Guns not killing people?
rekounas @ November 1, 2008 at 4:58 am | About American News, Deaths
Why don’t you ever hear these stories coming out of Canada?
Eight-year-old shoots self with Uzi and dies
Boy fatally shot trick-or-treating
In the first story:
The boy was with a certified instructor and “was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury,” a police statement said. Police called it a “self-inflicted accidental shooting.”
Right! Why does an 8-year old need to shoot an uzi? Why does the general public need this type of training? The certified instructor didn’t think that the boy might not have enough strength to handle this type of weapon? I blame the parents.
In the second story, a kid just looking for some candy with his family gets blown away. What was the person inside the house thinking?
A 12-year-old boy trick-or-treating with his family in central South Carolina was shot from inside a home Friday and killed, and his father and brother were wounded by the gunfire, authorities said.
The shooting suspect, Quentin Patrick, was in custody, a jail official said. Patrick, 22, has been charged with murder and three counts of assault and battery with intent to kill. The jail official said she didn’t know whether Patrick had an attorney and his telephone number was unpublished.
I have nothing to add to this!
Longtime Mediterranean chef had a kind heart
rekounas @ October 30, 2008 at 5:39 pm | About Saint John, What I did today
(Source Telegraph Journal)
SAINT JOHN - It was Peter Rekounas’s winning smile, for sure, that stole her heart.
But Barbara (Doas), his wife of 34 years, says it took more than that to convince her to marry the former sheep herder in their native Greece in July 1974, and then to follow him to Saint John where, since 1971, he had been carving out a living as a budding chef.
“He was young, he was kind, he was honest and he was hard-working,” she said Tuesday. “That is why I trusted him to leave my home and come from Greece and start a family with him.”
Those qualities never changed, she said, not even during Rekounas’s hard-fought, 17-month battle with colon cancer, which resulted in his death, at age 59, on Oct. 14.
“What Peter passed on to me and our children was to be kind to others, because he was a kind heart,” she said. “Right up to the last minutes, that is what he told the kids - ‘be kind to each other, and to others.’ ”
Rekounas, who had learned the basics of cooking during his two years in the Greek army, spent the last 29 years of his long career as a chef at The Mediterranean Restaurant on Rothesay Avenue.
Restaurants he worked at early on included the Venus, Carmen’s, the Belmont and Dianna’s.
“He loved his work, but he was also very happy when his kids were coming home, when the family were around,” said Barbara, who herself worked as a hostess and cashier at The Mediterranean for 17 years. “As soon as he came home and saw the family all together, it brought a smile to his face - even if he was tired.”
Panagiotis (Peter) Rekounas was born in Greece on Dec. 6, 1948. He was predeceased by his parents and two brothers.
Besides his wife, his survivors include one son, Gregory of the Kingston Peninsula; one daughter, Vasiliki, or “Vicky” Zacharia, of Toronto; one grandson, Alexander, on whom he doted; and one brother and three sisters, back in Greece.
The Millidgeville resident was a member of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.
He used to follow harness racing. And, “if he ever saw a farm with animals, he would visit that,” said Barbara. “His good friend Paul Daeres, who grew up in the same small Greek village, had a farm in Westfield and he liked to visit on weekends whenever he could.”
Son Gregory remembers his father as “a bit a jokester, prankster, but a hard worker, too.
“It was all about family,” he added. “He didn’t see any rewards for himself. It was his kids, his wife, that type of thing. “¦ He was very supportive.”
Wassup 8 Years Later
rekounas @ October 25, 2008 at 7:16 am | About Humor
Peter Rekounas Dec 6, 1948 - Oct 14, 2008
rekounas @ October 14, 2008 at 4:52 am | About What I did today
My father passed away at 5:30 am October 14, 2008.
He will be loved and missed.
My father is lossing his battle with cancer
rekounas @ October 13, 2008 at 4:53 pm | About General, What I did today
It has been a long hard 18 months since my father was diagnosed with colon cancer. He has been in a coma since Saturday and hasn’t had any foods or liquids in 5 days. He is in the palliative care unit at the Saint John Regional Hospital.
My front yard flooded. Holy Hanna!
rekounas @ September 7, 2008 at 11:19 am | About What I did today
The water lever in my front yard rose 12 feet and then washed away parts of my driveway and left a nice sinkhole! My wooden bridge that spans the brook washed away and the culverts couldn’t handle the water. The department of transportation is going to be out tomorrow to fix the hole. They will fix the culvert, I have to get more lime stone for the driveway.
Life Imitating Art
rekounas @ August 29, 2008 at 4:43 am | About Movies, TV
Well, no wonder he is addicted to sex! After scenes like this…
“Sweet baby jesus, Hank is going to hell ” LOL!
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction.
In a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, the actor said he did so voluntarily, adding, “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”
The actor’s publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the rehab report, which first appeared on People.com.
She and Stein both declined to elaborate further.
Duchovny plays a sex-obsessed character on the Showtime series “Californication,” which earned Emmy nominations for casting and cinematography. The show’s second season begins September 28.
Duchovny, 48, best known for the role of Agent Fox Mulder on “The X-Files,” has been married to actress Tea Leoni since 1997. They have two
I remember in the X-files, there was always innuendo that Mulder was actually watching porn while investigating some X-files case. Sometimes, it would sound like jerking off while on the phone, only to reveal he was bouncing a basket ball or something like that.
If you are addicted to something, might as well be sex right?
Guitar Hero and Rock Band
rekounas @ August 7, 2008 at 4:28 pm | About Games, Music
I did it. I bought Rock Band for the PS3 and it is definitely worth it! I have had Guitar Hero II and III for a while now, but just recently I got to playing them again. I will be the first to admit that I have no rhythm. I can fuck up clapping to the beat of a song. So that fact that I can play most of GH and RB on medium for the guitar is a huge step for me. I think if I practiced a little more I could make the jump to hard, but I am not nearly ready for that. On the drums, I am on easy right now and I find it harder to get use to then the guitar. Singing, forget about it. I suck moose cock on singing. I can’t even go into detail of the level of suckage that I am probably at for singing. The whole reason I don’t sing during the national anthem at hockey games is because I am sure someone will probably punch me in the face. So, I only sing when no one is around.
Likes
I like the selection in both games and a little more in GH because it has been around longer. I haven’t downloaded any of the music for RB at the Playstation Store, but I am pretty sure there is a decent collection.
Dislikes
The fact that the guitars are cross-platform incompatible. Right now I have GH for the PS2 and RB for the PS3. But I was thinking of buying the newing GH games for the PS3 and using my RB guitar, but nope! They are not compatible. How fucked is that? My other dislikes with the guitars are that on RB, the buttons are narrower and closer together then they are for GH. I am forever fat fingering the buttons. But I am sure I will get use to it. And in GH, I hate the clicking for the strumming and I find the buttons rigid. I should mention that I use the TAC Freedom V wireless controller and not the wired controller that comes with the package.
In the end, I think both games are worth their price and I am sure I will get many hours of game play out of it.
George Carlin Greatest Quotes
rekounas @ July 9, 2008 at 6:17 pm | About Humor
I could read his stuff all day long. Blogzorro has listed George Carlin’s 101 Greatest Quotes.
Here are a few of my favourite:
2. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
13. There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. “All of you words over here, you seven….baaaad words.” That’s what they told us, right? …You know the seven, don’t ya? That you can’t say on TV? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
14. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
16. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
23. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, “You show me a tropical fruit and I’ll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.”
32. Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
41. Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion are women you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place? There’s such balance in nature.
Drunk Referee in a soccer match
rekounas @ July 9, 2008 at 5:08 pm | About Soccer
Maybe someone spiked his water bottle with vodka and he just didn’t give a shit.
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Referee Sergei Shmolik was helped off the field with back pain while officiating a Belarus league match, but later was shown to be drunk.
In TV footage shown Wednesday on Russian television, Shmolik staggered as he was helped off the field at the end of Saturday’s match.
The Belarusian sports Web site Presball reported that the crowd in Vitebsk stadium, where the local team was hosting Naftan, was amused with the referee’s strange behavior through the second half.
Shmolik was hardly moving by the end of the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw, officiating from the central circle by the end of the game.
Presball said Shmolik got help after the match but later was taken to the hospital for a test, which showed high levels of alcohol in his system.
The Belarus football federation said Shmolik’s case will be subject to a disciplinary committee.
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