Okay this is me today...
Like all day.
Not the prettiest picture, huh! Ahhhh, don't look at my hair or undies.........I was so friggin tired, so screw it.
Anyways, I'm up and at em. Yay...
Okay, so like this has no relevance at all, but....I didn't know that Rebecca Stamos and John Stamos getting/got(whatever) divorced! I'm floored. No, seriously I'm fucking floored.
I even lost a bet over it.
Alrighty, on to another subject.
Hmmm, David Hasselhoff got a DUI...
Okay so I decided to bite the bullet and look at today's news in the race. I actually have gotten to hate looking at this because of all the old rhetoric being repeated over and over by both sides. But I did find this interesting:
If the election were held today, would you vote for Bush, Kerry or Nader?
Published Bush% Kerry% Nader% Error% Polled Source
Oct. 27 48 45 2 4 741 ICR
Oct. 26 48 48 1 3 881 Los Angeles Times
Oct. 25 51 46 1 3 1,195 CNN-USA Today Gallup
Oct. 25 48 46 1 4 880 Newsweek
Oct. 25 48 49 1 2 1,631 ABC News
Oct. 24 49 48 1 2 1,638 ABC News
Oct. 21 46 49 2 3 976 Associated Press-Ipsos
Oct. 21 48 47 1 4 772 Marist
Oct. 18 47 45 2 4 678 CBS News/New York Times
Oct. 17 50 46 2 2 1,582 ABC News
Oct. 17 52 44 1 4 788 CNN-USA Today Gallup
Oct. 16 50 44 1 4 880 Newsweek
Oct. 16 48 46 3 4 865 Time
Oct. 13 48 48 1 3 1,203 ABC News
Oct. 12 48 45 2 3 1,023 CBS News
Oct. 11 50 46 1 2 1,589 ABC - Washington Post
Oct. 8 45 45 3 4 886 Time
Oct. 7 46 50 2 3 944 Associated Press-Ipsos
Oct. 6 51 45 2 4 762 ICR
Oct. 4 47 47 1 4 561 CBS News/New York Times
Oct. 4 51 46 1 3 1,169 ABC - Washington Post
Oct. 3 49 49 1 4 772 CNN-USA Today Gallup
Oct. 2 47 45 2 4 1,013 Newsweek
Sorry, I know that's kind of hard to interpret. It shows the percentages for Bush, then Kerry then Nader, how many polled and the source. Only two times did Kerry come out one top. Not that this is like a for sure indicater, I mean at most there were 1638 people polled in one of the polls. But....maybe it does show a trend, so many polls, so many times Bush came out the winner, if only by a few points. I understand that Bush isn't perfect, the war hasn't been perfect...but, I simply am not going to take every mistake that has been made by countless people and lay it on the president's doorstep. That's ridiculous, and it's dirty campaigning. Kerry knows that the President cannot correctly defend himself in the position he's in. He cannot take all the "mistakes" and correctly name their source, when they are in his cabinet, or his forces; that would be not only wrong it would be irresponsible. But, the president is one man, who can only do so many things, this is why we have checks and balances, we have a huge government network; there are other people responsible for the mistakes made in Iraq and the war.
Not only all that, but we are faltering as a united country right now, the world sees that, a sort of civil war, which in turn makes us falter in the wars we are waging. To be electing a new president at this time is a mistake.
Okay,(jump off the soapbox), anyways; it just disturbs me to see people acting so stupidly to eachother.
Alright, so here's a new Urban Legend...true or false?
About the terrible crash of the Airbus A-300 in New York. There are already rumors being circulated on radio that this was the result of a terrorist acting on the "challenge" issued by a firefighter on the televised super-celebrity concert recently given in New York. This firefighter challenged bin-Laden saying the firefighter was ready for him and gave his full address . . . in Rockaway. Now the rumor is that the terrorists took him up on it.
Origins: At 9:14 a.m. on Monday, 12 November 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 took off from Kennedy International Airport in New York City, bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Minutes later, it crashed in flames in Queens, coming down in the Rockaways neighborhood of that borough.
The plane carried 260 people (246 ticketed passengers, five unticketed infants traveling on parents' laps, and nine crew members). There were no survivors. Up to nine people living in the area of the crash have been reported missing and are feared to have perished. By late that day, searchers had recovered 265 "relatively intact bodies," police said.
Following so close on the heels of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on America, the first thought on everyone's mind when news of the crash flashed around the world. Was this another terrorist strike?
The combination of this air disaster plus the weeks-earlier remarks by a firefighter from Rockaway created a fast-breaking rumor: Osama bin Laden had taken Michael Moran at his word:
Michael Moran, 38, brought the Rockaways' grief and spirit to a national cable television audience Oct. 20 during the fund-raising "Concert for New York" at Madison Square Garden.
Having lost his brother and 12 colleagues in the trade center, Moran said: "In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass."
He added: "I live in Rockaway and this is my face."
The rumor embellished Moran's "kiss my ass" comments into his telling bin Laden to "come and get" him, and bin Laden obliging by sending minions to hijack yet another plane, this one to be crashed into the boastful firefighter's neighborhood. In an America already nervous about the ongoing potential for further terrorist activity, the confusion-filled early hours following the downing of Flight 587 made such a tale almost believable it fell resoundingly upon the ears of those all too ready to have their worst fears confirmed.
Many firefighters and police officers live in Rockaway, and this community has been visited by the grim spectre of tragedy through the loss of a number of its inhabitants in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11. That it would be hit two months later by a jetliner hurtling from the sky seems too cruel to be real, but that is what happened. No terrorist was needed to steer the plane into this neighborhood; the ordinary flight path of an aircraft flying from Kennedy to Santo Domingo put it in the line of fire.
In October 2004, the National Transportation Safety Board put rumors to rest by stating its findings that the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 was caused by the pilot's "unnecessary and excessive" use of the rudder, with flawed training by the airline and poor rudder design major contributing factors to how the accident unfolded. Encountering wake turbulence from a preceeding plane on takeoff, the pilot shunted the rudder back and forth to try to hold the wings at the proper angle, which sent the aircraft into a fatal spin. Once in the spin, the force of the wind ripped the vertical tail fin off, sending the plane down to its doom.
This determination was in keeping with its preliminary findings which indicated that the appearance of the salvaged pieces of Flight 587 were consistent with those of accidentally-downed aircraft. (Metal that has been subject to an explosion presents a far different aspect than metal that has not.) Information gleaned from the doomed flight's voice recorders did not indicate the presence of hijackers or suicide bombers aboard.
Yet it was a startling coincidence that New York would so soon after that black Tuesday in September again be the site of a major air disaster, or that that plane would crash into the neighborhood of a firefighter who'd scant weeks earlier publicly let loose with fighting words that included where to find him should anyone want to come looking.
TRUE OR FALSE?
Like all day.
Not the prettiest picture, huh! Ahhhh, don't look at my hair or undies.........I was so friggin tired, so screw it.
Anyways, I'm up and at em. Yay...
Okay, so like this has no relevance at all, but....I didn't know that Rebecca Stamos and John Stamos getting/got(whatever) divorced! I'm floored. No, seriously I'm fucking floored.
I even lost a bet over it.
Alrighty, on to another subject.
Hmmm, David Hasselhoff got a DUI...
Okay so I decided to bite the bullet and look at today's news in the race. I actually have gotten to hate looking at this because of all the old rhetoric being repeated over and over by both sides. But I did find this interesting:
If the election were held today, would you vote for Bush, Kerry or Nader?
Published Bush% Kerry% Nader% Error% Polled Source
Oct. 27 48 45 2 4 741 ICR
Oct. 26 48 48 1 3 881 Los Angeles Times
Oct. 25 51 46 1 3 1,195 CNN-USA Today Gallup
Oct. 25 48 46 1 4 880 Newsweek
Oct. 25 48 49 1 2 1,631 ABC News
Oct. 24 49 48 1 2 1,638 ABC News
Oct. 21 46 49 2 3 976 Associated Press-Ipsos
Oct. 21 48 47 1 4 772 Marist
Oct. 18 47 45 2 4 678 CBS News/New York Times
Oct. 17 50 46 2 2 1,582 ABC News
Oct. 17 52 44 1 4 788 CNN-USA Today Gallup
Oct. 16 50 44 1 4 880 Newsweek
Oct. 16 48 46 3 4 865 Time
Oct. 13 48 48 1 3 1,203 ABC News
Oct. 12 48 45 2 3 1,023 CBS News
Oct. 11 50 46 1 2 1,589 ABC - Washington Post
Oct. 8 45 45 3 4 886 Time
Oct. 7 46 50 2 3 944 Associated Press-Ipsos
Oct. 6 51 45 2 4 762 ICR
Oct. 4 47 47 1 4 561 CBS News/New York Times
Oct. 4 51 46 1 3 1,169 ABC - Washington Post
Oct. 3 49 49 1 4 772 CNN-USA Today Gallup
Oct. 2 47 45 2 4 1,013 Newsweek
Sorry, I know that's kind of hard to interpret. It shows the percentages for Bush, then Kerry then Nader, how many polled and the source. Only two times did Kerry come out one top. Not that this is like a for sure indicater, I mean at most there were 1638 people polled in one of the polls. But....maybe it does show a trend, so many polls, so many times Bush came out the winner, if only by a few points. I understand that Bush isn't perfect, the war hasn't been perfect...but, I simply am not going to take every mistake that has been made by countless people and lay it on the president's doorstep. That's ridiculous, and it's dirty campaigning. Kerry knows that the President cannot correctly defend himself in the position he's in. He cannot take all the "mistakes" and correctly name their source, when they are in his cabinet, or his forces; that would be not only wrong it would be irresponsible. But, the president is one man, who can only do so many things, this is why we have checks and balances, we have a huge government network; there are other people responsible for the mistakes made in Iraq and the war.
Not only all that, but we are faltering as a united country right now, the world sees that, a sort of civil war, which in turn makes us falter in the wars we are waging. To be electing a new president at this time is a mistake.
Okay,(jump off the soapbox), anyways; it just disturbs me to see people acting so stupidly to eachother.
Alright, so here's a new Urban Legend...true or false?
About the terrible crash of the Airbus A-300 in New York. There are already rumors being circulated on radio that this was the result of a terrorist acting on the "challenge" issued by a firefighter on the televised super-celebrity concert recently given in New York. This firefighter challenged bin-Laden saying the firefighter was ready for him and gave his full address . . . in Rockaway. Now the rumor is that the terrorists took him up on it.
Origins: At 9:14 a.m. on Monday, 12 November 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 took off from Kennedy International Airport in New York City, bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Minutes later, it crashed in flames in Queens, coming down in the Rockaways neighborhood of that borough.
The plane carried 260 people (246 ticketed passengers, five unticketed infants traveling on parents' laps, and nine crew members). There were no survivors. Up to nine people living in the area of the crash have been reported missing and are feared to have perished. By late that day, searchers had recovered 265 "relatively intact bodies," police said.
Following so close on the heels of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on America, the first thought on everyone's mind when news of the crash flashed around the world. Was this another terrorist strike?
The combination of this air disaster plus the weeks-earlier remarks by a firefighter from Rockaway created a fast-breaking rumor: Osama bin Laden had taken Michael Moran at his word:
Michael Moran, 38, brought the Rockaways' grief and spirit to a national cable television audience Oct. 20 during the fund-raising "Concert for New York" at Madison Square Garden.
Having lost his brother and 12 colleagues in the trade center, Moran said: "In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass."
He added: "I live in Rockaway and this is my face."
The rumor embellished Moran's "kiss my ass" comments into his telling bin Laden to "come and get" him, and bin Laden obliging by sending minions to hijack yet another plane, this one to be crashed into the boastful firefighter's neighborhood. In an America already nervous about the ongoing potential for further terrorist activity, the confusion-filled early hours following the downing of Flight 587 made such a tale almost believable it fell resoundingly upon the ears of those all too ready to have their worst fears confirmed.
Many firefighters and police officers live in Rockaway, and this community has been visited by the grim spectre of tragedy through the loss of a number of its inhabitants in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11. That it would be hit two months later by a jetliner hurtling from the sky seems too cruel to be real, but that is what happened. No terrorist was needed to steer the plane into this neighborhood; the ordinary flight path of an aircraft flying from Kennedy to Santo Domingo put it in the line of fire.
In October 2004, the National Transportation Safety Board put rumors to rest by stating its findings that the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 was caused by the pilot's "unnecessary and excessive" use of the rudder, with flawed training by the airline and poor rudder design major contributing factors to how the accident unfolded. Encountering wake turbulence from a preceeding plane on takeoff, the pilot shunted the rudder back and forth to try to hold the wings at the proper angle, which sent the aircraft into a fatal spin. Once in the spin, the force of the wind ripped the vertical tail fin off, sending the plane down to its doom.
This determination was in keeping with its preliminary findings which indicated that the appearance of the salvaged pieces of Flight 587 were consistent with those of accidentally-downed aircraft. (Metal that has been subject to an explosion presents a far different aspect than metal that has not.) Information gleaned from the doomed flight's voice recorders did not indicate the presence of hijackers or suicide bombers aboard.
Yet it was a startling coincidence that New York would so soon after that black Tuesday in September again be the site of a major air disaster, or that that plane would crash into the neighborhood of a firefighter who'd scant weeks earlier publicly let loose with fighting words that included where to find him should anyone want to come looking.
TRUE OR FALSE?
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jamesriot:
I'm a big fan of anything with zombies in it. It's always good times when the dead rise to feed on the flesh of the living.
jamesriot:
Yeah, that's my website. I do everything on it. The drawing, the writing, everything. It's a labor of love that I haven't updated in over 2 weeks because I've been so freaking busy. Thanks for the nice words though!