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Found this article on "The Poltergeist Curse" while doing some research on one of the actors...
I got news for you guys...it's not the POLTERGEIST curse, it's the HOLLYWOOD curse...
You people keep living the kind of lives that you do, and creating the kind of "art" that you doo (think that's a misspelling???), eventually some weird shtuff is gonna getcha....
A few weeks ago, I was driving down one of the busy local thoroughfares, and my eye was drawn towards what appeared to be fishing line festooned to the top of the streetlights along the street.
Then, last week, this article appeared in a local paper, and explained what the "fishing line" REALLY is...
Now I'm basically a "live and let live" kinda guy, but the rationale behind this structure strikes me as somewhat odd, and I'm puzzled how stringing fishing line throughout the neighborhood will "make our property values go up." (They said the same thing about a local school bond initiative that would have been a complete boondoggle, but I digress...)
Irrespective that public property is being used for a religious display, not unlike a creche on the steps of City Hall, the thing that disturbed me the MOST about this development is that the local hawks and birds are being killed and maimed by it...
According to the article: "Three red-tailed hawks in the area were said to be dead or injured after flying into the wire. "They had broken wings, which is consistent with flying into wires," said Linda Parks, the Ventura County supervisor who oversees Oak Park."
Great - this thing is put up as to stretch the description of its intended purpose, and exploit a loophole in Rabbinic Law, and it's also killing the local hawks and birds...not cool....
Think about it - this thing is like a giant cheesecutter that's been strung up around the neighborhood, and in an effort to be discrete, its supporters are causing injury to the local bird population.
If it's such a "nice thing for the community to have", then why not be more PROUD of it and make it more visible to hawks, people and everyone and everything!!! Rather than hiding it, ENHANCE it with some mylar streamers that will let the birds know that it's there, rather than hiding it in such as manner that they get low-bridged by it when they're flying about the area?
Maybe it isn't such a "huge blessing" after all...
According to this report from AP, according to a recent survey taken by The Pew Research Center, "80 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds in this country see getting rich as a top life goal for their generation."
Let's see here, we're facing one of the biggest challenges to Western Civilization since the Nazi's in World War II, and today's kids see their top life goal as a new iPod.
Again, lay the blame at the feet of the parents, who undoubtedly replace time and guidance with material possessions to assuage their guilt at wanting to "have it all" by pursuing careers AND children...
And they say that MTV doesn't encourage a creeping sense of materialism and entitlement...mark my words, you heard it here first....someday, archaeologists will trace the decline of Western civilization back to 8-1-81, the day that MTV was let loose on American culture...
The only thing that wasn't said was "I fart in your general direction" or the comment about someone's mother being a hamster and someone's father smelling of elderberries:
Group Says al-Qaida No. 2 Mocks Bush and here
