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Daily Archives: Thursday 4 August 2005

And the world closed it’s eyes

I’ll never understand the cruelty some are capable off. The murder of anyone is despicable, but children…

On the flip side there are those who go above and beyond.

I just watched Hotel Rwanda.

Over the course of 100 days, almost one million people were killed in Rwanda. The streets of the capital city of Kigali ran red with rivers of blood, but no one came to help. There was no international intervention in Rwanda, no expeditionary forces, no coalition of the willing. There was no international aid for Rwanda. Rwanda’s Hutu extremists slaughtered their Tutsi neighbors and any moderate Hutus who stood in their way, and the world left them to it.

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I don’t remember this happening and it was only 11, 12 years ago?

Dangerous criminal caught red handed

Thank God the Daily news blew this wide open. We can sleep better at night knowing Martha Steward will be wearing an ankle bracelet for another 2 weeks. She won’t be attending another yoga class or buying a book – for at least another month anyway.

As the Daily News reported Monday, a photographer spotted her riding a horse over the weekend and visiting a hospital in Mount Kisco.

Oh the friggin nerve, beat her, poor salt on her wounds, put her in he dungeon and throw away the key – she endangered us all.

To think, I could have been at that yoga class, she might have – - gasp – - talked to me, forced me to listen to home decorating ideas.

Yes the daily news did us all a favor here, what a scoop, what a fascinating piece of investigative journalism, they’ve saved mankind.

ICE on a card

The first time I heard about putting an ICE (in case of emergency) entry in a cell phone, I thought about “What if my cell gets run over by a truck” ? Then the silly chain letter started hitting everyones inbox and I still wasn’t convinced.

Have you ever seen the size of a cell phone manual? Of course you have – how long does it take you to figure out how to put entries in, edit entires then find them once you saved them in your contact list? Ok, for some maybe ten minutes – but think about this, do you really want some paramedic stood on the sidelines trying to figure out how in hell to retrieve your contact list on your cell phone instead of administering cpr to you? And what about those of us who ‘lock’ the phone when not in use? They’re not going to know the unlock code so the ICE idea is really useless for me.

Take a tip from Mary , Write it all down in on a little card and store it in your wallet, because that’s the first place the cops/paramedics and hospital staff are going to look when they need to contact your loved one.