what the loud giveth, the loud may taketh away

VOTE
* "On Election Night, when 100% of the precincts in Miami County had reported, only 31,620 votes had been counted... Somehow the final total came in later that night at 50,235 votes cast, giving Bush a margin of 16,000 votes, exactly – 33,039 to 17,039. Moreover, as has been widely reported, even with the addition of 18,615 new votes, Bush's percentage was almost unchanged (65.80% to 65.77%), and Kerry's percentage was exactly the same (33.92%). This led some observers to believe that the optical scanner had been programmed to come out that way, to provide the desired 16,000-vote plurality." http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1038

WART
* "The ACLU's success at breaking news also raises the question of how aggressive our press has been in challenging military rationales and White House message points... If public opinion on the war is shifting--with 56% now saying the invasion was a bad idea--it can't be because of the media." dogbless the aclu. http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert302.shtml

* ok - so "In July 2003, The Washington Post published a heartrending front-page story about Hanna under the headline A LONE WOMAN TESTIFIES TO IRAQ'S ORDER OF TERROR." bremer got involved, kerik got involved, uday was involved... this is prolly where the raperoom rubbish came from etc etc. mass graves yadayada. u know where this story ends. its kinda like the kuwaitbabayincubator story - cept w/out the pr firm... http://www.esquire.com/cgi-bin/printtool/print.cgi?pages=9&filename=%2Ffeatures%2Farticles%2F2004%2F041222_mfe_dream.html&x=52&y=9


* " The total rate of natural loss of human embryos (thru miscarriage)increases to at least 80 (or 90)percent if one counts from the moment of conception." awesome, i have like 20 or 40 brothers. most of them in heaven. (actually, nope, they are in hell, cos of that original sin thingy, only one of my dead brothers was baptised). the xtian-rightfolk must get totally confused by this shit. Dog is a murderer. heaven is full of foeti. my mum is a murderer. stupid fuck coburn wants to kill doctors who conduct abortion, cos foeti are people too. how long till wankers are murdered? "Robert George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics says that every embryo is "already a human being."" so did jonk. http://www.reason.com/rb/rb122204.shtml

* teeve channels ought to be compelled to have warning cimilar to tobacci THIS PRODUCT MAY KILL YOU, AND THOSE AROUND YOU, AND THOSE NOT AROUND YOU or praps like jons FAUXNEWS

NATCHYA
* "The world's biggest earthquake in almost four years has struck 800 km off the coast of Tasmania, Australian seismological officials said.
Geoscience Australia said the quake measured 8.1 on the Richter Scale" no damdage. http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/24/1103825056676.html


* today is my first anniversary of being off ssris. the legacy kinda continues - directly and indirectly. indirectly cos i still think im a spaz and its difficult to trust my brain, and im still very nervous about any situation that might be conceivably stressy. and directly cos i still get those daily 'instructions' telling me to pick up a knife and start stabbing - altho im getting much better at dealing with it. its quite an odd sensation - its not that u just go totally psycho - its actually like theres a specific instruction, like a couple of lines in a computer program that gets into your head "pick up a knife and start stabbing" - luckily my 'program' says "pick up a knife and start stabbing yourself" - altho many others seem to get the program that says "pick up a knife and start stabbing your parents" (like a(nother) soldier did last week) or "pick up a knife and start stabbing your gf/wife" like many others have 'heard' - my heart goes out to them. and their gfs/wives/parents. those who have had bad experiences with anti-malarial drugs or whatever have maybe glimpsed something similar... altho u tend to only take those for a week or so - rather than for years on end - and so the 'soundtrack' gets repeated so often that it is apparently imprinted on the brain circuitry, and becomes something of a habit. or something similar. i get the sense that the anthrax shots have a similar effect. im not (entirely) convinced that the ssris are the cause of my (heightened) spazziness - and i dont quite blame them - but my experience kinda dovetails with reports of others' experiences... in any case, its my anniversary today, and im glad im not taking them any more. im not even angry at pharma really, altho i fear for the damage that they do. there are so many kids going thru some really tuff times because of ssris, (and financial hardships for families) and even looking exclusively at the upside, the drugs are no better than placebos, so the resultant human misery is just kinda sad and unnecessary. it might be more tolerable if there was actually an upside for some people in some net-benefit sense. and it might be more tolerable if bigpharma didnt know in advance, or if they didnt try to hide the results of increased suicide risk. and the shoulder issue of the misery of kids who were nearly driven to suicide. but all in all, the story just kinda sucks. it seems that if mmoore actually tells the story, then (just) the ssri part of the bigpharma story will make f911 look like an xmas carol. anyways, on my anniversary, im generally doing pretty well - and i can do a reasonable job of pretending to be human these days - apart from the fact that i seem monomaniacal (to which i would respond that i have a bunch of different interests - votergate, war(peace) AND corruption), and my contact with humans is restricted to you 4 and my folks. ftr - my folks think that im doing really well - even if its within a pretty tightly constrained environment.

* in other news, i had a shave yesterday.
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