Ramblings & Replies

[JaiDee]

Christie Brinkley is 60 in this photo

 

 

 

[Jerboa]

Hello Guys

 

New here so don't know where to start

[Torurot]

Welcome Jerboa and this thread is as good as anywhere to dip your toe in

[Jerboa]

Thanks  Torurot

[Jerboa]

Just been reading the news about the incident in Ottawa, it says this guy was known to Security Officials and caught them by Surprise ! makes you think how many more are lurking in the shadows as you walk down the street, full new on CBC New Politics

[JaiDee]

Just so you know Jerboa, this is the thread where pretty much anything on your mind can be posted......but if you think you have a topic for an interesting NEW thread, by all means start one! We love discussing any and all topics around here

 

Welcome aboard!

 

   Here is why Americans are scared of everything; in regards to the Ottawa shooting check our news website {CNN} against the one from the BBC; same story, two completely different ways to report how people should feel?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TEXASMAC]

JaiDee that is a lovely picture. A lady at 60???   WOW 

[JaiDee]

Yeah, really......how many ladies look like THAT at 60??

[globetrotter]

wow that's crazy I grew up in Ottawa very close to where the shooting took place and as a kid would go there every year for remembrance day ceremonies

[JaiDee]

Here's Mark Zuckerburg speaking fluent Mandarin at a university in Beijing yesterday; he learned it in less than 4 years.

 

 

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5qXkPNk5cA

[SiamSam]

Jai Dee would you mind sending me the link to the above video. I would like to pass it on to someone else. You might know who. 

 

Thanks

[JaiDee]

Sure, Zuck posted it to his FB page but it's also on Youtube and has 135K hits in less than 24 hours;

 

go to Youtube.com

 

   then put this after the com;/watch?v=S5qXkPNk5cA

 

If I don't separate it like this it will just show as a video again.

 

Or simply enter;  zuckerburg speaking chinese  into a Youtube search, there's a short and a long version.  PD may like this link as well, I know he read a book I left behind once about the young entrepeneur.  Love him or hate him he's made quite an impact on the world by age 30.

[SiamSam]

Merci JD.

[xyzzy]

FWIW If you click quote on the post with the video you can see the link.

[bumblebee]

Alternatively at the top left of the video is the name of the clip, when you click that it takes you to it on Youtube, handy for future reference.

[Torurot]

Or if your using Firefox, right click over the image, then click "Copy Link Location"

This will copy the URL (Web link) into the clipboard and you can later paste it where ever you want

[Torurot]

From elsewhere. Good advice for the hysterical:

Stop the Ebola Witch-Hunt!

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001080.html

There's a wonderful old 1963 episode of the classic original

"The Outer Limits" series called "The Sixth Finger."

It stars David McCallum as a man who is artificially and rapidly

evolved into the human of the far future, both in terms of physical

appearance and vastly enhanced intellect.

At one critical juncture, as he surveys the pitiful confusion of the

ordinary humans who want to destroy him for being different, he

proclaims, "Your ignorance makes me ill and angry."

But you don't have to be a super-intellect to feel both ill and angry

at the spectacle of the current Ebola witch-hunt, being largely

orchestrated by so-called radio and television "journalists" and

lowlife politicians, with masses of ordinary folks being whipped into

a frenzy of hate and prejudice as a predictable (and we may reasonably

assume, intentional) result.

The worst offenders are the usual sycophant suspects. Moronic

right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, the FOX News clowns,

and the rest of the theocratic, anti-science, anti-health care, racist

boosters of the rich and haters of the poor. You can tune them in

anytime, ranting that Ebola is all a plot by Obama, that we should ban

anyone who has been in Africa, and that we're about to be destroyed by

an Ebola mutated into an airborne horror.

Sad to say, CNN -- once a great news organization -- now spinning out

of control into the pit of mediocrity under the reigns of Jeff Zucker,

has been a particular offender, going wall to wall for ratings with

breathless, panicked Ebola stories, only sidetracking into other items

if they're bloody enough or feature globe-trotting chefs or the new

retread of "Dirty Jobs." In fact, one of the few sane recent

commentaries I've seen on cable news lately about Ebola actually was

on FOX News -- proving once again the old adage about a stopped clock

not being incorrect quite all of the time.

And the Internet is now playing a major role as well. Blogs and other

social media are being used to spread completely false rumors about

Ebola outbreaks and deaths in the U.S., or attempting to capitalize on

fake Ebola cures. Facebook and Twitter are being used today to vilify

a doctor back from treating Ebola patients who has now tested positive

for the disease.

Naturally, these purposeful attempts at panicking the populace are

having nightmarish, sickly effects. One of those effects is to terrify

health care workers, who know all too well what the sorts of demands

now coming from talk show hosts, politicians, and panicked citizens

would mean in terms of making a horrible situation in Africa even

worse.

Attempts to ban persons who have traveled or transited from Africa

would decimate relief efforts, as would country-specific travel bans

in general. Demanding that every symptom-free health care worker who

has been trying to help Ebola patients be quarantined upon return is

not only unnecessary but would vastly undermine the willingness of

health care workers to volunteer for such efforts in the first place.

Meanwhile, where Ebola really is endemic -- in Africa -- it would

continue to spread in the horrendous living conditions and primitive

health care environment there -- putting ever more people in Africa at

genuine risk.

Now, get this through your thick skulls, you idiot Ebola panickers and

profiteers ...

The only people who get Ebola are ones who are in direct, close

contact with persons in the throws of major Ebola symptoms -- like

vomiting, horrible coughing, and other symptoms you wouldn't want to

be anywhere near even if all they represented was a case of the flu.

It is not an epidemic here. It is not going to be an epidemic here.

And speaking of the flu -- now that's something you should be worried

about! Thousands die every year from the flu here in the U.S., many

for lack of simple vaccinations (thank the anti-vaccine nutcases for

contributing to that). Unlike Ebola, the flu is airborne and easily

spread.

Oh yes -- and ironically, the same GOP fanatics so desperate to repeal

the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") that has provided millions with

insurance and preventative care against diseases such as the flu, are

the same hateful creatures who are out there now seemingly demanding

draconian restrictions against anyone who even utters the word "Ebola"

in public.

And just to be clear, this isn't just a GOP-orchestrated witch-hunt --

though they're the masters of the method. There are also Democratic

politicians who are playing the Ebola scare card for all it's worth.

Given the toxic political landscape, it's six of one and half a dozen

of another (and I don't mean "Outer Limits" fingers in this case) when

it comes to reigning in our politicians on this. Ebola is their

natural element for exploitation. You might as well try keep a bear

away from a beehive dripping with honey.

But there is one thing I believe we can do. As I noted earlier, social

media is being widely abused to spread Ebola panic and prejudice. When

you see this occur, I urge you to call out the perpetrators publicly

for what they are. Don't sit silently and let them get away with their

hateful garbage.

Yes, this means having a thick enough skin to deal with the inevitable

trolls, but this is a situation where we're talking about real lives

being ruined not only by Ebola itself, but by purposefully

orchestrated false stories and resulting panic, often using the Web as

its carrier.

Thankfully, the Internet is still one place where we individually and

collectively still have some real control.

Take care.

--Lauren--

Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren

[JaiDee]

Here's a  New York city street.

 

No one seems too bothered that there's a huge fire coming up from the sewers.

[JaiDee]

This guy quit being an actor after doing Ayahuasca

 

http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/05/02/soap-star-james-scott-quits-soap-opera-after-taking-hallucinogenics-in-peru

 

     “I just got back from Peru. I spent six days in the jungles of Peru doing Ayahuasca with the shaman.  It was the single most positive experience of my life. Ayahuasca is this hallucinogenic.  I sat in a tent, in a hut, in the jungle, on the amazons with three shaman blowing tobacco smoke into my crown, realigning my chakras and my energy, while I hallucinated for four to six hours.  I mean, this is all hard to explain.  It’s very spiritual and very interesting.  This is a medicine that the people of South America have been using for years to have a relationship with a higher consciousness.  It sounds wacky when you say it, but it was truly the most important thing I have ever done.  I came back a very different person.''

[seven]

A fine Texan :

 

[seven]

Forgotten Corvette collection emerges from the dust after 25 years.

 

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/peter-max-s-forgotten-corvette-collection-emerges-from-the-dust-after-25-years-162558587.html

[JaiDee]

Nice 'vette's, Seven!

 

I'd love to have a collection like that.

 

The last time the Thai government tried this, didn't they end up with a truckload of Indian, Arab and Chinese cheap charlie's? Russians also, small spenders and generally pretty rude.  BTW, I would imagine Ladyboy-hunters would be regarded as pretty far down the scale of "quality tourists," at least in their minds;

 

  ''TAT urged to put focus on quality tourists to boost revenue''

 

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/772483-tat-urged-to-put-focus-on-quality-tourists-to-boost-revenue/?utm_source=newsletter-20141030-0726&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

[Torurot]

MEN: For pity's sake SLEEP with LOTS of WOMEN - and avoid Prostate Cancer

And, um, don't sleep with other men. If that's what worries you

By Lewis Page, 29 Oct 2014

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/29/men_for_pitys_sake_sleep_with_lots_of_women_and_avoid_prostate_cancer/

....A surefire way of holding off that scourge of male health, prostate cancer, is to sleep with lots of women - according to the latest research. However, perhaps unfortunately for those gentlemen inclined that way, sleeping with a lot of other men has quite the opposite effect ...

[bumblebee]

Big furor back home just now as they are introducing water charges.  The cops have been getting a bad press as they have been seen to side with the water company in some situations.  This gave me a chuckle, hope you can understand what they are saying.

 

[JaiDee]

Wanna live in Nunavut in northern Canada?

 

  This is what you will be paying for basic commodities!

 

 

http://imgur.com/a/Jjn1g

 

{105 bucks for a case of water?}