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ahh, i feel a little better.
http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=10289
but only a little. the embargo is crap and will always be immoral crap; the result of listening to that crazy crew in miami among other unfortunately stupid issues. it is filled with bizarro land exceptions and run-arounds that boggle the mind and remind us all that good and bad policy alike generally takes on the qualities of string cheese that's been pulled at by a thousand hands if it lasts long enough. but that livingston engages in the usual "castro's great" stuff is disheartening, though probably not surprising. we all have our routines.
[insert usual "lol socialists" here thing if you want; i figure it's more like "lol tribalism" or even "lol our team is great you suck ha ha" thing really)
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Today on Guido's Corner:
According to my co-worker who's originally from Long Island, Guidos are also known locally as Blown-out Hair Kings.
I asked him how bad it was growing up with those guys and going to high school with them and he couldn't even vocalize it. He just made this horrible face and acted like somebody had punched him in the solar plexus.
I showed him Clublife and he liked some of the entries. He did have this to say:
"You know, this is guy is putting them in an okay light. They're actually much worse than this. Much worse." |
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ouch.
man i dunno. rob the bouncer tends to be about as anti-guidoist on the cultural eugenics tip as you can get.
or so i would think. i appreciate being the "reader" for a flavor of that cultural pool.
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| dhex wrote: | ouch.
man i dunno. rob the bouncer tends to be about as anti-guidoist on the cultural eugenics tip as you can get. |
My co-worker does like to engage in the hyperbole. He really does hate those guys though. |
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such is the nature of having a soul.
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someone wiser than i said re: '08
| Quote: | That sounds like a plan. Even if Paul wins, I still want a divided gubmint. That would be a fan-fucking-tastic tug of war. Paul would be vetoing bills as fast as congress could draft them, and hopefully no-one will have an override majority.
I think a tear just touched my cheek. |
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| Quote: | | You’re short, you’re bald, you’re loud, you’re stupid, you dress like a retard and you’re wearing too much jewelry. This is why you have to give girls cocaine in order to get laid. |
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dept of why i don't get shit done:
| Quote: | me: sort of
mostly the whole question
i mean, i don't get money from the games industry
4:30 PM why should i care what they do or who they sell to?
nintendogs aside
as that is an affront to go
Thomas: to what, the game that vegan dudes like to play?
4:31 PM me: no to humanity
but i digress
listen i'm like a 9/11 truther when it comes to nintendogs
4:32 PM you migth be having a nice conversation but as soon as someone says "oh yeah nintendogs" all of a suddent it's FALSE FLAG TERRORISM NEW WORLD ORDER WHERE IS THE PENTAGON CRATER
Thomas: that's right, nintendogs is part of the reptoid conspiracy
4:33 PM I don't mind nintendogs so much myself, it seems like a natural extension of the tamagotchi nonsense
4:34 PM me: right
absolutely
the denial of man
SOMEONE PLANTED CHARGES IN BUILDING @
sorry
Thomas: haha
4:35 PM so do you see the sims in the same light?
me: actually the sims just makes me think of obesity
why i don't know
4:36 PM i think its cause i've had less contact with the sims than with nintendogs and i've never actually seen or played nintendogs
Thomas: see that's WoW for me
me: oh well yeah
now that toups explained the epic flying mount thing i'm not sure what teh score is
Thomas: I mean, hello neckbeard and SSI check because your gut threw your back out
4:37 PM all pretending to be a female and cybering to get phat lewts
sometimes I fantasize about bringing famous thinkers from the past to the future and seeing how fast I could make them cry
4:38 PM me: what
that's amazing
Thomas: I mean, Plato would be a little easy
4:39 PM I do wonder what would be the quickest way to get Nietzche to start the waterworks
4:40 PM me: beat a horse
ha plato just be like
see those kids playing soccer
you can't fuck them
not even thigh fucking man i'm serious
Thomas: haha
jesus dude
now I'm laughing and I can't explain why to any of my office-mates
4:41 PM me: why not
just be like listen pederasty was very often just oral or frottage
in greek society
since actual penetration was seen as a kind of shaming
hence why prisoners and slaves could be raped in some places
see that's not creepy at all
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| Quote: | Wait! You Need to Pay the Directions Tax
Tourist: Excuse me, how do I get to Times Square?
Ghetto dude: This is Times Square.
Tourist, slower and louder: No. Times Square.
Ghetto dude, slower and louder: This is Times Square.
Tourist: No, I'm looking for the actual square. Where's the square?
Ghetto dude: Oh, you want the square... Go down six blocks, turn left, and go down three. You can't miss it.
Tourist: Hey, thanks a lot, man.
Ghetto dude: Dumb fuck.
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seriously though, sometimes you run across a tourist who just refuses to not be a fuck. like calling the wtc area "9/11." or arguing with people about a place you've never been to and that only exists in your imagination, as with the above.
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stole this link from my boy fitz:
Seven Yogas for Postmoderns
i like don webb as a practical writer quite a bit, which may or may not be strange considering his line of work.
particularly:
| Quote: | 2. Learn to suffer fools. So often we let our best
trainers escape us. There's that neighbor with the cruddy
ankle snapping dog and his obnoxious politics that he
desires to share with us any chance he gets. What an
admirable trainer! Cultivate an attitude of seeing him as
an actor. Fantasize that's he's not really like he is, but
playing a role. Learn to appreciate his performance. Thus
you become habituated to seeing life as a comedy played for
your pleasure rather than endless string of irritating
events ruled by random fuck-ups. |
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hey this is pretty clever:
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Oh, Coulthart. He's pretty fantastic, yes. I really need to get my hands on some of his graphic novels. The artwork is simply staggering, sometimes terrifyingly so.
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lolz.
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doubly so!
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I love that commercial. You've gotta linke the whole thing.
Also, Ward Churchill is such a lol. People who defend him are a lol too.
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man it must feel great being a dea agent. you get to victimize a huge swath of people, like a very successful pedophile, but you don't have to clean all that blood off your dick.
| Quote: | DEA raids 10 pot shops
Agents hit the medical marijuana dispensaries shortly after the L.A. City Council bars new facilities for a year to write better regulations.
By Steve Hymon
Times Staff Writer
July 26, 2007
The gap between state and federal drug laws became apparent again Wednesday when federal agents raided 10 local medical marijuana facilities only minutes after the Los Angeles City Council placed a moratorium on new facilities so rules could be drafted to better regulate them.
The ban is for one year, but the council can extend it for another year.
The city move was widely applauded by medical marijuana activists who believe that having a solid set of rules will help prevent future city crackdowns and ensure that dispensaries remain open.
But state or local laws have no effect on federal activities.
Although voters in California approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996 and said users should not be subject to criminal prosecution, it remains illegal under federal law to possess, sell or cultivate marijuana and neither the federal nor state courts have resolved the matter.
Drug Enforcement Administration officers served a search warrant on facilities across Los Angeles County, including the California Patients Group in Hollywood, said DEA spokeswoman Sarah Pullen. The timing of the raid was not intended to coincide with the council vote, she said.
"These are ongoing enforcement operations. As far as we know, we've been planning this for some time," Pullen said.
The Los Angeles Police Department was on hand to patrol the perimeter, as it often does as a courtesy to federal agencies.
LAPD officers arrested five people demonstrating outside the California Patients Group dispensary, Lt. Ruben De La Torre said. Four of the arrests were for blocking a DEA vehicle and failing to comply with orders from a police officer to move. The other arrest was for vandalizing a police car.
Don Duncan, operator of the Hollywood dispensary, was the first activist to testify at Wednesday's council meeting. He also is a board member of Americans for Safe Access, a pro-medical marijuana group.
"It's disgusting that sick people would be subjected to this right here in Los Angeles," Duncan said.
Pullen said that although medical marijuana was legalized by state voters, the DEA has been enforcing federal laws. The agency has ramped up efforts recently because the number of dispensaries has grown to more than 400 in Los Angeles County and the surrounding area, she said.
The DEA and other agencies earlier this month issued indictments against six men, alleging that they participated in selling marijuana at dispensaries throughout the state, including two such stores in West Hollywood.
In response to a request from the council, the office of City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo reported earlier this year that at least 98 dispensaries are in Los Angeles, although some activists believe there are more.
The report also found that 12 dispensaries were near schools or day-care centers.
City Councilman Dennis Zine said the temporary ban was designed to protect patients' rights while drawing up rules to protect communities where dispensaries are located.
Several dozen medical marijuana activists attended the council meeting to support the temporary ban. No one spoke against it.
Activist Sarah Armstrong said that she often has to travel from her home in Ventura County to Los Angeles to obtain medical marijuana to help relieve pain from arthritis she said was the result of a 1989 car crash.
Cities and police agencies in Ventura County and others in Southern California have been far less tolerant of the dispensaries, which is why most in the region are in L.A. County.
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i like the story highlights feature when i don't have 3 minutes to read a 550 word article.
| Quote: | When death comes calling, so does Oscar the cat
* Story Highlights
* Cat has uncanny record of curling up with dying nursing home patients
* Staff members say families usually find cat's presence comforting
* Cat better at predicting imminent death than staff, observer says
* New England Journal of Medicine essay describes phenomenon
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.
His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live.
"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," Dr. David Dosa said in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.
The 2-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses.
After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would wind up dying in a few hours.
Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously and is generally aloof. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said.
Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work there, said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill
She was convinced of Oscar's talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn't eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish tinge, signs that often mean death is near.
Oscar wouldn't stay inside the room, though, so Teno thought his streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor's prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient's final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.
Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill they probably don't know he's there, so patients aren't aware he's a harbinger of death. Most families are grateful for the advance warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.
No one's certain if Oscar's behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat notices telltale scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him.
Nicholas Dodman, who directs an animal behavioral clinic at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and has read Dosa's article, said the only way to know is to carefully document how Oscar divides his time between the living and dying.
If Oscar really is a furry grim reaper, it's also possible his behavior could be driven by self-centered pleasures like a heated blanket placed on a dying person, Dodman said.
Nursing home staffers aren't concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying.
Oscar recently received a wall plaque publicly commending his "compassionate hospice care." |
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man i'm at work late again on a friday.
and i'm in a conundrum.
i got a raise yesterday. one i'd been promised for a year. very sizeable. but i'd also been looking for the last six months, with no real bites. and my boss, who is awesome, went to the wall for me several times with this and i appreciate the hell out of her actions.
but now i feel kinda stuck.
(i'm stuck her at work due to unrelated technical/workflow issues aka people are fucking nuts)
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more babies more babies more babies even euro environmentalists want more white babies not just assholes from fox news.
this particular current confuses me. sure i think it sucks to cover chicks in sacks and whatnot too but uh who fucking cares?
also,
what's an eco-puritan?
edit: yes i know people who like the eu version of social welfare programs should care about stuff like this but everybody likes free things so long as they're largely divorced from their daily radar so we get stuff like michael moore. that's ok too there's nothing you can do about it anyway.
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| Quote: | Gator in a Pillowcase Found on LI Beach
BABYLON, N.Y. (1010 WINS) -- An early morning beach walk yielded quite a surprise when an off-duty peace officer found an alligator in a pillowcase.
The officer came across the moving case on Overlook Beach early Saturday. Someone had written on the sealed bag: "Live Gator, Please find him a home,'' according to the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The agent, an off-duty peace officer for the SPCA, called in a response team to rescue the 30-inch-long animal.
Officials with the SPCA are asking for donations to help them care for the alligator until it can be brought to a reptile sanctuary out of state. They are also seeking information on who might have dumped the gator.
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the best protest sign ever:
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Wait... is that sarcasim in that hate-board? Because, she has the rainbow flag in her arm.
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yup that would be sarcasm.
plus she looks like she's totally tired of explaining who alan turing was.
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“Fallout starts you with an old man saying "man, we fucking need you to get us water because we'll all fucking croak if you don't, man." - shapermc
"Here there Be Rodents".
Indeed.
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ha!
who did that?
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| dhex wrote: | ha!
who did that? |
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conclusive proof that playing games is bad for you!
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dhex is it natural to be frightened of big government in general?
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natural for me? or for other people?
for me, to some degree yes.
for others not so much. though generally their thrust is not so much "we want a larger government" but rather "we want the right people in office so they do the right things the right way." creating more layers just tends to be the way that works out.
there are a lot of lawyers in dc.
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Man law is some messy stuff dude they need to, like, simplify that shit or something.
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ok so i'm watching my rip go BLEEEEEEEARRRRGH all over my shit so while i wait for the thing to flush, clean and reboot (a process that takes 45 minutes or so) i'm going to do a banner roundup since i had so much fun with this last one.
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| dhex wrote: | | for others not so much. though generally their thrust is not so much "we want a larger government" but rather "we want the right people in office so they do the right things the right way." creating more layers just tends to be the way that works out. |
I remember reading a friend online after someone was murdered in a PS3 line (or somesuch) remarking that what Sony was doing--not producing enough units--should be against the law.
The "there oughtta be a law" mentality is strong enough in some people to go against all rationality. "Let's outlaw scarcity," etc. I find this sorta thing way more common than knee-jerk "It's the government's fault!" type stuff, but maybe I read too much stuff that pisses me off, or blogs that link to it.
Edit: And think about this recent Michael Vick thing. Everyone's pissed and wants blood, but how many people have stood up and said, "Uh, hey, the federal government probably doesn't have any business punishing people for cruelty to animals, that is kind of a small-time thing and the federal government has a big, strong arm"? Like, two?
BS conservative rhetoric aside, it's just not that common.
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| Swimmy wrote: |
Edit: And think about this recent Michael Vick thing. Everyone's pissed and wants blood, but how many people have stood up and said, "Uh, hey, the federal government probably doesn't have any business punishing people for cruelty to animals, that is kind of a small-time thing and the federal government has a big, strong arm"? Like, two?
BS conservative rhetoric aside, it's just not that common. |
It'd be neat if some network employee slipped a few frames of one of Cheney's canned hunting trips into the stream of one of the Vick stories.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: |
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oh man i like dawkins and all but man c'mon this is starting to get lame.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:56 am Post subject: |
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i wrote a theme song to my friend's blog cause the team red team blue folks are fucking up what used to be interesting conversations.
oh there’s nothing so smug
as a partisan lug
who knows his team
will prevail
oh there’s nothing so great
as a quasi-debate
between two gods who
won’t fail
so say it with me
the proud and the free
[insert affiliation here]
when you meet your great other
treat him as your brother
[and don’t forget to sneer]
i love meeting people who make you want to write in dubya for a third term come 2008.
i am beginning to think the adbusterian current has a similar problem to the 9/11 truthers, in that it confers a sense of superiority on people who so very clearly lack it.
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