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gwydion* (RM found), "Gabourey Sidibe is an Elle covergirl." This makes me so happy: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/10/gabourey-sidibe-is-an-elle-covergirl/
* (RM found), "Gay Soldiers Escort Gaga to VMAs." I still don't like her music, but she's won me over otherwise: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/09/12/Gay_Vets_Escort_Gaga_to_VMAs/
* The deficit dropped 8% in Obama's first year. People who are employed pay taxes. They buy things on which taxes are paid and the money goes to pay wages at the shops and the places that made the things and those people pay taxes on their wages and buy stuff, etc.. This is why stimulus money is actually better for the budget than tax cuts for the rich, which mostly go into savings. The Republicans are threatening to shut down the government after the election if it can't get it's tax cuts for the rich. Meanwhile, folks like Leiberman are saying they won't vote for small tax cuts for the middle class if they can't have the huge tax cuts for the super rich. It's like none of them understand economics. A stronger economy will still give the super rich more money to put into savings, but the economy tanks if the folks in the middle and bottom have nothing to spend. It's an investment. If the rich pay their share in taxes and it gets spent on things like social security and unemployment Insurance, it comes back in profits as those people spend it on things they need.
* I got opinion polled again. I get polled extensively every month or so, so this is not interesting in itself. What fascinated me was that the poor college student sounding woman polling me, was so tangled by some of my answers, she had to get her supervisor. I could hear the older women whispering things like "Ask if he's an independent." I flashed on the ventriloquist scene from Chicago. I felt sorry for the poor pollster anyway, as I'm a classic cantankerous PNW voter with opinions not shown to best advantage in opinion polls and I kept making her spell out the names of politicians and corporations as she sounded congested and things like Pete ans Steve sounded identical. Honestly, I feel bad for anyone polling for elections around here, given the local character and political make up. It can't be fun. This one wasn't a push poll, but they had a whole battery of marketing questions for/against the proposed Cherry Point Port on top of the usual who are you going to vote for and which issues do you care most about right now stuff. Also, I clearly need to research the fuck out of this Port before election time.
* Last night I hit the obligatory transfail Norman Bates Forever Knight episode. I must have seen it two or three times previously, but somehow, I repressed the memory each time. I think it helps to forget it, that it's the episode right before the gear up for the run for the series finale and the impact of the episode right after it is so big, it wipes away the bad taste the crappy episode leaves behind if you're watching one a week instead of several in a night. Sigh.
* Today, waiting in line for the locker room, I thought about the whole swimwear issue. Underneath it all, it feels like a debate about whether or not my body is inherently obscene.
* On the BPAL board, there's been discussion related to people who have something "switch on" when they are in dangerous situations that means even after they are not in danger, they have heightened smell, vision, and hearing. There's a police officer who smells whether a suspect's going to fight or flee, and an Iraq war veteran who can smell all kinds of things related to pregnancy. The police officer uses the smell thing proactively, much like I used mine when I was teaching. They sound so like me, that I'm now wondering if they simply aren't filtering. I'm now wondering if anyone's studying this, because it could give real insight into some of the brain function differences common with SID and Autism. Here are neurotypical people, who's brains under stress start doing something SID like. It might me nothing like, or it might be a big step towards answering some of the questions about alternative brain design and development. One would need a bigger sample and some brain imaging equipment at minium, but it's suggestive.
* I applaud Mr. Stewart for contrasting the measured and moderate words of the community center Imam with the slanted way it got covered in the news.
* I finally got a good look at Lady Gaga's Meat dress. O.o http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/assets_c/2010/09/104036852-thumb-420x620.jpg
* (RM found), "Gay Soldiers Escort Gaga to VMAs." I still don't like her music, but she's won me over otherwise: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/09/12/Gay_Vets_Escort_Gaga_to_VMAs/
* The deficit dropped 8% in Obama's first year. People who are employed pay taxes. They buy things on which taxes are paid and the money goes to pay wages at the shops and the places that made the things and those people pay taxes on their wages and buy stuff, etc.. This is why stimulus money is actually better for the budget than tax cuts for the rich, which mostly go into savings. The Republicans are threatening to shut down the government after the election if it can't get it's tax cuts for the rich. Meanwhile, folks like Leiberman are saying they won't vote for small tax cuts for the middle class if they can't have the huge tax cuts for the super rich. It's like none of them understand economics. A stronger economy will still give the super rich more money to put into savings, but the economy tanks if the folks in the middle and bottom have nothing to spend. It's an investment. If the rich pay their share in taxes and it gets spent on things like social security and unemployment Insurance, it comes back in profits as those people spend it on things they need.
* I got opinion polled again. I get polled extensively every month or so, so this is not interesting in itself. What fascinated me was that the poor college student sounding woman polling me, was so tangled by some of my answers, she had to get her supervisor. I could hear the older women whispering things like "Ask if he's an independent." I flashed on the ventriloquist scene from Chicago. I felt sorry for the poor pollster anyway, as I'm a classic cantankerous PNW voter with opinions not shown to best advantage in opinion polls and I kept making her spell out the names of politicians and corporations as she sounded congested and things like Pete ans Steve sounded identical. Honestly, I feel bad for anyone polling for elections around here, given the local character and political make up. It can't be fun. This one wasn't a push poll, but they had a whole battery of marketing questions for/against the proposed Cherry Point Port on top of the usual who are you going to vote for and which issues do you care most about right now stuff. Also, I clearly need to research the fuck out of this Port before election time.
* Last night I hit the obligatory transfail Norman Bates Forever Knight episode. I must have seen it two or three times previously, but somehow, I repressed the memory each time. I think it helps to forget it, that it's the episode right before the gear up for the run for the series finale and the impact of the episode right after it is so big, it wipes away the bad taste the crappy episode leaves behind if you're watching one a week instead of several in a night. Sigh.
* Today, waiting in line for the locker room, I thought about the whole swimwear issue. Underneath it all, it feels like a debate about whether or not my body is inherently obscene.
* On the BPAL board, there's been discussion related to people who have something "switch on" when they are in dangerous situations that means even after they are not in danger, they have heightened smell, vision, and hearing. There's a police officer who smells whether a suspect's going to fight or flee, and an Iraq war veteran who can smell all kinds of things related to pregnancy. The police officer uses the smell thing proactively, much like I used mine when I was teaching. They sound so like me, that I'm now wondering if they simply aren't filtering. I'm now wondering if anyone's studying this, because it could give real insight into some of the brain function differences common with SID and Autism. Here are neurotypical people, who's brains under stress start doing something SID like. It might me nothing like, or it might be a big step towards answering some of the questions about alternative brain design and development. One would need a bigger sample and some brain imaging equipment at minium, but it's suggestive.
* I applaud Mr. Stewart for contrasting the measured and moderate words of the community center Imam with the slanted way it got covered in the news.
* I finally got a good look at Lady Gaga's Meat dress. O.o http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/assets_c/2010/09/104036852-thumb-420x620.jpg
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Date: 2010-09-14 03:55 pm (UTC)I think a lot of people don't realize that SID and autism are still mental operating systems, not dysfunctions without reason.
I am still trying to figure out GaGa's reasoning for the meat dress. Making statements is great, but how does the meat dress relate to gay rights? I thought she might be comparing herself as a vegetarian to queer people, saying that queer people being constrained by DaDT and anti-marriage laws is similar to forcing vegetarians to glorify/sell/adorn themselves with what they are most strongly against.
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Date: 2010-09-14 04:25 pm (UTC)I have no idea about the meat dress.
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Date: 2010-09-14 04:29 pm (UTC)