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March 11, 2005

Say What? Bonehead Manuever

Um.....yeah - here's a monumentally bad idea:

Vancouver Tries Free Heroin Program

VANCOUVER, British Columbia β€” Just over the United States northwest border, addicts will soon be able to get their fix from the Canadian government in the form of free heroin administered by nurses and doctors on the taxpayer's dime.

"They're using heroin. They'll continue to use heroin. What we're trying to do is prevent them from getting something irreversible like HIV, hep [hepatitis] C and overdose death,” said Dr. Martin Schechter, the director of the heroin program.

Vancouver is the first city to take part in the North American Opiate Medication Initiative, which plans to enroll 470 participants at three sites in Canada. The Toronto and Montreal sites are expected to begin recruiting candidates this spring.

Vancouver Police Chief Jamie Graham is among supporters who say the heroin giveaway will let junkies shoot up without having to resort to theft or prostitution to buy their drugs. Breaking that cycle of crime, they argue, is the first step toward turning an addict's life around.

This is a bad move on so many different levels.


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New Goal

Dispite all that's happening to me these days, I've got yet another goal to aim for when I finish UCSD - going back to playing my bass guitar and eventually getting one of these bad boys:

This is the Billy Sheehan Signature Model Attitude LTDII bass guitar and it will be mine. And I'll get one of these to rattle the plaster.

If you don't know who Billy Sheehan is, go here and get a clue or two. The man is almost God-like in his playing and his technique. His is a style that I strive to attain in my playing.


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The Road to Geekiness

I was just out in the outer lobby of the building I work in getting a soda. While I was sorting through the change in my hand to pay for the soda, I dropped a penny.

The Road to Geekiness is paved with this first stone: I started computing the cost of bending over to retrieve the penny versus the actual value of that penny and was it really worth it....


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That Time Again...

It's that time again and no matter how much I try to squeeze my eyes shut and wish them away, those dreaded Final Exams just won't disappear.

Sigh.....I guess I'll just study for them and attempt to slay them in the arena of combat.

Luckily (and maybe not) I have my exams at the end of the week - two on Thursday and one on Friday; that'll give me a few extra days to prepare for them. And I'm lucky in the fact that a friend of mine has three on Thrusday.

I just have to figure out a way to work dialysis into it all on Thursday between those two exams....I'll either do it one day early or just skip it entirely.


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March 10, 2005

A Pest to Many

Another sad case of Post Election Stress Trauma (PEST)

Police: Bush/Cheney bumper sticker sent man into road rage

TAMPA - A Tampa man is out of jail after a possible road rage incident that gives new meaning to the term "driving left of center."

Nathan Winkler, 31, was arrested overnight and charged with aggravated stalking for allegedly terrorizing a mother and her two children.

According to police, Winkler pulled up alongside Michelle Fernandez as she was headed south on Armenia and began beeping his horn and flailing his arms, pointing at her. Fernandez, meanwhile, could not see Winkler's face because of a handmade sign in his window that read, "Never forget Bush's illegal oil war murdered thousands in Iraq."

"Apparently, this starts over political views or bumper stickers. She had a Bush/Cheney sticker on the back of her car. There's just no excuse for it to escalate to what it did," observed Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin.

Winkler apparently grew more agitated as they continued to drive along, allegedly trying to run Fernandez's car off the road several times over the next few miles.

Will this get much attention? I bet if it was some psycho-Republican chasing down a mother and her child cause she has a Kerry/Edwards sticker it sure as hell would.

UPDATE: Michelle Malking refers to this as Democrats Gone Wild!....


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March 09, 2005

Pondering...

Things to ponder while waiting at the dentist's office:

  • If you spin an Oriental around several times, does he become disoriented?

  • If people from Poland are called "Poles", why aren't people from Holland called "Holes"?

  • Why do we say something 'is out of whack'? What's a whack?

  • Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

  • If a pig loses its cool, is it disgruntled?

  • Why do women wear evening gowns to nightclubs? Shouldn't they be wearing night gowns?

  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

  • When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

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Animals

Hey, let's hear it for those *cough* brave insurgents fighting against American agression[/BS]:

Iraqi Cops Find Victims of Mass Killings

BAGHDAD, Iraq β€” At least 41 bodies β€” among them women, children and some believed to be Iraqi soldiers β€” were discovered at two sites in Iraq and officials said Wednesday they believe militants kidnapped and executed the victims.

Iraqi authorities said the corpses were found Tuesday. Twenty-six bodies were found in a field near Rumana, a village about 10 miles east of the western city of Qaim, near the Syrian border. South of Baghdad in Latifiya, 15 headless bodies were found in a building inside an abandoned former army base.

Someone want to tell me again who's slaugtering whom?

This makes cluster bombs look like firecrackers. Killing kids.....freaking animals.


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It's Not A Tumor!

Bill Clinton to Have Scar Tissue Removed

NEW YORK (AP) - Six months after undergoing heart bypass surgery, former President Clinton will return to the hospital this week to have a rare buildup of fluid and scar tissue removed from his chest.

"I feel fine," Clinton said Tuesday in Washington, adding that he plans to play golf in Florida a day before the operation.

Doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, where Clinton is scheduled to have the procedure on Thursday, said the surgery is low-risk.

During the procedure, known as a decortication, doctors will remove scar tissue that is pressing down on his left lung. The surgery will be done either through a small incision or with a video-assisted thorascope inserted between his ribs.

The former president said doctors discovered the condition during a recent X-ray, and he called the surgery a "routine sort of deal."

Your *cough* legacy leaves much to be desired Mr. President, but here's hoping you'll do okay with this procedure.


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March 08, 2005

Say What? Illegal Thin Mints

Oh My God - let's give this cop a medal:

Man Ticketed For Selling Girl Scout Cookies With Daughter

NEW YORK -- A Long Island man was ticketed in Brooklyn for selling Girl Scout cookies with his 13-year-old daughter.

Hoi Louis was in Williamsburg delivering the cookies with his daughter over the weekend. Louis said it was his old neighborhood, before he moved to Bethpage, and he and his daughter have been selling Girl Scout cookies there since his daughter was in first grade.

At 4:50 p.m. Saturday a police captain and a uniformed officer pulled up to their van as they were unloading cookies. Louis said the captain from the 94th Precinct ticketed him for selling cookies without a license.

The NYPD said the man and his daughter were not delivering the cookies, but instead were selling the cookies from a table they had set up on the street.

The child's grandmother, who was in the van, said her granddaughter was frightened by the police and the girl's father was flabbergasted.

Clap.

Clap.

Clap.

Clap.

Clap.

Clap. Brilliant - just brilliant. This cop deserves a medal or a commendation for thwarting this heinous crime.....I mean, we all know how addictive those Dos-si-dos are.

(Reminder to Self: Get more Dos-si-dos from munchkin before going out to sell cookies....)


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Nobody Is Home

There are only seven people sitting in the lecture hall at the beginning of my Materials class. And the prof is lecturing like it's packed.

It reminds me of that scene sequence from 'Real Genius' where a professor is lecturing to a class that is decreasing in students and increasing in tape recorders...


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March 07, 2005

Ann-Margret is a Class Act

I've always thought of Ann-Margret as a classy lady and this story proves it once-and-for-all. It freaking rocks....

Richard, my husband, never really talked a lot about his time in Viet Nam other than he had been shot by a sniper.

He had a rather grainy, 8X10 black & white photo he had taken at a USO show of Ann-Margaret with Bob Hope in the background that one of his treasures.

A few years ago, Ann-Margret was doing a book signing at a local bookstore.

Richard wanted to see if he could get her to sign the treasured photo so he arrived at the book store at 12 o'clock for the 7:30 signing. When I got there after work, the line went all the way around the bookstore, circled the parking lot, and disappeared behind a parking garage.

Before her appearance, bookstore employees announced that she would sign only her book, and no memorabilia would be permitted. Richard was disappointed, but wanted to show her the photo and let her know how much those shows meant to lonely GI's so far from home.

Ann Margaret came out looking as beautiful as ever and, as 2nd in line, it was soon Richard's turn. He presented the book for her signature and then took out the photo with many shouts from employees that she would not sign it.

Richard said, "I understand. I just wanted her to see it". She took one look at the photo, tears welled up in her eyes and she said, "This is one of my gentlemen from Viet Nam and I most certainly will sign his photo. I know what these men did for their country and I always have time for "my gentlemen".

Later, at dinner, Richard was very quiet. When I asked if he'd like to talk about it, my big strong husband broke down in tears. "That's the first time anyone ever thanked me for my time in the Army", he said.

Richard, like many others, came home to people who spit on him and shouted ugly things at him. That night was a turning point for him. He walked a little straighter and, for the first time in years, was proud to have been a Vet.

I'll never forget Ann-Margaret for her graciousness and how much that small act of kindness meant to my husband. I now make it a point to say 'Thank You' to every person I come across who served in our Armed Forces. Freedom does not come cheap and I am grateful for all those who have served their country.

If you'd like to pass on this story, feel free to do so. Perhaps it will help others to become aware of how important it is to acknowledge the contribution our service people make.

God Bless Our Armed Forces!


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The Rules

Dear Civilians,

We know that the current state of affairs in our great nation have many civilians up in arms and excited to join the military. For those of you who can't join, you can still lend a hand. Here are a few of the areas we would like your assistance with:

  1. The next time you see an adult talking during the playing of the National Anthem .... kick their ass.

  2. When you witness first hand someone burning the American Flag in protest .... kick their ass.

  3. Regardless of the rank they held while they served, pay the highest amount of respect to all veterans. If you see someone doing otherwise quietly pull them aside and explain how these Veterans fought for the very freedom they bask in every second. Enlighten them on the many sacrifices these veterans made to make this Nation great. Then hold them down while a Disabled Veteran kicks their ass.

  4. If you were never in the military, DO NOT pretend that you were. Wearing battle dress uniforms (BDU's), telling others that you used to be Special Forces and collecting GI Joe memorabilia, might have been okay if you were still seven. Now, it will only make you look stupid and get your ass kicked.

  5. If you witness someone calling an enlisted Marine "Sir", stand back .... a Marine will kick their ass.

  6. Next time you come across an Air Force member, do not ask them, "Do you fly a jet?". Not everyone in the Air Force is a pilot. Such ignorance deserves an ass kicking (children are exempt).

  7. Roseanne Barr's singing the National Anthem is not a blooper .... it is a disgrace and disrespectful. Laugh, and sooner or later your ass will be kicked.

  8. Next time Old Glory prances by during a parade, get on your damn feet and pay homage to her by placing your hand over your heart. Quietly thank the military member or veteran lucky enough to be carrying her .... of course, failure to do either of these could earn you a severe ass kicking.

  9. What Jane Fonda did during the Vietnam War makes her the enemy. The proper word to describe her is traitor. Just mention her nomination for Woman of the Year, and get your ass kicked.

  10. Do not try to discuss politics with a military member or a veteran. We are Americans and we all bleed the same regardless of our part of affiliation. Our Chain of Command, is to include our Commander-in-Chief. The President (for those who didn't know) is our CIC regardless of political party. We have no inside track on what happens inside those big important buildings where all those representatives meet. All we know is that when those civilian representatives screw up the situation, they call on the military to go straighten it out. The military member might direct you to Oliver North. (I can see him kicking your ass already.)

  11. "Your Mama wears combat boots" never made sense to me .... stop saying it! If she did, she would most likely be a vet and probably kick your ass!

  12. Bin Laden and the Taliban are not Communists, so stop saying "Let's go kill those Commies!!! And stop asking us where he is!!!! Crystal balls are not standard issue in the military. That reminds me .... if you see anyone calling those damn psychic phone numbers; let me know, so I can go kick their ass.

  13. Bus Driver, Jar Head, Grunt, Swabbie, Squid, etc., are terms of endearment we use describing each other. Unless you are a service member or vet, you have not earned the right to use them and could get your ass kicked.

  14. Last but not least, whether or not you become a member of the military, support our troops and their families. Every Thanksgiving and religious holiday that you enjoy with your family and friends please remember that there are literally thousands of troops overseas wishing they could be with their families.

  15. Thank God for our military and the sacrifices they make every day. Without them, our country would get its ass kicked.
And if you're in doubt as to whether some sorry POS is violating any of these rules, err on the side of caution and kick their ass.


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Show Me the Numbers!

Okay, does anyone have a source for raw numbers concerning the Social Security sovency issue??

I've looked around and found a couple of sites: one for the Economic Policy Institute that says one thing and then there's the Social Security Administration's Trustee Report that says another and quite frankly, they both put me to sleep.

I'm trying to get a handle on this issue and it's hard to know what numbers to refer to....


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