dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja: 12/23/13

Monday, December 23, 2013

"It's a fools errand to believe that the future could be better than the past. President Obama and I reject that cynicism." – john kerry

http://www.ekospolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/131219_slide13.jpg
http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2013/12/stephen-harper-and-the-middle-class-crisis/

roach situation

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord

hi.

i just want to say things are going well here. and merry christmas.

there's actually not what i'd call a "roach problem" in the unit itself. i've seen a few here and there, exclusively where there are cracks in the wall. that is to say that i don't think there are roaches in the unit, but it is certainly the case that sometimes roaches wander into the unit from elsewhere in the building. i saw one the other day near the dead heater in the kitchen, and hadn't seen one before that since about october - when i had seen a few near the hole for the pipe in the closet. when i covered up the pipe, they went away. so, i've filled the cracks around the dead heater up with a pile of old hole-ridden socks i had hanging around for rags and expect that will keep them out of there. it seemed like the roach i saw in the kitchen was actually looking for water, not food. it was attracted to the sink. i'm very careful to ensure all the food in the unit is in the fridge - even like bread and stuff.

i do, however, feel a responsibility to point out that there are roaches in the building. my perspective regarding that is that there are bugs everywhere; i'm content to simply patch up holes when i see them and keep them out that way. but, as a tenant, i think i have a responsibility to inform you that they do seem to have a nest in the building somewhere.

j

mom
Hi J....How are you? I am fine(fucked up, insecure, neurotic, emotional)...lol. Oh Well....Hate this time of the year! For Sure! Anyways....Did you ever activate that XP? Just wondering? I have a friend that I was going to give it to, if you haven't, of course...Although...I am hearing from a few different people that when it is a home edition...One can have multiple activations of it?? Not sure? You would prolly know for sure...

jessica amber murray
the purpose of activation is to ensure that the purchased product key is used on one, and only one, computer. i'm not currently using it, and don't really see how i could use it, to be honest. i'm running pirated versions...

mom
So, it would be safe to give it to my friend then? But, if you feel that you want it, I will not give it to him.

jessica amber murray
no, go ahead.

mom
K...Thanks!...It will be his Christmas gift then. Just a friend. Not a boyfriend...Very nice older fellow...He just hates his windows 8, and was wanting a copy of XP.

But, You didn't answer me about how you are!?....This time of the year kinda sucks a bit(more than a bit!)...I am living in the bottom of a brown bottle right now...I know....Pathetic!....I have a few left and then am going to go through a bit(more than a bit) of horrible with-drawl...And then will be going to my friends place(his name is Paul)(He is the one I want to give my XP to,(but only if you are sure you don't want it) to cook up the Traditional Christmas Dinner...Nanny&Leo are coming too...Will be soooooo nice to see her(not so sure about Leo though)..LOL... Do you have any plans for that Annoying Day?

jessica amber murray
i actually haven't been to a christmas dinner in a few years, now. for me, it's just wednesday. if anything, i'm irked that the recycle doesn't come until friday, because i couldn't get it all out last pickup.

i'll probably have a sandwich and listen to music.

mom
That sounds quite peaceful to me.... I kinda wish I could just do the same...I have spent more than a few Christmas Days the same...And rather enjoyed it that way. I am a little stressed about my Christmas Day this year. Just hate that feeling!

jessica amber murray
i just have no patience for religious holidays or hallmark holidays. it's merely a wednesday.

mom
I hear you for sure!...Feeling quite the same!.....The only thing I am looking forward to is the yummy turkey dinner(as I am going to be the one cooking it!..And, I do make a yummy dinner for sure!)...What, I am finding that I am feeling a bit stressful about, is that...They are ALL depending on ME to get my old(fairly undependable ass) over there to prepare it!...LOL...What if, I decide to change my mind!(I won't, of course)...Just hate the feeling of it all.

how can a head of state be a terrorist? that's a contradiction in terms.

i'll say this again: when this is done, and people read through the history linearly, it's going to look like the military was running an op to root out the muslim brotherhood, which was underground for years.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/19/morsi_charged_with_terrorism_as_egyptian

translated: this is where they're setting up camp to expand influence in the region to counter the chinese presence.

we're likely to hear of many human rights atrocities committed by american troops in the region.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/19/can_samantha_power_wage_a_war_on_atrocities_in_central_african_republic

ok.

but the idea that divestment ended apartheid is....it's borderline racist, really. talk about denying agency.

in order for divestment to really work, it has to be at the point of being sanctions. "free markets" do not have the power to do this. only governments or oligopolies (trusts, which still exist) can effectively carry this out.

in promoting this, there's also a danger in falling into the myths of market theory.

but it's a first step in creating government sanctions so long as everybody understands that markets do not have the leverage to get to such an end.

http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/tarsands-divestment-and-its-discontents

they had a congressional hearing in washington to look into the extent of the extra-judicial criminality around drone strikes in central asia. some kids that watched their grandmother get blown up for the crime of taking her grandkids for a walk showed up, flown in from pakistan.

number of congress-people that bothered to show up: 5 senators.
of those 5 senators, number that were republican: 0.

despite promises by nixon to end it (which probably won him the hippie vote, which probably won him the election), vietnam didn't end until the mid-70s when congress cut funding. instead, nixon attacked cambodia. "hope and change" = secret war. "defoliation". people like to compare obama to carter. no. nixon.

the current congress is a diminished shadow of the one that managed that feat. five democrats...

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/31/these_drones_attack_us_and_the

you can't "enforce democracy". the premise is flawed. what they did was set up an authoritarian system that had some characteristics of democracy.

regardless, agrarian muslims that live in the side of mountains don't have the same concepts of governance and human rights that white, urban liberals in boston do. the whole point of democracy is that these kinds of things can't be abstracted to universals, they need to determined on the ground.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/18/too_much_of_a_good_thing

seems like good news. cautiously.

this is the worst government we've ever had to throw this in the lap of, though. i fear it may backfire.

i'm reminded of the abortion fiasco, with mulroney in power. mulroney decided not to touch it, and it led to two consequences: no abortion laws whatsoever and a new political movement in canada.

harper's not likely to make the same mistake, but he's not likely to build a system that tacitly "permits" prostitution, either, as it would collapse his support base - like not legislating on abortion was one of the primary factors that led to a rebellion against mulroney and the pcs. harper will learn from this in some way...

the wording of the abortion ruling is actually very fragile. the aim of the ruling actually seemed to be to increase funding for abortion in order to make it easier for women to get the certificates. mulroney wrongly calculated that it would be politically more expedient to ignore the issue than to set up a system that would tacitly sanction it. the only other thing he could have done would have been to overpower the brand new constitution, which would have cast him as a reactionary despot.

if harper's aim is to not repeat mulroney's mistake, what that means is approaching it in a way that is not "sanctioning", which means overriding the constitution.

while it's sort of unprecedented, harper isn't mulroney. if harper had his way, he'd burn the charter of rights and replace it with the ten commandments.

so, if this is important to you, now is the most important time to pay attention and get the info out. harper's reaction is not going to be progressive...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/supreme-court-rules-on-prostitution-laws/article16067485/

this is a really interesting debate. swanson takes a sort of libertarian/liberal perspective, whereas jay takes a marxist perspective (with shades of gramsci). it's also interesting on the level of where they agree.

i just want to add that swanson continually cites syria as an example of where popular opinion stopped the war. this isn't a very informed extrapolation of events. it's generally acknowledged that pressure from russia and china prevented the invasion. especially russia. it's not entirely clear what the russian threats were, but i suspect that may be flat out shocking when they come out.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11188

it's slowly become apparent that liberals have taken over the third wave, which was a reaction against liberal feminism.

people that argue in favour of maximizing utility, or think there's freedom in pursuing carnal pleasure, present a problem in building truly free societies. a free society requires a population that is able to suppress it's impulses, not one that is based around the idea of acting them out.

a society that celebrates impulsive behaviour, from shopping through to sex, is actually what we have right now.

it's a larger problem on the left. utilitarianism has been masquerading as socialism for quite a while, now.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20459-betty-dodsons-feminist-sex-wars

i remain in the school of people (punks) that argues that drugs and sexuality are a means of control.

the americans don't even pretend they're not meddling, here. there's no curtain over events. it's wide in the open.

could you imagine the leader of the communist party going to canada and making a speech like this?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/dec/17/john-mccain-vladimir-putin-ukraine-protests-bitter-feud

this doesn't answer anything useful, though. it's understood that a mix occurred, and the male lineage was probably sephardic. the interesting thing to study is mt-dna.

and how is anybody supposed to take something seriously when it begins with the premise that a "levite founder" exists?

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3928