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Snakes On A Plane! What else do you need to know? How the snakes get on the plane, what the snakes do once they’re on the plane, who puts the snakes on the plane, who is trying to get the snakes off the plane…This is not for you to ponder. There are snakes on the plane. End of fucking story. I’ve got to see this movie. Samuel L. Jackson kicks snake butt. Hey, do snakes even have butts? I don’t know. Picture it… you’re flying in coach wedged between a guy who’s coughing like a tuberculosis patient and an over-dressed woman who wants to engage you for the next three hours with her desperately boring life story. There’s a kid kicking your seat back and a baby howling in the row in front of you. The flight attendants are surly and slow. The in-flight meal was a bag of peanuts and some warm, flat soda, which are synergistically chewing a hole in your stomach. And the plane is in a patch of turbulence. You want to use the rest room, if ...

In the grand American tradition of kicking them while they’re down, President Bush made a Proclamation last week that suspends the minimum wage laws for workers in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Hell of a thing to do to people who have lost everything and want to rebuild. Here it is, right from the horse’s mouth, Whitehouse.gov. Proclamation by the President: To Suspend Subchapter IV of Chapter 31 of Title 40, United States Code, Within a Limited Geographic Area in Response to the National Emergency Caused by Hurricane Katrina http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050908-5.html Bush is even extending the Emergency Declaration to many states that took in refugees. Like New Jersey??? President Approves Emergency Declaration For New Jersey http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=19001 Here is a list of the five major companies getting contracts in the area. FEMA Contracts to Provide Housing Relief for Displaced Hurricane Victims http://www.fema.gov...

I finally got around to seeing Heart of the Beholder . The movie was very engaging. It follows Mike and Diane Howard from before the birth of their first child. Their hopes for a better life are realized when Mike’s gamble of opening a video store blossoms into a popular video store chain. That’s where the problems begin. A local religious splinter group targets the Howard’s video store chain for offering blasphemous videos such as Tom Hanks’ “ Splash “. When Mike refuses to cave to their demands, their leader blackmails the DA into inventing charges against them. There are death threats against Mike’s little girl, and things get just plain ugly. Eventually justice prevails, but it’s too late. The weight of the legal expenses crushes the Howard&’s dreams. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but how the Howards get revenge is hilarious. The movie won the Bluegrass International Film Festival “ Director’s Choi...

Career Interest Inventory Take Stock of What You Really Like to Do banth, based on your responses, your top career area is Engineering Careers in this field often demand that you be exceptionally creative, and think “outside of the box.” Enjoying an engineering career means having an insatiable curiosity for figuring out how things work. Having an interest in developing your math and spatial skills helps too. Most likely, you’re interested in not just taking things apart but putting them back together again. But my mommy wanted me to be a ballerina…

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In the current political usage, “elite” usually means “educated” in the sense of being well-rounded intellectually. THAT is what we are struggling with. It’s people who want to learn it for themselves vs. people who would rather take someone else’s word for it. Spirituality vs. blind faith. Evolution vs. stagnancy. Proactive vs. reactive. We’re back to that objective observer thing again. (I’ll come back to this later.) Do you examine yourself and the world you live in, or do you sit around waiting for someone to pour meds and the opiate of the masses into your head?

Got bored at lunchtime and went surfing in Germany for Concept Cars . Geplante Modelle Fox Microvan , Mikrovan Marakkesh , evtl. auch Beduin, Geländewagen auf Golf -Basis, soll kleiner Bruder des VW Touareg werden (2007) Microvan , Van , soll in den USA auf Basis des VW T5 gebaut werden (2006) VW Microbus , soll 2007 der Nachfolger des VW Multivan werden Scarab (Mistkäfer) Mikrogeländewagen sollte in den Asia auf der Grundlage VW New Beetle (2007) gebaut werden This little VW Scarab sport-utility vehicle should be built on the New Beetle undercarriage. Looks pretty cool. We aren’t likely to see them in the US.

If there’s no global oil shortage, why is it necessary to go to extremes like extracting oil from shale ? For years now they’ve been using water to flush out the dregs from near-depleted oil wells. It seems pretty obvious. There was a gas crisis in the mid-70’s where they went to even-odd day gas rationing. I think I’d just gotten my drive’s license, so it might have been in 1974/5. In 1979 there was another. A couple of times I got into gas lines early in the morning, only to be sent away when the gas station closed at 10 AM. It was bad. I wound up quitting my job, siphoning the last gallon of the gas out of my car into my motorcycle, and looking for a job closer to my house. At a huge reduction in pay. It didn’t matter that I could afford the price hike – gas just wasn’t available! At this point I have a Classic Prius. It still uses gasoline, but it doesn’t gulp it. I’m hearing reports that people are cancelling their...

I have to get this out before it rots my head. Stuff happens. “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.” — George W. Bush, to Diane Sawyer. It didn’t take a Nostradamus to know this could happen. National Geographic predicted the New Orleans disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina in October, 2004. Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. When did this calamity happen? It hasn’t – yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire...

I see that Dubya has nominated dark horse John Roberts to succeed Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Roberts has little experience as a judge, though the press was quick to point out that he has argued cases in front of the Supreme Court. I’m a bit worried about his coded description, “reputation for goodwill and decency,” which probably means he will put his own morals ahead of precedent, ahead of civil rights, and even ahead of the Will of the People. I bet Anthony Scalia is disappointed – but if you want to get a conservative agenda in place for the long term you need to appoint young Supreme Court Justices. This article in the Washington Post, To Some, “Chief Justice Scalia” Has a Certain Ring , gives a good run-down on the logic of it. For the White House, promoting Scalia, an opponent of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion, would be a large political plus with the Republican Party’s conservat...

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I suppose I’ll go in to work today for an hour or so. The ADHD got the better of me of Friday and I burnt out at about 5PM. But before I go in, I think I’ll surf the Internets. Let’s see who is linking to me. The Bipolar Planet has been in existence since 1995 but has only been at this URL for a couple of years. I don’t advertise very well, I’m afraid. To see who links to me on Google, I type link:intothevoid.us . Try it for your site. Google has news feeds! Manic Digest looks kind of interesting – though I don’t see the linkback. Look at her cute little pout: I’m thinking high drama. Could be worth following. Of course I’m listed on the Pendulum Resources Bipolar Pholks page. Pendulum was the first ever bipolar web page, formed as an information repository for the email list of the same name. I’m glad to see that BPSO has found my new address. This is the absolute best place on the web for SOs of bipolars. Ah, yes...

A Worm a Day Keeps the Doctor Away . “We believe that this research will lead us to develop a new ways of preventing and treating asthma and anaphylaxis, which can then be extended to treat inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis,” says Dr Fallon. I’ve heard other reports of intestinal parasites helping keep common immune disorders under control. Let me know how it works out for you.

I do not have the words to express my anger over the lack of response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Too little, too late, they are saying. I would be a much harsher critic. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill ( NAMI ) is responding to the needs of the mentally ill caught in the chaos. Donations are needed to help finance this important work. Are you a consumer caught in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina without meds and without the resources to replace them? Are you trying to help a displaced mentally ill person? Please go to the NAMI | Hurricane Katrina Resource Guide . You’ll find hints on getting replacement meds – even if you’ve been relocated out of state. Dear Leslie, Thank you so much for your generous gift on 09/03/2005 in the amount of $—– to NAMI, the Nation’s Voice on Mental Illness. With your support, we are building a future of recovery, respect, and opportunity for people with severe mental illness. You w...

IOL: Inventor of rape device prepares for launch A controversial device, which its inventor claims clamps itself to a rapist’s penis forcing him to seek medical treatment and be revealed to the police, will be launched by a South African woman on Wednesday. The “Rapex” device is inserted into the vagina by a woman who feels she is at risk of rape, and if she is attacked, small burr-like teeth will attach themselves to the tip of the rapist’s erect penis, explained inventor Sonette Ehlers. As he withdraws and becomes flaccid, it is only possible to remove the device by surgery, Ehlers said ahead of a launch and demonstration at Kleinmond near Cape Town. This works better than one of those electric dog training collars. Update, 9/24/2005: In retrospect, what kind of a life is it when a woman practically expects to be raped on her way back from the grocery store? This article from Amnesty International is a chilling summary of the state of human rights in South Afr...