David Carradine found dead.

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Thursday June 04, 2009 · 4:01 PM PDT

2009/06/04 · 16:01

I've never used the Breaking title before, so no sense in starting now, but this was just out on CNN a few minutes ago.

BANGKOK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s U.S. television show "Kung Fu," was found naked and hanging dead from a rope in the closet of his luxury Bangkok hotel room on Thursday, Thai police said. No signs were found of other people in the room and the body of the 72-year-old actor was sent to a hospital for an autopsy, police said.

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Sunday April 26, 2009 · 8:09 AM PDT

2009/04/26 · 08:09

Five months ago after five hours of excruciating pain, a pain I never felt and couldn't actually pinpoint the source of, I broke down and told my wife, fuck it, I gotta go to the emergency room. Now I'm a pretty tough cookie, over the years I have set and splinted numerous broken fingers on my own without ever seeing a doctor. I've used gauze and duct tape on cuts that should have had a dozen stitches, reset my own dislocated shoulder with the helpful cheering on of an old drinking buddy, and over the last 30 years have kept on working with dozens of different injuries that would have sidelined most people for weeks. I don't say this as a form of self adulation to bask in some machismo bullshit, only to make the point that I can tolerate a lot of pain. It's not like I had some wacky need to become this way, it's just that when you are a single father of two kids for ten years like I was, doing a job that often results in injuries, you sometimes get hurt. And when the job conditions are such that if you don't work, you don't get paid, or collect benefits unless you are off for two or more weeks from that injury, you get up and work. Period.
So when I tell my wife that I have decided to go the the hospital, she knows I'm serious.
More after the jump....

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Thursday February 26, 2009 · 1:12 PM PST

2009/02/26 · 13:12

Cnn is reporting that:

The Pentagon will lift its longtime ban on media coverage of the flag-draped coffins of war victims arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, according to a senior U.S. defense official with direct knowledge of the decision.

CNN Story

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 · 11:32 AM PST

2009/02/18 · 11:32

So I get off work at 11:00 again this morning, we are on four, four hour days now, yes that is sixteen hour weeks, and the only reason Bill and I are getting that many hours is I had to lay off Karl last week after I just spent six years training him. Try to pay your mortgage, utilities, college tuitions, insurance, car payment and feed your family on that. Whatever, anyway, I head over to the bank to make a deposit and ask the nice girl at the drive up window if I could please have a handful of deposit slips for checking. I like to fill them out before I get to the bank so I'm not sitting in line wasting your time behind me while I fiddlefuck around in an awkward pose trying to write on my lap with a cheap ballpoint. She sends me back one. One slip. Okay, never mind. I'll try again next Wednesday. I go to leave and at the pullout where the six drive up lanes merge into one, some nitwit decides they just have to get out of there before me, even though I am clearly ahead and have the right of way, so she speeds up, nearly crashing into my truck while I slam on the brakes in an attempt to let her have her way, while she blares her horn and throws up her arms looking at me with complete disgust, like I'm the doofus in this particular situation. Whatever, go ahead.

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Thursday December 25, 2008 · 8:20 AM PST

2008/12/25 · 08:20

I was reading the diary by Kestrel9000 a minute ago and was reminded again of the tragic realities that much of humanity is suffering through. We continue to survive under the system of worldwide corporate oppression where human beings are regarded only as variables of their profit equations, and if your place on their spreadsheets is determined to be of no value to them, you are allowed to be starved, ignored, exploited for political gain, and blamed for your own condition. Your lands and resources will be stolen, at best you can look forward to a life of abject poverty and isolation from your cultural history, subjugated to your corporate overlords profit margins, and cast away like a worn out shoe when they have exacted every penny they can from you and your people. Perhaps people will wake up and see that the line between Corporations and Governments no longer exists in any meaningful way. They are one and the same.
Perhaps a look at the wisdom of the elders is in order.

When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Cree Prophecy

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Saturday December 20, 2008 · 8:36 AM PST

2008/12/20 · 08:36

I started earning my own money in the first grade. Me and my little buddy David, my best bud back then, decided we could get rich shoveling driveways and sidewalks. By springtime David and I were starting to like having a little money so we expanded our operations to mowing yards. My dad said that as long as we kept oil and gas in the mower we were welcome to use it. It felt like we had been given the keys to the financial kingdom of our dreams. I liked David because he was a quiet kid who laughed like crazy at every one of my stupid jokes and he never stole anything from me. David liked me because I didn't make fun of him and didn't let other kids beat him up when I was around.

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 5:34 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 17:34

Eight years of misery and pure hell under the whip of a man who was given the office of president by the Supreme Court.

Below is a brief outline of the depravity of the Bush legacy.

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Friday August 22, 2008 · 11:56 PM PDT

2008/08/22 · 23:56

Well this confirms it.

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Portland Oregon man Bob Fapper revealed today what he considers divine confirmation of the speculation on Biden's upcoming selection as VP nominee.
Pointy headed geeks across the city flocked to Fappers house to see the amazing evidence.

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Friday August 08, 2008 · 8:23 AM PDT

2008/08/08 · 08:23

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear exasperated querulous physically beat up but too young to retire ain't got a pot to piss in after 30 years of busting my ass FireCrow, Happy friggin' Birthday to me.

Or..

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear wealthy beyond my wildest dreams with a wife and three kids who are exemplary human beings and representative of everything I admire and strive for FireCrow, Happy Birthday to me.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." Carlos Castaneda

Here are a few things you ought to know, simple rules if you will. Maybe they can save you some grief.
In no particular order:

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Sunday June 08, 2008 · 9:48 AM PDT

2008/06/08 · 09:48

I remember when my first child was born. It was a Sunday evening in October, and because the staff that night was short handed there were only two nurses on the floor, and one doctor on call. For the sake of brevity I'll spare you all but one of the details of that night. My repeated requests for somebody to come to our room and help were ignored because the "professionals" knew that it just couldn't be happening so quickly. Even a childbirth noob like me knew what a head popping out of that magical place meant, time for action!

This intro was too long for publishing and I couldn't find a good place to snip it, so please follow below for a story not about me, but some special children who really need some help to smile.

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Sunday May 25, 2008 · 9:50 AM PDT

2008/05/25 · 09:50

On December 12, 2000 the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Florida Supreme Court's plan for recounting Florida's ballots was unacceptable, and that no constitutionally valid recount could timely be completed by the December 12 deadline. This decision ended the recounts, and effectively installed the loser of the popular vote as President of the United States of America. The vote was certified according to Florida state election law by Katherine Harris, the Republican Secretary of State who had been the Florida co-chair of Bush's campaign. Bush's younger brother, Jeb Bush, was the governor of Florida. Though it was obvious to all that Harris and Jeb Bush had manipulated the election to favor the governor's brother, it was too little, too late. Gore was eventually found to have won Florida by 543,895 more popular votes than Bush.
Below the fold is a graphic account of the tragedy and legacy of the worst president in history.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 6:15 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 18:15

What do you do when the greed fueled madness of the few becomes the stark deadly reality for many, and the blatant lies of the killers become the truth that is ejected day after day from the plastic reality box , where shiny bright vultures of the ruling class, with perfect teeth and perfect hair, proclaim and affirm that what you see isn't what you get, that your eyes and ears are lying, that war is peace and hate is love and all is righteous and good in God fearing America. What do you do when our soldiers, bound by oath to fulfill their duty, are lied to, abused, sent to fight ill equipped, under manned, without competent leadership, stop lossed, numbed with medication, re deployed, over and over, then are dumped into our cities and streets, forgotten and left to fend for themselves. What do you do.

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