September 29, 2008

Messages in Bottles

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Congress, at the wheel of "Bailout Bill," rounds the far turn and streaks for the finish line.

The Strata-Sphere - Obama Claimed Bailout Was His Success, Will It Be His Failure?

Rule of Thumb: The more hysterically Western intellectuals warn that something is totalitarian, the less totalitarian it is in reality; and the more they praise something for its equality, the more totalitarian it is in reality. - The Fourth Checkraise: The perils of crying Wolf

The Prisoner's Tale:

I had told him in a language we both understood, "I have no need of an enemy," and I've been telling the world that ever since. Whenever I catch myself thinking of someone as an enemy I ask, "What in me am I trying to avoid or distract myself from?" Inevitably I find my own impotence, my own frustrations, my insignificance, my sense that nothing I do will ever really matter. Ultimately I find my own mortality and the seeming futility of most human endeavor. I find my own self-absorption, my resistance to setting myself aside and truly caring about the other. - Through My Enemy's Eyes -- Troy Chapman


Dems at the Trough: The History of the Housing Cover-Up

"I'm tempted to ask how many people in this room are being paid by Fannie Mae. What they do is that they hire every lobbyist they can possibly hire. They hire some people to lobby and they hire others not to lobby so the opposition can't hire them." - Rep Chris Shay (R)
"Under the leadership of Frank Raines everything in the 1992 act has worked just fine." - Rep Maxine Waters (D)

Why the destruction of western civilization wouldn't be, like, a totally bad thing:

Angel Wash Variations
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Form two lines facing each other. Have one person from the end of the line (or two people holding hands) close their eyes and place their arms crossed on their chest. Direct them to proceed down the aisle of the double line with their eyes closed. As they pass, each person washes their aura with their hands, passing their fingers and hands lightly over their body, from the crown of their head to the ground, without actually touching them -Cool Tools

The Unbearable Burden of Being a Supermodel:

DG Interview with Carol Alt: "The moment you walk out into the public you have an image." When you’re out, a photographer might see you. So you need to look good. If you’ve got a giant pimple on your face, you can’t go out, because if people see you and you do not look good, that’s all they say: ‘Oh, I saw her. She does not look good.’ It can’t be that you had a bad night’s sleep or you had the flu that day and a hangover and a broken toe and your hairdresser messed up. Two days later you look fabulous again. But they just remember you did not look good.

Elsewhere people have real trouble:

These poor, hopeless, angry people exist by grubbing for scraps of cobalt and copper ore in the filth and dust of abandoned copper mines in Congo, sinking perilous 80ft shafts by hand, washing their finds in cholera-infected streams full of human filth, then pushing enormous two-hundredweight loads uphill on ancient bicycles to the nearby town of Likasi where middlemen buy them to sell on, mainly to Chinese businessmen hungry for these vital metals. - PETER HITCHENS: How China has created a new slave empire in Africa

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Thanks for the link: after I had actually put that particular rule down in words, it looked so good that I had a solid hunch that you would be linking to it.

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