Another week's end!
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silveradeptWe survived another one. Whee! Only about, what, ten more to go?
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Pizza, in moderation, may help cut your cancer risk. But not too much, of course, or the detriments outweight the benefits.
A shocking new discovery as scientists in Berlin create ball lightning in a laboratory condition. Probably the closest thing to a live Hadouken that we'll ever see. In technological progress, Hewlett-Packard is cooling servers with model jet engines. The engines are modified, and they generate more than enough wind to make things work, even in close confines. I wonder what the noise will be like, but so long as there aren't tech offices in the server room, it probably won't be a problem.
Something much more sobering, but still deadly, are the mobile execution chambers developed by the PRC, that they're putting to good use. Injection death, on wheels. Too easy to contravene law and judicial procedure with those... not to mention I don't like the idea of having my death come to meet me.
A new feud is erupting, but not Hatfield and McCoy... now its the Castles and the Shrocks. We just hope there aren't any more fatalities. Although, if there are, make sure that the bodies get a proper burial. That way, when a high school gets built on the property many years down the road, the skeletons won't get turned up by those digging the foundation. That's got to be a bit scary. Hopefully there aren't any horror stories that get associated with the place.
Arkansas believes that homosexuals are unfit to be foster parents. Because "unmarried sex" happens in a homosexual household, and because homosexuals don't "have the potential" to find a spouse. Those of you already armed with the cluebats and hammers, second door on your left. Those still left can marvel at a conservative's letter to his liberal friend, explaining why his liberalness is causing him difficulty in selling his house, and why liberal control of government would only make things worse. Second door on the right, for those interested in this particular unit. Those getting back from the first incident will join you. Those not interested in either of those may find this last object more to their liking, where a vacation bible school was held in the home of a convicted sex offender. Admittedly, the organizers did know about the past of the house they were choosing, and thought that they weren't going to be causing any problems for him. They trusted that the offender would not be a recidivist on the matter. The law says otherwise, in a measure designed to, well, protect children.
In gardening matters, though, we've found our lawn ornament - we're going to pick up some Gnome-Be-Gone and scatter it about the yard.
Last bits/achievements - finished up Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and so now I'm ready to tackle KHII. Put some time into buffing up some of the characters and weapons in Phantom Brave, too. Much to be done tomorrow, including footie matches. G'night, people.
To help your skill powers: How to win at a crane game, courtest of
jokermage, whom I may have to start calling Felix with the way he's got stuff. Pizza, in moderation, may help cut your cancer risk. But not too much, of course, or the detriments outweight the benefits.
A shocking new discovery as scientists in Berlin create ball lightning in a laboratory condition. Probably the closest thing to a live Hadouken that we'll ever see. In technological progress, Hewlett-Packard is cooling servers with model jet engines. The engines are modified, and they generate more than enough wind to make things work, even in close confines. I wonder what the noise will be like, but so long as there aren't tech offices in the server room, it probably won't be a problem.
Something much more sobering, but still deadly, are the mobile execution chambers developed by the PRC, that they're putting to good use. Injection death, on wheels. Too easy to contravene law and judicial procedure with those... not to mention I don't like the idea of having my death come to meet me.
A new feud is erupting, but not Hatfield and McCoy... now its the Castles and the Shrocks. We just hope there aren't any more fatalities. Although, if there are, make sure that the bodies get a proper burial. That way, when a high school gets built on the property many years down the road, the skeletons won't get turned up by those digging the foundation. That's got to be a bit scary. Hopefully there aren't any horror stories that get associated with the place.
Arkansas believes that homosexuals are unfit to be foster parents. Because "unmarried sex" happens in a homosexual household, and because homosexuals don't "have the potential" to find a spouse. Those of you already armed with the cluebats and hammers, second door on your left. Those still left can marvel at a conservative's letter to his liberal friend, explaining why his liberalness is causing him difficulty in selling his house, and why liberal control of government would only make things worse. Second door on the right, for those interested in this particular unit. Those getting back from the first incident will join you. Those not interested in either of those may find this last object more to their liking, where a vacation bible school was held in the home of a convicted sex offender. Admittedly, the organizers did know about the past of the house they were choosing, and thought that they weren't going to be causing any problems for him. They trusted that the offender would not be a recidivist on the matter. The law says otherwise, in a measure designed to, well, protect children.
In gardening matters, though, we've found our lawn ornament - we're going to pick up some Gnome-Be-Gone and scatter it about the yard.
Last bits/achievements - finished up Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and so now I'm ready to tackle KHII. Put some time into buffing up some of the characters and weapons in Phantom Brave, too. Much to be done tomorrow, including footie matches. G'night, people.
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Date: 2006-06-17 06:21 am (UTC)---
A new feud is erupting, but not Hatfield and McCoy... now its the Castles and the Shrocks.
Based on that article, it seems like the Shrocks were in the right. If the dogs were deemed a threat and were shot on Shrock property, then Larry Shrock did nothing wrong. The attitude and behavior of the Castles seems completely ignorant of law and rational thinking.
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From the letter to the liberal friend:
Because the press isn't reporting it. That is a fact. Even CNN admitted this.
But you just said they weren't reporting it.
The worst economy in the last 100 years was the Depression. It was a long time ago. But back then, Democrats dominated the House, Senate and Presidency for 20 years. Their philosophy was socialism, with lots of government intervention with rules, regulations and interference.
Has this man ever taken a history course?
1) There were two Republican presidents (Harding and Cooledge) before Hoover, another Republican.
2) The pre-FDR democrats were very different from the post-LBJ democrats
3) The economic collapse of 1929 had very little to do with government policy. The stock market crashed because it grew too fast and people who bought on margins ended up defaulting.
Roosevelt’s hesitation cost millions of lives and devastated economies for decades to come.
One of the biggest economic booms came after WWII.
And now that Iran is threatening to go Islamo-nuclear, Bush has that country surrounded on all sides by allies.
Yeah right. If Iran did anything, our forces would be spread so thin that we would break.
Democrats have done a magnificent job of preying upon our fears,
Such as our free of being killed by terrorists unless we give up our civil rights? Or our fear of damnation unless we give up our rational thinking?
And, if Democrats and the press told the truth about the world, the war and the economy, the stock market would be 3,000 points higher, incomes would be 5% higher and interest rates would be 1% lower.
Magical thinking. All it would take for a miracle would be for the liberals to shut up? Yeah right.
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Date: 2006-06-17 07:11 am (UTC)Such as our free of being killed by terrorists unless we give up our civil rights? Or our fear of damnation unless we give up our rational thinking?
Well clearly it was the Democrats who mentioned 9/11 more than 100 times during the 2004 convention wasn't it? I mean the poor republicans were trying to move on and the democrats were attacking their "pre-9/11" mind sets, weren't they? Or did I mix up which side is which again?
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Date: 2006-06-17 01:47 pm (UTC)--
The feud has gone beyond who was right and who was wrong, now it's about humiliating the other. If the account is valid, then you're right, and the Castles are out a dog... should be a warning that they need to train them better. Oh, well.
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This letter stands out as a shining example of why it's so difficult to get someone to see your point of view - you have to first make sure that all the facts they have are correct, and that they actually eblieve those facts are correct. Then you can go about persuading through logic and reason. It's easier just to shortcut to their emotions, but then, if they don't believe you, you're up the creek. People will believe what they want to believe, regardless of whether there are facts behind it, and may make up "facts" to support themselves.
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Date: 2006-06-17 08:11 am (UTC)grrrrrrr. Ok, so they can't get married...but that's because the damn government won't let them! Many homosexual partnerships last LONGER than heterosexual marriages, if they bothter to check the statistics. i've also heard of some adoption agencies only allowing homosexual couples to adopt crack babies because "no one else wants them". Homosexuals are people too. They just happen to prefer the same sex as opposed to the opposite sex. it's not "catching", so it's not like anyone needs to worry about the kid "turning gay"...if he does, it's probly becase the child was just born that way, or made the descison on his own to like the same sex.
*readies her dad's billy club* And we wonder why i'm so worried about one of my best friends sometimes.
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Date: 2006-06-17 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-17 01:43 pm (UTC)It took a Constitutional amendment to fix the first problem, and now there are Constitutional amendments that enshrine the second and call it law. So very frustrating.
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Date: 2006-06-18 10:16 pm (UTC)Congress needs to get their heads out of their asses. First it was votes for women, then it was rights for african americans, now we're fighting for the rights of homosexuals. So very frustrating. One step forward, two giant leaps back.
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Date: 2006-06-19 01:40 am (UTC)Re: (icon directed at congress, not you)
Date: 2006-06-19 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-17 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-17 09:17 pm (UTC)