March 1, 2007

• Man Blames Burrito For Paralysis

  

  TAMPA, Fla. — A man who can no longer feed himself said
  an uncooked chicken burrito put him in a wheelchair.
  Roger Anderson said he ate the burrito at a Moe’s Southwest Grill in Land O’
  Lakes in September and became sick with stomach cramps, diarrhea and joint
  pains.
  Anderson’s attorney said the burrito caused a bacterial infection, which
  led to a disease that affects the body’s nerves.
  Anderson and his wife filed a lawsuit against Tampa-based GCF Ventures
  LLC, which operates the restaurant.
  The company said all of its employees are trained in safe food handling
  and preparation practices, and the restaurant is regularly checked by health
  inspectors.
  

  Hmmm…

  OTTAWA (AFP) – A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments
  worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO
  crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.

  I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate
  the burning of fossil fuels within a generation … that could be a way to save
  our planet,” Paul Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen.

  Alien spacecrafts would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so
  must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he
  told the newspaper.

  Such alien technologies could offer humanity alternatives to fossil fuels, he
  said, pointing to the enigmatic 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico — which
  has become a shrine for UFO believers — as an example of alien contact.

  “We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us
  suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if
  applied quickly enough,” he said.

  Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson’s
  cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of
  Canada’s army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.

  He shocked Canadians in September 2005 by announcing he once saw a UFO.

  I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate
  the burning of fossil fuels within a generation … that could be a way to save
  our planet,” Paul Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen.

  Alien spacecrafts would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so
  must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he
  told the newspaper.

  Such alien technologies could offer humanity alternatives to fossil fuels, he
  said, pointing to the enigmatic 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico — which
  has become a shrine for UFO believers — as an example of alien contact.

  “We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us
  suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if
  applied quickly enough,” he said.

  Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson’s
  cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of
  Canada’s army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.

  He shocked Canadians in September 2005 by announcing he once saw a UFO.

  

  http://www.drudgereport.com

  
  

  

  

  Weather Report
  Chris
  Watson
  2003

  A decade after his departure from the influential industrial
  group Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson set off on his own to record music of a
  very different stripe. Actually, it’s not quite right to call his solo
  recordings “music,” at least not in the conventional sense of a series of notes
  arranged and played in order. Call it “sonic anthropology” instead – every sound
  on Watson’s third solo album Weather Report was created by something in the
  natural environment of a remote corner of the world. Watson’s studio is the
  great outdoors: his musicians, the animals and weather patterns captured by his
  ultra-sensitive microphones. Every sonic detail is stunningly clear and rendered
  in panoramic stereo to enhance the depth of experience. Look up, and you might
  just see that bird that just squawked; reach out your hand and feel that water
  droplet moisten your skin.

  Although the natural ambience of his settings
  takes center stage on Weather Report, Watson himself isn’t entirely absent from
  these recordings. He’s the unseen editor here, isolating and splicing together
  selected bits from many hours of untreated source tapes, and creating layered
  tableaus that move dynamically, as if they had been scripted. Lie out in the
  middle of a Kenyan savannah and you’re unlikely to encounter braying donkeys,
  screeching birds, rustling insects, bellowing frogs, transient rain showers, and
  bickering tribesmen all within minutes of each other. But that’s exactly what
  Watson does on “Ol-Olool-O.” Beginning with a lion taking its morning yawn and
  ending with the familiar sounds of nighttime crickets, the track compacts
  fourteen hours of tape into an eighteen-minute highlight reel. Remarkably, just
  by listening you can tell that an entire day has gone by.

  The elements
  battle each other for supremacy on “The Lapaich,” the most dramatic of the three
  sequences on Weather Report. Recorded over several months in a Scottish highland
  glen, the track moves from torrential downpour to howling windstorm before the
  wind and water find their peace and dissolve into an ominous calm while seagulls
  croak away. The sounds of chattering birds and scampering animals are consumed
  by the weather; a lone cow moos ominously. But the most intense moments come on
  “Vatnajkull,” which was taped on a remote Icelandic glacier. Winds whisper and
  moan in ghostly tones and there is an uncomfortable physicality to the
  recording: a sense that the island itself is alive, heaving and creaking like a
  long-abandoned pirate ship. Far from being a mere field recording, Weather
  Report reminds us that the sounds of the natural world can be just as
  breathtaking as anything that we humans can produce ourselves.
  

  	Listen to all sound clips from this CD
  “Ol-Olool-O” “The Lapaich” “Vatnajkull”

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  Enjoy this day!!

  I love you!!

  

  UPDATE

  12″ here in the Minneapolis area, and the Mall of America is closed, 400 flights cancelled at our airport, and more storm to come.  No travel advisory.
  

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