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Oct. 29th, 2011 02:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* There is flooding in Thailand. It's sounding like it's not at catastrophic yet, so lets all hope the rain stops soon.
* From the comments on the last omnibus entry, my explanation of my support for Jack Hanna:
He was so clearly distraught over the deaths of those animals. Like simultaneously nearly in tears and furious at the humans who put him in the position to have to kill those animals. It was pretty clearly worst day in his professional life. The reason they had to do it was they had an hour until sunset and they were disbursing towards populated areas. The risk was simply too fucking high. He's doing everything in his power to 1. comfort and protect the survivors, who have only just started eating again, and 2. either outlaw private corrections or at minimum get the recently repealed regulations governing safer and healthier conditions for animals in private collections not only put back in place, but strengthened in the hopes of preventing future tragedies.
I place the blame where it belongs: not on a heartbroken man who was forced into an impossible position by the selfishness and negligence of other people (the man who had the collection and released the animals into a populated animal and the Republican governor who decided exotic animals no longer needed to be kept in conditions that are healthy and safe for them in the name of "job creation)." It's pretty fucking clear to me who the assholes are in this situation, and it's not the people who have dedicated their lives to working with and advocating for animals who had to do something they never wanted to do or thought they would ever have to do.
By the way, there is still no explanation from the governor of what sort of jobs keeping animals in unsanitary and inadequate conditions created, vs. the previoyus policy of minimum requirements for care. I'm honestly having trouble even imagining how that would work.
* It turns out that the Mississippi Personhood Amendment doesn't just make birth control illegal, force women to bear the children of rapists, and require every single miscarriage to be investigated as homicide but also outlaws fertility treatments. This is pretty clearly about punishing women for being women and taking away all reproductive choices for or against from women. You can't be logically against both birth control and abortion. It's realistically one or the other, and I do not see how murder trials for miscarriage helps anyone, nor how preventing women who desperately want children from having them has anything to do with the public good and everything to do with stripping basic rights from women. I do not see how requiring women to die from ectopic pregnancies is pro-life when it's clearly about killing innocent women needlessly for the sake of a non-viable clump of cells, nor do I see how denying women cancer treatments has anything to doing with saving lives.
* In Oakland, protesters have started moving back into the park where police brutally attacked earlier in the week. Prospects are hopeful for ex-marine combat veteran Scott Wilson to recover though pressure in his brain is still preventing speech, and while there may or may not be some brain damage, he is expected to survive. Sympathy protests in honor of the felled marine sprung up not only all over this country, but as far away as Cairo and Teheran, where protesters faced serious consequences from their governme3nt so protesting in support of an injured American is incredibly brave.
* As they are expecting snow in the near future, the government in New York has taken the generator away from the Wall Street protesters in the hopes they will go home. Of course, they were using it for things other than heat, like a cell phone charging station. Still, it's comforting to me that the Anchorage protesters are sending specialist cold weather camping help.
* I other protest news, several cities tried to crack down on protesters last night. Amusingly, the night judge in Nashville dismissed all the related arrests as the law they were arrested under was only a couple hours old and police had not provided adequate notice of the change, nor was their probable cause. Three cheers for magistrate Tom Nelson for standing up for sanity. I know nothing else about him, but the crankiness of his rebuke pleased me.
* In yesterday's drama I forgot to mention that Germany has decided to bail out the EU. I simply haven't had time or energy to research the agreement, so I can't analyze it properly within the current global economic prospects. Fingers crossed, because if the EU economy melts down for real, we're all pretty much screwed. Seriously, good luck Europe.
* While we're talking about the EU, kudos for including trans folk in your asylum rules. I long for the day we join you in the 21st century. It applies in all member countries except Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark. When I think of all the countries who have been jailing and executing trans women lately, I am grateful that there is now at least somewhere to flee to, though it's expensive and difficult and not even close to enough, it's nice to know someone is trying to do the right thing.
* I was too upset yesterday to eat much or get reasonable sleep, so today's ferrying bits of paper all over town in the rain was extra challenging. Superhero evilandi swooped in with the first deposit payment money. A hundred points to Gryffindor.
Along with intense protein cravings, I've been lusting after eggplant. I wonder what key vitamin is in eggplant that I'm clearly deficient in.
I've been in overload off and on for a month and it's increasingly hard to keep it normal in public. I managed polite today, but charming was simply impossible. Especially as I skipped food and meds due to how much extra time it took to get my body cooperating, the expected amount of being sent from one office to another and rainy day Friday downtown traffic. I guessed right and didn't get back until after five. I am so damned tired and out of spoons, emotional cushion, and patience.
I am worried that all the stress of the last couple of months will or is kicking me out of AS remission and I really, really need my skin, cartledge, and connective tissue. You know for stuff.
The cats are in cling mode due to the rain, chill, and general gloom, but are doing pretty well on the getting along, sharing furniture front. There are the usual low level squabbles on the floor, but for the most part they are either sharing or taking turns when it comes to furniture and other key mesting sites. Hector's only had one flashback that I saw in the last couple days and was sane enough today for a long I genuinely expected relapse due to me traveling and am terribly grateful since I think non-stop howling would be the last straw. He's so easy to love when he's like this.
* On Separatist harassment of trans women: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/ciswomen-yall-need-to-chill-with-your.html
* North Korean Rice: http://greenwick.livejournal.com/57888.html
It's not finished, but it certainly is interesting.
* Attn, Greenwick: A compilation of moments from the trainwreck that is the Sandra Lee Halloween special. I can only thing the consuming of all the cocktails they are making in there can explain the rest of the contents: http://gawker.com/5852613/the-best-four-minutes-of-sandra-lees-ridiculous-halloween-special
* I get that "take a sheet" is supposed to be a funny play on words, but the images it draws is extremely gross. I do not want to be asked to picture a cop "taking a sheet" in the middle of the street or a surgeon doing it in the operating room while I am eating. Yes, I know it's some kind of energy supplement, but I'm a fairly visual thinker and when they so those words it still makes pictures in my head I simply don't want.
* I wonder what it says about me as a person that you would have to pay me for my time if you wanted me to sit through Halloween or any other slasher flick, but I will happily watch a documentary on how they made the original Halloween with fascination.
* On the Phantom Toolbooth: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141240217/my-accidental-masterpiece-the-phantom-tollbooth
* Early STD prevention posters; http://www.slate.com/slideshows/double_x/early-std-prevention-ads.html
* "10 Horror Film Houses You Can Actually Visit:" http://flavorwire.com/223950/10horror-film-houses-you-can-actually-visit
* Who hasn't felt like this? http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/242988.html
* Aaaaaw: http://shop.ianleino.com/product/doctor-whoville
* Also Aaaaw: http://riptapparel.com/
* Triple Aaaaw: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/12037904551/mememolly-tank-dog-by-darkbluedrew-via
* From the comments on the last omnibus entry, my explanation of my support for Jack Hanna:
He was so clearly distraught over the deaths of those animals. Like simultaneously nearly in tears and furious at the humans who put him in the position to have to kill those animals. It was pretty clearly worst day in his professional life. The reason they had to do it was they had an hour until sunset and they were disbursing towards populated areas. The risk was simply too fucking high. He's doing everything in his power to 1. comfort and protect the survivors, who have only just started eating again, and 2. either outlaw private corrections or at minimum get the recently repealed regulations governing safer and healthier conditions for animals in private collections not only put back in place, but strengthened in the hopes of preventing future tragedies.
I place the blame where it belongs: not on a heartbroken man who was forced into an impossible position by the selfishness and negligence of other people (the man who had the collection and released the animals into a populated animal and the Republican governor who decided exotic animals no longer needed to be kept in conditions that are healthy and safe for them in the name of "job creation)." It's pretty fucking clear to me who the assholes are in this situation, and it's not the people who have dedicated their lives to working with and advocating for animals who had to do something they never wanted to do or thought they would ever have to do.
By the way, there is still no explanation from the governor of what sort of jobs keeping animals in unsanitary and inadequate conditions created, vs. the previoyus policy of minimum requirements for care. I'm honestly having trouble even imagining how that would work.
* It turns out that the Mississippi Personhood Amendment doesn't just make birth control illegal, force women to bear the children of rapists, and require every single miscarriage to be investigated as homicide but also outlaws fertility treatments. This is pretty clearly about punishing women for being women and taking away all reproductive choices for or against from women. You can't be logically against both birth control and abortion. It's realistically one or the other, and I do not see how murder trials for miscarriage helps anyone, nor how preventing women who desperately want children from having them has anything to do with the public good and everything to do with stripping basic rights from women. I do not see how requiring women to die from ectopic pregnancies is pro-life when it's clearly about killing innocent women needlessly for the sake of a non-viable clump of cells, nor do I see how denying women cancer treatments has anything to doing with saving lives.
* In Oakland, protesters have started moving back into the park where police brutally attacked earlier in the week. Prospects are hopeful for ex-marine combat veteran Scott Wilson to recover though pressure in his brain is still preventing speech, and while there may or may not be some brain damage, he is expected to survive. Sympathy protests in honor of the felled marine sprung up not only all over this country, but as far away as Cairo and Teheran, where protesters faced serious consequences from their governme3nt so protesting in support of an injured American is incredibly brave.
* As they are expecting snow in the near future, the government in New York has taken the generator away from the Wall Street protesters in the hopes they will go home. Of course, they were using it for things other than heat, like a cell phone charging station. Still, it's comforting to me that the Anchorage protesters are sending specialist cold weather camping help.
* I other protest news, several cities tried to crack down on protesters last night. Amusingly, the night judge in Nashville dismissed all the related arrests as the law they were arrested under was only a couple hours old and police had not provided adequate notice of the change, nor was their probable cause. Three cheers for magistrate Tom Nelson for standing up for sanity. I know nothing else about him, but the crankiness of his rebuke pleased me.
* In yesterday's drama I forgot to mention that Germany has decided to bail out the EU. I simply haven't had time or energy to research the agreement, so I can't analyze it properly within the current global economic prospects. Fingers crossed, because if the EU economy melts down for real, we're all pretty much screwed. Seriously, good luck Europe.
* While we're talking about the EU, kudos for including trans folk in your asylum rules. I long for the day we join you in the 21st century. It applies in all member countries except Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark. When I think of all the countries who have been jailing and executing trans women lately, I am grateful that there is now at least somewhere to flee to, though it's expensive and difficult and not even close to enough, it's nice to know someone is trying to do the right thing.
* I was too upset yesterday to eat much or get reasonable sleep, so today's ferrying bits of paper all over town in the rain was extra challenging. Superhero evilandi swooped in with the first deposit payment money. A hundred points to Gryffindor.
Along with intense protein cravings, I've been lusting after eggplant. I wonder what key vitamin is in eggplant that I'm clearly deficient in.
I've been in overload off and on for a month and it's increasingly hard to keep it normal in public. I managed polite today, but charming was simply impossible. Especially as I skipped food and meds due to how much extra time it took to get my body cooperating, the expected amount of being sent from one office to another and rainy day Friday downtown traffic. I guessed right and didn't get back until after five. I am so damned tired and out of spoons, emotional cushion, and patience.
I am worried that all the stress of the last couple of months will or is kicking me out of AS remission and I really, really need my skin, cartledge, and connective tissue. You know for stuff.
The cats are in cling mode due to the rain, chill, and general gloom, but are doing pretty well on the getting along, sharing furniture front. There are the usual low level squabbles on the floor, but for the most part they are either sharing or taking turns when it comes to furniture and other key mesting sites. Hector's only had one flashback that I saw in the last couple days and was sane enough today for a long I genuinely expected relapse due to me traveling and am terribly grateful since I think non-stop howling would be the last straw. He's so easy to love when he's like this.
* On Separatist harassment of trans women: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/ciswomen-yall-need-to-chill-with-your.html
* North Korean Rice: http://greenwick.livejournal.com/57888.html
It's not finished, but it certainly is interesting.
* Attn, Greenwick: A compilation of moments from the trainwreck that is the Sandra Lee Halloween special. I can only thing the consuming of all the cocktails they are making in there can explain the rest of the contents: http://gawker.com/5852613/the-best-four-minutes-of-sandra-lees-ridiculous-halloween-special
* I get that "take a sheet" is supposed to be a funny play on words, but the images it draws is extremely gross. I do not want to be asked to picture a cop "taking a sheet" in the middle of the street or a surgeon doing it in the operating room while I am eating. Yes, I know it's some kind of energy supplement, but I'm a fairly visual thinker and when they so those words it still makes pictures in my head I simply don't want.
* I wonder what it says about me as a person that you would have to pay me for my time if you wanted me to sit through Halloween or any other slasher flick, but I will happily watch a documentary on how they made the original Halloween with fascination.
* On the Phantom Toolbooth: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141240217/my-accidental-masterpiece-the-phantom-tollbooth
* Early STD prevention posters; http://www.slate.com/slideshows/double_x/early-std-prevention-ads.html
* "10 Horror Film Houses You Can Actually Visit:" http://flavorwire.com/223950/10horror-film-houses-you-can-actually-visit
* Who hasn't felt like this? http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/242988.html
* Aaaaaw: http://shop.ianleino.com/product/doctor-whoville
* Also Aaaaw: http://riptapparel.com/
* Triple Aaaaw: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/12037904551/mememolly-tank-dog-by-darkbluedrew-via
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Date: 2011-10-29 03:57 pm (UTC)When I'm able to get nori and other foods again, I should make some eggplant sushi for you. It'd probably be cooked eggplant, but I'm sure it'd be delicious.