bloody tourists and Xmas

Thank God the round of celebratory events and 'stuff' to get through over the Xmas, New Year break is over. It was actually quite OK but I am really looking forward to all the annoying tourists going back home. The main street still jams up with traffic and there are dumb drivers everywhere with blank looks on their faces looking for 'things' or places to park or roads. I have lived in coastal tourist towns all my life and it is the price you pay for having the place to yourself most of the time. But the shops run out of food, there are queues everywhere, no places to park and the waves are chockers with all types of surfers, some out for their 'annual' surf event and some agro bastards who are used to surfing in crowds on the west or east coast and having to be pushy just to get a wave. I wonder if the tourists realise how much the locals hate them!!! Fuck the economy, most of us don't actually benefit anyway.
Apart from that. everything is cruising along. Got some waves on Simon's 6'8" board at Deserts the other day, 3ft, clean and quick. I was encouraged by being able to get some waves on that board as it is a conventional design (even a bit of a gun board if Simon surfs it). So that is the next level for me as a surfer. It is a constant challenge but one I can take as far as I am able to survive basically. Hell, I was so envious of those guys out on the point in the Big Friday swell at Mids. I know I am not up to it but that is where I really wanted to be. Simon reckoned that he saw a guy on the face of a wave as he was paddling back out and that it was 2 and a 1/2 times overhead. Shit. Out in the middle of the bay was the best big wave that you could have surfed on a really big board and gone for ever. That looked really cool too.
Well, back to the Candidacy. I am still really excited about my subject but I do think it warrants a PhD equivalent in the form of a Doctor of Creative Arts. It is such a huge subject so I may still see if I can transfer over if I get through this candidacy bit.

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White Supremacist Busted on Child-Porn Charge

Jan. 4, 2007 — A leader of the white supremacist movement was arraigned today on charges of possession of child pornography and witness tampering after being arrested by FBI agents Thursday night at his home in Charlottesville, Va.

Kevin Alfred Strom, founder of the National Vanguard white supremacist group, was considered the leading intellectual of the movement since the death of William Pierce, the author of the notorious "Turner Diaires."

Strom was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, charged with the two counts, and is currently being held at a facility in the city. According to the indictment, he allegedly possessed or attempted to possess "multiple images of child pornography" on his computer's hard drive.

Strom was also charged with witness tampering, which involved physically assaulting and mentally intimidating a witness to his criminal activity

I once tangled with Kevin Strom at the JFK newsgroup alt.conspiracy.jfk. As I recall he was rather polite for a Nazi.

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UFO Crash Over Finland

Update: posters at GodLikeProductions have more on this incident. The video was shot 8th of december 2003 and was shown on the Finnish tv program called "Good morning Finland" 17th of December.

Transcript:

A woman from Oulu visiting a dog show in Helsinki in the weekend spots an unusual looking shape high inthe illuminating morning sky. The sky is cloudless, visibility good. Fortunately, the camera carried along is taken out.

(Woman shooting the camera):
- What is that? What is that, Jaana?

(Other woman):
-What?

- Look, what is that?

The phenomenon makes no sound. The women are shooting the target for tens of seconds untilit disappears behind the horizon. The easiest and maybe still the most obvious explanation is an aeroplane -the Helsinki-Vantaa airport is nearby. But could it still be a burning satellite or a carrier rocket, heated up by friction high up in the atmosphere - space junk? The longevity of the phenomenon would surely suggest so. On the other hand the shape holds itself together quite well - no loose pieces are seen. Also the colors remain even. Could it be a meteor or even an asteroid that passed the earthquite close high above the atmosphere? But then nothing like that has been reported in the world.

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Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi's letter to the President

Surging forces is a strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed. Like many current and former military leaders, we believe that trying again would be a serious mistake. They, like us, believe there is no purely military solution in Iraq. There is only a political solution.

Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain. And it would undermine our efforts to get the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq.

We appreciate you taking these views into consideration.

There is no chance that the Democrats will actually do anything to stop the surge plan--like cut funding. They will very publically oppose the surge plan but not stop it. The surge plan will fail. The Democrats win politically. More American soldiers will die. If the Democrats were to actually stop the surge plan then Bush would blame them for Iraq's downward spiral into hell.

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Signs in the Skies?

Ufos are all over the news lately. The unusual object or objects above was seen in Istanbul according to this story, dated today.

Mysterious lights seen in Istanbul skies have baffled people on Wednesday night. Witnesses have claimed that the lights were coming from a UFO.

In Bahçelievler district of Yenibosna, Istanbul, people have called news agencies on Wednesday night and reported unidentified white lights flying in the sky. According to the eye witnesses, the flying object was revolving around itself and blazing.

Update: Enhanced version from http://godlikeproductions.com

According to this story, something crashed in South Africa last Saturday:

Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a strange object "on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines" - hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.

On November 7 about a dozen United Airlines employees at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago saw a metallic disk that left a hole in the clouds.

One United employee appeared emotionally shaken by the sighting and "experienced some religious issues" over it, one co-worker said.

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Jack Ruby stripper Jada

For an account of Jada's activities on the day of the Kennedy assassination see my earlier post here.

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Yes, It's Embarrassing

Red Wings--4
San Jose--9

I DON'T want to talk about it! ;)

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