what's News in your part of the world?

[Annette]

by sharing our stories we will see if the media :readpaper: :watchTV: are telling the whole story?

or~

is there a HOLE in their story?



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Go to the Archives for Politics/Religion=Belief Systems}

http://www.forumforfree.com/meetingplace.html

they belong together since the news [these days*] is largly about war over politics and religion

*see the archives of Northfork's Abode for news direct from Israel.
His computer took a whiz & we anxiously await his arrival back on line.

[Frankybonz]

Even with one story, if you know how to read them, you can see all of the holes and missing information. For a lot of news stories in the paper, or on the web, the key in most cases is for a quick blurb just to get the information out. To get the whole story, I'm sure in some cases, you would have to wait for the novelized version to come out, but even there, you have to wonder where the author has their sources.

If you get too philosophical about it you tend to wonder how much of the news we read is even real, or just propaganda, or someone's paranoia. Everyone should be skeptical of what they read, hear or see, but you have to draw a line somewhere to define reality, probability, and the impossibility.

[Annette]

you mean like the movie wag the dog? :dogwags:

[Frankybonz]

yup. That's the idea.

[Annette]

when Israel was duking it out with Hizbola it was being told to us as a half truth.

nothing like hearing it from someone who is there.
Northfork posted photos he took of rockets hitting just outside his window.

[Frankybonz]

Flatulence Forces Plane to Land
By Associated Press

December 6, 2006, 7:46 AM EST
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said.

The Dallas-bound flight was diverted to Nashville after several passengers reported smelling burning sulfur from the matches, said Lynne Lowrance, spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority. All 99 passengers and five crew members were taken off and screened while the plane was searched and luggage was screened.

The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal a "body odor," Lowrance said. She had an unspecified medical condition, authorities said.

"It's humorous in a way but you feel sorry for the individual, as well," she said. "It's unusual that someone would go to those measures to cover it up."

The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane. The woman, who was not identified, was not charged in the incident.

[Frankybonz]

Why can't I edit my messages in here?

[Annette]

Why can't I edit my messages in here?

I see what is wrong, it is the code in your post above.
you have to make the sentence shorter, it is stretching the page soooo wide, if you scroll to the right >>> about a mile>>> you'll see the edit.

gotta re-do your post.

[Frankybonz]

ok, I was too drunk to tell last night.

[Annette]

I bet the gal was moking: something .. crack maybe?

when did airlines get so damn uptight? it was before 9/11!
I flew in August of 2001 and it was the pits!

I began packing my pipe before landing, hoping not to have to stand somewhere, trying to fill it without a lap to set the stuff down.
the bitch comes over and starts to threaten me!
I was no where near lighting it, just preparing for a well needed smoke.

We landed and as I exited the plane a few minutes later I was grabbed by 4 undercover 1 one uniformed cop!
they damn near strip searched me!

when I flew to Hawaii in 1970 the plane was air conditioned and we all smoked!

[northfork]

airplanes and airport suck so badly now.. when i escorted my gf to the airport, we went through hell:
first her passport is old so they suspected its not real so they questioned her about some of her trip as if to see if she "memorized" it.. so stupid
then when we went through security they suspected me being arab, and i didnt had my id (that has the word "arab" in it) , i had my driving licence so they needed to know if i am arab but its illegal for them to ask this racist question so instead they started asking me about where i live and my parents, but still it didnt reveal that i am arab, so in the end they asked if i did my military thing, i said no, they know i am arab so we had to go through more tied security check tormtrooper:

then somehow there was a problem with my gf tickit , they treeted us like shit , we had to wait 2 hours to solve the issue, and 7 ONLY !!!! mins to say goodbye!!!!!! WTF!! :chopheadoff:

:microwave:

i felt like i was been :clubbed:


airport are awful, and its all so that people would feel more safe to fly, it doesnt make flying safer ,, it just make people FEEL more safe

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck airports!!!!!!!
:grr:




now i feel a bit better

[Annette]

I have not flown since Aug. of 2001 but even then airlines sucked.
I wanted to bring my package on board and they wouldn't tell me how big the bin was!
The bitch said, "you have to wait till you board the plane to find that out."
:fu: 'cause then if it won't I have no more options!
I had to buy a plane ticket for it! not just a one way ticket [the gift was not coming back with me] they made me buy a round trip ticket anyway!
the damn airports can't be trusted to get my luggage onto the same plane I am on, too often, the luggage ends up in another place.
At the S.F. airport my friend drove me and he was helping me carry my crap to the plane but they wouldn't let him!
Even before 9/11 they refused to let him past the entrance of the terminal.

such small minds, they make many rules and solve nothing.
Flying used to be fun back in 1970, then you could smoke too!

[Frankybonz]

I had a pretty packed day today.

I slept for about 10 hours, woke up with an upset stomach, and since I hadn't really slept the 2 days prior, I still felt tired. I was supposed to meet with my friend Zach and his girlfriend at the museum, but I wasn't sure if I was up for it. I realized that most of last year I kept "going out" to a minimum to save up for an eventually doomed trip. I then decided that I NEEDED to go out as a means of getting used to doing it again.

I showered, hopped in my car and drove 40 minutes to the city and met with my friends. We were at The Guggenheim to see The Spanish Painters exhibit. I loved it! Through some of high school and most of college I studied art history, so I already knew a lot about the artists, and recognized a lot of the piece (albeit from prints in books and the like). Many of the pieces were on lend from various museums in Spain so I doubt I've seen any of them up close.

After, I followed my nose to a random restaurant off Madison Ave. It looked very nondescript and ordinary from the outside, but it was the first one we came across, and didn't want to stray too far away from where I parked. It turned out to be a really high class French restaurant. I ordered the King Salmon dish. It started with some dish that I can old describe as being much like liverwurst. I'm sure it wasn't far from it, but this was more spicy. It came with a side of some really hot mustard that went with it incredibly well. Cleared my sinuses nicely! The salmon arrived shortly after. It was fresh, moist and delicious. Par with the best I have ever had. The other two ordered the same meal (how fucking adorable) called Coq Au Vin, which was rooster believe it or not (or "the man chicken" as our very French waitress described it). From what I could see, it looked to be a lot of dark meat along with pasta and gravy. The look of it reminded me of beef stroganoff. They both said that their dinner was also really delicious.

Sadly the name of the place wasn't obvious to me when I walked in or left. All I remember reading was "Bar and Resaurant." It was on the corner of Madison Ave. in the middle 80's with a yellow and dark red awning.

After that Zach invited me to join his girlfriend and himself to a comedy club to see Jim Breuer. The club was set up to look like a rock concert was supposed to be there, along with festival seating (standing room only in other words). After walking all over that museum, my legs and feet were not happy. It didn't help that it was crowded and couldn't move away from this fat guy in front of me who smelled horridly like cheese, and laughed at every goddamn thing with a cackle... even the lamest of jokes. There were 2 other comics there to start off. The first sucked. Nothing to reminisce there. The second comic was really funny. Though his encouragement and confession of drunk driving were a bit much, considering that it was an all age show, and NYC has had it's fill of drunken hit-and-runs, as well as crashes in the news the past year. I found that a bit irresponsible.

Jim Breuer came one after having us wait an extra 15 minutes. He just wasn't funny. His timing was super slow, and most of the show was him pretending to be a heavy metal singer. It got old and boring, so we walked out on him. Our legs and feet were aching at that point anyway. The lamest part of it was that I remembered seeing his set of the exact same jokes and crap on comedy central... 7 years ago!

From there we went to Zach's apartment, had some brie and crackers and just talked, and took it easy. In closing, not a bad way to re-enter the world of being social.

[Annette]

so, that is life in New York City?

[Frankybonz]

so, that is life in New York City?

It's nothing that I can really express in words. There's a lot to like, and a lot to hate. It's all about how you experience it, like with almost any other city... almost.

[Annette]

seems like there is lots to do there than here.
In S.F. there are not that many places to go.
& where I live, they roll up the streets after 10 pm!

which is the "City that never sleeps" {is it N.Y.?

[Frankybonz]

According to the that song, yes. But a lot does close down by 9 or 10.

My favorite place which I mentioned in our food section stays open till 4am! I've had hankerings for their burgers at 2 in the morning. My best friend and I would drive into the city just for that (only a 20-30 minute drive from where we used to live. Now it would take me an hour).

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I think the company in NJ might hire me soon! My portfolio was reviewed this morning by the Creative Director. He's had sense to remember my name, even though he and I have never spoken really, except for the one time where I introduced myself to him. Maybe my name has been rolling around the place since I started. Who knows?

[Annette]

what ever happened to the old house of your parent's?
going to ask to rent it?