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silveradept) wrote2007-11-21 12:00 am
silveradept) wrote2007-11-21 12:00 am
Okay, crisis averted? - 20 November 2007
Okay, the screw-up I thought I screwed up isn’t a screw-up, and the call was about something else. Which is good. It also means that I’m keeping a much more stringent eye on things in the future. And my futon’s ready to be picked up, so I’ll probably be doing that after work tomorrow. And then picking up some rolls or roll mix - I can’t very well go eat at someone’s table without providing something to help out. I know exactly what I want, to, so hopefully they’re around and I can make them without trouble.
Moving onward to the stuff of dreams and nightmares, and trying to go quickly because I have a very long day ahead of me tomorrow weeding “my” collections. Also, pondering how difficult it seems to be to adhere to a philosophy that says, or at least implies, every time you go out looking for enlightenment, you just missed finding it.
Go look at the previous entry, too - there a question in there that I hope many of you will mull over.
Leading off with something that may be disturbing, a 102-year old woman has posed nude for a calendar supporting the local soccer squad. That said, there’s actually nothing showing that indicates this. I don’t know, if she wants to bare all, then she can.
Striking back with something that is disturbing, food pantries are running short on supplies as demand on their stocks continues to outstrip donations and supplies. This is the part where faith-based institutions proudly step in with their federally-funded programs and fill the void, contributing more stuff to the pantries, or at least picking up the slack and marketing to even the remotely religious to come in and have some food, perhaps lightly salted with Jeezis rhetoric. Right? Every church that collects donations for the less fortunate should be throwing open their doors and letting the five thousand be fed with their loaves and fish, right? And to those that do, thank you. Others may need to divorce themselves from the Gospel of Republicanism and realize that “The poor will be with you always” was an admonishment to a society, not just a mere statement of fact.
Musharraf plans to resign as the chief of the army to take the presidential post again, according to sources near him. Tension resolved. Sort of. The emergency state continues, of course, so there’s no brakes being put on that yet. I think more people are going to be looking at Hugo Chavez declaring solidarity with Mahmoud Ahmandinejad and, possibly, be secretly afraid that they’re right and the U.S. is on the decline.
Harry Reid schedules sessions of Congress lasting less than 30 seconds over the break, just to stop any recess appointments from happening off their watch. There’s parliamentary technique for ya. Now, if they would just refuse to pass appropriations bills for the war, they might get somewhere.
John Kerry says he'll take an oilman's $1 million challenge and disprove one of the Swift Boaters' charges. Kerry says he’ll donate the proceeds, but the offerer says “Sorry, I won’t pay you unless you show your military journals, wartime films, and complete service records to us, too.” Kerry is apparently okay with this demand.
And then into more familiar territory, where there’s a never-ending supply of quiche for all those who deserve it. Because sex is ikky and nobody should ever have to see it anywhere, someone is suggesting the Fort Lauderdale install a surveillance camera that will record people having sex on the beach, after flashing a light at them and warning that it will do so. You know, I wonder how many people will go ahead and keep going anyway. And really, don’t you have better things to do than go peeping at people on the beach? The General sends his heartfelt support for the new plan, of course.
If I recall correctly, if members of your staff resign when you’re leading them, it’s not a good sign for your leadership. This does not stop the Department of Justice calling in Rachel K. Pulrose to Washington D.C., even after she’s had four of her staff resign in protest over her leadership. Is this the Peter principle at work? Or worse, the Dilbert principle?
Ah, WingNutDaily, we can always count on you to put the most negative spin on things this side of Bill’O. The current target - a circular sent around to the staff of Seattle Public schools reminding them that what Caucasians consider "Thanksgiving", Native Americans may not consider to be so great. You know, because of how the invaders treated the natives and all that. So, y’know, cultural sensitivity and all that. You can be thankful and eat well, like any harvest feast, but pay attention to your non-whitewashed history and all that. But of course, in another month, regular as clockwork, we’ll see WND barraging about the nonexistent War on Christmas. Some people never learn. They tend to get mocked.
Ramping up the insanity, I do believe this one might be breaking a few commandments - the pastor of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is in deep after having slept and fathered a child with his brother's wife. Yeah, that’s got to break at least a few of the big ones.
Went off to war, doing your patriotic duty? Excellent. Got wounded? We'd like some of your signing bonus back, please. No doubt under the logic of “If he isn’t ground-pounding, then he’s not earning his keep, and we didn’t pay all that money for someone to sit on the sidelines and be injured.” Yeah. Except that money’s probably going to come in real handy if they need to, say, fix those injuries?
The peak of insanity for tonight is that the United States military plans to prosecute an AP photographer, but doesn't say for what, nor what evidence they're using. Um, doesn’t that violate just about every part of the requirements for warrants and for someone to see the charges and evidence laid out against them? Oh, wait, this is in Iraq, my bad. All they have to do is point and shriek “Terrorist” and all those rights are gone. And then leave it to Michelle Malkin to defend why such nameless accusations are good.
Cranking Widgets says here's eight things we all should have memorized a long time ago - for those of us just starting on some of them, the sooner, the better.
But there’s more than just negativity in this entry, there’s cool pictures from space, and Classic Trek's ten cheesiest creatures. Some of them might even trace their origins to the kaiju movies, too. And then there’s this curious thing, here, about a virtual teacher that supposedly can read expressions and adjust and react to them. Perfect for one-on-one instruction, even in the big noisy computer lab where there’s only one teacher for thirty kids, instead.
There’s also tales of what happens to wedding rings when the marriage doesn't work out. And a retrospective on how Sesame Street of old comes with a mature content warning. That stuff’s just not for kids, y’know.
Sometimes that works - by far and away the Big Winner for tonight’s prize is something that will make Minitrue at Students for an Orwellian Society absolutely thrilled - an entire school wrapped itself in Orwell's "1984", with students playing both sides, surveillance society, banners, Big Sister and all. With such experience in IngSoc, we’ll see if they ever want to return to their mundane lives. And with services like Facebook telling the Internet about what you've done, even if you didn't explicitly tell them to, we may need a little less effort to get back to our prized IngSoc.
G’night everybody, and Remember, Ceiling Cat is Watching You.
Moving onward to the stuff of dreams and nightmares, and trying to go quickly because I have a very long day ahead of me tomorrow weeding “my” collections. Also, pondering how difficult it seems to be to adhere to a philosophy that says, or at least implies, every time you go out looking for enlightenment, you just missed finding it.
Go look at the previous entry, too - there a question in there that I hope many of you will mull over.
Leading off with something that may be disturbing, a 102-year old woman has posed nude for a calendar supporting the local soccer squad. That said, there’s actually nothing showing that indicates this. I don’t know, if she wants to bare all, then she can.
Striking back with something that is disturbing, food pantries are running short on supplies as demand on their stocks continues to outstrip donations and supplies. This is the part where faith-based institutions proudly step in with their federally-funded programs and fill the void, contributing more stuff to the pantries, or at least picking up the slack and marketing to even the remotely religious to come in and have some food, perhaps lightly salted with Jeezis rhetoric. Right? Every church that collects donations for the less fortunate should be throwing open their doors and letting the five thousand be fed with their loaves and fish, right? And to those that do, thank you. Others may need to divorce themselves from the Gospel of Republicanism and realize that “The poor will be with you always” was an admonishment to a society, not just a mere statement of fact.
Musharraf plans to resign as the chief of the army to take the presidential post again, according to sources near him. Tension resolved. Sort of. The emergency state continues, of course, so there’s no brakes being put on that yet. I think more people are going to be looking at Hugo Chavez declaring solidarity with Mahmoud Ahmandinejad and, possibly, be secretly afraid that they’re right and the U.S. is on the decline.
Harry Reid schedules sessions of Congress lasting less than 30 seconds over the break, just to stop any recess appointments from happening off their watch. There’s parliamentary technique for ya. Now, if they would just refuse to pass appropriations bills for the war, they might get somewhere.
John Kerry says he'll take an oilman's $1 million challenge and disprove one of the Swift Boaters' charges. Kerry says he’ll donate the proceeds, but the offerer says “Sorry, I won’t pay you unless you show your military journals, wartime films, and complete service records to us, too.” Kerry is apparently okay with this demand.
And then into more familiar territory, where there’s a never-ending supply of quiche for all those who deserve it. Because sex is ikky and nobody should ever have to see it anywhere, someone is suggesting the Fort Lauderdale install a surveillance camera that will record people having sex on the beach, after flashing a light at them and warning that it will do so. You know, I wonder how many people will go ahead and keep going anyway. And really, don’t you have better things to do than go peeping at people on the beach? The General sends his heartfelt support for the new plan, of course.
If I recall correctly, if members of your staff resign when you’re leading them, it’s not a good sign for your leadership. This does not stop the Department of Justice calling in Rachel K. Pulrose to Washington D.C., even after she’s had four of her staff resign in protest over her leadership. Is this the Peter principle at work? Or worse, the Dilbert principle?
Ah, WingNutDaily, we can always count on you to put the most negative spin on things this side of Bill’O. The current target - a circular sent around to the staff of Seattle Public schools reminding them that what Caucasians consider "Thanksgiving", Native Americans may not consider to be so great. You know, because of how the invaders treated the natives and all that. So, y’know, cultural sensitivity and all that. You can be thankful and eat well, like any harvest feast, but pay attention to your non-whitewashed history and all that. But of course, in another month, regular as clockwork, we’ll see WND barraging about the nonexistent War on Christmas. Some people never learn. They tend to get mocked.
Ramping up the insanity, I do believe this one might be breaking a few commandments - the pastor of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is in deep after having slept and fathered a child with his brother's wife. Yeah, that’s got to break at least a few of the big ones.
Went off to war, doing your patriotic duty? Excellent. Got wounded? We'd like some of your signing bonus back, please. No doubt under the logic of “If he isn’t ground-pounding, then he’s not earning his keep, and we didn’t pay all that money for someone to sit on the sidelines and be injured.” Yeah. Except that money’s probably going to come in real handy if they need to, say, fix those injuries?
The peak of insanity for tonight is that the United States military plans to prosecute an AP photographer, but doesn't say for what, nor what evidence they're using. Um, doesn’t that violate just about every part of the requirements for warrants and for someone to see the charges and evidence laid out against them? Oh, wait, this is in Iraq, my bad. All they have to do is point and shriek “Terrorist” and all those rights are gone. And then leave it to Michelle Malkin to defend why such nameless accusations are good.
Cranking Widgets says here's eight things we all should have memorized a long time ago - for those of us just starting on some of them, the sooner, the better.
But there’s more than just negativity in this entry, there’s cool pictures from space, and Classic Trek's ten cheesiest creatures. Some of them might even trace their origins to the kaiju movies, too. And then there’s this curious thing, here, about a virtual teacher that supposedly can read expressions and adjust and react to them. Perfect for one-on-one instruction, even in the big noisy computer lab where there’s only one teacher for thirty kids, instead.
There’s also tales of what happens to wedding rings when the marriage doesn't work out. And a retrospective on how Sesame Street of old comes with a mature content warning. That stuff’s just not for kids, y’know.
Sometimes that works - by far and away the Big Winner for tonight’s prize is something that will make Minitrue at Students for an Orwellian Society absolutely thrilled - an entire school wrapped itself in Orwell's "1984", with students playing both sides, surveillance society, banners, Big Sister and all. With such experience in IngSoc, we’ll see if they ever want to return to their mundane lives. And with services like Facebook telling the Internet about what you've done, even if you didn't explicitly tell them to, we may need a little less effort to get back to our prized IngSoc.
G’night everybody, and Remember, Ceiling Cat is Watching You.
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... wate. Why in the name of a whole pantheon of bloody Gods does your cable company or phone provider need to know your SSN?! That's like my net provider demanding my national insurance number - they'd be laughed at hysterically and told, in no uncertain terms, where to place said request: the only people who should know my NI number are myself, my employer, the tax office, and the health services I use. That's it. There is no earthly reason why anyone else should have that information.
And people wonder why identity theft is so piss-easy...
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And I think I'm suddenly glad I don't have a facebook account.
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But they do get a payout for a lost limb/injury, don't they? I mean, doesn't the army have an equivalent to workmen's comp?
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These folks that got medically discharged have health care from their time in. That's not really a factor in this... but if they were separated against their choice due to medical reasons because of an injury that occurred while on the job, that's just wrong. Very, very wrong.
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