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* Fox news keeps claiming that Jared Loughner was a communist because he read Mein Kampf. I am confused as to how having read Mein Kampf is proof of Jared Loughner's communism. 1. Hitler was right wing not left. 2. I've read Bernardo De Gui's treatise on how to find Heretics, yet I'm neither catholic nor pro inquisition.

* There is so much snow, there's been sledding in the street outside my house. I'm worried about how mail is going to get in. I'm lucky doctor was yesterday when I could still get out. My next obligation requiring leaving the house is Saturday, and I can actually postpone it if things look bad Friday.

* The cold generally makes Hector anxious out of proportion. He keeps needing me to come with him to check the food canister. I think he still associates a sharp drop in temperature with starvation even after all these years, poor thing.

* They are using "High Voltage" on the White Collar commercials. I only just got that out of my head.

* I keep dreaming about my Brother in Law clearing out my Mother's house. I know this is me trying to get my head around it being out of the family's hands after more than a hundred years. This is the house my grandfather and the Aunts grew up with. My Mother said the Aunts would be spinning in their graves if they hadn't been cremated. I keep imagining the swirl of ashes in the urns.

* A list of recent Ring Wing Domestic terrorism: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/2702655867/july-2008-a-gunman-named-jim-david-adkisson

* RM found, a think on the Australia flooding disaster with donation links: http://irreparable.livejournal.com/527739.html

* And a comic: http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/current/index-1.gif

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* Fox news keeps claiming that Jared Loughner was a communist because he read Mein Kampf. I am confused as to how having read Mein Kampf is proof of Jared Loughner's communism. 1. Hitler was right wing not left. 2. I've read Bernardo De Gui's treatise on how to find Heretics, yet I'm neither catholic nor pro inquisition.

* There is so much snow, there's been sledding in the street outside my house. I'm worried about how mail is going to get in. I'm lucky doctor was yesterday when I could still get out. My next obligation requiring leaving the house is Saturday, and I can actually postpone it if things look bad Friday.

* The cold generally makes Hector anxious out of proportion. He keeps needing me to come with him to check the food canister. I think he still associates a sharp drop in temperature with starvation even after all these years, poor thing.

* They are using "High Voltage" on the White Collar commercials. I only just got that out of my head.

* I keep dreaming about my Brother in Law clearing out my Mother's house. I know this is me trying to get my head around it being out of the family's hands after more than a hundred years. This is the house my grandfather and the Aunts grew up with. My Mother said the Aunts would be spinning in their graves if they hadn't been cremated. I keep imagining the swirl of ashes in the urns.

* A list of recent Ring Wing Domestic terrorism: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/2702655867/july-2008-a-gunman-named-jim-david-adkisson

* RM found, a think on the Australia flooding disaster with donation links: http://irreparable.livejournal.com/527739.html

* And a comic: http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/current/index-1.gif

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* Luckily, it rained for a while this morning. There is still snow, but it's not as impossible looking as it was yesterday.

* I had to get up mid-sleep cycle for plot on Trin. The cats found this alarming and spent an hour milling around in confusion. "What is the human doing at the computer in the middle of the day? I thought we had an extended all clowder nap with option cuddling planned! Is the world ending?"

* According to Sarah Palin, asking people to stop calling for the assassinations of political rivals in the wake of an assassination attempt that left 6 dead and 14 wounded is "blood libel." IE: the equivalent of calling for a large scale pogrom against Jews. I'm having trouble seeing how that even makes logical sense (asking people to stop calling for murder is not the same as calling for genocide), but also belittles the real blood and death and violence Jews all over Europe were subjected to thanks to blood libel. Really, being asked to stop telling people to use "second amendment remedies" to "take out harry reed" or "If ballots don't work, bullets will" or Ms. Palin's own bullet related comments and graphics aimed at Congress woman Gifford is exactly the same as rounding up a whole town of German Jews, down to the newborns and burning them alive based on a lie? Really? Really? WTF?!? I know she has no shame, but still, wtf?!? Also, why would a christian be using a famously anti-Semitic reference about herself when an actual real life Jewish person is among the injured. It's insensitive bordering on creepy.

* I finished when fox Was a Thousand I liked about half of it a great deal, but it took too long to get to the point, I think, or maybe I missed the point. It just felt like it took too long to jell in a way that's hard to put my finger on.

* Snerk: http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/7494557.html?style=mine

* I never had an imaginary friend. At three of thereabouts, I learned that having one was normal and normal seemed important to adults. For several months, I would wait until the adults were watching me, then pretend to play with an imaginary imaginary friend. I would stop as soon as the weren't watching, since I had no idea what the point of an imaginary friend was or why one would want one. This pretense seemed to please the adults, even though the whole thing made no sense to me at all. I suppose it says quite a bit about how my toddler brain worked. Also, wow, my toddler self could act well enough to fool my Mother. I didn't tell her it was all an act until much later.

Anyway, every time I read accounts of other people's real imaginary friends I struggle to get my head around it. Here is an experience so different than mine, I can't really get a handle on it.

* RM found, Haiti, one year later: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/americas/2010-haiti-shattered-year.html#intro

* RM found, A model from India is furious over Elle white washing her, and rightly so: http://www.illumemag.com/zine/articleDetail.php?Aishwarya-Rai-Bachan-Furious-Over-Elle-s-Fair-and-Lovely-Airbrushing-13427

* Sparkindarkness has something to say about how subtext does not equal GBLTQ representation: http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/378177.html?style=mine

* A friend made this: http://www.zazzle.com/glory_of_gears_apron-154227845721338249

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* Luckily, it rained for a while this morning. There is still snow, but it's not as impossible looking as it was yesterday.

* I had to get up mid-sleep cycle for plot on Trin. The cats found this alarming and spent an hour milling around in confusion. "What is the human doing at the computer in the middle of the day? I thought we had an extended all clowder nap with option cuddling planned! Is the world ending?"

* According to Sarah Palin, asking people to stop calling for the assassinations of political rivals in the wake of an assassination attempt that left 6 dead and 14 wounded is "blood libel." IE: the equivalent of calling for a large scale pogrom against Jews. I'm having trouble seeing how that even makes logical sense (asking people to stop calling for murder is not the same as calling for genocide), but also belittles the real blood and death and violence Jews all over Europe were subjected to thanks to blood libel. Really, being asked to stop telling people to use "second amendment remedies" to "take out harry reed" or "If ballots don't work, bullets will" or Ms. Palin's own bullet related comments and graphics aimed at Congress woman Gifford is exactly the same as rounding up a whole town of German Jews, down to the newborns and burning them alive based on a lie? Really? Really? WTF?!? I know she has no shame, but still, wtf?!? Also, why would a christian be using a famously anti-Semitic reference about herself when an actual real life Jewish person is among the injured. It's insensitive bordering on creepy.

* I finished when fox Was a Thousand I liked about half of it a great deal, but it took too long to get to the point, I think, or maybe I missed the point. It just felt like it took too long to jell in a way that's hard to put my finger on.

* Snerk: http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/7494557.html?style=mine

* I never had an imaginary friend. At three of thereabouts, I learned that having one was normal and normal seemed important to adults. For several months, I would wait until the adults were watching me, then pretend to play with an imaginary imaginary friend. I would stop as soon as the weren't watching, since I had no idea what the point of an imaginary friend was or why one would want one. This pretense seemed to please the adults, even though the whole thing made no sense to me at all. I suppose it says quite a bit about how my toddler brain worked. Also, wow, my toddler self could act well enough to fool my Mother. I didn't tell her it was all an act until much later.

Anyway, every time I read accounts of other people's real imaginary friends I struggle to get my head around it. Here is an experience so different than mine, I can't really get a handle on it.

* RM found, Haiti, one year later: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/americas/2010-haiti-shattered-year.html#intro

* RM found, A model from India is furious over Elle white washing her, and rightly so: http://www.illumemag.com/zine/articleDetail.php?Aishwarya-Rai-Bachan-Furious-Over-Elle-s-Fair-and-Lovely-Airbrushing-13427

* Sparkindarkness has something to say about how subtext does not equal GBLTQ representation: http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/378177.html?style=mine

* A friend made this: http://www.zazzle.com/glory_of_gears_apron-154227845721338249

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* I was doing up tea samples for a swap box. I'd forgotten how exciting the cats find this one particular blend. The Butt unplugged my monitor trying to steal some. I ended up having to fend off three out of four of them, but was able to keep them all out of the tea supplies, which is important for allergen reasons as well for hygiene. If I'd remembered how crazy that tea makes them, I'd have locked them all up in advance. Old box is ready to ship, weather permitting. New box is not yet here.

* Gabriel Gifford opened her eyes today. It will be some time before there will be any way to tell how bad the damage is.

* Speaker Boehner decided to decline his invitation to the Tuscon massacre victim memorial in favor of a Republican cocktail party with lobbyists.

* I see Ms. Angle jumping on the real victim bandwagon as well with her statement claiming that criticism of her calling for "second amendment remedies" puts her in danger. Because her calling for people to "take out" a sitting congressman isn't nearly as dangerous as someone being offended she said it. Right. Pull the other one.

* Bob Filner talks about the violent antisemitic Tea Party mob after he one the election:

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* I was doing up tea samples for a swap box. I'd forgotten how exciting the cats find this one particular blend. The Butt unplugged my monitor trying to steal some. I ended up having to fend off three out of four of them, but was able to keep them all out of the tea supplies, which is important for allergen reasons as well for hygiene. If I'd remembered how crazy that tea makes them, I'd have locked them all up in advance. Old box is ready to ship, weather permitting. New box is not yet here.

* Gabriel Gifford opened her eyes today. It will be some time before there will be any way to tell how bad the damage is.

* Speaker Boehner decided to decline his invitation to the Tuscon massacre victim memorial in favor of a Republican cocktail party with lobbyists.

* I see Ms. Angle jumping on the real victim bandwagon as well with her statement claiming that criticism of her calling for "second amendment remedies" puts her in danger. Because her calling for people to "take out" a sitting congressman isn't nearly as dangerous as someone being offended she said it. Right. Pull the other one.

* Bob Filner talks about the violent antisemitic Tea Party mob after he one the election:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy