tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20675383590121642772023-11-15T07:45:49.673-08:00Dr. Popularity's Happy Placesaying what never needed to be said in the first placeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067538359012164277.post-60475685748732557382008-10-25T16:00:00.000-07:002008-10-25T16:55:40.763-07:00Dystopia we can believe in!<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CWARREN%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I just thought I'd plop this down here. The story behind it? Well, I remember writing this one quiet night when I had just about had it with the way things seemed to be going. With a lot of the stuff I do sometimes, it gets saved and forgotten, and this was no exception. According to the file, it was originally created October 11, 2007. I had started thinking about it, and dug it out to look at it again.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Whoa. I wrote this? Interesting, in quite a few ways.
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<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">So what the hell. Here, as is, with all the inaccuracies intact, a little piece of paranoia:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">LiveJournal entry, early spring, 2012, from an undisclosed location in NY along </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Lake Erie</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I realize I haven’t posted here in a while, but I’ve been busy.<span style=""> </span>Don’t worry, it’s good news!<span style=""> </span>My mortgage is finally paid off!<span style=""> </span>I managed to make the last payment and, better yet, shifted into a Tax Savings Account that not only allows for automatic local, school, and Federal value-rated tax payments, it also pays interest at prime plus two, which means I’m getting 19% on my tax payment deposits!<span style=""> </span>Who hoo!<span style=""> </span>You can’t get a better deal than that these days.<span style=""> </span>I still miss not being able to deduct the taxes, and I’ve still got a hefty payment book, but at least I know the house is paid off!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ah, yes, the house.<span style=""> </span>I’m glad that I decided to stay here.<span style=""> </span>Turns out that “steps to the beach” works out quite well when the power fails and, true to their lack of foresight, the local pumping station goes down for lack of backup generators (Wasn’t that due to fund diversion for Amerihealth<span style=""> </span>or slave reparations?<span style=""> </span>I lost track.)<span style=""> </span>Anyways, it’s good exercise to get the wagon and trundle a few buckets down to the lake for boiling and filtering when that happens.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Had a few chuckles when I watched Code Pink on CNN waving their breasts with those nipple messages saying, “U.S. OUT OF ARIZONA!!”<span style=""> </span>Keeerist, wasn’t </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"> enough?<span style=""> </span>Some people are never satisfied.<span style=""> </span>(Wonder what Fox would’ve done with it?<span style=""> </span>Most likely more breast exposure, but I guess we’ll never know…)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Brick wall, meet cement head: friend of mine actually tried blogging an anti-SOB screed and wound up not only losing his online accounts, but was additionally administered a public scouring by some butthead at the Fairness in America Blog.<span style=""> </span>Like things are so quiet that they’re zeroing in on the peons?<span style=""> </span>I wonder if there’s just a shitload of Fairness Doctrine sycophants just looking for someone to jump on.<span style=""> </span>Like one of the major remaining bloggers said last year, it’s like a thousand ex-wives getting on your case.<span style=""> </span>No wonder there’s so little opposition being vocalized these days.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">(Sidenote to said friend: you stoopid shit.<span style=""> </span>You should have known.<span style=""> </span>When you refer to our, um, leader, you’re not supposed to capitalize it.<span style=""> </span>How long has it been since they reset the contentbots to send out nannygrams to those who dare criticize Those Who Rule?<span style=""> </span>I mean, hell, if you’re enough of a dumbass to actually do anything remotely political online, you should realize that they’ve already twigged to the fact that “That SOB” is the universal label for, well, you know.<span style=""> </span>UPDATE: did that on purpose, got the usual nannygram.<span style=""> </span>Oh well.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">One of my friends from high school took the Personal Mercy tour last week.<span style=""> </span>Turned out that his injuries from the Galleria Mall truck bombing never healed properly, and Amerihealth refused to pay for pain management, so he finally said screw this and went in and got nailed.<span style=""> </span>I suppose that it beats having to do Russian roulette with Chinese Oxycontin—at least with the government PM centers, you know it’ll be somewhat less painful.<span style=""> </span>I should have known.<span style=""> </span>He had said a while back that since he was white, male, and over 50, the deck was stacked against his getting any help at all.<span style=""> </span>I told him that it could have been worse, at least he wasn’t a veteran.<span style=""> </span>Hell, those poor guys.<span style=""> </span>It was bad enough when Congress decided not to replenish supplies, but to reduce the size of the armed forces to match what equipment was left from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">?<span style=""> </span>Ouch.<span style=""> </span>Didn’t see that coming, I’ll tell you…anyhow, I picked up Rush on shortwave for a few minutes on that subject.<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia city.<span style=""> </span>(I saved a lot of money not getting on satellite radio after hearing they weren’t going to let him or Hannity do his show there, but I better shut up or I’ll get another nannygram.<span style=""> </span>They do like cutting off access.)<span style=""> </span>Anyways, I’ll miss him.<span style=""> </span>Who would have known back when we were young and stupid that staying that way would be inevitably fatal?<span style=""> </span>Boomers: useful idiots, expendable morons.<span style=""> </span>Sheesh.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Otherwise?<span style=""> </span>Daughters doing OK.<span style=""> </span>The oldest’s still in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Nebraska</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<span style=""> </span>Thank God for webcams, since I don’t think she’d get through the NY Thruway border inspection post since she refuses to get a passport.<span style=""> </span>Besides, you need a CB radio around here these days to avoid the random MS-13 roadblocks.<span style=""> </span>Sucks when they peel off $50 as a “road toll.”<span style=""> </span>(Thanks, Eliot.<span style=""> </span>Great move with the licences.)<span style=""> </span>The youngest is out of college and working to pay off her student loans.<span style=""> </span>I think she’s more proud of successfully running the pistol permit gauntlet than she is of her degree.<span style=""> </span>The latter is employment; the former is survival.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gotta go—it’s getting dark, the night vision goggles are charged up, and I get to do neighborhood watch for a few hours.<span style=""> </span>Rumors have it that certain gangs are trying out home invasions locally.<span style=""> </span>Since we’ve been able to afford supplemental protection this year, any 911 calls might actually be answered when we call.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Later…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">(Did I mention who won, McCain or Hillary?<span style=""> </span>Does it really matter?)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">What got me was the part about "like things were so quiet they were zeroing in on the peons? Hello, Joe the Plumber? I mean, hell, the Fairness Doctrine was under discussion last year, but the going after private citizens? Yipes.
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<br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067538359012164277.post-23461020206597069382007-05-25T18:11:00.000-07:002007-05-25T18:44:01.095-07:00Not My Fault, chapter 3,927<a href="http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/05/25/sportsextra/doc4655f86cf1348367876984.txt">Consider this:</a><br /><br /><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>The father of Josh Hancock filed suit Thursday, claiming a restaurant provided drinks to the St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher even though he was intoxicated prior to the crash that killed him.<br /><br />The suit, filed in St. Louis Circuit Court by Dean Hancock of Tupelo, Miss., does not specify damages. Mike Shannon’s Restaurant, owned by the longtime Cardinals broadcaster who starred on three World Series teams in the 1960s, is a defendant in the case along with Shannon’s daughter, Patricia Shannon Van Matre, the restaurant manager.<br /><br />Other defendants include Eddie’s Towing, the company whose flatbed tow truck was struck by Hancock’s sport utility vehicle in the early hours of April 29; tow truck driver Jacob Edward Hargrove; and Justin Tolar, the driver whose stalled car on Interstate 64 was being assisted by Hargrove.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Authorities said the 29-year pitcher had a blood content of nearly twice the legal limit for alcohol in his system when he crashed into the back of the tow truck. He was also speeding, using a cell phone and wasn’t wearing a seat belt, Police Chief Joe Mokwa said after the accident. Marijuana also was found in the SUV.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />The lawsuit claimed Tolar was negligent in allowing his vehicle to reach the point where it stalled on the highway, and for failing to move it out of the way of oncoming traffic. A police report said the car became stalled when it spun out after being cut off by another vehicle.<br /><br />Police said Hargrove noticed the stalled vehicle and stopped to help. The report said he told officers he was there five to seven minutes before his truck was hit by Hancock’s SUV. But Kantack said the tow truck may have been there up to 15 minutes, yet failed to get the stalled vehicle out of the way.<br /><br />“Were the police contacted?” Kantack asked. “Why weren’t flares put out? Why was the tow truck there for an exorbitant amount of time?”<br /></blockquote><br />In other news, the father of Mohammed Atta is suing the city and state of New York for placing the World Trade Center in the path of the airliner the terrorist was hijacking.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067538359012164277.post-76394835027811059472007-05-24T18:53:00.000-07:002007-05-24T18:57:52.290-07:00And while we're at it...I really think that the creative minds at Fox could really rejuvenate their lineup by combining <i>American Idol</i> and <i>24</i> into one show.<br /><br />For one thing, losing would take on a whole new dimension...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067538359012164277.post-4737317524742025892007-05-24T18:46:00.000-07:002007-05-24T22:21:26.458-07:00Initial RandomicityPondering the news about that birth control pill that promises to eliminate periods...<br /><br />After a few years of use, what happens if you decide to abruptly stop?<br /><br />Projectile menstruation?<br /><br />(No, I'm <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> serious. Get real.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0