I'm sick of 9/11

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Saturday September 10, 2011 · 8:48 AM PDT

2011/09/10 · 08:48

I distinctly remember the morning of September 11th in 2001 in contrast to September 10th, 2001, which is a complete mystery. It had to be about 10 am in Bloomington, Indiana when I woke up that morning. I was late for class – too late to do anything about it, so I decided to grab an early lunch with my girlfriend, Katie (who's now my wife). I did not own a television while in college thus, my only source of information was the computer, which for whatever reason I did not turn on that sunny, cool morning. I did not encounter many people on my way to the little Chinese restaurant I used to purchase a bowl of fried rice for lunch (less than a buck, filling and delicious!), which I guess I thought nothing of at the time, but the restaurant was quite packed and very loud. I saw Katie, who looked upset.

"What's wrong?" Or something of the nature came out of my mouth.

"Didn't you hear? The World Trade Center was knocked over..."

The sentence sounded preposterous. You can't knock over the World Trade Center... but she repeated it... and I remembered the WTC bombing... Who was that carried out by? I asked her if they knew who did it. She said no. But in my head I just kept repeating "Fuck you Osuma Ben Ladeen."

Jeremiah

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Tuesday July 27, 2010 · 3:29 PM PDT

2010/07/27 · 15:29

Eighty percent of US school districts are prepared to eliminate a total of 275,000 jobs jobs in education next year across 49 states. There will also be a hiring freeze next year, so all those college grads coming out doe eyed with ambitions of teaching America's youth – they'll be jobless, too.

"Faced with continued budgetary constraints, school leaders across the nation are forced to consider an unprecedented level of layoffs that would negatively impact economic recovery and deal a devastating blow to public education," said AASA Executive Director Dan Domenech.

More depressing still – the American Association of School Administrators believe that the projected job cuts in the education field between 2009 and 2011 will exceed the jobs created by the government in that same period. That means the money we pay for stimulus now will have ultimately done little for these people.

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Tuesday March 23, 2010 · 8:18 AM PDT

2010/03/23 · 08:18

*Insurance companies will no longer be barred from dropping people from coverage when they get sick. Lifetime coverage limits will not be eliminated and annual limits will not be restricted.

*Insurers can bar coverage for childrenbecause of pre-existing conditions.

*Young adults, who could have remained on their parent's healthplan will be dropped from coverage when they turn 19 or finish college.

*Uninsured adults with a pre-existing conditions will not be able to obtain health coverage through a new program that will expire once new insurance exchanges begin operating in 2014.

*A tax credit that became available for some small businesses to help provide coverage for workers will be gone.

*Medicare will no longer provide a 10 percent bonus payments to primary care physicians and general surgeons (we have shortages of these vital people, remember?)

(continued below the fold)

Jeremiah

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 7:30 AM PDT

2008/10/17 · 07:30

Presidential polling always seems to tighten toward the end of race as undecideds begin to flock toward one candidate or another. In this race, it appears as though the only place for McCain to go is up and the only place for Obama to go is down. This is the media's que to sell more advertising space. It always trends this way (the polls and the media). Race Tightens Oh Noes!

Indeed, using the Google, you can craft the media narrative of every presidential race since the inception of the internets.

I don't want to stir up any unintended consequences from this humble diary. Firstly, this race is still Obama's to lose and McCain's to win. There's nothing written in the stars or a bowl of chicken bones that clearly state Obama will win this race. Your fucking complacency is driving me nuts. If this race tightens, then GOOD. It's because it was going to no matter what you did. It's also because you're not working hard enough.

We're still trying to get a skinny black dude named Barack elected president. We. Still. Haven't. Done. That.

Thx. Please read more below the fold.

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 1:09 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 13:09

A marvelous ad! Don't speak Spanish? Well, you can see Rush Limbaugh's fat pilled out face in there, you can bet it's going to be good.

Essentially Rush calls Mexicans Stupid and Lazy and... well... you don't have to speak Spanish to get where it's going.

The McCain camp has unfairly blamed Obama's efforts for derailing immigration efforts but Republican rhetoric (once again) bites them in the ass. ¡Gracias Rush Limbaugh, usted puta estúpida!

Jeremiah

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 7:46 PM PDT

2008/09/01 · 19:46

Hiding information and blocking opinions is horrible - allow me to just say that to start. Back in the olden days, it wasn't quite "troll rating" but a douche baggy trick whereupon you would give someone you didn't agree with a 2 or 1 or something to silence them or at least punish them into being more quiet with their comments incongruous with whatever the flavor of the topic was. It amounted to a tyrannous majority censoring people.

Sometimes, however, diarists (with or without malice) take it upon themselves to write inflammatory and controversial things - things which commenters shout "DELETE!" but, you know, they don't have to. It's like we have two choices: either promote a diary up or let it fall off... what we cannot do is judge it to be so devoid of merit and so inflammatory as to hide it like we can do with the comments.

Jeremiah

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Friday July 04, 2008 · 10:19 AM PDT

2008/07/04 · 10:19

As an infrequent diarist, I find myself compelled to come out of the woodwork and defend those that believe it's right to call a spade a spade. While some namby-pamby wussies are going to be walking around all day with the hair on the back of their neck standing up because big bad Bill O'Reilly is going to go on the Fox News and tell the world how we mean spirited librul bloggers are disgracing the memory of a recently dead (and undoubtedly roasting in Hell) American Icon.

A man who supported and took money from Big Tobacco, and called UNC a college for communists and negros (in 1995!). He liked Augusto fucking Pinochet.

He was a narcissistic homophobic bigot who, up 'till his death, still hatted "fags and niggers". If you feel the urge to call him a rotten hell bound piece of shit, please do so. If you think this is inappropriate...

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Monday July 09, 2007 · 9:27 AM PDT

2007/07/09 · 09:27

Holy Fucking Shit. Last night, while minding my own heterosexual business, I was attacked, ATTACKED MIND YOU, by a large cohort of lesbians brandishing pink pistols*.

I've been forced to enter into the witness protection program, out of fear that this marauding multistate* terrorist organization* may convert me to lesbianism.*

Swear to God it's true. Just ask Bill O'Rielly.*

*No, really, it's in the YouTube video. I'm not making this shit up.

Maybe we should be asking ourselves, what are we going to do about the lesbian gang problem and how am I going to keep my daughter from turning into... you know... a career lesbian criminal mastermind?

OMFG THERE IS TEH UPDATE!!!!1oneone

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Sunday December 24, 2006 · 9:07 AM PST

2006/12/24 · 09:07

Now that we have the nation's attention and control the legislature, it is a good time to make sure that those principles that we Democrats hold dear are held up to the light so our newly elected leaders do not forget what is most important to an educated populace: continued advancement.

Progressive is more than just a social phenomenon, it is also a technical one - to be progressive means that we must progress in all areas, not just social issues. One of those areas that received much neglect by Republicans was science. If you mistake my motivation here as one of malice in pointing out an early failure of our new Democratic congress, then I'll forgive you - but if you allow this oversight to continue then you are a part of the problem as well.

Democratic party leaders have proposed freezing most agency budgets at 2006 levels for the rest of fiscal 2007. Their plan is to pass a continuing resolution on federal spending that lasts until the fiscal year expires on Sept. 30, 2007.-Link

Please contact your Senators and reps and let them know how you feel.

UPDATE I've updated the title to correct the bizarrely ... below

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Wednesday June 21, 2006 · 6:28 AM PDT

2006/06/21 · 06:28

If I may be serious for at least one post, I need to discuss Jocelyun Kaiser's blurb in Science (2006, 312, 1585) on the current budgetary situation the NIH is facing.

A House spending panel last week endorsed a flat budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--but told the agency to make room for a $3.2 billion children's health study that NIH says it cannot afford. Legislators also want NIH to make mandatory a voluntary program in which grantees submit their accepted manuscripts to a free online archive.

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Remember those whiney tattletales in preschool? Republicans... all of them.

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Wednesday March 22, 2006 · 3:09 PM PST

2006/03/22 · 15:09

A new study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the right wing loon fringe very happy. Apparently, those whiney cry babies that ran around under Miss Bush's skirt all grew up to become... well... conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

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Secret Service: One beer my ass

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Wednesday February 22, 2006 · 3:38 PM PST

2006/02/22 · 15:38

DOUG THOMPSON from the Capital Hill Blue brings us a revelation from attending secret service agents who witnessed that Cheney had been 'intoxicated' while hunting and had indeed committed a felony.

A written report from Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago says Cheney was "clearly inebriated" at the time of the shooting.
Agents observed several members of the hunting party, including the Vice President, consuming alcohol before and during the hunting expedition, the report notes, and Cheney exhibited "visible signs" of impairment, including slurred speech and erratic actions, the report said.
According to those who have read the report and talked with others present at the outing, Cheney was drunk when he gunned down his friend and the day-and-a-half delay in allowing Texas law enforcement officials on the ranch where the shooting occurred gave all members of the hunting party time to sober up.

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