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You know it's hot when the cats are too enervated to steal a chicken leg foolishly left out for an hour while I rooted around for stuff in the other room.
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For someone who is doing nothing with their life, I'm awfully busy...
But I'm alive and I have a safe home. The rest is gravy, right?
But I'm alive and I have a safe home. The rest is gravy, right?
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(It's amazing how one or two pieces of information can suddenly make Freud make a lot more sense)
Steven Pinker wrote on the subject:
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.
—Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker wrote on the subject:
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.
—Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
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The author of this post was remunerated by the author's sister in law for this message. In return for posting this message the author was allowed to avoid putting up signs supporting Proposition 2, an activity which would be cold and involve entirely too many internal debates about property rights vs free political speech.
The author of this post was remunerated by the author's sister in law for this message. In return for posting this message the author was allowed to avoid putting up signs supporting Proposition 2, an activity which would be cold and involve entirely too many internal debates about property rights vs free political speech.
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Last month, in between all the other things I've been doing (a long and tedious list) I noticed a news story alleging that Somali pirates had hijacked an Iranian ship (this is not the hijacked Ukranian ship that has been all over the news) and started getting sick and dying after being exposed to the cargo. Most of the stories suggested chemical or biological possiblities, but the reported symptoms were textbook radiation sickness.
Pirates dropping dead of radiation sickness after being exposed to their looted cargo gets my attention. So I did a bit of googling and found that this story had gotten reported by several conservative sources and nowhere else. Fox news was the most moderate news source that carried the story.
Then I went and did other things for a month before doing more googling the other night, because it came to mind. The pirates released the ship Oct 10. If somebody knows where it is they certainly aren't telling the press. The wikipedia article says the ship is headed to Muscat but apparently several Indian and Filipino sailors from the ship went home.
Supposedly now Russian Intelligence claims that the ship was a dirty bomb. (Also see this, this, and this.)
Notably, I cannot find a single liberal or moderate news source (unless you count Fox as moderate) in the U.S. who has mentioned any of this. In fact, while it's all over the international news, the sources for which I can identify a clear bias are also conservative in their own countries. But I think that pirates getting radiation sickness is at least as interesting as 40 year old tanks. I don't think the whole thing is made up in it's entirety, though now that I think of it I could see U.S. military interests in the Phillipines getting a false story in the media there to back up some psyops (Iran sent a dirty bomb to Isreal, we must punish them. Don't vote for Obama, who won't go whip Iran's butt and so forth), but not so much with India.
What the heck is going on here?
Pirates dropping dead of radiation sickness after being exposed to their looted cargo gets my attention. So I did a bit of googling and found that this story had gotten reported by several conservative sources and nowhere else. Fox news was the most moderate news source that carried the story.
Then I went and did other things for a month before doing more googling the other night, because it came to mind. The pirates released the ship Oct 10. If somebody knows where it is they certainly aren't telling the press. The wikipedia article says the ship is headed to Muscat but apparently several Indian and Filipino sailors from the ship went home.
Supposedly now Russian Intelligence claims that the ship was a dirty bomb. (Also see this, this, and this.)
Notably, I cannot find a single liberal or moderate news source (unless you count Fox as moderate) in the U.S. who has mentioned any of this. In fact, while it's all over the international news, the sources for which I can identify a clear bias are also conservative in their own countries. But I think that pirates getting radiation sickness is at least as interesting as 40 year old tanks. I don't think the whole thing is made up in it's entirety, though now that I think of it I could see U.S. military interests in the Phillipines getting a false story in the media there to back up some psyops (Iran sent a dirty bomb to Isreal, we must punish them. Don't vote for Obama, who won't go whip Iran's butt and so forth), but not so much with India.
What the heck is going on here?
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The majority of Americans live within 100 miles of a border. So a 100 mile border zone in which the fourth amendment is ignored in the name of "homeland security" wouldaffect the majority of Americans. Which is worrying.
This is just so that I can find it later.
This is just so that I can find it later.
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http://www.solarbotanic.com/
(solar + piezo electric wind, in a fake tree package. Though if it's anything like those fake tree cell and radio towers, I think I'd rather have an honest windmill)
(solar + piezo electric wind, in a fake tree package. Though if it's anything like those fake tree cell and radio towers, I think I'd rather have an honest windmill)
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You Can't Wear That to Vote The Constitutionality of State Laws Prohibiting the Wearing of Political Message Buttons at Polling Places
(And in a related thought, be aware of your state's laws. Getting kicked out of a polling place for wearing a shirt, button or sticker with your favorite candidate's name on it would suck)
(And in a related thought, be aware of your state's laws. Getting kicked out of a polling place for wearing a shirt, button or sticker with your favorite candidate's name on it would suck)
