date:20100408

And don't forget that, by twisting the presentation of the news, you create and 
exacerbate an atmosphere of hatred. For example, when Obama met with 
Republicans a few weeks back, Fox simply quit airing the event because Obama 
was handing the Republicans' heads to them. Thus, Fox actually covered up and 
hid part of the facts that could make people reconsider their beliefs, and, by 
disrespecting the President, furthered animosity toward him. 
The phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword" isn't an idle threat, and Fox 
is using its figurative and literal pens to heighten an atmosphere of hatred 
and violence. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Martin Baxter"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 5:39:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior 






Bosco, I have no trouble blaming them. They've seen their "constituency" up 
close and personal many a time. They covered the health-care town halls when 
those folks showed up packing, declaring that they "were defending their right 
to keep and bear arms". It only took me five seconds to know that these are 
people a step away from violence, if they feel they aren't going to get their 
way. Faux/Fixed/Fox knows, and fuels, this. 


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Bosco Bosco < ironpi...@yahoo.com > wrote: 








Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable blaming Fox News for crazy man antics. 
Yeah they're propagandists for all kinds of nonsense but they don't make them 
put guns in people's hands. It's like blaming heavy metal for teen suicide or 
hip hop for gang violence. I'm no defender of Fox or it's rampant stupidity and 
wrecklessness but at some point people make choices. 

Bosco 

--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: 



From: Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:59 AM 









Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform and deny 
any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution. 

Bastiches. 


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf < HelloMahogany@ gmail.com > wrote: 








http://abclocal. go.com/kgo/ story?section= news/iteam&id=7374140 

Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior 

Wednesday, April 07, 2010 




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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard that 
her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental 
problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat; he 
has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked up. 



Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the House 
Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation. 

"Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical ideas 
and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family, which gets 
him into problems," Eleanor Giusti said. "I say Fox News, or all of those that 
are really radical, and he, that's where he comes from." 


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Story: FBI arrests man for threatening Pelosi Giusti, 48, has a long history of 
encounters with law enforcement. 

In 2004, Giusti was convicted of criminal threats. The San Mateo District 
Attorney's office says he was trying to evade the fare on a Caltrain, and when 
the conductor tried to kick him off, Giusti started yelling and threatening the 
conductor's life. As a result, Giusti was sentenced to one year in county jail 
and three years supervised probation. He was also ordered to undergo mental 
health counseling. 

There is also a lawsuit filed in February by Hamilton Square Baptist Church in 
San Francisco. It says, "Giusti has engaged in and continues to engage in a 
campaign of harassment" against people at the church. 

Giusti also has a record of skipping out on his BART fares and causing 
disruptions. BART sued him in 1996. 

He also has two convictions in San Francisco for welfare fraud and petty theft 
from 1992. 

According to ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson, there is a point at which free 
speech ends and a threat begins.

Re: [scifinoir2] F1 ace Lewis Hamilton gets ticket in Australia...........

Couldn't help myself. The similarities are so striking that it is
impossible. Also, who was he in the car with both times? His wife?

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Please, Mr Worf. Don't curse the man like that.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> He hasn't been on his A game lately and I think he will probably end up
>> like Tiger Woods.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [?][?][?][?]
>>>
>>> Couldn't they tell that he was just practicing?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Mr. Worf wrote:
>>>

  Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton pulled over by Australian cops

 Mar 27 
 2010Keith 
 Mcleod

 AUSSIE cops pulled over a boy racer for doing wheelspins, then realised
 the idiot was Lewis Hamilton.

 The former Formula One champion had his luxury Mercedes road car towed
 away to a police pound.

 And he was forced to issue a humiliating apology after he did a
 "burnout" spin and roared off at speed as he left the Albert Park circuit 
 in
 Melbourne following practice for Sunday's Grand Prix.

 Hamilton said: "I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a
 result, was stopped by the police.

 "What I did was silly and I want to apologise for it."

 Hamilton pulled his stunt right in front of a police van, and the cops
 followed the £15million-ayear speed king and stopped him at the roadside.

 Bystanders said red-faced Hamilton slid down in his seat and tried to
 hide his face as the officers spoke to him.

 His souped-up Mercedes C63 AMG road car, loaned to him by a local
 dealer, was seized under laws designed to crackdown on "hoons" - Australian
 slang for neds and boy racers.

 A few hours after the incident, Hamilton, 25, released his apology
 through the McLaren Mercedes team.

 He will be charged with improper use of a motor vehicle, which carries a
 maximum fine of about £750. The car will be held at the pound for 48 hours.

 Hamilton was turning into Melbourne's Fitzroy Street - a main road
 packed with bars - at about 9.15pm when he did a "burnout", spinning his
 wheels so the back end of his car swung outwards as he pulled away .

 A police source said: "Smoke was billowing from the tyres and he left
 tyre marks all over the road."

 Senior Constable Scott Woodford said Hamilton stopped "immediately" when
 he was pulled over and was "extremely co-operative".

 He added: "It would have been fair to say that he was fairly
 disappointed with the incident."

 Hamilton was interviewed at the scene for about half an hour and passed
 a routine breath test.

 Onlookers said he was "visibly upset". He is said to have told the cops
 he was worried the incident would damage his reputation.

 Hamilton was not taken to a police station. After booking him and
 loading his car on to a truck, the police gave him a lift back to his hotel
 about four miles away.

 He was carrying a male passenger, who has not been named, when he was
 pulled over.

 Hamilton was stopped as he left Albert Park after recording the fastest
 time in morning practice for the big race.

 It wasn't clear last night whether he would appear in court before
 leaving Australia, or whether the case will be held in hs absence after he
 leaves. He was banned from driving for a month in France in 2007 after he
 was clocked doing 123mph.

 Police in Australia have been working hard to clamp down on dangerous
 driving by "hoons".

 One of Hamilton's biggest F1 rivals, Ferrari ace Felipe Massa, publicly
 backed the campaign hours before his fellow-star was pulled over .

 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>
>
>
>
> 
>

-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
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Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Indeed... 

- Original Message - 
From: "Martin Baxter"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 5:35:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training 

Keith,having once lived in the Apple, I'll hazard that being able to shake off 
pain when the Downtown Local grazes you while doing thirty-five would be a 
start. 

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > 
wrote: 

I hear you, that's amazing, but I guess it's real world. 
Heh. I wonder what a training course for something like a bike courier in NYC 
would be like?! 

- Original Message - 
From: "Martin Baxter" < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 12:43:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training 

On a more serious note, this is a lot more rigorous in terms of training than I 
had thought it would be. I certainly wouldn't pass that greased-floor test, 
with my bad ear and lousy balance. 

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > 
wrote: 

Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech, multimedia 
training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS drivers had to 
follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in 15 seconds total? 
Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought of such efficiency 
drills in terms of movements and motions in manufacturing/processing plants, 
where time spent soldering, adding nuts and bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., 
is strictly regimented. 
And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in the 
same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other professions 
in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put up with wearing 
those silly looking little brown uniforms! 

** 
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership

UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training 

by Jennifer Levitz 
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 

provided by 
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Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, United 
Parcel Service Inc. ( UPS ) is moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies 
for the road. In the place of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption 
that simulates walking on ice and an obstacle course around an artificial 
village. 
Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is 
convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond best 
to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills. 

Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S. 
drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to 
replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which pays 
an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an 
11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of 
Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the 
company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save seconds 
and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to selecting a 
package from a shelf in the truck. 

They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them 
identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to "Clarksville," a 
village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the property where they 
drive a real truck and must successfully execute five deliveries in 19 minutes. 

So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia Tech, 
are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have completed 
Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have failed the 
training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and includes 30 days 
driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for promoting within, and many 
driver candidates began as UPS package handlers or other employees. 

By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and hands-on 
learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new drivers," 
says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A second 
Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the training methods 
will eventually go company-wide, he says. 

"Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers 
Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced recruits 
on a recent day. 

As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses, 
drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in his path. Mr. 
Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver a packa

Re: [scifinoir2] F1 ace Lewis Hamilton gets ticket in Australia...........

Please, Mr Worf. Don't curse the man like that.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> He hasn't been on his A game lately and I think he will probably end up
> like Tiger Woods.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> [?][?][?][?]
>>
>> Couldn't they tell that he was just practicing?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton pulled over by Australian cops
>>>
>>> Mar 27 
>>> 2010Keith 
>>> Mcleod
>>>
>>> AUSSIE cops pulled over a boy racer for doing wheelspins, then realised
>>> the idiot was Lewis Hamilton.
>>>
>>> The former Formula One champion had his luxury Mercedes road car towed
>>> away to a police pound.
>>>
>>> And he was forced to issue a humiliating apology after he did a "burnout"
>>> spin and roared off at speed as he left the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne
>>> following practice for Sunday's Grand Prix.
>>>
>>> Hamilton said: "I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a
>>> result, was stopped by the police.
>>>
>>> "What I did was silly and I want to apologise for it."
>>>
>>> Hamilton pulled his stunt right in front of a police van, and the cops
>>> followed the £15million-ayear speed king and stopped him at the roadside.
>>>
>>> Bystanders said red-faced Hamilton slid down in his seat and tried to
>>> hide his face as the officers spoke to him.
>>>
>>> His souped-up Mercedes C63 AMG road car, loaned to him by a local dealer,
>>> was seized under laws designed to crackdown on "hoons" - Australian slang
>>> for neds and boy racers.
>>>
>>> A few hours after the incident, Hamilton, 25, released his apology
>>> through the McLaren Mercedes team.
>>>
>>> He will be charged with improper use of a motor vehicle, which carries a
>>> maximum fine of about £750. The car will be held at the pound for 48 hours.
>>>
>>> Hamilton was turning into Melbourne's Fitzroy Street - a main road packed
>>> with bars - at about 9.15pm when he did a "burnout", spinning his wheels so
>>> the back end of his car swung outwards as he pulled away .
>>>
>>> A police source said: "Smoke was billowing from the tyres and he left
>>> tyre marks all over the road."
>>>
>>> Senior Constable Scott Woodford said Hamilton stopped "immediately" when
>>> he was pulled over and was "extremely co-operative".
>>>
>>> He added: "It would have been fair to say that he was fairly disappointed
>>> with the incident."
>>>
>>> Hamilton was interviewed at the scene for about half an hour and passed a
>>> routine breath test.
>>>
>>> Onlookers said he was "visibly upset". He is said to have told the cops
>>> he was worried the incident would damage his reputation.
>>>
>>> Hamilton was not taken to a police station. After booking him and loading
>>> his car on to a truck, the police gave him a lift back to his hotel about
>>> four miles away.
>>>
>>> He was carrying a male passenger, who has not been named, when he was
>>> pulled over.
>>>
>>> Hamilton was stopped as he left Albert Park after recording the fastest
>>> time in morning practice for the big race.
>>>
>>> It wasn't clear last night whether he would appear in court before
>>> leaving Australia, or whether the case will be held in hs absence after he
>>> leaves. He was banned from driving for a month in France in 2007 after he
>>> was clocked doing 123mph.
>>>
>>> Police in Australia have been working hard to clamp down on dangerous
>>> driving by "hoons".
>>>
>>> One of Hamilton's biggest F1 rivals, Ferrari ace Felipe Massa, publicly
>>> backed the campaign hours before his fellow-star was pulled over .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>>> Mahogany at:
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] The Perfect Weapon--Pollen

Sorry to hear that, Keith. The meds I'm taking for my COPD also double as
pretty powerful antihistamines, so I've been pretty good. (Please put down
the shovel... or, if you must, I'll send you the name of the doctor who
wrote my scrips. [?][?])

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

> yes indeed. I got maybe two hours of sleep last night. Though popping the
> antihistamine and decongestants, I'm still miserable.
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Martin Baxter" 
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 1:04:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Perfect Weapon--Pollen
>
>
>
> Say it again, Brother Keith!
>
> I was coming home, down Covington Highway past Superior Chevy.
>
> All of their cars and trucks were yellow. Even the red ones.
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Keith Johnson 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> You know those movies like "War of the Worlds", where vicious,
>> technologically advanced aliens are brought low by something such as a
>> measly bacterium? Well I say bunk that! Just send 'em down here to Atlanta
>> and let the pollen do a number on them! This is one of the most beautiful
>> cities you'll see in North America in the spring, literally a riot of
>> colors: Reds, pinks, violets, lavenders--every color under the rainbow.
>> Every yard, park, and street is filled with dogwoods, azaleas, roses, crepe
>> myrtles.
>> But the pollen? Oh my gosh. An extremely high pollen count--where just
>> about anyone with even the slightest allergy tendencies will feel some
>> effects--is a measure of 120.  Our pollen count today?   A whopping 5733! I
>> literally wrote my name on my car windshield with my finger today, the
>> pollen's so thick. I washed the car off, went to the gym for one hour, and
>> came out to see the entire car completely covered again in yellow dust.
>> Pictures taken from news copters show the entire city covered in a thick
>> haze like smog, obscuring visibility, but it ain't smog. That's pollen so
>> thick in the air the city is barely visible from a thousand feet up!
>> Needless to say I am miserable: running eyes, congestion, coughing,
>> sneezing, wheezing.
>>
>> So let Mars attack. Bring on the Invaders. Let the First Wave come. They
>> might decimate the rest of the country, but an hour of sneezing in Atlanta
>> will have them fleeing the Earth never to return--with a brief stop at CVS
>> on the way for some Benedryl!
>>
>> **
>> http://www.atlantaallergy.com/EducationDetail.aspx?Id=33&Cat=3
>>
>> ATLANTA - The Metro area is seeing a record high pollen count Wednesday.
>>
>> Wednesday's pollen count is an incredible 5733, nearly double Tuesday's
>> count.
>>
>> The recent spike in pollen has allergy sufferers facing miserable
>> symptoms.
>>
>> "I literally could not sleep at night. I was up all night coughing,
>> sneezing, my eyes were watering," said allergy sufferer Kathleen Daniel.
>>
>> Kathleen Daniel has struggled with allergy problems since childhood and
>> says she knows she'll be on allergy medication for much of her life.
>>
>> So when the warm weather hit our area -- she knew she was in a world of
>> trouble.
>>
>> "When I see all those pretty blooms I think oh no, here it comes," said
>> Daniel.
>>
>> A pollen count of 120 is considered high -- Tuesday's pollen count was a
>> whopping 2967.
>>
>> Wednesday's warm weather could make it even higher. Allergist Dr.. Stanley
>> Fineman said this year's pollen season has hit hard and quickly.
>>
>> "There's been a delay in the high pollen counts, so now we're seeing it
>> all of a sudden," said Dr. Stanley Fineman of Atlanta Allergy and Asthma
>> Clinic.
>>
>> And it's not just the thick yellow film that covers your car that makes
>> life miserable, adding that microscopic pollens from nut trees may be
>> causing the most difficulty.
>>
>> Fineman said for patients like Daniel -- doctors recommend limiting their
>> exposure to the outside conditions.
>>
>> "They should be indoors. Close the windows, use the a.c., wash their hair
>> before they go to sleep. Because there may be pollen in their hair, and
>> basically strict avoidance techniques," said Fineman.
>>
>>
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] F1 ace Lewis Hamilton gets ticket in Australia...........

He hasn't been on his A game lately and I think he will probably end up like
Tiger Woods.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> [?][?][?][?]
>
> Couldn't they tell that he was just practicing?
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton pulled over by Australian cops
>>
>> Mar 27 2010 
>> Keith Mcleod
>>
>> AUSSIE cops pulled over a boy racer for doing wheelspins, then realised
>> the idiot was Lewis Hamilton.
>>
>> The former Formula One champion had his luxury Mercedes road car towed
>> away to a police pound.
>>
>> And he was forced to issue a humiliating apology after he did a "burnout"
>> spin and roared off at speed as he left the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne
>> following practice for Sunday's Grand Prix.
>>
>> Hamilton said: "I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a
>> result, was stopped by the police.
>>
>> "What I did was silly and I want to apologise for it."
>>
>> Hamilton pulled his stunt right in front of a police van, and the cops
>> followed the £15million-ayear speed king and stopped him at the roadside.
>>
>> Bystanders said red-faced Hamilton slid down in his seat and tried to hide
>> his face as the officers spoke to him.
>>
>> His souped-up Mercedes C63 AMG road car, loaned to him by a local dealer,
>> was seized under laws designed to crackdown on "hoons" - Australian slang
>> for neds and boy racers.
>>
>> A few hours after the incident, Hamilton, 25, released his apology through
>> the McLaren Mercedes team.
>>
>> He will be charged with improper use of a motor vehicle, which carries a
>> maximum fine of about £750. The car will be held at the pound for 48 hours.
>>
>> Hamilton was turning into Melbourne's Fitzroy Street - a main road packed
>> with bars - at about 9.15pm when he did a "burnout", spinning his wheels so
>> the back end of his car swung outwards as he pulled away .
>>
>> A police source said: "Smoke was billowing from the tyres and he left tyre
>> marks all over the road."
>>
>> Senior Constable Scott Woodford said Hamilton stopped "immediately" when
>> he was pulled over and was "extremely co-operative".
>>
>> He added: "It would have been fair to say that he was fairly disappointed
>> with the incident."
>>
>> Hamilton was interviewed at the scene for about half an hour and passed a
>> routine breath test.
>>
>> Onlookers said he was "visibly upset". He is said to have told the cops he
>> was worried the incident would damage his reputation.
>>
>> Hamilton was not taken to a police station. After booking him and loading
>> his car on to a truck, the police gave him a lift back to his hotel about
>> four miles away.
>>
>> He was carrying a male passenger, who has not been named, when he was
>> pulled over.
>>
>> Hamilton was stopped as he left Albert Park after recording the fastest
>> time in morning practice for the big race.
>>
>> It wasn't clear last night whether he would appear in court before leaving
>> Australia, or whether the case will be held in hs absence after he leaves.
>> He was banned from driving for a month in France in 2007 after he was
>> clocked doing 123mph.
>>
>> Police in Australia have been working hard to clamp down on dangerous
>> driving by "hoons".
>>
>> One of Hamilton's biggest F1 rivals, Ferrari ace Felipe Massa, publicly
>> backed the campaign hours before his fellow-star was pulled over .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>
>
>
>
> 
>



-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
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Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

Amen to that, brother!

As for Herr Buchanan, he's been a Brown Shirt since the day after he began
walking. His past attacks on immigration have verged on rehashing old Nazi
texts.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Pat Buchannan was just on MSNBC, loudly and angrily arguing that the
> Confederacy wasn't about racism at all. I turned to my wife and said, "I
> have dealt with men like him all my life, which is why I no longer waste
> time dealing with men like him". If they can't get the basic humanity, the
> basic morality they love to quote from the Bible, of how wrong this is,
> there's little chance in changing their minds. All one can do in such cases
> is fight them with power ,and worry about attitude later. In short--vote,
> vote, vote!
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mr. Worf" 
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 4:35:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong
>
>
>
> I too felt ill when I read the original story, and I am happy that you all
> felt the same. I'm always amazed but never surprised at the totally lack of
> common sense on issues like this.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:
>
>> Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring
>> Slavery.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
>>
>> My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP
>> apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his
>> arm around Gov. McDonald.
>>
>> ~(no)rave!
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
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>>
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Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Given the salary--which still shocks me--I'm not surprised. Seriously, that's a 
pretty good IT salary here in Atlanta. I see jobs every day wanting people with 
Windows Server 2008, Cisco, Exchange, and VMWare experience, offering 70 - 80K. 

I am glad, though, to see there are still blue (brown?) collar jobs in America 
that pay well. A big loss in the last few decades has been that dependable, 
good paying blue collar job that fueled so much of America's growth. My dad put 
three boys through college, despite only having an eighth-grade education, 
because of a good manufacturing job. While I understand and respect that we are 
required to learn more tech-related skills and get more education than in the 
past, I still don't want it to be a country where everyone has to have a 
college degree just to be able to raise a family. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Mr. Worf"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 4:40:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training 






Its really hard to get the delivery job. I have a friend that works at UPS and 
there was close to a 7 year waiting list unless you already have experience in 
that field. 


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > 
wrote: 






Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech, multimedia 
training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS drivers had to 
follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in 15 seconds total? 
Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought of such efficiency 
drills in terms of movements and motions in manufacturing/processing plants, 
where time spent soldering, adding nuts and bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., 
is strictly regimented. 
And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in the 
same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other professions 
in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put up with wearing 
those silly looking little brown uniforms! 

** 
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership
 
UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training 




by Jennifer Levitz 
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 


provided by 
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Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, United 
Parcel Service Inc. ( UPS ) is moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies 
for the road. In the place of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption 
that simulates walking on ice and an obstacle course around an artificial 
village. 
Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is 
convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond best 
to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills. 



Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S. 
drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to 
replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which pays 
an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an 
11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of 
Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the 
company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save seconds 
and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to selecting a 
package from a shelf in the truck. 



They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them 
identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to "Clarksville," a 
village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the property where they 
drive a real truck and must successfully execute five deliveries in 19 minutes. 

So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia Tech, 
are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have completed 
Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have failed the 
training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and includes 30 days 
driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for promoting within, and many 
driver candidates began as UPS package handlers or other employees. 

By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and hands-on 
learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new drivers," 
says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A second 
Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the training methods 
will eventually go company-wide, he says. 

"Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers 
Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced recruits 
on a recent day. 

As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses, 
drove through Clarksvi

Re: [scifinoir2] F1 ace Lewis Hamilton gets ticket in Australia...........

[?][?][?][?]

Couldn't they tell that he was just practicing?

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton pulled over by Australian cops
>
> Mar 27 2010 
> Keith Mcleod
>
> AUSSIE cops pulled over a boy racer for doing wheelspins, then realised the
> idiot was Lewis Hamilton.
>
> The former Formula One champion had his luxury Mercedes road car towed away
> to a police pound.
>
> And he was forced to issue a humiliating apology after he did a "burnout"
> spin and roared off at speed as he left the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne
> following practice for Sunday's Grand Prix.
>
> Hamilton said: "I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a result,
> was stopped by the police.
>
> "What I did was silly and I want to apologise for it."
>
> Hamilton pulled his stunt right in front of a police van, and the cops
> followed the £15million-ayear speed king and stopped him at the roadside.
>
> Bystanders said red-faced Hamilton slid down in his seat and tried to hide
> his face as the officers spoke to him.
>
> His souped-up Mercedes C63 AMG road car, loaned to him by a local dealer,
> was seized under laws designed to crackdown on "hoons" - Australian slang
> for neds and boy racers.
>
> A few hours after the incident, Hamilton, 25, released his apology through
> the McLaren Mercedes team.
>
> He will be charged with improper use of a motor vehicle, which carries a
> maximum fine of about £750. The car will be held at the pound for 48 hours.
>
> Hamilton was turning into Melbourne's Fitzroy Street - a main road packed
> with bars - at about 9.15pm when he did a "burnout", spinning his wheels so
> the back end of his car swung outwards as he pulled away .
>
> A police source said: "Smoke was billowing from the tyres and he left tyre
> marks all over the road."
>
> Senior Constable Scott Woodford said Hamilton stopped "immediately" when he
> was pulled over and was "extremely co-operative".
>
> He added: "It would have been fair to say that he was fairly disappointed
> with the incident."
>
> Hamilton was interviewed at the scene for about half an hour and passed a
> routine breath test.
>
> Onlookers said he was "visibly upset". He is said to have told the cops he
> was worried the incident would damage his reputation.
>
> Hamilton was not taken to a police station. After booking him and loading
> his car on to a truck, the police gave him a lift back to his hotel about
> four miles away.
>
> He was carrying a male passenger, who has not been named, when he was
> pulled over.
>
> Hamilton was stopped as he left Albert Park after recording the fastest
> time in morning practice for the big race.
>
> It wasn't clear last night whether he would appear in court before leaving
> Australia, or whether the case will be held in hs absence after he leaves.
> He was banned from driving for a month in France in 2007 after he was
> clocked doing 123mph.
>
> Police in Australia have been working hard to clamp down on dangerous
> driving by "hoons".
>
> One of Hamilton's biggest F1 rivals, Ferrari ace Felipe Massa, publicly
> backed the campaign hours before his fellow-star was pulled over .
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

Pat Buchannan was just on MSNBC, loudly and angrily arguing that the 
Confederacy wasn't about racism at all. I turned to my wife and said, "I have 
dealt with men like him all my life, which is why I no longer waste time 
dealing with men like him". If they can't get the basic humanity, the basic 
morality they love to quote from the Bible, of how wrong this is, there's 
little chance in changing their minds. All one can do in such cases is fight 
them with power ,and worry about attitude later. In short--vote, vote, vote! 

- Original Message - 
From: "Mr. Worf"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 4:35:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong 






I too felt ill when I read the original story, and I am happy that you all felt 
the same. I'm always amazed but never surprised at the totally lack of common 
sense on issues like this. 


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Kelwyn < ravena...@yahoo.com > wrote: 


Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring 
Slavery. 

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
 

My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP 
apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his arm 
around Gov. McDonald. 

~(no)rave! 



 

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Re: [scifinoir2] Blueray is on its way to being obsolete

Adrianne, that's something I've noticed a LOT of online these days. Posts
being churned out, claiming to be informative and educational, and they seem
to have been put together by third-graders, top to bottom.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Adrianne Brennan  wrote:

>
>
> No one reads anymore. D:
>
> *"**But anyone who has already shelled out for a Blu-ray player and is
> worried about incompatibility with new release Blu-ray movies at their local
> video store can breathe easy. The BDXL specification is targeted at
> commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging
> companies with significant archiving needs."*
>
> And it's not saying Blu-Ray is obsolete, just being upgraded. The title of
> this article just shows that whoever came up with it didn't know WHAT they
> were talking about.
>
> ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~
> http://www.adriannebrennan.com
> Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series:
> http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon
> Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series:
> http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath
> The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m):
> http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Yea and verily, I laugheth mine arse off at this.
>>
>> Martin (feeling like a vindicated Luddite technonerd, for refusing to buy
>> into Blu-Ray when it first jumped out)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> New high capacity Blu-ray Discs will be incompatible with existing
>>> players
>>>
>>> By Darren Quick 
>>>
>>> *23:14 April 7, 2010*
>>>  [image: Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware,
>>> but BDXL and IH-BD discs 
>>> will...]
>>>
>>> Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but BDXL and
>>> IH-BD discs will be incompatible with existing hardware (Image: 
>>> smemon87via Flickr)
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Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior

I agree. The problem is, there's a fine line between media and rhetoric being 
responsible for people's actions, and for them being blameless. That's why 
there are laws against specifically inciting to riot, and the definition of 
that is rather fluid at times... 

- Original Message - 
From: "Mr. Worf"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 4:26:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior 

When I posted this I was thinking the same thing, but after a while I thought 
about the effects of repetition on someone's mind. If you repeat the same 
answers over and over again on a variety of shows it can be like hypnotic 
suggestion. 

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Bosco Bosco < ironpi...@yahoo.com > wrote: 

Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable blaming Fox News for crazy man antics. 
Yeah they're propagandists for all kinds of nonsense but they don't make them 
put guns in people's hands. It's like blaming heavy metal for teen suicide or 
hip hop for gang violence. I'm no defender of Fox or it's rampant stupidity and 
wrecklessness but at some point people make choices. 

Bosco 

--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: 

From: Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:59 AM 

Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform and deny 
any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution. 

Bastiches. 

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf < HelloMahogany@ gmail.com > wrote: 

http://abclocal. go.com/kgo/ story?section= news/iteam&id=7374140 

Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior 

Wednesday, April 07, 2010 

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard that 
her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental 
problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat; he 
has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked up. 

Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the House 
Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation. 

"Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical ideas 
and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family, which gets 
him into problems," Eleanor Giusti said. "I say Fox News, or all of those that 
are really radical, and he, that's where he comes from." 

Related Content 

Story: FBI arrests man for threatening Pelosi Giusti, 48, has a long history of 
encounters with law enforcement. 

In 2004, Giusti was convicted of criminal threats. The San Mateo District 
Attorney's office says he was trying to evade the fare on a Caltrain, and when 
the conductor tried to kick him off, Giusti started yelling and threatening the 
conductor's life. As a result, Giusti was sentenced to one year in county jail 
and three years supervised probation. He was also ordered to undergo mental 
health counseling. 

There is also a lawsuit filed in February by Hamilton Square Baptist Church in 
San Francisco. It says, "Giusti has engaged in and continues to engage in a 
campaign of harassment" against people at the church. 

Giusti also has a record of skipping out on his BART fares and causing 
disruptions. BART sued him in 1996. 

He also has two convictions in San Francisco for welfare fraud and petty theft 
from 1992. 

According to ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson, there is a point at which free 
speech ends and a threat begins. 

"Communicating a threat with the intent that it be taken seriously is one of 
those types of speech that is simply not protected," Johnson said. "Even under 
state law, as well as the federal law that applies here, there are crimes that 
are based on threatening another individual, you simply cannot do that." 

Eleanor Giusti also told ABC7 she talked to her son earlier in the day -- 
apparently before the arrest. He asked about his niece and nephew and acted as 
though nothing was going on. 

The FBI told ABC7 Giusti will be booked into San Francisco

Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Finally did. But they couldn't Dump-and-Run this time. Verizon made them
make me sign for it.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Ha! Did the package arrive?
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Martin Baxter" 
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 12:41:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training
>
>
>
> Keith, the first part's easy, for The Unparalleled Masters of the Dump and
> Run...
>
> Martin (REALLY shouldn't speak ill of Brown, as Brown has something to do
> for me by close-of-business)
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Keith Johnson 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech,
>> multimedia training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS
>> drivers had to follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in
>> 15 seconds total? Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought
>> of such efficiency drills in terms of movements and motions in
>> manufacturing/processing plants, where time spent soldering, adding nuts and
>> bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., is strictly regimented.
>> And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in
>> the same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other
>> professions in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put
>> up with wearing those silly looking little brown uniforms!
>>
>> **
>>
>> http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership
>> UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training
>>  by Jennifer Levitz
>> Wednesday, April 7, 2010
>>
>> provided by
>> [image: wsjlogo.gif] 
>>
>> Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training,
>> *United Parcel Service Inc.* (UPS ) is
>> moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies for the road. In the place
>> of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption that simulates walking
>> on ice and an obstacle course around an artificial village.
>> Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is
>> convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond
>> best to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills.
>>
>> Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000
>> U.S. drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years
>> to replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which
>> pays an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an
>> 11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of
>> Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the
>> company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save
>> seconds and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to
>> selecting a package from a shelf in the truck.
>>
>> They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them
>> identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to
>> "Clarksville," a village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the
>> property where they drive a real truck and must successfully execute five
>> deliveries in 19 minutes.
>>
>> So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia
>> Tech, are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have
>> completed Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have
>> failed the training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and
>> includes 30 days driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for
>> promoting within, and many driver candidates began as UPS package handlers
>> or other employees.
>>
>> By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and
>> hands-on learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new
>> drivers," says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A
>> second Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the
>> training methods will eventually go company-wide, he says.
>>
>> "Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers
>> Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced
>> recruits on a recent day.
>>
>> As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban
>> sunglasses, drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in
>> his path. Mr. Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver
>> a package, instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of
>> the truck.
>>
>> Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started up. "Stop! Stop! Ugh!" yelled Mr.
>> Keys. He picked up the cone. "This is a kid who was playing football around
>> your vehicle and went to get his ball."
>>
>> Mr. Byrnes looked shaken and slappe

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group

Thank you, Mr Worf. For that, and realizing that I'm so old that I have no
idea who Slipknot is. [?][?]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> I found one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr0W105d5yw
>
> There was another commercial where the lead singer was standing on top of a
> speeding limo while things were blowing up around him. Very cool commercial.
> They actually used it in a commercial for a video game last year.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> No, Mr Worf, but I'll chase those down.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I loved the commercials. I thought that they were going to make it into a
>>> short series and make it something like 24.
>>>
>>> I think the difference between Jack in the box and Burger king is that
>>> they use humor in their commercials. BK also makes them a little edgy to
>>> appeal to the younger males.
>>>
>>> Ever see the Chicken punk band or the chicken webcast?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:
>>>
 And what, pray tell, is wrong with sniper moms?

 ~rave?

 --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" 
 wrote:
 >
 > Last year Jack in the box had to pull a series of ads that featured a
 group
 > of angry mothers. (anyone remember this ad?) They were out to kill
 jack
 > because he made the grilled cheese sandwich to well.
 >
 > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Martin Baxter >>> ...>wrote:
 >
 > >
 > >
 > > Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era.
 > >
 > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie  wrote:
 > >
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE
 > >>
 > >> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ,
 Aubrey
 > >> Leatherwood  wrote:
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> > A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;)
 > >>
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
 > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
 > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
 > >> > Model Lover
 > >> > Dime
 > >> > Imperfection
 > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
 > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
 > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
 > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
 > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
 > >> > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 +
 > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
 Health
 > >> Group
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> > Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the
 night...you
 > >> sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see
 that
 > >> plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting
 atop the
 > >> body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer
 you
 > >> food.
 > >> > Do you:
 > >> >
 > >> > (a) Jump for joy and say, "Hey, King! Thanks for the burger!" and
 then
 > >> invite him to share it with you in your bed?
 > >> > (b) Say, "Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close
 the
 > >> window on your way out", then roll over and go to sleep... or
 > >> > (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball
 bat/golf
 > >> club/mace/pepper spray?
 > >> >
 > >> > Me? Option "C" all the way baby!
 > >>
 > >> >
 > >> > - Original Message -
 > >> > From: "Aubrey Leatherwood" 
 > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
 > >> > Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
 Eastern
 > >> > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
 Health
 > >> Group
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> > I love the creepy king!
 > >>
 > >> >
 > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
 > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
 > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
 > >> > Model Lover - Cobblestone Press
 > >> > Dime
 > >> > Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart?
 > >>
 > >> > Imperfection
 > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
 > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
 > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
 > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
 > >> > ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> >
 > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
 > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
 > >> > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 +

Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Ha! Did the package arrive? 

- Original Message - 
From: "Martin Baxter"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 12:41:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training 

Keith, the first part's easy, for The Unparalleled Masters of the Dump and 
Run... 

Martin (REALLY shouldn't speak ill of Brown, as Brown has something to do for 
me by close-of-business) 

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > 
wrote: 

Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech, multimedia 
training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS drivers had to 
follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in 15 seconds total? 
Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought of such efficiency 
drills in terms of movements and motions in manufacturing/processing plants, 
where time spent soldering, adding nuts and bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., 
is strictly regimented. 
And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in the 
same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other professions 
in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put up with wearing 
those silly looking little brown uniforms! 

** 
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership

UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training 

by Jennifer Levitz 
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 

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Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, United 
Parcel Service Inc. ( UPS ) is moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies 
for the road. In the place of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption 
that simulates walking on ice and an obstacle course around an artificial 
village. 
Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is 
convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond best 
to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills. 

Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S. 
drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to 
replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which pays 
an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an 
11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of 
Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the 
company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save seconds 
and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to selecting a 
package from a shelf in the truck. 

They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them 
identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to "Clarksville," a 
village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the property where they 
drive a real truck and must successfully execute five deliveries in 19 minutes. 

So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia Tech, 
are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have completed 
Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have failed the 
training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and includes 30 days 
driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for promoting within, and many 
driver candidates began as UPS package handlers or other employees. 

By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and hands-on 
learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new drivers," 
says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A second 
Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the training methods 
will eventually go company-wide, he says. 

"Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers 
Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced recruits 
on a recent day. 

As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses, 
drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in his path. Mr. 
Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver a package, 
instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of the truck. 

Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started up. "Stop! Stop! Ugh!" yelled Mr. Keys. 
He picked up the cone. "This is a kid who was playing football around your 
vehicle and went to get his ball." 

Mr. Byrnes looked shaken and slapped his forehead. The lesson stuck: At the 
next stop, he checked for cones. 

UPS isn't the only company using new training tools. Food service company 
Sodexo Inc. has recruited chefs through "Second Life" virtual job fairs and 
Cisco Systems Inc. ( CSCO ) has taught programming techniques through 
videogames. FedEx Corp. says it, too, has moved t

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: I know what I saw

Which, incidentally, we almost had one of this week. Glimpsed the headline
on Yahu's homepage, but didn't read it. Basically, it'll have to happen
before any concrete plans fall into existence.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> The reason why I said invasion is because one of the military officers
> mentioned it. We aren't doing anything "just in case."
>
> Just as we aren't doing anything to prevent us from being destroyed by an
> asteroid hit.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:
>
>> Why an alien visit got to be an "invasion"?  Why come they can't be like
>> the Vulcans in "First Contact"?  Or the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke's
>> "Childhood's End"?
>>
>> Aliens probably won't look like us and they probably won't THINK like us.
>>
>> ~rave!
>>
>>
>> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
>> >
>> > Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James
>> Fox
>> > who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal
>> accounts
>> > of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military,
>> and
>> > airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National
>> Press
>> > Club in DC.
>> >
>> > By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real
>> but we
>> > have no way to prevent an invasion.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> > Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> Post your SciFiNoir Profile at
>>
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>> Groups Links
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>

[scifinoir2] Re: Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior

2010-04-08 Thread B Smith

He more or less stuck to his guns and offered a "clarification" and not an 
apology if memory serves me. It wasn't a mea culpa at all.

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter  wrote:
>
> Crap. Hit Send too soon.
> 
> A few years ago, before George Tiller, the late-term abortion specialist,
> was assassinated, Bill-O was regularly calling for him to be murdered, as a
> "service to mankind". And he was the first to say that he said nothing wrong
> after Tiller was shot down. Outside of his church, if mmemory serves.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> 
> > Bosco, I have no trouble blaming them. They've seen their "constituency" up
> > close and personal many a time. They covered the health-care town halls when
> > those folks showed up packing, declaring that they "were defending their
> > right to keep and bear arms". It only took me five seconds to know that
> > these are people a step away from violence, if they feel they aren't going
> > to get their way. Faux/Fixed/Fox knows, and fuels, this.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Bosco Bosco  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable blaming Fox News for crazy man
> >> antics. Yeah they're propagandists for all kinds of nonsense but they don't
> >> make them put guns in people's hands. It's like blaming heavy metal for 
> >> teen
> >> suicide or hip hop for gang violence. I'm no defender of Fox or it's 
> >> rampant
> >> stupidity and wrecklessness but at some point people make choices.
> >>
> >> Bosco
> >>
> >> --- On *Thu, 4/8/10, Martin Baxter * wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Martin Baxter 
> >> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
> >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> >> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:59 AM
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform and
> >> deny any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution.
> >>
> >> Bastiches.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf  >> gmail.com
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://abclocal. go.com/kgo/ story?section= 
> >>> news/iteam&id=7374140
> >>>  Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: I know what I saw

When I am writing or free flowing it is best to dictate. Otherwise it will
get bogged down and all of the life will be sucked out of what I am writing
if I slow to write it out.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:

> 5 pages an hour?  If only all that was gleamed was gold.  Actually, I
> admire those who can dictate what they "write."  I understand Barbara
> Bradford Taylor authors books in this manner (which IMHO also explains the
> quality of her books).
>
> Nothing that comes straight out of my mouth is ever as eloquent as that
> which has gone from my brain to my hand.
>
> ~rave?
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
> >
> > I've been using the voice recognition program while I write the current
> > story I'm working on. It has increased my productivity by 300%. About 5
> > pages an hour. I can probably do more once I train it more and outline
> the
> > story more in advance.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Let us know how it works out, Mr Worf. Sounds like a great one.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I have been working on that story. I'm stuck in the middle.
> > >>
> > >> I've also been thinking about doing it in an alternate reality.
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Baxter  ...>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I'd love to see how they'd deal with an actual alien attack.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Mr. Worf wrote:
> > >>>
> > 
> > 
> >  They seem to think that they can do it because they have shot a
> couple
> >  down before. (probably by accident) One of the things that I find
> >  interesting is that there have been ufo sightings in the DC area
> before.
> >  Back in the 50s there was one that put the government on high alert
> and
> >  prompted project blue book.
> > 
> >  On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Martin Baxter  ...>wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > Aubrey, there are those fools inside the Beltway who truly believe
> that
> > > a few well-placed nukes can turn the trick. They conveniently
> ignore the
> > > fact that the craft can pull Mach 12 on a slow day, turn on the
> width of a
> > > positron and can't even be reliably tracked by conventional means.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Aubrey Leatherwood <
> > > aubrey.leatherw...@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> That was along the lines of what I was going to say... Who had any
> > >> faith that we could prevent an invasion in the first place?
> > >>
> > >> *Aubrey Leatherwood
> > >> *www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> > >> FaceBook  *
> > >> MySpace 
> > >> Model Lover
> > >> Dime <
> http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/modellover.htm>
> > >> *Imperfection* 
> > >> A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> > >> *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*<
> http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html>
> > >> ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> > >> CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> > >> From: martinbaxt...@...
> > >> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:05 -0400
> > >> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>  I did, Mr Worf, but I doubt that we're talking an invasion from
> > >> beyond. If that were true, they could've mopped the floor with
> Humanity
> > >> fifty years ago. IMO, they're observers from the future, UFOs
> being time
> > >> machines, flitting back and forth via artificial wormholes.
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr. Worf  ...>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by
> James
> > >> Fox who gathered people from all over the world to tell their
> personal
> > >> accounts of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all
> former
> > >> military, and airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the
> US to the
> > >> National Press Club in DC.
> > >>
> > >> By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only
> real
> > >> but we have no way to prevent an invasion.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> > >> Mahogany at:
> > >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: I know what I saw

The reason why I said invasion is because one of the military officers
mentioned it. We aren't doing anything "just in case."

Just as we aren't doing anything to prevent us from being destroyed by an
asteroid hit.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:

> Why an alien visit got to be an "invasion"?  Why come they can't be like
> the Vulcans in "First Contact"?  Or the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke's
> "Childhood's End"?
>
> Aliens probably won't look like us and they probably won't THINK like us.
>
> ~rave!
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
> >
> > Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James Fox
> > who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal
> accounts
> > of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military,
> and
> > airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National
> Press
> > Club in DC.
> >
> > By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real but
> we
> > have no way to prevent an invasion.
> >
> > --
> > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> > Mahogany at:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
> >
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> Post your SciFiNoir Profile at
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo!
> Groups Links
>
>
>
>


-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group

I found one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr0W105d5yw

There was another commercial where the lead singer was standing on top of a
speeding limo while things were blowing up around him. Very cool commercial.
They actually used it in a commercial for a video game last year.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> No, Mr Worf, but I'll chase those down.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I loved the commercials. I thought that they were going to make it into a
>> short series and make it something like 24.
>>
>> I think the difference between Jack in the box and Burger king is that
>> they use humor in their commercials. BK also makes them a little edgy to
>> appeal to the younger males.
>>
>> Ever see the Chicken punk band or the chicken webcast?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:
>>
>>> And what, pray tell, is wrong with sniper moms?
>>>
>>> ~rave?
>>>
>>> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Last year Jack in the box had to pull a series of ads that featured a
>>> group
>>> > of angry mothers. (anyone remember this ad?) They were out to kill jack
>>> > because he made the grilled cheese sandwich to well.
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Martin Baxter >> ...>wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era.
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie  wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE
>>> > >>
>>> > >> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ,
>>> Aubrey
>>> > >> Leatherwood  wrote:
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;)
>>> > >>
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
>>> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
>>> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
>>> > >> > Model Lover
>>> > >> > Dime
>>> > >> > Imperfection
>>> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
>>> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
>>> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
>>> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>>> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
>>> > >> > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 +
>>> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
>>> Health
>>> > >> Group
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the
>>> night...you
>>> > >> sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see
>>> that
>>> > >> plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting
>>> atop the
>>> > >> body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer
>>> you
>>> > >> food.
>>> > >> > Do you:
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > (a) Jump for joy and say, "Hey, King! Thanks for the burger!" and
>>> then
>>> > >> invite him to share it with you in your bed?
>>> > >> > (b) Say, "Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close
>>> the
>>> > >> window on your way out", then roll over and go to sleep... or
>>> > >> > (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball
>>> bat/golf
>>> > >> club/mace/pepper spray?
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > Me? Option "C" all the way baby!
>>> > >>
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > - Original Message -
>>> > >> > From: "Aubrey Leatherwood" 
>>> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>>> > >> > Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
>>> Eastern
>>> > >> > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
>>> Health
>>> > >> Group
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > I love the creepy king!
>>> > >>
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
>>> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
>>> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
>>> > >> > Model Lover - Cobblestone Press
>>> > >> > Dime
>>> > >> > Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> > Imperfection
>>> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
>>> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
>>> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
>>> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
>>> > >> > ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>>> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
>>> > >> > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 +
>>> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
>>> Health
>>> > >> Group
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by
>>> that
>>> > >> grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the
>>> commercials
>>> > >>

Re: [scifinoir2] Blueray is on its way to being obsolete

It will be the new standard in a year after its released. They always say
that it will be released to "corporate segments." They said the same thing
with blueray, cdrom, and 3.5 inch floppies.

The only thing that will slow it down is if they only keep it at a high
price or don't make the media widely available.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Adrianne Brennan  wrote:

>
>
> No one reads anymore. D:
>
> *"**But anyone who has already shelled out for a Blu-ray player and is
> worried about incompatibility with new release Blu-ray movies at their local
> video store can breathe easy. The BDXL specification is targeted at
> commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging
> companies with significant archiving needs."*
>
> And it's not saying Blu-Ray is obsolete, just being upgraded. The title of
> this article just shows that whoever came up with it didn't know WHAT they
> were talking about.
>
> ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~
> http://www.adriannebrennan.com
> Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series:
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> Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series:
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> The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m):
> http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Yea and verily, I laugheth mine arse off at this.
>>
>> Martin (feeling like a vindicated Luddite technonerd, for refusing to buy
>> into Blu-Ray when it first jumped out)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> New high capacity Blu-ray Discs will be incompatible with existing
>>> players
>>>
>>> By Darren Quick 
>>>
>>> *23:14 April 7, 2010*
>>>  [image: Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware,
>>> but BDXL and IH-BD discs 
>>> will...]
>>>
>>> Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but BDXL and
>>> IH-BD discs will be incompatible with existing hardware (Image: 
>>> smemon87via Flickr)
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Re: [scifinoir2] Blueray is on its way to being obsolete

2010-04-08 Thread Adrianne Brennan

No one reads anymore. D:

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worried about incompatibility with new release Blu-ray movies at their local
video store can breathe easy. The BDXL specification is targeted at
commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging
companies with significant archiving needs."*

And it's not saying Blu-Ray is obsolete, just being upgraded. The title of
this article just shows that whoever came up with it didn't know WHAT they
were talking about.

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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Yea and verily, I laugheth mine arse off at this.
>
> Martin (feeling like a vindicated Luddite technonerd, for refusing to buy
> into Blu-Ray when it first jumped out)
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> New high capacity Blu-ray Discs will be incompatible with existing players
>>
>> By Darren Quick 
>>
>> *23:14 April 7, 2010*
>>  [image: Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but
>> BDXL and IH-BD discs 
>> will...]
>>
>> Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but BDXL and
>> IH-BD discs will be incompatible with existing hardware (Image: 
>> smemon87via Flickr)
>>  LG's Blu Ray/DVD 
>> Burner-
>> www.LG.com
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Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior

Crap. Hit Send too soon.

A few years ago, before George Tiller, the late-term abortion specialist,
was assassinated, Bill-O was regularly calling for him to be murdered, as a
"service to mankind". And he was the first to say that he said nothing wrong
after Tiller was shot down. Outside of his church, if mmemory serves.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

> Bosco, I have no trouble blaming them. They've seen their "constituency" up
> close and personal many a time. They covered the health-care town halls when
> those folks showed up packing, declaring that they "were defending their
> right to keep and bear arms". It only took me five seconds to know that
> these are people a step away from violence, if they feel they aren't going
> to get their way. Faux/Fixed/Fox knows, and fuels, this.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Bosco Bosco  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable blaming Fox News for crazy man
>> antics. Yeah they're propagandists for all kinds of nonsense but they don't
>> make them put guns in people's hands. It's like blaming heavy metal for teen
>> suicide or hip hop for gang violence. I'm no defender of Fox or it's rampant
>> stupidity and wrecklessness but at some point people make choices.
>>
>> Bosco
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 4/8/10, Martin Baxter * wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Martin Baxter 
>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:59 AM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform and
>> deny any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution.
>>
>> Bastiches.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf > gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://abclocal. go.com/kgo/ story?section= 
>>> news/iteam&id=7374140
>>>  Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
>>> Wednesday, April 07, 2010
>>>   [image: Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior]
>>>  Related Video
>>> All Live Video  : All 
>>> Video
>>> »
>>>  [image: Greg Giusti was arrested for making threatening phone calls to
>>> Nancy Pelosi.] [image: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks
>>> during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington]
>>>
>>>- Accused man's mom blames Fox News for 
>>> behavior
>>>- FBI arrests man for threatening 
>>> Pelosi
>>>
>>>  Tags:
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>>>
>>> SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard
>>> that her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental
>>> problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat;
>>> he has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked
>>> up.
>>>
>>> Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the
>>> House Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation.
>>>
>>> "Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical
>>> ideas and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family,
>>> which gets him into problems," Eleanor Giusti said.

Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior

Bosco, I have no trouble blaming them. They've seen their "constituency" up
close and personal many a time. They covered the health-care town halls when
those folks showed up packing, declaring that they "were defending their
right to keep and bear arms". It only took me five seconds to know that
these are people a step away from violence, if they feel they aren't going
to get their way. Faux/Fixed/Fox knows, and fuels, this.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Bosco Bosco  wrote:

>
>
> Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable blaming Fox News for crazy man antics.
> Yeah they're propagandists for all kinds of nonsense but they don't make
> them put guns in people's hands. It's like blaming heavy metal for teen
> suicide or hip hop for gang violence. I'm no defender of Fox or it's rampant
> stupidity and wrecklessness but at some point people make choices.
>
> Bosco
>
> --- On *Thu, 4/8/10, Martin Baxter * wrote:
>
>
> From: Martin Baxter 
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:59 AM
>
>
>
>
> Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform and
> deny any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution.
>
> Bastiches.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf  gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://abclocal. go.com/kgo/ story?section= 
>> news/iteam&id=7374140
>>  Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
>> Wednesday, April 07, 2010
>>   [image: Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior]
>>  Related Video
>> All Live Video  : All 
>> Video
>> »
>>  [image: Greg Giusti was arrested for making threatening phone calls to
>> Nancy Pelosi.] [image: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during
>> a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington]
>>
>>- Accused man's mom blames Fox News for 
>> behavior
>>- FBI arrests man for threatening 
>> Pelosi
>>
>>  Tags:
>> nancy pelosi , health
>> care , health
>> insurance ,
>> i-team , dan
>> noyes 
>>
>>- Comment 
>> Now
>>- 
>> Email
>>- 
>> Print
>>- Report a 
>> typo
>>-
>>-
>>-
>>-
>>-
>>- [image: ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking
>>sites, etc.]
>>
>> 
>> Dan 
>> Noyes,
>>  Chief
>> Investigative Reporter
>> More: 
>> Bio,
>> E-mail , 
>> Blog,
>> Facebook ,
>> Twitter , News 
>> Team
>>
>> SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard
>> that her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental
>> problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat;
>> he has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked
>> up.
>>
>> Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the
>> House Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation.
>>
>> "Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical
>> ideas and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family,
>> which gets him into problems," Eleanor Giusti said. "I say Fox News, or all
>> of those that are really radical, and he, that's where he comes from."
>>
>>  Related Content
>>
>> Story: FBI arrests man for threatening 
>> Pelosi
>> Giusti, 48, has a long history of encounters with law enforcement.
>>
>> In 2004, Giusti was convicted of criminal threats. The San Mateo District
>> Attorney's office says he was trying to evade the fare on a Caltrain, and
>> when the cond

Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

Really sad thing is that I have a number of family members who proudly voted
for that nimrod. [?]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> I too felt ill when I read the original story, and I am happy that you all
> felt the same. I'm always amazed but never surprised at the totally lack of
> common sense on issues like this.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:
>
>> Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring
>> Slavery.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
>>
>> My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP
>> apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his
>> arm around Gov. McDonald.
>>
>> ~(no)rave!
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> Post your SciFiNoir Profile at
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
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>  
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Keith,having once lived in the Apple, I'll hazard that being able to shake
off pain when the Downtown Local grazes you while doing thirty-five would be
a start.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> I hear you, that's amazing, but I guess it's real world.
> Heh. I wonder what a training course for something like a bike courier in
> NYC would be like?!
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Martin Baxter" 
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 12:43:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training
>
>
>
> On a more serious note, this is a lot more rigorous in terms of training
> than I had thought it would be. I certainly wouldn't pass that greased-floor
> test, with my bad ear and lousy balance.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Keith Johnson 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech,
>> multimedia training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS
>> drivers had to follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in
>> 15 seconds total? Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought
>> of such efficiency drills in terms of movements and motions in
>> manufacturing/processing plants, where time spent soldering, adding nuts and
>> bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., is strictly regimented.
>> And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in
>> the same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other
>> professions in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put
>> up with wearing those silly looking little brown uniforms!
>>
>> **
>>
>> http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership
>> UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training
>>  by Jennifer Levitz
>> Wednesday, April 7, 2010
>>
>> provided by
>> [image: wsjlogo.gif] 
>>
>> Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training,
>> *United Parcel Service Inc.* (UPS ) is
>> moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies for the road. In the place
>> of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption that simulates walking
>> on ice and an obstacle course around an artificial village.
>> Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is
>> convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond
>> best to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills.
>>
>> Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000
>> U.S. drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years
>> to replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which
>> pays an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an
>> 11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of
>> Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the
>> company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save
>> seconds and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to
>> selecting a package from a shelf in the truck.
>>
>> They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them
>> identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to
>> "Clarksville," a village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the
>> property where they drive a real truck and must successfully execute five
>> deliveries in 19 minutes.
>>
>> So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia
>> Tech, are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have
>> completed Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have
>> failed the training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and
>> includes 30 days driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for
>> promoting within, and many driver candidates began as UPS package handlers
>> or other employees.
>>
>> By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and
>> hands-on learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new
>> drivers," says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A
>> second Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the
>> training methods will eventually go company-wide, he says.
>>
>> "Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers
>> Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced
>> recruits on a recent day.
>>
>> As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban
>> sunglasses, drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in
>> his path. Mr. Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver
>> a package, instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of
>> the truck.
>>
>> Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started u

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group

No, Mr Worf, but I'll chase those down.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> I loved the commercials. I thought that they were going to make it into a
> short series and make it something like 24.
>
> I think the difference between Jack in the box and Burger king is that they
> use humor in their commercials. BK also makes them a little edgy to appeal
> to the younger males.
>
> Ever see the Chicken punk band or the chicken webcast?
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:
>
>> And what, pray tell, is wrong with sniper moms?
>>
>> ~rave?
>>
>> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
>> >
>> > Last year Jack in the box had to pull a series of ads that featured a
>> group
>> > of angry mothers. (anyone remember this ad?) They were out to kill jack
>> > because he made the grilled cheese sandwich to well.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era.
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie  wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE
>> > >>
>> > >> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ,
>> Aubrey
>> > >> Leatherwood  wrote:
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> > A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;)
>> > >>
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
>> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
>> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
>> > >> > Model Lover
>> > >> > Dime
>> > >> > Imperfection
>> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
>> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
>> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
>> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
>> > >> > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 +
>> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
>> Health
>> > >> Group
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you
>> > >> sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see
>> that
>> > >> plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop
>> the
>> > >> body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer
>> you
>> > >> food.
>> > >> > Do you:
>> > >> >
>> > >> > (a) Jump for joy and say, "Hey, King! Thanks for the burger!" and
>> then
>> > >> invite him to share it with you in your bed?
>> > >> > (b) Say, "Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the
>> > >> window on your way out", then roll over and go to sleep... or
>> > >> > (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball
>> bat/golf
>> > >> club/mace/pepper spray?
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Me? Option "C" all the way baby!
>> > >>
>> > >> >
>> > >> > - Original Message -
>> > >> > From: "Aubrey Leatherwood" 
>> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>> > >> > Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> > >> > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
>> Health
>> > >> Group
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I love the creepy king!
>> > >>
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
>> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
>> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
>> > >> > Model Lover - Cobblestone Press
>> > >> > Dime
>> > >> > Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart?
>> > >>
>> > >> > Imperfection
>> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
>> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
>> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
>> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
>> > >> > ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
>> > >> > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 +
>> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental
>> Health
>> > >> Group
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> > That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by
>> that
>> > >> grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the
>> commercials
>> > >> where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their
>> bedrooms,
>> > >> staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something?
>> man,
>> > >> that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to
>> you!
>> > >>
>> > >> >
>> > >> > - Original Message -
>> > >> > From: "Kelwyn" 
>> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>> > >> > Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
>> Eastern
>> > >> > Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental H

Re: [scifinoir2] Tea goes down easy, black conservatives say (stupid is as stupid does)

NO, Mr Johnson, you don't hate yourself.

You're too frelling stuppid for that.

Oh, for the day when some backroom Tea Party chatter is posted online, when
they're using words that not even Michael "the Clown" Steele can smirk
away...

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Kelwyn  wrote:

>
>
>
> http://epaper.orlandosentinel.com/OS/OS/2010/04/08/ArticleHtmls/08_04_2010_004_040.shtml
>
> They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having
> to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for
> their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement -and for having the
> audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.
>
> "I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom," said Timothy
> Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black
> conservatives who support free-market principles and limited government.
>
> "Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are.
>
> Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the
> Democratic Party is for blacks," he said.
>
> Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party
> movement because of what they consider its common-sense fiscal values of
> controlled spending, lower taxes and smaller government. The fact that
> they're black -or that most tea partiers are white -should have nothing to
> do with it, they say.
>
> "You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote
> Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?" asked Clifton Bazar, 45, a
> conservative blogger in New Jersey .
>
> Some opponents have branded the tea party as racists hiding behind economic
> concerns -and reports that some tea partiers were lobbing racist slurs at
> black congressmen over last month's heated health care vote give them
> ammunition.
>
> But these black conservatives don't consider racism typical of the
> movement.
>
> Angela McGlowan, a black GOP congressional candidate from Mississippi, said
> her tea party involvement is "not about a black or white issue."
>
> "It's not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint," she said.
>
> "All of us are taxed too much."
>
> Black voters have overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates. In 2008, 95
> percent of black voters cast ballots for President Barack Obama.
>
> "I've gotten the statement, `How can you not support the brother?' " said
> David Webb, an organizer of New York City's Tea Party 365 Inc. movement.
>
> "I know of people who would play the (liberal) role publicly but have their
> private opinions," he said. "Why can't we speak openly and honestly if we
> disagree?" Tax Day protests A Tax Day tea party demonstration is scheduled
> for April 15 on the Washington Monument grounds in the nation's capital.
>
> FreedomWorks Foundation, the organizer, says gatherings to protest big
> government will be held across the nation.
>
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Blueray is on its way to being obsolete

Yea and verily, I laugheth mine arse off at this.

Martin (feeling like a vindicated Luddite technonerd, for refusing to buy
into Blu-Ray when it first jumped out)

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> New high capacity Blu-ray Discs will be incompatible with existing players
>
> By Darren Quick 
>
> *23:14 April 7, 2010*
>  [image: Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but
> BDXL and IH-BD discs 
> will...]
>
> Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but BDXL and
> IH-BD discs will be incompatible with existing hardware (Image: 
> smemon87via Flickr)
>  LG's Blu Ray/DVD 
> Burner-
> www.LG.com
> Burn Blu Ray Disks, DVDs, or CDs W/ LG's Line Of Optical Drives!
> Memorex BD-R Blu-Ray 
> Disc-
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> Buy Memorex 32020013358 Today. Best Deals On Blu-Ray Blank Media!
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[scifinoir2] Blueray is on its way to being obsolete

New high capacity Blu-ray Discs will be incompatible with existing players

By Darren Quick 

*23:14 April 7, 2010*
 [image: Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but
BDXL and IH-BD discs
will...]

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[scifinoir2] Re: Tea goes down easy, black conservatives say (stupid is as stupid does)

I saw one of these black conservatives "debating" Eric Michael Dyson.  Reverend 
Dyson stated that conservatives preached trickle-down economics believing a 
rising tide lifted all boats.  He went on to say the problem was that too many 
poor blacks didn't have boats. 

The conservative black woman snapped, "If they don't have a boat they should 
BUILD one!"

Which reminds me of may canned response whenever someone says they pulled 
themselves up by their bootstraps: "YOU HAD BOOTS??!!??"

To which the conservative would respond, I suppose, if I didn't have boots I 
should have bought (stolen?) a cow, killed and skinned it, tanned the hide and 
made me some boots

Because, as we all know, first you make a time machine.  THEN, you go back in 
time.

~(no)rave!


--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Kelwyn"  wrote:
>
> http://epaper.orlandosentinel.com/OS/OS/2010/04/08/ArticleHtmls/08_04_2010_004_040.shtml
> 
> They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to 
> defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their 
> involvement in the mostly white tea party movement -and for having the 
> audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.
> 
> "I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom," said Timothy 
> Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black 
> conservatives who support free-market principles and limited government.
> 
> "Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are.
> 
> Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the 
> Democratic Party is for blacks," he said.
> 
> Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party 
> movement because of what they consider its common-sense fiscal values of 
> controlled spending, lower taxes and smaller government. The fact that 
> they're black -or that most tea partiers are white -should have nothing to do 
> with it, they say.
> 
> "You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote 
> Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?" asked Clifton Bazar, 45, a 
> conservative blogger in New Jersey .
> 
> Some opponents have branded the tea party as racists hiding behind economic 
> concerns -and reports that some tea partiers were lobbing racist slurs at 
> black congressmen over last month's heated health care vote give them 
> ammunition.
> 
> But these black conservatives don't consider racism typical of the movement.
> 
> Angela McGlowan, a black GOP congressional candidate from Mississippi, said 
> her tea party involvement is "not about a black or white issue."
> 
> "It's not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint," she said.
> 
> "All of us are taxed too much."
> 
> Black voters have overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates. In 2008, 95 
> percent of black voters cast ballots for President Barack Obama.
> 
> "I've gotten the statement, `How can you not support the brother?' " said 
> David Webb, an organizer of New York City's Tea Party 365 Inc. movement.
> 
> "I know of people who would play the (liberal) role publicly but have their 
> private opinions," he said. "Why can't we speak openly and honestly if we 
> disagree?" Tax Day protests A Tax Day tea party demonstration is scheduled 
> for April 15 on the Washington Monument grounds in the nation's capital.
> 
> FreedomWorks Foundation, the organizer, says gatherings to protest big 
> government will be held across the nation.
>

[scifinoir2] Tea goes down easy, black conservatives say (stupid is as stupid does)

http://epaper.orlandosentinel.com/OS/OS/2010/04/08/ArticleHtmls/08_04_2010_004_040.shtml

They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to 
defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their 
involvement in the mostly white tea party movement -and for having the audacity 
to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.

"I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom," said Timothy 
Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black 
conservatives who support free-market principles and limited government.

"Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are.

Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic 
Party is for blacks," he said.

Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party 
movement because of what they consider its common-sense fiscal values of 
controlled spending, lower taxes and smaller government. The fact that they're 
black -or that most tea partiers are white -should have nothing to do with it, 
they say.

"You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote 
Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?" asked Clifton Bazar, 45, a 
conservative blogger in New Jersey .

Some opponents have branded the tea party as racists hiding behind economic 
concerns -and reports that some tea partiers were lobbing racist slurs at black 
congressmen over last month's heated health care vote give them ammunition.

But these black conservatives don't consider racism typical of the movement.

Angela McGlowan, a black GOP congressional candidate from Mississippi, said her 
tea party involvement is "not about a black or white issue."

"It's not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint," she said.

"All of us are taxed too much."

Black voters have overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates. In 2008, 95 
percent of black voters cast ballots for President Barack Obama.

"I've gotten the statement, `How can you not support the brother?' " said David 
Webb, an organizer of New York City's Tea Party 365 Inc. movement.

"I know of people who would play the (liberal) role publicly but have their 
private opinions," he said. "Why can't we speak openly and honestly if we 
disagree?" Tax Day protests A Tax Day tea party demonstration is scheduled for 
April 15 on the Washington Monument grounds in the nation's capital.

FreedomWorks Foundation, the organizer, says gatherings to protest big 
government will be held across the nation.

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group

I loved the commercials. I thought that they were going to make it into a
short series and make it something like 24.

I think the difference between Jack in the box and Burger king is that they
use humor in their commercials. BK also makes them a little edgy to appeal
to the younger males.

Ever see the Chicken punk band or the chicken webcast?

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:

> And what, pray tell, is wrong with sniper moms?
>
> ~rave?
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
> >
> > Last year Jack in the box had to pull a series of ads that featured a
> group
> > of angry mothers. (anyone remember this ad?) They were out to kill jack
> > because he made the grilled cheese sandwich to well.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie  wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE
> > >>
> > >> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ,
> Aubrey
> > >> Leatherwood  wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;)
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
> > >> > Model Lover
> > >> > Dime
> > >> > Imperfection
> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
> > >> > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 +
> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> > >> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you
> > >> sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see
> that
> > >> plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop
> the
> > >> body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer
> you
> > >> food.
> > >> > Do you:
> > >> >
> > >> > (a) Jump for joy and say, "Hey, King! Thanks for the burger!" and
> then
> > >> invite him to share it with you in your bed?
> > >> > (b) Say, "Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the
> > >> window on your way out", then roll over and go to sleep... or
> > >> > (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball
> bat/golf
> > >> club/mace/pepper spray?
> > >> >
> > >> > Me? Option "C" all the way baby!
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > - Original Message -
> > >> > From: "Aubrey Leatherwood" 
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> > Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > >> > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> > >> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > I love the creepy king!
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
> > >> > Model Lover - Cobblestone Press
> > >> > Dime
> > >> > Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart?
> > >>
> > >> > Imperfection
> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> > >> > ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
> > >> > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 +
> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> > >> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by
> that
> > >> grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the
> commercials
> > >> where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their
> bedrooms,
> > >> staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something?
> man,
> > >> that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you!
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > - Original Message -
> > >> > From: "Kelwyn" 
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> > Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > >> > Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
> > >> >
> > >> > Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that
> RetireRonald.com
> >

Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Its really hard to get the delivery job. I have a friend that works at UPS
and there was close to a 7 year waiting list unless you already have
experience in that field.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech,
> multimedia training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS
> drivers had to follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in
> 15 seconds total? Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought
> of such efficiency drills in terms of movements and motions in
> manufacturing/processing plants, where time spent soldering, adding nuts and
> bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., is strictly regimented.
> And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in
> the same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other
> professions in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put
> up with wearing those silly looking little brown uniforms!
>
> **
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership
> UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training
>  by Jennifer Levitz
> Wednesday, April 7, 2010
>
> provided by
> [image: wsjlogo.gif] 
>
> Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, 
> *United
> Parcel Service Inc.* (UPS ) is moving
> beyond the classroom to ready its rookies for the road. In the place of
> books and lectures are videogames, a contraption that simulates walking on
> ice and an obstacle course around an artificial village.
>  Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is
> convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond
> best to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills.
>
> Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S.
> drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to
> replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which
> pays an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an
> 11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of
> Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the
> company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save
> seconds and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to
> selecting a package from a shelf in the truck.
>
> They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them
> identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to
> "Clarksville," a village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the
> property where they drive a real truck and must successfully execute five
> deliveries in 19 minutes.
>
> So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia
> Tech, are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have
> completed Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have
> failed the training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and
> includes 30 days driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for
> promoting within, and many driver candidates began as UPS package handlers
> or other employees.
>
> By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and
> hands-on learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new
> drivers," says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A
> second Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the
> training methods will eventually go company-wide, he says.
>
> "Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers
> Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced
> recruits on a recent day.
>
> As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses,
> drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in his path.
> Mr. Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver a
> package, instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of the
> truck.
>
> Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started up. "Stop! Stop! Ugh!" yelled Mr.
> Keys. He picked up the cone. "This is a kid who was playing football around
> your vehicle and went to get his ball."
>
> Mr. Byrnes looked shaken and slapped his forehead. The lesson stuck: At the
> next stop, he checked for cones.
>
> UPS isn't the only company using new training tools. Food service company
> Sodexo Inc. has recruited chefs through "Second Life" virtual job fairs and
> *Cisco Systems Inc.* (CSCO ) has taught
> programming techniques through videogames. FedEx Corp. says it, too, has
> moved toward more hands-on learning in the past five years, although it adds
> the change wasn't prompted by a high failure rate among trainee

Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

I too felt ill when I read the original story, and I am happy that you all
felt the same. I'm always amazed but never surprised at the totally lack of
common sense on issues like this.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:

> Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring
> Slavery.
>
>
> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
>
> My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP
> apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his
> arm around Gov. McDonald.
>
> ~(no)rave!
>
>
>
> 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior

When I posted this I was thinking the same thing, but after a while I
thought about the effects of repetition on someone's mind. If you repeat the
same answers over and over again on a variety of shows it can be like
hypnotic suggestion.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Bosco Bosco  wrote:

>
>
> Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable blaming Fox News for crazy man antics.
> Yeah they're propagandists for all kinds of nonsense but they don't make
> them put guns in people's hands. It's like blaming heavy metal for teen
> suicide or hip hop for gang violence. I'm no defender of Fox or it's rampant
> stupidity and wrecklessness but at some point people make choices.
>
> Bosco
>
> --- On *Thu, 4/8/10, Martin Baxter * wrote:
>
>
> From: Martin Baxter 
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:59 AM
>
>
>
>
> Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform and
> deny any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution.
>
> Bastiches.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf  gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://abclocal. go.com/kgo/ story?section= 
>> news/iteam&id=7374140
>>  Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
>> Wednesday, April 07, 2010
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>>
>>- Accused man's mom blames Fox News for 
>> behavior
>>- FBI arrests man for threatening 
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>> SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard
>> that her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental
>> problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat;
>> he has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked
>> up.
>>
>> Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the
>> House Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation.
>>
>> "Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical
>> ideas and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family,
>> which gets him into problems," Eleanor Giusti said. "I say Fox News, or all
>> of those that are really radical, and he, that's where he comes from."
>>
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>>
>> Story: FBI arrests man for threatening 
>> Pelosi
>> Giusti, 48, has a long history of encounters with law enforcement.
>>
>> In 2004, Giusti was convicted of criminal threats. The San Mateo District
>> Attorney's office says he was trying to evade the fare on a Caltrain, and
>> when the conductor tried to kick him off, Giusti started yelling and
>> threatening the conductor's life. As a result, Giusti was sentenced to one
>> year in county jail and three years supervised probati

[scifinoir2] F1 ace Lewis Hamilton gets ticket in Australia...........

 Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton pulled over by Australian cops

Mar 27 2010 Keith
Mcleod

AUSSIE cops pulled over a boy racer for doing wheelspins, then realised the
idiot was Lewis Hamilton.

The former Formula One champion had his luxury Mercedes road car towed away
to a police pound.

And he was forced to issue a humiliating apology after he did a "burnout"
spin and roared off at speed as he left the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne
following practice for Sunday's Grand Prix.

Hamilton said: "I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a result,
was stopped by the police.

"What I did was silly and I want to apologise for it."

Hamilton pulled his stunt right in front of a police van, and the cops
followed the £15million-ayear speed king and stopped him at the roadside.

Bystanders said red-faced Hamilton slid down in his seat and tried to hide
his face as the officers spoke to him.

His souped-up Mercedes C63 AMG road car, loaned to him by a local dealer,
was seized under laws designed to crackdown on "hoons" - Australian slang
for neds and boy racers.

A few hours after the incident, Hamilton, 25, released his apology through
the McLaren Mercedes team.

He will be charged with improper use of a motor vehicle, which carries a
maximum fine of about £750. The car will be held at the pound for 48 hours.

Hamilton was turning into Melbourne's Fitzroy Street - a main road packed
with bars - at about 9.15pm when he did a "burnout", spinning his wheels so
the back end of his car swung outwards as he pulled away .

A police source said: "Smoke was billowing from the tyres and he left tyre
marks all over the road."

Senior Constable Scott Woodford said Hamilton stopped "immediately" when he
was pulled over and was "extremely co-operative".

He added: "It would have been fair to say that he was fairly disappointed
with the incident."

Hamilton was interviewed at the scene for about half an hour and passed a
routine breath test.

Onlookers said he was "visibly upset". He is said to have told the cops he
was worried the incident would damage his reputation.

Hamilton was not taken to a police station. After booking him and loading
his car on to a truck, the police gave him a lift back to his hotel about
four miles away.

He was carrying a male passenger, who has not been named, when he was pulled
over.

Hamilton was stopped as he left Albert Park after recording the fastest time
in morning practice for the big race.

It wasn't clear last night whether he would appear in court before leaving
Australia, or whether the case will be held in hs absence after he leaves.
He was banned from driving for a month in France in 2007 after he was
clocked doing 123mph.

Police in Australia have been working hard to clamp down on dangerous
driving by "hoons".

One of Hamilton's biggest F1 rivals, Ferrari ace Felipe Massa, publicly
backed the campaign hours before his fellow-star was pulled over .







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Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior

2010-04-08 Thread Bosco Bosco

Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable blaming Fox News for crazy man antics. 
Yeah they're propagandists for all kinds of nonsense but they don't make them 
put guns in people's hands. It's like blaming heavy metal for teen suicide or 
hip hop for gang violence. I'm no defender of Fox or it's rampant stupidity and 
wrecklessness but at some point people make choices. 

Bosco

--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Martin Baxter  wrote:

From: Martin Baxter 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:59 AM







 



  



  
  
  Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform 
and deny any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution.
 
Bastiches.


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf  wrote:


  




http://abclocal. go.com/kgo/ story?section= news/iteam&id=7374140


Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
Wednesday, April 07, 2010




 


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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard that 
her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental 
problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat; he 
has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked up. 


Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the House 
Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation. 
"Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical ideas 
and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family, which gets 
him into problems," Eleanor Giusti said. "I say Fox News, or all of those that 
are really radical, and he, that's where he comes from." 



Related Content
Story: FBI arrests man for threatening Pelosi
Giusti, 48, has a long history of encounters with law enforcement. 
In 2004, Giusti was convicted of criminal threats. The San Mateo District 
Attorney's office says he was trying to evade the fare on a Caltrain, and when 
the conductor tried to kick him off, Giusti started yelling and threatening the 
conductor's life. As a result, Giusti was sentenced to one year in county jail 
and three years supervised probation. He was also ordered to undergo mental 
health counseling. 

There is also a lawsuit filed in February by Hamilton Square Baptist Church in 
San Francisco. It says, "Giusti has engaged in and continues to engage in a 
campaign of harassment" against people at the church. 

Giusti also has a record of skipping out on his BART fares and causing 
disruptions. BART sued him in 1996. 
He also has two convictions in San Francisco for welfare fraud and petty theft 
from 1992. 
According to ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson, there is a point at which free 
speech ends and a threat begins. 
"Communicating a threat with the intent that it be taken seriously is one of 
those types of speech that is simply not protected," Johnson said. "Even under 
state law, as well as the federal law that applies here, there are crimes that 
are based on threatening another individual, you simply cannot do that." 

Eleanor Giusti also told ABC7 she talked to her son earlier in the day -- 
apparently before the arrest. He asked about his niece and nephew and acted as 
though nothing was going on. 
The FBI told ABC7 Giusti will be booked into San Francisco County Jail to spend 
the night, before appearing in federal court Thursday morning. 

-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! 

Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/

Re: [scifinoir2] The Perfect Weapon--Pollen

yes indeed. I got maybe two hours of sleep last night. Though popping the antihistamine and decongestants, I'm still miserable.- Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 1:04:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Perfect Weapon--Pollen

Say it again, Brother Keith!
I was coming home, down Covington Highway past Superior Chevy.
All of their cars and trucks were yellow. Even the red ones.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

You know those movies like "War of the Worlds", where vicious, technologically advanced aliens are brought low by something such as a measly bacterium? Well I say bunk that! Just send 'em down here to Atlanta and let the pollen do a number on them! This is one of the most beautiful cities you'll see in North America in the spring, literally a riot of colors: Reds, pinks, violets, lavenders--every color under the rainbow. Every yard, park, and street is filled with dogwoods, azaleas, roses, crepe myrtles.
But the pollen? Oh my gosh. An extremely high pollen count--where just about anyone with even the slightest allergy tendencies will feel some effects--is a measure of 120. Our pollen count today? A whopping 5733! I literally wrote my name on my car windshield with my finger today, the pollen's so thick. I washed the car off, went to the gym for one hour, and came out to see the entire car completely covered again in yellow dust. Pictures taken from news copters show the entire city covered in a thick haze like smog, obscuring visibility, but it ain't smog. That's pollen so thick in the air the city is barely visible from a thousand feet up! Needless to say I am miserable: running eyes, congestion, coughing, sneezing, wheezing.
So let Mars attack. Bring on the Invaders. Let the First Wave come. They might decimate the rest of the country, but an hour of sneezing in Atlanta will have them fleeing the Earth never to return--with a brief stop at CVS on the way for some Benedryl!
**http://www.atlantaallergy.com/EducationDetail.aspx?Id=33&Cat=3
ATLANTA - The Metro area is seeing a record high pollen count Wednesday.Wednesday's pollen count is an incredible 5733, nearly double Tuesday's count.The recent spike in pollen has allergy sufferers facing miserable symptoms.
"I literally could not sleep at night. I was up all night coughing, sneezing, my eyes were watering," said allergy sufferer Kathleen Daniel.Kathleen Daniel has struggled with allergy problems since childhood and says she knows she'll be on allergy medication for much of her life.
So when the warm weather hit our area -- she knew she was in a world of trouble. "When I see all those pretty blooms I think oh no, here it comes," said Daniel.A pollen count of 120 is considered high -- Tuesday's pollen count was a whopping 2967.
Wednesday's warm weather could make it even higher. Allergist Dr.. Stanley Fineman said this year's pollen season has hit hard and quickly."There's been a delay in the high pollen counts, so now we're seeing it all of a sudden," said Dr. Stanley Fineman of Atlanta Allergy and Asthma Clinic.
And it's not just the thick yellow film that covers your car that makes life miserable, adding that microscopic pollens from nut trees may be causing the most difficulty. Fineman said for patients like Daniel -- doctors recommend limiting their exposure to the outside conditions.
"They should be indoors. Close the windows, use the a.c., wash their hair before they go to sleep. Because there may be pollen in their hair, and basically strict avoidance techniques," said Fineman.

Re: [scifinoir2] The Perfect Weapon--Pollen

Say it again, Brother Keith!

I was coming home, down Covington Highway past Superior Chevy.

All of their cars and trucks were yellow. Even the red ones. [?]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> You know those movies like "War of the Worlds", where vicious,
> technologically advanced aliens are brought low by something such as a
> measly bacterium? Well I say bunk that! Just send 'em down here to Atlanta
> and let the pollen do a number on them! This is one of the most beautiful
> cities you'll see in North America in the spring, literally a riot of
> colors: Reds, pinks, violets, lavenders--every color under the rainbow.
> Every yard, park, and street is filled with dogwoods, azaleas, roses, crepe
> myrtles.
> But the pollen? Oh my gosh. An extremely high pollen count--where just
> about anyone with even the slightest allergy tendencies will feel some
> effects--is a measure of 120.  Our pollen count today?   A whopping 5733! I
> literally wrote my name on my car windshield with my finger today, the
> pollen's so thick. I washed the car off, went to the gym for one hour, and
> came out to see the entire car completely covered again in yellow dust.
> Pictures taken from news copters show the entire city covered in a thick
> haze like smog, obscuring visibility, but it ain't smog. That's pollen so
> thick in the air the city is barely visible from a thousand feet up!
> Needless to say I am miserable: running eyes, congestion, coughing,
> sneezing, wheezing.
>
> So let Mars attack. Bring on the Invaders. Let the First Wave come. They
> might decimate the rest of the country, but an hour of sneezing in Atlanta
> will have them fleeing the Earth never to return--with a brief stop at CVS
> on the way for some Benedryl!
>
> **
> http://www.atlantaallergy.com/EducationDetail.aspx?Id=33&Cat=3
>
> ATLANTA - The Metro area is seeing a record high pollen count Wednesday.
>
> Wednesday's pollen count is an incredible 5733, nearly double Tuesday's
> count.
>
> The recent spike in pollen has allergy sufferers facing miserable symptoms.
>
> "I literally could not sleep at night. I was up all night coughing,
> sneezing, my eyes were watering," said allergy sufferer Kathleen Daniel.
>
> Kathleen Daniel has struggled with allergy problems since childhood and
> says she knows she'll be on allergy medication for much of her life.
>
> So when the warm weather hit our area -- she knew she was in a world of
> trouble.
>
> "When I see all those pretty blooms I think oh no, here it comes," said
> Daniel.
>
> A pollen count of 120 is considered high -- Tuesday's pollen count was a
> whopping 2967.
>
> Wednesday's warm weather could make it even higher. Allergist Dr.. Stanley
> Fineman said this year's pollen season has hit hard and quickly.
>
> "There's been a delay in the high pollen counts, so now we're seeing it all
> of a sudden," said Dr. Stanley Fineman of Atlanta Allergy and Asthma Clinic.
>
> And it's not just the thick yellow film that covers your car that makes
> life miserable, adding that microscopic pollens from nut trees may be
> causing the most difficulty.
>
> Fineman said for patients like Daniel -- doctors recommend limiting their
> exposure to the outside conditions.
>
> "They should be indoors. Close the windows, use the a.c., wash their hair
> before they go to sleep. Because there may be pollen in their hair, and
> basically strict avoidance techniques," said Fineman.
>
> 
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

I hear you, that's amazing, but I guess it's real world. 
Heh. I wonder what a training course for something like a bike courier in NYC 
would be like?! 

- Original Message - 
From: "Martin Baxter"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 12:43:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training 

On a more serious note, this is a lot more rigorous in terms of training than I 
had thought it would be. I certainly wouldn't pass that greased-floor test, 
with my bad ear and lousy balance. 

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > 
wrote: 

Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech, multimedia 
training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS drivers had to 
follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in 15 seconds total? 
Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought of such efficiency 
drills in terms of movements and motions in manufacturing/processing plants, 
where time spent soldering, adding nuts and bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., 
is strictly regimented. 
And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in the 
same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other professions 
in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put up with wearing 
those silly looking little brown uniforms! 

** 
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership

UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training 

by Jennifer Levitz 
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 

provided by 
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Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, United 
Parcel Service Inc. ( UPS ) is moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies 
for the road. In the place of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption 
that simulates walking on ice and an obstacle course around an artificial 
village. 
Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is 
convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond best 
to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills. 

Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S. 
drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to 
replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which pays 
an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an 
11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of 
Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the 
company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save seconds 
and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to selecting a 
package from a shelf in the truck. 

They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them 
identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to "Clarksville," a 
village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the property where they 
drive a real truck and must successfully execute five deliveries in 19 minutes. 

So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia Tech, 
are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have completed 
Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have failed the 
training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and includes 30 days 
driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for promoting within, and many 
driver candidates began as UPS package handlers or other employees. 

By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and hands-on 
learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new drivers," 
says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A second 
Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the training methods 
will eventually go company-wide, he says. 

"Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers 
Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced recruits 
on a recent day. 

As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses, 
drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in his path. Mr. 
Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver a package, 
instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of the truck. 

Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started up. "Stop! Stop! Ugh!" yelled Mr. Keys. 
He picked up the cone. "This is a kid who was playing football around your 
vehicle and went to get his ball." 

Mr. Byrnes looked shaken and slapped his forehead. The lesson stuck: At the 
next stop, he checked for cones. 

UPS isn't the only company using new training tools. Food service company 
Sodexo Inc. has recruited chefs through "Second Life" virtual job fai

Re: [scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior

Of COURSE, all and sundry at Faux/Fixed/Fox will rise up to a lifeform and
deny any blame for this, wrapping themselves in Flag and Constitution.

Bastiches.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
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> SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard
> that her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental
> problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat;
> he has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked
> up.
>
> Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the
> House Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation.
>
> "Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical
> ideas and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family,
> which gets him into problems," Eleanor Giusti said. "I say Fox News, or all
> of those that are really radical, and he, that's where he comes from."
>
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>
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> Giusti, 48, has a long history of encounters with law enforcement.
>
> In 2004, Giusti was convicted of criminal threats. The San Mateo District
> Attorney's office says he was trying to evade the fare on a Caltrain, and
> when the conductor tried to kick him off, Giusti started yelling and
> threatening the conductor's life. As a result, Giusti was sentenced to one
> year in county jail and three years supervised probation. He was also
> ordered to undergo mental health counseling.
>
> There is also a lawsuit filed in February by Hamilton Square Baptist Church
> in San Francisco. It says, "Giusti has engaged in and continues to engage in
> a campaign of harassment" against people at the church.
>
> Giusti also has a record of skipping out on his BART fares and causing
> disruptions. BART sued him in 1996.
>
> He also has two convictions in San Francisco for welfare fraud and petty
> theft from 1992.
>
> According to ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson, there is a point at which
> free speech ends and a threat begins.
>
> "Communicating a threat with the intent that it be taken seriously is one
> of those types of speech that is simply not protected," Johnson said. "Even
> under state law, as well as the federal law that applies here, there are
> crimes that are based on threatening another individual, you simply cannot
> do that."
>
> Eleanor Giusti also told ABC7 she talked to her son earlier in the day --
> apparently before the arrest. He asked about his niece and nephew and acted
> as though nothing was going on.
>
> The FBI told ABC7 Giusti will be booked into

Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

Make that "churns", please. Just in from the road.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

> My stomach churs as well over this, Keith. Take heart, though -- I have
> many White friends who are equally nauseous.
>
> As for those people Mosely made that comment to -- I'd love to know how
> many of them mentally dismissed his words as pessimism, without bothering to
> consider them.
>
>   On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Keith Johnson <
> keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> This makes me ill. But I grew up in Texas, and I'm all too familiar with
>> this. I've had people tell me blacks were happier under slavery and Jim Crow
>> because everyone "knew their place". I've argued with college-educated folks
>> who give me passionate reasons as to why slavery wasn't that bad. I've lost
>> count of the teachers, friends, and co-workers who have told me over the
>> years I "have it made" being black, because the (imagined) racism of the
>> past resulted in a free Affirmative Action path that made it so easy for me
>> to get work, promotions, and preferential treatment. Sadder still if the
>> governor doesn't really feel this way, but is simply pandering to the
>> electorate he feels he needs. I can respect an honest racist/Klansman over
>> someone who sells out simply for advancement.
>>
>> Like I say all the time, "'Post-racial' my a$$"
>>
>> I was listening to a podcast of NPR's "Tell Me More" today. Host Michele
>> Martin was interviewing author Walter Mosley. Mosley mentioned that he was
>> recently talking to a reporter about a meeting he was at for black writers.
>> The reporter asked Mosley, "Do you think organizations like this are needed
>> in our post-racial society?"
>> Mosley replied, "America isn't 'post-racial' anything yet".
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Kelwyn" 
>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 9:15:52 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong
>>
>>
>>
>> Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring
>> Slavery.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
>>
>> My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP
>> apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his
>> arm around Gov. McDonald.
>>
>> ~(no)rave!
>>
>>   
>>
>
>

Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

My stomach churs as well over this, Keith. Take heart, though -- I have many
White friends who are equally nauseous.

As for those people Mosely made that comment to -- I'd love to know how many
of them mentally dismissed his words as pessimism, without bothering to
consider them.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> This makes me ill. But I grew up in Texas, and I'm all too familiar with
> this. I've had people tell me blacks were happier under slavery and Jim Crow
> because everyone "knew their place". I've argued with college-educated folks
> who give me passionate reasons as to why slavery wasn't that bad. I've lost
> count of the teachers, friends, and co-workers who have told me over the
> years I "have it made" being black, because the (imagined) racism of the
> past resulted in a free Affirmative Action path that made it so easy for me
> to get work, promotions, and preferential treatment. Sadder still if the
> governor doesn't really feel this way, but is simply pandering to the
> electorate he feels he needs. I can respect an honest racist/Klansman over
> someone who sells out simply for advancement.
>
> Like I say all the time, "'Post-racial' my a$$"
>
> I was listening to a podcast of NPR's "Tell Me More" today. Host Michele
> Martin was interviewing author Walter Mosley. Mosley mentioned that he was
> recently talking to a reporter about a meeting he was at for black writers.
> The reporter asked Mosley, "Do you think organizations like this are needed
> in our post-racial society?"
> Mosley replied, "America isn't 'post-racial' anything yet".
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Kelwyn" 
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 9:15:52 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong
>
>
>
> Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring
> Slavery.
>
>
> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
>
> My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP
> apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his
> arm around Gov. McDonald.
>
> ~(no)rave!
>
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group

U... they use the wrong loads when hunting their prey? [?][?]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:

>
>
> And what, pray tell, is wrong with sniper moms?
>
> ~rave?
>
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , "Mr.
> Worf"  wrote:
> >
> > Last year Jack in the box had to pull a series of ads that featured a
> group
> > of angry mothers. (anyone remember this ad?) They were out to kill jack
> > because he made the grilled cheese sandwich to well.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie  wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE
> > >>
> > >> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >>  40yahoogroups.com>, Aubrey
>
> > >> Leatherwood  wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;)
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
> > >> > Model Lover
> > >> > Dime
> > >> > Imperfection
> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> >  40yahoogroups.com>
>
> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
> > >> > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 +
> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> > >> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you
> > >> sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see
> that
> > >> plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop
> the
> > >> body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer
> you
> > >> food.
> > >> > Do you:
> > >> >
> > >> > (a) Jump for joy and say, "Hey, King! Thanks for the burger!" and
> then
> > >> invite him to share it with you in your bed?
> > >> > (b) Say, "Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the
> > >> window on your way out", then roll over and go to sleep... or
> > >> > (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball
> bat/golf
> > >> club/mace/pepper spray?
> > >> >
> > >> > Me? Option "C" all the way baby!
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > - Original Message -
> > >> > From: "Aubrey Leatherwood" 
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> >  40yahoogroups.com>
> > >> > Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > >> > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> > >> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > I love the creepy king!
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
> > >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> > >> > FaceBook * MySpace
> > >> > Model Lover - Cobblestone Press
> > >> > Dime
> > >> > Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart?
> > >>
> > >> > Imperfection
> > >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> > >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
> > >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> > >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> > >> > ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> >  40yahoogroups.com>
>
> > >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
> > >> > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 +
> > >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> > >> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by
> that
> > >> grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the
> commercials
> > >> where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their
> bedrooms,
> > >> staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something?
> man,
> > >> that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you!
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > - Original Message -
> > >> > From: "Kelwyn" 
> > >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> >  40yahoogroups.com>
> > >> > Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > >> > Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> Group
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
> > >> >
> > >> > Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that
> RetireRonald.com
> > >> launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy
> > >> lifestyles, two locally based mental health org

Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

I'm sure that the Teabaggers will make it a talking point to say that he
apologized, while still not grasping the implications.

Parents, don't let your children grow up to be Teabaggers.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:

>
>
> Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring
> Slavery.
>
>
> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
>
> My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP
> apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his
> arm around Gov. McDonald.
>
> ~(no)rave!
>
> 
>

Re: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

This makes me ill. But I grew up in Texas, and I'm all too familiar with this. 
I've had people tell me blacks were happier under slavery and Jim Crow because 
everyone "knew their place". I've argued with college-educated folks who give 
me passionate reasons as to why slavery wasn't that bad. I've lost count of the 
teachers, friends, and co-workers who have told me over the years I "have it 
made" being black, because the (imagined) racism of the past resulted in a free 
Affirmative Action path that made it so easy for me to get work, promotions, 
and preferential treatment. Sadder still if the governor doesn't really feel 
this way, but is simply pandering to the electorate he feels he needs. I can 
respect an honest racist/Klansman over someone who sells out simply for 
advancement. 

Like I say all the time, "'Post-racial' my a$$" 

I was listening to a podcast of NPR's "Tell Me More" today. Host Michele Martin 
was interviewing author Walter Mosley. Mosley mentioned that he was recently 
talking to a reporter about a meeting he was at for black writers. The reporter 
asked Mosley, "Do you think organizations like this are needed in our 
post-racial society?" 
Mosley replied, "America isn't 'post-racial' anything yet". 



- Original Message - 
From: "Kelwyn"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 9:15:52 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong 






Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring 
Slavery. 

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/
 

My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP 
apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his arm 
around Gov. McDonald. 

~(no)rave!

Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Keith, the first part's easy, for The Unparalleled Masters of the Dump and
Run...

Martin (REALLY shouldn't speak ill of Brown, as Brown has something to do
for me by close-of-business)

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech,
> multimedia training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS
> drivers had to follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in
> 15 seconds total? Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought
> of such efficiency drills in terms of movements and motions in
> manufacturing/processing plants, where time spent soldering, adding nuts and
> bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., is strictly regimented.
> And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in
> the same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other
> professions in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put
> up with wearing those silly looking little brown uniforms!
>
> **
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership
> UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training
>  by Jennifer Levitz
> Wednesday, April 7, 2010
>
> provided by
> [image: wsjlogo.gif] 
>
> Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, 
> *United
> Parcel Service Inc.* (UPS ) is moving
> beyond the classroom to ready its rookies for the road. In the place of
> books and lectures are videogames, a contraption that simulates walking on
> ice and an obstacle course around an artificial village.
> Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is
> convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond
> best to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills.
>
> Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S.
> drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to
> replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which
> pays an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an
> 11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of
> Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the
> company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save
> seconds and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to
> selecting a package from a shelf in the truck.
>
> They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them
> identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to
> "Clarksville," a village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the
> property where they drive a real truck and must successfully execute five
> deliveries in 19 minutes.
>
> So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia
> Tech, are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have
> completed Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have
> failed the training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and
> includes 30 days driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for
> promoting within, and many driver candidates began as UPS package handlers
> or other employees.
>
> By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and
> hands-on learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new
> drivers," says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A
> second Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the
> training methods will eventually go company-wide, he says.
>
> "Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers
> Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced
> recruits on a recent day.
>
> As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses,
> drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in his path.
> Mr. Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver a
> package, instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of the
> truck.
>
> Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started up. "Stop! Stop! Ugh!" yelled Mr.
> Keys. He picked up the cone. "This is a kid who was playing football around
> your vehicle and went to get his ball."
>
> Mr. Byrnes looked shaken and slapped his forehead. The lesson stuck: At the
> next stop, he checked for cones.
>
> UPS isn't the only company using new training tools. Food service company
> Sodexo Inc. has recruited chefs through "Second Life" virtual job fairs and
> *Cisco Systems Inc.* (CSCO ) has taught
> programming techniques through videogames. FedEx Corp. says it, too, has
> moved toward more hands-on learning in the past five years, although it adds
> the change wasn't prompted by a high failure ra

Re: [scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

On a more serious note, this is a lot more rigorous in terms of training
than I had thought it would be. I certainly wouldn't pass that greased-floor
test, with my bad ear and lousy balance.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech,
> multimedia training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS
> drivers had to follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in
> 15 seconds total? Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought
> of such efficiency drills in terms of movements and motions in
> manufacturing/processing plants, where time spent soldering, adding nuts and
> bolts, cutting up chickens, etc., is strictly regimented.
> And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in
> the same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other
> professions in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put
> up with wearing those silly looking little brown uniforms!
>
> **
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership
> UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training
>  by Jennifer Levitz
> Wednesday, April 7, 2010
>
> provided by
> [image: wsjlogo.gif] 
>
> Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, 
> *United
> Parcel Service Inc.* (UPS ) is moving
> beyond the classroom to ready its rookies for the road. In the place of
> books and lectures are videogames, a contraption that simulates walking on
> ice and an obstacle course around an artificial village.
> Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is
> convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond
> best to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills.
>
> Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S.
> drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to
> replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which
> pays an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an
> 11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of
> Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the
> company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save
> seconds and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to
> selecting a package from a shelf in the truck.
>
> They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them
> identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to
> "Clarksville," a village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the
> property where they drive a real truck and must successfully execute five
> deliveries in 19 minutes.
>
> So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia
> Tech, are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have
> completed Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have
> failed the training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and
> includes 30 days driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for
> promoting within, and many driver candidates began as UPS package handlers
> or other employees.
>
> By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and
> hands-on learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new
> drivers," says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A
> second Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the
> training methods will eventually go company-wide, he says.
>
> "Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers
> Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced
> recruits on a recent day.
>
> As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses,
> drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in his path.
> Mr. Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver a
> package, instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of the
> truck.
>
> Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started up. "Stop! Stop! Ugh!" yelled Mr.
> Keys. He picked up the cone. "This is a kid who was playing football around
> your vehicle and went to get his ball."
>
> Mr. Byrnes looked shaken and slapped his forehead. The lesson stuck: At the
> next stop, he checked for cones.
>
> UPS isn't the only company using new training tools. Food service company
> Sodexo Inc. has recruited chefs through "Second Life" virtual job fairs and
> *Cisco Systems Inc.* (CSCO ) has taught
> programming techniques through videogames. FedEx Corp. says it, too, has
> moved toward more hands-on learning in the past five years, although it adds
> the change wasn't prompted by a high failu

[scifinoir2] UPS Brings Hi Tech to Driver Training

Wow, this is amazing, and not just for the integration of high tech, multimedia
training for all these companies. I guess I never realized UPS drivers had to
follow so many rules. Park a truck and get one package off in 15 seconds total?
Walk at a prescribed number of mph? I guess I only thought of such efficiency
drills in terms of movements and motions in manufacturing/processing plants,
where time spent soldering, adding nuts and bolts, cutting up chickens, etc.,
is strictly regimented.
And who knew that UPS drivers make up to 74K annually? That is solidly in the
same earnings range as network administrators/engineers and other professions
in the IT field. No wonder so many big old hulking brothers put up with wearing
those silly looking little brown uniforms!

**
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109258/usps-thinks-out-of-the-box?mod=career-leadership

UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training

by Jennifer Levitz
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

provided by
wsjlogo.gif

Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, United
Parcel Service Inc. ( UPS ) is moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies
for the road. In the place of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption
that simulates walking on ice and an obstacle course around an artificial
village.
Based on results so far, the world's largest package-delivery company is
convinced that 20-somethings -- the bulk of UPS driver recruits -- respond best
to high-tech instruction and a chance to hone skills.

Driver training is crucial for Atlanta-based UPS, which employs 99,000 U.S.
drivers and says it will need to hire 25,000 over the next five years to
replace retiring Baby Boomers. Candidates vying for a driver's job, which pays
an average of $74,000 annually, now spend one week at Integrad, an
11,500-square-foot, low-slung brick UPS training center 10 miles outside of
Washington, D.C. There they move from one station to another practicing the
company's "340 Methods," prescribed by UPS industrial engineers to save seconds
and improve safety in every task from lifting and loading boxes to selecting a
package from a shelf in the truck.

They play a videogame that places them in the driver's seat and has them
identify obstacles. They progress from computer simulations to "Clarksville," a
village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the property where they
drive a real truck and must successfully execute five deliveries in 19 minutes.

So far, the new methods, designed by UPS and researchers from Virginia Tech,
are proving successful, UPS says. Of the 1,629 trainees who have completed
Integrad since it began as an experiment in 2007, only 10% have failed the
training program, which takes a total of six weeks overall and includes 30 days
driving a truck in the real world. UPS is known for promoting within, and many
driver candidates began as UPS package handlers or other employees.

By getting out of the traditional classroom and using technology and hands-on
learning, "we've enhanced the probability of success of these new drivers,"
says Allen Hill, UPS's senior vice president of human resources. A second
Integrad will open in the Chicago area in the summer, and the training methods
will eventually go company-wide, he says.

"Are you ready for this? Shake the nerves out! Take a deep breath," cheers
Chris Breslin, a graying Integrad instructor, rallying his fresh-faced recruits
on a recent day.

As Nick Byrnes, a 23-year-old with a buzz cut and black Ray-Ban sunglasses,
drove through Clarksville, a UPS instructor tossed a football in his path. Mr.
Byrnes hit the brakes. But then, when he hopped out to deliver a package,
instructor Mike Keys sneaked an orange traffic cone in front of the truck.

Mr. Byrnes hopped back in and started up. "Stop! Stop! Ugh!" yelled Mr. Keys.
He picked up the cone. "This is a kid who was playing football around your
vehicle and went to get his ball."

Mr. Byrnes looked shaken and slapped his forehead. The lesson stuck: At the
next stop, he checked for cones.

UPS isn't the only company using new training tools. Food service company
Sodexo Inc. has recruited chefs through "Second Life" virtual job fairs and
Cisco Systems Inc. ( CSCO ) has taught programming techniques through
videogames. FedEx Corp. says it, too, has moved toward more hands-on learning
in the past five years, although it adds the change wasn't prompted by a high
failure rate among trainees.

On a recent day, UPS students at Integrad moved through "kinetic learning"
modules. In one corner, they practiced loading and unloading packages from a
UPS truck with clear sides, timed by instructors.

UPS allows 15.5 seconds to park a truck and retrieve one package from the
cargo, which is arranged in order of delivery.

Over at the "slip and fall" machine, an instructor greased a tiled runway in

[scifinoir2] When Pandering to your redneck base goes wrong

Governor Apologizes for Confederate History Month Proclamation Ignoring Slavery.

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/08/governor-apologizes-for-confederate-history-month-proclamation-i/

My favorite part of this article is the accompanying photo with GOP 
apologist/step-in-fetch Michael Steele grinning like a pickaninny with his arm 
around Gov. McDonald.

~(no)rave!

[scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group

And what, pray tell, is wrong with sniper moms?

~rave?

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
>
> Last year Jack in the box had to pull a series of ads that featured a group
> of angry mothers. (anyone remember this ad?) They were out to kill jack
> because he made the grilled cheese sandwich to well.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE
> >>
> >> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Aubrey
> >> Leatherwood  wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;)
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
> >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> >> > FaceBook * MySpace
> >> > Model Lover
> >> > Dime
> >> > Imperfection
> >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
> >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
> >> > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 +
> >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> >> Group
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you
> >> sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see that
> >> plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop the
> >> body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer you
> >> food.
> >> > Do you:
> >> >
> >> > (a) Jump for joy and say, "Hey, King! Thanks for the burger!" and then
> >> invite him to share it with you in your bed?
> >> > (b) Say, "Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the
> >> window on your way out", then roll over and go to sleep... or
> >> > (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball bat/golf
> >> club/mace/pepper spray?
> >> >
> >> > Me? Option "C" all the way baby!
> >>
> >> >
> >> > - Original Message -
> >> > From: "Aubrey Leatherwood" 
> >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> >> > Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> >> > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> >> Group
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I love the creepy king!
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Aubrey Leatherwood
> >> > www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> >> > FaceBook * MySpace
> >> > Model Lover - Cobblestone Press
> >> > Dime
> >> > Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart?
> >>
> >> > Imperfection
> >> > A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> >> > The People You Know, The Sex They Have
> >> > ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> >> > CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> >> > ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> >> > From: KeithBJohnson@
> >> > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 +
> >> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health
> >> Group
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that
> >> grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials
> >> where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms,
> >> staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man,
> >> that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you!
> >>
> >> >
> >> > - Original Message -
> >> > From: "Kelwyn" 
> >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> >> > Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> >> > Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
> >> >
> >> > Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com
> >> launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy
> >> lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply
> >> upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as
> >> completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars
> >> with Hotmail. Get busy.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > __
> >>
> >> > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with
> >> Hotmail.
> >> >
> >> http://www.windowslive.com/campa

[scifinoir2] Re: I know what I saw

Why an alien visit got to be an "invasion"?  Why come they can't be like the 
Vulcans in "First Contact"?  Or the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke's 
"Childhood's End"?  

Aliens probably won't look like us and they probably won't THINK like us.

~rave!

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
>
> Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James Fox
> who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal accounts
> of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military, and
> airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National Press
> Club in DC.
> 
> By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real but we
> have no way to prevent an invasion.
> 
> -- 
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>

[scifinoir2] Re: I know what I saw

5 pages an hour?  If only all that was gleamed was gold.  Actually, I admire 
those who can dictate what they "write."  I understand Barbara Bradford Taylor 
authors books in this manner (which IMHO also explains the quality of her 
books). 

Nothing that comes straight out of my mouth is ever as eloquent as that which 
has gone from my brain to my hand.

~rave?

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
>
> I've been using the voice recognition program while I write the current
> story I'm working on. It has increased my productivity by 300%. About 5
> pages an hour. I can probably do more once I train it more and outline the
> story more in advance.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Let us know how it works out, Mr Worf. Sounds like a great one.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I have been working on that story. I'm stuck in the middle.
> >>
> >> I've also been thinking about doing it in an alternate reality.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'd love to see how they'd deal with an actual alien attack.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Mr. Worf wrote:
> >>>
> 
> 
>  They seem to think that they can do it because they have shot a couple
>  down before. (probably by accident) One of the things that I find
>  interesting is that there have been ufo sightings in the DC area before.
>  Back in the 50s there was one that put the government on high alert and
>  prompted project blue book.
> 
>  On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Aubrey, there are those fools inside the Beltway who truly believe that
> > a few well-placed nukes can turn the trick. They conveniently ignore the
> > fact that the craft can pull Mach 12 on a slow day, turn on the width 
> > of a
> > positron and can't even be reliably tracked by conventional means.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Aubrey Leatherwood <
> > aubrey.leatherw...@...> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> That was along the lines of what I was going to say... Who had any
> >> faith that we could prevent an invasion in the first place?
> >>
> >> *Aubrey Leatherwood
> >> *www.aubreyleatherwood.com
> >> FaceBook  *
> >> MySpace 
> >> Model Lover
> >> Dime 
> >> *Imperfection* 
> >> A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex.
> >> *The People You Know, The Sex They 
> >> Have*
> >> ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008
> >> CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> >> From: martinbaxt...@...
> >> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:05 -0400
> >> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw
> >>
> >>
> >>  I did, Mr Worf, but I doubt that we're talking an invasion from
> >> beyond. If that were true, they could've mopped the floor with Humanity
> >> fifty years ago. IMO, they're observers from the future, UFOs being 
> >> time
> >> machines, flitting back and forth via artificial wormholes.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr. Worf wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James
> >> Fox who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal
> >> accounts of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former
> >> military, and airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to 
> >> the
> >> National Press Club in DC.
> >>
> >> By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real
> >> but we have no way to prevent an invasion.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> >> Mahogany at:
> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts
> >> with Hotmail. Get 
> >> busy.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>  --
>  Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>  Mahogany at:
>  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
> 
> 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Celebr

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