I was in Kansas City this past weekend with my momma. Missed the balloon festival, instead had some Jack's Stacks bbq ribs, some of the best you'll find anywhere. Also visited some cousins and ate the best bbq ribs you'll find anywhere. Found out bacon causes cancer. Don't care. The town is pulsating with fair-weather fandom. They don't deserve such a fine team. Kansas Citizens are also sick Royalists.

We are kind of big on turpitude.

I was on the local 6pm news the day she got the divorce. Cleveland, specifically, was the locale. Small world.

I always close the bedroom door when I go to work, but today I left the light on. It seems the dog thought I was in there and unresponsive. So being a dog, he attempted to tunnel under the door to rescue me. He didn't get past the concrete slab, but did a fine number on the carpet.

I was in Laughlin NV, playing video poker.

I'm always in a casino when something happens.

Me too.

Princess Diana is dead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono

Quid est definitio lucri?
Ibi semper aliqui quaestus attulit?

(What is the definition of profit/gain? Is there always a gain?)

Well I don't know, do I? Or care, for that matter. It was rather convenient, however, and the obvious cui bono question wasn't raised publicly at the time is my point.

She would hardly be the first Royal to have been murdered (as I remarked to a Canadian stranger at the airport, who gave me back a look of total disdain).

Plus I've been through that tunnel in Paris. It's not some long, twisty thing; it's like no sooner are you in it than you're out of it. I'm certain I could drive through it pissed out of my head without killing anyone at least 99 times out of 100.

The Royals won, 5-4, in a thriller of a game that went 14 innings.

Kansas City is noted for BBQ as noted above by Fold'n. They were, long ago, also noted for the high production of whores and established brothels. Texas BBQ is suppose to be better than Kansas City BBQ.

Hunter S. Thompson went to Vegas to search for the American Dream. He wrote a nice short book about it, illustrated by a Welshman of vast turpitude. It is a great read.

Hunter stayed at Binion's downtown. I've done the same, twice. The American Dream is on the top floor. Hunter missed it because he was too close and got addled by the drugs.

Yes of course i was speaking in general that there may be no real "profit" in crimes. Of course conspiracy theories will be found always. Maybe sometime they prove right too.

One needs to study the driver and the other people involved in the collision. It seems the driver and the car itself must be studied as the main focus as i would imagine the bodyguard might have had a story to say otherwise after so many years, although he was heavily injured and that might have some effect on brain/memory (is that true really that he cant remember everything? convenient?). To me it seems entirely plausible that the excessive speed, the chace and any irritation/tilt by all involved and the drugs, alcohol etc in the driver (mostly the driver really here) are the key reason. Ugly things happen if your life is a little bit reckless. Yes i "accuse" every celebrity that they tend to live a reckless life if you care to examine the daily details to be honest. By that i mean they lead an active fast life that is carrying elevated risk on many of its details vs that of the average person and the people they interact with may be similarly reckless or far worse even. Look at the driver here how reckless all his behavior is leading to this. Now didnt anyone also notice his state? Can you claim that even the 3 others were a bit reckless to not have noticed anything and of course see how reckless the paparazzi and their media bosses are too.

Some see conspiracies and i tend to see elevated levels of risk in most of these celebrity accidents. Why do you even need to run from paparazzi when your prime focus must be the security of the people in your car? How reckless is to even order the driver to escape them or not order the driver to slow down? Did any of this happen? For example when i drive with others in my car i am excessively obsessed with their security and do not even care for their discussions as i am driving. And i would start speeding too with 3 others inside while intoxicated also? Its very reckless given the lack of real emergency to reach a destination real fast. See how quickly i can find a ton of blame in all 4 actually here. I get in trouble in Politics threads also for doing that in most cases but its true. Personal responsibility matters. Even on something as simple as seat belts they failed!!! I might also add that it seems that it took substantial time to get help to her (over 30 min?).

The careful collection of evidence here , especially the intoxication blood work results for the driver must be scrutinized of course to secure the main story supported. That is very important and it is where manipulation might appear. (either lies to cover something else or particular substances that make no sense to be in his system naturally as part of his habits but rely on his habits to mask the real attack)

It is very interesting always to argue it was an ordered hit of course but then who did that and why her? Was she the target or he? If she was the target who was targeting her and over what given what had already happened ( i mean what worse was to come from her given divorce and affairs by all involved already). Can the Royals kill their own? Pay the driver to commit suicide (is such a decision even reasonable given that it never comes with 100% success rate?). Drug the driver? Another car that was magically never established at the scene? None of these appear effective assassination plots.

Sure Royals could do many things centuries ago but today? I mean imagine the disaster waiting to happen if this actually was an inside job like that. It is more likely if inside job that he not she was the target instead by other people of his cycle (that would carry less risk of exposure - people with less to lose or who dont care either). Is there any room for error in such attacks/plots? Who gives the order and designs the process and there are no witnesses or people involved that stand a small but important chance to be uncovered or talk eventually? How effective even is the attack? Can you take as a royal such chance given the gain and primitive attack method? What is the gain? Is the government or any secret services involved? Again who orders them to do it confident it carries no connection risk? See stupid Watergate for example.

What do you think happened?

Such is the hysteria surrounding the event, and the number of conspiracy loons out there, it is difficult to research this and separate fact from fiction.

I do not believe that, however unlikely, a conspiracy is so prima facie inconceivable as to be not worth even discussing at the time.

If you study the details you will find a ton of bad things that shouldnt have happened almost at every step of the process.

Seat belts not used, intoxicated driver that didnt care for his state and none of the others noticed, fast speed, caring to escape from paparazzi, fast chase by paparazzi, possible bad construction geometry in the tunnel with no significant protection from impact etc. Even if you remove the driver as intoxicated there are still 2 men in the car that should have cared for her to wear a belt at such speeds or to suggest lower speeds. Of course its not cool to tell a special charming lady to wear a belt now or order your driver to drive more carefully or slow down is it lol. Its not hot to be that careful. But as a man that cares its one of the things you need to do and the hell with your image. Your leadership is needed at these details. So yes her date and the bodyguard failed her. She failed herself too there. She should know about the risks of such fast driving and she should have had a more caring man beside her too.

All these nitty details add up over time. They are not sexy to notice of course as they happen. Again i am not trying to blame the victims, we all operate carelessly at times, but they do have a role in this that could alter the outcome. Also more careful people may also be boring at other levels too, so one needs always to look at the bigger picture. Maybe you can tolerate some careless details in your life if other things in it matter a lot. I suggest that one possibly can do both if they are more thorough. Have some excitement and still be more responsible.

Even her recovery from the accident is possibly a contributing factor. I mean maybe she couldnt be saved either way because of the extend of the injuries internally but still i want to imagine if 1-2 h were saved and she was being operated instead it might have made a small difference. Some emergency medicine experts could tell us better if anything was possible here if there was more urgency or better early understanding of the situation.


"The first police patrol officers arrived at 12:30. Shortly afterwards, the seven paparazzi on the scene were arrested. Diana was removed from the car at 1:00 am. She then went into cardiac arrest. Following external cardiopulmonary resuscitation, her heart started beating again. She was moved to the SAMU ambulance at 1:18 am, left the scene at 1:41 am and arrived at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital at 2:06 am.[18] Despite attempts to save her, her internal injuries were too extensive: her heart had been displaced to the right side of the chest, which tore the pulmonary vein and the pericardium. Despite lengthy resuscitation attempts, including internal cardiac massage, she died at 4 am."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_...ncess_of_Wales

The pool or the steak house?

FYP

The Steak House/Bar. Fantastic view of sin city, the desert, and scurrying rats on the roads and elsewhere frantically grasping for riches and pleasures.

The pool is just secondary and lacks glitter and character. The Steak House by the way is excellent fare, or certainly used to be. Haven't indulge my palate there in over a decade, since Binion's was sold.

Last time I dined there was about a year ago. Food still A+ and the drinks are strong. But the last tower the GN built hurt the view of the strip.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...lvania-n453106

We have military blimps. I did not know that.

Quick any ideas how to save the blimp or avoid damage to innocent people or both? Obviously all movie material worthy lol.

I wonder what is the purpose of that blimp for the military lol?
( Scott, P (February 2004), "A Blimp Based System for Military Surveillance", Scientific American, p. 24.)

"Airships have been used not only as advertising and promotional vehicles and for the carriage of passengers, but also as television camera platforms, broadcast relay stations and as surveillance vehicles from which various sensors can be operated. AMS has developed these applications with numerous clients, including Westinghouse, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Navy,[7] Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Army, the British Ministry of Defence,[8] the NYPD’s Counter Terrorism Division (for security surveillance), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for environmental surveys."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airshi...ement_Services

Sharing from a copy of the mag i have; (apparently there are interesting applications)




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littor.../Hyperspectral

Clearly the best way to get it down is to scramble Macy's. Maybe one of its own kind can talk it down.

I wonder at what rate it drops if they puncture it while in some open area and hope it crashes slowly enough to not get destroyed. But maybe the helium it has is a significant cost to still want to avoid that route (probably 100k at least at say 10-20$ per m^3 or whatever its price is these days). Of course any damage it causes by crashing on property can exceed that several times too.

Havent followed any news on it, can it be operated if they get someone in there or do they need many people?

How to get someone in there is not at all trivial. It had a long tether hanging below that caused problems in electric lines along the way.

Its all over now but i wonder what happened or how to deal with it in general;

" 4:45 p.m.

The chief spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command says a military blimp that broke loose in Maryland and drifted over Pennsylvania "grounded itself," but the military does not know why it deflated as its descended.

The spokesman, Navy Capt. Scott Miller, says officials did not deliberately deflate the blimp.

He says it was tethered to a mooring station at an altitude of about 6,600 feet when it broke free. He says it is not known how it detached from its mooring, but an investigation is underway.

Miller says two armed Air Force F-16 fighter jets tracked the runaway blimp as it drifted north from Aberdeen Proving Ground. He says there was never any intention of shooting down the blimp.

Pennsylvania State Police say the blimp came down near Muncy, about 80 miles north of Harrisburg."

Muncy is in an area called Pennsyltucky. Both unfamiliar terms in that sentence are worthy of googling.

Hopefully the military's parents will handle the situation properly. This sort of thing can have lasting consequences.

For some reason, I want to watch Airplane The Movie.

At least in that movie they didnt have a big thing above them randomly moving more or less, limiting the approach process making it impossible to glide down.

LOL Pennsyltucky




Next to your kind friends.



The closest i have driven to that area was 200km away when i was in Ohio and Upstate NY, so close to Appalachian mountains but...never got there (maybe just maybe the upper northern part of it could be 50-100km away).

Titanic 7 C's tonight.

Hic