Old version:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter,
January 5, 2012
Ant and Grasshopper, then and now
This one is a little different. Two different versions, tow different morals. Let us begin...
Old version:
Old version:
December 25, 2011
So this is Christmas... and what have you done?
Merry Ho Ho!
Whether you believe in any kind of god, or not, is not relevant. What matters is how you treat other beings - human and otherwise - on a daily basis. It also matters how you treat yourself. Indeed, what you eat, what you drink, what you bathe in, etc., is not only important but pretty much crucial to your health and well-being, to you whole concept of survival.
Whether you believe in any kind of god, or not, is not relevant. What matters is how you treat other beings - human and otherwise - on a daily basis. It also matters how you treat yourself. Indeed, what you eat, what you drink, what you bathe in, etc., is not only important but pretty much crucial to your health and well-being, to you whole concept of survival.
December 18, 2011
S.1867 aka NDAA 2012
First came The Patriot Act.
Now, NDAA has just passed the Senate.
It is now up to President Obama to veto it, but will he?
Is this the end of American Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Some already call it USSA. Others, UPSA... Just google it.
And, as you're at it, google NDAA and S.1867, and pay particular attention to the "Subtitle D - Detainee Matters".
On that note, I will leave you with a couple of links...
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:2:./temp/~c112q4VSKK::
http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=1132
- the government can interpret just about anything as engaging “in a deliberate and substantial act that directly supports their efforts against us in the war on terror”. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q50h7u2L5Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCpLcjxOq4&feature=related
Now, NDAA has just passed the Senate.
It is now up to President Obama to veto it, but will he?
Is this the end of American Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Some already call it USSA. Others, UPSA... Just google it.
And, as you're at it, google NDAA and S.1867, and pay particular attention to the "Subtitle D - Detainee Matters".
On that note, I will leave you with a couple of links...
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:2:./temp/~c112q4VSKK::
http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=1132
- the government can interpret just about anything as engaging “in a deliberate and substantial act that directly supports their efforts against us in the war on terror”. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q50h7u2L5Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCpLcjxOq4&feature=related
November 21, 2011
Idiocy at its finest
You know, just when I thought nothing can surprise me anymore, I was, again, proven wrong. Apparently, what you and I, and the rest of the world, knew about water as means of hydration, was just declared wrong and, to make things totally and absolutely ridiculous, it was written up into the EU law.
How? Easy. All it took is a bunch of EFSA (European Food Standards Authority) dimwits to waste three years and, no doubt, an undisclosed amount of taxpayers' money, to come up with this gem of a brain fart that, basically, water is not a solution for thirst.
How? Easy. All it took is a bunch of EFSA (European Food Standards Authority) dimwits to waste three years and, no doubt, an undisclosed amount of taxpayers' money, to come up with this gem of a brain fart that, basically, water is not a solution for thirst.
November 18, 2011
Elixir des Merveilles
To be honest, this one is a bit of a challenge to describe, so I did the next best thing and read Fragrantica members' reviews before typing in mine.
Cold Coke with a slice of orange... Smoky orange with a touch of dirt from under pine needles... Not so great smelling praline... Somewhat gourmand, not quite fougère... this composition is as complex as it is quite hard to explain.
I agree that it could easily be considered unisex.
As for why I got a big bottle of this juice? Well, mainly because I am a curious cat, and also because there seems to be a dire lack of minis of this fragrance.
I am sure, if I asked around, someone on Fragrantica would spare me a tester vial but, you know what? Sometimes you just have to give into temptation, and treat yourself.
October 29, 2011
*refunded!* no Clarity in Adya...
- refund status updates at bottom of post!
Trying to get away from fluoride in the drinking water is very, very difficult. It is especially difficult because your elected government officials still have this false ADA claim in their heads, and, contrary to many reports backed with scientific data, insist on fluoride being good for you.
Needless to say, after getting nowhere with petitions to the gov., and not being able to fork over thousands of dollars for a whole-house fluoride filter (link at bottom of post), I searched for more affordable ways to deal with this fluoride problem.
I came across something called "Adya Clarity". It sounded weird and cool, and
Trying to get away from fluoride in the drinking water is very, very difficult. It is especially difficult because your elected government officials still have this false ADA claim in their heads, and, contrary to many reports backed with scientific data, insist on fluoride being good for you.
Needless to say, after getting nowhere with petitions to the gov., and not being able to fork over thousands of dollars for a whole-house fluoride filter (link at bottom of post), I searched for more affordable ways to deal with this fluoride problem.
I came across something called "Adya Clarity". It sounded weird and cool, and
September 30, 2011
September 28, 2011
Well.ca - business with a big heart!
I <3 Well.ca!
What is Well.ca?
Quoting from their website:
"Well.ca is Canada's largest online health and beauty store. At Well.ca, we aim to be a friendly, compassionate, and responsible company that makes every effort to best serve our customers' health and beauty needs."
I found Well.ca a way back, during my search for an affordable source of Aubrey Organics' personal care products.
What is Well.ca?
Quoting from their website:
"Well.ca is Canada's largest online health and beauty store. At Well.ca, we aim to be a friendly, compassionate, and responsible company that makes every effort to best serve our customers' health and beauty needs."
I found Well.ca a way back, during my search for an affordable source of Aubrey Organics' personal care products.
September 27, 2011
Cause of ALS found!
I forgot to post this earlier so, my bad. Here is the link to the article about a very important medical discovery - "Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says breakthrough in Lou Gehrig's disease could lead to treatment", published in Chicago Tribune on August 22, 2011, by William Mullen, Tribune reporter.
http://tinyurl.com/3egujk5
"When Ubiquilin2 is unable to remove or repair damaged proteins, the damaged proteins begin to pile up in the cells, eventually blocking normal transmission of brain signals in the spinal cord and brain, leading to paralysis."
http://tinyurl.com/3egujk5
"When Ubiquilin2 is unable to remove or repair damaged proteins, the damaged proteins begin to pile up in the cells, eventually blocking normal transmission of brain signals in the spinal cord and brain, leading to paralysis."
September 15, 2011
DEXTER, season 6 starts October 2nd!
My favorite serial killer, Dexter, will be back for another (hopefully bone chilling) season, starting October 2nd.
In case you don't know who Dexter is, well, you can google it. Suffice it to say, Dexter has had five very successful, award laden seasons, and I am so looking forward to season six. It will be a challenging one, as daddy Dexter recently became a single father of three, incl. baby Harrison. How does he find the time to keep a full time job, raise three kids, and still hone his nighttime craft of dispatching baddies to their final destination in the currents of deep blue ocean...
I can just about hear all the "catlicks" condemning us both right about now... Oh well, can't please everyone.
http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.sho#fbid=e-uGaJhuCg5
September 7, 2011
TELUS your problem
A while back, and possibly with some misguided help from Jack Daniel's, my beloved husband signed his soul away in the phone/Internet contract to the evil entity called TELUS.
But, having constant Internet connection issues, and getting nowhere with the obviously outsourced, Engrish speaking tech support wannabes, he finally gave in to my voice of reason, and cancelled said account.
As he was at it, when asked why was he cancelling, he politely explained that he was tired of the connection issues, lack of (properly trained) tech support, as well as the impossibility of utilizing his Gigabit connection hardware because of the phone line data transfer rate limitations.
You would think that would do it, and they would leave us alone, right?
Wrong.
A couple of days ago, they (403-310-2255) started...
But, having constant Internet connection issues, and getting nowhere with the obviously outsourced, Engrish speaking tech support wannabes, he finally gave in to my voice of reason, and cancelled said account.
As he was at it, when asked why was he cancelling, he politely explained that he was tired of the connection issues, lack of (properly trained) tech support, as well as the impossibility of utilizing his Gigabit connection hardware because of the phone line data transfer rate limitations.
You would think that would do it, and they would leave us alone, right?
Wrong.
A couple of days ago, they (403-310-2255) started...
September 6, 2011
CNet's Download.com? Stay away!
CNet's Download.com is now officially the super-sucky.
They are now loaded with home page hijacking, search engine changing, etc., bloatware.
"One of the world largest software download sites, Download.com, has been found to add bloatware to their downloads.
The files come with a proprietary Download.com installer that tries to push you with toolbars, as well as change home pages and default search engines in addition to installing the software itself."
The funniest (not) part is they have the audacity to claim this is for the users' good...
<rolls eyes>
Bye bye, CNet.
Hello Filehippo! http://www.filehippo.com/
July 11, 2011
411.ca - a pile of spam and junk!
Someone, whose number I do not recognize, called our landline but did not leave a message. Naturally, being curious who that might be, I set out to run the reverse number lookup on my ol' trusty Canadian 411.
Much to my surprise, the site is not only unrecognizable (read: fugly); it also does not seem to do what one of its primary functions - the reverse lookup - used to be.
And, believe me, I tried, and tried, and then tried some more. And even checked out the absolutely useless "Help" section. No dice.
I should also mention that, the moment I clicked on my fave link to 411.ca, and before I even ran any searches, the IE's security function asked me if I want to allow / disallow the site to track my location. Seeing that tracking should not be required for a reverse lookup I want to run, I disallowed. But, despite me expressly disallowing it, 411.ca still tracks...
Much to my surprise, the site is not only unrecognizable (read: fugly); it also does not seem to do what one of its primary functions - the reverse lookup - used to be.
And, believe me, I tried, and tried, and then tried some more. And even checked out the absolutely useless "Help" section. No dice.
I should also mention that, the moment I clicked on my fave link to 411.ca, and before I even ran any searches, the IE's security function asked me if I want to allow / disallow the site to track my location. Seeing that tracking should not be required for a reverse lookup I want to run, I disallowed. But, despite me expressly disallowing it, 411.ca still tracks...
June 30, 2011
Empress's new Reetones
I do like to walk (when not busy with other things) but, occasionally, I also like to do some Callanetics or treadmill (when I feel motivated and/or my back is not hurtin'), so I needed a multi-purpose footwear.
Yesterday, I got a promo code from Shoes.com in my email, so off I went, to just look. Seriously. I was not planning to buy more shoes, although my hubby's recent shoe, shirt and shorts spree could really push me to get just one more pair. Or five. :)
So... looking around, looking around, and what do I find? EasyTones! Holy shit, and they are 50 percent off! But, wait, now they also have TrainTones and RunTones, and also at a very generous discount. And in my size. Sweet! How can I not get a pair when I so desperately need a pair of workout shoes?
But, which ones - EasyTones, TrainTones, or RunTones?
June 22, 2011
Just say No to "Lawful Access"!
So the Canadian Big Brother now wants to watch your every internet move. I say, fuck this, enough of this blatant invasion of privacy! What the hell are we, Americans? My "spies" tell me that even they have had enough of this warrantless spying. Time for the gov to back off.
Sign the petition:
http://stopspying.ca/
Sign the petition:
http://stopspying.ca/
June 20, 2011
Falling into depression
is how it feels to have lived in Alberta (Canada) for the past two and a half weeks. Rain, rain, more rain, and nothing but rain the whole time. Fuck... when will it end?
I keeep checking the 10-day forecast, uhm, daily (yeah, I hear ya), in hope some weather miracle will happen but, so far, this has proven fruitless, if not outright hopeless. It's predicted to stay the way it is til at least the end of June, meaning - the whole month of June is just one constant, day and night rainfall, although varying in intensity from a drizzle to a downpour.
Whomever has decided to take their 2011 annual vacation in June, is so SOL (unless they like this crappy weather) I feel their pain as I am literally experiencing it myself on a very real, somatic way. Not to even mention what that's gonna do to our food prices in the months to come... Everything is so totally saturated, I can't imagine the farmers being able to get any machinery out into their fields... It would probably all sink knee-deep in the mud.
You'd think, will all the "advanced" technology, HAARP included, someone would come up with the way of fixing such weather anomalies.
I keeep checking the 10-day forecast, uhm, daily (yeah, I hear ya), in hope some weather miracle will happen but, so far, this has proven fruitless, if not outright hopeless. It's predicted to stay the way it is til at least the end of June, meaning - the whole month of June is just one constant, day and night rainfall, although varying in intensity from a drizzle to a downpour.
Whomever has decided to take their 2011 annual vacation in June, is so SOL (unless they like this crappy weather) I feel their pain as I am literally experiencing it myself on a very real, somatic way. Not to even mention what that's gonna do to our food prices in the months to come... Everything is so totally saturated, I can't imagine the farmers being able to get any machinery out into their fields... It would probably all sink knee-deep in the mud.
You'd think, will all the "advanced" technology, HAARP included, someone would come up with the way of fixing such weather anomalies.
What if...
OMG, I love this one. But, it's kind of sad, actually...
If the Titanic sank today, here's how the President, the media and Wall Street would spin it (satire):
The White House Press Secretary: The iceberg was placed in the Atlantic ocean by Osama Bin Laden.
The chemist: That's not an iceberg. It's merely solid-state di-hydrogen oxide.
Al Gore: That iceberg wouldn't have even been there if the polar caps weren't melting.
The Congressman: Quick, let's pass a new law that says ships shall not sink.
President Obama: The Titanic isn't sinking. It's merely engaged in "aquatic action."
Former President Bush: Icebergs are weapons of mass destruction planted in the ocean by terrorists. We must avenge the iceberg terrorists!
The Pentagon: We will equalize the hole in one side of the ship by blowing a matching hole in the other side.
The TSA inspector: You're not allowed onto a lifeboat until we check your anus for explosives.
The Cancer Doctor: We can't fix the hole in the ship, but through the miracle of chemotherapy, we can make you suffer so much that you won't care.
The Wall Street investment banker: Don't worry, the Fed will bail out all the water we're taking on. The Titanic is too big to fail.
The teenage girl: Can I still text on my iPhone under water?
Congressman Weiner: Yes you can, and by the way, here's a very special "going away" message for you to remember me by.
Average Joe: Is the ship's buffet still open?
The FDA: We believe the ship is sinking because of an e.coli infection that spread from the galley.
The CDC: Everybody should get vaccinated before the ship sinks, just in case there's a shark-flu virus in the water.
The New Ager: There is no hole in the ship unless you believe there is a hole in the ship.
The Academic: I have published a paper that proves this ship is unsinkable. Would anyone like to read it? Please?
The Catholic priest: I think we should save all the children first. Which lifeboat are they on again?
The Journalist: The Titanic has a hole in its side, but official sources tell us it's only "aquatic action" and there's no cause for alarm. And we believe them.
The Federal Reserve: We have decided to dump more water onto the ship in the hope of making it float.
The Federal Government: Hey, these deck chairs look pretty nice. Let's rearrange them!
The Doctor: We need to order a couple dozen CT scans of the ship's null and bill them to Medicare before we have any idea at all what to do.
The Denialist: Stop talking about negative things. Stay focused on the positive and you won't need a life vest.
The Realist: This ship is going down, folks. You might want to think about taking action to keep yourself alive.
The Gullible Masses (aka. sheeple): Don't worry, this ship is unsinkable.
Even if it did sink, there are plenty of lifeboats.
Even if there aren't enough lifeboats, we all have life jackets.
Even if we don't have enough life jackets, the government will come save us.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032753_Titanic_spin.html#ixzz1PquBNmz5
If the Titanic sank today, here's how the President, the media and Wall Street would spin it (satire):
The White House Press Secretary: The iceberg was placed in the Atlantic ocean by Osama Bin Laden.
The chemist: That's not an iceberg. It's merely solid-state di-hydrogen oxide.
Al Gore: That iceberg wouldn't have even been there if the polar caps weren't melting.
The Congressman: Quick, let's pass a new law that says ships shall not sink.
President Obama: The Titanic isn't sinking. It's merely engaged in "aquatic action."
Former President Bush: Icebergs are weapons of mass destruction planted in the ocean by terrorists. We must avenge the iceberg terrorists!
The Pentagon: We will equalize the hole in one side of the ship by blowing a matching hole in the other side.
The TSA inspector: You're not allowed onto a lifeboat until we check your anus for explosives.
The Cancer Doctor: We can't fix the hole in the ship, but through the miracle of chemotherapy, we can make you suffer so much that you won't care.
The Wall Street investment banker: Don't worry, the Fed will bail out all the water we're taking on. The Titanic is too big to fail.
The teenage girl: Can I still text on my iPhone under water?
Congressman Weiner: Yes you can, and by the way, here's a very special "going away" message for you to remember me by.
Average Joe: Is the ship's buffet still open?
The FDA: We believe the ship is sinking because of an e.coli infection that spread from the galley.
The CDC: Everybody should get vaccinated before the ship sinks, just in case there's a shark-flu virus in the water.
The New Ager: There is no hole in the ship unless you believe there is a hole in the ship.
The Academic: I have published a paper that proves this ship is unsinkable. Would anyone like to read it? Please?
The Catholic priest: I think we should save all the children first. Which lifeboat are they on again?
The Journalist: The Titanic has a hole in its side, but official sources tell us it's only "aquatic action" and there's no cause for alarm. And we believe them.
The Federal Reserve: We have decided to dump more water onto the ship in the hope of making it float.
The Federal Government: Hey, these deck chairs look pretty nice. Let's rearrange them!
The Doctor: We need to order a couple dozen CT scans of the ship's null and bill them to Medicare before we have any idea at all what to do.
The Denialist: Stop talking about negative things. Stay focused on the positive and you won't need a life vest.
The Realist: This ship is going down, folks. You might want to think about taking action to keep yourself alive.
The Gullible Masses (aka. sheeple): Don't worry, this ship is unsinkable.
Even if it did sink, there are plenty of lifeboats.
Even if there aren't enough lifeboats, we all have life jackets.
Even if we don't have enough life jackets, the government will come save us.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032753_Titanic_spin.html#ixzz1PquBNmz5
May 8, 2011
April 7, 2011
Confucius Did NOT Say..........
Confucius Did NOT Say..........
Man who wants pretty nurse, must be patient.
Man who wants pretty nurse, must be patient.
Passionate kiss, like spider web, leads to undoing of fly.
Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Lady who goes camping must beware of evil intent.
Squirrel who runs up woman’s leg will not find nuts.
Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.
Man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs behind car gets
exhausted.
exhausted.
Man who eats many prunes get good run for money.
War does not determine who is right, it determines who is left.
Man who fight with wife all day get no piece at night.
It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it.
Man who drives like hell is bound to get there.
Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.
Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.
Man who fish in other man's well often catch crabs.
Finally Confucius Did NOT Say
Finally Confucius Did NOT Say
"A lion will not cheat on his wife, but a Tiger Wood!"
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