"This hurts me more than it will hurt you"

A new tactic and it make one laugh to the extremes these nuts will go to.

Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports.

Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations.

To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince's own secret service agents - all without anyone suspecting a thing.

How did he do it?

Taking a trick from the narcotics trade - which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities - Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.
TO CONTINUE

Haunted Love

Dealing with real human emotives now. Words swirl in my (heart?), my (soul?)...what is happening to me, to us?

The world is going to hell in a hand basket

Little collectives

Have you ever searched Facebook groups? There are groups for everything and for everyone.

It is nice being a part of a group, it is what makes us like little ants, so busy socializing that we don't spend a lot of quality one on one time, reflecting on the world around us. Under these circumstances, we are conditioning ourselves and others to be reactive and not proactive. Every time someone updates their page, do you have an email sent to you so you can read and react?

For some, it is the only way that they know how to touch the world gently. For others, it is a place to hide behind a username and rage against the meek. There are groups that aspire to touch the soul of humanity, groups for the inane and insane. Blogs of poets and broken dreams and blogs that give you the colorful truth like peopleofwalmart.com

I would still like to see Bonnie Franklin in something new. How about Greg Evigan?

Whatever happened to...?

We are a TV generation that treated TV personalities almost like family. Each week, we would invite them into our homes, usually over dinner and then one day, they are gone.

They never call, or write. Sometimes if we are lucky, we catch them on re-runs on late night television, or maybe see them in something new. But where are Oscar and Felix? Dick Petrie? Where is Hawkeye in this tumultuous world? I bet he would have warm words of comfort for us all.

Like family, we tend to put a lot of faith into these characters, because want them to be real. We want them to be the people that never had in real life. Remember Donna Reed? Dads listened to their sons about the Little League game and Mrs Brady always listened to Jan...

As a unit of one, it is terrifying to be alone even when we really aren't.

Sirens

Darry is dead.

It is a sad world, when a classy actor, like Patrick Swayze dies from pancreatic cancer and guys like Kanye West keep on going, making money, degrading society.

I just read about Swayze's death and got to thinking about West's big moment last night when on the VMA awards, he jumped on the stage and took away a young woman's moment in the sun. Real classy there Kanye! You're a heart breaker and going to go far...

"Now I ain't saying that he is a gold digger, but he never has hung around with any white niggaz.
Bill Cosby come on, come on.
Bill Cosby come on, Bill Cosby come on."

And what's this other big news? Bobby Brown spit in Whitney's face. Oh my Lordy!

Maybe what we need is Patrick Swayze's Sam Wheat character to come back with a can of whup ass.

Ripoffed By Archie

With all of the creative talent that exists in the world, you would think that someone would come up with a better idea than a dream sequence, or out of time sequence when the event was publicized beyond belief.

Yes, I am talking about Archie proposing to Veronica. This event was tallied as the biggest news story of the year. Archie was finally going to choose between Betty and Veronica, choosing the latter.

People were up in arms. One collector swore to sell off his entire collection! Archie Comics remained tight lipped as the blogoshpere went into a rumor frenzy.

My idea was that it would be a dream sequence. People laughed in scorned. "No way" they said. "This is real", they said. I was wrong about the dream sequence, but Archie going for a walk and then having a Twilight Zone experience does not constitute reality. I should know as I have had plenty of those "Twilight Zone" experiences.

What have we learned from this debacle? Don't trust the media machine. They lie.