Estaba revisando el itinerario para mi viaje a México por Internet y me acordé de Sarah, una chava que ahora vive en San Francisco pero que antes de eso vivía con Kate. Sarah estaba pidiendo una pizza por Internet y por alguna razón el servidor de Dominos Pizza no estaba funcionando. Después de conectar y desconectar el router e intentar accesar a la página de Dominos Pizza de diversas maneras, se le ocurrió una solución para su problema.

Hablar por teléfono a la tienda.

Pareciera broma que el simple hecho de pedir una pizza, lo cuál era una actividad que se hacía primordialmente por teléfono, ya es una actividad que también hacemos por Internet sin pensarlo. Pedimos una pizza y vemos en la computadora que John tomó la orden a las 3:18, que Abishek puso la pizza en el horno a las 3:23pm y que Mike la subió a su carro a las 3:34pm.

Cuando tenía 15 años, nunca me imaginé que iba a depender tanto de la tecnología. Me pongo a pensar y al día de hoy uso el Internet para hacer reservaciones en un restaurante, comprar comida, pagar mi recibo de luz, mi celular, comprar flores y pagar multas. ¿Tendrá razón mi mamá cuando dice que dependo mucho del Internet?

Alguien escribió en una ocasión…

“Once a technical innovation has been introduced, people usually become dependent on it, unless it is replaced by some still more advanced innovation. Not only do people become dependent as individuals on a new item of technology, but, even more, the system as a whole becomes dependent on it”.

Esta persona no terminó ahí, ya que también pronosticó el momento en el que las maquinas dominarían al ser humano.

“If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all the power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decision for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better result than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide”.

¿Suena lógico? ¿Se parece a la realidad? En caso afirmativo hay que pensarlo dos veces ya que estas palabras provienen del famoso Unabomber; un terrorista de Estados Unidos que entre 1978 y 1995 mandó 16 bombas a universidades y aeropuertos. El Unabomber (Theodore Kaczynski) al parecer era un matemático de Harvard (con doctorado de la Universidad de Michigan) que publicó un manifiesto que contiene todas estas ideas. Si les interesa ver el manifiesto completo, pueden hacer click aquí. Si quieren ver la historia del caso pueden hacer click aquí.

Just when you thought you had seen it all, author and journalist Chuck Klosterman appears on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and starts praising Ted Kaczynski, the man also known as the Unabomber.

Kaczynski is a radical leftist and domestic terrorist. From 1978 to 1995, he sent 16 letter bombs to targets such as universities and newspapers, killing three people and injuring 23. After he was arrested, he said that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to ‘the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.’

In short, he is not exactly a man deserving of any sort of praise whatsoever.

Although most readers possessing some degree of common sense would undoubtedly agree with the above, much respected author and member of the intellectual elite Chuck Klosterman doesn’t. When asked by “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough about whether or not he wrote in his latest book “Eat the Dinosaur” that “the Unabomber was right,” the best selling author answers in the affirmative. “About some things,” he was indeed right, Klosterman said.

“I think that what happened with Ted Kaczynski, is because he did these terrible things,” Klosterman said, “and, I mean, no one is trying to excuse any of the acts he did, or somehow come out as if I’m a fan of the Unabomber – but because he did these extreme things, it was actually contend within his manifesto that he was, I think, that he had pretty prescient ideas about technology that there are certain elements about the Internet that he seems to intuitively understand…

“But because he did these insane things – and is essentially a murderer -  people have totally erased sort of the values…” at which moment Scarborough interrupts his guest, because he sees where this is going and he doesn’t want one of his favorite authors to commit PR-suicide on his show. The subject is changed, but not before Klosterman says he was fascinated by Kaczynsk and that he studied the terrorist’s manifesto hoping to find “something valuable” in it.

Notice how he called him “essentially a murderer:” essentially used in this context implies that the speaker isn’t really comfortable using this word to describe someone. You have to ask yourself why not? Kaczynski is a murderer. There’s nothing “sort of” or “essentially” about it. And basically telling people they should study the Unabomber’s “manifesto” because he expresses some pretty “prescient ideas” in them, is an insult to all of his victims. You know, the ones who had their hands and/or heads blown off because of his letter bombs.

I know, I shouldn’t be surprised by the lack of common sense and sheer decency among our intellectual betters anymore. For some reason, however, I can’t quite get used to it. There’s this little voice in my head that says “they will learn from their mistakes once, right?” Perhaps the voice of understanding is wrong; perhaps they’ll never learn.

Wonder what you would find if you frisked Levi Johnston (or Ricky Hollywood)?

Answer: He could possibly be the unabomber.

HAHA. Just kidding! We will let the University of Michigan take the credit for the real unabomber (Ted Kaczynski). GO STATE!

Props to TMZ on this one.

2009 Daisy Rookie of the Year contender Pete Farley tames the bull, Bones, for 93.25 points; Mauney moves to second in 2009 BFTS World Standings.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (October 31, 2009) – The Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) took over Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack Center for the second round of the 2009 PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals.  PBR is looking to crown its 16th World Champion who will take home a $1 million bonus and the coveted gold belt buckle.  At the end of Saturday’s performance, 2008 PBR Australia National Champion Pete Farley (Kempsey, AUS) took the round two victory after riding the 2008 PBR World Champion Bull, Bones, owned by Teague Bucking Bulls, LLC, for a whopping 93.25 points.  This was the first time that the top bull was ridden in actual competition.  The young Australian added a check for $25,000 to his bank account and the first World Finals round victory in his career.

“He’s (Bones) a bull where you know you have no room for error at all.  He’s hard to ride and that’s why no one wanted to pick him,” Farley stated.  “It didn’t make me want to prove anything except to myself that I could ride the best bull in the world.  It gives me a lot of confidence especially with the draft because I can pick what I want to pick for tomorrow.”

Splitting second and third place was North Carolina superstar J.B. Mauney (Mooresville, N.C.) and Ryan McConnel (Colgate, Okla.) who both scored 91.25 points.  Mauney rode 2009 World Champion Bull contender, Troubadour of Julio Moreno Bucking Bulls, while McConnel took on the bull, Unabomber (Eno/Kubinchak Bucking Bulls).  Fourth place went to top Brazilian rider Valdiron de Oliveira (Aparecida de Goiania, GO, Brazil) who scored 90.5 points on Boyd/Floyd Bull Company’s bull, Spitfire.  Rounding out fifth place was Shane Proctor (Mooresville, N.C.) who rode the bull, King of Hearts, owned by Corey & Horst Rodeo Co. Inc.

The PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals rounds out the first weekend of competition on Sunday, November 1 at the Thomas & Mack Center for round three of the world-class event.  The top 40 bull riders along with four international bull riders are taking on the world’s best bulls as they compete for the ultimate title in the sport of bull riding—the 2009 World Championship!

The PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals airs LIVE on VERSUS on Oct. 30-Nov. 1 and Nov. 5-7 and LIVE on NBC on Nov. 9.  Additionally, CBS will broadcast the last 15 rides of round three on Sunday, Nov. 1 (check local listings for all times).  Visit www.pbrnow.com to view the current broadcast schedule and consult local listings to verify all show times.

INJURY REPORT:
Skeeter Kingsolver (Mclouth, Kan.) has a right groin strain, but will compete tomorrow.

BEHIND THE CHUTES
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Ride with the Best Bonus
As the winner of round one at the 2009 PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals in Las Vegas, Nev., J.B. Mauney (Mooresville, N.C.) was eligible to compete for the $5,000 Enterprise Rent-A-Car “Ride with the Best” bonus during round two.  Mauney conquered the bull, Troubadour, owned by Julio Moreno Bucking Bulls; therefore, he collected the $5,000 bonus.  As the round two winner, Pete Farley (Kempsey, AUS) will compete for the bonus in Sunday’s round three action.

PBR BUILT FORD TOUGH WORLD FINALS
ROUND TWO: 1) Pete Farley (Kempsey, AUS) 93.25 points on Bones (Teague Bucking Bulls, LLC), $25,000; 2/3) J.B. Mauney (Mooresville, N.C.) 91.25 points on Troubadour (Julio Moreno Bucking Bulls), $15,000; 2/3) Ryan McConnel (Colgate, Okla.) 91.25 points on Unabomber (Eno/Kubinchak Bucking Bulls), $15,000; 4) Valdiron de Oliveria (Aparecida de Goiania, GO, Brazil) 90.5 points on Spit Fire (Boyd/Floyd Bull Company), $10,000; 5) Shane Proctor (Mooresville, N.C.) 88.75 points on King of Hearts (Corey & Horst Rodeo Co. Inc), $5,000.

BUILT FORD TOUGH SERIES POINT STANDINGS (after Round Two): 1) Kody Lostroh (Longmont, Colo.) 12,188.25 points; 2) J.B. Mauney (Mooresville, N.C.) 12,062 points; 3) Guilherme Marchi (Leme, SP, Brazil) 11,646.25 points, $258,528; 4) Valdiron de Oliveira (Aparacida de Goiania, GO, Brazil) 8,447 points; 5) Ryan McConnel (Colgate, Okla.) 8,437.75 points; 6) Zack Brown (Santa Fe, Texas) 8,383.25 points; 7) Robson Palermo (Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil) 7,894 points; Renato Nunes (Buritama, SP, Brazil) 7,412.5 points; 9) Wiley Petersen (Fort Hall, Idaho) 7,254.25 points; 10) Sean Willingham (Summerville, Ga.) 6,890.5 points.

All roads have led to Las Vegas and the top 40 bull riders have invaded Sin City.  Don’t miss out on any of the action at the 2009 Built Ford Tough World Finals in Las Vegas, Nev.  The world-class event is taking place on Oct. 30-Nov 1 and Nov. 5-8 at the Thomas & Mack Center—get your tickets NOW at 866.PBR.SHOW or unlvtickets.com!

Log on to www.pbr.tv, the official online network of the Professional Bull Riders. Get a total re-cap of the weekend’s event with the newly launched 20 minute highlight show “pbr.tv Extra” , browse video clips of the best rides and wrecks from each event, listen to behind the scenes interviews, watch the latest PBR news on the “pbr.tv Show”, plus much more. Pbr.tv is your one source for PBR video online!

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About the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR):
PBR attracts over 1.7 million live attendees each year with its multi-tiered event structure which includes the prestigious Built Ford Tough Series, the Copenhagen Bull Riding Challenger Tour, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, and the Discovery Tour, designed specifically for entry level contestants.  With over 450 hours of prime time programming annually and a viewership of 100 million, PBR ranks among the most prolific sports on air and broadcasts on FOX, NBC, VERSUS, and on a host of foreign networks across the globe.  The PBR is headquartered in Pueblo, Colo., with additional offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico, and prides itself in its 1,000 plus stock contractor relationships and over 1,200 PBR bull riders competing in more than 300 PBR sanctioned competitions across the five countries.

For more on the PBR, please visit www.pbrnow.com, www.teampbr.com, www.pbr.tv, www.myspace.com/teampbr, twitter.com/teampbr, www.facebook.com/TeamPBR, or www.pbrnow.com/worldfinals/.

Check out J Cole’s new track Unabomber. This boy cannot be stopped. Unless, of course, Jay Z gets him to sing more corny ass hooks. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

Download Unabomber mp3.

i will graciously catch the hugest late pass on j cole. songs like this are reasons why i’m kicking myself for not getting into his music sooner. after the jump, watch part III of the ‘a star is born’ documentary i’ve been posting about.

download:

j cole – unabomber

-grizzly

New J. Cole? Couldn’t of come any sooner! Guess with all these other recent releases && freestyle tracks, he had to put out a little something to make sure the fans are still hungry, whoever of you still weren’t.

J. Cole – Unabomber

Another solid joint from North Carolina native, J.Cole who’s been delivering banger after banger as of late. This is a reason why he’s signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label

DOWNLOAD: J. Cole – Unabomber

While we are on the topic of Roc Nation artists, here is a new track from J. Cole. After being featured on Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3, J. Cole will be moving on to his other labelmate Wale’s album as well. Check for Cole’s album next year.

[Download]

One of my favorite rappers, J. Cole has just released a new track through Twitter. If you havent gotten into the dude’s wave it is now time.  Go get The Warm Up if you have not copped that yet.

Unabomber – J. Cole
http://usershare.net/auahhsaackho

The Warm Up [Mixtape] – J. Cole
http://www.mediafire.com/?n1wlkgtmmmn

J. Cole – Unabomber

Lui, c’est le protégé de Jay-Z. Moi, je ne le trouve pas encore prêt pour le lime light. Vous, vous pourrez le voir le 30 octobre au centre bell avec son mentor.

After just starting to listen to J. Cole I found another great tune from him. Cheggitout.

Download J. Cole – Unabomber

Ray Cavanaugh’s Dear Mr. Unabomber contains a series of letters and accompanying drawings addressed to the incarcerated Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. This epistolary novel is the work of an underachieving college student, disillusioned by the plethora of now ubiquitous social networking sites. His attraction to “Dear Ted” as he begins each letter stems from an appreciation of Kaczynksi’s ideas supporting deindustrialization. Yet the writer’s letters reveal more than blind hero worship as he occasionally critiques and even explicitly differentiates himself from the felon.

Writing letters to a famous anarchist focuses the protagonist’s interests and permits him to be, at times, painfully honest. While he passes judgment on fellow college students’ use of sites like Facebook and MySpace, he details his personal excursions stemming from match.com dates and vigilante emails. Additionally, he recounts blog conversations with more interest than Instant Messenger chats with his best friend. He’s adept at spotlighting superficial interactions, like his hilarious portrayal of an imaginary chat between the Unabomber and Paris Hilton, but he fails to similarly analyze his own shallow relationships (failed match.com romances) or note his shortcomings in face-to-face interactions (arguably the worst job interview ever).

This book is a smart look at the dangers of a society reliant on technology to interact with others, especially the individuals unable to engage in the real world. After reading this book, one seriously questions who is the person behind the profile, has technology begun replacing real life interactions, and what happens to fan mail? Recommended for psych majors or anyone interested in the darker side of human nature.

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In 1947, Ewell Lee Danielly, a Black man, was convicted of the first degree murder and sentenced to die for shooting his wife, Betty Danielly, to death, and a deadly assault upon his wife’s friend, Mrs. Elva Sam. This case has the earmarks of an early Black Manchurian Candidate experiment.

According to research, most Black Manchurian Candidates are individuals with created dissociative identity disorders that fall within the following five criteria:

1. Dissociate identity disorder created deliberately. Candidate usual has had contact with OSS, CIA, BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MK-ULTRA controllers or institutions or Military intelligence controllers or institutions, and prisons. Candidate’s contact may have been created through bloodlines, military recruitment, enlistment, imprisonment, or civilian employee of military institutions.

2. A new identity is implanted which includes multiple personalities. Candidate has sudden appearance of an unknown operative personality, or new behavior involving senseless and uncharacteristic violence.

3. Amnesia barriers are created. Candidate has had memory loss proximate, and during a specific operation.

4. Used in simulated or actual operations. Candidate carried out an operative or assassination, and killing(s) may have occurred during or close to national or state elections, or involved political, religious groups or figures.

5. Disposal after operation.  Candidate has had judge, or severely compromised jury trial, or guilty pleaded, declared insane or found suitable for commitment to mental institution, confined to solitary confinement in state or federal prison with restricted visitation with little or no access to inmate populations.

The Black Manchurian Candidate Criteria was expanded from the groundbreaking work of Colin A. Ross, M.D. in the operational use of multiple personality disorders by U.S. military and intelligence agencies.  [1]

The Danielly Case facts fall within all five criteria as a Black Manchurian Candidate. The shooting incident occurred October 13, 1946 at about 12:30 a.m. in San Francisco, CA. What made this case a suspect early Black Manchurian Candidate case as in the Strange Case of Sebron Flenaugh, Jr., is that Danielly claimed that he did not remember the events proximate, and during the shootings. Danielly had direct links to covert military intelligence controllers, and mind control sites.

Danielly said that he remembered working at Letterman Hospital on October 12 and going home and to bed, but could not remember what happened for approximately seven to eight hours after retiring.           

Danielly and his wife had been separated for less than a year. Five days before the shooting, they had told mutual friends that they had made up with each other and were going back to live with each other as man and wife. The state’s theory of the case was that Danielly had a motive to kill his wife. He was bitter about the separation, and the alienation of his wife’s affection. The state presented evidence that he was violence prone in the relationship, and had before the incident threatened to use deadly force against her. The state also suggested that Danielly was bitter about his wife’s wealth. She owned couple’s home at 2208 Pine Street, and was a woman of some acquired wealth.

On October 13, the state maintained that Danielly carried out his threat to kill his wife in a jealous and bitter rage. Who would believe Danielly’s claim of innocence and lack of memory? Even his attorney didn’t believe him. The jury didn’t believe him. The judge wouldn’t allow him to present evidence of his amnesia. Amnesia was a complete defense to murder in the first degree, because an essential element of murder in the first degree was deliberation and premeditation. Theoretically, a man suffering amnesia cannot deliberate and premeditate, but there were problems presenting the defense of amnesia in Danielle’s case. For all apparent reasons, Danielly appeared to be a healthy young Black man suffering under no visible signs of distress.

The state of art in 1946 was that the loss of memory was the result of an organic disease of the brain, and there was no disease in Danielly’s brain.

Danielly was in quite of a dilemma in proving his innocence by reason of amnesia in 1946. A court appointed psychologist presented Danielly’s dilemma to the jury, “We do have people who commit crimes of violence while undergoing a spell of amnesia but they are also practically 99.9 percent epileptics. We seldom have crimes of violence committed by amnesia patients excepting epileptics…I think any analysis of his life shows nothing that would indicate insanity. And then we have that period between 8 o’clock in the evening until 2 o’clock next morning, in which we are to judge of his sanity or insanity. And we know that people do not become insane, as a medical condition at 8 o’clock and recover permanently at 2 o’clock. They may be temporarily deranged as a result of rage or jealously but they are not insane in the medical-legal sense, or in the medical sense.” [2] 

Military intelligence covert use of experimental hypnosis, and post-hypnotic suggestions in brainwashing or deliberate creation of multiple personalities were completely off the public map in 1946. The military use of brainwashing was popularized only during the early 1960’s with the release of the movie, The Manchurian Candidate.                 

On October 12, 1946, shortly before 6 p.m., Danielly returned from working at Letterman Hospital, where he worked as a dietetic cook. He said that he telephoned Mrs. Danielly and they had a friendly conversation as usual. He said that he took a bath and soon after 6 p.m. went to bed, read a magazine and went to sleep.  He said that he remained there until the early morning of October 13, when police awoke him and accused him of killing his wife and the wounding of Mrs. Sam. Danielly also claimed that he didn’t even own a gun.          

There were two men that witnessed the killing of Mrs. Danielly and assault of Mrs. Sam, Jack Earl and Sidney Harmon. They said that about 12:30 a.m., they were leaving the home of Mrs. Danielly at 2208 Pine Street to go to a restaurant. They observed Danielly cross the street from his parked car with a gun in his hand. Mrs. Danielly got into Earl’s car, which was parked in the front of the home. Danielly pointed the gun at Earl and shoved him and said, “You fellows have gone far enough.” Danielly then walked over to Harmon and asked him what he was going to do about it. Earl and Harmon then ran off to summon help.          

Danielly reportedly approached Mrs. Danielly sitting in the car, and told her “I told you I was going to do this.” He then shot her through the head. After that, a witness heard him say, “God damn woman.” Danielly then approached Mrs. Sam standing in front of the car and said, “That goes for you too.” He shot her once and she fell to the sidewalk. He fired two more shots at her. After he shot both women, he calmly walked over a hill on Webster Street and disappeared.               

At about 8 p.m. on the night of October 12, an acquaintance of Danielly testified at trial that he saw Danielly at the Bee Hill’s Tavern. He said that he asked Danny if he was going to play poker, “And I don’t think – he must of didn’t hear me, or something, because he never give me any kind of answer. So I asked him again. And he said, ‘No, no,’ he said, ‘I am not playing tonight’; he said he had some business to attend to. So then I turned to the bar to get me a beer, and I turned around and Danny was gone… [H] e act stranger then he acted before me, because Danny was generally a fellow if you would ask a question, the would answer it. But I asked him about playing poker, and he looked at me, but he never answered me. And I asked him the second time, and he just I don’t know, he talked like he might have been worried or something…[H] e wasn’t drunk…[H] e acted more or less like he might be in daze, or something, from the way he answered my question.”       

At Letterman Hospital, Danielly had been seen as a patient for about two years for nervous disability by Dr. Maurice B. Mooslin, a physician and surgeon in general practice. Dr. Mooslin was born sometime in 1878. He had been appointed to the U.S. Medical Corp in 1919. He maintained an office on Fillmore Street for decades. Danielly had been also under some type of suspect observation by two sergeants at Letterman, Le Velle and Yohe.

Danielly enlisted in the United States Navy in 1934 at the age of 18. He served in the navy for 11 years and 3 months. He obtained the rank of chief cook. He was wounded in action on August 18, 1944 by the explosion of an enemy anti-personnel bomb. After preliminary hospitalization in Italy for approximately 30 days he returned to the United States. He spent about 30 days in a naval hospital on Long Island, was granted a 30-day leave furlough transfer in order that he could see his wife in San Francisco, and at the end of his furlough he reported to the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.

Danielly said, “I was in Oak Knoll approximately thirty days…I was having headaches and dizzy spells… I was discharged from the hospital as being physically fit, and I was sent to Treasure Island.” Danielly was awarded 60 percent disability rating and discharged on September 7, 1945.

Danielly naval medical records from U.S. Naval Hospital, San Leandro, CA dated July 24, 1945 diagnosed him as suffering from psychoneurosis neurasthenia. At the time, Danielly was 29 years old. He was wounded by bomb fragments in the invasion of Southern France, sustaining fracture of right ulna and multiple wounds in the right side of back, and chest, and left arm.         

On March 19, 1944, he was readmitted to U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA with a diagnosis of no disease, convalescent leave, and disposition. He had been complaining of nervousness, tremors, sweating, irritability, pain and weakness in the right forearm and hand. When was Danielly wounded in combat? The court record reflected that he was wounded August 18, 1944. Could it have been in August 18, 1943?         

A neuropsychiatric consultant found that he had ‘combat fatigue’ and he was sent back to duty on December 15, 1944. Danielly was then admitted to the U.S. Naval Dispensary, Hunters Point, San Francisco on April 23, 1945 for episodic (out of character) nervousness, cramps and diarrhea due to combat fatigue, he was then transferred to the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA.

On May 26, 1945, Danielly was seen again by naval doctors for tension, irritability, insomnia, easy startled, battle dreams, anxious expectation, headache, backache, pain in chest anorexia and nausea. Neurological examination revealed gross tremors of head and hands, sweating, tachycardia, dilated pupils. On admission, Danielly was tense, anxious, hyperactive, irritable and nervous. There was also mild autonomic instability.        

On June 15, 1945, Dr. Mooslin testified that he met Danielly as a patient for the first time, but that meeting seemed not to have been recorded in Danielly’s military medical records or records of that meeting was intentionally deleted.           

All along, Danielly was under some type of treatment and medication. Dr. Mooslin was not allowed to tell the court just what medication that he was taking, or describe his treatment.         

On July 21, 1945, Danielly was diagnosed to be suffering from ‘psychoneurosis neurasthenia’. Psychoneurosis is interchangeable with neurosis. Neurosis at one time referred to any somatic disorder of the nerves. It is generally considered to be a disease of the nervous system, whereas neurasthenia means weakness or exhaustion of the nervous system. 

The board found that Danielly’s continued neurotic symptoms made him unfit for further service. Danielly was discharged from U.S. Naval Service with the uncompromising notation that “he is not likely to be a menace to himself or to others…”[3] 

In other words, the assassination and assault committed by Danielly on October 13 was a sudden appearance of an unknown operative personality, or new behavior involving senseless and uncharacteristic violence.          

For about two years, Danielly had been under some type of treatment by naval psychiatrists. He had been treated at Oak Knoll Hospital which had a ward where enlisted men were subjected to electro-shock treatment. He was treated and then hired at Letterman Hospital, a hospital where former Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents were stationed. The OSS was a U.S. covert counterintelligence agency organized by want-a-be blueblood New York Wall Street attorney, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, and British intelligence during World War II.           

From as early as 1940, Donovan had been in contact with psychiatrist Dr. George Holben Estabrooks of Colgate College. Dr. Estabrooks had been in contact with U.S. Military Intelligence and British intelligence since the 1920’s. Dr. Estabrooks expertise was creating multiple personality disorders through hypnotism for military intelligence operational use. Dr. Estabrooks is the only psychiatrist or psychologist to have claimed in public that he built Manchurian Candidates.[4] 

Donovan’s technical staff in charge of assessing brainwashing programs was among other bluebloods, Psychiatrists Dr. James Alexander Hamilton of Stanford, and Dr. Henry A. Murray of Harvard University. One of Dr. Murray’s infamous experimental victims was the “Unabomber”, Theodore Kaczynski. [5]           

In 1946, Dr. Hamilton, a notorious clandestine counterintelligence agent, was stationed at Letterman Hospital with Danielly. From 1943 to 1944, he was chief of the OSS assessment services. Dr. Hamilton had an S factor (Stanford University) connection. Dr. Hamilton was a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, and Stanford’s school of medicine. He was also a professor of psychiatry at both the UC Berkeley, and Stanford University. Dr. Hamilton and Murray were close associates of Margaret Mead and Dr. Gregory Bateston, and Ruth Benedict.

In December 1943, Murray joined the staff of the OSS Assessment under Dr. Hamilton at Station S, located on a remote estate outside of Washington D.C. Murray designed and operated an experimental program aided at evaluating the psychological fitness of OSS recruits for clandestine operations. [6]           

Dr. Hamilton was best known as the CIA station agent at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville during SLA operations, and the Patty Hearst kidnapping. Dr. Hamilton maintained a covert CIA laboratory at Vacaville to test drugs, stress and trauma based mind control techniques on inmates.

At Vacaville, Dr. Hamilton worked with Black men like psychiatrist Dr. Isaac Slaughter, and CIA contractor Colston Westbrook to produce inmate zombie assassins and political “patsies” out of Black inmates. Their most infamous creation was virtual reality Black revolutionary, Donald Defreeze, of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Dr. Hamilton’s cover was exposed by Congressman Leo Ryan in October of 1978, which may have led among other things to his assassination on November 18, 1978 in Guyana.  

Dr. Hamilton told the Advisory Committee Staff of the Members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments that the CIA provided him funds to set up and operate a laboratory, whereby he would do his own research but also do research for the CIA at their request. Dr. Hamilton stated that he therefore set up a lab in the Vacaville California Prison Medical Facility and did radioisotope studies to measure thyroid uptake in male prisoners as part of his own research in understanding the effects of the thyroid on post-partum depression. He said that the lab was shut down after it became public. He told staff that he provided the agency information on the effects of LSD and other drugs based on his clinical experience as a psychiatrist. Dr. Hamilton also stated that he did experiments concerning covert markers using fluorescents.[7]

Dr. Hamilton’s revelations were based on a CIA memo dated May 29, 1963 which described his work on Subproject 140, which principally involved human testing of drugs, “pharmacological and clinical investigations of Agency interest will be conducted; these investigations will encompass clinical testing and feasibility testing of drugs affecting human behavior.”  The memo also stated that Dr. Hamilton would “[m] aintain an investigational cover activity for backstopping and use in conducting clinical evaluation and feasibility trials of interest to TSD [the CIA’s Technical Service Division].” [8]

Dr. Hamilton modus operatum since his early years with the OSS was to carry on covert and secret drug and mind control projects for military and intelligence sources under cover of his profession in psychiatry.  The radioisotope studies were cover for covert and secret testing of various hallucinogenic and experimental behavior modifying drugs on Black inmates, which was of interest to the CIA.             

Dr. Hamilton’s OSS Assessment Service was responsible for the assessment, recruitment and employment of agents, that department was also responsible for monitoring its drug and brainwashing experiments and programs. Dr. Hamilton was reportedly directly involved in truth drug experiments along with OSS researchers Dr. Roger Adams, Dr. Lawrence Kubie. The tests were conducted at Station S, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and Spring Grove Hospital, a state institution outside of Baltimore.

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital was the site of PROJECT CHATTER. PROJECT CHATTER remains highly classified. The test also involved OSS agent Col. George Hunter White, on loan from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. [9]          

During World War II, White recruited and trained assassins for the OSS. White once told a reporter, “Some of my best friends are murderers.”[10] Col. White was recruited for Project Artichoke by CIA counterintelligence agent chief James Jesus Angleton, White established a domestic Artichoke team that operated out of a CIA-funded safe house located in New York’s Greenwich Village. White’s operation was funded by MK-ULTRA Subproject 3.         

In San Francisco, Dr. Hamilton worked along with assassination expert, George White, in carrying out covert operations on unwitting subjects. White set up safe houses in San Francisco with the particular purpose of drugging and testing CIA stockpiles of experimental drugs on unwitting victims under other CIA’s MK-ULTRA Projects. 

Dr. Hamilton supervised White’s covert drug testing activities. Dr. Hamilton supplied White with the drugs, and observed some of tests and experiments from secret observing stations built into the safe houses.           

In 1949, White was also famous for setting up the drug arrest and conviction of the infamous singer and songwriter Billie Holliday in San Francisco. [11] During that time, White was also working with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. White had known Holiday’s agent, Levy, since 1941. Levy had been an informer working with White.

White kicked in Holiday’s hotel door, and rushed her before she flushed some opium down the toilet. White testified that he didn’t smell any narcotics before breaking in the room, which suggests that Holiday was set up.[12] 

After her arrest, Billie Holiday checked into a California sanitarium to prove that she had been set up and had not been using drugs. The sanitarium had been recommended by a friend of a friend that turned out to be Dr. Hamilton.           

Dr. Hamilton was also involved in what I will call the “The Tinian Project.” After U.S. military forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, U.S. military squads were sent in on rescue missions. The rescue squads suffered severe emotional and traumatic experiences from what they saw and witnessed on the island after the bombing. They suffered from repeated nightmares about seeing people with skin burnt so bad it appeared to be melting away no matter what they tried to do for the victims.        

Dr. Hamilton and a team of OSS agents, researchers and scientists were sent in to collect data, and threat the soldiers. They also had the responsibility to defuse possible adverse public reactions that may have resulted from the gruesome deaths and human misery caused by the atomic bombs. The soldiers could not be allowed to return home to the states and tell the world the truth about what happened on the island. Dr. Hamilton and the team treated them with psychotropic drugs and hypnosis to alter the soldier’s interpretation of what actually occurred on Japan. 

After the war, Dr. Hamilton and researchers used the data complied from studying, and treating soldiers during the Tinian Project to develop safer and more effective means to induce operational memory voids, and amnesia. 

One of the soldiers studied, treated and drugged by Dr. Hamilton and the Tinian Project team warned the world about what Dr. Hamilton and team developed, “It’s scary…They can change a person’s behavior… Their present intentions may include creating a breed of living robot soldiers that will go into battle without any fear of personal sacrifice. Somehow, they must be stopped. Would you like your son to think he is invincible and go on a suicide mission, if that’s what his orders say?… With anchoring they can separate a person’s self-identity so that a second personality, one that has little or no knowledge of the other can’t take over the person’s routine functions.” [13]            

Was Danielly one of Dr. Hamilton’s countless innocent Black victims of U.S. government covert brainwashing and experimental drug testing, and mind control programs? 

The technology to create “memory voids”, and amnesia barriers was well developed by the U.S. government in 1946. Dr. Hamilton was an expert not only in researching, studying and testing LSD, and other hallucinogenic and behavior modifying drugs. Dr. Hamilton was also in the business of creating and perfecting memory voids, and techniques to make virtual remote controlled soldiers.

Was Danielly a 1940’s prototype of a virtual remote controlled soldier, and experimental programmed assassin created by U.S. intelligence forces? Why did Danielly spend the balance of his life in San Diego? Was he a military study subject of the neuropsychiatry laboratory at the Naval Medical Center, or was he kept under military protected custody for the rest of his life?

In 1947, Danielly had been sentenced to die in the electric chair at San Quentin for the death of his wife. Three days before his execution in 1949, then California Governor Earl Warren commuted his death sentence to a life imprisonment. Danielly was subsequently released from prison. He died in San Diego in 1966.   

The 1954 C.I.A. documents proved beyond doubt that the government had been in the business of developing involuntary assassins.[14] Dr. Hamilton’s revelations and CIA documents released to the Members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments revealed that wherever he was practicing psychiatry at hospitals, prisons or clinics, they were subjected to covert experimental drug testing and mind control experiments forced on unwitting patients and inmates like Danielly.                 

The monster makers knew all along that once an involuntary assassin committed an act of assassination or crime at their command under hypnotic suggestion, he or she would be disposed of by the state with little if any risk of exposure, “After the act of attempted assassination was performed, it was assumed that the subject would be taken into custody by the (deleted) government and thereby ‘disposed of.’” The C.I.A memorandum said.        

Upon sentencing in 1947, Danielly was committed to San Quentin’s Death Row, which was indeed solitary confinement. The majority of the psychiatric staff at San Quentin was associated with Stanford Medical School. Dr. Hamilton graduated from Stanford Medical School, and was an instructor there. As a former blueblood OSS agent, and then a CIA station chief, Dr. Hamilton obviously wielded a great deal of power and influence over the school, students, and its S-Factor graduates.

During this time, San Quentin had an experimental hospital, Neumiller Hospital. Dr. David G. Schmidt, a white Russian, staffed the hospital. Dr. Schmidt was another  S-Factor graduate. Dr. Schmidt allegedly invented a mind control machine called, Magnetic Integrated Neuron Duplicator (MIND). There is some evidence that this MIND machine was used on General Edwin Walker. General Walker was the neo-nazi and John Bircher that Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly took a shot at.      

The 1954 C.I.A assassination documents dealt with the attempted assassination of a prominent foreign politician or if necessary against an “American official”. There was a team of interrogation experts, drug experts and psychiatrists or psychologists fully operational in creating involuntary (Manchurian Candidates) assassins under a C.I.A. project called ARTICHOKE.

The ARTICHOKE team was not only operationally successful in creating involuntary assassins, but they were able to program assassins to carry out assassinations in the future upon command by triggers and keys, “…it was proposed that the individual could be surreptitiously drugged through the medium of an alcoholic cocktail at a social party. Artichoke applied, and the subject induced to perform the act of attempting assassination at some later date.” [15]     

In January 1954, a memorandum reported that the ARTICHOKE team was fully operational, and a specific involuntary assassin project was reported to have gone “… extremely well”. [16] Dr. Hamilton was undoubtedly an indispensable member of the CIA’s ARTICHOKE team.         

Dr. Hamilton was also well familiar with post-hypnotic memory voids, and amnesia. He studied and perfected the techniques during the Tinian Project. Post-hypnotic amnesia refers to a loss of memory for events transpiring during the hypnotic stage.

If Danielly killed his wife during a hypnotic stage, he was not responsible for murder. If Danielly was drugged and hypnotized and killed his wife under hypnotic suggestion of another, then the hypnotist should answer for the senseless murder of Mrs. Betty Danielly, and the unmerciful and inhumane (mind control) torture of Ewell Lee Danielly.   

[2] People v. Danielly (Jan. 1949) 33 C2d 362; 202 P2d 18

[3] Supra, note 1

[4] Ross, Colin A., BLUEBIRD: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personalities by Psychiatrists, Manitou Communications, Inc. 1701 Gateway, Suite 349, Richardson, TX, 2000, page 178

[5] Chase, Alston, Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber, The Atlantic Monthly, June 2000

[6] Albarelli, H.P. Jr., Part Two: The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson, Crime Magazine, May 19, 2003; http://crimemagazine.com/olson2.htm

[7] http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet11/brief11/tab_i/br11i3…

[8] Supra, note 3

[9] Supra, note 6

[10] Supra, note 6

[11] SF Chronicle, State Rests Case Against Billie Holiday, 6/3/49

[12] Supra, note 3

[13] Virginia Kane’s The Secret Service, http://www.storysite.org/story/secretservice~05.html

[14] N.Y. Times, C.I.A. Documents Tell of 1954 Project to Create Involuntary Assassins, February 9, 1978

[15] Supra, note 2

[16] Supra, note 2

Respect to those lost 8 years ago.

I came in to class this past week and sat in my usual spot next to a friend who shares my distaste for this particular course. After making a little small talk, the professor proceeded to start the course. We’ve been in classes for several weeks now but the thought just hit me that my professor has a serious case of the turkey neck. Like this guy would be the president of the turkey neck nation if they ever decided to ban together (John McCain would probably be his VP if this theoretical situation were to ever materialize.. which would absolutely make my week.. check it out for your self… http://celebrityworld.today.com/files/2008/10/john-mccain.jpg) So because of this unignorable ( I think I just made that word up, but it displays my point so I’m sticking to my guns.. its totally a word) but endearing trait I have nicknamed him Mr. Turkey Neck. Little did I know that Mr. Turkey Neck had a nemesis lurking in the darkness of his own sweatshirt a couple seats away from me.

Mr. Turkey Neck loves to lecture and he was particularly passionate about today’s topic. Everyone in this class seems to understand the idea of personal space, except for MTN, of course. (I’m getting tired of writing the whole thing out) He wattles around in front of peoples desks throughout the class and will suddenly lean into your “please the get the heck away from my face” zone to illustrate his point. (Although it’s a very effective attention getter, I want to give him a left jab to the kidney every time he does it and repeat a certain line from Good Will Hunting having to do with a delicious fruit.) But back to the story.. A few seats down my row sat a student who obviously had his fill of MTN’s antics and decided he was going to be “That Guy”. We all know and despise “That Guy”, the one who decides, although he has had way less education and life experience, knows more than the professor on a certain topic and chooses to have a “fight to the death: cage match” right there in the middle of the classroom, usually pushing the lecture back an extra five to ten minutes. (We all despise “That Guy”, and want to scream “In your case, there is such a thing as a stupid question! I don’t care what your mom told you!”) “That Guy” happened to be wearing a dark blue hoodie even though everyone else is sweating like a cat in a Korean deli. (Hood up like an angry teenager in a Chili’s with his joyous family clamoring around him) Because of his trend setting ways and his angry demeanor, he earned the nick name The Unabomber.

Mr. Turkey Neck was in the middle of one of his waddle fests when The Unabomber saw his opening.. Slowly raising his hand the Unabomber decided to choose one of MTN’s non-consequential, meaningless points to set up his resistance to logic and reason. As the Unabomber angrily snares “What if the consumer isn’t reasonable?” the rest of the class sighs in unison knowing that MTN is about to quell the rebel uprising in the 5^th row meaning unforced but mandatory detention for 5 mins while the professor makes up his lost time. MTN chuckles (or gobbles) at the poor sap and engages him with a less than classy remark which was like the nuke that started world war III right in front of eyes. After about 10 minutes of pointless banter and both parties pride hurting, MTN decided to pull the “I’m the professor” trump card and move back on to his lecture, leaving the Unabomber feeling like he just stuck it to the man, big time.

So here’s my soap box to bring it all to an end. The entire time everyone in the class except for the two guys in the argument could see that it wasn’t consumer’s rational choices that they were arguing about. It was a pride battle to see who could find the smallest inconsistency to stand on to look down on the other guy. I couldn’t believe how ridiculous these two “men” were making themselves look over something so trivial.. And then as I normally do in these situations, I turned to the mirror of self application around and found that I can be an ugly beast myself at times. I know I have had my fair share of cages matches over the nothingness that is self promotion in public arenas. So I apologize to all the victims of my stupidity and arrogance. Please feel free to give me a nice shot to the jugular (Metaphorically, of course) next time you see me display my ignorant arrogance and I will undoubtedly return the favor.

Stepping off my soap box.

Sorry for wasting your time, but your visit to this has not been pointless.

I guarantee this video will leave you feeling fulfilled and coming back for more. (well at least coming back for more links to hilarious videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0diCvwHJjY4&feature=related

Deuces,

Rice-a-Roni

Giuro che si tratta di una “semplice” coincidenza:

USÒ IL PC DALLE 9.36 ALLE 12.20. CHIARA FU UCCISA TRA LE 11 E LE 11.30

Una nuova superperizia smonta l’accusa ad Alberto

Garlasco, Stasi era al computer nell’ora del delitto

Corriere.it

ve lo ricordate vero… ?

Ve li ricordate Enzo Tortora o Daniele Barillà? Giuliano Naria? Luigi Scricciolo?  Il presunto (presunto per 13 anni!) “Unabomber”?

E di tanti poveri cristi anonimi…?

Come se nulla fosse…, si ricomincia da capo…

Razor Sharp Pro Poker
Greetings poker fans – I know it’s been a while since I last posted, too long in fact. I haven’t been slacking on the work front though so I’ll bring you up to speed with what’s been going on in Razor Sharp Pro world:

The Asian Pacific Poker Tour

I’m currently out in Macau, China, covering the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) for a new Asian-based poker magazine called Baller, which is launching in late October. While you guys in the UK won’t get to read it (being as it’ll be circulating in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia etc) I think they’ll also have a website so I’ll provide links through to that as soon as it’s up.

Travel-wise it was a real ‘Planes, Trains and Automobile’s’ job with a couple of boat rides thrown in for good measure as you don’t seem to be able to fly here direct. That meant I had to train it from Cardiff to Heathrow, fly into Paris, change planes in Paris to fly into Hong Kong and then get a ferry over to Macau. That added up to nearly 24-hours of travel time, which was about as much fun as it sounds…

Still, I’ve only been in Macau 24-hours and love the place already – it’s pretty much the Chinese version of Las Vegas, chock full of fast and furious cash action, sick, sick gambling and you can still smoke at the poker tables out here as well – my kinda town

I couldn’t resist checking out the cash action and managed to win me HK$4000 (around £315) in about an hour – the players out here love to gamble so it wasn’t like I even had to work particularly hard for the money, which is always nice. Hopefully in addition to all the player interviews and tourney coverage I’ll be doing I’ll also get the opportunity to pad out my bankroll at the same time – it’s a tough job but someone has to do it

Follow all the APPT tournament action via the Poker Stars video blog and live updates here.
I’ll also be posting some updates throughout the day myself, just summarising some of the action and adventure.

I’m looking to try and bag me some interviews with Joe Hachem and a few of the other Poker Stars sponsored Asian players in addition to some of the Brits that have managed to make their way out here so will keep you guys posted.

Joining the Dark Side
I have diversified this month and in addition to all my poker writing have begun to dabble in the dark side… that would be poker PR folks, not degenerate gambling (interestingly still more socially acceptable in public than smoking and masturbation, go figure…).

Littlewoods Poker have asked me to help promote their offer open to all new and existing players for the $1 million English Poker Open (EPO) on at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn 15-17 September.
Check out the EPO website here.

Rather than just shamelessly plug it on my blog I’ll just include some of the links to the PR stuff I’ve been pushing and the various websites it can be found at:

Visit the Littlewoods Poker website here for more info on the offer and promos they’re running here.

See the press release in all it’s glory on the Inside Poker website here.

And also on the Poker News UK website here.

_FullFlush1_
Writing-wise I’ve got a couple of features forthcoming from an interview I did with the UK’s most controversial internet phenomenon Luke ‘_FullFlush1_’ Schwartz. Not only has Luke been beating some of Full Tilt’s top players (including Tom Dwan, Phil Galfond, David Benefeild, Brad Booth and Patrik Antonius) but he’s also up $1 million this year playing in the $100/$200 & $200/$400 six-max and Heads-up cash games. Mr Schwartz also been providing the railbirds with a lot of entertainment with some quality rub downs and trash talk and the forums are a buzz with his table antics. It was a pretty good interview chock full of Luke’s trash talking gems and confirmation that he is definitely looking to take on Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan at his 50,000 hand challenge.

I’ve got to thank Barry Carter for the interview really, as it was him who hooked me up with the contact details and asked me to cover it for Poker News UK – view the feature here.

I’ve also sold a Luke Schwartz feature to Poker Player that will be in the next issue of the mag, out sometime next week I believe, I’ll include a link if they end up putting it on their website.

The Unabomber
My Phil Laak player profile is out in the latest WPT mag (Issue 46 with Doyle Brunson on the cover) and they’ve also posted my ‘Get down with the Six-ness’ six-card PLO feature on the WPT website, so for those of you who didn’t get to read it when it was in the mag you can view it here.

Retro Rhetoric

Double or Nothing

I’ve also been doing some strategy articles on beating Pot Limit Omaha SNG’s for the new PKR website so will post up the link as soon as they’re up. I really enjoyed writing these and made the switch from playing Texas SNG’s to the PLO ones a while ago, generally because there’s more action and the pace of the game is faster, but for the in-the-know player the edge is huge. Not only do these teach you the importance of position and pot control but they also improve your post-flop playing skills as the pot limit nature of the game means you can’t just pull the all in trigger. Seriously worth a blast if you are a big SNG fan, especially if you find that the Texas ones are getting too formulaic and a little stale.

Also on a SNG related note, I have a Double or Nothing SNG strategy guide up

On the Rampage

on the UK Poker News website – feel free to read it here.
Mr Carter has decided to get in as many retro 80’s themes as possible in relation to all the features I’ve been writing for the site, including the Commodore 64/NES Rampage computer game for the Running Rampant cash strategy feature I wrote for them last month. View it here.

Right, well I’ve got me a tourney to cover so will keep you guys posted, watch this space…

I am now into serious packing, you know, making a list and checking it twice kinda stuff.  My suitcases are curiously devoid of clothing.  I’m not taking a lot as I plan on getting some stuff while I am home.  I will also be staying a lot with friends and family and that means access to normal American washing machines!  You have no idea just how exciting that thought is.  Honestly, it makes me want to pack my entire wardrobe just so that I can wash and dry it in a normal washer and dryer.  The miniature washing machine that we have in this house just plain ol’ sucks.  It makes the laundry smell funny and takes forever to clean it.  

Anyway, the suitcases are still fairly full.  Oddly enough, there is a lot of electronic stuff in them given the fact that I’m about one step away from being the Unabomber.  It’s odd.  But one suitcase is half-full of dog biscuts that are gifts for all the dogs that I will be seeing and the other is half-full of blankets.  And these are big suitcases!!!  

The Big Black Suitcase

The Orange Monster

I have this very strong urge to cast on something lace.  I have no idea where this lace urge is coming from, and really it’s not the greatest time for me to want to cast-on lace knitting but I think that I may actually give in and do it.  So if you see someone cursing their way across the Atlantic on a United flight or cussing their way across Canada with some alpaca/nylon trailing out the window of a silver SUV crossover, say hi!

Look ma! Lace!! I made LACE!!! Woo hoo!!!

So, some oddball things that are added to the To Get list:

Marshmallow Fluff  The holiday season is soon upon us and fudge here is seriously lacking in the fluff.  

Plastic Roaches  I bought a gross of these little buggers several years ago at a party supply store in the town that I lived in.  I have put these in packages and letters, hidden them in desk and silverware drawers and generally made a nuisance of myself with them and I am nearly out.  Gotta restock my fake bugs!

King Sized Pillow  I’m not planning on bringing this one back with me.  I had the brilliant idea of maybe getting a cheap one of these somewhere before I start out on the road.  I know my dad will not be pleased with me taking up this much space, but I know that I’ll sleep a ton better in the myriad of hotel rooms that I’ll be laying my head down in if I have one good pillow that I can use.  A $10 investment in sleeping a lot better for 2 months, I’d call that a deal!

Ok, have to go get stuff at the store now (the Jiji cat is out of her special food and she gets pissy when she is hungry!!!).

On July 27th, 1996, thousands of people who wanted to watch the Olympics were  in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, the central point of the Summer Olympics, and the location for a late-night rock concert .

Shortly after midnight, Richard Jewell, a security guard who later became a bombing suspect, discovered a suspicious knapsack near the concert sound tower. He told authorities but before anyone could get the park evacuated the pipe bombs in the knapsack went off.  The nails that surrounded the three bombs were as deadly as the bomb. Alice Hawthorne from Georgia was struck in the head with one nail, and was killed instantly. 111 other people injured. One man died from a heart attack.

Eric Robert Rudolph, the real bomber, was implicated after he bombed other areas of Atlanta as well as Birmingham, Alabama.  The survivalist clearly targeted women, as his bombings were of women’s clinics and a lesbian night club. Then he disappeared in the Applachian mountains for five year. He was finally arrested May 31, 2003 in the small mountain town of Murphy North Carolina.  He’s now serving four consecutive life terms at ADX Florence in Colorado. Fellow prison mates include Terry Nichols, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski,  and al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.