So I Had an Epiphany

I think that's the right word for it.

Seems quite clear to me when you start applying genetics to the Biblical account of creation you start to realise something. Not that I believe the Biblical account of creation ever happened, but it does make the story more interesting.

I'm just going to leave this here

Source.

Fundies, schools and racism

I can't make this shit up.

The way he writes this you would think that kids are being kidnapped and forcefully brain washed. I considered dissecting these words, then I saw this reply -

 Christianity. It's all about the love. And the truth.

Story Bit - Take a peep inside my brain.

"Did you see that? That was fucked up!"

"Yeah really. Nobody was on that motorcycle. You think maybe it was remote controlled or something?"

"Not the motorcycle, the shopping cart that was speeding along next to it!"

"I thought it was connected somehow."

"But did you get a good look at it? It was one of them weird carts from the Food Badger. The nearest one is like 10 miles north of here. I though they closed it years ago. And that shit was going backwards! Something's up! Strange shopping carts speeding down the street backwards can't be good!"

"Yeah but the motorcycle with no rider, nothing wrong with that."

Josh Craddock says the damnedest things

Well he does. Apparently the clothes of the wicked must have some magical powers according to him. Or the faitytale book that he is referencing.

Source.

Seriously?

I think I'll be buying some Kenneth Cole.

Yet another damned fundie, yet another damned thing they said.

If it were not for fundies, I might be less entertained.

Aside from that, last time I looked, the Bible was pretty OK with slavery, even sex slavery.  I probly misinterpreted Deuteronomy and Numbers, so I could be wrong. BTW, Josh Craddock's twitter if you want to troll him. My twitter if you want to troll me. 

More Damned Fundies and the Damned Things They Say

I just can't make this shit up.

Source.

Amusingly enough, the article linked is about a possible link between conservatives, racists, prejudice, and low IQ's. 

I think it's pretty safe to say that Nick provided a fine example of what they were talking about.

Another update on my father.

I got a call earlier this evening from my mother. I don't know what changed his mind, but he decided to go on the IV. Maybe it was the effects of dehydration. Maybe it was that he was not getting the results or reaction he was looking for. I don't know. I have heard from several rather reliable sources that growing up he was one of those kids that would hold his breath until he got his way or passed out.

Well at least he is on his way to getting better.

An update on my father's condition.

He went from getting better in the hospital to going back to the nursing home and getting worse. Part of it I believe may be the nursing home's fault. They have him on a lot of medications and I'm not sure if what they have him on is right. The last time he was in the hospital, the doctors took him off everything the nursing home had him on because according to them the nursing home was pretty much killing him. Hard to say if that is the case this time. His lab work is getting worse, his kidneys are back to failing and he is refusing food and drink. They want to put an IV in him to give him fluids. He is refusing. He is refusing because my mother wants him to have it. That's what he said. I visited him today. Part to be supportive to my mom. Part to talk some sense in to him. Part to make some level of peace with him. He didn't want to see me. He didn't want to talk to me.

We can't get him out of the nursing home that he is in because he refuses to go anywhere else. We can't get him to go to a hospital because he refuses that. About all we can do is wait. Wait for him to die or become delirious to the point where he can no longer be considered to have sound mind. That is how we got him to the hospital last time. Actually, that has happened a few times with him.

I don't get how someone can be so stubborn, spiteful and mentally abusive all the way up to the end. I can understand his attitude toward me. I'm not the "Mini-Me" that he wanted, I'm my own individual. But the attitude he takes up with my mom is completely out of line.

Those Damned Fundies and the Damned Things They Say

I wasn't quite sure how to submit this one to FSTDT as it is more graphical than text, but that doesn't stop me from posting it here.

This comes courtesy of TheologyOnline, you can view the thread here. I think the old tree fort, aside from lacking in anything that comes close resembling a sense of humour, is reading way too much in to this. I just can't see how someone could get grossed out about that. I can see a radical feminist getting offended by it, but not grossed out. I just don't get it. Of course I also don't get why an individual that is so offended by homosexuals even bothers to so much as peep in a thread about them. I just don't get fundies.

BTW, if you ever wanted to know the answer to the question, here is a good one -

So I have Rattlers in my stomach

Wonder if anyone reading this caught the Farscape reference.

It's weird, what's going through my mind right now. I can't really stop thinking abut it. By morning, regardless of the outcome it will be a weight lifted off me. Either things will be changed at my work or I will change jobs. I don't know why I'm stressing, but I am. Never really been in a position quite like this. I've been in positions where it was likely, but not definite.

I will tell my manager things need to change. I will say that I have found another place to do my paperwork. The note where she told the audit to do that is what prompted this. It pushed me over the edge. The new procedure of the audit having to sort and organise the days paperwork has only left me with the impression that they cannot be bothered to do it right. Just like they cannot be bothered to come to work on time. I don't mind having do more work. It keeps me busy. However, it needs to have a purpose. It needs to accomplish something.

Good Gnus, Bad Gnus

Yeah, so I grew up watching The Great Space Coaster, so fucking what?

Good News - 

I have been interviewing lately and I have an offer on the table. The person making this offer has strongly suggested that I have a talk with my boss and try to get things fixed so I don't feel like I have to quit. They have a point really. I have been back there nearly 3 years now and to have to leave in anger and start over somewhere else would be a bit ridiculous. My wants are simple. I want things to go back to the way they used to be with the exception of everyone doing their job correctly. I should not have to spend an hour sorting and organising paperwork that previously would have been handled by the day shift. Having me do it does nothing more than consume my time and piss me off. Truthfully, I might actually be OK with it if I could see that it served a purpose or solved a problem. I still have the same problem I had before this became the new procedure. I'm still missing receipts. I'm still missing folios. I'm still having to pluck reg cards from the bucket. Now I start off with a drawer that contains all the days paperwork, including things like the emergency down time reports that previously were shredded. This drawer looks like a waste paper bin by the time I get to it. I have more to sort and organise and I have been told I need to find a new place to do such. The back counter seems to be for, well as far as I can tell, what ever the day shift wants to do with it. All this in addition to having to put up with a day crew that habitually comes to work late, including the boss. I like the overtime, I don't like how I get it. Then there is the computers who have taken more than their fair share of abuse from the internet habits of the desk clerks. I hacked the hosts file to keep them off the social networking at the request of my boss, this has since been undone. Not to mention the number of times I have walked in to them doing what pretty much amounts to goofing off. Yeah, I do that too. But all my work is done, done correctly even, and my responsibilities are not getting shafted on to anyone else.

Am I wrong in wanting to leave? Am I wrong in wanting things fixed? Do I have every right and reason to be pissed? If I can't get things straightened out, I have somewhere to go now. I know people I work with read my blog. Maybe this is getting talked about. Maybe this is getting passed around. Maybe my boss is being forewarned. Maybe certain rather worthless members of the day shift are getting a bit unnerved. They are not all worthless, just some of them. The real point to this is that I am mad as hell and in one manner or another I will not be taking it any more.

Bad News

My dad has been in a rehab centre since mid November. He went in because he could not get out of bed. He didn't have the strength. He went in to get physical therapy to get stronger. Then he pretty much refused the therapy. Recently I have heard through my mother that his kidneys are failing. He needs to go on dialysis. When I first heard of this I thought it was worse. Don't get me wrong, it's bad, but not quite what my mom and I initially thought it was. Right now he is in a hospital. His condition has improved, he went in delirious. Toxics building up in your body will do that. Not sure what happens from here. My mom has been on dialysis for the past 19 years, but my dad is 74, has a whole load of other problems, and said previously that he wouldn't go on dialysis. Obviously he changed his mind, but he could go back on it. Aside from that, no idea how long he is going to last.

Christopher Hitchens

Like many others, at least those I subscribe to on youtube and look up to, those that put things that are on my mind so much more eloquently than I can, I'm at a loss for what to say. Humanity has lost a great man and a great mind. I don't think the loss really can be described in anything I can say. I will just leave it at this -

Good show, Sir, and thank you.

I do have to get one thing off my chest, the level and amount of dancing on his grave, in the figurative sense of course, I'm seeing from the religious fundamentalists is shameful at best. I'm not shocked or surprised by it. I'm not saying they should not say it or that it should be silenced. I feel it serves as a reminder of what those persons making such statements are really like.

Black Friday 2011

And I didn't buy anything new. Honestly none of the sales at the local stores looked worth the crowds or even had sales on anything that my girlfriend or I really wanted. I did end up going to the local K-Mart to pick up some cat food. Looked around while we were there. No good deals on either a TV or an Xbox. Or games for that matter. I'll be looking for sales on those as it gets closer to Gift-mas. Also checking for a good “Cyber Monday” deal as well.

I want to get a second Xbox/TV for the home so we can do some system link foolishness and so I can get a copy of Zumba and a Kinect to help stop being so fat. After this past Thanksgiving I need it.

I know “Small Business Saturday” is next but there's not much still around here in the way of small business. What day is for empty and abandoned store fronts?

I has Skyrim

I'd like to thank my co-workers who can't seem to make it to work on time for all the hours of overtime I have been working. Without it, this and my upcoming purchase of Saint's Row the Third would not have been possible. And thank you for not putting a crib in a room when a guest called ahead and requested it. The “crib” and “do not move” notes on the reservation had me thinking you had actually not totally dropped the ball. Nice touch. But it's cool, I needed the exercise.

On with some Skyrim videos that I recorded.






Yeah I suck and FRAPS makes the game look a lot more laggy than it is. So far it's a lot of fun. And stabbing things always helps me relieve frustrations. I think I need that RAM upgrade that I always wanted. Being on a laptop that shares system and video memory, that should make games and recording of said games go a lot smoother.