Giving Thanks - Again

So it is yet another Thanksgiving. Not too many reasons to give thanks, though - unless you get into slightly sarcastic tone:

• I'm alive,
• My home is not in foreclosure,
• McCain was not elected president,
• Bush managed to keep the number of wars America waged to relatively low number 2.

Guys in India definitely have no reasons to celebrate: Muslim scum attacked again, this time in Mumbai. And please, don't tell me that by using term "Muslim scum" I'm hurting some innocent, decent people. Decent people have obligation to fight subhuman scoundrels that take over their religion. If their voice is not heard, they should leave the church/sect/faith. I did so, because I could not stand the obsession of Catholic church with my sex life and orders to vote for complete moral zeroes that happened to declare themselves as 'True Catholics'.
It is funny that according to many religions it doesn't really matter how much good you are doing; one wrong person you sleep with, one unapproved opinion and you are out.
It should be natural that the same principle should be applied to religions: since Christians, Muslim and Jews all approved killing people because they have different views, they should all burn in their respective hells.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Cold spell

I'm in Hauppauge, NY on Long Island at the moment, delivering Verilog training to SMSC. When I left Las Vegas valley on Monday morning, the weather there was still in the seventies, here it barely hovers above freezing during the day and drops below in the night. This morning, after considering wind chill factor, the 'real feel' temperature was 19°F. Well, at least it was sunny. I know I will enjoy coming back to the desert...

Why Selma Sierra is a wh0re

Republican administration is trying to do as much damage as it can before it goes away. Most recent example, as reported by AP:
"Late on Election Day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a Dec. 19 auction of more than 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other redrock national parks in Utah: Dinosaur and Canyonlands."
Who is personally behind it? Yet another republican whore, Selma Sierra, director of Utah branch of BLM (Bureau of Land Management), traditionally wasting national resources that belong and should benefit all Americans. Why preserve something for ordinary people, if it can be sold to oil industry?
AP article continues:
"...BLM state director Selma Sierra was defiant, saying she saw nothing wrong with drilling near national parks..."
Funny, maybe somebody should build drilling tower over her house's fence. I wonder what her reaction would be.
'An examination of the parcels, superimposing low-resolution government graphics onto Google Earth maps, shows that in one case drilling parcels bordering Arches National Park are just 1.3 miles from Delicate Arch.
"If you're standing at Delicate Arch, like thousands of people do every year, and you're looking through the arch, you could see drill pads on the hillside behind it. That's how ridiculous this proposed lease sale is," said Franklin Seal, a spokesman for the environmental group Wildland CPR.'
Yep, nothing unusual in a mind of your average, greedy Republican.
'Sierra said she instructed her district and field managers to educate the park superintendents on why drilling is OK "adjacent to and near the park boundaries." '
Pathetic! Mindless Republican drone is trying to 'educate' somebody! Since when spreading BS is called 'education'?
President Obama, I know you are busy, but please remember to fire that bitch and make sure she will not do any more damage in any government agency...

Something changed tonight!

OK, I'm man enough to admit it: I, 44 years old male, had tears in my eyes at the end of Barak Obama's acceptance speech. I'm proud to be in America when it happened.
But not everything is rosy: apparently proposition 8 was approved in California.
It is sort of pathetic that three groups that habitually hate each other: right-wing catholics, mormons, and evangelicals joined effort in hating gay population. 'Christians' bathing in hate and promoting hate disguised as 'marriage protection' had their victory. They may start rejoicing the amount of grief they increased in the world. I hope they are proud that millions of dollars that could be spent on feeding the poor or healing sick children were wasted on that demonstration of bigotry.
So, dear catholic bishops, elders in Salt Lake City or evangelical businessmen selling religion in mega-churches: if God exists, you shall burn in hell - together with all those pious churchgoers who ceded God-given ability to think and followed orders instead.
I have learned the lesson: not a single charity associated with those sects will ever see my money again.
Have a good night...