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Reparte'

historyteller — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:02:56 GMT

On Wednesday, March 1st, 2006, in Annapolis at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify. At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?" Raskin replied: "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible." The room erupted into applause.

I'm sorry, the number you have reached ....

historyteller — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:59:19 GMT

Some of you may have noticed a certain, shall we say, lack of interest on my part lately as far as Tribe is concerned. It appears that Tribe has ceased to be an obsession for me .... I'm down to sex, stratagy games, and NeoPets. Luckily, in that order. ;) Feel free to contact me at historyteller@sbcglobal.net if you'd like a response in under two or three weeks (which seems to be about how often I check Tribe now days).

Social Life?

historyteller — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:06:24 GMT

Must ..... stop ..... working .... so much! I had a social life last year, anyone see where I put it?

PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!

historyteller — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:16:54 GMT

Monday September 12, 2005 By MIKE FOSTER CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014. "The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA. "The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent." Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole. "A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski. "Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form. "It now appears that mangled information can distort matter. "Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter. "Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every star or planet it encounters." To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid. "It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski. Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless. "It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall in, while the electron escapes." But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it touches. "If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe," the astrophysicist warned. Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away. "We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such a project. But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct. "A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire." Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official said the president's top science advisors are taking the findings in stride. "This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether it's real or not," said the official. "The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."

British Office Compiles List Of Odd Names

historyteller — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:07:05 GMT

LONDON -- Horatio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus. Rene Jackaman, archive assistant at Cornwall County Record Office, found all those names after coming across a real-life namesake of C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero in county census records. The Hornblower name has been on record for centuries. Inspired by that discovery, staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names found in censuses as well as in births, deaths and marriage records going back as far as the 16th century. "My all-time favorites are Abraham Thunderwolff and Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane," she said. Other discoveries included Boadicea Basher, Philadelphia Bunnyface, Faithful Cock, Susan Booze, Elizabeth Disco, Edward Evil, Fozzitt Bonds, Truth Bullock, Charity Chilly, Gentle Fudge, Obedience Ginger and Offspring Gurney. Levi Jeans was married in Padstow, Cornwall, in 1797. Other remarkable duos in the marriage records included Nicholas Bone and Priscilla Skin, joined in wedlock in 1636; Charles Swine and Jane Ham in 1711; John Mutton and Ann Veale in 1791, and Richard Dinner and Mary Cook in 1802.

Shoot them, shoot them now. :(

historyteller — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:42:48 GMT

"I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." –First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005

Patience hell, I'm gonna kill somethin'!

historyteller — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:28:17 GMT

I have (yet again) failed to schedule my birthday party ... this sucks. :P For those of you who don't know, my birthday is December 24th, which means that anything I try to do ON my B-day will be screwed up by the whole Xmas thing. Therefore, I try to have my party in the summer when people can actually show up and have a good time. Let me also add that, me being the horrible Lech that I am, my parties can get a little out of hand .... well, the good ones anyway. Any suggestions people?

Raves may yet redeem themselves

historyteller — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:38:25 GMT

Back when raves were underground events, DJs weren't pretending to be celebrities, and I was soooo not part of that scene, people took MDMA and danced/petted/kissed/talked alot. Things like candy necklaces started appearing (along with pacifiers) almost as a secret symbol for these taboo events held in the dark of night. Soon, they became promoted events. Flyers went up, ad space was purchased, DJs hired from across the country, .... and they ceased having the aura of illicitness that attracted so many in the first place. Hanging out in the mezzanine at the Phoenix Theater is naughtier than 99% of the raves now days. Ravers, embrace the product pictured above ... take back your parties from the money people who've stolen them! Face it, if you're there for the DJ you're at a concert, not a rave. :P

Modern Art

historyteller — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:30:13 GMT

NEW YORK -- Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro regards his finished work of art, a bed with more than 300 pounds of sliced ham, at a gallery in New York. Cavallaro, 41, the son of immigrants from southern Italy, said the ham is "a pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiled and pressed together." Despite his Italian heritage and training in an Italian art school, Cavallaro said he had rejected Prosciutto because "It would have been pompous." (06/03/04 AP photo)

Time and Insanity

historyteller — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:59:56 GMT

I look at everything I need to get done, everything I want to do, and all the stuff that I probably should do, and despair. Especially when someone else screws up my schedule for no obvious reason. :P I keep having these "Curses! Foiled again!" moments. lol

This probably won't be popular ...

historyteller — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:32:38 GMT

IMO, there hasn't been a lot of good art done in the last fifty years. Uninspired photos of thousands of naked people Sheep in formaldehyde Dung smeared on canvas Silly amounts of fabric streched across the landscape There's been some good work, especially with music, but I don't think this era will be remembered for it's art. The pic: Art Deco statuette in ivory 1925

Sometimes ....

historyteller — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 08:10:43 GMT

It's hard to know what's going on in people's heads. Why can't a society function with more honesty than the one we're dealing with now? Compare what faces people show on the internet with the ones they show in real life ... vastly different in some cases.

Prejudice and hypocracy

historyteller — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:16:52 GMT

Because of my involvement with the more outre` side of things, I've stumbled across something a "boringly straight" male would rarely notice ... anti-bisexual prejudice. Some lesbians and gay men get *angry* at bi people for "not admitting that they're homosexual". I'd assume this was just another case of internet cranks if my former neighbor hadn't said this to my girlfriend ... and then told a straight friend of mine that she had to be be bisexual! WTF? Why is your sexual preference okay, but not a bi person's? Is the whole LGBT just an attempt to increase your lobbying power?

Take a look at the runners-up as well ...

historyteller — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:11:09 GMT

Some people accuse liberals of "knee jerk" reactions and wanting to slant facts for their own benefit. Please peruse the article I've linked here. Afterwords, feel free to club a Republican like a baby seal. :) http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591 FYI - The seal in the pic is only sleeping.

Polyamory in the 20's

historyteller — Tue, 31 May 2005 03:17:00 GMT

I'm not too sure about the "amory" part, but it's pretty interesting anyway. :) http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/05/30/people.lindbergh.reut/index.html

As much as I loath German philosophy ....

historyteller — Wed, 25 May 2005 22:07:29 GMT

I must say this Ubermensch has a point. Unfortunatly, he has all the political acumen of a turnip. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/312862p-267534c.html

Too freakin' cool!

historyteller — Wed, 04 May 2005 08:29:36 GMT

Hippies can now also be Taggers. :) http://www.storiesfromspace.co.uk/data/html/mossgraffiti.html

Society takes another step backward

historyteller — Wed, 04 May 2005 04:06:39 GMT

I keep finding articles about "Christians" refusing products/services to people because of "moral objections". A pharmacist in MN refused to fill an Rx for birth control, Alabama has a bill in the legislature to ban "gay" books, etc. I don't want to have anything to do with these people. Can we secede from the US now?

This guy lived with his sister for most of his life.

historyteller — Sun, 01 May 2005 17:21:33 GMT

Everyone's a little crazy, it's just that intelligent people tend to be entertainingly crazy. :) Look at my friends ... 90% twisted freaks, 10% well camoflaged twisted freaks. *grin*

Missed BaGG

historyteller — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:41:42 GMT

After months of Shatter giving me shit for not going to Bondage a Go Go, Christy and I finally decided to go .... screw it, who needs to sleep before work anyway, right? Then my boss calls, he's coming up Thursday morning .... this sucks, but I can still *try* to go. Then he calls in the first few minutes of Wednesday morning ... he's in the car, driving up from LA. Anyone else's boss have ADD? :P

Random FARK bits

historyteller — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:30:10 GMT

If you go down to the woods today You're sure of a big surprise If you go down to the woods today You'll never believe your eyes. For every bear that ever there was Is gathered there for certain because Today's the day the teddy bears have their rave up. There's angel bears who come on their bikes All dressed in their leather gear There's gallons of scrumpy all green and lumpy And horrible Watney's beer Yogi downed a pint of it quick And was very promptly horribly sick And filled up both of Paddington's new wellies. Rave up time for teddy bears The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today Grooving to those heavy sounds That only Status Quo know how to play. Cresta bear is freaking out "It's frothy, man", he's blowing his little brain Rupert bear is having a trip Winnie the Pooh is doing the strip They reckon that he's on the game. Now every bear that ever there was Is sure of a treat today 'Cause Mummy and Daddy and baby bear Have found a new game to play Beneath the trees where nobody sees There's Goldilocks tied up on her knees You bet your life she's getting more than porridge. If you go down to the woods today You'd better not go alone It's lovely down in the woods today But safer to stay at home 'Cause it's a really kinky scene A big butch bear is playing the queen And they don't call him Sugar Puffs for nothing. Rave up time for teddy bears The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today Groping in the undergrowth Oh, what would Enid Blyton have to say See them as they prance around Collapsing on the ground; they haven't any cares At twelve o'clock the coppers are coming To take them all away 'Cause they've been naughty little teddy bears.

To continue the theme ...

historyteller — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:06:50 GMT

Protecting children from physical and emotional abuse is a fine and noble goal ... why the fuck do we try and "protect" them from knowledge? So much harm is caused by teaching kids blatant bull shit as facts, it takes years to get past it (if ever). Sex is a fact of life, as is violence, injustice, social classes, deception, insanity, intolerance, etc. ..... Make believe is great, except when reality smacks you in the face because you believed it was the truth.

I'm so fuckin' tired of the lengths we'll go to ...

historyteller — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:03:24 GMT

... to avoid offending each and every little group of jack asses out there. We have a loud group of American Christians who want to re-write science and history to fit their prejudices on one hand, and the "Liberals" (who can't seem to remember any of the economics classes they took at Yale, Harvard, or Stanford) who seem to want to pass laws against insulting ANYONE for any reason. You can't take nail clippers or a lighter on an airplane, kids can't wear blue, red, brown, or PINK at the local schools anymore, and they don't seem to be required to LEARN anything to graduate from High School. This girl is about to be expelled for wearing a button. It doesn't insult anyone, it doesn't advocate violent social change, and it doesn't even have those stupid blinky lights. http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5359758.html

What do you think?

historyteller — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:45:31 GMT

Everybody always talks about the sins of Sodom, but no one seems to know what the people of Gomorrah did .... any suggestions? *evil grin*

Random stuff ... and stuff

historyteller — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 03:17:09 GMT

Since I'm just starting to play with the new version of Tribe, you'll have to forgive me for my errant silliness. :)