Month: June 2005

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the new blog format… slowly now…

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I am posting this even before I link this page from my site, but I have decided that I want to try Movable Type. After a BITCH of a time trying to upload it, and after asking myself SEVERAL times, whether it is worth it… I actually really like the simplicity of the design, and I may even tweak it a bit more. All in all, I would be even happier if I could get this damn thing to upload all of my previous posts, of which I have been trying to import for the better part of a day. If anyone has any suggestions… LET ME KNOW. Thanks. Also, let me know if you like this new format better, since I did go through all of this trouble…

UPDATE: She’s live… with some things to work out… More soon…

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phrase of the day: virus-laden poo

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In this article, from CNN, they discuss a study done on mountain climbers at Mt. McKinley, which sites the cause of diarrhea in some of the climbers. Apparently, people are taking loads of shits on the mountain side, and it is making other people sick. WHAT??? It is one thing to “watch where you step”, but this is crazy. Apparently, there are piles everywhere. This just begs the question: How many people are going up on this mountain, and how long are they staying??

I just have to say it again:

virus-laden poo.
Tee hee hee.

get over it!

A message to Terry Schiavo’s parents

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Throughout most of the whole Terry Schiavo thing, I managed to avoid most of the publicity and turn a deaf ear to conversations about her. It isn’t because I didn’t care, I honestly just got tired of hearing about it. Most people agreed that she was a vegetable, and that her husband had the right to decide what happened; which he ultimately did. I did pay more attention at the end, when she was finally “set free”, and I not only felt better for Terry and her husband, I actually believed that this would allow her parents to finally move on. But I guess I was wrong.

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bye bye Big Bird

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I just heard that the House subcommittee decided to cut funding for PBS and NPR, and voted to eventually eliminate funding for public broadcasting all together. While I think that it is important to have public broadcasting, and think that it is essential for learning and development in an “open forum”, I think that there is more to this issue than simply getting rid of PBS and NPR.
First let me say this, so I can get it out of the way: I don’t want to get rid of NPR or PBS, and I think that the cookie monster should stay on TV and get to eat as many cookies as he wants (I still don’t think that the cookie monster is blame for kids being fat). Good, now with that being said, I can say this: If they are cutting this funding to create money to go towards other more important programs, what is the big deal???

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAIT A MINUTE!!!

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Rumsfeld wants more Guantanamo

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And why not, right??? Rumsfeld made a comment that it was “absolutely necessary” to keep Guantanamo Bay up and running. Now, I know what you are thinking, there are bad people there, right? Well, sure there are… it is a prison for terrorists. But, even though they are terrorists, they still deserve basic human rights, don’t they? Well, in Guantanamo Bay, they don’t really get that. See, as it is pretty well known, the prisoners there are tortured, and treated in inhumane and demoralizing ways (remember our friend the Koran?). Stuff that is allowed there would not be allowed if this prison were in, let’s say, Kansas. So, that substantiates a reason to keep it going??? That permits you to say that it is necessary??? Well, I decidedly disagree.

But you know what this must mean… I somehow figured that old Rumsy would be into S&M… this just helps to prove it.

is it just me?

Michael’s Epiphany

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This just in… Michael Jackson has decided not to sleep in bed with little boys any more! Is that really a revelation that has dawned upon him, after having to sit through a trial that seemed to last forever? I guess so. That is like a fat lady giving up donuts after having gastric bypass? it is what I would like to file under: NO-BRAINER!

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bush’s aid: too little too late…

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I felt compelled to at least say something about Bush’s recent proposal to give more money to aid Africa. All I should say is: BOUT TIME, but I can’t let it end there.

First things first: It sure is nice that Bush is “letting them loose” for some of the debt that they owe us. I bet there are African children that STILL WON’T get to eat tonight, but I bet they feel a weight has been lifted off of their gaunt little shoulders. Hell, you might as well pay off their Discover bill while you are at it.

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crap!

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I just learned that you should never use an online HTML editor to edit your site. Edit it offline, then upload! (or just edit the code, without an HTML editor) But oh well, at least I was able to fix what I screwed up… for now. Just thought I would share that wisdom kiddies!

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michael jackson is free!!

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This never really happens, but I feel compelled to make my third post of the day… to comment on the Michael Jackson verdict. Now, most of you who know me may be thinking, “But wait, Duane, I thought you didn’t care”; don’t let go of that. I really don’t, but I feel the need to say something that I have felt all along about this whole thing:

Michael Jackson is freaky. He has had a F-ed up life, and if anyone is going to be crazy and in bed with little boys, it is probably him. I never thought he did anything, because have you ever seen him? HE IS A LITTLE BOY!!!!

But seriously, if he did, or didn’t, touch boys, is now hear’say. No need to worry about it any more. All I am going to say is: Let’s not have a rush of little boys spending the night at Neverland from here on out, okay? I believe that the naivete’ of these parents should have worn off by now, and this is by no means a call to reinstate it.

All in all, this all means only one thing: Michael can go back to his crazy life, being crazy, and being the Wacko Jacko we all know and love. Hopefully he will have enough money to live the rest of his life without coming out with any more records… for my sake, at least.

And that is really all I want to say about Michael “Wacko Jacko on his Backo” Jackson.

venting

think for yourself-ers, part deux!

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ARGH!!!! So, not that the lady this morning was enough… but I ran into another TFY at Target during my lunch break! I was there buying my father a father’s day card (it is this Sunday kids!), being a good son, and the guy in front of me in line was “doing his thang”. Now, for those of you that shop at target frequently, you know that there is a “self-service” credit card thing that is past the register, which you must access in order to pay. Well, of course the guy was having a price check on his curling iron that he was buying; which he said was $5.99, and the cashier insisted was $9.99.; so he stood right there where I would need to be, in order to use the credit card machine. Like any other person probably would have done, I waited for my stuff to finish ringing, and then proceeded to just stare at TFY. The cashier joined in. THEN he moved. And after I paid and got my receipt, he blocked my way away from the register, and I had to step around him!! TWO OFFENSES!!! DAMMIT! What is this world coming to? Maybe I just need to be more aggressive. I should have head-butted him right in the face, and maybe as he fell to the ground grasping his bloody face, asking himself “why?”, and mumbling “my pretty face, my pretty face…”, he would actually learn that he should be less of a prick and actually accommodate the other people he encounters in life. We all know that he probably wouldn’t, but at least I would have ruined his “pretty face”.