If you get a chance, watch "Still Bill" (from 2009), the bio-documentary about his life."I don’t think I’ve done bad for a guy from Slab Fork, West Virginia.”(nb... it was his 81 year-old heart...not the kungflu)
"Carl from The Walking Dead buys a mainframe."
Best known for manufacturing sewing machines, Singer produced a handful of .45s on the eve of World War II, and their guns were so good the U.S. Military asked the company to build more complicated equipment instead.
In December 2017, a Singer 1911 sold at auction for an eye-popping $414,000, one of the highest prices ever paid at auction for a handgun.
"An 85-year-old male motorcyclist is dead following a crash on the QEW Erie. The Toronto-bound lanes of the highway have been closed between Netherby and Sodom roads as a collision reconstruction team investigates the crash."As someone who has actually woken up in the back of an ambulance to find his shirt, pants & helmet have been scissored off, I'm thinkin'... there are worse ways for an octogenarian to check out.
Police were called to the scene at about 5:11 p.m. when the 83-year-old victim’s family reported they had found his hat on the ice surface and were concerned that he had fallen through into the water.
This study aimed to explore the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide, a serotonergic hallucinogen, on semantic processing and more specifically, lexical retrieval.Perhaps, instead of medical marijuana, we should be providing weekly sheets of blotter to all those unfortunates who can't live without their medicine.
Apparent laziness caused by the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana persists even when the same amount of pot’s medicinal component is added, a new study suggests.Justin has to have thought this whole medical dope deal through after reviewing all the science... right?
"I was probably only two years old at the time, and Clancy scared the living shit out of me."
"I wanted him to be my friend so we could do things together, but I was also scared he would kill me in my sleep."
So, an aboriginal icon bites the dust... and is remembered... fondly?-- SHELLBROOK, Sask. -- David Ahenakew, a former Saskatchewan aboriginal leader who was stripped of the Order of Canada for calling Jews a "disease", has died in hospital after a long battle with cancer.It would be an injustice to remember the man simply for his anti-semitism... for he was much, much more...
In 1984, he outraged aboriginal women by arguing against federal government plans to abolish an Indian Act provision that stripped women of their Indian status if they married a non-Indian. Ahenakew maintained that aboriginal people themselves should determine their own membership.And there was his nose for both business & politics...
He was ousted as leader of the assembly in 1985 amid allegations of financial mismanagement and later was among six Saskatchewan men accused of using kickbacks from government grants and contracts to pay for the failed 1984 Liberal leadership bid of the former Indian affairs minister John Munro.And the way he was always willing to go that extra mile to accommodate the views of his neighbours...
Ahenakew warned at a meeting of the Assembly of First Nations two years ago that if aboriginal grievances were not taken seriously, there would be violent consequences.Yes... pardon me while I weep.
"The way things are happening in this country with Indian Affairs is leading to physical confrontation," he said at the time. "We had it here a few years ago, but when it breaks out across the country, you won't have the army, you won't have the police forces -- you won't have anything to stop the destruction that will take place."
-- HONG KONG -- The case of a Korean girl given up by a Dutch diplomat and his wife in Hong Kong seven years after adopting her has sparked outrage among social workers and expatriate Koreans who are struggling to find a new home for her.This puts me in mind of the current Hollyweird craze... where obscenely wealthy celebrities pluck African waifs from obscurity to the regal trumpeting of the stargazing media.
A South Korean consular official in Hong Kong said the couple, who adopted the child when she was four months old, had handed her over last May into the care of Hong Kong authorities.
The South China Morning Post reported that the couple had adopted the girl while they were based in South Korea, believing they could not have children. The wife later gave birth to two children, the report said.Sad.
-- VICTORIA -- For the first time, suicide is now the second-leading cause of death among young people in British Columbia.So, what's up with British Columbia... that famous refuge of aging hippies?
Kelli Kilpatrick, director of the unit, said the majority of youth who committed suicide -- mostly by hanging -- were heading toward their 19th birthday.
It also said too many young aboriginal people died unexpectedly, with alcohol being was a risk factor in most of those deaths.Shsssssh... not so loud.
Mr. Warner said he hasn't ripped up his Conservative membership, but hinted that it's not likely he will be staying. "My philosophy in life is not to want to belong to any club that wouldn't have me as a member."Well Mark, you deep thinker... the actual quote is, "would have me as a member"... but that's what happens when you pull a life philosophy out of the pop culture ether.
"It's just the way I approach life."
I did a bond tour during the Second World War. We were raising money, and we played Boston and Philadelphia and most of the big cities. And we got to Minneapolis.Try that one out at your next Fiberal or NDP fundraiser and... I daresay... Libby Davies will happily rip off your balls.
There wasn't any big theater to play there, so we did our show in a railroad station. Then I told the audience, that I knew a girl in Minneapolis. She was also known in St. Paul, she used to come over to visit me.
She was known as "The Tail Of Two Cities."
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Sun sources say the victim is known as "Tuffy," a high-ranking member of the Point Blank Soldiers street gang based in Regent Park.Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The PBS are suspected of being involved in several shootings, including one earlier this year at Yonge and Shuter Sts., and are known to be feuding with other street gangs.
O'Neil Grant, who spent five years in the Don Jail before being acquitted in the notorious Just Desserts murder trial, has been shot dead in Jamaica.
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”
