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Oct. 19th, 2009 @ 06:28 am Listening to NPR
I just listened to a democrat say that, since John Kerry says something's up in Afghanistan and he fought in Vietnam, we should pretty much just go along with whatever he thinks. And HE thinks that the best thing we can do is blow Afghanistan the fuck up for harboring terrorists.

I don't understand how this ends any wars.

The reporter then pointed out that two wars is costly; what kind of stimulus would be worked out for the American people?

Is it just me, or is that a blatant attempt to sell a vote? This reporter's planting seeds. But really...what? A stimulus package on top of more freaking war funds? Where do these people think money comes from?

(Guess what? It doesn't matter. It's all theoretical. If you believe in God, you probably have plenty of faith in American currency.)

The woman then told the reporter that the best form of economic stimulus there will ever be is healthcare.

And that's all she said. I can't even remark on that sarcastically because I can process it on no level which is logical.

So this is a sort of "Help Wanted" ad. If you speak whatever that language was, I need an explanation.

My head hurts. I'm going to bed.
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Oct. 8th, 2009 @ 02:55 pm Onions
Current Location: United States, Marietta
Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Myslovitz - Spacer w bokserskich rękawicach | Powered by Last.fm
Today I found that onions are growing in my yard.

Onions in the ground:


Onions pulled up:


Voila? Onions.

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Oct. 4th, 2009 @ 06:10 pm Hopeful Monsters
Current Location: United States, Marietta
Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Waltz of the Flowers | Powered by Last.fm
"Outside the perimeter wall of the village, and outside each family compound within, there was a small hut like a doll's house placed on stilts. These huts contained wooden figures with drooping breasts and wooden models of penises; they were the homes of a divinity that was to do with the individual rather than the tribe -- that dealt not with questions of stability and balancing but with occasions where there was a need for practical and personal choice. People approached this divinity when they found themselves confused or stuck in their personal life; when they were up against a brick wall and did not know how to get through; when they needed help to decide this or that. This deity was called Legba. Words used about or by Legba were in the form of stories or legends; he was a joker, a trickster; he often indulged in sexual excess. But the point of the stories about him or from him were not seen to be in fact to give personal advice: they were often comic; their aim seemed to be to show the absurdity of predicaments. They appeared to encourage people to free themselves from set expectations; to have a more humourous and ironical attitude to themselves and to life -- and by this means perhaps to be helped to practical solutions. The likelihood of making a right choice, that is, seemed to depend on a person's ability to look somewhat ironically at himself."
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Aug. 20th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm Why I Love The South
Current Location: United States, Marietta
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Jay Clifford - Yesterday's Move | Powered by Last.fm
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Jul. 27th, 2009 @ 01:55 pm "Is Barack Obama An American Citizen?"
Current Location: United States, Georgia, Marietta
Current Music: Al Green - Love And Happiness | Powered by Last.fm
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Those who claim that Obama is a citizen rely too heavily on the metaphysical premise that reality is perceivable and knowable.

Alex Knapp of Heretical Ideas has written one of the best satirical pieces I've read in awhile tackling the "Birther" argument. Enjoy! :)



Cognitive Realism, the Law of Attraction, and Norse Mythology all provide plausible philosophic justification for ignoring evidence and logic. Accordingly, because Obama’s claim to American citizenship is only supported by evidence and logic, he must not be an American citizen. Thus, Barack Obama is not eligible to be President of the United States.

It’s perfectly logical.

Knapp, Alex Heretical Ideas: A Journal Of Unorthodox Opinion 2009. 24 July 2009

Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? Heretical Ideas
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Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 10:21 pm Our Local Vegetable Share
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: R.E.M. - Find the River | Powered by Last.fm
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For several weeks I have been purchasing raw milk and fresh organic eggs from the Carlton Farms, a local distributor.

If you haven't yet consumed raw milk, it is an absolute must. It goes bad faster because it is unpasteurized (which, according to the Federal Government, makes it unlawful for humans to consume...I'll just continue consuming things that are illegal as i always have, thank you...) The eggs are amazing. As Brett likes to say, "Straight from the chicken's butt." Brett doesn't know much about chicken anatomy.

I got a newsletter today about vegetable sharing. Basically, you go to the meet-up with $17 and they hand over a giant box of vegetables and fruit. Until a few days before the meet-up, no one knows what the boxes are likely to contain. There is a possibility that their projections will also be off. Be that as it may, they have a great little newsletter (though they fail to proofread) complete with recipes!

Are you nuttin' up yet, [info]twofootsmall?

( The Newsletter )
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Jun. 29th, 2009 @ 06:39 pm In reply to Penny's comment about Wilde's Roman Catholicism
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Hear, hear. It is indeed elegantly written. When put up against the typical book review today, it's downright brilliant. I'm particularly pleased to see the reader of a newspaper not being treated as though their minds are arrested at a fourth grade level.

Wilde is a fascinating subject particularly for the conclusions about life he reached while in prison. De Profundis (aptly titled: it translates to "from the depths") is a fascinating exploration of Christianity and God in it's own way, Wilde differentiating in a way that I, too, differentiate, between the "Christian" and the "Christ-like".



( Here's a telling passage: )
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Jun. 29th, 2009 @ 02:16 am "The Importance Of Being Wilde"
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Dudley-Edwards, Owen. "The Importance Of Being Wilde" The Washington Post 28 Oct. 1962: G8

Reviewed by
Owen Dudley-Edwards

Mr. Dudley-Edwards edited an earlier collection of the letters of Oscar Wilde.

THE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, Harcourt, Brace and World. 958 pp. $15

     "THIS STRANGE and fascinating figure that for a few years dazzled literary London, and made so brilliant a debut in life and letters, is undoubtedly a most interesting study . . . That he had a sincere love of art and nature seems to me quite certain. There is no essential incongruity between crime and culture. We cannot rewrite the whole of history for the purposes of gratifying our moral sense of what should be. Of course, he is far too close to our own time for us to be able to form any purely artistic judgment about him."

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