The Ama-zone a.k.a. Why I'm Always Right

CellPhone Saddam hanging vid

2006-12-31T16:56:00.000-05:00

Dammit, keep the phone STILL!
(This could be disturbing)
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=863ce7d4a3

DO NOT watch this.

2006-12-07T13:45:00.000-05:00

http://okfuture.net/2006/12/06/cat-tripping-on-lsd/
Poor kitty tripping in LSD. Don't even watch it. Especially if you have cats. (This includes you, Scratch)

Fear us!

2006-11-07T00:32:00.000-05:00

Faces of Death. Amusing!

2006-11-03T12:59:00.000-05:00

Here's something amusing.

2006-10-30T14:51:00.000-05:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigsegv/40492213/

Happy Halloween!

2006-10-27T08:49:00.000-05:00

http://www.filecabi.net/video/pumpkinmare24.html

Further proof that people from Ohio are PSYCHO!

2006-10-18T10:43:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaHyuWgir8U

UFC

2006-10-11T10:49:00.000-05:00

GOtta love when two men beat each other bloody for money.
Yesterday was The Final Chapter between Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock.

This took place at The Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel and Casino here in Florida. We got tickets. Kick ass tickets. Somehow Trevor paid less than what the tickets were worth, $200 apiece.

We got there roughly 5:30, and saw a few fights that weren't televised. The main events took place at 8 and were televised.

Matt Hamill, from my hometown of Cincinnati, is deaf. Alot of fighters respect him for his fighting skills, not his "disability".

When it was his turn to fight, the fact he was deaf swept through the stands at lightning speed... Yet I could still hear fans yelling encouragement to him. Uh, he's deaf!

Thiago Alvarez, from Coconut Creek, Florida, showed them how it was done in South Florida beating John Alessio. This one was not televised.

I went out to get a drink and smoke. I heard "Hey Pittbull!" and turned around and there was Alvarez right behind me. I ran back inside to get Trevor's camera phone so I could snap a picture of him. Soon I'll post it here. He's awfully short standing next to me, a 6ft tall Amazon. I hope he gets a headliner fight soon.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next fight!

Hosting...

2006-10-10T11:00:00.000-05:00

The latest...

2006-10-03T10:59:00.000-05:00

http://schizophrenicramblings.blogspot.com/

Haven;t laughed this hard in awhile

2006-10-03T00:17:00.000-05:00

Wishmaster- The misheard lyrics

Does anyone else agree Weird Al is a GOD!?

2006-09-30T17:35:00.000-05:00

Grrr.

2006-09-30T17:22:00.000-05:00

I can be... a little anal retentive when I see people throw trash on the ground.
No, I don't like it when people do that, but I find myself HIGHLY irritated when I find trash in the back of my truck THAT I DIDN'T PUT THERE.
DAMN, people, throw it in a trash can!

???

2006-09-25T23:41:00.000-05:00

I'm not really sure what this is... Had it removed because it auto played and it was getting annoying.
Here's a link:
http://funnyjunk.com/movies/354/Darth+Vader+Playing+The+Violin/stream

Sprocket, Superdog.

2006-09-22T22:54:00.000-05:00

A sister!

2006-09-20T23:24:00.000-05:00

AAARRRRHHH!!!!

2006-09-19T18:35:00.000-05:00

Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!
http://talklikeapirate.com/howto.html

Let's get some shoes!

2006-09-12T18:55:00.000-05:00

Time to confess

2006-09-11T12:13:00.000-05:00

I confess, if I'm not watching Flavor of Love 2, I'm at least listening to it.

Last night "New York" of season one dropped by. It was her job to assist Flav in that night's elimination round. New York thought she was in CHARGE of elimination. She acted the bitch to all the girls. Man, I wanted to smack her.
Flav decides it's a good idea to make New York a contestant again. Buckwild could not handle that and left. GO GIRL! I'm pretty proud of her for leaving. Buckwild didn't trust New York and felt she (New york) needed to be institutionalized. I agree. Buckwild felt if she stayed, she'd end up back in jail. Hahaha!

VH1 says this about next weeks show: The five girls left want the inside scoop, so he puts all five of the girls in the parlor with a ballot box and pictures of themselves. They have one hour to agree on which two girls most deserve to go home. Those two pictures go in the box. But will those girls get dates or get eliminated? Lines are drawn and things get heavy as the girls go after each other with more than just words.

So I wonder if this means New York plays the tough bitch again and fights one or more of the girls.

And what about New York?
IS she a tranny? DOES Flav prefer men? Stay tuned to find out!

And New York has a Myspace page! http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=60978664
Scary! I also think it JUST might be fake... Maybe.

2006-09-04T21:07:00.000-05:00

2006-09-02T17:06:00.000-05:00

I've given birth

2006-08-31T19:45:00.000-05:00

To a monster. No big surprise there.

My favorite cat

2006-08-27T02:41:00.000-05:00

Baby does not age.

2006-08-21T17:39:00.000-05:00

http://prezwho.com/baby-that-does-not-age/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Greenberg

Just a couple photos from the trip

2006-08-10T12:19:00.000-05:00

Tire Kingdom no longer a castle

2006-08-08T16:34:00.000-05:00

Here's a letter I wrote to Tire Kingdoms corporate headquartes:

Back in April, my Ford F-150 needed repairs.I took it to the Tire Kingdom in Shenandoah Square, 13760 W. State Rd 84 Davie, Florida. (Possibly store number 136?)The men at this store said I needed a coil pack and an oxygen sensor as well as various other things such as oil change, brake line repair, et al.$851 later, my truck was running pretty good.Here it is August, and lo and behold, I need yet another coil pack. The last one was coil pack #3, now it's #1.The store's phones have been down since Thursday, so it wasn't easy keeping in contact with them. But I don't see how that is their problem, really, things like that often happen in South Florida.
I picked up my truck, paid another $313.94 for a new coil pack, labor, and new wipers.
On my way home, the truck still shuddered and skipped. I figured maybe the truck needed to get accustomed to the new coil pack, but about 2 blocks from my home, the Service Engine Soon light came on as it did when problem first began.
Since my cell phone retained the store's business cell phone number, I called that one. I did not get an answer, but left a message that I would be returning in the morning with my truck.
I have to say, after my truck is repaired correctly, I will not be returning to Tire Kingdom for repairs, ever.

So... let's see what happens. Will they refund my money? (pffft, not holding my breath on that one) or will they fix it for free? They damn well better, or I'm raising hell.

2006-08-07T18:43:00.000-05:00

Your Superhero Profile

Your Superhero Name is The Lightning DragonYour Superpower is NanotechnologyYour Weakness is SaltYour Weapon is Your Fungal RocketYour Mode of Transportation is Zebra

What's" your Superhero Name?

2006-07-25T17:02:00.000-05:00

Switchblade Monkey wrote a great piece on "Being a MAN!"
http://www.switchblademonkey.blogspot.com/

bad, bad, bad joke

2006-07-20T14:37:00.000-05:00

Q: What do Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common?

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A: Their last big hit was the Wall!

2006-07-08T11:05:00.000-05:00

I have a lead on a job in Miami-Dade courts as a bailiff.
Just by watching the video here, I'm gonna do it, lol!

Those wacky japanese.

2006-07-06T08:48:00.000-05:00

This is SO worth watching all the way through.

for someone else...

2006-07-04T16:15:00.000-05:00

2006-07-03T17:41:00.000-05:00

New blog

2006-07-01T17:10:00.000-05:00

Come read my other blog about the delusional ramblings of my paranoid schizophrenic brother:
http://schizophrenicramblings.blogspot.com/

10 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal

2006-06-27T20:40:00.000-05:00

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

Re-post this if you believe love makes a marriage.

Jesus. (I'm going to hell, too)

2006-06-25T19:34:00.000-05:00

The Embedded Man

2006-06-25T12:00:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SBR8XmE4PA

2006-06-24T18:37:00.000-05:00

[img]http://www.funnypicturesandcartoons.com/?w=Pictures/Bunny ballon.gif[/img]

Death of teh Intarweb??

2006-06-20T18:16:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5RQrxkGgCM

2006-06-16T20:11:00.000-05:00

You Are 40% Sociopath

From time to time, you may be a bit troubled and a bit too charming for your own good.
It's likely that you're not a sociopath... just quite smart and a bit out of the mainstream!

Are You A Sociopath?

Your Hillbilly Name Is...

Bobbie Jean Clementine

Hillbilly Name Generator

You Are Creepy

Serial killers would run away from you in a flash.

How Scary Are You?

A day in the life of...

2006-06-12T14:23:00.000-05:00

My brother suffers from Schizophrenia... Hmm, lately I think he ENJOYS schizophrenia, but I digress.
Today he called me to tell me I would be his guardian for 30 years after he ressurects. Yay! Just what I've always wanted.
Anyway, I was at work, so I hung up. I immediately called his casemanager, who I had left several messages for with no callback.
A few days ago, I had left a message with both the case manager and his doctor. It was the doc who called back first, go figure.
Anyway, the doctor said that today my brother is Jesus Christ and is repeating the stations of the cross, whatever that means. (Damn pagans don't know a damn thing about Christianity.)
Anyway, my brother used to respond on Rispirdal 2mg. He is now up to 8mg and still not responding. OK, so that means he is cheeking his meds and spitting them out later.
I asked her was it time for Clozaril? Now Clozaril is... well, ever hear of Thorazine? Clozaril is just ... oh, a little better than Thorazine. Where Thorazine made people zombies, Clozaril will make people zombies that drool.

But seriously, Thorazine is a dated medication that is rarely used anymore. I don't think it's even used in the United States, but used in other countries.
Clozaril, on the other hand, SHOULD produce a better effect... if he takes it like he's supposed to. Interested in finding out more about Clozaril? Read here: http://www.clozaril.com/index.jsp Damn, I feel like a drug representative. Hehehe

The doctor is first going to try Haldol, which will make him sleep alot. Then we'll go for Clozaril.

An hour after I talked to his doctor, his case manager FINALLY called back and said that he (the case manager) had been gone for a month as he suffered a heart attack. Oh, well, that explains why he hadn't called back.
The case manager also said that my brother was religiously preoccupied, and "doing sexual stuff". Gads, I hope that doesn't mean he was.... getting a blow from another male patient since males and females do not interact there. Hopefully he was just jerking off.

WEEEEEE!
And yet today I am calm about this when I am usually up in arms and my nerves are shot when I hear things like this. Although... I think I could feasibly become an alcoholic. Mmm, cocktails.

For teen girls and twenty-something women.

2006-06-07T18:42:00.000-05:00

Y'know, I am, like, so tired of hearing idiots talk, or whatever.

2006-06-07T14:50:00.000-05:00

666 craze: Six ways to know if your child is the son of Satan

Chicago Tribune
Posted June 6 2006, 10:36 AM EDT

With Tuesday's opening of the "The Omen", the Tempo Subcommittee on Parental Recognition of Demon Kin offers these tips on how to identify if your child is, well, you know who ...

1. He insists on changing his nickname from "Scooter" to "Eternal Purveyor of Cataclysmic Doom and Nightmarish Darkness." When pressed for a reason, he claims it's catchier.

2. He's always asking the lifeguard if the baby pool contains any holy water.

3. You find yourself searching the Walgreens aisles for diapers that will accommodate a forked tail.

4. When you ask him what he wants for his birthday, he hisses: "Your immortal soul."

5. His natural body temperature is 380 degrees.

6. When asked what he wants to be when he grows up, responds: the enemy of Goodness. Or, maybe, an astronaut.

Just for the image hosting...

2006-06-06T07:55:00.000-05:00

2006-06-04T14:15:00.000-05:00

I'm going to hell, cause this is funny.

2006-06-02T13:39:00.000-05:00

Corpse falls off hearse and gets run over
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Philippines/10044159.html
Manila: A taxi rammed into a hearse in Quezon City, sending a corpse flying out of the vehicle on to a pavement before being run over by another vehicle.
The driver of the hearse was fixing a tyre puncture in the middle of a highway when the accident occurred along the city's Commonwealth district around dawn on Tuesday. "The driver was changing the tyres of the hearse when a taxi slammed into the rear of the vehicle," a witness interviewed by a television network said, adding that the taxi driver was apparently drowsy when the accident occurred.
Traffic came to a standstill on the road as everyone gaped at the lifeless accident victim.
Quezon City investigators cannot decide whether they should file homicide charges against the taxi driver, Jimmy Bautista, as the victim was already dead before he met with the accident.
"Traffic investigators are preparing to file charges of reckless imprudence resulting in damage to property against the taxi driver," traffic aide Cristanto Gragatin was quoted by the daily Philippine Star.
"The family of the 'accident victim' are still uncertain about what charges to file," he said.

You don't have to agree.

2006-06-01T13:59:00.000-05:00

I occasionally read Letters to the Editor in my local paper. One caught my eye. I liked it, I really liked it.
I may not agree with the bible myself, but this just makes me realize there are people who DO and can be less than... forceful... about it.
Letter follows:

Bible as fiction makes no sense

J. David King
Plantation
Posted June 1 2006
To the writer who refers to himself as a confirmed atheist and is delighted over The DaVinci Code (Tuesday): Sorry, friend, but I don't believe in atheists. The Bible tells me they don't exist. It says everyone has the truth of God written on their hearts. You may have buried it under a hundred rationalizations, but it's still there.
The Bible as fiction? That doesn't make any sense at all. How is it that a piece of fiction written over a period of 1,500 years by 40 different authors presents such a consistent picture of God, nails every aspect of human behavior, and delivers such a unique message of hope that untold millions have embraced its precepts even though it stands in opposition to every natural human inclination?
If it is fiction, how did it ever survive from antiquity? If it is fiction, why is it that every attempt to suppress it has failed? If it is fiction, how can such an old document be so relevant to our lives today? How does it save destroyed marriages, restore relationships and pull people back from suicide? How does it comfort grief and deliver people from addiction? How does it bring joy and peace regardless of circumstances? Sorry. I don't mean to sound preachy, but I do get passionate about the Bible.
Finally, you say you haven't seen a miracle? Well, I've never seen a whale. But I believe in whales because I have it on good authority that they exist.

I'm REALLY morbid...

2006-06-01T13:23:00.000-05:00

So, I found a dead 'possum in the back of the store where I work. This is where I go out to grab a smoke, so I'd often go look at the stages of decomposition.
I bought a new digital camera, so I decided to take pics of the poor little thing.

I should have been an archeologist.

2006-05-31T14:21:00.000-05:00

3,000-year-old skeleton found in Rome

Wednesday, May 31, 2006; Posted: 11:21 a.m. EDT (15:21 GMT)

Archaeologists said they have dug up a woman skeleton dating to the 10th century B.C. in Rome.
ROME, Italy (AP) -- Archaeologists say they have dug up a woman skeleton dating to the 10th century B.C. in an ancient necropolis in the heart of Rome.

The well-preserved skeleton appears to be that of a woman aged about 30, said archaeologist Anna De Santis, who took part in the excavations under the Caesar's Forum, part of the sprawling complex of the Imperial Forums in central Rome.

An amber necklace and four pins also were found near the 5-foot-3-inch-long skeleton, she said Tuesday.

The bones, dug up Monday, would likely be put on display in a museum after being examined further, De Santis said.

It was the first skeleton to be found in the 3,000-year-old necropolis, she said. Early this year, a funerary urn that contained human ashes, as well as bone fragments that appeared to be from a sheep, were found in one of the necropolis' tombs.

Alessandro Delfino, another archaeologist who took part in the excavations, said Monday's discovery highlighted a "social change" in the funerary habits of the people who dwelled in the area, from incinerating to burying the dead.

Experts have said the necropolis was destined for high-ranking personalities -- such as warriors and ancient priests.

They headed the tribes and clans that lived in small villages scattered on hills near the area that later spawned one of the world's greatest civilizations.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.

Interesting.

2006-05-30T11:13:00.000-05:00

After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up in Barbados

· Letter left by dying man gives clue to investigators
· Dozens of others thought to have perished en route

Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Monday May 29, 2006
The Guardian

Police and forensic experts inspect a boat in Bridgetown, Barbados, where 11 bodies were found in the cabin of the unnamed 20-foot boat. Photograph: Chris Brandis/AP

The white ghost ship rolled in the Atlantic swell as the rescue boats approached it 70 nautical miles off Ragged Point, one of the most easterly places on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
The yacht was unmarked, 6 metres (20ft) long, and when Barbadian coastguard officers boarded it, they made a gruesome find. The boat's phantom crew was made up of the desiccated corpses of 11 young men, huddled in two separate piles in the small cabin. Dressed in shorts and colourful jerseys, they had been partially petrified by the salt water, sun and sea breezes of the Atlantic Ocean. They appeared to have come from far away.

The sea-battered yacht, identified by one local ship's captain as of French design, was towed into the port at Willoughy Fort, Bridgetown, and the bodies, by now wrapped in plastic bags, were heaved on to the quay.
In a part of the world where legends and myths have often been furnished by the sea, the mystery of the dead men soon provoked curious speculation.

An air ticket from Senegal Airlines and a tragic note written by one of the men as he was preparing to die have, however, helped investigators from several countries set about unravelling the mystery.

For, although the floating coffin appeared off the coast of the Americas, those on board had set off four months earlier from the Cape Verde islands, off the African coast, and had been heading for the European soil of the Canary Islands.

The evidence reportedly points to them having been cut adrift in the Atlantic and left to drift off to a slow, painful end. Barbados police have said the cause of the deaths was starvation and dehydration.

'Please excuse me'

"I would like to send to my family in Bassada [a town in the interior of Senegal] a sum of money. Please excuse me and goodbye. This is the end of my life in this big Moroccan sea," the note said, according to a Barbados paper, the Daily Nation. Relatives of those aboard have been contacting the Barbadian authorities from as far afield as Senegal, Spain and Portugal. They have added pieces to the puzzle - based on telephone calls with relatives before they boarded, and with people who stayed in contact with the boat during the first stage of the voyage.

The story of the 11 dead and some 40 other would-be immigrants from Guinea Bissau, Senegal and Gambia starts on Christmas Day last year at Praia, a port in the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde. There, for €1,300 (£890) each, they were promised a trip to the Canary Islands by a mysterious Spaniard.

Their boat was to be a motorised yacht, recently repaired but bearing no name and no flag. They paid to make the voyage, assuming that the Spaniard - a mechanic based in the Canaries - would be skippering the boat. At the last moment, however, a Senegalese man took over and the Spaniard disappeared. Several then refused to make the journey. One, according to the El Pais newspaper yesterday, jumped from the yacht as it set sail. It is by no means clear what happened next.

Somewhere near the Mauritanian port of Nouadhibou the yacht ran into trouble. Another boat was sent to its aid, apparently after the skipper had contacted the Spaniard. The yacht was towed but, at some stage, the line was severed. El Pais reported that it had been hacked with a machete. With no fuel left and food and water running out, the migrants' fate was left in the hands of the sea, the weather, and luck. The latter soon ran out.

The yacht drifted into the stormy Atlantic and, it is assumed, people were tossed or washed overboard as they died.

The 11 last survivors, huddled together against the elements, were reported to have died by the end of January. At that stage their yacht became a ghost ship, battered by storms or winds until it appeared, 2,800 miles away, on the other side of the Atlantic. A Barbados fishing boat was the first to sight it on April 29, 135 days after it had set sail. The coastguard vessel HMBS Trident was sent to discover its awful secrets.

Anxious phone calls from relatives to the Daily Nation have turned up some of the names of those on the boat. They include a Gambian, Bouba Cisse, whose cousin Abdou Karime, now in Portugal, saw the case reported on TV. "We've been watching it [the story of the 11 bodies found] on Spanish TV and a lot of family members I know would have wished for the bodies discovered to be returned to our country," he told the newspaper.

Immigrant route

The 11 bodies now in a Barbados morgue, along with those presumed dead, add to a growing death toll on the newest immigrant route into Europe from Africa.

This route, from the west African coast to Cape Verde, opened up late last year. By March Spanish authorities claimed more than 1,000 had drowned.

That has not stopped the flow. Three vessels carrying 188 African migrants reached Tenerife yesterday. The number of immigrants to have reached the Canaries this year is close to 7,000.

Interpol, meanwhile, has asked police around the world to locate the mysterious Spaniard who took some €50,000 from the immigrants before they sailed to their death.

Last letter

I am from Senegal but have been living in Cape Verde for a year. Things are bad. I don't think I will come out of this alive. I need whoever finds me to send this money to my family. Please telephone my friend Ibrahima Drame.
Signed Diaw Sounkar Diemi.
El Pais's account of note found on boat

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006-05-27T09:02:00.000-05:00

Went and saw this last night. I was rather impatient to see it, couldn't wait for it to show up.
I won't say I was dissappointed, but... It wasn't what I hoped it would be.
If you don't want spoilers, read no further.

Jean Grey had to be killed... by Wolverine??? But this was after Jean killed Charles Xavier. She shredded him. And Scott, killed by Jean as well.
And Rogue, wtf? She chose the "cure" just so she could touch her boyfriend, but after she saw him getting close to Kitty? Man, teen girls are stupid.
Leech was pretty cool. He had the power to leech any other power near him. That's where the "cure" came from.
It was pretty funny to see Mystik be the dreaded scorned woman and turn Magneto in after she was cured and Magneto left her for being normal. Poor girl! But as she lay there naked, no man in the theater got to see her boobies.
This absolutely left NO room for another X-Men movie. I had heard that this was intended to be the last one, hence the name, but man, there could be other movies with say, Colossus or Ice-Man.
The movie WAS good eye candy, though, and I'll probably buy it when it comes out on DVD.

06/06/06: Another Date with Para-Science

2006-05-25T10:43:00.000-05:00

Taken from Livescience.com

06/06/06: Another Date with Para-Science

By Heather Whipps
Special to LiveScience

If you're just a bit more cautious on a Friday the 13th, wouldn't fly on 9/11 or could never live in a house numbered 666, you are not alone.

With 06/06/06 looming (June 6, 2006), authorities in some cities are worrying prophecy theorists or hate groups might read something ominous into the date and use it as an excuse to stir tension. Some expectant mothers are making birthing appointments to ensure they avoid the date, according to the Sunday Times in London.

And for others, it is a marketing opportunity. 20th Century Fox's remake of "The Omen" and Ann Coulter's book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," will both come out June 6.

The Beast

The number 666 is used to refer to the beast in the Bible's Book of Revelations:

"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."

Among many coincidences that occur with numbers, life itself is based partly on these three: Carbon atoms, key to life as we know it, have six protons, six neutrons, and six electrons in their most common form.

That there is concern over the date at all is a reflection of how popular it's become to search for the hidden meanings in numbers, experts say.

"People have a tendency to latch onto things, like numbers, that help them make sense of the world," said Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and author of "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved" (Simon & Schuster, 2005).

Troubled times

The perceived importance of numbers becomes especially true during troubled times, when finding wisdom in numbers can be a comfort, says professional numerologist Sonia Ducie. "Humanity and individuals are attracted to numbers during times of great transformation," Ducie said. The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are an overwhelming example. Conspiracy theorists in the years since the tragedy have tried hard to thread together "eerie" numerological coincidences, especially those tied to the number eleven. A few of the best known:

9 + 1 + 1 = 11
The first plane to hit the World Trade Center was American Airlines Flight 11; AA can also be "translated" as the alphabet's version of 11.
The State of New York was the eleventh state added to the union.
The names George W. Bush, New York City, Air Force One, Afghanistan and The Pentagon all contain eleven letters.
Despite its modern manifestations, searching for deeper meanings in numbers is a practice that goes back to ancient times, Livio said.

"Numerology has a long history," he told LiveScience. "You can trace it all the way from the followers of Pythagoras, whose maxim to describe the universe was ‘all is number.'" Thinkers who studied under the famous Greek mathematician combined numbers in different ways to explain everything around them, he said.

Para-science

Modern numerology has since morphed into a kind of para-science in the same vein as astrology, according to skeptics. Still, many numerologists claim to rely on Pythagoras' ancient system to divine the hidden connections between numbers—often a birth date—and an individual's life.

Our attraction to certain numbers has to do with the cycles of birth and death those numbers have seen through many millions of years in existence, said Ducie, who trained at the Connaissance School of Numerology in Hertfordshire, England.

"People are subconsciously drawn towards specific numbers because they know that they need the experiences, attributes or lessons, associated with them, that are contained within their potential," she said. "Numerology can ‘make sense' of an individual's life (health, career, relationships, situations and issues) by recognizing which number cycle they are in, and by giving them clarity."
Mathematicians are quick to dismiss numerology as having any scientific merit, however.

"I don't endorse this at all," said Livio, when asked to comment on the popularity of commercial numerology today. Seemingly coincidental connections between numbers will always appear if you look hard enough, he said.

Lucky numbers

When it comes to lucky numbers, at least, Ducie agreed."People can also ‘make' numbers lucky simply by believing they will be lucky when they have those numbers around them; these preconditioned thoughts strongly contribute towards their manifestation of luck," she said.
The obsession with particular numbers also tend to wax and wane according to the trends of popular culture, Livio noted.

Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" (Doubleday, 2003) has played a part with its showcase of the golden ratio, or divine proportion, which Livio explores in his book "The Golden Ratio" (Broadway, 2003). The very precise number is said to exist mysteriously in various places in nature and be extremely attractive to the human eye. Spin-offs in the worlds of architecture, art and even diet books are a result of the "Code" phenomenon.

Ronald Reagan's 666

The supposed number of the devil falls in and out of favor with the public, too. It is unclear just how influential the number was in the centuries after the Bible became widespread as literature, but it was certainly ingrained in popular culture after the 1976 release of the movie "The Omen", in which the neck of a demon-child is stamped with the digits 666.

When former President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy retired to their last home in California thirteen years later, they forced officials to change their address from 666 to 668 St. Cloud Road, Livio said.

No word on whether the former president whose full name is Ronald Wilson Reagan, was bothered by the number of letters in each of his first, middle and last names.

Comcast sucks out loud!

2006-05-24T14:06:00.000-05:00

Since the past hurricane (Wilma), our cable internet connection has gone steadily downhill.
I TIRED to be patient. I understood that there would be a wait on anything that wasn't "major".
So I waited until it got bad. During peak times, we couldn't access the internet. Usually it was between 5 or 6pm till about 10pm. But then it got worse, so I called Comcast to send out a tech.
The tech came out, but we were actually online, so there was nothing he could do.
A month later I called for another tech... Who came out while we were online and there was nothing he could do.
So I called tech support. Somehow we got online talking to him... But less than 2 weeks later I was calling again for ANOTHER tech, who finally said our sending line was bad, and it was the whole building. He said he'd turn it into maintenance, who should fix the lines within 48 hours.
Yep, you guessed it, 7 days later I had yet ANOTHER tech out, looking at the lines. Paperwork SAID complete, but it wasn't. SO while this last tech was here, he called to say that the line needed to be fixed or they would lose us as customers.

Dang, I hope I get to finish this post before the internet goes out...

Anyway, I'm giving them a week. If it's still not fixed, I'm contacting the media.

Police: Teacher Claiming To Be 'Luke Skywalker' Had Super Human Strength

2006-05-23T18:02:00.000-05:00

Police: Teacher Claiming To Be 'Luke Skywalker' Had Super Human Strength

POSTED: 4:39 pm EDT May 22, 2006
UPDATED: 8:40 am EDT May 23, 2006

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A high school physical education teacher was relieved of duty Monday after police arrested him over the weekend for allegedly telling police he was "Luke Skywalker" and fighting several officers who tried to arrest him.

Police first saw David McCann, 30, standing in front of a bar Saturday at 2 a.m., shirt unbuttoned and yelling he was "Luke Skywalker" at passers-by, according to the incident report. An officer asked him to leave after McCann allegedly got into a verbal confrontation with two women.

McCann then allegedly charged the officer, who sprayed him in the face with an irritant. Two officers tried unsuccessfully to handcuff him as McCann wildly swung his fists, the report says.

The incident further escalated, with McCann continuing to allegedly attack officers after he was repeatedly kicked and struck with a baton, according to the report. Officers also used a Taser to attempt to subdue him.

"He continued to attack with super human strength and made no attempt to escape," according to the report.

McCann was finally brought under control when two responding officers struck him three times with a Taser gun and another hit him four more times with a baton, according to the report.

He was arrested on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct. Three officers suffered received bruises and other minor injuries, the incident report said.

The Orange County School District said McCann had worked there for two years, but the district had already decided before the arrest not to renew his annual contract for next year.

More pics that amuse me.

2006-05-23T07:22:00.000-05:00

Hooray! They DID exist!!

2006-05-16T19:41:00.000-05:00

Mummy may have been female warrior

Tuesday, May 16, 2006; Posted: 7:52 p.m. EDT (23:52 GMT)

The woman had complex tattoos covering both arms and other areas.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A female mummy with complex tattoos on her arms has been found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru, the National Geographic Society reported Tuesday.

The mummy was accompanied by ceremonial items including jewelry and weapons, and the remains of a teenage girl who had been sacrificed, archaeologists reported.

The burial was at a site called El Brujo on Peru's north coast near Trujillo.

They said the woman was part of the Moche culture, which thrived in the area between A.D. 1 and A.D. 700. The mummy was dated about A.D. 450.

The presence of gold jewelry and other fine items indicates the mummy was that of an important person, but anthropologist John Verano of Tulane University said the researchers are puzzled by the presence of war clubs, which are not usually found with females. (Watch as archaeologists unwrap the mummy -- 1:30)

The woman had complex tattoos, distinct from others of the Moche, covering both arms and other areas. Bone scarring indicated the woman had given birth at least once. The cause of her death was not apparent.

Verano said she would have been considered an adult in her prime. Some Moche people reached their 60s and 70s.

The grave also contained headdresses, jewelry made of gold and semiprecious stones, war clubs, spear throwers, gold sewing needles, weaving tools and raw cotton.

"Perhaps she was a female warrior, or maybe the war clubs and spear throwers were symbols of power that were funeral gifts from men," Verano said.

In the thousands of Moche tombs previously exposed, no female warrior has been identified.

The find is described in the June issue of National Geographic magazine.

Pics that amuse me.

2006-05-09T13:12:00.000-05:00

Mah dawg

2006-05-02T20:32:00.000-05:00

2006-05-02T19:31:00.000-05:00

The Evils of The Code.

2006-05-02T19:13:00.000-05:00

What is it about the Da Vinci Code that scares the crap out of Christians?

I read the book, and though fascinating as it was, it's FICTION!

A nun knelt in prayer for 12 freaking hours outside Washington (where the movie was being filmed) to protest it. When asked if she thought her praying would make any difference, her reply was, "Maybe not, but at least I tried my best."

I just finished reading a book called Secrets Of The Code by Dan Burstein. Frankly, I'm confused on which "side" Burstein is on. In some sections it looks like he is defending Dan Brown, but by the end of the book, he's showing us all the lies Brown told of his past. Big deal, Brown lied about his past, he's a writer and he probably felt the need to embellish a little. Doesn't change the fact he wrote a good book.

A man named Lewis Perdue claims Brown plagarized his book Daughter of God. Amazon.com cites: When Zoe Ridgeway, a prominent art broker, visits Switzerland with her husband Seth, she expects to purchase the rich estate of a secretive art collector. But before Zoe can complete the transaction, she and Seth are drawn into a thousand-year-old web of conspiracy, murder and intrigue that begins and ends with the mystery of a female Messiah, a young girl whose existence, if proven, would explode the very foundation of Western culture.

Additionally, Perdue has a book called The Da Vinci Legacy. Amazon.com cites: The Lost Mysteries of LeonardoThe Da Vinci Codex is a priceless collection of Leonardo's original work-- or is it? When Da Vinci scholar Vance Erikson discovers that several of the Codex's pages are forgeries, the search is on for the genuine documents, which may hold startling secrets and revelations.But Erikson is not the only one seeking the missing pages. He soon finds himself the target of a murderous conspiracy that dates back to the dawn of Christianity itself. For the Da Vinci Codex is more than just a precious document. It is also the key to a long-lost discovery of frightening importance. Now, not only Erikson's life but the future itself is at stake. Ultimate power is the prize for whomever seizes ...The Da Vinci LegacyFirst published in 1983, The Da Vinci Legacy is an engrossing international thriller.

DID Brown plagarize? I don't know, but the similarities are pretty amazing if he didn't, but then, I didn't read the books by Perdue.

Even if Brown didn't steal those two books, what is it about Browns book and movie deal with Ron Howard that scares the Christians...

Hmmm, I wonder.

Boohoo

2006-04-29T10:06:00.000-05:00

No one responding at all to my posts... sniff, pity me!
I wonder if anyone is actually reading?

I SAID PITY ME!

Stolen DailyRotten post...

2006-04-20T14:14:00.000-05:00

It's 4/20. If your kid cuts school today, he just might have a chemical dependency. That's all we're gonna say.

Kevin Underwood, child killer, and cannibal?

2006-04-17T13:01:00.000-05:00

The big story lately is Kevin Underwood kidnapped, molested and killed 10 year old Jamie Bolin. Story also says he had planned to EAT the young girl.

Quote from CNN.com:
The body of Jamie Rose Bolin was found late Friday in a plastic tub hidden in a bedroom closet in Underwood's apartment in Purcell, south of Oklahoma City, District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said. According to a police affidavit, Underwood confessed to killing the girl.
Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said investigators think Underwood planned to eat the girl's corpse, according to an AP report.
Kuykendall said that meat tenderizer and barbecue skewers were found in Underwood's apartment, apparently intended to be used on the girl.
The girl's clothes had been removed, but the only outward sign of injury was deep marks to her neck from a decapitation attempt, Kuykendall said. Her clothing was in the tub in which her body was found, along with a towel to soak up blood.
Preliminary autopsy results indicate she was struck in the head several times with a wooden cutting board. Authorities believe Underwood then used his hand and duct tape to asphyxiate her, Kuykendall said.
Authorities do not believe the suspect had any previous victims. Underwood had no felony criminal history and no known mental illness.
However, police believe Jamie was selected simply because she walked past Underwood's apartment on Wednesday -- the last day she was seen alive.
Authorities think she was killed shortly afterward, before police were notified of her disappearance.
The girl "happened to be the one that was ultimately selected for this plan," although others had been targeted and considered, Tompkins said.
"Whoever walked by was going to be a victim," Tompkins said. "There were very likely other potential targets or victims -- it could have been either a boy or a girl, an adult or a child."
Authorities have information that a 5-year-old boy and an adult female were among other victims considered, he said, declining to elaborate.
"A child was chosen because a child would put up less of a fight," Kuykendall said.
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The above story also says he had a blog on Blogspot.com

Having read the blog, (Link removed since the blog was removed) i truly don't see anything wrong with it. Of course, I didn't read ALL of it. Still, his blog isn't that much different from other blogs I have read. Blogs are... just place to sort out feelings and/or get rid of frustrations. I think the whole point of telling us he had a blog isto tell us once a gain the "evils of the Interweb."

Still, I think I'll go back and see what the hype is. Frankly, I'm a little surprised his blog hasn;t been shut down (it has now). I bet it has gotten a ton of hits.

Who's the man...?

2006-04-11T13:41:00.000-05:00

I keep hearing the funniest thing.
In August, Trevor and I are going to North Carolina for his sister's Commitment Ceremony to her girlfriend, and when I mention that to people, I hear, "Oh, who's the man of the relationship?"
Um, HELLO! When it's two women, there ISN'T a "man" in the relationship.
There may be a protecter, but that doesn't make her the "man".

My bro is officially nuts

2006-04-05T14:51:00.000-05:00

So, since August, my brother has been in a psychiatric hospital.In December he was transferred to South Florida State Hospital... At SFSH, they really aren't in a hurry to "treat 'em and street 'em" so he's not on a good dosage of medication yet.

He's been delusional since he was admitted into the local hospital. He called today and left a message that he "knows" I'm being abused by a sword and my mother is being tortured... so he called the abuse hotline.

Gads...

I called my mother to warn her that the abuse hotline people MAY be contacting her. They haven't contacted me yet...

The very thought of Trevor abusing me is laughable. He'd rather cut off his own head than to hurt me. I can't even tell if he really DID contact them, or just think he did...

At first I was pissed off. Then I started to laugh...

Looks like since I am his Guardian Advocate, I may need to tell the hospital he is restricted from phone use except on Saturday or Sunday.

Anyone wanna trade siblings?

Gah!

2006-03-27T21:06:00.000-05:00

Just found my name and password for this account. Man, I suck out loud.

I'm pathetic

2005-07-13T16:06:00.000-05:00

In the past 2 days I have bout 3 McD's Happy Meals and an extra toy each time. This is a total of 6 toys. Neopets... I love the Neopets. I HATE McDonald's. Worked there for 13 fricking years and what do I have to show for it... Nothing... even my more impressive scars have faded.
Man, why couldn't Neopests have made the toys for Wendy's or Taco Bell?

WHAAAA-HAAA! I need MORE Neopests toys....

And I don't have children...

2005-07-12T16:02:00.000-05:00

Rambling of an Amazon goes here.
But not now.
Later.