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| Sick |
I've been sick. Something has been going around. I managed to resist it for a long time, but it finally got me. Oddly, the combination of being sick and the medicine I have to take makes it hard to sleep. I mean, I sleep, but I don't sleep well. And then the next morning when I have to get up at oh-my-God-its-early I feel like death frozen and placed in the spare freezer down in the basement. So anyway, that means no gym time this week.
So what else is new? Hmmm
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| Sexual assault and torture versus peeing on dead soldiers |
Some US soldiers were videoed
peeing on the dead bodies of enemy Taliban soldiers. For some reason we are expected to get upset about
this. I saw this video right after I saw the video of
Keshana Wilson, a 14-year-old-girl, being shot in the vagina and electrocuted by a police officer with a Taser after he had slammed her against a car and then she raised her hands indicating that she surrendered to her assailant. The officer admits he aimed at her groin intentionally, as Taser recommends. Personally, I find the video of the Tasering and subsequent sexual torture of the unarmed teenaged girl far more offensive and alarming than the video of soldiers peeing on dead enemy soldiers, but maybe that's just me? I tend to think that a society where police officers are more abusive and prone to sexual assault and genital torture of unarmed citizens while soldiers in combat are held to an oddly tame standard is a society with a serious moral schizophrenia crisis. But again, that's probably just me who thinks this way.
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| The man who would be king |
President Obama seems to be doing a bunch of
stuff that the President lacks the legal authority to do, and then he dares anyone to do anything about it. Congress could impeach him, but if history is any guide, they don't have the guts. The problem with this is that even after Obama leaves office, if nothing was done to uphold the laws then the next presidents who come after can do the same thing and point to Obama's actions as legal precedent granting them the power to do likewise. There was
an article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago talking about this. The author clearly likes Obama, but he pointed out the dangers of the "good prince" crisis where people allow some leader whom they think is moral and righteous and good to violate the law and get away with it. It inevitably leads to more of the same with the "princes" who come after, and then everyone is upset and wonders how things got out of control. Well, its because you let them.
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| Hospital |
Heather Locklear is
in the hospital. She just had a broken engagement and next we hear she's being rushed from her home to the hospital, but they won't say what happened. Who knew you could be so good-looking and yet have such a disastrous personal life? I mean, besides everyone in Los Angeles, that is.
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| Casey Anythony |
Casey Anthony, the 20-something girl who murdered her own daughter, has said that she was molested by her father when she was younger and that she became pregnant with Caylee after being drunk at a party and passing out. She remembers nothing about the party and believes she may have been raped. I find this interesting because it wasn't mentioned in her trial and only came out after. Had she been lying about this, like Lorena Bobbitt or Mary Winkler, it would have been her entire defense - "I'm the real victim" - and would have won her some sympathy. She still would have been hated by the women of the jury, but it would have gained her sympathy otherwise and made things go easier for her. For it to come out afterwards, though, makes me wonder if it is actually true.
I just farted and it was really potent.
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| Bad idea for a tattoo |
A very
foolish man in Iran had a popular saying tattooed on his penis. It was done using a hand-held needle, no electricity involved at all. And apparently the tattoo artist, not being acustomed to doing work on penises, pushed the need in too far. The result is that the Iranian man now has a permanent erection and doctors are unable to make it go back down again. In addition to the popular saying, "good luck with your journeys," he also had his girlfriend's initials tattooed on it. If they ever break up he's going to have a tough time dealing with that one.
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| Holiday |
Monday is a holiday for me. I just found this out. Today is Friday the 13th, the roads are frozen, the doors of my car were frozen shut, I am sick and under the influence of medications, and I have a long, cold, 3 1/2 hour drive ahead of me immediately following work on dark, frozen streets, and I am not looking forward to that. I hope I make it home alive tonight.
