Tuesday - June 14, 2011
Really Ironic
LOS ANGELES—A 780-year-old religious relic of St. Anthony of Padua has been stolen, and parishioners at a Southern California Catholic church are praying to the patron saint of lost causes and missing objects for its speedy return.
The relic was stolen from inside a cabinet beside the altar at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Long Beach on Monday, the feast day of the church’s namesake.
The Rev. Jose Magana said he decided to bring out the relic this year, on the 780th anniversary of the death of St. Anthony, because many of his parishioners have lost hope in the rough economy.
The church opened at 6 a.m., and when Magana turned to the relic during the 9 a.m. Mass, it had disappeared. Magana could hear his parishioners gasp when they realized it was gone, but he continued with the service and called police immediately afterward.
Long Beach police Lt. Paul Arcala said the relic is housed in a 16-inch tall reliquary case with angel-shaped handles made of gold and silver on either side. He declined to describe it further because that might jeopardize the investigation.
Police were looking for a person who was seen at all five Masses on Sunday and was unusually curious about the relic, Arcala said. Witnesses said she got too close and had to be asked to step away. The woman was in her late 30s and was short and heavyset with wavy, shoulder-length black hair.
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“People here are pretty upset but they’re praying. They’re praying to St. Anthony for the return of his own object.”
It takes a special kind of low life to steal from a church. Ripping off the alms box is bad enough, but stealing the religious possessions is far worse.
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Permalink • Monday - June 13, 2011
Neighborly News
Looks like the lady across the way is going to be Ok. I hear that Michelle B. is mostly out of the hospital, and doing physical therapy. I gather her mother will be taking care of the kids until the end of the school year, which is about 2 weeks from now.
And while Michelle plans to get right back on a motorcycle just once more to prove that she can do it, she says after that she isn’t going to ride anymore until the girls are out of high school. That makes sense to me, and gives her maybe 8 years to grow out of it.
At some point she’ll come home, and I’ll be able to talk to her. I’m very glad to hear that she is recovering, and didn’t loose a limb, be chair bound, or suffer brain damage. Lucky lady.
Maybe I can get her to take up bow hunting, and she can go out in the woods and get some revenge on those deer. Our part of the state has some interesting bag limits for deer hunting (we are zones 9-12, Reg Set #8): Bow hunters get several named seasons, but in truth can hunt from September 11th to February 19th, except for Christmas Day, and the bag limit is one buck and as many does as you feel like shooting. Not sure if that count overlaps with those you can take during the gun seasons, where you can shoot two deer at once. It’s pretty much open season on the deer, but no spike bucks can be harvested. Hey, Fish & Wildlife is trying. A helluva lot of deer get bagged around here, almost as many as get run over, but it’s still not enough. It’s an infestation.
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Permalink • guys kissing is part of diversity? sick. barf.
It has been hours and hours and hours since my only other posting today.
That’s because I was at this machine pulling out what little hair I have left.
It isn’t the computer of course. It’s the other stuff I just HAVE to download to try and fix and make faster etc. And then restore cos there’s an error. Not all my doing either I want everyone to know. And the experience reminds me of something TimO wrote here at BMEWS not too long ago. And it says all there is to say or can possibly be said forever more.
If they don’t fix it, they wont be able to:
Study why the fix caused problems
Hire more people to manage the fix
Hire people to fix the mistakes fixing the fix
Mount a study to plan for a better fix
Hire people to blame those who did the original fix
Train new people for the new tech that develops since then
Move everyone to a new project they can fix
...you know, like everything else they muck up....Posted by TimO
Now that I have that out of the way … I will get to my post and then say good night. It’s late.
Is there any real merit in this bit of nonsense? I ask you.
Is it just me, or is the world getting even dumber then I originally thought?
Or maybe it’s just getting more PC. Which in my book adds up to the same thing.
The new police ‘diversity’ course that uses videos of Christina Aguilera and Susan Boyle
By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTERPolice officers are being sent on a bizarre training course that uses video clips of singers Christina Aguilera and Susan Boyle to explain issues surrounding equality and diversity to staff.
Those attending also have to listen to a specially made-up fairy story about witches so they can better understand how to combat prejudice and discrimination.
And in a session about minority groups and harassment, the staff see images of bullying, gay kissing and a transsexual.
The equality sessions have been devised by Tayside Police in the East of Scotland, a region which is mainly rural but includes the small cities of Dundee and Perth.
The day-long course includes a session on ‘communication, stereotyping, prejudice and assumptions’ which involves staff watching a two-minute clip of Susan Boyle making her debut on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.
Participants are reminded that judges on the ITV show initially wrote off Boyle’s chances because of her appearance.
They are then advised not to make lasting judgments about people based on their first impressions.The same session also requires staff to listen to a four-minute fairy story called The Witches Of Glum, which is about the rivalry between the elderly King of Glum and a disfigured witch called Groga.
Last night, Conservative MP Philip Davies said: ‘The courses sound drivel – a combination of the blindingly obvious with the utterly ridiculous.
We have a situation where forces claim they have no money for proper policing but at the same time they spend thousands
on equality and diversity projects.’Tayside Police said the course was mainly for civilian staff and only a handful of officers had attended.
I’d throw up I think if I had to sit and watch a couple of queers kissing. GAK! The thought alone makes my gut churn. That’s disgusting.
Good evening all ...
peiper out.
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Permalink • is this the future of automobile eye candy?
Not too sure if this belongs here or not.
At first I was interested cos I remembered some the futuristic stuff we saw in the 50s. The car on land and water, the flying car, and I can’t recall what else.
Back then, it seemed like the future held all sorts of whiz bang stuff. But large. What I mean by large is, we were thinking in terms of big items. Like cars and boats and especially planes. I suppose some would have been thinking about computers. But back then we still had radio, and Capt. Marvel and The FBI, in Peace and War. The Green Hornet and the list goes on. So anyway, the future was all about science and futuristic cars etc.
(I had a Lone Ranger Atomic Ring and a Capt. Midnight decoder. hey,hey) So that’s what this article reminded me of.
Don’t think I’d want one. With my record of backing things out of a garage not the best anymore, this would definitely be a problem.
German car .... Asian designer .... That reminds me of another story but for another time.
Meet the car of the future that can drive on roads, sand, ice - and even waterBy DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 8:16 AM on 13th June 2011An inventor has come up with a new design for a car that will drive on roads, sand, ice - and even water.
The all-terrain vehicle, which has a top speed of 62mph and works like a hovercraft, can move seamlessly between different surfaces.
Female designer Zhang Yuhan, 21, created the amazing machine - called the Volkswagen Aqua - for a competition sponsored by the German car manufacturer.
Based on technology that is currently available, the Aqua uses a hydrogen fuel cell to power two motors - with zero carbon emissions.
One motor inflates the skirt around the vehicle to make it hover, while the second drives it forwards and controls its direction.
‘There is no better form of transport than an air cushion vehicle because it travels equally well over land, ice, and water,’ said Ms Yuhan.
The mechanic design graduate, from China, added: ‘I hope Aqua will become an affordable supercar that is available to the general public one day.’
The Xihua University student made the shortlist from the CDN China Car Award.
The competition asked designers to come up with a ‘Chinese off-road vehicle’ with ‘go-anywhere’ capabilities.
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Permalink • Saturday - June 11, 2011
Oh, But This One Is OK For Us To See?
Somali officials confirmed today that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaeda’s leader in East Africa and a senior Shabaab commander, was killed at a Somali military checkpoint in Mogadishu earlier this week. Fazul is one of the most wanted terrorists in East Africa for his role in attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as his role within Shabaab.
Somalia’s minister of information confirmed Fazul’s death, according to The Associated Press. “We’ve compared the pictures of the body to his old pictures,” he said. “They are the same. It is confirmed. He is the man and he is dead. The man who died is Fazul Abdullah.”
A US intelligence official who tracks al Qaeda in East Africa told The Long War Journal that Fazul was indeed killed.
“We’re certain we got him,” the intelligence official told The Long War Journal.
More details and a picture of the bloody corpse over at Bill Roggio’s Long War Journal.
NAIROBI, Kenya – The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces who didn’t immediately realize they had killed the most wanted man in East Africa, officials said Saturday.
The death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed — a man who topped the FBI’s most wanted list for nearly 13 years — is the third major strike in six weeks against the worldwide terror group that was headed by Osama bin Laden until his death last month.
Mohammed had a $5 million bounty on his head for allegedly planning the Aug. 7, 1998, embassy bombings. The blasts killed 224 people in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania combined. Most of the dead were Kenyans. Twelve Americans also died.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — who was on a visit to Tanzania on Saturday as Somali officials confirmed Mohammed’s death — called the killing a “significant blow to al-Qaida, its extremist allies, and its operations in East Africa.
“It is a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and elsewhere — Tanzanians, Kenyans, Somalis, and our own embassy personnel,” Clinton said.
Mohammed was killed Tuesday but was carrying a South African passport, so Somali officials didn’t immediately realize who he was. The body was even buried. Officials later exhumed it.
Wait, won’t there be Worldwide Muslim Outrage™ over that grave desecration? No? Nobody gives a poop if it isn’t Americans doing it? Huh?
Mohammed’s death is the third major blow against al-Qaida in the last six weeks. Navy SEALs killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on May 2 at his home in Pakistan. Just a month later, Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaida leader sought in the 2008 Mumbai siege and rumored to be a longshot choice to succeed bin Laden, was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan.
The strike against Kashmiri was not the direct result of intelligence material seized from the bin Laden compound, U.S. and Pakistan officials say. If the account of the killing at the security checkpoint killing is confirmed, it would appear Mohammed’s death is also not the result of new intelligence.
Sooner or later this AQ hydra is going to run out of heads. Let’s hope the military can keep this streak going. One or two top leaders a month and pretty soon there won’t be anyone left at the top at all.
Speaking of dead terrorists ... remember what Odumbo said back at the end of March about why he was bombing Libya?
Of course, there is no question that Libya -– and the world –- would be better off with Qaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
The task that I assigned our forces -– to protect the Libyan people from immediate danger, and to establish a no-fly zone -– carries with it a U.N. mandate and international support. It’s also what the Libyan opposition asked us to do. If we tried to overthrow Qaddafi by force, our coalition would splinter.
Nobody believed that BS then either. Now NATO is stating the obvious: yes, they’re gunning for Qaddafi, and have been doing so all along. No kidding.
A U.N. resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission told CNN Thursday…
The resolution said forces could use “all necessary measures” to protect civilians.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday it is time to start planning for what to do in Libya after Gadhafi’s departure “because Gadhafi’s reign of terror is coming to an end.”
Read more at Hot Air. Why do our leaders feel they have to lie to us? If Obama had come right out on Day One and said he wanted to aid the Libyan revolutionaries and was going to use US forces to off old Uncle Mohmar, half the country would have been on his side. Of course, that would be the half that’s dead set against him in everything else, but he would have had their approval for at least a little while. And it would be a “gutsy” move. Instead we get this piddleshit dicking about.
Come on Obama, ramp it up. Get an actual declaration of war going. Then send in the B-52s and level Tripoli. Twice. As if we care about collateral damage. Not. Just make sure you install a compliant satrapy Government In A Box when the old government falls. And then spend the next 5 years teaching Libyans how to be happy Westerners and not backwards jihadis. Because we have plenty more bombs. It’s your big chance to start a modernization trend across Africa, peaceful democracy and moderate modernized Islam. Not willing to do that? Unable to modernize Islam? Then stop your ‘illegal war’ and pull our forces out of NATO’s mess and let the raggies bleed each other white. We don’t care. Just stop lying to us.
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Permalink • Miracle Material?
Heatproof plastic? How do you make the stuff then, or does it just cure this way?
The ultimate wonder product, or another one of those “200mpg carburetors hushed up by the government and Big Oil” rumors?
No time to post, busy Saturday honey dew list.
Here’s the links:
http://www.rexresearch.com/ward/ward.htm
http://itotd.com/articles/653/starlite/
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Permalink • My Way Or The Highway
Don’t mess with Texas. And don’t even think of messing with the Alamo Drafthouse theater.
15 years ago Tim League and his wife opened their first movie theater, after going to the local multiplex and coming away quite disappointed. The magic of the movies was gone. They thought about what made that experience so poor, and realized it was mostly the audience. So they set out to bring back the cinema magic by enforcing civil behavior. And it worked. People flocked to their screenings, and now they have a small chain of successful theaters, in an era when most movie houses are on the brink of going out of business.
They have simple rules, and everybody knows what they are. No talking, no cell phones, no texting, no throwing popcorn, no babies, and no groups of kids without adult supervision. And they enforce these rules. First offense gets you a reminder, second offense gets you tossed. No refunds. No excuses. Happy trails cowpoke, hit the road.
Recently they had to give some young woman the old heave-ho. And she was so offended that she called them up and cussed them out. Twice! So now they use her rants as part of their policy announcement (but only before R rated films). And people love it even more. The magic of the movies turns out to be more the shared cultural experience than just what you’re looking at. It’s a group thing. And selfish self-centered simpletons destroy the group. So they have to go.
Pure, undistilled Awesome.
As many of you know, I really can’t abide people who talk during a movie. ... When we adopted our strict no talking policy back in 1997 we knew we were going to alienate some of our patrons. That was the plan. If you can’t change your behavior and be quiet (or unilluminated) during a movie, then we don’t want you at our venue.
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Recently, we had a situation where a customer persisted in texting in the theater despite two warnings to stop. Our policy at that point is to eject the customer without a refund, which is exactly what went down that night. Luckily, this former patron was so incensed at being kicked out, she quickly called the office and left us the raw ingredients for our latest “Don’t Talk or Text” PSA.
The funny thing is, they put her recorded rant and it’s text transcription up as a YouTube video, and it went completely viral. Nearly 1.5 million hits, and it’s only been up a couple of days. 5500 comments and counting, and it’s being shown (bleeped and blurred out) on TV news shows.
Kind of makes me wonder if this is another Tea Party founding moment. A camel’s back breaking piece of straw that starts a tidal wave of change. A move away from tolerating the Me Me ME and Screw You rude society that we’ve become. Maybe. When ladies go back to wearing hats and gloves in public, and gentlemen wear hats, sport jackets and ties, then we will have come full circle. Don’t hold your breath for that much, but don’t be afraid to stop being excessively tolerant. “An armed society is a polite society” the sci-fi master once wrote. But a polite society is it’s own kind of armament. It’s armor against cultural decay.
From the owners -
In the first couple of months of operation, we came up with some very simple guidelines that all of our theaters still adhere to today. They were all born from our own reactions to experiences we hated and endured when we went to the movies. The insistence on these simple policies is one of the main reasons people are loyal to our cinemas today.
We also serve beer, and that helps.
[these are the rules:]
1) We do not play ads before the film,2) We do not allow children under 6. [ except for kiddie films ]
3) We do not allow unaccompanied minors.
4) If you persist in talking or texting, we will throw you out.
Simply outstanding. And in true American fashion, by making things better they’re making themselves a good living. More power to you, Mr. & Mrs. League. A business that actually cares about it’s customers. Well done.
Or, as they put it, in reaction to that little rant video above ...
Ma’am, you may be free to text in all the other theaters in the Magnited States of America, but here at our “little crappy ass theater,” you are not. Why you may ask? Well, we actually do give a f*$k.
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Kulsoom Abdullah is a 35-year-old with a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering. But it’s her passion outside of work that has put her at the center of a debate—one that could affect athletic competitions worldwide, even the Olympics.
Later this month, the International Weightlifting Federation will take up the question of whether Abdullah may take part in officially sanctioned tournaments while keeping her entire body covered, aside from her hands and face, in keeping with her Muslim faith.
“It’s what I believe in. It’s what I’ve chosen to do,” Abdullah tells CNN of her decision to wear modest garb. “I’ve always dressed this way publicly.”
The Atlanta resident wants to take part in tournaments in the United States, including one coming up in July. But USA Weightlifting informed her that those events are governed by IWF rules. And those rules preclude her dressing in keeping with her beliefs.
Abdullah generally wears loose, long pants past the ankles, a long-sleeve, fitted shirt with a loose T-shirt over it, and a hijab, or head scarf, covering her hair.
The outfits—officially called “costumes”—worn at competitions must be collarless and must not cover the elbows or knees, according to the IWF’s technical and competition rules.
The IWF constitution also states that no distinction is made among individuals based on religion.
Mark Jones, a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee—which oversees USA Weightlifting and many other sports—explained part of the challenge is that judges need to see that a competitor’s elbows and knees are locked during a lift.
So the IWF will hold a meeting, and everyone will strive to be “reasonable” and the end result will be that Special Allowances will be granted to Special People. Who will then use their more-than-equal “rights” to game the system. And no other weightlifter who is not a muslime will be allowed to dress this way. Another bit of inequality, another small step towards dhimmitude.
If part of the rules require that certain parts of the body be exposed to show that certain moves are done properly, that’s how it is. Lady, if you want to compete in your baggy outfit, go to Saudi Arabia and do it. Oh wait, lifting weights there is probably a religiously decreed Males Only activity, and she’d be flogged or worse for doing it.
I’m tired of the entire world having to bend to this “faith”. You want to change the rules missy, how about you get your religion to bend a little instead?
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Permalink • test
this is a test but there should be something below the fold ... maybe
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Permalink • the face of treason
Is there anything at all that I need to add to this?
Makes me steam every time I see an ad here with her face.
I don’t suppose she does adverts back home in the USA. Not that it will break them or her but, I wish American women would not buy the product while she’s their face. There is NO FORGIVING what she did.
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Permalink • coming soon to an asylum near you? libya, civil war, the movie.
I caught this a few days ago and thought I was reading 1984.
The friend may become the enemy who remains the enemy unless he becomes a friend. Got it. That’s easy. I know what they’re doing. Clever people.
Britain is getting ready to make a keystone kops movie out of the civil war in Libya.
Now why can’t America be that inventive?
Let me splain it to ya even though you may already know.
With us more or less in the background but still supportive, the Brits and French decided that the civilians in Libya suddenly had to be protected from that loon in Tripoli, MadMan Moo-a-Mar of Gaddifi. So they gathered all the saints of NATO and embarked upon a brand new crusade. It’s called Saving Civilians. A note if you please and even if you don’t. There is to be no civilian saving in the home countries.
Those slaves are for the purpose of paying for this latest incursion in another country’s affairs, as well as being victims of crime which everyone knows nobody can do anything about anyway.
ALL protesters or so called “activists” or “Rebels” are now ‘The Good Guys’ and anyone shooting at them even if they are armed, are the bad guys. All protesters who are protesting a govt. the west doesn’t like, are also ‘civilians’ and must be protected.
But a new twist announced this week makes for fairness in its game of moral high ground.
Take a look.
Apparently the allies are worried that their newest best friends will or have, taken some revenge against Gadiffi civilians who actually support him and have no problem with the monster. He’s their guy. Well of course. This is a very tribal country, innit?
So he’s bound to have some on his side. But the allies, whose motto over the past few months has become, Let’s go shelling, where they’re dwelling, have now warned their new best friends, the rebels, that they will turn their shells and missiles on them, should they muss up the hair of civilians on the other side.
Hey, looks good. This is gonna be a great movie. Already looking forward to the sequel.
Here’s the rough draft so far.
Libya rebels warned that Nato will use force to stop revenge attacks
Britain has warned Libya’s rebels that Nato is prepared to used military force against the opposition if it wages armed attacks on civilians loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi, officials said yesterday.
By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Whitehall officials said that the “same assets” that are currently waging air strikes on Col Gaddafi’s regime and its forces would be unleashed on the rebels should they take revenge on towns and populations that have so far remained under Col Gaddafi’s control.
It is the most explicit warning yet that the international coalition enforcing United Nations 1973 resolution has not written a blank cheque to the rebels as they launch offensives against the regime in Misurata and eastern Libya. But officials said the National Transitional Council (NTC), which represents the rebel movements had given repeated assurances that they would not seek to punish government sympathisers in the aftermath of victory.
“We will protect civilians by all means necessary while the mandate is in force - that applies to everybody,” a government official said. “If the NTC was attacking civilians the mandate would give the international community the grounds to intervene. But we’ve seen no evidence that is likely to happen and the NTC has frequently address the need for reconciliation.”
Although Britain, its Nato allies and Gulf states are providing extensive support to the opposition, the resolution specifically bars deployment of troops alongside the rebels in what would effectively be taking sides in a civil war.
The government believes that Col Gaddafi’s regime is being steadily weakened after 10,000 bombing raids by fighter jets in three months. In a significant escalation, British Apache helicopter gunships and French Tigre equivalents have been deployed to attack Gaddafi’s troops on the frontline. Officials are convinced that Col Gaddafi will be ousted sooner rather than later. “He’s a trapped rat,” said one.
But as the opposition advances it is likely to be embroiled in clashes in civilian areas. As long as there is no convincing evidence that Gaddafi will fall without a fight, there is the prospect that Nato could be forced to turn on its allies. “The Nato operation has effectively mutated into regime change,” said David Hartwell, an analyst at IHS Global. “But clearly they don’t want to be caught on the hoof if Libya descended into internecine warfare”
A two-month stalemate between the rebels and the official army has frayed in recent days as rebels prepare to attack Gaddafite villages around the town of Misurata, which has successfully fought off a siege by the army. In eastern Libya preparations for an attack on the oil town of Brega are at an advanced stage and fighters are expanding their hold on the Western mountains along the Tunisian border.
A bid to convince the world that the TNC will establish a democratic government in a post-Gaddafi Libya will be made today at meeting of the 35-member Libya Contact Group in Abu Dhabi.
Leaders of the Benghazi-based body are to publish a blueprint for government alongside the official communique detailing international efforts to promote the downfall of Col Gaddafi’s regime.
Libyan rebels have accused of meting out arbitrary justice to captured Gaddafi troops and after the uprising allowing the slaughter of dozens of African migrants.
Activists yesterday accused the NTC of holding 330 civilians without trial, in conditions were many had suffered abuse.
Thinking a bit ahead, can you envision the total mess NATO and the west will be in, if they think they have to start aiming their gee whiz weaponry on the people they were originally helping. Oh boy. Now that’s a blockbuster movie if ever there was one. If they decide to make it. Lets see. Mostly muslim country, tribal, has a record of not feeling too warm and fuzzy about the west. Oh yeah. Sure thing. Lets all go in together and bomb both sides and see where that leads.
akbar snack bar, as Vilmar might say.
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Permalink • eye candy gun porn?
One of those I gotta get this post in even before breakfast and coffee. Ah, truth tho is I did have part of a breakfast but no coffee yet. So booted to be greated by Drew’s food comfort post. Jeesh.
Had to share this first and then coffee and then on to something maddening.
btw ... I’m fine today but I can feel our car’s pain. Funny how that works. Poor car. Will call auto doctor for a house visit. Yeah really. Long standing service from one mechanic, comes to the house. What can be done here is done. Otherwise he takes it wherever it needs to go. Convenient. Family known him for at least 15 years. Maybe more.
OK so ... here’s what caught my attention first thing today and caused the early boot.
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘machine gun’ cannon discovered by archeologistsBy Nick Squires
Archeologists in Croatia have identified what they believe is the world’s only triple-barrel cannon inspired by the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci.
The bronze cannon, from the late 15th century, bears a striking resemblance to sketches drawn by the Renaissance inventor, notably in his Codex Atlanticus - the largest collection of his drawings and writing.
Mounted on a wooden carriage and wheels, it would have allowed a much more rapid rate of fire than traditional single-barreled guns - in a precursor to modern day machine guns. Soldiers would have been able to fire three cannon balls instead of one.
It was also lighter and more mobile than most cannon of the time, enabling troops to move it around the battlefield with comparative ease - a precursor to much later artillery.It was found in the grounds of the 15th century Klicevica fortress, in a part of southern Croatia that had strong trading links with the Venetian Republic and that was on the front line of defence against the invading Ottomon Turks.
“We think it was either made in Venice and brought here, or it may have been made locally,” said Marin Curkovic, the director of a museum in the nearby town of Benkovac, where the cannon went on display this week as the centre-piece of a new exhibition.
“We cannot say with 100 per cent certainty that it was built to Leonardo da Vinci’s designs but the resemblance to his sketches is remarkable. We think there is a very high probability that it was manufactured to his designs.”
The weapon almost exactly matches a model of da Vinci’s triple-barrelled cannon design, which is on display in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.
The cannon may not have been an enormous success - the lower part of the barrels has been blown away, suggesting it may have jammed and exploded, probably killing or seriously injuring whoever was operating it.
The gun was found in 1968 by a group of children who were digging in the fortress, but it was only donated to the museum in the 1990s.
Attempts to properly analyse it were stymied by Croatia’s war of independence and a lack of funds.“There are no markings on the cannon so it was hard to date it until we were able to excavate the area where it was found and start putting it into some sort of context,” said Tomislav Basic, also from the museum.
“As far as we know, it is unique in the world. Nobody else has found anything like it. It’s a very exciting discovery.”
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Comfort Food
Internet and telephone very intermittent here today. We had a big thunderstorm come through last night and it downed trees and wires. Down in Mercer County by Princeton it’s much worse; they had to close a number of major roads and that made commuting in and out of Trenton/Philly/Lawrenceville/Princeton area a real pain this morning.
So all I’ve had to deal with is a weak internet and a weaker telephone. Oh, and last night the DVD RW drive on this old computer finally up and died. I messed with it, and cleaned up a whole rabbit hutch full of dust bunnies from inside the PC, but it’s a goner. Not sure if it’s even worth spending $25 to get a new one. And last night we found out that the DVD on our DVR no longer works. Not that we watch DVDs more than a couple times a year, but with the cable out, we wanted to watch something. No go. Not sure it’s worth spending $25 for a new DVD player either. Pretty sure I can get a regular/Blu Ray job for under $50. Heck, I can get an HD DVR with Blu Ray for under $230 without even shopping around.
So instead of getting frustrated over technology letting me down, I made myself something to eat. And I dug about as far back in my past as I can go, and made Hawaiian Sandwiches like my mom used to make us when we were little kids.
What’s a Hawaiian Sandwich? Never knew if she found the recipe, or if she made it up to find something picky kids would eat. But they still taste just as good, and they’re real easy to make.
Start a pan of bacon cooking. 8 or 12 slices will do for 4 sandwiches, with 2 open face sandwiches per serving.
Take several slices of good bread and very lightly toast them. When I was a kid, “good” bread was Arnold Brick Oven White. I seem to remember the Big Yaz - Carl Yastrzemski - being on the label. We didn’t get Wonder Bread. It was spongy crap in Mom’s opinion.
These days bread seems to have more nuts, seeds, grains, and berries in it than a well stocked birdfeeder. So use what you want.
Ok, the bread is now slightly toasted. Put the slices on a plate and spread mayonnaise on the top side. Drain a can of pineapple slices and put a ring in the middle of each slice. Cover the pineapple with a slice of yellow American cheese (we call it syntho-cheese these days but it was almost the only cheese available back then). Cross 2 strips of bacon on top of each slice of cheese.
Put the bread creations in your GE Toast-R-Oven on the little raw aluminum tray, set the toaster for Top Brown Only, close the door push the button and assign a kid to watch them cook. When the cheese just starts to brown and bubble, count out loud to 30 and then take them out. You can fit 2 slices on the tray.
Eat. Enjoy.
GE stopped making the proper Toast-R-Oven at least 25 years ago. The later models were cheap junk. That little thing made the best toast, always. And Top Brown was the setting for the best Thomas’s English Muffins. Ever. In the entire universe. And the whole thing was perhaps a foot wide by 7 inches tall. Gone, long gone. But not forgotten. Sure, you could pop the slices under the broiler. Or use your gigantic fancy imported Italian combination toaster, small oven, and pizza cooker thing like we have these days. It will work. Mostly. Heck, you could even use pineapple chunks, but the results won’t look cool. And for proper flavor, make sure you get Del Monte pineapple rings in heavy syrup. None of that natural juices nonsense, this is 60s food at it’s best. 3 slices of bacon are better than 2, but 4 per sandwich is too much.
And don’t even think of using Lite mayo. Or that God awful Miracle Whip.
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It all started so well yesterday. We had something called a coffee morning here, some good friends in the village came by to visit and chat.
Next month we will be at their house. Nothing fancy, just good company.
That’s how it started. Didn’t end that way though and got a bit worse today when I sort of wrecked the car. And I wasn’t even going anywhere.
Well actually, I was. But I’ll get to that in a moment provided I don’t fall out of my desk chair.
So, we had coffee and choc. chip cookies and some of us had sherry and port later in the morning and I had tea. All very civilized.
After our guests had left, I was helping my wife clear things up. I don’t know what I did or how it happened, but I leaned into the fridge to put something away. Or maybe take something out. Don’t recall. But all I did was slightly lean and suddenly there was this pain, as in ouch. It seemed to start at the top of the stomach area but more towards the ribs. Just off to the right, and travelled around to my back. Now ain’t that weird? I can’t account for it. For the rest of the day and into the night, there was this dull something that seems to go from just an ache to a dull like hurt, at my back in the lower rib area. I’d say about a hand’s width from the waist. It even hurt to take a deep breath. That was yesterday.
Feeling much better today although truth to tell, still feel it just a little.
Some years ago my wife was in an accident when a small pickup ran a stop sign and hit her car. Thankfully not the driver’s side, the car was declared a total wreck. No surprise since the pickup that hit her was carrying logs for fireplaces.
She had a number of bones broken, knees banged up and a cracked back. Not nice.
Even since then, she’s had on/off problems and I got into the habit of backing the car out of the garage for her so she didn’t have to twist around. It got to be that I helped out even when she didn’t need any help. And so it was this morning.
She had to go to our local market to pick up a few items we were short on. So I left the computer and said I’d get the car out for her. She told me she was ok and could handle it but I insisted on … “Helping.”
And so I thought I was. Started the engine. Ah. Good. No problems there.
While I take responsibility for what happened after I put her in gear, it must be said that these damned newish cars with those unpractical round bodies are not that easy to back out of some places with any ease. Especially garages built in an age of smaller square bodied cars in the 20’s. Which is when our garage dates from.
So, as I eased off the clutch I turned around to look behind me, and that’s when I felt something like a hard jab to by ribs in back. It didn’t actually hurt (although it did that ok) as much as surprise me. Off came the clutch down went the accelerator and off like a rocket went the car.
Also off was the side mirror leaving dangling wires in its place, and some serious damage to the side of the car. Scratches galore and you can also scratch our side night light.
I also damaged the left side garage door. Not really the door so much as the hinge. It’s a bit bent at an awkward angle. I think the old frame might have an issue too. Oh yeah, I ran the car into the hedge on the damaged side as well. One of those sharp like thick hedges that don’t easily resist things that fly or run into em. Sighs. Yeah, I’m feeling better today thanks. Well, not exactly great cause I feel like I hurt the car. And that hurts worse then my ribs. Which actually feel almost back to normal.
So, how was your day?
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