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gwydion* There was a 7.8 magnitude in Mexico. About 500 homes collapsed, but this could have been vastly worse, sounds like.
* The motorbike gunman was in a stand off with french police as I wrote this. it's looking like he's an Al Queada trained jihadist who was under surveillance by French police, but slipped his tail in order to murder seven people including the children at the Jewish school.
* In Israel, they had funerals for the people murdered by the motor bike gunman. The French foreign minister is attending the funerals. I have some nasty things I could say about historic and resent examples of French official antisemitism, but honestly, I am all in favour of any serious thing the French government can do to change that. Reaching out now is an encouraging first step.
* Glen Beck is now accusing Treyvon martin of things like arson and sexual battery on the ground that he had a suspension on his school record for tardiness. After all, being late to school is exactly the same thing as rape, etc.. Eeeeew! The neighborhood watch is claiming that Zimmerman was justified in murdering Treyvon Martin, as he should have answered a strange white man with no official authority when challenged, even though the law doesn't even require tan answer if an actual police officer had challenged him, nor is there the death penalty for not answer random people on the street harassing you, as any one who has walked anywhere at night with breasts can tell you. (Seriously, do we allow frat boys to shoot women in cold blood if the women keep walking in response to their demands? No. Still the argument is that it's okay for white men to shoot unarmed teenagers if they don't stop for random white men who bother them on the street.) There has been a no confidence in the chief of police. People are asking why the police had time to do a background check of the murdered teen, but not of the murderer.
* BTW, the police officer who decided the murderer's statement trumped all evidence contradicting it and therefore they needn't investigate the murder, was also the one who decided not to investigate the brutal beating of a homeless man, despite video taping of the assault that showed the son of a police officer attacking unprovoked. he also has various brutality type incidents on his record.
* The UK is going to raise taxes on the rich so as to fund the safety net which is under extra strain during the financial crisis. Meanwhile in the US, the Paul Ryan budget proposes dramatic tax cuts for the rich to be paid for by abolishing Medicare and dramatically cutting Medicade, Social Security, food stamps, etc.. After all more people need the safety net during a financial crisis, so what better time to cut benefits in an effort to increase the wealth gap even further? I'm guessing much brighter people are making the UK tax policy, just saying.
* Mitt Romney's campaign adviser said that the Fall campaign is like an etchasketch, so none of the extremist things they say now will count against them in the fall election. People are now referring to Romney as the "Etchasketch candidate." *snerk*
* We got crap for sleep again thanks to phones, carpentry, and hector throwing up dramatically and repeatedly on my bed. I completely failed to get my shit together in time to accomplish bureaucracy or foraging. Sigh. I did pick up meds.
* Does anyone know a good trans woman friendly website? A correspondent is asking for suggestions and it occurs to me I should be tracking that stuff.
* It's ebay time! help me pay my car insurance:
BPAL 20 Imp: GC, LE, and Discontinued: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683580225
BPAL 2 Partial bottle Lot LE: INGANOK JEWELERS and IRON PHOENIX: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683581366
THE LADY OF LAKE RONKONKOMA 2010 (New York Comic-Con, LE): (Company says:. Balsamic, reedy water, sweetgrass, algae, loosestrife, and lady’s slipper.) To label top.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683582818
LEATHER PHOENIX 2011 (LE, BPAL Anniversary): (Company says: matcha tea, wild frankincense, champaca, petitgrain, star anise, aged oudh, rose taifi, narcissus, Himalayan cedar, 11-year aged patchouli, and black Leather accord.) To shoulder: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683587795
SHILL 2005 (LE, Carnival Noir): (Company says: Gloriously innocent and guileless: pure buttered popcorn!) Tested once: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683589969
* The motorbike gunman was in a stand off with french police as I wrote this. it's looking like he's an Al Queada trained jihadist who was under surveillance by French police, but slipped his tail in order to murder seven people including the children at the Jewish school.
* In Israel, they had funerals for the people murdered by the motor bike gunman. The French foreign minister is attending the funerals. I have some nasty things I could say about historic and resent examples of French official antisemitism, but honestly, I am all in favour of any serious thing the French government can do to change that. Reaching out now is an encouraging first step.
* Glen Beck is now accusing Treyvon martin of things like arson and sexual battery on the ground that he had a suspension on his school record for tardiness. After all, being late to school is exactly the same thing as rape, etc.. Eeeeew! The neighborhood watch is claiming that Zimmerman was justified in murdering Treyvon Martin, as he should have answered a strange white man with no official authority when challenged, even though the law doesn't even require tan answer if an actual police officer had challenged him, nor is there the death penalty for not answer random people on the street harassing you, as any one who has walked anywhere at night with breasts can tell you. (Seriously, do we allow frat boys to shoot women in cold blood if the women keep walking in response to their demands? No. Still the argument is that it's okay for white men to shoot unarmed teenagers if they don't stop for random white men who bother them on the street.) There has been a no confidence in the chief of police. People are asking why the police had time to do a background check of the murdered teen, but not of the murderer.
* BTW, the police officer who decided the murderer's statement trumped all evidence contradicting it and therefore they needn't investigate the murder, was also the one who decided not to investigate the brutal beating of a homeless man, despite video taping of the assault that showed the son of a police officer attacking unprovoked. he also has various brutality type incidents on his record.
* The UK is going to raise taxes on the rich so as to fund the safety net which is under extra strain during the financial crisis. Meanwhile in the US, the Paul Ryan budget proposes dramatic tax cuts for the rich to be paid for by abolishing Medicare and dramatically cutting Medicade, Social Security, food stamps, etc.. After all more people need the safety net during a financial crisis, so what better time to cut benefits in an effort to increase the wealth gap even further? I'm guessing much brighter people are making the UK tax policy, just saying.
* Mitt Romney's campaign adviser said that the Fall campaign is like an etchasketch, so none of the extremist things they say now will count against them in the fall election. People are now referring to Romney as the "Etchasketch candidate." *snerk*
* We got crap for sleep again thanks to phones, carpentry, and hector throwing up dramatically and repeatedly on my bed. I completely failed to get my shit together in time to accomplish bureaucracy or foraging. Sigh. I did pick up meds.
* Does anyone know a good trans woman friendly website? A correspondent is asking for suggestions and it occurs to me I should be tracking that stuff.
* It's ebay time! help me pay my car insurance:
BPAL 20 Imp: GC, LE, and Discontinued: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683580225
BPAL 2 Partial bottle Lot LE: INGANOK JEWELERS and IRON PHOENIX: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683581366
THE LADY OF LAKE RONKONKOMA 2010 (New York Comic-Con, LE): (Company says:. Balsamic, reedy water, sweetgrass, algae, loosestrife, and lady’s slipper.) To label top.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683582818
LEATHER PHOENIX 2011 (LE, BPAL Anniversary): (Company says: matcha tea, wild frankincense, champaca, petitgrain, star anise, aged oudh, rose taifi, narcissus, Himalayan cedar, 11-year aged patchouli, and black Leather accord.) To shoulder: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683587795
SHILL 2005 (LE, Carnival Noir): (Company says: Gloriously innocent and guileless: pure buttered popcorn!) Tested once: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300683589969