I know I Know, this is horrible... the two people who read this sometimes that might care about it have both quit WoW and I am just being an ass posting about it.... but I can't help it!  It is exciting!

Taken from WoW.com:

"Battlegrounds will be more casual friendly: I am very excited about the BG changes that are coming up. I used to love Warsong Gulch when people actually played it. When it has a 20 minute time limit and allows for ties, I'll be back with bells on. Arathi Basin and and Eye of the Storm both require fewer points to win and less time to take over flags, so those will be quicker and probably more fun. The biggest news, however, is that completing objectives (capturing flags, winning the game) will give experience. This means that if battlegrounds are your thing, you could level up completely doing nothing but PvP. Note: Killing players will still not give XP. Also, twinks can turn off XP so they won't level, but that means they will only be playing against other twinks. In other words, your level 12 in whites and maybe a green or two will no longer have to contend with ubergeared/enchanted perpetually level 19 WSG professionals."

BGs can grant experience now??????????????????????????

Finally!  A great reason for me to return to the game.  I can quest OR pvp and still advance my character.  PvP always felt like it was a distraction, but now it is part of the character's progression!

The only punchline I could think of for this masterpiece of spam is the subject, which is at the bottom...

"time for a new spring look...
cate was so happy she began yelling "let's give a hand to springtime!
she's amazing.

4. i don't worry about a little "creative clutter" in cate's room. i say, a good
dress up/ barbie mess day better than watching tv all afternoon, right? pretty soon
i will just put my 'kerchief on again and go to town. (yes, that is what cate's room
looks like again, just over a month after the big clean. i tell you, i'm fighting a
losing battle with that girl). does that answer your question, mary? i hope it
helps! wink.
really, cate is also mexican, japanese, native american, swiss, and a lot more- a
true american- so we actually have a lot of family history travelling to do, but i
really love the romantic beauty of ireland, and have always been drawn to that part
of the world. plus i really love corned beef.

and you eat with your sunglasses on
i love the comments i get from all of you.

have you seen april's ms living yet? sax
i found that amazing old shirt (we're big fans) at the thrift store for $1 and it's
so soft.

Coco
may you always have courage to take a chance and never find frogs in your underpants.

i am going to turn on some good music and choose to be happy.
i am blocking my two latest projects today and will show them tomorrow.

wooohoooo!"
it's definitely worth the long drive,

and you are happy.
she'll be here friday and saturday april 3rd and 4th, and she'll be taking
appointments for all day/ night both days at my house.

(i hate in quilting and knitting and sewing when the designs get all fancy just
because they can).
my homekeeping secrets

(so is corned beef if you've never tried it).
in a tiny town in idaho

my happy plans for this evening include knitting and watching two favorite movies:
far and away followed by tristan and isolde.
1. in the craft room i throw everything on the homework table. that clears up the
floor for more mess craft making.

i told cate about st. patrick's day and ireland- she has a lot of irish ancestors
through me.
with the sun streaming in

back in a few days
may the light always find you on a dreary day."

SUBJECT of the E-mail: "Herpes will never play tricks with you"

I thought this was pretty funny.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/7/23/

Also they have a new pokemon comic up today.

Alright, so if you made it through the first ramble, hopefully this won't be as long.

( Second reason... ) The removal of personal guilt has helped me a lot.

No, really, I am actually starting to like my job. I am kind of... excited this morning. I have been excited the last few times I have come to work. I finally feel like I can more than barely get a handle on this job. This happened for a lot of reasons... I started typing those reasons, but the first reason used up all my time to post... so if you feel brave you can read that ramble. I will post more later or tomorrow if I feel like it.

( It has been a calibration issue for one... )

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While I was thinking about the right to life, I started thinking about capital punishment, life in prison, and long prison sentences. I believe that a society that stands up for the right to life should not deprive a criminal of the right to life. No crime or punishment should deny rights to a being, especially not the right to life.

The harshest of punishments are meant to keep criminals from repeating their crimes, as well as to deter would be criminals from committing similar crimes in the first place.

There are certainly arguable reasons to deprive a criminal of rights. Unfortunately, a society can usually not be sure that a criminal has been correctly charged and found guilty. Just like any human system, the justice systems of human civilizations are imperfect. These imperfect systems lead to innocent humans being imprisoned or sentenced to death, which deprives them of the right to life. I would argue that one human life being denied the right to life is not worth theoretically protecting the people who only might be harmed or hurt if a criminal is set free instead of being held or killed by the state.

Since most would not agree with my view on that, I would argue that a warning system for criminals who have been charged and found guilty is the least objectionable system of protection for a society while still being reasonably conscientious of the state. To this end, I believe a tattoo system used to mark criminals with the type and severity of a crime they have committed that would previously have been punished with imprisonment or the death sentence be utilized to protect society from potentially unsafe citizens.

If everyone was taught what the tattoos meant, you could choose to avoid a known criminal. Tattoos would be done on prominent, public parts of the body and if anyone covered that part of their body, such as the earlobe, forehead, chin, or nose, or some combination of places, people would do well to treat them with caution. The right to life need not include the right to social acceptance. If you choose to associate with someone guilty of murder, you know what you are dealing with. While public criminal tattoos might make it harder to make friends, find a job, or fit in with society in general, I personally would find it preferable to long imprisonment or capital punishment.

Now, I also realize that tattoos will not help against a serial killer who is stalking you at night. The best solution I can come up with for that is injecting an RFID tag under the skin of someone who would have been punished for murder. People can be issued small alarms that make noise when someone with a tag is nearby. These would have to be given out freely and maintained by the state, but they would undoubtedly cost less than prison system currently in place.

If humans have a "right to life," so too do animals, plants, and everything else that is alive. Life operates the bodies of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish almost identically to the bodies of humans. With regard to "intelligence," the perceived uniqueness of human perception of existence has not been a condition for attributing the property of life to an organism. If, therefore, the right to life ought -as it should- to extend to all lifeforms, obviously, there is a threshold to which we can protect that right, as microscopic lifeforms and most plants can't reasonably be protected from most of our daily activities. How to set that threshold of responsibility to lifeforms to be as inclusive as reasonably possible should be the new debate instead of whether animals should have rights. The logic of making the right to life equal among all lifeforms is sound, but the reality of human right to life makes protecting all beings currently impossible.

Recently, with the establishment of the United States of America, humans have attempted to define the right to life as inherent to all beings regardless of class, status, race, gender, or age. These attempts have been largely successful, though arguably incomplete in their aim. Age has become a center for debate of the human right to life. People debate the merits of preventing the death of unborn humans, but many exclude non-human life from their consideration of the right to life entirely. This is a serious oversight.

My conclusion is that if the right to life is to be extended inclusively to all humans, it ought to at least be extended to non-human lifeforms that humans can reasonably protect. I would include all lifeforms that are not necessary for humans to consume to survive, including all mammals, birds, fish, and many plants. I would also argue that the right to life should include not only the condition of being alive, but some reasonable approximation of freedom for animals. Due to negligence, the earth has sustained massive animal habitat damage and the subsequent reduction of this habitat creates perhaps undesirable limits on the freedoms we can grant many species. Though they have no natural homes left, many species would benefit from artificially created approximations of their original habitat, including as much roaming area as could reasonably be given to them. This includes birds, fish, and plants. The only way to provide these lifeforms with the freedom the right to life should extend them would be to reduce, as quickly as possible, the totality of human impact on the world including the rate of resource consumption, the reversal of habitat decline due to human population expansion, and the rate of waste production which pollutes any lifeforms' environments. Continued policing of the enforcement of all rules meant to ensure those lifeforms above the reasonable threshold to the right to life similar to that of human beings own current policing would be necessary.

An extended debate would also include what lengths humans should go to intervene on behalf of a lifeform in peril from other lifeforms in nature. The right to life has driven human legislation against murdering other humans for thousands of years. If we extend the right to life to animals who kill other animals to survive, an obvious conflict results. We would have to attempt to determine appropriate protections for animals against other animals, or choose to accept natural order. I would argue for the latter, though human interference has much disturbed the natural order.

I welcome all comments and debate about this topic and my arguments within.

I feel pretty bad. I feel like all I can do is answer phones and e-mails here at work. I am just exhausted. I am still having a hard time concentrating. I just feel really out of it.

I am feeling pretty fatigued and I am having a hard time concentrating. I think I am fighting off a systemic bacterial or viral infection.

I am all achy and tired. I am going to get some nice things to eat that will hopefully boost my immune system.

Mouthwash significantly increases cancer risk in the mouth and head. Up to 900 percent if you also smoke.

According to one study anyway...

http://www.naturalnews.com/025729.html

Today's first post is actually a link to someone's post where they have collected 300 alleged spam sayings e-mailed by the people who are advertising the penis enlargement patch.

http://www.catsandbeer.com/internet/god-bless-the-makers-of-the-penis-enlarge-patch

Here is a sample

Your penis will be so big she will take it for the bridge over the river.

Enjoy!

You need this spam in your mind! You ask why? Because this is a little round men's helper.

"I Your woman will be shocked by your fang's astonishing progress. you need this thing in your jeans! You ask why? Because this is a little round men's helper that can make woman shocked with the unbelievable lust and love power that her man suddenly gained. No wonder you need it, price is such low therewith!"

Leave me a comment about this awesome spam. I Your woman will be shocked by your reply's astonishing progress.

Well I blame the bed. I feel like I have my shit, mentally, together. I think I've been getting some of the best sleep I have ever gotten recently due to the new bed that Lisa's mom bought us at the YMCA thrift store. My mood is way better today than it has been in a long time. I feel like I can think. I feel like I am awake. It is nice. I also got enough sleep yesterday and today, timewise, so that might have something to do with it too.

I haven't felt this... capable in a while and I missed feeling this way.

"Please call me" means PLEASE CALL ME! Don't reply to my e-mail to figure out what I want!!!

Stupid people at a massage supply company.

Ugh.

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Of course there wasn't a link in the e-mail at all, so I assume that passing your mouse over "HERE" will teleport you to a place where they get you ready for the girlpocalypse.

I got an e-mail today from my good friend "Lalli Mccracken" who wanted me to know about something that might make the holidays better.

"New Christmas pleasure ::)

Cigarette held in his slender, listless fingers. And that night wanderer, having approached the suffered destruction. it was by the exercise of meantime in interest and gradual diminution of from the bowstring drawn to the ear, and deprived."

Oh spam, they've forced you into some weird abstractionist creativity to get your messages through to me.

"A woman might do such a thing for her husband, the fly' business which was constantly going on. Music stole away my common sense. I understand, as his, malcolm, my eagle of the crag! my hart think you were before they rescued you. Why shouldn't."

I just got this in my e-mail at work.
I am pretty sure the CIA just activated me.