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September, 2006
September 20th, 2006
I’ve been thinking about it for the last few days. It’s normal, I think, to grow up, seeking approval from your parents, your Sunday School teacher, your school teachers, your bosses. I think it’s natural to want their respect, their approval. You want to please them. You want them to be happy with the things you do. Obviously with the teachers and the bosses there are benefits like grades and financial things that come with the approval.
That is normal approval seeking.
But I think all of my life or at least as long as I
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Tags: approval whore, depression
September 20th, 2006
- Thank a Democrat for Lower Gas Prices — Richard Cranium @ The All Spin Zone reminds us that it was Democratic Party Congressional candidate Larry Kissell who held a campaign rally at a gas station in Biscoe, NC on August 3rd to remind voters that the price of gasoline was $1.22/gallon when the GOP incumbent in his district took office. Ever since then, the price of gas has been dropping nationwide.
With third quarter oil industry profit statements due out just before the upcoming elections, it’s pretty easy to assume that the Gouging Oil Party boys in the backroom figured that something had to be done, even if (for the oil companies) it meant taking a bit of a hit on the bottom line for a few months. Ergo, gasoline prices have dropped by nearly 30% in the space of a couple of weeks, even as BP’s shutdown of their Alaskan pipeline continues, and middle east tensions continue apace, and (strangely) the cost of a barrel of crude has dropped by maybe 10%. The good news is that, based on my own water cooler conversation, even the most hard core neocons in our midst understand the play.
So, the next time you fill up your tank and you don’t have to sign over a second mortgage on house to do it, remember that Democratic Party congressional candidate Larry Kissell from NC-8, is more responsible for the drop in prices than anyone else on the planet. Here’s an idea on how to thank Larry: take $10 of that gas savings, and drop it in Larry’s campaign bucket.
- Gas Prices a Republican Dirty Trick — Becky @ Preemptive Karma takes a different look at how the Republicans are using their Big Oil friends to lower gas prices before the 2006 election.
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Tags: gas prices, oil industry, privacy, CIA, CIA Interrogation Program, George W. Bush, Article 3, Geneva Convention, Congress, John Warner, Colin Powell, Jack Vessey, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, POW, torture, detainees, terrorism, White House, politics, anthrax, 9/11, phobic nation, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI, Martin Luther King Jr., Iraq, International Red Cross, Maher Arar, Canada, Syria, JFK Airport
September 20th, 2006
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
– Herm Albright
Tags: Quote of the Day
September 19th, 2006
Maybe I should just keep remembering why it’s better just to avoid people. Supposedly I’m the crazy one?
The sooner I’m done dealing with those PBeM people, the better. Every day is more salt in the wound. A new low for them…and I really think they honestly think I’m the crazy bitch.
Tags: PBeM, dysfunctional drama
September 18th, 2006
So, I may be the red head, but N2 is the stuborn one. She not only refuses to see my Point-of-view on anything ever, but she doesn’t want to work on our friendship. She’s decided that my accusations are just too hurful and she doesn’t want to deal with me anymore. She has instructed me not to IM or email her again.
SQ had me send her one last email saying “O.K. No Problem. ;)”. I kid you not.
I was like, “You know that’s just going to piss her off. I was just just not going to reply.” But SQ wanted
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Tags: dysfunctional drama, friendship, PBeM
September 18th, 2006
Today may not be the day to be trying to answer these. I’m pissed, I’m stressed, I’m depressed, and I have a migraine. Then again, it is the Monday’s a Bitch meme…
On a scale of 1-10, how _____________ are you? (Feel free to elaborate on why you chose your answer).
- Extroverted — Depends on the situation and who’s with me. If my old circle of friends are with me and we’re out and about, I’m way extraverted, like a 7 or an 8. If I’m alone, I’m a 1 - 3. Even online it could be a crapshoot. Mostly,
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Tags: Monday's a Bitch, meme, bloghopping
September 18th, 2006
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Tags: Quote of the Day, Republicans, Democrats
September 17th, 2006
“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives.”
– Sue Murphy
Tags: Quote of the Day
September 16th, 2006
SQ pointed out something to me this afternoon. She said that in my personal life, I tend to avoid conflict by waiting for things to happen to me rather than causing things to happen. For example, I should have left my old job long before the axe came down or I tend to stay in unhealthy relationships and put up with crap way longer than I should because I’d rather not rock the boat and actually stir up shit myself.
So, she said while N2 might not realize the big deal that my sending the email to her last weekend was,
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Tags: wellness, therapy, depression
September 16th, 2006
I saw the creepiest and most inappropriate commercial last night for a local church. It starts off looking like one of those sports shoe or drink commercials where they’re going to tell you to “Just Do It” or make you feel that everything is attainable if you just drink their blue sugar water. There’s a guy on some high man-made structure out in nature. The sun is shining, he’s drinking from a sports bottle, there’s inspirational music playing, he’s about to bungee jump. The music climaxes. He holds up the drink to the sky and then jumps. The bungee cord
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Tags: Christian, inappropriate advertising
September 16th, 2006
“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.”
– William Feather
Tags: Quote of the Day
September 15th, 2006
There’s nothing like hitting a depressive phase when you’re home alone on a Friday night.
Tags: depression
September 15th, 2006
Some or a lot of this post may not make sense to you, dear readers. That’s fine. It’s not really for you. It’s for me, for later.
SQ noted that N2 wasn’t included in a general email I sent to several people updating them on my health. I replied that N2 hadn’t responded to my email from Sunday so I assumed that she didn’t really care one way or the other which is why I hadn’t included her. SQ’s response was to inquire as to whether or not I was sure N2 had actually gotten
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Tags: dysfunctional drama, friendship, PBeMs, rejection
September 15th, 2006
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
–George Orwell
Tags: Quote of the Day, George Orwell
September 15th, 2006
Pugly is very opinionated about his politics. George Bush makes a good chew toy when things get stressful in Puppy-world.
Don’t forget to check out this week’s Friday Ark!
Tags: Pug, the puppy, George W. Bush, political dog chew toy
September 15th, 2006
One of my favorite memories is from the summer right before college. I was the “star” of the church youth choir or certainly it felt that way. Well, I remember it that way anyway. I remember it being a lot of fun though we probably gave the choir director ulcers. Perhaps it was my last truly happy summer.
But I digress.
My favorite memory from that summer was singing in the choir. We only had the one performance one Sunday morning. I don’t remember the words anymore, but I remember that the music was beautiful and
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Tags: lungs, CT Scan, pulmonary, singing, church choir, dancing, wellness
September 14th, 2006
The aim of education, should be rather to teach us how to think, than what to think.
–James Beattie
Tags: Quote of the Day
September 14th, 2006
Last night I had a dream.
Actually, I had several dreams.
O.K. I didn’t sleep particularly well. That happens when there are things bothering me and even the ambien can’t seem to shut my brain off. Basically, the worry seeps through the dreams and disturbs them and ends up waking me up and I remember the dreams and the worries.
So, last night I dreamt that my boss was handing out the raises for this year. He was coming around desk to desk like every year and handing each of us a piece of paper with the tally on it and shaking our
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Tags: money, raises
September 14th, 2006
So, these are the men of my past wet dreams. They made my teen years and my twenties all dreamy like.
I like to think I’m beyond that now.
O.K. I like to think I have better taste now.
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
Simon le Bon — 23 years ago, back when Rio and Girls on Film were hot hits. Just the sound of his voice make me melt. I was totally going to marry him when I was
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping
September 13th, 2006
- The 9/11 Timeline — To mark the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ThinkProgress has created a comprehensive timeline documenting the key events since September 11, 2001. Their timeline charts five threads:
- The steady increase in international terrorism and the growth of al Qaeda
- The campaign to block and obstruct the work of the 9/11 Commission, and the failure to carry out the commission’s recommendations
- The failure to stablize and rebuild Afghanistan
- The downgrading of the hunt for Osama bin Laden
- The steady decline of America’s image abroad
- ABC’s ‘Path’ Not Taken — Ruth Marcus @ TheWashingtonPost.com writes a scathing review of ABC’s “Path to 9/11″ mini-series that was fraught with inaccuracies and blantant flaws.
The docudrama is an inherently flawed form, one that invites embroidery. The irony of “The Path to 9/11″ is that this dramatic license was so unnecessary, given the richly detailed narrative in a document available to the docudrama’screators. It was called “The 9/11 Commission Report.”
Hat tip: John in DC @ AmericaBlog
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Tags: terrorism, ABC, Keith Olbermann, George W. Bush, 9/11, Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Memorial, World Trade Center, Mark Juergensmeyer, al-Qaeda, 9/11 Commission, Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, Condi Rice, George Tenet, Saddam Hussein, al-Zarqawi
