one that gives me hope...

Happy Monday

Yeah.. Aya is hot...
but the Tshirt? lol - god how i wish we'd see Britney wearing that one....
Highlight "Did you cum twice too? Feel so dirty!!! I need a tongue bath!" to see what it says.

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Ok, so the spring season series are finishing up - and i gotta say there were some shows i was a lot more impressed with than i expected. I loved LuckyStar - but because it's slow and subtle. I didnt see Denou Coil coming at all - and it's way into my top 10 list all time... Kaze no Stigma finished strong - i wish it had done without the boring filler in the middle but oh well.

But the story of the season seems to be School Days. It was a slice of life story that took the concept to a whole new level. Very much not my sort of story - but pre-empting the last episode with 30 minutes of travel pictures out of concern for the subject matter is a bit over the top. The japanese are pushing the envelope in a LOT of media - whether we're talking books like Battle Royale, weird assed cartoons like Kodomo no Jikan, or the musical stylings of Dir en Gray or Melt Banana.

A couple I'm really looking forward too... but Clannad is the only tv show of the fall i know i'll set aside time for. Not that i have anything really to do with my time right now...

Let me make this very simple.

You pass this... the dems will never see a dime from me.

N E V E R

i'm already close to leaving this shithole... dont push me.

(on the plus side for today, the jena6 kid got out on bail when the DA decided not to retry as an adult...)

I love this. Before the war started, there were those of us who opposed it... said it wouldnt end well... were looking for alternative solutions. The UN weapons inspectors were being allowed access - and guys like Blix were coming back saying 'i got nuthin'... Pressure was mounting to shut it down.

People act like going to war in march was this 'sudden and last minute decision' - when dutch shipping had been engaged for 9 months to transport american armor, when Uzbek airfields had been under construction for 6 months, and when i've heard spec ops forces tell me directly that they themselves were IN iraq in January - 3 months before the war started.

So yes, there was an inevitability to it... so of COURSE Saddam was playing the 'how do i get out of this alive' card. And now, we're seeing the mainstream press cover something that some of us saw in foreign press at the time... stuff that Al Jazeera was covering as loudly as they could... that Saddam had offered to go into exile and take a fraction of his wealth with him.

'The Egyptians are speaking to Saddam Hussein. It seems he's indicated he would be prepared to go into exile if he's allowed to take $1 billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction," Bush was quoted as saying at the meeting one month before the U.S.-led invasion.'

The president is a thug, an asshole, and should spend an eternity in hell being buggered by goats with giant dicks wrapped in sandpaper condoms... but it doesn't excuse the american people or their past-rationalizing senators from their responsibility for events...

Ok. So.
I can remember being a kid... hanging out on housing construction sites late at night... or going off to 'camp wade' when parents were out of town. Of course, the drinking age was 18 - so it was all a bit easier... no one really needed a McLuvin ID. Anyway - I live on a street with no other houses - at the top of a hill - surrounded by tall trees... and there's a big-assed abandoned slab next to my house.

Now from time to time kids have found the slab... usually skateboarding kids who get run off the LDS church parkinglot a couple blocks away... and i dont give them any trouble. The remnants of old ramps litter the area - but since it's an abandoned construction site, there are other larger rustier markers of disuse and faded dreams.

Well... some kids have found the place. Big white pickup... LOTTA beer... they're careful, pulled up all the plants and cleaned out a little area for them to park their truck so its not visible from the road

they're quiet... they're not bothering anyone... and though i suddenly have neighbors who are most likely breaking several laws and i dont really want new neighbors i cant say they affect me...

except... they are making a fucking mess.

So. How to solve this....

I could assume they'll fucking clean up after themselves and ignore it
I could go ask them to clean up their mess
I could go over there and clean it up myself, and leave the trashbag for them to use...
I threaten to call the cops...
I could just call the cops...
I could take a shit in the middle of the slab...
I could buy and liberally apply skunk scent (and give them a funny testimonial)
or I could install an infrared webcam with audio and post their antics on the web (though this might well get me in trouble in certain non-amsterdam jurisdictions)

The pond and all of it's frogs and skeeterhawks have taken care of the mosquito problem - and it's actually getting to the extremely pleasant outdoor weather part of the year.

Honestly - all I want is for them NOT TO turn the area around my house into a dump, and not light the forest on fire... i dont give a shit about 5 or 6 semi-adults trying to enjoy themselves away from bothersome supervisors who dont like their attitude. oh, and it would be nice if no one breaks into my fucking house when i'm not home. I liked having a house where no one knew I was up here. So far, the ONLY thing that strikes me as problematic in this situation is the fact they're slobs.

I'm open to suggestions.

You know... there are so many times i disagree with the government on something idiotic they do, it's not often i agree with them. This is one of those times. Speedos are wrong. No one should have em.

Weep.
You wont be alone.

We Are Doomed

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Is the world flat?
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Is the world flat? (laughter)
GOLDBERG: Yes.
SHEPHERD: …I Don’t know.
GOLDBERG: What do you think?
SHEPHERD: I… I never thought about it, Whoopi. Is the world flat? I never thought about it.
BARBARA WALTERS: You’ve never thought about whether the world was round or flat?
SHEPHERD: I tell you what I’ve thought about. How I’m going to feed my child–
WALTERS: Well you can do both.
SHEPERD: …how I’m going to take care of my family. The world, is the world flat has never entered into, like that has not been an important thing to me.

When idiots homeschool, they make more idiots...

There's a word for this.
Murder

A lesson in distraction

So the last 3 months have found me busy toying with various distractions trying to wait for work stuff to sort itself out... so there's work on the house, work on the yard, watch a lot of film/tv, read all those books on my shelf that were waiting for me... but there's a limit. I could never take my obsessions seriously. So when faced with the choice of playing some idiot game hours on end or sleeping, i slept. Books still lie half finished strewn across the landscape of my office. And the backyard is, well, let's call it 'feral'. I hope things move forward soon... these pauses are a pain in the ass.

Chafee quits the party with some nasty commentary...
then Hagel spears the party on HBO...
makes you wonder what some of the other pubs would say given the opportunity - it's pretty obvious they're 'thinking' bad thoughts

Good luck finding this one in the American press... Fact is Iran is cooperating, and that's really throwing a spanner into the Neocon efforts to ensure we will always be at war with MidAsia.

Then again - they're not doing a very good job with this story either. I'm sorry if i'm skeptical of the official 'oops, we didnt know they was nukular' version.