The Girl the ESRB Warned You About

~I wrote this in a fevered rush a few days ago at around one in the morning. It's 'semi' Stream of Consciousness in that I did start off with an agenda of related items I wanted to address. I do veer all over the map, but I touched all the bases I wished to. I suppose I should re-title it "Her Prophet Rambles On A Hell Of A Lot". lol

( ~Ever successful guru I've ever encountered was a con artist and a hustler... )

Current Mood: loquacious

Win All Without Fighting [how to achieve the objective without destroying it]

Avoid Strength, Attack Weakness [strike only where the enemy is most vulnerable]

Deception and Foreknowledge [how to win the information war]

Speed and Preparation [moving swiftly to overcome resistance decisively]

Shaping the Enemy [selecting and preparing the battlefield to your advantage]

Character-based Leadership [leading by example]

[The basic text of Sun Tzu on the Art of War]

Current Mood: contemplative

~This is a novella I started a few years ago that has since stalled. It is only in the last few weeks that I realized why it did so.

Like almost everyone in this culture, I am an Individual, First and Foremost.

E pointed out that as I am functionally an Only Child [ten and half years older than the nearest sibling], largely grew up among adults, and lived in books and fantasy worlds for most of my childhood, I am even more an Individual than most.

But the society of these women is based upon The Trikona, the 'bond group' of three Sisters first made in childhood and replicated throughout all important relationships.

That is my challenge as a writer, to reset my mind and feelings toward the Trikona, to show how it permeates everything in their lives. And also how they are each still individuals while being so deeply bonded to their Sisters.

I finally realized that “Prelude” is based upon an Individualistic view of the world and therefore fails to truly represent this society, so I am setting it aside.

However, it does have a lot of good material to work with and, while it is now 'on the shelf', it has been an important laboratory in experimenting with this universe. ( So, here is what I had done with it so far... )

Current Mood: contemplative

From America Blog

"Please join our campaign to raise money to defeat Prop 8 in California. It's a religious right/Mormon initiative that would repeal the marriages of thousands of gay couples in that state. The latest news reports show that, while we were winning, we're now losing. Folks working on the battle tell us that it's all a matter of money. The bad guys have $10 million more than us (thanks to the Mormons). If we can only raise enough on our side, we can win."

Go there to read the rest and to donate!

Current Mood: aggravated

Dusty Foggo and Porter Goss' CIA

Tags: corruption, cronyism, graft, scumbags, shitheads

Current Mood: cynical

"I sit there and I look back and I'm like, 'I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?'" ~Britney Spears

Current Mood: really

David Gergen: McCain/Palin rallies "whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence"

Current Mood: cynical

Cullen Clutterment

Current Mood: calm

American heartland is suffering from Wall Street's woes
While all eyes are on Wall Street's plunge, the snowballing financial crisis is sending an already weak Main Street economy into decline. Dispatches from McClatchy newspapers in 30 U.S. cities make it clear that Main Street America is suffering from the deteriorating health of Wall Street. Banks are unable or unwilling to lend amid the growing crisis, and that's deepening the downturn.[Read All]

China's sitting on piles of money. Why won't it help?
China sits on a huge pile of money, and its policymakers crave global assets. So why doesn't China spend a little and save the world from global financial meltdown? Economists give a number of reasons why China prefers to sit on the sidelines of the global turmoil, focusing instead on protecting its economy and maintaining growth powered by consumers at home.[Read All]

For legions of lawyers, bad markets are good business
As the corporate victims continue to pile up in Wall Street's great financial collapse, that flapping noise coming from the skies over Manhattan isn't the pigeons circling, it's the vultures. With personal fortunes, retirement savings and institutional assets evaporating each day, swarms of attorneys from some of the nation's most prestigious firms are positioning themselves to cash in on the escalating misery.[Read All]

Struggling KC area food pantries issue plea for help
If hard times have found you, you're likely to find they've hit area food pantries too. An Excelsior Springs pantry is completely out of cereal. A midtown Kansas City pantry no longer gives out snacks or juice. Another has no hygiene products. Many pantries are in a double bind: More people are coming for help, but donations are down.[Read All]

Sacramento voters displaced by foreclosure can still vote
After the bank took Amanda Moore-Stevens' Sacramento home last year and her husband died of a heart attack, changing her voter registration to her new address was not a priority. "It wasn't something I was thinking about," said Moore-Stevens.[Read All]

Current Mood: quiet

[Spread The Love*]



*some Deep South shithole of course

Current Mood: U Tel, 'em, Rufus!

Robert Heinlein Explains How to Write for Money

Current Mood: contemplative

PM says he is freezing assets of Icelandic companies in the UK in response to 'illegal action they have taken'

Current Mood: harder, deeper, faster

From Variety.com
By ELIZABETH GUIDER, Sun., May 1, 2005, 6:00am PT

If you thought the financial bubbles of 1987 and 2000 were a bummer for showbiz, they were nothing compared to the crash of 1929.

The paper's arguably most famous headline -- "Wall Street Lays an Egg" -- was blazoned across the Oct. 30 issue that year. ( It was succinctly irreverent and colorful, a tone the 25-year-old paper was just beginning to practice. )

Current Mood: Ah, the Good Old Days...

From McClatchy
Thursday, October 9, 2008

The Alaska Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by a group of six Republican legislators to shut down the Legislature's investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin.

The ruling means that Steve Branchflower, the investigator hired by the Legislative Council, will release his report as scheduled on Friday.

Branchflower is looking into Palin's dismissal of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, and whether she improperly pressured him to fire a state trooper divorced from her sister.

The state Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Texas-based Liberty Legal Institute and Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Alaska Republican state legislators opposed to their colleagues' investigation.

Current Mood: cheerful