No sense in reiterating. I agree.
Read for yourself: How To Divide a Party, In Three Easy Steps!
Read for yourself: How To Divide a Party, In Three Easy Steps!
I opened my back door to see why the squirrels were making such a racket, and found not one, not two, but three bucks in the yard. By the time I grabbed my camera, one walked around the side of the house, and one ran off into the woods; but this one stuck around, walked up close, and even posed for me.
Hasan awake, talking. They are going to make him sing like a little birdie:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_
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Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised change but has delivered none. His health care bill is held hostage by the private insurance companies seeking greater profits. The most likely outcome will be cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund wars that enrich the military-security complex and the many companies created by privatizing services that the military once provided for itself at far lower costs.
Obama inherited an excellent opportunity to bring U.S. soldiers home from the George W. Bush regime’s illegal wars of aggression. In its final days, the Bush regime realized that it could “win” in Iraq by putting the Sunni insurgents on the U.S. military payroll. Once Bush had 80,000 insurgents collecting U.S. military pay, violence, although still high, dropped in half. All Obama had to do was to declare victory and bring our boys home, thanking Bush for winning the war. It would have shut up the Republicans.
But this sensible course would have impaired the profits and share prices of those firms that comprise the military-security complex. So instead of doing what Obama said he would do and what the voters elected him to do, Obama restarted the war in Afghanistan and launched a new one in Pakistan. Soon, Obama was echoing Bush and Dick Cheney’s threats to attack Iran.
In place of health care for Americans, there will be more profits for private insurance companies.
In place of peace, there will be more war.
Read it all here.
- 12:55 Really glad it's a mellow Sunday. Watching my new DVD set of the complete BlackAdder series. Brilliant! #
- 16:45 Just did 30 minutes of aerobics on Wii Fit. If I can keep this up, I might actually lose some weight! #
Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Frequented Local Strip Club
It's still unclear to me--though a pattern seems to be emerging--if Major Hasan shot up Fort Hood out of a sense of Islamic Jihad.
On the other hand, we do know the 9/11 hijackers all visited strip clubs prior to committing their acts.
So I have a modest proposal: make strip clubs mandated reporters.
The Army psychiatrist authorities say killed 13 people and wounded 29 others at the Fort Hood Army Base Thursday was a recent and frequent customer at a local strip club, employees of the club told FoxNews.com exclusively.
It's still unclear to me--though a pattern seems to be emerging--if Major Hasan shot up Fort Hood out of a sense of Islamic Jihad.
On the other hand, we do know the 9/11 hijackers all visited strip clubs prior to committing their acts.
So I have a modest proposal: make strip clubs mandated reporters.
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- 16:21 I am now the only conscious person in the house. Well, if you don't count the furry little priestess of bast sitting in the puzzle box. #
- 21:29 Whee, low energy, dizzy, temperature sensors completely wonked, queasy... And really can't afford to take time off. #donttalktomeaboutlife #
- 22:29 Babies cry in their "Mother" tongue... Who knew? tr.im/EzQn #
Some random thoughts:
- 10:10 It turned out to be a pretty damn fine day after all. #
- 10:36 Ugh. I lost a day last week and put my trash out a day late. It's overfull and now has to wait until Thursday. Gucky. #
- 10:37 @n5iln Indeed. #
- 10:50 is extremely glad I carry a thumb drive around on my keychain. Yesterday I got some badass Club 6400 musiks from my stylist. :-D #
- 17:26 @lethaw Gah, I feel your pain. I'm almost out of everything, but am still waiting to face it. #
- 17:46 Heard a few words in passing and am wondering where Rick Perry will open his church when his term is over. #
- 18:21 ZOMG just gave myself the best birthday present ever: got my Facebook requests down to Zero. We'll see how long it lasts...lol #
- 18:33 @kierynne I'm sorry I left you hanging. I didn't mean to. I'm still not sure what's going to happen; I just wanted to ignore it for one day #
- 18:34 @i_has_a_jeni Thank you honey! I loves you too. Let's get together soon! #
- 21:56 Surprised by the Kikkoman plug (read: wallop) in tonight's Next Iron Chef episode. #
So I spent today doing mostly school work (slides for presentation on Tuesday). But the monotony was broken up by 3 visits, which were all here together at one point. This is a rare occurrence here at casa Bachteler-Bissell, but it was a pleasant diversion. Tim and Desiree came over so I could put some green in her hair, and Tim fixed the Linux part of my dual-boot netbook. I'm ready to fly forth with Ubuntu! Plus I got to share some music with them that they had never heard of, which made me feel sort of cool again. Lyle came by to help Henry with car trouble, and I think they made some progress. Somehow it just didn't seem right that Henry should be doing car repair ON HIS BIRTHDAY. So Aleister and I surprised him (and Lyle, Tim, and Desiree) with Key Lime Pie and vanilla ice cream! It was very scrumptious. It also put me into a sugar coma and my "short rest" on the sofa at 5:30 turned out to be a 2-1/2 hour sleep. When I woke up I had the sugar hangover, which I bandaged somewhat adequately with some cheddar cheese and a beer :-)
In case I haven't mentioned it yet, I have to give a 20-minute presentation a week from Tuesday on my capstone project proposal (senior year EE project), and other school work has taken up so much of my time this semester that I haven't done any work on the proposal yet. I need to have schematics and an idea of how I am going to program it, and I haven't even cracked a book yet. I'm planning on doing the programming in C, and using either an 8 or 16 bit microcontroller connected to a flash memory card, but I have no more information at present. I'm thinking of using PWM with the battery power supply to make it last longer, but I have only started to research PWM for my second student researcher job. I don't think it will be that difficult, it will conserve battery life, and that should make the users of my device happy. Details aside, I still have only 9 days to come up with a 20-minute presentation and it is freaking me out. I will be much happier when I am just building the damn thing.
In case I haven't mentioned it yet, I have to give a 20-minute presentation a week from Tuesday on my capstone project proposal (senior year EE project), and other school work has taken up so much of my time this semester that I haven't done any work on the proposal yet. I need to have schematics and an idea of how I am going to program it, and I haven't even cracked a book yet. I'm planning on doing the programming in C, and using either an 8 or 16 bit microcontroller connected to a flash memory card, but I have no more information at present. I'm thinking of using PWM with the battery power supply to make it last longer, but I have only started to research PWM for my second student researcher job. I don't think it will be that difficult, it will conserve battery life, and that should make the users of my device happy. Details aside, I still have only 9 days to come up with a 20-minute presentation and it is freaking me out. I will be much happier when I am just building the damn thing.
Like a slow Night on Bald Mountain, the dead flowed in streams each moving to their own rhythm. Intertwining with each other they moved along following the Urn.
I stood alone letting the images flow past me thinking about my grandfather, father and cats long gone by.
Hundreds of anonymous faces and skulls pass by. I think to myself: "Noone knows me here, not even the dead"; a bride whose white face seem to glow against the sharp black lines looks up at me and smiles.
"Paul Burns!" she cries and disappears again into the river of dead.
I stood alone letting the images flow past me thinking about my grandfather, father and cats long gone by.
Hundreds of anonymous faces and skulls pass by. I think to myself: "Noone knows me here, not even the dead"; a bride whose white face seem to glow against the sharp black lines looks up at me and smiles.
"Paul Burns!" she cries and disappears again into the river of dead.
State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting
SEIU 1000, by the way, represents (amongst other people) the teachers who are teaching your children. Clearly they've decided to set an example for our children on dispute resolution.
SEIU 1000, by the way, represents (amongst other people) the teachers who are teaching your children. Clearly they've decided to set an example for our children on dispute resolution.
I had a jolly time at Faeriecon this weekend despite having some malingering ick; got to see Charles de Lint and Charles Vess both of whom were delightful, see some lovely art (Vess is a wonder, really enjoyed Jasmine Beckett-Griffith and PurpleTopHat designs,wear the Hat With A Motherfucking Boat On It, listen to beautiful music, got to meet ParrishRelics! (yay miss you already!) and use Lush bath bombs where I did not have to clean out the tub. (0)
I also got to see lots of SJ Tucker, whose concerts were exquisite and her bandmate Betsy from Tricky Pixie made it all even lovelier. SJ does a goosebump and chill with beauty version of "Tam Lin" which everyone should hear during this lifetime, preferably in a faerie friendly spot. Wonderful,-travel safee s00j and I can't wait for Confusion!
Got to see lots of lovely people including Sihaya09, all beautiful and all kind.
Now I am doing unmagical laundry, but I feel a bit more sparkly anyway.
(0) This may make me a bad person, but I didn't use anything egregious.
I also got to see lots of SJ Tucker, whose concerts were exquisite and her bandmate Betsy from Tricky Pixie made it all even lovelier. SJ does a goosebump and chill with beauty version of "Tam Lin" which everyone should hear during this lifetime, preferably in a faerie friendly spot. Wonderful,-travel safee s00j and I can't wait for Confusion!
Got to see lots of lovely people including Sihaya09, all beautiful and all kind.
Now I am doing unmagical laundry, but I feel a bit more sparkly anyway.
(0) This may make me a bad person, but I didn't use anything egregious.
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