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Engagement to glorgana  is a go.  T minus several months to the big launch party. 

We found the pictured socks while going through our spare room today. We don't think they belong to us, do these look familiar to anyone who's local or visited?

The Pirate Bay just suffered another attempt to shut them down, and surprise surprise, it didn't work.

I've said a lot of times that Obama is the Best President Ever, at least so far.  Turns out, there is one way he could be better:  if the icon on this post was true.

 Check out these fields of academic inquiry.  My interest, you has it!

 

http://michaelo.phswebs.com/BerkeleyStarcraft/

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My interest

After messing around with Vox for a few hours, it is indisputably better than LJ ever was.  It has capabilities for photo and media sharing, and mirroring, and wow, so much better.

For now, I'll be mirroring many posts here through the Blog It Facebook app, but Vox is now my main blog.  

Access me here, and come on over and join us in the future!

Sixapart made a new blogging service, Vox, which looks really good. I guess this is what they're doing now that they sold LJ to the Russians.

Come on over there, before LJ gets shut down due to the economic crisis.

Link to my Vox profile
It integrates with your LJ and your Facebook and your Twitter, so all your old accounts work extremely well with it. It's the future of blogging, and here I come.

Ibrahim Parlak needs asylum, and the Bush administration wouldn't give it to him.

This is a man that my parents' know personally, who's restaurant they have eaten at. The Bush Administration has been trying to throw him out of the country and back to Turkey where he will likely be arrested and tortured. He came to this country in a better time, when Bill Clinton was President.

He just had his appeal denied by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, full legal ruling, here. I hope that under the new Obama administration, he can get some justice. This seems like the kind of things that will be changing now.

Actually, now that I think about it, we should write to President Obama, and tell him how much we want Mr. Ibrahim Huseyin to be able to stay in the US where he will be safe from persecution.

Please go to the new administration's website, and tell them to help. Contact information is available here, for internet, phone, or letter.

We can do this guys, we can help him keep his life.

"Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise crazy
Just be glad it’s him not you
If you had Tom Cruise’s troubles
You might be Tom Cruise crazy too
You’d flash your big white shiny smile
You’d buy expensive shoes
But you’d be the only man on Earth
Who couldn’t enjoy Tom Cruise
Oh no, you couldn’t enjoy Tom Cruise "

Just substitute out "Rob Blagojevich" for "Tom Cruise" in that song, and it works perfectly, as apparently on The View





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Who's the craziest in the crazy club?

SCHIP is the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, which as you can learn in the following video, saves children's lives.



Right now it needs one more vote in the Senate to overcome a filibuster, we need to convince one Republican. Both of my Senators are Illinois democrats and are on board with this, so I tried to call them and they're busy because everyone is calling. If you have a Republican senator, especially one who is not evil and wants good things for children, call them and tell they you want them to help save the children's lives like Bethany who would be dead. Do it, please, help is win this.

Find your Senator's names and numbers and call them now.  If we all call they cannot not pass it, because they represent us.  Also call Harry Reid and tell him to make any Republicans who want to filibuster it do it for real, make them stand on the Senate floor with urine running down their fancy suit legs while they try to keep reading the phone book and stop us because they cannot do it they do not have the will that we do.  Mitch McConnell can't stop us, he doesn't have the bladder fortitude, and neither do the rest of the brain trust of evil and death.  As soon as they sleep, when they go to bed, we, the forces of good will convene the Senate and vote and they can't stop it!

U.S. President George W. Bush re-enters the White House East room to say goodbye to staff and friends after his primetime address in Washington, January 15, 2009. Bush on Thursday defended his actions to avert a collapse of the financial system and protect America from another terrorist attack as he mounted a farewell bid to polish his troubled legacy. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)

"And I turned to one of my editors — First I said, “Oh, my God.” And he said, “What?” And I said, “You’ve got to see this picture of Bush. This is really stunning.” And I flipped it over to him to process and his first reaction was, “Wow.” And I said, “If he wasn’t just back there behind that door crying, I don’t know what that look on his face is.” Because he just looks absolutely devastated as he comes through this door after essentially ending his eight year presidency. And it’s just really striking. He just looks absolutely devastated."

If these aren't enough to make you pity the man, nothing is.

President Bush, center, answers questions from the media while standing with, from left to right, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Vice president Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers, after a meeting on his ranch Monday, Aug. 23, 2004 in Crawford, Texas. Bush summoned his defense team to his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas to map strategy on Iraq. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

I'm so glad the Bush Administration is over, but this whole story is so fascinating.  Ex-president Bush is a human being, and these pictures and the discussion with them reveal that in a very important way.  I believe he was a mediocre man thrust into the most important job in the world, a job that he was almost entirely unable to handle, and due to that lack of ability, he abdicated his power to older, more determined men like Cheney and Rumsfeld, with disastrous consequences.  But nonetheless, ex-President George W. Bush is a person, and as a person, he deserves my consideration, and I think, my pity.  It must have been hard to try to be President and not know how. 

RUSSIE, ODINSOVSKY: US President George W. Bush (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin wave as the two presidents go for a ride in Putin’s 1956 Volga before dinner 08 May 2005 at the his residence outside of Moscow. Bush hailed Russia’s “bravery and sacrifice” in defeating Nazism, as he met Putin ahead of ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Bush, who the previous day criticized the decades-long Soviet occupation of central Europe, said he was looking forward to the 09 May ceremony on Moscow’s Red Square, to be attended by over 50 national leaders. (Tim Sloan/Agence France-Presse)

VINCENT AMALVY: I selected it because it was like the end of the Cold War. Is it a picture of typically what can happen during an official meeting between an American and a Russian? But this is the completion of the Cold War.

ERROL MORRIS: Yes. We were on the verge of annihilating each other, and this is how it ends. Tens of thousands of nuclear warheads targeted at each other followed by a ride in a ’56 Volga.

VINCENT AMALVY: The picture was really a huge success. And I liked it.

ERROL MORRIS: And then there was the shadow of Bush. Images can be interpreted in a myriad of different ways, but here he’s a ghost haunting the United Nations.

This why we win:

( Full text of Obama's announcement below the cut. )

If anyone ever makes a biopic for this man:

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They need to get this man to play him:

From For Web Use

It only makes sense. Neither of them really did anything wrong!

And they both have luxurious hair!

(Spoiler protection: I have only seen the first two episodes of BSG season 4, so please don't spill any beans on here that I wouldn't know. Or any beans, really, since others read this too. Thanks)