You know, I like to be sophisticated. I like to be cultured. Within the past year (actually more like since I returned from Paris) I started drinking red wine pretty regularly. But I gotta say, I do not like champagne. At all.
I bought a $40 bottle for new years that we never drank. So the other night we popped it and had some with our movie. And ya know what? I used to drink that shit all the time in Germany, only there they called it "sekt". [insert lame joke about how "sekt" sounds like "sucked"] Tasha ended up drinking most of it, and I started kicking myself for not just going ahead and splurging on a nice Bordeux 2000 (we have on bottle left from Paris that we're saving for a special occasion, in other words, as long as we can hold out). Or a case of Ayinger Altbairische Dunkelbier, the greatest beer in the world.
So I admit it. I have no class. I don't like white sparkling wine. It gives me indigestion and it tastes bad.
Ahem.
I think it's absolutely disgusting that the Federal Gov't is trying to overrule the decisions of a State judge. That the Florida judge utterly rebuked Congress's attempts to circumvent the legal system makes my day and almost makes up for all the bullshit the judiciary puts us through. This issue has been blown entirely out of proportion and it now requires a tasteless joke. At this point, I don't care if Terry is exhibiting the following "signs of life":
(1) on her knees pleading for her life
(2) reciting the alphabet backwards
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Fine by me.
Note to Ms. Zipp: mixing politics with work is not smart. Take it from somebody who works in an office full of Republicans. If you make politics an issue at work, you should totally be hired / fired over it. It's one thing to seek out a person who has political beliefs and activities on his or her own time. It's quite a different thing when an editor of your magazine formally associates the magazine with an ideology. She says:
"I just wanted to let you know of the fear the liberal left has about a woman with power possessing Republican views."
It's just not cool to be a Republican... people need to stop acting like it is.
I am 23% Asshole/Bitch.
I am not an asshole or a bitch, more like an asshole and bitch target. I have no backbone, and fold at even a slightly insincere look. I need to stop crying, I am such a wuss.
However, I am enough of an asshole to sue them for somehow getting a picture of me.
There's content where this is coming from... standby while I get in the mood.
Oh, you will.
Let me know what you think of the new layout. Also, give me a heads-up on what browser you're using. It's starting to look sweet on FireFox, but on IE it just keeps looking worse and worse.
I would also appreciate any help from any CSS gurus.
I'm tired as hell right now and I just am not inspired by anything going on in the real world.
Plus I hate the layout of my blog right now... I'm trying to change that first.
Ehh, I get sick of Blogger's weak ass. I've been moved for a while, but I didn't want to make it official until I had decided whether to import all my posts from Blogger to here. I've now decided to just keep the Blogger archives separate and provide a link to the old blog. There was a script that was supposed to move all the Haloscan comments over here, but it blows. So I'll just keep everything the same for the Blogger archives.
Anyway, I'm taking today off to housesit for my fiance's parents. Chillin'.
R.I.P. Hunter - you will be missed.
Poor, confused Richard Perle - reality just keeps catching him off guard! But that won't keep him from dreaming.
Perle, a veteran of the Reagan administration and a former Pentagon adviser, was forced by one of the questioners to recast a comment he made on Sept. 22, 2003, in which he predicted that within one year, there would be "a grand square in Baghdad named for President Bush."
"I'd be a fool not to recognize that it did not happen on the schedule I had in mind," Perle said, adding that he did not deny that the administration had made mistakes in Iraq.
But, Perle added, "I will be surprised, yet again, if we do not see a square in Baghdad named after this president." He did not specify a time.
No wonder
somebody threw a shoe at him.
You know, in the midst of all this treason talk I've been thinking about my position on the war. On the one hand, I believe success in Iraq will further encourage the U.S. to involve itself in the affairs of other countries, thus making us significantly less safe. On the other hand, I have family in the military and do not support their defeat. They do not deserve to be opposed by me because of the political establishment's poor policy decisions.
I guess at this point I feel that the whole Iraq war is just a big mess. With the goal undesirable (not success necessarily but the fruits of success, or rather the long term consequences of a nation-building America to domestic economic and civil freedom) and defeat unsupportable (I think the effects of a defeat in Iraq could possibly be worth it, but not at the expense of demostrating an inability to conquer such a pathetic country) I have to divorce myself from the whole dichotomy. It just doesn't affect my day-to-day life. I support the troops winning (after all, it costs me nothing, although I guess now I owe it to America to put a yellow ribbon on my car) - but I don't really believe in what they're fighting for. I support us changing our foreign policy and getting the hell out of other nations' business - but I don't want the price for that to be national humilation.
God damn Bush for getting us into this. To parse Lincoln, if by winning the war we could bring all the soldiers home from all their engagements all over the world, thereby making America safer, I would fully support the war. And if by losing the war we could do the same, I would support that. Since I can't know the consequences of either outcome ahead of time, I guess I have to just resign myself to the gov't not working for interests that I care about. It's not that I'm for/against the war, but rather it's that the war is not even the issue for me. And I shouldn't make it the issue when talking to people who are in the "win or lose" frame of mind, because that whole way of thinking is tangential to my understanding of my interests and the national interest.
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Wow, check this shit out, g. Apparently a small black box that generates random numbers predicted the 9/11 attacks and the tsunami. Wilcock talked about this concept of the Noosphere in his work - the idea that there is a causative relationship between consciousness and what we normally think of as unrelated physical phenomena.
(Hat tip to Assymmetrical Information)
On the front page of Drudge Report: Photographic Evidence of Global Warming:
from the ocean floor up.
David Wilcock has gathered a lot of evidence to show that climate change is occuring throughout our solar system, and that the engine of such change is larger than any force we have yet imagined.
Food for thought. Mmmmmm, thought.
Finally, I am vindicated!!! Libertarian Girl is a fake! Thanks to X and Hammer of Truth.
All is right with the world again... a world where significantly less slutty, more intelligent, and far more attractive women carry the banner for the libertarian movement (something about that "bookish" look). And, let's face it - the truly hot chicks will always be gun-confiscating, affirmative-action-spouting, single-payer-health-system-lovin', pro-choicers. And this is coming from a devout libertarian who is marrying a pretty liberal artsy girl in a matter months. Something about socialism just turns me on! I'm like the anti-Howard Roark.
Oh, God. This fucked up article was in Tasha's hometown paper. Try to remember that where she's from has like 10,000 people and is one of the larger counties in Virginia.
Last week, Gloucester Game Warden Timothy Worrell warned local educators and youth advisors that gangs and their related criminal activity are headed this way.
Yeah, the
Game Warden. He explains what the hell he knows about gangs:
Worrell said his agency, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, became aware of the gang problem when an officer in Northern Virginia responded to a complaint about a group hanging out at a public boat ramp. When the officer arrived, Worrell said he was cornered by 35-40 Hispanic men and was forced to make a run for his truck. Cornered in his vehicle, the officer had to pull out a machine gun to hold the gang members at bay until 10 to 12 other officers came to his aid. "That's when game wardens got involved," he explained.
Un-fucking-believable. "That's when game wardens got involved." How about that's when game wardens needed to get a bigger budget? What an idiot.
