political idiocy

Why wasn't Tom DeLay asked to resign from politics permanently? Why isn't he in jail? Politics makes no sense to the average civilian. Logic seems to be absent from most decisions.

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Originally uploaded by The Paper Doll.

If art is an expression of yourself and a reflection of emotion, what does this say of me? Why does the wire make my husband nervouse?

...the unclaimed.

...the unclaimed.
Originally uploaded by underbunny.

fLtYmKnZm: If I wanted to build a public directory on the web, how should I go about doing it?
marshallh8saim: what kind of directory?
fLtYmKnZm: A directory of unclaimed creamated remains for the US
marshallh8saim: where do you get the information from? who reports it?
fLtYmKnZm: No one reports it yet and I would get mortuaries and crematoriums to enter the information
marshallh8saim: why do they go unclaimed? how many do you think there are? does something happen to them after some period of time?
fLtYmKnZm: All mortuaries keep them in a storage area on premises. They keep them as long as the mortuary is open for business. I don't know why they go unclaimed, probably for various reasons. I'm fairy certain there are thousands in the states dating back 100 years
marshallh8saim: ok, then come up with a site name, we'll register it, build a small site on a $8 a month plan and see what happens.. I was just trying to get an idea of the scale and what kind of interface should be built for it
fLtYmKnZm: Ok, can do
fLtYmKnZm: How about "Left behind"
fLtYmKnZm: or OrphanedAshes
marshallh8saim: maybe... ... should it be for all unclaimed remains?
marshallh8saim: I guess there wouldn't be much of anything else though
fLtYmKnZm: I want to start with ashes
marshallh8saim: ok
fLtYmKnZm: yeah, unclaimed bodies tend to get cremated unless someone donates money for a proper buerial
fLtYmKnZm: I want the crematoriums and such to be able to provide the maximum amount of information, in case there's no name.
fLtYmKnZm: Where they were found, contact information, that kind of stuff
marshallh8saim: ok

Is there anyone left alive?

"In Pakistan, Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, a Sunni Muslim imam, has called for the death of a Danish cartoonist who drew a picture of the prophet Muhammad--and it's slaughter for fun and prizes, with a $1,025,000 jackpot and a shiny new car thrown in for the successful slayer." --TricycleBlog

How is it possible for a country so poor to offer that much money to have someone killed. After so much violence and catastrophy (remember the earthquakes?) how is it possible for there to still be a population? Who are they fighting? Who's left? Is fighting all they have left to keep them going? Where's the hope?

Unfair

There is no such thing as fair or justice in this life, I know this. So why am I surprised and thrown off balance when I find that an old friend's path in life has gone to such dark places? What is this raginge sense of injustice? Why do I have this piercing, ragged hole in my heart?
I find myself disoriented and lost, thrown back into a time of my life when potential was something I wasted and had endless supplies of. I remember making plans that I full well believed were possible and inevitable, a course of action to be followed unwaveringly. While I forged ahead and try to attain these plans, forget some, change others, adapt to life, my friend was buffeted by circumstances, unable to recover from mistakes that I could have bounced back from with slight setbacks. Does it really come down to the financial means of a family? Is the future so easily determined? How is it possible that, in a culture that keeps feeding me the line "You can do anything you set your mind to", my friend can't get a job that pays enough for her to afford good health care for herself and her children? Isn't it always about what you make out of life? You can't tell me that it's all about attitude either.
I've never met anyone who smiled more in the face of adversity than my friend. I've never met anyone who can hold her head up under such burdens. Instead I've met people who do nothing but complain at the hand dealt them. I live in a country so rich that the majority of it's citizens can afford to indebt themselves to credit companies for 3 figures. Why can't a single mother get a leg up?

It's just not fair.