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Have I not been saying that the educational system sucks? Why yes. Yes, I have. Here’s one reason why. Of course, the young woman mentioned is only in business school, so perhaps a command of the English language and the ability to spell aren’t really necessary. I couldn’t say. Here’s the link:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/74207
Item #2:
Tina Fey is okay. PBS, not so much anymore.
http://thedailywh.at/post/1591991996/controversial-remarks-of-the-day-yesterday-it
>Yes, this is the longest URL in history, but at least it’s clickable. An interesting read.
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I have been invited to have my blog syndicated here:
Now, I know my blog says it is about life with fibro, but in reality it’s more about religion and politics and just ranting in general. Of course, if I hadn’t developed fibro and CFS, I seriously doubt I would have started blogging in the first place. So if this works out, I will make an effort to post a bit more about the illness part of life, (and not just to whinge about it, either) and we’ll see how it goes.
I realize I don’t really like talking about it too much, or focusing on it, because I am NOT my illness, and I don’t want that to be the definition of who I am. I am a person who has an illness. It is not MY fibro, MY CFS, it’s not how I identify myself to myself.
I’m not one of those people who go from doctor to doctor, or medication to medication, hoping for a miraculous cure. Everything I’ve read says there isn’t one yet, and I am not going to waste my life in a futile quest. I accept that I am ill, I accept that I have limits that I did not have before, but I don’t focus on that. I focus on…truthfully, this is the focus of my life…..having fun every single day. Laughing every day.
I firmly believe that NOW is all there is, and if I spend NOW wishing things were other than they are, trying to make them be other than they are with no real hope of success…if I do those things, I will MISS now. Not going to let that happen. I study zen Buddhism, in a completely non-religious way, and focusing on the now is a primary idea.
Oh, dear. Did not sleep at all last night so have been up 36 hours or so. Can you tell? I do tend to go on a bit when I’m over-tired. LOL Later, dear readers.
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Don’t skip the comments. I love reading comments, myself.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/11/919572/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up
Edited to add:
I normally don’t worry about things over which I have no control, but the whole Tea Party winning thing has got me feeling slightly anxious. I haven’t gotten a raise in Social Security for two years. Rent has gone up, costs of heating, food, electricity, and just about everything else in life HAVE gone up. If I hadn’t developed two chronic, debilitating illnesses (fibro and CFS) I would still be working at the job I loved, and was actually pretty darn good at. It’s not my fault I’m in the situation I’m in. But the new ‘Ins’ want to blame me, and make my life even harder, and the lives of themselves and their uber-rich friends even better than they already are. I love America, where money rules, and the national slogan is “I’ve got mine, so screw you.”
>Moron man was on tv, people.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/9/919163/-Worst-moment-of-Bush-being-in-office
>Read this. It’s good.
This week in crazy: George W. Bush – This Week in Crazy – Salon.com
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I read today.
1. Scientists mapped notoriously drug-addled rocker Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA and found genetic mutations they’ve “never seen before.
2. A boa in a pet store in Tennessee has reproduced asexually. And its offspring have a bizarre genetic makeup that scientists have never seen before.
Is this what has happened to America? Genetics have gotten somehow screwed? Does this explain why so many people voted Republican? It’s genetic mutation of the brain caused by too much right-wing rhetoric? I don’t have a better answer. Do you?
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Stick a fork in me, I’m guilty. I know, I know. That makes no sense. That’s me. I’m not sleeping much, or well, again. Very shaky when I got up this morning. Not going to make it to vote, even though I really, really want to. I messed up and wasn’t able to get the absentee ballot, and I don’t have the means or the energy to get to the voting place, so crap. I do try to be a responsible citizen. I felt guilty for a very long time after I moved here, because I have no way to recycle, which I was always big on before. But things are the way they are.
So then I got into a huge discussion with my homemaker. We started talking about being gay. She thinks the world is evil and that’s why there are gay people and lions eat meat, and a lot of really odd (to me) things. So we went from gays to religion and what the bible says, and then on to children and how you go about teaching them to make good choices. It got kind of heated, but not angry. It was fun to have a really good go-round with someone. Don’t get to do that very often. No one to argue with in a friendly way. Or any way, for that matter.
The thing is, we touched on the Asperger’s issue, too, and now I’m wondering if maybe me thinking it was a friendly and fun discussion/argument thing, maybe she doesn’t see it that way. Like this has never happened to me before. I never really get why people don’t take things the way I mean them, and seem to put completely ‘out there’ (to me)interpretations on them. Once I mentioned to a friend that I found a recipe for hollandaise you make in the blender. “It has mayo, doesn’t it.” she said. No, no mayo. We discussed it a bit and later she mentioned the argument we’d had about the hollandaise. What argument? See. How do I not see things others see?
I used to think I was scatter-brained, or just plain dense, or that something was wrong with me, but I was just too stupid to know what it was. I guess it’s good to have a possible explanation for it. Like everything in my life, too little, too late.
I’m tired, and out-of-sorts, and just needed to whine, dear readers. Hmmm. Do I actually have any dear readers? Ah, well.
>It’s mostly cloudy today, and cool. If it rained, I missed it, but…..a while ago I was on the phone when I glanced out the window and saw a rainbow. Against a cloud. It was only the center arc, but it had broad bands of color and was beautiful. It faded in just a few seconds, but I saw a rainbow. Yes, I’ve seen rainbows before, even double and once a triple one, but I still got excited. Woo Hoo.
The second thing from here:
Four questions for Republicans…and four answers for undecided voters
by Jed Lewison
Fri Oct 29, 2010 at 10:40:03 AM PDT
Questions:
1. What was the average monthly private sector job growth in 2008, the final year of the Bush presidency, and what has it been so far in 2010?
2. What was the Federal deficit for the last fiscal year of the Bush presidency, and what was it for the first full fiscal year of the Obama presidency?
3. What was the stock market at on the last day of the Bush presidency? What is it at today?
4. Which party’s candidate for speaker will campaign this weekend with a Nazi reenactor who dressed up in a SS uniform?
Answers:
1. In 2008, we lost an average of 317,250 private sector jobs per month. In 2010, we have gained an average of 95,888 private sector jobs per month. (Source) That’s a difference of nearly five million jobs between Bush’s last year in office and President Obama’s second year.
2. In FY2009, which began on September 1, 2008 and represents the Bush Administration’s final budget, the budget deficit was $1.416 trillion. In FY2010, the first budget of the Obama Administration, the budget deficit was $1.291 trillion, a decline of $125 billion. (Source) Yes, that means President Obama has cut the deficit — there’s a long way to go, but we’re in better shape now than we were under Bush and the GOP.
3. On Bush’s final day in office, the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 closed at 7,949, 1,440, and 805, respectively. Today, as of 10:15AM Pacific, they are at 11,108, 2,512, and 1,183. That means since President Obama took office, the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 have increased 40%, 74%, and 47%, respectively.
4. The Republican Party, whose candidate for speaker, John Boehner, will campaign with Nazi re-enactor Rich Iott this weekend. If you need an explanation why this is offensive, you are a lost cause.
The moral of the story is this: if you vote Republican, I hope you enjoy Election Day — because you’re not going to like what comes next.
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Got out of bed today…chilly
Got out of shower…..freezing
Closed windows.
That nice summery weather is gone again. Nice while it lasted, though.
Here’s a little something I came across today:
Fictive Rest: The inability of many people to fall asleep until after reading even the tiniest amount of fiction.
I have that. Found it here:
Here’s a quote I like:
“Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.” Jimmy Wales
I so hope I’m among the reasonable, rather than the jerks.
Took an Asperger’s test I found on a friend’s blog. The result:
Your Aspie score: 140 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 65 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Not sure what it means. Going to retake the test and see what I get today. I’ll let you all know, dear readers.
>In Fahrenheit 451, America in the future is a clusterfucked society and a nation of dimwits.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18787_6-books-everyone-including-your-english-teacher-got-wrong.html
>to stuff you wish I’d stop posting, but I wont. Not sorry about that. LOL
The first two are about what they say they are about. The third is about the Republican pledge, the fourth is just darn funny, some of the comments especially.
http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx
http://factcheck.org/2010/09/factchecking-the-pledge/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1
Bill Maher interviews Pat Tillman’s brother:
>About that test I took yesterday. I was kind of interested to realize that I was pleased when I skewed way over to the male side. Why? I think I don’t really like girls/women that much. From the time I started school, I always hung out with the boys. They were more fun, played better games. Girls seemed catty and petty and superficial. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I wanted that freedom that males in our society have. My brother got to do a lot more fun things than I did. He got to learn to swim. My sister and I didn’t. He got to make messes in the back yard while working on his bike. I had to stay in and help CLEAN. Ewwwwww. Different expectations based solely on gender. So, my peeps, I have been musing on this. It has occurred to me, way too late, as most things in my life have been, that I spent most of my life trying to be something I was not. I was not cut out to be a wife and mother. I hate housekeeping, I don’t love cooking, I can’t sew, I own an iron, but haven’t used it ever.
I love when I finally, finally figure things out. Life is a never-ending learning experience. That’s what makes it so great.
I was a terrible mother. Ask my DDs if you don’t believe me. Why? I didn’t have a clue. I grew up with an alcoholic father and our lives were constant chaos and upheaval. My mom did the best she could, but really, we had no normality to our childhoods, and therefore no idea how to parent. I’m much better at things now. Too little, too late.
I wanted to be an explorer, a jet pilot, a cowboy. All things girls didn’t even consider as possibilities when I was growing up. At least, not any girls I ever knew.
Someone said that maybe I don’t like being a woman. I don’t think so, was my reply. But I have never been girly. I do not like make up, dressing up, wearing skirts and dresses, heels and stockings, primping and fussing. I want to get up, throw on my jeans and shirt, and go. Life is waiting. Course now that I have this fibro thingy, it’s a moot point, but the feeling still lives within me.
I feel really happy to have realized something about myself that I wasn’t consciously aware of til I took that test.
I don’t wish I were a lesbian, I like men…I’d just rather be a guy, I think. Or else live in a world where I could just be me as I am. Which I can, except that I can’t.
If I’m not making any sense, well, I think I don’t care. I’m just enjoying putting this in black and white for myself. After a lifetime of always feeling out of place, like I didn’t belong and didn’t get the joke, I finally actually like who I am. I like me. I am happy. I have fun every day. All by myself, usually, just me and my computer. Also, it’s another gorgeously frabjous day. How can anyone not be deliriously happy just to be alive.
>Yes, DD’s, I did post this exact same stuff on my other blog.
First, I took this series of tests, and it turns out I AM A GUY! Who knew? I’m not even gay or anything. It was a lot of fun,though, taking the tests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml
And here are reviews of the BEST new show you are not watching, you silly people:
http://www.hitfix.com/tv/rubicon
It was a glorious, frabjous perfect autumn day today. Cool, sunny, white puffy clouds, although it did become overcast briefly around noon. Breeze wafting the curtains, and it was NOT hot and sticky. Let’s all celebrate.
>I found this on a blog I read. It left me shaking and angry and on the verge of tears and feeling sick to my stomach. I commented on the blog, and I can’t bring myself to comment again here. Decide for yourselves what kind of human beings you are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw9zJq0QGl0
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Today in Massachusetts, it is the first day of meteorological autumn. It is 95 degrees Fahrenheit with a dewpoint of 65. There is also a bad air alert. I’ve had the a/c on since Sunday.
On the other hand, I am having a good day. Sorted through some junk, and also through some papers in my desk. Did a little shredding. I like shredding. It’s fun. Not much pain today, so that’s a good thing, too. Yesterday I slept til after 2pm cause I had a headache and mucho leg pain. Today is better. That is all. LOL
>This is here because 1. I love the original song, and 2. this just makes me laugh and laugh.
strangely peculiar 