…but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
You know, sometimes things just write themselves. Or, sometimes, idiots open their mouths and say stupid stupid things. And sometimes they say enough that you can have a top ten. Or much much more.
Bushisms - Top 10 Stupid Bush Quotes
…refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Warning - a boring post about me.
I’m so tired atm. The back is bad again, but the physio said to expect setbacks. The magic TENS unit is gone for a while, but we are going to reapply for it back. It seems i *DON’T* need surgery, so thats good. But its slower going than I hoped, and I am slowly coming to terms with the fact I will NEVER be the same. If I can just get back on my bike, one day. Well, if I could be off pain for one day, that I’d like too;)
Its the busy time with kids. Nearly school holidays, and concert time - two in the last month or so, with rehersals and insanity:) They are all fine and busy, so its wonderful there. Miss having biggest girl here, but at 20, she needs some space too. We see her often though, so its pretty good! And Ms 14yo is loving her own space, the teenage den we have setup in her room. Making time for all of them is vital and incredibly rewarding.
The car has had a busted timing belt which still needs fixing. BUT it costs a lot, and we have other needs atm. Truck is on the road, so it takes a couple of trips if we all need to go somewhere. However, public transport is the key here! A month off work was good for back, bad for cash. So was himself going halftime, even though that frees up childcare costs. So a bad month there.
My laptop is getting fixed, so Hal has had his brain(hdd) transplanted into himself’s laptop for now. I am incredibly lucky my delightful and ridiculously talented workfriend is fixing the broken hinges. I owe him some quality Dr Who stuff I suspect:)
The blog is a joy to work with. I don’t know if anyone reads this regularly, and it truly doesn’t matter. This is my braindump:)
And I am playing Dungeons and Dragons again. Its a piece of sanity in a way I can’t begin to describe, and almost obscene amounts of fun:)
So, hi if you are there.
…in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
APOD: 2006 September 27- Earth from Saturn
Let me expand the quote.
“We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space, Voyager 1, in 1990], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
From one of my favourite books, by Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot.
…and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Awesomest Congressional Campaign Ever — Vernon Robinson, N.C.
” “Brad Miller even spent your tax dollars to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia.”
That’s from a TV campaign ad by Vernon Robinson, who’s trying to unseat incumbent Democrat Miller for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 13th District of North Carolina. In the process, he’s created some of the most amusing campaign messages in recent memory.”
To quote Monty Python - “This man is a LOONEY!”
…which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Anti-Gay Marriage Nonsense at “Values Voter Summit”
When are we going to stop being prissy about gay marriage? Folks, straight, monogamous marriage has never been the huge success people have made it out to be. Its damned hard work, and anyone who makes it work is a genius. Gender is irrelevant to love and respect.
As for the issue of progeny, with so many straight couples needing help having/adopting kids, no barrier should be there to gays. And with so many kids coming from parents that shouldn’t be allowed to raise goldfish, any kid who gets a loving, stable home, with whatever combo of parents (single, two men, two women, one of each, blended, step, etc), is getting what they deserve.
Only someone who cares little for a child could advocate that foster care and its uncertainties (despite many wonderful foster parents, the system itself is not pro children or carers in so many ways), or orphanage, or abusive home, is better than gay parents.
…however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
Succintly and intelligently put, here are concise answers to the Top Ten Myths About Evolution.
…for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
The US government has declassified a report that says:
“…the nation’s most veteran analysts conclude that despite serious damage to the leadership of al-Qaida, the threat from Islamic extremists has spread both in numbers and in geographic reach.
Bush and his top advisers have said the formerly classified assessment of global terrorism supported their arguments that the world is safer because of the war. But more than three pages of stark judgments warning about the spread of terrorism contrasted with the administration’s glass-half-full declarations.
“If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide,” the document says. “The confluence of shared purpose and dispersed actors will make it harder to find and undermine jihadist groups.”"
Intel Report Says Iraq A Terrorist ‘Cause Celebre’
The US President said “it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism”
He really thinks anyone can believe that after the report, by his own experts? REALLY?
…nothing succeeds like excess.
Wow, if George Lucas started a church???
What conspicuous consumption! But what graphics!
:: New Birth Missionary Baptist Church ::
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