ebay followup…EBay Cancels Auctions of Attack-Related Items
and the city of god Nostradamus quote is a fake
Yearly Archives: 2001
Waving the flag.
If you don’t like it in the US… and you currently live here, here’s another freedom open to you.
Leave. Hit the fricking road. Take a bite of a reality sandwich. See what life is like elsewhere.
Go Live in China for a year, see how wonderful life is there. Go to Afghanistan, and tell them you’re an American, and see how well you get by telling them that you renounce our ways. Heck, spend some time in Germany or England, and try to get ahold of some of the “wrong” kind of literature.
I celebrate your freedom to an opinion, though I may deplore your ignorance and willful stupidity. I’d appreciate it if you thought before you started bitching about the way things are here. Vote, gather a petition, organize peaceably. If you have a problem, you can write your congressman, your local newspaper. Lay out exactly what your problems are, find folks of a similar mind, and do something about it.
Seriously. If you have a problem with the way things are here, at least you can make a difference. For such a young country, I think we’ve on the whole done a lot more good than bad. I think we’ve contributed far more positively than negatively to culture, society, technology and medicine than any other country on the planet for the last 200 years. This place is still a land of innovation and exceptional tolerance, especially compared to the entirety of the globe.
US life is probably some of the highest quality of life you can find, and that’s coming from someone who’s been homeless. There are problems with every system, but I feel that the one we have in place now is the best available. With the help of my nation and her citizens, I’m able to eat, sleep indoors, in a bed, love who I choose, travel freely, buy whatever books I like, work at a competitive wage, and help folks that don’t have it so well to get back on their feet.
Tell me that you think we deserve most of the hate that we get, because of the country we live in… well… I’m sorry, but you’re a fucking idiot.
http://www.helping.org/
http://helping.web.aol.com/promos/wtcAOL.adp
tired of bitching about it? do something.
meeting tomorrow, I get to go in early to talk about health insurance and why my raise wasn’t on this week’s check. I’ll be there, instead of hanging out with my sweetie from 11 to noon.
I hope it lets out before the roach coach comes by. the soda machine is not taking bills again. besides, I want a big honking iced tea or two.
did I ever mention that it actually plays “la cucaracha” on the horn when it pulls up?
Bringing letters into work tomorrow to scan. Maybe I can write a griffin & sabine sort of story out of ’em?
Reflections –
Every time I go out and immerse myself in nature – camping, hiking, climbing (Ha! like I do any climbing – let’s say “meandering” instead. Yeah, that’s it. Meandering through nature.) – I am always struck by just how paltry my own imagination is compared to the majesty of the world’s real, living scenery.
And yet, I’m still sometimes, somehow disappointed that there are no goblins scuttering around in the underbrush, or that the half-buried boulders are not, in fact, the knucklebones of slumbering giants. (Or… are they?)
Protected: sweetheart only post
I am appalled that folks on Ebay are already selling WTC memorabilia.
fortunately – http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000073609sep12.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Da%5Fsection
EBay Cancels Auctions of Attack-Related Items
moil / zelig
moil MOIL, intransitive verb:
1. To work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
2. To churn or swirl about continuously.
noun:
1. Toil; hard work; drudgery.
2. Confusion; turmoil.
Moil comes from Middle English moillen, “to soak, to wet,” hence “to soil, to soil one’s hands, to work very hard,” from Old French moillier, “to soften, especially by making wet,” ultimately from Latin mollis, “soft.”
Zelig (ZEL-ig) noun
A chameleon-like person who appears to be present everywhere.
[After Leonard Zelig, hero of the 1983 movie Zelig by Woody Allen.]
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/g/ts/
top stories photos. Assorted.
okie, got my game plan. heading to the blood center, then home.
See you kids in a few hours. Peace to you all.
I’m near the FT lauderdale Int’l airport.
Not a bird or plane in the sky…not even the goodyear blimp. very strange. almost unreal.
side note – it’s a tribute to the new servers that LJ can handle this workload…or is everyone on news sites instead?
Red Cross appeals for blood: 1-800-448-3543
A request to all. I just came across something constructive that could be done in the current situation. Possibly the only constructive thing possible for most people.
If you are anywhere on the East Coast, go and give blood. Emergency Rooms all over New England are likely to need it. The blood supply is going to be severely impacted by this I imagine.
I got to work early, and it turns out we’re shutting down. Post office is closed, all the federal buildings we’re connected to is closed.
Nothing to do, so back to the apartment I go, as soon as I polish off this last test. I should be heading back to the house in the next hour or less.
Admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese Navy planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and said after the attack, “I fear all we have done is to wake a sleeping giant.”
I really, really hope that whatever retribution happens is just and well thought out.
I worry for the lives of innocents everywhere…I hope that those that did this are dealt with, and those that had no part are left unharmed.