May 26, 2007

• Presidential Bird Shit, Cute Kids, Toxic Toothpaste, Honor Killings & Texas Dildos

  A bird shit on President Bush yesterday while he was giving a press conference.  True to form, our troglodyte president brushed it off, with his bare hand!  And this is the guy who doesn’t believe humans are descended from apes????  What a monkey’s ass!

             

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  “The war on terrorism is a bumper sticker, not a plan” - John Edwards

  Reuters | Thursday, 24 May 2007

  NEW YORK: The US-led war on terrorism is “a bumper sticker, not a plan” that has weakened Washington’s global standing, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said as he unveiled his defense policy plans.  Read More…

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  Donna’s visiting from Portland and we had a nice time.  Dog walking, Pinkberry and tapas.  Very relaxing.  Here are a few photos.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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  Xanga Woes, Toxic Toothpaste, Honor Killings & Texas Dildos

  Song of the day

  And the sickest Google hit today that landed on my website come from:

   Poland                       Swietlikowo, Gdansk           5,831 miles

  Referring URL		http://www.google.co…rls=pl&start=30&sa=N
  Search Engine		google.com
  Search Words		bestiality 4 u

  Is that like Toys 4 Us??  Do people not realize this crap can be tracked?

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  Hard as I try to reduce the size of my daily posts, they’re still ridiculously long.  I keep saying I’m going to only blog every other day, but then those end up being twice as long.  My friend Marc was trying to leave a comment the other day, but couldn’t find the comment box because my post was so damn long!  I blamed a bit of it on Xanga and the whole five posts per page thing, and then apologized for being too prolific. True to form, this was his incredibly complimentary response:

  On 5/23/07, Marc wrote:

  I’m sorry, I was under the impression that this was the 21st Century…? I
  don’t see why your IT team can’t simply insert an opportunity to comment
  after each distinct topic posted, as opposed to just one per daily entry. Do
  they not understand the blogger with whom they are dealing? This blog is
  authored by THE Abe Froman, world-traveler and geopolitical socio-cultural
  gadfly, ferchrisakes, not Mrs. Ping E. Lei some lonely housewife!
  We’re not talking petty jealousies, diapers, and the price of rice here.
  World events are unfolding! And this is THE premier global source for news,
  information and analysis of ALL things consequential: politics, the arts,
  culture, someone’s dog… It’s a topical smorgasbord and We The People need
  to be able to respond to those elements that specifically, acutely resonate
  with us on an individual basis. I’m sorry, but the current system is simply
  not adequately equipped to accommodate the variety of discourse your content
  demands. It’s positively medieval. Where’s the functionality? The
  user-friendliness? The logic? And I’m the technological illiterate?!? The
  nerve! Perhaps it’s time to relocate? I fully expect you’ll register my
  complaint with the geeks that be.
  
  Aside: There are many things in this life for which each of us,
  respectively, could be justifiably expected to apologize. Being “prolific”
  does not qualify. I refuse your apology. So you just keep on doing what
  you’re doing, loquacious though it may be. It’s the Lord’s work, darling,
  and someone has to do it. I am so very proud of your blog. It’s simply
  magic.
  
  Thanks Marc!!  I’ll appeal to the Xanga Gods! Chris?

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  Toxic Toothpaste

  Maybe I should set up a separate blog to just write about the evils of outsourcing.  Whether it be:

  • United Airlines not stepping up to the plate after the Virginia Tech massacre, because their operators in India and the Philippines had no idea that a tragedy had happened in the US that would affect travel patterns out of Virginia. (They eventually did the right thing after I got their VP or marketing on the phone and threatened to blog about it.  Not only was I able to get my friend Sabine from Virginia to California on my frequent flyer miles, but they started honoring a special rate, and opening up seats for all students affected by the tragedy.) 
  • A Cingular/AT&T representative in India telling me that Americans felt “entitled” because I honestly couldn’t understand half of what he was saying, and he kept blaming it on a “bad connection”. (That doozie got me out of a 2 year Cingular contract without a penalty, which is unheard of!)
  •  My recent post about the fact that even though Americans are reducing their carbon footprint to help the environment, we’re really just outsourcing our pollution to China, where cancer rates are rising exponentially due to toxins, and water in most of the country’s rivers is like sludge.  This leads to my next point:

  Did you know that China is the leading producer of toothpaste in the world?  In fact, they produce more than 5 billion tubes a year.  Recently it was discovered that a major toothpaste manufacturer in China was trying to use a cheaper chemical to basically make the paste, paste.  Turns out the chemical is toxic, and though this tainted toothpaste has yet to kill anyone; it likely would if ingested. This sounds eerily similar to the recent tainted pet food disaster that killed so many dogs and cats here in America.

  China, in their run-up to the Beijing Olympics, quickly closed the factory in question.  The fact remains however, that the more we outsource our jobs and the manufacturing of our goods to other nations that pay substandard wages and pollute the environment, the more things like this are going to happen.  America needs to wake up and figure out what to do, or as Gore Vidal once said, America will be <sic> Asia’s farmland.

  Thoughts?

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  Oh, and thanks to Ryan, (you freak), for finding this little Internet gem after reading about the exploding whale with the five foot penis.  Be warned.

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  I’m heading to a movie now.  Haven’t been home all day.  I’ll proofread later.  This is ridiculous, but I’m anxious to get home because I Tivo’d The View in anticipation of the reaction to yesterday’s meltdown.  LOL.  Now that American Idol is over, I need some ridiculous pop culture nonsense to revel in!

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  Just got back from seeing Disturbia at the Irvine Spectrum.  I wasn’t impressed.  Shia Lebouef has promise and I enjoyed Aaron Yoo.  But unlike “Rear Window” it was completely implausible.  Doesn’t anyone in this neighborhood have curtains?  That said, there were some scary moments, but all in all far too cliche and contrived. 

  We were going to see Pirates of the Caribbean but when we got there, the lines (for each showing) were literally thousands of people long.  And starting at midnight, every single one of the 21 screens in the theater, was showing the movie.  It was like Halloween with people dressed as pirates and wenches everywhere.  I never knew that movie had such a cult following.  Anyway, the Spectrum is pretty at night, so I snapped a few photos. 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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  Honor Killings

  Why don’t seemingly intelligent people realize how ridiculously damaging organized religion is?  Think about all of the wars that have been waged simply because different groups of human beings believe in different ideas of “God” or a “Creator” or Supreme Being.  No one has any proof that such a being exists, yet they are willing to kill millions to protect their antiquated beliefs.  It makes Julia Sweeney’s “Letting Go of God” that much more thought provoking.

  An Iraqi woman is stoned to death for being seen with a boy of a different religion.

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  On the lighter side:

  True or False??

  

  TRUE – Apple is suing the makers of the IGasm.

  FALSE – Apple is about to release the iBreast, because women are always complaining that men are looking at their breasts, and not listening to them.

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  And from “Deep in the heart of  FUCKED UP Texas”, sadly, this is true:

   

  http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070523075919598

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  Song of the day

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