The knife (Is it worth it)
May 21, 2009
As I get older and start to notice the lines on my face getting more pronounced, I have thoughts of plastic surgery. Fantasy/nightmare really. I don’t have the money to do it and I’m afraid of hospitals (germs…ew). When I think about people who have had plastic surgery who do have lots of money I get more nervous. This is the best money can buy?
Hot ass (deal)
May 17, 2009
I just bought a pair of Mavi jeans for $24 (marked down from $98). Love my Mavi’s. If you are a skinny bitch like me and have no ass, Mavi’s are the answer. They aren’t too trendy (no obscene distressing; I won’t buy jeans that are already worn out). Life is good when I find jeans that fit my ass (at a discount).
(for the record, my jeans were made in Turkey; that doesn’t make us poorer)
Heartless assholes
May 15, 2009
We’re all going to die! I have proof.
Global Warming May Exceed Infections as Health Threat, from Bloomberg.
“We can’t wait for climate change to bite because we won’t be able to put the genie back into the bottle,” Hugh Montgomery, director of the Institute for Human Health and Performance at University College London, said in an interview. “Once catastrophe strikes, it’s too late. We need to create a literate population that is aware of the situation because until we do, there is no hope.”
Yeah. I’d like a literate population too. One that actually understands what “cap and trade” and cost/benefit means. I too have little hope.
Warmer temperatures exacerbate existing health problems, the researchers said. Climate change expands the area that diseases such as malaria can spread, they said, using a map of Zimbabwe to illustrate the range over which the mosquitoes that spread the illness can live now and in a climate-warmed future.
Sorry, Global Warming is the least of Zimbabwe’s problems. I’ll bet you money (but not in Zimbabwe money) that corrupt, ruthless dictators kill more people than global warming ever will.
The world’s population lost 5.5 million years [years? I think he means people] due to premature death and quality of life reduced by disability in 2000, the most recent year the calculation was made, as a result of climate change, the researchers wrote. That’s due to deaths caused by heart disease, diarrhea, malaria, malnutrition and injury from coastal flooding and landslides. Further temperature rises are inflating that number, they said.
5.5 million people died because of a 1 degree increase in temperature over a century? That’s just retarded.
Business Week chimes in: Global Warming Biggest Health Threat of 21st Century, Experts Say
What to do? As usual all is hopeless:
“There are no institutions at the global level who can really deal effectively with devising complex solutions to these complex problems,” added Lancet editor Dr. Richard Horton.
But yet:
The authors propose adopting policies to reduce carbon emissions and increase carbon biosequestration and to equalize the world’s health systems, among other recommendations.
“equalize the world’s health systems”? Hell no. Equalizing anything means making it worse. Do we really want the average health system in the world?
“We have a moral dilemma: How do we protect the health of the poorest people in the world and allow them to develop,” Maslin said.
No moral dilemma here, asshole. Energy=prosperity. Prosperity reduces poverty. Reduced poverty improves health and the enviroment.
Reality vs reality tv
May 10, 2009
I attended a wedding this weekend. No one related or really close but I am happy for him (and his bride). They were married in a nondenominational church. OK, not that interesting. What was different from other weddings I’ve been to was the church. Being raised Episcopalian, my ideas of “church” involve so many things that weren’t present. There was no alter, no pews, no kneelers, no hymnals, no prayer books…not a bible to be seen. Instead it was wall to wall carpet with comfy padded stacking chairs (upholtered in blue and mauve; depending on the row). The entire church was lighted courtesy of Menards/Home Depot/Lowe’s. There were no images of Christ at all (not even the really hot one where Christ looks like a coverboy from a romance novel). Apart from the cross shaped window over the area where minister stood, it felt more like I was at a city hall meeting.
The marriage ceremony matched the surroundings. The whole thing took about an half an hour (Yeah! smoking cessation was tolerable. (I can’t go to Catholic weddings)) The one reading: Ephesians (Wife submit; Husband love) . After the vows, the entire “blended” family went up to the wedding area for the “Sand Ceremony“. Huh? Now that’s a new one for me. Had to look that one up.
This unique celebration was recently brought into the public eye with the marriage of Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter of the TV series, “The Bachelorette.” Rather than the time-honored ritual of the Unity Candle Ceremony, the famous couple chose the alternative, Unity Sand Ceremony. Their decision has sparked a craze in weddings across the country.
This is what I get for watching only What Not to Wear and CSPAN.
Deal or no deal
May 5, 2009
Here is an interesting question I’ve read in comment sections on other blogs:
How much will temperatures decrease (or slow the rate of increase) if the US enacts cap and trade (global warming fighting) legislation?
The only answer I have found so far is from The Heritage Foundation:
Analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows that a 60 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050 will reduce CO2 concentrations by only 25 ppm in 2095. This reduction would affect world temperatures by 0.1 to 0.2 degrees C.
Anyone have another source that tells me how much less warming there will be if the current “cap and trade” legislation is enacted? If I’m paying for it, I’d like to know what I’m buying.
Letter of the law
May 3, 2009
I was going to try to write this last night but 3 o’clock in the morning is not a good time to do anything (I barely got that last post off).
Smoking in bars is illegal in Illinois. The great place I went to last night (which shall go nameless) has an “outside” smoking room. Funny thing is that all of the people at the bar were out in the smoking room watching the band play. How is this possible?
First, let me detail for you the Illinois smoking ban law that defines which areas are mandated to be smoke free.
“Enclosed area” means all space between a floor and a
ceiling that is enclosed or partially enclosed with (i) solid
walls or windows, exclusive of doorways, or (ii) solid walls
with partitions and no windows, exclusive of doorways, that
extend from the floor to the ceiling, including, without
limitation, lobbies and corridors.
The way this place figured it out is genius. The smoking room consists of a roof, structural framing and heavy duty plastic for walls (an industrial strength version of what you insulate your windows with in the winter). For heat, there are multiple space heaters and an overhead radiant system (their carbon footprint has to be off the charts). The only ventilation is when someone opens the door.
The band plays, the people smoke, the place is packed, the owner makes money. Fun is had by all and no one seems to mind.
How big is little?
May 3, 2009
Another Saturday night out with D and S. Fave song tonight:
