What kind of people
Zelda Williams is the 25 year old daughter of the late Robin Williams. She's a smart woman, a talented woman and in the last 36 hours, she's been a tormented woman. Tormented first by her father's death and then be a bunch of trolls on the internet.
What kind of individual takes time out of their day to send messages of hate to a grieving young daughter? The kind whose own lives are empty. The kind whose soles are devoid of compassion. The kind who are a waste of space. You want to be funny, be funny. There was nothing funny in any of those Tweets.
Now you've forced her to withdraw from social media, where there was a lot of love and support for her in this time, because you just had to hurt someone's feelings. Push their buttons and take some kind of sick satisfaction from her pain.
Do any of you have the moral fiber and courage of your convictions to step out from behind the anonymity of your computer monitor and identify yourselves? To take pride in what you've done? To own your actions? I'll wager you don't. You wouldn't be able to live with the shame and scorn you would receive.
I'd pity you but you don't deserve it.
* * *
Vinod Kholsa is a billionaire venture capitalist who bought a 53 acre beachfront residence to the South of Half Moon Bay in Northern California. Purchased in 2008 for $32.5 million, the property has a road that stretches for a half-mile that is the only way for the public to access Martins Beach. People have been using that road as far back as the Roaring 20s.
Now Kholsa is at war with the California Coastal Commission and an environmental group. There is a gate where the road enters his property and he wants it shut, permanently.
That's just wrong. The ocean and the beaches belong to the public, not to the people who are fortunate enough to be able to purchase a home that fronts the beach. There is a dispute over where the line is drawn between the wet sand and the dry sand, and I happen to believe that there should be public access to dry sand at least 100 yards from the wet sand. Just my opinion.
If I were to buy all the land around Yosemite or Sequoia National Parks, that wouldn't give me ownership of, or the right to block access to these two national treasures. The same logic seems to indicate that Mr. Kholsa should not have the right to block off a public beach.
* * *
According to a study done by an employment consulting firm, employers lose $13 billion in productivity each year because of fantasy football. What I found really amazing about this study is that the amount of lost productivity has doubled in less than two years.
Let's face facts. None of us are 100% productive, 100% of the time we're in the office. We are human. We talk with colleagues. We run to the restroom. We hear about a major news event and we check it for ourselves.
I don't play fantasy football. I don't follow football closely enough. I'm pondering playing fantasy baseball next season because I do follow baseball closely. I don't know if I'll try a league where there is money involved, or just play in one of the free, fun leagues. I do know I won't be spending time at work, working on my fantasy team in any sport. I'd rather be getting work done.
* * *
I'm sick and tired of the heightened vitriolic nature of people commenting on things political. I read something this morning where someone claimed that Republicans can be recognized by the swastikas on their sleeves.
Let's go back to sixth grade math, people. There is a set of Republicans. There is a small portion of that set, known as racists, or Nazis or whatever pejorative label you wish to apply. What that means is that while some Republicans might be whatever, not all of them are. Nor are all Democrats "dumbocrats" either.
Most of the time when I see this name-calling, it is because the people involved can't argue the issue, so they attack the other person.
Please tone down the name-calling.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
If I were to find myself suddenly flush with lots and lots of cash, I would bid on the private screening of "Pulp Fiction" that will be hosted by Uma Thurman. I just hope she and the other 55 guests allowed to attend won't mind me rewinding and re-watching the scene where my ex-girlfriend gets shot. Maybe five or six times?
At least Kim Kardashian made that sex tape to fulfill her fame whore dreams. Aside from gaining weight and becoming a sock designer, what did Rob Kardashian ever accomplish? (Yeah, I'm name-calling, but in my defense, I'm merely applying a label that many applied to the Kardashians long before I did)
Why am I not surprised that Rush Limbaugh put hoof in mouth yet again, this time with comments about the suicide of Robin Williams? I really need to find a "Flush Rush" bumper sticker.
It is very nice that other porn stars are raising money to pay for the reconstructive surgery that Christy Mack needs after her beating, allegedly by mixed martial artist War Machine; but he's the one who should pay for her medical bills. That is if he is the one who beat her (which seems to be the case).
Does anyone ever look good in a mug shot?
The suicide of Robin Williams may be connected to the open heart surgery he underwent in 2009. Something called Postperfusion Syndrome, more commonly known as Pump Head syndrome. More on this in my next blog.
When they were talking about the death of Robin Williams on a local radio station, one of the news anchors said he'd won his Oscar for Good Will Hunting back in 1977. I didn't have the heart to call them and tell them that 1977's Best Supporting Actor Oscar went to Jason Robards for Julia, and that Matt Damon was all of seven years old in 1977.
I'm guessing that Red Robin Hood would be a guy who robs from the rich and gives to the poor, and the poor get unlimited steak fries.
* * *
August 14th in History:
29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1288 – Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
1352 – War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1370 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1592 – Imjin War: at the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
1598 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
1914 – World War I: start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
1916 – Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
1945 – The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
1971 – Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 – The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2006 – Chencholai bombing: 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Air force bombing.
2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
Famous Folk Born on August 14th:
Emperor Hanazano of Japan
Catherine of York
Doc Holliday
Ernest Thayer
Francis Ford
Frank Oppenheimer
Paul Dean
Wellington Mara
Buddy Greco
Earl Weaver
Lynne Chaney
David Crosby
Steve Martin
Wim Wenders
Antonio Fargas
Susan Saint James
Danielle Steel
Bob Backlund
Carl Lumbly
Mark Fidrych
Alice Ghostley
General Stanley McChrystal
Jackee Henry
Rusty Wallace
Marcia Gay Harden
Sarah Brightman
Susan Olsen
Brannon Braga
Halle Berry
Catherine Bell
Mila Kunis
Spencer Pratt
Tim Tebow
What kind of individual takes time out of their day to send messages of hate to a grieving young daughter? The kind whose own lives are empty. The kind whose soles are devoid of compassion. The kind who are a waste of space. You want to be funny, be funny. There was nothing funny in any of those Tweets.
Now you've forced her to withdraw from social media, where there was a lot of love and support for her in this time, because you just had to hurt someone's feelings. Push their buttons and take some kind of sick satisfaction from her pain.
Do any of you have the moral fiber and courage of your convictions to step out from behind the anonymity of your computer monitor and identify yourselves? To take pride in what you've done? To own your actions? I'll wager you don't. You wouldn't be able to live with the shame and scorn you would receive.
I'd pity you but you don't deserve it.
* * *
Vinod Kholsa is a billionaire venture capitalist who bought a 53 acre beachfront residence to the South of Half Moon Bay in Northern California. Purchased in 2008 for $32.5 million, the property has a road that stretches for a half-mile that is the only way for the public to access Martins Beach. People have been using that road as far back as the Roaring 20s.
Now Kholsa is at war with the California Coastal Commission and an environmental group. There is a gate where the road enters his property and he wants it shut, permanently.
That's just wrong. The ocean and the beaches belong to the public, not to the people who are fortunate enough to be able to purchase a home that fronts the beach. There is a dispute over where the line is drawn between the wet sand and the dry sand, and I happen to believe that there should be public access to dry sand at least 100 yards from the wet sand. Just my opinion.
If I were to buy all the land around Yosemite or Sequoia National Parks, that wouldn't give me ownership of, or the right to block access to these two national treasures. The same logic seems to indicate that Mr. Kholsa should not have the right to block off a public beach.
* * *
According to a study done by an employment consulting firm, employers lose $13 billion in productivity each year because of fantasy football. What I found really amazing about this study is that the amount of lost productivity has doubled in less than two years.
Let's face facts. None of us are 100% productive, 100% of the time we're in the office. We are human. We talk with colleagues. We run to the restroom. We hear about a major news event and we check it for ourselves.
I don't play fantasy football. I don't follow football closely enough. I'm pondering playing fantasy baseball next season because I do follow baseball closely. I don't know if I'll try a league where there is money involved, or just play in one of the free, fun leagues. I do know I won't be spending time at work, working on my fantasy team in any sport. I'd rather be getting work done.
* * *
I'm sick and tired of the heightened vitriolic nature of people commenting on things political. I read something this morning where someone claimed that Republicans can be recognized by the swastikas on their sleeves.
Let's go back to sixth grade math, people. There is a set of Republicans. There is a small portion of that set, known as racists, or Nazis or whatever pejorative label you wish to apply. What that means is that while some Republicans might be whatever, not all of them are. Nor are all Democrats "dumbocrats" either.
Most of the time when I see this name-calling, it is because the people involved can't argue the issue, so they attack the other person.
Please tone down the name-calling.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
If I were to find myself suddenly flush with lots and lots of cash, I would bid on the private screening of "Pulp Fiction" that will be hosted by Uma Thurman. I just hope she and the other 55 guests allowed to attend won't mind me rewinding and re-watching the scene where my ex-girlfriend gets shot. Maybe five or six times?
At least Kim Kardashian made that sex tape to fulfill her fame whore dreams. Aside from gaining weight and becoming a sock designer, what did Rob Kardashian ever accomplish? (Yeah, I'm name-calling, but in my defense, I'm merely applying a label that many applied to the Kardashians long before I did)
Why am I not surprised that Rush Limbaugh put hoof in mouth yet again, this time with comments about the suicide of Robin Williams? I really need to find a "Flush Rush" bumper sticker.
It is very nice that other porn stars are raising money to pay for the reconstructive surgery that Christy Mack needs after her beating, allegedly by mixed martial artist War Machine; but he's the one who should pay for her medical bills. That is if he is the one who beat her (which seems to be the case).
Does anyone ever look good in a mug shot?
The suicide of Robin Williams may be connected to the open heart surgery he underwent in 2009. Something called Postperfusion Syndrome, more commonly known as Pump Head syndrome. More on this in my next blog.
When they were talking about the death of Robin Williams on a local radio station, one of the news anchors said he'd won his Oscar for Good Will Hunting back in 1977. I didn't have the heart to call them and tell them that 1977's Best Supporting Actor Oscar went to Jason Robards for Julia, and that Matt Damon was all of seven years old in 1977.
I'm guessing that Red Robin Hood would be a guy who robs from the rich and gives to the poor, and the poor get unlimited steak fries.
* * *
August 14th in History:
29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1288 – Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
1352 – War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1370 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1592 – Imjin War: at the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
1598 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
1914 – World War I: start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
1916 – Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
1945 – The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
1971 – Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 – The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2006 – Chencholai bombing: 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Air force bombing.
2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
Famous Folk Born on August 14th:
Emperor Hanazano of Japan
Catherine of York
Doc Holliday
Ernest Thayer
Francis Ford
Frank Oppenheimer
Paul Dean
Wellington Mara
Buddy Greco
Earl Weaver
Lynne Chaney
David Crosby
Steve Martin
Wim Wenders
Antonio Fargas
Susan Saint James
Danielle Steel
Bob Backlund
Carl Lumbly
Mark Fidrych
Alice Ghostley
General Stanley McChrystal
Jackee Henry
Rusty Wallace
Marcia Gay Harden
Sarah Brightman
Susan Olsen
Brannon Braga
Halle Berry
Catherine Bell
Mila Kunis
Spencer Pratt
Tim Tebow
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