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State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting

SEIU 1000, by the way, represents (amongst other people) the teachers who are teaching your children. Clearly they've decided to set an example for our children on dispute resolution.

I had a jolly time at Faeriecon this weekend despite having some malingering ick; got to see Charles de Lint and Charles Vess both of whom were delightful, see some lovely art (Vess is a wonder, really enjoyed Jasmine Beckett-Griffith and PurpleTopHat designs,wear the Hat With A Motherfucking Boat On It, listen to beautiful music, got to meet ParrishRelics! (yay miss you already!) and use Lush bath bombs where I did not have to clean out the tub. (0)

I also got to see lots of SJ Tucker, whose concerts were exquisite and her bandmate Betsy from Tricky Pixie made it all even lovelier. SJ does a goosebump and chill with beauty version of "Tam Lin" which everyone should hear during this lifetime, preferably in a faerie friendly spot. Wonderful,-travel safee s00j and I can't wait for Confusion!

Got to see lots of lovely people including Sihaya09, all beautiful and all kind.

Now I am doing unmagical laundry, but I feel a bit more sparkly anyway.


(0) This may make me a bad person, but I didn't use anything egregious.

PLEASE if anyone has any information on active lawsuits against Ocwen Financial (particularly related to mortgages) contact me ASAP.

I point out this video so we can have a friendly 3-minute reminder how a bill becomes a law. This is important since last night, Nancy Pelosi managed to get her version of the health care reform bill passed through the House of Representatives through a metric shitload of arm-twisting, and then only by the skin of her teeth: Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House

The vote was 220 to 215 in the house. Remember that Democrats outnumber Republicans 258 to 177. And also remember that not a single Republican voted for the bill (Update: One did: Rep. Cao (R-LA), who broke ranks after arm twisting from Obama on Louisiana reconstruction funds)--which, if you are into reading constitutional tea leaves means this is purely a political vote by the Democrats to placate the base. There is no way a real bill actually intended to be passed into law would be passed through a straight party vote with DNC defectors. (The political reality is that there are Republican districts whose voters want health reform--so if the intent was to actually pass this bill, there would be a non-zero GOP vote.) Because politics is local and fuzzy and unpredictable, it's clear this straight-party vote was done as a fundraiser issue rather than as a real attempt to pass health care reform.

(Reminder: "fundraiser issues" are issues for which there is strong support by members of the party, but where there is no intent at the national level to change the status quo. So, for example, abortion is a "fundraiser issue": there is no way the abortion status quo or Roe v. Wade will ever change (beyond in very small, insignificant ways)--yet the threat of overthrowing Roe v. Wade fills both DNC and GOP coffers with tons of re-election cash.)


Further, the Senate is also considering it's own version of Health Care. So unless the Senate drops the Senate Bill and adopts the newly voted-on House Bill verbatim (requiring two separate motions, one to adopt and one to pass), it is inevitable that whatever bill eventually passes the Senate (if anything does) it must go to a joint House/Senate committee to reconcile the two separate bills into a single bill. And the reconciled bill then goes back to the House and Senate for another floor vote--and if either bill is modified in a way which doesn't match the other, we go back into the joint reconciliation committee, and around and around and around...

The Senate is of course a wild card in this: the DNC only has a 60-vote caucus that is theoretically filibuster proof because Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn) has chosen to caucus with the DNC. And guess who has threatened to filibuster health care reform if it contains a public option?


Naturally the one advantage of a House vote (even a straight line party vote) is that it brings us one step closer to a compromise bill. And theoretically in the reconciliation process we can move to a place where a better bill (rather than the crap being tossed around now) can be hammered out--or the shortcomings can be advertised sufficiently to allow health care reform to be stopped at little cost to the DNC, who has (thanks to Nancy Pelosi's arm twisting) has gone "all-in" with health care reform containing a public option.


If this bill ever passes it will be a marathon--and we're only passing the second mile marker.

About my HOT GUYS album in my facebook photos here.So as usual let me explain for those that don't get things right off the bat.
This list is not a list of who I "think I can't get".I'm actually very shy and if I see even a unfamous cute guy I don't even get the nerve to talk to them.Some of the people in the photos are friends of mine and I don't even see them in a sexually attractive way.Just in a pleasing aesthetic way because I like their style or the effort they have put into their bodies.I don't consider myself a "catch" or even attractive,I'm not my type I think girls like Betty Page and Szandora are "sexy".I don't get up in the morning and think wow I'm GREAT.It's so the opposite of that.I'm very self conscious and the only reason I am able to model is because I just say fuck it.And I also realize I'm being photographed for the oddity factor not for a sexiness factor.
What I find hugely hypocritical is that men can post photos of totally naked,stick thin,or ultra sexy and big breasted women and say something like "that's a real woman" or "I'd like to get with her" and nobody says anything.These are the same guys that see somebody like me and call me ugly behind my back,or make fun of fat girls or anything outside of a Bro Ho type or what ever type they are attracted too.They can put things like "NO Fat Chicks Allowed" and it's considered cute and funny.
Yet when I say something to the effect that if you aren't what I consider attractive don't hit on me at all.
And let me clarify what I call hitting on me.I'm not talking about "Hi you are pretty" kind of hitting on a girl.I'm talking about lurid unwelcome comments about what they want to do to you,constant pestering you to talk to them,never mind the fact most of my time online is spent dealing with art business in some form or another,I'd like to put that aside to hear unwelcome date or worse sexual innuendo or proposals.If I'm not interested I try and ignore them and if it doesn't stop I politely state so,which like this is 12 grade gets me thought of as a bitch.I don't know why I have to apologize for what I consider ascetically pleasing or what I look for personality wise.And I also seem to be a total CUNT because I expect a mate to be able to pull his fair share money,emotionally,goal and work wise.
Well excuse the fuck out of me.

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• 10:16 Utterly DOOMED. Wife suggested we go to the "Z--O--O--" Aiden looks up and says, "ZOO! Z--O--O--" Come on people... 3! And got the spelling! #
• 10:48 No, not broken. Just some fun number geekery that @livingartist and I both like watching for. twitpic.com/omk2y #
• 11:09 Indian summer in St. Louis. 73 and beautifully clear out. twitpic.com/omn8t #

P.S. Anyone notice the posting time? It's relevant.

I have a shitload of Thomas Carlyle and related stuff to read today, on which I must write a response paper by tomorrow night, and all I want to do is find a cool new Wolverine icon and read comic books.

Sigh.

I need some help. Well, actually my wife needs some help. I just deployed to Iraq from Ft Stewart, outside of Savannah. Leaving is always rough on the family, but my wife has a boyfriend to help get her through it. But that's the problem, her boyfriend isn't being a lot of help. But I've had a horrible time finding any kind of contacts in our area, we're looking for some kind of poly group in/around Hinesville or Richmond Hill, or in Savannah where she can meet mature men who are looking for more than just sex.

And ideas?
Thanks.

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• 10:23 So hard to post something as my last update to Twitter was #2000. Looks like I'm in for at least another 999 after this one. #
• 10:48 How much trouble do I get in when I realise that I can categorise the following unit of measurement equation: 1 millimile = 1 courtney #
• 17:51 Pagan employee fired for being "A Devil Worshiper" after taking Samhain off. Manager to get federal foot up the ass: tr.im/EnPw #
• 01:53 Pushed thru meds haze. Stayed awake long enough to intercept boy's early wake up. Just need to wait him back down. Then try to sleep myself. #

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I've just spent all day finalizing my first round of APPIC internship applications. It's like applying to grad school all over again, and it's really exhausting. I have several more cover letters to write, but I've met my initial deadline. Score one for progress!

I've been so busy working on these applications that I haven't had much time to process what happened at Fort Hood. schlaukraft is an army brat from Fort Hood. Her father was career military. The fact that a psychiatrist and an officer committed that atrocity boggles my mind. The man was tasked with an oath to protect his men and to do no harm. he worked his entire life to be in a position to help people. He heard tragic stories of war directly from the mouths of soldiers who he later killed. It's beyond despicable. I can't even imagine how something like that would happen. The press said that he was taunted, but he is not in high school. He's not a member of the Trench Coat Mafia. A man in the mental health profession should know when to get help. I'm stunned and outraged.

I have long had plans to return to Austin to start my practice. Part of that plan has been to run a low cost PTSD support group for veterans up in Killeen near Fort Hood. I've spoken with many vets, and they have all said that they would rather get psych treatment outside of the VA because of concerns that their careers might be affected if they work within the VA. I feel for the families of those who have died and for the soldiers who were traumatized due to the acts of this selfish man. It helps knowing that I can be of assistance to the troops in the future.

Looks like I won't get much rest this weekend. Tomorrow and Sunday I will be in an all day class on Swedenborgian mysticism. I am very much looking forward to it. Having classes like that as electives is one of the wonderful things about going to school at CIIS.The downside is that I will be working through the weekend. I will have to somehow fit in my reading for my classes on Monday as well. I'll get it done, but I expect to be exhausted by this time next week.