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       hey i love you again i am sorry i still have slight hestitations and fears with you but i am sure they will melt away soon today was a relazing tv and swimming alone day tonight i 50 gosh when ever i think of it i feel sick and my head hurts i want it to be wonderful like but i have feelings like that it is exactly going to be like, and i dont drink and i will miss the people i care about because they are all far away and hmm its like whatever i do at a given time i pour myself into like i fully involve everything i am into things for instance when i watch a movie i feel it and fall in love with the main characters and feel what they feel and when i talk to people i let all of who i am out and soak in and understanding of what they project as themselves, i miss talking to you, it seems somewhat distant now and i dont like it i feel sorta like alone in the world but life is ticking now so its hard but dont lose touch with me i love you so and it hurts my heart ahh yes i do agree i like those that was funny hmm i am sleepy and upset and i just got back from over night and i am sorta wishing my life would end tomorrow because i dislike everything so much right now sorry but life isnt being nice to me recorded in prehensile's LiveJournal:
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    Wednesday, January 26th, 2033
    8:36 pm
    teach me more with each passing hour


    by your side
    i know i will cower
    is it true that you have the power
    to capture this moment in time


    Current Mood: so i won't have to speak
    Current Music: Maria Nayler - Naked and Sacred
    Friday, July 10th, 2009
    10:35 pm
    the shark



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    Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
    8:43 pm
    are you ready?

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    The Lion is brought dead into the world;
    He awakens at his father's call

    Here with purity faith joined issue,
         and truth with high truth would fight.
    For love's sake upon the issue of this combat
         each risked his life,
    Each had pledged his hand to the winning of honour
         and fame in strife;
    And the Christian, in God he trusted since the day
         that he rode away
    From the hermit. . . .

    the knowledge-man a Christian and the will-man a heathen
    But feeling mediates between the two, for the human heart is the
    battleground between them

    entirely given up to the Father forces,
    And this is why he could not find the Son






    Current Mood: threefold
    Saturday, July 4th, 2009
    10:01 am
    my rephrasing of chesterton's

    Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.


    Liberals say that health is not valued because they could not pay for healthcare. But Liberals are wrong; we can pay for healthcare. We can pay for them by not being Liberals.


    about People of the 'lulz' :::

    The same lesson [of the pessimistic pleasure-seeker] was taught by the very powerful and very desolate philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.
    [11]


    ~ Journalism largely consists in saying "Michael Obama is dead" to people who never knew Michael Obama was alive. ~


    ~ Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God must be a rebel as well as a king. ~

    "The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God."

    Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” -Ayn Rand



    Current Music: “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it"
    Friday, July 3rd, 2009
    5:25 pm
    St. Augustine vs. astrology



    When St. Augustine calls Atlas magnus astrologus he goes back to the euhemeristic doctrine that turns heroes into sages (De Civitate Dei XVIII, 39; cfr. Plinius Nat.Hist. II, 31; VII, 203; Vitruvius VI, 10, 6; Diodorus S. III, 60, 2; IV, 27, 17). And not only Atlas: Uranus, Belo, Thoth, Prometeus, Atraeus, Chiro the Centaur also disclosed astrology to man (cfr. Jo. Chr. Heilbronner, Historia Matheseos universae a mundo condito ad saeculum post Chr. n. XVI, Lipsiae 1742, pagg. 54ff.). St. Augustine tells us that Atlas lived in the same period as Moses, who was, according to a Philo, a mathematician, an astronomer, a geometer, a musician and an excellent philosopher and he learned the science of the sky from the Assyrians (vita Mosis I, 23). Before Moses, Abraham taught mathematics and astronomy to the Egyptians, who did not know anything about it (Berossos ap. Josephus, ant. jud. I, 8, 2; cfr. Eusebius, praep. ev. IX, 16). Those men had received the science of the sky through a revelation.

    Moreover, there is a tradition according which both astrology and astronomy are taught by rebel angels (cfr. Book of Enoch VIII, 4), but the Greeks believed that those two sciences had been revealed by gods to "the kings loved by divinity" (Lucianus de astr. 1; cfr. Achilles Tatius isag. 1), namely per divine gift, munere caelestum, as Manilio says (I, 26).



    Current Mood: personalized
    Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
    9:01 pm
    Monday, June 29th, 2009
    9:08 pm
    Sunday, June 28th, 2009
    10:23 am
    we love our niggers too much...german niggers, gay russian niggers, muslim niggers, jewish niggers,

     mexican niggers, waddling FAT NIGGERS
    & michael jackson who couldn't even manage a small county like NeverLAnd










     What’s the most fun you’ve had doing an interview?

    Most of that is detailed above, but interviews are fun when you make a mental connection with your subject and the conversation transcends a simple question and answer session. If you leave the conversation with a raised consciousness of a particular issue, that’s a bonus.

    How do you deal with negative feedback from bands or readers about something you’ve written?

    If someone says, ‘I think you’re a wanker’, you yawn and forget it. If someone says, ‘I think you’ve made a serious error of judgment’, then that’s more important. You listen to their argument, thank them for their time and give it some thought. Either they’re wrong, in which case you ignore it, or they’re right, in which case you take their criticism on board. You know, all you can do is your best. If your best isn’t good enough, just try harder next time.




    Current Mood: love
    Saturday, June 27th, 2009
    10:44 am
    Apparently, everyone hates
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    TripAdvisor.com conducted a survey of 3,400 Americans, asking them their opinions about various cities. The result may or may not surprise you: Everyone loves New York and everyone hates Detroit (above), which was not only listed as the "Least Favorite," but also the "Least Healthy" and "Dirtiest."

    Second and third place for least favorite city? Los Angeles and Atlanta. Why's everybody hating on Atlanta? They did win for "Nicest Sounding Accent."

    San Francisco was the second favorite, and Boston and Chicago tied for third. Conversely, Boston also got "Most Annoying Accent." Clearly, these people have not been to my hometown of Minneapolis.

    Other cities with mentions include Miami for "Sexiest" and Honolulu for "Most Romantic." Seattle got "Healthiest" and Washington D.C. got "Best Free Attractions." Cleveland got "Most Boring."

    My favorite part of this survey:
    Friendliest and Most Helpful: New York City
    Least Friendly and Helpful: New York City


    Ah, sweet paradox. I will forever argue that New Yorker's aren't mean, they're just fast. Almost everyone in New York will be happy to help you if you bottom-line your question.

    Current Mood: glad
    Friday, June 26th, 2009
    11:29 pm
    "It was flagged I think cause she has a nicer butt than the one that flagged it "
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    Thursday, June 25th, 2009
    9:29 pm
    Today...



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    "There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself"
     --Louis XIV

     
    Thursday, June 11th, 2009
    6:36 pm
    sonoluminescence
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    As it collapses, the cavitation bubble reaches temperatures of over 5,000 K (5,273.15 degree Celsius).[10] A quick comparison: the surface temperature of the sun is estimated to be around 5,778 K. The light is of lower intensity than the light produced by typical sonoluminescence and is not visible to the naked eye. It is most likely a by-product of the shock wave with no biological significance. However, it was the first known instance of an animal producing light by this effect. It has subsequently been discovered that another group of crustaceans, the mantis shrimp, contains species whose club-like forelimbs can strike so quickly and with such force as to induce sonoluminescent cavitation bubbles upon impact.[11]





    1:30 pm
    genetic potential
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    The limitations imposed by the genetic constitution (genotype) of a person.


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    A person's characteristics are determined by an interplay between genes (the carriers of inherited information) and environment. Genetic endowment predisposes a person to exhibit certain behaviours, inclines a person to put on or lose weight, and sets the ultimate limit to physical and intellectual potential. Genetic endowment is believed to be the most important single factor in determining fitness potential: the type of muscle fibre, capacity to respond to training; and physical traits, such as heart size, are all largely determined by inheritance. However, this is not a recipe for complacency if you are genetically well endowed, or despondency if you have a poor inheritance. Very few individuals achieve their full physical potential; realization of that potential depends on what each individual does during his or her life. People with a low genetic potential for fitness may become fitter than those who are well endowed, by training harder; people with a genetic predisposition to obesity may still maintain a healthy body weight by sensible eating, but they may have to work harder to achieve their goals.

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    The genes a person inherits from parents. Genes affect physical and physiological characteristics such as body build, cardiovascular traits, the proportion of different types of muscle fibre, and the capacity to improve physical fitness with training. It has been estimated that genetic factors account for 94% of the variance in physical characteristics and maximum aerobic capacity.

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    Improving health by helping people achieve their genetic potential through nutrition.

    Athletic records are broken year after year, and the limits of human performance continue to be debated. Just as soon as we think something can’t be done, someone comes along and shows us that it indeed can be done. There was a time when no one thought a human could run a four-minute mile

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     Most physiologists agree that the current limits have to do with our genetics – specifically genes that regulate our cardiovascular endurance and muscle fiber type, but some factors are much more variable. Things like nutrition, motivation, environment and advances in equipment (running shoes, swim suits, skis, bicycles) all allow for dramatic improvements in athletic performance. 





    One reporter attempted to ask Willis about his opinion on current events but was interrupted by Willis in mid-sentence:

    I'm sick of answering this fucking question. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of... every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican... I hate the government, OK? I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.[47]

    Mac OS-X and Java Vulnerabilities
    1:47 am
    Condensed Version
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    "The Blue Faction consists of the Universalist Progressive (formerly Protestant) power centers: Most of the bureaucracy (but especially the State Department), the Education and University System, Mainstream Journalism (give Walter Lippman a go sometime, it's eye-opening), and the NGOs....essentially, the Clerisy.

    The Red Faction consists of the more conservative power centers: the Military/Pentagon (the real source of actual US sovereignty, which, because of its usual alignment with the Red Faction is actually the only thing which keeps the Red Faction politically viable in the power struggle), Revivalist (Pentacostal, et al.) Churches, the remnants of the traditional bourgeosie, and an assortment of old-timers and other traditionalists.

    Wall Street switches sides opportunistically, but has traditionally been aligned more strongly with the Blue Faction, since that's where the easy money is. The Blue Faction, as the Inner Party, wins most conflicts between the two...but not always. The history of the USA is the tale of the ascendency of the Blue Faction. Sometimes the Red Faction wins a battle or two (such as when Reagan drove a stake through the heart of the Soviet Union...the mother of all Blue Faction client states), but that's typically the exception.

    At the moment, however, we're seeing all the major vertices of the Blue Faction power structure failing under the stress of their own success in the face of a cold, hard reality and numerous subversive work-arounds (IntarWebz, anyone?), and that's very interesting. It'll be curious to see if, as we face the ultimate results and failure of our ossified Brezhnevian politico-economic order, whether we get our own Gorbachev (and ultimately, Putin), or fall into chaos, or something else entirely."



    ** There are abandoned cities in the Mayan jungle from pre-Columbian days.




    ** Suppose by hard work, clean living, and wise voting, the citizens of a country raise their standard of living 10% higher than the world average. Lots of people will want to move there, and with open borders, they'll be able to. The new immigrants will enjoy the benefits for a short time, but they won't contribute to the effort. (If they were that type, they could have raised their own country up instead of just moving.) They'll just drag the standard of living back down.
    Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
    9:35 pm
    you don't have to guess anymore
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                                                                     DETERMINED





    *** the United Auto Workers (UAW) union gave $23,675,562 to the Democratic Party and its candidates.
     In return, the UAW received 55% of Chrysler and 17.5% of GM, plus billions of dollars.




    *** Delusionally, Obama bragged about his multiculti worldview, saying, "I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal." In Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and other Muslim countries, women "choose" to cover their heads on pain of losing them.
    6:03 pm
    sailor neptune
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    Voight's first roles were almost uniformly counter-cultural roles. In his early life, his political views were liberal and he supported President John F. Kennedy, whose death "traumatized" him.[3] He also worked for George McGovern's voter registrations efforts in the inner cities of Los Angeles.[4] Voight actively protested against the Vietnam War.[5] In the late 1970s, he made public appearances alongside Jane Fonda and Leonard Bernstein in support of the communist Unidad Popular group in Chile.[6]

    In a July 28, 2008 op-ed in The Washington Times, he wrote that he regrets his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of "Marxist propaganda." He pointed in particular to the massive human rights abuses in Vietnam and in Cambodia after the American withdrawal.[5] Voight has said about his political transformation that:
     

    We were traumatized in the Sixties and all of that behavior—the dancing in circles, the smoking pot and saying "all we need is love"—it was because we couldn't identify evil; we couldn't believe in evil—we didn't want to believe in evil so we just hid from it. It was a very disturbing time... overwhelmingly, it was a very bizarre, selfish and hedonistic philosophy that wasn't very helpful. It attacked the family—the attack on the family was very severe because not only was there this idea of [indiscriminate love] and that would solve the world's problems, which gave rise to teen pregnancy, but also this idea not to trust anyone over 30. This was from people who were over 30 and bombed out of their minds with every kind of drug they could put into their system. Then there was the romanticization of the drugs—there were people coming out with [pseudo] scientific evidence that [drugs] increase your enlightenment—it was devastating. Today, I find that people look back at that time in a romantic way and that's as dangerous as anything is. It wasn't a romantic time. It was a time of great distortion.[3]

    Voight appeared on Fox & Friends to endorse former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the 2008 Republican Party nomination.[citation needed] He contacted Giuliani's California finance chairperson in and asked to work on the campaign. According to The New York Times, his role in Giuliani's group "brought some high-wattage celebrity to a campaign that was in distress." He worked a variety of supporting side roles in the Florida primary, such as warming up crowds. He stated on that trail that New York City had became a much safer city in the 1990s, once remarking that "God sent an angel, his name was Rudy Giuliani."[7] In another interview in Miami with AventuraUSA.com, Voight said he first met Giuliani "years ago" at a movie premiere in New York City and the main reason for his support was Giuliani's public poise in the wake of the September 11 attacks.[8]


    In March 2008, Voight appeared at a rally aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, California for the kick-off of Vets for Freedom's National Heroes Tour. In an April 11, 2008, interview on the Glenn Beck show Voight stated that he had thrown his support to Republican Senator John McCain for President.[9]

    In May 2008, Voight paid a solidarity visit to Israel in honor of its 60th birthday. "I’m coming to salute, encourage and strengthen the people of Israel on this joyous 60th birthday" said Voight. “This week is about highlighting Israel as a moral beacon. At a time when its enemies threaten nuclear destruction, Israel heals."[10]

    On July 28, 2008, he wrote an editorial in The Washington Times critical of then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.[5]

    In September 2008 Voight appeared in a video available on YouTube from the Republican National Convention admonishing viewers to support the American Troops. He also provided the narration for a video biography of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, that appeared on John McCain's campaign website.
     

    On June 8, 2009, Voight hosted a Republican congressional fundraiser, and he also made his own speech within the event. He said he was "embarrassed" by President Obama and referred to the Obama administration as "the oppression". He also described Obama as a "false prophet" who would bring about the downfall of the nation. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised Voight's speech.[11]
     


    [this is SO TRUE]

    Vancouver is the most cosmopolitan of the three. Portland is a friendly, unpretentious hick town. Seattle is a pretentious hick town.
    Sunday, June 7th, 2009
    2:58 pm
    a dish to

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    eat
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    often

    Thursday, June 4th, 2009
    3:11 am
    technique
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    Current Music: "swimming downhill,"
    1:40 am
    mahasamadhi
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    * it is said that, while samatha can calm the mind, only insight can reveal how the mind was disturbed to start with, which leads to prajñā (Pāli: paññā, wisdom) and jñāna (Pāli: ñāṇa, knowledge) and thus understanding, preventing it from being disturbed again.
    Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
    5:56 pm
    3:51 pm
    short term aftermath
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    LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT NIGGERS, the oppressed minority within our minority. Always down. Always out. Always complaining that they can't catch a break. Notoriously poor about doing for themselves. Constantly in need of a leader but unable to follow in any direction that's navigated by hard work, self-reliance. And though they spliff and drink and procreate their way onto welfare doles and WIC lines, niggers will tell you their state of being is no fault of their own. They are not responsible for their nearly 5 percent incarceration rate and their 9.2 percent unemployment rate. Not responsible for the 11.8 percent rate at which they drop out of high school. For the 69.3 percent of births they create out of wedlock.

    Now, let me tell you something about my generation of black Americans. We are the inheritors of "the Deal" forced upon the entrenched white social, political, and legal establishment when my parents' generation won the struggle for civil rights. The Deal: We (blacks) take what is rightfully ours and you (the afore-described establishment) get citizens who will invest the same energy and dedication into raising families and working hard and being all around good people as was invested in snapping the neck of Jim Crow.

    In the forty years since the Deal was brokered, since the Voting Rights Act was signed, there have been successes for blacks. But there are still too many blacks in prison, too many kids aggrandizing the thug life, and way too many African-Americans doing far too little with the opportunities others earned for them.

    If we as a race could win the centuries-long war against institutionalized racism, why is it that so many of us cannot secure the advantage after decades of freedom?

    That which retards us is the worst of "us," those who disdain actual ascendancy gained by way of intellectual expansion and physical toil--who instead value the posture of an "urban," a "street," a "real" existence, no matter that such a culture threatens to render them extinct.

    "Them" being niggers.

    I have no qualm about using the word nigger. It is a word. It is in the English lexicon, and no amount of political correctness, no amputation into "the n-word"--as if by the castration of a few letters we should then be able to conceptualize its meaning without feeling its sting--will remove it from reality.

    So I say this: It's time for ascended blacks to wish niggers good luck. Just as whites may be concerned with the good of all citizens but don't travel their days worrying specifically about the well-being of hillbillies from Appalachia, we need to send niggers on their way. We need to start extolling the most virtuous of ourselves. It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans--those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement.
     

    2:50 pm
    Armstrong's Code
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    In the early 1990s, a wealthy businesswoman, Judith DePaul, and her company IBP Aerospace negotiated an agreement with Tupolev and NASA, (also Rockwell and later Boeing). They offered a Tu-144 as a testbed for its High Speed Commercial Research program, intended to design a second-generation supersonic jetliner called the High Speed Civil Transport. In 1995, Tu-144D [reg 77114] built in 1981 (but with only 82 hours and 40 minutes total flight time) was taken out of storage and after extensive modification at a total cost of US$350 million was designated the Tu-144LL (Russian: Летающая Лаборатория — where LL is an abbreviation for Flying Laboratory). It made a total of 27 flights in 1996 and 1997. In 1999, though regarded as a technical success, the project was cancelled for lack of funding.




    Russia has already benefited from the Krypton deal. In 1999, Russia negotiated billion dollar arms sales to both India and China for the newly improved Krypton. In fact, according to the new Russian weapons pact with Beijing, China will manufacture and export the improved Krypton under license to the Middle East and Asia.

    There is a more direct link to Russian weapons and Al Gore. That link centers on a now defunct company named IBP Aerospace run by Judith DePaul. Ms. De Paul, a known Gore supporter and native of Connecticut, set up the international arms firm, basing her operations in London and Washington. Ms. De Paul has refused to be interviewed.

    In 1995 Gore supporter Judith De Paul, and her company IBP International started doing deals with Moscow at the highest levels. Despite being a newcomer in aerospace, IBP quickly signed several deals with Moscow and Washington. In March 1996, IBP successfully lobbied NASA to lease the "Concordsky" Tu-144 super sonic airliner from Russian bomber maker Tupolev. NASA, according to the contract, was to use the Tu-144 for high-speed test flights.

     

     

    NASA actually published an official photograph of the TU-144 deal. The photograph of U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Thomas J. Pickering, addressing a crowd of Tupolev employees and international media, was taken at the roll out of the newly modified super sonic transport. IBP Aerospace owner Judith De Paul can be seen on the left next to the Russian Army officer.

    The NASA contract also involved other familiar names in the Missile-Gate scandal. The nose of the TU-144 can be seen in the background of the NASA photograph of the 1996 event. The Russian plane is painted with the U.S. subcontractor logos selected by the Clinton-Gore administration including IBP Aerospace, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

    Another contract Moscow signed with Ms. De Paul involved a critical part of virtually every Russian jet fighter. IBP Aerospace also became the prime American representative for the Russian K-36 jet fighter ejection seat. The K-36 seat equips virtually all Russian and Chinese fighters such as the SU-27 and MiG-29 Fulcrum.

    In 1996, IBP obtained a U.S. Air Force study contract to keep the former Soviet manufacturer from going out of business, sending millions of dollars to the Russian seat maker. However, efforts to sell the seat to the western market were less than successful. In 1996, IBP was unable to convince NASA that the huge Russian K-36 ejection seat could fit into the tiny NASA T-38 Astronaut trainer jets. After failing to sell the K-36 seat to NASA, the IBP lobby effort continued in 1999 with the members of the Clinton administration suggesting that the K-36 Russian ejector seat could be installed in the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor or the new Joint Strike Fighter.

    Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
    11:41 am
    tapenade

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    Domino's Chicken Alfredo Bowl
    Grade: D-

    We are grateful in a way that
     we ordered this bowl, as it
     led to a period of unexpected
    introspection.
    Where in our
     lives, we asked ourselves,
     or perhaps in some past life,
     did we commit offenses
     against humanity so grave
     that we were now being
     made to consume this?
     We'll give the consistency of
     the central, gummed-together
     pasta glob the benefit of the
     doubt as it may have suffered
     during transit, but did the journey
     also cause an entire shaker of garlic
     powder to upend over the sauce? It sure
     tasted that way even after the tenth time
     we brushed our teeth later that afternoon.
     There's a small mercy found in the outer ring
     of pleasantly puffy crust, but it just gets more
     wicked the further in you dare to tread.






    Burger King's Enormous Omelet
    Grade: B

    While some might see this
     as the King's paean to the
     workin' man in need of fuel
     for his arduous day at the
     slate quarry, we think it's
     basically a big, bacony bird
     flipped in the direction of the
    soy latte crowd.
    This is an unapologetically
     appalling sandwich, with the physical density
     of an Oxford English Dictionary soaked in pig
     drippings, and a calorie count sufficient to
     sustain an Olsen twin well into the next decade.

    And holy heck, is it grossly, cheesily,
     saltily, porkily delicious. Or, at least
     so seemed the two or three bites we wolfed
     down before curling up under our desk in a grease coma.
     

    Sunday, May 24th, 2009
    11:24 am
    only an Aries could have written this
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    I'll give you one of my names...
    One I held dear.

    Give me one of your words...
    Not "Goodbye".

    Light is a particle,
    And a wave.

    You are a bird,
    And the Universe.

    You were always by my side, the memories have connected,
    That day when everything harmonized as one...
    I wanted to always be near you, but no matter how much I put into my voice,
    It wouldn't reach you.

    Blue... blue... Blue journey

    Not attacking,
    Not defending,
    A feeling in the middle.

    Between radiance and despair,
    A feeling in the middle.

    The future is a feather,
    And lead.

    I am water,
    And fire.

    I was always by your side, we were closer than love,
    The day when everything was warm, together as one...

    I wanted to always be near you, but I couldn't hear the music,
    I'm drifting away from you.

    Blue... Blue... Blue journey
     

    Friday, May 22nd, 2009
    11:12 am
    Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
    5:53 pm
    in accordance with the principles of capitalism
    \
    Back in 1985, when Soon-Shiong was working as a surgeon, he was poised to perform a pioneering transplant of cells from pigs to humans when he made a chilling discovery.

    "We discovered a virus in pigs, and I refused to do that transplant," he said. "My investors said, You will do the transplants."

    His investors later sued him for fraud, and he won in arbitration.

    "I recall vividly, they said, 'You know, heroes and pioneers take risks, and all that you will suffer is a slap on the hand from the FDA.' And I said, 'No, that's not all I'll suffer. We'll put patients' lives at risk and I will not do it,'" he recalled.
    the FDA "can only inspect less than 1 percent of imported foods and drugs. For example, [the FDA] can go to virtually none of these foreign drug manufacturers because it simply does not have the staff to do so."

    "We don't have the resources to do that, nor should it be our primary responsibility," Woodcock said. She said the FDA keeps Americans safe "by holding the people accountable who are on the ground. Our inspectors can't be in every plant all the time."

    Monday, May 18th, 2009
    5:12 pm
    Sunday, May 17th, 2009
    10:52 pm
    roman catholic....the religion of water
    \
    to the sincere student



    ... But he laughed too much to understand Him who said: "Happy are they who weep," and the philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears.'

    Current Mood: according to your lights
    Thursday, May 14th, 2009
    9:34 am
    12:07 am
    Monday, May 11th, 2009
    9:58 am
    "No.. but she loves to play bingo."
    \
     
     

    Carrie Prejean's father, Will, hints in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com that his daughter will not be stripped of her title as Miss California, in wake of a growing scandal that she posed semi-nude during her teens.

    Speaking only to RadarOnline, Will Prejean said that he was "extremely excited" about a news conference being held Tuesday by Donald Trump, the owner of the Miss USA pageant.  Mr. Prejean, however, would not say what would be announced at that time, saying it was "confidential".

    Mr. Prejean also said he has not seen the topless photos of his daughters, and that he does not even care that they exist.

    Regarding criticism directed at Carrie for her stance against same-sex marriage,  Mr. Prejean said his children were brought up to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and he accused the other side of  not being tolerant nor accepting of Carrie's right to voice her own opinions.

    Will Prejean is also speaking out about explosive reports involving his nasty divorce with Carrie's mother.

    Prejean told RadarOnline.com that he "absolutely [did] not" say that Carrie's stepdad was gay because he had a mustache. Although the pageant dad admitted that the divorce was tough, he said the family is very close now.

    He also addressed rumors that his ex-wife is now seeing a woman.  When asked about this, Will, in a strange response said:  "No.. but she loves to play bingo."

    Saturday, May 9th, 2009
    3:57 am
    Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
    3:28 pm
    The List & its Culture of
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    Some days you have to ask yourself, my God, what if these people were Republicans?

    Democrats took back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 in no small part because of their ability to bang their spoons on their high chairs about what they called the Republican "culture of corruption." Their choreographed outrage was coordinated with the precision of a North Korean missile launch pageant. And, to be fair, they had a point. The GOP did have its legitimate embarrassments. California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were fair game, and so was Rep. Mark Foley, the twisted Florida congressman who allegedly wanted male congressional pages cleaned and perfumed and brought to his tent, as it were.

    Of course, it wasn't as if Democrats were without sin. Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on fraud, bribery and corruption charges in 2007, after an investigation unearthed, among other things, $90,000 in his freezer. Then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted in a prostitution scandal.

    But that's all yesterday's news. Let's look at the here and now. Barack Obama, who vowed he'd provide a transparent administration staffed with disinterested public servants with the self-restraint of Roman castrati, appointed an admitted tax cheat to run the Treasury Department -- and he's hardly the only one in the administration.

    New York Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for, among other things, failing to report income from his Caribbean villa. Meanwhile, Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, got sweetheart deals from subprime lender Countrywide and has yet to adequately explain his too-good-to-be-true deal on his million-dollar "cottage" in Ireland, which he may have gotten in exchange for finagling a pardon (from President Clinton) for a felon. Oh, Dodd also secretly protected those AIG bonuses that raised such a ruckus last month.

    Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, Nancy Pelosi's moral authority on military matters during the Iraq war, has been revealed as a kleptomaniac of sorts, delivering as much of the federal budget as possible to various cronies and lobbyists.

    John Edwards, who had an affair even as he was scoring Oprah-points as the supportive husband during his wife's battle with breast cancer, is being investigated by the feds for the improper use of campaign funds. It looks like the silky haired champion of the little guys may have used their donations to bribe the alleged "baby mama" into silence.

    And it would be a shame to let it pass that Obama's Senate seat was put up for sale by the then-Democratic governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is under investigation for trying to buy it.

    But you know what? We ain't seen nothing yet. For starters, the real corruption isn't what the media are ignoring or downplaying as isolated incidents. It's what the media are hailing as bold, inspirational leadership. The White House, as a matter of policy, is rewriting legal contracts, picking winners (mostly labor unions and mortgage defaulters) and singling out losers (evil "speculators") while much of the media continue to ponder whether Obama is better than FDR.

    If a Republican administration, staffed with cronies from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, was cutting special deals for its political allies, I suspect we'd be hearing fewer FDR analogies and more nouns ending with the suffix "gate."

    Take Obama's "car czar," Steven Rattner. According to ABC's Jake Tapper, Rattner is accused of threatening to use the White House to smear a Chrysler creditor if it refused to back the administration's bankruptcy plan. He's also connected to a massive pension fund scandal involving the investment firm he used to run. One allegation is that conspirators used investments in the low-budget movie "Chooch" to expedite their alleged chicanery. Chooch, by the way, is Italian slang for "jackass," which just happens to be the Democrats' mascot.

    More to the point, political corruption is inevitable whenever you give hacks -- of either party -- too much discretion over public funds. Businesses look to Washington for profits instead of to the market. The thing is, this has become the governing philosophy of the Democratic Party, from banking and cars to healthcare and now student loans. The federal government is taking over, and the culture of corruption inevitably trickles down. That in itself should be a scandal. Call it "Choochgate."    

                                     -jgoldberg@latimescolumnists.com
     
    Monday, May 4th, 2009
    8:55 pm
    Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
    1:55 pm
    and into a parallel world
    \





    /\___ Ricky Hatton's fiancee Jennifer Dooley is consoled by his brother's girlfriend Jenna Coyne ________/\
    Friday, May 1st, 2009
    9:50 pm
    Overeating is tamasic.
    \
    Tamas cannot be counteracted by tamas. It might be easier to counteract it by means of rajas (action), and it might be more difficult to jump directly from tamas to sattva. The result of a life led by tamas is demerit by karma: demotion to a lower life-form.

    Tamas, or tamo-guna, is the lowest of the three gunas. It is a force which promotes one or more of the following: (1) darkness, (2) death, (3) destruction, (4) ignorance, (5) Sloth, (6) resistance. Tamas is viewed as being more negative than either rajas or sattva. Tamas has also been translated as "indifference". This is the most negative guna because of its rejection of Karmaic Law and the central principle of dharmaic religions; that one's Karma must be worked out and not ignored

    Each of the three gunas has its own distinctive characteristics and it is believed that everything is made up of these three. Tamas is lowest, heaviest, slowest, and most dull (for example, a stone or a lump of earth). It is devoid of the energy of the Rajas and the brightness of Sattva.


    "Those who embody the energies of sattva-white light, raajas-red passion, and taamas-black darkness, abide in the Fear of God, along with the many created forms."

    "Raajas, the quality of energy and activity; Taamas, the quality of darkness and inertia; and Satvas, the quality of purity and light, are all called the creations of Maya, Your illusion. That man who realizes the fourth state - he alone obtains the supreme state"

    "Your Power is diffused through the three gunas: raajas, taamas and satva"

    "Raajas, the quality of energetic activity shall pass away. Taamas, the quality of lethargic darkness shall pass away. Saatvas, the quality of peaceful light shall pass away as well. All that is seen shall pass away. Only the Word of the Holy Saint is beyond destruction"

    "You should know, O Arjuna, tamas as the cause of delusion enslaving all embodied beings born of nescience; by negligence, listlessness and somnolescence."

    "O Arjuna, nescience, inertness, neglectfulness and also illusion; when these arise tamas predominates."

    1

    2

    3
    1:28 pm
    energies of God
    \
    "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [1]






    ... For not in Matter doth
    the First Transcendent Fire His own Power clothe
    by means of deeds, but by the Nous; for Nous of Nous
    is Craftsman of the Fiery Cosmos....



    That is, the First Nous (the Transcendent Fire) does not directly clothe His Ideas (Power) in Matter, but this is accomplished by the Second Nous (Nous born of Nous, the Craftsman), who creates the Empyrean World (the Fiery Cosmos).

    To accomplish this He looks towards the Pattern or Model (Paradeigma) to guide His creation of the World. In particular, the First Nous is the Model upon which He fashions human souls. As the Oracles (fr. 25) say,

    These things the Father thought; a mortal was ensouled.

    This refers to Noêsis, the intuitive thinking, of the Paternal Nous, the ultimate source of all souls.


    Ancient Greek Technitês (Craftsman) comes from the Indo-European root Tek, which means "to Weave" and, more generally, "to Fabricate" (hence Architect, from Tektôn = Builder). From the same root comes Latin Tela (web, net, warp of fabric) and subtilis (finely woven, subtle), which refers to the Thread passing under the warp (sub tela). English "Toil" also comes from this root. The Craftsman works at weaving the world with His subtle thread.
     

    ...

    Thursday, April 30th, 2009
    11:46 am
    Sunday, April 26th, 2009
    11:16 pm
    << John 1:5 >>


    A light shines in this age of negro darkness, and the darkness that is obama didn't overcome it.




    Current Mood: lol : Fulfilled Requests
    1:42 pm
    Saturday, April 25th, 2009
    9:29 am
    its sense of utter dependence on the invisible
    \






    Current Mood: electronic lurch & tuning
    Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
    3:57 am
    Mild Cheddar

    \


     

    When the Nazis came for the imbalanced fags,
    I remained silent;
    I was not a libertine.

    When they locked up the moslems,
    I remained silent;
    I was not a terrorist
    .

    When they came for da lil negrita dork,
    I did not speak out;
    I was not on welfare.

    When they came for the mexicans,
    I did not speak out;  :(
    Why, PRESS '1'
    now

    When they came for that abnormally fat alien
    there was no one left to speak out...
        (:Þ)
     



    Current Mood: globular
    Current Music: critical mass
    2:20 am
    Great Love for Carrie's Country
    \

    "It's ugly," said Scott Ihrig, a gay man like Brad Fitzpatrick, who attended the pageant with his partner. "I think it's ridiculous that she got first runner-up. That is not the value of 95 percent of the people in this audience. Look around this audience and tell me how many gay men there are."

    she had 1,000 messages on Facebook and 2,000 friend requests




    Current Mood: Keith Lewis
    Sunday, April 19th, 2009
    6:08 pm
    Friday, April 17th, 2009
    4:24 am
    the dawn of the age of neoteny

    \
     all you have to be able to do is one thing, you can be otherwise entirely incapable of looking after yourself and still succeed.

    it's internally corrupt but HEY HOPEFULLY NOBODY WILL NOTICE.




     I have this image of him presenting the following evidence to the judge:




    I always mix him up




    half the internet is guilty



    Contrary to what some people here want to believe, the Internet is not a lawless libertarian wonderland where you can do whatever the fuck you want without legal consequences


    Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
    3:02 am
    iHOP
    \


    Sunday, April 12th, 2009
    6:19 am
    The magic ratio is 5 to 1
    \

    Seattle - A mathematician says he can predict with almost total accuracy which newly married couples will enjoy a happy union using two lines of algebra.

    Professor James Murray says the two formulae he devised have a 94 percent success rate when it comes to forecasting whether a couple will stay together, the Daily Telegraph said on Friday.

    The formulae were calculated during a 10-year study of 700 couples in the United States conducted by Murray, a mathematics professor at the University of Washington, Seattle.

    The experiment, conducted with the help of a psychologist, involved observing the couples during a 15-minute conversation when they were newly married, Murray said.
     






    A couple's ability to communicate on subjects such as sex, child-rearing or money/traveling was measured using a scale that gave positive points for good signals, such as smiles and affectionate gestures, and negative points for bad signals, such as rolling of the eyes, mocking and coldness. Jokes, coquettish and affectionate gestures, smiles and tender intonations are positive signals, while sarcasm, ironical gestures etc are negative signals.

    "When happily married couples talk about important things, they may be contradicting one another, but, in the same time, they will be laughing and teasing each other, the signs of their affection will be easily seen thus, since the partners have established emotional links"

    "But a lot of people don't know how to connect or how to build a sense of humor, and this means a lot of fighting that couples engage in is a failure to make emotional connections. We wouldn't have known this without the mathematical model. "It gives us a way to describe a relationship and the forces that are impelling people that we never had before The math is so visual and graphical that it allows us to visualize what happens when two people talk to each other."

    For example, the model permits them to see what happens if a behavior changes, say a husband allowing himself to be influenced by his wife, and how that increases the number of positive interactions. Ultimately, this will allow therapists to do micro experiments with couples to strengthen their relationships, he believes.

    "We used an accepted psychological scoring system to award them points, such as minus three for scorn and plus two for humour," Murray, the author of Mathematics For Marriage, told the newspaper.

    The points were then converted into algebraic terms enabling the study's authors to make divorce projections. The results were fed into two equations - one for the husband and one for the wife.

    The couples were checked every two years and the model predicted which marriages failed with almost complete accuracy.

    "The mathematics we came up with is trivial, but the model is astonishingly accurate."


     


    Current Music: brad fitz failed lol
    Friday, April 10th, 2009
    3:02 am
    paid in full


    “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
    -Romans 5:6-8


    Current Mood: AD 34
    Thursday, April 9th, 2009
    9:48 pm
    the U.S.S.R. fell apart because of the people who live there
    \
    You and all your friends are still dead meat against the average street gang.

    That must explain why after Katrina, the street gangs raped and looted their way through the white sections of New Orleans. Oh wait...

    Minority[also, Homosexuals] men are good at killing each other, and stupid or unobservant people - i.e. you - take this to be toughness. But from an evolutionary standpoint, the strategy that would rule the world would be the one that has very low violence within the group, high levels of trust and cooperation, but is simultaneously very efficient at outwardly-directed violence. And oh , look at that, it does rule the world.

    Detroit looks like Detroit because of the people who live there. Somalia looks like Somalia because of the people who live there. The parts of New Orleans that fell apart during Katrina did so because of the people who live there. The parts that didn't fall apart didn't because of who lives there. Fargo didn't fall apart when it got flooded because of the people who live there.

    Ironically, I don't have to plan for that kind of collapse, because it wouldn't happen here either. But it won't happen because people are prepared to prevent it from happening.

    Oh, and by the way, big bad scary Detroit is being colonized by SWPLicks.

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