Post road-trip entry
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taerowynSo, been on the road for four days and now have stuff to talk about. If you like stuff (and admit it, you do) then click
Never saw what was coming up behind us, but for about 100 miles in Kansas, every overpass had people standing and waiting, flags awaving and signs saying "Welcome Home Vets." I'm assuming a convoy of some sorts was several miles back. It was just nifty to see the reception.
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Love the heartland of America where, beside the more common McDonald's/hotel-type billboards, ads are a healthy mix of churches, military academies and porn superstores.
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Drove past this. It's quite big.
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Was driving through Indiana, AC on, radio blaring and there was this noise. Couldn't figure out what the hell it was. Turned off the radio and AC, rolled down the windows and this absolute wall of sound came. Cicadas in all the trees along the roadside. So loud. So many bugs. So icky to think about.
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Dad has his XM radio so we listened to Air America for most of the trip. My only complaint was that the hosts should either a) start listening to each other's shows or b) listen to each other a hell of a lot less cause they repeated each other so very often.
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Course listening to them I heard about another who gives money to who campaign site and a site on FCC reform stuff.
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Since returning to my computer I found this little gem:
A couple of years ago, the "Swan" concept would have made a horrifying episode of "Angel." Cordelia would have had one of her visions: A vanity demon would have risen from the depths of hell; Angel and gang would investigate and find a roomful of bandaged women, all of them sure they had nothing to offer the world other than physical beauty.
Angel and gang would try to rescue the women, but the demon would be too powerful. The spell is too strong; bandaged and in agony the women can't pull themselves away from the demon's mirror. The gang would be forced to leave the women behind, waiting fruitlessly, endlessly, for permission to remove the bandages, hoping against hope that when the permission does come the mirror will show them worthy and validated human beings.
Hee!
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And leave town for a few weeks and they start Patriot Act stuff up again.
MBTA transit police confirmed yesterday they will begin stopping passengers for identification checks at various T locations, apparently as part of new national rail security measures following the deadly terrorist train bombings in Spain....
According to past interviews with Logan's primary security consultant, Rafi Ron, former head of security at Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel, such a program helps avoid accusations of racial profiling and is based on the behavior of those stopped. Logan was the first American airport at which the method was used.
Martino said "we do not racially profile and do not consider that someone is suspicious because they appear to be Middle Eastern or that they are not suspicious if they don't appear to be."
Why do I have trouble believing him?
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Been driving in Boston for less than 24 hours, but I think I have the system figured out. It's some sort of vehicular mutually assured destruction arrangement and there's no inklings of disarmament anywhere on the horizon.
Never saw what was coming up behind us, but for about 100 miles in Kansas, every overpass had people standing and waiting, flags awaving and signs saying "Welcome Home Vets." I'm assuming a convoy of some sorts was several miles back. It was just nifty to see the reception.
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Love the heartland of America where, beside the more common McDonald's/hotel-type billboards, ads are a healthy mix of churches, military academies and porn superstores.
************************
Drove past this. It's quite big.
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Was driving through Indiana, AC on, radio blaring and there was this noise. Couldn't figure out what the hell it was. Turned off the radio and AC, rolled down the windows and this absolute wall of sound came. Cicadas in all the trees along the roadside. So loud. So many bugs. So icky to think about.
**********************
Dad has his XM radio so we listened to Air America for most of the trip. My only complaint was that the hosts should either a) start listening to each other's shows or b) listen to each other a hell of a lot less cause they repeated each other so very often.
**********************
Course listening to them I heard about another who gives money to who campaign site and a site on FCC reform stuff.
**********************
Since returning to my computer I found this little gem:
A couple of years ago, the "Swan" concept would have made a horrifying episode of "Angel." Cordelia would have had one of her visions: A vanity demon would have risen from the depths of hell; Angel and gang would investigate and find a roomful of bandaged women, all of them sure they had nothing to offer the world other than physical beauty.
Angel and gang would try to rescue the women, but the demon would be too powerful. The spell is too strong; bandaged and in agony the women can't pull themselves away from the demon's mirror. The gang would be forced to leave the women behind, waiting fruitlessly, endlessly, for permission to remove the bandages, hoping against hope that when the permission does come the mirror will show them worthy and validated human beings.
Hee!
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And leave town for a few weeks and they start Patriot Act stuff up again.
MBTA transit police confirmed yesterday they will begin stopping passengers for identification checks at various T locations, apparently as part of new national rail security measures following the deadly terrorist train bombings in Spain....
According to past interviews with Logan's primary security consultant, Rafi Ron, former head of security at Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel, such a program helps avoid accusations of racial profiling and is based on the behavior of those stopped. Logan was the first American airport at which the method was used.
Martino said "we do not racially profile and do not consider that someone is suspicious because they appear to be Middle Eastern or that they are not suspicious if they don't appear to be."
Why do I have trouble believing him?
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Been driving in Boston for less than 24 hours, but I think I have the system figured out. It's some sort of vehicular mutually assured destruction arrangement and there's no inklings of disarmament anywhere on the horizon.
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