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Preston wrote: "I am not complaining because we had over 12 inches of snow in Albany, NY since that is not unusual but I am complaining that last year I bought a brand new top of the line snowblower as a spare in ..."After a couple of days the temperature warmed up into the 40s and all that couple of inches of snow just ran away into the storm drains. When I left NWOhio yesterday there was almost nothing left to make to remind us that it snowed. That's what weather is like in NWOhio - if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change.
How's your snow drifts hanging in there?
Rick wrote: "How's your snow drifts hanging in there? "It was 50ºF yesterday (20ºF today) so the drifts are white but the level areas have melted and I don't mind not having a totally white Christmas even one tiny bit. Happy Holidays Rick~!
And Happy Holidays to you too Preston and to everyone in the Complaint Department. I must complain that I cannot wish everyone a happy holiday in person.
And here it's already Christmas morning. so Happy Holidays every complaining grumbler.
I am absolutely irate that Roger, and Oliver, don't realize that they've already spent some of Xmas morning with me - while I've been reading
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I am dismayed that between The Time of the Doctor last night and Boys of Disco City troughout the day and evening I almost feel like I've spent my holiday in Britain. But then there were dolphins off the jetty and the 76 degrees yesterday so I must be in Florida.
I am confabulated and protest the the Complaint Department members in the UK are forced to deal with boxes the day after Christmas.
I wish to whinge that I have no servants to box with or sweep the floor or rinse the marshmallow scum off cocoa mugs or any of the other things my sons are not doing because Santa, that bum, brought them new video games and tablets.
Averin wrote: "I don't remember where Preston brought this up: http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2013/..."Actually Roger brought it up in the Which Book? game where he cited this link:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/20...
The link you posted about Touring's pardon opening the door for 50,000 more pardons is a good find. Thank you for posting it.
I am disappointed and angry that the most visible gay man in business, Apple CEO Tim Cook, gives a speech on human rights and does not include gay rights. His gayness and even his long time partner are the worst kept secrets in the business world yet he refuses to come out to show people, especially kids, that gays can be successful in the workplace. Apple's Cook speaks out on civil rights
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/tech/we...
It seems he prefer others to infer:Tim has been called the ‘most powerful gay man in Silicon Valley and he was named to Out Magazine’s Power List of the 50 most-powerful LGBT people this year. Out is a popular gay and lesbian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any gay monthly publication in the United States.
This means he is out about being gay and highly respected in his field, and in the nation at large.
This chunk from a list of "What do we know about Tim" can be found at: http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/timothy...
And he has spoken out about gay rights, but again in that reference (http://business.time.com/2013/12/15/a...) the summary suggests his remarks "strongly imply personal experience with discrimination…"
But not what sort.
Pity.
Instead of just paying and not using it, I figured I'd watch some things on Netflix that I've been meaning to get to. Like "How to Survive a Plague." Now I feel wiped out, especially having just read the Henry Rios series. So many lost with the breakthrough they sought coming too late. And still 4 people every minute die for lack of proper treatment.
I regret that I must grumble Happy New Year to all Complaint Department members!
With the northern east coast of America, and no doubt elsewhere too, cold and shivering, I hate to tell you that the weatherman this morning here in lil'ol' Ingerland told us it was the warmest day of the year so far.
Roger wrote: "With the northern east coast of America, and no doubt elsewhere too, cold and shivering, I hate to tell you that the weatherman this morning here in lil'ol' Ingerland told us it was the warmest day..."Grooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn
Bad, Roger, really, really, really bad.
I don't know whether that line technically qualifies as a pun, but as we say around here, it's so close to one as makes no never mind.
Eric
I did't say it! I'm just reporting what the weather reporter said. I did repeat it to my mom and she didn't get it, though…
I feel I must protest that the British FA (Football Association) is finally showing a sense of self-recrimination. After all, most sensitive people have come to rely on the FA to feed popular prejudice and bigotry. What is the world coming to when they let the side down like this?http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/01/02/...
Roger wrote: "I feel I must protest that the British FA (Football Association) is finally showing a sense of self-recrimination. After all, most sensitive people have come to rely on the FA to feed popular preju..."It's horrifying the British footballers would have a group to promote "inclusion and tackle discrimination in all forms." What's next Aussie Rugby? What, will there be no pro-discrimiation jocks left in the Commonwealth?
The homophobic member of the British FA anti-discrimination group can't even get the King James scripture right. We are an abomination, not "detestable". Shame on him. Send this wanker back to Bible Camp.
PR move is the way I read the article. No real change, just a way to CYA.
At least straight America football players like Brenden Ayanbadejo look really sexy when supporting gays and gay marriage. (view spoiler)
I have so much homework due tomorrow and I'm procrastinating. And now I found a validation for one of my favorite ways to procrastinate: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci...
Averin wrote: "I have so much homework due tomorrow and I'm procrastinating. And now I found a validation for one of my favorite ways to procrastinate…"I deeply regret that you have to read Pompeii, a 2003 thriller by Robert Harris with a page-turning plot, in order to tickle the neurones in your temporal cortex. I read it when it was first published, and not a single neurone reported any such tickling. But maybe that's because I was too gripped by the brilliance of the novel to have time for any ticking, neurotic or otherwise.
Averin wrote: "I have so much homework due tomorrow and I'm procrastinating. And now I found a validation for one of my favorite ways to procrastinate: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci......"Fascinating, though, as readers, this shouldn't be news, I would think. There've been a number of books which have left me in a high state for days after finishing them, so it's not really a new phenomenon, but one which has been corroborated by science (I find it funny that science seems to be always one step behind the old wives tales - that is its corroborating stuff people know on an instinctive, practical level ...)
I am fiercely angered by the closing of schools due to the cold weather in my home town of Albany, NY. They never closed school because it got a bit chilly when I was a school kid.If you live in Albany you expect Winter to be a tad cool. Some Trains and planes have been cancelled and even the NewYork State Thruway has been closed in some areas of the State. And it isn't even snowing! This place is full of a bunch of milksop wusses!
It was down to 49° when I caught the train to school this morning, had to wear the heavy hoodie. The Chargers' one.
I'm angered that all the snow Americans decided they wouldn't keep, thank you, they sent over the Atlantic to drown Britain :-)
Roger wrote: "I'm angered that all the snow Americans decided they wouldn't keep, thank you, they sent over the Atlantic to drown Britain :-)"Right because it never rains in England. Must be quite a change.
Yeah, but I got to thinking (never a really good idea) when the rain falling into my pond miraculously formed letters, and when I peered more closely I could make out the words "With Love From Albany".Pretty suspicious, huh?
Preston wrote: "I am fiercely angered by the closing of schools due to the cold weather in my home town of Albany, NY. They never closed school because it got a bit chilly when I was a school kid.If you live in ..."
Oh, I was always disappointed when I was a kid because we rarely, if ever, got snow days here in Albuquerque.
So far no school closings (or work stoppage) have occurred here. :*( But it's still very cold.
This deep freeze is just annoying.
I am degenerable and regumbusted that the members of the Complaint Department helped in a great part in the voting to make Roger Kean's books A Life Apart and later Gregory's Story a book of the month in the M/M Romance Group and now that his third companion book to these Harry's Great Trek is a WIP he has You can read the description and first chapter of Harry's Great Trek, companion to both A Life Apart and Gregory's Story at:
http://pastehtml.com/view/dsn7cjko8.rtxt
So for a taste of Roger's upcoming historical novel of adventure and gay romance click on the above link and enjoy.
Lori wrote: "Cool beans on the new book Roger. Looking forward to reading it!"I'm looking forward to finishing writing it!
LOL- >cracks the whip< well then, get on with it!
That's horrid! Mr. Foss obviously works very hard on his artwork, so to have someone stealing it and repainting it is just awful. >-(
Totally horrid! Like the commentator, I grew up with Chris Foss covers, and I know he got paid very well, like GBP 700–900, but nothing like $5 million. And the worst is that curators—one of the most loathsome branches of modern art and the most redundant of occupations, rave about Mr. Brown's work, which is the same as cataloging and exhibiting works of simple plagiarism—and therefore condoning it.The Tate franchise of public art galleries in Britain, actual revels in the man, as the 2009 retrospective suggests:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-...
Lori wrote: "That's horrid! Mr. Foss obviously works very hard on his artwork, so to have someone stealing it and repainting it is just awful. >-(""...projecting reproductions onto a blank picture surface, Brown wildly embellishes his source material."
He can't even paint! He has to copy the original from a projection of the image onto his canvas.
I want to complain that the Chinese have done the same using a advanced network of technology-linked fortune cookies. WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/...
I am mad that while a federal judge ruled Tuesday that an Oklahoma law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples violates the U.S. Constitution, the ruling is pending appeal as it is in Utah.I'm PO'd that it appears we have to go to every federal district court and get rulings appealed to the Supreme Court piecemeal over lengthy periods of time before the nation follows the Constitutional requirement of the Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Even the federal judge in the Oklahoma case said in his ruling "...that protection "is at the very heart of our legal system."
Preston wrote: "I am mad that while a federal judge ruled Tuesday that an Oklahoma law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples violates the U.S. Constitution, the ruling is pending appeal as it is in Utah.I'm ..."
I agree with the impatience/frustration, but the fact is that unless and until an actual marriage case with no other issues goes up, we're not likely to have a decision from the US Supreme Court that addresses the issue in light of the Federal Equal Protection Clause. They're not about to take on a case that contentious without a clear focus on that issue and effectively, that issue alone, in my opinion.
Also, the more state laws that are set aside before that happens, and the more public opinion tilts toward marriage equality, I think the more likely the Supreme Court will agree. Yes, I know they're not supposed to make decisions based on popular sentiment, but I think that as a practical matter that's at least a factor that is considered.
I think we also have to realize that the Supreme Court is more likely to take up a case where there's a split in the Circuit Courts of Appeals. And so far I don't think there are any cases that have ruled against marriage equality at that appellate level, based on the EPC. But if they get hit with a couple of cases upholding marriage equality on EPC grounds, with the %#$(!)Uxxx! conservatives appealing, that might get it before them as well.
Just more of Eric's usual USD .02 blathering.
Eric
Eric wrote: "Preston wrote: "I am mad that while a federal judge ruled Tuesday that an Oklahoma law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples violates the U.S. Constitution, the ruling is pending appeal as it i..."I moan that I will never understand the law as Eric does. I don't understand why marriage is a state matter not a national right. Yes I get that residency and age are local standards, but the rest no.
Roger wrote: "Totally horrid! Like the commentator, I grew up with Chris Foss covers, and I know he got paid very well, like GBP 700–900, but nothing like $5 million. And the worst is that curators—one of the mo..."Another bit of law I don't understand, how is that not copyright or intellectual property theft? On curators, though, i just read an amazing short story written by Robin Metcalfe. Alas, that's all I can say because this is a family group.
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Well, Bon Chance. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and await with bated breath until the 6th.
As for my complaint... I got off the plane, after leaving 30 degree (fahrenheit) weather in NWOhio, and was assaulted by 86 degrees of sunny warm Florida heat. And in a few days I'm going to have to return to NWOhio - it just isn't fair!