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gwydion* 2 million people are still without power, 45 people are dead, and a number of towns are still under water.
* Eric Cantor gave a speech today, renewing his commitment to hold disaster funding up unless we cut social programs that help the economy even further. Republicans followed up by claiming anyone pointing out that this is playing politics with a national disaster is the real one playing politics. How dare anyone point out the craven cruelty and political point scoring!
It's so circular it makes my head ache.
Suffice to say if you live in one of the flooded areas you are fucked because that's just how much Eric Cantor and the tea party hatred the middle class.
* Bonus points that when Eric Cantor's district was hard hit by an earlier hurricane, he did not demand "offsets" for Aid. nor did he demand offsets for the random and unnecessary invasion of Iraq, nor did he demands offsets for the oil subsidy.
* Meanwhile a major fire burns in the Dallas Fort Worth area, and we still haven't recovered from those tornadoes. Remember the tornadoes?
* To add insult to injury, Republicans are gearing up to block routine reappropriation for highway maintenance on the grounds firing large numbers of people magically creates jobs. Bonus points for the danger crumbling highways cause to commerce and military readiness.
* Yes, I'm aware of the latest round of pettiness over the President's joint address. I'm also aware of the latest Palin/Perry/O'Donnell Tea Party pettiness. I refuse to go there.
* I am also aware of Glenn beck's race rant, and it is exactly as vile as you'd expect. I don't want to give him the hits, so I'm not linking.
* In Wisconsin, the number of teachers quitting this year doubled thanks to Republican policies we've covered here extensively. The same thing happened in Oregon after they lowered pay and stripped people's retirement benefits. This is always somehow a shock to people who don't teach, presumably because they have no empathy or ability to imagine how they would feel if it happened to them.
* Fighting continues in Libya around Qaddafi's home City. Qaddafi and his son Saif are still at large and feisty. I know it feels like the war is over as more than 90% of the country as well as the capital have fallen and all governments in the region except Algeria are already dealing with the provisional government
* I'm reading Home Improvements: Undead Edition, because Seanean MacGuire has a story in it. The first story is by Charlaine Harris and has so much fail I couldn't not write about it. not only is there gay fail, but the race fail made me feel dirty for holding the book in my hands let alone reading it. For example, who the fuck in the 21st century describes a part Asian American character as having "slanty eyes?" Charlaine Harris, that's who. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? WTFBBQ!!! I feel bad that Ms. MacGuire's story is sharing space with this dreck. No, I haven't read that far yet. The first story left me so horrified by the tower of fail that I had to put the vile thing down. I figured that the rest of you deserved some sort of warning.
Christ on a fucking cracker!
* It's Ebay time!
31 Imp Lot LE and GC: http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594772927?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
THIRTEEN 13: August 2010 (LE): (Company says: A base of bitter dark chocolate with thirteen baneful and beneficial bits including pimento berry, pink pepper, tolu balsam, bergamot, golden honey, tobacco absolute, champaca flower, and paprika.) ¾ aprox. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594773658?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
DESICCATED FROSTBERRY PIE FILLING PERFUME 2010 (Underworld Cup 2010: The Cats from Saturn): (Company says: Commemorating our Black-Ribbon Award Winning Pie Filling, named Best in Show at the Celephaïs County Fair six-hundred years in a row! Plucked from the highest mountaintops of Leng, our desiccated frostberries have been certified organic by the Dreamlands Department for Environmental Concerns, Slaughter Regulation, and Sacrificial Affairs.) Tested once. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594774269?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
MIDNIGHT BELL 2010 (LE, Dark Delicacies: Four Horrid Novels): (Company says: Diabolical monastic incense and crumbling stone.) To Shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594775053?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
PAPER KITE 2010 (LE, The Butterflies): (Company says Coconut, white sugar, angelica, and black pepper.) At label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594775686?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* neo_prodigy has an announcement: http://prismcomics.org/display.php?id=2026
* "On Being Female in the Age of the Internet:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/383618.html
* Grown men in public on purpose: http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/122733206-419x607.jpg
* Miss? I think you forgot something! Or more than one thing, really. http://cdn02.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/spl309409_015-419x609.jpg
* "Ferry runs aground after captain stuck in toilet:" http://news.yahoo.com/ferry-runs-aground-captain-stuck-toilet-152430429.html
* This is gorgeous: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/9647243712/regala-electra-fuckyeahvintage-retro-nyc
* I see they've deliberately designed the ugliest Superman costume they could imagine for the reboot. After all people hated the very similar Spiderman design so much so maybe they took that as a challenge. I mean why else would they do it?
* NWS and utterly inappropriate: http://youtu.be/e1IxOS4VzKM
* Why the Republican plan to abolish the corporate tax rate won't create jobs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44350912
* Civil Rights history and how it interacts with republican attempts to disenfranchise the poor, the elderly, and disabled on a large scale: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44351103
* Eric Cantor gave a speech today, renewing his commitment to hold disaster funding up unless we cut social programs that help the economy even further. Republicans followed up by claiming anyone pointing out that this is playing politics with a national disaster is the real one playing politics. How dare anyone point out the craven cruelty and political point scoring!
It's so circular it makes my head ache.
Suffice to say if you live in one of the flooded areas you are fucked because that's just how much Eric Cantor and the tea party hatred the middle class.
* Bonus points that when Eric Cantor's district was hard hit by an earlier hurricane, he did not demand "offsets" for Aid. nor did he demand offsets for the random and unnecessary invasion of Iraq, nor did he demands offsets for the oil subsidy.
* Meanwhile a major fire burns in the Dallas Fort Worth area, and we still haven't recovered from those tornadoes. Remember the tornadoes?
* To add insult to injury, Republicans are gearing up to block routine reappropriation for highway maintenance on the grounds firing large numbers of people magically creates jobs. Bonus points for the danger crumbling highways cause to commerce and military readiness.
* Yes, I'm aware of the latest round of pettiness over the President's joint address. I'm also aware of the latest Palin/Perry/O'Donnell Tea Party pettiness. I refuse to go there.
* I am also aware of Glenn beck's race rant, and it is exactly as vile as you'd expect. I don't want to give him the hits, so I'm not linking.
* In Wisconsin, the number of teachers quitting this year doubled thanks to Republican policies we've covered here extensively. The same thing happened in Oregon after they lowered pay and stripped people's retirement benefits. This is always somehow a shock to people who don't teach, presumably because they have no empathy or ability to imagine how they would feel if it happened to them.
* Fighting continues in Libya around Qaddafi's home City. Qaddafi and his son Saif are still at large and feisty. I know it feels like the war is over as more than 90% of the country as well as the capital have fallen and all governments in the region except Algeria are already dealing with the provisional government
* I'm reading Home Improvements: Undead Edition, because Seanean MacGuire has a story in it. The first story is by Charlaine Harris and has so much fail I couldn't not write about it. not only is there gay fail, but the race fail made me feel dirty for holding the book in my hands let alone reading it. For example, who the fuck in the 21st century describes a part Asian American character as having "slanty eyes?" Charlaine Harris, that's who. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? WTFBBQ!!! I feel bad that Ms. MacGuire's story is sharing space with this dreck. No, I haven't read that far yet. The first story left me so horrified by the tower of fail that I had to put the vile thing down. I figured that the rest of you deserved some sort of warning.
Christ on a fucking cracker!
* It's Ebay time!
31 Imp Lot LE and GC: http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594772927?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
THIRTEEN 13: August 2010 (LE): (Company says: A base of bitter dark chocolate with thirteen baneful and beneficial bits including pimento berry, pink pepper, tolu balsam, bergamot, golden honey, tobacco absolute, champaca flower, and paprika.) ¾ aprox. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594773658?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
DESICCATED FROSTBERRY PIE FILLING PERFUME 2010 (Underworld Cup 2010: The Cats from Saturn): (Company says: Commemorating our Black-Ribbon Award Winning Pie Filling, named Best in Show at the Celephaïs County Fair six-hundred years in a row! Plucked from the highest mountaintops of Leng, our desiccated frostberries have been certified organic by the Dreamlands Department for Environmental Concerns, Slaughter Regulation, and Sacrificial Affairs.) Tested once. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594774269?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
MIDNIGHT BELL 2010 (LE, Dark Delicacies: Four Horrid Novels): (Company says: Diabolical monastic incense and crumbling stone.) To Shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594775053?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
PAPER KITE 2010 (LE, The Butterflies): (Company says Coconut, white sugar, angelica, and black pepper.) At label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300594775686?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* neo_prodigy has an announcement: http://prismcomics.org/display.php?id=2026
* "On Being Female in the Age of the Internet:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/383618.html
* Grown men in public on purpose: http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/122733206-419x607.jpg
* Miss? I think you forgot something! Or more than one thing, really. http://cdn02.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/spl309409_015-419x609.jpg
* "Ferry runs aground after captain stuck in toilet:" http://news.yahoo.com/ferry-runs-aground-captain-stuck-toilet-152430429.html
* This is gorgeous: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/9647243712/regala-electra-fuckyeahvintage-retro-nyc
* I see they've deliberately designed the ugliest Superman costume they could imagine for the reboot. After all people hated the very similar Spiderman design so much so maybe they took that as a challenge. I mean why else would they do it?
* NWS and utterly inappropriate: http://youtu.be/e1IxOS4VzKM
* Why the Republican plan to abolish the corporate tax rate won't create jobs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44350912
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Civil Rights history and how it interacts with republican attempts to disenfranchise the poor, the elderly, and disabled on a large scale: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44351103
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Date: 2011-09-01 04:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-01 10:59 pm (UTC)Tangent: I really, really, hate making excuses but I have to apologize, real life and other internet stuff got in the way so I haven't been able to do the post I promised to do for Ars Marginal. I'll have it up on the 'What do you want to talk about' part up today.
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Date: 2011-09-01 11:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-01 11:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-02 12:18 am (UTC)The dude that was organizing the death threat campaign against her also stalked me less seriously in another venue, but failed to trace me back here. My experience with him wasn't as intense, and I'm not an author or public figure, but I always look at that as a near miss. This dangerous fucker could have fixated on me that intensely, instead of just making the other site I was on unviable. As a result, I have a particular empathy for what she went through.
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:51 am (UTC)Other than simply warning people is there more that we can do to stop this? What frustrates me the most is that confronting them directly, head on would end up being exactly what these fuckers would want. For once I would like to see *them* getting sock puppetted, stalked and getting a nasty virus through e-mail but that would just be stooping their level. Argh!
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Date: 2011-09-02 05:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-02 05:38 am (UTC)