Watership Down is a story with which I am have finished. I cannot believe that any middle schooler might have been called to read this. My word! Not only is it, well, cruel in some places, but the religious sects, ideals, and rabbits placeing others under arrest is just nuts. I can see a few things in the thoughts behind it, but this is no exodus of history. This isn't Old Rabbit Testiment nor WWII flight, but rather flight of fancy with odd choices.
Hazel should not have been used as a boy's name.
The writing style is simple enough, almost like an improved me on my rough draft ... dialogue, then fill in the backdrop later. I mean this in that you could subtract the "blades of grass delicately whispering ..." and still get the feel for the land and the trials and death of the rabbits. I suppose that I might suggest either a mature middle-schooler to read it, but they'd have to find the first bit interesting, otherwise, they'd put it down and never read anymore. In the middle of it, while their trip is full of danger and learning, you wonder, "why?" I almost interrupted my own reading with a Princess Bride moment, "Who kills Humperdink?" Alas, I'll finish it soon.
I found some interesting sites on the novel, including a researcher trying to find in Hampshire (Great Britain), the areas noted in the book. The paperback version I am reading has a sad little blurred map that is unreadable. For those who read some or all of the Lord of the Rings, it's about like that. The mountains around Mordor about as tall as the lowercase m on 12 point font. Thanks for the barely useful map Tolkein!
Fans of Watership Down have drawn some much better maps that make sense. The time frame seems unclear until you read that it spans weeks. I thought at first that the rabbits were traveling in days, but the text is ambigious in parts. The author, trying to stay true to rabbit thought, denies time and remarks dawn, dusk noon, night, and midnight.
My next assignment, John McCain biography, as it seems, presently that it will be Hillary Clinton (boo -- hiss) vs John McCain for 2008.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
getting down with the lupine
Smashes, Thrashes, and Hits? (nope, that's KISS)
I have read a transcript of President Bush's October 25th speech. His main speech was okay, I remark only on a few points, most of which were with the question-answer period after the speech.
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A brilliant statement: "I do not question their patriotism; I question whether or not they understand how dangerous this world is." He made this regarding democrats. The statement is just about perfect.
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And this is a big issue in the campaign. Security of the country is an issue, just like taxes are an issue. If you raise taxes, it will hurt the economy. If you don't extend the tax cuts, if you don't make them -- in other words, if you let the tax cuts expire, it will be a tax increase on the American people.. Take the child tax credit. If it is not made permanent -- in other words, if it expires -- and you've got a family of four sitting around the breakfast table, the taxpayers can be sure that their taxes will go up by $2,000: $500 for that child, $500 for the one right there; $500 for this one and $500 for that one.
That is a tax increase. And taking $2,000 out of the pockets of the working people will make it harder to sustain economic growth. So the two issues I see in the campaign can be boiled down to who best to protect this country and who best to keep taxes low.
That's what the referendum's about.
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Oi! Okay, he lost on that one with the rambling, not really clearly conveying cut taxes to rich to increase spending. This fell flatter than Reagan's "This is not a regressive tax" speech, which clearly was detailing a regressive tax; in that it was a tax inversely proportional to income, which is the definition of a regressive tax. Oh well, he tried.
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I think the coming election is a referendum on these two things: which party has got the plan that will enable our economy to continue to grow and which party has a plan to protect the American people.
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On this I might suggest that parties are not red and green only. I cannot believe that all republicans side with, "Stay the course+ and give tax cuts to stimulate economy." I can't believe that all democrats stick with, "Get 'em out of there now and tax the rich heavily!" I think the reality lies somewhere between. The problem now is that the congress and senate agreed to enter Iraq on false pretenses; no matter to what degree they knew and are now being fed fear of moving out. Lies and fear, sad that people use them (regardless of party).
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-- the ultimate accountability rests with me. That's the ultimate. If you're asking about accountability, it rests right here. That's what the 2004 campaign was about, you know. If people are unhappy about it, look right to the president.
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I haven't seen to much of the accountability for anyone in government. This sadly is a series of words like Jabberwocky, seemingly making a statement, but nothing is really stated at all.
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As a matter of fact, the benchmarks will make it more likely we win. Withdrawing on an artificial timetable means we lose.
Now, I'm giving the speech -- you're asking me why I'm giving this speech today -- because there's -- I think I owe an explanation to the American people and will continue to make explanations. The people need to know that we have a plan for victory.
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"We need to know that we have a plan for victory." That's nice. What is it? Would you care to share it with us? I didn't think you would. I put this with the republicans' arguemtns that the democrats have no solutions that they will voice.
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And I know it's incumbent upon our government, and others who enjoy the blessings of liberty, to help those moderates succeed. Because otherwise we're looking at the potential of this kind of world, a world in which radical forms of Islam compete for power; a world in which moderate governments get toppled by people willing to murder the innocent; a world in which oil reserves are controlled by radicals in order to extract blackmail from the West; a world in which Iran has a nuclear weapon.
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Here's my radical idea: stop supporting, protecting, and taking money from oil lobbies. Make oil companies accountable for price gouging and monopolies. Make America foreign oil independant in 5 or fewer years. Permanently illegalize fuel inefficient vehicles for general consumer use. Make non-oil burning public transportation a reality.
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They will support the war as long as they see a path to victory
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Agreed. I think that most people don't see a path to victory. When the government understands that, it will either have to fess up to the plans for "what are we doing" or confess that there are ideas on post-it notes, but nothing beyond that.
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And we will not put more pressure on the Iraqi government than it can bear.
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Later on, Bush remarked, “We're making it clear that America's patience is not unlimited”
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We did not expect the Iraqi army, including the Republican Guard, to melt away in the way that it did in the face of advancing coalition forces.
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This was planned to disband the army of the Hussein regime and yet, he didn’t know they would melt away. Okay, sorry, this was a poor statement to make.
Now then, overall, I think he did an alright job of defending his points, but lacked details to convince most people. He had a broken record on "end-zone dancing" and "benchmarks". At one point in his speech, it wasn't clear if he understood benchmarks. I think, for whatever reason, the question broke up his line of thinking, leaving him stumbling over his words. I think it was no worse or better than any other discussion, although he did better speaking this time. He has no doubt that republicans will retain control, but his constiuents are not so sure.
+ "Stay the course" has been purged as it conveyed a static ideal, though that wasn't the implication. A common myth regarding taxes is that democrats always want to tax the snot out of the rich. As most of the congress and senate are rich, that really isn't realistic to believe they they would seek to lose money. Another myth about tax cuts is that it always stimulates the economy. Whereas tax cuts and shelters enable individuals and companies to put money offshore, out of the country, that doesn't do squat for American economy. Like so much of the law, the tax code is like a cartoon contraption. Rather than set a mouse trap, Tom puts together a series of 30 parts to smash Jerry with a safe. Making the tax code more elaborate doesn't ensure improvement or success. It does make it more complicated and with more parts, more areas for error.
KISS -- keep it simple, stupid
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Countdown clock
I switched it. I figure if you can't figure out that Halloween is coming like a shark in the water, fin up and charging near you, then you're just going to be bitten in the arse.
Christmas, and curse the stores for reminding us in July, is coming. No matter what you say, you are never really ready for it.
For a clever surprise for kids treating this year, drop in candy canes.
Treating 2006
There is always a question about when tick or treating starts here in good ol' FW and this year, it has stayed the same, 6-8 or was it 5-7 last year. Who knows? There is a great inconsistency, so much so that they have to put it in print and on TV. To their defense, Indiana second holdout to swtiching to daylight savings time, now has new hours. What a mess.
So, if you are here in FW, IN, then doorbells will be ringing at around 6. Let's hope for the little kids that the weather is again fair. As for the alcohol-breathing, cigarette smoking nutjob chronolgical adults ... well, may they grow up and put that crap away! What's scarier: very scary haunted house, scary masks, candy-bag stealing teens, vandals, or drunk so-called parents toting kids (maybe not theirs) around neighborhoods?
bad title
locally, assessor not clear
He's Lump
He's lump; he's lump; he might dead.
Danny died by lethal injection. This famed killer slaughter, in every sense of the word, his Gainsville victims. According to evidence: sex, assault, and murder. They were intertwined into a gory mess left at scenes. Why the heck they didn't just kill him at the sight goes beyond my understanding. He was in court, stood there, plead not guilty by reason of insanity. He had details, opportunity, motive, access, guilty -- and so said the jury.
He slumped -- society's safer.
water fence
This was a tennis court, but the parks and rec are ripping it apart and giving it a new one, oh, well, they're doing something. I've not really heard of anyone threatening to tear someone a new tennis court, but there have been stranger threats.
If you'll note, the color of the water seems odd. Yes, it is aquamarine, through intentional means and algae buildup.
photo taken at Lakeside Park
this, and nothing more quoteth the duck
The ducks were quacking away, the geese honking often, dogs entering and exiting the water chasing the thrown stick -- today, cool, bright, I got a chance to see autumn before all the leaves were gone. The folks and I went and they got a short walk. I got some interesting or at least colorful photos.
Famous
I ate at one of two existing Fish of Stroh. This restaurant in the area was about as common as Bob Evan's, but then it collapsed. Shortly after a smaller local comapny wanted to essentially buy the name, and so it lives again. The food was okay, much like Fish of Stroh of "old", though the atmosphere has improved. I found it funny, while sitting there, the background music seemed to be "hits" from 1973-1983.
I will go again, though it isn't really anywhere near where I live now.
Quicly, get her, she's a traitor!
She's written on Lost for so long, that I think the crew gets notes and ideas from her! Anyway, I look on her blog and -- my word! There's a nother show, headline ... she's, she's ... cheating on them! Perhaps they'll put a together show with Heroes and Lost and get Gilligan, "and the rest" out of there!
They've tried to change their evil ways, baby
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The tip should have been that the pictures all show people with half faces, meaning that you're getting half of what it's worth.
Porky pilot
Cursed selfish pilot develops heart.
Porco Rosso another Hayao Miyazaki movie. This time, while he has a young girl in the movie, she isn't the primary focus. She is the one who is trying to prove that she is something, some one and through her, people are changed (though generally due to machisimo battling men fighting for her attention).
It has some mild and deep themes, but the main character's perpetual smoking and drinking and reputed womanizing would make me skeptical to show this to younger people. It is, afterall only a cartoon, but I still wouldn't encourage smoking if I could help it.
There were no shown deaths in the movie and the exaggerated battles were akin to some of his work, but more along the line of caraciture work of Dragonball Z.
Considering re-watachability I would give it a 5.2
Zathura
based on a short book by Chris Van Allsburg. He is the same author/illustrator who did Jumanji and Polar Express. Candidly, between the three of them in movie form, I favor Polar Express. Anyway, the book, short and ending in an intereresting quirk while playing a game, was quite different in the movie.
The movie added elements unimportant such as: single fatherhood (completely different than the short story) and a sister, again different than the short story. In the story there was no sister. In the movie, she played a very minor role, and I guess it was three fold: screaming girl, to interest girls in the movie, demistify puppy love. Anyway, a couple of good elements were there and the special effects were at par (though improved) with Jumanji.
To simplify the plot: two boys facing sibling rivalry and growing pains play a game, where the messages in the game become reality. In the end, the tangent reality (the game they are playing) ceases.
In the end, I think that the two movies (Jumanji & Zathura) could have been run back to back or similtaneously in one film, that way in could have been simple and to the point without the fluff. There was only one big morale in the movie: treat family as family.
Considering re-watachability, I would give it a 3.7 or whatever number I have Jumanji minus .7. As far as family watching -- profanity would make me hesitant to allow younger people to watch it.
"Dick", then addressing it as wrong.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
waste
Dog's Life, a Dogumentary is a short piece of crap by a self-absorbed neurotic wench who, miraculously finds other people's lives more important than her own, for a period of about 9 months, then ... back to the old me-me-me bit. After watching it, hoping that it was going to be amusing, I discovered that the dog was the intelligent one.
common danger of drinking
Fort Wayne police are investigating whether a local woman was sexually assaulted before she woke up inside a downtown hotel lobby Sunday morning.
The woman met with police at a local hospital Sunday and said that she was wearing someone else’s pants when she woke up inside the hotel lobby. Her clothing was inside a trash bag by her side. She did not know who called her boyfriend and friend to come get her as her cell phone was no longer working, a police report said.
The victim said that she had gone to Piere’s Entertainment Center Saturday night. She blacked out about 2 a.m. Sunday, and her friend said that she had been dancing with a man who would not let her leave to go home, the report said.
The friend asked for Piere’s security staff to help her get the woman out of the bar but when she returned the woman and the man were gone. Piere’s paged the victim but she never reappeared.
The woman was taken to the Sexual Assault Treatment Center for an exam and interview, the report said.
Trying to be wiser at the polls
I find that incumbent or not, locally the better choices I see are Republicans, for those who care about parties. I really don't care which party, but I am interested in the person. The papers here (online) sometimes detail persons and their short bios. I have read a few ideas, as they were, from some locals who had some good ideas. Others were a bit off. I am compiling a short list for the polls to, hopefully, better and "more wisely" vote, having a better feel for more of the candidates. I have often been ignorant of too many candidates and haven't voted for a particular office, because I could not effectively vote, knowing nothing of any candidate.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Ohio lethally injected a self-proclaimed murdering prophet for the crime of killing a family of five, whom he found naughty in his eyes. He claimed to have heard God's voice and was directed to kill the family. Well, in stark opposition, in accordance with the law, the physician did not hear a call to stop or delay the exectution and did fulfill the state's obligation to execute this man.
Although I didn't see the evidence, I would suggest that a leader of an organization, herein a cult (based on his proclaimation that he was "more than a prophet"), he could very well lead others into more crime had he had access to them. This is clearly a good example of the type of person to execute. It was retalitory, but a tool to protect soceity from murderers, either in their own right or by conducting or eliciting other to do it. Think Koresh, Manson, et. al.
Monday, October 23, 2006
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Oh, give me a break! Not only did I not disclose the email address, to where this was sent, out to any employers, but they have sent this to me weekly for a month. Gee, maybe they're right! Maybe I could make $150,000 in my first year selling insurance. That sounds like a good figure. Next, I suppose the president will call me to be a backup astronaut and I'll pick the winning Powerball numbers with the highest ever sinlge jackpot payout to one single winner.
"Don't believe the hype!"+
They are spammers
bells ringing
It could be said that I try feverishly to find error and that I'm a cynical because I love it, but ... I saw a movie that I will not critique. Polar Express is a movie that I would recommend. Undoubtedly many others have agreed that this is a good movie; story, dialogue, action, character development and arstic rendering. Alan Silvestri doing the music was alsoa great plus. I find him to be a rare talent. I was worried that Tom Hanks would run the show, but that certainly wasn't the case.
Nature retaliates
I missed a show the folks told me. Nature (PBS) had a show on how creatures were and are entering into suburban and urban areas causing trouble. The theory behind it is, urban sprawl and habitat encroachment pushes many species into darwin's adaptability paradigm. Here, either creatures adapt to siutations or become extinct. Since there are few places to exist beyond humans, they naturally progress into areas where humans are. Thereafter, there are stuggles until an equilibrium is reached eithere with a new relationship or one species being suppresssed or extinguished.
Darn, sounds good! I'll have to make a point to watch it.
webbed
I watched True Adventures of the Ultimate Spider Hunter and found it relying too heavily on Spiderman and Stan Lee. It was a Nature (PBS) show, but lacked some credibility with it's overuse of Stan Lee. The spider hunter himself was much like Steve Irwin. Oh, there's a spider ... let's touch it, hold it, see if we can get it to attack this stick! Oh, look how aggressive it's getting! Wow!
It really peeves me to see someone intentially toying with an animal and trying to provoke it into attacking to "scientically" show wondrous it is and how the laypersons of the world should hold a healthy respect for these creatures. Hey! Why don't the hosts practice what they preach and be less hypocritical and just observe and do some minor voice overs rather than jumping in and shouting hysterically about how neat it is that the creature is now defensive. Really! Go figure! There's a human a hundred or more times heavier and larger than they are.
Lame!
Using the ultimate in fast forwarding, I was able to see some pretty spectacular shots and spiders, but as a whole -- the plunky duck adventurer could have been changed.
Hanna Barbara's ark
HB did a religious series where kids time travel to different religious events. If you ever saw the Dungeons & Dragons cartoons, it's very similar in theme and style. The one I watched was Noah's Ark, which wasn't too bad, bringing across the point of harassment and evil of the people around. The "leap of faith" isn't in the miracle of the ship being built, nor in the gathering of pairs of animals, but in the English-speaking kids communicating with Noah and family and being ingratiated into the move with the ark. Here these 70s/80s kids with era-appropriate clothing launched into near pre-history. That's a leap! It's a cartoon, it's forgiven.
The creators didn't labor too many points and at 23 mintues, it was about the perfect length.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
jobs abroad
I have highlighted a few of the tell-tale signs here. The ending is great. Applicants should be native English speakers. Do you suppose that would make a difference? You can teach English in other countries, even if you only have a high school diploma. Eh? Isn't that, like ... gonna be trouble? I think the company might get pwned or punk'd if they chose the wrong dude, get it?
check mate 1
holding onto Nurse Chapel
Halloween scare (warning graphic pictures)
gerny running over bloody masses of organs
Jacob's Ladder unpretty scenesPay to get paid
Log rhythm
Rolls over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack and fits on your back?
It's Log, Log, Log!
It's Log, Log, it's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's Log, Log, it's better than bad, it's good!
Everyone wants a log! You're gonna love it, Log!
Come on and get your log! Everyone needs a Log!"
from Blamo
Thank You, Lenny
Keep him in place
Yeah, you see Ma made coffee and cakes and everything.
The awful truth is revealed and the Masked Man is reviled.I'm just waiting here for some, "Thank you Masked Man"s.
I got it, though the video leaves something to be desired, it is ... "Thank You Masked Man" by Lenny Bruce. It is a cult favorite.
pun tricks
Olympics with wild, crazy, violent animation. I found it funny on several points.
Bruno Bozzetto, creator, has done many works. This is a prety good example of his talent.
Blinded
I have a couple of trees here that don't drop their leaves for just any storm or just any cold, but only severe cold or tornado wind. I'm not quite sure what's wrong with the trees, but they are greedy leave hoarders that keep raking a full-season job, regardless of the rest of the area. BTW: if you have a chain link fence ... you are going to get leaves and its inescapable. The leaves will be mostly neighbors' leaves.
Some time I'll see a shot like this again and shoot it with my camera rather than this lackluster pic from the cellphone.
high hopes
Assistant Office Manager
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"depenable", that's me cuz I always uz good Engrish and spelchek
Sometimes laypersons just don't understand
From the local police briefs there are ... well, peculiarities about the charges and sentences. Whereas some drunk drivers are held without bail, others get ROR. Cons who resist arrest and are dealing cocaine get bail, but not other criminals. It's nice to have the info, but it leaves me not understanding. I'm sure there are reasons for it all, but luck of the draw with judges clearly plays a role. It's just intersting to see.
Aaron Hathaway, 34, was booked on a probation violation charge. He was being held without bail.
Amanda Green, 50, was booked on a probation violation charge. She was being held without bail.
Thomas Pendergraft, 35, was booked on a probation violation charge. He was being held without bail.
Trent Gaulden, 24, was booked on a probation violation charge. He was being held without bail.
Arland Johnson, 20, was booked on a charge of violating home detention. He was being held without bail.
Roxanne Waye, 36, was charged with violating home detention. She was being held in lieu of $5,000 bail.
Joshua Lambert, 23, was booked on a burglary charge. He was being held without bail.
Richard King, 30, was booked on a burglary charge. He was being held without bail.
Terri R. Barnes, 36, charged with violating forensic diversion. She was being held without bail.
Terry Washington, 31, was booked on a charge of non-support of a dependent. He was being held without bail.
Troy Bradbury, 28, was booked into the lockup on a charge of being a habitual traffic violator. He was being held without bail.
Joshua Mault, was booked on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and being a minor in possession of alcohol. He was being held without bail.
Joe Carlisle, 43, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and driving with a suspended license. He was being held in lieu of $3,250 bail.
Kenneth Niswonger, was booked on charges of resisting law enforcement and operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He was being held in lieu of $3,250 bail.
Donald Slay, 42, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He was released on his own recognizance.
Raul Jimenez, 22, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He was released on his own recognizance.
Angela Mason, 34, was charged with three counts of fraud to an institution and three counts of theft. She was being held in lieu of $37,500 bail.
Erica Lightning, 32, was booked on seven counts of fraud. She was being held in lieu of $17,500 bail.
Jeffrey Gleason, was booked on a theft charge. He was released on $2,500 bond.
Nickolas Bolin, 18, was booked on a charge of aiding in a burglary. He was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Vincent True, 24, was booked n a charge of receiving stolen property. He was released on $2,500 bond.
Michael Storch, 45, was charged with two counts of resisting law enforcement, receiving stolen auto parts and possession of paraphernalia. He was being held in lieu of $6,500 bail.
Montreale Turner, 28, was charged with dealing cocaine and resisting law enforcement. He was being held in lieu of $53,250 bail.
Stephen Pinkney, 41, was charged with cocaine possession, resisting law enforcement and receiving stolen property. He was being held in lieu of $5,750 bail.
Ronald Buchanan, 37, was charged with domestic battery. He was being held in lieu of $5,000 bail.
not likely to see 2008
A man stands alone, in opposition to criminals. His house has had damage from fire and other vandalism. This man's stance against the evils around him will undoubtedly make him admirable, but unlikely a martyr. I think this man's exit from life will be quick and diagnosed as health related. Sad to say that most people, including myself, would not likely combat the locals here for control over the area--being respectful and clean. God speed to him.
and then they found another layer
The area is rampant with unemployment, crime, incest, poverty, poor and limited housing. What could possibly make this more ... oh! I see that they found yet another, and this time is isn't a person thing. Toxic waste found in center near low-cost housing and a school with the most at-risk students. I think this area should be renamed Bangladesh.
Dare to be stupid
Wah! You didn't tell me you were going to adopt him! I just thought you'd raise him. Okay, number one: farming your child out to America to notorious BCH was your first mistake. Your second one was having group argue with and for you. Your third mistake was stating that you didn't know she was going to adopt the boy. Uh, you're dumber than you think we are.
Of course she was going to adopt him. Of course you knew that. Of course money that could be spent on your child and raising him will now be wasted in court and in lawyers' fees. Who wins, certainly not the boy. What a complete assinine situation!
Saturday, October 21, 2006
It keeps him from gaying off the handle
I can understand, I mean ... there he is in the 80s.
"Are you wearing perfume?"
"Yeah."
"Are you wearing make up?"
"Yeah."
"Are you wearing lipstick?"
"Yeah."
To properly complete this, the statement would be, "For God's sake why", but this isn't Mrs. Doubtfire. In fact, George Michael's homosexuality and insanity was well known to anyone who took a look at him. The fact that he smokes pot is really immaterial, save that he wasn't charged with simple possession, processed by police and fined accordingly.
Pot makes him sane ... that's like "killing a person or two" keeps me capable of dealing with others.
If you're gay, you're gay! If you're insane, you're insane! I think that you proved poor judgement when you tossed off in public in a gay theater to be caught by a homosexual officer trying to make a name for himself. Perhaps someone who was rebuffed. Anyway ... smoking pot on stage is just another tip that people should stand clear of you. There are more clear signs why.
Charlie glow stick
One could make an association between this and mutant vials seen in movies, or like Goblin formula in Spiderman. Okay, I needed a seque to mutants.
I was over there yesterday and Charlie had a bugger of a time with a particular game, X-Men Legends.
Let me explain the unfairness of the game:
only specific points in the game to save (sometimes long, far apart),
no difficulty setting,
no realistic way to play multiplayer until full completion of game,
collectible tokens of no value,
typical useless dialogue that does not further the game nor enlighten or entertain the player,
limited in-game instructions,
replay restarts at level 1,
no replay with multiple players (see note regarding completion of game)
I give it an "F", which is a more typical ranking for games, otherwise I would give it a 2.2 on a 10-point scale.
dead mole
It hasn't been cold enough to have died due to cold or heat or starvation. Perhaps it was just time for it to die, but ... I find that unlikely.
Let's be "indepent" together!
one dollar
Friday, October 20, 2006
Santa?
Part Time / Seasonal Help Needed
Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and he needs your help!
Cherry Hill Photo Enterprises, Inc. runs the Santa Photo Set in local malls across
Looking for someone to play Santa Claus in a local mall in
Looking for a Natural Bearded Santa, with a beard length of 4 to 6 inches. Or a costume Santa (we will provide the beard ) and costume.
tenth time works
Okay ... blogspot is pokey and glitchy and poor today. Is it just me or did the hamsters leave the wheel?
exercise
Anti-American Muqtada's al-Sadr Shiite militia briedly seized control of a southern Iraqi town. The Iraqi military and milia came and negotiated a withdrawl. This probably was a test to see where the Americans are strong and weak and how loyal the Iraqi police are to them and to Iraqi and its many groups. If they wanted to kill, groups have shown great willingness to kill and die to meet their objectives. Here, it appears that it was a mere exercise, in that there weren't hundreds slaughtered or killed execution style to make a point. I believe this is a new, safer strategy for the groups, saving their strength and numbers to do a walkthrough before the seige.
The Kurds are the people who should worry now, for they are a feared, yet more successful group without allies in the region. If the same tactic were used in the north, I would see it as a direct training exercise to find where the "walls are thinnest".
Matador
I watched it. It had some interesting bits to it. Once was enough. There were a few things they attempted to introduce, but the movie never redressed them. Oh, well. I wouldn't rank it high. I liked much of the soundtrack.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
2006, a remarkable year
While John Karr, much like a habitual drunk driver, walks away unscathed, his actions brought results this year. I think, although he certainly wasn't the cause, he really showed how vulnerable people and society are and that the laws does not protect people, especially children. I think the penalty phase should run about like: you have two options and two options only. You may either enter the crematorium kiln alive or you may enter it dead. Either way it doesn't make any difference to me, but to you, I think already dead might be "more pleasant".
2006 might very well mark a year where America, for a short while, stands up and addresses the injustices here and the law's inability to correctly handle molesters. Note the number of prior arrests and convictions of those in the ring. Should those persons re-enter society? Are they more capable of handling their impulses? Statistics, while they don't lie they can be deceiving. Stats here, undoubtedly would show that less than 5% of those caught, ever stop. Okay, so ... they are dumped back into society for what purpose?
American should make this a banner year for convictions and retaining molesters and rapists. 2006 should be a proud year, not with loss, but with improvement. I hope, after the decades of watching these crimes, many of which are never reported and some are not adequately investigated that society wearies so much of it that it takes a bolder stance on molesters and rapists. Make 2006 a year with better, stronger, more effictient law protecting soceity from predators.
To Madonna
far from immaculate, far from Guadalupe/Madonna/Mary mother of Christ, it is admirable that you should take it upon yourself to adopt and raise a child. I would like to intercede here and mention, while you have the money, and maybe the time, you lack any possible ability to raise a child as a person. For this reason, I respectfully request that you find another worthy parent or couple capable of raising him, while similtaneously helping the financially with the inital costs of raising the child.
A person who puts herself on a cross, as though a martyr during her concert, while including live sex acts or pantomined sex is really, not ready to be a parent. Verified orgies and partner swapping with multiple people known and unknown within the house, really is akin to trailer genetics. Do not, and I mean this sincerely, do not, attempt to raise a child as you are too selfish, too self-invovlved and too ignorant to raise one.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Mexico refuses foreign corn
It's okay for the people to leave the country strife with overpopulation and financial difficulties, but it isn't okay to plant hardier genetically modified corn. Corn, a general staple doesn't get in? Are they sure they support this fool who is the President? Why would you block a potentially healthier and hardier plant in favor of native species exclusively? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If you didn't need the food, which they do, and if there were climate issues and pollution issues, which there are, perhaps then I could see not using the food.
Tom Jones said it
No one, no one, no one ever -- is to blame. Foley tries to squirm out of reprisal and justice by accusing priest, who then denies "sex", but claims memory lapses due to tranquilizers. So, let me get this straight. The tranquilizers disabled the priest from making decisions, leading him to molest Foley, who in turn, under Helsinki Syndrome (victim duplicating crime upon another) sought to engage in sex with minors. Oh, so the tranquilizers are to blame rather than the people involved, the so-called adults, who should take responsibility for their actions. I see. I also, disagree. They did it. They knew it was wrong.
job search engines that work
but, piggy-back on others, such as yahoo hotjobs ....
Job Bank USA, which is also your state if you select it, JobBank[your state].
Thingamajobs also works pretty well.
I have found that most of the postings on these places are more for professionals, in that experience and degrees are required. A few others I have used are not as picky, such as regional help wanted, Career Builder, Monster Jobs.
I also have found that these sites are all glitchy in their own way. What irks me most is that a site can show a job, the link leads you to another site, which then has a link to the compnay itself, through which you apply. What a waste of my time! Moreover, there are postings that lead you to employment agents that take 25-50% of what you could be paid, leaving you with substandard pay and little/no benefits. A good example of this would be Man Power, which could be dubbed as ManEater or Abuseof Power. I worked for a short time, for Kelly Services and if any employer is smart they won't use them. While I was there, they were the least efficient place I'd seen. They paid me for at least 10 hours of sitting doing nothing, but waiting. I wasn't the only one and I wasn't the one who waited the longest. I know what they paid me and I know they take a chunk. I would highly recommend that companies stay away from them, since they are very wasteful.
Dark Water
Spells deep trouble for those wanting a good movie. It borrowed ideas from Ring, Grudge, and a couple others. While the acting wasn't terrible, the dialogue was. I liken it to an orca movie, with enough red herrings to keep most orca well fed. I think, perhaps I am wrong, it was a Lifetime (for women) movie that actually hit the theaters, in the way that it victimized a woman, then her child, then an unknown child, matched with paranoia both founded and unfounded. It would strike a win or "liked it" category with women who watch Lifetime channel movies. I, surprisingly, didn't like it. I like Jennifer Connely, but it wasn't a good movie.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Scholastic video
Tikki Tikki Tembo, a long since seen bit, was refreshing. I remember the old film strip version I saw in class so many decades ago. It is still interesting. I saw for the first time, Penguin Cinderella. It was odd, surely, but not unwatchable.
edutainment
Human Body for Children: All About Bones & Muscles , Schlessinger Science Library. This is fairly informative with vidoe and graphics. It is posted as being appropriate for K-4, an assessment with which I agree. It would be a neat addition to an educators handbag for science introduction the human body. There are others in the series, I have watched only this one.
lunkheads
Okay, that's just stupid! Democrats are lobbying to remove voter ID requirement for voting. How in the heck is this a burden? If you don't drive, you can get a state ID. I believe often, you can present your ss card which bears your signature, matching that of your voter registration card. So ... this attempt to remove the ID requirement is all bad. How many people has it really excluded? I actually think that the whole voting should be by fingerprint only. That way there is one voter, one vote. If you're a con, then you don't vote. It's that simple. It removes the ID process by requiring you to have fingerprint on file. Generally, those worried about that are those who are more likely to commit crime.
graduating to slap in the head
Prayer available during school time -- unconstitional? She even mentioned that it was OPTIONAL. Hey, flake, get the [blank] out of Dodge! So, you don't want your child attending, okay, so s/he doesn't have to attend. Instead, they have more time to read, complete work, or what have you. That's a bad thing? Go away. Go far away, flake!
Ass sets
I got a call back from a company in Indy. I had to do some number crunching to see how much weekly rates are for hotels there. I weighed that against the projected payrate. I could only get the weekly rate from one hotel. Most other hotels are so full of illogic, that I couldn't get a weekly rate. When a hotel's online serice notes that more than one month rate cannot be calculated and I did it twice 30 days and 28 days. How is that not a month? Anyway, so far, the payrate minus the weekly rate that may or may not stay static, isn't so good. It far exceeds an apartment which might be more inclined if I were to have a paystub showing that I'm working there, ya know?
I just got soured on online hotel reservations that tout weekly rates, when you can't get them to disclose the rates. Pains in the ass!
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Really worth reading
Dose of Sanity, a psychiatrist sums up his approach to assessment, partially based on an examination of a 24-hour day. Since medical/psychological help is sought, then clearly something is amiss or aberant, at least from the patient's POV. Here, the larger part of the book is explaining the errors of psychiatry, when not approached from a medical basis, including is the over-prescription of America and the pop self-help gee-whizes who sell an idea, regardless whether it helps people or not.
This is not a self-help book. It is a book detailing an approach by neuropsychiatry which might replace the norm. That author hopes that many people aggrivated with typical pill-prescribing docs who treat their patients with insane and inane treatments, including those in his own field, drop that which doesn't help and move on to real medicine, based on blood tests, medical workups and asking questions, rather than a script after 45 minutes.
It was enlightening and worth reading. It's short, 235 medium sized font and set so just about any layperson could read it.
Quick books, quick review
Shel Siverstein, Runny Babbit, not very good work. The recurring theme of letter transpostion was clever for two poems, but not a book. Hmpht!
Jack Prelustsky, poet, A Pizza the Size of the Sun, fanciful, whimsical, fun. Coupled with James Stevenson (greyscale) illustration make for a good book of poems. Adults might also find many of the poems quirky and cute as well.
English Freshly Squeezed by Carol Diggory Shields is interesting. While not every page is gorgeously crafted, it does use each topic in each poem. One topic, exclamation marks, using them the ends of each sentence, crafted in such a way that they are not wasted or added only for color. If a school or class wanted to demonstrate grammar and poetry, this is it! A+ material for introducing grammar with clever, helpful, fun poems.
Howl's Moving Castle
directorMiyazaki borrowed some ideas from his earlier works to put together another tale of where love conquers all, a girl protagonist, and magic. The musical score is very similar to Spirited Away, but not disenchanting. Here, he addresses shallowness, greed and eny. There has been something about his work -- something, but here in the post WWII, mixed with Hong Kong feel -- VonTrap sandwiched there too, is American Girl series, the dolls, coupled with other sales items like movies. I'll have to see if there is much on him. He seems to be writing for a daughter who never ages.
It has rewatchability and has no strong adult content. The war in the backdrop plays a role in character coloring and a theme of pointlessness of war. In the end [SPOILER -- the war is called off, for a boy's heart cannot be won by a jealous queen]
I think, if I had a little girl, she would very much like this movie. The English version I saw had some voices, which seemed to me like Billy Crystal. I can only hope that Wikipedia is correct here for the voices:
| Character | Japanese version | English version |
|---|---|---|
| Howl | Takuya Kimura | Christian Bale |
| Grandma Sophie | Chieko Baisho | Jean Simmons |
| Calcifer | Tatsuya Gashuin | Billy Crystal |
| Young Sophie | Chieko Baisho | Emily Mortimer |
| Witch of the Waste | Akihiro Miwa | Lauren Bacall |
| Markl | Ryunosuke Kamiki | Josh Hutcherson |
| Madame Suliman | Haruko Kato | Blythe Danner |
| Prince Turnip | Yo Oizumi | Crispin Freeman |
| Lettie | Jena Malone | |
| Suliman's Servant | Mitsunori Isaki | |
| Heen (Dog) | Daijiro Harada | --same as JP-- |
Still, I would rate Spirited Away, for sheer re-watchability as my favorite of his work. Since ... Moving Castle is based on a book, I will have to get that some time.
I think another recurring element in his work is smoke and clouds. Perhaps difficult for some to master, but he seems to have a team that realistically renders these ambiguous gases and makes them live. The film incorportates, as do all his films, different styles of motion, stills, animation. Some of the humor is very subtle and some visual humor is, well worth watching and can't be written as funny.
After some further reading, he directed (English name: Lupin IIII) I have never seen all of this, but some of it was included in an '80s laser disc arcade game. Lupin has many sequels and some TV episodes. From what I saw of it, it was definately the forerunner for physical comedy and slapstick found later in Poke'mon and other cartoons.
I was already thinking about seeing Howl's Moving Castle, when MR mentioned that I should watch it then bitch about it.
Ken Lay
returns from the dead, having faked his own death after the verdict of his guilt, in light of the verdict being tossed out by the judge. Now, having lots of time and money, Ken hopes to enjoy the unembalmning, but sees no need for further botox injections, as the embalming fluid has made him, "fresher" looking. Okay, none of that is true or nice to write, but hey ... there is no way he was innocent of all charges there. I guess, it makes a small bit of good news to his family, of little confort to those who lost because of the illegal trading.
Blade of the IRS
Wesley Snipes tried to not pay taxes, then claim he needed taxes back. What wild ideas! I think all of that heavy martial arts moves he learned might be useful in prison, if he goes. Filing for tax refund of $12 million, can't come without a penalty. Vampire Blade and investigator at 1900 Pennsylvania Ave may have some interesting dodging and figures to fight, by his own making.
poker tip
Don't play with somebody if they have a machete. If they're drunk and they have a machete, you're just asking to play, Scarface, if you ever saw the movie. An Indiana man gets 50 years for kiling another poker player with a machete. Okay ... so, why did you have that? Did you like, uh ... come in after cutting down folliage from the backyard then? The sad thing is, he could get out in 25 with "goood" behavior. This non-English speaking defendant seemed remorseful, but butchered death --- machete? Come on man! This isn't Havana!
Calling a bluff
I support the Ohio police is killing this man. Undoubtedly, there will be a flood of soppy-eyed bleeding hears claiming illegiimate killing, but I think they erred on the side of caution to hospital patients. The man claimed he was going to kill one of them, made a move toward an are where he might have a weapon. Should the officers waited until he had the weapon drawn on a person or them ... I think not.
For the families of the officers in the shooitng, I prematurely offer my sympathy for the crap you'll have to endure with those who would rather a robber shoot their family, than fatally defend their family. If somebody comes in to hurt your family ... like the man recently charged with killing a family, leaving two alive who he kidknapped and raped, then killed the boy. The girl was fortunate enough to survive the weeks of rape and made a break when the felon brought her inside a restaurant with him.
Would you stand by and let him take your kids and kill your family? Hell no you wouldn't! If you were a reasonable person you would grab the nearest weapons -- lamp, chair, pencil and charge after him, stopping at nothing but your death or his.
For the Ohio police stopping a man who would, likely have later done more crime, of a more violent nature, I salute your quick action in bringing down the man. The officers tried a stun gun, but it was ineffective. They tried, but the suspect clearly wasn't going to stop.
helpful local crime search engine
I looked up this street and found, suspicious person seen. Whatever that means. Anyway, it was quite useful. Who know it existed?
I hope that other cities have this as well.
Absolutely Fabolous
Rapper Fabolous whose lyrics include gang warfare with snipers is shot by men. In the car were unregistered (illegal) handguns -- shock! Fabolous is in hospital, likely to find trial proceedings against him. Hey, live and die the "g" life, ass*****! You say, you write, you die it!
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Monday, October 16, 2006
I don't know why it's on the books
Indiana might release someone who killed another man. The guilty person was found "not guility by reason of insanity", which means that after institionalization, he can be free, never serving jail time. He was in a mental facililty for months, but has been found "sane" by doctors there. They should be required to rotate their housing/boarding of him, since he is "sane" now. I think, if I were ever in trouble, I would act like a rabbid dog, clawing myself so that I could be in a nice padded cell, get fed and pampered and then act, 'all better now' after several months.
So, you kill someone, act crazy and have stupid doctors believe your bull. You then gradually act better when you get your scooby snacks for correct behavior. After that, you can go into hiding and kill again, meanwhile the doctors can pat themselves on the back over their "success story" with the wild man who killed someone. Society pays the price for this heinous miscarriage of justice.
Get this law off the books. If you're crazy, then you are crazy. I think if you are then found "all better now" you should then enter into prison, having a new ability to deal in reality. Better still -- if you're crazy enough -- kill yourself. Eliminating the responsibility part of a crime helps absolutely no one. I think they should find the lawyers who wrote the law, then those who passed the law and jail them for obstruction of justice. What complete bullcrap!
Suave Chavez
"How did a gargoyle like that ever get to be judge?"
"A couple years back, he spread out a million samollians and bought the election."+
So, Chavez is buying his way into the hearts of many. Yep, that will probably pan out for him as long as he has money. I do think that soon, internal strife will take hold and you'll hear more about political opponents being slain and protesters arrested. If the country has that much money, which it doesn't, it shoudl at least spend more at home. He is buying political capital, while like a communist letting his own country fester a bit.
I'm sure that since he touched so many, he will also wanted to be touched later, when it comes time. While I won't give him brilliance, he is clever. I hope his own people don't suffer long.
" Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Sunday, October 15, 2006
weirder
BASEketball Racquet (or racket) sportsSwimming
Say what?
Okay, from where are these spammers drawing their word lists?
dead teen
my neice was sad last week, for a friend (or someone she knew) died. A day later, they announced it was suicide, by hanging. What is significant here is that he was Muslim. I believe that he was born in the US. I know in town there is a very small population of Muslims, but to my knowledge there is one or no mosque anywhere near. I understnad that it is custom, by religion, that the body be laid to rest in the ground within 24 hours. That is interesting. I could write much more on the juxtaposition some Muslims make with some of their actions, but I'll consider that later.
Of the times in any person's life that suicide is most seductive, attractive and desirable is generally in the teen years. I would hazard to guess, being a Muslim in a town with few others, with the times as they are (aggression and anger towards Muslims in general), and being a teen, I think this is tragic, bur foreseeable. The teen years are tough, but for a Muslim in this town with more direct US involvement in wars, it would be very tough to stick it out.
My sister called to see if the paper online had the obituary but it didn't. For shame, for some might need a little closure, whereas this might deny them of that. hmmmm
looking familiar
Meet hot singles in my area? Sweet! Excellent! Hey!Is she listed twice? She's 18 and 26? So if I search for her, which girl am I getting? Do I get the dark-haired cutie or the blonde one who's not looking at the camera? Better still, Katebabe has fluctuating cup size breasts. How does she do that? Overall, I don't think they're being very honest with me.
French don't rape
because it isn't recognized as a crime.Check out the law. Touring in France, bring protection -- and I don't mean trojans.
Try this one, a woman in a Muslim country alleges gang rape, and she is then arrested for adultry (a Muslim crime). How do you like that? Hmmm, gang raped, then jailed. What a wonderful system of government you got there! My qeustion is ... why would any woman want to be Muslim?
creeping around
Happy birthday!
This is a sequel to this pair, the dog giving out the penalty and the cat receiving it. The first was the cat's poker streak, always losing. Rather than gamble for money, it was for penalties which were on file. Here, the dog got tired of the cat being in the way and penalized him with displays all ready for him to endure. Here, it's happy birthday with explosives on the cake.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Evil work afoot
The other morning, a tell-tale path was dug in the grass. The ditch wasn't nearly as wide as Bugs Bunny's burrowing, but it was just as winding. It likely stopped, but failed to turn at Albequerque. Something was digging, but for what? I couldn't figure out what was digging, let alone for what.
Tonight, I got my answers, a raccoon was chasing a mole. I saw it at work last night, chasing then digging. They are a good deal more nutritious than bird seed -- about all he'll find in this yard. The neighbors have a vegetable garden which has been feeding raccoons, squirrels, and opposums this year. I pity the neighbors for trying with so many greedy hands.
I would guess the digger is an adult (though smaller than some of the trashbag size urban raccoons I have seen, female. They semi-hibernate, but with a predicted mild winter, it won't have to store a large larder or fat.
Confidentially, I don't much care for the destruction that moles do, but they eat grubs that hurt plants and grass. They can help the grass be ariated, but with too many, you get moguls in your lawn. I think there are enough to spare, so I'm not unhappy about one or more being food for the raccoon.
How not to watch a cartoon
Don't pay close attention. Don't expect logic. Don't have a corrupt mind.
Going here, I saw some Wacky Races cartoons. Once racer, Penelope Pitstop (pictured above) has a pink car with blonde hair design. If you watch it like I watched it ... looking at details, a blonde bit on the windshield is almost always covering her chest. It looks like a hand (kinda) and so my mind raced to a direction that it wasn't intended ... or was it?
Well then, y'all
In both of these scenes, the pistol packers fired at Snagglepuss who ran much like Oz's cowardly lion (perhaps a greater source of the character's basis then my description below) He was the target because he was a lion, or was it beccause he was pink?I better do a lil' ol' yell to protect my lil' ol' self, she said in a lil' ol' southern belle accent. A lion on deck! Snagglepuss, a laughable name now, but appripo for the era. Snaggle (getting caught in messes) and puss, shortened for cat, a softer kinder word before the usurping of it for euphemisms anatomy. I think, quite sharply the creators, Hanna Barbara were keen to the relationship between efeminate voiced lion and a pink character who says everything as though he were on stage.
another local news story
A drunk driver who left his children in the car after the scene of an accident was found with mutiple stab wounds. He was found by a repairman. Isn't irony a funny thing? I guess someone left the scene of an accident where he was stabbed.
It's so beautiful
Fort Wayne's board has written a wonderul re-submission to the smoking ban and ordinances. While it concludes with, "more money and staff needed ... inadequete at this time ..." it is an idea for policy change. Namely, the exclusion of "clubs" that would allow smoking via a clause. Bars might also be affected when a new law or ammendment is ratified, which might end smoking in bars as well. What was surprising was that Indiana has the 2nd highest adult tobacco usage in the US, if I read that correctly. That is surprising.
When the new laws, hopefully bearing out to reality &/or ammendments are written and ratified, I hope that Indiana is a less-smoke filled state. I believe that, since smokers spend around $1000- $2000 per year, that could easily be spent on Nicorete gum or patches to cure the habit.
This is based on the report on the direct relationship between smoke (first or second-hand) and disease. It's really obvious, but people are generally stupid or fiesty, preferring their ignorance. I'm sure that the people who smoke would not like it if I were to pull out a plastic model and begin building it with glue at the dinner table. What's that you say, it stinks and is proven to be a health hazzard? Gosh ... quit your smoking and you got yourself a deal! If you smoke, I'll laquer my curio cabinet near you ... use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire danger.
I think Kraft Foods can make good money without the cigarette sales.
Getting Mad
While this is in direct opposition to everything that they suggest and direct and won't last, it might very well mark the point where people have finally gotten sick of criminals. Here, specifically school infiltrators and child murders; but applicable to many circumstances. I think calling in for a surgical strike on the felon(s)' butt is wiser. Often, conpliance yields better results, but examples given in the article point to times when compliance yeielded suffering then murder.
Skip all that! I think America sould finally wake and be sick of crime and criminals and accept, "I shoot the bastards! That's [our] policy!" That's right. Whether the muderer was suffering from a bad case of indegestion or inoperable brain tumor, the wrongness of the act requires action -- prompt action. Tooo often people try to emancipate people from their actions and responsibilies. Gosh, he did that because he was abused *1, or she had PPD (post partem despression) or PMS, or mixed coffee and three other caffeine drinks and got too wired.
While this thinking -- prepatory retalitory violence, may be innappropriate for some situations, I dare say that subduing an attacker (especially when outnumbered -- which is almost always the case) makes much more sense than accepting the doom. If you do some reading on recent shootings, including the poor victims of the Amish killer, he supposedly brought in materials for raping as well, since he freed the boys. In another shooting, the guys were freed and a few girls freed who reported to police/swat outside that he was sexually assaulting the girls there. They went in and only one child died. Now, fingers could be pointed to police mishandling, but if a felon comes in with automatic weapons, do you really think he's going to drop them and say ... "kidding!"
*1 Those abused are not doomed to repeat the crime. That's bullcrap! Victims, more than non-victims should know the wrongness of the act and how it hurts and the long-standing difficulties it can have, therefore they should not act out the abuse that "still" makes them suffer. If they are struggling that badly ... seeking counseling. Many therapists work cheap or free and are readily available.
I have never been confronted with rape or murder before, but I would like to think that I would battle until the end. "If you're gonna die ... if you're gonna die. If you're gonna die ... if you're gonna die. If you're gonna die ... die with your boots on!" + In one hypothetical, first you are raped then you are killed or you could die fighting never being raped. "It's a logical transaction, one life for billions." "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few -- or the one."
+ Iron Maiden, meaning, die fighting, die trying -- don't so easily submit to defeat on important matters.
Movie on stupidity
I got it from the library, categorized as an educational video. It wasn't educaitonal, per se, but worth seeing parts of it. The premise is analyzing the dumbing of humans through media, but it first examines the psychological terms of "idiot, imbecile, moron" related to IQ. Now these terms are synomous and interchangable for stupid acts or persons acting in a stupid manner.
The movie raises some interesting points, but continues to use the same technique it claims that TV does to capture the audience -- soundbites and 2-5 seccond bursts of visuals; including violence, sex, and less savory human tendencies. I found it easier to experience with my eyes closed, visuals distracting from the meaning. In the end, it both reviles and shields Bush in regards to stupidity. Generally, post viewing perspective -- which is it, that he is stupid, "only plays one on TV"+, or that he is made stupid.
In any case, many are stupid, anyone can act in a stupid manner, and that no one that they polled (people on the street) could really give a good meaning of the word stupid. There were a few long scenes of people waiting to enter a theater to see Steve-O and a Jackass creator in "action". While waiting, COPS crowd antics ensued including jumping onto a locally parked car, uprooting of a street sign, and more. What a complete waste! The throngs of the easily manipulated couried and pushed into violence by the anticipation of stupid live acts.
I won't rate the movie, as I would not want to see it in its entirety again, but ... I would like it re-edited for the 20 -40 some good minutes of narration that it does have. The background could be switched instead of seeing countless Jackass-esque antics from real accidents or violence. That would, of course, "rip the soul" out of the artistic work that is Stupidity.
+ used in the movie declaring him to be not an idiot
Friday, October 13, 2006
Topless protests okay
Judge ruled that women may protest topless. I believe he added the caveat that the protesting women be "sweet honies with bodatious ..." Okay, he didn't add that, but the "sweet honeys" part he should have added. I think, if the protesters were thinking clearly -- ha, fat chance there, that the 400 pound women be discouraged from going topless.
Hey, what's with the non-traditional burlesque show going on there? Are the dancing hippos with the dancing ostriches as well?
More on the Gibson
Of course I didn't say those things. And if I did, I didn't mean them. And if I did mean them, I meant them in a satirical manner. I got more sense than to say those racist things!
Yeah, I remember saying those things. They were funny.
Alcohol is a hell of a drug, eh?
......
Now, Gibson is trying to do three card monte with the media. You see .... it's that cop, he's got it in for me, you see? I didn't inhale, while expelling my awful tirade on Jews everywhere.
I'm waiting for Gibson to come out and just admit that he's an ass and be done with it. Didn't he see Clinton? "I did not ..."
8 years of wrong
Pennsylvania court rules in favor of plaintiffs in Wal-Mart suit. Hmmmm ... $78 million, which will be appealled taking another 8 years, 'til finially it drops to $54 million and $40 some million dollars in court fees and lawyer costs+ yielding around $10 million for those affected, after taxes and other fees, bringing a healthy $20 check to each party on the class action suit against Wal-Mart.
So, Wal-Mart loses money, maintains prices, foregoing the happy smiling bouncing face lowering prices and reshapes its policies and procedures.
Two people I know that work or have worked recently for Wal-Mart remarked how "anally retentive" it was about clocking in, out, breaks and the seeming minutia. I suppose it/is due to the lawsuit mentioned above. Hmmm, food for thought, I suppose.
MSNBC chose a picture of lotto winners outside the courtroom delighted that they won. I guess no one told them that it would take years to get the money, which would be widdled down to less than a day's paycheck per litigant. Well, it's gas money for 2015.
+ intentional reversal
Cartoons -- stage left
including slowpoke Jinxie and Pixie and Dixie. He isn't the same as Slowpoke Rodrigez (also fastest gun in Mexico), but you get the 60's drift, right?
Snagglepus, ending a cartoon with, "Wait ... I'm going to gay Paris (paree) too!"
golf clap
Man, this case could go either way .... [ring]
Yes. Um hmm. I see. Okay, let me know if his condition changes.
Well, what? Why isn't he here?
He's dead.
Child molester finally does the right thing -- kills himself. Far too late, but still the effort is comendable.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Dragon's Lair
Oh, wait ... make that Dragon's Keep (Cafe). Lances are prohibitted. Cerpicio, MR, and I went into the cafe Thursday. I first had to wait to the little beeping and the blue light+ to know if I should walk straight or left. The wide hallway (the cafe) was quaint, cramped for space, but they did a nice job with what space they had. The 60s-80s music was intersting. The barrista was friendly enough and Cerpicio and Paula had been there often enough, he knew him.
The coffe was okay ... hey, it was coffee, right? The food, overpriced, but I didn't know that. I'm picky about nearly everything, so the food was okay, just. The atmosphere, decor is unique to the coffee shop, but it would be better out west or east looking a little out of place in its present locale.
The wrought iron chairs (2 chairs per table) was better suited to couples -- you know, like Cerpicio and Paula. Anyway, it was okay and for couples who like wrap sandwiches and coffee or tea, it is a quiet, quaint little place. More more space and some scents (oils, candles, or incense) it would be homey.
+ allusion to arcade game (first laser disc game '80s, later a short-lived Disney cartoon. For trivia, the laser disc games failed as a "new wave" of arcade games.
War; it's fantastic
Shoot, shoot, shoot ... shooting . .. shooting, shooting. It also encourages you to hit a target more than once. I really like overkilling.
bones on which to chew
Look, I have a compromise. Inmates stop being uncooporative and the dogs won't need to be there. I have another solution. If inmates are uncooporative, you move them unconsciouly to the new locale. How they change from conscious to unsconscious is up to the prison authority then. I don't want to hear any more about who bit who. I do think, however using trained aggressive dogs in this manner sets a bad precidence for law regarding mauling deaths and harboring of dangerous animals, etc. The dogs, noted here are trained aggressive, as has been the argument of felons (caught and to be caught) who raise dogs for dog fights.
I like better my idea of moving instructing prisoners with the guidelines that transfers while conscious is preferred, but not manditory. Hey, look! You're already in prison, generally+the more obstinant ones are repeat felons. The guards and staff should be safe, so ... I prefer to error on the side of staff and faculty safety, rather than worry as much about rights infringement on the "poor" convict.
+ generalization, for sure, but not unreasonable.
Hey! I have a new defense
I was nude because I had stress in my life. I'll use this case all the time now. You see, I have bi-polar disorder and stress, which is why I was wandering in the nude. You see, it makes sense, right? Presently, I don't have bi-polar disorder, but with the right lawyer, it's likely to win. I'm wondering where that hidden lover is. Oh, come on now. A man wandering around in the nude at the offices after business hours. You know he has a lover there. The reason is not medical, but perhaps is biological.
as covered yesterday
I think the constitutional law being violated is the pursuit of happiness (and safety and well-being) for children and parents alike. 1,000 feet is too short. I'd recommend 1,000 miles. I suggest an anchored floatilla (Waterworld) in the South Pacific. Sex offenders -- move or kill yourselves, either way, we win.
