Conrad Hilton is awesome.
Now, if only we could make her lose the rest of her own money.
I mean, I read this news earlier today and right there, I had the best day ever.
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Archive for July, 2007
Tonight, while at a bar, I saw a pregnant woman vary between smoking, drinking beer and other liquor, and singing karaoke.
No jokes, no witty asides. Lady, if you don’t care THAT MUCH about your future spawn then just abort the damn thing and keep it from living a shell of a life. That would ALMOST be better than the abuse you and the bar were laying down on your unborn child.
Fucking Christ, some people are fucking stupid.
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It’s 4:30 in the morning.
I’ll pay for it later when I have to go to work.
But damnit, I had to read through the last 400 pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows tonight, because once the story builds up it never stops. The final conflict of the book itself takes up around 200 pages.
J.K. Rowling managed to do soemthing in this last book she hadn’t done before- she elicited a few “holy SHIT!” moments from me, along with several other emotional reactions. The book is outstanding fiction, nd a fine ending to the story that had taken 17 years to complete. I’m damned impressed, by any stretch of the imagination.
Still, when Hermoine turned out to be made of chcocolate, I was fairly shocked…
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There’ll be more of a post on this later, but I wanted to get this out before I go to bed tonight.
Thank you to Pylorns, his Lady Paramour, Magic and Brian for letting me tag along for the weekend in Austin. I had a blast, and got to spend some quality time with some people I hadn’t seen in a while (one of whom in a few years). Most especially, thanks to Magic for the fun he financed the other night. All in all, a really pleasant outing.
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I came across this on youtube. And immediately got more interested. Turns out there is a guy doing a documentary on the Kenetic engineer Theo Janson.
If you watch the trailer you’ll see rough slightly edited footage missing any music or voice over but you will see some amazing visuals and steady cam shots that I was impressed with. Holland is a great country to film in, and the people are so friendly, and there is no lack of wind.
Take a look, something to look for in the coming months. Also if you’re on Theo’s website you’ll notice he has a webcam setup, you can watch this brilliant guy work in his workshop. I wish I would have known about his work when I was in Holland 2 years ago.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution.
Ethiopian archaeologist Yohannes Haile Selassie said the find included several complete jaws and one partial skeleton and were unearthed in the Afar desert at Woranso-Mille, near where the famous fossil skeleton known as Lucy was found in 1974.
“This is a major finding that could fill a gap in human evolution,” he told a news conference in Addis Ababa.
“The fossil hominids from the Woranso-Mille area sample a time period that is poorly known in human evolutionary study.”
Researchers say the area, about 140 miles northeast of Addis, boasts the most continuous record of human evolution.
Last year, an international team of scientists unveiled the discovery of 4.1 million-year-old fossils in the region.
Lucy, the most famous find, lived between 3.3 million and 3.6 million years ago. But Yohannes said Afar had yielded early hominid fossil remains spanning the last 6 million years.
“This has placed Ethiopia in the forefront of paleoanthropology,” he told reporters.
“Ethiopia is known to the world as the cradle of humankind.”
That’s right, he’s a douchebag.
And why do I say this?
Well, take a look at this article. Read through, to about two-thirds of the way down.
Then, read the following quote:
“Some guy killed somebody and now I have to deal with it,” he said.
He’s a 23 year old contruction worker. Read the rest of the article, including his behavior in the car with his mommy.
Now, try and tell me he’s not a Grade A, High Lord Douchebag.
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Well I’ve signed up to help out and you’ll most likley see me posting about the candidates but I’m hoping that Fred gets the republican ticket. Anyway, here it is, the Fred ‘08 Web 2.0 button.
If you’d like the PSD file let me know. I may be re-working it as its not quite what I want but good enough for now. I’ve actually made a dark PSD file and a light one and I’ll prob. rework a coulpe others for use as well. email pylorns at gmail dot com .
This story was slightly buried under some other stories, because we’re talking about a democrat and not a republican. With the completely leftist wacko media its not hard to believe that they tried to keep the story as a light one. In fact, if you read the story it glosses over the fact and trys to paint a picture of how bad prescription drugs are in the US instead of going over that , yes, this dumb ass, has been popping pills left and right.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — The prescription drugs allegedly found in Al Gore III’s possession this week are favorites among young people, according to drug abuse experts, who say prescription drugs may soon overtake street drugs in popularity.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if right now at this point in time, there are more kids abusing prescription drugs than abusing marijuana,” said Joseph A. Califano Jr., chairman and president of CASA, the National Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
Gore was arrested on charges of possessing — in addition to marijuana — Vicodin, Xanax, Valium and Adderall.
According to a CASA report, between 1993 and 2005 the proportion of college students abusing Vicodin and other opiods went up 343 percent, about 240,000 individuals. The numbers increased 450 percent, or by 170,000 students, for tranquilizers such as Xanax and Valium, and 93 percent, or 225,000 students, for stimulants, including Adderall.
Prescription drug abuse is particularly common among upper middle class students, according to Lisa Jack, a clinical psychologist at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“It just goes to show that where you’re from doesn’t matter,” Jack said.
And young people don’t have to go far to get these drugs. “Prescription drugs are very easy for kids to get,” Califano said. “They can get them from the Internet. They can get them from their parents’ medicine cabinets. They can get them from their friends.”
He said often students get them from friends who were prescribed these drugs legitimately.
“Kids sell them to each other,” Jack said. “Drug trading happens all the time.”
Experts say it’s particularly a problem with Adderall, a drug prescribed legitimately to millions of young people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
According to CASA, more than a third of children ages 11-18 in Wisconsin and Minnesota who’d been prescribed Adderall and other ADHD medications reported being approached to sell or trade their drugs.
And often they say yes, according to one Canadian study that found one out of four teens who’d been legitimately prescribed Ritalin gave or sold some of their drugs.
Another appeal to prescription drugs, besides the easy access, is that young people often perceive them as safer.
“They don’t have to go to the streets and deal with some guy they don’t know and get marijuana where they don’t know what’s in it,” Califano said. “Also, they see their parents using these drugs, so they seem safe.”
Jack said prescription drugs can be more challenging to treat than addiction to street drugs. “In traditional drug abuse, addicts can say, ‘I’ve been using meth or coke or pot,’ and an addiction specialist knows what to do,” she said. But with prescription drugs, “sometimes the kids don’t even know what they’ve been taking. They just pass the pills around.”
Part of the solution would be for drug makers to formulate their products so they’re harder to abuse, said Califano, adding that anti-drug campaigns also should focus more on prescription drug abuse.
Parents need to do their part as well, he said. “When I was a kid in Brooklyn, when parents had liquor, they locked up the liquor cabinet,” he said. “Maybe parents need to lock up the medicine cabinet.”
Yeah, lets reformulate the drugs so they are less effective, and spend more money on anti-drug campaings to talk about the evils of prescription drugs. Do us a favor, leagalize it all and let the abusers just die. Its called Survival of the Fittest. Darwinism at its best folks, let them take themsevles out of the gene pool.
Yes, I’ve seen it.
Twice.
Both times, I was glued to the screen, loving the movie.
For once, Michael Bay rules.
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He commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby. Despite everything saying “leave this alone,” he did it.
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Fuck.
Y’know what, folks? I’m done with him. I voted for him twice, both times eagerly. Hell, I’ve defended those two votes on multiple occasions when I lived in Austin. But after George W. Bush commuted the sentence of Libby yesterday, thus damning my party’s chances of taking either Congress or the presidency in 2008 or any year any time soon for his own political motivations (or more to the point, Cheney’s motivations), I’m done with him.
Bad enough that the man can only speak coherently in public when he’s so tightly scripted that the word “airtight” comes to mind. Bad enough that the only proof he can give that the “war on Terror” is succeeding is by saying “Well, there haven’t been any attacks since 9/11.” Bad enough that the letters “WMD” have had to become a punchline given the joke that is the invasion of Iraq.
Bad enough he politicized 9/11. (That’s the one that really sickened me.)
Now, he’s ruined any chance of the party that I loved, the party of Reagan and Lincoln, to retake the White House in 2008 because he couldn’t keep his political dick in his pants long enough to realize that he was screwing over his own party with it.
It doesn’t matter if Scooter Libby was a fall guy or not. It doesn’t matter, because he became much more than that. He became a symbol of an Administration that has made every political battle personal and ugly, and that has used every bit of influence within its power to retain said power. Bush has managed to find every wrong step in the Scooter Libby affair, and it’s fairly obvious that the short-sightedness of this move took into account nothing involving what would happen beyond the initial “Hey, Scooter’s free! Heh heh.” I’m convinced that sometime in the next few weeks, someone high up will resign from the White House staff for”personal reasons.” I’m expecting that person to be the one man or woman who stood up and said “Hey, this is an incredibly bad idea and this is why.”
Congratulations, Dubya. You’ve managed to completely fuck over the Republican Party, and the American People in one fell swoop. In the process, you’ve alienated a man who had never even once considered abandoning the party he loved until now.
Fuck you.
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We went to the Barnum and Bailey Circus today. Not bad, but it has changed a bit since I was a kid. I remeber animal crackers, and a program that was a buck. Now its $10 cotton candy and 12 dollar programs. Wow, have times changed or what?
This kid in Dallas was 1st in line for the iphone, knowing there was only 1 per customer he just wanted to buy one - and he had a group of 3 others with him. A woman wanting to buy some phones and then sell them on ebay drove up, offered him $800 for his 1st in line spot. The kid took it, then got his buddies behind him to buy his phone with the money given to him by the lady.
The woman on the otherhand found out that she could only buy one phone at the AT&T store as they had a different limit on phones per customer.
Check out the video here.
You guys listen to 101x on Sundays? Chillville? Really good stuff on Sundays. I’m pulling down the music off www.gomusic.ru
Strange issue? And Comments
One of the posts disapeared this morning, not sure what happened - I went to turn the comments back on and the post just disappeared. Anyway, commments are back on and you have to have a typekey account to comment. That should clear up some of the spam.