During this year's catastrophic firestorm in Sheehan's town......his house was the only structure left standing!
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STRANGE NEWS
2
Sri Lanka's troops are advancing on the very last town still being occupied by the Tamil Tiger Terrorists. OMG.....how does anyone there, know how to pronounce its name, which is
Puthukkudiyiruppu???
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STRANGE NEWS
3
All of our criminal corporate CEO's have just discovered yet another way to steal some large sums of cash from the American people: they're cutting their dividends like crazy, thereby amassing fortunes for themselves, while keeping us from receiving the moneys they once promised to pay into our Investment and Retirement Funds!!!

Is there no evil act those thieves will ever find too repugnant to commit???
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QUOTE:
"Sometimes, in the United States,
there's nothing more permanent
than a temporary solution."

---Rick Santelli---
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I'm not much of a chicken-eater, in fact, I seldom consume the stuff, but this week I had such a direct craving for it, that I actually bought some, fried it up with lots of spices, put it into a baking pan together with some Risotto rice, and really enjoyed it, when it was done!

Afterwards, I felt unusually happy and sleepy, and suddenly remembered the word tryptophan, and how it's a form of serotonin, which is the stuff that keeps people happy. According to an interesting page on
WIKIPEDIA
there actually exists a disorder which causes improper absorption of tryptophan, which then creates reduced levels of the stuff in your blood.....a situation that actually causes you to feel depressed!

I'm sure glad that I listened to my craving!
It's totally amazing, really, how your body tells you what you need.
So does your mind.
We just need to learn to listen.
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On Thursday, February 19, 2009
CNBC's Rick Santelli started
the second American Revolution!

Last night, the President of Israel
asked Benjamin Netanyahu to create
a new government coalition.
--Bye, bye, Iran!--

Sometime this week, Russia's Putin sent a message to the new American President, telling him that Socialism was an abject failure in the Soviet Union, and that he'd be serving his people a whole lot better, if he'd just stick to freedom and capitalism.

STFU
The White House Press Secretary's vicious, public attack against Rick Santelli, was so low, it went deeper than sewage sludge.
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"Help!!!....I dropped
my cellphone into a bowl
of hot Cup-O-Noodle soup.....now,
what do I do??"

--Anonymous--
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If I were an anthropologist, I would state with complete conviction, that the European civilization -- such as it was -- has been finalized on the runways of the 2009 Haute Couture menswear collections.
TAKE A LOOK
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Sometime this past week, all the members of CNBC's Power Lunch were inter-yelling and inter-rupting and otherwise being intensely rude towards that really great guy Charlie Gasperino who kept trying to finish his report about a bank-organized emergency meeting, when Power Lunch broke for a commercial, which was.....I swear, I'm not making this up......a bunch of Volvo cars crashing into each other with extreme violence!
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Yesterday, a Wallstreet Trader, unaware that a news camera was showing him from the waist down, re-arranged his itchy assets until everything was feeling fine again, then turned and walked out of sight.
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This week a year ago, the USS Lake Erie launched a missile from the NW Pacific, which intercepted and destroyed a decaying Chinese spy satellite that was falling towards earth while filled with hazardous fuel.

This week, a US commercial satellite and a Russian military satellite, collided over the Arctic.

It must have been an accident.......
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The US military has become concerned about rising incidents of suicide, grossly overweight soldiers, and the excessive use of prescription drugs.

It might pay for our Generals, to investigate those prescription drugs, most of which tend to inspire suicidal impulses, and one of which
- ZYPREXA -
has been shown to create massive increases of body weight.
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Geert Wilders, an elected politician of a sovereign state of the European Union, was detained by UK immigration officials on his arrival at London's Heathrow airport, and immediately sent back to the Netherlands.

Dead in Europe:
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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TREASURY SECRETARY
TIM GEITHNER
IS FUCKING BRILLIANT
!!!

I'm no longer worried about the new administration or about anything they might do or not do. Because this man will lead us in the right direction. He's the financial equivalent to General Petraeus. And all it takes.....all it ever takes.....is just a few good men.
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Henry Gomez, in a review of the movie "Che" referred to the film as
A
MARATHON
OF
ABOMINATION
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Some of America's Liberal Elite, after observing the first few weeks of their new President in action, are beginning to state that they've gone from
HOPE & CHANGE
to
FEAR & LOATHING
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After the WW2 holocaust, an entire planet's
JEW--HATE
slowly
morphed
into
ISRAEL--HATE
and
right now,
this
ISRAEL--HATE
is
slowly
morphing
back
into
JEW--HATE
once again
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Afghanistan's KARZAI, who, in 2002, received a standing ovation from the US Congress, is now being perceived as
an
UNRELIABLE
ALLY
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I just noticed that I created fewer posts during this past month, than ever before. And I don't know why. I felt that I had nothing to write about.
Which is really weird, because I was thinking about a whole lot of things!
So now I wonder why?

Am I projecting, when I see that the whole world has been treading water in the deep-end? WallStreet has......the Nasdaq has......the economy has......Europe has......Asia has......the new administration in DC seems to have......Congress has......all the little wars around the globe, have......so what's going on?

We're all in limbo.
There's no direction and no guidance.
The only sane thing to do, is to withdraw, work in peace, and hope for something or someone to get us all started up again.
Maybe, like a tire with a small hole in its side, we've been slowly losing air and wondering for how long we can keep on going?
Maybe, like plants withered by a steady drought, we've been wondering if the rains will arrive in time to save us?

I'm just sick of everything.
Sick of hearing about Palestinians and Israel and Zimbabwe and the Congo and Sudan and Russia's Putin being belligerent and China's Whenever being belligerent and new music that really sucks and ludicrous film-people making shitty movies and our food being poisoned and our media being incompetent and fashion having become an international hoax, and the richest man in the world firing 5000 US employees and everybody else just mass-firing their employees because it's been made legit to do so, right now, and none of them giving a damn about how those people are going to survive?

Well....I really don't know why I had almost
nothing to write about, during January.

Maybe February will be a better month?
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A couple of weeks ago, I brought some of my artwork and a stack of my own card-stock to the self-service store where I always make my xerox copies. But when I got there, I realized that I had forgotten how to program the printer for card-stock, so I asked the woman behind the counter who seemed to be a new employee, to please call one of the guys in the back to come and help me as he usually does.

"They're all out for lunch," she said, without even checking, so I bent over the counter until I could see them. "They're right there," I said again. "Please ask Joe to come out?" "No," the woman responded rudely. "I'll do whatever you need done." ......and with that, she came out from behind the counter, grabbed my stack of card-stock, and shoved it into one of the front drawers of the machine.

"You can't do it like that," I said. "You've got to program the printer!"
"No, I don't...." she growled, yanked my original artwork out of my hand, placed it underneath the mat, and punched the print button.

When the printer spewed a mutilated piece of my card-stock out of its side, I became angry and told her to stop, adding that she'd been really rude and that I'd come back some other time.

The woman then returned to standing behind the counter. She never apologized and never tried to get Joe to come out to help me. Instead, she just kept staring at me like some kind of pitbull about to pounce, and her eyes were black with barely-controlled rage.

"Bitch," I mumbled, gathered my stuff, walked out, and had my copies made in another place where everybody was courteous and professional.

I forgot about this entire incident, until I returned to UPS a couple of weeks later, saw that same woman standing in front of me with that same pitbull-rage flashing out of her eyes, and understood that she'd been nurturing her anger at me all this time, that she was acting like one of those mean high-school girls who always planned some kind of evil revenge, and that I'd better watch out, because another employee said that she'd told everyone in the store that I had called her a bitch, without, of course, telling them about her nasty provocation that had caused me to become angry.

So I simply left, and didn't go back
until someone informed me that she'd
been fired because of similar incidents.
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