Apocalypse, the Sequel

It just hit me an hour ago.  Comic con in less than two weeks! AAH! not ready!

I got really excited and was very fidgity in my chair at work.  I want to be doing things now, not just sitting around at work getting awful rates because of people bugging me. 

Lets see, I just found out my costume will be done with the sewing this weekend.  I get paid this weekend, so I'll be getting the wig and boots then as well.  After that?  Ah man!

My flight is at six a.m.  It sucks. I'm so excited.

AAH!

yay!

Dear Roommate/friend,

When you rant about your day to me, that's fine. I don't mind listening.  However, when you blatantly LIE to me, the idea of listening to more reeaaally isn't one I enjoy.   FYI: Telling me that only three people were invited to the Fourth of July party that I wasn't invited to, when I was IN THE ROOM two days previous when you all were talking about it, is a really really dumb thing to do.

Fuck you.

Signed
 Me

The Warriors Apprentice

By Lois McMaster Bujold

Genre: Sci-fi

Official Amazon.com Summary: Discharged from the Barrarayan academy after flunking the physical, a discouraged Miles Vorkosigan takes possession of a jumpship and becomes the leader of a mercenary force that expands to a fleet of treasonous proportions

My Summary: 17-year old Miles Vorkosigan’s life should have had it made. He was heir to one of the most famous and respected families on the planet and eager to join the long line of warriors. Unfortunately, there was one major flaw. Due to a botched assassination attempt on his father, his mother was exposed to a poison while he was still in the womb. Instead of a strong stature of over six feet, he suffers the pangs of brittle bones, disproportionate legs and a withered stature of five foot. Still, he is determined to make his family proud and he’s ready to put almost everything on the line to make good on his word.

 

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Story: 8/10

Characters: 8/10

Organization: 7/10

Listenability: 7/10

Recced? Yes

Final: This book rated 8/10 and if you have the chance to read it, I would encourage you to do so.

Woke at four a.m. today and couldn't get back to sleep.  I start work at seven a.m., bleeeehhh. YAY money~, boo boring job.,  I need a job that requires the use of my brain, but I do like the fact I can listen to audio books (cuz its THAT easy).

TOTALLY looking forward to Comiccon. Although if I wasn't going, I'd be buying myself a new desktop, mine didn't start for half a day on Saturday.

Been revisiting my first fandom, Slayers.  Now I want to watch the show again, turns out they've been releasing new seasons, ooooo. Crispin Freemen is awesome.

article here

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

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Anybody remember POGI, my webcomic?  Well, in a brief reminder, my brother took it down to basically reprogram the thing and told me to come up with a new layout.  Each new layout I came up with, he'd shoot them down, saying that they're too complicated.  Finally, today I have come up with a design that he approved of.  OMFGYAY!  SO! Hopefully, he'll get the site up again soon and I'll have new comics to put up!

Finally!!

(note: teaser image above where old link used to be)

"The socialists believe in the government ownership of the means of production.  Fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell the people how to run the businesses."  Thomas Sowell

"The American People will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be an Socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." -Norman Thomas, 1944 campaign speech.  FMR American Socialist Party Leader

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them" -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairman, US Commission on Civil Rights



And my response to the California's Supreme Court decision on Prop 8. 


I think just about everyone is ignoring the bigger issue.  Let's ignore the whole 'gay marriage' aspect and take a look at what really is going on here.  The people of California voted in favor of a bill.  The California Supreme court voted on whether or not to LISTEN to the will of the people.  Now, it's being kicked up to the US Supreme Court, about whether or not the State apparently has the ability to make their own decisions.  10th amendment people.  The 10th amendment reads:


The actions of voting on listening to the will of the people, and moving the Prop 8 up to the US Supreme court... This is a TERRIBLE precedent to set!  Once the government can decide whether or not we, the people, voted CORRECTLY, in keeping with their own political agenda, is when we are truly being ruled by the government and not the other way around like it should be.  And NO ONE I have seen, even on the hard right, has mentioned this.  This infuriates me.  Whether or not I support Prop 8 is not important. I do not live in California, it is not my decision to make.  It was theirs.  Should it come to my state, then I will make my choice, but I want to know that either way it goes, that my vote WILL count because that is what it is there for!  It's not a POLL to be considered and ignored, it is a DECISION by the people, and the government should ABIDE by it!

So, I'm trying this out to see what the fuss is all about.

Please click my dragon egg!

Watch this



Then, this


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*on the phone, talking about the new episodes of House*

Me: Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.

Erin *slower*: House. Tried to kill Chase. With a strawberry-flavored. Hooker.

Me: Hooker?

Erin: Yes.

Me: As in, prostitute?

Erin: Yes.

Me: House tried to kill Chase with a prostitute.

Erin: Yup.

Me: Eh? Did he chuck her at him or something?

Erin *laughs*


Well.  After hearing that story line, I'm kinda glad I dropped House and kept NCIS.  Oh NCIS, how I love you, protect me from the overused plot lines...

Also: Jack Davenport narrates for Audio books.  Best News Ever

I... actually started this a month or so ago.  Then forgot about it.  Picked up this week and focused on finishing it.

From the Temeraire series, 2nd book: Throne of Jade, an missing scene.  Slash implied. XD

Beware big image.

Stalker's log. LJ date: 07082009.  

We find ourselves in a strange state of limbo, the surroundings seem redundant and plain.  Obviously there is very little to do here.  Our vessel seems to be moving sluggishly of late, so we have been running full maintenance tests.

Chi: Captain! We have oncoming emergency call from the BFP!

Stalker: Put it on screen.

BFP: We have a problem, Captain. The adipose tissue, it seems to be expanding rapidly!

Stalker: What?! But how can that happen? I thought the job of the Metabolism was to keep that from happening!

BFP: Of course, Captain, but unfortunately, our technology isn't far enough advanced that it keeps working at full capacity the entirety of the vessel's life.  Unfortunately after 22-23 years, it start slowing down.  If we don't find a way to decrease its progress, then the vessel will be overrun!

Stalker:  And she's nearing the 24 age marker.  Curse that 20 year warranty, I should have splurged for the 25. Only twenty extra dollars, but I wanted that TMNT dvd.  Seems so foolish now.

Chi: Don't talk nonsense, Captain!

BFP: Right! We still have time to fix this.

Stalker: I can think of one way, but the path is one that I dare not contemplate further.

Chi: But we must.  For the sake of the Alliance.

Stalker: Oh.  Very well.  Ms. Chi.  Set a course.

Chi: The heading, Captain?

Stalker:  The gym.

You know the phrase 'sick as a dog'?  Well, I never thought I'd use it... now I know how you have to feel for it to be used.

Good god, I feel like shit.  Have been for the past few days.  If I'm not better by monday I'm going to see the doctor.

Ugh.

In an attempt to keep my mind off being sick I did a really sketchy tmnt pic shown

kc_anathema  tagged me for a meme. I don't generally do these, but I guess one every so often won't kill me.

She gave me Raphael from tmnt.

01 → Do you like this character?
Sure. He's not my favorite, mostly because he was the most popular character when I was younger and I instinctively moved away from the most popular and became a Leo fan.

02 → What name/s do you call this character?
Raph, Raphael, Raphy-boy when I'm feeling vindictive.

03 → What image/color do you associate with character?
Red, big surprise there. And yellow, oddly enough. Mostly in the yellow 'shock factor' in a comic format when he's yelling or something. If that makes sense.

04 → What image-song do you associate with character?
Uhh. I don't really think in terms of music, though that one song 'Despite all my rage" would be appropriate,  rather corny, for him.

05 → What blood-type do you think this character is?
Mutated-blood? Maybe type M+?

06 → Of all of the titles that this character appears in, what character do you like to put this character with?
mmmm... Leo, mostly because angry!sex

07 → What would you want to say to this character?
Valium.

08 → What do you want to do with this character:
geeheehee... jk. Hmm. If I had the power, I'd have him grow up.  I know, I know, tempermental Raph not being tempermental? wtf?  But it does get tiresome after a while and I'd be interested to see how he acts as an adult.  The more rash and angry people can grow into some of the most responsible and wise people due to their coming to terms with themselves and the world.


09 → Please choose 5 friends with your choice of character.
dragonladyk  - Iskerika
kinectra  - ...I'd say Don, but I'm afriad of number 8. lol.  Um. Mikey
sonofwolf  - Starscream
talcat  - Captain Jack Harkness
rufustehshinra - Church

Friday, March 20, 2009

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OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
WorldNetDaily
House adopts plan for uniformed 'volunteer' corps
Also requires new evaluation of 'mandatory' service for all

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Posted: March 19, 2009
4:58 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh

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WorldNetDaily
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new "volunteer corps" and consider whether "a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people" should be developed.
The legislation also refers to "uniforms" that would be worn by the "volunteers" and the "need" for a "public service academy, a 4-year institution" to "focus on training" future "public sector leaders." The training, apparently, would occur at "campuses."
The vote yesterday came on H.R. 1388, which reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.
It not only reauthorizes the programs, but also includes "new programs and studies" and is expected to be funded with an allocation of $6 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Many, however, are raising concerns that the program, which is intended to include 250,000 "volunteers," is the beginning of what President Obama called his "National Civilian Security Force" in a a speech last year in which he urged creating an organization as big and well-funded as the U.S. military. He has declined since then to elaborate.
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original article: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92288

In following my last post, dragonlady approached me and suggested we make a list of alternate gifts that Obama could have given the Prime Minister that would have been better than the 25 DVDs.  My additions were mostly sarcastic ones, hers were some actual good ones.


 Better Gifts Obama Could Have Given:
1. Rare or vintage books.
2. The Temeraire series.
3. A bunch of little-known movies Brown was guaranteed never to have seen before.
5.  A sweater
6. the number 4
4. Some of that fucking expensive china his wife picked out.
7. gift certificate
8. curtains
9. Hand-painted china made by an American artists featuring famous scenes from British history.
10. blu-ray dvds of american movie classics
11. Jay Leno
12. An Armani suit.
13. a tie
14. Pudding.
15. a PIE
16. A photo book of every surviving WWII veteran.
17. coupons
*coupons: those home-made ones that have such things like 'one free massage' 'one free pass for a wayward missile'
(Dude, even coupons ot the slurpee freeze would have been better)
18. A trip to the major National Parks for him and his family (Yellowstone, Glacier, Grand Canyon, etc.)
19. A potted red rose bush.
20. a wallet
21. A trip to Vegas.
22. an iphone
23. A big thank you card signed by as many Americans as he could find.
24. an IOU check for the debt we owe
25. a DINNER
26. A DVD of Jeff Dunham's Achmed the Dead Terrorist.
27. Bush's head on a pike made of wax. (dark humor is still humor.)
(A SoD note: 27 is not mine. DL's rather morbid)
28. A pair of socks
29. An umbrella decorated with the American and British flags.
30. An American beanie-baby and British beanie-baby sewn together to be hugging.
31. BEEF JERKY.
They don't sell it over there.
32. Hershy's chocolate, cuz I guess thats rare too over there
33. Huckleberry jam. (They don't have those there, either.)
34. one of those waterfall statues with real water
35. A Golden Retriever/Labrador cross.
36. A tuxedo kitty.
37. most of anything in america
38. My new alarm clock -- it can play nature sounds, the radio, or an alarm, and it can play the nature sounds or the radio on a timer to help you sleep. It can also project the time onto the cieling in blue.
39. Those little laser sculptures.
40. a watch
41. one of those space pens
42. A really nice bookcase. With the little doors and everything.
43. shoes
44. marshmellows
45 graham crackers
*and now he has chocolate, marshmellows and graham crackers and can make s'mores... which are delicious
46. A collection of the 50 state quarters autographed by himself and each governor.
47. TAKE HIM CAMPING.
48. A big speech where we declare Britain and the US are even -- no more "we saved their asses in WWII" talk.
49. A real conversation, not vague political talk
50. A meeting with David Letterman (and Larry Rose)
51. Blue Collar Comedy Tour I, II, and III

Okay, I wish I could give you an update on my RL, but I read this and had to say

WHAT?!!?

U.S. President Barack Obama met UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown(You remember the UK, right?  America's greatest Ally?) and part of the proceedings was a formal gift-exchange.  You know, kinda one of those formal, good-will gifts, that is supposed to represent something meaningful and historic.  For example, Brown gave Obama a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President, whose sister ship, HMS Resolute, provided the wood for the Oval Office's desk. 

He also gave a framed commission for HMS Resolute and a first edition of the seven-volume biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert. In addition, Mr Brown and his wife gifts the Obama children an outfit each from Topshop and six children's books by British authors which are shortly to be published in America.

Obama gave Brown, a stack of 25 DVDs of American movie classics.  Also, two models of the presidential helicopter to take home to their sons.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL.  

In a stunning display of snubbery, Obama has removed the bust of Winston Churchill, given to the U.S. on 9-11 as a symbol of unity, and given it BACK to the Prime Minister.  When the Prime Minister told him he could keep it for the next four years, Obama said, "Thanks, but no thanks."


*brain explodes*


Foreign Policy FAIL!

More evidence against the belief of man-made global warming! Counter-acting bad science with good science! WHOO

Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?

It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.

This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.




For the rest of the article and graphs, visit
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html