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2009-08-13
still working on the next Europe trip
sitting at home enjoying family time
and right now watching the Smallville series (on season 2 right now - where clark kent talks to clark kent (chistopher reeve))
still need to find decent twitter importing application that will automatically use cut tag n stuff.
(from Cracked.com)
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What the Fuck is That?
Imagine that the stresses of life finally get to you and, after months of depression you snap. You make that final decision: You're going back to Australia again.
Having left a note behind for your loved ones and doling out your worldly possessions to your heirs, you go swimming in the oceans around northern Australia. You catch glimpse of something glimmering in the water. It's moving.
It's chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous species of box jellyfish. You are about to get what you came for.
What's this Funny Feeling?
The chironex's venom is fast-acting and multi-purposed. It goes after the nervous system, heart and skin at the same time, in a multi-pronged attack of horror.
Will I Be Alright?
There is an antidote to the chironex venom. Do you happen to have it in your hand, there in the middle of the ocean? No? That's too bad, because a person can be killed within four minutes of the sting.
Congratulations, you can await the sweet, sweet embrace of death.
Because if I declare my age before boarding, then that will allow airlines to determine whether or not i'm an insane murderer/terrorist.
i'm sure of it.
every knows the TSA stuff doesn't work anyway.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Beginning Saturday, many air travelers will be asked their birth dates and genders when making airline reservations.
The new travel rules are the latest "visible" expansion of the Secure Flight program.
It's the latest "publicly visible" expansion of Secure Flight, a program that transfers responsibility for checking air passengers' identities from the airlines to the federal government, the Transportation Security Administration said.
The change keeps the agency on track to assume responsibility for ID checks on all domestic flights by early next year, according to the TSA.
Currently, the airlines check passenger identifications against lists of suspected terrorists. But the 9/11 Commission said the job was better suited for the federal government, which compiles the "terror watch lists." Government control increases security, according to the TSA, while reducing the number of instances in which innocent people are mistakenly confused with possible terrorists having similar or identical names.
In May, the federal government began the first public phase of "Secure Flight" when four small airlines began asking passengers to provide their names, as the names appeared on the government-issued IDs they would be traveling with, when making reservations.
Since then, additional airlines have begun asking for full names, TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne said, though she declined to say how many airlines are participating for security reasons.
The new change requires travelers to provide three pieces of information when making reservations: the passenger's full name as it appears on the government-issued ID they will be using, their birth date and their gender. The airline will transmit that information to the TSA, which will compare it to a "no-fly" list of people prohibited from flying or a list of "selectees" who can fly after they pass additional physical screening.
If passengers are not asked for this addition information, they should not be concerned, as it will not affect their travel, the agency said.
Early efforts to create the Secure Flight program were beset by problems, including program delays and complaints of privacy breaches. Finally, in 2006, after the TSA spent more than $130 million and four years on the system, then-TSA Director Kip Hawley ordered a complete overhaul of the program and dropped plans to check passengers' names against commercial databases, one of the most contentious features of the program.
"Secure Flight is a key tool in confirming that someone identified as a 'No Fly' does not receive a boarding pass," TSA acting Administrator Gale Rossides said in a statement Wednesday. "Secure Flight will make travel safer and easier for passengers."
The TSA says it plans to vet 100 percent of passengers on all domestic commercial flights by early next year and 100 percent of passengers on all international commercial flights by the end of 2010.
Eight Percent of North Carolinians Don’t Consider Hawaii ‘Part of the United States’
The new Public Policy Polling survey of North Carolina, which finds that only 54 percent of the state’s voters know that President Obama was born in the United States, also finds that only 92 percent are absolutely sure that the mysterious state of Hawaii counts as American soil. Only 27 percent of McCain voters say that Obama was born in America, and only 89 percent of McCain voters count the Aloha state as part of the United States.
The poll is here (PDF); results are below the fold.
For the record, Hawaii was annexed by the United States on July 6, 1898, and it became the 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959.
rock n roll.
it's going to be for a performance - a bondage performance.
i want music that would go with a scene that kind of depicts something akin to domestic violence.
the music doesn't have to be about about violence itself, but i want a hard, pounding beat (no pun intended)
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at this point i'm thinking about somehow mixing in some jefferson airplane - somebody to love.
zeppelin - whole lotta love ?
eagles - one of these nights
all in the reverse order.
(i'm going to get beat up in this show)
eagles would be good for the intro part where he 'demos' the bondage on me and i'm somewhat interested.
then the zeppelin starts when i try and leave the stage but get thrown back to get forced...
edit:
HAH !!
nugent - stranglehold!!!