NEWS: Johns Hopkins student kills apparent burglar with sword

Cut and pasted from:http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/samurai.sword.killing/Johns Hopkins student kills apparent burglar with sword * Story Highlights * Suspect died at scene; he had severed left hand and lacerations to upper body * Students confronted man in their garage, police say * He lunged at students, and one defended himself with samurai swordupdated 12:47 p.m. EDT, Tue September 15, 2009(CNN) -- A Johns Hopkins University student killed an apparent burglar with a samurai sword after discovering the man in his garage, police...

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IN MEMORY OF: Patrick Swayze

Dalton: "I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice." RIP Patrick SwayzeWiki en...

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My 300th post - 8 year anniversary of 9/11/2001

"Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail." ~George Bush 09/20/2001Totally unplanned but coincidentally this is my 300th blog post. How appropriate to have a special post for the occasion.My friend kot1k of the Spladdle forum posted this earlier today:09-11-2009, 10:40 AMkot1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------------"It’s...

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Stickgrappler went to Disney World and all he got us were these lousy pictures?!?!?!

8/31/09 - 9/5/09 -- 6 days and 5 nights... took my wife and 3 kids to Disney World. We have never been there. Great time was had by all. At Epcot, there is a World Showcase, a few countries were represented. Took some pictures of slight 'martial' value.*** Norway ****** Germany ****** Japan ***There were walking canes hand-carved by an African artist that I was not able to take pictures of :-(Next time, I go to Disney World, I'll be sure to get you...

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UGH! Missed posting at the time of 9:09:09 AM and PM LOL

Since the date today is 9/9/09... it would've been cool to post at either the morning or the evening at the time of 9:09:09 LOLForgive my bad segue to:Ah, The Magic of Numbers... the Asian cultures dread the number 4 as it's an homophone for 'death'. Superstitious people dread the number 13.The Chinese MA is abound with the numbers 3, 5, 8, 13, 36 and 108 (did I miss any?). The Filipino MA have 12. It is said that Alexander the Great (or in his time) found that 'chunking' techniques in factors of 3 was useful for soldiers (or something along those...

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MMA: Meet Kimbo Slice tomorrow night (Thursday) at Champs Sports in Times Square, NYC

My friend P. emailed me about this. Please click the thumbnail below for a bigger picture and the detai...

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MMA: 1 year anniversary (and 1 day) of Evan Tanner's death

Photo Credit:  Wiki I missed posting about the 1 year anniversary of Evan Tanner's death yesterday. My thanks to my friend Hugo Hanriot for reminding me about it. Hugo posted on his Facebook a link to a Youtube vidclip and the following: "Tanner was one of a kind. He fought in the pre-Zuffa "dark ages" on MMA, won the Japanese "King of Pancrase" title, & won the UFC 185 title.When he started fighting, his only training was high school...

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ABOUT ME: finally signed up on Facebook...

...have no idea what i'm doing on facebook both literally as in how to navigate, find friends, add links and figuratively as i'm jammed with real life as it is. not as much time blogging, so why am i on facebook? LOL @ me.there were some friends on there i recognized and some i've lost contact with over the years.here's seeing if facebook is worth my time and effo...

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