Carpe Diem, or Thoughts to Think on Your Way up the River

So, those Swedish would be cyber-sex king pins? They were scooped up and driven 22 hour overland to the Davao Penal Colony and Farm. Life humming "Don't Drop the Soap" as they break rocks next to some of the biggest and baddest Mindanao has to offer. I got to look at photos of the tunnel...Now, mind you, I used to be stationed on Philadelphi Road, the Pink Line between Gaza and Egypt? I have seen great tunnels though I retired before the Blockade of Gaza really got going. Still, they moved a hell of a lot of weaponry and since prices are lower in Egypt they smuggled a shit load of anything. Point being that a tunnel usually won't impress me but that Cagayan del Oro Tunnel was sweet and just a few meters more!

They say it would have popped up in the Reception and Diagnostic Building where the Swedes and Taiwanese Crank Manufacturers were being held but as of yet they can't exactly pin it on anyone though I reckon that when one is already doing Life it really doesn't matter. Both guys are in their low-30s, they may be able to get out in 30 years. Of course I am sure they will figure out a way out before then. Two months ago the Philippine Government signed a Prisoner Exchange with Denmark, imagine those two Swedes frustration?

I was reading online about those jerkofs at "Occupy Wall Street." OK, they occupied a private piece of property, Zuccotti Park, they caused small businesses like an acquaintance of mine's cafe to go under, then, I read that the chief organisers and financiers happen to be fucken investment bankers! I almost pissed in my shorts laughing! Not all of them but enough, and where are they laying their heads? In Zuccotti Park? Nah, in 700 Dollar a night rooms at "W" a super-trendy hotel. I love it!

Some may remember my comment about those protesters being tools? Cough...


My newest obsession is getting a metal detector. Dad, my father in law, has been needling me about it for years. His dream is gold. Me? I love history. In the 1920s, on the bank of a creek about 20 klicks north of here, a Hilltribeswoman waswashing herself in that creek when she stepped on sometging strange. She reached down and felt a small arm. She was scared but ended up digging it up. Pure gold, a Buddhist statue. The Bisaya, Rizza's tribe, were Hinduised (not quite Hindu) until Spain fucked up the game. Butuan, the city I mentioned in recent posts, roughly 110 km north of me on the coast, was a Hinduised Kingdom with embassies to China 1,600 years ago. If a golden statu of such fine workmanship (Ill post photos later) can be laying around in creeks, who knows? My kick would be the history though.

 

History and archeology are interesting. Hunting for gold too.... I think most people who buy metal detectors for that purpose "burn out" within a few weeks when they realize how hard it is to find enough of anything interesting to make that hobby worth while. Rather than blow a lot of money, you could probably rent or lease a good metal detector for cheap.

That's an interesting comment about the Occupy Wall Street. Why would investment bankers be interested in funding it?

 

I don't know Socko, it is like Egypt. OK, when Egypt first went wild people in CE and P forum were getting hard ons "Whooop! Democracy!" I tried explaining that nothing would change, the military runs the country, always has since overthrowing the king. I told them that at most, many would die. I also stated that the demonstrations were not spontaneous but scripted by the West. Although I soon gave up trying to reason with folks and therefore didn't say more, that was created by an NGO in Sarejevo, which is itself US created and run. They stage managed it, and the Egyptian activists who created the Social Media frenzy freely admit that it was stage managed by that NGO, though they don't seem to be aware who created the NGO.

The point? You have to patiently dig before buying into these mass movements. I smelled bullshit from get with Wall Street because they were having these trendy chefs come down and whip up fabulous gourmet meals for free. Homeless began getting hip and what did our young activists do? I mean, fighting for the poor and disenfranchised, right? They turned around and decreed brown rice only for a week or so so as to drive away the homeless. How fucken hypocritical can they be? Blocking coffee shoppe entrances, shitting on the ground on a private piece of property and all with $500K American in piecemeal donations being managed by a small group staying in 700 Dollar a night rooms. So typical, so sad.