tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55090932011-04-21T23:23:46.829-04:00Skinny Legs and AllDo I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grassthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.comBlogger6401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-78673089623645837032008-03-13T16:51:00.001-04:002008-03-13T16:52:32.361-04:00I love watching perky, stupid "reporters" do stupid shit.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-63378703378691933732008-03-13T15:57:00.000-04:002008-03-13T15:58:00.587-04:00WELCOME TO THE NEW DAILY "WE = FCUCKED" POSTDollar's clout sinks worldwideBy ALAN CLENDENNING, AP Business Writer 50 minutes agoSAO PAULO, Brazil - Antique store owners in lower Manhattan, ticket vendors at India's Taj Mahal and Brazilian business executives heading to China all have one thing in common these days: They don't want U.S. dollars.ADVERTISEMENTHit by a free fall with no end in sightthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-81908331493307308512008-03-12T18:36:00.000-04:002008-03-12T18:37:13.605-04:00SUCK ON IT SHORTY. Short people are most prone to jealousy, say scientistsWed Mar 12, 2:24 PM ETPARIS (AFP) - Short people should pray for a return to the Seventies fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says.Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and University of Valencia in Spain asked 549 Dutch thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-74238303651701424432008-03-12T12:32:00.002-04:002008-11-13T01:53:35.181-05:00"Spitz Calls It Quits Over Costly Bumped Bits"Goodbye Client number 9...but I am sure it won't be long.I am positive that in the next 6 months we'll see you with:Oprah, Larry King, Dr. Phil, On Dancing With the Stars, The Surreal Life and in a Mug Shot.-----This is for Bookfraud and all you other aspiring writers. From The Onionthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-74163822381879470592008-03-11T08:38:00.005-04:002008-11-13T01:53:35.287-05:00START SPREADIN' THE NEWS, I'M LEAVIN (THE GOV'S MANSION) TODAY...Wow. Its almost incomprehensible that he could have been this stupid. And that poor wife, dragged up there after I am sure she was being told she "had to show solidarity with her man"So, the headlines are just okay, can you come up with your own?GawkersSpitza's Otha Shiksas!Scarlet HarlotTricks For SpitzEscorted From Office?Guv's thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-18885125539819917152008-02-28T09:36:00.004-05:002008-02-28T09:38:36.660-05:00Art imitating life imitating art, again. A fascinating look at how THE WEST WING virtually predicted the current run for the White House.Charismatic, handsome minority vs. entrenched party big vs. a Republican whose credentials are questioned by his own party.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-36039678024089659632008-02-26T17:45:00.002-05:002008-02-26T17:51:09.369-05:00Quite simply. One of the funniest 10 minutes ever.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-45700817622785960072008-02-20T09:39:00.001-05:002008-02-20T09:41:14.533-05:00I SAID I WANTED BUNDT CAKE --- NOT BUTT CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Shop-owners sold chocolate cake sprinkled with human faecesDaily Mail UK ^Posted on 02/19/2008 Shop-owners sold chocolate cake sprinkled with human faecesTwo shop-owners were today fined for selling chocolate cake - which had been sprinkled with human faeces.A horrified customer ate the foul-smelling gateaux but noticed that it didn't thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-42268831507374747092008-02-14T12:51:00.002-05:002008-02-14T12:56:27.582-05:00We're doomed. So many things to say after watching this.-Pregnant by 16...-No one should be allowed to touch a computer until age 21...-Fetal alcohol syndrome...-Inbreeding...thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-67684750480847787882008-02-11T16:17:00.000-05:002008-02-11T16:19:51.901-05:00My favorite episode of "Sexy Beijing"Poor Su Fei. Looking for love in Beijing and finding some interesting answers along the way. Su Fei you rock. I love this because so much of it reflects my experiences in Beijingthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-65842882388199961412008-02-10T09:47:00.001-05:002008-02-10T09:49:40.711-05:00The beautiful game. Taken to extremes. Street Soccer in South America.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-29579257029739005402008-02-08T15:44:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:47:30.854-05:00More news from the U.K.A bit poncy eh? Once proud England is soon to be populated by sexless, sharia loving TV watching droolers. Did I mention they are as fat as Americans now?Half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TVReuters | 02/08/08 LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey -- perhaps unsurprisinglythephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-85582662009519250492008-02-07T11:13:00.000-05:002008-02-07T11:16:12.420-05:00Happy Lunar New Year - It's the Year of the RatAccording to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2008 is a Year of the Rat (Earth), which begins on February 7, 2008 and ends on January 25, 2009. First in the cycle of 12 Animal signs, Rat Year begins the sequence and recurs every twelfth year. It is a time of renewal in so many ways. From New Year to Valentine's Day, to the arrival of spring, may all thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-49159888347592795582008-02-07T11:12:00.001-05:002008-02-07T11:13:10.522-05:00More craziness from the U.K."there's one law for everybody... I think that's a bit of a danger". -The Archbishop of CanterburySharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'BBC Posted on 02/07/2008 6:03:54Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable' The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the UK is "unavoidable".Dr Williams told BBC Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-44230424595542267612008-02-05T18:04:00.000-05:002008-02-05T18:05:12.086-05:00Uh oh. The Brits are getting dumber too. Too many Big Macs and "The Sun",I guess. Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: pollSun Feb 3, 7:12 PM ETLONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.ADVERTISEMENTThe survey found that 47 thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-63652065511078227692008-01-29T17:36:00.000-05:002008-11-13T01:53:35.555-05:00Happy, happy joy, joy, happy, happy joy joy. Didn't they coin the term "mid-life crisis" about 40 years ago? They needed a decade long study for this? Middle-age is truly depressing, study findsBy Michael Kahn Tue Jan 29, 7:25 AM ETLONDON (Reuters) - Middle age is truly miserable, according to a study using data from 80 countries showing that depression is most common among men and women in thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-81422042948988327232008-01-25T09:50:00.000-05:002008-11-13T01:53:35.870-05:00Today the New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.Today I endorse and throw my lot in with Barak Obama. THe country really needs a change. It really needs to take a chance. It really needs the fresh faces and ideas Mr. Obama will bring to Washington.I also believe that having an African American man in the White House will do more to fulfill the idea that in this country "all men thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-11156218873992813382008-01-24T11:12:00.000-05:002008-01-24T11:14:35.632-05:00Dedicated to Bookfraud and all those who like me are passionate about reading.Area Eccentric Reads Entire BookThe Onion January 19, 2008 | Issue 44•03 GREENWOOD, IN—Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there's more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-92211516698551663602008-01-21T09:44:00.000-05:002008-01-21T09:54:08.236-05:00This is the story THE ONION ran the week of Bush taking office . My how prescient it was. Everything in this "satirical" piece has come to pass. War, recession, the environment, national debt, paranoia, jingoism. I post this every year. Read it closely, it has all come to pass.Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'January 17, 2001 | Issue 37•01WASHINGTON, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-66157981693717948972008-01-18T16:31:00.000-05:002008-01-18T16:35:18.462-05:00I am a huge sports fanatic. Football, baseball, hockey, basketball, golf. I am also one of the more passionate futbal, football (soccer) supporters you will ever encounter. My team is Arsenal, of London.In my never ending quest to show you why the rest of the world is slowly and surely coming to loathe not only the American government but Americans in general, I give you this from the London thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-62727466346296481302008-01-16T12:01:00.001-05:002008-01-16T12:06:42.726-05:00I'm not alone. I was always afraid of clowns as a child and I have never, at any point in my life fond them to be funny. I feel like I have closure on this issue now.Don't send in the clownsWed Jan 16, 8:32 AM ETLONDON (Reuters) - Bad news for Coco and Blinko -- children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them.The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was revealed thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-42573027095838693522008-01-15T17:49:00.000-05:002008-11-13T01:53:36.007-05:00But, but, but, I thought this only happens when you have "Universal, Free Health Care" in communist, cheese eating, third world shitholes, like Canada and Switzerland.ER wait times getting longer, study findsOvercrowding especially dangerous for heart attack patientsReuters - January 15, 2008 - WASHINGTON - Patients seeking urgent care in U.S. emergency rooms are waiting longer than in the 1990s,thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-75310181653083385592008-01-13T16:30:00.001-05:002008-11-13T01:53:36.285-05:00So, just where the heck has thephoenixnyc been for the last few months? Why hasn't he posted?I intend to answer that question over the next week. We will start with #1 - Playing with my now 19 month old nephew. Here we are on Halloween.I've also been busy running my company. Part of that is giving speeches and speaking at seminars regarding doing business in China. For example:I've also beenthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-24356691501327493452008-01-11T15:37:00.000-05:002008-01-11T15:41:08.022-05:00And I thought the height of surprise and disappointment was realizing at age 18 I would never be a rock star.Separated-at-birth twins get marriedFri Jan 11, 12:15 PM ETLONDON (AFP) - Twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different sets of parents later married each other without realising they were brother and sister, a peer has told the House of Lords.David Alton, an independent, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-72561130351851399082008-01-09T17:46:00.000-05:002008-01-09T17:50:41.656-05:00As if I didn't have enough to worry about. Now I have a new entry for my worry list that already includes:-Figuring out which is the "good cholesterol" and which is "Bad"-Running a bi-national company-My 40th birthday this coming May-Why, if 9/11 happened because "they" hate freedom, "they" didn't bomb Geneva or Montego Bay-BrittanyHere it is, I know I won't sleep tonight. Milky Way could hold thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-74950516218468698182007-11-20T18:34:00.000-05:002007-11-20T18:40:39.140-05:00WOW - Last year we found and the true identity of "DEEP THROAT" and NOW THIS!!!!!NEIL DIAMOND REVEALS TRUE IDENTITY OF "SWEET CAROLINE"SANDY COHEN | November 20, 2007 11:47 AM EST | LOS ANGELES — Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline.""I've never discussed it with anybody thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-80569742726022461742007-10-26T15:56:00.000-04:002007-10-26T15:57:52.112-04:00Why the world hates us: REASON #2,789By Sky News SkyNews - Friday, October 26 11:56 Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder has admitted not knowing people speak English in London.The NFL player might want to check a map before he gets on board a plane for Sunday's prestige game against the New York Giants at Wembley Stadium.Crowder, who comes from Atlanta in Georgia, may be praised on the thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-62394208656616486572007-10-24T11:47:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:36.594-05:00GOTHAM/METROPOLIS HAS A NEW SUPERHERO!!!!!Move aside Spidey and Clark Kent - New York now has...THE HERPES AVENGER"Beware oh male herpes spreaders, THE AVENGER HAS ARRIVED!!!From GAWKERWilliamsburg "Herpes Avenger" Is Fighting STDs With Fliers "Do you live in the Williamsburg Greenpoint area? I know you probably love it. I love it too. But you should be aware of some things. Living here is much thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-27896884042722069972007-10-22T16:22:00.000-04:002007-10-22T16:29:30.845-04:00It appears the FBI is investigating super-magician David Copperfield. He also canceled his upcoming shows in Asia because a woman is charging him with sexual misconduct.Can't he just makes these charges disappear?]How long until everyone start calling him "David Cop-A Feel"?-There are terrible wildfires devastating large areas of Los Angeles and San Diego.We New Yorkers take comfort in this. thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-19955137683677694782007-10-19T10:53:00.001-04:002007-10-19T10:53:53.790-04:00Wow, I feel like such an underachiver.3 year old solves Rubik's cube in less than two minutes.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-86562502018569082902007-10-17T17:59:00.000-04:002007-10-17T18:26:17.338-04:00Bitterness, envy, frustration, hand-wringing, shouts of "unfu&%ingbelievable." Yes, that's me sometimes. Not often, but sometimes.There are certain things that touch it off. There is one in particular that gets me and turns my inner Buddha into my inner Son of Sam. I'll tell you what it is.It's constantly seeing people get rich for having strange, bad, awful, weird and unexpected things happen tothephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-69840473425372138302007-10-01T15:24:00.000-04:002007-10-01T15:35:07.502-04:00I farted and a pea rolled out across the floor, rolled and rolled and rolled...thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-53766856277750284362007-09-21T11:41:00.000-04:002007-09-21T17:04:16.119-04:00MAJOR UPDATE - 4:58 P.M. NELSON MANDELA DEADWhat? He's not dead? But President Bush said...MERCY, he's alive.Just another OOPS - I POSTED TOO EARLY TODAYMandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remarkJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader's death in an thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-23732906171159819012007-09-19T11:45:00.000-04:002007-09-19T13:12:11.511-04:00In 1983 I was 15 years old. Three years earlier I heard my first Clash and U2 records and my life would never be the same.Sunday Bloody Sunday started getting U2 some real attention in the US. At that time they were still playing to 8,000 people, not 80,000.As I listened to Sunday Bloody Sunday, over and over I was overwhelmed by its message, by its ability to articulate suffering, the pain of thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-57292679492509700052007-09-11T10:16:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:36.996-05:00I will not dwell on it, I will not get too deep in thought about it. I just want those who we lost to rest in peace and may their loved ones find the same. I didn't see it on TV, I stood there on the ground and watched it happen in front of me. I took the dust and smell home with me that night. Since that day, many, many more have been lost and much dust has been brought home.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-29855572246483948342007-09-05T18:04:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:37.060-05:00Those who fly a lot (like me) or only sometimes, know that travel by air has become an annoying, frustrating, cruel, often humiliating experience. So many things can go wrong. Which is why I love this story.Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god Tue Sep 4, 3:41 PM ETKATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-27181215601462053842007-09-04T10:48:00.000-04:002007-09-04T11:19:01.513-04:00A new one from the "MONEY WASTED ON A STUDY" FILE.Findings show that rock stars, who live the "rock star lifestyle" die younger than non rock stars not living the rock star lifestyle.Rock stars more likely to die prematurely By Tim Castle Mon Sep 3, 7:06 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Rock stars -- notorious for their "crash and burn" lifestyles -- really are more likely than other people to die beforethephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-77302683029106715352007-08-30T09:54:00.000-04:002007-08-30T10:10:11.912-04:00From today's Opinion piece by Gail Collins in the New York Times:"It is time for Republicans to start asking themselves whether there’s something about ceremonial leadership positions that causes their colleagues to collapse under stress. Larry Craig was co-chair of the U.S. Senate Mitt Romney for President campaign until the recent unpleasantness caused him to resign. Senator David Vitter, the thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-50003252454713919502007-08-29T16:02:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:37.171-05:00The poster at MidLifeMutations posted that John Edwards said that those who contract breast cancer and don't have health insurance are 30-50% more likely to die from the disease. That is an all too accurate snapshot of how health care is administered and not administered for the 45 million Americans without health insurance. It looks worse when compared to the other top nine rich industrialized thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-86788585701864602412007-08-28T09:37:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:37.345-05:00Wow. So Republican Senator Larry Craig of Ohio was arrested and convicted of lewd behavior for tapping his foot in an effort to elicit gay sex in a public bathroom. It turns out the guy in the next stall was a cop. D'OH!! Do you think CHRIS HANSON of DATELINE was in another stall taping his new special "TO CATCH A SENATOR"?I never knew tapping your foot was a signal for "I want to suck cock." I thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-84667513626945883052007-08-24T08:45:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:37.801-05:00Dinner or exhibit? You guess.Having just come back from China I can assure you that the old axiom that 1 billion Chinese don't care...is true.Well that is not entirely true. They do care about America, in two ways. They are happy that we buy from them, and give them a big trade surplus, which they then use to buy American debt that we have to sell to finance the War in Iraq because we cut taxes. thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-26037859973599071502007-08-22T14:30:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:38.793-05:00What will be the world's tallest building rises across the river in Pudong, Shanghai.I'm back from China. It was a great two weeks, and as usual, I learned more than my brain can properly process. Shanghai is like a baby on steroids, every time you see her she has grown 10%. Up to about 18 million now.China's economy is growing faster than Barry Bonds' head. I had a whirlwind two weeks and thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-45531061218850501752007-08-05T19:10:00.000-04:002007-08-05T19:11:19.440-04:00Zaijian (see you later.I am off to CHina for two weeks. I have a 7:25 a.m. flight, I have to be at the airport at 5:30. Then 14 hours in the air. Woot!!See you all in a bit!thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-63256047959157947992007-08-01T15:35:00.000-04:002007-08-01T15:48:34.642-04:00Outsourcing, insourcing, globalisation, EU passports, job losses, job gains, China, India, the Celtic Tiger, the Rust Belt, Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, new industries, nursing shortages...Wow, its not our grandfather's...uh father's...uh older brother's job market any more.Every day the headlines are filled with all the terms above and many more like them. Like never before jobs and skills flythephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-9206850127205681452007-07-25T10:58:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:38.980-05:00"When you're a butch your a butch" "We like to munch in America"Something Old: Bill O'Reilly fills a report with lies and inaccuracies.Something New: He admits it.And the report in question regards what important threat to the well being of Americans? Terrorism? Iraq? Health Insurance? Oh no, no no no. RAMPAGING LESBIAN STREET GANGS!!!!! I know, I know, we'll come back to the humor inherent in thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-67963125283914317402007-07-24T08:07:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:39.144-05:00The minimum wage increase has pased. Its the first increase in 10 years. It now stands at $5.85 per hour. That is $234 per 40 hour work week. That is $936.00 per month. That is $11,232 per year. Pathetic.But if you are homeless or in a shelter you CAN do better than $5.85 an hour. Unions will hire you to protest for them for $8.00 per hour. That's right they outsource protesters, at least they thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-71911937101284040192007-07-18T08:36:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:39.362-05:00According to ABC NEWS today, Wal-Mart is going to start carrying a line of Christian toys. The toymaker, One2Believe, has created toys that are based on biblical stories. For example, there's a set of 3-inch figures based on Daniel in the lion's den for about $7. A 12-inch talking Jesus doll is about $15. And 14-inch Samson or Goliath action figures are about $20. This is great and to be fair, inthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-80129038930518110652007-07-16T10:30:00.000-04:002007-07-16T10:38:52.815-04:00HOW THE TERRORISTS REALLY WIN.How is the war on terror going? You can't find the answer in how many terrorists are killed in Iraq, or how many attacks are stopped in the US or completed in Europe.No, these are minimal events with little real effect. The real war on terror is an economic war. Its battles are won in lost in the number of dollars spent and made ($450 billion spent on Iraq, $100 thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-69014124211855108002007-07-11T09:50:00.000-04:002007-07-11T10:31:37.155-04:00Katie Couric is in the news as it becomes more and more apparent that her move from "Today" to CBS News Anchor is a complete disaster.It got me to thinking about some of the worst career moves ever.-Katie Couric to CBS-Shelly Long leaves Cheers-David Caruso leaves NYPD Blue-Tom Selleck turns down the lead for Indiana Jones-Michael Jordan Playing BaseballWhat are your choices?thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-30524553513241726132007-07-10T10:46:00.000-04:002007-07-10T12:02:36.069-04:00People used to reach puberty at 13 or 14 and then they were married by the time they were nineteen or twenty. This allowed for 4-6 years of development and maturity and a chance to pass from adolescence to adulthood.Now the average age of marriage in the US is 28 for women and 30 for men. Does that 15 year gap leave too much room between growing up and starting a life? Can too many strange thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-83095572583017375432007-07-04T08:43:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:39.625-05:00On the fourth of July we most often invoke the founding of the country. And rightly so, but the story of July 1863 is as important if not more important to the country we have today.From the very beginning, America was an idea, a dream, an amalgamation of all the dreams born of the European enlightenment: and a wistful harkening back to ancient Athens. It is easy to forget just how radical the thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-83966616924068498172007-07-01T11:04:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:40.260-05:00Ever since I was 7 years old I have been fascinated by aviation. The planes themselves and the act of flying. After logging a hundreds of hours in the air it never gets old for me.Yesterday my uncle took us up in his beautiful yellow "taildragger" on a gorgeous Summer day for a look around the Northwest New Jersey countryside. His house from the airthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-28323887672949707872007-06-26T10:16:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:40.358-05:00Yes, I have read them all, seen all the movies and I am looking forward the final installment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out next month. Recently the New York Times asked readers how it would end. Here are some of the more clever answers. How do YOU think it will end?The three main characters will survive the entire ordeal and emerge victorious. Then, as they step into the Londonthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-62331013390410242622007-06-21T15:11:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:40.475-05:00So one of the great issues and debates of our time is the question about Immigration. What to do about the 12-15 million illegal immigrants/illegal aliens already here and How do we establish a tighter border and an enforceable set of laws to ensure only legal immigration?Their are screams and cries from the left, the right, the center. Everything from shoot them on sight and deport all 15 thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-25490876708436596872007-06-19T11:13:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:40.902-05:00I am an environmentally aware person. I support logical and sustainable ways to reduce pollution and efforts at conserving the world's wildlife and plant life.I am especially enamored with the diversity of life on Earth and finding methods to preserve as much of it as possible. The study and enjoyment of animal and sea life is a passion of mine.I understand in intimate detail the things we as a thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-51481018148088835352007-06-18T09:25:00.000-04:002007-06-18T12:07:04.065-04:00We present for your perusal this fascinating photo essay from the TIME magazine website. 15 families from around the world with their weekly food purchases.It's an intriguing look at what people buy and eat in different countries.Food from around the worldThanks to reader Wendy for sending this to me.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-65285353178499041122007-06-14T12:45:00.000-04:002007-06-14T12:56:30.564-04:00Post-breakup retrieval service Here's an ad on Craigslist-SF for a service that will retrieve items "left behind" at former lovers' homes. Did you leave something special behind?Reply to: pers-351021535@craigslist.org Date: 2007-06-12, 9:53PM PDT Did some bad break-up or awkward one-night-stand have you exiting a lovers house in a hurry, in a frazzled flurry, so that you ended up leaving some thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-2883434839261577912007-06-11T18:27:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:41.018-05:00I guess we all have different ideas of what "respectfully" means.BODIES - THE EXHIBITIONThe Exhibition showcases 21 whole-body specimens and more than 260 organs and partial body specimens. These real human bodies have been meticulously dissected, preserved through an innovative process and respectfully presented, giving visitors the opportunity to view the beauty and complexity of their own thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-7110941877998599922007-06-10T08:46:00.000-04:002007-06-10T10:14:13.090-04:00In 1900, Americans spent nearly twice as much on funerals as on medicine, and less than 2 percent of Americans took vacations.There were an estimated 13 American billionaires in 1985. Now there are more than 1,000. In 2005, America minted 227,000 new financial millionaires, men and women with more than $1 million in investible assets. There are as many millionaires in North Carolina as there are thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-74015937566481886812007-06-06T08:07:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:41.243-05:00A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That's all your house is: a place to keep your stuff. If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house. You could just walk around all the time. Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house. Why? No room for your stuff anymore. - George CarlinNow this guy must have A thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-91563115099282161212007-06-01T14:21:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:41.393-05:00Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' "Sgt. Peppers." It was an album than influenced rock, recording and the counterculture in so many ways an entire essay could be devoted to them. Some ways include hastening the rise of rock on FM radio, new studio recoding techniques, the mainstreaming of psychedelia, the concept album in rock and much more. There are probably 10,000 thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-2212471583743425982007-05-30T11:17:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:42.040-05:00"He liked good food, good wine and pretty women."I have seen this description, word for word or in various permutations, many times over the years and three times in the last week. Its always used to describe a man of the world, a wealthy man, a man who strives to be on top or who is a pretender to such lofty heights. It is always used as a distinguisher, something to set the man apart from otherthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-21483612919745429472007-05-27T09:25:00.001-04:002008-11-13T01:53:42.821-05:00"We're doing heavy fighting. This is a fight. There's a war on out there," he told reporters at al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq. - Gen. David Petraeus 5/27/07"Major Combat Operation in Iraq are over" - G.W. Bush 5/2003BAGHDAD - Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury U.S. troops killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. The figure is telling — and expected to rise in coming thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-4019464664847219112007-05-25T08:34:00.000-04:002007-05-27T11:25:48.658-04:00I was 9 years old in May 1977.Music was just starting to become very important to me. I loved the music of the 50s and 60s and the Beatles were everything to me. And I was just starting to hear some new sounds coming out of England, something called punk. And who could avoid the Saturday Night Fever Sountrack.On TV I loved Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and had thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-74551033009949595792007-05-21T10:22:00.001-04:002007-05-21T10:39:14.643-04:00Two more scourges of "Modern America."The first is the incessant drive by real estate developers to rename neighborhoods with the most banal, ironic and irritating monikers in order to sell more units. Of course there are two versions of this. The suburban, sprawl-like developments (think Seinfeld's "DEL BOCA VISTA") and the urban version.In New York some have tried renaming "Hell's Kitchen" to "thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-17815037018679864702007-05-18T14:28:00.001-04:002008-11-13T01:53:43.711-05:00thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-40706544423978361292007-05-15T18:37:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:43.925-05:00After an attack on U.S. forces in Iraq on Sunday 5 soldiers were killed and three taken prisoner by insurgents.Which treatments and "non" tortures that were approved by the Bush administration (including Alberto Gonzales)the U.S. armed forces and intelligence units, that the U.S. has used against captives at Abu Graib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will the Bush team and war proponents thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-16659548730066929552007-05-15T08:11:00.001-04:002007-05-15T08:11:50.353-04:00thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-11369859481918453322007-05-11T10:42:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:44.059-05:00I read Freerepublic.com almost everyday. Its a right wing web site that provides fascinating insight into how neocons and their other extremely conservative bretheren see the world. Everything is a mainstream media conspiracy and anyone to the left of Tom Delay is a commie pinko bent on the destruction of the US.Everything and anyone that does not fit into their VERY limited worldview is thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-43942144895403104532007-05-08T11:39:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:44.248-05:00What does a loyal Bush Republican do to continue supporting the President and the Iraq War when every possible justification has been exhausted? Quote the founder of the KKK on the House floor of course.From Carpetbagger."Roll Call reports today that a House Republican delivered a foreign policy speech yesterday in which he quoted Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK.On Monday, Rep. Ted thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-38178594014436209602007-05-05T10:58:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:44.388-05:00I have a Myspace account that I never use. I set it up two years ago to join a Buddhist discussion group.So, I check it today and I find this email from "Mandy""I have a feeling that you are so close to me Hey handsome!!! I know u wanna ask me where did I get ur email from I was looking through some profiles on myspace.com and I saw ur profile I really liked it u caught all my attention I thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-57107772631270560942007-04-30T17:35:00.000-04:002007-04-30T17:38:45.344-04:00thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-77281536438642508582007-04-25T11:29:00.000-04:002007-04-25T11:35:00.461-04:00Hit the 50,000 visit mark yesterday. Seems most of the hits I get are from a site called penissizelinks.com, searches for Tom Robbins and those seeling skinny legs and big breasts and other various weirdness. This was an experiment. It was a place to discuss some ideas, comment on current events, literature and politics. It has became a wasteland and largely, I think, a waste of time. I thinkthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-61460167655414161402007-04-24T12:40:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:44.526-05:00 Recently excavated image of "Jesus Annointing the Terrible Lizard" from the Gnostic "Gospel of St. Terra Firma" - he who was branded a heretic and hung from his nipples. Its fun to watch the far right turn on their own.Yesterday, Senator John McCain, whose hypocrisy, waffling, flip-floppery and move away from being an independent thinker to a cowed tool of the Bushocracy has seen his bid for thethephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-62430194519240681012007-04-24T10:20:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:44.809-05:00Why I won't vote for Hilary Clinton - Well, there are many, but here is a big one. Bush, Clinton, Bush...Clinton? Its time for some fresh blood. I think Obama is the man to support.-----Here we have an amazing story of life imitating art imitating life out of California. Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" presents us with Raskolnikov, a promising young, but destitute student, with a touch of thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-41970377866797815612007-04-22T19:11:00.000-04:002007-04-23T09:05:24.495-04:00If environmentalism and being green will, as some wingnuts claim, cripple our economy and make us less competitive in the world, why is it that since RICHARD M. NIXON signed the EPA into law, we have cleaned our rivers, our land, and our air to unprecedented post-industriual revolution levels.......and we still have the largest and most robust economy in the world?Picture a bright blue ball, justthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-34531920877713308222007-04-20T16:11:00.000-04:002007-04-20T16:13:41.282-04:00Bush goes "off script" as HUFF POST describes it._"There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about."-"There are some similarities, of course" between Iraq and Vietnam. "Death is terrible."_"I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times."H.L. Menken was thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-20367527659007827042007-04-20T11:29:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:44.941-05:00How much is a slur worth?Few things sicken me more than the litigious nature of North American society. The culture that tells people that for every slight, mishap, mistake, perceived or real slight and their own personal defects, they are owed money.You know how it works. Any and all of the above cause the "victim" "mental pain" "anguish" "loss of appetite" "loss of sleep" "inability to work, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-57325202716576929582007-04-18T09:22:00.000-04:002007-04-18T11:12:02.831-04:00Judging by the way we have treated each other over the last 10,000 years its hard to argue against this.Chimps More Evolved Than HumansLiveScience.com Tue Apr 17, 11:10 AM ETSince the human-chimp split about 6 million years ago, chimpanzee genes can be said to have evolved more than human genes, a new study suggests.The results, detailed online this week in the Proceedings of the large brains, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-204685594376848442007-04-16T17:48:00.000-04:002007-04-16T17:50:35.260-04:00A horrible day. As you know by now more than 30 killed and 30 wounded at Virginia Tech.So many lives detsroyed today. The dead and their survivors.This story has about 100 angles to it and I am guessing another hundred that will be revealed when we learn more.I will hold off commenting until that time.May the victims all rest in peace.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-22321453665519231892007-04-16T08:43:00.000-04:002007-04-16T10:54:45.100-04:00"Americans are the best entertained and least informed people on earth" - unknownNeocons and the 30% of the population who still believe in Bush and the Iraq war constantly deride those who are critical of the war and the occupation as "moonbats" "clueless" "liberal whackos" "defeatists" - What doe they call a Marine General who refused the position of WAR CZAR and had this to say (something we thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-71437536503999941712007-04-13T14:01:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:45.037-05:00THE PERFECT STORM -America is not a lie, it is a disappointment - Samuel Huntington (explaining that America's ideals are real but we often fall short in living up to them)IMUS - "nappy headed ho" controversyDUKE LACROSSE - Kid's are innocent. After Nancy Grace, The New York Times, 88 Duke Professors and The Media in General tried and convicted them - ruining their lives.JACKIE ROBINSON - Sunday thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-52136952850060189592007-04-12T11:17:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:45.259-05:00Political Correctness Running Amok Yet Again? Yes.When will some of my fellow progressives realize that by straying into the territory of extremist views on equality, brotherhood, fairness and justice and by allowing themselves to stand for overzealous, politically correct views that are ridiculous to the average person they are doing the very causes they wish to help a great deal of harm?A case thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-64913384904313838892007-04-12T10:29:00.000-04:002007-04-12T11:17:21.254-04:00Some rules for guys:Don't get tattoos on your neckDon't wear sports jersey's, unless you are AT the game, after 30 years oldDo not get drunk on the first dateYou may flatulate in front of a woman only after you have brought her to climax. If you trap her head under the covers for the purpose of flatulent entertainment, she's officially your girlfriend.If you've known a guy for more than 24 hours,thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-60722963071256027572007-04-10T09:50:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:45.354-05:00By now most of you have heard about the Don Imus comments regarding the Rutgers University Women's Basketball Team. He referred to them as "nappy-headed hos" among other things. And you have probably seen the outcry against him that has resulted. He has been suspended for two weeks by CBS Radio and MSNBC.In addition to people condemning him there have been those who support him who have said: "Hethephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-90098404966487445082007-04-09T10:08:00.000-04:002007-04-09T10:19:24.442-04:00Ten U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq this weekend.I cant believe the news todayOh, I cant close my eyes and make it go awayHow long...How long must we sing this song?How long? how long...cause tonight...we can be as one, tonightBroken bottles under children's feet, Bodies strewn across the dead end streetBut I wont heed the battle callIt puts my back up Puts my back up against the wallSunday, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-43368294431768206402007-04-07T10:22:00.000-04:002007-04-07T13:20:12.166-04:00An interesting literary fact -When F. Scott Fitzgerald died, barely 25,000 copies of "THE GREAT GATSBY" had sold. In 2007, 25,000 copies are sold every two weeks.----There have been a lot of definitions of "Globalization" bandied about. This is the best I have found:Flat vs. Globalby Stephen Pratt, CEO, Infosys ConsultingIn speaking with many clients about how to compete in a flat world, I often thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-36692124460122309912007-04-05T09:07:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:45.767-05:00Eddie Van Halen 15 Years Ago Eddie Van Halen Today (he has finally entered rehab for his addiction) Rep. (D) Henry Waxman and Lon Chaney's Monster. Hmmmm.Today's "I'll say and do anything and lie like the devil to get elected" moment.Mitt Romney Calls Himself a Longtime Hunter - Even Though He's Gone Out Only 2 Times BOSTON Apr 5, 2007 (AP)— In boasting about his lifelong experience as a hunter, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-12031489215956914922007-04-04T17:43:00.000-04:002007-04-05T01:17:33.415-04:00You never know what kind of distorted, hateful spin the far right pseudo-Republicans will spew on any given subject. I say pseudo because it is only in the last 12 years that a fringe extremist element has co-opted the Republican party and the legitimate conservative movement in a war-mongering theocratic terror. As a moderate democrat I always had respect for and enjoyed the rivalry of two thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-85022589200173369082007-04-04T10:16:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:45.913-05:00So, Keith Richards "snorted his dad" - more technically a mix of the old chap's ashes and cocaine. I'm not sure what is more disturbing - the fact that he did it, or the fact that he admitted to it. We all have our deep dark secrets, the ones we file away under "FOR OUR EYES ONLY" never to see the light of day, not so Keith.This story really grabbed me and prompted me to do some research into thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-86840038523479196722007-04-03T10:36:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:46.241-05:00Chez Ping, no more.In my extensive travels throughout China over the years I have witnessed first hand the incredible changes taking place there. The economic boom has created change and growth on a scale unheard of in the West and unheard of in human history. The city of Shenzhen has grown from 100,000 to 8 million people in 25 years.The rapid changes are affecting the cityscapes, the landscapesthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-68828560965270773822007-04-02T12:08:00.000-04:002007-04-05T01:19:59.783-04:00Six U.S. Soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday. Four of them in a roadside bomb attack and two more were shot while trying to rescue them. While our country, our reputation and our economy suffers, while the world suffers, we must always keep in mind that these soldiers are losing life and limb on a daily basis and suffer most immediately.It is also important to remember that more than 200 thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-15405521630719789552007-04-01T15:06:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:46.449-05:00Who says irony is dead?The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here.Foresight: The cameras crowd George Orwell's former London homeAccording to the latest studies, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-61465126613618485772007-03-29T12:54:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:46.621-05:00TOTALLY "WHACKED" Just me and a couple of fellow "Jersey Guys" I had the pleasure of attending an event at the Museum of Television and Radio called "WHACKED" and evening with David Chase and the cast of "The Sopranos". The evening focused on members of the cast who have been disposed of over the years. Steve Buscemi (Cousin Tony Blundetto) Anaabella Sciorra (Gloria Trillo) Vincent Pastore (Big thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-41306499130574586342007-03-28T09:15:00.000-04:002007-03-28T09:16:26.810-04:00There is someone for everyone.Home is where the heart is for world's tallest manWed Mar 28, 4:30 AM ETBEIJING (Reuters) - The world's tallest man, whose search for a bride covered the world, ended up marrying a woman from his home town nearly half his age and more than two feet shorter, Chinese media reported on Wednesday.Bao Xishun, 56, a 2.36-metre (7-ft, 9-inch) herdsman listed by Guinness thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-14638855375887140492007-03-23T14:50:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:46.789-05:00thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-85698214757352794792007-03-23T08:11:00.000-04:002007-04-05T01:21:58.274-04:00Deny, deny, deny, there is no shame left in American pyblic discourse. Men like this prosper...March 22, 2007DeLay Distances Himself from His Own BookAppearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews to promote his new book, No Retreat, No Surrender, it's clear former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) didn't write it and perhaps never even read it before it was published.Matthews asked DeLay about thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-46304796683681992762007-03-22T10:41:00.000-04:002007-04-05T01:22:33.277-04:00God and His GaysBy Harold MeyersonWednesday, March 21, 2007; Page A15 New York TimesScience is stealing up on America's religious fundamentalists, causing much alarm. Consider the dilemma of the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville and a leading figure in the Southern Baptist firmament.Writing in his blog this month, Mohler acknowledged thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-8433109834107097362007-03-19T17:34:00.000-04:002007-03-19T17:41:12.846-04:00Two mandolins, one tin whistle, some guitar, some bass, some drums, and accordion, Irish poetry, literary allusions, rebellion, punk and Irish traditional music. A natural born poet and drunk singing, from a wheelchair.The Pogues at the Roseland Ballroom. 'Twas how I spent my St. Patrick's Day. Shane and the boys were in top formReminds me that the latest classic rock or punk rock song (hot on thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-71741837743370874402007-03-19T14:15:00.000-04:002008-11-13T01:53:46.938-05:00 Dead U.S. MarinesFour Years. Its now been 4 years since the United States of America attacked, conquered and ruined Iraq in an unprovoked and unnecessary act of War.I will not use this space today to recount the lies, scandals, crimes and horrors of the last four years, by this time we are all familiar with them. Whether thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0