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Spent 2 1/2 hours taping up a room to do trim lines Sunday. Started to paint today and the fucking tape falls off. The lines aren't crisp, and the paint is streaky.

Will have to spend hours just trying to fix it.

Then I get to start again.

FUUUFUFUFCCKK!!!!

WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.

Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.

Palin goes adrift, at times, on more contemporary issues, too. She criticizes President Barack Obama for pushing through a bailout package that actually was achieved by his Republican predecessor George W. Bush – a package she seemed to support at the time.

A look at some of her statements in "Going Rogue," obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its release Tuesday:

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October came this year, but it was a bumpy one, between Erin's health, poor weather, and craptastic finances...I couldn't make my favorite time of year everything I could have hoped, but still had a very nice time. Mother, pictured here, was the usual centerpiece of my window display that people seem to enjoy every year.

Now trick or treaters, for a childfree person, I like the ritual....a lot. I not only give out a fun sized chocolate, but also a small toy, perhaps a Halloween pencil, or some spider rings. The third set of kids I got were exactly the kind I hate. No costume, not even a Halloween themed bag, just nasty ghetto 13 year old coming up on their bikes, and I frankly just gave them the lamest candy I had. They then tried to demand something else, I told them "the good candy is for kids in costumes" they then tried to threaten me and when I just stared at them, they took off, assholes. I blow $50.00 on treats...spend $2.00 on a cheap mask.

But for the most part the costume-less beggars were only a few in the around 250 trick or treaters (though the 50 plus year old ones always weird me out) In particular, the Playdough and the squirt guns seemed to be big hits.



( Halloween 2009 )

I was half dozing at home when I heard a know at the door. It took me about 9 seconds to get there and I only saw the two kids that have been hanging around and skateboarding on the block.

I guess they are about 9 to 12 years old.

They asked for "early Halloween candy."

What? The? Fuck?

I stated "you get Halloween candy on Halloween" They tried to engage me in further question but I was not having any of it.

The concept of just knocking on a strangers door and asking for stuff other than on Halloween itself would never have occurred to me as a child. I knew it was rude.

Halloween is a social contract even if it is breaking the rules for a day. The small thrill of seeing people in costumes for a small payment.

Still trying to figure it out.

A parishoner enters a church.
     Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
     (The owner does not respond.)
     Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?
     Parson: What do you mean "miss"?
     Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, It was the frock you are wearing. I wish
to make a complaint!
     Parson: We're closin' for lunch.
     Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about
this savior I’ve been paying homage to at this very establishment
since I was born.
     Parson: Oh yes, the, uh, the Son of Yahweh...What's,uh...What's
wrong with it?
     Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's
dead, that's what's wrong with it!
     Parson: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting in ‘eaven with father.
     Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a failed savior when I see one,
and I'm looking at one right now up there on that cross. I found a
passage saying: “But I say unto you of a truth, There are some of
those standing here who shall not taste death until they shall have
seen the kingdom of God “
     Parson: No no he's not dead, he's, he's going to ‘ave a second
coming! Yahweh’s son, we got beautiful rituals
     Mr. Praline: The rituals don't enter into it. He's stone dead.
     Parson: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
     Mr. Praline: All right then, if he's restin', Why I’ll just wake
him. ‘Allo Jesus wake up, I’m doubting you. You will have a saved soul
if…
     Parson: Abba abba gabble geeble! There, the spirit moved me! I
spoke in tounges!
     Mr. Praline: No, he didn't, that was you just spouting
gibberish!
     Parson I never!!
     Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!
     Parson: I never, never did anything...
     Mr. Praline: (shouting into the air) I am asking you in your name
for something, Don’t let me blaspheme! Don’t let me sully your icon.
(tears the crucifix off the wall tosses it into the air and it crashes
into the ground)
     Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead Savior.
     Parson: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
     Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?
     Parson: Yeah! You stunned him, With your heathen behavior.
Yaweh’s son types stun easily, major.
     Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad
enough of this. That savior is definitely deceased, and when I was
going to mass here you assured me that he was just tuckered out from
saving us from our sins, two millennia ago.
     Parson: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the Dead
sea.
     Mr. Praline: PININ' for the Dead Sea?!?!?!? What kind of talk is
that?, look, why did he fail to answer any prayer that couldn’t have
happen by chance EVER!
     Parson: The Yaweh’s son prefers keepin'  it mysterious!
Remarkable savior, id'nit, squire? Lovely rituals!
     Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining this bible
when I got it home, and I discovered it all chock full of
descrepancies. Including miscalculating Pi, saying bats are birds, and
no less than two different ways Judas died.
     (pause)
     Parson: Well, o'course it ‘as descrepancies! If it hadn't people
would think the lord isn’t mysterious and “VOOM!”
     Mr. Praline: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this savior wouldn't "voom" if you
put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
     Parson: No no! 'E's pining!
     Mr. Praline: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This savior is no
more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e
     rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the cross 'e'd be
pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's
off the twig! 'E's kicked the
     bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain
and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-SAVIOR!!
     (pause)
     Parson: Well, I'd better replace it, then

The baffoon and hypocrit named Rush Limbaugh star has been falling, and the wacko right has found a replacement, one even more prone to lying, demogougery, and batshit insane: Glenn Beck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPvUOEqhYo

"Im not saying he doesn't like white people" and "(He) has a deep seated hatred of white people"

Yeah, Mr Beck what a wonderful well thought out argument.  Two absolutely completely opposite statments in the same interview

Then, their is the View, which I thinks sucks, but notice this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t44yNRnoYXQ&feature=fvw

Shows Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg showing him lying


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tb_mMPD6hw

Now this one is Olbermann...who is too liberal for my tastes...but I I do admire for calling conservative idiots for what they are, idiots. Unfortunately Olberman will reach and make stretches, is occasionally hypocritical...and too often will just treat conservatives as idiots by nature, rather than by...as I believe,  that the groups conservatives and idiots are neither identical, nor exclusive of each other.

Glenn Beck called his 70,000 member 9-12 crowd as two million...that goes beyond egageration to lying.
He pulls the fake tears out every time

and oddest of all is that his first major story was about how bad the insurance industry treats patients in the hospital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA7-BvVDV10&NR=1

Here he is unable to answer questions without freaking out and name calling

 

Depressed because I had reserve a space at the Patterson Park flea market to sell Jewelery, but am not healed anough to comfortably move the tables, chair, easy up shelter, display cases and jewelery to sell there today, and Erin just doesn't have the upper body strength to do it herself.  I feel miserable because I could do it, but it might set me back health wise, given I am still coughing up blood in the mornings. I wanted to make some money to put towards getting the floors done, and to feel all the money and hours I put into making the thousand plus peices of jewelery wasn't in vain.

Crap.

I watched Mondays Daily Show, watched Fox news, and have been watching some stuff on you tube, and conservative are frankly appalling me.  Fox News is openly endorsing anti-Obamaites like never before. It has become just as biased as Democracy Now is on the left, but because corporations like the agenda, it is well funded.

I see people using Obama's middle name as a blatent attempt at associating him with terrorism. I see people calling him a socialist and putting him in pictures with Lenin. I even see people calling him Hitler.  I even read a reply to a post I made where someone said, seriously, that he is Islamic and tripled the debt in the first six months in office, statements that are patently false...not just a difference of opinion but verifiably FALSE. These are grown adults with the level of Political awareness and well though out positions that I was, on the left, leaving behing by the second semester of Sophmore high school. 

Looking at Obama's performance so far, I find him a "C-" president. Naive, promised too much, delived too little. To be fair, it is his first year, and many good Presidents first year is pretty lackluster. But given that he followed GW Bush, IMNSHO the worst president ever, makes him look sparkling by comparison. I also don't care for Obama's stance on guns and gun ownership. But GW manage to increase the debt more than any other president in history, had the most enditements for graft in history, a vast stock market plunge,  and had the first drop in median household income adjusted for inflation since the depression. Yes, he proved more disasterous for business than the much maligned Carter, and had a more corrupt cabinet than Grant. I didn't think he was going to be worse than Grant(the next worse president) but he did.  Nixon had nothing on the Bush administration.

But the same people who praised the living fuck out of the incompetent and corrupt Bush administration are just as childishly launching baseless attacks on Obama. 

The ultimate thing is, when we look for standards of living, including healthcare, the US lags behind numerous nations, all with socialized medicine but essentially slightly socialized capitalist countries.. 

I feel that my opinion is mature, only because I put evidence before doctrine. Were the evidence point that this wasn't the case, my opinion would be revised. That is why I refer to myself as a radical moderate.

In a few minutes my mother is going to pick me up to take me to the hospital for vocal chord surgery. I know it is a minor surgery, but none the less, I am a little scared. I will not be able to talk for 5 days, or longer if something goes wrong.

After going out to Virginia Saturday to chase Lego peices for Erin....Yes She actually wanted to go to the lego store more than I did....Sunday I spent Cleaning the house to make it presentable for a backyard Barbeque.

After all, I got this big chunk of Fillet Mignon and had to share. Once again, I never seem to have to patience to really get charcoal going, I should really give it 70 minutes.

This past week Erin and myself went to the Washington DC Lego convention. Even the Badge was made out of lego with the express intent of allowing you to pimp it out.

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Ahh yet another aopogist has sunk his teeth into sidestepping one of the most airtight, logical arguments against the existence of the Christian God. He does so by the usual, lying and illogic.

Some use this question in an attempt to "disprove" the existence of God. In fact, there is a popular anti-Christian website dedicated to the “Why won’t God heal amputees?” argument: http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com. If God is all-powerful and if Jesus promised to do anything we ask (or so the reasoning goes), then why won’t God ever heal amputees when we pray for them? Why does God heal victims of cancer and diabetes, for example, yet He never causes an amputated limb to be regenerated? The fact that an amputee stays an amputee is "proof" to some that God does not exist, that prayer is useless, that so-called healings are coincidence, and that religion is a myth.











Wrong: Thistrying to obfucate magical hereafter for the reality of what we can measure. RED HERRING




So you are accusing him of what every person who has ever tried a point in writing...ever...has done. BEGGING THE QUESTION

Erin poses for a shot on the beach.

After our little 4th of July trip, Erin was itching for a real vacation at AC, by going during the week we managed to squeak it into our budget.  The first day was lovely, but the lifegaurds were very demanding, and what we used as a changing room the first time around, apparently isn't to be used for changing.
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After OakHill, which Erin found somewhat disappointing, we decided to try a graveyard that we've been past many times. I thought it would be uninteresting, being established in 1912. However, I was wrong. It was a bit of a bittersweet experience for me as the last time I was in that graveyard was for the burial of a good friend, fellow Iconoclast, and D&D buddy from high school who had committed suicide, Phillip Enlich.

The odd thing was some unexpected parallels to OakHill



Like Cenotaph sheltered busts

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Erin and I WENT to Atlantic City on Saturday with Jon, Wes, and Cheryl for the 4th and it was actually a fairly good trip.  Even though we did get a late start, and the traffic was miserable, there was no fighting, few sour faces, and little drama.

But unfortunately between the late start and the craptastic traffic, mostly slowed up by 5 fricken tolls, we didn't get to AC until about 6:30 and I with the dipping sun, no one in the group but myself was willing to brave the cold surf.  And Erin gives me crap for being a pussy, HA!

None the less it was damn cold.

I got a few pictures:



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