i'd've stayed a couple more days at peggy and jim's

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It would have been nice to know about THIS before it happened, wot? I could have hung longer with my dear friends, soaped up responsibly and so fragrantly, and worn my new purple tights that are cotton inside and preshrunk wool on the outside, and carried around a sufficiently succinct indictment of the plutocrats cowering behind the counter of the Fort Bragg B of A.... I'd've roused rabble! I'd've had every horn honking on Main Street. I'd've gotten my licks in for Julian and Glenn. I could so totally have done that!

Instead, I have to find out about it after the fact from a BRITISH newspaper.

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love, 99
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hopes for foreclosures to start ramping up again

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I have a really bad headache.

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He picks the weirdest things to try to keep up appearances with.

Caught between their boss’ anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds — and several of the lobbyists involved say they believe the choice of venue is no accident.

It allows the Obama administration to keep these lobbyist meetings shielded from public view — and out of Secret Service logs kept on visitors to the White House and later released to the public.

There are a growing number of wuwu types stumping for us to forget our government and start arranging new ways to handle things that just completely leaves them out. I originally thought that might be a more palatable approach and leave us in better shape than with a just straight up revolution, but that it would require more eye opening than I think the nation is prepared to sustain. It just hit me how much WORK it would be too. So. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen, despite items about deaths in our Middle East melee and everything you ever wanted to know about the Oscars but were afraid to ask popping up side-by-side in the MSM, to include here on the tubes, you fucking filthy debauched swine.

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love, 99
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predators and prey

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It is not enough to riot and revolt, people need to keep at it until the danger of the wrong changes moving in has passed. This would be why movement leaders need to be clear on the goal before they urge people to the streets. Yes, sometimes the people don't wait for enlightened leadership to emerge, and sometimes I wonder if enlightened leadership is even possible anymore, those tending toward it being either completely disinclined to leadership or not enlightened in fact, but more corruptible power freaks is the norm. It's the norm that needs overturning. This means the people have to lose their default settings along with their patience for tyrants.

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Three people were shot dead as protesters fought police outside Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's office on Friday during a rally to demand the government resign over corruption allegations. ...

This would be the prime reason no one in the United States wants to get out there to demand the resignation of our corrupt government. Fat people find it safer to use sophistry to avoid risk than to eliminate it. The harder it is to reconcile such an attitude with facts, the more superior the tone of the sophistry becomes. When the facts keep heaping up—despite the most elaborate and finely-wrought sophistry, complete with experts—the tone turns shrill, lots of sanctimony gets thrown in for good measure, and polemics turn to hard and heavy shit-slinging. If none of that works, it gets still louder, loftier on one side and lower on the other, by turns, and yet less amenable to even short lulls. We couldn't be lucky enough to have another civil war... let alone another revolution.

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love, 99
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it depresses me there's a mcdonald's in helsinki

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Let's start a business making Gourmet Meals in Crappy Little Kitchens.

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tweet this, you bastards

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A-fucking-men! If you won't listen to me, listen to this guy!

And this guy:



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pay attention to this

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This is so seriously true. Too fat? Heart disease? All kinds of other train wrecks? Eat LOTS of fiber. The water soluble types are seriously important. So much of what ails us has its genesis in the reabsorption in the intestines of toxins our body has already cleaned out of our systems. Do this, and you are waaaaaay ahead of serious illness.
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fight cancer and fat

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Eat the right things. Understand angiogenesis. Concept. Concept. Concept.
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i never can decide between saying "them" and "us"

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This piece has me all over the map. I'm a quarter injun, and so I'm not exactly wasichu and not exactly a redskin either... even though a LOT of Native Americans, from a bunch of different tribes, never had red skin at all... nor even the black hair... and plenty of them/us even had/have freckles, full-blooded or otherwise.

First, it hasn't been proven that indians are Asians who crossed the land bridge that is now the Aleutian Chain. There are some who think we/they rode South America away from Africa and migrated north. Personally, I think we/they swam west when Atlantis sank, or that the Americas ARE Atlantis, just lost a lot getting ripped away like that, but, really, it could be that we got here in space pods. Okay? Pull yourselves together.

One thing that is almost universal among indians... and heavily a problem for some Asians as well... is the digestion of carbohydrates thing... the reason they go batshit crazy on a sip of booze. SOME get drunk on a bowl of pasta. So the WHOLE notion of finding genetic markers for "sugar diabetes" is just asinine.

STOP DRINKING! QUIT EATING THAT CRAP!

LOSE THE WEIGHT.

Go heavy to meat, protein, NO CANDY, NO SUGAR. Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. Eat meats and fish, nuts, lotsa nuts and waaaaaay light on the grains. No salt. Lots of water. And don't let yer kids anywhere near the crap that got you here... make it a sin. Make it part of the teaching. Put it on the Beauty Path. Fuck.

DUH.

And, excuse me, but it is way past the time when we/you should be OVER the victim shtick, and TEACHING these psychotic fucks how to LIVE.

Some of our ancestors were wiped out by saber-toothed cats. Are you still whining about THAT, too?

Fuck.

Fuck.
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for your consideration

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Maybe you would like to try not being so unhealthy, but don't know where to start. They're feeding you poison but you don't really know how to get away from that. It has a lot to do with the million ways you are conditioned to want to poison yourself. It could have something to do with the kamikaze mechanism of endorphins reacting to the introduction of poison into your system, that you end up associating poison with pleasure and just don't seem to be able to stop yourself... sort of like alcoholics... sort of like smokers... sort of like masochists....

There might be some clues in this book.
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attitude is everything

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Go for it.
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well, good luck with it

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let me tell you just how weird i really am

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I figured this out all by myself right away.

If you wonder how I can continually be so exasperated by things, this has something to do with it. Stuff that seems to me to be perfectly evident is just too damn abstruse for almost everyone else, takes them all this researching and stilted/stunted empiricism to get there... if they ever get there... and... uhm... I am SO not bragging. I'm damn ordinary, and am appalled to find just how weird that makes me.

it wasn't the time of day to be reading this

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It made me hungry for the very most fattening iced coffee imaginable....

I, of course, did not succumb because virtue is easy.

Conversely, this did not tempt me at all....

lose weight the cosmic way

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Earth's gravity may drop slightly on July 22 during total solar eclipse
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London, July 20 (ANI): A team of Chinese scientists is planning to conduct a once-in-a-century experiment on July 22, the day of the total solar eclipse, which would test the controversial theory that gravity drops slightly during a total eclipse.

According to a report in New Scientist, geophysicists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are preparing an unprecedented array of highly sensitive instruments at six sites across the country to take gravity readings during the total eclipse due to pass over southern China on July 22.

The results, which will be analyzed in the coming months, could confirm once and for all that anomalous fluctuations observed during past eclipses are real.

"It sounds like what is really necessary to break the uncertainty," said Chris Duif of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

"I'm not really convinced the anomaly exists, but it would be revolutionary if it turned out to be true," he said.

The first sign that gravity fluctuates during an eclipse was in 1954, when French economist and physicist Maurice Allais noticed erratic behaviour in a swinging pendulum when an eclipse passed over Paris.

Pendulums typically swing back and forth as a result of gravity and the rotation of the Earth.

At the start of the eclipse, however, the pendulum's swing direction shifted violently, suggesting a sudden change in gravitational pull.

Fluctuations have since been measured during around 20 total solar eclipses, but the results still remain inconclusive.

In the run up to July's eclipse, Chinese researchers have prepared eight gravimeters and two pendulums spread across six monitoring sites.

The team hopes that the vast distance between the sites (roughly 3000 kilometers between the most easterly and westerly stations), as well as the number and diversity of instruments used, will eliminate the chance of instrument error or local atmospheric disturbances.

"If our equipment operates correctly, I believe we have a chance to say the anomaly is true beyond all doubt," said Tang Keyun, a geophysicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The opportunity won't come again soon. At over five minutes, the event will be the longest total solar eclipse predicted for this century.

What's more, the event will occur when the sun is high in the sky; a time when, according to Tang, any potential gravitational anomaly should be greatest.

oh boy

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don't let your monkey overeat

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i love this haircut

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Point being: Women don't look like this without unremitting work. So unless you feel you simply must look like Gwyneth Paltrow, you should figure out what is the right size and tone for your feeling of wellbeing, and do what it takes. The other point being: You don't lose weight and become fit without actually taking charge of what you eat and actually maintaining enough activity for strength and wellness.

obesity hype and twittery

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Okay. I was about the size of Kirstie in the image on the left, without the custom girders, when I decided to crash diet down to skinnier than a bird. I don't think I was fat. My esophagus may have thought I was fat. I did it because the machine to combat death by sleep apnea was going to kill me before it could save me, and the only other thing I might try is to have a bunch of the tissue at the back of my throat burned off. I think she was definitely into the zone one should think of as "obese" in the image on the right, though, and I think the linked piece at the NYT is a piece of crap from start to finish.

I think everyone with body image issues, and the people who incite them, should be locked up in the Louvre for a month or two, and have their access to tv, fashion magazines and movies taken away for a minimum of a year. They should be made to learn everything about Monsanto and other megalithic ag-corporations. They should be made to take courses in food additives and laboratory food. They should have radio collars that hit them like tasers when any closer than, say, five feet from fast food.

Yes. I am stumping for Fat Nazism. Clearly, democracy in this area is not up to the task. Clearly. Attitudes about what we call fat need adjusting back to reality, but just as clearly attitudes about loving your body when you are mortally obese need to be slapped off as well. Even as I believe in the individual right to take whatever chances with one's health one feels suit, it should not be undertaken and controversialized to the point of outright psychosis either. If you don't want to be fat, lose the weight. Do it however you want, but quit whining. Quit indulging yourself, you candy-assed "American". If you don't like people making you feel guilty about it, work on your guilt issues and/or lose the weight, and shut up. Quit acting like factory hogs to slaughter and take charge of the food you consume.

I decided to drop the weight in the last week of November. I cut out everything with sugar in it. Everything with transfat in it. Everything with chemicals in it. Everything with salt in it. And all simple carbohydrates like bread and pasta, etc. I did not starve myself. I drank regular milk. I put half and half in my coffee. I ate as much fruit as I wanted, and vegetables, and meat. I never use anything but extra virgin olive oil to cook with. I lost ten pounds a month for four months, and then I started adding back in a little bread, bread WITHOUT high fructose corn syrup and/or partially hydrogenated soybean oil, you know, bread... sourdough with garlic cloves and/or cheese baked in... sometimes toasted, with whipped cream cheese spread on it. Now I'm losing only about two pounds a month, and that is fine by me. I will get to the lowest weight I feel is healthy and I will stay there. I will know that if I cannot stay there that there is something medically the matter and get my ass to the doctor, but I will know that because I don't give myself all these STUPID excuses to eat crap I know is bad for me.

I had a good excuse before. Healthy food is extremely hard to find here, and when you do find it, it is extremely hard to afford, and I was too whupped to deal with this ugly reality until I did something about my wretched health.

Yes, but what about people who CAN'T do something about their wretched health, 99? People who can't just run to a doctor and wail, "HELP ME! I MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD!"

Those are the people I worry about. Those are the people truly being victimized by the food poisoning and complete failure of healthcare in this country, and THAT is what this NYT piece SHOULD have been about.

WE make our world what it is. If you're capable of holding down a job, you are capable of reminding everyone around you of our shared responsibility for fixing it, and then TAKING responsibility for fixing it.

Why do you think I'm so pissed off at the president?

the name of this sculpture is "i can't help the way i feel"

I came across this again late last night, and remembered seeing it sometime last year when it first was unveiled. I'd been disgusted about what passes for "art" and quickly surfed away... but last night I saw the title of the piece for the first time. It really is art most profound.

Oh yes you can.