I had a dream where there was an alien race living among us who reproduced in a strange way. There was a blue haired girl in class who was of this species- her hair was bright blue, and she never had any roots so maybe it was natural, or maybe it was a result of having seen too much anime. There was a guy in her class who knew her secret. At some point a membrane formed around her, and a second copy of her and the guy came out. Fully clothed even. They were both "Later." "See ya around." and then left. She was laying on the floor, panting and wet.
there was also something with giant robots and fighting I think. She was failing class because she was never showing up. There was another guy in her class who was also of her race who got really built over summer, I think having to do with the giant robots. it was all pretty confusing. The last thought I had before waking up was.
"Let's start a band called nude rebellion. Instead of t shirts we can sale temporary tattoos." I'm not sure what context it was in.
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It's not newsy, but pictures from this one penis oriented Japanese fertility festival are always amusing. links for today, with little commentary
MSNBC interrupts McCain for "non-news" from Iraq. They knew it would be risky to exhibit a homoerotic version of Christ's Last Supper, but curators at museum of Vienna's Roman Catholic Cathedral weren't ready for a barrage of angry messages and calls to be shut down. a homoerotic last supper at a Catholic museum? laziness
Earlier reading about milk shortages in Venezuela I considered the recent spat of articles about the unsoundness of the idea of turning corn into fuel, simply because it takes rather a lot of energy to make corn, and even more to distill corn alcohol, such that energy out and energy in are wayyy to close to one another for the process to be worthwhile, particularly since that energy in comes somewhat from utilities, and the cheapest way to generate electricity in this country is coal. *breath* in bed
You can call me Al
since I find all three of their platforms odious I'm not really part of this discussion, but is the democratic leadership really dumb enough to decide "The people have spoken, they don't want a white man to be the next president, and with the hemorrhaging the party is taking from the people who support Hillery and Obama, let's give them Al Gore." Zombies: Rational
I just had a dream- a smallish group was having zombie menace type problems- I don't know if they were humanities last defenders or just among it's first line of defense. I like to think that everything hadn't gone to hell, but enough did that these people were cut off from the rest of civilization. The main character was walking around with a large gun with a dirty harry type flavor- a large revolver, and he kept it fully loaded, because, hey, that's what you do with zombies. When the zombies would show up - they weren't always there, they were pasty with blackened lips and eyes, but not over all in especially bad shape.. no dragging organs or missing limbs or falling out eyes. Yet? as time went on the zombies kept getting harder to kill. The last one before the next scene took 5 shells. At some point the main character, a side guy, and a 14-16 year old boy went out to get a chain saw. They got to the place, and there was a corn field to the side, and two cutting devices- a chain saw and something else, both gas powered, sitting on two tree stumps. The tree stumps were kind of on their side and a pit was hollowed out around them like someone had been trying to remove them to plant more corn. Next to the field there was a gas canister. Anyway, when the two adults went to get the cutting devices the zombies swarmed from the corn field. suddenly they were in the fight of their lives and retreating toward the house. Some gas was spilled and one of the zombies who also appeared to be an old man made some kind of gesture, I think meaning "danger, fire" and the zombies reorganized and got mostly out of the path of potential danger. As they were running they noticed the boy was stopped and they were like "what are you doing." and apparently the zombies had caught him and nailed him in place.... They went back to the house and the main character was grabbing weapons and was basically why is all this happening. Then I woke up. Chinese police open fire on monks and nuns.
China demonstrates her civility and respect for human life and differing ideologies yet again. Comments on "Venezuela dares U.S. to put it on terror list"
from cnn "We shouldn't forget for an instant that we're in a battle against North American imperialism," Chavez said. "On this continent, they have us as enemy No. 1." Imperialism? Nay. Capitalism. Chavez can hardly be worried about Imperialism when he seems interested in creating a unified socialist South America, which I'm sure he would watch over as protector of the revolution. After 9 years in office the only people better of in Venezuela are the ones in the pockets of Chavez's government, or government officials. Chavez has been threatening to cut off trade with the US for years as well, and he hasn't. The reason? There's one country on earth that can efficiently process that sulfurous sludge they call oil. As far as FARC, goes, they do four noticeable things- kill people, kidnap people, buy/sell weapons, and sell drugs. When Columbia killed the #2 man in FARC a few weeks ago, they took his computers, and FARC's relationship with Chavez seems pretty fiscal to me. They may call themselves revolutionary socialists/communists, but whatever idealism may lead someone to joining, in the end they're just a criminal gang, and internationally recognized as a terrorist organization. They've kidnapped THOUSANDS of people, the designation is not in question, so the only question is how long/much has Chavez been supporting them. Well, you could ask "is he willing to stop." My guess is that he tries to help FARC more publically. That would be bad, Venezuelans don't like FARC either. guns and schools
from cnn The measure was approved 65-36, despite opponents who said it made no sense following shootings at schools across the country. it is the responsibility of news organizations to be informative, but I think the phrasing demonstrated the bias of the author. Opponents doesn't enumerate who particularly well, the only quote from the opponents is "This has to be the craziest thing I have ever seen," said Rep. Ray McCarter, D-Marlow, one of several lawmakers who said the measure is opposed by college administrators. well, from a bit of the old internet research, it would appear that Ray McCarter is a former teacher/administrator himself, and administrators of any stripe are usually against anything "disruptive" or "empowering." The anti-gun crowd of course thinks that the fewer guns there are, the safer we are. That is not actually accurate. Opponents is a broad term, but some opinion more or less exists to be mocked. So the question becomes. Who opposes. It matters a great deal as to how much I value their opinion. Pork, congress can't resist the old troff
if your senator was on this list, you should probably let them know you don't appreciate them putting getting themselves reelected (or personal enrichment, or using tax dollars to underhandedly get campaign contributions) ahead of the tax payer. It's your money they're allocating to things not in the national interest. It's your money, and your vote. It isn't about congresses right to set funding priorities. What this is about, is taking millions of dollars and transforming it into thousands of dollars for reelection campaigns, bridges with your name on it, and family members and friends being enriched at the expense of the rest of us. National taxes should go to national, not local interests, should seek the best value for the money (not no-compete contracts), and should not be beneficial to explicitly named entities. Vote for people who will be responsible with your money. If you don't, you may find you don't have money for them to be responsible with. Ask Cuba. Shhh, don't tell tell the democrats!
Via Cadillac Tight
The real money shot quote for me, though, was this line. One, many of these members feel no pressure to vote correctly or uphold progressive values. American Politics aren't that hard- the thing that you have to realize is that the Democrats and the Republicans are both coalitions. What, you say? The us doesn't have Whigs and Tories and Christian Liberal Democrats and Democratic Socialists, etc, etc, etc.. or they do, but only those two parties get elected. Well. there in lies the trick. There's a long list of issues, that the two parties cover- and while you might say these issues are Left and Right, I think most of them are a bit more difficult to grok than that. When you run for office, you pick the issue or issues that are most important to you and choose a party. It doesn't mean that you are going to agree with the entire agenda. I don't even think that it's possible for a sane person to fully agree with either political party. But the republicans are very conscious of their "coalition." Between the Social Conservatives and the Fiscal Conservatives, especially, but of all the other fractures in the party. Now.
Southern democrats vote the way they do because that is what they believe in, and that is what wins elections for them. If you force them out, they'll just be replaced by Republicans. If you want to win elections, be aware of your coalitions. Or you can continue to look at it simplistically and loose elections. Your call. Internet Breakage...
Last night Laurie stopped being able to surf and asked if the internet was down. We'd suffered a power outage earlier and her desktop was down, but I was playing an internet game (2 Moons) - which is a decent indicator that the internet was up. Anyway, I investigated various things, one of them eventually bumping me off my game. After that I reset the modem and it never came back up again. I knew just what to do. We went grocery shopping. You know, so the Internet, being a spurned lover, would try to get all close and huggy again. But no. It was still gone when we got back. I called support, entered my phone number and was greeted with "Right now all Internet and Phone service is down in North Carolina. We're working on it." In North Carolina. Well. There was a small note of panic in the voice. New Dream
Last night I dreamed that I was with a friend going to school. The friend had apparently learned to fly- not well mind, but I only knew how to hover. I hovered by denying gravity, then pushing off with my feet. I could stop my assent by letting gravity have a little of it's due, and could go down the same way. This was all easy to do and sort of subconcious. For some reason I wasn't able to go particularlly high, but that's probably due to air resistance. Anyway. I am the wind..
I am the wind. Current Mood:
 boredShould I be more worried I got one wrong or 9 right?
In keeping with Vampy's theory
Vampy thinks everyone gets longcat. I have proven her right by taking the test myself. Your Score: Serious Cat31% Affectionate, 46% Excitable, 53% Hungry
No privacy for the kiddies.
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