Cavalcade of Heroes

Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men

2011-01-30T21:50:00.000-08:00

Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men

January 28, 20110 Comments

Whoa...holy cow! Every once in a while someone in the world comes along and reminds us what a true hero really looks like. A 35 year-old Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha was riding a train when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a massive robbery. 40 men armed with knives, swords and guns stormed the train and began robbing the passengers.

Bishnu kept his peace while the gang snatched cell phones, jewelry and cash from other riders. But then, the thugs grabbed the 18 year-old girl sitting next to him and forcefully stripped her naked. Before the bandits could rape the poor girl in front of her helpless parents, Bishnu decided he had enough.

“The girl cried for help, saying ´You are a soldier, please save a sister´,” Shrestha recalled. “I prevented her from being raped, thinking of her as my own sister.”

Here's the part of the story that makes you cheer. He pulls out a kukri (i.e. a knife) and proceeds to kill 3 of them, injure 8 of them, and causes the rest to flee. During the battle, he suffered a severe knife injury to his left hand, from which he's now recovered.

For those who don't know...this is a kukri. Maybe it's okay to bring a knife to a gunfight, after all.

Honestly, the article isn't revealing the whole story because clearly he was also armed with 2 GIANT F***ING BALLS OF STEEL which he clobbered the bandits with.

Bishnu, you're never going to see this post, but we got movie stars who can only play act what you did for real. I think quite a few men often daydream of a moment where we prove ourselves a hero. We salute you in our admiration.

Someone please mail this guy a "Bad Muthaf*cka" wallet. And by the way, if you're courting his sister, you better treat her right. Note, the video below is NOT in English.

Martina Maturana

2010-03-04T22:20:00.000-08:00

How 12-year-old girl saved her Chilean island from catastrophe

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/how-12yearold-girl-saved-her-chilean-island-from-catastrophe-1915821.html

2010-02-21T05:09:00.001-08:00

http://i.imgur.com/ky8n6.gif

Kansas dad somehow lifts car off 6-year-old girl

2009-12-18T16:58:00.001-08:00

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091218/D9CM0KDG0.html

Can A Lightsaber Cut Through Superman?

2009-10-08T21:04:00.000-07:00

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/can-a-lightsaber-cut-through-superman-cci

This man's knowledge of lightsabers and Superman is stunning. I'd make fun of him, but honestly, there but for the grace of God go I.

Farmer's daughter disarms terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47

2009-09-30T10:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/6244076/Farmers-daughter-disarms-terrorist-and-shoots-him-dead-with-AK47.html

Forget Hitler - it was America that snubbed black Olympian Jesse Owens

2009-09-09T21:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205901/Forget-Hitler--America-snubbed-black-Olympian-Jesse-Owens.html?ITO=1490

Man in Thor costume scares off burglar

2009-09-09T06:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/01/Man-in-Thor-costume-scares-off-burglar/UPI-50001230838212/

Prisoners of Gravity: Myths and Archetypes (Part 1 of 3)

2009-03-27T18:18:00.001-07:00

Thai 'Spider-Man' to the rescue

2009-03-24T18:01:00.000-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7961208.stm

Walk it off, it's only a heart attack

2009-03-24T17:59:00.001-07:00

http://www.abc2news.com/entertainment/weirdnews/story/Walk-it-off-its-only-a-heart-attack/P0JFQIIQ_0WH5a9uOIh2rA.cspx

Willie the parrot

2009-03-22T20:42:00.000-07:00

http://wjz.com/watercooler/Willie.parrot.red.2.964720.html

2008-12-01T03:22:00.000-08:00


Bush wants history to see him as a liberator of millions

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081128185323.mpq7bsa8&show_article=1

2008-11-14T04:09:00.001-08:00

Was George Carlin Our Mark Twain? Comedy Greats Say Yes

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/was-george-carl.html

Barack Obama: Hidden Messages Revealed! Superman?

2008-10-31T20:31:00.001-07:00

Wassup 2008

2008-10-27T19:27:00.001-07:00

Speech at the White House Correspondent's Dinner (2006) p1

2008-10-16T15:38:00.001-07:00

George Bailey a goat?

2008-10-13T18:04:00.000-07:00

Not So Wonderful Now

Looking for someone to blame in the worsening crisis? Let's go back to Bedford Falls.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/10/ST2008101002714.html?sid=ST2008101002714&s_pos=list

Superman's story: Did a fatal robbery forge the Man of Steel?

2008-09-06T08:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-08-25-superman-creators_N.htm

Mickey Garcia?

2008-09-05T15:58:00.002-07:00

http://www.sunvalleyonline.com/news/article.asp?ID_Article=5619

I cagey Karmic

or

Icky CIA germ?

George Carlin - It's Bad for Ya - 2008 HBO Special Part 1/7

2008-09-03T20:44:00.001-07:00

1972 Olympic 800m Final (Hi Quality)

2008-08-23T21:47:00.001-07:00

We shall be heard: Images of American activists

2008-08-16T22:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/we-shall-be-heard-images-of-american-activists-841571.html

2008-08-04T20:13:00.000-07:00

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Hero And Sage

http://www.rense.com/general82/alex.htm

Philly Sheriff John Green

2008-06-10T18:09:00.000-07:00

He's Taking Law Into His Own Hands
To Help Broke Homeowners

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121271135166050537.html

We shall be heard: Images of American activists

2008-06-08T09:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/we-shall-be-heard-images-of-american-activists-841571.html

'Miracle' Marine refused to surrender will to live

2008-05-26T16:51:00.001-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_on_re_us/memorial_day__miracle__marine

Neil Young

2008-05-24T20:24:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young

(by the way -or should I say 'by the human highway?')

Does the Human Brain Possess Potential “Super Powers”?

2008-04-01T03:42:00.000-07:00

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/does-the-human.html

Superman at 70: The Septuagenarian of Steel

2008-03-22T20:29:00.000-07:00

http://www.supernaturalnews.com/?p=13581

He Sings, He Runs and He's Only 101

2008-03-07T20:52:00.001-08:00

Meet the Man Ready to Become World's Oldest Marathon Runner

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4385601&page=1

William Rodriguez - The last man out

2008-03-02T17:08:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rodriguez

Albert Schweitzer

2008-01-28T20:33:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

Emil Sitka - The Fourth Stooge

2008-01-28T20:25:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Sitka

"Hold hands, you lovebirds"

From Wikipedia:

Emil Sitka's first Three Stooges film—and Curly Howard's last

Half-Wits Holiday dealt with the idea of two professors betting on the outcome of turning the Three Stooges into gentlemen—with predictable results. Emil Sitka played Sappington, the upper-crust butler, who was an excellent foil for the Three Stooges—and the target of several pies as well.

In the 1947 Three Stooges short Brideless Groom, Shemp Howard must be married before 6:00 p.m. in order to inherit $500,000.00. After striking out, Shemp finally finds a girl willing to marry him, and they rush off to a justice of the peace, played by Emil Sitka. As Sitka starts the ceremony, telling the couple to "hold hands, you lovebirds", the other girls that turned down Shemp's proposal burst in, having heard of the inheritance. A free-for-all then ensues, with poor Sitka being struck again and again, attempting to start the ceremony, each time more disheveled and his "hold hands, you lovebirds" a little weaker. Because of the widespread distribution of this short (it is one of four Three Stooges shorts that slipped into public domain), this scene is the one that Sitka has become best known for. Notably, a clip of this short is featured in Pulp Fiction, for which Sitka's name even appears in the credits as "Hold Hands You Lovebirds".

Later years:

Emil Sitka continued with the acting career, more out of love for acting than the need for money, appearing in films as late as 1992. He was in demand at various Three Stooges conventions, and had numerous requests from Three Stooges fans to appear at their wedding to say "Hold hands, you lovebirds!" Emil Sitka died on January 16, 1998 in Camarillo, California, USA, from complications from a stroke. He is survived by four daughters and two sons. One of his sons, Saxon, has created the official Emil Sitka website in his honor —- http://www.emilsitka.com. Saxon carries on his father's legacy by appearing at Stooge conventions as often as possible. On his father's gravestone, the engraving "Hold hands, you lovebirds!" appears.

Michael Moore

2008-01-19T16:17:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore

Hoopla over Dave Hopla

2008-01-14T20:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/sports/basketball/13wizards.html?ref=basketball

It seems safe to say he owns the highest shooting percentages of anyone on an N.B.A. payroll.

Even Gilbert Arenas would not dare to challenge him to a 3-point contest.

Dave Hopla, a Washington Wizards assistant, is a 6-foot bundle of energy with graying hair, a slight paunch and a rat-a-tat-tat patter.

He also can put the basketball in the hoop, over and over and over again.

“I’m an out-of-shape, 50-year-old guy,” he says proudly, “but give me an open shot, and I’m going to knock it down.”

Edmund Hillary, 1st atop Everest

2008-01-10T20:10:00.000-08:00

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-10-Hillary-me_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

http://blog.sunvalleyonline.com/index.php/2008/01/14/local-remembers-sir-edmund-hillary/

The Jefferson of Our Time

2008-01-08T04:37:00.001-08:00

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo137.html

The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World’s Toughest Race

2008-01-07T22:41:00.000-08:00

http://elitefeet.com/2007/12/30/the-legend-of-cliff-young-the-61-year-old-farmer-that-won-the-worlds-toughest-race/

Hannah Ward

2008-01-02T19:56:00.001-08:00

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005118308

Project proves phenomenal

Wood River student honors 120 valley women

50 Years Later: Bravery Outshines Public Humiliation

2007-12-30T05:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/bravery_outshines_public_humil.html

Neil Young

2007-12-29T09:36:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young

Hoss

2007-12-06T21:26:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Blocker

Foot soldiers for the Ron Paul revolution

2007-12-01T21:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.latimes.com/la-na-ronpaul1dec01%2C0%2C5806996.story?coll=la-home-center

Hero or homicidal?

2007-11-26T20:52:00.000-08:00

http://www.idahostatesman.com/apusnews/story/221511.html

Texan kills thieves burglarizing neighbors house

Emotional trek to Sierra crash site for man who lost legs at age 10

2007-11-25T16:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/25/MN10T8R79.DTL

Pete Seeger-Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

2007-11-25T11:04:00.001-08:00

Boy whose mom died in wreck saved by entrant

2007-11-24T07:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/213161

Catwoman still has it

2007-11-19T19:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2102&Itemid=36

The Christmas Truce - When Men Said No To War

2007-11-15T02:50:00.000-08:00

http://www.rense.com/general74/trce.htm

50 Press Freedom Heroes

2007-11-12T16:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.freemedia.at/Heroes_IPIReport2.00/50Years.htm

Fred Rogers

2007-11-11T19:57:00.001-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_rogers

WHY TRUE PATRIOTS ARE TIMELESS AMERICAN HEROES

2007-11-11T13:09:00.001-08:00

http://www.newswithviews.com/Evensen/greg18.htm

His aim is still true

2007-11-11T11:17:00.000-08:00

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/10/DDQQT9IQT.DTL&hw=elvis+costello&sn=001&sc=1000

Study Asks WWII Vets to Define Heroism

2007-11-11T11:13:00.000-08:00

ALBANY, N.Y. (Nov. 11) - An infantryman charges a pillbox in the face of enemy fire. A firefighter rushes up the stairwell of a burning skyscraper as office workers flee. A teacher shields her student from a schoolyard gunman with her body.

Heroes all. But what personal qualities made them heroic?

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/study-asks-wwii-vets-to-define-heroism/20071111121309990001

Charles Lindbergh's - September 11, 1941 Des Moines Speech

2007-11-04T15:30:00.001-08:00

John Henry - Part 1 of 2

2007-11-03T12:24:00.003-07:00

John Henry - Part 2 of 2

2007-11-03T12:24:00.001-07:00

Jack Kirby Interview

2007-10-31T08:22:00.001-07:00

Jack Kirby

2007-10-31T08:20:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby

Mordechai Vanunu

2007-10-28T20:34:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu

G.I. Joe was just a toy, wasn't he?

2007-10-28T20:23:00.001-07:00

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/10849526.html

Black men in Philly rally against crime

2007-10-21T15:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.idahostatesman.com/apusnews/story/189834.html

James Lovell & William Anders

2007-10-20T22:28:00.001-07:00

1st men to orbit the moon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

Woody Guthrie

2007-10-20T05:41:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.

Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.

I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built.

I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work."
Woody on Songwriting

Leslie Nielsen

2007-10-15T19:56:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen

Superhero Congressman Nadler

2007-10-15T14:09:00.000-07:00

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/10/congressman_nadler_closet_supe.html

Ron Lantz

2007-10-13T16:55:00.001-07:00

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/sniper.asp

Fugitive caught in flash

2007-10-04T19:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.sunjournal.com/story/232637-3/LewistonAuburn/Fugitive_caught_in_flash/

Sherry Jackson - Forner IRS agent

2007-09-27T07:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.bostonteapartyii.org/gml2004/html/links/extended/Sherry%20Jackson,%20Former%20IRS%20Agent%20Remarks.htm

Retired generals rising up against Iraq war

2007-09-26T15:19:00.001-07:00

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/266638_solarosub16.html

In one sense, this "revolt" is the last act of the Vietnam War. The current generation of generals served as junior officers during Vietnam, where they swore that, when they held the senior positions, they would never collapse before civilian delusion and zealotry, as had so many of that era's leaders. They sensed, back then, a moral rot at the top. Zinni took to heart the day he was shot three times in Vietnam, and promised that if he lived, he would always say what he thought was right. He has. An early opponent of the Iraq war, he was called a "traitor" by the White House. Now Newbold, who served as director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff until October 2002, cites an old anti-Vietnam song, "Won't Get Fooled Again" and concludes: We were.

Too many heroes

2007-09-21T20:36:00.001-07:00

http://www.slate.com/id/2174388/

University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum

2007-09-18T15:50:00.001-07:00

William Kathan Jr.

2007-09-08T10:31:00.000-07:00

http://mrbillydf.com/about.html

"Cheaters can't be beaters."

Heroic Raven's Save the Day

2007-09-07T16:35:00.000-07:00

RICHARD COCKLE

The Oregonian

BAKER CITY -- Baker County sheriff's Deputy Travis Ash and Oregon State Police Trooper Chris Hawkins had Thursday off, so they decided to take their ATVs and go looking for a 76-year-old Sandy woman who had been missing for more than two weeks in the rugged Wallowa Mountains.

Thirty miles northeast of Baker City, they left a rough Forest Service road and headed down a steep, brushy canyon because Ash felt they had not searched it well enough before.

That's when they heard a soft, childlike voice and spotted ravens circling overhead.

Fourteen days after she became separated from her husband on a bow hunting expedition and after weeks of searching by dozens of others, Ash and Hawkins found Doris Anderson lying at the bottom of a narrow canyon a mile off the road.

"What alerted us was birds; we heard ravens," Ash said. "We could hear her talking to herself; it sounded real faint, like a child."

Click on link for complete story:

http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/1189146473256860.xml&coll=7

It seems that I've heard of several cases in the last few years of searches of these types being suspended earlier than they should have. Can't help but wonder if we didn't have so many of our capable men based overseas for dubious purposes, that our 'homeland security' wouldn't be short-staffed, resulting in these short-lived searches.

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night

2007-09-03T17:03:00.001-07:00

http://www.rense.com/general78/labor.htm

Who wants to build a superhero?

2007-08-27T09:24:00.001-07:00

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKNEQ6HVSWNGJM

Michael D. Mori

2007-08-15T13:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.unknownnews.org/MichaelMori.html

From Unknown News:

"The United States can be very proud of Major Mori. He stands for those "American" values that George Bush and his cronies trumpet long and loud, but rarely seem to uphold. He is proof that there are still people of integrity in the United States. And as an Australian, I am grateful to Major Mori, for reminding the public at large in Australia of our concept that everyone deserves a fair go. Thank you, Major Mori, for restoring my faith in the sheer decency (of most) of my fellow human beings."

Rod Langway

2007-08-12T07:43:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Langway

Back in the 80's, my father was in the position to provide the Washington Capital's hockey team with some courtesy loaner Volvo cars. In exchange for this, the team management provided the car dealership with four sets of season tickets, together in a good seating area.

Meanwhile, dad also became involved with the Big Brothers organization and started mentoring Billy. Several years before, a farmer with a shotgun, angered by a broken windshield on his car, around near where Billy’s brother and some friends had been partying, killed Billy’s biological big brother.

Dad took Billy out in the evenings to quite a few games, helping the situation so that Billy felt like a real hotshot and could bear life again. Occasionally, after winning hockey games, they went down together into the locker room to visit the players. After meeting the savior of the Washington Capitals, Rod Langway, shaking his hand and briefly conversing with him, Billy was in awe. Mr. Langway's should know his brief minutes of kindness left a lasting impression.

Occasionally, Billy would call dad at the showroom; and if Dave Dando or I happened to be walking by, Dad would quickly hand us the phone after saying to Billy, "Hey Billy, your hero Rod Langway just stopped here by to say hello.” Suddenly saddled with this impromptu test, Dave or I would speak to Billy in our deepest voice, while impersonating Mr. Langway, “Thanks for coming to our game last week. I looked up in the stands and saw you there clapping for us" -and things of that nature.

These heroic phone impersonations probably occurred a dozen times. It felt like the right thing to do, enthusiastically perpetuating this hero myth - as Billy certainly needed a boost at the time.

Thinking back on it now, we weren’t steering a myth at all, but reality. Certainly, Mr. Langway would have not minded that we were speaking kind words of encouragement on his behalf to a young troubled boy.

Photos of Anti-War Protests from around the Globe

2007-08-11T09:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.ccmep.org/2002_articles/Iraq/102702_pictures_of_anti.htm

Bill Maher's new Hero

2007-08-05T10:06:00.001-07:00

http://www.vloggingtheapocalypse.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cb58c6ce932b957b6f33

Joe Darby

2007-08-05T09:28:00.000-07:00

"His decision to hand them over rather than keep quiet changed his life forever."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6930197.stm

"I had a raincoat hanging up for a door. Like I said to my room mate, they could reach their hand in the door - because I slept right by the door - and cut my throat without making a noise, or anybody knowing what was going on, and I was scared of that."

When the accused soldiers were finally removed from the base, he thought his troubles were over.

And then he was sitting in a crowded Iraqi canteen with hundreds of soldiers and Donald Rumsfeld came on the television to thank Joe Darby by name for handing in the photographs.

"I don't think it was an accident because those things are pretty much scripted," Mr Darby says.

"But I did receive a letter from him which said he had no malicious intent, he was only doing it to praise me and he had no idea about my anonymity.

"I really find it hard to believe that the secretary of defence of the United States has no idea about the star witness for a criminal case being anonymous."

Rather than turn on him for betraying colleagues, most of the soldiers in his unit shook his hand. It was at home where the real trouble started."

Poet Ferlinghetti chased subs in WW2

2007-08-04T12:19:00.000-07:00

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/11/MNGE4MATPT1.DTL

"But while serving aboard the troop transport Selinur, he had his most transformative experience of the war. Originally, the Selinur was supposed to deliver attack troops. But after atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Japan surrendered, the men aboard were reassigned to occupation duty. They arrived in Sasebo on the Japanese island of Kyushu in September 1945, not far from Nagasaki.

With two friends, Ferlinghetti secured enough leave to take a train up to Nagasaki to see the devastated area just six weeks after the atom bomb had exploded.

"I saw a giant field of scorched mulch. It sprawled out to the horizon, 3 square miles looking like someone had worked it over with a huge blowtorch. A few sticks from buildings jutted up like black arms," Ferlinghetti says. "I found a teacup that seemed like it had human flesh fused into it, just melted into the porcelain.

"In that instant," says Ferlinghetti, "I became a total pacifist."

It's long been argued that using atomic bombs to compel Japan's unconditional surrender actually saved millions of lives that would have been lost on both sides had the Allies been forced to invade.

Ferlinghetti disagrees.

"It was a monstrous, racist act, the worst the U.S. ever committed," he says. "Had the Japanese been white-skinned, those bombs would not have dropped.""

True Champions

2007-07-29T22:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.californiacommunity.com/business2/truewinners.htm

TRUE WINNERS...

	A few years ago, at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard dash. At the gun, they all started out, not exactly in a dash, but with relish to run the race to the finish line and win. All, that is, except one little boy who stumbled on the asphalt, tumbled over a couple of times, and began to cry. The other eight heard the boy cry. They slowed down and looked back. Then they all turned around and went back... every one of them. One girl with Down's Syndrome bent down and kissed him and said, "This will make it better." Then, all nine linked arms and walked together to the finish line. Everyone in the stadium stood, the cheering went on for several minutes. People who were there are still telling the story... Why? Because deep down we know this one thing: What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What matters in this life is helping others win, even if it means slowing down and changing our course. If you pass this on, we may be able to change our hearts as well as someone else's... after all, "a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

Charles Kearney

2007-07-29T08:21:00.000-07:00

"Imagination is what got me through this blindness."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/07/blinded_by_acid_now_he_gives_s.html?hpid=news-col-blogs

Bird, Plane or SuperMensch? Jews and Superheroes share a rich history

2007-07-28T18:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/07/jews_comics_qa

Keith Ellison

2007-07-28T08:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010401188.htmlhttp://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/muslims_speak_out/2007/07/born_and_raised_in_the_us_a.html

New Evidence Clearly Indicates Pat Tillman was murdered

2007-07-27T15:50:00.000-07:00

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/270707tillmanexecuted.htm

Investigator Lisa Fletcher

2007-07-23T08:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=568d6b4d-67b7-4116-9098-4c35d8b5ce38

The Mighty Hercules: Medusa's Sceptre

2007-07-22T19:43:00.001-07:00

The Mighty Hercules 60s cartoon - episode 8

2007-07-22T19:34:00.001-07:00

Galahad

2007-07-22T18:50:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Galahad

Spiders save teens from house fire

2007-07-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lifesaver_spiders;_ylt=As4KcYXOZ5dkRrSBmkQoVfbtiBIF

Superman saves granny, tot in Bronx Blaze

2007-07-18T18:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/07/18/2007-07-18_superman_hero_saves_granny_tot_in_bronx_-1.html

5 year old boy wrassles rabid fox and pins it to ground

2007-07-04T13:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.charlotte.com/mobile/story/184321.html

Old Gimlet Eye

2007-07-03T21:57:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=883#more-883

http://www.unknownnews.org/SmedleyButler.html

David Bowie - Rare

2007-07-01T15:06:00.001-07:00

Gregorian - Heroes (Live at MDR)

2007-07-01T14:54:00.001-07:00

Gregorian Chant of David Bowies Heroes

Tim Quietly Conquers Idaho

2007-06-30T08:35:00.000-07:00

-Reminisces of an amazing bicycling savant

In 1998, Tim visited me here in Idaho to triumph over some great mountains. This was the same summer that Roger Maris’s fabled home run record was finally surpassed. Days after work, my friends begin asking; “How many homers did Sosa and McGuire slug out over the fence, and what high mountain peak or ultra-marathon feat did Tim accomplish today?”

This was Tim’s third visit to Idaho. We had been close friends since 1969, when in fourth grade we used to construct elaborate mazes for each other in Mrs. Adams’s class. Tim was probably the quietest boy there. We were both shy on our outsides and would regressively mirror our quietude into each other, with these evermore-challenging paper traps -trying so hard to stump one another. Though we were mostly silent boys, our constant Tom-Sawyer-foolery, did not make us the apples of Mrs. Adam’s eye. When I wrote about this before, in a memoir called “Solid Oak View Memories”, which ended up published on our alumni website, Tim strongly defended himself, by saying that other children back then also partook of the Huck-Finn-Foolery and were constructing elaborate mazes during instructional periods.

It only occurred to me later, that Tim was defending himself, because, now in his forties, he still lived with his mother and that when she got wind of this newest paper trap, that she might still say, “Tim what was it that you and Jim meant to do by constructing baffling mazes in class?” Especially now that Tim had struggled at Virginia Tech, withdrawing from school there the year after his fathers agonizing defeat by cancer.

Upon Tim’s non-victorious return from college, it was easy to see the burden manifest in his pinkish face -and now with his dad not around for emotional and financial support. Out of our high school group, Tim and I were the only stragglers left, apparently destined to scrabble through life with a series of underpaid janitorial and maintenance man jobs.

And I with my own far-fetched emotional trauma recovery plan from Pluto, Idaho.

Perhaps we became closer friends through default. Nonetheless, our friendship grew and besides often working together, we begin training for elaborate athletic events. Together we would construct intricate bike routes traveling through the hilly labyrinths of Virginia suburbia, often bicycling in fifty-mile neighborhood loops all the way down to George Washington’s Home at Mount Vernon. Tim would usually draft me, letting the pull of my wind drag him along, as back then I was the stronger rider, probably from all those basketball years.

When I first moved to Idaho, It was another big blow to Tim as he only had sisters and now I- his brother from another mother was essentially gone. When he came out here, we essentially jumped back to where we had left off with our friendship. Allowing little time for altitude adjustment Tim started pumping up hills his first week out here. Evidently, after I left Virginia, the bicycling hobby we enjoyed together grew into an all-consuming passion for Tim. He would take weekend trips; in one-day ride all the way from Boston to Rhode Island, and back alongside busy highways –unless of course for his magical mystery tour, he could predetermine some elaborate backdoor blue-jay-way labyrinth. He looked good too. Healthier than I had ever seen him. This bicycling Zen of his had even allowed him to break whatever barrier it was that was holding in his shyness and people discovered that once you scratched the surface with Tim that he was filled with unlimited intelligence and richly humorous insights.

Compared to conditions back east, chugging up to Galena Summit from Hailey was a cakewalk for Tim, with its elements of good road surface, steady grade and sparse traffic.

The second week of his trip, he decided to go for broke and do the fabled Dollarhide Summit loop on an old mountain bike. Exactly, what some people might consider ninety-eight miles of agony was something Tim embraced. The bike he rode didn’t even have shocks. He started out from Hailey around ten. I was hoisting rocks with Gene Olson for some chimneys in Lane Ranch and told Tim that I would drive out Warm Springs around seven –until I could find him.

Tim had gone straight out Croy Canyon, over Richardson Summit and that back ways towards Fairfield. Unfamiliar with the area, he became temporarily bewildered, but soon figured out the answer to the maze with his oversized map. He took the correct turn at that inviting sign below Soldier that says “Ketchum 55 miles”. A sign that every spring some Fairfield cowboy gets his gander up and tries to romanticizingly wahoo over the pass; only to get quagmired in mud, and then has to wander back unprepared to town with blister boots and tail between legs. Then call Dick York and with a ticked off gaze, ride shotgun in the retrieval tow truck never establishing eye contact with the fellow travelors in the area, who all know he’s the durn fool that tipped it this year.

Tim pedaled up that long rocky dirt grade. He passed a few campers, but being the middle of the week and not yet hunting season, there weren’t many folks around. He noticed the ninety-foot tall Indian face chiseled in stone by mother nature, which guards over one of Idaho’s perpetually best hot springs, but even though nobody was soaking today he didn’t take time to temporarily sooth his legs.

Tim had bigger fish to fry than what Warswick Hot Springs could provide.

The steeper grade leading to Dollarhide summit remained to rise over as Tim continued pumping and grinding furiously to defeat everything that stood in his path. As he weighed up the hill, he wrestled with bumpy ‘warshboards’ and rocks that could throw you, which twinged his arms to sleep with their constant pounding. Dust filled the chain rings, but the little two hundred-dollar bike held up amazingly with only one flat.

He made it to the summit around 5:30. To loosen up he took a few victory hops. Later on, I took a photograph of him standing there with his bike and believe that this depiction deserves placement on a pedestal next to a shimmering waterfall birdbath.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

At 7:30 I came around Frenchman’s bend, discovering Tim halfway between there and Rook’s Creek. His arms were sore, he was a mite dusty and the headlamp burned out from the bumps. But he was in high spirits. I duct taped a flashlight to his handlebars and insisted (forced?) him to drink a cool Budweiser. He started to speak about the trip and some of its tedium, but insisted that he would try to complete the full loop. I went back to Baldy View Apts., where in darkness, around ten o’clock -exactly twelve hours after he had begun, Tim triumphantly returned.

Addicted to Oil & Violence -by Kurt Vonnegut

2007-06-29T21:48:00.001-07:00

http://www.countercurrents.org/us-kurtvonnegurt130504.htm

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Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men

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Barack Obama: Hidden Messages Revealed! Superman?

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Philly Sheriff John Green

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Albert Schweitzer

Emil Sitka - The Fourth Stooge

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Hannah Ward

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Hoss

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Fred Rogers

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Mordechai Vanunu

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Black men in Philly rally against crime

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Woody Guthrie

Leslie Nielsen

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Ron Lantz

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Sherry Jackson - Forner IRS agent

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University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum

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He's Taking Law Into His Own Hands
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