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'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' Actor Bob Hoskins Dead at 71
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/who-framed-roger-rabbit-actor-70
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"British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career credits ranged from
his Oscar-nominated turn in Neil Jordan's noir drama Mona Lisa to
animated fantasy Who Framed Roger Rabbit has died. He was 71."
Bad, sad! Wanted to see more of him. Amazing talent!
He was just 3 weeks older than I.
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From Presidential Lies thread ...
Quote:
Originally posted by MIKER:
"You are entitled to your own opinion, you're not your own set of facts".
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
blessedness was only seen by flying
"Blessedness was only seen by flying" from a Chinese poem?
"xing fu, zhi zai fei guo de shi hou tou tou de qiao"
Richard Bach might have said it, is why I looked it up.
He wrote "the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston
Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah."
Bachisms:
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different
future, or a different past.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess
you do have a problem.
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we
can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished:
if you're alive, it isn't.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
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I have a right to my opinion.
Quote:
Originally posted by MIKER:
"You are entitled to your own opinion, you're not your own set of facts".
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
This goes directly to something that's been needling me for about a month.
Of those who post in RWED, I'm probably the least informed on politics.
I understand principles, but am always clueless about current affairs.
My Neighbor S (MNS), who is a great venter of hysterical anger, often
directed at strangers, knows even much less about it than I do. This
doesn't stop her from making outrageous statements about politicians
and other famous people.
Inserting a comment from the Ronald Reagan's Benghazi thread by SGG:
"Agreed. It's embarrassing how these Obstructionists behave toward
the president. In all my years following politics I have never seen
such abject vitriol towards a sitting president."
Just so!
MNS has told me twice that someone ought to Off Obama.
This, of course, is an outrage. He is our elected President. If we don't
like them, we can impeach them. Killing them is totally unacceptable.
The antithesis of democracy.
On both occassions, I asked MNS why she felt this way, what the hell
had Obama done to warrant her rage? ... She had no answer, except
to repeat herself, over & over.
But finally, she came up with a response that satisfied her: I have a
right to my opinion!
That blew me away. Shocked me. I've known MNS for a long time, and
she considers herself an intelligent woman, so in spite of all her BS, I
accepted her as such ... shows how mundane our conversations usually
were. ... My shock was in realizing that she's one of the Sheeple, for
whom Reason is a foreign land.
A line from Storymark's sig: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant
thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured
by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as
good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov
I feel that Asimov was one of my best teachers, BTW.
Sheeple do not reason. The reason they don't Reason is simple: They
cannot. The Reasoning gear-sequence-or-synapse is missing from their
brains. They don't know what it is and don't miss it. Their opinions, I
suppose, are based mainly on what satisfies them emotionally. And they
sincerely Do Not Know that they lack intelligence.
Getting Attention satisfies them emotionally; so some of them Troll a lot.
A great exercise in futility is to argue with the Sheeple-Trolls.
It's beating a dead horse. ... But we knew that.
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Seriously fatal, recent avalanche on Mt. Everest.
Aftermath. Insight on the sherpa way of life.
Puja, pain, payments: Mourning in an Everest Sherpa village
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/travel/sherpa-village-nepal/
"Unforgiving land of few opportunities
Ang Tshiring, 57, was a high altitude cook.
For the past 15 years, during the climbing season, he spent one month
at Everest Base Camp and one month at Camp 2, at 6,100 meters.
Two months to earn $1,500, meant to last the year.
Ang Tshiring was famous for always showing happiness.
Climbers who knew him remember him as a funny man, laughing and
joking all the time, never angry, always kind. ..."
""All that matters now are the puja," says Ang Riku, his widow, refer-
ring to a series of prayers and rituals.
Her focus is on directing special prayers aimed at purifying and earning
merit for Ang Tshiring's spirit.
Nothing else holds relevance for her -- not the political demands of
the Sherpas, nor the discussions raging on social media worldwide,
nor whether someone will climb Everest from the Nepal side of the
mountain this year.
She's silencing her mourning and sorrow to give all of herself for
the benefit of Ang Tshiring.
The Sherpa follow one of the Tibetan sects of Buddhism, Nyingmapa,
and believe that 49 days after Ang Tshiring's death, his next life is
determined and he may reborn.
Ang Riku is concerned.
She says accidental deaths are a bad way to go."
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Revealed: The true face of the Zodiac Killer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2627426/Revealed-The-real-face
-Zodiac-Killer-compelling-evidence-adopted-man-search-biological-father-led-explosive-discovery.html
"After 12 years of painstaking research, adoptee Gary Stewart realized his father's true identity.
"Details of the book, called The Most Dangerous Animal of All, were hidden by 'dozens' of staff
at publisher HarperCollins before its release today." 
Hmmm ... Looks like a best seller to me.
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... Cause gunslingers went out of style?
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Quote:
Originally posted by G:
Why do we romance/admire/mythologize serial killers?
We, most of us, don't romance or admire them. It's a morbid fascination
with horror. We fear & hate them even if we, too, are murderous.
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Max California: "There are some things that you see, and you can't
unsee them. Know what I mean?" 8MM.
Yeah, well ... There are some news items that you read, and you
can't unread 'em. I just did. Usually, I know better.
Not trolling ... Just venting. 
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G: "a part of us deep down, next to that murderous part... that's jealous of them?"
My generation, raised wholesome Goody-Two-Shoes ... Heroes like Roy
Rogers and Superman ... I think we just wanted to be able fix things, quick
and simple, by doing something Super.
The Lone Ranger & Roy Rogers shot the Bad Guys in the hand and took 'em
to the Sheriff.
Superman delivered 'em to the Cop Shop without shooting their hand.
Jealous of that.
Whenever I have killed something, it wasn't fun.
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