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Feb. 24th, 2012 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* I don't know if you remember that thing where it turned out the NYPD was illegally tracking/spying on citizens of Middle eastern decent despite them not being suspected of specific wrong doing? It turns out the NYPD was also spying on folks in Pennsylvania at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Yale, along with fourteen other universities. Despite that not only being illegal spying, but well out of their jurisdiction. Mayorbloomberg wants you to know it's okay because illegal spying on innocent citizens totally is keeping the whole country safe. Which is his job as Mayor of New York. Obviously. Riiiiight. How come it makes me feel less safe then? Also, I am surprised that NYPD have all this extra time and money to waste. Are there no actual crimes they could be investigating, like all this illegal spying, for example? If not, maybe the NYPD really does need downsizing.
* Mitt Romney is still pushing a tax plan to cut social security and medicare to pay for even more tax cuts for the wealthiest. He is now claiming this is siding with the 99% against the 1%. If so, I have serious questions about his ability to do basic math. I can only conclude he is deliberately lying like a rug.
* In more time traveling Obama new. According to Lou Dobbs, the president went back in time to force Mary Norton to write The Brrowers in the early fifties and Dr. Seuss to write the Lorax in 1971 so as to indoctrinate children who would later become voters so as to get them to support his Presidential agenda. Okay, he did not use the phrase time travel, but how else could the president influence the writing of the borrowers back before he was born. Similarly, how else could the future president make Dr. seuss do anything when he was a ten year old, let alone imagine that it would somehow help him when he would be running for reelection in 2012.
* Also in time travelling Obama news, the President went back to the Bush presidency and forced then President Bush to appoint some of Bush's cronies to the board of the US Export-Import bank, so that later, they could loan money to Brazil to promote US exports to that Country. FOX "news" is not overtly mentioning "time travel" or "mind control," but again, how else could he be responsible for the decisions of Bush appointees whith whom he had no contact? Yet FOX is blaming President Obama, and I can't see how else it would make sense.
* Sanat alerted me to this protest against a transphobic editorial in New Zealand: http://feastoffun.com/topics/politics-activism/2012/02/23/queer-activists-respond-to-transphobic-opinion-piece-in-nz-newspaper/
* I only had a couple of hours sleep, and I'm going to gi back to bed.
* I dreamed that they were trying to do a Glee knockoff in a school like season 4 of the Wire. It was... hard to describe, really, but interesting.
* In retrospect, the star anise in an Omen of Good Fortune is a touch weirder than I initially thought.
* This book looks cool: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/425250.html
* Wow, the Virginia government mandated forced non-consensual vaginal probe thing got weird and convoluted while I was looking away. Frankly, you need the detail for it to make anysence, so I'm going to give you a clip instead of trying to summarize: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46506815
* And then Thursday they amended it so that it required gestational age, which means they still require a vaginal probe unless the woman wants to wait until an external ultrasound can be done. It's still not medically necessary and incredibly intrusive. The new law requires the doctor to prove he did the medically unnecessary procedure.
* I meant to rant about this back when it broke that they were still doing this, but I got distracted by everything else going on. Stephen Colbert on Mormons practice of non-consensual baptism of Holocaust victims: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/409086/february-23-2012/posthumous-mormon-baptism
* Mitt Romney is still pushing a tax plan to cut social security and medicare to pay for even more tax cuts for the wealthiest. He is now claiming this is siding with the 99% against the 1%. If so, I have serious questions about his ability to do basic math. I can only conclude he is deliberately lying like a rug.
* In more time traveling Obama new. According to Lou Dobbs, the president went back in time to force Mary Norton to write The Brrowers in the early fifties and Dr. Seuss to write the Lorax in 1971 so as to indoctrinate children who would later become voters so as to get them to support his Presidential agenda. Okay, he did not use the phrase time travel, but how else could the president influence the writing of the borrowers back before he was born. Similarly, how else could the future president make Dr. seuss do anything when he was a ten year old, let alone imagine that it would somehow help him when he would be running for reelection in 2012.
* Also in time travelling Obama news, the President went back to the Bush presidency and forced then President Bush to appoint some of Bush's cronies to the board of the US Export-Import bank, so that later, they could loan money to Brazil to promote US exports to that Country. FOX "news" is not overtly mentioning "time travel" or "mind control," but again, how else could he be responsible for the decisions of Bush appointees whith whom he had no contact? Yet FOX is blaming President Obama, and I can't see how else it would make sense.
* Sanat alerted me to this protest against a transphobic editorial in New Zealand: http://feastoffun.com/topics/politics-activism/2012/02/23/queer-activists-respond-to-transphobic-opinion-piece-in-nz-newspaper/
* I only had a couple of hours sleep, and I'm going to gi back to bed.
* I dreamed that they were trying to do a Glee knockoff in a school like season 4 of the Wire. It was... hard to describe, really, but interesting.
* In retrospect, the star anise in an Omen of Good Fortune is a touch weirder than I initially thought.
* This book looks cool: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/425250.html
* Wow, the Virginia government mandated forced non-consensual vaginal probe thing got weird and convoluted while I was looking away. Frankly, you need the detail for it to make anysence, so I'm going to give you a clip instead of trying to summarize: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46506815
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* And then Thursday they amended it so that it required gestational age, which means they still require a vaginal probe unless the woman wants to wait until an external ultrasound can be done. It's still not medically necessary and incredibly intrusive. The new law requires the doctor to prove he did the medically unnecessary procedure.
* I meant to rant about this back when it broke that they were still doing this, but I got distracted by everything else going on. Stephen Colbert on Mormons practice of non-consensual baptism of Holocaust victims: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/409086/february-23-2012/posthumous-mormon-baptism
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Date: 2012-02-25 03:54 pm (UTC)Mind if I quote that quip about Mitt for my readers?
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