Talking about Nos urgences sont dangereuses (21/09/07)

 

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Nos urgences sont dangereuses (21/09/07)

Mal évalués au triage, des patients seraient morts

après avoir visité les urgences du Québec.

 

No kidding…

Going into the E.R. these days

is a 50/50 gamble…!

 

I feel for the likes of Louise Ménard, who lost her son in September of 2006 at the Santa Cabrini Hospital (*) due to a misdiagnosis and purely incompetence on the part of the medical staff…

 

I still believe that something similar happened to my own father in March of that same dreadful year…

 

Really now -

if you don’t have "something obvious" – like a gunshot wound or a stab wound – DON’T RISK IT ALL BY GOING INTO AN E.R.!!!

 

Le virage ambulatoire est vraiment devenu un dérapage vers le cimetière…

au Québec "libre"…

 

 

Talking about Celebs : Gossip : When The Paparazzo Hurt Nicole’s Feelings…!

 

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Gee… is it just me or is msn space unnecessarily glitzy, complicated-looking and all-around… bizarre, so bizarre?!?

*LOL*       But I digress, yes…

Blogging about some news item found on msn.com is not fun anymore –

as it does not come over HERE with the tiny pic and headline automatically

- or so it appeared to be the case now, the last few times I tried it anyway…!

Thanks a lot, Bill!  Now go fight AIDS or something – on your Don Quixotian trip!

Altruistic publicity campaign, that’s what it is…  BUY WINDOWS – WE CARE MORE!

HA.

 

And as for Nicole Ritchie’s feelings… Hello?  Is it Lionel you’re looking for?

Get it… one of his hits… PAPA, not any PAPARAZZO off the street now…!

(Too bad we didn’t get a pic here – Nicole R in tears, the big mean Paparazzo snapping pictures away…!

Okay – enough of that now!)

 

Paparazzi are entitled to hurt pampered rich & famous airheads in my estimation –

what they are NOT allowed to do is chase them until they DIE in a car crash!

Nuff said.

Talking about how much ‘Lady in the Water’ is magical

 

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‘Lady in the Water’ is magical

eTalk’s Zain Meghji sits down with the spooky cast of ‘Lady in the Water,’ a dark and mysterious mystery from M. Night Shyamalan. He finds out if the cast has found their life’s purpose.

Their lives’ purpose – eh?  You mean, to be their director’s live puppets?

Liam Neeson knew so much when he was playing Qui-Gon Jinn…  He was uncle George’s puppet, for all intents and purposes!  Yeah, I know; that is another story!

But really now, all I could think of, while viewing this interview, was… what a shame that they DYED the natural redheadedness of the actual Lady In The Water – actress Bryce Dallas Howard – for that latest SPIDER-CRAP film, when she was sooooo miscast as the very blonde Gwen Stacy…

Bet you all you would want that they WOULDN’T commit such a crime if miss Howard was playing the part of Mera in some AQUAMAN movie (and, by the way, said movie would not feature an unknown with dark hair and an annoying smirk perpetually tattooed on his face as the lead and title character; Bryce would be playing the Sea Queen opposite a Sea King true to form, in other words blond!  And gruff!  Paul Walker with hair extensions and a beard is more like it – pass it on to your Entourage…)

The Entourage kid (whatsisname again) could still appear in the BIG FILM though (let’s not be like the WB people who held their Smallville boy back and gave a NEWCOMER the prized and touted role of Superguy in the summer film release… hmph!)

I see the Entourage Kid (what IS his name?!?) portraying AQUALAD though (he’s a natural for it; he’s got the afro for it!) - and being the first and, most probably, only real casualty in the epic!

Ah – and I want to see Marky Mark, Alan Moore, Bob Costas, Dave Chappelle, Tim Burton and a few other detractors make "significant cameo appearances" too – being crushed by a huge killer whale, one at a time!  (The running gag factor the film could use…)

It’s either that – or AQUAMAN giving them all a seizure, one at a time, with his "fish talking mental powers" as the detractors call it…!

The first alternative has us going with the "proven" campy approach – the one that made Joel Schumaker’s BATMAN & ROBIN such a kitschy, pathetic instant "unclassic" that everyone except "the refrigerator/terminator" Mr. Freeze aka Ah-nold is utterly ASHAMED to have been a part of…

The second alternative (mental or really telepathic/telekinetic/psychic powers gone WILD AND LETHAL) has us going with the "ATLANTIS KICKS YOU-KNOW-WHAT" and takes no prisoners approach!  It s MY prefered approach too, of course!  After all, there most probably was an ATLANTIS – but there sure as heck is no Gotham City – much less a planet Krypton!

And all this with the enchanting presence of as support from the ravishing Bryce Dallas as… Mera, Queen of the Seven Seas!

(Sea) Food for thought… 

Talking about iDivertissement – Madonna et la provocation

 

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iDivertissement – Madonna et la provocation

Depuis ses débuts, Madonna s’est démarquée en usant de l’art de la provocation. Voyez la madonne choquer, encore et encore.

 

 

Oh yes – unquestionably - SHE LIKES TO PROVOKE!  However she makes a whole lot of sense sometimes… there are quite a few things that she said over the years in interviews that resonated with even MOI – I will not quote ad verbatim but paraphrase because that is always what I do!  So – sue me, willya?  Or rather DON’T! 

She stated that she did not care if some viewed her as being "on top" as she believes that "this is all (an) illusion"

She furthered that by stating that, though "it is not easy to say those things", she admits that "success, fame, fortune, beauty DO NOT bring happiness"

I must interject here and state my own "opin" that YOU, Veronica Electronica or Esther or whichever name you prefer now, do not have beauty as much as you have SEX APPEAL.  Beauty I see in dames such as Cindy Sheehan, Lady Di, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, that actress turned nun who kissed Elvis in her short-lived cinematic career… whatshername again… damn, forgot!  It’ll come back to me…  I see beauty in Sister Lucia and Mother Teresa too!  And 1001 other "ordinary women" yes!  I see beauty in women who do good… without provoking so much!

And if they provoke, it is the status quo and passivity of society in order to make things CHANGE… FOR THE BETTER!

If only you were more like that – and became sort of a "madonna of kabbalah" in the process!

Whoo-oh… what blasphemy there!  *LOL*

But I digress…

She also once said, in re: provoking – "I have this strange and unexplainable drive to".  Hmm… I’ve my theories on the WHY of that strangeness!   

Another thing that I liked to hear her say was that people have trouble seeing a "whole being" there – complete with both a good side and a dark one, or a wild streak as it may be…  Then again, she said that after inferring that she was an "icon".  You’re the biggest star of them all at what you do, sure – but stars such as you are ephemeral!  Thought you’d said so yourself…!  

And I will admit that she was cute when she said "I will not stop… I will not shut up" – cute in an irreprehensible childish way!    

Likewise, she does like Édith Piaf and vows not to regret anything she’s ever done…  I thought you were only into mimicking blonde legends such as Marilyn!?  And Piaf’s nemesis, Line Renaud!  (Well, she was that in Piaf’s mind anyway…! But that is another story!)  Anyhow…  admitting "I made a mistake"  (and the clip showing in the montage of interviews I saw here when you were saying these words was that of you and Britney locking lips!) and *regretting it* should go hand in hand…  Your dichotomy of those two things is inexplicable to my eyes, Ciccone girl…  I will state though that the mistakes that you should regret are those that you committed in your private life, not so much on mock shows of misplaced affection on stage…

And then there is the NAME… the stage name, granted…

"Madonna" – the name still bothers me after aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall these years…  You sure can provoke TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT REACTIONS ALL AT ONCE IN YOUR AUDIENCE!

I’d summarize it like this:  my peeps hate to love you… but they sure do get mesmerized by you!

 

Talking about the Pope shooter who “could face jail”… everything old is new again, eh?

 

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Pope shooter could face jail

The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II may have been released from prison by mistake and could be sent back to his cell for the killing of a Turkish journalist, a newspaper said Friday.

 

They release killers – even those with a degree of notoriety – "by mistake" now?!?

 

*Sheesh*  

 

I had a nightmare one time… it was the endtimes and some BUG IN THE SYSTEM caused all the jails to let loose of all of their criminals… And it was total anarchy within nanoseconds!

It would be  funny in a very bitter way to see THAT dream of mine come true – when my GOOD DREAMS did not…!  

Oh yeah – Karol Wojtyla must be rolling in his grave… or whatever it is that they encased him in, in Rome…

 

Talking about “Looking at the big films of 2006″… HA!

 

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Looking at the big films of 2006

eTalk Daily’s David Giammarco has a sneak preview of the big hits of 2006, including ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ‘Superman’ and ‘Mission Impossible 3.’

 

Really now… what is so "big" about that short list of titles there? (A list that is missing one "surefire blockbuster" – surprisingly enough – which is "X3"… another movie resting solely upon the shoulders of a single character; and that would be Wolverine! What, you thought the geeky Cyclops would be it? Nah. And people don’t take to angels anymore – so it cannot be Cyke’s fellow original X-Man member, Angel… Nowadays, people want their heroes to look and feel as evil as evil itself… that makes a whole lot sense, doesn’t it?).  

The top three films of 2006, if these predictions are correct, will be as unimaginative as the top 3 for 2005 (which were, in ascending order, Tom Cruise’s remake-of-a-vehicle for himself of… War of the Worlds… Harry Potter’s latest sequel… and the final episode of the Star Wara saga! Gee… that’s all-new, all-original stuff for you… isn’t it?).  So, in 2006, we’ll get… another Tom Cruise vehicle (doesn’t he know he was voted "most annoying star" recently? But, in fairness to it all, he was voted as such because of his RELIGION – and not because of his sorry excuses for contributions to cinematography! Which corroborates my point about angels earlier… indirectly but still…)  after that we get another adaptation of a hugely popular book (mercifully, NOT a Harry Potter book – but The Da Vinci Code is not that much of an improvement… NO) and after that we get a remake… of SUPERMAN?!?

Sheesh.

Any more unoriginal than that and Hollywood will turn into reality TV for the Big Screen…!

Kudos though for the courageous young man who will take up the Big "S" cape and mantle of "the last son of Krypton"…  officially that is (because the hipster they have on Smallville is something… anything… but NOT "Superman"!  Not Superboy either… Super Impostor?  That must be it…)

Surely, the new Superman must know what he’s up against – no, I don’t mean lame-o villainy in the form of Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Mr. Mxyzptlk, The Prankster and (hahahaha) TERRA-MAN… No… I mean the CURSE OF SUPERMAN!

What happened to Kirk Alyn’s career?  It died.

What happened to George Reeves?  HE DIED.

What happened to Christopher Reeve?  Well… you get the picture.

 

It just isn’t worth it really – to risk so much just to bring to life a four-color, tights-wearing, two-dimensional super-hero in a freaking motion picture…

 

Not to mention that Superman sort of ripped off Hercules, Samson, the origin of Moses… and Jesus Himself!

But that is another story…

THE BIG FILM of 2006 – if numbers forbode anything of value with any degree of accuracy – would be THE OMEN 666… simply because it seems to be the time for it!  It will be released on June 6th (the release date will read as… 6/6/6 hence!) and besides… aren’t we in the End Times folks?

Sure looks like chaos out there, to me!

Now THAT is cinematography that MATTERS – in sync with the dire times we live in!  No silly son of creepy Krypton, no bogus code attributed to a famous name of the past and certainly no muties with an unrealistic, improbable and all-around unbelievable "X-gene" can even BEGIN TO COMPARE…!

And comic-book readers should be reading other fare too…!   

 

 

Dialogue with the atheist…

I THOUGHT I WOULD SALVAGE THIS REBUTTAL HERE – FOR ALL OF ETERNITY *LOL* – MY REPLY TO A CERTAIN ATHEIST I WAS HAVING A HEATED EXCHANGE WITH (FLAMEWAR! FLAMEWAR!) ON SOME MESSAGE BOARD TIME FORGOT… (time might as well forget it if they ban me for being RIGHT!) 

 

"Right and Wrong 101…? 

You do need a course like that all right… 

For starters, it is so very wrong to belittle someone who is loved by another right in front of that other person… it is classless, it is base… it is low. Forget the fact that it is, *potentially* a very real God Creator of ALL that you are belittling here – it could be anybody; ONE SHOULD NOT DO AS YOU REPEATEDLY DO.

I, for one, would have never retaliated in kind (belittling you and your hubby, alternatively) if YOU had not done so first… most of the time with God Himself.

You say it cannot be proven either way – if God exists or not… then why is your stance so firm in your unbelief? I see no indication that you are any more open to discussion than you think me NOT to be!

You KNOW (if you are "spiritual" in the least) in your heart what is right and what is wrong – I need not address that! 

You know what your problem is? You likely have not been through enough in your *little* life…! If you had gone through any trial at all, you would be more sensitive where it counts…

"Religion is for those who don’t want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been through it."  – Anonymous

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You cannot deny the spirituality in you, as hard as you may try. You stripped yourself of any religion, but you remain spiritual – otherwise, your heartlessness would reach such depths the average human mind could not fathom… however, there are many who reach those depths indeed; EVIL sure as… HELL (!) DOES EXIST!  But it comes not from minor human annoyances… it comes not even from man himself – man is but a pawn of his own basic instincts which are the ideal playground of the Evil One… but what am I saying? This group is about "GOD?" not about the "DEVIL?"But, again, as I said in my very first post here, unspeakable evil exists – and to think that a fellow human being is capable of it, all on his own, is truly sickening. The Devil is not a mere scapegoat as much as he is an explanation for otherwise unexplainable  acts, events and madness… and heartlessness, of course. You KNOW what is right – you KNOW what is wrong; therefore, there is still *some* hope for you…!It is not intrinsically "wrong" to ask questions (such as "is there a God?" even).  But it has to be done so WITH AN OPEN MIND! PRACTICE what you PREACH, I dare say! 

It is not intrinsically wrong to seek "freedom" – but freedom to do the RIGHT THINGS! Not to go astray, LEAD others astray and do as you please without moral code to speak of regulating your actions, words and endeavours…!  You just said so yourself – you CANNOT prove that you are right about this; so don’t go on a campaign proclaiming that "there is no God" – what will happen to you if THERE IS… hmm?  No – this isn"t "scare tactics"… just PURE LOGIC!  You don’t believe… fine! I don’t really want all of eternity next to you in Heaven! HOWEVER – it is your own BEST INTEREST to keep the door open… or, at least, ajar…! 

Forget about bashing the Church – they are NOT GOD. They are as flawed as you (and me, sure…)  *laugh*  Many concepts the Church has come up with are not even substantiated by the Word (but of course, yeah, you don’t read the Word…). Fact of the matter is, the Truth is only COMPLETELY known by the Creator Himself – the Bible and any other valid holy book is but distilled knowledge obtained drop by drop…Early on, in this thread, Gilgamesh was mentioned… and Utnapishtim, aka Noah! The Great Flood predates it all – the Good Book, the epic of Gilgamesh, any records of a Flood in fact (and there are so many).  Likewise the devil is a well-known character known by most if not all cultures. Jesus RETURNS in the Koran too… I could go on… countless compelling cases of prophecy fulfilled out there… but why waste my time barking up the wrong tree?  Some trees are dry beyond recuperation; only a great downpour such as… hmm… the Great Flood (!) could remedy to that! 

You hinted that I was "a bit too much" or haughty or snobbish even by decrying that having the wrong ideals and the freedom to make them prevalent was most definitely not a "good thing"…

Well, here’s one more quote for ya… 

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."  – Francois Rabelais (1494 – 1553)  Snobbery it may be… but TRUE IT IS ALSO! 

And note that it is "spiritual snobbery" –  got to be the very best kind! 

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About “eTalk’s top ten falling stars”…

 

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eTalk’s top ten falling stars

As a counter to Barbara Walters’ 10 most fascinating people of 2005, eTalk brings you the 10 stars from 2005 that we’re ready to forget about.

 

Surprisingly the top two names on that list were whatshername pictured here (…) who figures to be reigning as the current TV primetime queen… maybe not after all, eh?

And, as the number one least fascinating: a couple…

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.  Hmm… but their story has not even begun yet…?!?

 

Oh well…  

 

The rest of the top ten included, in no particular order: Pamela (…), J-Lo (…) and her new hubby (whatsisname again?), Prince William (boooooring… right?) and Nick (…).

Who’s Nick, you ask?  

Nick Lachey – the ex-Mr. Jessica Simpson!

Maybe they are right in predicting an entry into "has-been land" for him…

 

Talking about Actress Sperber Loses Breast Cancer Fight

 

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Actress Sperber Loses Breast Cancer Fight

Actress Wendie Jo Sperber, who starred opposite Tom Hanks on TV’s "Bosom Buddies" and who in his words became "a walking inspiration" after she contracted a cancer, has lost the battle for her life. She was in her 40s. She was quoted saying the plain truth: that "Doctors aren’t gods – they cannot tell you when you’re going to die."

She battled on for eight years – surely to the dismay of the medical establishment.

Wendie is remembered for her role of Linda McFly in the Back To The Future movies.

She had two children – and she is also survived by both of her parents.

Tis always the good ones who leave prematurely… alas…

Luminous (\ô/) Luciano’s ™ Dos And Don’ts

Ok… mostly the don’ts!
DON’T be overtly critical, rude or demeaning – not without a lot of humor you don’t!
DON’T be skeptical – you don’t know everything!
DON’T be intolerant – annoying people are people too!
DON’T blame your country – blame the entire modern society that we have today!
DON’T use foul language – be creative; invent your own innocuous brand! An example (to get you started): "Yogurt Off, you piece of tofu!" *LOL*
DON’T allow yourself to fall into the depths of despair – rather, immerse yourself in the abyss of careless contentment! You may remain stuck in a rut – but you will be goofily happy about it the whole while through! Surely THAT is preferable to… ah… gloom and doom 24/7 – eh?
DON’T hate the sinner – he’s a ninny, he knows no better! Despise with all the resentment you can muster his sin though – lawsuits are optional!
DON’T adopt either the "if you can’t beat them, join them" unhealthy attitude – or the "if you can’t beat them fair and square, win at all costs" insane "mad-ttitude"! The former is just plain unadvisable (and borderline faustian to boot) and the latter is the most unproductive of all – leading to kamikaze actions, quick exits from this world and thus non-existence in a hurry… If, on this day, you can’t beat them in any way – fall back… retreat… and mount a sneak attack when they least expect it! You’ll see them forfeit in no time at all!
DON’T let my luminous advice go unheeded now! *lol* And…
DON’T disagree with the author of this blog if you comment and wish to see your comments published! *LOL* (The dictator emoticon in my NeoBoard is definitely influencing me today…!!!).
All in good fun, folks! Blessings!

*Courtesy of The Luminous Blog!

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