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So I heard that gas prices may be going up because of the whole Katrina natural disaster, but I never expected them to go this high.

Sucks to be an SUV owner.

Racism

Originally uploaded by dustin3000.

But it would seem the press does. Katrina just goes in there and kicks everybody's ass. Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Male, Female, Young, Old, Rich, Poor, Mentally/Physically Disadvantaged, Able Bodied, Pretty, Fugly, Gay, Straight, Bi, What-the-fuck ever. If you were there, Katrina kicked your ass.

So why does the press pick favorites like this?

According to Yahoo, black people "loot" -- white people "find."

You know... I'm probably the last person to EVER preach Political Correctness. In fact, I'm probably going to wind up offending somebody out there. Let me take this opportunity to NOT apologize in advance. Thin skinned, sensitive, whiney pansies need to stay the hell off the Internet.

Having said that, I have to say that this Media Racism bullshit is pretty fucked up right here. While I'm on the subject, I must also admit, had I not seen this on the Internet first, I might have never even paid any attention. Like I said, normally I could give a shit about being PC, but damn... Yahoo? AP? I'm starting to see why some blacks get pissed off about this stuff.

dustin3000, nice catch man.

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed a lawsuit to force top makers of potato chips and french fries to warn consumers about a potential cancer-causing chemical found in the popular snacks.

In a complaint filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Lockyer sought an injunction to stop restaurant chains such as McDonald's Corp. and Wendy's International Inc. from selling french fries without some form of warning.

Also named were producers of potato chips and other packaged potato products like PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co., makers of Pringles chips. blah blah blah-fucking-blah...

"I know from personal experience that, while these snacks may not be a necessary part of a healthy diet, they sure taste good," Lockyer said in a statement. "But I, and all consumers, should have the information we need to make informed decisions about the food we eat."

God damn. Have you ever heard such a fucktard for an Attorney General? Is this really... I mean really... honestly... the BEST HE CAN FUCKING COME UP WITH?? Chips and french frys? Frys? We should have the information we need huh? Okay. Here's a little clue Mr Fucktard. As the name of the food would imply (come on follow me here, I know you can do this), IT'S FUCKING FRIED!!!!! Oh and here's some more information... no charge. If you are all really that god damn concerned with your health, THEN LAY THE FUCK OFF THE CHIPS AND FRIES!! Why does California insist on legislating EVERY-fucking-THING?? WHY?? It's like suing God, because ...oh well you know the sun is kinda bright, and if you look at it all day, you might go blind. I think there oughta be some kinda label on that big bright thing up there. You know. So we can have all the information. How about that Pacific Ocean? That thing gets kinda deep doesn't it? I don't recall ever seeing any sort of label on it. Clearly we should legislate this too. Mr Fucktard, there's really only one label we need to legislate. It's a label for your fucking forehead that says "I'm a fucktard. Please talk slower." Fucking moron.

Source: CNN.com. Read more of this bullshit here. Go'head. Indulge.

auron_08-27-05

Originally uploaded by azure68.

Auron's been sick for the last couple of days. We were not sure what to make of it. There were no real visible signs other than some minor bloating. The biggest difference was behavioral. Bettas aren't particularly animated, but they do SWIM. That's what fish do, right? Well Auron stopped swimming. He moved from time to time. But not like before, and certainly not like his normal behavior. We removed him from his 5 gal home and put him in a little 2 gal fishpital. We kept it filled half way, so if he wanted to swim to the top, he didn't have to swim so far. He looked to be lethargic, and uncomfortable. At times his breathing seemed to be labored and he'd lie down in a comfortable bed of leaves. For those who've never owned a fish, they eat, sleep, breathe, rest and play like any other pet. You know when something's wrong and you feel awful for them when you think they are suffering. Well Auron's not suffering any longer. He passed away early this morning. He will be missed by me and Peggy, and by all his brothers and his sister. Swim free little buddy.

Okay, if you haven't heard the whole song yet and you don't want to bother with iTunes, you can listen to the whole thing here. I've listened to it dozens of times now. It's like crack. I want more. Still no tour dates for North America. Bastards!

Well here is it! The first single off their upcoming album entitled Playing the Angel. It's called "Precious". Go ahead.
- Have a listen!

I haven't been paying too close attention to this, but I was playing Depeche Mode on my iTunes tonight and just for fun and the sake of curiosity, I went to their website to see if they might be doing a tour anytime soon. As it turns out, they are! A world wide tour beginning here in North America later this year and continuing through next year for our friends across the pond. Funny thing is, there seems to be tour dates announced for the European leg of the tour, but none as of yet for the North American leg. I even tried looking on Ticket Bastards.

So far, for North America they've only announced the following cities:

• Fort Lauderdale
• Tampa / St Pete
• Atlanta
• Houston
• Dallas
• San Antonio
• Denver
• Salt Lake City
• Vancouver
• Seattle
• San Francisco
• San Diego
• Los Angeles
• Las Vegas - Oh, Hell Yes.
• Phoenix
• Chicago
• Detroit
• Toronto
• Montreal
• Washington, D.C.
• New York
• Boston

Peg and I have seen them twice before, the Singles Tour in 1998 and the Exciter Tour in 2001, so yeah... you’re goddamn right, we are about due for another Depeche Mode concert. woo hoo!! I can’t wait! All you fans out there, keep your eyes and ears open for tour dates.

Flying Gurnard
Originally uploaded by Walt.

While at the same fish store, this little guy caught my eye. He's a Flying Gurnard. He's such a cool fish. He's got these huge pectoral fins. Sometimes he keeps them tucked in and sometimes he has them spread out like wings. When he's not swimming around, you're likely to see him walking around on the bottom of the tank (or ocean floor if you happen to be in the neighborhood). He just uses his little pelvic fins as if they were legs. Yes he's a very interesting fellow.

A trip to the fish store.
Originally uploaded by Walt.

I set up my Flickr acct so that I could moblog today. We also went to a fish store, so I thought I'd try it out to see if it works. Well, I guess it does work, and just fine I might add. This pic was of some sort of little spider looking crab. I'm not even sure what kind, I just thought it was neat and I thought it was a good opportunity to test this new feature of Flickr.

So it seems the WordPress 1.5.2 upgrade has taken its first victim. The Collapsible More Link Plugin from chroder.com has up and died. Funeral services are pending. This little gem enabled you to put a pause into a long post. You could read up to the Pause and if you wanted to continue, you could click on a link that would expand the post to its entirety. After expanding and reading the post, you'd have the option of re-collapsing the post to its former brevity. It's was a nice plugin too. It would seem (as I found out later) that it was based on other works which are the work of Jennifer over at scriptygoddess.com.

This plugin seems to do the same thing, but instead of just doing the inline expansion, it also creates a link where you can expand the post in its own comment window. Why not try it now?