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Feb. 20th, 2012 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Shelling in Syria continues. They are running out of food and medicine. Iran is threatening to invade. Russia is supplying the government with arms, and has moved a nuclear sub into range. There are reasons things are getting this messy. There is some reason to think part of what's going on is the Syrian government taking the opportunity to wipe out certain minorities. Let's hope Turkey's maneuvers work out. Let's hope that international pressure will ramp up on the side of the people. I'm still waiting to see if pigs fly, but I hadn't much hope when this started for Syria, and I'm not convinced it will turn out well.
* Am I the only one seeing a connection between that Philly bishop being about to be on the stand over his shuffling pedophile priests about to protect them from consequences and him suddenly be Mr. "Insurance companies covering birth control is a violation of Catholic's rights!"? It's almost as if he's trying to distract the media from all those children that were hurt because he put covering his butt over the welfare of the innocent.
* Meanwhile, santorum is out implying that environmentalism is blasphemy, and claiming it's part of Obama's dangerous "theology" along with providing health care against the wishes of employers. (The quote is long and complex, and his explanations after the speech/press conference make it clearer, but it's several paragraphs in two sources, hence me not quoting it here). The phrase "overwhelming santorum wave" is disgusting whichever way you take it.
* A Bill to ban birth control in Virginia passed the House.
* Pennsylvania is now considering a bill to force women to have a medically unnecessary vaginal probe against their will.
* Remember those protests about the horrendous conditions in Apple factories? It's worked to the point they are raising wages, though I didn't hear by how much or whether they will still be held prisoner in the dormitories.
* Fingers crossed for Greece not defaulting and taking down the global economy.
* psybelle spots how Target knows you are pregnant: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1329411649-FXr1r3U2o3AOXxCfZ1T42w
* Someone has defined "romney" as "to defecate in terror," after what happened to Mitt Romney's dog after he strapped it to the roof of his car for a long car trip to Canada. I hope someone tells Letterman, as he's really upset about the pet abuse and keeps asking, "Can you vote for a man who straps a dog to the roof of his car?" (I don't approve of Letterman's periodic misogyny, body policing, and homophobia, but a lot of older people listen to him and this is right up his ally).
* It being President's Day, I failed to forage, and I forgot to take my Goodwill drop off stack, but I did manage to self service mail my ebay, find a DvD player and small table at Goodwill, and get a haircut, which I desperately needed. I'm back to the Oberst/spiderman cut as we still haven't sorted out the printer. (I have an Allen Cumming cut I'd like to try, but it needs a printer to take in references. The Captain Jack cut won't work anymore for the same reasons I'll never have a mowhawk again). Anyway, I ended up with a small table as I could not spot a piano bench, and the ottomen was the right texture, but the wrong size and shockingly ugly. I have hopes the small table will solve two problems at once, saving me a trip to Home Depo.
* Hector's into day two of a bad PTSD episode, that involves panic attacks, nightmares, and very likely flashbacks, poor little thing. It is not helping that LM is bullying him again. The Butt has been wanting to play fetch, but is insisting on dropping his bird two to five feet beyond my reach and can't figure out why that's a problem. I woke up this morning to find he'd brought his bird to bed with him, so we played fetch in my bedroom for more than a quarter hour, with him bringing the bird right to me. Geography matters even in games of indoor fetch, it seems.
* Snerk: http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/256390.html
* Mo'nique for Marriage Equality: http://youtu.be/nFdy0pLaYSY
* Am I the only one seeing a connection between that Philly bishop being about to be on the stand over his shuffling pedophile priests about to protect them from consequences and him suddenly be Mr. "Insurance companies covering birth control is a violation of Catholic's rights!"? It's almost as if he's trying to distract the media from all those children that were hurt because he put covering his butt over the welfare of the innocent.
* Meanwhile, santorum is out implying that environmentalism is blasphemy, and claiming it's part of Obama's dangerous "theology" along with providing health care against the wishes of employers. (The quote is long and complex, and his explanations after the speech/press conference make it clearer, but it's several paragraphs in two sources, hence me not quoting it here). The phrase "overwhelming santorum wave" is disgusting whichever way you take it.
* A Bill to ban birth control in Virginia passed the House.
* Pennsylvania is now considering a bill to force women to have a medically unnecessary vaginal probe against their will.
* Remember those protests about the horrendous conditions in Apple factories? It's worked to the point they are raising wages, though I didn't hear by how much or whether they will still be held prisoner in the dormitories.
* Fingers crossed for Greece not defaulting and taking down the global economy.
* psybelle spots how Target knows you are pregnant: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1329411649-FXr1r3U2o3AOXxCfZ1T42w
* Someone has defined "romney" as "to defecate in terror," after what happened to Mitt Romney's dog after he strapped it to the roof of his car for a long car trip to Canada. I hope someone tells Letterman, as he's really upset about the pet abuse and keeps asking, "Can you vote for a man who straps a dog to the roof of his car?" (I don't approve of Letterman's periodic misogyny, body policing, and homophobia, but a lot of older people listen to him and this is right up his ally).
* It being President's Day, I failed to forage, and I forgot to take my Goodwill drop off stack, but I did manage to self service mail my ebay, find a DvD player and small table at Goodwill, and get a haircut, which I desperately needed. I'm back to the Oberst/spiderman cut as we still haven't sorted out the printer. (I have an Allen Cumming cut I'd like to try, but it needs a printer to take in references. The Captain Jack cut won't work anymore for the same reasons I'll never have a mowhawk again). Anyway, I ended up with a small table as I could not spot a piano bench, and the ottomen was the right texture, but the wrong size and shockingly ugly. I have hopes the small table will solve two problems at once, saving me a trip to Home Depo.
* Hector's into day two of a bad PTSD episode, that involves panic attacks, nightmares, and very likely flashbacks, poor little thing. It is not helping that LM is bullying him again. The Butt has been wanting to play fetch, but is insisting on dropping his bird two to five feet beyond my reach and can't figure out why that's a problem. I woke up this morning to find he'd brought his bird to bed with him, so we played fetch in my bedroom for more than a quarter hour, with him bringing the bird right to me. Geography matters even in games of indoor fetch, it seems.
* Snerk: http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/256390.html
* Mo'nique for Marriage Equality: http://youtu.be/nFdy0pLaYSY