Archive for
October, 2006
October 31st, 2006
Travel In America
- Homeland Absurdity – Jill @ Brilliant at Breakfast reports that the difference between life and death is a ziploc bag apparently…
There you have it: Tiny containers of hand sanitizer in zip-lock bags are harmless and approved. Those not in zip-lock bags are dangerous contraband. Meanwhile, the TSA still cannot justify its methods of confiscation: If certain liquids and gels are taken from a passenger, the assumption has to be that those materials are potentially hazardous. If so, why are they tossed unceremoniously into the trash? At every checkpoint you’ll see a bin or barrel brimming with illegal containers. They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are thrown away. In effect, the agency readily admits that it knows these things are harmless. But it’s going to steal them anyway, and either you like it or you don’t fly.
What the Fuck Are They Thinking?
- UK retailer to little girls:”Let’s have a lap dance over here, luv!” — Twisty @ I Blame The Patriarchy has a commentary on Tesco’s plans to market a striptease toy to five-year-olds for Christmas this year. Kid you not. How sick is that. I thought thongs for four-year-olds was bad enough, but you’ll be able to buy a toy sexy chrome pole, a CD with sexy music, and ”Peekaboo Dance Dollars” to stuff in a toy “sexy dance garter” to “Unleash the sex kitten inside” (quoth the Tesco website). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: WAL-Mart, Ziploc, TSA, Tesco, airport security, U.K. striptease, Voting Irregularities, Texas, Florida, Virginia, James Webb, Democrats, Republicans, Missouri, Arkansas, censorship, bloggers, Iran, Tunisia, China, Vietnam, Amnesty International, human rights
October 31st, 2006
“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
– Jim Butcher, Storm Front
Tags: Quote of the Day, Jim Butcher
October 30th, 2006
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Tags: cartoons, Dilbert, Internet debating
October 30th, 2006
I’m thirty-five years old and I am intelligent enough to know I do not need the approval of someone else to make me happy or give me self-worth. However, being brainy enough to know that is somewhat different from being able to control the emotion or the need. I’ve never quite been able to disconnect the wiring on my insides that would allow me to be free from seeking the approval of my parents in all of these years. I’ve said so many times here. That’s why even now after doing triple handstands and cartwheels I
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Tags: little red house, depression, parental approval, dysfunctional family
October 30th, 2006
“We read to know we are not alone.”
– C. S. Lewis
Tags: Quote of the Day, C. S. Lewis
October 29th, 2006
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”
– Jean Rostand
Tags: Quote of the Day
October 28th, 2006
“Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.”
– Sydney Smith
Tags: Quote of the Day, racism
October 27th, 2006
Here we go again.
- There was no way in hell she was going to the opera.
- Three hundred years had passed since the banishment of the War God and now the cracks in the world were truly starting to show.
- Shaina had made up her mind; she was definitely, probably going with decaf this morning.
- Bill was going to kill his brother.
- Taylor watched in horror as the crack slowly crawled across her windshield, forking in the middle and branching out like two great arms in some desperate plea.
Now it’s your turn…
Tags: Friday Five 1rst sentences, writing, fiction, meme, bloghopping
October 27th, 2006
The innocent victims of Internet child abuse cannot speak for themselves.
But you can.
With your help, we can eradicate this evil trade.
We do not need your money.
We need you to light a candle of support http://www.lightamillioncandles.com
We’re aiming to light at least One Million Candles by December 31, 2006.
This petition will be used to encourage governments, politicians,
financial institutions, payment organisations, Internet service providers, technology companies and law enforcement agencies to eradicate the commercial viability of online child abuse.
They have the power to work together. You have the power to get them to take action.
Please light your candle at
http://www.lightamillioncandles.com
or send an email of support to light@lightamillioncandles.com
Together, we can destroy the commercial viability of Internet child abuse sites that are destroying the lives of innocent children.
Kindly forward this to your friends, relatives and work colleagues
so that they can light a candle too.
Source: Lotus In The Mud
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Tags: child abuse, internet porn, child predators, light a million candles
October 27th, 2006
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
– Rita Mae Brown
Tags: Quote of the Day
October 26th, 2006
For those of you who take life too seriously, here’s a few things to ponder.
- If your DNA was off by one percent, you’d be a dolphin.
- A day without sunshine is like…night.
- On the other hand, you have different fingers.
- 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
- 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
- Remember: Half the people you know are below average.
- He who laughs last thinks slowest.
- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
- Support bacteria. They’re the
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Tags: funny
October 26th, 2006
I’m going to be making an offer on the house tomorrow night at 6pm.
The seller is asking $218K and the flyer says things like “Priced below fair market values,” “instant equity,” and “make me an offer! I’ll listen!”
I’m going to offer $200K contigent on a home inspection I’ll pay for and ask that the seller pay the closing costs (which’ll be about $3K).
I’m not sure what the appropriate response is if she says “no.” Do I go up $1K, $2K, $5K per offer?
God, this is a big step. I can’t believe I’m doing this. Especially by myself.
Tags: house buying
October 26th, 2006
- Last night all of the animals slept with me again. The cats, betrayers, had been sleeping downstairs with her. Needy in particular has formed a particular bond with her over the last few trips and now spends most of her visits on her lap, which is good for him and her.
- There was no coffee this morning. I became so used to having her make it and have it ready for me that to my dismay I couldn’t figure out why there was no coffee when I was ready to start getting ready for the day. :( I guess I’m going
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Tags: mommy
October 26th, 2006
This week’s post obviously is the result of my recent house hunt wanderings. Clearly I have my own opinions and sense of style. None of my comments are meant to insult so please take this post in the spirit of the Thursday Thirteen meme — an opportunity to get to know each other…here’s me. Feel free to comment and opinion right back. I’d like to get to know you too. 
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| Thirteen Things about N. Mallory |
- Seriously. $500K is a bit too much to be asking if you have the pinkest bathroom ever and a Space Shuttle mural in the living room.
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping, house hunting
October 26th, 2006
“I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
– Terry Pratchett
Tags: Quote of the Day
October 25th, 2006
Call me paranoid but I’ve suddenly been getting a huge number of subscriptions to the site lately using the email notification plugin for Wordpress. That always makes me wonder if the little hacker-types think they’ve figured out how to use the function to do something nasty, though I have no idea what. All of the emails look similar and are yahoo-types.
So, I apologize for the inconvenience for those of you who legitimately had previously subscribed but I have deactivated that plugin, which was old and hadn’t been updated in over a year, and replaced it with Subscribe2. To
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Tags: email notification, Subscribe2, Wordpress
October 25th, 2006
- Why do the evil usually triumph? — Omni @ Every Topic in the Universe(s?) has some interesting insights into the whole good vs. evil thing. Of course, she starts off correctly pointing out that there are very few good people in the world. For the most part, people are generally neutral. To be good, you have to be willing to actually take action against evil and few people are willing to do so.
10) Evil is persistent: They’ll gleefully do an infinite # of evil deeds, and will literally NEVER grow tired of it, because they LOVE what they’re doing; if there’s a goal other than just causing trouble forever, they’ve got what it takes to see it through. On the other hand, if you can get good or neutral people to make ONE decisive move, they act as if they’ve just climbed Everest and are all done in… and just plain DONE, because, no matter how obvious it is that the evil have NOT been stopped yet, their attitude will be that they did their best and that’s it. Even if they’re being personally attacked, even if they stand to lose a great deal if the attack “destroys” them, they’ll rarely put forth more than a token effort before giving it up as hopeless.
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Tags: good vs. evil, voting, no-fly list, Terrorists, GAO
October 25th, 2006
Well, it’s official. I’m pre-approved for a loan so I can make an offer in hopes of buying my little red house with it’s hardwood floors and nice-sized kitchen, even though it only has one bathroom and it’s on the first floor.
Apparently, I have an excellent credit score. I was very relieved to discover that. Now I’m trying to figure out what’s appropriate to offer, how to make an offer, and what comes next.
Clearly, I’m going to need to hire movers this time. I may see
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Tags: house hunting, credit score, mortgage, house loan
October 25th, 2006
Well, yesterday, the Nephrologist gave me a diagnosis about my kidneys. Apparently I have IgA Nephritis, which is an autoimmune kidney disease. I don’t know much about it except that I’m taking the wrong blood pressure med for it and that she’ll be changing that to something that will treat both my high blood pressure and the IgAN — apparently high blood pressure can be caused by kidney malfunction. I’m seeing her on Nov. 2nd to get more details.
However, she did say that IgAN is not the cause of my muscular
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Tags: IgA Nephritis, ER, autoimmune kidney disease, hematoma, health, wellness
