before i speak, i have something important to say

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JUST SHOOT ME.

They're dumping BUBBLE BATH on a nuclear meltdown, okay?

JUST SHOOT ME.

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4am the next morning....

Please forgive me checking out on you for the most of the afternoon and all of the night, but between a number of creepy things happening in the background of this sector of Outer Blogistan, my general dissatisfaction with the content of communicating on the tubes, my Plutonian sleep "cycles", the need to get my ass in for more antibiotics to hold me over until my root canal appointment, and the general draggitude and pain of this tooth thing demanding I get some serious sleep under my belt, I just had to drop off the radar.

Thank you, all, for leaving me a bunch of links. That is one great aspect of blogging, when your friends come by with stuff to contribute. I wish more of you had the time or the interest to talk outside this crap we are forced to call the zeitgeist, but that actually is the story of my life.

Speaking of which, I just made a couple new playlists of Michael Tsarion stuff from which anyone might benefit—mind control and tarot—particularly the discussions about how your consciousness is manipulated by people who look at you as though you were no more significant than livestock, but I keep wanting to hear him on tarot and numerology because I think these are wuwu, the affectations of bliss ninnies, and it has been made apparent to me that he does not mean by these things anything like I've been indoctrinated to view them. So I am working on dropping my mental conditioning to eventually come to know what he means by that. He's obviously serious as a heart attack and has proven to me his level of insight, so it's worth it to me to make a real attempt to understand it. Again, one must approach this sort of thing very carefully. One must DROP what one already thinks for the duration of one's listening and give it a special sort of attention I have been calling "thought experimenting". If you can't do that, it's useless to waste your time on him... or, for that matter, me.

And, then, while I was about it, I put it together for you to listen about HAARP, should you be so inclined.

Anyway, the creepy stuff is making me seriously consider moving this show to an entirely new blog, again. This time it might really happen. I'll think about it some more.

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love, 99
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please let me into an alternative universe

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I promise to be good.

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<— Note here a visual on why I keep insisting there are no cooling ponds to fill where they say they have been filling. For comparison's sake, HERE is an image of the Daiichi complex from over two weeks ago, when the place was still in relatively good shape. You may have noticed lately the green elongated large hunks of junk in the wreckage, especially if you've been following my links. Those correspond to that orange gizzy above the cooling pond in the diagram. If you know people still confused about this, you should ask them to compare the image with the reactor building diagrams, maybe include a little coaching on the effect of a quake of such magnitude on concrete structures, and maybe a little arm waving toward illustration of blast mechanics and see if they don't have an aha moment.


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LENDMAN NAILS IT....

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love, 99
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thanks to old uncle dave

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I was able to drill through the crap to get us that link.

By measuring the energy of the gamma rays from the filters, [people at University of Washington] have identified exactly which fission products have made their way across the Pacific. And this in turn allows them to make a number of interesting inferences about what has gone wrong at Fukushima. Today, they post the results of the first five days of monitoring on the arXiv.

What they found was small amounts of iodine-131, iodine-132, tellurium-132, iodine-133, cesium-134 and cesium 137.

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The first comes from the amount of iodine-131 and tellurium-132 which are both short-lived with half lives of 8 and 3 days respectively. That indicates that they must have come from fuel rods that were recently active rather than from spent fuel.

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[T]hese guys speculate that what they're seeing is the result of contaminated steam being released into the atmosphere.

I recommend you go to the image link and battle it out for yourself, since the assurances of radiation levels being well below what the EPA deems alarming has always been highly suspect, and is about to reach critical mass.

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At length, we have come to the point where there is some indication of the claptrap Secretary Chu was on about at least a week ago, and seemed psychedelic at the time. This might mean No. 2, the unit that appears, from the outside, to be in the best shape, had already melted down when he was talking about it and we just didn't get to hear about it for all these days, OR, and you MUST consider this, it's an attempt at misdirection, a bid to get us to take our eyes off their sacred MOX in No. 3, which is now so mangled that it no longer resembles a former building.

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love, 99
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it's just a ride

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And a choice...

Six of the Environmental Protection Agency's 12 California sensors — including the three closest to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo — are sending data with "anomalies" to the agency's laboratory in Montgomery, Ala., said Mike Bandrowski, manager of the EPA's radiation program.

The problem delays from 30 minutes to several hours the updating of a database that would be critical for warning the public in case of a sudden radiation danger from air wafting to the United States from a foreign country, for example, or from a radiation leak at a domestic nuclear facility.

The lag has not been a concern during the Japanese nuclear crisis because the minuscule amounts of radiation that have reached California have posed no threat to human health, and the plume of irradiated air from Japan is so widespread that other equipment from Washington to Los Angeles has been able to monitor it in real time, Bandrowski said.

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Without immediate information from RadNet, state and local emergency managers would be dependent on the private owners of nuclear power facilities to alert them in the first hours of a dangerous radiation leak from a domestic source.

"I believe the utilities monitor the sensors; they're good about reporting things," said David McIntyre, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees nuclear reactors in the U.S. He added that federal regulations require nuclear plant operators to report small problems that could lead to a release of radiation, so it's unlikely such an event would come as a surprise.

Right now.

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love, 99
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be water

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Don't pick a style.

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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not the death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

— Charles Bukowski

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love, 99
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boy, do i ever know what he means

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Words just DON'T cut it. They're only potent enough when delivered face-to-face and spoken in service of PERFORMING on our responsibilities. That isn't happening on the internet. Can't. There is the hint of real usefulness for this crucial aspect evidenced in, say, Wikileaks or Cryptome, or any of the sites trying to deliver REAL information, the goods, to those who will speak the important words only as the hallmark of ACTUAL performance on the manifestation of positive intent, but that is about the size of it.

The rest is theater.

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love, 99
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the capitulation in wisconsin

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Frightened Michael Moore so much he could not but go try to revive it.

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore urged Wisconsin residents Saturday to fight against Republican efforts to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights, telling thousands of protesters that "Madison is only the beginning."

The crowd roared in approval as Moore implored demonstrators to keep up their struggle against Republican Gov. Scott Walker's legislation, saying they've galvanized the nation against the wealthy elite and comparing their fight to Egypt's revolt. He also thanked the 14 state Democratic senators who fled Wisconsin to block a vote on the bill, saying they'll go down in history books.

"We're going to do this together. Don't give up. Please don't give up," Moore told the protesters, who have swarmed the Capitol every day for close to three weeks.

He should have gotten there a couple days earlier, when it might have done some good.

The latest arrest came Friday, when a Madison woman attempted to charge past a security checkpoint. She was charged with disorderly conduct.

Inside the building Thursday night, Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs stood in the center of the rotunda with the last remaining demonstrators around him. A hush fell over the crowd as he explained the court's order to vacate and pleaded with them to leave peacefully.

For more than three hours the protesters asked questions — even raising their hands to be recognized — and expressed their reservations about leaving. Tubbs said he didn't want to arrest anyone, but they had to leave.

Finally, they did — singing "Solidarity Forever," they filed out the door with Tubbs there shaking their hands and thanking them for their decision.

Some of those who left Thursday night returned the next day and were joined by hundreds of union members and teachers.

Where there had been thousands, plus the assertion of ownership of the capitol until just the day before... all because... because... well... because what? What changed from the police not arresting protestors to police begging protestors not to make them arrest them? A COURT ORDER. A fucking court order meant they'd lose their JOBS, not just their bargaining rights, and so they started begging.

And, given this out, those who were on the right track capitulated, ceded their sovereignty to the very people using it to take everything from them. Allow them to work for slave wages, if they're good and obedient, else fuck off and die, you grubby plebeian twerps.

Don't get me wrong! I love the people in Wisconsin, and the same would have happened anywhere in the United States. I'm not pointing my finger. I'm pointing out the problem. The capitulation was not just in Wisconsin. It was in the United States. We won't make the right thing happen. We'll only become agitated enough to dance around it, and then we will back down and salve our failure with notions like At least I tried.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

WE MUST BECOME UNGOVERNABLE.

We have to stop with our PATHETIC petitioning for redress. We must completely IGNORE this "governing". If we want to unionize, we don't have to ask anyone, and we don't have to heed their stupid and corrupt decrees. They try to fuck with our paychecks and benefits, we shut them down. We shut it all down when we don't FEED it. Don't protest. Don't petition. Don't ASK for squat. Don't fight. Just yank their power from them, and let them fuck off and die.

I'm giving up stumping for revolution.

All my hopes for the Second American Revolution—which was not my first choice, just the only one I thought feasible—represent wasted time. THE no-no. My reasoning was that, even though that's still reverting to the law of the jungle, not growth, or even really improvement, the indispensable benefit of it would be to break the lock of fascism and rejuvenate courage in the people. It wouldn't ultimately fix anything. Sort of like the pushbutton revolutions won't fix anything. The difference is OUR uprising would not result in MORE power for the feudal parasites, where all the rest of them we see popping up in the other hemisphere will. I was trying to be pragmatic, trying not to be so intent on perfection that I wouldn't settle for whatever might spare Sophia, Gaia, her life.

IT ISN'T GOING TO WORK.

[1] You won't do it.

[2] Nobody good enough is near enough to the forefront.

[3] You won't do it.

[4] The lying and delusion and pleas from police insure you lose any courage you muster too quickly, anyway.

[5] You won't do it.

Do you hate yourself enough yet to work on yourself instead? Or are you too hypnotized to recognize that either? It's the way to become ungovernable. It's the way a true government arises organically. It has the potential to fix EVERYTHING. But you won't go there. Just as you won't rise up, you will not face yourself. Both options are still completely open to you, but you have been rendered too muddled and confused and frightened to choose either. Nope. It feels way better to fill with certitude about some harebrained polemic and fight like rabid dogs amongst ourselves. Never mind how clearly suicidal that is, they like it and you're "safe" from them when you're doing what they like. You've grown so used to warming yourself with your own traumas in this hall of mirrors we call the world—an entire society based on a trillion tailor-made excuses not to face either them or yourself—you won't ever face the difficulty of changing the architecture of your own brain to make a true life for yourself, let alone everyone... now will you?

You won't.

EVEN when you've gone so far as to set up a blog, or a social networking site, or join a club, or hire a shrink, with the specific goal of our betterment in mind. Still excuses, all. I can't get colorful enough to make you face it. I cannot be loving enough, or friendly enough, or strong enough to shove you into making the one indispensable choice.

You won't do it.

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love, 99
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open your mind open your mind open your mind

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Not identify with the concept of open-mindedness. Actually open it. This is a trap into which everyone falls, but it's the worse in liberals. They're so sure they are at the cutting edge, so used to disparaging the stupidity of their less progressive fellows, that they are the easiest prey for mindfuckers. This well and truly IS "the age of manipulation" and easy as it is for you to see the manipulation of others, you're blind to its operation on you.

Turn OFF your TV.

And, DON'T flatter yourself that your scrupulous attention to what's going on in the world, and alternative news and information sources is helping you... except insofar as it helps you realize you are, we are, hypnotized, and wheresoever one might be closer to thinking for oneself, one is bombarded with so many disorienting inputs as to render one utterly harmless... utterly harmless to the sociopaths at the helm, that is.

I'm unhappy about the mobs attracted to doomsaying, and they've made it so awful that merely straight reporting amounts to doomsaying. ANYBODY would conclude that all this taken together spells doom... D-O-O-M. They've made it so our greater sense tells us to heed Alex Jones, but it STILL, despite his constant reminders to think for ourselves, never gets us to think for ourselves.

Don't you GET it? Everything they made you memorize in school, all those test answers requisite to a passing grade, was training you NEVER to think for yourself. What you call thinking for yourself is LUDICROUS. FUCK your murderating little ego. I love you and I'm giving it to you straight. WHAT YOU CALL THINKING FOR YOURSELF IS LUDICROUS. Only calling it that doesn't make it SO. It's so ingrained and you've been doing it so long that not even millions of people perishing horribly drops the scales from your eyes. You think reminding everyone of it IS awake and aware. You are wrong. That, too, is only what you call it... OR IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN.

You're scratching your head over 99 nutting up on the pushbutton revolutions and geopolitical chess and wars and... turning her attention to all those alternative scholars who populate the halls of Out There... probably just her California Bliss Ninny roots taking over in her meltdown... right? Well, fuck you. I'm not doing this blog for drill. I'm not doing it for popularity. I'm not doing it for money. I'm not doing it to contribute uniquely to your continued identification politics, which is to say your doom. I'm wallowing around, here, to help you out of the cell in your head, the one that the world gave you. The one that kills you, literally or figuratively, the former being the most merciful.

I'm sorry I'm not the greatest at this, but I'm what you've got. Karma splatted you here. It could be way worse.

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love, 99
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i think i understand how they can do it to people

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Very early into this debacle, I mentioned about making the bank show the note, and mentioned it a number of times since. I mentioned it before I heard of anyone else mentioning it, and was glad when I began to hear others mentioning it, not many people seemed to be listening, despite everything they owned being dumped in a heap on the curb and the locks changed on their homes.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Grossman in Central Islip, New York, in a decision he said he knew would have a “significant impact,” wrote that the membership rules of the company’s Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, don’t make it an agent of the banks that own the mortgages.

“MERS’s theory that it can act as a ‘common agent’ for undisclosed principals is not supported by the law,” Grossman wrote in a Feb. 10 opinion. “MERS did not have authority, as ‘nominee’ or agent, to assign the mortgage absent a showing that it was given specific written directions by its principal.”

Merscorp was created in 1995 to improve servicing after county offices couldn’t deal with the flood of mortgage transfers, Karmela Lejarde, a spokeswoman for MERS, said in an interview last year. The company tracks servicing rights and ownership interests in mortgage loans on its electronic registry, allowing banks to buy and sell the loans without having to record the transfer with the county. It played a major role in Wall Street’s ability to quickly bundle mortgages together in securitized trusts.

I mentioned it other places beside cyberspace. People stared at me as though they were vexed cows looking at a cartoon animation running around their pasture.

A jerk would cop an attitude about this sort of thing, begin to feel people were stupid cows and stupid cows are for milking and for herding and for slaughter.

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love, 99
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miscel-goddam-laneous

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Just my standard operating apoplexy. Don't mind me.

Hold yer head, pfeh....

If I had kids, I'd probably drug them too... to be kind.

Oh, what else?

We'll show that maniac upstart....

Good-bye, it was wonderful to know you.

Yes, Hollywood has already made this perfectly crystal clear, thank you.

Bad poetry in a good cause....

Break for a random quote....

I want one... preferably wealthy....

I saw him first....

Max, for earlybirds....

Oh, NOT stale fries too! That's just too much to bear.

Now I'm going for take two on the getting in bed thing. The headache was too bad, but it's ebbing somewhat now. It was probably that Lash Charlatan who put me over the edge... or the fact that I keep bumping my beautifully-healed but still sore finger. I can't believe it keeps being my left forefinger that bashes into everything. Even, and maybe especially, in places where bonking the Mark of Zorro finger is the last thing you'd ever think of.... If this happens one more time, I'm packing it in cotton and taping it up... no matter HOW stupid it looks.

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funny what comes up around here

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I had just finished watching a short documentary from before I was born about the Lacandon people in southern Mexico, and thinking the documentarians were doing irrevocable friendly harm. I was contemplating the dread infection of Empire as I surfed to this piece on the identical subject. Some sort of synchronicity, I guess, but I was struck by some words Kramer was wrapping up with...

...only we, as individuals, can determine what is real. Not the experts, the texts, the media, the government, and certainly not popular consensus. Whatever the subject matter, it is only our personal knowing that gives us the essence of a thing. Our knowing comes from direct encounter - and the more direct the better. In this way, feeling is more revealing than thinking.

Yes, yes, indeed, but you can't be feeling based on what you already think. That's just an infinite regress, not knowing at all. You have to be able to feel about the thing itself, and to do that, you have to be able to SEE it.

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i'm outta spray-on pkd

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I should have retained my PKD books in my huge book dump years ago. I kept Hammett and Chandler and Garcia-Marquez, but too many people never returned the PKDs. So now I have none. Maybe I oughta try to fix that, because I've spent the last couple hours trying just to think about his work... and it's just not the same.

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just to have something pretty at the top of my blog

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While I struggle to get my "eyesight" back, I don't want you to have to be greeted by that wreck directly below.

[I mean, of course, what PASSES for my eyesight....]

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Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle

...my nomination for headline of the year.... Whut? Now it's called "informal combat"?

Just shoot me.

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love, 99
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getting old is not for wimps

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No it ain't, and this is certainly grossly underestimated and a gross understatement of the grinding poverty being experienced by widows across the globe:

Report: Over 115 million widows live in poverty
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UNITED NATIONS — At least 245 million women around the world have been widowed and more than 115 million of them live in devastating poverty, according to a new study launched Tuesday night by Cherie Blair, wife of the former British prime minister.

The most dire consequences are faced by 2 million Afghan widows and at least 740,000 Iraqi widows who lost their husbands as a result of the ongoing conflicts; by widows and their children evicted from their family homes in sub-Saharan Africa; by elderly widows caring for grandchildren orphaned by the HIV/AIDS crisis, and by child widows aged 7 to 17 in developing countries, the report said.

"Across the world, widows suffer dreadful discrimination and abuse," Blair said. "In too many cases they're pushed to the very margins of society, trapped in poverty and left vulnerable to abuse and exploitation."

She said many are cheated out of their husbands' assets and property and expelled from their family home — and since they have no money they can't support their children, "so misery is heaped on grief."

Blair was in New York to launch the report entitled "Invisible Forgotten Sufferers: The Plight of Widows around the World," commissioned by the Loomba Foundation which works in a dozen countries to help widows and educate their children.

"The plight of widows — in the shadows of the world — is a human rights catastrophe," said Blair, the foundation's president. "It's really a hidden humanitarian crisis."

She said the foundation had been working on the basis that there were about 100 million widows but decided to do a study from published sources to get a more accurate figure. She said the foundation was surprised to discover there were at least 245 million widows worldwide, almost half living in poverty.

The report stressed that persecution against widows and their children is not limited to the developing world, noting that large numbers of widows are also found in Europe and Central Asia.

According to the report, the countries with the highest number of widows in 2010 were China with 43 million, India with 42.4 million, the United States with 13.6 million, Indonesia with 9.4 million, Japan with 7.4 million, Russia with 7.1 million, Brazil with 5.6 million, Germany with 5.1 million, and Bangladesh and Vietnam with about 4.7 million each.

Blair said women become widows when their husbands are killed in conflicts, die of diseases including HIV/AIDS, or are killed because they work in dangerous conditions, the only jobs available to many poor men.

When their husbands die, she said, some women are required to be "cleansed," some are erroneously accused of murder or witchcraft, some are required to marry another member of the family, many are disinherited and forced out of their homes and many are raped.

According to the report, over 500 million dependent and adult children of widows are caught in a vicious underworld in which disease, forced servitude, homelessness and violence are rampant and youngsters are denied schooling, enslaved or preyed upon by human traffickers.

The foundation was established in 1997 by Raj and Veena Loomba in honor of Loomba's mother, who was widowed at the age of 37 in India when her husband died of tuberculosis and raised her seven children by herself.

"There are few resources in the world available to help widows achieve a safer, more comfortable existence and to promote their equality and pursue justice on their behalf," Loomba said.

He said that's why the foundation is campaigning to put the plight of the world's widows on the U.N. agenda and to have June 23 — his mother's birthday — declared International Widows Day to raise awareness of the crisis.

And, yes, hardly surprising from this quarter that the numbers would be gentle and a Widows Day declared where actually only a vastly more equitable and humane world is all that will cut it.

Happy Widows Day! I baked you a cake!

the mortally depressing world

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It's as though if only someone will write it, it will be so. I really don't find it the least surprising that some of us are petitioning transdimensional beings for help in sealing the Gulf blowout. I'm about ready to petition them too... almost certainly gonna be more effective than petitioning anyone else.

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Honestly, I was off after something on the fun side... maybe some levity... maybe something pretty... maybe something intriguing... but, no, it was all dark, frighteningly vapid or too stupid to be borne. Then I thought I had the moxie to watch ONE little snippet of PBS reportage on the blowout, thinking possibly my assessment may have been too harsh and they might be presenting some worthy information and expertise... some daffodil was showing a graphic of the Gulf Stream and earnestly asking if this scenario might actually play out... that we slime the whole right coast, Iceland, Greenland, Europe... this was downplayed as remotely feasible. She asked about the likelihood of success with efforts to attach a big hose to the crippled apparatus while waiting for the relief wells and was told that while this has never been done at this depth before, there was every reason to expect it would work at least a little. At this point, I committed suicide and so am not likely to try that again.

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would that we had enough vision and enough unity

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We would have such a marvelous country, for real, if we'd open our eyes and actually have the courage we love to brag about but almost never show anymore.

A tiered justice system is STRONG evidence of frank fascism, people, no matter what you only call it.

imagine dawkins is limbaugh and haggard is oprah for six minutes

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Just a thought experiment. No permanent damage. I promise.

Try to drop your conditioning to believe one way or the other on the evolution vs. creation axis, drop your default assumptions and just listen closely to the exchange on this video. If you succeed, you might even come away thinking Haggard made some extremely lucid points....

Almost nobody in history has ever been consciously evil in the Snidely Whiplash sense. We all have what we feel are decent reasons for doing what we do, or what we feel are righteous excuses for it. In this, one's religious ideas and political leanings are immaterial. If you could stand and accuse Hitler of being Hitler he would resist you to his dying breath, might even kill himself, or you, before giving you a chance to prevail in such a thing.

Rarely does anyone just capitulate to aggressive accusations of their ideals or morals or strongly-held beliefs being less than laudable. Usually the mere chance that these might be cast in an unflattering light causes people to feel threatened, and they become preëmptively defensive. If this does not derail the possibility of being made to look wrong, or bad, or stupid, or in some way shameful, they become outright hostile and begin groping around for allies to help obliterate this unhappy turn of intercourse, try to cite historical good guys who exemplify their good qualities, grasp at straws to use as cudgels... and stupidly frequently succeed in this.

No matter how progressive.

No matter how conservative.

No matter how religious.

No matter how scientific.

People modify their nasty behavior when their fellows, people in their circles, begin making it the companionable thing to do. One does not necessarily have to condone or excuse any of it in order to befriend them, help them feel they're going to live through taking their heads out of their asses.

The Dawkins side of the instant polemic is as nefarious as the Haggard side, and neither, clearly, shows the slightest inclination to budge. No. Certainly both wish to escalate. It's as though recognizing their common humanity and wishes for a better world and caucusing from this basis is completely out of the realm of feasibility... something space aliens do in sci-fi novels... or lunatics mutter about in the bin... but not, fates forfend, within a real world "civilization"....

Nope. Never that.

i am so pouting without my universe of bookmarks

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I have to wait for the next trip to "the real world" to get them off my broken G5... and that could be weeks... if I can get my car that far again. I could be doing more to reconstruct my little universe, but I'm pouting too hard for that. I'm the worst example of a Zen mistress yer likely to find. Not because I don't have myriad worlds of jeweled flower adornments, all with Milky Ways cradling them, because, well, I do. The rub seems to come in at the communicating with you effectively part.

This really is irksome because it was always my problem and I'm supposed to not mind anymore that you can't hear... or... not mind how much I mind that you can't hear... be able to just let that be what it is without thinking of the harmonies and the satisfying suicide wailing and crashing... but... fuck.

You're in great distress. All the time. You're in a fetid little jail cell and you can't see the bars. I'm standing in the doorway, going, hey. Going, yo! Pst! Lookee hyere. Open cell door. C'mon.

See, I can't drag you kicking and screaming through it.

You gotta stop. Look. And get up and walk through it yourself.

This part is the worst for me.

Because I so could drag you through it.

But you'd just go back in and start griping again.

So my patience is always spinning on the edge of a black hole.

I don't want to be fighting this advancing decrepitude while engaged in your jail break thing, and that fries my perfection of patience to a crisp. It sucks planets.

[Glenn's on his knees, pleading even, falling on deaf ears called hearing....]

memorize the spark notes

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Key vote on US health care reforms
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Health care reform - US President Barack Obama's top domestic policy priority - is poised for a critical but far-from-final vote.

Opposition Republicans are nearly unanimous in fighting the overhaul plans drawn up at Mr Obama's request by Democrats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Republicans believe the Democrats' reform measure will unduly increase the national debt and wrongly intrude on the private sector.

Some members of the opposition see it as a chance to score political points by sinking a measure at the core of Mr Obama's presidency.

Most controversial among those issues is the establishment of a government programme in competition with the private insurance industry.

That, for now, has been written out of the Senate Finance Committee plan that is going to a vote among members of the panel.

Mr Obama has promised to reform the health care system, insisting that all Americans are entitled to insurance coverage, that costs have to be cut significantly to reduce the soaring national debt and that private insurers must be prevented from denying coverage or dropping it when a person becomes seriously ill.

The huge obstacles to the passage of legislation that would deliver on those pledges are forcing Mr Obama to spend heavily from his store of political capital, battling hard to prevent a congressional rebuke that could seriously weaken his standing after only nine months in office.

If the Democratic-controlled Senate Finance Committee passes the proposal, as expected, the 10-year, £525bn health care overhaul would go for debate among all 100 senators.

But Republicans, while a minority in the Senate, hold sufficient votes to stall passage through a procedure known as a filibuster. That expected move would require majority Democrats to muster all 60 of their votes, not a simple majority of 51, to end debate and bring a Bill to a final vote.

If yer tired enough of this yet, the Democrats can go ahead and capitulate now... but it's okay, if yer not done freaking about those evil Republicans it'll still help convince the world that America isn't ready for a sensible healthcare system, and eventually you'll be worn out, give up, the polls will show they can just go ahead with the mandatory insurance bill and call it good. Obama will still be a rock star and the insurance giants will be giants among giants. War is peace. Fascism is plenty. Hooray! Chocolate rations have been lowered! More for everybody!

scientists cat blogging

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