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gwydion* Look, the Revolution in Ukraine is not about us, and there is a real fear that the Russians will invade the Ukraine. The best thing we can do is watch quietly to see what happens, as our posturing and dick swinging as the likes of John McCain are demanding we do run the risk of provoking exactly the result we don't want. Nothing good can come of our intervening at this stage and throwing our wight around can do a lot of harm.
* Here's a radical idea: Instead of wasting vast amounts of money on outdated military technology the military doesn't want because it is an extremely inefficient job program, we could spend all that money on more efficient jobs programs like infrastructure spending. That way, instead of equipment we don't need and won't use, we'd get bridges that don't collapse during rush hour and utilities less likely to be knocked out by storms. Also, military spending is worth about a quarter of what infrastructure spending is worth as far as job creation and economic stimulus. We could lower unemployment and goose the economy while getting stuff we actually need instead of pissing it away like the Republicans want. Just saying.
* "No Nugent Is Good Nugent:" http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2014-02-23/no-nugent-is-good-nugent/
* I am not fond of the ableism at the end, but we need to know what sort of people the Republicans are electing and the damage they do to education. "Arizona State Senator Says He Opposes Common Core Because… It Promotes Algebra:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/02/22/arizona-state-senator-says-he-opposes-common-core-because-it-promotes-algebra/
* "Climate change goes back to the Supreme Court:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/02/24/climate-change-goes-back-to-the-supreme-court/
* "Oldest Rock Speck Zeros In On Earth's Cooling Date:" http://news.discovery.com/earth/rocks-fossils/oldest-rock-speck-zeros-in-on-earths-cooling-date-140223.htm
* Alas, no Mutter Museum. TW: Dead Things, Parasites. "World's 10 weirdest medical museums:" http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/16/travel/world-medical-museums/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
* "Absurd Creature of the Week: This Fish Swims Up a Sea Cucumber's Butt and Eats Its Gonads - Wired Science:" http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-pearlfish/
* Signal Boost, because this is important. "Revival Of The Sickest:" https://www.inkshares.com/projects/revival-of-the-sickest
* Ignore the "Atlantis" silliness. the press does that every time they find a drowed settlement, and it looks like a really interesting find. "11,000-Year-Old Settlement Found Under Baltic Sea:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/11000-year-old-settlement-found-under-baltic-sea-140221.htm
* Some of these look more trans than LGB. "21 varieties of traditional African homosexuality:" http://76crimes.com/2014/01/30/21-varieties-of-traditional-african-homosexuality/
* A bunch of European governments are yanking aid to Uganda in the wake of them passing a bill mandating life in prison for LGBT Folks. Meanwhile, we threaten and fling rhetoric, but I don't have a lot of hope that we will follow suit, given that members of our Congress helped write the original "Kill the Gays" Bill and have encouraged the passage of the revision.
* "Letter To A Young Black Canadian Trans Ally:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/letter-to-young-black-canadian-trans.html
* The measure to bar trans children from using the restrooms at their schools failed to make the ballot in California.
* Gov. Brewer bowed to massive corporate pressure and vetoed the anti-Gay Segregation law in Arizona. It is so nice when for once the big money is on the side of justice.
* More than 400 cases of anti-LGBT discrimination have been filed in Arizona in the last four years. Number of cases of Gay people oppressing Christians in that time period? Zero. Number of gays oppressing Christians in Arizona in the whole history of Arizona? Zero. The Republican Argument for imposing Segregation in Arizona amounted to the imaginary threat of something that hasn't happened once trumps the civil and human rights of people who were already being routinely impressed.
* Now let's apply this when folks ask, "Why can't you just stay in the closet?" "Why You Can't Keep a Secret:" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/why-you-cant-keep-a-secret/357571/?google_editors_picks=true
* "Anarchy in the Ukraine:"
* "Outrage over Military Budget Cuts:"
* Today we moved the rest of Squirrel's stuff out of the old Apartment. Greenwick and I took apart, sorted, and put half back in the upstairs storage. The rest is all over the living room. O.o Then I kept Greenwick company as he climbed on ladders and did things like cleaning the blinds. Friday, Greenwick steam cleans the carpets, we lift out the cleaning supplies and miscellanea and I turn in the keys. I've been low on spoons with Hector not really letting me get proper sleep, and am exhausted from all that lifting. I should move more boxes around, but I just want to lie down. Note: I am several fdays behind on just about everything and expect to remain so for something like two weeks. If it's important, PM me, as I'm apt to miss postings.
* Three crocuses have bloomed! So few of the bulbs flowered last year that it's really exciting to see so many crocuses and hyacinths budding, and particularly to have actual flowers already even with the surprise snow.
* The half yearly property tax bill has come. It will wipe me out, but it is a touch lower than expected. Guys, I think we lowered the property values for our complex just by moving in here. I am all for school funding, but at the same time, I am pretty much out of money and have no plan to sell until after I'm dead, so....
* This is brilliant. TW for those phobic about bugs. "A Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum:" http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/cockroachtour
* I think it says something about the quality of "Bitten" that I failed to notice it was back from the first commercial break, mistaking it for a particularly cheesey phone commercial....
* Here's a radical idea: Instead of wasting vast amounts of money on outdated military technology the military doesn't want because it is an extremely inefficient job program, we could spend all that money on more efficient jobs programs like infrastructure spending. That way, instead of equipment we don't need and won't use, we'd get bridges that don't collapse during rush hour and utilities less likely to be knocked out by storms. Also, military spending is worth about a quarter of what infrastructure spending is worth as far as job creation and economic stimulus. We could lower unemployment and goose the economy while getting stuff we actually need instead of pissing it away like the Republicans want. Just saying.
* "No Nugent Is Good Nugent:" http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2014-02-23/no-nugent-is-good-nugent/
* I am not fond of the ableism at the end, but we need to know what sort of people the Republicans are electing and the damage they do to education. "Arizona State Senator Says He Opposes Common Core Because… It Promotes Algebra:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/02/22/arizona-state-senator-says-he-opposes-common-core-because-it-promotes-algebra/
* "Climate change goes back to the Supreme Court:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/02/24/climate-change-goes-back-to-the-supreme-court/
* "Oldest Rock Speck Zeros In On Earth's Cooling Date:" http://news.discovery.com/earth/rocks-fossils/oldest-rock-speck-zeros-in-on-earths-cooling-date-140223.htm
* Alas, no Mutter Museum. TW: Dead Things, Parasites. "World's 10 weirdest medical museums:" http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/16/travel/world-medical-museums/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
* "Absurd Creature of the Week: This Fish Swims Up a Sea Cucumber's Butt and Eats Its Gonads - Wired Science:" http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-pearlfish/
* Signal Boost, because this is important. "Revival Of The Sickest:" https://www.inkshares.com/projects/revival-of-the-sickest
* Ignore the "Atlantis" silliness. the press does that every time they find a drowed settlement, and it looks like a really interesting find. "11,000-Year-Old Settlement Found Under Baltic Sea:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/11000-year-old-settlement-found-under-baltic-sea-140221.htm
* Some of these look more trans than LGB. "21 varieties of traditional African homosexuality:" http://76crimes.com/2014/01/30/21-varieties-of-traditional-african-homosexuality/
* A bunch of European governments are yanking aid to Uganda in the wake of them passing a bill mandating life in prison for LGBT Folks. Meanwhile, we threaten and fling rhetoric, but I don't have a lot of hope that we will follow suit, given that members of our Congress helped write the original "Kill the Gays" Bill and have encouraged the passage of the revision.
* "Letter To A Young Black Canadian Trans Ally:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/letter-to-young-black-canadian-trans.html
* The measure to bar trans children from using the restrooms at their schools failed to make the ballot in California.
* Gov. Brewer bowed to massive corporate pressure and vetoed the anti-Gay Segregation law in Arizona. It is so nice when for once the big money is on the side of justice.
* More than 400 cases of anti-LGBT discrimination have been filed in Arizona in the last four years. Number of cases of Gay people oppressing Christians in that time period? Zero. Number of gays oppressing Christians in Arizona in the whole history of Arizona? Zero. The Republican Argument for imposing Segregation in Arizona amounted to the imaginary threat of something that hasn't happened once trumps the civil and human rights of people who were already being routinely impressed.
* Now let's apply this when folks ask, "Why can't you just stay in the closet?" "Why You Can't Keep a Secret:" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/why-you-cant-keep-a-secret/357571/?google_editors_picks=true
* "Anarchy in the Ukraine:"
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* "Outrage over Military Budget Cuts:"
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* Today we moved the rest of Squirrel's stuff out of the old Apartment. Greenwick and I took apart, sorted, and put half back in the upstairs storage. The rest is all over the living room. O.o Then I kept Greenwick company as he climbed on ladders and did things like cleaning the blinds. Friday, Greenwick steam cleans the carpets, we lift out the cleaning supplies and miscellanea and I turn in the keys. I've been low on spoons with Hector not really letting me get proper sleep, and am exhausted from all that lifting. I should move more boxes around, but I just want to lie down. Note: I am several fdays behind on just about everything and expect to remain so for something like two weeks. If it's important, PM me, as I'm apt to miss postings.
* Three crocuses have bloomed! So few of the bulbs flowered last year that it's really exciting to see so many crocuses and hyacinths budding, and particularly to have actual flowers already even with the surprise snow.
* The half yearly property tax bill has come. It will wipe me out, but it is a touch lower than expected. Guys, I think we lowered the property values for our complex just by moving in here. I am all for school funding, but at the same time, I am pretty much out of money and have no plan to sell until after I'm dead, so....
* This is brilliant. TW for those phobic about bugs. "A Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum:" http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/cockroachtour
* I think it says something about the quality of "Bitten" that I failed to notice it was back from the first commercial break, mistaking it for a particularly cheesey phone commercial....