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August 1st, 2008
05:12 pm - McCain makes a Freudian slip to the Urban League
Updated to give the correct verbiage and more context:
"1.2 million businesses today, owned and operated by African-Americans, more and more, are no longer just specters, spectators, on the prosperity of our country, they are stakeholders...."
Gah. It's at 12:33 in this video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25968617/
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July 26th, 2008
06:56 pm
Ganked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) notgruntled
1.ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?
There's a scar on one of my toes. I was a kid, and another kid had gotten a crayfish that he put in the stream near where I would play. I went to look at it and stepped on a piece of glass. Four stitches -- a flap of toe was nearly cut off.
2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
Not much.
3. WHAT DOES YOUR CELL PHONE LOOK LIKE?
Red.
4. WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?
Lots of different stuff. Right now, I've glommed onto Audioslave and I'm starting on Daft Punk.
5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?
12:26pm.
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July 12th, 2008
07:23 pm - Have you led an interesting life?
Ganked from lauredhel.
You know the drill. Bold the ones you’ve done, leave an explanation in parentheses if you so desire.
I've also decided to italicise the ones that might be a bit borderline. I've no idea how many yeses constitutes an "interesting life", but the list is definitely more engaging than a Purity Test. Some of you may remember doing some of these things with me...
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
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July 10th, 2008
09:55 pm - Meme of the day
The rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.
The questions:
1. What is your first name? JoAnne
2. What is your favorite food? Lobster
3. What high school did you go to? Towson High
4. What is your favorite color? Purple
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Naveen Andrews
6. Favorite drink? 10 Cane Rum
7. Dream vacation? Amsterdam
8. Favorite dessert? Chocolate
9. What you wanted to be when you grow up? Scientist
10. What do you love most in life? Knowledge
11. One Word to describe you? Seeking
12. Your flickr name? jupiter9
1. from joanne*, 2. Lobster landing, 3. High Voltage, 4. Purple fingers, 5. Naveen Andrews, 6. 10 Cane Rum, 7. A rooftop view of Amsterdam, 8. coffee and chocolate mousse cake, 9. Scientists on a Lighthouse top, 10. The fountain of knowledge..., 11. Hide & Go Seek-2 year old style, 12. zenit412ls + jupiter9
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June 26th, 2008
06:01 pm - Mememememeeeee1
Via [Unknown LJ tag]:
Rules:
Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done.
Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.
1. Gone on a blind date with, and had to vigorously physically fend off, a guy who looked just like Charles Manson (minus the swastika).
2. Asked the docent at Monticello about a story I had heard that Thomas Jefferson used human manure to fertilize his fields, transported underground on a kind of "poop train." While wearing glasses that had one lens missing.
3. Sat at a lunch counter with John Waters.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/singing_sp.gif) cheerful
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June 23rd, 2008
11:20 pm - New userpic
My friend lignamorren, who is an awesome artist, created this userpic for me. He does very kewl pictures of slugs in various activities. Since I've been doing a lot of exercising, I wanted something that reflects that, and he put my slug on an elliptical machine. I can't believe how natural it looks. This is one of the best gifts I've ever gotten. Kisses!
He and another friend of mine have a weekly comic up called Explosive Bolts which I definitely recommend.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/hyper_sp.gif) bouncy
Current Music: NIN, "The Great Destroyer," remix by Modwheelmod
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June 15th, 2008
June 14th, 2008
08:49 pm - Pengwinz
Also posted to all_macros:
moar funny pictures
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June 7th, 2008
08:42 pm - Meme
SCATTERGORIES… It’s harder than it looks!
When you are done, send it on to everyone who likes games, including to the person who sent it to you. Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following… They have to be real places, names, things…nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.
[I'll use my LJ name since it's got the same initial]
What is your name……….. Jupiter9
Four Letter Word…………. Junk
Vehicle………………. Junk (ha!)
City……………………… Jacksonville
Boy Name…………… Jerod
Girl name…………… Janine
Drink…………………… Juice
Occupation…………. Jumpmaster
Something to Wear……… Jumper
Celebrity…….........…. Janet Jackson
Food………………… Jellybeans
Something found in a bathroom………. Jews
Reason for Being Late…………………… Jugglers were blocking the parking garage entrance
Cartoon Character……………. Jimmy Olsen, boy reporter
Something You Shout……………. Jumping Jehosophat!
Animal………………. Jackass
Word to describe you…. ...... Jovial
Disease........................ Jaundice
Element ....................... Jam of the Universe
Movie ........................... Jezebel
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/silly_sp.gif) silly
Current Music: 867-5309
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May 15th, 2008
03:55 pm - Racism, sexism, idealism, and miracles
I was never really involved in actual "movements." I went to a couple of marches and stuff, took Women's Studies classes, but didn't go to meetings or hang out. I'm not a social kind of person, and most groups of any kind turn into little Peyton Places. Not my scene.
Instead, I read a lot of anti-racist and anti-sexist books and magazines. I therefore got a "purified" vision of what those movements really meant. Sure, there was still overt sexism in the anti-racist stuff, and there was usually some overt but more "accidentally exclusionary" racism in the anti-sexist stuff.
But I remember reading Ms. with all the interesting Black and Lesbian and Native American and Hispanic and international articles and fiction, and thinking, this is great, they're not leaving out women who aren't White, or even American.
So when I got into the big bad blogosphere where people were saying how the Women's Movement ignores people who aren't White, I felt some cognitive dissonance. I had been taking the movement at their word. And it's unfortunately confirmed my instinct that you can trust many books, and many ideas, but people in general are lying sacks of shit, will cheat and hurt each other for the smallest reason or no reason at all, that every group becomes cliquey and mean and self-serving and blindly bigoted.
On a friend's blog there was a discussion of if White people should police themselves rather than having non-White people tell them when they're being racist. That racism is the "property" of the racist and racists can recognize it and clean it up themselves.
We discussed whether one needs empathy to detect and get rid of racism. I think it's not, and in that thread I said that you don't have to have a personal stake in whether racism makes non-White people feel bad. You just have to see that it's not fair. It's illogical. It's like taking a bunch of pencils of all colors and throwing away all the blue ones, or using them only to prop the window open or stick in a fan to make noise.
Where I'm going with this is that I think there's a lot of complaining by people that they are being forced to care about other people that they don't really care about, groups they don't want to "fight for." That everything is a zero-sum game and they need to belong to a team and fight some other team for resources.
And I'm saying that's not necessary. Just don't be illogical. Don't be stupid. Keep your mind and heart a sewer if you want, but you know when you're being prejudiced, so just don't act on your prejudices. Drop the team shit.
I think a lot of parents discover that they raise less sexist and less racist children just by keeping their fucking mouths shut with the sexist and racist comments. Act, and the feelings will follow -- maybe not for you, though I think it eventually does. But for those who don't have the feelings burnt into them, the actions and feelings will be in harmony.
It's a sort of miracle, really. The despised "political correctness," even if your heart is filthy with sexism and racism, even if you conform to it with great resentment, results in something good. When the parent or adult messes up and says the horrible thing, the child is shocked and dismayed, and that may even shock and dismay the adult into behaving better.
The magazines and books I read hid a lot of the real racism and sexism of the movements they were representing from me, so I learned and absorbed the ideal, and not the reality of the shitty racist and sexist people who wrote them and said "but really you can't trust a woman/black/hispanic/$foo."
I'm glad I wasn't part of those movements. Idealism has a value. It transmits ideals. Don't lose it.
Current Mood: quixotic
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May 14th, 2008
May 13th, 2008
07:37 pm - top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users
Ganked from multiple sources.
bold for read books, underline for books read in school, and italics for started but didn't finish.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/confused_sp.gif) compare-ey
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07:21 pm - Who's "stalking" you on Facebook?
http://gawker.com/390004/whos-stalking-you-on-facebook
Go to the search box on Facebook (not here on Livejournal) and type in a period. You will see the names of five people in a dropdown. Why were those particular users picked? Are they the people who have searched for you, or viewed your entries, most often?
It is a mystery.
Current Music: "Right Where It Belongs," NIN
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May 7th, 2008
12:46 am - Hot for that
Blank courtesy of jeepchick_04:
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April 24th, 2008
11:05 pm - Ganked from Lauredhel
Not really sure this is me:
You Are a Colon
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You are very orderly and fact driven.
You aren't concerned much with theories or dreams... only what's true or untrue.
You are brilliant and incredibly learned. Anything you know is well researched.
You like to make lists and sort through things step by step. You aren't subject to whim or emotions.
Your friends see you as a constant source of knowledge and advice.
(But they are a little sick of you being right all of the time!)
You excel in: Leadership positions
You get along best with: The Semi-Colon
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April 23rd, 2008
01:49 am - Losing weight
Since October or November, I've lost about 25 percent of my body weight. I've gone from 280 pounds to 210; from size 28 to size 18 or 20. I weigh less than I did when I was in my second year of college, which was way back in 1979.
It's strange in a couple of ways.
First, way too many people have asked me, did I go on Jenny Craig? I guess it's popular. No, I went fish/veg. And I'm not hardcore. I will still taste bits of food that have non-fish meat in them, but never cook or buy or order it. Not even chicken, because I think it may be full of fat-making hormones. I eat sushi including two pieces of tamago (egg) once a week (I love octopus!). I eat less food and drink water more. I don't drink soda very often.
And I go to the gym six days a week, three days for 45-minute cardio, three days for 30-minute cardio plus 30-minute resistance/strength training.
Yes, diet and exercise. It is work. I am dedicated.
I have to be careful not to eat only carbs. That's apparently a common problem if you don't eat meat. Fortunately I like tofu. Unfortunately I have to actually cook it and should do so more often.
But as to what really happened? What made it possible? I don't know. I think something in my metabolism changed. I want less food. I don't want soda. I look forward to exercising most days. I don't know why or how. I look at candy and go "meh." I look at meat and don't want it.
My mother died in December but this started a month or so before that. I don't really know what is involved.
My doctor sees nothing wrong with me. I am in his words "a healthy woman" (put an Italian accent on that as he's Italian). Whatever.
Second, it looks funny in the mirror. Instead of looking bigger than I thought, which often happened before, I look smaller than I thought. The first time I tried on clothing in a store after losing about 35 pounds, my reaction was "is that what I look like?", because I don't have a full-length mirror at home and it just didn't match my "trying on clothes" look.
This weekend I had to get more to wear. I was running out of the same old stuff.
I found out I was able to go to regular stores and try on regular clothes. Large or Extra-Large, but lots of them fit. I have a totally new field of clothing to hunt in! I went to Forever 21 and bought two things. Unbelievable! JCPenney, two things. Target, FIVE THINGS.
I still get pants at the plus-size stores. I'm a super pear shape, my ass is still big, though it's an 18/20 ass, not a 26/28 ass. What can I say. But XL, or even some L tops, fit.
The downsides, which are not horrible:
1. I have extra skin. I hope it will eventually shrink up, and my collagen or elastin or whatever will kick in. My plan is to wait a year after I stabilize at whatever weight seems to be my destiny, to see if things get better. But if it doesn't, I'm considering measures. I don't want to be a *lot* floppier than I was when I was fatter. I am vain. So be it.
2. I feel bad about all the clothing I own that doesn't fit. I can give it away, but I think maybe I can sell some of it on eBay -- at least the "new with tags" stuff. Some of it I never wore! I was the same size for years and years, and had a "deep bench" of clothing for any season. Now I'm struggling to find things that don't look like I'm nine years old trying on Mommy's clothing. I have some favorite pieces that don't fit and I'm pissed off about those.
If you're size 26 or 28 and might want some of my clothing, let me know. I'll give it to you for the cost of shipping. Tell me what styles and colors are good for you. I'm a blonde Winter/cold Summer, mega Pear shape, if that tells you anything.
3. I weigh myself twice a day -- at home in the morning, at the gym at night. Home weight is about five pounds less than gym weight because of clothing and shoes. I only record it every five days. I still am on alert if I gain rather than lose. I try not to obsess.
Super Strong Disclaimer: I know there are people for whom diet and exercise don't seem to work. What is working for me is not going to work for everyone. I never really tried to lose weight before. I've never been the kind to restrict calories or input. Apparently my body can do it. Others' can't.
I hate fat-shaming as much as I hate slut-shaming. So please, none of those kinds of comments, not that I expect them from any of my friends.
Current Music: "Kinda I Want To", NIN, _PHM_
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April 6th, 2008
02:28 pm - Rickroll has peaked
If you don't know what Rickroll is, go here. Then marvel at this, the result of YouTube Rickrolling its entire audience on April 1:
Nielsen BuzzMetrics' BlogPulse Top 5 Videos*
1. "Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up"
2. "Rick Roll"
3. "RickRoll'D"
4. "Penguins"
5. "Larry Page and Sergey Brin on Virgle"
*The most-linked-to videos for April 2, 2008
If you must, watch the video here
Current Mood: perky
Current Music: do you have to ask?
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March 31st, 2008
04:28 pm - Patriarchal Entitlement Murder/"Suicide"
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-slayings0331,0,2651729.story
The father of three children who were found drowned in a bathtub in the 10th floor room at the downtown Baltimore Marriott yesterday was charged this afternoon with three counts of first-degree murder and numerous other offenses, city police said.
Mark Castillo, 41, faces 15 charges related to the deaths of Anthony Castillo, 6; Austin Castillo, 4; and Athena Castillo, 2. The charges were filed at 1 p.m. after he was treated for minor self-inflicted wounds and an overdose of pills at a city hospital, police said.
According to police charging documents, the bodies of the children were placed in the same hotel bed. He then tried to stab himself several times in the neck with a steak knife and then "consumed upwards of 100 Motrin pills to further his success in his suicide attempt," the charging documents state.
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Amy Castillo, in the midst of a bitter custody battle with her husband, filed for a protective order on Dec. 25, 2006.
"He has never actually hurt them," she wrote of the father's relationship with the children in documents filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court. "But [he] did tell me that the worst thing he could do to me would be to kill the children, and not me, so I could live without them."
In January the next year, a Circuit Court judge denied Amy Castillo's request for a permanent restraining order, and Mark Castillo continued regular visitations with his three children.
This is on the heels of another such incident in Baltimore, where a man threw his child off a bridge and then failed a suicide attempt in another bitter custody dispute.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.bridge15feb15,0,5163537.story
A West Baltimore man has emerged from a coma and confessed to throwing his 3-year-old son off the Key Bridge into the Patapsco River, Maryland Transportation Authority Police said yesterday.
After his confession Wednesday, police obtained an arrest warrant charging Stephen Todd Nelson, 37, with first-degree murder.
Police have not recovered the body of the boy, Turner Jordan Nelson, but said the search will continue indefinitely.
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Despite having established visitation rights, Nelson complained in February 2006 that he was being prevented from seeing his son on weekends. A month earlier, Johnson had requested full custody of Turner on grounds that his father saw the child only "when it is convenient for him," documents say.
I know there are a lot of fathers out there who want to share custody of their children, or even feel they really do deserve full custody because of problems the mother has. But damn, this shit has nothing to do with the children and everything to do with the perpetrator's feelings of entitlement.
Apparently when a particular kind of man feels he's failed at something, he has to take everyone with him, like the ancient Egyptian rulers, as if they are his belongings and not separate entities.
The Susan Smith and Andrea Yates cases became national news and remained so for a long time. I'm guessing this is not going to get the same kind of treatment; the first story happened in February and I don't remember seeing it burning up the CourtTV/TRU channel.
Current Mood: dismayed
Current Music: "Sin," Nine Inch Nails
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February 15th, 2008
February 11th, 2008
11:30 pm - More about Hillary Clinton
So I was searching the blogoverse via Google for comments about jupiter9, because one of the pictures on my flickr account has had 31 hits in the last 12 hours, so I thought maybe it was linked to on a blog.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jupiter9/2258491158/
I didn't find anything to explain that, but I did find this unrelated hit that piqued my interest:
"jupiter9 wrote an interesting post today on Bill Maher and Hillary Clinton Here’sa quick excerpt But last night on Real Time, he had a lot of positive things to say about Hillary Clinton. She’s not his choice for President, but he said, ..."
This was something I posted here a week back, so I wanted to see what they had to say. The link was to http://hillary-clinton.election-blogs.info/.
So I clicked on the link and ended up at ...
everyrecipe.info
I guess someone thinks Hillary Clinton supporters should get back in the kitchen.
The registration info for election-blogs.info is private, but I sent this info to the technical contact.
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