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My darling bride made the garnishes. Later, we’ll have pictures of the cranberry cheesecake.

Alex has occasional potluck shindigs at his daycare. This week, of course, was in honor of Thanksgiving. Most of the parents pick up something from the grocery store on the way in that morning. We, of course, don’t do that as a rule (one time we signed up for the potato chips, but just once!). We made cranberry cinnamon rolls in big Christmas tree shaped arrangements. 16 rolls per tree, and little candied cherries for ornaments with icing garland.

I guess they liked them, since we only got 3 back of 31 (we swiped one – phbt!). Now, we need to make more. Nobody else is getting any of this batch! And maybe I’ll take some pictures. Definitely going to take pictures of the cranberry cheesecake I’ll be putting together tonight for tomorrow’s gathering at my father-in-law’s house.

As my old buddy Cory would say, a celebration of excess; gotta love America.

Heard on a Levitra ad, “in the rare case of an erection that lasts for more than four hours…” Um, get a career in porn?

Ok, all you SoCal folks, it’s that time again – time for me to beg for a CD. Starting the 30th of November, you lucky bastards will be able to purchase Kevin and Bean’s Christmastime In The 909 at your local Best Buy stores. I, on the other hand, will have to resort to eBay again if nobody takes pity on me. I’ve got the albums from the past four or five years now, and I’m not gonna break my streak.

Anyone? Anyone?

With the recent What Would Chthulhu Do sale, I’m 40 cents from getting a commission check from Cafepress. Since they raised the minimum from ten bucks to 25, I’ve received no checks. That’s about two years now. I actually got two checks in 2002, for a total of 28 bucks. Not exactly paying for any extravagant vacations, eh?

I’m still surprised that someone bought the WWCD shirt. It was a joke!

Some worry evolution dispute hurts image

bq. “I think the (evolution) theory is atheistic. And it’s all that’s presented. It’s an insult to their intelligence that they’re only taught evolution,” said Marjorie Rogers, the parent who first complained about the biology texts.

Um, yeah. All science is atheistic. That is, it is completely unrelated to religion or theology. That’s not to say it is anti-religion, just unconcerned with it. That’s what the “a” in front of “theistic” means.

Humpty Dumpty Ball Park Hot Dog Potato Chips

What else can I add to that? Potato chips which taste like hot dogs, with relish. Seriously.

OK, I can add something – check out their other flavors: Fries and Gravy and Grilled Cheese and Ketchup

Although the Yahoo version of this story has been edited to remove this quote, other news sources, such as the BBC, have yet to bow to the pressure to make the U.S. military commanders look less nuts.

bq. “The enemy has got a face. He’s called Satan. He lives in Falluja. And we’re going to destroy him.” – Lt Col Gareth Brandl

Oooookay. Satan lives in Fallujah. Suppose he has a nice garden or something?

I realize Livejournal is a young place, but I’m in the 97th percentile? Dayum.

LJ Age was bought to you by imran and MemeLand.org

If you haven’t read Coventry, go buy Revolt in 2100. Tell me that theocratic dystopia is not possible with the way the country is heading.

Barack Obama faces high expectations after resounding Senate victory. I’m sure he does. Why does it sadden me to find out that he’s only the fifth black U.S. Senator in the history of this country?

How many Senators have been elected to first terms in the past 140 years? What a ratio…

Not only does it take Freeservers more than a week to put my information in the domain registry for the domain that the Cancer Society is paying for, but the registrar (register.com) still says Freeservers is in control of the domain and I can’t do anything to administer it.

This is completely unacceptable. As soon as these chuckleheads get things so that I can do something, I’m leaving both Freeservers and Register behind. I can’t believe it can take two weeks to change webhosts. Two days, maybe.

BTW, this is for the San Angelo Relay for Life site, not this one. I never chose Freeservers – I inherited it.

What exactly is so confusing about the following question?

Question: I’ve inherited the sanangelorelayforlife.org site, and I am going to move it to a different host that has a relationship with our local community. I notice the domain is seemingly registered to the Freeservers parent company. How can I transfer the domain to a different admin/tech contact?

Apparently, to the Freeservers administrators, it means, “what are my name servers” and “please ignore me” among other things. It has taken 10 days of incessant emails to the Freeservers people to get a reply that even seems to be in relation to my original query. Getting them to actually comply, well…we’ll see what happens tomorrow, I guess.

Check out our Halloween photos. They are coolio. Yo.

We have a crazy amount of pecans falling from the 2.5 trees that drop into our yard. Lots of pecans.

I added a style switcher and a bunch of styles to the blog. Now you can all see things in different ways, depending on your whim.

Is it not nifty?

OK, if you don’t think it’s disturbing that Bin Laden is thanking the President for screwing up and helping out the cause of international terrorism, maybe you’ve been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh.

I’m worth $2,655,050.31! How much are you worth?

Realizing that the military (and veterans groups) leans about 70% Republican, you’d think I’d get used to the insane drivel that spews from them on a daily basis.

The offtopic chat room, after ten minutes of lurking, has already managed to annoy the piss out of me this morning. I don’t even know what the context is, but at least three (of eight) members of the room have comisserated about how horrible the New York Times is, that liberal media mouthpiece. I guess they forgot how the Times was used as the unofficial news outlet for every lie told by Ahmed Chalabi about the inevitability of finding WMDs in Iraq, or the various other ways that paper held up the Bush Doctrine of preemptive warfare as a good thing. These are the same people who use Rush Limbaugh the druguser and G. Gordon Liddy the convicted felon as news sources. How can any reasonably intelligent person (all M.I. guys here) actually believe that there is a liberal media, when Fox News is the highest-rated news channel and Air America is struggling to survive amid the Rush and Liddy radio waves?

I don’t like people who mindlessly parrot viewpoints formulated by wiser heads. I don’t like people who can hold such wildly contradictory beliefs to be self-evident as, “Bush is good for the country and he lowered my taxes.” Does anyone think that we can keep going with trillions of dollars in debt, while continuing to dig deeper? Hell, Cuba has told its citizens to stop using dollars. When our money isn’t even any good in that broke-ass country, what does that tell you about our economy?

Karl Rove and friends have done a fantastic job of snookering the American people. Many undecided voters (how can it be a week from Election Day and you be undecided?) are going to vote based on whether they think Dubya or Flippy is the more honest or agrees with their views on gay rights. Who gives a shit what your neighbor does in his bedroom? All I care about is what the impact on my bottom line is from the government. If I notice the inconveniences imposed by a shrinking set of civil liberties, that is a big deal to me. If I notice that my income is shrinking because of the government’s actions, that is a big deal to me. Social issues like abortion and gay rights are not the job of the government anyway, so how the candidate feels about each issue is completely irrelevent. Or it would be irrelevent in a sane world. We live in Bizarroworld.

Mtzlplk lives.

Bush campaign creating lists of black voters in Florida, to challenge them en masse on election day. This type of intimidation is probably not legal, say experts. This seems unlikely to stop it from happening, of course.