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Guess which party the Secretary Of State Mike Coffman is? Republican.
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Wow, this is one of the sanest ideas I've heard in awhile. San Francisco voters will vote on Proposition K, which would prohibit the use of public funds to enforce laws criminalizing prostitution, and mandate that police investigate crimes against sex workers.
Some of the stats in the story are quite horrifying, such as the number of prositutes abused by police — ~25%.
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Now I can finally text-message people who can't figure out their text-message email address.
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That's fucked up. Even more so in a capitalist health care system. More and more I am not seeing the need for general practitioner doctors anymore. Carolyn's surgery was based on self-diagnoses after *specialists* failing to properly diagnose her. I've gone to the doctor knowing "I need amoxicyllin" and come home with just that. The information they learn in medical schools is no longer contained and is published out there, on the internet, for anyone to use. We can bypass the system and, with some risk, buy prescriptions directly from Canada (though cost may be an issue, and if the cost is too good to be true, it most certaily isn't what you think it is). And now I'm supposed to pay a $25 and get a 50% chance that the drug they give me is a placebo?!?!?!
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Sounds like U.S. Drug Czar John Walters thinks that only Americans should get hefty prison sentences for marijuana. Wow. Such two-faced hypocricy is to be expected from the enemy.
He says, "I don't think that's legalization". Yet the same office illegally uses taxpayer money (lawsuit in progress) to campaign against state initiatives doing EXACTLY THAT — decriminalizing marijuana.
John Waters — if Americans bothered to pay more attention, they'd see what a fucking hypocrite and fool you are. A hollow piece of shit that should be flushed down the toilet.
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It's nice to see the patent situation rolled back a bit. However much it was helping innovation, it was also stifling innovation a considerable amount as well. Certain things are just ideas or equations, and preventing other people from using them is dastardly.
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"The battle for the hearts and minds of voters on whether electronic systems are good or bad has been lost…The academics and computer scientists who said they were unreliable "have won that battle."'"
As it should be. Too bad it wont be in time for this election.
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It links to the original article on the Chinese news site. Not that I know Chinese.
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Self-censorship is censorship too.
As the sign I once made for holding up in the car window during a college group roadtrip once said: "GROW SOME BALLS!"They don't have "Rape Me" by Nirvana!
Everybody… Quick. Go out and learn how to use bittorrent :) It's so frickin' easy.
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I've covered some of this before, but it's important enough that I want multiiple links supporting this. This covers the bullshit in Virginia Tech, but not the bullshit in Fairfax County.
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An article/interview about one of my favorite flickr photographers, Kate O'Brien a.k.a. Eye Candy For The Broken-Hearted.
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This judge was reportedly the first judge to learn that the Bush Administration was spying on Americans without following the law, but said there was nothing to worry about.
Everyone use your collective brainpower to give this man a painful cancer, for he is a cancer on freedom himself. He deseves to feel the pain of torture for thinking it's okay to hide other people's torture.
Thank you Bush Voters for creating the most un-American america in my lifetime. We whisk off people, torture them in violation of the Geneva Convention, hide their presence from the Red Cross in secret prisons, then censor the fact that they were tortured. Real fucking american.
October 2008
October 31, 2008
October 30, 2008
COMEDY: You choose, You lose.
Posted by Claire CJS under Comedy, Election 2008, Elections, Live-Action Shows, Media, Parody, Pictures, Politicians, Politics, Video1 Comment
October 30, 2008
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I've covered some of this before, but it's important enough that I want multiiple links supporting this. This covers the bullshit in Virginia Tech, but not the bullshit in Fairfax County.
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An article/interview about one of my favorite flickr photographers, Kate O'Brien a.k.a. Eye Candy For The Broken-Hearted.
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This judge was reportedly the first judge to learn that the Bush Administration was spying on Americans without following the law, but said there was nothing to worry about.
Everyone use your collective brainpower to give this man a painful cancer, for he is a cancer on freedom himself. He deseves to feel the pain of torture for thinking it's okay to hide other people's torture.
Thank you Bush Voters for creating the most un-American america in my lifetime. We whisk off people, torture them in violation of the Geneva Convention, hide their presence from the Red Cross in secret prisons, then censor the fact that they were tortured. Real fucking american.
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Greed knows no bounds.
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I only watched the first 10 seconds, but this really has little to do with the 24 Season 7 prequel that was released MANY months ago. Looks like the new season is shaping up to be quite interesting.
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Okay, Futurama already returned with it's 4 straight-to-dvd movies that also double as 16 standalone episodes for Comedy Central syndication.
Now they are talking about possibly bringing it back again — either more movie/episode hybrids, or an actual standard episodic season of TV.
Good stuff. I love that the only shows ever revived have been *MY* favorite shows.
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Me & Carolyn decided that we wanted to watch some non-primetime / non-adultswim / cartoons again. It had been about a year.
We picked up Nickelodeon's now-finished series of 61 episodes, "Avatar:The Last Airbender". This series was recommended to us by Greg Weisman, the creator of Gargoyles, at the Gargoyles convention we went to (while camping with Christian & Shannon & Heather). He hadn't seen it, but he is aware of the industry, and was right about everything he said about it.
While it is a TV-Y7FV (fantasy violence; no on-screen death or blood; suitable for 7 year olds) series, it is still quite good. (We typically watch TV-14 and TV-MA animation.)
Avatar:The Last Airbender is better than anything on Nickelodeon, EVER, other than Ren & Stimpy and Invader Zim.
Finally, 30 episodes in, we go to IMDB, check under movie connections, and are SURPRISED SURPRISED SURPRISED — This is being made into a feature-length movie by M. Night Shyamalan!
Great minds think alike.
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Want to have your own BluRay professionall pressed? You pay, mandatorily, 5 cents a disc PLUS $1,585 per title, to put AACS copy protection on it.
In other words, you would not allowed to release your own home movies on BluRay without paying the intellectual property organizations $1,585. EVEN THOUGH YOUR CONTENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.
Discs are dead and should only be used as a transport system for data. DRM's bad enough when you DON'T have to pay for it, but to be forced to put DRM on something you don't want it in? That's a loss in the Technology War, as far as I am concerned.
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Wow. Check out our infant mortality rate. Every country with socialized health care has a lower rate. This means to me that, basically, capitalist health care kills babies out of greed for money.
Our international ranking in infant mortality?
#12 in 1960.
#23 in 1990.
#29 in 2004.
In other words, the western nations with socialized medicine are widening the gap and doing a better job keeping their people alive than we are.The difference in infant mortality is more than "one septemeber elventh" (3000) dead babies a year.
Republicans will use 911 to justify killing a million Iraqi civilians, but meanwhile their own policies kills our own babies at a far greater rate than 911.
October 30, 2008
ELECTION 2008: Fairfax County college students beware!
Posted by Claire CJS under Election 2008, Elections, PoliticsLeave a Comment
Fairfax County college students are being forced to wait in line for hours to vote, or pollworkers are requiring voters to present photo ID even though your state’s laws allow non-photo ID, like utility bills.
[Source: CREDO]
If anyone has friends or family going to school in Fairfax — for example GMU — please get this message to them. (more…)
October 30, 2008
It’s quite interesting that prohibitoininsts in Michigan are fighting the proposed medical marijuana referendum by showing commercials on TV with “footage” of a child going to a medical marijuana dispensery, and “patients” (people on pot) assaulting an elderly woman.
If you haven’t seen the movie Reefer Madness, you really should, because they showed how smoking pot would cause you to kill people with your first use.
Nevermind the fact that the Michigan law DOESN’T EVEN ALLOW dispenseries OR children to use it.
Prohibition is only ever justified with specious logic. (more…)
October 30, 2008
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Epic Movie (2007)
Posted by Claire CJS under Carolyn, Clio, Media, Movies, People, Reviews, Video[10] Comments
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] We went through a phase of watching spoof-genre movies. There’s just not enough comedy for us! This movie has an honor of being one of IMDB‘s bottom-100 worst movies ever — only 67 movies have IMDB ratings lower than the 2.2 that this movie got. That’s out of 10,000+ movies!
PEOPLE: Written by 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie. That’s about all they can brag about. Oh, they have Crispin Glover.
QUIRKS: Being a spoof genre movie meant the entire movie was quirky. That might be a merciful adjective. Movies parodied/referenced in one form or another include: The Da Vinci Code, Nacho Libre, Snakes On A Plane, Willy Wonka, The Chronicles Of Narnia, American Pie (Stifler’s Mom plays The White Bitch, equivalent of The White Queen from proper Narnia), Harry Potter (Harry Beaver), Pirates Of The Caribbean (Caption Jack Swallows), Lord Of The Rings, Click (sort of, with a Tivo scene), Superman Returns, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, and Lazy Sunday (as a Pirates Of The Caribbean rap).
BAD STUFF: Many say this is the worst spoof movie ever made. I think I might agree, because I really remembered nothing about the movie within 2 days. I had to refresh my memory on IMDB just to write this.
CONCLUSION: It sucks for its genre — but not so hard that there are only 67 movies in existence that suck worse. I could find 67 movies that *I* hate more out of every calendar year since movies came out in those numbers. :) Still, even Scary Movie 4 (which I liked) was better than this. This still got a generic pass from us for being a decent night’s low-effort entertainment.
RECOMMENDATION: If you’re a comedy/spoof fanatic, and just can’t get enough — rent this for a Monday night movie. Don’t get excited over it. There will be some laughs, but don’t expect anything like the good spoof movies.
MOVIE QUOTE: Silas [to White Bitch, in subtitles]: “Beat me like Bobby beats Whitney! Allegedly.”
COINCIDENCES: Terminator 2 – also had expanding boobs in a scene.
FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Benj didn’t like it.
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October 29, 2008
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Gee, my dad was laid off from USPS in 1995 after being a career employee for 20+ years. (He went on to make much more money at RTC and FDIC, before retiring.) [UPDATE: But it turns out this applies to union workers, and not other workers.]
You gotta love how much the postal service goes out of its way to verbally wrangle such statements. They often have layoffs where they say”retire early, or well lay off people”. The people who are close to retirement opt to take an early retirement, and if enough of them do that, they can say they never laid anyone off.The same thing happened at the United States Postal Inspection Service last year. They planned to lay off about 1000 out of 4000 or so employees. They sat there saying “USPS and USPIS have never laid everyone off”. I immediately told everyone there about my dad. [UPDATE: In person, they did not clarify it as “union employees only.]
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[UPDATE: some of them are] Fucking liars.
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Good old Monsanto is at it again, trying to convert agriculture into a corporate industry. This is bad. They sell sterile seeds, and you have to keep buying from Monsanto every year. And the GM crops end up “infecting” non-GM crops. Guess what happens when that happens? Monsanto sues you for royalties!
Finally, GM crops actually have lower yields than conventional crops, according to this article.
So it looks like Monsanto has to lobby the EU in secret in order to prevent a public backlash. Typical corporate bullshit. Anything in the name of profit.
I consider this Technology War because they are trying to take away one of the very first technological rights man ever had: The right to use our own tools and crops to cultivate our own food in our own way. The right to use nature to grow food rather than having to pay a corporation to live.
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It also constitutes ex post facto punishment, which is supposedly unconstitutional.
Fortunately for the children, we used them as an excuse to suspend the constitution long ago.Nevermind the fact that most child molestations occur by family members.
Y’know–before everyone was constantly freaked out about pedophiles, the big fear was razor blades in apples. Apparently THAT only happenned once, and it was the kid’s uncle! Just like molestations, threats come from family members most often. The only adults I’ve ever known to be molested (2-3) were done so by family members or famliy friends.Parents + Children = Hysteria.
Hysteria + Politics = insane laws
Children hurt freedom.
At least when their parents make the rules.
(And of course, most people of age are parents.)Of course, not all sex offenders are pedophiles. Rapists rape a lot of normal-aged people, and kids get put on the list for taking naked cellpics OF THEMSELVES.
Hysterical parents also want google earth suspended
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Just like many places in America, the dumb idiots of Finland did not mandate a verified paper trail. Seats voted for are often decided by margins of just a few votes, so nobody knows if the real outcome is what people actually voted for. This is largely what happens in precincts — especially important ones — in America. The corporations get profits from selling the machines, and the conservative parties that typically support business more than the liberal parties get to use the machines to stay in power. Democracy isn’t just being threatened in America.
You gotta love a UI design that throws away your vote if you’re a dumbass and forget to click the last “OK”. But being unable to follow instructions should not be sanctionable with disenfranchisement.
A special thanks to the voting system providers: Scytl and TietoEnator. If you care about your constituents, don’t do business with these people. They had their trial by fire, and they lost.
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Another site for me about my ‘syndrome’. Gonna read up some.
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Just saving this link, because this is a condition I have.
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This is bad, folks. The machiens in question have NO PAPER TRAIL. So you will never know if you’re vote is counted, and there’s no way to prove or disprove fraud.
Is anybody listening?
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Even though I almost certainly wont vote for Obama (don’t worry; I am NOT voting for McInsane) , this is exactly why we need a black president. When the world DOESN’T end from us having a black president, a lot of the wind will be taken out of the white supremicist movement. When the sky doesn’t fall, some whiteys are going to have to reconsider that a black president might not be the apocalypse.
The fuckers names are Daniel Coward — oops, I mean Cowart (but he’s still a coward becuase he lives with his grandma), 20, of Bells, Tenn, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of Helena-West Helena, Ark.
When they go to prison, they will be a white minority surrounded by [hopefully] violent black criminals. That seems reasonable appropriate.
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Yup. Buy a worm, eat it, and lose weight.
But…. $1300 seems kind of steep for a worm. And… it’s risky, of course!
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This is so frickin’ obvious that it never should have gone to court.
And a pedophile gets to walk free because the police overstepped their bounds.
Still, I have a feeling the police don’t care. If they constantly overstep their bounds, they may actually nab more criminals, which is all they care about. Nevermind following the LAW.Anyway — our harddrives are safe now. YES, examining a harddrive constitutes a search. DUH. People shouldn’t have to go to court for this.
Let’s face it, people. If you can’t keep drugs out of prisons, you certainly can’t keep child porn off of people’s harddrives. But they will use the spectre of porn as a way to take away our technological rights.
It’s a good system for turning people conservative — make it so that the only people who can assert their rights in a court of law are pedophiles. That’s a really tricky way to make rights look bad by evoking people’s emotion RE: children.
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And the guy totally deserved it. You don’t kick a 3-foot boy in the balls.
No sound. Quick video (animated GIF actually). Lots of Russian comments. Maybe Svetlana can decode them.
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In January 2006, Dannon introduced a new yogurt called Activia, which iincludes a probiotic called Bifidus Regularis, the goal of which is to unclog the “slow transit traffic jam” (constipation).
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Wow, this may be the first thing she’s ever gotten right.
Too bad it’s for the wrong reasons, and is essentially political grandstanding.
John McCain said questioning the official 911 story is an insult to the victims families. Funny, considering victims families and first responders are also calling for a new investigation.But good luck having a fair investigation that concludes any useful results.
Truly, this is just desparation from the McCampagin. And Palin’s quote reminds me of Miss South Carolina. “I do because I think that helps us get to the point of never again, and if anything that we could do could still complete that reminder out there.”
Last I checked, investigations don’t hurt people.
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Are we going to ever make up our mind about who we’re fighting, or are we just going to asssinate anybody, anywhere, anytime?
Who are we attacking now?
Afghanistan?
Pakistan?
Iraq?
Iran?
Syria?
…Venezuela?
What about North Korea and Saudi Arabia? If you were going to pick 2 countries to attack, they would be far more logical than Iraq and Iran.Now Syria is threatening us.
Nice to know the Bush Administration is helping our country’s image, right up to the dying end.
October 29, 2008
SOFTWARE: I love you Firefox. Now work.
Posted by Claire CJS under Clio, Complaints, Computer, Internet, Journal, People, Software, Technology[9] Comments
Guess I’ll use my OTHER computer to download the files. Thank you for failing me once again Firefox. Looks like Firefox looks in the environment for %TMP to use as a temporary folder. Nevermind the fact that windows uses %TEMP internally, so I tend to use %TMP (no E) in my own scripts. Look what happens if %TMP is set to a file (d:\documents and settings\oh\local settings\temp\4nt36c.tmp-) instead of a folder: Firefox can’t save. This includes “Save As” too! The only solution is to close firefox, unset %TMP, and re-start it.
Here’s a hint to the Firefox developers: If a file can’t save, check if the directory is valid. If it’s not, check %TEMP instead of %TMP! If that’s still invalid, use the recycle bin as a temp folder! There’s really no excuse for firefox to fail in a practically-undocumented way such as this. It’s taken me awhile to put two and two together that this is what’s happening. Lame.
OTHER IRONY: The computer downstairs’s Firefox breaks such that you can’t type addresses into the addressbar. This happens if it’s open for about 24 hours (and I only reboot 2-3 times a month). So not only do I have to copy the address from my firefox on this computer onto the other computer to save the file, but I have to do it at the command-line to make firefox open it. Score another victory for the superior realiability of the command-line. Memory leaks and such can’t make generally command-line commands fail the same way they can make GUI elements fail. It’s the KISS principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
October 28, 2008
JOURNAL: POLITICS: Why can’t all debates end like this?
Posted by Claire CJS under Clio, People, Politics, Sexual FreedomLeave a Comment
RM says: “Honestly, this issue has less to do with homosexuality (for me) than my belief in states’ rights. As a person of christian faith, I strongly believe that to win people over to our faith, we must live as positive examples, rather than legislate positions.
This is why I believe that the federal government should stay out of issues like abortion. It we (Christians) want to support the respect for life, that should happen in our homes first. Not legislated from Washington.
So, congratulations, you have helped me shape my position on this issue. I choose to remain politically neutral to gay marriage, but personally opposed. And if I can influence others to my perspective, so be it.
So, consider this a victory by you on this debate. You sank my battleship.”
If only spreading sanity could be successfully accomplished 1 person at a time…. Though it still took me well over an hour. (more…)
October 28, 2008
JOURNAL: MEDICAL: Being sick sucks.
Posted by Claire CJS under Clio, Complaints, Games, Journal, Medical, People[12] Comments
But worse than being sick is having a miserable day getting very little done between 7AM and Midnight, falling alseep for only 1.5 hours, and waking up at 1:30AM unable to sleep despite being sick. Oh, and not being able to go to the doctor because my car wont start. And of course, being sick, I really don’t feel like dealing with the car issue at the moment. If we can’t jump start it, I’ll have it towed up to Tacoma, MD, where Carolyn’s uncle can work on it again. It better not be the fucking alternator (alternator number five, still under warranty.).
So I played Culdcept all night (well, 2:30-7AM), winning the last 2 maps, and completing story mode, gaining 2 more medals for a total of 15. (Out of 50. I’m done with the game but still have a long way to go for 100% completion, as we rarely play 1-player. I’ve now played Culdcept for over 400 hours total, though I thought it was over 500 hours last time I checked.) And saw Carolyn off to work.
Now it’s 10AM, and I’ve been up 25.5 of the last 27 hours. And I probably wont go to bed til midnite tonite when Carolyn goes to bed. Maybe if I CoolEdit enough WAV files (I’m processing my incoming music backlog these days) and sedate myself slightly, I’ll finally be able to mentally fatigue myself enough to take a nap before Carolyn comes home. But it’s unlikely.
I better not fall asleep during Heroes, which we plan to watch tonite!
blah. I don’t usually go to the doctor, but since it’s a big party weekend, I was willing. Too bad about the car. Even if we were to jump start it tonite at 6PM, I seriously doubt going to the doctor on wednesday is going to cure me by friday. The only time I ever got an instant cure at the doctor’s was when I went to a specialist who gave me a direct injection of the steroidal drug Dexadrone (which they warned me makes your balls itch for 60 seconds; I only felt it for about 3 seconds and they were all very disappointed). I went from having 3 weeks of mononucleosis to being COMPLETELY better, INSTANTLY AND PERMANENTLY. Of course when I told this to the HMO doctors at Kaiser-Permanente, they were like, “Why would anyone do that?”
Indeed. Why would anyone cure a sick person? There’s far more money to be made in prescriptions and follow-up co-pays!
As such, compared to that experience, I find most Doctor care to be quite mediocre. If you can’t cure me in 10 minutes, why should I give you a $25 co-pay? My current primary care physician SUUUCKS. His office refused to take my medical records for the last 2 years from Kaiser-Permanente. After all, who needs records? It’s just my fucking medical care, that’s all. (more…)
October 27, 2008
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I'm sure Osama Bin Laden is laughing his ass off that he successfully took away American's freedoms to travel in public without being unconstitutionally searched. All it takes is one successful attack and we'll cower with our tails between our legs 'til the end of time. (Or for at least 8 years, anyway.) (Meanwhile we kill over 300X as many Iraqi civilians.)
Thank you, Bush, for the culture of fear that convinces people that they are better off if they comply for this.
And a special thanks to the republican voters for continually electing leaders that help promote the culure of fear and erosion of rights in the name of security.And terrorists — since you can refuse a search and leave, just keep going back in over and over until you get in successfully. This measure does absolutely nothing to prevent a bombing and merely makes everyone feel protected, as well as reenforcing their learned helplessness. Meanwhile, the waste of resources mean they are actually less protected.
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I find it funny that this article will make some people belive in abortion even more than they already do, when the real problem is that there are too many people on the planet. With the food crisis followed by the economic crisis — expect babies to be eaten.
Less abortion would just mean more hungry people and less babies to eat!
At least they were already dead.
And for the environmentalists out there: low carbon footprint.
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They are using fraud as an excuse, but would not fraud present an equal opportunity to both parties? I think so, and I think that removes their excuse from the reality of their actions. What they want is to ensure new registrations — often young people tend to vote more Democratic than old people — don't happen, so the numbers are closer to the 2004 numbers.
Still, there's one party here pressing to STOP registrations and keep as many people as possible from voting — the republicans.
I'm no fan of the democrats, but of the 2 parties here — they are the one closer to the side of freedom.
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It correctly showed my username as taken for 20 out of the 68 sites.
However, it didn't show it as being taken up at LinkedIn or FriendFeed, despite the fact that I use both of those. But LinkedIn and FriendFeed use real names, so perhaps they shouldn't have been included. It also didn't show me as taken on Blogger, even though my blogger login is clintjcl@gmail… And I know I'm on Steam, and it didn't show that either.
October 26, 2008
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This election is going to be chaos. Either way, the true winner certainly wont be chosen via democratic process, but by a lucky combination of trickery.
One thing I'm consistently seeing is that the Republicans seem to have a much higher level of shenanigans than democrats. Only 20 in congress support a measure for voting machines to leave a paper trail? Gee, why would Republicans not want a paper trail? Anyone remember the Diebold voting machine C.E.O. saying "I promise to deliver Bush's electroal votes this election" in 2000? The machine-makers are not very neutral, and the party they support wants to make sure there's no re-count ability.
Gee, I wonder why.
Shenanigans were even comitted against Virginia Tech students, with them being falsely told they would jeopardize their parents tax status if they voted. Gee, what party do students typically support more than older people? And what party would want to prevent them from voting as such?
October 25, 2008
JOURNAL: CONCERT: NoFX
Posted by Claire CJS under Audio, Carolyn, Clio, Concerts, Journal, Media, Music, People, Reviews[3] Comments
Nofx kicked ass!!
Ram’s Head said they were playing at 11:30, so we aimed to get there at 10:30 by leaving at 9:15. Turns out that, as usual, Ram’s Head has no clue what is going on in their own club, and they started playing around 10:50 instead. We barely managed to get our drink on (not counting the 8oz bottle of mixed drink we consumed in the parking lot) before they started playing. Pretty good timing. Their set was closer to 1.5 hrs than 1 hr, and we recognized every song. A couple of them took a thorough search to find the proper title of (Shut Up Already, Linoleum). We were really surprised that Linoleum seemed to be the song the audience knew the most — it certainly wasn’t for us. Would have liked to have heard Vanilla Sex and perhaps more songs from Pump Up The Valuum, but overall, it’s really hard to go wrong with a 17 song setlist. (Unless you’re Ween; Ween plays closer to 30 songs, AND their songs are longer on average; 17 for a Ween show would be a ripoff!)
- 1. Dinosaurs Will Die
- 2. Brews
- 3. Murder The Govt – with alternate lyrics, talking about Bush gagging on Obama’s dick
- Fuck Da Kids – while they flicked off some 10 yr old kid brought by his meathead dad. When the show was over, they sent the guitar into the crowd. The 10 yr old kid returned it, but then NoFX gave it back to the kid and let him keep it for good
- Eat The Meek
- The Moron Brothers
- (Herb Albert cover)
- Bob
- Kill All The White Man
- Linoleum
- Radio (by Rancid)
- Louise
- Quart In Session
- Whoops, I OD’d
- Shut Up Already
- Bottles To The Ground
- last: Theme From A NoFX Album (last song) – and then the guy kept playing the accoridian for like 5 minutes while everyone else left and put away their equipment
The setlist for this concert is also posted HERE, on my List Of All Concerts I’ve Ever Gone To page.
UPDATE: Here’s a picture of the 6 stickers we bought for $5:
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October 25, 2008
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Religion makes people willing to do insane things. At least an atheist sociopath knows what he is doing is wrong, and doesn't care. A religious person thinks they are doing god's work. I find that far more dangerous.
And the only way they were ever caught? A neighbor accidentally picked up a baby monitor signal because they happened to buy the same baby monitor. It showed the neighbor kid beaten and chained up and such. In other words, before technology, religious acts of torture like this would not be stopped.
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And you can bet that for every story like this, there is at least one unreported story like this as well.
Dude was hospitalized for FOUR DAYS and had to go back with bloody piss.This all started because they thought he was SMOKING POT, a victimless crime. A crime far less worse than what these officers did.
And to all the people who say you can smoke pot anywhere you want in New York, I submit this story as counterproof.
The hospital administrator contacted the district attorney's office to make sure something was done. Let's hope for a $1M+ lawsuit.
And of course they slapped a bullshit disorderly conduct on him, which is what cops to do try to cover up misconduct. After all, if they don't arrest him or charge him with anything, then what they did would most certainly get them sued, probably fired (but always later rehired elsewhere), and possibly charged.
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Dude's getting in trouble for having too many women. Muslims only allow 4, not 86. This guy's giving Hugh Heffner a run for his money.
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The one good thing about this? Gay sex was illegal for boys, and now it's also illegal for girls. At least it's equal-opportunity religious oppressoin via tyranny of the majority now! ;)
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“The War on Terrorism has provided a convenient excuse to stifle scientific discourse and the release of information on government operations. Those who stand to lose the most from this policy are the service members it was ostensibly designed to protect."
Sad, sad stuff. This is not how a country that respects freedom is supposed to be run.
This also means, of course, that the affects of the war on our people is greater than we think or see — since they are actively hiding this information from public view.
October 24, 2008
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This does appear to be a real item posted to the Department Of Defense Small Business Innovation Research. Fucking Terminators. Wow.
I'm imagining Ahhnold from The Terminator going door to door asking, in a Terminator voice, "Osama Bin Laden?", and then shooting everyone in the face anyway. -
I re-wrote the headline to what it really means to me. Too sad that this is a true story.
"It took me four months to return to Mexico," he said. "Not because I'm afraid of traveling outside my own country, but rather because I'm afraid of returning home."
Chilling words for an American citizen with "rights" to have to declare.
October 23, 2008
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They actually put a toga on her, decided that wasn’t good enough, so then they added the American flag. I think the 3rd comment sums up how I feel about it:
“What the hell do we need Democrats for if they’re just going to act like Republicans?”
Answer: We don’t.
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Painting your boobs as GIRs eyes? Brilliant.
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2 things strike me: the hilarious purple-on-black wikipedia-style “WARNING!!!” at the top, and the inexplicably absurd family tree shown at the bottom… Diabeetis’s parents are Wilford Brimley and Splenda? What?
October 23, 2008
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Revenge Of The Nerds 4: Nerds In Love (1994)
Posted by Claire CJS under Carolyn, Clio, Media, Movies, People, Reviews, Video1 Comment
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Finally, our request of all Revenge Of The Nerds things comes to it’s near completion. We still have to get the new Panty Raid Edition of Revenge Of The Nerds 1 & 2, which includes the failed TV pilot. That should be some campy fun for a later date. This movie had the ultra-low IMDB rating of 2.8. For those who have been paying attention, here is the IMDB ratings for Revenge Of The Nerds movies #1 through #4: 6.2, 4.1, 3.1, and 2.8. For Netflix stars, it was 3.8, 3.0, 2.7, and 2.6.
PEOPLE: Corinne Bohrer joins the cast as Booger’s bride-to-be. I’ve always liked her strange form of weird attractiveness. The Gilbert character is completely gone. Stan Gable, played by Ted McGinley (aka Jefferson from Married With Children) and the Judy character (Laurel Moglen in the TV movies) now only exist as marginalized characters in cutaway scenes. This one pretty much focused on Booger, his bride, and Lewis Skolnick.
QUIRKS: I wish I had the scratch-and-sniff cards that were supposed to be sniffed at certain points, or the 3-D glasses (?!?!?!). According to the wikipedia page for Revenge Of The Nerds 4, that was a promotional gimmick they used when this made-for-TV movie originally aired.
GOOD STUFF: There was still some humor in seeing a stuck up rich family have to deal with nerds being in their family. It was a different dynamic than the jocks hating nerds being in their school. Imagine a guy who contributes to the Republican party having to deal with nerds at functions where he’s trying to raise campaign money! That’s a unique situation in the Revenge Of The Nerds franchise. So there were new forms of awkwardness to explore. Unfortunately…
BAD STUFF: It was definitely the worst Revenge Of The Nerds movie. As if anyone expected otherwise. It’s the first one that could be classified as a romantic comedy, instead of a straight/non-romantic comedy. That’s bad too. A lot more of the humor fell flat, and the plot simply wasn’t as funny to begin with.
CONCLUSION: This was worthy of its low IMDB rating, and only contained, at most, about 40% of the humor of the original Revenge Of The Nerds movie. At least a few of the various characters that were missing from movies #2 or #3 are still in this movie: Betty, Ogre, Lamar, Takashi, and U.N. Jefferson.
RECOMMENDATION: If you made it through 3, you should make it through this. A non-completist, non-fanboy should probably stop at Revenge Of The Nerds 2. But Carolyn & I follow through. When we’re into something — we march to the very end, no matter what. It was kind of sad for it to all be over — but at the current rate of decline, Revenge Of The Nerds 5 would have been HORRIBLE.
It’s also too bad that the remake that was being planned in 2007 has now been canceled!
MOVIE QUOTE: Mr. Skolnick: “How’s my unborn grandson?” / Lewis Skolnick: “You mean you’re unborn fetal son?”
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October 22, 2008
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"Remember how Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson promised full transparency in spending the $700 billion bailout money? And remember how bailout opponents predicted that the failure to mandate such transparency would allow all sorts of Halliburton-style shenanigans? From the looks of the first private contracts issued by the Treasury Department, it looks like the bailout opponents were correct."
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Some of NASA/science's best sun pictures. Ever. Really. I've never seen the sun in this "light" before.
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Prior to the smoking ban, in 2004, they saw 14 hospitality etablishments (bars and such) close.
Since the ban, annual bar closings are now closer to 150 a year.
After a few years, a full ONE THIRD of all smoking establishments / bars / clubs are now closed.
Who's rights are really violated when a bar closes? The non-smoker didn't like the smoky bar, and now has nothing to go to. The smoker liked the smokey bar, and now has nothing to go to. With 1/3rd of bars closed, obviously everyone who used to go out no longer does. It's cutting the nose off to spite the face.
Under proper capitalism, if you don't like smoky bars, don't go to one. The high population of non-smokers should be able to run their own non-smoking bars, if such things are reaily feasible.
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Wow. This is quite informative and brings up some damn good points. Some of which I had not heard. I always knew the secondhand smoke lobby, however, was full of it, and used questionable methods to determine the harm of secondhand smoke in the workplace.
October 22, 2008
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Revenge Of The Nerds 3: The Next Generation (1992) (TV)
Posted by Claire CJS under Carolyn, Clio, Media, Movies, People, Reviews, Video[3] Comments
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] We’re up to movie #3 out of 4 in the Revenge Of The Nerds franchise. The last 2 are made-for-TV. The IMDB rating for this one drops to 3.1 (and then to 2.8 for the next movie).
PEOPLE: We still have Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine) and Booger (Curtis Armstrong). Betty (Julia Montgomery) returns to the franchise, as does supreme douchebag Stan Gable. Stan Gable is now recognizable as Ted McGinley, a.k.a. Jefferson D’Arcy, Marcy’s gigolo from Married With Children. We did not recognize him in Revenge Of The Nerds 1. Also returning are U.N. Jefferson and Gilbert, but Gilbert is only in it for a few seconds, and is no longer played by Anthony Edwards (who went on to do E.R. instead).
QUIRKS: We have a whole new set of nerds during this movie; it has been 8 years since Revenge Of The Nerds 1, so the original nerds are all grow’d up. Lambda Lambda Lambda now has a traditional, ritualistic hazing — and the hazing scenes were some of the funnier scenes in the movie. “Heck week” is when you are not allowed to use your computer for a whole week, as part of pledging. (Oh, the horror!!) They also accept female members, as any social organization resisting the establishment should. We still have pranks from Alpha Beta, only in this future — [highlight for spoilers]→ most of Adams College is nerds, and Alpha Beta are the outcasts. They actually wish they had some Alpha Beta nerds at this point. But that doesn’t stop Stan Gable from being a douchebag. He’s still mad that Lewis stole Betty from him in Revenge Of The Nerds 1. They do lose their house at one point.
BAD STUFF: This movie was significantly worse than the sequel. More humor fell flat. There was more than one song, and the collective good of all the songs do not even stand up to the song in Revenge Of The Nerds 2. Lewis Sklonick became a [highlight for spoilers]→ douchebag sellout who tried to pretend he wasn’t a nerd. Instead, he was a self-hating nerd. But at least he was married to nerd-lovin’ hottie Betty. The way the conflict resolves — [highlight for spoilers]→ a nerd strike — is also a bit contrived.
CONCLUSION: Only about 60% as good as Revenge Of The Nerds 1. (Revenge Of The Nerds 2 was about 75% as good.) The franchise is dying, and you can definitely feel that it is a TV movie — no thanks to seeing this in fullscreen format and not widescreen. Most of the original nerds are gone.
RECOMMENDATION: If you are a completist fanboy like me — then you still must see it. If you’d like to see how Lewis turns out when he grows up … Or hot Betty in a hot tub (if only for a few seconds) … Then maybe you should watch it for that. It’s also great to see Jefferson from Married With Children play a character that is basically a moron cop. Some moments of the movie, however, are downright painful. Although this still gets a “generic pass” rating of 3 stars on Netflix for us, I would IMDB this somewhere around 5.5 if I could. It’s a bit more than a neutral 5.0 — but barely. Now we have to watch Revenge Of The Nerds 4…
MOVIE QUOTE: Booger: “You don’t eat meat! You don’t do drugs! What’s wrong with kids today?”
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October 21, 2008
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How Republicans are blocking the votes of millions of americans.
Can anyone find examples of Democrats using these tactics?
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A staggaring realization is that the puritan Americans censored Sailor Moon! In the original series 4th and 5th seasons, Sailors Uranus and Neptune were depicted as lesbians! (In America, they are "cousins".)
The Japanese are so much less sexually-repressed than us Americans. Which is funny, because *we're* supposed to be the individualistic freedom society.
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