Wowowow

Ok, my new host is interesting. I apparently can publish via ftp to blogger, but only if i’m willing to wait 9 hours for it to complete uploading, and occasionally have my entire site deleted, like happened last night.

this has been quite a journey. almost wish I’d just paid globat the 50 bucks they were trying to extort from me. if they’d ever once said anything other than “tough shit, pay up” to me, i would have. assholes. now i hate them again. good old anger. you can always rely on it in times of worry.

my host is a fucktard

I may go offline for a bit. you can use my other accounts to contact me or AIM. my host added a “promo pak” to my account, despite my repeated strident requests for them to not do it. still, they added $50 on to my bill. i’ve actually called them and told them not to do it ever, and yet here they are. they claim it’s part of my user agreement. i agreed to pay for a certain amount of hosting, and that’s it. so i may get shitcanned by the evil shitsucking assholes at GLOBAT web hosting.
if babyfight disappears for a while, that’s why. never, ever use GLOBAT WEB HOSTING. They will lie to your face and attempt to extort money from you.

bridges

the Twin Cities I-35 collapse is horrifying…but it’s just one of either 36 or 37 collapses since 1989 (i can’t remember exactly), according to a dude on NPR. that’s two bridges a year… a member of the American Association of Civil Engineers stated that the only way to fix this is to…fix them. he also said it’s sad that it had to be a disaster this big to get people’s attention. but that’s not true…the levees in New Orleans were a civil engineering failure, and there was a steam explosion in Manhattan that was the same. These are the inevitable result of long years of anti-government policies, shrinking of spending on infrastructure, and a general loss of the “we’re all in this together” attitude that characterized the New Deal (which is when a lot of this failing infrastructure was built, by the way).
so either we’re in it together, and we pull together and fix and properly maintain our shared assests, ie the infrastructure…bridges, tunnels, pipes, dams, canals, powerlines and other stuff, or we fall apart even worse, and slide back into a primitive tribal state.
what do you think is best?

Reason #654322567

Why George W. Bush is the biggest spooge-ball to slide down the side of a wank-booth since his daddy left the White House.

“People have access to health care in America,” he told an audience in Cleveland. “After all, you just go to an emergency room.”

What he’s basically advocating is a system whereby everything breaks. Health care breaks…hospitals break….social systems break…our nation, which is seeming pretty broken already, breaks again, into tiny chunks. It’s easier to be big and rich on a tiny chunk of America, which you can hide or defend from the poor weak brown and smelly masses.
What we have in W is not an aberration. It’s the final, inevitable consequence of a rotten to the core system of crony capitalism as well as capitalism by privilege. He himself is a product of lying wealth, dealing with enemies, and class warfare, all the while professing hatred for the same.
It’s safe to say that the opposite of anything Bush says is what he intends. So when he says he wants to keep you safe…look out.

rare saturday lyric

UPDATE: a midi file for the song. Ryan swore up and down he could make it fit on a guitar. Honest. No, really.
okay. anyone who hasn’t read terry pratchett’s “discworld” books, or reads this post and doesn’t immediately read one, has officially lost at least 50% of the respect that i had for them. if i have much to begin with, that can be a crippling blow.

The Hedgehog Song
Nanny Ogg

“Bestiality sure is a fun thing to do
But I have to say this as a warning to you:
With almost all creatures, you can have ball
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 1:
The spines on his back are too sharp for a man
They’ll give you a pain in the worst place they can
The result I think you’ll find will appall:
The hedgehog can never be buggered at all!

Mounting a horse can often be fun
An elephant too; though he weighs half a ton
Even a mouse (though his hole is quite small)
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 2:
The spines on his back are so awful thick
you’ll end up with naught but a painful prick.
He has an impregnable hole when curled up in a ball,
Hence the hedgehog can never be buggered at all!

Screwing a cow while she goes moo-moo
Will be entertaining to both her and you
Or you might try a tiger, if you have enough gall
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 1
A fish is refreshing, although a bit wet
And a cat or a dog can be more than a pet
Even a giraffe (despite being so tall)
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 2

You can manage a snake, though its poison might kill,
It’s amazing how humping a camel will thrill
You can go with a snail if you slow to a crawl
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 1
You can ravish a sloth but it would take all night
With a shark it is faster, but the darned beast might bite
We already mentioned the horse, you recall
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 2

You can roger a skunk if you can stand the smell
Or even an oyster, should he let go of his shell
A troll can be rocky if down you should fall
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 1
For slippery fun, you can cornhole an otter
Or pego a pig after parting his trotters
Or tumble a tapir, though the prospect appall
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 2

For prosimian fun, you can bugger a lemur
To bolster your name as a pervert and schemer
The lemurs cry “Frink!” as a coy mating call
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 1
Antipodean pranks — you can futter a wombat
Or strive with a ‘roo in venereal combat
Or hump a goanna — go on, do it all
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

CHORUS 2
A moose is amusing, a squid quite confusing
Or try on a rhino if you fancy a bruising,
Or mountin’ a mountain goat (careful, don’t fall!)
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

lee rix


Dinosaur Jr.
Green Mind
“Blowin’ It”
youtube.com seach. myspace

I been thinking through the night
Everybody’s so uptight
People hurt and that’s their right
Cut ’em all loose, think I might
Stewin’, hangin’ out in town
And my head whirlin’ around
Don’t trust your mind, it’ll let you down
Don’t have a thing to go on
I don’t know a thing to say to you
I don’t know a thing to say to you
There’s a time and there’s a place
It’s not now, it’s time to pace
Things I’d say but just can’t face
All it means to say them
I could believe the things I feel
Then tomorrow get the same deal
Am I acting on something real?
Or am I blowing it again?
I don’t know a thing to say to you
I don’t know a thing to say to you
I don’t know a thing to say to you
I don’t know a thing to say to you

You can listen to all the songs on their new album “Beyond” on their website, or their myspace page.
One time, i had the shirt for this album on at the Fox Photo across from SMHS, and the chick behind the counter took one look at me and got panty-twistitis to such a degree her head nearly popped off. “don’t you think that send the wrong message to children, that it’s ok to smoke?” I was taken aback…where the hell did that come from? But i rallied, and asked her if she thought maybe someone’s parents had more to do with it than a tshirt some malnourished moron was wearing. She sniffed angrily at me. i gave her the over-the-shoulder finger on my way out the door. I like that move. one of these days i’m going to get nailed in the back of the head by a mug of toasty cocoa or somethingsimilar for my adios-finger. ah well, the price we pay to communicate in a way we wish.

wow

never been here, but nice post.

Assuming that all uninsured sick children have the same kind of trust fund that Georgie had, Bush explains his rationale for denying health care and cutting off funding to the CHIP program.

“I support the initial intent of the program,” Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post after a factory tour and a discussion on health care with small-business owners in Landover. “My concern is that when you expand eligibility . . . you’re really beginning to open up an avenue for people to switch from private insurance to the government.”
Bravely misunderstanding the arguments of communist sympathizers like Sen. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Hatch (R-Utah), Bush continues to protect the delicate market system from the freeloading terror of poor kids with diseases.

In a seemingly unrelated story, the cost of the war in Iraq is now $444,519,508,302.

quick recap

this is the way it is. Via PZ, natch.

Fundamentalists: believe 2+2 =5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax returns.

“Moderate” believers: live their lives on the basis that 2+2=4. but go regularly to church to be told that 2+2 once made 5, or will one day make 5, or in a very real and spiritual sense should make 5.

“Moderate” atheists: know that 2+2 =4 but think it impolite to say so too loudly as people who think 2+2=5 might be offended.

“Militant” atheists: “Oh for pity’s sake. HERE. Two pebbles. Two more pebbles. FOUR pebbles. What is WRONG with you people?”

(props to Stephen Wells.)