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11:45am Saturday January 19, 2008
Left eye was done on Wednesday, no real problems. I'm now 20/20 uncorrected, vision is excellent.
No more glasses, at least for another 10-15 years or so.
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12:16am Wednesday February 1, 2006
This is a test...
Well, I'm trying something new. I'm making this blog post from some client software called Crosspost that will crosspost (hence the name) my blog entry to both MySpace and LiveJournal. Whee!
Posted by Crosspost! software.
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1:19pm Thursday January 5, 2006
Agree or don't, but read all the way through this article. It is well-written, and discusses some very real reasons The West as a society is poised to crumble this century.
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To avoid collapse, European nations will need to take in immigrants at a rate no stable society has ever attempted. The CIA is predicting the EU will collapse by 2020. Given that the CIA's got pretty much everything wrong for half a century, that would suggest the EU is a shoo-in to be the colossus of the new millennium. But even a flop spook is right twice a generation. If anything, the date of EU collapse is rather a cautious estimate. It seems more likely that within the next couple of European election cycles, the internal contradictions of the EU will manifest themselves in the usual way, and that by 2010 we'll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on American network news every night. Even if they avoid that, the idea of a childless Europe ever rivaling America militarily or economically is laughable. Sometime this century there will be 500 million Americans, and what's left in Europe will either be very old or very Muslim. Japan faces the same problem: Its population is already in absolute decline, the first gentle slope of a death spiral it will be unlikely ever to climb out of. Will Japan be an economic powerhouse if it's populated by Koreans and Filipinos? Very possibly. Will Germany if it's populated by Algerians? That's a trickier proposition.
Best-case scenario? The Continent winds up as Vienna with Swedish tax rates.
Worst-case scenario: Sharia, circa 2040; semi-Sharia, a lot sooner--and we're already seeing a drift in that direction.
In July 2003, speaking to the U.S. Congress, Tony Blair remarked: "As Britain knows, all predominant power seems for a time invincible but, in fact, it is transient. The question is: What do you leave behind?"
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If only a million babies are born in 2006, it's hard to have two million adults enter the workforce in 2026 (or 2033, or 2037, or whenever they get around to finishing their Anger Management and Queer Studies degrees). And the hard data on babies around the Western world is that they're running out a lot faster than the oil is. "Replacement" fertility rate--i.e., the number you need for merely a stable population, not getting any bigger, not getting any smaller--is 2.1 babies per woman. Some countries are well above that: the global fertility leader, Somalia, is 6.91, Niger 6.83, Afghanistan 6.78, Yemen 6.75. Notice what those nations have in common?
Scroll way down to the bottom of the Hot One Hundred top breeders and you'll eventually find the United States, hovering just at replacement rate with 2.07 births per woman. Ireland is 1.87, New Zealand 1.79, Australia 1.76. But Canada's fertility rate is down to 1.5, well below replacement rate; Germany and Austria are at 1.3, the brink of the death spiral; Russia and Italy are at 1.2; Spain 1.1, about half replacement rate. That's to say, Spain's population is halving every generation. By 2050, Italy's population will have fallen by 22%, Bulgaria's by 36%, Estonia's by 52%. In America, demographic trends suggest that the blue states ought to apply for honorary membership of the EU: In the 2004 election, John Kerry won the 16 with the lowest birthrates; George W. Bush took 25 of the 26 states with the highest. By 2050, there will be 100 million fewer Europeans, 100 million more Americans--and mostly red-state Americans.
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The refined antennae of Western liberals mean that whenever one raises the question of whether there will be any Italians living in the geographical zone marked as Italy a generation or three hence, they cry, "Racism!" To fret about what proportion of the population is "white" is grotesque and inappropriate. But it's not about race, it's about culture. If 100% of your population believes in liberal pluralist democracy, it doesn't matter whether 70% of them are "white" or only 5% are. But if one part of your population believes in liberal pluralist democracy and the other doesn't, then it becomes a matter of great importance whether the part that does is 90% of the population or only 60%, 50%, 45%.
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12:55pm Thursday January 5, 2006
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking
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2:54pm Monday October 31, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9874588/
Democrats are quick to criticize choice of Alito as ‘needlessly provocative’
"It is the finding of this court that the defendant is guilty. And ugly. And his mother is a whore."
How's that for needlessly provocative, eh?
Mood:  amused
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4:39pm Saturday October 29, 2005
"When [the Bush administration] could have listened to General Shinseki and put
in enough troops to maintain order, they chose not to. They were wrong."
""General George Casey, our top military commander in Iraq, recently told
Congress that our large military presence 'feeds the notion of occupation' and
'extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to
become self-reliant.' It is essential to acknowledge that the insurgency will
not be defeated unless our troop levels are drawn down."
Senator and unsuccessful Presidential candidate John F Kerry, in the same
speech.
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11:29pm Sunday October 23, 2005
Umm....did I mention I sold my condo? I got the check on Friday.
New car on Saturday (Honda Pilot).
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8:41am Friday October 14, 2005
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Then it's fun and games without depth perception!
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10:02am Wednesday October 12, 2005
"Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?"
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12:40am Monday October 10, 2005
I am cow!
I am cow, hear me moo
I weigh twice as much as you
And I look good on the barbecue
Yogurt, curd, cream cheese and butter’s
Made from liquid from my udders
I am cow, I am cow, hear me moo (moo)
I am cow, eating grass
Methane gas comes out my ass
And out my muzzle when I belch
Oh, the ozone layer is thinner
From the outcome of my dinner
I am cow, I am cow, I’ve got gas
I am cow, here I stand
Far and wide upon this land
And I am living everywhere
From B.C. to Newfoundland
You can squeeze my teats by hand
I am cow, I am cow, I am cow
I am cow, I am cow, I am cow!
Music: Arrogant Worms - I am Cow
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11:25pm Friday October 7, 2005
Didn't see that coming...
 | You scored as The Operative. You are dedicated to your job and very good at what you do. You've done some very bad things, but they had to be done. You don't expect to go to heaven, but that is a sacrifice you've made for a better future for all.
The Operative | | 75% | Hoban 'Wash' Washburne | | 69% | Inara Serra | | 56% | River Tam | | 50% | Simon Tam | | 50% | Kaylee Frye | | 50% | Jayne Cobb | | 50% | Zoe Alleyne Washburne | | 44% | Shepherd Derrial Book | | 44% | Capt. Mal Reynolds | | 44% | </td>
Which Serenity character are you?
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8:20am Thursday October 6, 2005
"You are not dying from this disease. You are living with this disease. Until it kills you. And then you'll be dead."
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11:45am Thursday September 29, 2005
"We're not religious people, but we can't deny God gave us these voices."
Ahh, Ben Stiller Show. Why did you leave?
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10:12pm Sunday September 25, 2005
If you see this in a friend's journal, quote Shakespeare!
ROMEO AND JULIET
This shall determine that!
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11:28pm Saturday September 17, 2005
Sold!
In seven days, over asking price. So awesome.
Mood: exuberant
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5:44pm Thursday September 15, 2005
Happy day...I just found out that they've made a sequel to one of my favorite Xbox games. Out next friday is Midway's "The Suffering: The Ties That Bind", just in time for Halloween.
Can't wait.
Mood:  excited
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12:16am Wednesday September 14, 2005
le sigh.
Mood:  gloomy
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12:46am Saturday September 10, 2005
I've been searching for this song for months. It's playing during the opening of the Smallville episode 'Insurgence' from season 2.
Artist: Theory of a Deadman
Title: Invisible Man
Enjoy!
Mood: rockin'
Music: Theory of a Deadman - Invisible Man
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3:00pm Friday September 9, 2005
“I did not think he was ready for the concept of why it’s sometimes okay to sneak up behind a security guard, in his own country, and shoot him in the back of the head, because he was working for an uncontrolled party in possession of a dangerous weapon.”
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5:57pm Monday August 29, 2005
I just bought a Roomba Discovery. That thing is so cool! I programmed my universal remote, so now I don't even have to get up from the couch to tell it to clean my house.
I have deep, thick carpet and a dog who sheds a mountain of fur every day, but that isn't even slowing this little guy down.
Mood:  impressed
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