faces civil lawsuits in which women claim that they were also sometimes deceived into being examined, operated on and sexually fondled by his twin, Dennis Momah, a general practitioner who is not certified in obstetrics and gynecology.

During Charles Momah’s criminal trial, prosecutors said he sexually preyed on vulnerable, desperate women, many of whom had few other places to get gynecological care or were addicted to drugs.

What a wonderful man. Thanks American Justice System for taking another good man off the market for desperate women everywhere!

And you’d have to be desperate to fall for this guy… holy cats…

by ThePete 10:00 am 2005-11-22 TheHELL? | $ |

Does this scare you, Pete?

by timtoon 1:30 am 2005-11-01

I can come over to your house. Scare cold right out of you, maybe more.

Rorschach

by timtoon 1:30 am 2005-11-01 TheHELL? | $ |

your childhood memories Smurfed all to hell

by jen 10:18 am 2005-10-10

Well, you can just rock me to sleep tonight (credit goes to the Ottawa Citizen for the full story; click here to read it):

BRUSSELS - The people of Belgium have been left reeling by a public service commercial featuring the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters’ village is annihilated by warplanes.

Lest you think this is some kind of sick joke, the ad was approved by the family of the Smurfs’ original creator, Peyo. And you thought the crap Gargamel inflicted on the little blue guys was bad!:

The ad pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky.

Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. The final scene shows a scorched and tattered Baby Smurf sobbing inconsolably, surrounded by prone Smurfs.

The final frame bears the message: “Don’t let war affect the lives of children.”

…

The advertising agency behind the campaign, Publicis, decided the best way to convey the impact of war on children was to tap into the earliest, happiest memories of Belgian television viewers. They chose the Smurfs, who first appeared in a Belgian comic in 1958.

Interesting idea. How many of us are desensitized to images of actual bloodshed? I can look at gory pictures from Iraq without flinching (thanks, Internet), but just the description of the spot was enough to make me feel like I’d been punched in the gut. There’s something about the corruption of innocence which goes straight to the center of our limbic system and makes us peculiarly watery-eyed about the suffering of fictional pixie-voiced blue thingamabobs. Whether this will translate to compassion for human beings of all colors remains to be seen.

by jen 10:18 am 2005-10-10 TheHELL? | $ |

Plane Almost Crashes In Front of Me?

by ThePete 3:24 pm 2005-10-04

OK, this was weird–so, I’m walking down Veteran Ave, here in Westwood, California, right? I’m headed to the Federal Building, where I have a PO Box. It also happens to be the LA HQ of the FBI. Right across the street there is a veteran’s cemetary. So, I’m walking along with my iPod blaring when suddenly I hear the engine-noise from some sort of airplane. I look up and it’s an olive-drab-painted jet aircraft with four turbine engines. It looks kind of like a military cargo plane, but it’s a lighter color than cargo planes I’ve seen and been on.

What’s so weird about seeing a military cargo plane? Well, first off, it didn’t appear to have any markings, secondly, it was close enough for me to see that it didn’t have any markings. Now, I’m bad at judging distances, so when I say it looked to be a couple hundred feet off the ground, I could be mistaken. All I know for sure was that it was very low to the ground–so low that I became instantly convinced that it was not going to clear the Federal Building which it also happened to be heading directly toward. As soon as I realized this, I whipped out my minicam and started shooting. Unfortunately, the sun was so bright that I couldn’t see the LCD screen to know that what I was shooting was completely out of focus.

Obviously, the plane didn’t crash–it banked to the right (west) and up slightly a few seconds after I pulled my camera out and headed north. It circled back around but passed overhead at a much higher, and thankfully safer, altitude.

Still, it was a very weird experience and while I wouldn’t swear my life that it had no markings, I can tell you that it was definitely not a commercial aircraft. It had four turbine engines and kind of looked like a but was lighter in color, like I said, almost an olive drab, but lighter than you normally see it. It’s vertical stabilizer was straight up and down, and had no horizontal portion like the C-17 has. I tried Googling for military cargo planes but couldn’t find any that matched what I saw.

So, I’m not sure what happened, but since it wasn’t a commercial aircraft, it’s no surprise to not see this on the news. A military craft wouldn’t have to report this to the FAA, necessarily.

Still, it was a weird experience. I’m seriously curious about what I saw today.

by ThePete 3:24 pm 2005-10-04 TheHELL? | $ |

BLACKWATER, KATRINA, CHERTOFF AND THE NON-HUGE EMERGENCY

by ThePete 4:00 am 2005-09-15

Two quick things about Katrina that I wanted to blog about, both come to you via my listening to the Democracy Now podcast–check it out at DemocracyNow.org.

1) begins with the host of DN, Amy Goodman, who sets up a somewhat disturbing, but ultimately not surprising clip which features the head of the DHS essentially admitting that Katrina wasn’t a huge emergency.

2) Ever heard of Blackwater USA? They’re what the capitalist media call “contractors” who were hired by the USG to go to Iraq and help with security–but really they’re mercenaries with military rank (within Blackwater, anyway) that carry guns but drive armored SUVs and get paid a buttload more than our GIs. Anyway, so, why do you think these paid mercenaries have been seen wandering New Orleans?

Seems odd to hire mercenaries to help with relief efforts when we already have a National Guard for that function–especially when these guys get paid so much and are effectively trained soldiers, not relief workers.

Read more about Blackwater having men on the ground in New Orleans by checking out at DemocracyNow.org, at or check out at Blackwater’s own website.

by ThePete 4:00 am 2005-09-15 TheHELL? | $ |

Hunter S. Thompson REINCARNATED?

by timtoon 12:09 am 2005-09-02

I never really believed in reincarnation, but I’ve found evidence that is particularly striking. Hunter S. Thompson is not dead, he has been leading a “double-life” as part “gonzo” journalist and part religious “leader”. You see, HST also goes by another name, one you might not have heard of: THE DALAI LAMA!

Notice the similarity in the eyes, the shape of the face, the smirk that says, “I’ve pulled one over on the entire world.” Do not trust the Dalai Lama. Once you see what’s really going on, it all makes sense — why else would the buddhists believe in reincarnation? Because they’ve seen it!

Did you know this isn’t even the first Dalai Lama? Turns out this is actually the fourteenth Lama the buddhists have had! So this must prove conclusively that Hunter S. Thompson faked his own death to assume the role of the Dalai Lama full-time, for unknown reasons. Maybe you should’ve called it Fear & Loathing in Tibet, eh Hunter? Or should I say Dalai? All I know is that we can expect something VERY BIG from the Buddhists, now that their leader has committed to this Buddhist thing full-time.

Keep in mind, this isn’t the first time this has happened!!! Here are a few examples from the 13th and and 12th Dalai Lamas… there’s no denying the conspiracy when faced with these irrefutable facts presented below:

All influential writers, all died under mysterious circumstances…

Personally, I vote for Chuck Palahniuk as the 15th Dalai Lama, as soon as the buddhist god sees in his infinite mercy and wisdom to strike the current Dalai Lama dead.

by timtoon 12:09 am 2005-09-02 TheHELL? | $ |

do you love Star Trek? you just might enjoy touching children inappropriately

by jen 12:23 pm 2005-08-19

Fightin’ words from the Huffington Post (flagged by Slate; over 100 offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie.

Miller was skeptical but the cops basically stood by their story–at the least, a “majority of those arrested show ‘at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest.’” Not just an interest in science fiction generally, mind you. But Star Trek.

From the Slate article:

Ellen Ladowsky, an L.A. therapist, thinks there actually is something inherent in the show itself that makes it “irresistible to perverts.”.

From the HuffPost article:

hen it comes to relationships off the ship, Captain Kirk displays a truly astonishing emotional poverty. He goes from planet to planet, having trysts with an assortment of nubile women, but never forms any real attachments. …There’s a pervasive message that women are toxic. In an episode called Cat’s Paw, there is an evil sorceress who separates the crew from each other and from the starship. The perpetually indignant Dr. McCoy cautions Kirk, “Don’t let her touch your wand Jim, or you’ll lose all your power!["] On the very rare occasions where Kirk seems to find love, his partners quickly die off. After one of his loves has croaked, Kirk admonishes Spock “Love, you’re better off without it.”

To all irritable Trekkies/Trekkers– don’t shoot the messenger, ‘K? I didn’t write it.

by jen 12:23 pm 2005-08-19 TheHELL? | $ |

DOG NEARLY WINS SWIM FROM ALCATRAZ

by ThePete 5:13 am 2005-08-02

[hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ALCATRAZ_DOG_SWIM?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT|An article] from AP.org reports on a dog that has managed to swim all the way from Alcatraz to the shore, outrunning (outswimming?) all of the other swimmers but for a few, including his owner. Apparently the dog and his owner bodysurf and swim for miles every week.

Man, I barely walk miles a week.

by ThePete 5:13 am 2005-08-02 TheHELL? | $ |