Are there subtle tweaks going on there?

The Unlikely Event

You have to think that, as artists, they knew what they were doing when they did the illustrations, so I wonder how much of the 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' was going on in the agency offices at the time, or if it was all done innocently, with no idea of how it may someday be interpreted. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

My suspicious mind always makes me wonder these things, even though I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Usually. Great article though.

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I'm trying to be charitable

Resolute jet crash survivor shares her story

This is a horrible tragedy, and a miracle that even this small number of people survived. The one young woman who survived is very well-spoken and articulate. I guess what I'm struggling with is the media again. Having to impose on someone who has just gone through a horrific event in order to get their 'story'. What kind of story can they have? I listened to it on CBC while I was driving to work yesterday. It happened so quickly and they were found so quickly that there wasn't much to tell, and none of the three survivors can shed and light on the cause of the crash or anything else. Just more 'catastrophe media' as I've started calling it. And CBC is getting to be as bad as any of them.

Keep all those affected by this crash in your prayers, though, if you will. Such a terrible, terrible tragedy...

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More and more frightening

Japan plant water radiation may be from core

"No evidence yet of containment vessel damage: spokesman"

But they don't know, they can only guess - and hope.

No one knows anything. No one knows for certain what will happen in a meltdown, if the core continues down, through the earth's crust. No one knows anything. All we know for certain in the West is that "it can't happen here" and so we go ahead with our nuclear projects blithely ignoring the tragedy unfolding before us, despite what seems to be a majority feeling against continuing. Because the little people are nothing before the power or politics and the dollar.

We deserve what we get. Too bad it can't just be the politicians and business people, but there you are.

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This is all over the CBC

This started with the release of some investigative results yesterday. I've been trying to find a stat that I heard on the radio to make sure I heard it correctly, but I've been unable to.

Canadian truckers violate U.S. safety rules: data

"Canada behind U.S. in embracing electronic monitoring of drivers' hours"

As I was driving to work myself I was unable to pay enough attention to the news article (I was watching the road and the traffic, as one is required to do.) Still, I heard something about, I believe it was 18 fatigue related accident fatalities in the past 5 years, and I'm trying to find the reference to see if I'm mistaken. Don't get me wrong, 18 is a lot, but when you consider that there are likely more deaths per week in normal traffic due to alcohol, texting, cell phone use, speeding, not paying attention, failing to yield, failing to stop, etc., etc., I think it's just a matter of someone manufacturing the latest news, and being 'investigative journalists', and a bit unfair to people who are trying to make a living in a difficult industry. I'm still trying to find the reference, hoping that I'm wrong in what I thought I heard.

From their own website stats, I'd be more concerned about hospital resident doctors working 30 hours without a break than truckers driving 13 hours. But that's just me.

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How sad...

Teenage Jehovah's Witness refuses blood transfusion and dies

"A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed by a car refused a blood transfusion before he died."

At 15 he just might be responsible for his own decisions, but the decisions of teenagers at that age are not always good decisions.

Have mercy on him, Lord, and take him to be with you in paradise...

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It's... uh... it's

in greatest likelihood not the same one...

'Lord Jesus Christ' struck by car in Northampton

The Bible doesn't mention car accidents, neither the New Testament nor the Old Testament...

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Perhaps

it was simply tired?


Cleveland pilot unhurt after mid-air collision with vulture during Super Bowl

It needed a ride, and not having thumbs, well, it did the best it could...

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Insanity!


Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards

Once this starts happening one can no longer say that the internet isn't harmful. If cell phones are responsible for accidents (and deaths) on the roads, and studies show that they are, then having a live internet connection on a dashboard is deadly. Many drivers are lazy and inattentive enough as it is. This will cause people to be like the woman who just missed hitting me (as a pedestrian) when she ran a light because she was reading a magazine while she was driving. I hope the automakers are sued out of existence over the accidents that will occur, and I pray for the innocents who will lose their lives because of the lack of attention paid by people to their driving...

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video game heroics

House burns in a freak accident when a car hit the natural gas line on the house. The family was warned in time because their young son and a friend were up late playing a video game - everyone else was asleep. I'm guessing if those kids had not been up - there would not have been any survivors.

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Not an example

of guns shooting people, but of stupid people shooting people...

Woman accidentally shot on toilet

How on earth did she ever get her concealed carry permit?

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Comfort

in a time of terror...

Three Minutes to Fort Totten

"A chaplain from Walter Reed. A doctor from Walter Reed. The owner of a new hair salon. An architect. On a Metro train, in one terrifying instant and its aftermath, their lives became forever intertwined. This is their story."

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A touching story

of someone who must have been a very good priest and a great person to know...

"He Needed Him Now"

It's our place to have a similar effect on people and lives. I know I don't live up to that...

A pretty good reason

not to shoot your gun in the air...


Italian killed by stray bullet in New Year celebrations

The following article discusses how to handle a firearm safely...

Have a 'gun safe' holiday

Guns don't kill people. Really, seriously stupid people kill people...

Oops!

You never know who is listening.

Man Swears to God He Didn't Owe Money, Struck by Lightning a Moment Later

(But it's still really just a coincidence...)

So

this is the excuse I use for my terrible personality...

The Story of Phineas Gage

This story is a classic.

Ouch!

Della Robbia sculpture crashes to floor in NY museum

That's not good...

Oh! Ouch! Ow!

Millions of Bees Loose on Calif. Highway

They won't be rounding them up like they do cattle. I wonder what environmental effect this will have? Someone should make a movie about this. They could call it The Bee Movie or something like that.