My sister knows me too well!
A Gift From My Sister, Some Years Ago
December 12, 2010
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My sister knows me too well!
Skeptics Establish South Valley Presence
December 12, 2010
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SOUTH VALLEY SKEPTICS: devoted to furthering the cause of rational thinking--no matter how much it hurts.
South Valley Skeptics has established it’s website, in the cause of promoting critical thinking skills. Visit them at www.sovalskeptics.org, and check out the recently published articles. Look for future activities and updates to this rational-thinking website!
It’s Really Not My Fault
December 9, 2010
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Lady, don’t be getting exasperated with me because YOU don’t know where you are! You’re walking on a street in a town you’ve lived in for some time, there are signs on the corners with the street names, and houses nearby with their numbers! You should be bright enough to figure out where the hell you are if you can manage to work the damned cell phone! And you’ve reproduced! I can hear your kids whining and crying in the background because of the drama you’ve induced!
Yeah, call me back when you get to where you going, even though you don’t know the address of that residence, either!
I love my job. Really.
Oh, she did call back. Actually, the people at the house she was going to called, because the drama that started at the first place followed her over to the other place. It took the cops to defuse the situation.
I love my job. Really.
Some of the people I deal with… not so much. It’s job security, though. Remember what I said? She’s reproduced already. Very likely ‘same song, second verse’ in a few years.
9-1-1… what’s YOUR emergency??
I’m Calling It “Jesus”
December 6, 2010
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For about the past week or so, my computer has been sending little messages to my computer god Ted, saying it was having a bit of a problem. He monitors my computers remotely, and started getting notices of an issue with one of the two hard drives. Bad sectors, or corrupt thingamajigs, or some such highly technical geek talk that quickly outpaces my level of understanding. (I know just enough about computers to either fix minor problems, or really screw them up big time!)
Anyway, he let me know one of my drives was probably dying, and that I had better do something about it. I planned to check into the problem this weekend, once I was on days-off from work. Of course, the computer decided not to wait. The drive died early Friday morning, disappearing from the Hardware Devices page, and everywhere else you might expect to find it.
Crap! All my blogging stuff was on that drive! (Rule #1! Back it all up on DVDs!) While not the end of the world, it was a going to be a royal pain, since recovering all that data was going to take some work. It’s all out there on the interweb thingy, but man… that was going to eat up a lot of time and effort to track it all down and save it somewhere else.
So, Friday, it dies. Then… IT’S A MIRACLE! Sunday afternoon, it’s alive again! Quick! Blog files backed up to an external hard drive, then to a DVD. Whew! I think I have it all.
I’m calling it my Jesus drive. It died, and on the third day it rose from the dead! Hallelujah!
Now I’m waiting to see if it decides to ascend into heaven sometime in the near future. It’s OK, it can go into the light if it wants, I’ve got what I wanted. I’ve blessed it with copious amounts of my Holy Ministrations (yes, I can do that. I’m a High Priest. Really. Check it out here). Blessings of a non-denominational, secular nature, of course. Dry blessings, since electronics and Holy Water don’t get along. Kind of like vampires and Holy Water. Sort of. Same kind of smoke ensues from both if you get them wet. Not much in the way of screams, at least not from the computer. Sparks, sometimes. Not much fun to be around in either case, regardless.
If the ascension thing happens, Ill let you know.
JimmieJoe’s Xmas Wish List
December 5, 2010
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Remember, if you’re looking for the perfect gift for me this year, this is it:
Santa didn’t leave him under my tree last year… maybe because I didn’t have a one?? Perhaps I should consider putting one up this time!
Sarah The Mighty Hunter
December 5, 2010
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Hmmm. She’s already expecting flack over her caribou hunting expedition on “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”. Maybe deep down somewhere, in that Grinch sized heart of hers, she knows it’s wrong to use a high powered firearm to kill an animal from a great distance. She talks about being 400 to 500 miles from a grocery store, so hunting is required to feed the family. I suspect, however, that Wasilla actually has a grocery store. Her line is the video is a clear demonstration of her cluelessness: “we don’t have the advantage, the animals have the advantage”. After she drove there in a extended cab pickup, and was hoisting a rifle with a scope up to shoot an animal.
One thing I will say about Sarah Palin: I hope she runs for President in 2012, and wins the Republican nomination. The drubbing she’d then take in the general election would pretty much shut her up. Well, I take that back. It wouldn’t shut her up, but at least it might open her eyes a bit. I can hope, anyway, can’t I?
Buy a Book, Support Tulare-Kings PFLAG! (via Queer Visalia)
December 4, 2010
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Always worth supporting, go to QueerVisalia and click on the link to print out coupons that will donate to the Tulare-Kings Chapter of PFLAG with every purchase you make.
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At DADT Hearings, Secretary Of Defense Is Fierce Gay Advocate | The New Civil Rights Movement
December 2, 2010
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At DADT Hearings, Secretary Of Defense Is Fierce Gay Advocate | The New Civil Rights Movement.
Secretary of Defense since December 2006 (appointed by George W. Bush and approved by the Republican controlled Senate), Robert M. Gates today stood up to Republican members of the Armed Services Committee in defense of ending the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in effect for 17 years.
Reprising a Reagan line, “If not now, when? When we’re out of Afghanistan?” Mr. Gates said. “I don’t see the world getting to be a safer, easier place to live in, where our troops are necessarily under less stress.” The Armed Forces integrated racially during the Korean war, when resistance both in the services and the public in general was strongly against that action. Majority opinion in both the military services and in the public in general support repeal of DADT, but Republican Senators are attempting to stonewall the repeal, part of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). They are willing to hold up funding for the entire military, rather than let the bill pass with DADT repeal included.
Firmly, but respectfully, Secretary Gates made it clear he supports repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Today is World Aids Day (via Mike’s Daily Blog)
December 1, 2010
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JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Acrobats strip for Pope Benedict XVI, perform topless in Vatican
December 15, 2010
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I think I just figured out why priests wear those flowing robes…
The look on The Pope’s face pretty much proves one of two things:
He’s not gay, or he’s really pissed that he’s so fucking old.
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