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Murder by Recession

2009-04-05T09:15:00.011-04:00

I have lost jobs over the years, for reasons due to my action, or by those who sort to do me wrong. Have I ever wanted to take out those who had done me wrong? You can bet your ass I had. I once had a warehouse close down because it got wind that I was on my way.
It was a nice spring day in 1985, I was in charge of shipping and receiving for a electronic warehouse. A real shit job, hard work for nickels and a crew of shit people to deal with. But, the job was needed at the time. There was a change in management, a change that should not have affected me, since it was a friend of mine. Did, I say management? Yes, I did and because of this rise to management my so call pal thought he had become a king. People sometimes change, granted, but when things run fine until you decide it's your way or the highway, even if it's half ass backwoods. Or, because you may feel a threat not far away, you decide to create a crap excuse to take bread from a table that is in need.

On this day, I was ready to throw in the towel, lock and load, and bring with me the bastards that let this all happen. The details of that day would have been just like what we are reading these past few weeks with the rash of mass murder we are witnessing, and I am sure we will see more of it. I was lucky, and so were my targets of that day. I had a friend, who stood by me all day long, stood in my line of fire. He followed me, and pleaded with me when the barrel was pressed against my template, when I felt I would not accomplish my mission. His words "Please, don't do it, they'll blame me for it"

All of my problems had nothing to do with him, so I couldn't lay it on his head.
After hours of this madness, I confronted my friend (manager) with all intent to finish the job. He knew it, and yet he came right to me, palms up, and a look in his eyes that projected how sorry he was, but was willing to submit to the punishment, so others won't get involved. Do you know what I did? I hugged him. We are still friends today.

Our day turned out OK with no one getting hurt.

The reason why I am bringing this up is because it is to show you that it doesn't always turn out news worthy.

Lately the rash of mass murder is way to spread to scratch.

Binghamton's mayor and police chief say a man who killed 13 people inside an immigrant community center was depressed after recently losing a job and angry that he couldn't speak English well.

Father kills his 5 kids, then self.

A man fatally shot his wife, five young children and himself, claiming in a note he faxed to a TV station Tuesday that the couple had just been fired from their hospital jobs and together planned the killings as an escape for the whole family.

The nine victims of a Christmas Eve massacre 2008, dubbed the Santa Claus Killings because murder Bruce Pardo wore a Santa suit during the slaughter, were remembered Friday in a public service in a California...

There are more, but I was trying to get a point across.
It can happen with anyone when things get bad enought.

Swatting

2009-02-01T20:47:00.007-05:00

Telephone pranks, what a concept.
When we we're kids we used to make prank calls all the time.
We'd make believe we we're a radio station and tell the folks on the other line that if they could guess the name of a song they would win 10,000.
Then we'd play a song over the phone that they couldn't miss and start screaming that they won, "You won, You won, 10,000 pounds of shit.

One of my favs was we'd pick a phone number at random, and start early in the morning and ask if Joey was home, they say there is no joey here.
Then repeat it several times a day with different voices or other friends calling and ask for Joey. Then at the end of the day you call up and say "Hello, this Joey, any messages?"

Sure it racked some people's nerves, and they get pissed off. But it seems that in this day and age pranking has risen to new heights. It called Swatting.

What is swatting you ask, well a dumb fucking idea, carried out by some dumb fucking moron, that put random people a position of having to survive an invasion from their local Swat Team. Coming at you full force, with a 911 call that claims that the Swat team is needed at your home address.

A man in Washington state has been sentenced to two and a half years in a federal prison for his role in a "SWATTing" conspiracy that included prank calls intended to scramble the police and SWAT teams in Alvarado and Fort Worth on unsuspecting victims.

See More on Swatting here

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Fight 1549 Safe and Sound

2009-01-16T07:20:00.002-05:00

Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger

I am sure we will hear that name for a long time "Sully The Hero Pilot" and rightfully so.
Here was a man who held 150 plus lives in his hands and only moments to make a decision . A decision that could have turned into a major disaster.

A mini 911 was about to happen in New Jersey on his way to Tereboro airport where he was cleared to make a emergency landing.

His, heart, his mind and his his hands on the controls told him that flight 1549 would not make the landing strip in one piece.

So, with over 40 years of flight time and some very slick calmness, he decided that the icy water in the Hudson River would make for a some what safe landing instead of landing upon homes in NJ.

"Brace for impact" who the fuck wants to hear those three words while you are looking out your window at the water on the Hudson. Here you are now knowing that your life may end in the ice cold water just north of the World Trade Center.

"Brace for impact" What? I don't want to die, I need to be some place, and prayers start. I have to wonder if anyone had prayed to Sully. I am sure in the future if there are any problems on a plane you'll hear people praying to Sully.

Captain Sully, not only took down this plane for a landing and keeping the plane in one piece. The attendants and the pilots made sure that all passengers were brought out safely.

Within minuets, the plane was surrounded, by ferry service, waterway taxis and coast guard. And the heroism was passed on to these folks to create a link to safe ground.

New York can be called many things from many people, but when the chips are down, New York stands tall and always answers the call of disaster.

They are calling it "Miracle on the Hudson" What ever you call it, it is a Miracle.

New President Same Old Song

2009-01-12T08:33:00.007-05:00

ON CLOSING GUANTANAMO BAY

"It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize, and we are going to get it done, but part of the challenge that you have is that you have got a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom may be very dangerous, who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication.

Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
Mr Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo Bay

And some of the evidence against them may be tainted, even though it's true. And so, how to balance creating a process that adheres to rule of law, habeas corpus, basic principles of Anglo-American legal system, but doing it in a way that doesn't result in releasing people who are intent on blowing us up.

But I don't want to be ambiguous about this. We are going to close Guantanamo and we are going to make sure that the procedures we set up are ones that abide by our constitution."

Obama on This Week with G. Stephanopoulos 01/11/09

Listen to what he had to say about investigating the 911 commission, the past is not important, we must move on. Even though the past is how we got to this place in the first place. You have to fix what is broken, not brush past it like it never happened.

He hasn't even taken office yet and he is starting with the excuses, and oh how hard things will be. Didn't he run on the promise of CHANGE?

The people really need better control over the people we pay to do certain jobs in out political arena. Bullshit, should not be accepted!

Here is Video about his investigation of Bush admin

There are more parts to the interview sorry

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Where does it end.

2008-11-01T20:03:00.012-04:00

Here we are in a middle of an election, full of talk about dollars and no common sense.
The war has taken a back page to profits of the crooks that run this country.
Money is always more important than the value of human life. Our kids are still being murdered and maimed, yet these a-holes that are making promises that they can not keep are begging us to vote for them.

People are saying this is the most important election of our generation, Bull shit, the election of 2000 was the most important and we the people fucked it up.

Look at everything that has happened in the past 8 years, and now we have ass holes pleading that they are not the same?

We have to bail out billionaires, so they can drive their SLR to and from a hookers domain.

Yes this is what these fuckers are riding around with on our dime, we pay the politicians to do a job and their greed keeps sucking us dry, now their friends need a handout and they open up our pockets to them. Where does it fucking end?

We as the people have a right to determine what is done with our money, and what to do with the crooked pricks that steal our money. But with the table always fixed, we do not stand a chance.

Bloom-God wants another term because we are in financial criss, where was he for the past 8 years. Why is there still a fucking hole down on Rector street?

We have 2 new stadiums opening in a few months and countless sky rises up since 2001 and we still have a fucking hole in wall street. He should be ashamed, sure he rose the tax on cigarettes, but where did that go?

Each and everyone of these mother fuckers should not be allowed to run for any office without a PSE test, and once there is any suspicion or question of their said services then the people should have a panel, ran by the people to investigate, not the friends of the crooked bastards.

The Panel of The People!
You want us to pay for your survival, then it's about time you start to answer to us!

DW.

Is God Gay?

2008-01-23T08:31:00.000-05:00

Before you all start jumping on me, the title of the post had a nice ring to it.
I could have used is God a dominatrix, or is he a she or is he or a serial killer.
The point of this post is that I find so many threads and posts in blogs with God as it's topic.

I have started to wonder myself what God really is. If we are created in God's image than every trait that us humans have, has had to come from God himself. Those who write and rewrite the books through history make adjustments to these writing to satisfy their own selfish desires, or to create loop holes into heaven or hell.

Man in general are just greedy little bastards that just want more and more and more.
If you have something, there is always someone else out that that will come along and take it. Like Adam taking Eve under the apple tree. I'd like to see that on U Tube.
If God didn't want her to eat the fucking apple, why put it there? Because we are created in his mold, and he dos not trust himself.

I don't want to hear our whole life is nothing but a test, a way to prepare for the Pearly Gates. It's a sick logic we all live by, a Christian can murder and rape his whole life and just before they juice him, he can repent and enter heaven. You know the place where all is mellow and the after life runs smooth and care free. But a guy who jumps to his deaths automatically loses the key to these gates and has to go down south where all the other jumpers end up. You know, where the bars are open 24 /7/365 and all sin runs rampart for those who still want to have a good time.

The point that I bring out here is, who made these rules, who the fuck decided where I go when I am dead, an that the shit stuff we do are all caused the the the guy called Satan, up until we repent. Give me a fucking break, the hypocrisy of man and their views on how to cheat in life are all bullshit in every religion.

Some believe that God only created us, who built the fucking stars out there? The other planets and the rest of matter that exists. That is how fucked up we are, that we would think that God has only time for us.

So If God is in all of us I have to ask. Is God Gay?

Hacked Again?

2008-01-12T10:11:00.001-05:00

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Cookies and Milk

2008-01-10T07:37:00.000-05:00

A five-year-old boy and his grandfather are sitting on the front porch
together, when grandpa pulled a beer out of the cooler. The little boy
asked, "Grandpa, can I have a beer?"

Grandpa replied, "Can your pecker touch your ass?" The little boy
answered, "No Grandpa, it's just a little pecker! Grandpa said, "Then
you're not man enough to have a beer."

A little later Grandpa lit up a cigar. The little boy asked, "Grandpa,
can I have a cigar?"

Once again, Grandpa asked, "Can your pecker touch your ass?" The little
boy answered "no," again. Grandpa said, "Then you're not man enough to
have a cigar

A little later, the boy came out of the house with some cookies and
milk.

Grandpa asked, "Can I have a cookie?" The boy asked, "Can your pecker
touch your ass?" Grandpa replied, "Hell yeah, my pecker can touch my
ass!"

The boy replied, "Then go fuck yourself! Grandma made these for me."

Predictions 2008

2008-01-09T07:44:00.000-05:00

Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are involved in a head on collision and end up deformed for life.

Angelina Jolie will leave Brad Pitt for George Clooney

Jay Leno will suddenly retire due to illness within his family

Jessica Alba with give birth to twin boys

Johnny Depp wins a Oscar

Lindsay Lohan finds God and starts to turn her life around

The Beckmans move back to Europe

Wesley Snipes pays the federal goverment $1.00 in back taxes

Steven Spielberg starts production on ET part 2

Nicole Kidman enters rehab

Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld start to work on a new TV pilot together

Tom Cruise has a nervous breakdown

Dr. Phil McGraw gets sued by Britney Spears for defamation of character

The New York Knicks win 30 games
Bush and Cheney are charged with crimes aganist humanity.

The 911 commsion wil be re grouped and a new investigation will proceed

Rudy Giuliani will divorce and have a mental breakdown

Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston are arrested for drug smuggling

Sean Penn wins oscar for best director

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover remake Lethal Weapon and it bombs

Writers Strike finally ends after 266 days

Fractal Enlightenment a Review

2007-12-11T06:45:00.001-05:00

Fractal Enlightenment, A Blog Site Review.

Looking upon this blog, we find there is more than enough content to please most readers. It is not over whelmed by ads and widgets, so it loads in a timely manner and gets right to point.
The cons we find about the this blog is more visual than anything else.
First, the banner / header is blurry and the text gets lost with the background.
The second banner / header, why is that there, too many curved edges at the top of the page for our taste.
The 3 different colors off the trope background also presents a way too busy, busy, busy effect.
Suggestions are as follows.
Keep it simple, get yourself a clean looking banner, where the intro can be read. Content that is meant to be read needs to be read.
Match up your sidebars in color and keep the main body with the post light in color. Maybe take one of the colors you are dealing with and work around that.
Otherwise, you can see all of your work put into this blog, it would be a shame to lose visitors because the layout over rides the content.
There are many sections within this blog to catch the eye of many different tastes.
For us we tended towards "The Chill Out Zone"
Where there are cool images and other content about Optical Illusions.
Be sure to check this area out.
Fractal Enlightenment, A Blog Site Review.
The News Maze Crew

Google Adsense

2007-12-09T05:15:00.000-05:00

What happened?
We used to do so well, and now it's just turning into wasted space.
Is it because there is an over kill of the service? Do people now realize it's just ads for other websites, or is it because they took away the beta test of target new so your visitors do not leave your website?
When asked to use this beta I was more than happy to do it, but now we can't? What is with that? Thanks for your time now screw you, we are off the ground now, no need for the little guys? I'd like to get into the Page Rank thingy and the listing positions themselves but I will hold onto that for another time.

H.R. 1955

2007-12-09T04:55:00.000-05:00

H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
People are surprised by the actions of this administration. Where were they in the year 2000 when all of this was getting under way. When the takeover started?
The body count from Grandpa Bush to Daddy Bush to Jr Bush should be enough to raise those red flags amongst the people of our country, but sadly said, too many eyes turn away from lies in order not to face the truth.

rss Hugger

2007-12-07T06:34:00.000-05:00

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The layout is easy to follow, with a casual look to make your experience smooth and easy. Sign up just takes a minuet and your ready to start promoting your blogs.
All that is asked to to write a review about their site on your blog. They will visit and check on your review, then when accepted they will contact you, so you can start promoting your blogs.
All in all it looks like a fine concept and should take off as a good resource to meet and share with other bloggers.
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Kiva Helping Others

2007-11-25T04:38:00.003-05:00

Some concepts to help other involve start up giving. So, involve teaching to let people help themselves. Then some do both. That is where Kiva comes in.

What is a Kiva
A Kiva is a web site that brings small business loans (micro loans) to 3rd world countries in order to help others help themselves.
The concept is quite simple and yet it has such a potent impact on the lives of others that they were on the Oprah Winfrey Show, has a place in Bill Clinton's book "Giving" and much more reach that you can see here on their Press Release Page

With the holidays approaching us, I thought that I would spread the word about such a cool program. I only wish that there was one for the US as well. Many people around the world are in need of help, and that does include the US. But, this is a great start.

How does it work
There a profiles of people who want to open their own business so they can feed and roof their families. You browse through the profiles and see who wants to do what. Then you can place a donation towards that person's business. You donate $25.00 and up. You stay updated on the progress and the loans are paid back (97% of 10 Million so far) and they go into your account so you help another.

So, if giving to others this season is on your menu, maybe instead giving away a coat or a toy give away the chance of survival. You may even know someone who need a loan to start a business in the third world, then direct them to their site so they can seek some help.
Here is a chance to make a person feel whole, and self serving, here is a chance to give away some pride.

KIVA.org

Why I Love My Cell Phone, and NOT Yours

2007-11-18T06:18:00.000-05:00

Common sense tells you that radiation and human tissue do not go well together. Extreme usage is a no brain way to become a dead brain. But, big money placed in the right places will tell the public different. Why, because the public wants to believe. Just like they believed in Bush and his Weapons of Mass Destruction, or the latest video release of Bin Laden bullshit.
If the problem is worse than we thought, expect the body count to start accumulating. When the party being accused, is to allowed to investigate themselves, the odds are, they will always end up a winner.
People are addicted to cell phones and are passing this same addiction on to their children.
The new age crack baby, yes I said crack, an addiction is an addiction and getting sucked into the "FAMILY PLAN" is putting your family at risk.
Guess what, you are to blame if anything happens to your kids, because you should know better.
But with all of that said, I want to point out some of the issues on a personal level.

Some of you may get offended, good!
We all know about those self center morons who march through the library yapping on their about nothing important. Or the mouth that just doesn't stop while pushing their shopping cart into the back of your legs. These people call it multi tasking, I call it doing two things at once, and guess what, you can't do it. Unless you consider invading some else's space OK. And most self serving, I myself, no one matters but me, and so on attitudes continue to act like ass wipes. There are other people in the world. Some people want to feel safe when they are on the road, or just don't give a crap about you and your friend Marge's night out the day before. Some of us would like you to take your cell phones and your crap attitudes and bury it deep inside your...

I love the soccer mom, who forgets she has six kids in the car and drives like she owns the road because she is busy sharing nasty little secrets about her neighbors.
No directional on turns, speed variations, blacking out when the light turns green etc. You know who you are and you are responsible for those around you when on the road, and even more so for those kids!

At every accident, the cell phone should be confiscated to see if it was talk time at the time of the accident. If so, you were basically breaking the law. You, should pay big time because it is no longer a accident.

Kids want to carry their phones to school so they can call their mommies, lol, yeah right. I have no problem with the phones in school, but there has to be rules. I think if each desk has a phone cradle on it, they put the phone in it so the teacher can have a visual. Ringers off, and if a call does come in from mommy, and it is important should have the right to quick answer. And, I don't mean a call to tell little Bobby to bring home milk.

Now, about me.
I love my cell phone because...
I am from Brooklyn, NY. I am loud when I want to be, a rough Bensonhurst guy with a bad attitude myself when people step on my toes. These days way too many people step on my toes, because they are distracted with their cell phones.
So one of the things I like to do is when someone in a store is dribbling useless crap ( and you know it is cause you always hear it ) I pull out my phone, shimmy up along side the people, and make believe I have a very important call as well. It goes something like
"HEY, LOUIE, IT'S ME VINNY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" and so on, and the best is that the dumb SOB has the nerve to turn to me with a look like I am rude. Well, right back at you!

I love my cell phone because when I'm out for a few hours, I can callhome to my answering machine let my puppies here my voice that I'll be home soon.

I love my cell phone because My wife or daughter can call me from the road if they does need me.

I love my cell phone because I can pull over, and take out a menu and have my order ready when I get there.

I love my cell phone because of it technology, but I am also aware that is is additive and dangerous.

There will always be people out their with abusive personalties, and no manners. But giving them another reason to be both and release them amongst the public just ain't right.

All I have to say is...
"HEY, LOUIE, IT'S ME VINNY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

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The Foot Print Of Life

2007-11-10T07:21:00.000-05:00

I really think this just shows us how much we are looking to enter this crazy world of ours.
The journey from intercourse through to the stage of birth is probably the most amazing aspect of being human.
I, myself can not remember that journey, but some say they do. If, your one of them feel free to share those early days with us.
In this day and age with all the technology we have developed, we get the chance to view the child before birth, and we have come to terms with getting to know our children while still within our bodies. Birth itself is always amazing, now we get to develop our kids before they even see the light of day.

Bloggers For Kindness

2007-11-06T05:37:00.000-05:00

On December 17th 2007, bloggers from around the world will unite in some form of kindness. Be sure to take a few moments / minuets / hours to offer someone or some thing a kind act.
See the video posted on U Tube by Blog Catalog, and maybe get an idea or two from the people how offered their time to create it.
We will post the kindness offering from News Maze once we determine what it will be.
Feel free to leave comments and suggestions, remember it will benefit everyone around you in one way or another.

Win a Ipod Nano

2007-11-05T04:32:00.001-05:00

Over at Blog of Browie
They are holding a simple contest to win a 4GB Ipod Nano or $100 via paypal.
All that is required to be entered is to
post a comment on this page
Or another option is to blog a post on your own blog to add another entry.
Like we just did ;-).
This contest ends November 15th, so get in there and get a chance to win!
Good Luck To All!

Bye - Rod

2007-10-29T07:24:00.000-04:00

So, Alex Rodriguez the wanna be Yankee finally showed to the world his true colors. Lie of Lemon. He knew full well he wasn't gonna stay here and put up his false poker face throughout the year. See yer', You may be missed from some, but most will not really care. Maybe head on back to Texas or even Seattle, but you just helped us more by leaving, than by staying.
Unless of course the new Yankee brash is full of crap also. With you gone there is now money free to pursue others players and options that will exceed your 50 homers, 100 and change RBI's and zero production during the playoffs.
As, I stated earlier, get Tory Hunter, package a deal for Santana and get a 3rd baseman that can just do his job.
We need the funds, for Mo, Posada and Abreu. Boras can shop your butt anywhere, and maybe take Giambi with you.
The winning Yankees didn't have A-Rods or Giambi's they had O'Neil, Tino and Bernie.
They had heart, not bling.
I like you as a ballplayer, but too much attention was wasted on a player who likes to sleep in October, so I say Bye - Rod.
Read More Here

What Is A Hacker

2007-10-23T05:59:00.000-04:00

The image on your left was what I found last night on our forum and our main website. It's not the first time some inbreed has hacked us over the years. It will not be the last, I suppose. I felt compelled to get it off my chest today, and that I will.
Just a bit about us though.
We ( forum and website ) had joined the Swish community (less expensive form of Flash MX ) back in 1999 / 2000 cira.
Over those years our team has given away millions of free templates, FX effects, free hosting and a place for them to feel as part of a community.
I can't explain the amount of people who go out of their way to Screw Us.

I find it amazing how many mommy nipple suckers are out there with no life and feeling like a person that is whole by invading upon other people on the internet.
This is the main reason why I, personally have stopped helping people and passed the sites over to my partner Rosie. She has been pretty upset over the way of life that exists on the web.

Where I come from, and that is Bensonhurst, Brooklyn New York, little purse snatching weasels would be given a daily beating for these actions. The same would go for these little ( I love my mommy when she kisses me ) hackers. The hackers are the purse snatching thieves of the internet. Knocking down little old ladies, because they offer no threat to fight back ( well most of them anyway ). They are the ones who steal the software, the songs, the products, all because their little thimble brains makes them think that they are big and bad.

Look at me, I can invade a strangers privacy, but I am to afraid to go out into public, because the big bad world will devour me.

So here I am with a hacked website that I depend upon to bring me some nickels and dimes to put food on my table, by someone, who has probably done nothing but take and take our free stuff. Not enough stuff, so WTF, hack them. Steal what you can't get for free. My mommy puts me in the closet when I am bad, but she will never know the rampage I create on the internet. She will never understand whole smart and slick I am.

It's so sad that these inbreed weasels really think like that, when in truth the world now knows about you. You spread yourselves across the web and we all see you for what you are.

So, in closing I would like to offer anyone of you who seems to have it out for the folks that surf the web. If you could let go of your mommies nipple long enough, any time you want, one on one you and me.

DW

Torre Quits

2007-10-18T17:07:00.001-04:00

He was offered 5 million for the season, another 1 million for the 1st round, 1 million for the Championship and 1 million for the World Series.
Do the job and you got a million raise.
With all the contracts the Yankees need to fill, he could have dealt with that contract, and they gave him a 2009 option to boot.
Greed knows all, I guess, or was it that someone had said?
If I remember right, when he came here in 1996, he knew where he was going.
This is the New York Yankees. Win or goodbye. He gave us a great run no doubt, but to turn down 5 million, to leave the team now with all the changes due, well that is crap.
If the Boss fires him, that's one thing, it is the bosses team and not Torre's, as much as he'd like to think it is.
As I had mentioned in a prior post, losing in 2001 was the worst thing he could do.
This ranks a close second.

Movie Review # 1

2007-10-18T06:06:00.000-04:00

I'm gonna start reviewing movies that I have seen or will see. I always enjoy a good flick. My taste ranges from a good old comedy to cold blooded thrillers and whatever falls in between.
My first review is on a little know movie that was released in 1990 and till day still holds it emotional value.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Loosely based on real life events of Henry Lee Lucas, a serial killer that was out on the loose with anywhere between 1 and 360 kills under his belt. The numbers are in question, but their are deaths non the less.
As a little side note:

Lucas' sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998 by then-Governor George W. Bush. His was the only death penalty case among the 153 that came across Bush's desk in his tenure as Texas Governor in which he intervened and commuted the death sentence. Lucas died in prison of natural causes. Though Lucas' death seemed to have removed the possibility of resolution in many instances, there are still a number of unresolved or open questions. Some authorities — while admitting that Lucas tended to exaggerate his accounts and told some outright lies, and also recognizing that the Lucas Task Force engaged in some very questionable tactics — insist that Lucas was a viable suspect in a number of unsolved murders.
I guess birds of a feather...

The director John McNaughton, was at the time (1986) a young music video, that a Chicago based film producer invested in him to create a "B" level horror film.
McNaughton gave him Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Portraying Henry was a young Micheal Rooker, till this day, I have to wonder were are his awards.
The film is like a tutorial on how to go about murder everyday in every way. Little tidbits like "kill a different way, and there is no signature left behind" With no motive and no signature, you'd have to be an idiot to get caught. It is a cold and a nerve racking experience, to see through the eyes of a killer, to feel his emotion and to feel his lack of. Rooker, was casted perfectly for this part, and brings to the table a truth about a character you rarely see on screen.
Yet, you do not get a slasher movie here, nope you get a semi documentary, about the rules of the kill and the twisted mind of a killer.
See The Movie Trailer Here
Get The DVD Here
may ratings on this film out of 5 Fav's is

New Toy Recall

2007-10-18T05:32:00.000-04:00

I remember when we were kids, we have dirt ball fights, or play throw your buddy down the steps. Then as we got older, it was games like stoop ball, or fox and hounds, and then it was sports.
We used to go to the parks for the swings and the slides but in this day and age things seem to get out of hand with over seas companies building toys for the kids.
This one I rate an Ouch!

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy

2007-10-16T13:04:00.002-04:00

I am still confused about what Rudy Giuliani did on September 11th.
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Mercenary at Work

2007-10-16T11:56:00.000-04:00

Six-Figure Bonuses Retain US Commandos

People are surprised? They are their to protect the interest of the big business investments, while the kids in the military protect them for nickels and dimes. And then get treated like crap if and when they come with limbs missing.

WASHINGTON (AP)
- The Pentagon has paid more than $100 million in bonuses to veteran Green Berets and Navy SEALs, reversing the flow of top commandos to the corporate world where security companies such as Blackwater USA are offering big salaries.

The retention effort, started nearly three years ago and overseen by U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., has helped preserve a small but elite group of enlisted troops with vast experience fighting the unconventional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Defense Department statistics.

Overall, more than 1,200 of the military most specialized personnel near or already eligible for retirement have opted for payments of up to $150,000 in return for staying in uniform several more years.
The numbers gathered by The Associated Press and other Pentagon research indicate there has not been an extended exodus of commandos to private security companies and other businesses that value their talents.

``Back in 2005, we saw quite a few exits,'' said Rear Adm. Michael LeFever, director of the Navy's military personnel plans and policy division. ``What we're seeing lately is just the opposite. We've become very aggressive.''

Defense Secretary Robert Gates remains so concerned over the lure of high salaries in the private sector that he has directed Pentagon lawyers to explore putting no-compete clauses into contracts with security companies that would limit their recruiting abilities.
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also get a better idea what a mercenary is