Then tell him to stop pulling them out, fucker.
Two words for you: Restraining. Order.

I got god is not Great by Christopher Hutcheans as a Christmas gift.

I love the taste of Irony in the morning.

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks- Last Train to Hicksville

Goooood.

Nature, after an incredibly lengthy period of abstract processes and occurrences generated life = impossible to accept

invisible cloud being said “whoop, there it is” = accepted as inviolable truth.

I dunno, Pastor…your dad looks awfully gooey…

Exactly. That’s one reason I’ll NEVER be a Christian. They don’t even know their own history, and every christian I’ve met doesn’t WANT to know. The ones I’ve met are only happy when totally ignorant.

Then there’s the total hypocrisy of most ‘christians’. “Love thy Neighbor”, by making war, by torture, by forced impoverishment, by eliminating welfare and foodstamps, etc. Basically the entire GOP platform is anti-Christ-ian = 100% opposite of the Red Letters in the bible.

I’ve always peeled back the cruft, looking for the original basis of all things. I’m not an atheist, more of an agnostic eclectic. I feel far more spiritual connection to the astronomic events, like solstice and moon cycles than some made up, re-worked fanasty/mythology from one tiny part of the whole world (Genesis through ‘Jesus’).

I believe there’s something beyond our conciousness, but we have no clue what it is. Poeple who are afraid of the world turn to organized religion to have everything neatly explained to them, so they don’t have to think critically about anything. Atheists are happy with their lot, and so don’t need to look beyond our three dimensions for further explanation.

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Here, too is why I’ll NEVER be a ‘christian’ – because of mind-numbing nonsense like this:

Pastor Swank says something outrageously, obviously rediculous and false: “The moon is made of blue cheese! Jesus told me so!”

Gary Ruppert says something even more ludicrous: “You damn liberals can’t refute the obvious truth of the Christian®™ message about the true nature of the moon, so you use your religion – ’science’ – to make up fairy tales about how the moon is rock and dust, when it’s so obviously blue cheese! Why can’t you liberals face reality and admit that the moon is just a small lump of cheese a couple hundred feet up in the air?!”

Jesus Loves me, this I know.
A circular arguement tells me so.

Blow it out yer arse Clyde, at least Aussie don’t sound like they’re trying to speak through an allergic reaction to shrimp. (And I say that in the nicest sense.) ;}

Could it be…fate?

LOL. May you and yours have a wonderful holiday season.

Jillian!!!! 35????!!!!!

That’s PERFECT. My minimum acceptable age gap!

My Christmas was wonderful, thank you very much, despite Saturday’s funeral for the murder of my cousin’s husband, in a random act of violence, and the divorce annoucement of someone I love very much, which is leaving pain and suffering among many in its wake.

But my family and friends, the adrenaline buzz of the toddlers, of which we have a whole new flock, and the laughter and love of it all made the shit bearable.

You all make me laugh, and that is a priceless gift, and I thank you all for what could be considered the greatest gift of all.

If you don’t, you get sick and die, only further proving the point.

As that fateful date is coming for me next year, its a good way of looking at it.

The only items of value on the computer were two years of pictures and documents. I managed to get them all copied to a pocket drive yesterday. That was my main concern too.

The advice you gave me was exactly the same advice that the tech at work gave me. Good advice if I cared about the computer, but it’s an ancient Dell (Optiplex GX110) that a friend gave to me out of pity that I didn’t have a home computer. It doesn’t read DVDs and it can’t burn CDs or DVDs. Now that I’ve got my valuables saved, I need to use the money to buy a new tower rather than mess with this one. THANK YOU thought for posting the advice.

Buy a second hard drive NOW. Install it as the master drive, fix the jumpers on your current hard drive so it’s the slave drive, install your operating system off the CD that came with your box, and copy all your bootleg mp3s, pr0n, and whatever other files you value off the old dying drive onto the fresh new drive. Do it NOW!

All Aussies get us addicted to TimTams, dammit. And Lammingtons if we’re really lucky. On the up side, I did manage to get two Aussie friends to sing a jingle from a vegemite commercial from their youth in a restaurant one night. It was perfect. They had been drinking, um, alcohol…..

Gibby–can you cure my Gibby problem? I still just think he’s sexy as hell. If you are Gibby Haynes by any chance, there is a link to a video of me in a bikini in here somewhere…..
oddly the city I’m in has a new logo for their Recreation Centers that is supposed to look like the sun, but everytime I see it it just looks like the old Butthole Surfers butthole drawing. I need to remind them. OTOH, anything BS on a city logo is too good to risk losing.

This is also my plan. My sister and I decided long ago that we wanted to be the kind of old ladies who talk loudly about Young People These Days and whack people with their walking sticks. At the moment we’re too busy with being generally cranky to do the walking stick thayng, but we’ll get to it. In the meantime I’ve got the crotchety-ness down pat.

And thanks for the nice comments about today’s show: they’re extra welcome seeing that several technical things went pear-shaped (very badly wrong). And there was me feeling all cocky because I didn’t blow anything up on Monday. Pride goeth before a fall: it also goeth before making a complete tit of yourself live on air. I hope I didn’t sound too Elmer Fudd-like.

For those who were guessing, I was the presenter, so nearly all of the music was mine. If you’re listening to the remaining two shows, I’ll give a big halloo to the Sadlynauts, and definitely play some more Nick Cave. He is, after all, an Australian talent, along with Tim Tams (which I’ve also succeeded in addicting various forrin friends to). The other voice was my friend Barb, who looks distressingly like Uma Thurman, even at 5.15 am.

I’ll also be talking to Joshua Holland from Alternet about the UN mandate for Iraq: when I was a regular producer on the breakfast show, I’d talk to him every week about various political things, because he’s a) very knowledgable and b) very nice. Do listen in if you’ve got time: he’ll be on at 7.45 am (Adelaide time) on Friday (Adelaide day).

And I’m 45, for those who are wondering. 45 with a face for radio. Sigh.