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Dec. 15th, 2011 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Ron Paul is the only Republican Presidential Candidate who agrees with the president and 77% of Americans that we should honor the agreement George W. Bush made with the Iraqi government and pull all troops out. The others all think that we should occupy Iraq against the wishes of the Iraqi government and people and in the face of their united and justified anger against that occupation. After all, eight years of pointless waste of lives, sanity, health, and money is not nearly enough.
* Republicans continue to block the pay roll tax cut extension on the grounds that it helps people who work for a living rather than only benefiting the extremely wealthy.
* Republicans have added repealing Habeus Corpus into the defense department authorization. Why a defense authorization should be able to repeal the sixth amendment has not been explained. This repeal of the sixth amendment was added over the objections of the intelligence community who say it will make it harder to stop terrorism. Republicans insist that making us less safe while over throwing a core American principle will somehow magically fight terrorism. The President says he will sign it anyway.
* Gary Busey has backed off endorsing Newt Gringrich; Christine "I am not a witch" O'Donnell has endorsed Romney.
* Mitt Romney has called the President weak for not invadibg Iran. After all, it's not like randomly invading Middle Eastern countries could have any negative repurcussions, right?
* Reminder: Invisible disabilities, main portion cross posted because this comes up now and then, with small changes:
Some disabilities are invisible. My sister has a placard because of her heart, and before my Mom went on oxygen full time, her disability was invisible too. There are a variety of lung and heart conditions that can seriously limit mobility that are not visible to the naked eye. Some conditions can also be more debilitating some days than others. (I'm in this category. I can not predict whether my legs are going to be cooperative when I wake up tomorrow). It makes sense to park close at home because there is no guarantee one is going to get up tomorrow with much mobility. A lot of chronic pain and movement disorders are like this. Also, even if one is above average mobile, extra spoons spent crossing a big parking lot are spoons one doesn't have later for making dinner. There is also a tiny minority of placard holders who are albino or have a similar danger when exposed to the sun, who have a placard meant for use on bright sunny days because the hike across a big parking lot can have terrible consequences. They aren't meant to use it at night, but parking at home in the handicapped spot makes sense, again because you don't know what conditions might prevail when one leaves the house.
This is not a statement one way or another about whether any particular person deserves a placard, just a set of explanations for why people who don't look disabled might still need one. Individual assessments get made by individual doctors.
* I've gotten fuck all done the last two days. I'm still feeling cruddy, and Mache's arthritis is bugging her. All she wants is to sleep either in my lap or on my feet and I haven't the heart to deny her, poor thing.
* "Museum scared to open ancient Roman wine:" http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111209-39405.html
* "Ancient beds designed to ward off insects add to evidence modern man evolved in Africa:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ancient-beds-designed-to-ward-off-insects-add-to-evidence-modern-man-evolved-in-africa/2011/12/08/gIQAjG0bfO_story.html
* "'Witch's cottage' unearthed near Pendle Hill, Lancashire:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16066680
* "Plot thickens in Swedish king's grave mystery:" http://www.thelocal.se/37846/20111209/#
* Lion statue sex controversy: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,802415,00.html
* Preserved brains: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-century-old-brains-future-treatment-mentally.html
* "Rare Egyptian coffin identified in Torquay Museum:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15980296
* "Ancient Coptic city discovered in New Valley:" http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/528756
* History of Board Games: "http://news.discovery.com/history/board-games-history-romans-egypt-111206.html
* I just found out Dylan McDermott is 50. O.o He appears naked or near naked on two separate shows on a regular basis. 50!
* O.o: http://twolumps.net/d/20111212.html
* Republicans continue to block the pay roll tax cut extension on the grounds that it helps people who work for a living rather than only benefiting the extremely wealthy.
* Republicans have added repealing Habeus Corpus into the defense department authorization. Why a defense authorization should be able to repeal the sixth amendment has not been explained. This repeal of the sixth amendment was added over the objections of the intelligence community who say it will make it harder to stop terrorism. Republicans insist that making us less safe while over throwing a core American principle will somehow magically fight terrorism. The President says he will sign it anyway.
* Gary Busey has backed off endorsing Newt Gringrich; Christine "I am not a witch" O'Donnell has endorsed Romney.
* Mitt Romney has called the President weak for not invadibg Iran. After all, it's not like randomly invading Middle Eastern countries could have any negative repurcussions, right?
* Reminder: Invisible disabilities, main portion cross posted because this comes up now and then, with small changes:
Some disabilities are invisible. My sister has a placard because of her heart, and before my Mom went on oxygen full time, her disability was invisible too. There are a variety of lung and heart conditions that can seriously limit mobility that are not visible to the naked eye. Some conditions can also be more debilitating some days than others. (I'm in this category. I can not predict whether my legs are going to be cooperative when I wake up tomorrow). It makes sense to park close at home because there is no guarantee one is going to get up tomorrow with much mobility. A lot of chronic pain and movement disorders are like this. Also, even if one is above average mobile, extra spoons spent crossing a big parking lot are spoons one doesn't have later for making dinner. There is also a tiny minority of placard holders who are albino or have a similar danger when exposed to the sun, who have a placard meant for use on bright sunny days because the hike across a big parking lot can have terrible consequences. They aren't meant to use it at night, but parking at home in the handicapped spot makes sense, again because you don't know what conditions might prevail when one leaves the house.
This is not a statement one way or another about whether any particular person deserves a placard, just a set of explanations for why people who don't look disabled might still need one. Individual assessments get made by individual doctors.
* I've gotten fuck all done the last two days. I'm still feeling cruddy, and Mache's arthritis is bugging her. All she wants is to sleep either in my lap or on my feet and I haven't the heart to deny her, poor thing.
* "Museum scared to open ancient Roman wine:" http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111209-39405.html
* "Ancient beds designed to ward off insects add to evidence modern man evolved in Africa:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ancient-beds-designed-to-ward-off-insects-add-to-evidence-modern-man-evolved-in-africa/2011/12/08/gIQAjG0bfO_story.html
* "'Witch's cottage' unearthed near Pendle Hill, Lancashire:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16066680
* "Plot thickens in Swedish king's grave mystery:" http://www.thelocal.se/37846/20111209/#
* Lion statue sex controversy: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,802415,00.html
* Preserved brains: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-century-old-brains-future-treatment-mentally.html
* "Rare Egyptian coffin identified in Torquay Museum:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15980296
* "Ancient Coptic city discovered in New Valley:" http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/528756
* History of Board Games: "http://news.discovery.com/history/board-games-history-romans-egypt-111206.html
* I just found out Dylan McDermott is 50. O.o He appears naked or near naked on two separate shows on a regular basis. 50!
* O.o: http://twolumps.net/d/20111212.html
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Date: 2011-12-16 11:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-17 12:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-17 12:47 am (UTC)"His father's third wife was Eve Ensler (author of The Vagina Monologues) and she legally adopted McDermott when he was fifteen years old and she was twenty-three;[6] she has since divorced his father."
You know who else has a penchant for nude scenes and does all his own work is Dermot Mulroney - and OMG if Dylan is scrummy, Dermot is sex on a spoon, as far as I'm concerned!
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Date: 2011-12-17 12:59 am (UTC)