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[Jun. 10th, 2009|10:52 am] |
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The supreme court rejected the appeal regarding snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks. I'm not very involved in this issue, but I am against Snowbowl using reclaimed water to make snow on the mountain.
There's a matter of environmental impact -- you can't get everything out of treated effluent. What typically remains are pharmaceuticals, and given how many we take in this day and age, I don't think it's a great idea. The compounds in birth control pills, for example, could have a serious effect on species endemic to such a specialized area as the Peaks. There are plants and critters that exist only there and if they all become feminized they won't be around much longer.
There's also that pesky little issue of the Peaks being sacred to over 13 tribes in the region. Not like that's ever mattered in any question of Anglo development anywhere in this Land, but given the gravity of the function of the Peaks, perhaps this is a good time for it to be considered. I'm not as aware as I could be regarding the lore of the Peaks to everyone who holds them sacred. However, for the Hopi the Peaks are where the Kachinas live. Kachinas bring the moisture (which is pretty crucial to this area regardless of what paradigm you're living in) and if Humanity goes around making our own snow and plopping it right at their doorstep it, to say the least, is not the most respectful thing. I know a lot of people don't want to hear the religious arguments, but given how rapidly Western culture is destroying itself and its environment it may do us some good to consider respecting the ways and observances of a people who have thrived in this precarious place for a long time before us.
And then there's my beef. I really don't think we need any more reasons for stinking rich Phoenicians to buy any more fucking second homes here. Plain and simple. I don't care if they patronize the stores and restaurants. They are rude and inconsiderate, they reek of entitlement and, above all, they do not respect the land -- here or anywhere else. It's questionable that Snowbowl being able operate all season long would make that significant a difference in local revenue and whatever jobs it did create would likely be seasonal, demeaning service jobs that didn't pay shit (like most every other job here.) Why don't we improve some infrastructure or maybe build a solar or wind power plant if we want our locals to have jobs?
I don't want any more fools who dwell in climate controlled McMansions in an even drier desert getting lost within walking distance from their vacation cottage in the mountains because they didn't have the sense to get their bearings, remember that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West, or to just not go out for their Adventure in the Woods when conditions aren't going to accommodate their total ignorance of anything natural. They maim our Forest with their four-wheelers. I don't want any more resources expended on their search and rescue when they don't have the sense to remember where they parked the damned things before they went wandering off. They have already shat where they eat and sleep and now they have been colonizing Flagstaff because it is a Charming Mountain Town with Four Seasons. I wish they'd all end up dead from exposure in the Woods, for all the good they do us. |
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[May. 28th, 2009|01:03 pm] |
We've set our date for October 24. It is going to be a remarkably small wedding. I made the mistake of going to the recently opened bridal shop in town. I honestly went in there with no expectations, but I am not going to pay a lot of money for a dress I will only wear once in front of only a handful of friends and family. Moreover, I hate wearing white and ivory (I accept that they are very different colors; I will still look like a blimp in either.) I also got treated like I was stupid for not having a better idea of what dress I wanted with my wedding coming up "so soon"...in October! Not like I'm planning a gala with 500 of my closest friends. I wasn't one of those girls who dreamed of how their wedding was going to be. I wouldn't even be having one if common law marriages existed in this state. (Thank you, state legislature of Mormons.)
And naturally, everything was strapless.
I understand that my flabby arms are my own problem and that I could rememedy the problem fairly easily with some exercises. However the flab is a result of the weight I put on, quite rapidly, during my period of being heavily medicated. I'm talking 80 pounds in 2 months, here, not your normal weight gain. (Shame I was a healthy weight to begin with, otherwise I'd have gotten diabetes and ended up with a huge settlement.) So not only do my upper arms flap in the breeze, they're covered in stretch marks. I hate them. I wonder if I could sue the drug company for pain and suffering induced by their bad medicine.
I left the shop knowing I need to lose 30 pounds. This always happens when I go shopping for clothes, but picturing myself all flabby and gross in a wedding dress ruined my day. I need chocolate and carbs right now, so I will have to start in a few days. Hopefully this wedding planning will stress me out and induce my gastritis so I can puke up everything I eat with it being a medical condition beyond my control instead of being an eating disorder. That's usually how I end up losing weight, and it's always why I end up putting it back on once my life gets back to normal.
What kills me is that I could just as easily go to the courthouse wearing jeans and a tshirt, then go out for pizza afterwards and call it my dream wedding. I'm putting on a fancy dress and prancing around with flowers for other people. |
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[Apr. 14th, 2008|05:16 pm] |
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Obama just lost the election. All the democrats are stupid twats, and although Hillary lies like a dog, at least she has the sense to not insult a great number of the people on whose votes people like her depend.
You don't court the majority of the electorate by chalking their beliefs in (or "cling"ing to, if you will) God and guns up their proletarian discontent. It offends even me, and I'm in college (theoretically making me non-proletarian, despite my beliefs, I guess), and have little if no faith -- for all practical purposes. I have a taste for target shooting, and I would hunt were I not squeamish and frankly as someone who likes guns and isn't scared of them and doesn't view them as the lethal tool of sociopaths most liberals would have you think they are, I take offense at being lumped into the category of some religious rightwinger, I guess, because only religious hicks like guns, right? Honestly, all the gun enthusiasts I've met have precious little belief in anything. This is not how rich, Ivy League educated (if only nominally) W. duped America into thinking he's some Texan good ol' boy, in it for the common man. His idiocy is not what appealed to people, liberal elitism repulsed them.
This is why liberal darlings of the intelligentsia don't win. Most of the country resents you, don't you see? It's not the easiest choice, but when it comes down to being screwed by neo-con policies, watching good jobs go overseas and prices of everything increase, or being treated like an idiot, I honestly would choose the former.
Thank you McCarthy, for removing the balls and working class appeal from the Left. Thank you Liberal Academia, for making everyone hate you for being the post-Enlightenment secular priesthood that you are. If you weren't so convuluted and snobby more people would listen to you. duh. Remove your mortarboards and see the facts. When it usually takes incurring some kind of horrific debt or loaded parents to get an education, waving it in the electorate's face is not going to make them vote for you. SAT words and hifalutin ideas don't appeal to me or most other people. It makes sense that people who live paycheck to paycheck and worry about that don't have much concern for Heidegger's metaphysics or Hegel's dialectic or WHATEVER when basic survival needs must first be met. Even I don't like assholes who use big words I don't know, and after busting by butt in school, there aren't many of those left.
The sentiment that valued "intellectuals" over "workers," academic pursuit over concrete productivity is what justified slavery in the Confederacy. You'd think people so damned educated would learn something from history.
ATTENTION ALL COASTS! ATTENTION ALL COASTS! Not everyone in the fly-over zone is some dumb Bible-thumping hick. You might win us over by not treating us as such. Yeah, I'm a Jersey transplant to AZ, but it gets personal when friends and loved ones are insulted. I like it here, too. People like me do better in places where your peers don't act so superior.
Republicans or Democrats, some days I can't pick who I hate more.
It's really a sad, sad thing to lose faith in your country. |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2007|07:15 pm] |
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Hello everyone. There are a lot of people on friendslist that I don't communicate with in any way anymore. These folks are going off of my flist. If you still want to be my lj-friend after this long period of mutual silence, drop a comment here. If not, it was fun. |
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[Jan. 20th, 2007|05:44 pm] |
Democrats, can you give us no one better than some guy who writes a book about how great and successful he is, with less experience in D.C. than I've had in college and a sexually cold, sickeningly rich tired old windbag? Honestly. And also, please, if you've got a decent candidate who is running on a populist platform let it be someone with the politcal savvy to know that an open populist won't win in this country? He could've kept his plans to eliminate poverty to himself until after he won. Now, there's not a chance. Do you think New England liberal intellectuals want to eliminate poverty? If everyone in this country had the leisure time to read Kirkegaard and F. Scott Fitzgerald and go skiing how would those people feel special about themselves? Goddamn, what would happen to Harvard and Yale and all those institutions of bought and paid for opportunity in that moneyed armpit of our country if we eliminated poverty? That means they'd probably have to deal with living with a bit less in the bank. "Sorry, dearest. We can't go to Aspen this winter. We have to go be re-educated because our new president wants to eliminate poverty. We won't be able to send our idiot richkid offspring to Ivy League schools, either." Boo-fucking-hoo. I wish democrats would just choke and die. Maybe it would clear the space for a Left that actually gave a damn instead of just pretending to believe what they do to get over the guilt trip of having filthy rich parents.
You guys, just because I'll vote for someone on the grounds that they are not Neo-Cons (i.e. the pile of shit that stinks less) doesn't mean everyone else will. It's not like the lands between NYC and LA are voids filled with people who can't think, have hard-ons for Jesus and are warlike. Honestly, I don't like voting for someone who bought a fancy degree, gets off on skiing and talks down to me either. Get a clue.
You'll probably get a President in 08, just because I think so many people are tired of Neo-Cons. But jesuschristalmighty, please let it not be some damned elitist shitforbrains rich douchebag. |
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[Dec. 28th, 2006|10:18 am] |
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You know, whenever I hear about the Cuban exile community in Miami I just get pissed off at them. Please, don't bitch about Castro. I'm sure you could've stayed in your wonderful homeland if you could've lived without private property and maybe a little less money than you were accustomed to. Maybe if your parents and grandparents, dear Miami Cubans, weren't sugar planters who fucked a bunch of people over with their private property/private business, or academics and other idlers who make money for doing essentially nothing for their living, they wouldn't have had to flea to a country where we love businesses who fuck people over and people who've figured out how to survive by sitting around acting smarter than everyone else. And maybe Cuba wouldn't be in the shite state of affairs it's in now if their money stayed there to help the people of your homeland. So I'd like to give a big fuck you to Cuban exiles in Miami. And saying "fuck you" isn't nearly as bad as wishing death on a man who is already dying and relishing every last bit of news of his suffering, selling cider with a label indicating it is to be opened only upon the death of Fidel Castro, selling toilet paper with his picture on it -- you're in the States, living as high if not higher on the hog as you did in Cuba so just shut up, stop drawing attention to yourselves. We don't need any more people bitching about Communism, we had our fill in the fucking 1950s and that's why the Left of this country is full of effete rich liberals who bought their degrees from goddamn Yale or Harvard or whatever other puffed up Ivy League school that harbors more idiots, more fools, more unskilled, uninformed so-called students than a community college of all places (and yes, I've spoken to my share of Ivy Leaguers/those who want to be/have been and Community Collegers, and the latter are much more together with their lives -- we're all made to believe the opposite is true. The fact that I have a 4.0 at NAU, a public Univeristy and get confused for a student attending Coconino Community College only because I'm decent to fellow human beings and don't act like a damned fool is sad) who do nothing but throw money at problems. (But I digress) You're in a fucking country that allows you to have private property and enough money to buy opportunity; if Cuba, your homeland, was so important to you, perhaps you'd have stayed there and dealt with that pesky little thing called Socialism. I think your money and property are more important; maybe you miss the climate, you miss the land, but if you were in Cuba you'd miss your ownership of the land and money a lot more and I guess the impoverished people there would cramp your style so just shut up about Castro ruining your life when most Miami Cubans at this point were born and raised in Miami making them American not Cuban. Castro didn't impose suffering on the Cuban people, I don't think pinko trash commie bastards are really into the suffering of the People, last I checked. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think Fidel should have been in power for 47 years, the man's no saint but look at the mess he had to deal with. The Embargo, goddamn perestroika and the disintegration of the USSR have done more damage than a dictator perpetuus could. Rome lasted for a good long while with that sort of deal, remember? Cuba did a goddamn better job because it lasted with that sort of leader while not being the Imperialistic Dungheap that Rome was. Oh, I forgot, we like Imperialism; never mind. For God's sake, the Revolution got rid of Batista (who was a great nasty sonofabitch, wasn't he, himself, mind you...oh, but he let American businesses own a whole bunch of Cuba, so that makes him much, much better, doesn't it?) if enough people in Cuba were that unhappy with their lives they could have -- would have by God -- gotten rid of Castro. The Love of Capitalism is what ruinied "your" Country; not Socialism, not Communism, not the Revolution, not Castro. The almighty Dollar and America as World Police did the damage, not some poor bastard wearing fatigues, who wanted to do good despite practically the rest of the World thinking it's just fine to have a few people with everything and a whole bunch with very little or nothing, who's now dying of a goddamned cancerous GI tract. I know I'm biased: I don't like big business, I don't like private property, I don't like Capitalism, I don't like America's version of "Democracy," I think Imperialism is nasty, I'd rather go back to living in tiny autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers for the love of God, so maybe I'm a little insensitive to the plight of people who had to leave a country because they had too much. But there is a man who is old and dying who also happens to be Fidel Castro. I'll rant and rave until I'm blue in the goddamn face and foaming at the mouth, but I'd never wish a death by cancer on the aged leader of a sovereign nation, for God's sake, no matter how much I didn't like him. I certainly wouldn't have a big fuckin shindig whenever I heard he was doing worse, and I'm the godless heathen pinko trash, for the love of God! Have some respect for the dying and the dead, Miami Cuban exiles. Big Bad Fidel Castro won't mess up your lives for much longer. You and America will have your go at Cuba soon enough, I'm sure. Just lay off for now. It's disrespectful. It pisses me off.
[And I know this is long as hell, but it's not going behind a cut.] |
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