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| Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 | | 2:37 pm |
| | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 10:47 am |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/19/weaster219.xml I've heard of the Christos in the Philipines who have themselves beaten and crucified (briefly) on Easter before, but the article has some interesting stuff on the government's preparation for it. They've sent out warnings encouraging people to get tetnus shots, and the City Health Office autoclaved the nails to be used. They're also encouraging spectators to bring their lunch rather than risk hepatitis or typhoid from the sketchy street vender food. Also, the whole event is being sponsered by Coca Cola and some company called Smart Telecommunications. | | 1:47 am |
| | Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | | 8:48 pm |
| | Monday, March 17th, 2008 | | 10:30 pm |
LOL! http://www.fortfreedom.org/o14.htmA couple letters to the editor about Bard, from the Daily Freeman in 1989. Apparently, we're a commie terrorist sleeper cell. They mention Prof. Kovel, of the Alger Hiss Chair of Sociology. He's still there, I think. I kind of regret never taking a class with him. | | 4:19 pm |
| | Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | | 5:45 pm |
Airforce Uber Alles
 This is not a parody. http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123087033Apparently 20th Century German history is not a popular class at the Air Force acadamy. And yes, I'm aware the phrase "Deutschland Uber Alles" predated the Nazi's. So did "Arbeit Macht Frei," the swastika, and that stupid little mustache. I wouldn't recommend the Air Force adopt any of these in their PR campaigns. | | Monday, March 10th, 2008 | | 4:39 pm |
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http://laist.com/2008/03/05/satans_ice_crea.phpCreepiest ice cream truck ever. It's like if Tim Burton sold ice cream, this would be his truck. And it's totally random, too. The guy who owns/drives it said the creepy song came with the truck when he bought it, and he keeps it because it's memorable and gets attention. | | 2:12 am |
This started as a rare private post. I rarely do those, and they're nearly all private solely because they're composed when I'm too drunk to trust a post to even friends-only post status. This is an exception. Under normal circumstances, I never pray unless extremely drunk. And I don't think I've ever independently prayed for a political leader. The closest I've gotten is standardized prayer for the guidance of leaders during the communal Prayers of the People during those rare church services I actually get around to attending. But I am honestly, desperately praying for Barack Obama now. I pray that he is as sincere as he seems. I pray that he wins. I pray that his idealism and sincerity survives the pressure of election. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The American president does not have absolute power. America as a whole does not even have the unilateral power it hubristically assumed it had. But it is still a position of incredible power. I know, or at least hope, he knows what it would mean to win such power. I pray he wins it. I pray he is able to handle it. That he is able to lead the nation as a whole, including those who currently distrust, even despise him. I pray he can redeem us. And I know he can't. I know he is only human and can't possibly live up to the incredible hopes being put upon him. He is the first hope we've had in so long. He is the first hope I have seen in my lifetime. People want him to be Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and Martin Luther King, all rolled into one. Not just the actual human beings, but their idealized, semi-deified public images. No actual human being could possibly do this. No individual human being, even the president, has that power. We are looking for a messiah - he can only offer a human leader. I pray that we can withstand the difference. I pray that he can help us understand the difference. I pray he has the opportunity to do so. I pray he does what he has promised. I pray he stops the torture. I pray he apologizes to the world. I pray he stops the building "holy war," I pray he reconciles America with the Muslim world, with the world in general. I pray he stops the war. I pray he closes the camps, and renounces and *damns* the total disregard for international law we've exemplified for so many years now. I pray he brings back a language of "values" where concern for the poor, the imprisoned, the desperate, those suffering from injustice in every nation is part of our national concern. Where "values" means more than opposition to abortion and gay marriage. I pray for a national language of values where queer people are not somehow in opposition to the rights and dignity of all other oppresed people. I pray for a queer identity in which we do not separate our struggle for basic human rights and dignity from those of all other oppressed people. I pray we regain the prayer of the Statue of Liberty. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempset-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.What happened to this?? When and why did we forget this?? When and why did we stop applying this attitude towards the world, or even towards our own people? When did we even start thinking of "our own people" as being distinct from the rest of the world? Was it always like this? Can it ever be different? Edit: Holy fucking shit. It's 3:30am. I am so going to hate myself in the morning. | | Saturday, March 8th, 2008 | | 9:53 pm |
two terms that should enter the public vocabulary
When someone alters a Wikipedia article to win a specific argument, anyone who reads the false article before the "error" is corrected suffers from collateral misinformation. I changed the scientific classification of red foxes last night in order to win an argument with Judy. I hope some stupid High School student didn't suffer from collateral misinformation. When a member of one political party intentionally votes in another party's primary in an attempt to nominate the candidate they feel will lose in an election, thus allowing the their true party-affiliation to win. C-Money voted for Hillary in the primary, because he thinks there's no way she can beat McCain.
This is terrorist voting.
I can't believe Rush Limbaugh actually told his fans in Ohio and Texas to vote for Clinton in the Democratic primaries, for the specific purpose of keeping the Democrats fighting. Actually, it's not surprising at all, but it's pretty revolting. | | 8:30 pm |
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8492078 CASPER — Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in Casper today that he would restore respect for law in the White House by reviewing every executive order issued by President George W. Bush and discarding any deemed unconstitutional.
Please, please let this actually happen. | | 8:28 pm |
| | 6:34 pm |
http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/barack-obama-wins-wyoming-caucuses/20080307232409990001#addNewCmmntObama takes Wyoming! :D I really have to stop reading the comments AOL stories. I just skimmed those attached to this story, and it makes me want to poke my eyes out with a fork. One of them claimed that Obama is the devil because the book of Revelation predicted that the "anti-Christ" would be Muslim. Obama not being Muslim aside, Revelation was written over 400 years before Mohamed was born. And this treatment of the word "Muslim" as an insult pisses me off. | | 1:15 am |
| | Friday, March 7th, 2008 | | 12:07 am |
| | Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | | 11:20 pm |
| | Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | | 10:22 pm |
http://www.riotfolk.org/member_music_lyrics.php?id=5&song_id=232I freakin' love this song. You can download it from the link (the artist's site). I want to buy the CD in a couple weeks when I have money. The song was written in response to the HRC debacle, but goes beyond that. Just listen to it. Also, I need to figure out how the hell to work the miro player. It's the only media player I've found that will play the damn file, and I can't figure out how to put together playlists on it that include plain audio files, not video files. So I keep using stupi windows media player, 'cause I know how to work it. | | 9:02 pm |
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