December 2009
“The intelligence community is drinking from a fire hose of data, a lot of it...”
– Is This Really an Intelligence Failure? Real Talk on Abdulmutallab « The Washington Independent
via Kevin Drum
“Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive...”
– 58% Favor Waterboarding of Plane Terrorist To Get Information - Rasmussen Reports
Rush
My money’s on anal poisoning.
“Eight CIA agents have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in south-eastern...”
– BBC News - Eight US ‘CIA agents’ killed in Afghanistan bomb attack
Age
I’m really thrown by the fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is only 23.
“There’s a group out of Washington, and in several cities around the country,...”
– Jim Traficant: ‘I’m going to run’ - POLITICO.com
I’m speechless. He’s running for Congress in 2010.
There’s a company in my database called MF Global
My brain reads it, every time, as MF GLOBAL DOOM.
ATTN MEDIA CRITTERS
Hawaii is a state in this grand Union of ours. We stole it fair and square, just like Texas.
So I think we’ve demonstrated this week that if Al Gore had won the 2000 recount he would not have enjoyed the 90% approval rating Bush got after 9/11/2001. It would have been his fault. Or at least Clinton’s fault.
Jesus fucking Christ. And now Newter wants to “go to profiling of dangerous people instead of harassing and retsricting [sic] the innocent.”
“Known by the term “hijra” in conservative Muslim Pakistan,...”
– Pakistan’s transvestites to get distinct gender | Reuters
The article goes on to quote a hijra-rights organization that this is a positive development and that “now people recognize that we are also human beings.” If it does help secure rights for people who are systematically...
Off to C4 (Community Counseling Centers of Chicago) to do an intake meeting so they can prescribe me brain drugs.
FUCK YEAH FUNCTIONING BRAIN CHEMISTRY
“It’s easy to talk about these types of things in absolutes. Easier than to admit...”
– nightmare brunette: What Men Want
“Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a...”
– Northwest Flight 253: al Qaeda Leaders Behind Terror Plot Were Released by U.S. - ABC News
“France was built by immigrants, and people who come here are welcome,”...”
– Meetings Debate The Question Of French Identity : NPR
The upcoming year
New Years overshadows Christmas for me. 2010 is the year that my sobriety date actually gets moved to January 1st, to properly reflect the mimosa I had with brunch that morning. Technically, I don’t get a sobriety date in 2010.
2010 will also be the year that I actually start documenting my finances. I’ve spent a good deal of money and credit the past few months (years), and I need...
I started a blog under my real name. It’s time I get to put my internet on my resume.
Now let me never confuse it with this one.
I messaged an OK Cupid boy.
Let the social anxiety begin.
Internet Confessions
I’ve never had a boyfriend.
Oh I see my gmail account was hacked by a spammer. Sorry to any and all in my address book.
“New TSA regs for all international flights entering the USA, via Air Canada:...”
– Negev Rock City: Your Flight Experience Will Now… Suck.
So I’m working from home on Christmas Eve, updating a salesforce.com database with information from a spreadsheet.
As I updated an existing contact’s middle name with “E.” I thought to myself, “HAHA, captured your middle intial, SUCKER!”
*sigh*
“We transwomen are under no obligation to walk around with a scarlet ‘T’ on our...”
– TransGriot: It Ain’t ‘Deception’- We’re Living Our Lives
via clingtomymouth
Minutiae
The health insurance reform debate has sucked me back into the minutiae of U.S. federal party politics and because of this my political blogging has been boring me lately. Please excuse me while I attempt to refocus on things that are actually interesting.
Also, you know, happy holidays and let this serve as a light blogging notice.
“We are not going to have a second wave of financial crisis,” Geithner said...”
– Geithner: There Will Be No ‘Second Wave’ Crisis - CNBC
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WE ARE SO FUCKED.
“Senate Republicans agreed Tuesday to allow a Christmas Eve vote on raising the...”
– GOP cuts deal on vote to raise debt - - POLITICO.com
“And, of course, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd strained to find...”
– When you say “Barack Obama,” Howard Kurtz thinks “Tiger Woods” | Media Matters for America
via Atrios
Paraphrased
Scene: watching Om Shanti Om Amanda: So you have feminist issues with Twilight but not with this movie?
Me: Well, this movie has singing and dancing.
Amanda: But, really, you gave me shit about Twilight?
Me: Okay, okay. This movie is also problematic.
Amanda: I just wanted you to admit that.
My Heart is Full of Pain of Disco will be stuck in my head for the next few days.
“Others say the international community is contributing to the problem by turning...”
– Corruption Ignored, Deplored In Afghanistan : NPR
Careful readers will notice that I grew up in a house with six sides. My parents moved to the country and built a hexagonal log cabin. Not like, with their bare hands. They hired people.
ETA: I called those people “Worker Heroes”
FOR REAL. I WAS THREE.
“Last month, after Democrats cast enough votes to threaten the Republican Party’s...”
– Ballot Fight in Taghkanic Could Affect Races Across New York - NYTimes.com
My hometown is a few miles west of Taghkanic. This is stunning. My family were rare liberal full-time residents, though we obviously stood out as “not from around here.”
“They are perhaps sick of the fact that when they go off into this corner they...”
– a grammar: further to the previous posts, just a thought
A Grammar has said some great things about the discourse around race, class, and culture today.
“I would be more than happy for any mention of gender identity to be dropped...”
– Psychiatry’s civil war « Questioning Transphobia
IRS Hell
They think I owe them money.
Enter: phone trees, 7-10 business day waits, and having to do math.
“Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of violating Venezuela’s...”
– Colombia to Chavez: Maybe ‘spy plane’ was Santa - MiamiHerald.com
ETA: In case you’re confused why Columbia is responding, the drone is said to come from our drug war military presence in Columbia. I love how Silva completely sidesteps the accusation.
via foreignpolicy
Over the past year I have made and deleted several ad hominem attacks about Tom Coburn’s haircut.
New Year’s Resolution: stop deleting them, dude’s a fucking douche.