Sunday, October 31, 2004

An Irish Sunday sermon


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
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The Irish priest was at the altar one dreary
Sunday
> morning, addressing his congregation, vehement
that alcohol was the
work of
> the devil.
>
> "As an example," he stated during his sermon,
> "If you were to lead a donkey to a bowl of water
and a bowl of
whiskey, from
> which would he drink?"
>
> A grizzled old Mick at the back of the church
spoke up:
> "Aye, Father, for sure he'd drink from the
water."
>
> The priest, elated, said: " Very good, my son.
> And can you tell me WHY he'd drink from the
water?"
>
> The Irishman at the back of the church replied:
"Sure I
> can tell ye' why, Father. Because he's an ass."




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It's Sunday, so a football joke. Not a blonde joke


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
United States Marine Corps

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They has great seats right

behind their team's bench. After the game he asked her how she liked the experience.

" Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles.

But, I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents".

Dumbfounded, her date asked" What do you mean?"..."Well, I saw them flip a coin and

one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all of them kept

screaming," Get the quarter back" ," Get the quater back." " well,

HELLO!!.......... It's only 25 cents!!!"



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Ok, it's still Sunday, now it's time for anothere joke


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
United States Marine Corps

COWBOY

An old cowboy sat down at the bar and ordered a drink.
As he sat sipping his drink, a young woman sat down
next to him. She turned to the cowboy and asked, "Are
you a real cowboy?"

He replied, "Well, I've spent my whole life, breaking
colts, working cows, going to rodeos, fixing fences,
pulling calves, bailing hay, doctoring calves,
cleaning my barn, fixing flats, working on tractors,
and feeding my dogs, so I guess I am a cowboy."

She said, "I'm a lesbian. I spend my whole day
thinking about women. As soon as I get up in the
morning, I think about women. When I shower, I think
about women. When I watch TV, I think about women. I
even think about women when I eat. It seems that
everything makes me think of women."

The two sat sipping in silence.

A little while later, a man sat down on the other side
of the old cowboy and asked, "Are you a real cowboy?"

He replied, "I always thought I was, but I just found
out I'm a lesbian."

I didn't say another football joke, I said another joke and that it is still Sunday

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Saturday, October 30, 2004

Your not going to believe this one, but a pic is worth...


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
United States Marine Corps





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No surprise here. Just a pic of what we all know. The laterest in swim ware for man


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
United States Marine Corps




A pic of that the Male way of what a womans bra should be coming soon. check back daily. And sure, of course that's me. [Author clears throat.]

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Friday, October 29, 2004

Thinking...


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
United States Marine Corps





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B, D is calling!!!


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
United States Marine Corps


Now the ball is in your court B.

This entry thanks to CMDH, who reminded me of this idea. Thanks.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Can you Find the Difference???


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
United States Marine Corps

See how smart you really are!!!

The two pictures on the link below appear identical to one another, but

there are three differences. I could only find two. How many can you

spot?


http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/Zoeken.swf



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Monday, October 25, 2004

George Carlin's Views on Aging


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

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Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is
>when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about
>aging that you think in fractions.
>
>"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a
>half. You're four and a half, going on five!
>
>That's the key.
>
>You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next
>number, or even a few ahead.
>
>"How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna
>be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . . you become 21. Even the
>words sound like a ceremony . . YOU BECOME 21 YESSSS !!!
>
>But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad
>milk. He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a
>sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
>
>You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40.
>
>Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you
>REACH 50 . . . and your dreams are gone.
>
>But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!
>
>So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
>
>You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day
>thing; you HIT Wednesday!
>
>You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you
>TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime.
>
>And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I Was
>JUST 92."
>
>Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little
>kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"
>
>May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
>
>HOW TO STAY YOUNG
>
>1.Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let
>the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay "them" .
>
>2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
>
>3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
>whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop."
>And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
>
>4. Enjoy the simple things.
>
>5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
>
>6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is
>with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
>
>7. Surround yourself with what you love, Whether it's family, pets,
>keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
>
>8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,
>improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
>
>9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county;
>to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
>
>10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
>
>AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
>
>Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
>that take our breath away.
>
>And if you don't send this to at least 8 people - who cares?
>
>But do share this with someone. We all need to live life to its fullest each
>day.



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Sunday, October 24, 2004

A joke. Maybe, maybe not...


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
******** United States Marine Corps **********

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a
light bulb?

The Answer is TEN:

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed,

2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs
to be changed,

3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb,

4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either for
changing the light bulb or for darkness,

5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Haliburton for the
new light bulb,

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing
on a step ladder under the banner "Light bulb Change Accomplished",

7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in
detail how Bush was literally "in the dark",

8. One to viciously smear #7,

9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush
has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along,

10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between
screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.





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Saturday, October 23, 2004

BUSH SUPPORTERS MISLED


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)

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A new study by the Program on International Policy
Attitudes (PIPA) shows that supporters of President
Bush hold wildly inaccurate views about the world.
For example, "a large majority [72 percent] of Bush
supporters believe that before the war Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction."[1] Most Bush supporters
[57 percent] also believe that the recently
released report by Charles Duelfer, the administration's
hand-picked weapons inspector, concluded Iraq either
had WMD or a major program for developing them.[2]
In fact, the report concluded "Saddam Hussein did
not produce or possess any weapons of mass
destruction for more than a decade before the U.S.-led
invasion" and the U.N. inspection regime had "curbed his
ability to build or develop weapons."[3]

According to the study, 75 percent Bush supporters
also believe "Iraq was providing substantial
support to al Qaeda."[4] Most Bush supporters [55
percent] believe that was the conclusion of the 9/11
commission.[5] In fact, the 9/11 commission concluded
there was no "collaborative relationship" between
al-Qaeda and Iraq.[6]

Bush supporters also hold inaccurate views about
world public opinion of the war in Iraq and a range
of Bush's foreign policy positions.[7]

Sources:

1. "The Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry
Supporters," Program on International Policy Attitudes,
10/21/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=64458.
2. Ibid,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=64458.
3. "Iraq's Illicit Weapons Gone Since Early '90s,
CIA Says," Los Angeles Times, 10/07/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=64459.
4. "The Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry
Supporters," Program on International Policy Attitudes,
10/21/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=64458.
5. Ibid,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=64458.
6. "Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed," Washington
Post, 6/17/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=64460.
7. "The Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry
Supporters," Program on International Policy Attitudes,
10/21/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=64458.



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I think you are about due for a groaner!


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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A man walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing only underwear made of
Saran Wrap.

The psychiatrist says,
"Well...I can clearly see your nuts."



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Friday, October 22, 2004

A joke


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it, who cuts it up for lumber?

WEll, maybe not.

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Thursday, October 21, 2004

KERRYOPOLY


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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http://www.rnc.org/kerryopoly/default.asp


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Kerry vs. Kerry, Boxing fun this time


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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http://www.rnc.org/kerryvskerry/

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Wednesday, October 20, 2004

A stretch vet? Yeap.


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
******** United States Marine Corps **********





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Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Not a good thing to have happen...


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


IT'S GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FORGIVE BIN LADEN
IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
******** United States Marine Corps **********





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Monday, October 18, 2004

The George Millers Pension Fairness Act , from a friend;


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ARRANGE THE MEETING
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October 12, 2004


Last Friday, Representative George Miller (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, introduced legislation to prohibit companies that dump their employees' under-funded pension plans from also contributing to executive retirement plans.


Miller stated that he introduced the bill to create more of a level playing field in the corporate retirement world, where an increasing number of large companies are dumping their under-funded multi-billion dollar pension plans onto the taxpayer-backed Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), while simultaneously continuing to contribute toward their top executives' retirement plans. Miller's Pension Fairness Act of 2004 would prohibit paying or promising deferred compensation to directors and officers for a 5-year period should a company terminate its employee pension plans during Chapter 11 or reducing employee pension benefits by switching to "cash balance" retirement plans. Among other provisions, the prohibition would begin on the date of any notice of intent to terminate or date of adoption of a cash balance amendment (with a one year look-back to prevent trickery by executives).


Miller stated, "There are too many examples of private companies taking care of their executives' retirement compensation plans while they allow their employees' hard-earned retirement plans to be ruined. From Enron on, many companies are taking care of the captains while leaving the sailors adrift," Miller added. "My bill says that if you drop the employee pension plan, you cannot simultaneously add to the executive compensation plan for five years. I think most Americans would say that's fair."


Miller has long advocated greater parity for the treatment of executives and employees in a variety of pension situations. He has authored numerous pension reform bills and will push for passage of the Fairness Act through the Workforce Committee.


A press release from Congressman Miller's Office listed examples of golden nest eggs that grow for executives even as workers pensions are cut. The release includes:

Glenn Tilton's protected $4.5 million pension trust;

Steven Wolf's $15 million lump sum pension payout just 6 months prior to US Airways' filing for bankruptcy;

Delta Airline's special retirement trusts set up for 33 executives in the same year workers' pensions were changed to a cash balance plan that effectively cut pensions by 50%; and

Seven American Airlines' executives taking retention bonuses and $41 million in pretax contributions to their executive pension trust fund within days of demanding massive wage, benefit and work rules changes from employees.


Of course, these executives would have employees and others believe that they are never the ones responsible for the sacrifices imposed on employees. As PBGC Executive Director Bradley Belt stated before the Senate Commerce Committee last week, United Airlines would be happy to see the PBGC terminate employee pensions. Bradley stated, "they would be happy, management indicated to us, for us to step in and terminate the plans. They wanted the government to be the bad guy."




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Sunday, October 17, 2004

Want to find the MOST in dinning I know of today???



Forbes Mill Steakhouse


An hours drive up the coast and over the hills from Monterey, CA to Los Gatos, worth the beautiful drive to arrive about 6 P.M for dinner. Yes, we were in Monterey for our 16th Ann. and we went for a one hour drive out of Monterey to eat dinner.

Having hear of it's opening a year or so ago, we waited till this year to see how they'd done. In a word, Beautiful.

From the people at the front desk that greet you to the bus boys ever one and everthing is beautiful. So many times there a failure if it's not the food, it's the service. Not here. So, if your in CA in SF or Monterey drive to Los Gatos for the best way to spend $120 for two for the dinner. And have a moment that well take you back in time to when "The Customer" was everthing to team of people try to make your time with them the best it could ever be.



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Saturday, October 16, 2004

Unlikely Visionary Behind Race to Space


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By HELEN O'NEILL, AP Special Correspondent

SpaceShipOne visionary Peter Diamandis wasn't thinking about history as he stood in the Mojave desert and watched a small, shuttlecock-shaped craft glide back to Earth having nudged the edge of space.



He just thought it looked beautiful.

It was only the following day, after the thousands of cheering spectators had disappeared, after the jubilant speeches had dried up along with the champagne, as Diamandis was driving his father back to Los Angeles, that euphoria — and relief — swept over him.

So many people had trusted him, backed him, bailed him out even when others had ridiculed his notion of jump-starting space tourism by offering a $10 million prize for the first privately financed passenger craft to soar 62 miles through the atmosphere and return safely to earth.

At last, he told his father, "the fuse has been lit."

Gently his father reminded him that he was the one who ignited it.

The headlines from the Oct. 4 flight (and the congratulatory call from President Bush (news - web sites)) went to aviator Burt Rutan, who designed SpaceShipOne; to pilots Michael Melvill and Brian Binnie, who flew it in two separate suborbital flights a week apart; and to billionaire Paul Allen who financed it.

But the vision behind the voyage, the brains behind the $10 million purse that spurred it, belong to a small, intense, impeccably dressed son of Greek immigrants, a man so obsessed by space that even his mother jokingly wonders if her son carries an extraterrestrial gene.

Diamandis, 43, is deadly serious about his dreams. And they go far beyond the commercial space travel that many believe was initiated this month.

Diamandis has visions of living in space, of exploring the stars, and of eventually — though perhaps not in his lifetime — colonizing them.

And, as his friends and even his skeptics point out, Peter Diamandis has a habit of turning dreams into reality.

"Peter is truly the Raymond Orteig of our time," says his longtime friend and partner Gregg Maryniak.

Orteig was the immigrant French hotelier who, in 1919, offered a prize of $25,000 for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris — a prize that was captured by Charles Lindbergh when he landed his "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris on May 21, 1927 — 33 1/2 hours after setting off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island. Lindbergh's flight forever changed the way people viewed air travel, and within years trans-Atlantic passenger flights had become a fact of life.

Diamandis predicts his X Prize will do the same for space.

Unlike Orteig, however, Diamandis is far more than just the moneyman.

From the time he was a child in Long Island, smitten by images of the Apollo moon landings, Diamandis has poured his heart and soul into researching space and trying to speed up his chances of getting there. He gave up on the idea of government-sponsored space flight after the 1986 Challenger disaster derailed NASA (news - web sites)'s space shuttle program. The quickest route to space, he decided, would be through privately funded missions.

So Diamandis set out to make it possible.



In 1980, as a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news - web sites), he founded Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, which now has chapters all over the world. He hosted conferences, gave speeches, wrote papers and became the natural leader of a like-minded band of brothers who followed the teaching of futurist and Princeton University physicist Gerard O'Neill.

"The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars." It became Diamandis' mantra.

Diamandis moved on to Harvard Medical School (news - web sites) largely to please his parents, who were more than a little baffled by their only son's obsession.

"I understood his passion," said Tula Diamandis, who urged her son to become a doctor like his father. "It was just hard for me to embrace it."

Even over the phone, Diamandis seems to find it a little disquieting, how his dreams have defined his life. Eventually he would like a home and family, he says. But first he wants to get to space.

"I feed on it intellectually. I believe in it," Diamandis says. "I just don't feel right doing anything else."

And so, over the years, Diamandis has done little else. He organized space conferences and web sites. He started foundations to promote space travel. He founded the International Space University, which started as a summer school and now has permanent campus and staff in Strasbourg, France.

He got a medical degree from Harvard and an aerospace engineering degree from MIT. He started his own rocket company. He co-founded the Zero Gravity Corp., which just this summer got approval from the FAA (news - web sites) to conduct weightless flights for the public aboard a specially modified Boeing 727-200.

Remarkably, he always found backers and believers. And though occasionally his schemes sputtered, more often they thrived.

"Peter just refuses to let things die," says Maryniak, who first met Diamandis as a student and is now executive director of the X Prize Foundation. "He just thinks differently, finds another way, and people end up admiring and then believing and then backing him."

In 1994, Maryniak gave his friend a copy of Lindbergh's Pulitzer-winning autobiography "The Spirit of St. Louis," hoping it would inspire Diamandis — as it had Maryniak — to get his pilot's license.

But it wasn't Lindbergh that captivated Diamandis. It was Orteig.

By the time he closed the book, Diamandis was calling everyone he knew, pitching his plan to create a space prize. He would call it the X Prize — X for mystery, X for experimental, X for the Roman numeral 10, representing the $10 million that would go to the winner.

Maryniak thought the plan outlandish, even by Diamandis' standards. Who would build the spaceships? How would they raise the money?

As usual, Diamandis ignored the disbelievers and forged ahead.

He found supporters, people like Doug King, president of the St. Louis Science Center, who urged Diamandis to capitalize on the Lindbergh-St. Louis connection and base his organization in that city. In March 1996, a group of businessmen were invited to the dining room of the historic Racquet Club. Over drinks, at the same table where an earlier generation of locals had pledged to bankroll Lindbergh, they listened as Diamandis sold them on space.

St. Louis could become a "gateway to the stars", Diamandis told them as clips from the 1957 movie "Spirit of St. Louis" starring James Stewart played in the background. Look what Lindbergh and his backers achieved, Diamandis continued: You can become the "New Spirit of St. Louis" and do the same for space.

Seven pledged $25,000 on the spot. On May 18, under the Arch, surrounded by more than a dozen astronauts, including Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Diamandis announced the creation of the X Prize.

Charles Lindbergh's grandson, Erik Lindbergh, came on board. So did science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, after Diamandis trekked to Sri Lanka to record his message of support. The Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the organization that had certified Lindbergh as the winner of the Orteig Prize, approved. NASA Administrator Dan Goldin offered his support.

Still, there were as many skeptics as believers.

"It probably comes as no surprise that some of the leading citizens of our community have too much money and too little sense," veteran columnist Bill McClellan in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote in a piece that so offended Diamandis he stuck it over his desk for years. McClellan, who acknowledged in a recent column how wrong he was, chuckles at the memory.

"I thought he was a nice young fellow, very sincere, but a dreamer," McClellan said. "I guess if I'd been writing in the time of the Wright brothers I'd have been making fun of them too."

But McClellan couldn't deny that Diamandis' competition had fired the imagination of space enthusiasts. Around the globe, teams started building rockets. Some were sleek and sophisticated and well-financed, others no more than "backyard mechanics," as McClellan described them. They had names like Starchaser, the Da Vinci project, the Mayflower — and, of course, SpaceShipOne.

The race to space was clearly on.

From the start, the hardest part for Diamandis was raising the prize money. Corporations shied away from backing a project they assumed NASA should be leading. And they worried about lending their logos to rockets that might explode before getting anywhere near space.

"Yes, it's dangerous," Diamandis found himself saying, over and over. "But it's worthwhile."

By 2001 friends and family worried privately that Diamandis might go bankrupt trying to keep the race alive. Investments had dried up, though Diamandis was working 16 hours a day trying to find backers. Maryniak was beginning to view his friend as a tragic hero.

Diamandis didn't care; Lindbergh had had his doubters, too. And the competition had already generated enormous funding for space research, which was one of the goals of the X prize. (Allen, who financed Rutan's SpaceShipOne, ended up spending over $20 million.)

Then, in September 2001, Diamandis read a Fortune magazine article about two wealthy Texans who longed to "see the stars." He flew to Dallas, met Anousheh Ansari and her brother-in-law, Amir, and flew back to St. Louis with a commitment of more than $1 million. The competition was renamed the Ansari X Prize. The infusion of money attracted more investors and the race was back on.

This month, a stubborn little spacecraft soared into a cloudless sky, and the race was won.

Overnight, Diamandis was being described as an "astropreneur" rather than a dreamer. And it seemed like the whole world was behind him.

President Bush called the pilots "true American heroes" and praised Allen and Rutan for "opening up the space frontier. Marion C. Blakey, head of the Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites) compared it to the Kitty Hawk as she presented Binnie with astronaut wings after landing SpaceShipOne. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe spoke of "a new century of exploration and discovery."

Diamandis chuckles at how suddenly his dream has become reality. And he insists it is just the beginning. Already, he has launched an annual competition known as the X Prize Cup, a kind of grand prix of space, where teams will compete for fastest launches, fastest turnaround times, most number of passengers and other events.

Other grand schemes have been announced, too.

Richard Branson, the British airline mogul and adventurer, has launched a new company, Virgin Galactic, to bring paying customers into space aboard rockets like SpaceShipOne. Flights are scheduled to start in 2007.

Meanwhile the historic rocket is heading to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. And Diamandis is heading for Florida, where he will relax for a few days — his first vacation in years.

After that, he will hurl himself back into his quest. "I'm going to the stars," he says.

These days, people believe him.



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Friday, October 15, 2004

Not as bad as blowing an engine, but not good either...


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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Thursday, October 14, 2004

Seeking Work...


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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This individual seeks an executive position. He will be available next January, and is willing to relocate.



RESUME

GEORGE W. BUSH

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC20520

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Law Enforcement:

I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976, for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

Military:

I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in`Vietnam.

College:

I graduated from Yale University with a low "C" average. I was deeply involved in sports. I was a cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:

1. I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.

2. I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

3. I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.

4. With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

1. I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

2. I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.

3. I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

4. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

5. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

6. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

7. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month. I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire", Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

8. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.

9. I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

10. My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron. My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.

11. I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.

12. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

13. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.

14. I changed the U.S policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

15. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any President in U.S. history.

16. I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government. I am really proud that Montana and Idaho will be well-protected.

17. I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.

18. I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

19. I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

20. I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

21. I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

22. I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.

23. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

24. I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

25. I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.

26. I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.

27. I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in wartime.

28. In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.

29. I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

29. I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD.

30. I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004!



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Wednesday, October 13, 2004

FDA Approves Use of "Chips in Patients"


The worlds is so ass backwards today that it almost makes you wish you were dyslectic - Dennis Miller(I am dyslectic, it didn't work)


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By DIEDTRA HENDERSON

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) on Wednesday approved an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors, speeding care.

VeriChips, radio frequency microchips the size of a grain of rice, have already been used to identify wayward pets and livestock. And nearly 200 people working in Mexico's attorney general's office have been implanted with chips to access secure areas containing sensitive documents.

Delray Beach, Fla.-based Applied Digital Solutions said it would give away $650 scanners to roughly 200 trauma centers around the nation to help speed its entry into the health care market.

A company spokesman would not say how much implanting chips would cost for humans, even though chips have been implanted in some, including Scott R. Silverman, the company's chief executive officer.

The company is targeting patients with diabetes, chronic cardiac conditions, Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites) and those who undergo complex treatments like chemotherapy, said Dr. Richard Seelig, Applied Digital Solutions' vice president of medical applications.

It's the first time the FDA (news - web sites) has approved medical use of the device, though in Mexico, more than 1,000 scannable chips have been implanted in patients. The chip's serial number pulls up the patients' blood type and other medical information.

With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches.

Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code — similar to the identifying UPC code on products sold in retail stores — that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over the chip.

At the doctor's office those codes stamped onto chips, once scanned, would reveal such information as a patient's allergies and prior treatments.

The FDA in October 2002 said that the agency would regulate health care applications possible through VeriChip. Meanwhile, the chip has been used for a number of security-related tasks as well as for pure whimsy: Club hoppers in Barcelona, Spain, now use the microchip much like a smartcard to speed drink orders and payment.


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