I'm amazed at how visible the stars are at high noon.
*quality

...noone had a hilux or patrol nearby with a winch? Or just a winch in general? A country that snows that much during the year...? Wut?

Except, you know, not the solitary part. You put them in a cage where they are bars that prevent physical interactions with others, yet you can still communicate. Its not rocket science. Oh, and noone, ever, deserves the time this man was sentenced to. If he did something that awful, just fucking put him to death. Its not as cruel.

He would have puked it up after the vid, and noone would be in any troubles.

So caffeine still has an affect on your sleep way after you have put it into your system. Twelve hours later its still has a 25% presence/affect as it had when you drank it. So coffee in the morning can still make it potentially more difficult to sleep at night. I'd always heard it shouldn't affect your sleep if you had consumed it longer then six hours ago. So i guess the multiple cups before noon may potentially be part of my difficulty sleeping at night.

The more you know

Noone is telling Israel to shrug their shoulders....the issue is not with the defence, it is the measure of the defence.

Israel should send in a police force, and find those responsible. Shut down the tunnels by ground, stop bombing indiscriminately.

This requires police action, not military...the 'missiles' you keep referring to are pathetically weak, absolutely pathetic.

Were I leader of Israel, I would drop the wall, set about repairing the damages inside the city, allow the organisation of a government, support it in getting benefits in for the people of Gaza and Palestine, halt the invasion of settlers into Palestinian territory, halt the bombings and send in armed police where reports of weapons stashes are. Set up large scale police patrols in troubled areas, let people go about their lives without the fear of having a bomb dropped on their head, try to give them a leg up in life....and the revenge attacks using piss weak rockets will stop.

The Israeli measure of force is far far higher than it should be.

There is no army inside gaza, its kids playing with homemade rocketry. Get cops in there, not 500lb bombs.

If both sides agreed to a ceasefire, allowing UN peacekeepers into the area to...you know...keep the peace, whilst the cities are rebuilt, peoples lives can get back to normal...my god imagine that world.

The Jews are doing to the Palestines what Hitler did to the Jews.

How is noone making this connection...?

Not hipster doucheism at all -- it's pretty much impossible to deny. I mean, the first Rush Hour was fun, as was Shanghai Noon, but the rest of Chan's Hollywood filmography has been pretty weak (I mean, I don't think anyone is going to come out of the woodwork to defend the Tuxedo). And even those two pretty good films pale in comparison to pretty much anything Chan made in Hong Kong in the '80s and early '90s.

Delayed the flight too, the cabin crew and flight deck got so caught up by it that they missed their time slots on the taxi (due to not doing their pre-flight checks).

Noone cared though

I hope noone does this shit ever again.
Helium is a finite resource, and its getting rare.

We need it for things like medical scanning machines, particle colliders, nuclear detectors....my god what a waste.

What Work Is

We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.
You know what work is--if you're
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
Forget you. This is about waiting,
shifting from one foot to another.
Feeling the light rain falling like mist
into your hair, blurring your vision
until you think you see your own brother
ahead of you, maybe ten places.
You rub your glasses with your fingers,
and of course it's someone else's brother,
narrower across the shoulders than
yours but with the same sad slouch, the grin
that does not hide the stubbornness,
the sad refusal to give in to
rain, to the hours wasted waiting,
to the knowledge that somewhere ahead
a man is waiting who will say, "No,
we're not hiring today," for any
reason he wants. You love your brother,
now suddenly you can hardly stand
the love flooding you for your brother,
who's not beside you or behind or
ahead because he's home trying to
sleep off a miserable night shift
at Cadillac so he can get up
before noon to study his German.
Works eight hours a night so he can sing
Wagner, the opera you hate most,
the worst music ever invented.
How long has it been since you told him
you loved him, held his wide shoulders,
opened your eyes wide and said those words,
and maybe kissed his cheek? You've never
done something so simple, so obvious,
not because you're too young or too dumb,
not because you're jealous or even mean
or incapable of crying in
the presence of another man, no,
just because you don't know what work is.

Philip Levine

I guess noone there have heard about "shrapnel" - I'd stay much, much, *much* further away.
*popcorn

Airplane jokes!

Noone has ever done that before.

Each town and city in Illinois should sound their public address sirens every day at noon to remind her citizens how back-assward ignorant a whole shipload of their state's laws are compared to the rest of the United States....Although..This year, first week of July, Illinois finally allowed a concealed carry law (the last state to do so, btw), that after all the bullshit that erupted over this last school shooting. This from a state with a history of some of the worst organized crime (not unlike Chicago's current police force) and political fraud ever perpetrated by elected officials.

I said yes to myself on both scenarios, but only because the 2nd is so outrageously unreal.

If I have the strength to push mass in front of a train so large that it might stop the train in its tracks....then its not really a person im pushing then, is it?

Problem solved, easy.

Second thoughts on the matter, if I have such strength, why not just jump down onto the tracks and stop the train myself? Would seem like a fairly easy feat in this fantasy world, where I have seeminly inhuman strength.

I'd be labelled a hero, and noone dies!