Reflections, Reflections

Along the lines of a lot that I also think: 'Brokeback Mountain': Rape of the Marlboro Man - Exclusive: David Kupelian exposes hidden agenda behind 'gay cowboy' movie

Which begs the question - why don't these churches with gazillions of dollars (or the conservative multi-billionaires) fund some movies that unmask the issues with Brokeback Mountain and other destructive Hollywood productions?

(heh - I just thought of what it should have been called: Homo on the Range...)

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Update feb 03 2006

What are the Hollywood 007 directors up to when they are not making homo cowboy movies?

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From ACE - comment thread:

"You are homophobic?!? Ask yourself this question... if the movie was Brokeback Cowgirl starring Jessica Simpson and Scarlett Johanson, would you see it? If the answer is yes, then you must not be homophobic."

It just goes to show that what profoundly sexist guys call their "enlightened and progressive" acceptance of homosexuality is nothing but a recent variation of very retrograde and demeaning sexism: sexually objectifying women to the fullest. First it was treating women like trash with other men, then with other women, then with animals, other kinky and violent stuff, etc. Same trash, slightly different mode.

It's not about homosexuality, it's about how sexist some heterosexual men are.

I am getting some clues that French society is really a lot more violent in the personal and sexual sphere than the official stats show. I had always been curious as to why several countries in Europe show much lower numbers for rapes and child abuse and other such crimes than the United States.

It seems that part of the explanation might lie in how much in denial and how unprofessional the French people who gather the stats are, and consequently their data gathering is very faulty. (Add to that the fact that French society as a whole are a bunch of vacuum heads regarding these issues - retrograde ignoramuses with heavy doses of slimy liberalism.)

I would venture many issues in the administration of such problems in France are similar to how pro-homos lie about violence perpetrated by homos and bisexuals. First they deny it happens, then they do everything to cover it up and dillute it, then they serve the remaining data that they couldn't possibly mask and do away with as "here's all the truth and nothing but."

It seems French society is as eager to face it's putrid dysfunctional personal aspects as pro-homos are.

What is a responsible and sensible man who has a small child and wife to do? Go off into the Himalayas, climb some stupid mountain, and get himself killed. This is the homo version of the obsessive adventurer. Both neurotic, both self-obsessed, both must get their kicks above all else (i.e., Mark Oaten). And make it legitimate.


Le Figaro quotes his wife:

En annonçant son voyage pour Katmandou, Katia Lafaille reconnait implicitement qu'il n'y a plus d'espoir de retrouver vivant son mari : « C'est très dur pour moi, pour notre fils Tom qui n'a pas encore 5 ans, qui avait une relation fusionnelle avec son père. Il lui parlait deux fois par jour au téléphone, il nous manque terriblement », a t-elle indiqué.

I had my blood pressure taken on Friday and it was low. It usually is very, very steady and slightly low (11). On Friday it was 10, which for me is low. It's certainly not because of any lack of salt in my diet, because no one eats more salt than I do. Food without salt is simply not worth eating, it's so horrible. Also, through some web surfing yesterday and readings on blood pressure, I saw that drinking coffee can also help to raise your blood pressure a little. Good, because I am getting my fill of coffee and lovely (caffeinated) tea.

I have been awfully tired. I am under so much stress and facing so much unpleasant circumstances and obstacles, that I had reasoned they were the cause of all my fatigue and all I could do was rest as best as I could. The doctor asked me if I hadn't been feeling tired, but since I had absolutely no wish to talk about the problems I am facing to a complete stranger who was asking perfunctory medical diagnosis questions, I answered, "No, I haven't been tired, everything is fine." Ha! Right. "You just can't imagine just how dandy," I could have added for that touch of, "Is there any justice in the world?

No."

But I will try to get my blood pressure checked again today, because I am feeling so tired. Still, it feels like a very emotional type of tiredness, like a thick cloud that sets over and inside you. But maybe a little bit of it could be on account of the blood pressure as well. I am just down today. Even though I may be getting some good news in the next two weeks, one more obstacle hopefully passed, I have such an unhappy feeling today. I am so tired of having to work in horrible circumstances, so much stress and pressure, loneliness, and having to live in a pigsty of a society.

Dominatrix Found Not Guilty of Manslaughter

DEDHAM, Mass. — A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval rack.

Prosecutors said that 53-year-old Michael Lord suffered a heart attack in 2000 during a bondage session in a "dungeon" in Asher's condominium and that Asher did nothing to help him for five minutes for fear authorities would find out about her business.

Asher had her boyfriend chop up the body of the 275-pound retired telephone company worker, and they dumped it behind a restaurant in Maine, prosecutors said. His remains have never been found.

What wonderful news to start the day with! This and Brokeback Mountain riding high on the Oscar nominations.

My only hope, giving the obsessive force with which society is thrusting homo and bisexuality as normal and healthy and acceptable, is that the spread and the growth of homosexuality will expose just how violent and diseased it is in reality, since there will be more and more violence and harrassment victims that are not just the majority of voiceless disenfranchised people as it was usually in the past.

Sexist male pro-homos, who love female homo and bisexuality, because it is an extension of how they sexually dehumanize and objectify women, think it's just fine to promote more and more homosexuality, as a badge of their sexual "progressiveness" and arrogant delusion of "progress." These men, of which Ace is an example, view (female) homosexuality in a parasitical way. They have always been privileged enough to never suffer any predatory behavior from male homos, so all they care is for the pornographic idea of two lesbiun "chics" in action. But that is changing, as more and more upper social status men are getting (bi and) homosexual ideas and attitudes and, given their usual lack of character and values, are "going for" males in all previously "hands-off" settings.

And this is what is making society much less safe right now, to use correctly the propaganda slogan of homo activists. In a violent and corrupt society, only the safety of (diseased) homos and bisexuals count. Not anyone else's.

(AgapePress)

- According to survey findings released last fall by Harris Interactive, Inc., men and women differ in their views about the effects and possible regulation of pornography.

A Harris Poll in September 2004 revealed women to be much more critical of pornography, in general, than men. At the same time, a slightly larger number of women over men favor government regulation of online pornography, if such were possible. Specifically, 57 percent of women believe "pornography is demeaning towards women" as compared to 38 percent of men. In addition, 47 percent of women and 33 percent of men believe porn "harms relationships between men and women."

While there was no unanimity regarding the impact of pornography on children, both men and women agreed the effects were mostly negative. Only 2 percent said "it helps kids better understand sexuality."

Males and females share a similar view regarding the regulation of Internet pornography for the sake of children, although there is still an obvious difference among the sexes. For example, 42 percent of those polled believe the government should "regulate Internet pornography specifically so that children cannot access X-rated material online." Broken down by sexes, 53 percent of women and 30 percent of men prefer such a policy.

It's too bad they also don't give us the stats regarding liberals and conservatives on this. I bet the 2 percent who said "porn helps kids better understand sexuality" are all pro-homosexual.

'Specifically, 57 percent of women believe "pornography is demeaning towards women"' leaves 43 percent who either believe porn is NOT demeaning towards women or who don't know if the content between their ears is best described as turnips or lard.

43 is a lot! Not that much if you take into account the degree of stupidity in society, but a lot if you wished you didn't live in a pigsty.

I also wonder how many people can only see porn as demeaning as it refers to women, and not men as well?

Anyways, without education the pigsty will only produce and consume more and more pornograhy.

Pro-Homosexual School Posters Fostering 'Intolerance,' Says Family Advocate

A pro-family leader says five public school teachers in the San Francisco Bay area are putting their jobs on the line to protect their students from "propaganda" that homosexual activists have forced into the classroom

The word style and the jabs in this episode are funny :-)

The best take I saw in the media regarding the liberal scandal in Britain:

From the Mirror - TOO LIBERAL WITH THE LIES
Bill Borrows

BLIMEY! It's no wonder there has not been a Liberal prime minister since Lloyd George in 1922. They just haven't had the time to organise a proper election campaign.

What with all the drinking, three-in-a-bed sado-masochistic sex sessions and time spent on gay chatlines.

Admit it, if leadership front-runner Sir Menzies 'Ming the Merciless' Campbell came out tomorrow and admitted that he was in a stable relationship you'd probably assume that he was living with a horse.*

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hahahahah too funny

- French fromage blanc is one of the most delicious foods ever invented on Earth. If you don't know what it is, to me at least, it's not cheese, it lies inbetween white cheese and yogurt, and is simply light and delicious. The French do the mistake of adding jam to it, obviously they don't know that fromage blanc is best plain or with non-sweet things. It's sumptious over Muesli.

- French chocolate is also very good and you can find numerous variations of it, in the supermarket there is a whole aisle just dedicated to different chocolate bars, not to mention candies and other chocolate sweets. And you can find quite a few that are cheap but still quite good.

- Good French bread is expensive, so I just buy the baguette. Not bad, but I like stocky wholewheat type of breads and other variations which are too expensive at the moment.

- I also tried goat cheese, which I didn't like that much, although the French think it is quite special.

On the whole though, I find amazing how slender French people are, given all the chocolate and croissants, and the butter, cream, etc that they love to cook everything with. I once read a hillarious article asking exactly, "where do all the croissants go?" I still don't know the answer, I constantly see a majority of perked-up, slender people, along with a lovely abundance of blue eyes of every tonality you can imagine.

Isn't the world beautiful when it snows? I love it, that thick mantle of white everywhere, creamy white puffs decorating even the tiniest little branch on every tree and each nook and cranny in every building.

So I have this course that is taught by multiple instructors, no less than 4. Not a bad idea in itself, given that each has their specialty, all part of one larger topic; and we don't really need to have a course for each one, a segment is fine. However, the amount of material just gets piled on as if it were 4 separate courses and, according the medieval practices of "enseignement" of the (not in the least) enlightened country that I am in, professors still think ridiculous 2 hours exams are a good way of evaluating students of higher levels.

I will not go into all the damaging, irresponsible problems of such evaluation instruments. Nor that other educational systems have figured out long ago that higher level students need to produce knowledge, not repeat bits of texts like mere parrots, and the format of a research paper is one of the most effective formats for knowledge elaboration, instead of ridiculous 2 hour exams.

So, given that I had one such exam this morning, I started being disgusted and upset already 24 hours in advance about the whole episode, the lack of vision, quality, ethics, and intelligence in my so very stupid department, which must obviously start at the very top.

I spent several hours yesterday going over huge amounts of material, plus planned time to make cheating summaries of main points. I do not have the time to spend memorizing a lot of data that I do not need taking up important space in my mental memory, neither is it useful for me, and it only robs me of my precious time to actually work on reading and researching and producing knowledge. Memorizing huge gobs of information takes an enormous amount of time and effort, and if you can see through how stupid and disrespectful the process is to you, as student, you do it angrily.

So, I walk in the exam room today and what is the topic of the exam? Something that barely related to all the content I spent hours studying and trying to memorize yesterday and that I had previously learned much more through my professional experience, than anything that was particularly conveyed by said 4 professors. Needless to say, I did not need to use my cheating little papers on today's exam. But I did so in a previous exam, and did it with a vengeance.

The other exam's professor is disgusting as a teacher (although very nice on a personal level - ah, these exasperating contradictions!!!). He walks into class, speaks for 2 hours straight, does not allow discussion, never bothers to give a list of the bibliography for the course, he just goes on dropping author names (and no article titles), and it is up to you to go figure out what to read, and he never bothers to check if students have learned anything. And this is a philosophical type of course!

What did incompetent prof do for an evaluation? A 2-hour exam, of course, which is not enough to allow any student to develop a complex philosophical dissertation. Obviously!

Now, it is interesting that some students don't really care much about all of this and just concentrate on doing their best in these circumstances. I, on the other hand, simply fume. I hate low quality in any shape or form. I hate to have these moronic practices just go on and on. I hate to be subjected to someone else's lack of discipline, professionalism, and intelligence. How convenient for said idiot never to do anything but talk like a pompous philosophical turnip. How cute for him to criticize educational practices elsewhere while behaving in the most medieval paradigm possible.

So when I was studying for said prof's exam, and I was beyond fuming at having to be subjected to this inneffective and incompetent evaluation procedure, I had the brilliant idea to do something I had not done in decades: make a bunch of cheat little papers. :-) That calmed me down :-) And although I actually didn't have to use a lot of them to be able to develop my essay, I used every one I could, given how irritated I was. However, I didn't have time to write well, because 2 hours is simply not enough. Not only couldn't I organize my text well, I also did not have time to revise spelling and grammar mistakes. When the clock hit 2 hours, said prof simply started gnarling and demanding all exam papers IMMEDIATELY, and then grabbed them all, following strictly our department's rituals for said types of exams, getting extremely fussy and upset because a few students had yet to put their names and identifying info on the page and once he managed to collect them all, he rushed out the door impetuously.

I felt like saying, "What are you so concerned with little exam rules for? The whole implementation of such an evaluation method and your teaching practices are of *very* questionable ethics and quality, and here you are fussing because some people were still writing a sentence when the time expired."

I have been told we will have to wait centuries until the grades are given, because that's how it is in the Middle Ages-type university I am currently attending. They clock the exam as if people were going to die if one second is overtime, and then take a month to perform their "corrections" --an euphemism for their delusional evaluation follies, I'm sure.

Wait and wait in Casablanca... ;-)

Time to go play sports!!!!! yay!!!

Bye, see you all later.

Light Sentence for Child Molester Leaves Vermont Judge Under Fire

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A controversial ruling for a sex offender in Vermont was changed Thursday from 60 days to 3 to 10 years after a judge received pressure to extend the punishment.

When Judge Edward Cashman sentenced Mark Hulett, 34, to 60 days in prison for sexually abusing a child, he said he wanted to make sure the man got treatment that would be available while he was behind bars.

Ever since, he's been vilified by television commentators, bloggers and even the governor who say he was too light on the crime.

On Thursday, the case was back in court, and state prosecutors persuaded Cashman to reconsider the sentence. Prosecutor Robert Simpson argued in court papers that a 60-day jail term wasn't nearly enough.

"This court's sentence must consider and include punishment for the defendant's action in repeatedly sexually assaulting this child," Simpson said.

Hulett had pleaded guilty to charges that he had sexual contact with a girl during a four-year period beginning when she was 6.

At his first sentencing, Cashman said the best way to ensure public safety was to get Hulett out of prison so he could receive sex offender treatment. Because the Corrections Department concluded that Hulett wasn't likely to reoffend, he wouldn't be eligible to receive sex-offender treatment until he reached the end of his jail term.

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Did anyone notice that, at least as reported, the judge has no EMPATHY whatsoever for the little girl? A 6 year old is horribly vulnerable to violence. All the judge seems to be concerned with is giving the pedo monster "the best treatment."

What is this guy doing sitting in a court bench? 60 days for 4 years of abuse is a criminal act. It makes you wonder why he coddles the abuser so much...

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and here is O'Reilly (fantastically ) at it --the video is great if you can watch):

High Noon in Vermont
Thursday, January 26, 2006
By Bill O'Reilly


High noon in Vermont: that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Point's Memo".

Tomorrow, Judge Edward Cashman gets a final chance to right an incredible wrong. As you may know, Cashman sentenced a guy, who raped a 6- year-old girl over a four-year period, to 60 days because the may, Mark Hulett could not get rehab in jail.

Well, the state of Vermont now says it will provide in-prison rehab for Hulett and has asked Cashman to reconsider his incredibly lenient sentence.

There is no question the little girl's human rights have been violated by that sentence, even as she was violated by Hulett. So where is Human Rights Watch on this? Where is the ACLU, the National Organization for Women, the liberal media?

Well, in the liberal media category, some of them are attacking me and FOX News. Here's a sample of the discourse on Vermont public television.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I could not believe that a week after this sentencing, the state of Vermont is being trashed on FOX News network. There have been 20,000 calls and e-mails to the governor's office. And the governor of Vermont has even not looked at the file. That's a public file that has the affidavit of the investigating officer. Everything you'd want to know.

It boggles my mind that the facts have been valued so little by the governor of Vermont, all the way to this O'Reilly jerk on FOX.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OK, well, he's a moron. And that kind of insanity must be confronted by the good people of Vermont.

While Democrats in the legislature continue to protect Judge Cashman from a vote on his dismal performance, some republicans, led by GOP leader Peg Florry (ph), are beginning to step up and demand tough mandatory sentences for child predators.

Right now, Vermont has no mandatory prison terms at all for child rapists, which is why Cashman can do what he did. Vermont's Republican governor, Jim Douglas, however, continues to be a profile in weakness. The governor should be looking out for the little girl. He is not.

So the stage is now set for Judge Cashman's decision tomorrow. FOX News will be there in force. We are not going to let this story dissolve.

Every American should be angry, frustrated and fed up. Little girls are U.S. citizens, too. They have rights, too.

The judge who puts the needs of a child rapist above justice for the rape victim does not deserve sit in any American courtroom. Cashman has one final chance to right this wrong. We hope it happens tomorrow.

Just curious:

Which is more central to the marketplace of ideas? Basic information and dissenting opinion in a tyranny, or everyone's putative "right" to search for dirty pictures of naked children with the impunity of anonymity?

According to Google, it's the latter.

Time for a truck to run over the Google guys. Accidentally, mind you. It's disgusting. Liberal trash of people. Child porn for Christ's sake and the b*******s want to keep it going.

As it often happens, lots of interesting posts at Number 2 Pencil. Here's an issue that merits more collective thought to find a solution:

There's GOT to be more to this story:

Freshmen at Brooklyn High School were given an unorthodox homework assignment. They were told to do research about porn. The students were asked to research porn on the internet and list eight facts about the porn industry. They were also told to write down their own personal views about pornography and any experience they may have had, good or bad.
Three parents called the district to complain so the principal, superintendent and health teacher decided it was best to scrap the assignment.

Which is a shame, because we all know that in order to teach health, high school teachers are required to make sure their students know how to find porn on the web, and that they should be prepared to tell adults about their "personal" views and "experiences" in researching such. Being forced to look at things they might not be prepared to see (and probably downloading about 8700 viruses and spyware bots to boot) and tell an adult what they thought about it is so healthy, you know.

Sounds like the teacher isn't even going to lose his/her job, despite the fact that any other adult who wanted to know about a 14-year-old's "experience" with online porn would probably end up facing sex crime charges.

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My comment:

Although I agree to scrap the assignment the way it was proposed, teenagers should be taught just why porn stinks and is (psychologically, ethically, economically) unhealthy. I know that society as it is, with so many garbage of liberals, will never agree to it, and conservatives may not want the issue to be dealt with at school, but I think part of the gigantic size of the porn industry and uncritical porn consumption stems from the fact that schools are not educating young people regarding it. And they just go on to become a new generation of porn consumers, year after year.

Opera world splits along the cleavage line

The latest front in the opera wars was opened yesterday when Marina Laslo, a Russian singer whose rendition of Ave Maria has made her one of Classic FM's most played artists, objected to a record company executive's suggestion that she needed to "sex up" her image.

Laslo, 24, said: "I was raised to conduct myself like a lady and have no interest in compromising those standards to achieve a short-cut to fame. The market is full of blonde classical artists with their cleavages on show."

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So tired of having this liberal demeaning sexed up image of women shoved everywhere for consumption and as the ideal model for "attractiveness."

Pope Benedict XVI warned in his first encyclical Wednesday that sex without unconditional love risked turning men and women into merchandise.

In the 71-page document "God is Love," Benedict explored the relationship between the erotic love between man and woman, referred to by the term "eros," and the Greek word for the unconditional, self- giving love, "agape" (pronounced AH-gah-pay).

He said the two concepts are most unified in marriage between man and woman, in which a covetous love grows into the self-giving love of the other, as well as God's unconditional love for mankind.

He acknowledged that Christianity in the past has been criticized "as having been opposed to the body," _ the erotic form of love _ "and it is quite true that tendencies of this sort have always existed."

But he says the current way of exalting bodily love is deceptive.

"Eros, reduced to pure 'sex' has become a commodity, a mere 'thing' to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself has become a commodity."

"Here we are actually dealing with a debasement of the human body: no longer is it integrated into our overall existential freedom; no longer is it a vital expression of our whole being, but it is more or less relegated to the purely biological sphere," he said.

Benedict explored the two aspects of love to then explain how the Roman Catholic Church's charitable activities are based on love and are a fundamental part of its mission. He said the church had no desire to govern states, but at the same time couldn't remain silent in political life because its charity is needed to ease suffering.

I totally agree.

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(AgapePress) - A homosexual teacher in Massachusetts who admitted to raping one of his teenage students and possessing child pornography has escaped jail time. A Waltham-based pro-family leader says the case is yet another indication that most judges in his state are in league with homosexual activists. [and rapists!!]

In 1997, Judge Suzanne DelVecchio handed down an eight-year prison sentence to a highly respected gym teacher who had pleaded guilty to raping two school girls. While delivering the sentence, the judge branded John A. Shockro a "sexual predator" and "a parent's worse nightmare" But when Gregory Pathiakis, 26, of the Boston suburb of Brockton recently stood before the same judge and pleaded guilty to raping a 15-year-old male student, Judge DelVecchio gave him no prison time for the assault.

That apparent double-standard has angered Brian Camenker, who is with the conservative group Article 8 Alliance. He points out that Judge DelVecchio, who one conservative columnist calls "Let 'em go DelVecchio" because of her history of lenient sentencing, was the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association's annual dinner in 2000.

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Camenker contends the problem of homosexual teachers in public schools has gotten out of control -- particularly in his own state. He says that according to one parent he has conversed with, there are some elementary schools in his community where all of the male teachers are homosexual. [time to get this garbage out of all levels of academia]

"And we're seeing more and more of that," he adds. "I know in my own kids' school, the numbers of teachers who identify themselves as homosexual is probably ten times the number of homosexuals in the population."

Earlier this month, a homosexual teacher in Maynard, Massachusetts, was arrested for sexually assaulting a student over a three-year period. Since the arrest, the teacher has been accused of abuse by five other alleged victims, including a police officer. Also this week, a homosexual teacher in Wisconsin was given merely a $1,000 fine and community service for sexually assaulting one of his students.

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And then they call the Boy Scouts intolerant and full of hate...

Get this garbage of homos and pro-homos out of academia.

I have like 15 texts to analyse, and I've done one, and I keep on blogging and surfing because I am so bored, can't deal with the texts right now. Sigh.

(update jan 24:)

I got through a bunch of texts today, hopefully I will get this out of my way by tomorrow. It turned out to be such a chore. And to do it for a diseased lesbian prof on top of it who goes after female students. ugh

Segunda-feira, Janeiro 16, 2006

Afinal parece que não acontecer mesmo nada.
Aqui não acontece nada, nunca.
É o destino que existe apenas, mas puro, étereo, não chega bem a acontecer-se.

posted by impensado at 9:18 PM

Tech giants Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Texas Instruments, and Modeo formed an organization on Monday to promote a standard for broadcasting digital TV on mobile devices.

This is cool. The TV cell phones I've seen seem very interesting (obviously out of my budget), and they are just the beginning. I look forward to some very cool technical developments that I am sure will come our way regarding such technology and equipment.

I think the hardest question the industry will have to decide on is what size to make the screens? ;-) It seems they are making cell phones smaller and smaller with each passing day, at the same time that they want to put more functionalities and couple devices onto them. The non-TV cell phones are just miniscule nowadays. I never understood why other people are so fond of such smallness. It's true that you can put it (almost) anywhere, so very portable, but to me having a bigger screen, and just bigger overall gadget is more user-friendly.

I have, at the moment, one of the most basic cell phones available, and it has a ton of extra functionalities, such as alarm clock and all that, which I find very convenient. The only big problem with it is that the volume, even when turned onto the maximum level, is really low. So I keep missing calls because I can't hear the phone is ringing if I am in a crowded or noisy environment. :-/ So, whenever I am out and about now, I am trying to make it habit to carry the cell phone in my pocket and just hold it there with my hand in my pocket. That way, if it rings, it will vibrate as well, and I will know.

You know, I am very intrigued regarding a particular form of psychosocial development (for lack of a more precise label/categorization ) which is the capacity for empathy.

And an experience I had yesterday made me think about it once again. I spent the afternoon talking to a man who appears not to exercise empathy regarding any problem or suffering in the world. And there was a truly bizarre contradiction in his personality, because we were engaged in a variety of school and leisure activities, and towards me, he was always very polite and considerate. But whenever any subject came up in the conversation regarding any issue of violence, injustice, suffering, harrassment, insult on a macro level or on an individual level, his response was always to snicker at the victims or the violence process itself. He never felt empathy or said something sympathetic or caring or showing sensibility. And, at times, it really irritated me.

Now, it is certainly (unfortunately) not the first time I have come across a person with this psycho-social profile. I have come to conclude from observation and interactions that this type of personality complex (based on specifically detached and insensitive attitudes) is quite cultivated in certain families, environments, (national or sub-national) cultures. I wonder also about gender differences (does it happen in a more salient way in men than women? As a result of gender conditioning? )

Another intriguing question I have regarding prevalence of such lack of empathy is : do we find such a profile in larger proportions in liberals or conservatives? It may as well be equally distributed, but I have found so many liberals who have this profile. And they usually share some very similar traits.

They all have a passionate hatred of religion and love that we have a (hypocritical ) separation of Church and State, which goes along with our very hypocritical "democratic" system - nothing short than a considerable failure in terms of political participation. Such insensitive liberals have no respect for women, specially those who are victims of every type of violence (porn, prostitution, harrassment, rape, abuse, infidelity, etc) although they may treat you personally with manners. They usually frame a problem such as prostitution as a debate between what they call the "puritan" position (con) vs their self-acribed "progressive and good" liberal position (pro). Their pro position equals being in denial of every aspect of exploitation, abuse, disrespect, and violence that is inherent in prostitution systems, for example, which applies to just about everything else.

I tried to explain to this insensitive moron that there is a third --and correct-- way of understanding prostitution which takes into account all the exploitation, etc, inherent in prostitution, porn, etc, but the liberal trash just snickered continuously throughout my explanation.

One can conclude that such liberals love not to have religion officially in politics because it gives them the illusion that they are more free this way, instead of viewing just how dehumanized and nazi-like they are. I've employed "nazi" here to highlight the snickering at violence and suffering aspect of their personalities.

As we continued our afternoon political debate, although he gave me several examples of countries where religion was mixed with the government and who had horrible governments and societies -- and I concur they were all horrible and corrupt --, when I then counter-argued by listing several countries that were putrid and violent and which have this hypocritical separation of church and state, instead of acknowledging that I was also right, he tried to insist that the religious states would always be worse, simply not to admit that I had proven his entire liberal simple-minded appraisal of political structures and systems wrong. And this is why I hate talking to most liberals, because they are so puny and stupid in their reality checks. They have primitive dogmatic minds and whenever you prove to them that they are factually incorrect about reality, they simply go into denial.

Nevertheless, this conversation /debate did give me material to reflect upon, and I concluded that to so-call separate or not separate Church and State does not have any deterministic effect on the level of violence and corruption and disgusting qualities a society may have.

(added on jan 24:)
To me, a society that fabricates a large number of human beings who are incapable of empathy is a nazi production plant. And even though, such people are usually very thick skinned, and this gives them certain advantages in climbing up various hierarchies in business, academia, or other institutions where the environment can be rough (even brutal, emotionally speaking), a person who cannot feel empathy is a kind of monster. Someone who has no capacity for empathy will live their entire lives as beasts. Given all that, it was very jarring to interact with this man who was like this and at the same time, he was very polite towards me in our local interactions.

As far as I understand human psychology, intellectual input has usually no effect on deeply ingrained emotional structures, and usually when it does have any effect, it takes a long time to happen. Which is why I find humans so irritating and frustrating because I am always expecting (or wishing) that the rational will instantly or rapidly correct and override these deformed psycho-emotional structures, and... it never does.

Not in an intellectual rational speed of comprehension anyways.

When humans with such mental structures start to be confronted with data that proves they are wrong, instead of changing their internal reality model and affective structure, they go into denial or distort even further the data that is being presented. Which is why the social sciences are very little science and a lot of denial.

I have also been reflecting for some time on how the function of denial came about or is useful (or not) from the perspective of biological evolution. I will make just one comment that relates to this post. It is contradictory in some ways that the more complex the human brain became, the more vulnerable it became to function in a very primitive stunted way as well. I find this so intriguing! What an ironic twist of fate for human evolution. We now have brains that have extremely powerful abilities and extremely complex dynamics between emotions, cognition, and conscience. However, this very mental scaffolding (for lack of a more precise term) is exactly what makes human beings vulnerable to falling into these mental traps, of being structured as dumb beasts, with entirely bound minds, like in a psycho-social straight-jacket. Usually, the psycho-social straight-jacket will form the basis for a person's ideology (individual set of values and beliefs, norms and attitudes re themselves and the world) and rational operations are bound to the mental straight-jacket as well, rendering a lot of intellectual thinking powerless to more primordial straight-jacket (conscious or unconscious)dynamics and filters.

Which is why I always wish I had been born 10 billion years from now, when hopefully the human race will have gotten past all this primitive beast-like stuntedness and become more pleasant to interact with.

:-)

You know, I am happy that, even if I am not that rested, I can usually go almost without sleep one night, work a lot, accomplish something next morning or until after lunch and still not feel tired until we're in mid-afternoon. If I don't get to sleep at all, then it's hard on me, but if I can sleep from 2 to 4 hours at night, I usually feel reasonably well the next day. This can be very handy. Now, when the afternoon comes around, if I can't go home and konk out into sleep for a few hours, then I am in trouble. It's that swirling, numbing wave of sleepiness that just sweeps over you again and again and it takes a lot of frustrating effort to keep awake if you absolutely cannot go home to sleep.

Given that I can go to sleep now, I will be OK :-) Sweet dreams to me :-) I will be back in the evening.

So I need to contact this potential PhD prof/advisor and I have been advised to initiate contact with potential PhD advisors by checking out at least one of their publications and write an initial email ctc by mentioning something interesting regarding one of their publications and the irritating professor does not have a single published article online! and this is a tech related prof!! Christ. It is all on Jurassic paper journal form, which will take a bunch of precious time to look up, to even order if necessary, for me to just mention something idiotic on my email. Hello! The world is moving online now. Paper is for dead generations. Deadlines cannot wait for Jurassic techno problems to interfere with my reading of some prof's publications. I am very very interested in this University. Please PDF at least 3 of said professors papers now. :-/ Alessandra, the Queen, has commanded :-)

Guess my subjects are not paying too much attention to my orders these days... ;-)

You know, being abroad, I am getting very tired of having to explain to people the most basic things about the US or other countries that I have extensive knowledge of. It is truly scary to see what deranged, ignorant stereotypes people form of « other » nationalities. And, given that I am not one endowed with patience for teaching certain subjects, specially the ones concerning most primitive notions that should be obvious to every single urban educated human on our now globalized 24-CNN MacDonalds GPS world, one truly encounters these medieval type notions that are extremely lame about national stereotypes or about other national aspects of foreign cultures.

If I didn’t have anything to do, I would collect these pearls of idiocy and publish a guide to « Understanding the ***** (and each other country in the world) from the point of view of ignorant outsiders ». Or I could title it : « Everything you have always thought that was totally misinformed about country X and that I will now clarify for you ». I cannot tell you how many times someone has come up to me and said, I cannot understand why in the US [fill in by most distorted stupid notion of any of a hundred different things]. Then I am reminded once more of how my personality does not like teaching morons. I want intellectual, cultural, moral elites as students, thank you very much. Sigh. Will I ever be a real good teacher, if morons drive me up the wall ?

War Clouds Gathering

Israel is dropping hints that it isn't going to wait for Iran to have the ability to carry out its threats:

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state is preparing for military action to stop Iran's nuclear program, but said international diplomacy must be the first course of action.

"Israel will not be able to accept an Iranian nuclear capability and it must have the capability to defend itself, with all that that implies, and this we are preparing," Shaul Mofaz said.

His comments at an academic conference stopped short of overtly threatening a military strike but were likely to add to growing tensions with Iran.

I find such threats extremely scary. More than the Indian/Pakistani deranged military lunatics, this Israeli/Iranian conflict to me, seems like an uglier real possibility of a nuclear battle.

So today I went out with an acquaintance who has one of those GPS map gadgets in their car. (actually it's portable - you can take it along with you). Anyways, I find it very funny how humans create all this sophisticated technology and then other very primitive or otherwise uncontrollable phonomena takes over and botches up everything. Perhaps because I have always been too poor to own one of these "luxury" items, and I have always had to rely on (inexpensive and primitive ) paper maps or my own (not bad) sense of direction, I got a nice kick of seeing the last two people I rode with get lost with a GPS system. I noticed a similarity with these two people, they concentrate on looking at the little GPS screen to guide them and they don't pay any attention to what they are doing or going (that is, they stop using their own internal "GPS" or direction appraisal and detection). Then, if the GPS direction is not very clear, or for a moment, they stop looking at the screen, bingo! They get totally lost - hahahah

The first guy was a pompous top exec, and for other reasons, a detestable filthy minded piece of trash, his equally filthy minded wife riding next to him, I was in the back seat. And it was to nice to see the arrogant pig driving this big SUV with all the gadgets one can possibly imagine, get totally lost. We were driving up a mountain side, very narrow road and the filthy moron took a wrong direction and almost managed to put the SUV on a tiny street where he couldn't maneuver his mamoth vehicle.

Today's moron was not as bad ( or maybe he was), in any case, left a lot to be desired as well. But his case was that he probably could not walk even a block without getting lost, given how air-headed he was. And the other funny moment came when there was no GPS signal and then he had absolutely no sense of where he was driving at all. I, who had never driven through the area (although I had used some public transportation), kept giving him directions on which streets to turn by using simple natural sense of 90 degree angles!!

It reminds me of the effect that a calculator has made on many people, that is, they are no longer able to perform even the most basic 1 or 2 digit operations and must solely rely on the gadget to do it for them.

I felt very superior today!!! hahahha I am so naturally gifted... ;-))) what is a GPS system compared to me - heheh

I just find mountains so extremely beautiful and majestic. It's wonderful to be near them, look at them at all different kinds of light.

So today I took the day off. I was too stressed out to do most anything. And I needed to rest in the morning, I needed simply to sleep. Then I needed "internal time." Just time not to do anything except take care of internal stuff. And even though assignments are late, and there will be consequences, and I tried to get myself to go them, I couldn't. To hell. I needed time.

the New Yorker has a nice little article on D H Lawrence.

I wish there were more authors who wrote in his style, his majestic complex way of describing a million emotions erupting inside in everyday lives. I love that.

I have this guy who keeps making these loud, repulsive, sniffling sounds every 5 seconds, who is siting next to me and it's driving me crazy. I feel like hitting him over the head! A handkerchief for the love of the heavens!!

I have a feeling, given how many people stupidly sniffle like this nowadays all over the place that this is, in part, because in our modern culture a lot of people do not carry around handkerchiefs (or kleenexes). Which is simply detestable, because it's such an unpleasant, disgusting noise, and just when you think it stopped, there is comes again. And they just go one for hours. Yuck.

For a few years now, I have made an effort to carry one or more fabric handkerchiefs with me always, and so, to hardly use (paper) kleenexes any more. For the environment.

You know, I often see people on wheelchairs nowadays, in public spaces, and I always think, it could be a lot worse. You're not in a wheelchair, you can walk.

And I want to do so much more. I live for those days, if they will ever come.

Keep your eyes on the prize, oh Lord.

It's just taking so arduously long. Harsh, frustrating, lonely.

As Franke-Ruta puts it:

Social solidarity and even simple familial stability have become part of the package of private privileges available to the well-to-do. Behavioral surveys consistently show that, regardless of their political leanings, the better-off and better-educated live more traditional personal lives: They are more likely to marry, far less likely to divorce, less likely to have children outside of marriage, and more likely to remarry when they do divorce than their less accomplished peers. In addition, their kids are more likely to be academically successful and go to college, repeating the cycle.

The new Puritanism and cultural conservatism [Thomas] Frank described can also been seen as symptoms of how, in today’s society, traditional values have become aspirational. Lower-income individuals simply live in a much more disrupted society, with higher divorce rates, more single moms, more abortions, and more interpersonal and interfamily strife, than do the middle- and upper-middle class people they want to be like. It should come as no surprise that the politics of reaction is strongest where there is most to react to.

Actually, to me the above is a question, that is, are these surveys pretty accurate?

If so, that's good, because major rejection punches that are given to stupid liberals always hit them where the hurt the hardest, in political losses.

Too bad we can't rid academia of this liberal trash (see post below, if you haven't).

You know, I usually find myself in a frustrated dialectic state when I blog.

I would like to write (meaning to make my criticisms, reflections, comments) on a level such as the American Scene (meaning that it is carefully written, like a cultural magazine level, but... I would like to have that magically happen as when I simply write things quite spontaneously, typing rapidly so that my fingers are trying to catch up to the speed of my thoughts as they are verbalized in my head, even though I can't type that fast. But that's just to show, that I like to write spontaneously, just as if I were having a conservation.
But then I reread my text and it sounds terrible or so plain. And if I want to get it up to a higher level, it takes work. And I don't blog as one more chore, because I am already suffering and stressed out from too much overwhelming types of demands and work.

I took the example of the American Scene as to their writing style, not the content, which I quite often detest, given how (mostly) pro-homosexual and sexist they are. But, when they manage not to be so, they can be quite insightful.

I hate Umberto Eco because he is so doted with fame at the same time that I think his plots, and specially the Name of the Rose, are mediocre.

So it was weird to read this about him, I would have expected him to be much more decadent than it appears.

Post-Christianity and Its Discontents: Richard John Neuhaus flags an interesting essay by Umberto Eco, lamenting how with the waning of Christianity, the religious space in the Western mind has been filled by "a plethora of new idols . . . from strange pagan cults and sects to the silly, sub-Christian superstitions of The Da Vinci Code."

Eco is, by his own description, an ex-Catholic of the Stephen Dedalus variety - an agnostic who wonders, watching the follies of post-Christian religion, "what kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?" Along with Orianna Fallaci and Jurgen Habermas, he embodies a kind of old-fashioned European intellectualism that, having dispensed with Christian belief, finds itself staring into the post-Christian future, and misliking what it sees. Not that the history of "Christian civilization" isn't filled with enough darkness and folly to confirm every anti-Christian prejudice. It's just that there's reason to suspect that a civilization without Christianity might be even worse.

Suspect? Just look at porn and see how diseased our world is.

Or if you would care to look at my department, not much difference, I am afraid. Which is why I am desperately running against time to find another one for next year, even though most official deadlines have passed. I had the detestable experience of having, out of 5 women professors, 4 being lesbians or bisexuals, all of which go after their female students and bother them with their shitty lesbian obsessions. It is an academic pigsty, people with no ethics, principles, or morals. (it is not in the US, btw, but in a degenerate liberal country). It seems the homo mafia, once it gets into academia, starts choosing professors on the basis of their dysfunctional sexuality, and keeping healthy (meaning heterosexual) women out. The male professors in my dept seem to be more decent and not having homosexuality problems.

The first thing I do right now, in looking for my next department, is to look at the ratio of women vs. men professors. If there are more women, I usually just chuck it and go onto to look for another one. We need to clean up academia, just purge it of this garbage of women.

I was checking out what wiki said about Aristotle, and...

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle focuses on the importance of continually behaving virtuously and developing virtue rather than committing specific good actions.

the trashy " being and looking" Howard Stern has done 2 plastic surgeries????!!

and he still looks like this??? were they on his toenails perhaps??? lol

(see link, if you need a refreshment of his "visage", I refuse to put such
trash on my blog)

Report: Inmate Loses Weight, Escapes - SYDNEY, Australia

A prison inmate in Australia lost a dramatic amount of weight, squeezed through a gap in the wall and escaped, a newspaper reported.

Robert Cole, 35, was serving time for sex offenses and armed robbery in a prison hospital in New South Wales state when officials noticed he was missing early Wednesday, The Sydney Morning Herald reported in its online edition.

Cole, who had recently undergone a dramatic weight loss, slipped his 123-pound body through a gap between the bars on a cell window and a brick wall at which he'd been chipping away, the paper quoted an unidentified Corrective Services spokeswoman as saying.

"Because he's lost a lot of weight, he's a very narrow person, so he squeezed his way through the gap in the brick wall," she was quoted as saying.

Cole avoided the motion detectors and video cameras that monitor the prison grounds at night, then climbed a fence and escaped, the newspaper said.

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I'm sorry, but this is just crap. Even though I think the latter word is a bit strong, and I would rather not have to use it, but this is just ridiculous.

He "lost a lot of weight and then escaped through the bars??? " AND "avoided the motion detectors and video cameras that monitor the prison grounds at night, then climbed a fence and escaped"

And just how did he do that?? He got so thin the motion detector could no longer detect him?? Oh please.

How about telling us how much he paid off someone to accidentally turn off all the surveillance gadgets that night?

I have a love-hate relationships with words. Words, words, words. Mostly, I dont really like words, but I have come to like writing, actually quite a bit, since now I can minimally write many things I want to express. It wasn't always the case.

Today I had to read stuff that included what I call GRE level words, which are these graduate level vocab (not that undergrads never come across them), but which I find annoying and frustrating because I can never remember what they mean. And it's not like I haven't come across them myriad of times and had to go look them up again and again and again. ugh. Today I came across Hermeneutics, phenomenology, epystemology, exegesis, and eisegesis, all in less than 2 hours. Good cauliflower grief!! (somehow I have come to love to insert vegetables in adverbial and adjectival phrases - lol :-) And although hermeneutics and phenomenology I put in the same annoying category as "ontological", exegesis is OK and what I really liked was eisegesis, which was new to me. Very neat that, first, someone came up with a word to name the process that it signifies, and second, that it has flair. You know, it's not like the drabby "ontological" - which I associate a picture of a word wearing an old-fashioned, dull black suit, with a humorless expression on its face. Eisegesis, on the other hand is sporting a designer suit, sporty and stylish, and most certainly without any homo crap. The kind of style pro-homosexuals can't attain.

From wiki:
Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξηγεῖσθαι 'to lead out') involves an extensive and critical interpretation of a text, especially of a holy scripture, such as of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Qur'an, etc. An exegete is a practitioner of this science, and the adjectival form is exegetic.
The word exegesis means "to draw the meaning out of" a given text. Exegesis may be contrasted with eisegesis, which means to read one's own interpretation into a given text. [too cool]

In general, exegesis presumes an attempt to view the text objectively, while eisegesis implies more subjectivity.

Traditional exegesis requires the following: analysis of significant words in the text in regard to translation; examination of the general historical and cultural context, confirmation of the limits of the passage, and lastly, examination of the context within the text. [1]

how taking your shoes off can make you feel so good? I love to go barefoot or "sockfoot" :-)

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I just found a fantastic outline of Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" done by Professor Frank Pajares - Emory University

http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/Kuhn.html

Everything you always wanted to grasp in less than two minutes regarding Khun's famous "ouvre."

I have been for many years intrigued by what exactly is a thought. I must say that I have remained mostly in my intrigued state, with very old questions lingering, and that I have not had the luxury of seeking other explanations or contributions (that is, seeing if other authors/people ) have answered or elaborated a series of insights regarding what is the nature of a thought.

Given that this is just another enormous subject, and that I have many reflections and thoughts about it, I just wanted for now to pose what I consider an intriguing characteristic of thoughts. As you will soon see (or I hope that you will soon see, because it is not that easy for me to articulate this in the most sophisticated way), what intrigues me is the disconnection between thought and language, or its varying degrees of independence.

I will try to give my most clear example I can think of to illustrate this independence. I have come across a subject and I have understood, by reading, many things about it. However, when I try to articulate a certain thought about this subject, I fail. I know that I have not expressed well what I want to say. Therefore what I want to say remains in my mind in some non-articulated form, which allows me to know that it is different than what I succeeded in articulating. The two are not the same, yet only the written form is the form that has been articulated through language and words. Then I come across a text where another author has articulated with great clarity or complexity or sophistication exactly what I was thinking and had understood, but which I could not materialize in words with the same degree of quality as they did.

Therefore it is clear that somewhere in our cognitive capabilities, we have a knowledge processor that is independent of language, at least to a certain degree.

Obviously this intriguing characteristic of my (our) brain has to do with how we process, store, and communicate knowledge and what exactly is a thought.

Another related aspect of this subject that has always intrigued me is the very ancient "power of thoughts" and this is something that I constantly seek to understand better so that I can consciously make my thoughts work for me, specially in difficult situations or in any situation where I am presented with some difficulty, independently of the degree of the difficulty.

Today I gave an English private class to a teenager, a very nice one by the way,
and alhtough I have a nice amount of experience teaching adults, I found it very difficult. In part it was because she was still at a beginning intermediate level and so I couldn't talk Fluently in English to her. But I also I kind of panicked when I felt the energy level was going down, and since this class is supposed to just be a rejoinder of what she is seeing in school, and I had to improvise since it was our first class, I just felt really uncomfortable with the lack of dynamism. Something I definitely need to plan better.

I am in a country where right now I am not legally allowed to work and I am going up
the walls with frustration. So, I am forced to work informally - take that you stupid government. Which mostly means teaching English and maybe babysitting in the near future.

This week, actually I will be doing a volunteer babysitting try-out to see how it goes, and if I like it, I might pursue more the baby-sitting jobs.

But although I didn't think it would be so bad not to be able to work for awhile (given that I am expecting the situation to change in the near future), it is, actually, driving me crazy. I have to count every cent I spend and although I am pround of myself for being so careful and creatively saving money in a thousand of ways, I just hate not being to work and earn a salary at the end of the month to pay for all I need.

I think also the worse of everything is that I am so alone in all this. Most all of the people I socialize with (socialize may be a bit of an exaggeration here :-) given how bubbly my social agenda is ;-), anyways, most all of them are far removed from my experience and it creates that unpleasant abyss of difference. Because they are far removed from it, they range from the 5 minute empathy/sympathy to the arrogant "we don't have those kind of problems - EVER." In any event, it's so awful because I have no one to vent with or to laugh with about all the daily fighting, setbacks, emotions, and successes.

Ten years have passed and I still haven't really grasped the meaning of the word
"ontological", specially when it's used to refer to: 2. Of or relating to essence or the nature of being. "Essence of being" really doesn't coalesce into a meaningful phrase for me. I just looked up "ontological" on an online dictionary for the umpteenth time, because I can never remember what it means, and Jeez, nothing like social scientists to love to insert it everywhere. "Ontological" is highly meaningless to me and the little that it does make sense to me indicates that I already start to find "ontological" an obnoxious concept.

A couple of weeks ago I finally found out the first bit of information that gave me an explanation to a question no one I knew could answer. It relates to the incredibly mind-knotting way the French say certain numbers, specifically the ones
in the 90s. In French, if you want to say 95 (which in English, as we all know is the very straightforward and simple ninety (the tens) and the five (the unity)), you have to perform 2, not one, but 2 mathematical operations. The French have managed to come with quatre-vingt-quinze which translates as four times twenty plus fifteen!!

Can you believe that??? And whenever I asked any French person why in the world they said 4 times 20 instead of 80, I would get a puzzled look on their faces since no one had ever asked them the question. It's just one of those things that they are conditioned from birth, so it is a non-mystery to them. But I could not stop being intrigued by it. So, I searched in an enormous etymology dictionary (smaller ones didn't have the entry) and found out what I had previously assumed was a possible explanation, this dates back to something really old, more exactly to a number system that came about in the 12th century and thanks to the great French uncomplicated way of doing things, and their fantastic forward mentality, it has remained until today!!!
;-))))

I can only imagine how that old number system evolved. First, people in France could only count up to 80. This went on for centuries. ;-) Then one bright farmer in the 12th century noticed he had more than 80 sheep and he couldn't count them!!!! Oh, le bon Dieu!! Seigneur, aidez nous et nos moutons! So he must have gotten the bright idea to, well, just add a heap of numbers after the 80 and there you go, counting all those 99 sheep is no longer a problem because we can say 4 times 20 plus nineteen! Very jiffy, I say.

So here we are in the nano technology and super computer era and the French are still saying 4 times 20 plus 13, 17, 19 or whatever afterwards!!! And it takes me at least a minute to figure which number they are referring to, since my brain gets tangled in hearing this mathematical operational way of saying a simple two-digit number...

So I went to see the new HP film and it was awful. I have not read any of the
books, and although I tried to start reading the first, I put it down because
it was extremely dull to me (I stopped right at the beginning).

Since then I have asked people (adults mostly) who have enjoyed the book what was the main plot, and I found the summary interesting and it gave me some clues of why
such a plot could become very popular. But I found the author's style a total obstacle. Obviously I am not in the target age range and this isn't a direct criticism to the author's style.

So, since I was actually trapped in a place with nothing
to do except wait for the time to go to Church a couple of weeks back, and I
happened to pass by a movie theater that was playing Harry Potter, I decided to
watch it (I think this is the fourth movie now?) Well, it's terrible. The movie
just throws at you one fast action sequence after another, and if you don't know anything about the characters, you walk out of the movie not knowing any more
than when you walked in. They are so character-less. The producers obviously
thought that if they replace good story and character development with fast action 3D effects, which simply don't stop happening, this rapid succession
of 3D vapidity would satisfy the public. Yuck.
Frustrating.

However, as it so happens that I am in a foreign country right now and I don't
know the language too well, this terrible banal scriptwriting with just zany action, action, action, which I had to watch in a foreign language, actually allowed me to follow the movie, but in a frustrated way.

As an tiny annecdote, I did talk to a couple of young teens afterwards that I hadn't liked the movie, and these major HP fans were simply in total adolescent shock that someone on this Earth did not stand in complete awe of a Harry Potter product.

:-D

I hate New Year's! I hate how everyone goes around like cauliflower brains
regurgitating "Happy New Year" to everyone else! Happy New Year, Happy New Year, ugh!I like Xmas more or less (it really depends on whom I get to spend it with), but I can't stomach New Year's.

And it's not that I don't want to wish my friends good things, I just hate
the artificiality of the whole Happy New Year thing. It's just the same time continuum, and there's nothing new. :-P

Although I did have a most magnificent good news and gift right at the
beginning of this not-new-just-a-continuation-of-last year, but my great gift has gone under the deluge of stupid things from last year, so I have been in a mostly crabby mood for the past week. :-
So how were your end of the year holidays?

I haven't had time to blog, because my life is simply chaotic and I am obliged to just keep just rolling with an avanlanche of punches.

But I am still here, and if all goes well, I will be able to throw at least
one punch back in the coming year, actually, make that a bunch of punches! :-)

My access to computers is still limited (ugh!) so blogging will have to wait...

"wait and wait in Casablanca..."