Monday, November 26, 2007
you know what bugs the hell out of me...
when people have gift registries at certain places. that's so fucking stupid to me....
my weekend...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
The Similarities between Afghan and Japanese Culture.
1. We both love tea.
2. We both believe in Filal Piety or that hte male is the head of the nuclear familiar
3. we both LOVE Kotatsus
4. we both love really corny dramas.
5. We both pick out husbands for our daughters.
2. We both believe in Filal Piety or that hte male is the head of the nuclear familiar
3. we both LOVE Kotatsus
4. we both love really corny dramas.
5. We both pick out husbands for our daughters.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Holy crap, new Gorillaz is AWESOME!
go listen now or die!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=13700208
P.S. for those of you who don't know I'm a very big fan of the Gorillaz and LOVE their music to death....
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=13700208
P.S. for those of you who don't know I'm a very big fan of the Gorillaz and LOVE their music to death....
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I lied! I do love surprises!
My brother, **the black one** just surprised me by visiting us from Riverside! how cool! I wonder how long he's staying and if he vrought halo 3 or not?...
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Now playing: Cake - The Distance
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Now playing: Cake - The Distance
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It's only $1.6 trillion
WASHINGTON - The economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to total $1.6 trillion — roughly double the amount the White House has requested thus far, according to a new report by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee.
The report, released Tuesday, attempted to put a price tag on the two conflicts, including "hidden" costs such as interest payments on the money borrowed to pay for the wars, lost investment, the expense of long-term health care for injured veterans and the cost of oil market disruptions.
The $1.6 trillion figure, for the period from 2002 to 2008, translates into a cost of $20,900 for a family of four, the report said. The Bush administration has requested $804 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined, the report stated.
For the Iraq war only, total economic costs were estimated at $1.3 trillion for the period from 2002 to 2008. That would cost a family of four $16,500, the report said.
Future economic costs would be even greater. The report estimated that both wars would cost $3.5 trillion between 2003 and 2017. Under that scenario, it would cost a family of four $46,400, the report said.
The report, from the committee's Democratic majority, was not vetted with Republican members. Democratic leaders in Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., seized on the report to criticize Bush's war strategy. The White House countered that the report was politically motivated.
"This report was put out by Democrats on Capitol Hill. This committee is known for being partisan and political. They did not consult or cooperate with the Republicans on the committee. And so I think it is an attempt to muddy the waters on what has been some positive developments being reported out of Iraq," said White House press secretary Dana Perino. "I haven't seen the report, but it's obvious the motivations behind it."
The report comes as the House and Senate planned to vote this week on another effort by Democrats to set a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq as a condition for providing another $50 billion for the war.
Reid said the report "is another reminder of how President Bush's stubborn refusal to change course in Iraq and congressional Republicans' willingness to rubber stamp his failed strategy — has real consequences at home for all Americans."
Perino, while acknowledging the dangers in Iraq, defended Bush's stance.
"Obviously it remains a dangerous situation in Iraq. But the reduction in violence, the increased economic capacity of the country, as well as, hopefully, some continued political reconciliation that is moving from the bottom up, is a positive trend and one that we — well, it's positive and we hope it is a trend that will take hold," Perino said.
Israel Klein, spokesman for the Joint Economic Committee, took issue with the White House's characterization of the panel's report.
"Instead of dealing with the substance of this report, the White House is once again trying to deflect attention away from the blistering costs of this war in Iraq," Klein said. "This report uses the nonpartisan CBO (Congressional Budget Office) budget estimates and was prepared by the JEC's professional economists using the same process this committee has always used, regardless of which party is in the majority."
However, the committee's top-ranking Republican members — Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Jim Saxton of New Jersey — called on the Democratic leadership to "withdraw this defective report." A joint statement from the two Republican lawmakers said the report is a "thinly veiled exercise in political hyperbole masquerading as academic research."
White House Budget Director Jim Nussle accused Democrats of "trying to distort reality for political gain."
Oil prices have surged since the start of the war, from about $37 a barrel to well over $90 a barrel in recent weeks, the report said. "Consistent disruptions from the war have affected oil prices," although the Iraq war is not responsible for all of the increase in oil prices, the report said.
Still, the report estimated that high oil prices have hit U.S. consumers in the pocket, transferring "approximately $124 billion from U.S. oil consumers to foreign (oil) producers" from 2003 to 2008, the report said.
High oil prices can slow overall economic growth if that chills spending and investment by consumers and businesses. At the same time, high oil prices can spread inflation throughout the economy if companies decide to boost the prices of many other goods and services.
Meanwhile, "the sum of interest paid on Iraq-related debt from 2003 to 2017 will total over $550 billion," the report said. The government has to make interest payments on the money it borrows to finance the national debt, which recently hit $9 trillion for the first time.
The report was obtained by The Associated Press before its release. An earlier draft of the report, which also had been obtained by The AP, had put the economic cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars slightly lower, at $1.5 trillion.
"What this report makes crystal clear," said Joint Economic Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., "is that the cost to our country in lives lost and dollars spent is tragically unacceptable." Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the panel's vice chair, said of the Iraq war: "By every measure, this war has cost Americans far too much."
India is hella crazy!
proof:
Article:
Man in India Marries Dog to Atone for Stoning to Death Mating Canines
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
NEW DELHI — Selva Kumar had been hounded for 15 years by the memory of a horrible act he'd committed as a teenager.
As an 18-year-old he had stoned and clubbed to death two dogs he found engaged in mating. He then hung their carcasses from a tree.
That's when his personal suffering began.
"After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear," Kumar told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
Kumar, now 33 and living in the southern Indian district of Sivaganga, could no longer take the physical pain of the "dog curse," so he sought the advice of an astrologer.
Her cure for his maladies?
"Marry a dog."
Which is just what Kumar did on Sunday.
In a ceremony befitting a beautiful Indian bride, the bitch, a former 10-year-old stray named "Selvi," was bathed and dressed in a ceremonial orange sari with a garland of flowers adorning her neck. She was then brought to the temple in Tamil Nadu to be presented to Kumar by members of his family.
Kumar, sitting beside his bride, recited his marriage vows, declaring, "I will take care of it until its death." Then, the "couple" was declared married.
Deeply superstitious people in rural India sometimes organize weddings to dogs and other animals, believing it can ward off certain curses.
The Hindustan Times reported Kumar's family hosted a feast — while Selvi dined on a bun.
No word on where the couple would honeymoon or reside, or whether they had registered for gifts.
MY INPUT: Damn bestiality is hella weird. I mean who would marry a dog I mean you know the bitch is gonna die withing like 4 or 5 years tops anyways. That is, unless it(she?) runs away. would that be considered divorce? and plus how would you know if the dog would intentionally be committing adultery when you can't really ask her for her thoughts, now can you? And what would Kumar do if his wife attacked and killed a cow? stone her?
Article:
Man in India Marries Dog to Atone for Stoning to Death Mating Canines
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
NEW DELHI — Selva Kumar had been hounded for 15 years by the memory of a horrible act he'd committed as a teenager.
As an 18-year-old he had stoned and clubbed to death two dogs he found engaged in mating. He then hung their carcasses from a tree.
That's when his personal suffering began.
"After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear," Kumar told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
Kumar, now 33 and living in the southern Indian district of Sivaganga, could no longer take the physical pain of the "dog curse," so he sought the advice of an astrologer.
Her cure for his maladies?
"Marry a dog."
Which is just what Kumar did on Sunday.
In a ceremony befitting a beautiful Indian bride, the bitch, a former 10-year-old stray named "Selvi," was bathed and dressed in a ceremonial orange sari with a garland of flowers adorning her neck. She was then brought to the temple in Tamil Nadu to be presented to Kumar by members of his family.
Kumar, sitting beside his bride, recited his marriage vows, declaring, "I will take care of it until its death." Then, the "couple" was declared married.
Deeply superstitious people in rural India sometimes organize weddings to dogs and other animals, believing it can ward off certain curses.
The Hindustan Times reported Kumar's family hosted a feast — while Selvi dined on a bun.
No word on where the couple would honeymoon or reside, or whether they had registered for gifts.
MY INPUT: Damn bestiality is hella weird. I mean who would marry a dog I mean you know the bitch is gonna die withing like 4 or 5 years tops anyways. That is, unless it(she?) runs away. would that be considered divorce? and plus how would you know if the dog would intentionally be committing adultery when you can't really ask her for her thoughts, now can you? And what would Kumar do if his wife attacked and killed a cow? stone her?
Damn it's hot!
ugh the day started out crapp-ily.
I awoke in Clara's**Clara is the codename I use for my super awesome cheetah print blanket that's fake mink. :)** warm embrace by my father bellowing out my name to wake my ass up for school. I looked at the time. Only 7. nice. That left enough time to get to Ms. Fallon's by like 7:10 and go over my group's handout with her. So since I wanted to save time by skipping breakfast I improvised by eating a fun size M&M's and Snicker's bar that I had got the day before at a mysterious 75% percent off sale yesterday. Which is mysterious because everyone knows that candy doesn't expire, at least not to me. :). As I got to the car I realized that I hadn't looked at myself in the mirror to check/fix my hair status. I had hella nappy hair. Oh well, I was too laz to go to a water fountain and pour water for the rest of the day so I officially declared today nappy headed hoe day. :). Of course I was the only one celebrating but still! So I got Ms. Fallon to look at my handout and got that done. So I went to meet up with da peeps and of course totally blasted my entrance in hopes that someone would notice me with my traditional, "Bitches be goin' crazy" call. Just as we got to the door of APUSH Patrick realized he left his books where we usually hang and ran back to get them while drew and aviva walked towards first and I walked into history. and GOD was it boring, I almost fell asleep**Again** and thankful Mr. Brown recognized that bcuz as I left he was telling some kid about how he didn't think his lecture went too well today. I'd agree considering I spent the entire class hour doing english homework that was due next period. In English we talked about our project, nothing exciting. AVID held just another tutorial. Psyche held another Jeopardy in which today's reward was candy and both people who sat in a vertical line behind me loved Dots as much as me so I gave them some of mine when I got a question right. We**the group** spent lunch at the "piano" aka death room. and to our surprise Danielle was there. AWKWARD. bitch hella kept to herself, and good riddance to her! Me Aviva and Tristan played the Vagina game in which we replaced words in movie titles with the word vagina. that was fun too. then lunch was over and Drew called Vincent's bitch ass and asked him why he didn't come to school and how he lost a bet with me because of it. then we all said our hellos and goodbyes **in a manner of speaking** then me and patrick went to math. HELLA boring once again. Then in Bio we got our quizzez back and lets just say I did better than I thought I would do... **14 out of 22 all guesses btw!** then I went to math to do a retake cuz yeah I'm bad at math get over it. and then michelle came in and asked about her phone, I guess she got caught, oh well... then I escaped and met up with my peeps and went home... and had candy for lunch. :) man I'm tired as hell... but no! must stay awake....
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I awoke in Clara's**Clara is the codename I use for my super awesome cheetah print blanket that's fake mink. :)** warm embrace by my father bellowing out my name to wake my ass up for school. I looked at the time. Only 7. nice. That left enough time to get to Ms. Fallon's by like 7:10 and go over my group's handout with her. So since I wanted to save time by skipping breakfast I improvised by eating a fun size M&M's and Snicker's bar that I had got the day before at a mysterious 75% percent off sale yesterday. Which is mysterious because everyone knows that candy doesn't expire, at least not to me. :). As I got to the car I realized that I hadn't looked at myself in the mirror to check/fix my hair status. I had hella nappy hair. Oh well, I was too laz to go to a water fountain and pour water for the rest of the day so I officially declared today nappy headed hoe day. :). Of course I was the only one celebrating but still! So I got Ms. Fallon to look at my handout and got that done. So I went to meet up with da peeps and of course totally blasted my entrance in hopes that someone would notice me with my traditional, "Bitches be goin' crazy" call. Just as we got to the door of APUSH Patrick realized he left his books where we usually hang and ran back to get them while drew and aviva walked towards first and I walked into history. and GOD was it boring, I almost fell asleep**Again** and thankful Mr. Brown recognized that bcuz as I left he was telling some kid about how he didn't think his lecture went too well today. I'd agree considering I spent the entire class hour doing english homework that was due next period. In English we talked about our project, nothing exciting. AVID held just another tutorial. Psyche held another Jeopardy in which today's reward was candy and both people who sat in a vertical line behind me loved Dots as much as me so I gave them some of mine when I got a question right. We**the group** spent lunch at the "piano" aka death room. and to our surprise Danielle was there. AWKWARD. bitch hella kept to herself, and good riddance to her! Me Aviva and Tristan played the Vagina game in which we replaced words in movie titles with the word vagina. that was fun too. then lunch was over and Drew called Vincent's bitch ass and asked him why he didn't come to school and how he lost a bet with me because of it. then we all said our hellos and goodbyes **in a manner of speaking** then me and patrick went to math. HELLA boring once again. Then in Bio we got our quizzez back and lets just say I did better than I thought I would do... **14 out of 22 all guesses btw!** then I went to math to do a retake cuz yeah I'm bad at math get over it. and then michelle came in and asked about her phone, I guess she got caught, oh well... then I escaped and met up with my peeps and went home... and had candy for lunch. :) man I'm tired as hell... but no! must stay awake....
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Now playing: Pinback - Fortress
via FoxyTunes
ZOMG it's so late!
I really should be looking over hose damn lectures... anyways, I'll do a proper intro tomorrow. But for now I need to read! **and shower**
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Now playing: System of a Down - Toxicity
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