The Budget Molecule
Someone smart agrees with me.
Quote of the Day [3.27.09]
I found an island in your arms
A country in your eyes
Arms that chain
Eyes that lied
The Doors, “Break on through (to the other side)”
Link of the Day [3.27.09]
Rereading the seven volumes of Strawberry 100% (Ichigo 100%) in anticipation for next one supposedly due in April. I read at least two chapters a day, and I don’t get more than a few panels before Junpei does something stupid at which I’m screaming at him. Or he doesn’t make a move at which I’m groaning about the whole enterprise. Just stupidity on his part.
I’ve peeked at the ending and read the wikipedia entry so I know who he’s ends up with. That’s eleven volumes away though, but I can’t help but wonder WTF is up with this guy.
All three girls dig him. And the other girls in the book dig him too. WTF just pick one of these girls. You know which one. But they are all so cute. Satsuki? She really, really, really likes you. Aya? She’s too shy to express her feelings. Yui? Isn’t she like your a little sister to you? Tsukasa? She’s not your girlfriend no longer.
YARRGH! You make me crazy, Junpei.
For a good laugh in these tough times
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/budget/road-to-recovery-finalRead this document and you'll laugh out loud numerous times. You'll see
newspeak in action. Here's a few choice nuggets."Those who like the health insurance they have now likely will not be
able to keep it because their employers will stop providing coverage."
(pg 6)"Republicans believe that the tax code should not penalize savings and
thrift, especially in a period of economic
turmoil. Our plan would lower the capital gains tax and loosen
restrictions on various savings vehicles in order for individuals to
catch up and replace losses from the market." (pg 10)"Americans realize that the future of energy is in alternative and
renewable sources. In order to promote the development of renewable and
alternative energy, Republicans support promoting the leasing of federal
lands which contain alternative energy such as oil shale." (pg 13)"Democrats assume that the free-market system has failed and that a more
robust federal government must now rescue the nation. The American
people reject that notion and know, as Republicans do, that government
has failed and that this financial crisis is the result of decades of
misguided government policies that interfered with the free-market." (pg
15)"The government's interventions to date have generated market
uncertainty and an aversion to private lending and investment. The
government's strategy needs to minimize government interference in the
management of companies and provide a clear exit strategy." (pg 16)
Are these guys serious? This is the same stuff as the last 8 years!
Someone should go to every Republican and kick them in the crotch, both
male and female, for offering these same tired ideas.
Quote of the Day [3.26.09]
“I can’t let you in cause you’re old as fuck. For this club, you know, not for the earth.”
Doorman (Craig Robinson), “Knocked Up”
Untitled circa 1992
The Head Office in Gerontin, Texas, called and found that Mr. Brooks was not home. The answering machine picked up the call. As soon as he got home, Mr Brooks screened his messages. Sandwiched between two calls from Sheena and a call from a distant third cousin was the call from the Head Office. Mr. Brooks was disturbed.
“Hello, Charley? Where the fuck are you? We need your expertise in handling a serious situation developing in our foreign markets. Shit! It’s like they were going to try and change the system. Crazy foreign bastards. And stupid. Anyway the Boss is steamed. He wants you to do something about it. All is clear. Expenses are taken care of. Just call us. This assignment is urgent, maximum
priority.”
Mr. Brooks immediately returned the call. He said he would see what he could do. Then, with the enthusiasm of men going off to war, Mr. Brooks packed his bags and left town.
Whenever Mr. Brooks left his residence, Mrs. Shriff would look after his place. She would find often in the trash many newspaper clippings of certain foreign ambassadors’ or of third world dictators’ assassinations. However peculiar this must have seen to her at the time, she never thought much of her tenant as being interested in foreign affairs. She went about her business without special attention to the personal affairs of Mr. Brooks. Not until the day Mr. Brooks left on another business trip overseas did she find the hidden meaning behind the newspaper clippings.
The day after Mr. Brooks received the call from the Head Office, Mrs. Shriff stopped in to check on his apartment. She found to her surprise that in such a hurry to leave Mr. Brooks left the place in disarray. While cleaning up his mess she found strapped beneath a drawer three ammo clips. Then she knew. Beneath his mild mannered exterior, Mr. Brooks was someone far more dangerous than what she knew him to be. Mrs. Shriff kept this to herself.
It scared her at first, but she had past suspicion on his covert assignments to foreign countries. “Why doesn’t he come home with interesting tales to tell?” she had thought to herself. Now she knows. Tales of murder and intrigue were not ones to be told to housewives. She just kept a watch on her resident watching for any strangeness in him. She watched, and she waited for him to come home.
Link of the Day [3.26.09]
Opening credits. Fun to watch?
Quote of the Day [3.25.09]
“The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who have friends and those who are lonely like poor Tuco.”
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez aka The Rat (Eli Wallach), “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly”
Link of the Day [3.25.09]
Here’s an illustration of what I meant by how awesome the crescent moon in the dawn looks with the morning star, Venus. I just love astronomy. Also, I know you’ve already bookmarked it, but you’ve got to keep going back to APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day). It really is frakking awesome.