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Monday, April 25, 2005
I was just checking my counter stats, and one of the phrases used in a search engine to find this little blog was "terry hatcher toilet". Now, I try not to be judgmental, but come on, what is wrong with this guy? If you are asking yourself why I think it was a guy, if you are really offended that automatically I think it was a man, then I don't want to talk to you because of course it was a man.
Unless Terry Hatcher has a very special designer toilet, and then maybe I could believe it was a woman who was searching those words, but I think not.
Yeesh.
Don't even get me started on whoever was searching "robot rape".
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by Tabby at 4/25/2005 08:44:00 p.m.
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Sunday, April 24, 2005
I have a flaw. Yes, yes, I do! My temper is very easily lost, especially at work. I usually get over it pretty quickly, and have enough of a grasp to supress it most of the time if it's directed at someone in the office directly. But dang, it's bad. People at work might think they know how bad it is, but that's because I'm not insane and don't often let them see how angry I really am. A couple of curse words don't give the same impression of rage that screaming a string of swears would, but they are less likely to get me fired.
Less stress. That's what I need. It is at work I really feel anger, and that's because I have to deal with the public. Face it, public. You're idiots. Well, not all of you, but adding a modifier doesn't amuse me as much as those previous two sentences on their own do, and you don't want to see me not amused.
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by Tabby at 4/24/2005 03:39:00 p.m.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
Here's something I don't get, and there's a lot I don't get when it comes to creationists... If you believe in a deity powerful enough to create a whole universe in six days, why can't you believe that the deity could be patient enough to take billions of years to do it, setting events in motion to bring about planets, stars, and life, then setting evolution in motion to bring about humanity?
Not only doesn't this god seem to have the patience to take billions of years to create everything, rushing through it all, but if we are in the End Times, that deity apparently feels the need to destroy it all again in the blink of a cosmic eye.
So yet another reason I can't understand why people can believe and excuse such a mercurial, tempermental god.
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by Tabby at 4/21/2005 10:58:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
So Cardinal Ratzinger is the new pope. Pope Benedict XVI. Papa Benny. The one guy who makes JP2 look like he was a free-lovin' hippy. Way to go firmly into the 17th Century, Catholic Church.
Congratulations. Except to Catholic women and homosexuals, of course. Or future AIDS victims in Africa where the Vatican's influence has kept condoms out of any discussion of AIDS prevention. Sorry about your horrible deaths, but condoms are sinful you know so it's much better to die young than sin.
At least there's a new pope who will do all he can to ensure that the Catholic Church is officially wrong in so many respects.
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by Tabby at 4/19/2005 10:55:00 a.m.
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Thursday, April 14, 2005
I was just thinking of superheroes. Sure, they don't exist, but could you imagine what would happen if they suddenly did?
It's not the concept of adults running or flying around in spandex or lycra or whatever, no, I'm thinking of the religious panic it would cause. Come on, people flying around with strange powers, you know there would be people thinking they were angels or demons and that Armageddon was upon us. I've also got a feeling that most of the superheroes would be accused of some sort of Satanic collaboration.
Put that on top of all the fundamentalists freaking out over not being raptured, and it would be an enoromously fun sight to behold.
Damn it, we need superheroes! I don't care if it's impossible for a woman to fly unaided or a man to lift a building over his head! I want to see roundtables of religious leaders foaming at the mouth at how unnatural it is to shoot energy beams out of one's hands and demanding the government do something about it! I want to see the new pope denouncing invisibility as a crime against God and nature!
Ohhhhh, not to mention the Bush administration's reaction to bullet-proof people capable of juggling tanks! That would be great!
Of course, with the kind of luck the world has, if people started gaining superpowers it would only be the right-wing nutjobs getting them. Of course, if conservatives and religious fundamentalists got superpowers, they'd more likely end up villains than heroes (why start on a new path now?) so we'd really be in for it.
Never mind then. Superpowered people would really suck. Except for me, and is it really too much to ask to be able to fly?
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by Tabby at 4/14/2005 02:50:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
I have always been proudly Liberal with a capital L, have always voted for the Liberal Party of Canada ever since I turned 18.
Anyone familiar with Canadian politics however will know all about the current scandal that's rocking the Liberal party. Like so many others I am angry with them for what they have done, especially considering that they are giving the Conservative Party an opportunity to form the next government, and that REALLY pisses me off!
While I would prefer an honest Liberal government, I'd still prefer a corrupt Liberal government over an honest Conservative government. The vision they have for Canada scares the hell out of me, especially after the hate mongering Tory leader Stephen Harper did at a recent rally against same-sex marriage (I particularly loved how he claimed that voting for same-sex marriage is an attack against every other minority and their religious freedom, the kind of bullshit that makes my head want to explode with its utter nonsense and shameless fear mongering striking deep at the chords of hatred in Canadians of many different colours and faiths).
Even worse, and it's hard to believe that it could get worse than a Canada with such a deeply hateful government, would be the toadying Harper would do to the Bush White House. I've seen what the Bush regime has done to the United States, and it's not pretty. We don't need the disease of rampant conservative bringing our country down too.
So what options are left? Personally, I'd like to see a strong leader take charge in the Liberal Party and clean house. Get rid of those people involved in the sponsorship scandal and to make sure everything is run openly. There is no need to do anything underhanded to stay in power. The Conservatives have enough horrible stuff in their platform to ensure that an honest Liberal government will stay in power indefinitely.
Barring that, I'd like to vote New Democrat for a change to show my displeasure, but I can't do that. Not in a riding where the Liberal incumbent always manages to beat the Conservative by a small margin. If I knew that the New Democrat stood a chance, if the NDP stood a chance of forming the government, I'd consider it. But I can't do that, not yet. Better the bastards I know than the right-wing haters of goodness I don't. The Right is so wrong, and I love the Canada I know too much, the Canada that said no to committing war crimes in Iraq and the Canada that says that gays and lesbians are equal citizens entitled to full and equal rights, to risk the horror of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Hate mongers have no place in the prime minister's office.
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by Tabby at 4/12/2005 11:05:00 a.m.
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Monday, April 11, 2005
Saturday, April 09, 2005
I want to go kayaking. We have a river, the North Saskatchewan, that goes right through the city with miles and miles of park land that gets me thinking that kayaking down that river on nice days, or even rainy summer days, would be a wonderful thing to do, as well as being great exercise.
First I need to learn how to kayak, so if I don't look into that this summer maybe I'll check it out next summer. Of course knowing how to kayak will do me little good unless I have a kayak and a way to get it to and from the river. It would still be nice to learn and I could always rent a boat every so often.
It would also be nice, if I ever do buy one, to know where along the river camping is acceptable, because kayaking down the river for a few hours then spending the night seems like it would be a great way to spend a weekend.
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by Tabby at 4/09/2005 12:47:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005
"He was a living witness to the great crimes of the century of atheism. There are few as well qualified as the Poles to testify to the darkness of mankind without God.
First Hitler and the cult of paganism, then Stalin and the fetish of Communism. The dictators rejected God and raped humanity. And the second was the direct result of the first."
I've had an e-mail exchange with this columnist, Michael Coren, before, it went back and forth with two each then I gave up because I knew he lived in a world detached from reality, and his columns have only gone downhill since then. Now this.
Forget that atheism was never the problem, and the only reason the Soviet Union et al espoused it was so that their people could devote themselves to the state, which isn't what atheism is about. Forget the crap that without his god we, here, are in such horrible darkness that we apparently want to slaughter millions. Forget that unlike crimes in the name of religion, Stalin didn't slaughter millions in the name of atheism. No wars, no mass slaughters have been committed in the name of atheism.
No, what really pisses me off is the usually bullshit tying together of Hitler and atheism. As usual, Christians appalled by his crimes say that nobody that horrible could be a Christian, so they say he was an atheist. Except in this case, Coren only kinda calls him an atheist. In one paragraph he starts to go on about the "crimes of atheism" then mumbles on about Hitler "and the cult of Paganism." Pagans aren't atheists, you bald friggin' idiot! If one talks about the crimes of Christianity, they don't use the Taliban as an example.
Even all that aside, Christians can claim that Hitler didn't act like a Christian should so he couldn't have been a Christian, he called himself a Christian and claimed a belief in the Christian god. Hell, he denounced atheism!
Call yourself a journalist all you want, Michael Coren. There are enough of us out here who know what you truly are.
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by Tabby at 4/06/2005 01:18:00 a.m.
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Monday, April 04, 2005
Same-sex marriages a part of "a new ideology of evil."
He was on the side of peace, I'll give him credit for that. He did much to end the dictatorship in his country, bravo. But John Paul II did his fair share of harm in the world, and I just needed to voice that in the midst of all this "John Paul the Great" nonsense. Whether it came from such crap as the above quote, the tireless work in ensuring that birth control was kept out of the picture in any international work on population control, or doing his duty in ensuring women remain second class citizens whether in the church or elsewhere and his tremendous work in AIDS prevention...
I'm not happy to see him die, I don't like to see anyone die, but it would be nice if some of his more horrific beliefs would have died with him. I'm glad he had a nice, full and fulfilling life. It's just a shame he didn't give a damn about the hell his beliefs and his actions have and will cause untold millions of others to go through.
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by Tabby at 4/04/2005 04:19:00 p.m.
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Sunday, April 03, 2005
Here is the missing post that I wrote and e-mailed on March 30...
On my way to work this morning I was walking along as normal and somehow managed to miss seeing a patch of ice. My feet went right out from under me, and I fell on my butt and, more painfully, my hands. My arms were very stiff, and it really jammed both limbs, especially the wrists. There was so much pain that for a few seconds there I sat on the ice wondering if I was even going to come in to work.
The pain did subside, but when I stopped by a convenience store later on in my journey to get some juice (I have a cold right now, so lots of juice) it hurt just to use the debit machine.
When I got to work, I could still feel the fall, but my wrists were doing better. However, working at a computer all day may not have helped much, and now I'm feeling some pain and numbness at the same time, over eight hours later. Luckily I'm in Canada, so after work (which just ended, yay!) I'm going to see a doctor just to make sure everything's okay, though it likely is.
Anyway, the good news is that my wrists feel fine now and the cold is gone. The doctor recommended some ice and an anti-inflammatory like Advil for the wrists, so I did just that (well, not quite ice but the Magic Bag I keep in my freezer). Dang, that was some bad pain though. Not that I haven't had worse. Or at least, longer lasting.
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by Tabby at 4/03/2005 02:30:00 p.m.
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Saturday, April 02, 2005
The last post before this was e-mailed, and went through quickly with no problems. I e-mailed another post a couple of days ago, and it never arrived. This is really pissing me off.
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by Tabby at 4/02/2005 10:35:00 a.m.
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