archenemy

you will be assimilated As you should be. Don't like your own country anymore? Find one that you like better? Super. Move there, learn the language, and do as the Romans do. It's worked more or less for centuries. It is when groups of people refuse to fit in (I don't mean automatons--so don't take it to that level) that there are problems. You want to live somewhere like the motherland? Stay there. Don't come (insert country) and think shit like female circumcision, child labor, slashing forheads, forced marriage, inappropriate clothing, whatever is going to fly. the Barbarians are at the gate. hellow Vandals, thanks for the Burqas! Don't be dense. Chosing to move to another country is completely differnt than being invaded. Come on, keep up. I expect more from you.

I think of it as beautiful, especially in the written form. Especially in the formal, caligraphy form that I cannot write in.

you will be assimilated As you should be. Don't like your own country anymore? Find one that you like better? Super. Move there, learn the language, and do as the Romans do. It's worked more or less for centuries. It is when groups of people refuse to fit in (I don't mean automatons--so don't take it to that level) that there are problems. You want to live somewhere like the motherland? Stay there. Don't come (insert country) and think shit like female circumcision, child labor, slashing forheads, forced marriage, inappropriate clothing, whatever is going to fly.

Totally beyond fucked up. Along with the Arabic language class comes a bunch of stuff about their culture. And although I can say that the language is beautiful and the Koran is all nifty, their social beliefs/behaviors should not (and cannot--no one else from a country with freedoms will take their shit) be exported.

I don't remember who made the comment about marriage being a decision that you make everyday. I call bullshit on that one. You already made that decision when you said that you agreed to stay by that other persons side forever. No more decisions are valid after that promise.

I think it is so cool that you had a Ford Falcon!

Muslims move into a country and then want to force their shitty belief system on their host country. Call me un-PC, I don't give a crap. They cause unrest wherever they go. They don't want to become a part of the culture they move into, they want to force everyone around them to accept their fucked up beliefs.

Can't be beat.

I won the pumpkin carving contest at work! Yay!!!

frank zappa was a freak No he wasn't. back in the day when pubic hair was still cool

Great Hockey movie. Anyone? Anyone?

Forgive me your Honor, I'm fat.

Is it mine?

I have no experience with this diet so I am not speaking from experience nor knocking it from a scientific standpoint. But over a billion people live on rice as their main food source, and they seem to be all right. They live longer than we do, that's for sure. Many, many cultures live on bread as their main source of food. They've been okay for centuries. Pasta I don't know about; but I haven't met too many unhappy Italians. Plus, they are good in bed. So when I hear about cutting out main food groups of stuff people have eaten for centuries, I have to wonder. When people talk about cutting out the stuff that has been developed recently (which seems to coincide with our recent fat-ass health problems), they seem to be making sense. IOW: "Don't eat rice" What? "Don't drink soda pop" Right. Got it. Thanks. From my own experience, I can say that I have gotten fat over the last couple years due to increasing my caloric intake, increasing my sugar intake, and decreasing my activity levels. As much as I'd like to think drinking maple syrup in water for two weeks is going to fix that, I know better.

Working in IT is so satisfying that people actually do it for free. Getting feedback is the best part of the process. The appreciation and positive feelings always make me wet.

The Wall?

I am actually called by my username.

I still don't get the smiley thing. At least I got a title out of the deal.

All these exciting things go on about me when I am not around. I carved two pumpkins for my office carving contest today. I am so happy that I get to enter a contest. All I have eaten today is candy. Want to ride bikes? I love Halloween!

I am sure you didn't miss my point. We all know the difference, but the "joke" is always made. It's just sad. And tiresome. And unfair to really good men.

POTD

I know this is tongue in cheek, but it always bothers me that men who are obviously in love with a woman and states it clearly in many different ways is usually called "pussy-whipped" or "hen-pecked" in one way or another before long. It is a sad comment on our society--the same society that continually enforces monogamy. I think it puts men in an unfair, sexist, and harmful double-bind.

Technically, all credit needs to be approved before being issued.

That's great. I love this: “The real story — how well the response and recovery elements are working in this disaster — should not be lost because of how we tried to meet the needs of the media in distributing facts.” Meeting the needs of the media? That's a FEMA goal?

I am addicted to cheese.