| Can't be soft on terrorism |
[Feb. 4th, 2009|03:55 pm] |
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We'd better start waterboarding some Arkansans until we get to the bottom of this. |
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| Critique my New PC |
[Aug. 4th, 2008|11:49 pm] |
I think I did this once before a couple of years ago. I'm making a new system on the cheap. Tell me if I'm making a mistake. I have monitors, hard drives, dvd-r, and all that jazz, so I'm just buying the core components. Here's what I'm going to buy (you'll notice some of it is off-brand):
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| car advice |
[Jun. 15th, 2008|04:02 pm] |
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So my 1993 Dodge Caravan is stuck in the Latte Land parking lot on State Line and about 79th. Lisa and I were out running errands, and I pulled in for an iced latte. When I came back out I couldn't start it. The starter is re-built, so it doesn't come as a huge shock. I'm faced with a dilemma, though: should I have it towed somewhere to have the starter fixed/replaced or should I just get rid of it? I've been thinking about just getting a scooter since the majority of my driving would be the short distance to work and back. Also, it leaks coolant, it leaks oil and any day now the transmission might fall out too. But if I get rid of it, should I have it towed back to my house until I can sell it for scrap, or should I just find some place to sell it to in the morning and save the extra tow? |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 24th, 2008|12:06 am] |
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I want to kick him right in the beard all over again. |
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| Guilt |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:39 pm] |
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I miss my weighted companion cube, and I regret what I did. |
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| Pining for the fields... |
[May. 5th, 2008|03:08 pm] |
One of the more unlikely cases of introduced species: Parrots in Brooklyn. I doubt this will be as destructive as other birds released in New York were (see Euopean Starling or House Sparrow). Mainly because there's little left to destroy as long as they stay localized.
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| I met Jesus today... |
[Mar. 31st, 2008|08:15 am] |
He was at work. I think one of you posted these in LJ. Was it ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) firecrest?
Anyway, we have a new guy in work and he was showing these to one of my coworkers. I mentioned that I'd seen them and loved them, and he mentioned he was the voice of Jesus. He was genuinely surprised that anybody had seen them. |
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| "Are you really that acquiescent in the United States?" |
[Mar. 9th, 2008|12:42 pm] |
Here's a good article by Glenn Greenwald about the reaction by the American press to the Scottish paper publishing the "off the record" remarks from the Obama camp:
The number one rule of the standard establishment journalist is to avoid offending the powerful because the more offense they give, the fewer favors the powerful will do for the journalists. Conversely, and by logical necessity, the more journalists please the powerful, the more favors the powerful will do for them. As Carlson put it: "People don't talk to you when you go out of your way to hurt them as you did." I can't think of any single dynamic that better explains what has happened the last eight years than that one. |
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| McCain |
[Feb. 27th, 2008|01:48 pm] |
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Don't like his politics, but he's a decent guy. Unless you think his repudiating the blow-hard who opened at one of his speeches was just a calculated damage control move instead of being due to genuine disgust. Maybe I'm naive for believing anything from a politician could be geniune. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|12:06 am] |
   
I love these caricatures from Salon! Especially Clinton and McCain. I guess nobody took Huck's chances very seriously so they didn't make him a caricature. His picture is pretty cartoonish anyway.
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| One hell of an endorsement |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|02:59 pm] |
Dear Senator Obama,
This letter represents a first for me--a public endorsement of a Presidential candidate. I feel driven to let you know why I am writing it. One reason is it may help gather other supporters; another is that this is one of those singular moments that nations ignore at their peril. I will not rehearse the multiple crises facing us, but of one thing I am certain: this opportunity for a national evolution (even revolution) will not come again soon, and I am convinced you are the person to capture it.
May I describe to you my thoughts?
I have admired Senator Clinton for years. Her knowledge always seemed to me exhaustive; her negotiation of politics expert. However I am more compelled by the quality of mind (as far as I can measure it) of a candidate. I cared little for her gender as a source of my admiration, and the little I did care was based on the fact that no liberal woman has ever ruled in America. Only conservative or "new-centrist" ones are allowed into that realm. Nor do I care very much for your race[s]. I would not support you if that was all you had to offer or because it might make me "proud."
In thinking carefully about the strengths of the candidates, I stunned myself when I came to the following conclusion: that in addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates. That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it. Wisdom is a gift; you can't train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace--that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom.
When, I wondered, was the last time this country was guided by such a leader? Someone whose moral center was un-embargoed? Someone with courage instead of mere ambition? Someone who truly thinks of his country's citizens as "we," not "they"? Someone who understands what it will take to help America realize the virtues it fancies about itself, what it desperately needs to become in the world?
Our future is ripe, outrageously rich in its possibilities. Yet unleashing the glory of that future will require a difficult labor, and some may be so frightened of its birth they will refuse to abandon their nostalgia for the womb.
There have been a few prescient leaders in our past, but you are the man for this time.
Good luck to you and to us.
Toni Morrison |
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| Gambler |
[Aug. 23rd, 2007|12:33 pm] |
So a gambler is down ten grand and considers cutting his losses but his buddy tells him he can't quit. If he leaves then all the money will have been lost in vain. Does he:
A)Thank his buddy for setting him straight, or
B)Ignore his buddy and leave the table?
*edited to make for a more Christ-like parable. |
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