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urbpanI haven't posted too much since I've been back from vacation. I'm kind of depressed in general; I think the vacation had the opposite of its intended effect.
Work is sort of a mixed bag: I feel like I'm making some friends and getting better at some aspects of the job, but I've also dropped the ball kind of badly a couple times, and I sometimes wonder how thin the ice really is.
You guys have peer pressured me into joining freecycle. The vegetarian docs are the first thing I'm posting (is Freecycle always done as a yahoo group?) and if that goes well I'll try some more.
Candent: re-send me your mailing address and I'll send you all the paperback books that I'm divesting myself of. Big heavy books are going to the library, along with any dvds I get sick of.
I don't know how they know that the latest Iraq suicide bombers were women with Down Syndrome, but if it's true, those people really suck. It's not enough to blow people up, it's not enough to do it in a crowded pet market so that it's women and kids and animals getting blown up, but they are recruiting the retarded? If you made that up and wrote it, you would be accused of fabricating and exaggerating to spread hate.
The San Francisco Zoo tiger attack debacle gets weirder, with "former zoo authority"-cum-animal rights activists telling the Chronicle that the zoo is outdated, and with the survivors admitting to more and more tiger-goading.
In an article that somehow avoids using the word 'pitbull,' we learn of an American bulldog saving a Staffie from a mountain lion.
I will be repeating the following on Monday and perhaps Tuesday, when it will be more relevant, if not urgent:
Obama has a better chance of beating a Republican opponent than Clinton. THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. If you are a Democrat who can vote in a Primary next week, I strongly recommend that you vote for Obama. The turning point for me, after Edwards dropped out, was hearing a call on an npr radio show, wherein the caller said "I'm trying to decide between McCain and Obama." I don't know how a person can get to that point in their decision making, but the country is full of people like that. If it comes down to McCain vs. Clinton, McCain will win in a landslide--I am confident of that. And while we CAN'T POSSIBLY HAVE A WORSE PRESIDENT THAN THE ONE WE HAVE, I believe we DESPERATELY need the pendulum to swing hard to the left for us to have a chance to repair the damage. And while I respect McCain on some level: he appears to be against torture, for example, he has more or less promised, if elected, to continue the war in Iraq into perpetuity.
Work is sort of a mixed bag: I feel like I'm making some friends and getting better at some aspects of the job, but I've also dropped the ball kind of badly a couple times, and I sometimes wonder how thin the ice really is.
You guys have peer pressured me into joining freecycle. The vegetarian docs are the first thing I'm posting (is Freecycle always done as a yahoo group?) and if that goes well I'll try some more.
Candent: re-send me your mailing address and I'll send you all the paperback books that I'm divesting myself of. Big heavy books are going to the library, along with any dvds I get sick of.
I don't know how they know that the latest Iraq suicide bombers were women with Down Syndrome, but if it's true, those people really suck. It's not enough to blow people up, it's not enough to do it in a crowded pet market so that it's women and kids and animals getting blown up, but they are recruiting the retarded? If you made that up and wrote it, you would be accused of fabricating and exaggerating to spread hate.
The San Francisco Zoo tiger attack debacle gets weirder, with "former zoo authority"-cum-animal rights activists telling the Chronicle that the zoo is outdated, and with the survivors admitting to more and more tiger-goading.
In an article that somehow avoids using the word 'pitbull,' we learn of an American bulldog saving a Staffie from a mountain lion.
I will be repeating the following on Monday and perhaps Tuesday, when it will be more relevant, if not urgent:
Obama has a better chance of beating a Republican opponent than Clinton. THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. If you are a Democrat who can vote in a Primary next week, I strongly recommend that you vote for Obama. The turning point for me, after Edwards dropped out, was hearing a call on an npr radio show, wherein the caller said "I'm trying to decide between McCain and Obama." I don't know how a person can get to that point in their decision making, but the country is full of people like that. If it comes down to McCain vs. Clinton, McCain will win in a landslide--I am confident of that. And while we CAN'T POSSIBLY HAVE A WORSE PRESIDENT THAN THE ONE WE HAVE, I believe we DESPERATELY need the pendulum to swing hard to the left for us to have a chance to repair the damage. And while I respect McCain on some level: he appears to be against torture, for example, he has more or less promised, if elected, to continue the war in Iraq into perpetuity.
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Date: 2008-02-03 12:34 am (UTC)Edwards had the best ideas and plans, but he stopped running for president a long time ago and started running for vice president, a position he has a good chance of getting regardless of which democrat wins the nomination.