I would like to have minions. How do I go about acquiring some?

Буду рад друзьям со всего мира, даже если они совсем немного знают русский язык. В моём блоге вам никогда не будет скучно. Для друзей я даже делаю весёлые тесты с красивыми картинками. Вот один из последних:

Вы блоггер-романтик!

Для Вас блог – очередное увлечение, охватившее Вашу пылкую натуру. Вы периодически делитесь с френдами собственными проблемами и радостями и одновременно охотно вникаете в то, что волнует их. И не беда, если иной раз после Вашего данного от души совета небольшой скандал в семье Вашего сетевого друга (или подруги) выльется в заявление на развод. Именно Вы потом и найдёте способ помирить супругов! Как и для всех романтиков, для Вас самое главное – искренность и в жизни, и в блоге. Ваш девиз: «И снова ветер наполняет паруса!»

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This video is a joke, right? Please tell me it's a joke.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gapersblock/merge/~3/H7DV-TmXpkM/

The Village of Bensenville has reached a $16 settlement with the City of Chicago, clearing another obstruction to O'Hare's expansion. If you want to hear it from the horse's mouth, here's the village's press release [PDF].

Do you talk shit about your friends when they're not around?

Vegging like an exhausted... vegetable, roommate has Leno on the TV.

Leno's got one of the teenage douchetards from the new Twilight movie sequel, I guess he's the werewolf or something I dunno. Didn't catch his name.

He's throwing footballs to Jerry Rice, who has just gone up into the audience in an effort to go long for a second throw by the kid.

Me: "He can't go up there the kid'll hit an audience member..."

Me: "I hope he hits an audience member, oh god please PLEASE let him hit an audience member, right in the face. Please let me witness in real time the total humiliation and simultaneous destruction of this little pissant and his dream game of catch with his football hero on live TV*"

Me: *kid fails to hit audience member* "...dammit."




*I know it's not really live tv.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/chicksnbreasts/~3/2qJjiz5Ab-Y/

http://www.chicksnbreasts.com/?p=19246

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AMA your expertise is required, I want to ask this guy out...

We chat every time I see him, but not for long and not about much. He has made it crystal clear that he is interested.

So in a normal conversation how would I ask for his number / if he wants to get a drink?

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So AMA, yesterday I bought a pair of high-heeled closed shoes.

Thing is, they're one size bigger than my actual size. When I tried it out at the store, my actual size was just too tight and uncomfortable. I bought a pair of those things (we call them 'corks' I think?) you slip into shoes to make them fit better, and while it worked at the store, this morning when I did the same thing, it wasn't enough. I added two more pairs of corks that I already own, but nada.

How do I make my pretty, pretty shoes fit?

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I found a neat little tutorial to simulate the cross processing effect that you are able to do in film and thought I would give it shot.



Here's the article if you're interested.
http://www.pixpeep.com/2008/03/cross-processing-in-aperture/

An odd thought struck me today as I watched the squirrels traipse through the forest.

Am I looking at the ancient ancestors of the next (comparably) intelligent life?

The odd thought took a more radical and revolutionary turn as I contemplated the scope of time, and just what may be, as farcical as it may sound.

Am I looking at just a squirrel? Or perhaps the evolutionary herald of an entirely new intelligent species, so many millions of years from now... Of course the chances that it would be the squirrel and not something else entirely different are infinitely small, but the thought requires some traction in a specific model, so I shall think of squirrels.

Whatever it may be, if it may be, represents the joys of natural contemplation. The ability or at least the attempt to transcend all habitual perspective and don a radically different one. Brain-bending, you know.

At the end, at the very least, Nature becomes infinitely more valuable. In Nature, one is surrounded by time. A process so terribly slow that notions of patience don't quite capture its progression. Life is so ephemeral and passing. Tiny little bundles of excited energy, more active than anything, soon passing into nothing. You can almost conceive of every moving thing, from the drift of continents to a passing deer as the same fundamental orchestra of passing matter, though perhaps along different scales.

They say peace is a matter of mental tranquility. I tend to view it as more the mental arrest that occurs when attempting to conceive of it all in a thought. You're not inactive, you're just caught up in a mental embrace and you can only reach so far or stretch so much. It is the height of mental exertion, not its nadir. The moment where you have taken as big and as deep a breath as you can possibly take, and your whole body is caught up in the effort, stalled at the limit, brought up and consumed in that slight pause before the tremendous exhalation.

Dear Loki and Puck,

It's not a huge bag of cat toys.

Yes, I know they look like cat toys, 150 odd little shiny see-through bags with five round little balls in each, but I promise you, they are not toys.

Really. Hand to God.

Remember what happened this morning when I caught you guys playing with one? Remember Seamus piffing a book at the two of you? Does that normally happen when you play with toys? No. Does it happen when you're doing something naughty? Yes.

Now stop pawing at the wardrobe in the study and mewing, and go back to eviscerating your toy mice.

Love,

Your exasperated and trying-to-study kitty mum

From: Home
Mood: busy

Making Tea for 2010: Tea Partiers Fight For The Right to Robocall

If you thought the Tea Partiers screaming on your television set over the summer were obnoxious, wait until they're screaming into your phone in 2010 via robocalls -- that is, if the Federal Election Commission sides with Tea Partiers' bigwig beltway lawyers. Conservative operatives who helped organize the summertime protests want to change the way elections are fought nationwide in perhaps the most irksome way possible -- by strong-arming the FEC to overrule state-level restrictions on political robocalls.

Political nonprofit American Future Fund and its associated PAC, led largely by former GOP staffers and operatives, made news this year primarily for its role in facilitating summertime anti-health care reform town hall protests. But the Fund has also been working largely under the radar to lay the groundwork for 2010 elections by discreetly helping Tea Partiers fight for the right to robocall.

Political robocalls are mostly exempt from federal regulations. Federal law requires only that they identify the party responsible for making the calls along with a phone number or snail mail address where the responsible party can be reached. There are no requirements for an expensive live operator, which is a boon to smaller, scrappier organizations with little money. But states often have stricter regulations that keep robocallers in check. For instance, Minnesota has one of the toughest anti-robocalling laws in the country. It requires that calls playing an automated recording either be accepted by the voter to indicate consent (good luck with that) or be preceded by a live operator who must get verbal consent before playing the recording.

The Fund's PAC is asking the FEC to override portions of the Minnesota law, the loss of which would ease requirements significantly for political robocalls. The Fund's lawyers are arguing that the Minnesota law unduly expands campaign finance restrictions (normally the domain of the FEC) by requiring political robocalls to incur the expense of a live operator. While the cost of a robocall averages only five to 15 cents, depending on the state, a live operator can cost anywhere from one dollar to more than two dollars.

A favorable FEC ruling would give federal law precedence over not only Minnesota law, but those of all states whose state-level robocalling restrictions are currently stronger than federal regulations.

A legal document filed last year by the Minnesota Democratic-Farm-Labor Party alleged that the Fund violated election law; the document describes the Fund as "a shadowy nonprofit organization" that "purports to be exempt from tax under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. But its notion of 'promoting the social welfare' is to send valentines to electorally troubled Republican Senate candidates." Indeed, "shadowy" may be an apt description. When the media began asking the Fund questions last year about who was in charge, the Fund was not forthcoming with answers.

Most observers have speculated that Jill Holtzman Vogel is behind the group, a charge difficult to prove, since 501(c)(4) nonprofits aren't required to disclose information to the public. A reporter at TPM investigated the Fund last year, tracing an address of the organization to the address of Holtzman Vogel's law firm, Holtzman Vogel PLLC. A TPM blogger called the Holtzman Vogel firm and asked if they were behind the Fund, but a representative refused to comment. At the very least, Holtzman Vogel's law firm provides legal representation to the Fund.
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Army Mom Confined To Base After Skipping Deployment To Care For Baby

Single-mother Alexis Hutchinson refused to deploy to Afghanistan on Nov. 5, she said, because she didn't have anyone to take care of her infant son. Now she's confined to the Georgia base where she is stationed, facing criminal prosecution by the Army.

Hutchinson's civilian lawyer told the Huffington Post that Hutchinson, 21, initially planned for her 10-month-old son to stay with his grandmother in California, but that the plan went awry when the grandmother realized that she didn't have the resources to take care of him. Military police arrested Hutchinson on Nov. 6, when she returned to the base after skipping her deployment.

On Thursday, Hutchinson's lawyer, Rai Sue Sussman, said she was told by an officer that the Army planned to ship her client to Afghanistan on Sunday for a special court-martial and that she could spend a year in jail there. But Sunday came and went, and Hutchinson remains at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield outside of Savannah, Ga.

"That's only because I took it to the press," said Sussman. The Oakland Tribune jumped on the story on Friday, and others followed.
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Happy Birthday to my wife kaligreeneyes! May it be the first of many to come!

This is the first time I've been able to say happy birthday to my wife since 1998. In 1999, I was still legally married, but I'd already filed for divorce, moved out, and was dating another woman, so I wasn't about to wish my ex a happy birthday as my wife that year.

Tags: happy birthday, real life
From: The Treehouse
Mood: bouncy
Now Playing: Freeway Noise

How willing are you to post your finances on the Internet - AMA, Facebook and such?

Would/do you post problems (unexpected $80 bills suck) or great things (I reached $22,222.22 in savings today!) or both?

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Tags: finances & debt
From: Australia, Brisbane