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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
The Rev Dr Sherwood Forrester's InsaneJournal:
| Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | |
| 11:17 pm | Hey now! For surely this is the greatest invention in the history of electromagnetic radiation, with the possible exception of microwave popcorn. Current Music: 11/4/77 Hamilton NY |
| Monday, November 17th, 2008 | |
| 5:07 pm | Blows. My. Mind. Another exoplanet. Big whoop, you say? How about a visible-light picture of it, and its movement over two years? Around Fomalhaut, about 25 light years away. YES!! |
| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | |
| 2:41 am | Yes we can, and… Yes |
| Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 | |
| 8:11 pm | I'm just back from the middle of a fairly monumental throng of fellow Buckeyes, gathered to see Barack Obama on the Ohio Statehouse lawn. Candidate-wise, I've been a very fortunate Democrat. Way back when, in 1976, my mom pulled me out of school to see Jimmy Carter on a last minute swing through Ohio, the Friday before the election. We were there early enough that literally the only thing between he and me was the podium, and I was fortunate to get to shake his hand (actually, I was damn near thrust in his face -- I was only 12 and still relatively easy to lift). |
| Monday, October 27th, 2008 | |
| 2:05 pm | Safely home from OVFF An excellent time was had. I still have the same post-con comedown, that usually centers around being able to play, but not being able to write, music. But an excellent time was had nevertheless. :) Current Mood:  tired |
| Friday, October 24th, 2008 | |
| 10:18 am | Best use of Flash I've seen in a while Sarah Palin as President. You *will* laugh. XD Current Mood:  amused |
| Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | |
| 4:52 am | And one other thing. OVFF starts Friday. Two donations for the charity auction this year: an 'advanced model' crocheted Dalek and a knit 8bp DNA molecule. When I knit in public, I am probably less likely to hear "What are you knitting?" than I am "WTF?" :D |
| 4:49 am | Oh, I laughed. A lot. A perfect video lesson in how to go from best man to persona non grata in less than fide seconds. Current Mood: amused |
| Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | |
| 12:13 am | Why John McCain Lost The Election Tonight Aside of having the worst debate performance since Michael Dukakis against Bush Sr in '88, there was a great whopping opportunity on the table for him to turn around perceptions of him and rather than pick it up, he decided to pile more onto it. Many of us have seen that horrible racist woman who, at a McCain town-hall, stated that Barack Obama was 'an Arab'—if you haven't, here's the link. McCain already dropped the ball there by only correcting her perception of Obama's citizenship and not correcting the inherently racist attitude that being Arab automatically means something is wrong with you. We won't even get into what Caribou Barbie has been doing at her rallies. Presented with the oppoportunity to explicitly repudiate this, instead John McCain turned whiny hypocrite, complaining that Obama had ads up criticizing his health care plan. There's a vast difference between one candidate criticizing another's position, and one candidate whipping up racism and hatred against the other. Instead, McCain tried to paint his supporters as all veteran's families and families with special needs children and that no one has said anything out of line. Obama recognized that some supporters have said out-of-line things and repudiated those statements, including distancing himself from John Lewis' remarks comparing McCain's campaign to George Wallace and the segregationist south -- never mind that Lewis was right, McCain and Palin are inciting racism. And given a chance to rise to the occasion, McCain turned virulent hypocrite, refusing to denounce the extremists, whining that he was the real victim here. Guess who looked a lot more presidential. |
| Sunday, October 12th, 2008 | |
| 2:13 am | *dance* *cavort* *joy* As of October 12, that stupid motherfucker is in his last 100 days in OUR White House! Current Mood: ecstaticCurrent Music: Goon Show Radio stream |
| Friday, October 10th, 2008 | |
| 8:08 am | Dun dun *dunnnnnn*... I am safely moved to my new domain host. So far, so good. It was relatively painless (not counting downloading several years' worth of email into Pegasus so I could have it available). Mail seems to be working -- that's the main thing. And I have installed some PHP that was written by a genius on crafty_tardis on That Other Journal Host. It tracks how far along you are on knitting a Doctor Who scarf. I made images of the various scarves to scale, and the next thing I knew, one of my fellow Ravelers forwarded it on to mkanoap and ... voila. Code for all the main scarf versions. So this is my total scarf progress, to date: I can only say, w(h)oot. :) |
| Friday, October 3rd, 2008 | |
| 5:44 pm | It makes an unfortunate amount of sense. This is from Walter Wink’s The Powers That Be, and it pretty well explains to me the mindset that considers Sarah Palin to be a 'good Christian' and why no matter how religious a Democrat is, they "aren't really Christian".
This seems intimitely related to me to anti-Communism in its extreme form, the assumption that 'we are right and you are wrong and you will see things our way or be destroyed', the 'bomb them back to the stone age' mentality. It is the social equivalent of MAD. There's no surprise why the extremist wings of both conservatism and Christianity have come togetehr, as they think they have common cause. The rapturists welcome the coming of a potential World War III as long as it centers on the Middle East. The reactionaries welcome their political support because it's support and they don't care as long as they have political power—they couldn't care less about their social agenda, but will speak their language and throw them the stray bone to keep them rabid and in line. |
| Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | |
| 2:11 pm | Boy if *this* doesn't say it all... |
| Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | |
| 3:39 am | Sarah Palin: Crook I first read this on the Huffington Post, but here's the original from the AP so no GOhyPocrites can whine about alleged bias. Even Palin's lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, said keeping in touch has been difficult. And since hackers broke into Palin's Yahoo e-mail account last week, he said, it has dropped off entirely. Um. He's just admitted that yes, they do rely on Yahoo, a third party email service, to conduct state business. That's ILLEGAL. State business is required to be conducted via the official mail system. It may not be conducted through Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or whatever. Thanks for verifying the crime there, Sean! We already figured she was crooked, but I didn't expect proving it would be so easy! |
| Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | |
| 5:19 pm | John McCain: Coward John McCain is less interested in solving the problem he helped create than he is in grandstanding, turning a national crisis into a political photo-op. Will he be the champion of the thousands upon thousands whose mortgages are at risk, or the CEOs whose millions are? You get two guesses, and both need to be the latter. It is not his job to personally resolve the crisis, and I can think of few less qualified so to do (other than his running mate). His presence for a vote in the Senate might be useful when it comes to one, but he's not the President, he's not the Secretary of the Treasury, he's not the chairman of the Fed, and he's by his own admission not good at economics. So what is he doing? He fears the debate. He fears losing. Running for his political life, sinking in the polls and clearly unprepared for the debate that was supposed to highlight his strengths, this grandiose headline grab is not leadership, it's cowardice. |
| Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | |
| 6:34 am | Facts I In my ongoing effort to try to figure out why this race is even close, I’m compiling information. And by that, I mean information that really cannot be refuted or written off as an opinion. Just simple facts. Especially numbers. Numbers are just there. Anyone can look up the numbers you researchs, perform the same functions you did, and get the same answer. They’re irrefutable. They’re statements. They just are. The numbers I was looking at were the historical records of the various market indices, to try to figure out why businesses like Republicans better than Democrats. I can only assume it’s all about the mouth noises and not at all about the record. That they'd rather make a nickel today than a dollar tomorrow. The markets historically do better under a Democratic president than it does under a Republican. The simple message is that Democrats are better for the marketplace, and there it is in the numbers. And guess who, everywhere but in the Dow where he comes in fourth from the bottom to Jimmy Carter by 0.02%, is consistently second worst? Wall Street's beloved MBA Prez. The only ones who consistently underperform Shrub are Nixon and Hoover. You can expect him to slip into a cozy third place on the Dow Worst Performers list, given what’s happening in the markets this week. So the next time someone tries to tell you that Republicans are better for business, you have numbers to show them they’re wrong. This is essentially my whole spreadsheet. You can all see where my numbers were derived. There’s no “voodoo economics” here, it’s simple and standard math. No trickery, no statistical sleight of hand. If you know people heavily invested in the stock market, and they plan to vote McSame, ask them why they like losing money. The numbers speak for themselves, and are irrefutable: it's history, this isn't Oceania, the past isn't mutable. My analysis is certainly something one may debate, but it seems clear enough that Democrats are better for the markets than Republicans are. I would further argue that this suggests "tax and spend" is better than "borrow and waste". That raising the poor and middle class does more for capital than raising only the wealthy. That in the long run, oversight and regulation are actually good for business. A little regulation now, after all, might save you the environmental disaster of a Love Canal or economic disaster of an Enron tomorrow. And before any wingnut says that Clinton's bull market was "only because Reagan primed the pump", please look at the numbers again -- Democrats strongly outperformed Republicans before Reagan, too. I’m working on getting inflation and unemployment rate numbers, average wage numbers, the whole shootin’ match. More later. |
| Friday, September 12th, 2008 | |
| 4:18 pm | As if I needed more reasons. If, as alleged, Sarah Palin greeted the news of Obama's victory in the Democratic primaries with "So Sambo beat the bitch!" then she's not qualified to be a 21st century human being, much less the proverbial heartbeat away. |
| Sunday, September 7th, 2008 | |
| 7:40 pm | An observation. Is it just me, or is it really that the more we learn about Sarah Palin the more she makes Dan Quayle look like a statesman? |
| Saturday, September 6th, 2008 | |
| 10:00 pm | Links post! Useless links that amuse me, gathered from That Other Journal Host. Gathered, categorized, and collected for my future reference and your entertainment.
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| Friday, September 5th, 2008 | |
| 8:50 pm | Hello, world Finally had enough of LJ/SUP's bullshit and here I am to stay. |
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