Wednesday, December 26, 2007

  I just watched My Small Breasts and I on BBC America.  If you want a summary, this person already wrote a fine one.  You may want to read it if you want to know what the heck I'm talking about.

  Laura Taylor strikes me as someone who just seems to think women are supposed to have breast of at least a particular size (larger than hers).  She talked about being made fun of for having small breasts and the names she was called.  I just wish that every time some guy made fun of a female for having small breasts, I could appear from nowhere, knee them right in the nuts, and then disappear again.

  Kate Bailey had serious psychological issues.  She was a tragedy until she did PhotoTherapy, which is the sort of thing I wish more females would do, instead of resorting to surgery.  I'm quite relieved that she overcame her issues.

  Sharon Tan seemed more annoyed about having small breasts, like regarding having been asked if she was a boy.  One odd thing was that even though she seemed like the most together of the females, she's the one that remained persistent in her quest for larger breasts.

  In watching the show, it was pretty obvious that she was not ashamed like the other females.  I suppose her reasons were a bit more practical.  I kind of liked her.  She wasn't all emotional.  She said tits instead of boobs.  She was really taking charge of herself, and she was a bit innovative.  My kind of gal.  Sadly, she was not happy with her breasts.  Not my kind of gal.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

  Man, I haven't been wanting to do much more than sleep and watch TV the past couple of weeks.  Not even use the computer much (at all, for a while).

  I watched the Simpsons Movie, today.  Or shall I say that I watched the Liberal propaganda film based on the Simpsons cartoon series.  I had some pretty good parts, but it was dissatisfying.  The series has been dissatisfying lately.  It's lost depth.

  It's like they're trying desperately to pack as many cheap laughs in as possible.  Don't get me wrong.  They still manage to get a few laughs out of me, but there's not as many, and they are as hardy.

  I mean, seasons ago, Krusty woke up in Bart's room, looked at a poster of himself, thinking it was a mirror, and tried taking a push-pin out of his own head.  That freakin' killed me.  There were other moments like that, though I don't recall them all, right now.

  Point is, they don't have anything that good these days, and what comes close goes by so quickly that you don't have time to enjoy it to its fullest.

  We finally have some more (I don't think the phrase "some more" is actually grammatically correct) supplies for the bathroom renovation.  I can now work on the ceiling and the wall areas around the tub.  Gotta get my mind back into it, though.

  Is the time between Christmas and New Year's a numb zone for everyone, or is that just me?

Monday, December 31, 2007

  I got the light/vent/heater unit casing installed.  Had to build a frame to attach it to.  It took a while, but that's about all I did.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

  I was going to wire and install the elements of the light/vent/heater unit, but it turns out our wiring is not correct.  Surprise, surprise.  We seem to be lacking some ground wires.

  So I guess I won't be putting up the whole ceiling any time soon.  Fortunately, the way I decided to place the unit allows me to put up half the ceiling, and also fortunately, that half is the one in most need of being put up, namely over the tub.

  It means I can get the tub installed and those walls up.  I got that half of the ceiling up.  One corner slopes upward... because this house is crap, but it's up, and I have the insulation put in one wall.  I really dislike fiberglass insulation.

  I just watched Bill Maher: The Decider.  A little earlier I saw part of a Wanda Sykes show I'd already seen before.  Both of them talked about Clinton and his famous blowjob.  Twice in one day I get to see one of the many fine examples of Liberals completely disregarding the facts.

  It's the same complaint: that Clinton was impeached because he got his knob polished.  Noooooooooo.  He was impeached because he lied under oath in a court of law.  It's called purgery.  It's a crime.

  Anyway, I listened to Bill Maher's bit (some of which was actually kind of funny), curious to see how much of it was built on inaccuracy and a complete missing (or ignoring) of the point.  Turns out it was quite a bit.  And I really wish so much of it hadn't have been just petty.  I don't like petty humor from anyone.  I can have at least some respect for a non-petty "joke" based on illogic or bad information.

  One of the things that stood out to me was him saying, I forget the exact words, that the Republicans were focusing so much attention on making Al Gore look foolish, related to his global warming stuff.  That's one of those things that completely miss the point.  Who gives a flying fuck if he looks foolish?

  They're trying to point out that he's a fucking liar and scam artist.

  BTW:  I saw a small portion of something on either Discovery Channel or National Geographic.  A whale and possibly some manatees (didn't see enough) died because they were basically trapped with only one air hole in the ice for a distance farther away than they would be able to swim to another break.

  There's too much ice, now?  What did I miss?

  Incidentally, you know those melting ice shelves that people love crying over?  What the Rev. Gore and his disciples don't tell you is that it's just a portion of the shelves that are melting, while other portions are gaining mass.  The shelf as a whole is gaining more than it's losing.  This is, of course, dutifully ignored.

  What happen to Bill Maher?  He used to be a Libertarian, but he converted to Liberalism.  I don't see how a reasonably intelligent Libertarian turns into a Liberal.  The only thing I can figure is that he never truly was a Libertarian.

  Comparing the person he was to the person he is now, it seems that he did it because other Libertarians weren't hating Bush enough.  It's seems he was purely emotionally motivated, which makes sense... you know... since that's the Liberal drive.

  I used to watch his show on regular TV, when he was on regular TV.  I liked him.  I didn't agree with on everything, but I was with him on a lot of things.  He made a lot of sense.  Now?  Just a bunch of emotional ranting with an occasional fleck of sense.

  T-Shirt idea.

  Protesting: The first resort of the impotent.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

  And in Are You Fucking Kidding Me news, it's 10:15 PM, and no customers have called or come by in hours.  I go over to a bag of M&M's, scoop out a handful to pour the whole thing in my mouth at once.

  I jokingly think to myself, "and then someone calls".  I pour the handful in, AND THEN SOMEBODY FUCKING CALLS!!!  IMMEDIATELY!

  I have to let it ring long enough for me to chew it up enough to speak coherently.  Good grief.  Good humor, though.

Monday, January 14, 2008

  "Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term "National socialism").

  They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs.

  They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education.

  They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life.

  The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control.

  They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities-where campus speech codes were all the rage.

  The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine.

  Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist."

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

  One particular comment about the book is an excellent (in its simplicity) example of how much the Liberals don't pay attention.

'All you need to know about this book is contained in this one sentence on page 14:

"Liberal fascism differs from classical fascism in many ways."

Indeed, it's so different that one might even conclude the phrase, 'liberal fascism' is complete nonsense.'

  This is the same logic that says if no WMDs are found, then it automatically means they never existed to begin with.  Because Liberal fascism differs from classical fascism in many ways, it automatically means that they don't have enough similarities to make a valid comparison.

  Of course, you have to actually know what fascism is in order to know a valid comparison.

  Here are definitions from three different sources.

1. a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

2. a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

3. a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

  Now let's analyze.  First, let's throw out dictator.  That obviously does not apply to the U.S., however Liberals are all about centralized control, whether they realize it or not.  They want the government to control everything.  They somehow seem to think the government is competent.

  Look at "forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism".  Does the phrase "The science is in.  The debate is over." ring a bell?  How about the attempts to shut down Conservative talk radio?  How about the fact that it's nearly impossible to have an objective discussion with a Liberal, because they'll either refuse to discuss, or they'll eventually resort to name-calling.

  I know you have the stretch the last one a little bit.  I think it's mostly just because they subconsciously realize they don't have a leg to stand on, and they don't want to admit it.

  Terror?  That's kind of a floppy term, but there's the absurd "Global Warming" scare, and groups like ALF.

  But censorship?  Oh, man, do Liberals love the censorship.  Never mind the suppression of opposition and criticism.  Who needs to talk about that when we have Political Correctness?  You can say anything that might hurt someone's feelings, unless you're saying something about Christians, Republicans, Conservatives, or white people.  That's acceptable.

  "regimenting all industry, commerce, etc."  Government regulation of industry.  This includes minimum wage, by the way.

  And then there's racism.  Liberals just don't realize how racist they are.

  They hear Conservatives talk about things that are circumstantially related to race, and then they decide to make the leap to racist.  Conservatives care about the laws being broken + illegal aliens from Mexico are a factually significant group doing it.  Why, that can't = anything but Conservatives are racist against Mexicans.

  Here's the general Conservative point of view about what race you are:  I don't fucking care!

  It's not Conservatives saying, "It's about time for a black President."  Let's throw sexism in there as well.  "It's about time for a female President."  How many of the comedians famous for racist jokes, like Chris Rock, George Lopez, Katt Williams, and so forth, are Conservative?  I don't know of any.

  It's Liberals who force race to matter when it doesn't need to.  When it's circumstantial, they want to drag it kicking and screaming into the spotlight.  Group after group, organization after organization, (indirectly) insisting on the importance of race or sex, or some other label or division.

  You know what I'd like to see.  I'd like to see someone put together a montage of footage of examples of Conservative racism.  And I do mean stuff that's actually racist.  Not stuff where you have to make some huge, illogical leap to see it.

  I want to see the people who say things like, "I'm not voting for a black man." or "I'm not voting for a woman."  Where's the person who says, "The day we have a black/female President is the day I leave the country."?

  You know what I have to do to see Liberal racism?  Turn on the news.  Or watch Comedy Central Presents.  Or most of the comedy specials on HBO.

  I want to go back to the black/female President thing.  You know what?  Maybe I think it's about time we had a conjoined quadriplegic twin President.  They're more of a minority than blacks or females.

  I think we need to find ourselves a set of conjoined twins, with one black and one... something really obscure, both female, both with no arms or legs, and one retarded.  Let's find that and just make them President.  If we can manage to get some other distinctions, then great.  Policies be damned.

  They want to drop all first-borns into Mt. St. Helens?  Well, okay.  They're not white and not male, so it must be a good idea.  I'm a little sad to loose my child, but I should be, because the President has no arms or legs, which means it's my duty to sacrifice my first born.

  Hooray, Liberalism!  I don't need control over my own life.  I don't need to make my own choices.  I want the government to decide what's best for me, and I'm happy to give them all my money.  It's not like I need it since I'm getting my "free" Government Issue rations.

  In California, the government wants to have control over the thermostats of private citizens.  Take my liberty, please.  It's just complicating my life anyway.

  Oh, and just so we're clear, there is a difference between a Conservative and a Republican, just like there's a difference between a Liberal and a Democrat.  It's fully possible to be a Liberal Republican, and there are plenty of them.

  "When fascism comes to this country, it won't be wearing jackboots; it'll be wearing sneakers with lights in them, and it'll have a smiley face and a Michael Jordan T-shirt on."- George Carlin

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

  Bathroom renovation update.

  I put down a sheet of the vinyl floor, last week.  I seem to have done something wrong on part of it, because a small portion has peeled up.

  Yesterday, the electrician fixed the wiring and even hooked it up to the ceiling unit.  A few days late, but that's not a big deal.  Whenever I get the time, I can now put the rest of the ceiling up.  Hopefully I won't have any problems redoing the peeled-up part of the floor.

  I also have sound back on my computer.  I have a disk that I did not realize was the drivers for the sound chip.

  Has something ever occurred to you that was obvious and useless, but still somehow seemed worth mentioning?

  Piranhas don't breastfeed.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

  So many people seem to not really understand what liberty is.  Basically, it's no one telling you what you can and can't do.  You doing what you want to do.

  We obviously don't have complete liberty, because we are a society of laws, but you have to have balance.  One question you have to ask yourself is from which direction are you approaching that balance?

  Are you coming from the position liberty, or are you coming from a position of restriction?  Are you removing liberties as they are actually needed, or are you trying to remove all liberties to release them as you see fit?

  This applies to things like guns, taxes, abortion, and anything else imaginable, but my primary concern, right now, is about taxes, and by extension, the intent of the Democratic candidates to raise them, which is nothing new.

  Sometimes it just amazes me that a group of people who are labeled "Liberal" are usually in opposition to personal freedom in so many ways.  I mean, when I actually go through the thought process and the logic, it makes sense that they are, but there are moments when I don't go through it, and I'm in awe.

  If morality really is relative, as is the popular Liberal opinion, and if you value freedom, then you really have to ask, for yourself and on behalf of others, "Who are you to tell me what to do?".  That's the general question to ask.

  It's a popular Liberal opinion that the government should be taking about 80% of people's income in order to (end result) give it to the poor.  It's called redistribution of wealth.  Hil-Loki Clinton has even flat out said she intended to take profits from oil companies, and people cheered her on.

  All three of the Democratic candidates intend to raise taxes in order to fund programs that effectively give away stuff for "free".  They all want socialism.  Never mind the fact that raising taxes will bring in less money than lowering them.

  Anyway, so ask the question.  "This is my money, so who are you to decide how it gets spent?"  They're the government?  So what?  Government is not god.  If I have a product that people want or even need, and I choose to sell it at a price that people are willing to pay and still make billions of dollars, then that's my business, and that's my money.

  Who are you to tell me that I'm earning too much money?  Who are you to tell me that I can't have a gun?  Who are you to tell me that I can't call someone a midget, a retard, a fag, etc... or behave like a complete asshole?

  In some poor countries there are sweatshops where people work hard for a little money.  Let's say I run one.  I could have chosen not to put one there, and those people would still have no jobs and no money.  Or maybe just the young girls would have money because they're prostitutes.

  Who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do?  Want some general laws to keep people from killing each other left and right?  Okay.  Don't murder people?  Okay.  Don't steal from people?  Okay.  Truth in advertising?  Okay.

  Don't be rude?  Whoa!  Don't pay people less than a certain amount even if they're willing to work for it?  Slow down there, sport!  If I'm offering a fully disclosed opportunity to someone, and he's willing to accept it, than that's his and my business.  Not yours.  Certain aspects of it might be, but not quantities.

  There are some billionaires doing wonderful things for people, because they have the money to do it.  People are generally very generous.  How much more good do you think people would do if the government would just quit taking away their money?

  If you have any appreciation for liberty, then let the people decide for themselves what they want to do with their money.  Let the people help each other.  Let the people fail or succeed on their own merits.

Friday, January 18, 2008

  Starting at a little before sundown yesterday, my head started hurting.  It felt like the front, left side and the back were going to have a blowout.  It eased up a while after I went to bed.  I think it was the weather; some pressure thing.

  This morning it either rained or sleeted heavily for a short amount of time.  I was still in bed, and I only heard it, but given the loudness and how little water was on the ground when I did go out, I doubt it was rain.  It was still sleeting very lightly when I went out.

  I guess it was sleet, anyway.  It was not ice balls, but it wasn't simple snow either.  It was hard enough to bounce off of hard surfaces, but if you looked at them, they were still fluffyish.  At least what came down while I was outside was fluffyish.

  On about four different days, in the past week or so, that we ate at my favorite Chinese buffet, I used a strip of paper towel to direct water from a leak in the urinal to inside the urinal.

  A pipe goes up from the porcelain, and it has a female end, which receives the male end of the valve unit from above, in the ol' fashion way.  Apparently the seal is not tight, so fluid comes out and pools around the female end, as can happen sometimes.

  That water overflows and drips down onto the porcelain, down the side, and then onto the floor.

  The first couple of times, I put a strip on the porcelain, where the water fell.  Like with a siphon, gravity pulls the water through the paper and down, over the front edge, and into the bowl of the urinal.

  The last couple of times, I ran a longer strip directly from the leak pool down into the bowl.  This was a more effective and efficient use of gravity.

  Going back a later day, I always found the strips gone, presumedly thrown away, viewed as simple refuse.  Well, today I went in to find that someone else had put their own piece of paper towel on the porcelain and hung it over the edge into the bowl.

  I'm guessing that it was one of the employees, having realized the purpose of the strips.  Though, to be honest, it could simply be a coincidental bit of refuse.  I'm choosing to work under the assumption that it was all an intentional act by employee.

  The problem is that it was not done correctly.  The first mistake was the shape of the paper.  If the edges had been straight, it would have been a triangle.  There was not only much more surface area one the top of the porcelain than was hanging over the bowl edge, there was also a corner pointing towards the side edge, so water was still running off that way.

  I decided to leave it there; in hopes that whoever did it would see and understand their errors.  I'll see what's there next time.  If the same, then I'll replace it with a strip.  If nothing, then maybe I'll put one there.

  I had intended to stop doing it altogether, until I saw the paper that, assumedly, someone else put down.  I hadn't wanted to carry it to the point of annoyance; bordering on vandalism, but now I'm curious.

  The woman gave us a small package of what I'm guessing was squid jerky.  I know it's squid.  The jerky part may be coincidental.  Either way, it's pretty good stuff.

  She couldn't remember the English word for squid, but there was a little picture of a squid on the package, so I was able to identify it and tell her.  It looked kind of like cheese, actually.  It possesses some of the same qualities as string cheese; not including taste and elasticity.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

  I just ran my stuff through the spell check of Microsoft Word.  It tells me that "pressumedly" is supposed to be "pressumably".  Is that actually right?  "Pressumably" sounds like a common error, like "supposably".

  I mean, if "pressumably" is correct, by virtue of ability to be pressumed, then why would "supposably" be wrong, if something has the ability to be supposed?

  Some thoughts:

  Is a tomato a traitor or just a spy to all the other fruits?

  Imagine a song so sad that no one can bear to listen to it a second time.

  Is the past-tense of tow, towed, just because "town" would have been too confusing in writing?