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October, 2005
October 20th, 2005
- nano
- Extremely small
- Short for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
So, I’ve been thinking on this whole need-a-plot idea for Nano. Obviously I didn’t do well last year. I got stuck on the first scene and just couldn’t get going and quite frankly I don’t want to do that again this year. Duh.
Anyway, believe it or not, my shrink gave me an idea. She suggested that since I do have a sense of humor (I know not everyone out there actually thinks so. :p) that I should write what I know. I know
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Tags: NaNoWriMo, writing
October 20th, 2005
Well, the results of this quiz surprised me a little. I do believe in an afterlife and believe I am a Christian and I think I have a lot of faith in the spiritual; however, I do believe in working to make the world a better place…very, very interesting…
You fit in with:
Humanism
Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife,
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Tags: Faith
October 20th, 2005
“WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE HIM A BLOWJOB SO WE CAN HAVE HIM IMPEACHED?!”
- Hand-printed protest sign recently seen in Washington DC.
Tags: Quote of the Day, Impeach, George W. Bush
October 19th, 2005
The Pentagon has reneged on its offer to pay a $15,000 bonus to members of the National Guard and Army Reserve who agree to extend their enlistments by six years, according to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Seattle).
The bonuses were offered in January to Active Guard and Reserve and military technician soldiers who were serving overseas. In April, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs ordered the bonuses stopped, Murray said.
“This is outrageous,” the senator said in a telephone interview. “It makes me angry that this administration has broken another promise to our troops.” [“When a bonus isn’t
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Tags: Pentagon, National Guard, Army Reserves
October 19th, 2005
- This post from Daily Kos’ Georgia10 made me giggle, but really it’s a reminder to not get ahead of ourselves and not help spread rumors. I think it’s best that for now maybe bloggers from both sides should focus on verifiable facts and wait for the dust to clear before stirring up shit. Of course, that won’t happen. Heck, it might not even happen here.
Hey, did you hear how USNews is reporting on rumors that Cheney will be resigning?
And, did ya hear about John Hannah??? No, not that one.
And, hey, did you know
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Tags: politics, Patrick Fitzgerald
October 18th, 2005
There’s a woman in my therapy group that’s going through what I went through almost two years ago. The work situation is somewhat similar, particularly the way “they” went about firing her — gave her a raise, let her go on vacation and then told her that her position was being eliminated. She has a family and therefore isn’t going through the complete feelings of loneliness and abandonment that I went through every day not having anywhere to go or anyone to see most days. She has a husband and kids, but that kind of comes with
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Tags: therapy, depression
October 18th, 2005
Gosh, it seems like ages but less than a month ago articles started appearing in the paper and news-related websites about how the U.S. had received tons of food donations (MREs) from other countries for Hurricane Katrina but they ended up in Little Rock awaiting possible incineration because of laws prohibiting certain foods from outside the country.
Now another article has appeared indicating that the State Department asked its embassies to ask countries worldwide for donations when there was a need for 500k readily packaged meals for hurricane victims. Get that? We asked them to give us
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Tags: Hurricane Katrina, MREs
October 18th, 2005
I spoke with PW last night. She’s currently in New Orleans preparing what’s left of her personal possessions for the trip to England. She said that she has about six changes of clothes at this point and from her descriptions, it sounds like everything she rescued can fit into four suitcases, carefully packed to not be more than 50lbs each.
She said that New Orleans is very much a cash-based economy at the moment. There aren’t a lot of working phone lines for those credit card machines. Plus, she also verified that most stores as well as
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Tags: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans
October 17th, 2005
Why do people always wait until you’re feeling really sick to tell you what they think is wrong with you? I don’t mean, they think it might be the flu; I mean, they want to amateur shrink you — generally because they’ve taken something you said the absolute wrong way — generally because they can’t tell you were joking even with the 
and 
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that you over populate your emails and IMs with — generally because one time you made the same joke to two separate people and forgot the both time and it wasn’t
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Tags: none
October 17th, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The U.S. military said Monday that coalition forces launched airstrikes Sunday in and around Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killing “an estimated 70 terrorists.”
But an Iraqi doctor who reported 20 people killed — including six children — and 25 wounded said all those were civilians.
An Iraqi Ministry of Health official also said one child was killed and two women wounded in the airstrikes.
Military officials said they had no reports of civilians killed. [“Iraq airstrikes kill dozens in Ramadi area”]
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the American military has apparently made the decision to count all non-American dead as “insurgents”? Even children? Innocent bystanders must be guilty by association or, at the very least, location.
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Tags: Iraq, innocent, American soldiers
October 17th, 2005
Seriously.
I’ve had a bad migraine for…as long as I can remember at this point.
O.K. I’ve actually had one every day since last Wednesday morning, I believe. They came. I medicated. They went away for a bit. There were side effects.
But this one I’ve had since Saturday afternoon/evening. I’ve tried several medications — following the doctor’s directions of not taking different ones within 24 hours of each other. At the moment, I feel slightly better than last night and this morning when I was praying to throw up and get it over with — though
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Tags: migraine
October 17th, 2005
With all the added security since 9/11, I imagine it’s pretty hard now to hijack an American airplane. However, apparently it’s not that difficult to steal one.
There have been a few news articles in the last few years about stolen airplanes which have worried me. Each time it happens, I can’t believe a bigger deal isn’t made of it because, well, it is a big deal.
Did you know that back in early 2004, someone stole a single-engine airplane in Texas, flew through powerlines, depriving 11,000 people of power, and then crashed and disappeared? [“Stolen Airplane Used To
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Tags: stolen airplane
October 17th, 2005
The blogosphere has been all a-buzz the last week or so with conspiracy theories. I love good conspiracy theories as you all know; so the excitement is starting to stir my hopes beneath the apathy.
Digby over at Hullabaloo has written a couple of posts regarding the other things that were going on around Plamegate that are connected and suggest something much more sinister was going on high up in our Executive Branch and even stretching to other countries.
And Robert George has also written about those two weeks in July 2003 and Judith Miller.
There certainly are
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Tags: PlameGate, Conspiracy Theories
October 17th, 2005
I don’t normally make a big deal about linking to other websites partly because I think my new discoveries are pretty well-established by the time I happen upon them and partly because I think people should link to who they like to read and not try to get more readers just because of who they link to. However, I have found some really good reads of late and I do want to share.
October 17th, 2005
Well, it’s true that we could be a year or two off from that sort of price tag for filling up our gas; however, today, most of us, I think would balk at such highway robbery.
And yet, as Andy Rooney on last night’s 60 Minutes pointed out, American’s are spending quite a ton on bottled water.
pint costs $1.35 in the CBS cafeteria. Now just think about that. There are eight pints in a gallon, so if your car ran on water instead of gas and you had to fill a 15-gallon tank with this, it would cost $162
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Tags: Andy Rooney, 60 Minutes
October 17th, 2005
Today’s Quote of the Day comes from Andy Rooney:
Ultra Pure Hawaii Water. It says its source is a virgin rainforest. When does a rainforest lose its virginity, anyway?
Tags: Quote of the Day, Andy Rooney
October 17th, 2005
Remember the War on Drugs? “Just Say No?”
The War on Terror has not only dwarfed the War on Drugs, it’s kind of sort of aiding and abedding the drug “bad guys”.
Afghanistan, that place we liberated from the Taliban, that place we hardly hear about any more because of Iraq and all of our successes there, is now the “world’s largest exporter of heroin, and the opium used to produce it, supplying 87 percent of the world market.” In 2004, Afghanistan produced 4,000 tons of opium, most of which was converted into 400 tons of morphine and heroin.
“It is
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Tags: Iraq, War on Terror, War on Drugs, Afghanistan, Taliban
October 15th, 2005
This afternoon as I was returning from the grocery, driving down the two-lane Route 1 that near-traces the coastal region of Maine, I was driving the speed limit, thinking that if the rain continues we’ll need plans for an ark, when all of a sudden the car that was coming down the opposite lane pulled into my lane — note, it was not a drift or a swerve, it was almost as if they were aiming for me. I swerved off the road and the other car never even slowed down.
I’m totally staying inside until it stops raining.
Tags: none
October 15th, 2005
The Spy Museum in Washington D.C. claims the government has labeled the KKK as a terrorist group. Apparently, terrorists are allowed to have their own television shows on public television in Michigan. Trust me, as a supporter of public radio and television, that is not where I want my tax dollars and donation dollars to go.
What is this country coming to? We just seem to be sliding further and further backward into the Dark Ages.
Hat tip to All Spin Zone.
Tags: KKK, Terrorists, public television
October 14th, 2005
I know that I’ve been kind of quiet the last week or two on the subjects of politics and causes and world events. To be honest, I’m feeling kind of numb about it all.
There’s been stories from New Orleans about white cops beating an old black man and people being arrested on minor or trumped up charges, jailed in fenced areas of the open areas of the train station over night with no beds, blankets, or other accomodations, and then forced to plead guilty and work in chain gangs cleaning up New Orleans. There’s been stories of corruption.
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Tags: discombobulated, hypocrisy, apathy
