Archive for January 2nd, 2007
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Thank you Starbucks.
Pumpkin loaf is the kind of thing that makes life worth living, as far as I am concerned.
There are people out there in the world that sacrifice things like pumpkin loaf on purpose. I see them occasionally on the TeeVee. They eat very little in general and what they do eat is all fibrous and green and does not have very many calories. They are living a life that is just one step to the good side of starvation, all in the hopes that they will tack on a couple of extra years to their lives. They have almost no body fat what-so-ever.
Sick and disgusting.
I eat pumpkin loaf and things of similar ilk. If it means I carry some extra pounds around so be it. I refuse to go through life hungry and cold from inadequate body insulation just for the reward of living a few more years of being hungry and cold. Forget it.
When I am on my death bed I am not going to be thinking about how awesome I am for all the things I sacrificed in life, no way. I am not going to sacrifice anything. That way I’ll die happy. Then they will serve pumpkin loaf at my wake.
I’m starving. Time to go make dinner.
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Josh Marshall regarding the execution of Saddam Hussein:
It’s a sorry picture. US Army officers trying to force some adherence to the rule of law in the execution of the former head of state. The current head of government — Maliki — demanding an immediate execution, then finding a series of ‘workarounds’ to sidestep to apparently clear laws blocking an immediate execution. And then getting final go-ahead from a group of clerics. Is that what 3,000 Americans died for?
To make matters even worse, Hussein’s hanging appears to have turned into a Shia “free-for-all” including verbal taunting and harassing of Hussein on the gallows and the celebration of Muqtada al-Sadr.
Tom Brokaw on the Don Imus radio show this morning:
…we portray ourselves around the world as the champions of democracy and the rule of law — first of all, that began to unravel in the eyes of a lot of people in that part of world with Abu Ghraib and the great cruelties and indignities that were imposed on people there. The debate goes on here about Guantanamo and about access to people’s private records. And then to say that we are going to install in Iraq a judicial system and a democratic form of government and have something that resembled the worst kind of nightmare out of the old American West. Not much dignity. He was, he was a god awful man and he did have a trial, but not have control of the execution, and to have it really just fuel more sectarian violence at a time when we are trying to dampen that is not helpful, which is an understatement…
Saddam Hussein who had disappeared, in effect, as some kind of a symbol over there, suddenly becomes a martyr. He was a terrible tyrant who was responsible for an untold number of deaths, you know, waged his own jihad against the Shiite in that country, especially in the south following Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s, and now he’s able to stand up there with the hood off and invoke prayer and even invoke the Palestinians, and go out in the eyes of his people at least as a martyr.
What a perfect example of Bush policy in Iraq. A Slapdash, half ass effort with the end result most likely being the opposite of what was originally intended.
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
The holidays were difficult and I put on a few bucks but I think I am back on track now.
I topped out at 194.5 last week, Plan B takes the lead in the Fitness Challenge.
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Tom Vail has been a guide on the Colorado River for many years. For a number of those years he told participants of his guided trips that the Grand Canyon had formed over million of years due to water and wind erosion.
Then he met Jesus!
Tom now believes that the Grand Canyon is only a few thousand years old and was formed due to Noah’s flood. He wrote a book about it and this book is stocked and sold at the park bookstores.
In August 2003 Grand Canyon Park Superintendent Joe Alston attempted to block the sale of the book due to its creationist views. Bush Administration appointees at the National Park Service intervened and overruled Superintendent Alston.
Furthermore, officials at Grand Canyon Park are not allowed to give any kind of “official estimate” of the geologic age of the canyon so as not to offend Christian fundamentalists.
Religious belief over scientific evidence. This has been today’s example of Christian Rule.
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