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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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7:17 pm - I haven't heard a word about it all day
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you know, in all the buzz and pageantry of Earth Day, I feel that something's missing... perhaps someone could fill me in on some products I could purchase and consume that would cause me to "go green"?
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| Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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9:41 pm - I have been reading Tolstoy. Dick Cheney has not been reading Tolstoy.
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"These are evil people. And we're not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek." -- Dick Cheney, 2/5/09
"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also...
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you..." - Jesus, Sermon on the Mount
Nonresistance to evil is POWER, spiritual force. "Collateral damage" is , morally speaking, just as evil as a concentration camp.
Judging by the prisons Obama isn't closing and the rendition policies Obama isn't striking down, I wouldn't worry if I were Cheney.
(I mean, unless I were Cheney BUT YET possessed some degree of moral awareness, in which case I would crap my pants with worry.)
Poor Obama. I'd like to entertain the notion he's a do-right fella at heart, but the game plan is laid down by creeps more powerful than he. Guess it's STILL up to We the People to get our shit together, however that's to beaccomplished...
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| Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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11:09 pm - raving xmas lists
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The car companies have refused to make the products we really want and need. Hence why we started to buy foriegn cars in the first place-- that is, mainly, fuel efficiency.
The auto industries are closely allied with the oil corporations. These monster corporations and the bankers -- these finance capitalists and treasury punks -- are making out like bandits.
Put the auto workers and the machinery to task on building fuel-efficient transit vehicles, varying sizes of windmills... and home heating solutions. (drafty in this house, hey.)
Reorient these corporations so that their mandate is NOT to compete in making the most PROFITS but in producing the most VALUE. Social wealth, not private wealth. The executives can make no more than 10x the lowest salaried worker.
Oh, also, national health system.
Also, stop picking all these Clinton people for your cabinet, Mr. President. We voted for you, not Hillary and not Bill. Okay, I voted for Cynthia McKinney technically, but she didn't win.
Oh also, while I'm reminded, let's get some serious electoral reform, too. Ralph Nader on the debates and universal paper ballots.
Also, I would like a pony. Not really. But I could donate it or give it to one of my friends who like horses. Or who can't afford their car anymore.
the end
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| Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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11:42 pm - Right On
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I wondered what the election results were. I tuned into Democracy Now's special live coverage.
Amy Goodman said that CNN just called Obama for Virginia. Then he was projected for the presidency. Then my phone rang, and a friend welcomed me to this new era. Excellent.
So, now we have to make it happen and insist that President follow through on helping make it happen.
End the wars! Healthcare for everybody! Hit the brakes on greenhouse emissions and the energy crisis! I want it all, and more. "Hasta la victoria siempre."
Okay, the hour and his speech are putting me to sleep. Zzz
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| Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
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11:06 am
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so i was cleaning up in the workspace i found a bunch of birth announcements in varying states of preparation... un/stamped, un/sealed, un/addressed. in varying permutations. yeesk. well, it hasn't been half a year yet. haha.
i've been biking to work. it's great. nice to be outside and exercising, beyond the early morning situp/pushup routine i follow about half the time. much different relationship to place and space when i bike or walk there. when i drive, it is as if i am sealing myself into a little capsule and disappearing into the hyperspace of the interstate highway, disappearing at one wormhole and reappearing at another offramp near my destination, isolated from the environment the whole way. and it takes just about the same amount of time whether i bike or drive, since it's about all downhill on the way to work and there's mad highway construction and traffic disruption these days. i just need to get my cheapo bike tricked out with cargo capacity -- i still have to drive in on tuesdays, since that's the day that the CSA vegetables are delivered, and because i need to transport a 5gallon bucket of worksite compost back to my heap at home. a little unwieldy for a backpack.
need to give Fox (or as Windy calls him, "Poxy, Poxy, Poxy!") a bottle, and then we're off to Thrifty Shopper in search of massive kitchen mixing bowls. Che has doubled the no-knead bread recipe and makes a nice-sized "peasant boule" loaf, but dough overfloweth and that ain't ideal.
happy sunday
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| Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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10:52 am - past weeks
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+ CSA has started and we have more veggies than we know what to do with. (like "three salads a day" amounts)
+ drinking coffee only as infrequent luxury (vs. caffeine chemical dependence)
+ successfully resisting urge to re-relapse into cigarette smoking
- strongly conscious that i'm selling my life away in 8/9 hour chunks
- city landscaper wandered into our community garden plot with a weedwacker and cut a wide swath of destruction
+ three big bags of strawberries in the freezer
+ more strawberry picking today, for jam-canning
- two weekends in a row away visiting family (first mine, now Che's)
+ solstice gathering of friends at our house last night
+ postcards from Thor in Brooklyn
+ Windy starting to speak words; Fox giggling
time to pick berries
<3
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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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2:58 pm - i finally letterpressed some birth announcements
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just in time for the boy's 3mo birthday
i printed a ton of them, plus an extra little goodie...
anybody reading this want to receive mail?
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| Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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10:04 am
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Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright "brought him to Christianity," married him and his wife, baptized his kids, served as "spiritual advisor" on the campaign...
Now there's this media blowup about Wright's "controversial" and "UNAMERICAN" statements... such as that the Black American experience hasn't been roses and gumdrops here in the "US of KKK A", and especially the statement that 9/11 attacks were an effect caused by military actions taken by the United States military against people of the world. He called it "chickens coming home to roost"-- sound familiar??
So like. Good grief.
One, Pastor Wright is correct in his analysis.
Two, Obama is denying this man with whom he's had such a long and intimate relationship? how can you trust a man who does this?
gggrrrrrrr fuck politics. i don't have the heart for playing the game for power.
I think I have to vote Green again. or communist.
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| Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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5:51 pm - a dream of a dream?
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oddly, i had the impression that someone had posted me a comment or a message stating that they had dreamed that Fox had arrived and wondered if it were true. And this was confusing because if this individual was posting me a message online, then they would probably be seeing a profile picture of me with a tiny baby what is not Windy, and/or other declarations of Foxiness.
So I conclude that this post was actually something in MY dream.
Right before the watching-too-many-episodes-of-"Weeds"-inspired dream wherein I was hanging out with three gals who were novice drug dealers, and I had to go with to make the pickup because the seller expected to see one woman AND one man. We bought our product from the mall Santa, who turned out also to be a woman. What a good idea!
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| Monday, February 25th, 2008
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4:14 pm - [edit] haha math
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| Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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3:18 pm - "it's a boy, Mrs Walker, it's a boy..."
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one and all please welcome
Fox Orvis
20th Feb 2008, ~4:10am
7lbs 10oz, 21"
hooray!
he's a speedy one-- born five minutes BEFORE the midwife arrived!!
[pix on spacebook/myface]
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| Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
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10:39 pm - oh yeah, that's what lj is for: memes!
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95% Mike Gravel
91% Dennis Kucinich
75% John Edwards
70% Bill Richardson
69% Chris Dodd
68% Barack Obama
66% Joe Biden
64% Hillary Clinton
37% Ron Paul
24% John McCain
23% Mike Huckabee
21% Tom Tancredo
20% Rudy Giuliani
19% Mitt Romney
14% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
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| Sunday, January 6th, 2008
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1:43 pm - sundays are for learning
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from the Wiki:
Mayhem, under the common law of crimes, consisted of the intentional and wanton removal of a body part that would handicap a person's ability to defend himself in combat.
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The term "mayhem" is now often used to mean havoc and disorder, often in a jocular sense. This change arose from people reading newspapers misunderstanding the journalese phrase "rioting and mayhem".
I learned this today because even as recently as 30 years ago, as interest in the vasectomy procedure was increasing, there were doctors hesitant or unwilling to perform it strictly on the basis of old European legal codes. That is, messing with a fellow's manly bits might be considered a crime against the State, being a mutilation rendering the man unfit (read: insufficiently manly, i.e. ahem, "too much of a pussy") to fight in the event of his feudal overlord calling upon him for military service. Eeeenteresting.
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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7:53 pm - happy new gregorian calendar year!
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we've been swamped with guests since before christmas. i think it should taper off and calm down now? it's been exhausting, but good to see everyone. the i ching reading i had most recently had much to say about friends and allies, so i'm just letting it all flow until dust settles.
speaking of divination and the subtle sciences, che got me/us a 2008 calendar with detailed astrological information (planetary motions etc.) and horoscopes, i'm excited. insights.
che's full term at the end of the month. i need to start really talking to people in the know regarding vasectomy. i haven't heard much from the "negatives" side of the argument. my parents are funny. folks who used to talk to me about the importance of critical thought and communications give me a fact sheet from a healthcare corporation-owned "vasectomy.com" site and seem confused when i express that this may not be an balanced or inclusive viewpoint.
i need a new typewriter. all the correspondence i am attempting to keep up on is taxing my handwriting capacity. ah but i do so <3 penpals.
happy new year, let this be a good one.
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| Friday, December 7th, 2007
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12:10 am - thoughtcrime
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HR 1955 RFS
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1955
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 24, 2007
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
AN ACT
To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007'.
SEC. 2. PREVENTION OF VIOLENT RADICALIZATION AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.
(a) In General- Title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 361 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new subtitle:
`Subtitle J--Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
`SEC. 899A. DEFINITIONS.
`For purposes of this subtitle:
`(1) COMMISSION- The term `Commission' means the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism established under section 899C.
`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.
`(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
`(4) IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE- The term `ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs.
`SEC. 899B. FINDINGS.
`The Congress finds the following:
`(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.
`(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.
`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.
`(4) While the United States must continue its vigilant efforts to combat international terrorism, it must also strengthen efforts to combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States.
`(5) Understanding the motivational factors that lead to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence is a vital step toward eradicating these threats in the United States.
`(6) Preventing the potential rise of self radicalized, unaffiliated terrorists domestically cannot be easily accomplished solely through traditional Federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts, and can benefit from the incorporation of State and local efforts.
`(7) Individuals prone to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence span all races, ethnicities, and religious beliefs, and individuals should not be targeted based solely on race, ethnicity, or religion.
`(8) Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, or civil liberties of United States citizens or lawful permanent residents.
`(9) Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.
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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1955
current mood: doubleplus uneasy
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| Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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10:00 am - happy halloween, suckers
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peace out, Pulaski, thanks for the experiences
hello again, Syracuse.
grabbing the moving truck at 3pm
moving our crap into the new spot in the evening
our friend Eli is still waiting for closing on the house he's buying, so he's cleared out of the dining room and one bedroom, which is probably about as much space as we're occupying here -- except that this place has a separate room for cooking (called a "kitchen", i'm looking forward to it)
so things'll be squished for a moment but soon we'll be in a rocking 2br space with hardwood floors and cheap rent and i'll start my new job and holy cow life is nice.
and as of yesterday, we've sustained Windybaby's life for a whole 365 days! success! :)
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| Thursday, October 18th, 2007
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5:36 pm - Yesterday, and Rapidly Resolving Living Situation
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i got the job!
i am very excited about it.
the very last part of the interview involved the owner calling me over to the paper cutter and informing me that this is a question he poses to all of the new recruits. it was a word problem, basically: if you have a giant sheet of fancy German-made paper of these dimensions and you need to cut it down to stationery of these dimensions, what is the most efficient method of doing so?
It is a simple enough operation; there are only two possible solutions and one of them is wrong. But as I said once it was complete "thank you for making real my nightmares of job interviews combined with algebra exams."
We also learned that our efficiency here in Pulaski has been rented for November, and that we will therefore get our security deposit back. Score! Now all we have to do is 1) figure out where to move to and 2) move there!
Windy's two latest teeth are coming in and she is all kinds of toothy now, like a bear-trap. Last night at dinner she very clearly signed (hand-gesticulated) the terms "all done" and "more".
For her birthday, she would like cardboard boxes, tissue paper, starchy foods, handmade gifts from the heart, and cash.
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| Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
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10:23 pm - i am me and she is she, but you're the only you
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i have a second interview tomorrow, for a position as a letterpress printer of fine wedding invitations (and the occasional poem broadside or arty booklet.) keep your fingers crossed!
i dunno what to do if i don't get the job!
got mouths to feed! and we need a zillion (i.e. a few thousand total) dollars for the homebirth midwife and the security deposit on our next apartment
and that apartment is going to open up "sometime" in November! so that's, you know, vague and therefore a little stressful.
Windy's One Year Birthday is on the 30th!
i dunno what we'll do to celebrate. maybe we'll festively pack everything we own into cardboard boxes in anticipation of not having to pay another month's rent here in our efficiency!
i wish we'd gotten everything worked out sometime prior to the last moment!
oh well. "god will provide"...
<3
p.s. i cant stop listening to Jeffrey Lewis' album "12 Crass Songs", nor to the "Colin Meloy [of the Decemberists] Sings Morrissey" collection. I would like to compensate these artists for their work but I am broke as a joke so maybe they will do with some publicity and good vibes from afar?
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| Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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10:39 pm - All's Well, All's Well
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For those who have heard the reports and those who have not:
There was an explosion at the farm on Wednesday afternoon. It was caused by Farmer Dick applying a welding torch to a leaky metal seal on a barrel full of methyl alcohol fumes, which resulted in the barrel sort of "blasting off" the concrete pad in a belching ball of flame. He is okay, though he did suffer some nasty burns to his arms and forehead. He is recuperating and in good spirits, under medication. I was standing nearby, but escaped with some minor hairs-singeing.
Bittersweetly, yesterday we also learned that the main problem with my new-and-improved biodiesel reactor design was a small leak on a metal seal. (Along with other lessons...!)
More detailed news to come! ( preview )
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| Friday, September 7th, 2007
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7:58 pm - why
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