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Friday, October 22, 2010

What is up and whats going down.

So Hi everyone your probably wondering why I haven't been writing on my blog for the past couple of months ???? Well to be honest with you all call it abit of laziness, and busy things going on.
But here I am again at doing the blog telling the world the views and opinions on my mind.....
I have now however been working very hard on a councillor candidates vision of becoming a councillor at Ottawa City Hall ...Ian Boyd who this person is is a long time friend from highschool and is running in the ward of River Ward againest the now councillor Maria McCrae who has been there TOOOOOO long and is just not doing a great job at what she should be doing. For Example; How long has Ottawa got to wait for a solution on the transit situation. The present councillors can't decide on a tunnel or light rail???YET maria who is the head of the transportion issues can go out and because of a good deal as she sees it spends billions on new buses for the city. Now tell me where was the discussion for that flip flop of wasting tax payers money??? I know for a fact she did not do her homework on this. As my brother was a mechanic for OC Transpo and had to do serious workon the articulated buses as most of them had faults in them. Also these buses are the lousy in snow how many times have you seen them broken down during a snow storm or for that matter in the winter months. Well Maria certainly did not do any homework on this and in the whole thing my brother now because of the work he did fixing the joints on his back has now serious back problems, thank god he retired from OC Transpo, but still has back problems.
Yep a waste of tax dollars on these lousy buses...only because of a great selling deal the company did with the city.Shame on Ottawa for this.

Well come Monday October 25th we shall see as Ottawa does need SERIOUS change at City Hall YES folks we have to get rid of the present council.... as they are not doing anything except fighting each other over stupid issues and not getting things done PRIME example the Tunnel and Transit issue, also Lansdowne Live.

Come on Ottawa do we need four more years of this I think NOT! So on Monday October 25th VOTE for change in our beautiful City of Ottawa.

As I am Ian Boyd's Campaign Manager I suggest and hope that the people of River Ward DO the right thing and Vote for Ian. Please check out his web site and really think before you mark the X on your ballot. Lets get Ottawa back on the right track and get things done.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Be ready for an upcoming story of truth....

Be ready for a continuing story of truth and lies coming soon to this blog. I will be opening up something that the world should know about in the coming days on the subject of Black Widows? The truth wil be told and how the effects of being in contempt will follow .... Be here for the continuing complete story.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Five Million Dollars for a Wedding

Yep Chelsea Clinton is getting married and it’s costing 5 million dollars, I heard alone the flowers are costing one million…Does this make sense to anyone else who is out there shaking ones head…Well for me I think it’s absurd!!! Think of the waste of money this is and all the shit that other people have to go through just because of this marriage…and think about this, how long will it last? I can tell you with five million dollars one could do many good things in this world. Jeepers don’t the rich and selfish have any hearts to what the hell is going down in this world?
I wish and I do mean this in a BIG way that I could win the lotto the one that is 50 million right now because first off I would probably not even want that much so here is what I would do with it. Twenty-five of it would go into resources for the poor and hungry in this world...let me tell you food banks help out loads of people even ones that try to make ends meet month after month with two jobs, a mortgage, and having to survive in tough times. In case you’re wondering I would be VERY VERY happy with just say five million at least then I could live a nice comfortable life for the rest of my days, which aren’t that many left. Like I said 25 million to food banks and helping people get outta the crack that they are in. With another twenty million, I would be like that good old TV show The Millionaire where I would go and look for people who are down on their luck. Giving to those that are creative, aspiring and want to do things to make others life’s better, and believe me folks there are lots out there…oh and don’t think you can just come to me for a handout no sir doesn’t work that way ..so all you charities back off because unless your willing to show me exactly where all the money you collect goes then be prepared to be told “GO FAWK Yourself.” Because if the majority of people only knew exactly how much really does go to the cause. Then maybe some of you wouldn’t be so rich…and believe me folks I have seen this myself with a family that were very poor and then all of a sudden they are living in a gorgeous home driving BMW’s etc. etc. so next time someone from some charity comes banging on your door ..ask them this first question “How much of my donation goes to the cause after adminisation costs?’ if the person in front of you hymns and haws then quickly close the door because I will tell you maybe about four percent goes the rest goes into some admins pocket.
So lets just say I go up to a homeless person , now I know what your saying most homeless people are crazy and have nothing left. Well is it their fault? Es some are and some just fall into the cracks and have no way of escaping. Those are the ones I want to talk to and give money to if they are willing enough to show that if they were given the chance that they would indeed make things better for themselves and others. After all is not that, what humans should be doing instead of killing each other. Think about that for a second people. We are all related in some forum yet we are fighting against each other to show our WHAT? STUPIDITY!!! Yep that is what I see Just look at it this way it is GOOD between EVIL and why are does who choose EVIL. Are they the greedy hungry money moguls of our world who think if they conquer the world in their fashion that everyone will bow down to them NO! Because there will always be someone else trying to overthrow them. It’s a win win situation isn’t it.
I think Cyndi Lauper hits it right on the head with her song “Money Changes Everything.”
So let’s see a rich family former President is spending five million dollars in one day amazing eh. For most of us, five million dollars would go along, way. A very long ay unless your really stupid and you would blow it senselessly. Trust me there are those who do that …many a lotto winner have done that. I will say I admire those people who have won and are living a life of merry. Like little kids in a candy store and believe me folks I know one family that this has happened to. But because they are SMART they are told as long as they do what they are doing then for many generations after the children of the children will still be well off now that takes a little brain power and getting the proper financial people behind you. One can only hope for that dream in winning but we all know the odds of that happening. I will send this word of advice to those out to there that spend hundreds of dollars each time on lotto tickets, get a life cause you know what you just need one number to win. Think of how much the government makes off you suckers every week and you’re probably the biggest whiners when it comes tax time. Jeepers people can you not see how our systems are so screwed up… Oh, well as Frank zappa once said, “The Worlds Most Plentiful Ingredient is Stupidity.”
Well if that is what has to be done then so be it but Five Million Dollars on a Wedding…my suggestion to Chelsea Clinton Go to Vegas! Get it done there for cheap…and use the rest to help the poor and hungry…stop showing the world Gee look how rich we are.
Here comes the Bride all five million dollars worth...and then what will it cost after oh lets say seven years , because on average that is how long marriages are lasting these days. Place your bets!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tom Hay Productions: WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data?? What is this????

Tom Hay Productions: WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data?? What is this????

WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data?? What is this????

WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data ... wait a minute wasn't it in the news that some military guy was taking Lady GaGa CD's into work erasing them and copying the data and then put it up on the Wikileaks??? So what the heck is this???? And to think we people have no brains to see what is going on here? ...Come on ...this is just utter BULLSHOT! if you watched The Daily Show last night I think you got the picture ...Thankyou Jon... But read this and see what you think and read into it..I say Holy Lady Ga Ga ...and thats GA GA in the sense of someone is trying to GA GA the truth here Boon doggle indeed indeed indeed...Geez do they think the public will really believe this? Like Jon Stewart said... referring to the Lady GAGA joke!!! Love it! because Jon is the truth of the nation people...





Jul 28, 4:23 PM (ET)

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER

LONDON (AP) - WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents, telling journalists that the Web site was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.

Julian Assange didn't say whether he meant he had no idea who leaked the documents or whether his organization simply could not be sure. But he did say the added layer of secrecy helps protect the site's sources from spy agencies and hostile corporations.

"We never know the source of the leak," he told journalists gathered at London's Frontline Club late Tuesday. "Our whole system is designed such that we don't have to keep that secret."

And while Assange acknowledged that the site's anonymous submissions raised concerns about the authenticity of its material, he said WikiLeaks had yet to be fooled by a bogus document.


The 39-year-old Australian was at the Frontline Club, the hub of London's media set, for the second time in as many days to outline his site's mission and methods - and defend it from charges that it endangered lives by putting mountains of classified information in the public domain.

U.S. officials say the massive online disclosure may have put soldiers and operatives in danger, and the Pentagon, the Justice Department, and the FBI have all stepped in to investigate.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday the leak of classified information from the battlefield "could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations," while Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in Baghdad that there was "a real potential threat there to put American lives at risk."

U.S. officials are worried that the raw data may prove useful not only to the Taliban but to hostile intelligence services in countries such as China and Russia who have the resources to make sense of such vast vaults of data, said Ellen McCarthy, former U.S. intelligence officer and president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

Former CIA director Michael Hayden described the mass release as a big gift to America's enemies.

"If I had gotten this trove on the Taliban or al-Qaida, I would have called it priceless," he said. "If I'm head of the Russian intelligence, I'm getting my best English speakers and saying: 'Read every document, and I want you to tell me, how good are these guys? What are their approaches, their strengths, their weaknesses and their blind spots?'"

Back in London, Assange agreed that the files offered insight into U.S. tactics.

But he said that was none of his concern, and he noted that his Web site already carried a copy of the U.S. Special Forces' 2006 Southern Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Manual, among other sensitive U.S. military documents.

"We put out that stuff all the time," he said.

He seemed irritated when a member of the audience pressed him on whether he believed there were ever any legitimate national security concerns that would prevent him from publishing a leaked document.

"It is not our role to play sides for states. States have national security concerns, we do not have national security concerns," he said.

"You often hear ... that something may be a threat to U.S. national security," he went on. "This must be shot down whenever this statement is made. A threat to U.S. national security? Is anyone serious? The security of the entire nation of the United States? It is ridiculous!"

He said he wasn't interested in the safety of states, only the safety of individual human beings.

"If we are talking a threat to individual soldiers ... or citizens of the United States, then that is potentially a genuine concern," he said.

Assange cast a bit of light on the way his organization operates, describing an online submission system "like nothing else you've ever seen."

"We encrypt all the information, it is routed through protected legal jurisdictions, multiple servers," he said.

But, to the amusement of the audience, the former computer hacker said one of the best ways to submit classified material remained the international postal system.

His comments also offered insight into his own motivation, referring to a statement he gave to German newspaper Der Spiegel in which he said he "loved crushing bastards."

He said the comment wasn't meant in jest, describing himself as a combative person who likes "stopping people who have created victims from creating any more."

Assange also expressed disdain for the military, alluding to a statement attributed to Albert Einstein, a noted pacifist, which describes soldiers as contemptible drones and attacks patriotism as a cover for brutality and war.

He scoffed when the Frontline's moderator spoke of teenage British soldiers "giving their lives" in Afghanistan.

"To what?" he asked.

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Associated Press writers Kimberly Dozier in Washington and Sarah El Deeb in Cairo contributed to this story.

Monday, July 26, 2010

For those who don't know what I am about...

Few people are as practical and ambitious as Capricorn. Yours is the tenth sign, an earthy element, which makes you down to earth and matter-of-fact. Caution is your second name and this is due to Saturn, your ruling planet. You are sometimes shy and lack self confidence and self-esteem.

I've never met a Capricorn who was afraid of hard work in order which to achieve what they want in life. You are ambitious and go for your dreams and usually end up successful. You like money but not if it involves risk. You prefer to know exactly where your dollars and cents are going. You prefer traditional types of savings.

Others do not generally see you as too enthusiastic but when people get to know you, you do have a side to your nature which is humorous and affectionate. You like to work quietly and effectively without creating too much bother or attention to yourself.

You are emotionally cool so you don't warm to people that easily until you get to know them. Once you get closer you start to feel comfortable with them. Suspicion is one of the chief traits of Capricorn and when you meet people for the first time it is your way of displaying maturity by not jumping the gun. You like to understand what another person is really about.

You are a big thinker even though you work methodically and practically by taking your time to achieve what you set out to do. You never like airy, fairy concepts and only work on ideas which will vouch safe your financial and material security in the future. You are not a clock watcher when you work because you believe in doing a job right the first time round. You also hate wasting time. You are frugal, resourceful and hard working. Commitment is natural to you which is why, as I said earlier, you are likely to be successful in anything you attempt.

Not all Capricorns are supported in their lives so you learnt from an early age how to be self sufficient and to make it alone. You know exactly how to achieve your ambitions by yourself. Your primary philosophy is that self sufficiency is strength so you do not like to ask others to carry you. This also has a basis in the fact that you like to take full credit for what you achieve.

"Expect the worst but hope for the best" is a saying that I have often heard many Capricorns repeat. Basically you are very level-headed and don't expect things to happen overnight. People admire the way you work because you are motivated by your ambitions but also like to perfect your work and do it properly. You can always be relied upon to help others and not cut corners.

A traditional life style appeals to you because you like things in their place and need to be in control. Because of this you are not always the most exciting person to be around but you are extremely loyal and will never let anyone down when you give them your word. It does not seem to bother you that others see you as less adventurous. The name of the game to you is living life on your own terms rather than compromising.

Sometimes others make the mistake of thinking you are elitist. They get the sense you are looking down on them but this is not so because you are actually a very generous person with both your money and your time and if the cause is a worthy one there are fewer who are as generous as you.

Due to your cautious and meticulous mind you are a wonderful judge of character and can easily see through the BS. You are aware of the consequences of partnership both commercially and personally and are absolutely committed to your word.

If others get to know you they will understand that you are a very trustworthy, dependent, punctual individual that you can always be counted on to fulfil their needs and help them if the occasion arises.

In money matters you are extremely hard to deal with and are sometimes seen as being overly materialistic. Although you do drive a hard bargain your integrity always steers your course in life.

You have an incredible capacity to withstand the blows of life and even if times get tough your resilience and dedication is second to none. You gain greater strength than others from whatever misfortune occurs. You are like the steel under the blacksmith's hammer, getting stronger with every blow!

Your token is the Goat which shows just how capable you are of reaching the heights of any mountain. Your success is likely to occur later in life but when it does, you share what you have with others. You like measuring your success through what you have.

You expect people to be just as trustworthy as yourself. If you accept a responsibility you do so with full commitment. You always demand the same level of integrity from anyone you deal with both in the work place and at home.

You are sure to scale the heights of success and due to your keen focus, discipline and concentration your ruling planet Saturn insures a great deal of success, power and happiness. Capricorn stands for courage and achievement after a long and tedious effort.

Holy Lord… If only the real world knows?


So I am watching the news this morning while I awake and get ready for yet another day of struggling to stay afloat, and I am totally getting crazy at the news stories coming over your television airwaves….First off the news of Tony Hayward stepping down from BP is really getting my goat. Sorry but this person is walking away with how much of a pension? Moreover, the ironic thing about this is the big shots say that it is not that much …18 million so that he can get his life back… EXCUSE my language but HOLY SHIT!!! Like he does not have a great life especially when he can go boating a few weeks or is those days after the oil explosion in the gulf. Again, 18 million is allot of money that the feeble and meek could use… You know I would love to see these fat cats who have so much money that they don’t know what to do with actually live a life like many of us do struggling to stay afloat. People who actually work hard for the little pay checks they receive every two weeks to live.
I say this, people that money that he gets should not go to him at all but to the people who in my mind suffer the most those are the ones who will lose most likely or will indeed lose everything… Many of us poorer folks fall in amongst the cracks, and have to start from scratch with nothing, Or if you are lucky with some sort of welfare to keep afloat, which does not do much for many because, of the amount that you get…

I say this Tony Hayward should be thrown out with no pension and should be thrown into a crack in the sidewalk,





and then let him get his life back together then , let us see if indeed he can climb out and get his life back? This is bullshit… no management discussion they say for his replacement reports say. Well when the next person comes in at least I hope he has the knowledge and does really realize that all that oil being taken out of the earth is causing not just the oil spill mishap but also sees that taking oil out of mother earth is only causing the earths plates to shift. Which in turn if you look closely at where they are drilling for oil in the gulf you can see oh the earthquake in Haiti and then how about the earthquake we had here in Ottawa and the area…hmm that one was felt as far as New York, and Boston! So am I wrong in saying that all this oil drilling by those oil barons is causing a void within Mother Earth
?

I still say YES! Because if you do little experiments with say a bottle of water. What happens to the bottle when you put your mouth to the top and drink out all the water within the bottle.Opps, the water bottle will deplete and crinkle down so look at that experiment as the earth when they take out all that oil…Like I said there is a void there that happens so what is the obvious thing that happens the earths plates will shift to fill that void hence earthquakes and other disasters. I am not a scientist or someone who has that knowledge of a geoglist or a scientist but come on think people this is not rocket science it is just mother earth screaming at us saying enough of this shit stop destroying me because the earth belongs to you and was made to enjoy it in all aspects… Again look skyward that is where our energy resources really are… People unite and let us get on that or else those fat cats who are going to get 18 million dollars so that they can get their life back will continue to destroy our beautiful world. Do you hear what I am saying?

Let us see him struggle like many of us… and remember Boycott BP…

And if your really caring leave your car at home and ride a bicycle to work and to get around, it’ better for you and yes you will get to see the true beauty of our earth …especially if like here in Canada’s Capital Ottawa you have great bike paths to tour all over the city and even into the Gatineau hills. In addition, Kudos to Holland who really have the bike thing down to a tee.

If I could do this as a world politician I would...and that is allow cars to travel on certain days and have it so that certain days would be car free...think of it people all the gas and oil emissions not going into our atmosphere …. How would that help in saving our EARTH? Just my thoughts and Opinion…but as one of my mentors says all the time. “Welcome to the island of insanity.” Don’t worry folks I am keeping my eye




ON THIS BULL SHIT NEWS STORY …

So it comes to this eh...!!!! The little bastard ...

So folks after HOW MANY DAYS? and now he resorts to this...okay the cap is working they say but what are they not really telling us eh...Those greedy hungry oil moguls are just that hungry, greedy and not caring for the damage they have done, the lives they have hurt, the people who depend on the seas to live, and not to mention the beautiful wildlife of our planet.
I am so upset at this....yet they will talk and talk then pay and pay (under the table dealings no doubt) and then everyone will eventually will just go away happy ..but still the little person gets nothing and the damage will be done..it doesn't take a rocket scientest to figure this out??? Just look at how they screwed up Katrina. Anyway here is the newsfeed of the big CEO leaving BP ...

Tony Hayward leaving as BP CEO, US official says


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Jul 25, 10:29 PM (ET)

By HARRY R. WEBER and TAMARA LUSH

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP's Tony Hayward, whose gaffes added insult to oil-spill injury for the Gulf Coast, is on his way out as CEO, a U.S. government official said Sunday. Many residents found small comfort in that as BP's biggest mistake under Hayward continued to foul their waters, their beaches and their way of life.

A change in leadership will not change the mammoth tasks ahead of BP, from stopping the offshore oil gusher for good, to cleaning up the millions of gallons that have already leaked, to paying billions in claims - all while defending its stock price and repairing its battered reputation.

The senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an announcement had not been made, was briefed on the decision by a senior BP official late last week.

The government official did not know who will replace Hayward or when it will happen.


One of the most likely successors is BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, who is currently overseeing the British company's spill response and would be BP's first American CEO if he is chosen. It is unclear if he would be juggling leadership of BP with oil-spill duties - just as Hayward once did - or whether he would delegate that duty to someone else.

Earlier Sunday, BP PLC (BP) spokesman Toby Odone seemed to downplay reports about Hayward's departure, saying he "remains BP's chief executive, and he has the confidence of the board and senior management."

BP's board would have to approve a change in company leadership. An official announcement could come as early as Monday.

It's been more than three months since an offshore drilling rig operated by BP exploded off Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers and setting off the spill. A temporary plug has stopped oil from gushing for more than a week now, but before that the busted well had spewed anywhere from 94 million to 184 million gallons into the Gulf.

Tropical Storm Bonnie forced ships fighting the spill to pull out, but crews returned quickly Sunday as the storm broke apart so they could resume work on a relief well, a permanent fix for the gusher.

Hayward, 53, was BP's most visible figure for weeks after the oil spill, but faded from the Gulf scene after several tone-deaf comments made people even angrier at the company than they had been. Possibly the most damaging comment came in late May, when Hayward told reporters, "I want my life back," as Gulf residents struggled with the effects of the spill.

He minimized the environmental effects of the oil spill, questioned the existence of oil plumes that scientists have identified and enraged members of Congress when he said he was out of the loop on decisions at the well before the explosion. Dudley took the lead on oil spill duties after Hayward was pilloried for going to a yacht race.

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said Hayward's departure will be good for BP's image.

"I just hope they replace him with somebody who understands the situation, someone who will come down here and see what's happening on a regular basis, someone who will communicate with us," he said. "From the beginning it was obvious this guy was not the leader needed in this crisis."

But other Gulf residents shrugged upon hearing the news. The oil, they said, has already done its damage.

"It doesn't matter," said Chris Foss, a 39-year-old boat captain from Port Sulphur. "Whatever happens with the corporate dudes is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what they are going to do about this mess."

Patrick Shay, 43, sat on a porch swing of his cottage in Grand Isle on Sunday, his front yard filled with small, white crosses, each bearing the name of sea life or ways of life the oil spill has killed.

"He seems like a pretty self-absorbed person, so I'm not surprised to hear he would walk away in the middle of all this," he said of Hayward. "If anything it will help. They need to get him out of the way and get this cleaned up."

David Duet, 62, of LaRose, La., filled his ice chest at the grocery store in Grand Isle, where he brings his camper every weekend despite the oil.

"I don't think he's directly responsible for the spill, but he still had to answer for it," said Duet, who worked on oil rigs for more than 22 years. "I can understand the time it took to cap it. I know how hard things are out there."

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said BP's attitude about making things right is more important than who is running it.

"BP, from I think everybody's perspective, made a very bad mistake," he said. "I think what the world expects from BP is an acknowledgment that something was done wrong. I think BP has a long way to go to gain the trust of the people."

Hayward joined BP in 1982 as a geologist, and currently makes 1.045 million pounds (US$1.6 million) a year as the company's head, according to their annual report. In 2009, he received a performance bonus of more than 2 million pounds (US$3.1 million) plus other remuneration, bringing his total pay package to more than 4 million pounds (US$6.1 million).

The company can terminate the contracts of directors "at any time with immediate effect on payment in lieu of notice equivalent to one year's salary," the report says.

Hayward also would receive close to 600,000 pounds (US$900,000) a year upon retirement.

Hayward "became a sacrificial lamb in a politically charged world," said Oppenheimer & Co. senior analyst Fadel Gheit.

Dudley would be well suited to take over, Gheit said, describing him as even-tempered and a good delegator. But he added, "I'm not sure if removing Tony Hayward is going to throw BP's problems away."

Plugging the leaky well for good would knock one of BP's biggest problems off the list, and the company was looking to rebound Sunday from the shutdown forced by Tropical Storm Bonnie.

A drill rig was expected to reconnect at around midnight to the relief tunnel that will be used to pump in mud and cement to seal the well, and drilling could resume in the next few days.

Completion of the relief well that is the best chance to permanently stop the oil now looks possible by mid-August, but retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the spill, said he wouldn't hesitate to order another evacuation if there are forecasts similar to the ones for Bonnie.

"We have no choice but to start well ahead of time if we think the storm track is going to bring gale force winds, which are 39 mph or above, anywhere close to well site," Allen said.

Allen said officials will spend the next day determining how Bonnie, which did no real damage on shore, affected the area. Oil may have migrated north to Mississippi Sound, he said, and officials are checking to see if boom that was protecting sensitive marshlands was pushed ashore.

Experts had hoped the storm would break up and disperse the dwindling amount of oil visible on the ocean's surface, but Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard officer supervising day-to-day cleanup, said that didn't end up happening.

"We never had the high winds, the high sea states you get with a more slow-moving and more severe storm," he said during a flyover with reporters Sunday afternoon.

Zukunft said aerial surveillance of the Louisiana coast Sunday found just one patch of emulsified oil, appearing as a milky strip in the sparking blue water.

Since BP's well was capped July 15, the amount of oil skimmed from the surface has plunged from just over 1 million gallons a day to about 2,400 gallons on Thursday, Zukunft said.

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Associated Press writers David Dishneau and Greg Bluestein in New Orleans, Mary Foster in Grand Isle, La., and Emily Fredrix in New York contributed to this report.

(This version CORRECTS Corrects that New Orleans Mitch Landrieu, not Sen. Mary Landrieu, made comment about BP's attitude about making things right is more important than who is running it in paragraphs 28 and 29. This story is part of AP's general news and financial services. AP Video.)


Now does this get anyone else's goat out there or I am the only one? Comments PLEASE.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Let us pray this works ...Some news from AP cbc newsfeeds.

By The Associated Press, cbc.ca, Updated: July 14, 2010 9:15 PM
BP's new cap starts to shut off oil leak

BP has started testing the tighter-fitting cap designed to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from a broken well for the first time in almost three months.

The test began Wednesday with BP shutting off pipes that were funnelling some of the oil to ships on the surface, so the full force of the gusher went up into the cap.

Then deep-sea robots began slowly closing — one at a time — three openings in the cap that let oil pass through.

Ultimately, the flow of crude will be blocked entirely. All along, engineers will be watching pressure readings to learn whether the well is intact.

Former coast guard admiral Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the disaster, said the government gave the testing go-ahead after carefully reviewing the risks.

"What we didn't want to do is compound that problem by making an irreversible mistake," he said.

Second thoughts

The cap — a 68-tonne metal stack of pipes and valves — was lowered onto the well Monday in hopes of either bottling up the oil inside the well machinery or capturing it and funnelling it to the surface.

But before BP could test the equipment, the government intervened because of second thoughts about whether the buildup of pressure from the gushing oil could rupture the walls of the well and make the leak worse.

"We sat long and hard about delaying the tests," Allen said.

He said the pause was necessary in the interest of the public, the environment and safety before officials were convinced the test could go forward.

Allen said BP will monitor the results every six hours and end the test after 48 hours to evaluate the findings.

The oil giant had been scheduled to start slowly shutting off valves Tuesday on the cap, aiming to stop the flow of oil for the first time in three months.

BP was initially ahead of schedule on its latest effort to plug the leak. The cap was designed to be a temporary fix until the well is plugged underground.

Initial progress stalled

A series of methodical, preliminary steps were completed before progress stalled.

Engineers spent hours on a seismic survey, creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. It also provides a baseline to compare to later surveys during and after the test to see if the pressure on the well is causing underground problems.

An unstable area around the wellbore could create bigger problems if the leak continued elsewhere in the well after the cap valves were shut, experts said.

"It's an incredibly big concern," said Don Van Nieuwenhuise, director of Professional Geoscience Programs at the University of Houston. "They need to get a scan of where things are, that way when they do pressure testing, they know to look out for ruptures or changes."

The leak began after the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers. As of Tuesday, the 84th day of the disaster, between 342 million and 676 million litres of oil had spewed into the Gulf.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

What you do not know? …

Well everyone has been wondering …hey, what happened with Babe Ruth?



Well people let me say from Wednesday ‘s Interview which really went very good as I asked allot of Questions and really got down to earth real answers from what I will call really down to earth very talented musicians.

Okay at 11:15, I left my place riding my bike with a little over 35 lbs on my back in my large knapsack, all my gear, and it was like 45 degrees out with the humidity I rode all the way to the interview, which was in old Aylmer. I got there at 12:55 the interview was to start at 1pm while the band was having lunch. I quickly set up and got a bit of the practice on video, ahhh the start of a great documentary on one of the greatest British bands from the 70’s which I had a big part of getting them to Canada, because of my very high interest in the British Music scene. I even brought the first Babe Ruth Album in mint condition to the interview to get them to sign it and tell them the story of how I obtained it three days before it was on the racks in the record stores.



I explained what I was doing after seeing a film of the punk scene in Vancouver with the video, plus that I was trying to get them some gigs to expand the tour in Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria.

I left the interview at around 3pm again with all my gear on my back and filled up water bottles and rode down to the Chad Bridge crossing it into Ottawa down Island Park Drive. I get to almost Carling ave...you see I had to bike to bank and Hunt Club to pick up a ticket for that nights Bluesfest I was so happy and excited yes indeed as if you knew me like my close friends do about what was buzzing in my head all the cool ideas and how I wanted to do this documentary.

Well I did not have to bike all that way in the end and ended up going to Bluesfest I did drop some of my stuff at my friend’s place, to lighten my load.

So then I rode back home around 1 am to my place getting home at 2:15 and I dropped as soon as I saw my bed. I was a dead man, but a happy and content.


Of course Thursday was yet another day I will get to again spend time with the band as they were going to play a closed private concert that night and I was to be there at 8pm, I took one of my friends who is in the picture of Babe Ruth performing back in 74.

We got there a few minutes before and proceeded to have a drink at the bar, then we went into the theatre part to watch a three-piece band that did all cover tunes. They actually are quite good at doing them too, they actual do the Mexican damn close to Babe Ruth which Alan Shacklock noted as he said “This is the future.”

Well then Babe Ruth took the stage and played allot of their set list and I have to say I got them on video for the documentary and recorded it off the floor using Reaper Recording software, shame I was using the mikes from the puter. However, listening to it later I thought I did a good job as I did a few tricks to the recording …thank you Recording Institute of America.

Yes indeed Babe Ruth are back I thought and more ideas were flowing through the old brain again, this time thinking the documentary, but now thinking hmmm take the recording of the Mexican mix it down even maybe put my own hip hop spin on it. With cuts from what I had, video taped so far you know, the interview, and now this night and I was thinking the next three nights of the tour.

Well I was told that there would be a band pass for me at Bluesfest, So here I was at home and doing stuff to get prepared for that night answering allot of emails from 5:15 am when I awoke from going to bed at 2am. My email was going crazy friends and others asking me about if they can meet the band or if I could get them in. I told those that they had to buy a ticket, as I had no control on that SORRY! For the ones asking can I meet them I told them that after the show they would probably be at the autograph tent?

I left my place to take the bus into town at around 9:30am as I wanted also to do an run to my old neighbourhood to see the progress on my house that I grew up in as on the 2nd I saw it for the last time because when I got there it was gone demolished now. I stood on my street in front where my house use to be my knees buckled and I started shaking as if I was getting ready to faint. Therefore, I stopped myself from fainting as I sat on the side of the road put my head in between my knees to get the blood flowing again of course when I raised my head up my eyes welled up and the tears flowed. I felt erased indeed. I left Ortona Avenue and got to the site around 4:15 I went to see about my band pass at the bluesfest offices. They gave me a general admission pass and told me to go over to the subway stage to see about my band pass. So I go over and ask a few people volunteers where I can find the stage manager. Now this is where it started because I must have asked six volunteers. All saying they do not know, then I see the people with the question mark t-shirts who carry signs ask me? Okay so I ask a bunch of them also answer was the same I do not know. Then I was starting to think holy shit these people have no clue of what is going on let alone know anything. I then start thinking holy crap that is good you hire people as volunteers and yet you do not inform them of anything important…Can I make a suggestion here to Mark Monahan Mr. Hollywood. Just a suggestion for next years NOT FOR PROFIT Bluesfest. I suggest that with some of that cash that the city of Ottawa gives to the festival and how much was that this year, whereas the Jazzfest got no funding at all and have been doing it longer then Bluesfest, well I suggest that you make a handbook for the volunteers that have no clue because of lack of communication. Yes that big word COMMUNICATION. Make a handbook on the most asked questions. Like where things are? the whole info for the volunteers . So people do not get frustrated at the lack of information.



Finally, I was told to wait at the front of the stage where the stage managers trailer was I was told he would be out to see me in twenty minutes. Okay so I wait and wait with my bowler hat on still waiting, it starts raining hmm not good for a bowler hat. Waited an hour being a little streamed as I was getting soaked in the rain that was falling. Then a rent a cop SECURITY took me backstage where I met both Dave Pinshon and Dave Hewitt, they told me that they were having band meetings and they had to go to it end they had no control over the band pass and to get a hold of Roche Pariesin. Okay I say but I knew then that something was up’. I knew! Just call it my strong relationship with my inner beliefs. Nevertheless, before I left presented them with a beautiful photograph of B.B. King, which I took at the opening of the Hard Rock Café in Beijing on May 14th 1994. Asking them to give it to Jenny Haan as a thank you to her for her kindness and letting me be part of the exciting reunion of one of my favourite bands. I will point out here also that I had been communicating with Janita for many months before. Now everybody saw the promo posters I did which I did to PROMOTE the shows, I had put them on line on my facebook accounts and started to promo the three shows that they the band was calling their reunion tour. Janita even said in an email to me “That’s wicked” and then the rest of the band also sent messages saying they were awesome etc. Even then, I asked Janita about doing an interview with the band. She said there should be no problem but to get a hold of the booking agency and the promoter, which I did, sending emails to both.One did not answer and Roche did. We arranged the interview whereas he asked me if I would be interested in videotaping the bands shows and if I would be interested in shooting some promo pictures. I told him then that I still shoot on film and have not gone the digital route yet. But informed him about a fellow filmmaker who also shoots photos telling him that he has won several awards, one of which was a photo of my left hand , yes the world famous Frog paw (from the Ren and Stimpy episode Ren seeks Help.) or as many of my friends call it the Craw.

I told him that I would call him and ask him to see if he would be interested in doing the shoot. Now again I will mention that I told Roche that I would ask him and get back to him shortly. Well behind my back Roche goes on facebook finds my friend then emails him and starts asking through facebook about doing it. Well my friend who is very busy with a television production at the time, calls me up and starts telling me that this Roche person is trying to get him to do the photo shoot, I explained to him thee situation, he was mad that this person went over my head and started communicating without any knowledge to me. My friend said he would check to see if he could do it. Awhile later, he called me back and said he was just too busy. Then he asked me not to put his name out there and that he would do his own stuff like me. I totally understood, as we are both independent filmmakers. So now, I started thinking about this and how I told him I would take care of it. Yet he took it on himself to go and get in touch with my friend on his own. Next time ask.

When I did get back to him he then informed me that he had been in touch with this big fan from Montreal who owns his own production company in Montreal and that he would be doing the shoot and doing what he said a three camera to four camera shoot. so I was not needed for the video shoot, but that if I wanted I could shoot the shows and maybe contribute to this guys stuff to, I agreed and said would like to meet with the guy MoMo.

I will point out here that he also informed me the band had no budget for promo. That was weird I thought, but I was not asking for any money. I was even ready to go and rent outta my own pocket three hi end professional video cameras. For a three camera shoot and I was going to hire two fellow filmmakers from the film and video club. Believe me folks I was doing my research on the cameras to, so in retrospect I was ready to shoot the three shows free for the band. Where I would rent the equipment out of my own pocket.

I will also mention also that if I would have had a little extra cash I would have got the promo posters done in a batch from a printer.



Well I did go and get Black and White copies of the promo posters and then took the time outta my busy day to go and poster down Bank Street and Elgin Street. Something I did for shows at Barrymores Music Hall back in the day. Which by the way should have been the practice hall for the band seeing it was voted many times the best live venue in North America many times. Oh yeah I should also mention here that this was also a bit of a screw up as at first Roche told me the band would be practicing in the basement of Irene’s Pub on Bank Street in the Glebe, and that the private concert would be there. I was sworn to the secret. Now knowing the person who does the bookings of bands for Irene’s I thought of getting a hold of him as I had this idea of a photo exhibit which I am calling 4/6 Music time. In my mind would also promote Bluesfest because the photos I am using are all photos I have shot over the years at Bluesfest for various magazines. I am hoping to display it somewhere soon.

So now, I am hearing all the crap going on and I again offer my services in a friendly manner… Each time having something else explained to me, then my thoughts were like this guy is all over the map and looks like he’s about to have a nervous breakdown. So I now call him it was a little after 6pm now, he answers and informs me he is not there yet? And would call me later, he did not. Then I see him and he proceeds to tell me that I cannot get a band pass and that the general admission was my pass...oh so now I am just a fan? I ask then if it is okay to film the show from the crowd he tells me yes go ahead but respect the band and do not but any thing up without permission. I totally agree. Nothing was said at that time about the little snippet I had put up on youtube about 22 seconds in length. However, Alan had emailed me about respecting the band and asked that I do not put any video or audio up. I emailed him back, agreed, and asked him at that time if indeed he wanted me to take the short clip. Which I thought was a great way to promote the upcoming shows. I did not get a reply so I thought okay not sure on that one but still thought it would excite people who knew Babe Ruth so that those people would spread the word which is still the best way and oldest way of promotions, word of mouth. As I found out at the show a lot of people there who had never heard of them even back in their hey day.



Therefore, with just hours before the show I decided to go and finally eat something seeing I had not eaten yet... making my way back to the subway stage, I stood close to the stage on the side that Alan was on, listening to Canada’s own God! Gord Downie…

He did his last song. I then looked all around the place was packed for the return of Babe Ruth here I was feeling PROUD that I again was making this band known for those unfortunate ones and the younger ones who didn’t know them.

I then started to take out my camera stuff. But as I was doing this, this weirdo woman who was with another woman and man starts grabbing my ass every time I lean over to get into my knapsack. On the third time, I stand up and jokingly I say “Look Lady I got no ass to grab, and laughed…as I was wearing my Spiderman shirt she just started singing Spiderman. Instant thought CRAZY! So I go back to my knapsack again she pinches my ass and this time hard. I will say here my ass was sore from all the bike riding I had done in the last few days. I stood up but thought ignore ignore she will get the message. Again, bend over to my knapsack again pinch this time really hard near my nuts. I turn around I am PISSED now! In addition, say “Lady you pinch my ass again and I am going to punch your Fing lights out! The guy steps in saying its all-good it\s just fun... I disagreed and told him control the bitch or else see what happens. My temper was starting to flare up at this time.

The Band come out video camera stats taping show. Then about seven minutes into the show first rent a cop comes up to me (everybody loves a rent a cop). Saying no filming I explain to him I have permission from Roche and he asks where is my pass I inform him I did not get one. He says again stop shooting I again say I have permission, and ask him if he would like to see proof he says yeah like he was king cop so into my knapsack I go and get the tape out and how him part of the concert from the night before. I say does that look like the same person playing the bass up there. He looks at stage looks at camera and goes YEAH! I said well? He said sorry and left... of course I have just missed shooting some great clips. Through the corner of my eye I see my. Rent a cop standing near the entrance gates with a few other rent a cops. Therefore, I think okay he is informing them that this person over there is shooting for the band, which was my full intention.

Well not five minutes later another rent a cop who was standing there comes over to pull his heavy on me, I say did the other person not explain this to you because I saw you talking to him, he denied he was talking to him. So here, we go again put camera down get tape out again to show this rent a cop proof. While I am getting my stuff out my camera case flies out with my power chord, TV cables in it was being really hassled by him, and yes, I was getting pissed. Only because I was missing great shots of Alan do his solo and believe me from what I heard and saw of that really sorry I missed filming it… it’s that type of guitar playing that really moves me internally and makes me happy. So Mr. Rent a Cop was still pulling his heavy on me so I said I would go with him to confirm it but hell I did not want to miss this show this is why I was here... So I said to myself, screw it this person is being a complete A-hole. Went to get my camera bag to put camera away thinking how I would tell the band after the show… Then I noticed camera bag was snagged as I looked for that bag after the show till 2:30 checking the area, garbage cans and the lost and found, to no avail …so here I was now Really getting pissed off and really trying to hold it in but I lost it and in a very unprofessional manner . But do you blame me?



Well then the show ends the band announces that they will be at the autograph tent for their fans. I figure that will take awhile after they leave thee stage so I thought have time to look for bag. Looked and; looked like I said.

So finally I head over to the tent and I see Roche, I go up to him and he says he’ll see me in a few minutes...thought yeah okay…he runs away to do what he had to do. Then I see Jen being driven up to the tent on the Bluesfest Golf Carts….I look at her and she goes right by as if I wasn’t there, as she was going by I said to her you ere awesome and you killed them…She like I said went right by me. Thought that was weird cold shoulder treatment?

Then a few moments later Roche comes up to me and starts asking me what happened and all the shit that went down had got back to the band, him saying it was unprofessional and yes I agreed and offered my apologies saying I thought I would have a band pas for the shoot from the side of the stage. He then goes on to explain that the reason I did not get the pass was that as he said THE BAND thinks you’re just an over Zealous fan… Excuse ME! WTF! Is that? I have been promoting this reunion for a good three months before the date and then I am told that I am an over zealous fan… OKAY! So then, I say I guess the band hates me now. And if I should go and apologise to them all individual, he said they do not want to see you now and that it would be a bad idea at the time...okay I say then I will send them an email. He says good idea. Okay at this point I was extremely hurt by this and with other things as per mentioned my day had not gone good call it Karma …it is that date…. Something about it?



So later after much thought I decided to email Alan first and offer my deepest apology. Thinking I would await a reply before I email the rest of the band. Well as of this writing, I have not heard a peep... not even a thanks from Janita for the present I left for her… Isn’t that great gratitude eh?



Well people I will tell you right now this mishap has really turned me off Babe Ruth as it reminds me of my good friend who hates U2 only because of a bad experience when we saw them the first time they played Ottawa and yes it was at Barrymores.

So in other words the stuff I have of Babe Ruth is never going to see the light of day now too bad

And as for the band well good luck …



As for myself well I will now never return to the Bluesfest again as we say in Italian…CMF!!!. And as one of my radio mentors says on his show. “ Welcome to the island of insanity.”

Monday, July 12, 2010

It is All Gone Now

Well here it is the real deal you see about two months ago I got an email from an old neighbour who informed me that my house. The house I grew up in, had my hand accident in, broke my collarbone in etc etc, Yes the memories will always be within my mind good and bad… However, when I go down Ortona Avenue now my house will no longer be there, it was demolished during the week of July 2nd 2010.



Sad to see it gone very sad, it is like feeling one has been erased. I wanted to try to get the written numbers that you see in the photo as I was with my dad when he bought them in Syracuse, New York. Even helped him put them up on the front of the house. Gawd there is so many memories, which I hope I will not forget, as I get older. Yes, folks some people do suffer from memory loss, as they get older and older.

Nevertheless, with me seeing my dad go that way, I myself after the passing of my dad went on a mission to re-educate my brain. You see since my dad passed away I have become increasing interested in the brain and how it really works. Which in theory really is an education in it’s self.

However, I don’t get it especially now that I am older? You know what they say eh, “The Older the Wiser.” I figure that is only true if indeed you are doing something every day to make you wiser. Research has shown us that by doing puzzles, and excersing the brain increases the chance of not developing altimetry disease. Interesting! Because doctors and researchers now are, doing much needed research on this disease that robs people of their great memories.

The strange thing about myself is that I have a great memory, just ask my close friends who have known me for over 40 years, because we use to do things as kids and teenagers way back, allot of them even forget things from our should I say wild days. I laugh all the time because even when I was blasted out of my head and either fell down, or passed out. However, the memory stayed, I even remember details when I was in some forum out of it. That part rather scares me. Because I was usually in some sub conscious not upright position, so to me this proves in a small theory that even when you think your sleeping or because you have put something into your body that will affect the synapse of your brain. But is that really true, The Brain is just one big in today’s technology computer, but just how much memory is in that hard drive of yours?

Good question eh?



When I was really happy and enjoying life pre 1996. I had a great opportunity to be on a vacation on a remote little island in the Philippines, This place was Paradise , nothing on it just peace and quiet, no hustle and bustle, the perfect place to let all your stress out, and enjoy life like we all deserve to live. If you can and I highly recommend this place for a place of tranquility. Check the island out as it is called Club Paradise, http://www.clubparadisepalawan.com/



While I was there with my happy family, oh, I must say we stayed there for five weeks. I met allot of other very interesting people either working there or who were coming there also for vacation, and to get a piece of peace and tranquility. I met a man and his family and I am sorry that is where my memory slips. I cannot remember his name but if anyone knowing him, I would be grateful to find him again.

He was a doctor practing in Hong Kong, a very stressful place remember this was just before Hong Kong which was a British Colony was turned back over to China, so just imagine the stress levels he was going through. At first I did think he was British but then found out he and his family were actually from the land down under, Australia. Now while I was there I was taking scuba as he and his older son were to, we became to know each other well, I felt bad for him and his wife however. On the day of their arrival, she steps off the boat and broke her foot she was taken back and she returned to Hong Kong, leaving her hubby and son there. Therefore, you can just imagine, “hmmm Doctor high stressful job! Needs well deserved holiday.”

So here, I and himself with a few others were learning scuba diving together. After the dives, we would usually go back to the island to relax and chill; usually sitting on the beachfront watching the most beautiful sunsets you will ever see. Drinking a nice, chilled Pina Colada.We got to know each other through the communication we were doing. I found out he was a brain doctor “HOW HIGH OF A STRESS LEVEL is that job.”

However, because of my interest in that machine we had many talks on the subject branching off into other related topics. One of those topics was the belief in a GOD like figure, and he really clarified that subject up for me. Whether you do believe in a God like figure or your belief is the Big Bang theory, then read on.



Now we started talking about the illusion of the God like figure we all are implanted in our brain from an early age. Being from the Catholic faith I grew up like most of us church going families, having to take religion in school going to Sunday mass in your Sunday best with the rest of the family where you would sit for what seemed hours, in a hot itchy suit and you would have to not eat for three hours so one could receive the “Body of Christ.” Which I would pray to after I received it,, ate it thinking Jesus is within me Amen…so I use to say okay stop making my stomach growl and make me not hungry, because you knew Sunday bunch was another hour away.



But what he was telling me about the POWER of the brain was truly fasinating me, he said that the God like figure that society believes in and passes on in twisted stories generation after generation, is just that a story.

A good example of this is the Shroud of the wrapping cloth of Jesus Christ.







Research has told us that this cloth and the exposure of the body of Christ is a fake and scientists have confirmed that this cloth actually dates back to the 15th century, yet another twisted storyline.



The whole thing is implanted from a really early age and those classes and all that we absorb in our own hard drives is so implanted that it is a brain washing in all degrees.

I retracted by asking him well how do you explain the people that come back to life and say they experienced a really cool or weird sensation and saw a tunnel of white light. His answer Brainwashing. we believe it because it is taught, implanted from images, yes images especially in grade school looking at those images of brutality, killing all those things we are taught not to do, but yet some do. Right from those books called The Holy Bible most probable the best selling book of history. Only because of the power of the best computer made your brain, we see it in that way.

Let me ask you and see if you can answer this. What is the last thing to shut down when you do die? If you said my bran oh wow you get 100 per cent on that test. Actually the brain takes from two hours to six hours after a person is officially pronounced dead, to die. I asked him about that and he said that because of the enormous amount of material we have stored over a lifetime it takes that long for it to totally shut down. Strange indeed but yet another deep mystery of the human mind…



I will continue with this subject in the future, because it is such an area that I am very interested in.

After all it is a very fascinating machine that is the brain

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Ottawa Bluesfest Starts Today

Get Ready to Listen to the MUUUUUUSIC!

                                                

Well folks today starts another year of the Blues yes indeed The Ottawa Bluesfest Festival starts today...and it is year 17 for it..But is it really the blues this year? Hmm well for a number of years now I have heard people bitch, complain, that it ain't the bluesfest it use to be..Looking at the line up this year I have to totally agree. I am thinking it should be called Metalfest..Just look at the heavy rockers who are there this year ...Like Iron Maiden

                                               
opening night...Yeah like they are the blues.. Okay I know for allot of musicians summertime is tour time and if you look at the bluesfest line up you will see exactly how many bands, musicians, are playing on all stages. It is pretty cool in that fact that if you don't like this band or that band you just move to a different venue stage ... But again looking at the selection of blues people, did bluesfest people forget us die hard blues players?
Well all I have to say follow on as I will give you my views, opinions on the shows I do catch.
One that I am really looking forward to and yeah doing allot of promo work for this only because of how much I love that sound,the musicianship,and the vocal power of Jen Haan,  the reunion of  british band  Babe Ruth with all the original members is one show that you should catch. They will be playing the Subway Stage at 9:15 on Friday Saturday July 9th

                                             

             Babe Ruth should never be forgotten as one of the best rock bands to ever come out of England.





 I first met them at a greet and meet back stage in 1972 thanks to the place I was working at the time.
I saw them again a few years later, I was the first person in Ottawa to have their First Base Album too which I still have today in mint condition... 

Well I am off now for the loudness of Iron Maiden and shit yes  I forgot my friggen earplugs. I may have a little ear damage in the morning...

Monday, July 5, 2010

Are we all Guilty of that one commandment that say’s;


Well here, we are day what of the BP disaster. Well here, it is people July 5th and so let us see 100,000 gallons a day hmm times …. Well you can see from the little equation that Yeah that\s allot of friggen oil that is flowing into the oceans KILLING the marine life. Not to mention the birds and mammals that are being KILLED.

                                        




Then if it keeps going, we will be next people…

                                              



Nevertheless, here are my thoughts on all of this because this is what is really happening. When I was young it started when I actually went to a open pit mine and saw trucks filled with rocks and gravel leaving the mine and in my mind I was thinking when they take something from the earth how does the earth fix itself up… okay I thought this because when you do something to your own body like falling off your bike and cutting up your knees lets say, well it bleeds and bleeds, you cry and cry. Then after a few weeks and many bandages, your knees are back to normal. Well I thought maybe the earth does the same. Boy was I wrong! Because when we take things from mother earth she does not get better, she gets worst. To think that we the people have been destroying our earth now for how long?



Well people after looking at something a few days after we experienced a 5.0 earthquake here in Ottawa and the area, they even felt it as far as Buffalo and New York. Well I took down my globe and I looked at something and found that what I was thinking was hmmm RIGHT.



Okay I am going to make a prediction here now, as that earthquake happened My prediction is that within another six weeks to ten another earthquake is going to happen. Because all that oil gushing out people is making a void in mother earth.

It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this out. Take your globes your atlas and put your finger in the area of that BP oil spill, now take your finger and move it northward… see what I am talking about if you see your finger goes along almost a straight line up past the Ottawa area, and with the void that BP is creating by not taking immediate action, or really not testing this oil drilling procedure and even admitting it was a disaster waiting to happen. They are creating a huge void, which for the matter is creating the earth to swift to fill that void. However, when you take something out you have to have something going back in. We all know that never happens. Therefore, with all that oil gushing out we are guilty of MURDER! Well in this case I will say BP is the criminal.



You bet I am pissed off because of this and dam mad to, What is the answer here…Look up Look up Look way up and just look at that bright yellow thing hanging in the sky. The sun that is what we should be honing in on. The sun is our ultimate power source and we should be doing more science wise to harness that power. We have only started. I say to all oil companies QUIT being greedy leave mother earth along and start the energy boost to harness what God gave us the sun, wind, and water because water is really the fluid to use. Which always boggles the mind, like what ever happened to the car that would run on water? Or where are the jet packs, flying cars that magazines like Popullar Science or Popular Mechanics were showing us in the 50’s and 60’s?





We MUST do more, and more research on the elements around the earth. The Sun, wind, water are our true energy sources and all of them at the moment which they should be are FREE



It’s time my little hormones we take action before it is too late.



And yes please BOYCOTT BP!





What is he really thinking?
"Hmm maybe I should go sailing."

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Happy Fourth of July the Greatest Holiday in the U.S.A.


Well to all my aunts, uncles, cousins, my oldest brother Bob and all my friends, fans, and all great Americans Happy Fourth of July. Ah, yes the coolest holiday of the year. When I lived in Arlington, Virginia from 1984 to 1987, I had the opportunity to witness 4 July. The first year there went to The Mall and wow all I have to say is it was insane, people coming together proud and free, it was a PARTY. I was lucky thanks to my ex spouse, and relatives, as I got to get backstage and meet some of the performers of the day well I did got to meet Joan Jett and The Blackhearts,



However The Beach Boys were sort of off on the other side of the backstage antics. However, it was cool to meet Joan, as I was a big fan even before the movie she did with fellow Canadian Michael J. Fox. The whole day as I think back was a complete blur, as I was feeling the vibe and loving it because of my love for America.



My love actually came about from those family visits we made by car dad driving all night and all day, mom didn’t drive at that time so it was six to eight people in the car, Dad, driving me beside dad, Mom on passenger side or Peggy my step grandmother, depended on who called Shotgun LOL… yeah right! Then it was Bob, MaryJane, Dave and one or both sisters of Peggy, Jo and Annie. In the back seat, remember this was during the late 50’s and 60’s. Those American Cars were BIG back then. We would travel to Washington D.C. to see the Grace side of my dad’s side and with what they had and the people who they worked for just fascinated me to no end. I wanted to be an American period.



Yes, my Aunt Loretta was a big influence at that early age and I could see how much respect that my dad had for her after all she was probably the closest sister to my dad’s mom and not really knowing at that time about my grandmother on dad’s side. As my grandmother died from the TB outbreak in the 20’s she passed away when my dad was just five years old. Then meeting all my relatives down there, it was cool cousins and all.



We also have relatives too from my mom’s side and we would travel to Buffalo, New York to visit my aunt Dot and Uncle Jack with all the cousins. Oh and they made me more to be an American. One thing I remember from the house was the laundry shoots to the washroom in the basement. In each bedroom, there was a door on the wall asked my cousin what that door leads to and he told me and showed me... I thought “How genius is that... no more dirty clothes on the floor, mom and dad wouldn’t be yelling at us to clean our rooms if all houses had these...and also Garbage disposals…Yes indeed if you really think about it was the start of the technology age.



Of course the fondest memories I have are all the vacation trips we would take to Syracuse, New York which was usually the last days of summer right after the Ottawa Ex would end as Dad had just shown ten days of Flower shows where he made a good little extra cash as I also would earn some cash in the children’s classes.

Well after the Ex dad would then arrange the trip to Syracuse, he would usually go with one of his best friends Higgy and his family. Dad would drive down to his office on Albert Street go into the office check stuff out then he and I would walk over to the bank on Sparks street and he would get his American money. I have to say I always thought we were rich because dad would like get 5 thousand exchanged of course back then our dollar was worth much more. However, when I use to hear him say, “Five Thousand exchanged into US dollars …It\s strange when you’re that small to think that way Yeah we have such interesting little brains at that age...



Then it was back home, pack the car with empty suitcases a big cooler with a block of ice in it case of beer, a 40 pounder, soft drinks and food mom made. In those days, Drinking behind the wheel was not like today Thank God for that.

We would do the 3-hour drive crossing the border usually at Prescott and we would get on I-81 to Watertown then on to Syracuse. Yes as soon as we were going over the bridge, I felt cool I was an American I thought.



We would always stay at The Jefferson Clinton Hotel

                                  

or if by chance they were full up which happened during the Vietnam war era we would stay at the hotel across from it sorry name slips my mind, but it was at this hotel I got to see my very first colour TV broadcast which was Mitch Millar I was hooked but Dad was probably the last person in our neighbourhood to get a colour television.



We would shop till we dropped for three days and do things of interest, ha have to even say at the age of 16 I even wanted to sign up for the draft, well dad had to explain to me why I was not allowed.



Those are memories of the U.S.A. that I will always remember.



Then in 1984, my spouse and I were cross-posted from Rome, Italy to Washington D.C.

Well after being back in Ottawa to visit the families, we were in the hotel, mom mentioned to me to make sure you call your Aunts and Uncles.

Of course, mom did not let up calling us while we were in the Hotel waiting to find a place to live. She again said call your relatives they might be able to help so I said okay. Well I phone my aunt and we start talking and she informs me that my cousin was getting married the following week and invited us So we go to the wedding and after at the reception, while we were in the line to go in one of my little cousins comes out and says Guess who’s inside I said who as I saw the excitement in her, she says Huey Lewis.



I look at my spouse and say Wow they have Huey Lewis and the News for the entertainment. This was the day after the MTV music awards where Huey and the news had one allot that night. So we get inside and there he is standing up against a wall I go up to him and shake his hand informing him I played his stuff like crazy in Rome on the radio he was at that moment a little shy as he just shook his head and said thanks of course being me I thought okay move on see others so I say “be good to hear you later.” So now, I have to say the reception was in three halls at The University of Maryland. One for socializing, one for dinner and the dance hall. Well we are eating and we hear the music start up and I say to my spouse “Let’s go dance to Huey Lewis and the News. Then we go into the room on stage was an all black band playing the classics to the music of the day. I look and see Huey again against the wall. I go over and say I thought you were playing then he asked me What side are you from I saw that’s my cousin the groom he then says That’s my wife the maid of honour. Therefore, after that it was as we were family. Of course, I was pretty blasted at the reception, and then my aunt asks us back to her house well we go and I rather remember parts of that period talking with my uncle Randy.

Of course, for the next three years I was totally into the American lifestyle.



Then in 1986, my daughter was born in Washington and she was born an American, but also has Canadian and British citizenship. This to me was the ultimate thing to me. I really felt now I have true American in me…NOW...



SO I SAY TO YOU ALL!



Happy Fourth of July! Party!!! Fly the RED, WHITE, and AND BLUE with honour and Pride.





Love you all.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Is Jim Morrison really DeadÉ

Okay here it is July 3rd the anniversary of The Doors lead singer the charismatic and strange Jim Morrison.





Reports from that day say that Jim was found in a bathtub and died from a heart attack. However, is this a fact or is Jim Morrison still living amongst us all?



From those years of Rock and Roll came an on slot of rockers who found themselves six feet under due to unheard of circumstances, and Jim Morrison being one of them, but probably the most talked about.



What was it that made his death so strange? Compared to others who in some peoples eyes were mentors or living legends that you looked up to, icons that you wanted to be like, especially if you were trying the rock and roll arena yourself. Like many music lovers from the 60’s flower power days to the 70’s music daze. We all had our favourite, ones the ones we idolized for myself it was John Bonham, only because at that time I had purchased my first musical instrument and if your thinking drums then you are right. I had bought a set of Coronet Drums red sparkle, second hand from friends, bands drummer. I had them set up in my basement and beat the crap out them day and night always with my ear to the one speaker record player I used to listen to Led Zeppelin two.

I wanted to be the next John Bonham! Truly because to me he was the heaviest drummer in my mind. However, I sadly remember when he died from chocking on his own vomit. Okay if you knew anything about John then you knew John liked to drink and have fun. Nevertheless, that sad day I heard of John’s death I remember sitting at my drums really pissed off that my hero was gone. I actually put my drumstick through one of my tom toms and just sat there asking why and for what? To a teenage kid it was a turning point at least it was for me. Yes and I did trade my drums then for a guitar and amp?

Let’s think for a moment who else went in those years of the heyday of music.

Janis, Jimi, Keith Moon, Brian Jones and all the other dinosaurs.



But Jim Morrison ??? To this day people flock to his gravesite to leave little mementos, and to sit and stare and wonder Is Jim Morrison dead.



I think in my opinion, that Jim is gone yep DEAD! However, the mystery is still out there.

I remember once seeing a documentary on the Doors after Jim’s death and what I thought was really strange was how the living members of the doors said that at a recording session where they were actually putting the last touches on the album when they said a bird flew into the large room which was in this giant house and flew around landed listened to what was playing and then as the song ended flew back out the window and flew off into the horizon. Then they said that there was this strange feeling at that moment and they all said that the bird was somehow Jim reincarnated.









Here is a very interesting read on the subject;





The 'Death' of Jim Morrison

archived 11-06-99

Archive file# o110699a

donated by Marianne





Rumors, Myths and Urban Legends

Surrounding the 'Death' of Jim Morrison

by Thomas Lyttle



http://au.spunk.org/texts/altern/pub/keith/sp000436.txt



Reprinted from SECRET AND SUPPRESSED:

BANNED IDEAS AND HIDDEN HISTORY

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So much has been written and speculated upon surrounding Jim Morrison's life, death and after-death that it is no longer enough to address just the facts. One must now also address the self-perpetuating mythos that has developed and enveloped the facts.



In the late nineteen sixties, Doors' singer Jim Morrison founded a publishing company named Zeppelin Publishing Company with the help of the legal department of Warner Brothers Pictures and Atlantic Records. According to promotions for Zeppelin, "Jim wanted to get his hands on the trademark 'Zeppelin' before Led Zeppelin did. He did this while everyone in America knew who the Doors were, but before the other rock group was well known..." Zeppelin Publishing Company was chartered and put into hibernation for later resurrection.



On July 3, 1971, rock and roll wunderkind James Douglas Morrison was supposedly, reportedly, found dead in a Paris, France apartment he had sub-leased as a writer's studio. His 'wife', Pamela Courson, was the first to discover the body in the bathroom. Jim lay in the bathtub, naked and half-submerged. At first she thought that "Jim was pretending", noticing that he had "recently shaved".



What immediately followed was a series of bizarre and convoluted events, probable conspiracies, strange coincidences and surreal news reports surrounding the death of James Douglas Morrison. Following the death there was a three day news blackout. This was reported on and questioned widely in the media, including articles in The Berkeley Barb, Esquire, the LA Free Press, Sounds, The Baltimore Morning Sun, and many others. Robert Hillburn writing at that time in The LA Times, called his obituary of Morrison "Why Morrison Death News Delay??" igniting a spark that has yet to smolder.



The blackout prevented Morrison's close friends from getting at the principals and witnesses -- and the corpse -- for close inspection. Even Jim's parents and his in-laws were prevented from seeing the corpse.



Pamela had called a local French medical examiner -- Dr. Max Vasille -- to take charge upon finding her husband's body. Dr. Vasille listed the cause of death as "heart failure". Several people viewed the sealed coffin, including Doors manager Bill Siddons, who apparently chose not to view the corpse. Siddons official statement to the press was that "Jim Morrison died of natural causes" and that "the death was peaceful".



Although Jim's death was listed officially as "heart failure", his personal physician, Dr. Derwin, stated to the press that "Jim Morrison was in excellent health before travelling to Paris".



This has recently been complicated by "Queen Mu" writing in the avant garde magazine Mondo 2000 (Summer, 1991). Apparently Mondo 2000 surfaced a rare medical file regarding Jim Morrison's various sexual diseases, and the treatments he was undergoing for them. There was mention of "cancer of the penis...". Queen Mu reports:



"... Hey! No one wants to be expunged from the Book of Life. How many medical workers at UCLA knew that Jim Morrison was being treated for gonorrhea in the Fall of 1970? Knew of the biopsy that confirmed adenoma of the penile urethra -- often consequence to repeated gonorrhea? This is a particularly swift form of cancer whose only alternative may have been radical castration..." -- Queen Mu, pp. 131



No autopsy was performed on Jim Morrison's corpse, as is the usual custom in unusual or suspect deaths in France. Had friends been able to at least see the corpse this might have been done.



According to several reports, a Morrison confidant Alan Ronay alos helped maintain the blackout surrounding the death. Jim Morrison's body was quickly whisked away to be buried at Pere Lachaise. Pere Lachaise is a national French monument and notables like Balzac, Edith Piaf, Moliere, Oscar Wilde and other French countrymen are buried there. Regarding Pere Lachaise: Jim had handpicked the gravesite on several occasions for his impending 'burial'. He had visited the site as late as three days before his 'death'. This is reported in Break On Through and other Morrison biographies.



The media at once showed suspicion regarding Morrison's grave due to the fact that foreigners are rarely buried in a national French monument. Reports like those in the Baltimore Morning Sun questioned how he might have cajoled his way into the cemetary to be buried.



Upon viewing the Pere Lachaise grave site, Doors drummer John Densmore stated: "... the grave is too short!" Doors manager Bill Siddons, when asked about Pere Lachaise, stated: "... how it happened is still not clear to me". He was quoted in Bam!, a rock magazine back in 1981 regarding the controversy. At any rate, Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaise remained unmarked for several months, adding and maintaining a further cloak around the corpse and the evidence.



Only two people saw Jim Morrison's dead body -- his wife Pamela and Dr. Vasille. Dr. Vasille has repeatedly denied interviews and will not answer questions, and Pamela is dead.



The Occult Connection



Besides the "facts" as laid out in countless books, films, interviews and press reports, there exists also a wild and surreal assortment of rumors regarding "what really took place". Many of these rumors center in on the occult, black and white magick, Voudoo, magical Christianity and assorted mystical strangenesses.



In J. Prochniky's biography of Morrison, Break On Through, there is this description of Morrison-based occult rumors:



"... even more incredible were theories that Morrison had somehow been "murdered" through "supernatural means". While Jim was fascinated with the occult, it is quite an assumption that a jealous rival or jilted lover could cause his death in a Paris bathtub by stabbing a Voodoo doll or melting down a Doors album while chanting a curse."



"... Another supernatural-based theory is that Morrison's body had been driven to great extremes by the spirit of the shaman he believed had entered his body as a child on that New Mexico highway. When this spirit or a demon its talents to influence the world, it abandoned Jim and left him a physically wasted and mentally exhausted man who felt betrayed with no desire to go on..." -- Riordan and Prochniky, pp. 466



Another occult theory exists in No One Hear Gets Out Alive by Sugarman and Hopkins. Regarding Jim's death they state:



"... Other theories abounded in Jim's close circle of friends. One had him killed when someone plucked out his eyes with a knife ("to free his soul", as the story had it). Another had a spurned mistress killing him long distance from New York by Witchcraft..." -- Sugarman and Hopkins, pp. 372



Anthropologist Allison Bailey Kennedy even went so far as to tie Morrison in with Orphic mystery cults and the initiatory uses of various spider venoms, which release the "deuende in Gypsy tradition -- the dark soul that burn incandescently like a cicada, immolating itself in fiery passion."



Jim Morrison many times claimed connections to the occult and specifically Voodoo or Voudun philosophy and magick. It was a part of his "path". The moniker "Mr. Mojo Risin'" was an anagram -- a rearrangement of the letters in Jim Morrison. Mojo is a religious term describing shamanic "power icon" or affiliation. The African root Mo refers to the dark or darkness. Mojo is a specific African/Voodoun/Obeah traditional term.



"I think that there are whole regions of images and feelings that are rarely given outlet in daily life... when they do come out, they can take perverse forms" said Morrison circa 1968. He goes on to say that "the shaman is the healer, like the Witch-doctor." Morrison reiterates elsewhere that "we must not forget that the snake or the lizard is identified with the unconscious and the forces of evil..." So says the legendary "Lizard King". "The Lizard King" was one of Jim Morrison's occult code names. He was also called "The Exterminating Angel" in occult circles, according to film critic Gene Youngblood and others.



In No One Here Gets Out Alive authors Hopkins and Sugarman recount Morrison drinking blood with Witch-initiate Ingrid Thompson. In certain occult traditions, the use of blood combined with certain sexual acts is reginmen, part of a hidden technology for spell casting. This is especially so in the Tantric Vama Marg (left-handed) rites. It is also a part of Western ritual magic, used in groups like La Couleuvre Noir, the Ordo Templi Orientis, Les Ophitis and others, although it is more uncommon than common in occult work. This sort of sorcery is also used in Voodoo/Voudun Petro rites to summon different Loas (gods and goddesses).



Speaking of the Tantra Vama Marg and the Voodoo Petro, there is this description of death mythology pertinent to Jim Morrison's occult beliefs and possibly his practices. At the very least he would have known of these ideas:



"...but the human form is no means just an empty vessal for the Gods... Rather it is a critical locus where a number of sacred forces may converge. The players are the basic components of man: the z'etiole, the gros bon ange and the ti bon ange, as well as the n'ame of the corpse cadaver. The latter is the body itself, the flesh and the blood. The n'ame is the gift from God and the spirit of the flesh that allows each cell in the body to function. It is the residual presence of the n'ame for example, that gives form to the corpse long after the clinical "death" of the body. The n'ame, upon the "death" of the body begins to pass slowly into the organisms of the soil... A process that takes 18 months to complete..." -- Davis, pp. 99



Remember, Jim Morrison's grave at Pere Lachait remained unmarked for several months so that no one might disturb the corpse and the surrounding site. The whole event from day one was part of a blackout, remember.



According to Tibetan tradtion, something similar is believed to exist so far as naming the componants of the soul and the body. The Vama Marg and especially the Bardo Thodol (the Tibetan Book of the Dead) relate specific death myths concerning what occurs right after someone dies. Writing in Psychedelic Monographs and Essays {out of print 11-06-99}, psychiatrist Dr. Rick Strassman shows that: "... Another model of birth and death, and transformation in which the 49 day interval appears is in the Bardo Thodol... This is the time when the life forces of the deceased -- the energetic tendencies accumulated during "life", "decide on" or gravitate towards or coalesce around the next incarnate form..." -- Strassman, pp. 182



Rock writer Greg Shaw, writing in Bam! and Mojo Navigator interpreted Morrison's song The End along these lines also, stating that each line in the song is a direct quote from the Bardo Thodol. It all "makes perfect sense, if one is familiar with the mystical background," said Shaw.



What are the implications for these ideas in light of the supposed "death" of Jim Morrison? At clinical death, according to the above, the person actually splits up into his or her true parts, formerly connected into a whole being.



According to occult lore, it is possible to ensnare or trap parts of the personality or spirit during this transition. Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, has this to say:



"During initiation, for example the ti bon ange may be extracted from the body and housed in a clay jar called a canari. A canari is a clay jar that has been placed at the inner sanctuary of the hounfour (ritual house)."



"... During the stages directly following the physical death and the first stages of after-death the ti bon ange is extremely vulnerable... Only when it is liberated from the flesh... is it relatively safe..." -- Davis, pp. 102



Is it Jim Morrison's ti bon ange that is at the root of all these occult rumors? Was it his ti bon ange that was bought, sold and then collected on that fateful day in Paris when he "died"...?



That canari has a name. It is called Zeppelin Publishing Company. And the bokor, or Voodoo high priest who cajoled Morrison's ti bon ange into the canari? He runs a company called the B of A Company (or B of A Communications), formerly of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and now of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He owns an active passport and IDs under the name of James Douglas Morrison and claims to actually be the no-so-dead rock star!



Apparitions and Appearances After the "Death"



In the first two years after Jim Morrison's "death" in Paris, many sightings of the rock star were reported. These sightings range from the totally spurious and ridiculous to the reliable and very hard to shake.



The LA Free Press and several wire service reports described someone in 1973 appearing on several occasions in San Francisco. There Morrison was involved with business and banking transactions with the Bank of America of San Francisco. The employee that handled the transactions, Walt Fleischer, confirmed that someone resembling Morrison and using that name was indeed doing business at the Bank of America. He did add that he "was far from sure that this was the 'dead' artist" as Morrison showed no identification. Could this be because a photo ID was already on file at the bank, with the name James Douglas Morrison? Yes, it is still on file.



According to authors Riordan and Prochniky, Morrison was also seen on several occasions hanging out in "unpleasant places" in Los Angeles and wearing Morrison's leather garb, all in black. This was over a period of two years right after the Paris "death". I researched this a bit further and found out that the "unpleasant places" meant notorious gay leather bars, and the underground gay community in Los Angeles.



There were also many rumors that Morrison was also appearing regularly in Louisiana and had made several radio interviews. Again, Prochniky and Riordan reveal that:



"... At an obscure radio station in the Midwest Jim supposedly showed up in the dead of night and did a lengthy interview that explained it all... After the interview he vanished into the darkness again. As you might buess, no recordings of the interview exist and no reliable source remembers hearing the broadcast..."



An LP record called Phantom's Divine Comedy was released also in 1974. This was rumored to be Jim Morrison singing with an anonymous band with the names of "drummer X, bassist Y, and keyboardist Z". The music reportedly resembled Jim Morrison's sound quite well. All this again added and sparked the rumor mills, and stirred public fascination.



However, in a 1992 press released from the Zeppelin group, it is revealed that Morrison pal Iggy Pop was actually doing all the singing and helping the "hoax" along. This added more fuel as to how many people were actually involved in maintaining his "death hoax". Up until the 1992 press release, the record company that had released Phantom had refused to divulge the names on the LP, or the singer's name -- which was indeed Iggy Pop.



Regarding all these rumors, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek stated: "If there was one guy that would have been capable of staging his own death -- getting a phony death certificate and paying off some French doctor... And putting a hundred and fifty pound sack of sand into a coffin and splitting to some point on this planet -- Africa, who knows where -- it is Jim Morrison who would have been able to pull it off."



Jim Morrison's best friend Tom Baker, writing in High Times (June, 1981) had this to say: "I was very tempted to believe the rumors that Jim had faked his own death."



A group of fans actually went so far as to try to get Morrison's dental records, apparently to try to get permission to dig up his body and match the records to the remains. This was immediately blocked both by Morrison's parents and their attorneys -- at least for the time being.



It is known that Jim Morrison had repeatedly planted the seeds which would lead to this sort of speculation -- that he had somehow faked his own death and dropped out into a new identity. At the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1967, Jim started suggesting that he should pull a "death stunt" to bring national press attention onto the band. This was when he came up with the "Mr. Mojo Risin'" anagram which would be used after he "split to Africa" and wished to secretly contact friends.



Morrison also told Danny Sugarman and Jerry Hopkins on more than one occasion that he could see himself "radically changing careers, reappearing as a suited and neck-tied businessman." Jack Holzman's assistant Steve Harris even remembers Jim Morrison asking what might happen if he were to suddenly "die"... how might it affect business, record sales, the press, and would people believe it? With confidant Mary Francis Werebelow Jim "entertained long conversations about how the Disciples had stolen the body of Christ from the crypt, jokingly calling it the "Easter heist," etc."



In a Rolling Stone article for September 17, 1981, author Jerry Hopkins recounts many other Morrison sightings:



"The first one I remember was a beaut... He surfaced in San Francisco shortly after Morrison's death and began cashing checks in Morrison's name. He was not writing bad checks, mind you; it was his money he was spending. It was just that he was dressed as Jim would in his 'leather period', and that he told everyone that he was indeed the 'dead singer'.



"The telephone operator asked: 'will you accept a long distance collect call from Jim Morrison?' It was an interesting conversation..."



"Our conversations were unsettling. He told me to go to Paris and dig up the corpse, but that you would need permission from '12 Catholic Bishops' to do it... A visit to his home was more jarring. There at the end of one room was a Morrison 'shrine', converted with posters, flowers, religious icons -- the works!" -- Sugarman, pp. 33



Years later, I actually got the chance to visit and interview the shrine's owner, who claimed to be Jim Morrison. He told me matter-of-factly details about Hopkins, as well as that other reporters had actually burglarized the shrine in an attempt to get a scoop.



Another surreal sighting involved "Donny" of Baton Rouge, Lousiana. He described Jim Morrison at Morrison's home in 1978. Donny told his friend "Larry" about it, as Larry was trying to break in to the world of rock and roll:



"I remember Larry telling me about the whole wall of one room lined with books all across it. Every one of the books were about Satan, or had something to do with him. He also told me about a large chair that looked like a throne, on which this man sat and watched over his nude children running around... I guess that you can probably guess who that kinky old weird man was -- Jim Morrison, The Lizard King!" -- Sugarman, pp. 33



Another person named Rhea (the Greek goddess of fertility) claimed she was living with Jim Morrison in 1979 with their son "Jesse Blue James". She matter-of-factly claimed that Morrison had "evolved into a state of pure energy... And can materialize and dematerilize at will." She and Jim were also in direct telepathic communication and in "electromagnetic synch".



The Intelligence Connection and JM2



Rock icon Jim Morrison's father was an admiral in the United States Navy, privy to intelligence and counterintelligence information. His name is Steven Morrison. During the first few years surround Jim Morrison's "death" a number of interesting articles surfaced. These cited references showing various intelligence interests either in Morrison's underground activity; his "death" or that intelligence had even masterminded Morrison's death itself! One of the more explicit appeared in the Scandinavian magazine Dagblatte. This article detailed French intelligence efforts to assassinate Jim Morrison in Paris. Author Bernard Wolfe writing The Real Life Death of Jim Morrison for Esquire (June 1972) related the story of:



"Sherry, a Pasadena girl who knew Morrison well: "...I couldn't make sense out of the stories in the papers. Suppose he had a heart attack exactly as they reported, is that what he died of? My God, you might as well say that Ernest Hemingway died of "extensive brain damage". If you want to know the cause of Jim's death -- not just the physiology of it -- ask what triggered his heart to stop... And whose finger was on the trigger." -- Wolfe, pp. 106



In the first few years after Morrison's "death" the owner of B of A Communications, named James Douglas Morrison, claimed to be operating as an intelligence agent for a number of domestic and international groups including the CIA, NSA, Interpol, Swedish Inteligence and others. There are also connections between James Douglas Morrison and various occult groups with probable intelligence connections. [Author's note: from here on the B of A Morrison will be referred to as JM2].



The enclosed plates show several documents implicating him in intelligence circles. JM2 also claims to be the "dead" rock star and former singer for The Doors. The new JM2 dropped the old JM1 rock and roll identity to become a "James Bond" wearing the suit and tie that Morrison predicted when he was with The Doors.



This author has in fact seen what appear to be stacks of official-looking documents and letters between the CIA, various government agencies, national news groups like CNN and NBC and JM2, involving what looked like personal meetings, projects and ephemera. Of special interest is that when I viewed parts of the files, all the reports had a paper-thin metallic band affixed to them with colored UPC bar codes. There is no way for me to authenticate the claims of JM2, but everything looked extremely offical and very elaborate.



From about 1972 through 1992 JM2 has left a surreal trail of paper and appearances all over the world. These include letters to and from Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and CIA Director William Colby, through the Washington, DC law firm of Colby, Miller and Hanes.



A courtroom transcript which I have seen implicates the FBI and CIA in several coverups regarding JM2's intelligence career. These show that there seems to be a sytematic destruction of files relating to JM2's spy activities. An enclosed plate also shows JM2's Swedish Intelligence ID card, obtained from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act. Unfortunately the only copy I have is obscured in the facial area, but the ID numbers are intact. Also in my possession are files concerning JM2's rogue financial activities with the Bank of America, and news reports regarding lawsuits by and against JM2 for bank fraud and espionage, which he claims was done under intelligence auspices as part of financial experiments to destabilize foreign currencies and exchange rates.



There also appear to be hundreds if not thousands of miscellaneous files -- both classified and declassified -- regarding one James Douglas Morrison, dated after his "death" in 1971. These also refer to "WBC", a nom de plume of JM2. These look like real letters, documents, and court transcripts involving intelligence circles. These involve the CIA, Danish intelligence, and others. There is also an active passport and banking IDs under the name James Douglas Morrison.



Is this all for real or is this an elaborate hoax? It is not the scope of this work to determine the truth -- or lack of truth -- or the consequences of such activities. The important thing to note for the sake of this study is that someone or some group are actively pursuing and setting up a mass "urban legend" regarding James Morrison. They are painstakingly documenting it also. Whether this is a hoax or not is not as important as the fact that a lot of official-looking information is being generated surrounding the myth and legendry of Jim Morrison, his life and his supposed "death".



Just why might this be?



Multiple Morrisons



Like the "multiple Oswald" theories of Kennedy assassination buffs, there also exist rumors and urban legends describing the "multiple Morrison" theory.



The idea that Jim Morrison was in fact several different people and actors, or intelligence agents has been going on for some time. Besides the "Morrison" singing on the Phantom (now shown to be Iggy Pop) there also exist rumors that a Louisiana banker as well as Richard Tanguay -- a close friend of Mick Jagger -- perpetuated the hoax. Even High Times ran and old news story about someone claiming to be Jim Morrison (post 1971) running for governor of Louisiana! Supposedly Richard Tanguay (related to vaudeville legend Eva Tanguay) took the Morrison persona on, on several occasions, and even sang with The Doors when they toured Europe with the Rolling Stones. Is this possible?



In fact JM2 has claimed publicly that there have been numerous James Douglas Morrisons, and that they all knew one another and met from time to time to work it all out. The impersonations were part of CIA sociological experiments like Artichoke or MK-ULTRA.



It is impossible to substantiate wild stories like this. But the fact that there are people and groups out there making these claims in a big way and perpetuating "urban legends" about Jim Morrison is a curiosity in itself... And funny, in a dark sort of way.