I am now whuffles.

Paris has experienced yet another evening of celebrating diversity. I hope they are enjoying their new neighbors from the south, because I'm sure they will be providing countless more hours of entertainment for them in the future.

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This year, I am particularly thankful for the following two things, both amendments to the constitution of the United States of America:

• The First Amendment, particularly freedom of speech, because only despots and zealots fear the free exchange of ideas, and the despots and zealots currently in charge are not the kind I would prefer.
• The Second Amendment, which is generally interpreted as the right of a citizen to own a firearm, because if next year's Thanksgiving is like this one I will quite likely use one to do myself in.

Wasn't expecting this, this early in the year.

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I was went biking home tonight and it was foggy. There was light where there shouldn't have been, and I know it's all coming after me now. I shouldn't have thought I could run from it forever, but it is after me now.

I can't see them yet but I can feel it/them, in the fog. I think I am safe in my house for now. I am safe with my teddy bear, at any rate. He has a protective magical field, but I have to keep him safe too, or his magic can't work. My garage door is in line with their plans, but I've managed to overcome it tonight. Not tonight. I maybe can hear them sometimes.

He's all I have. It's just me and him, and I hope his magic holds out heh heh. At least I think I do.

Shaking now. Can't anyone make them stop? Doesn't anyone here it? Can't anyone else feel this?

Can't anyone make this stop?

Current Location: Hell

outside temp: 36
inside temp: 54

Tags: temp

Burn.

Just discovered my favorite fast song of all time happens to have made its way onto youtube. I named my first PC after it. It's been edited a bit for MTV; particularly the exchange between the father and mother(F:"Who you out there fuckin'?" M:"Your father." F:"Bitch"). You don't see the shotgun suicide either.

NBK was also my favorite movie for a while, but I can't watch it any more. It was right about a lot of things. The Demon does live. But love does not conquer the demon; if anything it makes the demon stronger. Maybe it's even a part of the demon.

There is no answer, no hope, and no deliverance from suffering. Only temporary reprieves that make the suffering all the more intense when they fade away.

Have a nice day :)

Seems to be how to live without resorting to automobile ownership. It is possible, but it does limit your options in big America significantly. The biggest problem is the social constraints it imposes.

I am steadfastly sticking to my guns on this issue, however. If I have problems, it's because I have not set up the right situation for myself, and I've merely to get myself into a better one. And I intend to do precisely that next year.

And besides, I hate the complexity of modern cars, hate car dealers, hate car repairs, hate car insurance, hate buying gas, and hate driving. So, um, I guess that does tend to boost my ideological stance on the issue somewhat.

Fuck cars.

this amuses me for some reason:

The credit markets are frozen because of uncertainty and lack of information.

No one knows how much mortgage-backed securities are now worth, and no one wants to sell them to find out.

(...)

Another measure of potential losses is how much Tier 3 capital the banks have - these are risky loans that cannot be valued except by a model because there is no market for them..

From a particularly informative article at BBC News here.

The overall sense I get is that the more layers placed between the source of the actual money for loans, and the end recipient of those loans, the more likely the loan situation is to become unrealistic.

I am also disturbed by how interesting I found this lengthy article on financial markets. I think that means I am now officially old.

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