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Oh those religious wackos and their crazy reality denying ways. Always bending *Insert noun, verb, adj, event, news, opinion, color, lack of color, race, etc* to their will in order to better control preach their oppressive lovely world views. Pat Robertson is a recent example blaming the hati earthquake on their deal with the devil or whatever nonsense he was spewing out of that claptrap mouth of his.  Now Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi is no exception either. Here is his goddamn stupid quote that’s going around the internet.

“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,”

Yeah right. Women wear less clothes and BAM more earthquakes. No. You sir are a dumbass. Unfortunately he’s not a big enough dumbass cause he can obviously still figure out how to exploit his dumbass followers into doing what he wants. “Oh noes you sheepeople have been BAAAAAD with your western clothes and boobies and free will and *gasp* enjoying yourselves. It’s the end of the world and boobies are the cause. Cover yourselves before it’s too late.” Look at this jerk demeaning woman and blaming any and all bad actions of men on the women. Finishing it up with a touch of world disaster. His fellow church buddies and him were probably giving high fives and slapping each other on the ass all day after that one.

Problem though is that pesky internet and the ablity of people like me and many many others who can make fun of him and point out that he’s wrong. Also, bless it the internet, the chance to organize a whole day devoted to showing as much of those earthquake causing boobies as possible. April 26th will be boobquake day where any and everyone blessed with such “lethal weapons of mass destruction” are encouraged to show what they’ve got in the name of science. That’s right everyone the idea is to shake and show those boobies to see if we can indeed cause an earthquake simply by wearing less clothes. So please girls do your thing in the name of science and let’s put this to the test.

Boobquake

As if gay people didn’t have enough hate to worry about. I mean it’s one thing wondering if you’re going to get jumped and beat up, but also to face that same type of attack from the state. Hell in a lot of ways what happened to this couple is almost worst than a beat down. Unless the beat down ends in a death like a lot of them do.

Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold’s care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes. Ignoring Clay’s significant role in Harold’s life, the county continued to treat Harold like he had no family and went to court seeking the power to make financial decisions on his behalf. Outrageously, the county represented to the judge that Clay was merely Harold’s “roommate.” The court denied their efforts, but did grant the county limited access to one of Harold’s bank accounts to pay for his care.

What happened next is even more chilling: without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold’s possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers then terminated Clay and Harold’s lease and surrendered the home they had shared for many years to the landlord.

Three months after he was hospitalized, Harold died in the nursing home. Because of the county’s actions, Clay missed the final months he should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy, Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he has been unable to recover any of his property.

Jesus christ. That’s some screwed up stuff there. Can you imagine that happening to a straight couple it would be all over the national news so fast that CNN might not mention Tiger Wood for gee I don’t know 30 mins.

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So since it’s basically no cost to me I’ve decided to start selling t-shirts. I’ve got a store on spreadshirt.com now so you should check it out. I only have a couple shirts on there right now but hey there will be more as I get around to it. I’ve put the link on the right hand side of the blog so go check it out and maybe buy something from me.

My shirt store.

So if you ever need any gift ideas for me then here’s one. I would like one of these. I have always wanted a snake cam so remember this if you feel like buying me something.

So the Kepler telescope that is currently high above our heads searching for exoplanets that might harbor life has a blind spot. One of the chips that hold two CCDs has failed. This puts a nice big old blank spot in its’ field of view and since the spacecraft rotates around that blind spot travels as well causing problems around a larger area of space. It’s not the worse thing but it sucks and I hope that NASA is able to fix it. Don’t really want a planet to pass in front of its star during a blind spot. It might take another year for it to show up again.

So I’ve been a home owner for one year today. Currently my house is a mess than needs cleaning. My yard is a muddy patch after I tore it up and planted new seed. Still waiting for the new grass to start to take at the moment. No major problems with the house or the neighborhood. Overall I’m still quite pleased.

So the future is going to be crazy. This just in some researchers have discovered how to disrupt someone’s moral centers of the brain using high power magnets. When subjected to the magnets the subjects found that it was less morally wrong to cause harm to someone. That’s crazy. Here let me hold this magnet up to your head, good now go kill your mother. Ok.

Yeah scary but all the fear about this being misused aside, I’m sure there will be some downright amazing things to come out of it. Number one a mindless army that I will someday use to take over the world but you didn’t hear that from me. Two all kinds of drugs to help people who suffer a variety of psych disorders. If we can study how and which parts of the brain control moral concerns then we know where to concentrate on in order to help people out. It might one day led to a better way of dealing with people who have no regard for others. Oh I see that according to this scan you will one day become a serial killer with no love for life, here take this pill twice a day and enjoy your new lease on life. Hurray!

I liked this sums it up pretty well.

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So I have yet another sinus infection and it blows. Whenever I get them I go into massive coughing fits throughout the day. More in the mornings and evenings. My hearing has dropped a bit too. It seems that I’m not alone in my misery though as two of my coworkers have the same thing. Also several people around my local hang out spots have also picked up the same symptoms. Must be the spring weather coming in that has gotten us.

I found a webcam on NASA’s site that shows the James Webb telescope being built. If you know me you know I find this stuff very cool. So go check it out. It’s not a video webcam just a picture that updates every few seconds.