"When I eat food and enjoy it, I wonder why I am allowed to do so. When I lie down in my bed at night and make myself comfortable, I wonder why I am allowed to do so. It would be so easy to take it away from me. Every night I think about that. It would be so easy to torment me. Once you tie a man's hands you can do anything to him."
Gonna hang out my own shingle. Think I can change the world. I'm probably wrong. All the same, I'm willing to try my best.
Just try and stop me...
The price of Bush-Cheney will be paid, and justice demands that it falls due to the centrists, rightists, and war apologists.
John Cusack pretty much nails it.
I'm not sure I'll have time for Diablo 3. I will definitely buy it (for use on patch tuesdays).
I wish I could be at Blizzcon. I'm currently in the WotLK beta and sadly haven't had much time to play it because I'm levelling up my rogue now that mutie rogues are OP and I like the idea of being OP (as my main is a pve/pvp lock lol ie: t6 or 550 resil atm, take your pick lol).
I played the beta for a very short period, and when I did, I realized two major things:
1) I don't have enough gold for the expansion on my live account, because I'll need loads of gold in order to buy all the stuff I'll need on both my toons.
2) Inscriptions sell for a boatload of money, with very high gross margin so that said -- you will need to have one toon that can do them or you're at the mercy of the free market (ouch, bad idea).
I've flown all over the beta, and each area looks very straight forward enough.
The focus then shifts towards getting my characters ready for what is to come.
I don't know how long this kind of insane pricing will last on the live realms for inscriptions, but I decided to get my alt ready to be my inscriptions toon, so I dropped enchanting and picked up herbalism which is now 375. I have an empty profession ready to go for when inscriptions become live.
A: How could you feel uncomfortable with citizens carrying concealed weapons? What if you were a petite young woman like me, who sometimes feels uncomfortable on the streets at night? A handgun makes me feel safer.
B: Is it not better to live in a society where you can feel safe on the streets at night, unarmed?
A: What I don't like about your beloved capitalist system is that to win big, you have to be dishonest.
B: There's no such thing as dishonesty in the free market. It is the perfect reward mechanism; it promotes enterprise, productivity, efficiency, and fitness to demand; while penalising laziness, mistakes, and failure to deliver what people want. The invisible hand is infallibly leading us to a perfect outcome.
A: Whether the system is perfect or not, whether one admits the possibility of a "free" uncorrupted market or not, isn't it self evident that whatever system we have rewards most those who are adapted to thrive within it? - Not those, for instance, whose motives may be social good?
B: The market rewards those who deserve to be rewarded. Survival of the fittest. Culling of the weak. Any other policy would be worse.
"Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. By leaving your homes you could be exposing yourselves to greater danger. If you leave, you may find yourself without food, without water, without accommodation and without protection."
Nearly burned at the stake, and abruptly censored, for calling trash trash, Heather Mallick reminds me why I find Canada such a decent and civilised place to live (apart from the freedom to talk straight when required):
Taxes ease our daily lives in ways we take for granted. They pay for new combed-concrete sidewalks, traffic lights, sewers, garbage pickup, nicely dressed diplomats so we don't show up at the G-8 in golfing shorts, ferries, fish in general, nuclear power plant inspection, protecting the provincial flower ("Leave that wild rose alone, ma'am), libraries, white-coated people who spring into action when you contract flesh-eating disease, building codes, schools, dangerous-toy advisories, keeping cable companies in line, clean air, truck inspections for airborne wheels, loan forgiveness, autopsies, massage therapy, campgrounds, divorce, licence plates so you can track the guy on the cell phone in his Humvee who hit you, fluoridation, teacher training, privacy, universities, fair elections, fire trucks, child guardianship, hazardous waste control, name changes, hostels, museums, protocol (see golfing shorts), trees, zoning, high-tech passports, standards in general, notary publics, noise control, organ donation, human rights, disability, drainage, bingo permits, boating safety, French language services, neighbour encroachment, aboriginal business aid, art galleries, adoption, jury duty, cemeteries, soil quality, spills response, tattoo parlour inspection, bank deposit insurance, street lighting, commercial ship registry, victim assistance ("there, there"), SIN numbers, joint rescue (water and air, nothing to do with knees), aerial mapping, pesticide disapproval, and savings bonds.
Without taxes, you'd have to do all of the above yourself. Sure, you can contract it to the private sector, but if you've ever watched the Sopranos, the Mob isn't actually any good at garbage collection. Landfill is just a means of corpse disposal.
Fine, cut my taxes and I'll pick a task. I'll take "spills response" and use recycled paper towels. Oh, you say the spill covers 2,000 hectares and it's sticky, oily and toxic? I thought you meant coffee. Somebody call the feds. I'm a taxpayer!
Here in Canada, we believe in the public good, as in "good for all the public." (I'm quietly humming "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" as you read this.) We don't believe in private affluence and public squalor. We like to balance those two things.
Hai. Finally got in the WotLK beta. Learning the quests to 80 and roughly how to play a lvl 80 warlock will maximize my time. DK is going to be lvl'd after I hit 80.
So far it's pretty amazing. It's really wierd seeing my character getting xp points. Man it's been so long since lvling to 70... I forget how much fun it was. The advance of stable questing mods since BC has also made things much easier.
Northrend looks great, but I sadly have not had much time to play. Some of the mods work and there is a list of them that doesn't take long to find through Google. I have a bar mod, xperl and some other less important ones.
Well off to Toronto for a weekend of partying and D&D!
Among this week's suppressed news: (Which at last seems to be breaking)
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.
"If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued," Biden said during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, according to ABC.
"[N]ot out of vengeance, not out of retribution," he added, "out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president -- no one is above the law."
Nobody is above the law - what a quaint idea.
There we have it - a necessary and sufficient reason for the current administration to tilt this year's election, just like they did in 2000 and 2004. There is no way that they will allow a Democrat victory when the risk is personal prosecution. They're already scrambling to pardon themselves. They've looked after friends who commit crimes before.
If Obama and Biden get the opportunity to look for Bush and Cheney crimes, they will be working against a consistent White House pattern of evading discovery, concealing and destroying evidence. It is now believed that many official emails are gone. The Cheney family is scrupulously sanitising Dick's paper trail (it is noted that in this, the cabal emulates that old arch-criminal Kissinger.) And Emperor Bush himself famously plans to keep his archives sealed.
That is all.
President Bush, the great Texan statesman, doesn't seem to know.
From his "weekly radio address" (what fun that must be. I wonder who writes it?):
"This Congress has been one of the most unproductive on record. They've failed to address the challenge of high gas prices," the president said. "They need to send me a bill next month that I can sign so we can bring relief to drivers, small business owners, farmers and ranchers and every American affected by high prices at the pump."
As I understand it, purely from memory and without googling for a better explanation, oil is formed by geologic processes on large quantities of dead organic matter. The Bush cabal appears to be wilfully forgetting this elementary school fact. News flash: They aren't making oil any more. Did anyone NOT see this coming?
But as Christians, shouldn't they blame God for not sticking enough oil into their planet? Did they ever stop to think why a cruel, improvident God only gave them a finite amount? Don't they get curious why petroleum or the automobile aren't even mentioned in the Bible? Did they try praying for more oil?
Somebody's not joining the dots. Just don't elect McCain, OK?
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse
