Money Money MONEY!!!!

For those of you who don't follow the life of Thomas P. Dineen to closely (which of course is the majority of anyone), lately I have been temping at a financial institution. Today, I received a Fed Ex to my department, and in it, was a handfull of Euros. Now I had not seen in person or handled a Euro since they have come out, (my last and only truip thus faar to ireland was pre Euro, about 13 years ago) and I was rather surprised. I see where people get the whole "Monopoly Money" initial reaction to these colorful sheets of paper, but upon closer inspection, they were really rather beautiful peices of coin.
I'm also surprised by the foil strip, which I imagine is a higher tech version of the plastic thread in american denominations above $10, but what surprised me the most was the varying size the notes had depending on the monetary value, increasing with that value. I wonder how my user experiance would be withh such a varying array of colors and sizes. Would it be simpler or more difficult. I admit, the standardized green-backs that we American's cling to can be confusing, especially with the more alcohol one consumes, and though not often, I have wondered, did I give that guy a $20 and tell him to keep the change... or was it a $50?!?! I do imagine having not only a size differential as well as color (or colour if reading on the other side of the pond) could be beneficial in that situation, but considering how dark bars can be, and how desensatized one can become from that much imbibing, it's rather mute. Don't they also say everything looks bigger when your drunk? or is that when your a child?
Irregardless, it was an interesting chance to break the mundane today by experiancing something out of the norm, at least in my sheltered life, and I think I may go to the main branch tellers and do a withdrawl in Euros, in varying denominations, just so I can keep soething exotic in my poket. Howevr useless it may be in this town.

Presidential Dialects

Well, So here I am again, reading MSNBC at work today, and I'm checking out a story on Bush and Merkel's response to the current shellings and attacks between Israel and Lebanon. at the end of the first of two pages there is a quote by Bush regarding a slight that Putin had made against the Vice President, and in this response, bush says: "It was quite humorous, not to diss my friend the Vice President." "Dis", yes it is in Websters Dictionary defined as:
v : treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" [syn: insult, affront](
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University)

But how Stately is it of a President to use such a term when regarding a verbal assult from our Former Cold War enemy?

I don't know, I know I shouldn't expect much from the guy, but dangit, he is th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!!!!

(So was Bush the Child we Left Behind?)

"Imperial Courts"

I read this Quote in a Newsweek article: ""It shows that the imperial judiciary thinks that, in addition to abortion, affirmative action and religion, war should be within its grasp," says John Yoo" and I had to take a double take. This John Yoo, A Berkeley law professor said the courts are becomming to "Imperial"? This in regards to a decision that the Supremem court made regarding how our president has overreached his power in the use of Military Tribunals in the name of fighting terrorism. The irony is causing me to make a scene at work!

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

I finally finished the first of my books from Aunties Bookstore written by Chuck Palahniuk, and wow, what a read. This man's works are definitely over the edge, but in a way that forces you to not stop reading. The characters of this book, whom all are sinners in life but saints in their minds are quite engaging. This book is set up as a collection of stories, each told by their respective characters, and they twist your mind in such pleasantly tortureous ways, it's sheer delight mixed with complete repulsion. What I am taking away, ghost stories aren't just about the dead.

I rate this a must read.

Long time since last post, but received this and had to put it up...

Ok, so for those of you who know, and for those who don't, I'm currently serving as the chair of the Spokane County Young Democrats. As such I am Also a member of the Executive Board of the Spokane County Democratic Central Committee. So, what does this mean? Well I aside form a lot of time out of my schedule, it also includes receiving a few interesting emails here and there from fellow members of the SCDCC Exec board. One regarding same sex equal rights just had to be posted, and as such, here it is... and for those of you who don't know me very well, I post this very much in the vein of sarcasm.

"From: Ian Graham

The subject of "biblical marriage" came up recently at home - and my
Father in law ( the presbiterian minister) sent me this to "clirify"
the true biblical position. He collected it a long time ago. It's an
oldie, but still worth reminding folks of.

Ian
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Subject: Draft of a Constitutional Amendment to Defend Biblical Marriage

As certain politicians work diligently to prevent marriage between two
people of the same sex, others of us have been busy drafting a
Constitutional Amendment codifying all marriages entirely on biblical
principles. After all, God wouldn't want us to "pick and choose" which
of the Scriptures we elevate to civil law and which we choose to
ignore:

Draft of a Constitutional Amendment to Defend Biblical Marriage:

* Marriage in the United States of America shall consist of a union
between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5.)

* Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in
addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron
11:21)

* A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If
the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed. (Deut 22:13-21)

* Marriage of a believer and a non-believer shall be forbidden. (Gen
24:3; Num 25:1-9; Ezra 9:12; Neh 10:30, 2Cor 6:14)

* Since marriage is for life, neither the US Constitution nor any state
law shall permit divorce. (Deut 22:19; Mark 10:9-12)

* If a married man dies without children, his brother must marry the
widow. If the brother refuses to marry the widow, or deliberately does
not give her children, he shall pay a fine of one shoe and be otherwise
punished in a manner to be determined by law. (Gen. 38:6-10; Deut
25:5-10)

* In lieu of marriage (if there are no acceptable men to be found), a
woman shall get her father drunk and have sex with him. (Gen 19:31-36)

I hope this helps to clarify the finer details of the Government's
righteous struggle against the infidels and heathens among us."