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[Oct. 20th, 2008|12:28 am] |
This coming weekend is the First Israeli Open Scrabble tournament!!
I am way excited. I've been playing great, challenging, fun scrabble lately, and am the number three aardvark currently. For the tournament, which is done on the Israel or international rating, I'm going in seeded 13th out of 41 players. And I get an international rating afterward! woohoo |
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| Palin Panders Pathetically |
[Sep. 12th, 2008|02:39 pm] |
GIBSON: What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
PALIN: Well, first, we are friends with Israel and I don't think that we should second guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security.
GIBSON: So if we wouldn't second guess it and they decided they needed to do it because Iran was an existential threat, we would cooperative or agree with that.
PALIN: I don't think we can second guess what Israel has to do to secure its nation.
GIBSON: So if it felt necessary, if it felt the need to defend itself by taking out Iranian nuclear facilities, that would be all right.
PALIN: We cannot second guess the steps that Israel has to take to defend itself |
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[Jul. 26th, 2008|12:54 pm] |
you know i love the lolcatz....
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| new baby in town |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|11:58 am] |
please meet Alef, my new lady kitten!!!
when I first brought her home, she assumed this insane position and promptly fell asleep:
this is her favorite activity, ouch ouch ouch, but she's teething and all:
these two with her favorite toy (SHE FETCHES!!!!):
one more - she's too quick to catch!!
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[Feb. 24th, 2008|01:44 am] |
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yay I'm moving tomorrow! |
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| booked my flight |
[Feb. 1st, 2008|02:13 am] |
depart: JFK February 24, 11:50 PM
arrive: Tel Aviv February 25, 5:10 PM
stay: indefinitely |
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| Law and Order: Family Unit! |
[Nov. 17th, 2007|11:34 pm] |
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YES so my mom has been doing all this genealogy research AND it turns out that Joe Stern, co-creator of Law and Order, is my grandmother's second cousin!! Their grandfathers were brothers...he is totally my second cousin twice removed ... YES |
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[Nov. 10th, 2007|10:22 pm] |
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a couple days ago I signed up last minute for a Scrabble tournament and played today. I totally won all my games and took the division I played in, and a prize of 30 big ones! it was fun and i miss catticus |
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[Oct. 27th, 2007|10:19 pm] |
I got my degree in the mail! It is so pretty
Also, please everyone stop saying "at the end of the day", especially repeatedly and especially as part of a mixed metaphor. It's driving me nuts and every sunset, all that expectation and nothing ever happens |
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[Sep. 30th, 2007|02:36 pm] |
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i already miss carmen so much to the point of crying. all the crime tv shows on today rub it in like happy couples do to someone freshly single ... |
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[Sep. 5th, 2007|05:09 am] |
i really miss my little emperor
meow meow ... |
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[Sep. 3rd, 2007|09:09 am] |
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ari is coming to america, and dc! yessssssssssss |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 22nd, 2007|05:56 am] |
from NYT on bush's colonoscopy:
Doctors found and removed five small polyps from President Bush’s colon during a cancer screening yesterday that forced him to relinquish his presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for two hours and five minutes.
Scott M. Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said the polyps were not deemed worrisome on visual inspection by a team of doctors from the National Naval Medical Center, who performed the procedure in Camp David, Md. In a statement released late yesterday morning, Mr. Stanzel said the polyps would be sent to the Naval Medical Center for testing.
Mr. Stanzel said there would be a 48- to 72-hour wait for the results. He described the polyps as less than a centimeter in diameter each.
HOLY FUCKING DISCLOSURE ... can we get this kind of transparency when it comes to iraq, cheney, and everything else? If all it takes is to stick something up the president's ass, I'm sure there's people who'd be willing to attend to the task... |
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[Jul. 17th, 2007|10:50 pm] |
amazing quotes from an article about abstinence education in the ny times:
“You have to look at why sex was created,” Eric Love, the director of the East Texas Abstinence Program, which runs Virginity Rules, said one day, the sounds of Christian contemporary music humming faintly in his Longview office. “Sex was designed to bond two people together.”
To make the point, Mr. Love grabbed a tape dispenser and snapped off two fresh pieces. He slapped them to his filing cabinet and the floor; they trapped dirt, lint, a small metal bolt. “Now when it comes time for them to get married, the marriage pulls apart so easily,” he said, trying to unite the grimy strips. “Why? Because they gave the stickiness away.”
This metaphor somehow beats all of Becky Fischer's mutant visual metaphors in Jesus Camp. Somehow. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|11:23 am] |
news from Iran on a new spy/agent video game released to the public-
the secretary general of the Islamic High School society says:
"We chose computer games as the most popular appliance currently
among kids to transfer (ideological) values such as sacrifice and
martyrdom to our pupils while focusing on the nuclear issue."
Fair's fair, as I'm sure the "Iranian spy", or something like him, has popped up on the dark side in American video games more than once.
But I'm afraid none of this will transfer. I mean, I martyr Mario to the fireballs and the turtles, but no way am I doing that shit for real. |
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[Jul. 16th, 2007|02:36 am] |
some prize lines from a Ha'aretz article about the swearing in of Shimon Peres as president (a symbolic, not powerful, role):
"The swearing-in ceremony was an Israeli attempt to create for ourselves a moment of faux royalty. Itzik spoke about the "second Shimon"- the first Shimon being the Hasmonean leader Shimon Maccabeus. Mounted police, motorcycles and trumpets accompanied Peres' vehicle. All the same, the sound system choked momentarily, and the flower arrangements in the plenum collapsed as Peres said that as a child, he wanted to be a shepherd and a "poet of the stars." Peres' baby great-granddaughter burst into tears, and Infrastructures Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer accidentally knocked the velvet skullcap off the head of Communications Minister Ariel Atias at the cabinet table, which was more crowded than usual, despite the spot Peres had vacated after 47 years.
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"Being Peres, he used his speech to speak of the Peace Valley, a planned project of artificial lakes and factories in the Jordan Valley, where, in the meantime, it's impossible to move a crate of cucumbers from one place to another. When Peres spoke about his visit to the village of his birth, the Knesset was silent; once he got to the Peace Valley, the ministers were telling jokes.
"At the end, Peres got a standing ovation, just like he loves, just like he has always loved. The driver who took me back to my car told me: That is a great man. Thirty years ago, I heard cab drivers speaking differently." |
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[Jul. 2nd, 2007|12:33 pm] |
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WHAT I didn't know that the top chef host who can't speak correctly is married to Salman Rushdie and now they are getting divorced! |
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