Because I have a weird genetic structure, starting this year I have to get regular mammograms. I’ve heard horror stories which turned out not to be true. Or else it’s that to a person who’s been through over ten kidney stone attacks, one kidney stone extraction, and a bone marrow test, a mammogram is like the proverbial walk in the park…
An organization I work with has web services through iPowerweb, whose services have recently gone down the tubes. Not only have they stopped providing the contracted-and-paid-for access logs, their service representatives keep asking for examples even though those have already been supplied.
In the latest go-round they wanted an error message – which does not exist because their services are configured so badly that an error is not raised. Still, I guess one could be ginned up:
| Mark Di Ionno: |
| “Want to know why there’s no peace in the world? Spend a morning outside family court.” |
| http://www.nj.com |
| Tom Clancy (Executive Orders): |
| “We all know that the government does take more than it gives back. They’ve just learned to hide it. The federal budget deficit means that every time you borrow money, it costs more than it should – why? Because the government borrows so much money that it drives up interest rates. And so every house payment, every car payment, every credit card bill is also a tax. And maybe they give you a break on interest payments. Isn’t that nice? Your government gives you a tax break on money you ought not to have to pay in the first place, and then it tells you that you get back more than you pay out. Does anybody out there really believe that? Does anybody really believe it when people say that the United States can’t afford – not to spend more money than it has? Are those the words of Adam Smith or Lucy Ricardo?” |
| Joan Kovatch, Jr.: |
| “How do you avoid conditioned air, toxic gases, and the stress of being boxed? Get outside whenever you can. Park a bit farther away in the parking lot and enjoy the walk, even in the rain. You know you’re not going to die wet and soggy and frostbitten, you’ve got the resources to get home and change as soon as you want to. Enjoy the wet, the cold, hot, whatever. Walk around a park, get some exercise, enjoy your neighborhood.” |
| http://joanjr.blogspot.com/ |
| John Sinclair: |
| “They don’t want people to know – or if they know they don’t want it acknowledged – that men have cocks in their pants, that women have tits and cunts under their clothes, that people can say and do whatever they want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, that their guns and orders and phony laws and honkie power are all bullshit, that there’s no way any common words can ‘shock’ and ‘corrupt’ kids who are really hip to the whole deal and who are instead shocked and hurt by the insane disregard for human freedoms that the police and other authorities practice as a matter of course.” |
| http://johnsinclair.us/10for2/ |
| Barney Rosset: |
| “If the Americans, Dutch, British, and French persist in this attempt to rule other peoples in the world, which they have no right to do, then we are headed in a straight line for the third world war, because these people won’t stand for it. If it had not been for Gandhi in India, I feel sure the Indians would have killed countless thousands of English, but his leadership in nonviolence has saved a lot of lives. In return, the British put him in prison.” |
| http://evergreenreviewblog.blogspot.com/ |
| Timothy Levitch: |
| “If it weren’t for the slight Dutch imperialism that went down on these streets, it is possible that Cookie Monster would have been chasing down biscuits his whole life.” |
| http://www.speedisms.com/ |
| Isaac Asimov: |
| “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” |
| Rabbi Joseph Gelberman: |
| “Once there was a great rabbi who for many years had pondered a question, “Where is God?” He asked a friend who was also a rabbi to help him. His friend’s answer was simple, “Wherever and whenever he is invited—that’s where God is.” |
| xesce: |
| “The difficult task is to explain that depression does not necessarily indicate an inability to accurately assess one’s life and one’s potential to achieve a satisfactory quality of life. Also, that a person has a right to decide that the treatment options available are not right – or realistic – for them personally.
“It is incredibly depressing if the only way you can prove that it’s that bad is if you kill yourself – if no one believes you suffer until you actually manage to kill yourself. “To address the idea that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem: things did not get better for me after high school. I am now 41 years old.” |
| http://xesce.net/qualityofdeath.html |
| Merri Lisa Johnson: |
| “Free love doesn’t always follow from a lack of self respect; there is something sex-hating in such an equation.” |
| http://preview.tinyurl.com/3yx38o |
The workshop before, actually. I watched the show afterwards, but since it was my first time learning this stuff…
A 35-year-old woman living with her boyfriend developed a severe phobia of leaving the bathroom. He indulged her, brought her food and clothing changes, but she eventually sat on the toilet too long such that it got attached to her gluteus.
So now the ever-compassionate Sheriff Bryan Whipple is recommending that the boyfriend be charged for not forcing the woman to leave the bathroom.
I hope the County Attorney has the sense not to comply with the Sheriff’s wishes. Meanwhile, Kansans, you’re on notice: if you have a person acting oddly and living in your household, you should throw them out, because otherwise your kindly local Sheriff might decide to charge you with abuse for feeding, clothing, and otherwise taking care of them in the manner that they – and not the local Communists, I mean Sheriffs – wish to live.
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