Happy New Year. Spank the new years baby on its rosey cheeked bottom (with bamboo).

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good wedgie.

Snowboarding in S. Korea @ Bear Town Mtn.

The Rental Board:
The board was old… it had a layer of dust on the top of it. Who knows how much was on the bottom. There definatly wasnt any wax. Not since it came from the factory Im sure. The color was a weird texture/checkered pattern that from afar looked like a faded pink. length was good: 165cm. as apposed to my 152 back home (short). The bindings were some weird claspy tightening system that hardly worked. At least they were quick release for when I needed to pull out of the gay ass board quickly at the bottom of the run to avoid being seen on it by any one.

The Rental Boots:
The largest size boots this particular ski/snowboard resort carried was size 10 in mens US size. I wear at least size 12 boot… After two delieveries of boots, and some luck, I finally scored myself a pair of boots that were size 11 mens US. I first tried on a size 10, and my toes almost instantly went numb and didnt like me anymore from being crunched in such a confining binding pedo-prison. I feel bad for the few guys who had larger feet than I.

The Lifts:
Good, all 4 person lifts. The chairs that went up to the highest parts of the mtn. were quick. Each chair slowed down to a snails pace once at the top (not effecting the rest of the chairs) to allow even the most uncoordinated and unable to remove themself from the lift without falling…. well almost. Oh ya, almost forgot… the Koreans generally ride the lift with thier snowboards in hand rather than the trusty ’skateboard’ technique. weird. but efficient.

The Runs:
Imagine a hill larger than a man-made landfill (see Wilmot or Alpine - Southern tip of Wisconson) add man-made snow and the usual idiot and annoying ski patrol blocking off cool looking runs… thats what it was. Add in about 1000 Koreans and a couple of Army Joes, all sitting on their rears, falling, hardly sliding down the hill out of control, or traversing side to side, utilizing the entire run for a turn at mach zero. It was a lesson in slaloming human flags that are not stationary.

The End:
fin.

1. If you’re too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
2. Don’t worry about what people think; they don’t do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. It ain’t the jeans that make your butt look fat.
5. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
8. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
19. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
25. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” - Albert Einstein

In fact I think I will have a media break myself. Happy Christmas to you ‘orrible lot and meet up with ya’s in the new year.

Rosie

I think some of us have seen enough to know these things go on. If you have not been in any way involved the view from the sofa is divorced from reality. The whole thing revolves around you not personally being involved. That way it someone else’s problem.

I have seen enough of bus bombs to know that they happen. Not all of them get reported either. I saw enough at Bergen Belsen to not have to visit Yad Veshem on the 3 opportunities I had to do so.

I think the best advice I could offer to anybody who has seen rather too much is to take a media break. I took one last year and never regretted it. I now view the media through my own personal filter and change channels as and when I wish. I now control it; it no longer controls me.

WR

-:WARNING:- This video should only be viewed by a mature audience

The movie is a CNN report of a US MArine shooting an Iraqi. I have had mixed reactions from friends regarding the interview afterwards. I was wondering if the UK news would air it in much the same way. Im not so sure. The engagement, yes, I think so. The interview Im not so sure about. Does that make the interviewees comments wrong? Of course not, but should everyone see this? Another question in the debate on to much violence on TV: Do we have to see it to believe its there? Afterall, is there an argument that TV is desensitizing our minds?

And the winner of the free death penalty contest is.. Saddam Hussein!!

You cant give him to the UN (in doing nothing there is only death) because they’d smack him on the wrist and send him back for more merciless killing. The Europeans won’t do it, the Americans would love to but realise they can’t and the Israelis would shoot him, shoot him again and then put him on trial, shoot him and then pickle bits of him for display purposes. Best give him to his own tortured people.

In some ways (and I hesitate to write this) it may have been better for us all if a grenade had been lobbed in the spider hole. Im sure that he thinks while he lives there is yet hope for his eventual return to power.

WR