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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
news [ cj_news ]	9:58p	Newsletter! If you go to The Main Page you will find something new at the top of the main section - a newsletter link! If you don't have the time or the wherewithall to come here to the News Community to find out the latest, sign up for the newsletter and the information will be mailed to you. Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)
nebris	9:42p	Quote of The Day "Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie." ~Gloria Steinem [Source] Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
nebris	11:15a	Lebedenko (or Tsar) Tank The Russian Lebedenko or ”Tsar Tank”, is without doubt the most strange Armoured Fighting vehicle ever constructed. It should, however, not be dismissed purely as another hare-brained scheme, but must be seen against the backdrop of the early tank development that was taking place at this time, and that in all countries was very experimental, and leading to many curious and non-functional designs. The history of the Lebedenko starts in 1914 with the engineer N. Lebedenko, who was at that point employed in a private firm, that worked for the Russian War Department, designing artillery devices. Lebedenko himself, with the aid of N. Zhukovskiy and his nephews, B. Stechkin and A. Mikulin, came up with the idea (originally thought as a sort of enlarged gun-carriage) of a motordriven battle machine, weighing some 40 tons, running on one small double-wheel, and two very large spoked wheels, almost 9 meter in diameter, in a tri-cycle arrangement. The big wheels were attached to the hull, shaped like a tuning-fork, which tapered down to the double wheel, mounted in the rear, which provided the means for steering the vehicle. The designers hoped that this original configuration would make it possible for the vehicle to cross practically all obstacles. They initially called the vehicle Nepotir, but came to be known as the Lebedenko, after the designer. (Sometimes it was nicknamed "The Tsar ", after the financier.) Read the rest at Landships.com Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
nebris	9:49a	Anita Page (August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008) Silent screen siren Anita Page dies at 98 Sun Sep 7, 1:28 AM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, has died. She was 98. Page died in her sleep early Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles, said actor Randal Malone, her longtime friend and companion. ( Page's career, which spanned 84 years, began in 1924 when she started as an extra. ) Current Mood: nostalgic (Comment on this)
nebris	8:04a	Some Of These Are So Old, They Have A Number ..stolen from usafpa just for docjeff.. If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap? Is there another word for synonym? What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way? If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together? Whose cruel idea was it for the word lisp to have an "s" in it? How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work? If convenience stores are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors? If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights, what happens? Why are there flotation devices under airline seats instead of parachutes? Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have? Why is it that when you transport something by car it's called a shipment, but when you transport it by ship, it's called cargo? Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? Why don't sheep shrink in the rain? What does Geronimo scream when he jumps out of a plane? Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? If God sneezed, what would you say to him? Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? Why are there five syllables in the word "monosyllabic"? Isn't is a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?" Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them? When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs? When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away? Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all? Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? Why is the word "abbreviation" so long? Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons? Do fish get cramps after eating? When two airplanes almost collide, why do they call it a near miss and not a near hit? If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? How is it possible to have a civil war? How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him? If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? Why do people who know the least know it the loudest? If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights off? If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound? If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working? Why do they put Braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines? If you throw a cat out a car window does it become kitty litter? When a cow laughs does milk come up its nose? How did a fool and his money get together in the first place? If nothing sticks to Teflon, how does Teflon stick to the pan? How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign? If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? What's another word for thesaurus? Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections? What do they use to ship Styrofoam? Why is "abbreviation" such a long word? Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container? Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets? How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes? Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny? Does 'virgin wool' come from sheep the shepherd hasn't caught yet? When you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? Does fuzzy logic tickle? Do blind Eskimos have seeing-eye sled dogs? Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one? Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives? If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer? What was the best thing before sliced bread? What happens if you get scared half to death twice? How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk? Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? OK, so what's the speed of dark? If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? 24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ... Coincidence? If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? In synchronized swimming, if the first drowns, do the rest follow? If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? Shouldn't a man who invests all your money be called something other than a broker? When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist? Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? If 21 is pronounced twenty-one why isn't 11 pronounced onety-one? If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?" If I play a blank tape with the volume turned up, will the mime next door go nuts? Whatever happened to Preparations A through G? After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water? Do they have reserved parking for non-handicapped people at the Special Olympics? Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead? Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts? Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers? If all is not lost, where is it? Why are there handicap parking places in front of skating rinks? Why do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions? Why do you often see people ordering double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke? Why is it that we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and yet leave useless junk in the garage? When you're finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess? What would the speed of lightning be if it didn't zigzag? Instead of putting pictures of criminals in the post office, why aren't they put on stamps so postman could look for them while they deliver the mail? What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? Why do we say something is out of whack? What's in whack? If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP? Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? Why do "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? Why do "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing? Why do 'tug' boats push their barges? At ball games, why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we're already there? Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting? Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"? Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected? Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things? If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? When blondes have more fun, do they know it? If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead."? If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? How much deeper would the ocean be if all the sponges didn't live there? Why does the sun darken our skin but lighten our hair? Do they sterilize needles for lethal injections? Why do people press harder on the remote control, when they know the battery is dead? Why is a carrot more orange than an orange? Why is it that when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open it's not adoor? Why does an alarm clock go "off" when it actually goes "on?" Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? Why does mineral water, that has trickled down the mountains for centuries, go out of date next year? Why are softballs so hard? Is it possible to get insurance on insurance? And if so, can you get insurance on that insurance? Who do you save when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? Current Mood: sha-boom (Comment on this)
nebris	4:50a	Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez ~Me and the gal just watched Bordertown, a movie about "The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish the feminicidios ("femicides") or las muertas de Juárez ("The dead women of Juárez"), involves the violent death of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. Most of the cases remain unsolved," which is the opening quote from The Wiki on the subject. Take a look at what Le-Le had to say as well. Current Mood: angry (Comment on this)
nebris	4:38a	A Reminder Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) in Iron Jawed Angels is force fed after refusing to eat. The women singing "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" are suffragettes who have been imprisoned for supporting the women's right to vote. The Snopes Article on this Current Mood: Militant (Comment on this)
magyar_saman	4:33a	And here's something else you never hear about... Disability is not Diversity? They're right - when politicians talk about minority groups, most have yet to recognize the disabled. What are the candidates going to do to ensure the disabled have their rights protected? What are they going to do to make sure disability pay is not legislated out of existence? Current Mood: angry (Comment on this)
magyar_saman	4:31a	Murders in Juarez Mexico We just got done watching the movie Bordertown. Neither M nor I remember this one being aired in theaters. It's about the rapes and murders of woman near American-owned factories on the border between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, TX. This is an ugly little fact you never hear about when they talk about NAFTA. Here are some other sources: Ciudad Juarez:The Serial Killer's Playground WOLA.org -Juarez Murders NPR - Explosive Theory on Killings of Juarez Women An Article from AmnestyUSA.org Anyone who is familiar with law enforcement and politics in Mexico can tell you that there is a very deep level of corruption. One of the things the movie highlighted is the idea that some of the perpetrators may be of the Mexican upperclass, and therefore, will never be prosecuted. Nobody wants to hear about poor Mexican women being murdered, right? Obviously not, when there is money to be made. The bottom line is all that counts. Obama and McCain are both pro-NAFTA. Are they aware of these murders? Chances are they are not, and as long as they kowtow to their Korporate Amerika financiers, they will continue to ignore it. Help me bring this news to light. Feel free to copy this post to your own journal. Current Mood: angry (Comment on this)
nebris	4:15a	Politics ...time to repost this..probably will do so a few more times.. ~While I don't think Obama is the savior many of his supporters seems to think he is, I gotta say when I hear folks talking shit like, ""There's no difference." [Source] I hearken back to the "Gore and Bush are the same" noise of 2000. We all know how well that worked out for us. Yes, I believe an Oligarchy ultimately runs The Republic, but they are not, and never have been, a monolithic power block. They have factions. I do not need 'inside info' to know that. Simply look at Ruling Classes throughout history; they ALL have factions. It is the nature of the beast. My own theory is that Bush 43 was supposed to be a weak, single term presidency whose purpose was to undermine the power of the Neo-Cons [Jewish ex-Trotskite intellectuals] and The Dominionists [white trash know nothings], both groups that the Old Money Protestants of The Oligarchy despise, but needed to control the Republican Party specifically, and the ideological direction of The Republic generally, during the Cold War. But The Oligarchy was betrayed by one of its most faithful courtiers - Dick Cheney - and backed by The Big Oil faction, he created a circumstance to seize power. [they purposely ignored the 9/11 crew etc until 'something happened'] However, during the last eight years they have clearly wreaked The Republic while lining their own pockets. Because bringing the nation to the brink of economic disaster and social revolution is not how one effectively maintains power, I am absolutely certain that the other factions of The Oligarchy are Not Pleased and wish to see Bu$hCo gone and their works undone. That the Repug crop of candidates was so weak this year and their fund raising so poor indicates to me The Oligarchs are done with their policies and that the Party Faithful know that. So, yes, I believe that Obama has been Approved by The Oligarchs, but that does not mean that he 'is no different than McCain'. It may simply mean that he is the instrument of The Oligarchs wishes for Change...and maybe there's some Hope in that. Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
nebris	1:38a	Random ~I'm kinda burned out. A 'PTSD hangover' would be a fairly accurate description. We were just out on the porch and I was sighing over and over. Le-Le said, “That good, eh?” I did at least chuckle. I told her it's a combination of a few things, money fear, the trolling, and the fucking election, pretty much in that order. What bugs me the most is that all of this is getting in the way of Facing The Page. The money fear keeps going back and forth, which is always special for us PTSD folks, the old mental 'bait and switch'. That should abate by the fall when the electric bill comes down. And there are other sources of funds on the horizon. The trolling shit is slowly being resolved as LJ did get its finger out of its ass on a few issues, but we expect that we shall have to follow up on the overall problem with the state AG and via some kind of civil action as LJ will only go so far. This is clearly a form of Religious Persecution. The through line on just about every thread and post attacking us is our religion and such actions certainly seem meant to harass, intimidate, and otherwise prevent us from exercising our right to openly practice our faith and to communicate our beliefs to others via the Internet. I know that Troll Cluster Two [TC-2] – The Moist Trollettes being TC-1 – will sneer and cry 'butthurt' and 'batshit' and so on at that statement. Of course, they do not have to directly face any civil action like LJ or their ISP's. But such things will ripple outward in time. The one thing that both of us have learned is Patience. And the both of us are also well practiced in Due Diligence. We've known that The Temple would have to deal with this kind of shit sooner or later and more than once. Unlike TC-2, we do have a Point to Prove and will do so no matter how long it takes. This is just part of the process. As for The Election...well, that I'd just like to forget altogether. But that ain't gonna happen. Part of me wishes I could get all excited about Obama. However, I have been burned far too many times. So, I'll just hunker down and do my Civic Duty come November and see if any of this means fuck all. Anyway, I could use a few days of Peace and Quite to 'reset' my writing process. We'll see if I get that.... Current Mood: determined (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
nebris	10:04a	With homeowner in doghouse, bobcats move in Bobcats lounge at a vacant and foreclosed home on Vista Palermo in Lake Elsinore. A family of feline squatters has moved into a foreclosed home in Lake Elsinore. Residents of the Tuscany Hills development first noticed the bobcats about a week ago. From The LA Times By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 5, 2008 With real estate values plummeting and foreclosed homes sitting empty, a family of bobcats apparently decided the time was right to pounce. So last week, they slipped out of the parched foothills of Lake Elsinore and into a spacious, vacant home in well-groomed Tuscany Hills. Residents of the development got their first look Aug. 27 when the feline squatters -- at least two adults and three kittens -- lolled atop a wall outside the Spanish-style house. Someone called 911, reporting mountain lions. Four police cruisers showed up and officers ordered everyone inside. But soon they were out snapping photos along with the neighbors. Bobcats are not known to attack humans, said Monique Middleton of Animal Friends of the Valley, which provides animal-control services. "But are they pussycats? No. Can they do a lot of damage? Yes," she said. "They usually look for a food and water source, and there is an old koi pond in the backyard and that's where they are headed." She said she expected the animals to move on in a few weeks, when the kittens are old enough to travel. Tuscany Hills has been hit hard by foreclosures, and the house on Vista Palermo has been empty at least six months, neighbors said. Said Scott Brown, who with his wife, Karen, moved here from Long Beach to be close to nature: "They are great neighbors, and as long as they don't want to baby-sit my kids, it's not a problem." Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
nebris	10:03a	Spam Name Of The Day Dunda Angiomyosarcoma Current Mood: Beautiful (Comment on this)
dominionism	10:50a	Could Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama be the "Anti-Christ?" http://community.livejournal.com/dominionism/32696.html This site deals with Biblical Prophecy and some of the "Anti-Christ" characteristics of Barack Hussein Obama. Barack is the perfect candidate to allow "Full Anti-Christ control of the U.S." ..i don't think this is satire.. (Comment on this)
nebris	3:50a	Could Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama be the "Anti-Christ?" This site deals with Biblical Prophecy and some of the "Anti-Christ" characteristics of Barack Hussein Obama. Barack is the perfect candidate to allow "Full Anti-Christ control of the U.S." ..i don't think this is satire.. Current Mood: Oh, dear... (Comment on this)
nebris	1:31a	Quote of The Day “So Sambo beat the bitch!” ~Sarah Palin [Source] Current Mood: figures (Comment on this)
Friday, September 5th, 2008
nebris	11:04p	Too Depressed To Blog Myself http://jblaque.livejournal.com/502150.html http://community.livejournal.com/the_recession/61126.html Current Mood: depressed (Comment on this)
nebris	11:08a	Okay, This Says "You Really Need To Go To Bed!" A one-legged hooker was killed in Brooklyn after a john hit her over the head, causing her to fall backwards out of her wheelchair and slam her skull against the wall, cops said yesterday. Current Mood: brain fried (Comment on this)
magyar_saman	10:46a	Fake Soldiers Used In RNC Video Sauce Patriotic Montage Shown At RNC Featured Actors Hired For One Day Shoot, Not Military It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing. On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, “Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America,” an essay she’d entered it in the “Wave the Stars & Stripes” essay contest and won. The RNC turned that essay into a three and a half minute video, a visually stirring montage rolling over Victoria’s words about sharing the Pledge with Americans who have stood at important moments in history. There’s the Continental Congress…A real WWII vet…Photos of workers at Ground Zero. A close-up of a folded flag presented to a grieving widow at a military funeral… profiles of soldiers swelling with pride in slo-motion. But CBS News found that the footage of the ‘funeral’ and soldiers is what is called ‘stock’ footage. The soldiers were actors and the funeral scene was from a one-day film shoot, produced in June. No real soldiers were used during production. The footage, sold by stock-film house Getty Images was produced by a commercial filmmaker in Chicago. Both Getty and the production company, Mr. Big Films, confirmed that the footage was shot on spec and sold to the Republican National Committee. One of the actors, Perry Denton of Chicago, IL also confirmed that he was hired on a day-rate as an actor for the shoot and told CBS News he was surprised to learn the footage was shown at the convention. A veteran’s advocate said that with soldiers still deployed and in harm’s way, there is an obligation not to sugar coat reality. “What it does reveal is a serious lack of understanding and a lack of personal connection to the military,” said Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Rieckhoff, who is at the convention with a contingent of veterans added that a video tribute to Medal of Honor Winner Michael Monsoor, a Navy Seal killed in Iraq, shown on Tuesday night, used combat video that appeared to him and several other veterans of the Iraq war to have been staged. After a Web search of videos played at the Democratic National Convention last week, CBS News found no obvious use of stock footage. The RNC did not respond to CBS News’ request for a comment. Here's the video: Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
magyar_saman	10:42a	Just discovered this website Vets For Obama   Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
magyar_saman	10:37a	Once Again, the Daily Show nails it Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
magyar_saman	10:05a	Tarot.com Daily Horoscope - Taurus Thursday, Sep 4th, 2008 -- Although today's intense Scorpio Moon can pull us into deep emotional waters where rational thoughts won't necessarily save the day, we are still blessed with a saving grace. Unfortunately, we may be suffering with unpleasant hangovers from yesterdays reality check, a sobering Sun-Saturn conjunction. The illuminating Sun and jovial Jupiter are in sympathetic harmony now as their trine reinforces the positive aspects of our lives. You catch on to new ideas very quickly today, perhaps because you are so eager to broaden your horizons. Oftentimes you are quite satisfied maintaining a comfortable and defensible position, but now you are confident enough to want more. What you learn doesn't have to contradict your philosophical foundation. It can build on what you already know. Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
nebris	10:01a	"In Dick Morris' defense...he is a lying sack of sh*t." Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
magyar_saman	9:44a	Things don't sound good for the Republicans... ...and rightfully so. Check out the blurbs in Salon's War Room.   Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
nebris	9:28a	Ships of the German High Seas Fleet heading out to sea Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)

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