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London appears to be experiencing it's own mild version of 9/11 today as multiple bomb blasts (similar to those in Madrid) rocked the city's subway system and public transit buses killing innocent civilians. It's too early to say "who's" behind the attacks but they have all the hallmarks of Islamic militants spreading their terrorist message the only way they know how.

Maybe now more Brits and other Europeans will get behind us on the war on terror now that attacks on innocent civilian populations are occurring on their soil. When is the world going to realize that Islam is an evil, ignorant, violent, hate-filled religion who's stated goal is to kill all those who don't convert and submit to the will of Allah? I'm no fan of any religion but you don't see Christians, Buddhists or Hindus carrying out these homicide bomb attacks.

Did I mention I HATE Islam?!? Fucking terrorist religion!

Everyone be extra careful and vigilant today and let the special people in your life know how much you care about them.

Rapper Lil' Kim's reality came crashing down this week when she was sentenced to a year in jail for committing perjury involving a gang shoot-out at a New York radio station in 2001. Apparently Lil' Kim's posse ran into a rival rap posse and in true uncivilized rap fashion began shooting at each other. Kim lied to a federal grand jury about the incident to protect some of her friends who were involved. She could have gotten 20 years so I think she got off way to easy but at least America got a little bit of justice this week.

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/06/lil.kim.sentence.ap/index.html

My bro Barry sent me this pic of him and our niece Alex this weekend. I told him to enjoy being her favorite uncle while he could cause I'll be in SoBo next week to reclaim my title as Alex's favorite uncle! Ha-ha! Just kidding Barry...kinda! I've already got a bag full of goodies for her so I'm gonna be her summertime Santa...after all, my birthday is July 25th! And yes, plans are underway for my 4th Annual 29th birthday party, and no, that does not mean I am turning 33; use your brain people!

You know the drill...I pick 'em, you click 'em!

• The Ultimate Mosaic - Check out this mosaic of Van Gogh's famous Starry Night. It's made up of over 210,000 smaller pics with a whopping file size of 1.5 Gigapixels! Damn!

• What's In Those Baggy Pants? - I've NEVER been a fan of kids wearing those super baggy pants. I think it looks ridiculous and stupid but this video illustrates how dangerous they can be.

• Chicken of the Sea - Here's a hysterical SNL clip about Jessica Simpson getting confused about Chicken of the Sea...very funny!

• Problem Child - WOW...you gotta see this clip of the world's most unruly kid...if this were my kid, I swear I'd just go ahead and fight him like a man. This kid needs to be punched a few times.

My favorite vid of the week;

• The Ultimate Minute Man - This dude is obviously pretty racist but he's got an ingenious approach to rounding up illegal immigrants and he's got the balls to do it. Watch the vid...which may take a while to load but worth the wait. (Thanks to Larry G for sending the link)

Luckily, I got to have a few hours of holiday fun after all. I was scheduled to photograph a fireworks show in Redondo but the ocean's marine layer rolled in thick and heavy and (a) I didn't want to expose my gear to all that moist, salty ocean air and (b) you can't really get good shots in that kind of weather so I chose to go hang out with the Lopez Clan in Hermosa Beach and enjoy a few cold ones. We also lit up a few sparklers for fun and I snapped one of the funniest photos I've ever taken. Check out the last photo of Art's mom freaking out with a bunch of sparklers going off in her hands. Classic!

It was the holiday for most but not for me and Kim. We spent the better part of the weekend working around the house and we both had to chose to work on the 4th. I had to photograph a country fair during the day so Kim chose to go into work and get time & a half and earn some more vacation hours. So it wasn't really a holiday weekend for us...actually worse than most weekends but we're gonna chill this coming weekend and enjoy ourselves.

Friday afternoon rolled around and we decided to go out to dinner at Chaba Thai Bay Grill in Redondo. I was so looking forward to having the Beef Curry with sticky rice but Chaba turned out to be one of those annoying restaurants that has different foods available on different days. You ever spend the whole day looking forward to something only to be denied? I was so not happy that I couldn't have the Beef Curry but I resisted the urge to throw a temper tantrum and got the barbecue chicken (Thai style) along with some chicken satay instead. All in all it was pretty good but I don't see myself going back unless I know before hand they are serving what I really want! Grrrrr!

With all that's going on with Tom Cruise in the press lately, many people are wondering just what is Scientology. The core beliefs of Scientology are a very closely guarded secrets but thanks to the internet, you can find out the "big secret" from people who spent years on the inside before defecting.

It should be noted that the religion of Scientology was founded by a former science fiction writer i.e. L. Ron Hubbard. Are you ready....you're not gonna believe it....but here we go...

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Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.

Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyze them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralyzed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.

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Well what did you think of that story?

What? You thought it was a stupid story?

Well, so did I but believe it or not, that is the core belief or Scientology. I read Dianetics years ago and thetans are definitely discussed in the book. The above story is only told to you when you reach one of their super secret levels called OT III. It takes many years of "auditing" (brain washing that you pay to have done to you) before you reach OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level or you have to work very hard for the organization on extremely low pay for many, many years.

So now you know the big secret of Scientology. Is it really surprising that Tom Cruise would believe there's no such thing as a chemical imbalance knowing he believes it (or at least has been told) the story above?

Links to articles about the evils of Scientology

• http://www.xenu.net/archive/media/time910605.html

• http://www.xenu.net/archive/secret.html 

Brooke Shields finally fired back at self proclaimed expert on all things Tom Cruise who publicly criticized her for taking anti-depressants to cure her postpartum depression. Cruise (who is a high school drop-out) commented to Matt Lauer on the Today Show that (a) he knows the history of psychiatry, (b) there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and, (c) claimed that all ailments could be cured with vitamins and exercise. He also went so far as to call psychiatry "a psuedo-science" [begin jp sarcasm] unlike Scientology which has the word science right in the title. [end jp sarcasm] If there's really no such thing as a chemical imbalance, how does Tom Cruise explain his bizarre behavior as of late?

Shields called Cruise's comments "a disservice to mothers everywhere" in an opinion column for The New York Times.

"To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general," the actress wrote. If any good can come of Mr. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease."

I say bravo for Brooke for standing up Scientology bully Tom Cruise and his uninformed and irresponsible comments. How the hell does Tom Cruise know anything about postpartum depression anyway?

This is one of those 'ruin your day' links but the reason I'm posting it is because it will radically change your opinion about wearing fur as fashion...well, if you have a soul that is. I'm no fan of PETA cause I firmly believe in eating meat and using the by-products of animals which are put down properly but what is being done to these poor creatures simply for their fur is beyond sickening, it's morbid and evil and anyone that owns any fur should see this. It literally made me want to jump thru my screen and begin killing the humans in this video. I've never been a fan of fur but I think I'll be a lot more passionate about this issue for the rest of my life now.

Apparently this video has come to light in protest of the teen fashion store Wet Seal who uses the fur of bunnies, baby seals and the creatures in this sickening vid to make fashion fur clothing for small children and teens. If you are anyone you know shops at Wet Seal, well, watch the video to see what you're wearing!

Warning: The video links below are pretty upsetting and will most likely make you want to throw up or cry...or both....again, if you have a soul.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

• Helpless creatures being skinned ALIVE and left to die in agony

• Helpless baby seals being clubbed to death for their fur

Urge Wet Seal to STOP SELLING FUR NOW!

Joel N. Waller, CEO
Wet Seal, Inc.
26972 Burbank Street
Foothill Ranch, CA 92610
949-699-4734
949-206-4977 (fax)
Joel.Waller@wetseal.com

~ DON'T WEAR FUR! BOYCOTT STORES THAT SELL FUR! ~

Some more fun links to check out...

• Rag Doll - Fun little flash movie where you can throw a flexible girl around...this has nothing to do with violence against women.

• Musical Mario - Watch this totally sick bassist play Super Mario on his 9 string, Pac-man themed bass.

• Photoshop Master - this might be a repost but it's still pretty cool...it's a time lapsed rendering of a girl being drawn Photoshop. I wish I was this good.

• Politically Incorrect Stamps - Leave it to the Mexicans to create a stamp that would cause a meltdown here in the U.S., I wonder how long before Jesse Jackson has to put his two cents in?

• Jerry Seinfeld In Oz - If you're a fan of the sitcom Seinfeld, you'll love this clip where Jerry gets sent to OZ....but be warned, it's a LONG download even over DSL.

• Real Men of Genius - Foot Long Hot Dog Inventor

• Real Men of Genius - Taco Salad Inventor

• Real Men of Genius - Silent Gas Passer (Very Funny)

• Someone Hates Horses - This is the weirdest blog I've ever seen...this person really, really, really, really, really hates horses. I don't really know why but I think he hates horses too much. I personally don't have a problem with horses. (Warning: Very Explicit Language!)

• Doctors Find Dead Fetus In Young Boy - You have to read this to believe it.

• Who Wants Catfish? - A man in Thailand catches the world's largest known catfish at 646 pounds. And to think, this would be pretty normal if we (mankind) weren't here.

It goes without saying that I'm a huge Star Wars nut and so it came to pass that I made my first lightsaber this week...made in Photoshop that is. I was doing some graphic work in PS earlier today when the epiphany hit me that I could create a lightsaber using a few simple effects and a little imagination. I grabbed my office stapler, struck a quick, goofy pose in the bedroom, applied a little Photoshop magic and voila...my first lightsaber pic. Yes, this was done while I was on the clock but I don't think my boss will fire me...ha! Not unless he's schitzo! (Get it?!?)

Of course I'm going to improve on it now by getting a real Jedi robe and taking some shots in "more realistic" settings. If anyone knows where the nearest Death Star is in the Los Angeles area, let me know!

I'm sure some of you are thinking how silly this is...and it kinda is...but life is all about having fun and not taking everything so seriously all the time. I'm not scared to be serious about things that are going on in the world but I'm also not scared to be silly and (heaven forbid) have some fun! If I can get some of you laughing at me in the process, well...great! :^P