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March, 2006
March 26th, 2006
O.K. I’ve been stewing about this whole Russia-giving-Iraq-U.S.-troop-movements-thing. I mean, I wasn’t for invading Iraq, but I hope this puts an end to those horrible Bush-Putin-Kiss-Kiss photo ops. I mean, Russia is not our friend and this playing buddy-buddy in front of the camera while painting targets on our soldiers should not be tolerated by our Commander-in-Chief.
And, of course, what I want to know is how the Russians knew what those movements were. My dad’s theory is that the Russians are somehow “listening in” through a base in Arizona. He tried to explain it
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Tags: Russia, Vladmir Putin, George W. Bush, Iraq, American soldiers
March 24th, 2006
In another nose-thumbing at the U.S. Constitution and Congress, President Bush wrote another love note to Congress and the American people on the Patriot Act when he signed the latest version on March 9th. He wants to make sure that everyone knows that he doesn’t have to answer to anyone no matter what the law. What happened to checks and balances?
WASHINGTON — When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was
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Tags: George W. Bush, Patriot Act, Boston Globe, The U.S. Constitution, Congress, Conspiracy Theories
March 24th, 2006
This Week the Republicans released a new radio ad in Wisconsin:
RNC AD: “Censure”
Announcer: September 11th changed our country. And it changed how America responds to terrorists. President Bush is working to keep American families safe. Passing the PATRIOT Act which has disrupted over one hundred and fifty terrorist threats and cells making sure the US is monitoring terrorist communications. But some Democrats are working against these efforts to secure our country, opposing the PATRIOT Act and terrorist surveillance program. Their leader is Russ Feingold. Now Feingold and other Democrats want to censure the President.
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Tags: Terrorists, Patriot Act, Russ Feingold, Republicans, Democrats, George W. Bush, factcheck.org, Censure, 2004 election, Impeach
March 24th, 2006
I’m trying out this thing where people blog their pets on Friday…
So, here is Needy. He wouldn’t share my blanket…
And here’s Aloof supervising my work in the kitchen.
Tags: pet blogging, photo, the cats, Friday Ark
March 24th, 2006
Everyone seems to have an opinion about abortion and child support and who has control over what and when and where and what our children should or shouldn’t be taught about what goes on down “there”. Some folks think we shouldn’t teach sex education at all because that’ll give kids ideas and other folks think if we don’t teach sex education, that’s what leads to curiousity down “there” and silly misinformation like “you can’t get pregnant the first time” or “if you love me.”
Of course, the President’s big program is abstinence, which is the religious-right’s big program. The thing is that they don’t want to teach any kind of back up if abstinence doesn’t work out.
Strangely, I feel like I’m one of the few people with the right to actually ask this question these days. I wonder how many of these people who are going around preaching abstinence and not wanting to teach other forms of birth control at all practiced what they preached when they were that age. I just find it a bit hard to believe that so many of these people practiced what they preach.
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Tags: abstinence, sex
March 24th, 2006
“At first, we widows didn’t want to be seen with conspiracy people. But they kept showing up. They cared more than those supposedly doing the investigating. If you ask me, they’re just Americans, looking for the truth, which is supposed to be our right.”[“The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll” (New York Magazine)]
September 11, 2001. I don’t think any of us can forget where we were or what we were doing that day when we heard the news.
I still see it in flashes. Flashes of the people who were with me that day, of the things that happened around me that day, of the things on the television that day.
Mind you, I’m the “conspiracy theorist” of the circle of friends, but really that just means, I’m the conspiracy collector. There were folks far more paranoid and with far more interesting theories than mine in that group. 
I like to think I collect and analyze and only believe the ones that actually have facts to back them up. Even then, they’re just theories.
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Tags: blogs, Conspiracy Theories, George W. Bush, 9/11
March 24th, 2006
Well, all of the websites hosted by exit-23.net were moved to the dedicated server last night. I shut a couple down permanently for non-use or because they were just attracting spam hogs. Turns out I have a lot more space and a lot more database priviliges over here on my own, so I’ll be offering some more of my friends some space to get them started. Might as well. I hate to ask for money from them though. However, I am going to be hard pressed to afford to keep up with the cost of these sites now. They’ve increased
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Tags: blogs, Lunarpages, web hosting
March 23rd, 2006
Well, if you’ve been by in the last 24 hours, you probably didn’t see anything. I mean, it was a virtual cyber-wasteland over in the exit-23.net hosting-land.
And it’s not a pretty story either. And it’s not over either.
It started yesterday morning actually. I woke up late because the power had been out at my house and when the power comes back on, my microwave makes this horrible screeching sound, which is way better than any alarm clock at waking up the masses at the Mallory abode anyway. When I left for work, the internet at my
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Tags: blogs, Lunarpages, web hosting
March 22nd, 2006
I know it seems like I’ve been preoccupied lately with my depression and depression in general and my birthday and my new puppy. (Have you seen my new puppy?) However, believe it or not, I’ve been keeping up with the news and online back and forths when my internet wasn’t down. I’ve even added a few new voices to my online daily reads.
To be kind of honest, I’m just a little tired of all of the arguing and excitement even among people who are supposed to be on the same side of the political fence.
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Tags: politics, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden
March 22nd, 2006
Well, I did it. I found a puppy. The timing is just perfect.
He is a fawn-colored, pure-bred pug, born on March 1rst in a litter of six; he won’t be ready to come home until the end of April, which gives me five weeks to clean house and puppy-proof everything — talk about motivation with a deadline. I do work best with a deadline. While I’ve given him a name that fits in with the theme of the names I’ve given my other pets, in the theme of giving aliases to everyone on this blog,
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Tags: Pug, the puppy
March 21st, 2006
Back in February I DVR’d a special on The History Channel on Lincoln — you know, because it was President’s Day and all. I’ve always had a lot of respect for the man and had read several biographies about him when I was much younger including one by Dale Carnegie. I guess over the years I’d forgotten some of the more interesting details.
Most importantly, I’d forgotten that it wasn’t just Mary Todd that suffered from a mental illness. Abe Lincoln suffered all of his life from a terrible depression and yet he was one of the greatest
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Tags: depression, Abraham Lincoln
March 21st, 2006
Imagine living in a country where you cannot choose what god you want to worship or how you wish to worship or even if you wish to worship. Imagine living in a country where making that very choice could mean life or death. Imagine a country where owning a Bible or a Koran or a Torah could be a crime in itself. Imagine living in a country where you are considered a traitor or mentally ill if you convert to another system of belief.
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 20, 2006 — Despite the overthrow of the fundamentalist Taliban government
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Tags: Faith, God, Christian Zealots, Islam, Afghanistan
March 21st, 2006
These folks didn’t have anything real political to say. Their comment is more on how we live our day to day lives. It’s good advice.
(That’s not blurry photography, I’m afraid. I went back and looked. They wrote like that.)
Tags: photo, Freedom of Speech
March 21st, 2006
Yesterday morning, all of a sudden, my little cubicle was awash with light and I could’t figure out why.
Lo and behold…now I remember why I moved closer to those big glass squares in the wall.
Then there was this fun and games in the afternoon when we discovered office guests:
The vegetarian was very upset when she discovered that our boss had been by with a big can of no-pest and several people had stopped by to take out their daily stresses in ant stomping rampages. The sign
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Tags: photo
March 20th, 2006
O.K. I’m actually very excited about this idea. It’s kind of a plan and I think it has pros and cons.
So, I got to thinking today about goal setting and rewards. What would be a good reward, for example, to encourage me to clean my house? It would have to be something I couldn’t just go get even if I didn’t clean my house. I mean, that clean house thing would have to be hanging over it. It would seriously have to motivate me to get off my ass and just do it.
I was sitting
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Tags: wellness, the puppy
March 20th, 2006
Remember three years ago when the U.S. was invading Iraq and the media kept intercepting Iraqi news coverage of the whole affair from Baghdad?
The top advisor guy to Saddam came on when we first invaded and he was like “Oh, there’s no invasion. Nothing to worry about. Everyone go about your business. No one would dare invade Iraq while Saddam is in charge.”
Then like a day or so later, he was like “O.K. The Americans are invading but Iraq is strong and mighty and we are beating the vernim back and we are winning the war under
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Tags: Iraq, Civil War, George W. Bush, politics, Fox News
March 19th, 2006
Here’s this week’s installment of the the last 25 things I listened to on my iPod Mini. I know you all are just holding your breath in anticipation because I’m the source of all that’s cool and fashionable. 
(By the way, I listened to most of these while writing the previous post.)
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Tags: iPod, iTunes, playlist
March 19th, 2006
There’s something about birthdays that make people intraspective. To be honest, I would have completely forgotten my birthday this year if someone else hadn’t reminded me a few weeks ago.
O.K. That’s not completely true. My parents three cards and my mother’s call to let me know that UPS had my packages would have been a tip-off that I was turning another year older, but I would have forgotten it was one of those “milestone” birthdays had someone else not pointed it out and I guess a milestone birthday deserves some intraspection and attention.
Most of the time I
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Tags: Me, birthday, suicide, depression
March 18th, 2006
On further reflection of what I want for my birthday, which is still kind of a clean house by the way, what I really want is someone to help me get a grip with this depression and in effect nudge me in my life. I know I should be able to do this on my own and I’m realizing now that despite they dysfunction of my family and friends, there was a dependence somehow to get through the daily or weekly stuff. It’s becoming a little more evident two years away from them all.
Anyway, so what I was thinking
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Tags: depression, wellness, co-dependent, therapy
March 18th, 2006
I would give someone $500 to clean my house from top to bottom in a Clean Sweep kind of way. I might even help. Seriously. I’m not kidding. I just don’t know how to find this trustworthy person to give the $500 to. I suspect that Merry Maids would take one look at my apartment and tell me that it’s too messy for them to clean. I need help. I accept it. This is part of the depression. If I could just get some help to get started.
I actually
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Tags: Clean Sweep, Me, depression
