My search fu is weak. I've been trying to figure out if New Jersey has storm surge evacuation zones along the same lines as New York City's, but I can't find anything. Is this info hidden somewhere I haven't looked yet, or is NYC just ahead of the curve in planning for real life with millions of people in a small area?
Today’s forecast high: 99 F
And me without air-conditioning...
Please don't put a Fuller Dome over NYC, as the logical place to pump the heat would be Joisey, and we have enough heat of our own already, thanks.
Jasper, I thought Bearclaw had less feathery leaves than this stuff. I have to admit that that was my first thought as well, but the Giant Hogweed leaves look much less like bear paws than what I remember of Bearclaw.
Then again, we never stopped to inspect the Bearclaw leaves.
MMORPG: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
Personally, I'm fond of text-based, small user-base online roleplaying games. But I also spend an inordinate amount of time playing bridge with actual cards and reading dead-tree versions of books, so what do I know, right?
I'm not overly fond of roses myself, mainly because I'm not fond of any plant that requires attention. If it dies because of a couple weeks of neglect, it clearly wasn't suited to my yard. I'll think about the roses recommended here, though...
Lexica wrote:
"May become invasive" is a good recommendation, as long as you're not talking about anything from the mint family.
Even with mints, "may become invasive" is a recommendation. When the mint tries to take over the world, this is a clear sign that it's time to make creme de menthe...
I hope New Jersey goes with New York. Not only do we have sizeable croplands, but we have some water reserves as well. And we didn't vote for these lying bastards.
When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come?
I hope to already be gone. Even if I wanted to defend my home with my life, the military will always be able to afford better hardware than I can. Counting on a gun for self-defense when the presumed opponents have bombers seems laughable.
Apparently kizmet doesn't distinguish between not forcing gruel into someone's stomach with a tube and keeping food and water out of reach of someone who can chew and swallow, either.
Just because the Schindlers were Terry Schiavo's parents doesn't mean they were acting with noble intent. Unlike kizmet's sister, Terry Schiavo could never throw a temper tantrum, never express an opinion her parents didn't approve of, never try to run away from home. Her parents weren't the ones changing her diapers, turning her body to prevent bedsores, or bathing her.
They were, IMO, exactly analogous to an agency that takes a child away from a family without evidence or a 'well-meaning' family member who tries to force someone fasting for religious reasons to eat and drink. They wanted to be praised for being wonderful people without taking on any of the burdens that might be associated with their daughter.
The irony of claiming that Terry was cruelly starved to death, of course, is that Terry's heart attack was triggered by her own efforts to starve herself.
A similar phenomenon is the time-consuming process of shopping for just the right sort of pen or the perfect leather-bound notebook, and then not using them to actually write anything.
I did that when shopping for my laptop (a slow little iBook that's completely unsuited for the games I put on my other computers). Now I have it... and my relatives insist on giving me writing implements and notebooks. And most of them wouldn't come within spitting distance of what I've been writing of late. The ones who do read my stuff know I don't need palm-sized sprial notebooks and glowing pens.
Personally, I vastly prefer white Christmasses to gray/green ones. White Christmasses are bright, which is important for those of us who would much rather be hibernating than dealing with family.
I'm fond of most carols, though I have the habit of trying to find pagan words for most of them, purely to annoy my in-laws. (And to remind them that their religion stole Sun Return.)
If gay scenes are to be censored, then you must censor Shakespeare.
When my ninth grade class read Romeo and Juliet, we got an expurgated version. I happened to have an unexpurgated (and annotated!) version, and had great fun undermining class discipline by explaining the naughty imagery to my classmates.
My point being only that censoring Shakespeare would be nothing new.
Hey, Lennox. Good to see you here.
I wonder how much of the 'otherkin' delusion is a product of the 'everyone is special and unique' educational philosophy. Yeah, no one is exactly like anyone else and few of the differences show on the outside, but that doesn't mean we need internal aliens or wolves or elves to explain why we don't fit in perfectly. (Does anyone fit in perfectly? Somehow, I doubt it.)
My own internal voice occasionally pipes up with a running third person description of what I'm doing. This is only annoying when it becomes sarcastic.
Rebecca, Catie has a lot to answer for. It's her fault I read here.
In the current election system, your sincere preference may be Nader, but if you want to actually have a favorable outcome in the election, you need to vote for one of the two main parties.
That's just the way it works. That's the reality of not having a condorcet voting method. And any talk otherwise is talking against reality.
Actually, the way it works is that where you are determines whether or not you can have a favorable outcome in the election. In some states (including New Jersey in 1996 and 2000, at least) I could vote for Nader or my favorite species of tree, and the state's electoral votes still went to the Democrats.
In 2000, I voted for Nader, because I hoped that he might get a large enough percentage of the vote to put the Green Party into government matching fund territory. I've since decided that the current system is too thoroughly stacked in favor of the major parties for a new party to form without coopting one of the Big Two, the way the Radical Right has. This year, I put my effort and my vote into the Democrats.
Do I think my 2000 vote was a mistake? No. (Nor do I think it was successful.) Even if all of my state's Nader voters had voted for Gore instead, Gore would not have gained a single electoral vote. So while Florida's Nader2000/2004 voters bear some blame for the disaster we face, anyone who says that all Nader voters contributed to Bush winning doesn't understand the electoral college as well as they think they do.
Abi: I didn't know that. Thank you. I will stop using 'Paulist'.
Xopher: By "that thing about Love", I assume you mean I Corinthians 13:4-7."Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right."(IMO, few of the American Ayatollahs have read that bit, and fewer of them have ever thought about it. How else can you explain Dobson?)
I tend to forget that Paul wrote that, mostly because he also wrote things such as"the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church." - I Corinthians 14:34-35
All quotes from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1962.
Can we call the fanatics Paulists? They're all much keener on all of Paul's hysterics than on Jesus's actual words. Well, except for the "spread the word" bit at the end of his life...
Husband voted this morning. I just voted. And just took part in the LA Times exit poll. Fun stuff. Voting is good for the soul.
My election day soundtrack is going to be running around like a maniac packing for DisneyWorld. Then I'm going to disappear into fantasyland for a week and hope that sanity (and the not-Bush party) will have prevailed when I return.
Donations are even tax-deductible.
My husband, a Republican, thinks that Wilson was the worst President we've ever had, but "if this one gets re-elected, we'll have a new contender".
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