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gwydion* Today, 235 Republicans in the house of Representatives voted to abolish medicare to pay for four trillion dollars of tax cut to the rich and corporations on the grounds that killing old people and the disabled is an important step towards the Republican goals of slowing the economy, killing jobs and making the top ten percent even richer.
The Democrats voted against, of course. Now on to the Senate.
* It's not about the deficit. If they just let the Bush take cuts expire, that solves 75% of it. Roll back military spending to Clinton Era levels and you've got a surplus. Of course, to do that, we'd have to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
* I got crap for sleep thanks to ring and run, multiple medical phone calls and Hector. I said no to more pain meds. If I'd been more awake, I'd have asked for T3's as those are not nearly as strong as the pills they gave me. Meh. Tuesday, I scored a much better donated TV for the living room, big enough for me to read subtitles for the sofa. Unfortunately, we hadn't the right cables to hook everything to it. Squirrel took me to Radio shack and I spent money I'd earmarked for other things on the cabling. Now to get everything sorted out, which takes Squirrel as there's lifting and fine hand coordination involved. It means I'm getting the ability to watch movies in my room again, though I can't get real TV obviously.
* It turns out I had read the first Elrod book, though I haven't read the sequels. As I read the first one more than a decade ago, I don't mind rereading.
* So Glee. I missed the first season as it was opposite something I watched. Then all the over the top buzz, the soap opera sounding plots, and the ugly things I heard about various fails put me off. On top of that, they do not generally put people like me in teen dramas, and when they do they tend to be jokes in the background, exaggerated and not fleshed out as people. I did not go to a normal high school, and though I've taught in normal high schools, there I was being paid to care. I don't particularly care about the boring kids and stereotypes they put in teen dramas, which again, generally don't include anyone much like me. In all the books, movies, and TV I've seen over the years, only one character ever had a childhood I could identify with. (Brenda on Six Feet under. We used different strategies and our contexts were different, but it's closer than I'd ever seen of fiction of any kind). I finally reached the point where I was sick of not being able to follow the discussions, so I got part of season one from the library. The foreground characters are boring. no one is paying me a hundred dollars a day to care about Finn/Quinn/Rachel/Puck and without financial incentive, I'm having a huge amount of trouble giving a shit. Same with the adult melodrama, which I find abhorrent. I don't find Sue funny, for the same reasons I never liked All in the Family. They do have some funny scenes and I liked it better once they started fleshing out the characters that weren't in the foreground in the first few episodes. I get why other people love it. It is cracktastic and vaguely addictive. It's just really not meant for people like me and the fail stuff makes me queasy. I might like it better when the whole queer contingent isn't one character. i might like it better if they ever get around to foreground some POC or if they stop making my skin crawl with periodic able bodied people fail. It is more watchable than Castle or Psych. Meh.
* I don't care about the royal Wedding. I didn't care about the Charles/Diana wedding either. I know, I know, I was a medievalist and I know more about the medieval coronation ceremony than anyone not born before 1500 needs to, but I really don't care much about modern monarchy.
* In Libya the government is firing indiscriminately into residential areas with bullets and cluster bombs.
* Being hors de combat, I've lost track of Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Ivory Coast etc.. Apologies.
* I've got and Imp lot and bottles up, one day left and as of this writing, only the lot has bids:
29 Item Imp and Partial Bottle Lot, GC and LE: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544973019
CHAOS THEORY VI 15 2010 (RECURSIVE SELF-SIMILARITY V5 The Amber Series, LE): (Company says: Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. – Henry Miller). I’m guessing orange blossom and maybe balsam, though no guarantees. Tested once: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544976029
CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE COUNTING HOUSE 2010 (LE, Yule, Christmas Carol): (Company says: Creaky wood, thick fog, and dying embers.) Tested twice. : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544978177
THE FORBIDDING FOYER 2007 (LE, The Haunted House): (Company says: Thick shadows hang heavy across fungus-smeared, dilapidated wainscoting, cobwebs hang like fine lace across sagging mouldings, rats scuttle past gaping doorways. The faint scent of brimstone, ghostly breath laced with cognac, neglected mahogany panels, and rot.) Just under the shoulder. : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544980367
* Sanat talks about egg related traditions and Easter related traditions on Feast of Fun: http://www.feastoffun.com/podcast/2011/04/13/fof-1361-eggs-eggs-eggs/
* Neo_prodigy debates Marvel Civil War on Random Fandom: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/930349.html
* The actress playing the little girl in Little Miss Sunshine has grown up: http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/112212785-419x701.jpg
* On being a female gamer: http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2011/apr/15/dmgburnyourbra-discusses-difficulties-being-female-gamer/
The Democrats voted against, of course. Now on to the Senate.
* It's not about the deficit. If they just let the Bush take cuts expire, that solves 75% of it. Roll back military spending to Clinton Era levels and you've got a surplus. Of course, to do that, we'd have to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
* I got crap for sleep thanks to ring and run, multiple medical phone calls and Hector. I said no to more pain meds. If I'd been more awake, I'd have asked for T3's as those are not nearly as strong as the pills they gave me. Meh. Tuesday, I scored a much better donated TV for the living room, big enough for me to read subtitles for the sofa. Unfortunately, we hadn't the right cables to hook everything to it. Squirrel took me to Radio shack and I spent money I'd earmarked for other things on the cabling. Now to get everything sorted out, which takes Squirrel as there's lifting and fine hand coordination involved. It means I'm getting the ability to watch movies in my room again, though I can't get real TV obviously.
* It turns out I had read the first Elrod book, though I haven't read the sequels. As I read the first one more than a decade ago, I don't mind rereading.
* So Glee. I missed the first season as it was opposite something I watched. Then all the over the top buzz, the soap opera sounding plots, and the ugly things I heard about various fails put me off. On top of that, they do not generally put people like me in teen dramas, and when they do they tend to be jokes in the background, exaggerated and not fleshed out as people. I did not go to a normal high school, and though I've taught in normal high schools, there I was being paid to care. I don't particularly care about the boring kids and stereotypes they put in teen dramas, which again, generally don't include anyone much like me. In all the books, movies, and TV I've seen over the years, only one character ever had a childhood I could identify with. (Brenda on Six Feet under. We used different strategies and our contexts were different, but it's closer than I'd ever seen of fiction of any kind). I finally reached the point where I was sick of not being able to follow the discussions, so I got part of season one from the library. The foreground characters are boring. no one is paying me a hundred dollars a day to care about Finn/Quinn/Rachel/Puck and without financial incentive, I'm having a huge amount of trouble giving a shit. Same with the adult melodrama, which I find abhorrent. I don't find Sue funny, for the same reasons I never liked All in the Family. They do have some funny scenes and I liked it better once they started fleshing out the characters that weren't in the foreground in the first few episodes. I get why other people love it. It is cracktastic and vaguely addictive. It's just really not meant for people like me and the fail stuff makes me queasy. I might like it better when the whole queer contingent isn't one character. i might like it better if they ever get around to foreground some POC or if they stop making my skin crawl with periodic able bodied people fail. It is more watchable than Castle or Psych. Meh.
* I don't care about the royal Wedding. I didn't care about the Charles/Diana wedding either. I know, I know, I was a medievalist and I know more about the medieval coronation ceremony than anyone not born before 1500 needs to, but I really don't care much about modern monarchy.
* In Libya the government is firing indiscriminately into residential areas with bullets and cluster bombs.
* Being hors de combat, I've lost track of Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Ivory Coast etc.. Apologies.
* I've got and Imp lot and bottles up, one day left and as of this writing, only the lot has bids:
29 Item Imp and Partial Bottle Lot, GC and LE: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544973019
CHAOS THEORY VI 15 2010 (RECURSIVE SELF-SIMILARITY V5 The Amber Series, LE): (Company says: Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. – Henry Miller). I’m guessing orange blossom and maybe balsam, though no guarantees. Tested once: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544976029
CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE COUNTING HOUSE 2010 (LE, Yule, Christmas Carol): (Company says: Creaky wood, thick fog, and dying embers.) Tested twice. : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544978177
THE FORBIDDING FOYER 2007 (LE, The Haunted House): (Company says: Thick shadows hang heavy across fungus-smeared, dilapidated wainscoting, cobwebs hang like fine lace across sagging mouldings, rats scuttle past gaping doorways. The faint scent of brimstone, ghostly breath laced with cognac, neglected mahogany panels, and rot.) Just under the shoulder. : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300544980367
* Sanat talks about egg related traditions and Easter related traditions on Feast of Fun: http://www.feastoffun.com/podcast/2011/04/13/fof-1361-eggs-eggs-eggs/
* Neo_prodigy debates Marvel Civil War on Random Fandom: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/930349.html
* The actress playing the little girl in Little Miss Sunshine has grown up: http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/112212785-419x701.jpg
* On being a female gamer: http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2011/apr/15/dmgburnyourbra-discusses-difficulties-being-female-gamer/
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Date: 2011-04-16 01:45 pm (UTC)Let me know if you want the spoilers.
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Date: 2011-04-16 11:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-16 08:41 pm (UTC)I don't care about the Royal Wedding either. I've little interest in any of the monarchy. I wish we could just be rid of them all. The Queen is relatively inoffensive but the rest of the monarchy aren't.
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Date: 2011-04-16 11:53 pm (UTC)I agree it's good it exists, and I know it's a life line for some kids.
I find most of the others ranging from the irrelevant to the unpleasant. Ironically, the first world news event i remember as a child is the wedding of Princess Anne, as i was allowed to stay up and watch it way past my bed time.
My sister was teething and had only her canines at the time. We called her "Fang" and made vampire baby jokes. We had a Chinese food picnic in the living room. I remember liking her wedding dress. This was pretty exciting for a toddler, but not particularly exciting to me as an adult.
Is she the one does all the charity events? I've lost track.