jonestown

909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 276 of them children, died of apparent cyanide poisoning, mostly in and around a pavilion. This resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the September 11, 2001 atta No video was taken during the mass suicide, though the FBI did recover a 45 minute audio recording of the suicide in progress. On that tape, Jones tells Temple members that the Soviet Union, with whom the Temple had been negotiating a potential exodus for months, would not take them after the Temple had murdered Ryan and four others at a nearby airstrip. The reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with his previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men would "parachute in here on us," "shoot some of our innocent babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our people here, they'll torture our seniors." Parroting Jones' prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to fascism, one temple member states "the ones that they take captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies."cks. Given that reasoning, Jones and several members argued that the group should commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored FlavorAid (often misidentified as Kool-Aid) along with a sedative. One member, Christine Miller, dissents toward the beginning of the tape. When members apparently cried, Jones counseled "Stop this hysterics. This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity." Jones can be heard saying, "Don't be afraid to die," that death is "just stepping over into another plane" and that "[death is] a friend." At the end of the tape, Jones concludes: "We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." According to escaping Temple members, children were given the drink first and families were told to lie down together. Mass suicide had been previously discussed in simulated events called "White Nights" on a regular basis. During at least one such prior White Night, members drank liquid that Jones falsely told them was poison. Jones was found dead in a deck chair with a gunshot wound to his head that Guyanese coroner Cyrill Mootoo stated was consistent with a self-inflicted gun wound. However, Jones' son Stephan believes his father may have directed someone else to shoot him. An autopsy of Jones' body also showed levels of the barbiturate Pentobarbital which may have been lethal to humans who had not developed physiological tolerance. Jones' drug usage (including LSD and marijuana experimentation) was confirmed by his son, Stephan, and Jones' doctor in San Francisco.

trojans' weekend win

no, i didn't go to the game. i don't have any opinion on the game or the rest of the playoff season.

future business owner

if i could start my own business, i would open a pet daycare.

grandmother gives birth to daughter's triplets

this is probably the strangest thing i've ever heard of. i think surrogate mothers are a great idea and i think that its awesome that a 56 year old gave birth to healthy triplets, but i personally wouldn't want my mother to carry and deliver my child/children. that's just weird. i would never have that happen.

veteran's day

veterans day originally was held every november 11th, and though it typically falls on this day, officially the holiday is now observed on the weekday that falls closest to november 11th every year. it was first incorporated as by president wilson as armistice day in 1919. other countries today also still recognize november 11th as armistice day or remembrance day in honor of the armistice treaty which ended WWI.

weekend

after work on friday, i went to eastman to visit my mom and my little sister. saturday was my little sister's birthday party at her aunt's house in dublin. so, when we got to dublin we stopped by the mall and looked around. that mall is the worst excuse of a mall i have ever seen. at the party we ate a lot of good food and my sister got a lot of presents. we really enjoyed ourselves. sunday, we slept in. when we finally got up and ready, we were bored so we decided to go to macon. we shopped a little, and i got some really good deals on some clothes. thats about all that i did this past weekend... i didn't want it to end.

fifty

when i'm 50, i hope to have a nice house, a loving husband, and a grandchild or two. i hope i'm healthy enough to still do fun, active things like ride bikes and run around. i want to be able to play with my grandchildren, or pets if i end up not having any grandchildren. i hope that if i have kids, i have a really good relationship with them. i hope i will be financially comfortable and most of all i hope i am happy about life and everything in it.