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I was reminded of this reading an article today.
A little over a decade ago. While still living in California. A friend and i took a weekend vacation to Lake Tahoe. At some point on the trip to Tahoe the turn signal switch in my steering column broke. While driving around in South Lake Tahoe. I was pulled over for failure to use my turn signal. Once the cop witnessed the turn indicator malfunctioning. He gave me a fix it ticket. This was the first ticket i had ever received. So i followed the instructions to a T. I repaired it, Drove down to my local police department so they could sign off on it. Then mailed the signed off fix it ticket to South Lake Tahoe. A little less than a month later i receive a letter stating i have to pay a $20 filing fee. Here i mistakenly thought they can not do that it was not listed on the ticket. Thinking to much like the government has to follow any laws. I ignored it. About two months later i get a letter stating i have been fined $100 for failure to pay the fee. I am like fuck you. Couple months later fine is doubled. Couple months later guess what? Doubled again. Again my "this is fucking bullshit, Fuck you". About three months later i get a letter from South Lake Tahoe saying they have put a hold on my license for not paying $420. Shortly there after i get one from the DMV saying the same thing. At this point all i want to do blow up city hall. Apparently South lake Tahoe was getting impatient. Felt the hold was not sufficient punishment. They proceeded to suspend my license, with the followup letter from the DMV.
Suspended drivers license for failure to pay a $20 filing fee.
My big fuck you was to ignore that too. At that point i did not have a vehicle. Waited till the statute of limitation ran out. proceeded to renew my license on the cheap.
What did i learn. Suck their dick if they ask you to. This also started my journey toward the dark side of disliking the government and its agents
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The Muppet's You Tube Channel.
Highlights: Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody, Statler & Waldorf as the snarky Youtube viewers at the end of the clips, and Muppet Labs studios.
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So, let me get this straight: the most popular series right now is some vaguely high-school yurilicious show about a human railgun?
Okay, then.
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Abu Dhabi to aid Dubai on "case by case" basis
Abu Dhabi, wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates, will "pick and choose" how to assist debt-laden neighbor Dubai, a senior official said on Saturday, after fears of a Dubai default sent global markets reeling.
"We will look at Dubai's commitments and approach them on a case-by-case basis. It does not mean that Abu Dhabi will underwrite all of their debts," the official in the government of the emirate of Abu Dhabi told Reuters by phone.
Dubai's crisis exploded on Wednesday when the emirate, known for flashy lifestyles and the world's tallest building, said it would delay payment on debt issued by one of its flagship firms, angering investors and sending global markets sharply lower.
Selective assistance for companies in "Dubai Inc.," a network of quasi-sovereign industries, instead of blanket assistance, would serve a rude awakening to investors who for years assumed that the conservative Abu Dhabi provided a safety net for its racier neighbor.
"Some of Dubai's entities are commercial, semi-government ones. Abu Dhabi will pick and choose when and where to assist," said the official, who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
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Have you ever had dreams where something changed and then you woke up? Like the other day I dreamed something like shoes or something I had on had changed and I wondered how cause I realized I didn't remember changing them. But I woke up and it was a dream hehe. I've had other dreams before too where things had changed while in the dream and sometimes it seems weird if you don't know your asleep at first and dreaming in a dream. I was just remembering last
night when I was little Mom used to make a snow man out of brown paper bags the big grocery sack ones and she would glue cotton balls on the paper bags to make them white like a snow man and she would put one of dads old ties on it and one of his old hats he used to wear back then too. I did my walk again today to Kroger's and back. it was sort of chilly in the morning the time number said 24 degrees I think but later when I got back from my walk it said 52 I think. I think it was
around 46 when I left the house for my walk this time today. I did a google search to see if I could find that flour and water dough to make Christmas ornaments out of that I mentioned the other day I saw when I was little. and I found this. too bad I just threw my old bag of flour away cause I wasn't sure if it was still good to eat any more. I may get another bag at the store soon and make some of this to make ornaments out of and decorations and stuff for something to do.This
said Bake for 2 hours. Gee I don't remember baking those that long in the recipe we used when we was little to make those with. so I dunno why this one said that. oh well, I guess different people have different recipes for stuff they make in rl. I couldn't find the exact one from the comic book page we got it from when I was little. but this sounded about the same almost.
http://crafts.kaboose.com/saltdoughgifttoppers.html
this one said to bake only 10 minutes I wonder why? anyway that sounded more like the ones we made's time to bake.
http://www.ehow.com/how_11092_clay-christmas-ornaments.html
I saw this too. snow flakes
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/q-tip-snowflake.shtml
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Cars burned, windows broken at trade protest
Geneva police say 'situation is calmer' after rioting at anti-WTO march
GENEVA - Anti-capitalism protesters smashed the windows of banks, shops and cafes in central Geneva and set cars on fire on Saturday during a demonstration against the World Trade Organization.
Some demonstrators were breaking the windows of every building they passed and setting off fireworks in the main shopping street.
Police in riot gear headed off groups of violent protesters.
At least three cars were set on fire near the city bus station. A pall of smoke hung over the city center and tear gas drifted through the streets.
The violent protesters were a minority in an otherwise good-natured crowd of about 2,000 people, accompanied by a dozen tractors and a marching band, who were demonstrating against a three-day WTO conference that starts Monday.
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I hate how the media doesn't say a word about the protests until a few people get violent. Also, wtf at the random inclusion of that bit about the South Koreans.
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Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Who can keep em straight? Enter BLACKMONDAY for 20% off orders of $150 or more
On the deck of the Flytanic
www.clockworkcouture.com
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Polish director Roman Polanski’s family is thanking French President Nicolas Sarkozy for being “very effective” in helping to win his release from a Swiss prison.
“I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it is thanks to the President that Roman has been freed, but he has been super,” Polanski’s sister-in-law, Mathilde Seigner, told Le Parisien newspaper. “The President has been very effective.”
The London Times speculated that Sarkozy’s wife, ex-model Carla Bruni, may have pressured her husband to intervene because she used to hob nob with Paris’ artistic community, which includes Polanski and wife Emmanuelle Seigner.
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A German-Afghan man who stabbed his teenage sister to death in a grisly "honour killing" was sentenced to life imprisonment after a court in Karlsruhe rejected his appeal on Thursday.
In a crime that outraged Germany, the man, identified only as Ahmad-Sobair O. knifed his 16-year-old sister Morsal 23 times as he believed she brought dishonour to their family by wearing Western-style clothes and make-up.
The Federal Court of Justice said it was "convinced that the accused committed the crime because his sister, in his opinion, had 'stained the family's honour'."
The court rejected the appeal that the man was psychologically deranged and upheld the initial judgement by a lower court in Hamburg, in the north of the country.
The killer, aged 24 at the time, had said during his trial that he was "sorry from the bottom of his heart" for his actions. "That was my sister and I loved her," he told the court, breaking down in tears.
Germany has been shocked by around 50 so-called "honour killings" since 1996, mainly in the country's large Turkish diaspora.
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"When I was growing up, we didn't have no internet, if'n we wanted pornography we had to walk a couple of miles and then carve our own out of wood. And we liked it just fine."
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This is the goth chick from NCIS, BEFORE she was on NCIS.
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her on the show
And this whole time I thought she was just this actress that played goth. Apparently she was this singer in some all girl punk band Lo-Ball in the early 2000's. She's got more pictures here:
http://www.eddog.com/loball/
..AND she's 40!! So much more respect for her!
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Hey guys, Dominion is canceled tonight, because the Rubyfruit is using the space for a Bayou Classic after-party. We'll be back on next week. Tell the world. Sorry to disappoint!
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Whew! Another five miles, but this time it took me a smidge under twenty minutes. Today I'm, in Loperhet, which is a commune, but not a commune like I'm used to thinking of them- in France, that means more like "A small town."
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A woman on OKCupid said that she bet that I was "fun in bed." And I had a weird dissonance upon reading that.
See, to me, "fun" is slip-n-slides, balloon-twisting performers at parties, playing Rock Band, telling stories. Whereas "sex" - although something I enjoy deeply (or at least as deeply as I am physiologically capable) - consists of hot kisses, fevered gasps, driving each other crazy until we rip off our clothes and have to have each other.
Needless to say, combining clowns and that sort of hotness causes me to pause.
That's not to say that I treat sex as though it's some sort of treasured classical painting - I have giggle breakdowns in bed just like everybody, and the crossover between my clown-fun and sex lies is connected by the luscious goodness of The Tickle Fight, that classic mechanism of getting some "innocent" body-touching that can lead to something a lot sexier. (I repeat: There has never been a thing as an innocent tickle fight between consenting adults in the history of mankind.) But to me, part of the fun of sex is that intensity of wanting, that need, and I have trouble parsing that fun in the way that I'd process Cinco de Mayo parties and squirt-gun fights.
Emotionally, I parse it differently as well, because while sex can be no-strings-attached whoopie, in my experience if you're not careful about setting boundaries, that intensity will often lead to one party or the other getting emotionally involved. You're swapping bodily fluids, there's a heightened sense of vulnerability - it can get messy if you don't watch out.
Which is not to say that anyone's wrong about how they feel. I suspect that for many, sex is the sort of walk in the park thing where there's no distinction between "I had a sundae for lunch and then a hot bi male for dinner!" But for me, there's a distinct and clear barrier between "fun" and "sex" - sex contains fun, but it's got something extra that brings it beyond that point for me. There's an intensity to sex, another layer that amplifies it so much that it nearly always catapults the act almost beyond something I take lightly - even my most casual hookups always had an aspect of, "Whoo, that was a unique experience that let me see a totally different side of that person," even if my partners didn't always feel that way in return.
What about you? Is sex fun? Casual? Whoopie? How do you parse it?
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Yesterday, I read the opening chapter of Stephen King's "Under the Dome." Couldn't have been more than 800 words. And yet it had more characterization than any of my stories had put together.
I read it over and over again, just plain amazed by what was there: two characters, and not only did we get the feel and geography of the town they lived in, but we got their dreams, their social status, a good glimpse of their personality, their financial state, and how they interacted with each other. And it was all natural, told with ease, like a beautifully ticking watch where you don't quite realize how much work goes into keeping that ticking plot-hand moving forward until you shuck off that gold casing.
I think I've found my Holy Grail: that beginning section. There's so much in there, so neatly packed into such a small space (and, as you'd know if you read it, in such an easy to read way, that if I ever approach a third of that I'll feel like I've pretty much maxed out my ability.
I have no comment upon the rest of the novel; it's a silly idea stolen straight from the Simpsons, but then again Stephen King specializes in silly ideas made genuinely scary. This one might be a return to form, or might be a lousy crash. But that opener, should you look carefully, is a masterwork of characterization. I'm going to have to take it apart and see if I can find the central motor that drives it.
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Region Finds U.S. Lacking on Honduras
By GINGER THOMPSON
Published: November 27, 2009 WASHINGTON — Drug cartels are running amok in Mexico, Raúl Castro is tightening his grip on Cuba and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is making mischief with Russia and Iran, but it is a relatively obscure backwater, Honduras, that has provided the Obama administration with its first test in Latin America.
The ouster of Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran populist president, five months ago propelled the deeply impoverished country onto President Obama’s packed agenda. The question now is whether his administration’s support for the presidential election being held there on Sunday will be seen as a stamp of approval for a coup or, as senior administration members maintain, the beginning of the end of the crisis.Most countries in the region see it as the former. Haunted by ghosts of authoritarian governments not long in the grave, countries like Brazil, Argentina and Chile have argued that an election held by an illegal government is, by definition, illegal.
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