Friday, February 6, 2009
Neat Chart
I just grabbed this from the Greenwald blog the other day.
Hey I got an idea on how to save some money in this country... You see that big blue piece of the pie? Cut that in half, and we would still be the leading military spenders in the world. Ike was right... Ike was right.. Can any sane person look at this and think that our military spending is not ridiculous?
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Cheney Rebuttal
A new "special comment" by Keith Olbermann... a little melodramatic, but he gets some good points in there...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
more "fancy" pics
They just want to feel something real!
37 weeks and counting. Baby room is pretty much ready, as you can see in the background. No, we won't be keeping the cats' litter box in there after the baby comes :)
Friday, January 30, 2009
200th post!!! Ugly Cats
Wow, I just saw that this was the 200th post. It is perhaps fitting that I fill it with more mundanity. Rx is on her final few nights of work before maternity leave, and I am bored at home (getting over a bad head cold).
Anyway, We got our Dog and Cat Fancy magazines today. I want to be clear that we would never pay for these, they are a "perk" of Rx's profession. Loyal To Austin and Beyond readers will remember that the toilet room of the master bathroom is where I like to post my Dog and Cat Fancy centerfolds. This month they featured a breed of cat too hideous to grace the hallowed walls of my commode room: The Cornish Rex.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Pack-N-Play...what the F?
Practice, practice.
Jack figured if this sling couldn't hold Bunny we couldn't use it on our child....
Priscilla had to make sure the car seat was comfortable enough for the baby....
and last night we decided to put up the Pack-N-Play ... we plan to use it as a bassinette after the baby comes home.
Isn't it a joy? :)
In other news....we found THIS the other day:
And Louie is now in therapy, poor bastard.
Just accept your feelings, Lou.
Jack figured if this sling couldn't hold Bunny we couldn't use it on our child....
Priscilla had to make sure the car seat was comfortable enough for the baby....
and last night we decided to put up the Pack-N-Play ... we plan to use it as a bassinette after the baby comes home.
There were more moments of cursing during the evening than I've heard come from Jack's mouth, I think, ever. He literally would have liked to throw it in the road and back over it with his car...of course the Metro wouldn't have stood a chance, so we persevered. Thank god we found a You Tube video on how to put it together. Many thanks to "KDARC", a helpful Michigan woman who made this video. It saved our marriage and sanity. While it seems simple enough, in our defense, part of the collapsing mechanism isn't working quite right on ours. You don't have to watch the whole thing, but I love this lady's spunky attitude and cute little accent....
Isn't it a joy? :)
In other news....we found THIS the other day:
And Louie is now in therapy, poor bastard.
Just accept your feelings, Lou.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Evolution Education Round-up
Texas school board voted against requiring discussion of evolution's 'weaknesses'... Yeah!!!
Louisiana is allowing a pro Intelligent Design book in their classrooms.. Boo!!
Mississippi is pr0posing to add this to their textbooks... Boo!!!
1/3 Ain't bad... lets dive a little deeper into Mississippi's textbook addition shall we?
"Evolution refers to the unproven belief that random, undirected forces produced living things. There are many topics with unanswered questions about the origin of life which are not mentioned in your textbook, including: the sudden appearance of the major groups of animals in the fossil record (known as the Cambrian Explosion); the lack of new major groups of other living things appearing in the fossil record; the lack of transitional forms of major groups of plants and animals in the fossil record; and the complete and complex set of instructions for building a living body possessed by all living things."
This is great except just about everything in this statement is wrong. 1) Unproven? How much more evidence do you need? In case you have missed reading just about any scientific paper or textbook in the last century validating evolution time after time after time (I am looking at you here Mississippi), here is a handy chart to show you every fossilized transitional species from a land creature to a whale... The fact that we have not identified every transitional species for every major class does not invalidate evolution. Just because I don't have a garage with every car from the Model T to the 2009 Mustang doesn't mean that the Ford Motor company doesn't exist.
2) Just because science can't explain everything doesn't mean a) it must be supernatural or magic in origin and b) it won't be understood eventually by science... give us some time.
3) undirected forces? sure they are directed.. they are directed by environmental pressures (that is kind of the basis of the whole theory).
4) The first sentence confuses (as these idiots so love to do) the origin of life question with evolutionary theory. Evolution doesn't not make a prediction about the origin of life. It simply states that species change over time due to environmental pressures and create new species.
I could go on, but I have to go perform some directed evolution to make better drugs for fighting diseases...
Louisiana is allowing a pro Intelligent Design book in their classrooms.. Boo!!
Mississippi is pr0posing to add this to their textbooks... Boo!!!
1/3 Ain't bad... lets dive a little deeper into Mississippi's textbook addition shall we?
"Evolution refers to the unproven belief that random, undirected forces produced living things. There are many topics with unanswered questions about the origin of life which are not mentioned in your textbook, including: the sudden appearance of the major groups of animals in the fossil record (known as the Cambrian Explosion); the lack of new major groups of other living things appearing in the fossil record; the lack of transitional forms of major groups of plants and animals in the fossil record; and the complete and complex set of instructions for building a living body possessed by all living things."
This is great except just about everything in this statement is wrong. 1) Unproven? How much more evidence do you need? In case you have missed reading just about any scientific paper or textbook in the last century validating evolution time after time after time (I am looking at you here Mississippi), here is a handy chart to show you every fossilized transitional species from a land creature to a whale... The fact that we have not identified every transitional species for every major class does not invalidate evolution. Just because I don't have a garage with every car from the Model T to the 2009 Mustang doesn't mean that the Ford Motor company doesn't exist.
2) Just because science can't explain everything doesn't mean a) it must be supernatural or magic in origin and b) it won't be understood eventually by science... give us some time.
3) undirected forces? sure they are directed.. they are directed by environmental pressures (that is kind of the basis of the whole theory).
4) The first sentence confuses (as these idiots so love to do) the origin of life question with evolutionary theory. Evolution doesn't not make a prediction about the origin of life. It simply states that species change over time due to environmental pressures and create new species.
I could go on, but I have to go perform some directed evolution to make better drugs for fighting diseases...
Definitions of Megalomania
1) Megalomania is an unrealistic belief in one's superiority, grandiose abilities, and even omnipotence. (for examples see here, here, and here) It is characterized by a need for total power and control over others, and is marked by a lack of empathy for anything that is perceived as not feeding the self.
Delusions of persecution (for examples see here, here, and here) may be intrinsically related to - and the flip-side of - delusions of grandeur in that the very idea that one is being persecuted by a complex of conspirators involves a sense of greatly elevated self-importance.
Delusions of persecution (for examples see here, here, and here) may be intrinsically related to - and the flip-side of - delusions of grandeur in that the very idea that one is being persecuted by a complex of conspirators involves a sense of greatly elevated self-importance.
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