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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
theklute
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3:55p |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) johnnylexicon, here is your precious Sherlock Holmes
 "The film takes place in London sometime in the 19th Century. Sherlock Holmes (Ben Syder) and his colleague, Doctor Watson (Gareth David-Lloyd), are called upon to help track down and ultimately capture Spring Heeled Jack (Dominic Keating), who is committing crimes across London through the use of a steam-powered body armour that permits him to carry out crimes without fear of capture." I personally can't wait for "Captain Nemo and Erotic Awakening of S". |
| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
theklute
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8:31a |
Hyperbole at its best (worst)?
Got an e-mail from a friend of mine today: RE: Health Care reform "Socialism at it's worst. Ignoring the will of the American. America wanted health care reform, not a socialist government takeover that bankrupts our nation. Even now as I work in health care I can see 2 major insurances cutting their services to Medicare levels. The rationing has begun. Welcome to Amerika comrades or should I say Zig Heil Obama." |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
ioerror
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9:19p |
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ioerror
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9:19p |
Hello from Qatar
We're standing on the edge of Qatar and the land in the distance is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That's probably as close as I will ever get to Saudi. |
ioerror
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5:08p |
Horse riding through Giza
I went for a horseback ride through the necropolis of Giza today. This is the pyramid Khafre behind me. My horse's name is Lucky. |
autodidactic
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10:17a |
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| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
theklute
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2:49p |
Born in sin, come on in...
You've really got to read the whole thing... but Veritas Vincit over at Sonoran Alliance is up to his old self: Aborting and Importing – Is Immigration the Replacement for Native Born Population?Choice cut: "My hope is to bequeath to posterity an independent, sovereign and color blind United States in which the innocent unborn native population will realize the American Dream."Boy, that sounds AWFULLY familiar... Wikipedia: Fourteen Words"The Fourteen Words is a phrase used by white nationalists. It refers to both the 14-word slogan: 'We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children'..."I am just amazed that DSW continues to allow Veritas Vincit to post. I know that DSW isn't a racist, and I'm sure he doesn't want to tar the conservative movement or Republican Party in Arizona as something as being racist (especially with new blood coming into the party a la Tony Bouie and Vernon Parker), and yet the whole screed of Veritas Vincit's comes across as something you might read at Stormfront or the National Alliance. Not allowing Veritas Vincit to post isn't restricting VV's freedom of speech - VV's allowed to go to another website or start his own or print it out and put it under people's windshield wipers for all I care. But this is just another example that nothing, no matter how evil or wrong, is allowed equal time in the conservative blogosphere. |
kobold
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12:25a |
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| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
autodidactic
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5:32p |
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kobold
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11:02a |
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autodidactic
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6:44a |
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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
fridgemagnet
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10:19p |
Funny how PM today managed to carry a really pretty long interview with an anonymous BA cabin crew member who spent the entire time saying how shit the union were for "messing up the vote". (This would be despite it being accepted in court that it made no difference whatsoever to the turnout and was a technicality, that the union did make efforts to find out who was not eligible to vote and not have them in the ballot, and that management knew the leaving dates of everyone - including those taking voluntary redundancy - of course, but mysteriously failed to tell the union.) And, next item. |
fridgemagnet
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9:01p |
fuck snow
Honestly, though, it's just a big swirl of cold, wet not-at-all-fun-ness. |
theklute
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11:06a |
Keep calm and carry on.
Ok, I know there's a lot of Obama bashing going on the left-o-sphere. I'm not joining in... Sure, it might just be me, and Paul Krugman, and Nate Silver, but I'm not joining in. Remember our last drive for moral purity? Remember how that drive put George W. Bush in the White House? We're not going back. "Half a loaf" is better than a "full glass of poison", and unless you want the Teabaggers in control - which is what is going to fucking happen if we don't calm the fuck down. Read Nate Silver's column. He pretty much says what I was going say. |
| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
desika
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10:04p |
Motivation - 0
I have tons of stuff I should be doing but I don't wanna. Not functioning well in general. I always get like this at this time of year, and I usually blame SAD, but I wonder how plausible that is, considering I'm only at like 30 degrees north of the equator. What the hell would I do if I lived farther north? Hibernate? (Un)fortunately retail therapy helps, so I've been going on spending sprees, mostly online. This is good for filling my Christmas shopping list, but bad for my budget. I'm going to go stare at the talking box until I feel like I can sleep. |
ioerror
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2:35p |
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ioerror
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ioerror
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theklute
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12:50p |
At the holiday gift exchange...
I scored a Barack Obama 1000 piece commerative puzzle. I'm betting I can finish it before health care reform passes. And.... $15 iTunes card. So - give me some music ideas to download. Right now, choosing between the Cage the Elephant debut album, the J.G. Thirwell "Venture Brothers" score, Collide's "These Eyes Before"... I'll have a few dollars left after that. |
loltheorists
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| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
kobold
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6:56p |
I know a lot of people are making wishes about what happens to Oral Roberts in the after life - some considerably more forgiving than others. I admit it - I hate faith healers. I hate people who prey on the weak (probably why I look at all politicians with contempt) - whether that weakness is physical, mental, or emotional. I have no interest in what happens to Oral Roberts's alleged soul. Whether he ends up in a spiritual rave where he's sucking on countless pills and body parts with no fear of consequences or he's in the depths of hell performing mutual colonoscopies with Jim Jones - doesn't matter. I'm more interested in what can be done to curb the actions of the faith healers who are still out there making a profit. Like Benny Hinn. |
kobold
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5:59p |
[News/"And Don't Let The Door Hit You...."] Oral Roberts dies.
Evangelist, faith healer and asshole Oral Roberts died at age 91. Aside from partaking in the well-documented scam of faith healing, which primarily preys upon the weak and desperate, Roberts had many "visions" from God that usually involved asking Robert's followers for money so he could build something else to glorify himself his invisible friend Jehovah. Most memorable of these was a "vision" in 1987 where Roberts warned his faithful sheep that God said if he didn't raise $8 million, God would "call him home." He raised over $9 million. Roberts also claimed to have raised the dead. In 1963, Roberts opened Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, giving Texans one more reason to point and laugh at Oklahoma. The university's law school closed down in 1986 due to financial hardship, and was followed in 1989 by its medical school. One professor said, "It's a sad day when people realized they don't need to drop tens of thousands of dollars to slap someone in the forehead and scream, 'Demons out!' At least people are still stupid in other useful ways." He then did a line of coke of a crucifix. In 2007 Roberts saw his university rocked with scandal as three former professors sued the school for wrongful termination. During this time, allegations of the tax-exempt improperly using facilities, equipment, and undoubtedly lots of money to help a local Republican gain mayoral office. Further allegations of using funds to pay for trips to the Bahamas, buy expensive clothing for Roberts family members, and others came to the surface. Robert's son, who now headed the university, assumed the expected martyr position, whimpered about how the world is so mean to Christians, resigned after a near unanimous vote of "No Confidence" by the university's board, and left with a lot of money. The university is still going strong after a severe cash infusion from Christian craft store chain Hobby Lobby over over $60 million. Oral Roberts also founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (OREA), a Pentecostal traveling ministry that claims to heal the sick. Now run by Robert's son and daughter-in-law, it kept Oral on the board (in a well paid position) and runs at a yearly deficit of some $2 million. As it claims to be a charity, non-profit group and charity ratings organization Charity Nagivator has giving it a one out of four possible stars when rating its overall effectiveness, proving that Charity Navigator is completely corrupt and overlooks OREA's important mission of keeping evangelists off the streets and in mansions. Aside from a costly placebo effect for his followers of buying salvation and giving them the feeling they were making God giggle like a bowl full of cloud kittens and dreams, Roberts impacted the world in another way: musically. Mark Griffin, a musician, took on the stage name MC 900 Ft. Jesus off of Roberts' claims. |
fridgemagnet
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11:23p |
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| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
theklute
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8:14p |
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desika
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9:09p |
Plow Monday Post Mortem
It was a good show, particularly considering the guys hadn't played all together in a month of Sundays, and they only had two rehearsals. The majority of the audience out back seemed to be there for PM, though Eyes Burn Electric had a decent turnout as well. The opening act - the name of which I never caught - was a bunch of 17-year-olds that were incredibly tight and obviously very well-funded. Their moms were all in the front row. It was sweet. The vaunted Plow Monday Curse struck Bobbo's bass rig, which apparently ceased to function, but the curse was defeated with aplomb, the offending equipment bypassed and the show went on. Roberta and I both got some footage that will hopefully hit YouTube soon - I'll provide links if it happens. The highlights of the show were probably the infamous cover of Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar" - which has become a PM standard and kind of kicks the ass of the original - and the closing number, which was, as always, "Disco Stu" and instigated much booty-shakin'. There were some notables in the crowd; at least three chiefs-of-staff to state legislators were there (obviously, one of them was on stage) and I heard our old buddy Matt Noveskey from Blue October turned up, though I never saw him. (He was also in Ryan's other project, A+ Machines, and I think they still do stuff together on the side when BO isn't on tour.) Didn't see any of the guys from Wartime Social, which I was kind of bummed about, but they were probably all playing in other groups anyway. So yeah. Acquitted well and probably not going to try this again for another year or so - though, for a change, the summation of the show was not so much "Now we remember why we don't do this anymore" as "That was fun, let's do it again sometime." Current Mood:  satisfied |
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