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Once more, in case anybody out there is reading this and wants to earn some quick positive karma points, moonlightnrain is moving starting tonight (4-6:30) and ending tomorrow (11-whenever) and could use an extra set of hands or two, especially tonight. I'll be leaving work at 4 barring unforseen madness (I oversee advertising related projects now, so that's far more likely than it used to be) and I'm sure she'll already be hard at work. Ping me for details if you can spare an hour or two either day.

In other news the calorie counting seems to be working! Every day I get on the scale and I'm a little happier than I was the day before. It's slow, painstaking and boring effort but it's paying off and that's the important thing. If I can keep it up for a few more weeks and then switch over to a maintenance caloric intake I'll be very happy indeed. I'm probably never going to get back to where my weight was when I first moved out here, but that's ok. As long as I can put some distance between me and the big 1-5-0 I'll be quite content.

Just signed up for my first tribal dance class which should be interesting. I've been out of dance so long that all the muscles I acquired while doing it are gone and thus all my control. I'm going to look like an absolute beginner, physically speaking, though at least my brain won't have to tackle a lot of completely new information. The downside is I'm sure zills are going to be a big part of this and I suck the big one with them. There's something about maintaining a steady rhythm with 4 of my fingers while trying to remember to do other things with the rest of my body that just defeats me. Anyway it'll be good practice, the class is like a 5 minute drive from my place, and this should help me with the whole weight loss thing as well. I'm just hoping my health holds itself together long enough for me to make it through. We shall see.

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Clearly I'm a little slow, but why are we staying in Iraq again?

On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia group that sponsored the petition.

It's a hugely significant development. Lawmakers demanding an end to the occupation now have the upper hand in the Iraqi legislature for the first time; previous attempts at a similar resolution fell just short of the 138 votes needed to pass (there are 275 members of the Iraqi parliament, but many have fled the country's civil conflict, and at times it's been difficult to arrive at a quorum).

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What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?

Bad-boy radio hosts Opie and Anthony yesterday topped even their infamous 2002 "Sex in St. Pat's" stunt, serving up a homeless man's profane declaration that he'd like to rape Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush and Queen Elizabeth.

The graphic sequence on their XM Satellite Radio program showed that even in a medium with no restrictions on content, Opie and Anthony found a way to cross the line.

The actual comments were made by a guest the shock jocks call Homeless Charlie. As each woman's name came up, he said, "I'd love to f--- that b----."

They laughed as they imagined "the horror" in Rice's face and what it would be like to hold her down and punch her in the face....

The audio and transcript are available here along with one of the most poignant and honest responses I've read so far from an actual victim of rape. The actual dialogue was even worse than what was quoted in the paper:

One of their guests, a man called Homeless Charlie, says, “I’ll tell you what—what’s that George Bush bitch, um, Rice…? Condoleezza Rice? … I’d love to fuck that bitch dead, man,” at which point the rest of the studio erupts into laughter.

And did the shock jocks try to stop this clearly insane tirade? Nope, they encouraged the psycho to keep going. Now maybe I'm just a humorless feminist but this strikes me as the kind of sick shit that should get you thrown off of any radio station in any civilized country.

via No More Mister Nice Blog

Update: Want to let the employers of these two assholes know what you think of their little stunt? You can find out how here.