Saturday, January 10, 2009
Friday, January 09, 2009
EXPOSÉ on the JOURNAL: Mr. Heath Goes Back to Washington
Sunlight Foundation.com
Earmark Watch.org
Cool. the following indepent film is interesting,
GRIT TV - Media Roundtable: Reported and Underreported (By MediaChannel. 1 hour long, but very interesting, the following documentary is discussed and looks interesting to me.)
Earmark Watch.org
Cool. the following indepent film is interesting,
GRIT TV - Media Roundtable: Reported and Underreported (By MediaChannel. 1 hour long, but very interesting, the following documentary is discussed and looks interesting to me.)
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Tomgram: Michael T. Klare, The Problem with Cheap Oil
Wow, back to this. Always back to this. I read this book some time before I started blogging three years ago. I've read some Michael Klare articles, one of his books, and listened to some of his lectures, but this book, The Prize by Daniel Yergin was the first to really clarify some things regarding oil for me.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Fighting Off Depression
PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: January 4, 2009
Yeah, I know, I never link to Krugman. This one scares the bejeezus out of me. It's a good thing I had a good day and saw my kid.
Published: January 4, 2009
Yeah, I know, I never link to Krugman. This one scares the bejeezus out of me. It's a good thing I had a good day and saw my kid.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
The whole world is watching
The propaganda war continues also.
Iran says 70,000 volunteer for Israel fight
January 5, 2009 02:04 PM EST
Hamas rockets rain on Israeli towns
Only three civilian fatalities to date, but a climate of fear pervades Israel's southern communities.
By Joshua Mitnick Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the January 7, 2009 edition
To Rid Slums of Drug Gangs, Police in Rio Try War Tactics
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, January 6, 2009; A08
How. Can. I. Not. Laugh?
Or, maybe I'm laughing at last night's Daily Show
hat tip to Jersey Cynic
Iran says 70,000 volunteer for Israel fight
January 5, 2009 02:04 PM EST
Hamas rockets rain on Israeli towns
Only three civilian fatalities to date, but a climate of fear pervades Israel's southern communities.
By Joshua Mitnick Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the January 7, 2009 edition
To Rid Slums of Drug Gangs, Police in Rio Try War Tactics
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, January 6, 2009; A08
How. Can. I. Not. Laugh?
Or, maybe I'm laughing at last night's Daily Show
hat tip to Jersey Cynic
The Cost of SLAPPing Down Journalism
Alan Rusbridger, who edits the British Guardian, thinks fear of libel lawsuits from big corporations may have contributed to journalists' failure to adequately report on the dangerous economic decisions that led to the recent implosion of the global financial system. In an article for the New York Review of Books, he recounts his own paper's "most recent serious brush with the British defamation laws" earlier this year when it was sued for libel by Tesco, one of the largest public companies in Britain and the fourth-largest retailer in the world.
Hmmmm. It's nice that someone is on the ball with this and reporting this. I wish it didn't feel so eh feh, ho hum, they dragged us into a war didn't they? Why should we believe anything (including the sale price advertisements) that we read in the papers anymore?
Frankly, the only reason the four major papers are on my blogroll is that the Prof wanted us to read them regularly in a class I took a sememster ago. Unless I go back and re-do the blogger blogroll, I can't get anything off of my blogroll. I can add, but not subtract. Blogrolling is still screwed up from the Islamist dickhead who hacked it.
Hmmmm. It's nice that someone is on the ball with this and reporting this. I wish it didn't feel so eh feh, ho hum, they dragged us into a war didn't they? Why should we believe anything (including the sale price advertisements) that we read in the papers anymore?
Frankly, the only reason the four major papers are on my blogroll is that the Prof wanted us to read them regularly in a class I took a sememster ago. Unless I go back and re-do the blogger blogroll, I can't get anything off of my blogroll. I can add, but not subtract. Blogrolling is still screwed up from the Islamist dickhead who hacked it.
Monday, January 05, 2009
sitemeter sez
today's popular post is DIME weapon.
They using that shit in Gaza again? Somehow I doubt it, but people are looking for information on it. These hits ain't coming from Gaza either, they're coming from large European cities.
They using that shit in Gaza again? Somehow I doubt it, but people are looking for information on it. These hits ain't coming from Gaza either, they're coming from large European cities.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
50 facts about 9/11
I got nothing today. The headline looked amusing. I wish I could take naps, this cold is really getting boring.
Oh, looks like I found something.
By Aaron Glantz, New America Media. Posted January 3, 2009.
Did You Know 200,000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets?
What a silly question. It doesn't freeze in San Diego in the winter. Here's last year's "One Day Homeless Count" from last January. According to it 17% of 7,582 were vets. That's a minimum estimate and doesn't count at least another thousand migrant workers in a county of 3 million.
Oh, looks like I found something.
By Aaron Glantz, New America Media. Posted January 3, 2009.
Did You Know 200,000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets?
What a silly question. It doesn't freeze in San Diego in the winter. Here's last year's "One Day Homeless Count" from last January. According to it 17% of 7,582 were vets. That's a minimum estimate and doesn't count at least another thousand migrant workers in a county of 3 million.
Friday, January 02, 2009
Violent returning GI's is a surprise?
A Focus on Violence by Returning G.I.’s
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and DAN FROSCH
Published: January 1, 2009
FORT CARSON, Colo. —
This is a surprise?
Good God, all the time I used public transportation I warily eyed vets who'd lost their damn minds. They were usually easy to spot because they wore fatigues, which are really cheap in the thrift stores here. The war never left them alone. Their country didn't help them, the military culture forbids it. Oh, no fucking way, no head case shit in the service jacket. My counselor treats PTSD. I have it. There should be no way I can get an appointment, but I do, it's easy because the guys never get treated, unless you consider "drunk" a form of "treatment." Their girlfriends and wives end up in treatment a LOT, not to mention the fucking emergency rooms, or Mary Kay parties to learn how to cover the bruises. I didn't hang around long enough to learn how to use make-up to cover bruises, the only time I ever got the living shit beat out of me by a boyfriend he was ex-Army. Demolition to be exact.
What, now that most of the homeless whacked out Vietnam Vets are dead or dying, we need a whole new crop?
*sigh*
Someday maybe what our government does will make sense, but it sure isn't there yet.
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and DAN FROSCH
Published: January 1, 2009
FORT CARSON, Colo. —
This is a surprise?
Good God, all the time I used public transportation I warily eyed vets who'd lost their damn minds. They were usually easy to spot because they wore fatigues, which are really cheap in the thrift stores here. The war never left them alone. Their country didn't help them, the military culture forbids it. Oh, no fucking way, no head case shit in the service jacket. My counselor treats PTSD. I have it. There should be no way I can get an appointment, but I do, it's easy because the guys never get treated, unless you consider "drunk" a form of "treatment." Their girlfriends and wives end up in treatment a LOT, not to mention the fucking emergency rooms, or Mary Kay parties to learn how to cover the bruises. I didn't hang around long enough to learn how to use make-up to cover bruises, the only time I ever got the living shit beat out of me by a boyfriend he was ex-Army. Demolition to be exact.
What, now that most of the homeless whacked out Vietnam Vets are dead or dying, we need a whole new crop?
*sigh*
Someday maybe what our government does will make sense, but it sure isn't there yet.
Got tuh git er done quick-like, before the new sheriff comes to town
End of the Year Brings A Burst of Settlements With Justice Department
Justice's Matthew Friedrich announces Siemens's guilty plea to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The German company recently agreed to pay $450 million in fines. (By Chip Somodevilla -- Getty Images)
The Justice Department has reached more than a dozen business-related settlements since the presidential election, with more in the pipeline for January, prompting lawyers and interest groups to assert that companies are seeking more favorable terms before the new administration arrives.
Justice's Matthew Friedrich announces Siemens's guilty plea to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The German company recently agreed to pay $450 million in fines. (By Chip Somodevilla -- Getty Images)
The Justice Department has reached more than a dozen business-related settlements since the presidential election, with more in the pipeline for January, prompting lawyers and interest groups to assert that companies are seeking more favorable terms before the new administration arrives.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
happy New Year
yeah like that there. I think somebody is shooting in my neighborhood, totally illegal, I'm in the suburbs.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Drug cartels fact or fiction?
When I'm sick I like to watch some of my favorite movies. Traffic is one of them. They cut my all time favorite scene out of the movie. "#22 Robert meets Javier." Robert asks Javier if it's possible to be the Drug Czar in Mexico without having some connection to one of the drug cartels?" Javier answers "Yes is possible, if he's ready to die."
Interestingly enough, the brand name of the cocaine coming from the Juarez cartel going through Tijuana in this scene Robert refers to sounds an awful lot like "nine-eleven." Maybe that's why all the references to Javier becoming the "Mexican Drug Czar" are cut out of the movie. Kind of weird because of the movie's release dates
Mexico extradites 10 drug cartel suspects to US
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico has sent 10 alleged drug smugglers to the United States, capping an already record year for extraditions between the two countries.
Mexico's federal Attorney General's office calls the suspects high-ranking members of the country's three most powerful drug cartels - the Gulf, Sinaloa and Arellano-Felix gangs.
Among them is a former federal official who allegedly worked as security chief for the Tijuana-based Arellano-Felix group. Armando Martinez Duarte is accused of protecting its members from police raids and killing cartel rivals in the border city of Mexicali.
Wednesday's extraditions raise the 2008 total to 95, up 12 from last year.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican soldiers have captured an alleged high-ranking member of a drug gang known as "The Family."
The Defense Department says Alberto Espinoza Barron was arrested in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan on Monday.
A Defense statement alleges he was in charge of U.S.-bound cocaine shipments arriving at the state's Lazaro Cardenas port from South America.
He is also accused of bribing police, extorting businesses and ordering kidnappings and killings.
Mexico's Attorney General's office was interrogating him Wednesday.
Drug-related murders have nearly doubled this year to 5,300, federal officials say, despite a government crackdown on organized crime.2008-12-31 20:58:57 GMT
Interestingly enough, the brand name of the cocaine coming from the Juarez cartel going through Tijuana in this scene Robert refers to sounds an awful lot like "nine-eleven." Maybe that's why all the references to Javier becoming the "Mexican Drug Czar" are cut out of the movie. Kind of weird because of the movie's release dates
Mexico extradites 10 drug cartel suspects to US
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico has sent 10 alleged drug smugglers to the United States, capping an already record year for extraditions between the two countries.
Mexico's federal Attorney General's office calls the suspects high-ranking members of the country's three most powerful drug cartels - the Gulf, Sinaloa and Arellano-Felix gangs.
Among them is a former federal official who allegedly worked as security chief for the Tijuana-based Arellano-Felix group. Armando Martinez Duarte is accused of protecting its members from police raids and killing cartel rivals in the border city of Mexicali.
Wednesday's extraditions raise the 2008 total to 95, up 12 from last year.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican soldiers have captured an alleged high-ranking member of a drug gang known as "The Family."
The Defense Department says Alberto Espinoza Barron was arrested in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan on Monday.
A Defense statement alleges he was in charge of U.S.-bound cocaine shipments arriving at the state's Lazaro Cardenas port from South America.
He is also accused of bribing police, extorting businesses and ordering kidnappings and killings.
Mexico's Attorney General's office was interrogating him Wednesday.
Drug-related murders have nearly doubled this year to 5,300, federal officials say, despite a government crackdown on organized crime.2008-12-31 20:58:57 GMT
Trying to read
I finally gave up on this one.
The Price of Loyalty
The bastids is almos' gone, I cain't stands tuh see whut's they did tuh good men.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
'Marley & Me' earns $50.7M box office biscuit
You know that nobody has time to train their dogs properly when this is the big hit.
Completely unrelated (unless you figure on less suburban dog ownership) but mighty interesting to me, Jim Kuntsler bops us on the head with his version of the coming realities. I tend to agree with him most of the time although he doesn't explain where the (mostly unpapered) South Americans (and their kids born here) doing this now will go
A lot of families will lose everything. They will sift and disperse into the housing owned by other family members -- parents, siblings -- and a strange new not-altogether comfortable kind of togetherness will become common. Over time, a lot of people will go looking for casual work "under-the-table"( and probably low-paying). To some degree, these workers will begin to look and act like a new servant class, and before too long they may be absorbed into the households of people who employ them. There will be plenty of room for them there.
Completely unrelated (unless you figure on less suburban dog ownership) but mighty interesting to me, Jim Kuntsler bops us on the head with his version of the coming realities. I tend to agree with him most of the time although he doesn't explain where the (mostly unpapered) South Americans (and their kids born here) doing this now will go
A lot of families will lose everything. They will sift and disperse into the housing owned by other family members -- parents, siblings -- and a strange new not-altogether comfortable kind of togetherness will become common. Over time, a lot of people will go looking for casual work "under-the-table"( and probably low-paying). To some degree, these workers will begin to look and act like a new servant class, and before too long they may be absorbed into the households of people who employ them. There will be plenty of room for them there.
BuckFush is always fabulous
I wonder if they'll keep going after the inauguration? Hell, Leno still spews Clinton Jokes, right? How tedious is that shit after he's been gone 8 years. Hmm, maybe the inauguration will stop the Clinton jokes? Yeah, I didn't think so, Republicans are pretty stupid and stubborn, no matter how fucked up things are, they just keep blaming the Democrats for the mess, no matter that Democrats are usually the ones cleaning up the messes that the Republicans made. And tax cuts for the (usually Republican)rich don't work.
Rove: History will be kind to Bush
Nick Cargo and David EdwardsPublished: Sunday December 28, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Religion sucks #15
or
I don't care about Israel and Palestine any more.
Why?
Because it's a big fucking clusterfuck GAME that the whole fucking world plays and concentrates on because it's sooooooooooo tragic and it's a nice distraction from the clusterfuck mess in your own Godamned country. That's why. And it will never be resolved until people clean up their own houses and their own backyards and stay the fuck out of it. I had a Jewish friend say to me one time, yeesh, let them kill each other over a stupid piece of dirt, who cares?
How can either side work towards peace when the cycle of revenge and violence from outside appearances is in their DNA? Fuck 'em. Let 'em kill each other. Let the Israelis sink or swim on their own, no more US aid. Let the idiot Palestinians survive on their own, no more aid, maybe they'll quit breeding like rats. Not that the Jews who steal their land don't breed like rats, they do.
What it really boils down to is, nobody will win this because both sides believe that God/Allah/Whatever is on their side. How can anyone say that either side is wrong when Allah told them to send rockets into the oppressor's neighborhoods, and G_d told them to retaliate because the Land was given to them by G-D?
Update:
Yep, looks like I'm not the only one tired of this shit.
I don't care about Israel and Palestine any more.
Why?
Because it's a big fucking clusterfuck GAME that the whole fucking world plays and concentrates on because it's sooooooooooo tragic and it's a nice distraction from the clusterfuck mess in your own Godamned country. That's why. And it will never be resolved until people clean up their own houses and their own backyards and stay the fuck out of it. I had a Jewish friend say to me one time, yeesh, let them kill each other over a stupid piece of dirt, who cares?
How can either side work towards peace when the cycle of revenge and violence from outside appearances is in their DNA? Fuck 'em. Let 'em kill each other. Let the Israelis sink or swim on their own, no more US aid. Let the idiot Palestinians survive on their own, no more aid, maybe they'll quit breeding like rats. Not that the Jews who steal their land don't breed like rats, they do.
What it really boils down to is, nobody will win this because both sides believe that God/Allah/Whatever is on their side. How can anyone say that either side is wrong when Allah told them to send rockets into the oppressor's neighborhoods, and G_d told them to retaliate because the Land was given to them by G-D?
Update:
Yep, looks like I'm not the only one tired of this shit.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Why is there so little mainstream coverage of death of Mike Connell - longtime Bush / Rove IT guru?
I've been wondering that also. but frankly I haven't wanted to think too hard about anything. I got a cold for Christmas, I feel like crap. I rarely get sick. I haven't watched this in a while and it makes me laugh.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tired today
So here's something that made me giggle the other night. The "sky demon" or "Gods of commerce" as I like to call them bring me delight at Christmas sometimes.
This one's for you Badtux :)
This one's for you Badtux :)
Monday, December 22, 2008
Fighting the Greedy Defense Lobbyists: Our Our Schools vs. Their Worthless Weaponry
Alcohol Sales Climb During Recession
January 16, 2002
Recession-Proof in Alcohol Sales As Americans face tougher times from a slowing economy, they are consuming more alcohol ,By Tricia O'Connor
KVLY-TV
updated 4:19 p.m. PT, Sun., Dec. 21, 2008
Reuters reported Jan. 12.
January 16, 2002
Recession-Proof in Alcohol Sales As Americans face tougher times from a slowing economy, they are consuming more alcohol ,By Tricia O'Connor
KVLY-TV
updated 4:19 p.m. PT, Sun., Dec. 21, 2008
Reuters reported Jan. 12.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Ok now it's Christmas.
This was a table top Christmas tree that was around a foot tall and half dead when I planted it six years ago. My husband is pooped since I made him throw the lights over the top from the roof, and mess around with a broom. I managed to stand on top of the ladder close to the trunk inside the branches and mess around with a sponge mop. It ain't perfect and it's a far cry from the Candy Cane Lane that I and my helpful neighbor drove through tonight, which had Sponge Bob and Disney Characters eveywhere, but it's Christmas and I like it. I managed to poke my eye with a needle and I don't know how you do that with glasses on, but I did. It was mildly uncomfortable for a while, but it's OK now. I managed to score a thirty dollar tree for inside the house for ten bucks and got 3 sets of 300 lights for twelve bucks. My little table top tree that had a half dozen lights on it now requires at least thirteen hundred lights. (close to four hundred feet)
Dude.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Friday sqirrel blogging
They're not out, it's too cold. Hey, don't laugh, we get frost on the roofs here. And the poor litle dears have had to close off the burrows because we've had rain. Here are some birds I caught the other day.
I love the rain, makes me want to go swimming. We only got booted out of workouts a half dozen times because of lightning. Most of the swimming pools in San Diego are outdoor pools, they have covers so that they don't lose heat at night in the winter.
I love the rain, makes me want to go swimming. We only got booted out of workouts a half dozen times because of lightning. Most of the swimming pools in San Diego are outdoor pools, they have covers so that they don't lose heat at night in the winter.
Arkansas family welcomes 18th child, a girl
1 hr 1 min ago
Yeesh. I'm already disgusted because I'm cleaning the oven today. This lady's oven ain't never clean, always got a damn bun in it. Blech. Dirty diapers for 20 years? Ugh. My kid got to be about ten & I couldn't do other kids' shitty diapers anymore without gagging. I told her to shoot my ass before I got so bad that she had to change my diapers. Hell I can't even walk my friend's little dog, let the footpath be fouled, I can't pick up the poop, I gag.
Yeesh. I'm already disgusted because I'm cleaning the oven today. This lady's oven ain't never clean, always got a damn bun in it. Blech. Dirty diapers for 20 years? Ugh. My kid got to be about ten & I couldn't do other kids' shitty diapers anymore without gagging. I told her to shoot my ass before I got so bad that she had to change my diapers. Hell I can't even walk my friend's little dog, let the footpath be fouled, I can't pick up the poop, I gag.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Crude Oil Falls Below $40 on OPEC Skepticism, U.S. Supply Gain
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Oil fell below $40 a barrel for the first time in more than four years as OPEC failed to convince traders that the glut in crude will diminish and the U.S. government said supplies climbed for the 11th time in 12 weeks.
Umm, yeah, so why did the price of gas in San Diego go up instead of continuing to go down like it has been?
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008
Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
By DIONNE WALKER Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia judge ordered a Muslim woman arrested Tuesday for contempt of court for refusing to take off her head scarf at a security checkpoint.
The judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta's west suburban outskirts.
Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations urged federal authorities to investigate the incident as well as others in Georgia.
"I just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights," Valentine told The Associated Press on Wednesday from her home, after she said she was unexpectedly released once CAIR got involved. Jail officials declined to say why she was freed.
Municipal Court Judge Keith Rollins said that "it would not be appropriate" for him to comment on the case.
Last year, a judge in Valdosta in southern Georgia barred a Muslim woman from entering a courtroom because she would not remove her head scarf. There have been similar cases in other states, including Michigan, where a Muslim woman in Detroit filed a federal lawsuit in February 2007 after a judge dismissed her small-claims court case when she refused to remove a head and face veil.
Valentine's husband, Omar Hall, said his wife was accompanying her nephew to a traffic citation hearing when officials stopped her at the metal detector and told her she would not be allowed in the courtroom with the head scarf, known as a hijab.
Hall said Valentine, an insurance underwriter, told the bailiff that she had been in courtrooms before with the scarf on and that removing it would be a religious violation. When she turned to leave and uttered an expletive, Hall said a bailiff handcuffed her and took her before the judge.
2008-12-17 16:12:26 GMT
Holy fuck. What part of "you want the benefits of living in this country you follow the rules" do these dipshit women not understand? Maybe it's their insecure dipshit husbands we should be talking to?
Umm, yeah, so why did the price of gas in San Diego go up instead of continuing to go down like it has been?
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008
Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
By DIONNE WALKER Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia judge ordered a Muslim woman arrested Tuesday for contempt of court for refusing to take off her head scarf at a security checkpoint.
The judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta's west suburban outskirts.
Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations urged federal authorities to investigate the incident as well as others in Georgia.
"I just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights," Valentine told The Associated Press on Wednesday from her home, after she said she was unexpectedly released once CAIR got involved. Jail officials declined to say why she was freed.
Municipal Court Judge Keith Rollins said that "it would not be appropriate" for him to comment on the case.
Last year, a judge in Valdosta in southern Georgia barred a Muslim woman from entering a courtroom because she would not remove her head scarf. There have been similar cases in other states, including Michigan, where a Muslim woman in Detroit filed a federal lawsuit in February 2007 after a judge dismissed her small-claims court case when she refused to remove a head and face veil.
Valentine's husband, Omar Hall, said his wife was accompanying her nephew to a traffic citation hearing when officials stopped her at the metal detector and told her she would not be allowed in the courtroom with the head scarf, known as a hijab.
Hall said Valentine, an insurance underwriter, told the bailiff that she had been in courtrooms before with the scarf on and that removing it would be a religious violation. When she turned to leave and uttered an expletive, Hall said a bailiff handcuffed her and took her before the judge.
2008-12-17 16:12:26 GMT
Holy fuck. What part of "you want the benefits of living in this country you follow the rules" do these dipshit women not understand? Maybe it's their insecure dipshit husbands we should be talking to?
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Stimulus Package To First Pay for Routine Repairs
By Alec MacGillis and Michael D. ShearWashington Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 14, 2008; Page A01
Damn. Gah. I'll let Kuntsler tell you.
Damn. Gah. I'll let Kuntsler tell you.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Drought parches much of the U.S., may get worse
At least 36 states expect to face water shortages within the next five years, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. According to the National Drought Mitigation Center, several regions in particular have been hit hard: the Southeast, Southwest and the West. Texas, Georgia and South Carolina have suffered the worst droughts this year, the agency said.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Stephen Gardner, former CEO of Peregrine Systems, sentenced to prison
Peregrine Systems
I haven't really followed this story, but the name of the company might have forced those in power in the company to run it cleaner than most companies.
Remember "Falcon and the Snowman?"
Whenever I hear the name of the company I hear this or this .
And here's the Friday squirrel (Aug pic)
I haven't really followed this story, but the name of the company might have forced those in power in the company to run it cleaner than most companies.
Remember "Falcon and the Snowman?"
Whenever I hear the name of the company I hear this or this .
And here's the Friday squirrel (Aug pic)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Oil prices near $48 a barrel as dollar falls
By JOHN PORRETTO
AP Energy Writer
Posted on Thu, Dec. 11, 2008 06:40 AM
Oil prices rose 10 percent Thursday as the dollar continued to lose value, making commodities like crude more attractive.
AP Energy Writer
Posted on Thu, Dec. 11, 2008 06:40 AM
Oil prices rose 10 percent Thursday as the dollar continued to lose value, making commodities like crude more attractive.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
What's with this anyway?
Dude. My clocks finally came. Almost exactly a month with no kitchen clock
Thank you to those of you who humored me by voting on a clock, but I had to pick one I could live with. And I decided to put one in the bathroom.
I have my "Reasons Why" (10/13/07) local group
.... And goddamnit, but the fucking thing is running slow. This is starting to get creepy. I've had no luck with getting a clock for that spot. They run fast, slow, they don't work at all, the second hand falls off, what's the deal here folks?
Update 2:00 PM 12/10/2008 This is the kind of customer service e-mail exchange I can live with:
Question: The Time Is Now Wall Clock
Product Number: 104742570
clock runs slow, I want it exchanged, I already paid for shipping, I don't want to do it again.
From: CafePress.com Support Team (support@cafepress.com)
Sent: Wed 12/10/08 12:17 PM
To: Nunya (xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx)
Dear Nunya,
I am sorry to hear your order was not received in perfect condition. I want you to be 100% satisfied with your CafePress.com experience.
I am ordering you a replacement right away at no additional charge. You should receive the replacement by 12/24/08.
I know the item you received is not up to your complete satisfaction, however, I do not want you to incur any extra charges sending the item back. Please discard the defective item.
If there is anything else I can do for you please let me know.
Best Regards,
XXXXXXXXXX X.
CafePress.com Support Associate
Done. I hope it's recyclable, cause that's the bin it went in. Yes, I took the battery out. So I might have a clock by Christmas. I've been clocked before, and I've been cursed at, but never before have I been cursed when it came to clocks. This is weird.
Thank you to those of you who humored me by voting on a clock, but I had to pick one I could live with. And I decided to put one in the bathroom.
I have my "Reasons Why" (10/13/07) local group
.... And goddamnit, but the fucking thing is running slow. This is starting to get creepy. I've had no luck with getting a clock for that spot. They run fast, slow, they don't work at all, the second hand falls off, what's the deal here folks?
Update 2:00 PM 12/10/2008 This is the kind of customer service e-mail exchange I can live with:
Question: The Time Is Now Wall Clock
Product Number: 104742570
clock runs slow, I want it exchanged, I already paid for shipping, I don't want to do it again.
From: CafePress.com Support Team (support@cafepress.com)
Sent: Wed 12/10/08 12:17 PM
To: Nunya (xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx)
Dear Nunya,
I am sorry to hear your order was not received in perfect condition. I want you to be 100% satisfied with your CafePress.com experience.
I am ordering you a replacement right away at no additional charge. You should receive the replacement by 12/24/08.
I know the item you received is not up to your complete satisfaction, however, I do not want you to incur any extra charges sending the item back. Please discard the defective item.
If there is anything else I can do for you please let me know.
Best Regards,
XXXXXXXXXX X.
CafePress.com Support Associate
Done. I hope it's recyclable, cause that's the bin it went in. Yes, I took the battery out. So I might have a clock by Christmas. I've been clocked before, and I've been cursed at, but never before have I been cursed when it came to clocks. This is weird.
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