http://www.grimnews.net Grim: stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:04:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another sign the country has gone to hell. Apparently the Madoff victims are going to get a bailout.  Not the traditional bailout we’ve seen, but it is the usual spreading the wealth, or rather loss in this case.  Apparently everyone who cashed in before Madoff’s ponzi scheme collapsed must give ... http://www.grimnews.net/2009/01/madoff-victims-get-bailout/ OK, this guy has the best job perk I have ever read:Surely the envy of any desk-bound office worker, Tommy Lynch has travelled over 27,000 miles this year, for his job testing holiday resort waterslides.Mr Lynch, 29, works for holiday giant First Choice, checking the height, speed, water quantity and ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/the-most-awesomest-job-in-the-world/ We now see what was going on with ass hat prosecutor Ken Oswalt.  In a previous post we covered how this idiot is charging a 15-year old girl with child pornogarphy for taking pictures of herself.  New news coverage has been released and we get to see what this jerk ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/idiot-prosecutor-charges-girl-with-child-pornographyto-set-guidepost/ Any religion that advocates strict sexual repression usually has unintended consequences of that repression.  Recent news has been released that the terrorists in Mumbai sodomized both male and female hostages.  According to reports the terrorists were so sexually frustrated that some of them were fighting the police while others were ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/mumbai-terrorists-actually-frusterated-gay-men/ Submitted by Pascal V        http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/ham-fail/ Ah youth... Twisted Sister is still around, 20 years after asking the question "What do you wanna do with your life?" I only hope I'm still having this much fun when I'm their age. -Grim http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/more-christmas-metal/ pThe loving religion of Islam is shown that it loves the rights of men, not women and children. A judge in Unayzah has a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1099447/Saudi-court-tells-girl-aged-EIGHT-divorce-husband-50-years-senior.html”ruled/a that the eight year old girl may not divorce her husband until she reaches puberty. The father of the little girl apparently sold ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/saudi-court-rules-8-year-old-can%e2%80%99t-divorce-58-year-old-husband/ I caught the tail end of this on XM's Liquid Metal channel tonight and I laughed so damned hard that I just had to find this online and share it with you all. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Austrian Death Machine with one of the world's best loved Christmas carols. http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/death-metal-christmas-carols/ Gosh, I hope I wasn't ambivalent in that headline. For those of you blessed enough to live under a rock, "Kwanzaa" is a made up holiday which is celebrated by certain, misguided, members of the Black community in this country.  The only reason this, so-called, holiday gets to see the light ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/kwanzaa-is-not-a-holiday-and-only-idiots-think-so/ All I wanted to do was stay home this Christmas.My wife has to work through most of the holidays as there is a show that opens the week of Christmas. So, I innocently suggested to my family relations that, since I live in Atlanta, my father and sister in ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/millambers-mind-2008-12-16-010400/ [caption id="attachment_555" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Santa's Inbox"][/caption] Just thought I'd add a little levity to the holiday season.  I especially liked the email from Oprah about "patenting gift giving". Only 10 more shopping days, so get out there and be a good little producing/consuming wage slave!  (Yeah, like I'm not going to be ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/a-little-holiday-humor/ Yeah, I know I haven't been writing in a while.  I'll fix that as soon as I return from this weekend's family Christmas activities. Meanwhile, here is a little cheerful something to listen to until I return. Plainsong by The Cure.  "Cheerful" is being deliberately obtuse, but this is one of the ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/something-to-listen-to/ Submitted by Deb A YTMND version of this fail.        http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/online-dating-fail/ Keeping track of terrorist networks is very difficult according to most reports, but there are many problems with our own infrastructure that could be dealt with. The FBI is investigating the German heavy metal band, Scorpions, because a record (yes before CDs and cassettes) cover may have child pornography ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/why-the-terrorists-are-one-step-ahead-of-us/ Working as I do for churches, there is a very special feeling I get when I think about Christmas. And that feeling is trepidation. Allow me to 'splain.The 2 biggest holidays in the church market is Christmas and Easter. Christians are big into birth and death. ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/millambers-mind-2008-12-07-030700/ Shared by Data Vortex Be there or be dead to me. speaking of things that will really ought to get our and see, the plaza theatre will be hosting a showing of the documentary nerdcore rising friday night. i’ll be honest with you, i knew absolutely nothing about nerdcore, ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/nerds/ The attacks in Mumbai, India are the latest in the 1,400 year history of Islam and yet people continue to express surprise that the alleged religion of peace could harbor so many cold-blooded killers of innocent people. http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/the-religion-of-peace-strikes-again/ Shared by Atari How to make an Old-Fashioned the old fashioned way. December 5th marks the 75th anniversary of Repeal Day, when Prohibition ended and Americans depressed by the Depression could once again drown their sorrows legally — instead of having to get tanked in Tijuana, hammered in Havana, or ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/o-happy-day/ An interesting fact, Muslims consider blacks inferior and submissive as part of their religion.  The other interesting statistic is that a majority of slaves shipped to the Americas were male and around 10% did not survive the journey.  Contrast that with over 80% of slaves shipped to the middle east ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/12/muslim-slavery-101/ I wrote this after Thanksgiving in 2007.  With the holidays approaching and the recent birth of my daughter, I felt like putting it out there again. -Grim Executive Summary: More maudlin shit about the holidays without my dad. I'll "get over it" when I'm god damned good and ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/my-fathers-chair/ Our fine example today of government waste comes from Judge Samuel Campbell. In a recent story at ESPN The Dishonorable Judge Campbell managed to show us what an enemy of the taxpayer he is. Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick won’t be allowed to plead guilty to dogfighting charges by videoconference, ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/judge-in-vick-case-wastes-taxpayer-money/ Shared by Data Vortex Most people shouldn't be allowed to vote. ...than an 5th Grader elected official? US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday. Ordinary citizens ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/are-you-smarter/ No, I'm not dead, and I haven't developed writers block because the election is over. With the holidays coming up, I've been doing less writing and a little more "autoblogging" than normal because I'm doing more reading than writing these days.  It's not like my schedule is going to improve, but ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/random-brain-firings-revisited/ (Photo credits to Rick Green at the Hartford Courant). After 4 years and 2 months, Julie Amero is now free.You’ll recall that Julie Amero was convicted of 4 felony counts, each count carrying a maximum of 10 years, for exposing school children to pornography.The reality is that Julie, a 40–year ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/breaking-the-julie-amero-horror-is-over/ Xenographic writes "SCO has finally lost to Novell, now that Judge Kimball has entered final judgment against SCO. Of course, this is SCO we're talking about. There's still the litigation in bankruptcy court, which allowed this case to resume so that they could figure out just how much SCO owes, ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/final-judgment-%e2%80%94-sco-loses-owes-3506526/ Shared by Jen Written by Mitt Romney. IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/op-ed-contributor-let-detroit-go-bankrupt-nytimescom/ Shared by ahking maybe he has a cold (From the diaries -- kos) It's amazing - the entire world body of leaders REFUSES to shake George Bush's hand. The video, courtesy of Greatscat and Youtube: 11-19-08: CNN: George Bush snubbed at the G20 Summit. Everyone greeting ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/bush-has-become-a-leper-at-the-g20/ Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Culture, Events, real-world, Guilds, MMO industry, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds Among the people President-elect Barack Obama has appointed to his FCC agency review transition team are Net Neutrality advocates Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, and ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/obamas-fcc-transition-team-includes-mmo-gamer-virtual-world-resident/ No, I have not turned this page into a "scraper site" like so many other blogs out there.  I wouldn't do that to you guys.  No, Curt Schilling and Quan Tranh are not blogging for this site now.  As a bit of a feature for my readers out there (both ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/you-may-have-noticed/ Shared by Data Vortex Marijuana has been used for over 5,000 years.No one has ever overdosed on marijuana.Aspirin has been used for 108 years.Approximately 500 people die every year by taking aspirin Written by nunya This is a repost with a few edits… When Bayer introduced aspirin in 1899, cannabis was America’s ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/aspirin-vs-marijuana/ Shared by Data Vortex Fuck it. Shoot them. A week ago we discussed the takedown of McColo (and the morality of that action). McColo was reportedly the source of anywhere from 50% to 75% of the world's spam. On Saturday the malware network briefly returned to life in order to ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/mccolo-briefly-returns-hands-off-botnet-control/ In Bartow County an innocent man is about to face a murder charge due to the stupidity of the Deputy District Attorney Mickey Thacker. Prosecutors say motorcyclist Antonio Hall drove at a dangerous and excessive speed as he tried to evade the state troopers who were chasing him. But prosecutors also say ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/hero-on-trial/ Congratulations to Dustin Pedroia, the 2008 American League MVP. I met Petey 3 years ago while on rehab in Pawtucket and I can assure you the guy you see in Boston is the same red ass ‘kick your teeth in no matter how big you are, or how hard you ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/congrats-you-little/ I KEEL you! but b4 dat, i will take ur soal. picture: dunno source, via our loldog builder. lol caption: » Recaption This    Tagged: angry, costume, dog, i, kill, loldog, viking, what breed, yellow, you    http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/i-keel-you/ Shared by Data Vortex Or the next time Warren Buffett labels something like derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction," he could instead tell us which companies to bet against. This will force these companies to change their behavior more than any government regulation ever can. Dylan Ratigan has ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/limit-company-size-and-encourage-short-selling/ Submitted by Karl W        http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/intimidation-fail/ We have relaunched the Azeroth Advisor with newer, fresher content! The launch of Wrath of the Lich King is our first opportunity to service level 70s with content relevant information, the original reason for the Azeroth Advisor way back when. This new content, classes, skills, instances, all of that, is now ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/17/updated-with-new-content/ Bruce Schneier for director of TSA. Pass it on. http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/more-unsolicited-advice-for-obama/ I'm off to the Atlanta History Center to watch a film screening of The Dark Crystal. I'm so stoked.11pm- Wow. That was amazing. There was a good bit more than just a movie screening. We had a Q and A with Dave Goelz, who has been ... http://millambersmind.blogspot.com/2008/11/im-off-to-atlanta-history-center-to.html According to Bill O’ Reilly the following will happen if gays are allowed to marry. O’REILLY: So you can see the debate over gay marriage is now a full fledge national battle. As talking points said last night the election of Barack Obama has emboldened secular progressives who feel it is ... http://www.viet-justice.net/2008/11/15/why-i-support-gay-marriage/ Comments like this make it easy to understand, from an athletes standpoint, why and how the media, no matter how good, can never fully grasp what you do, and how hard what you do is for a living. “Please, spare me the Dr. Phil nonsense that Varitek’s personal problems somehow affected ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/13/makes-it-easy/ I just finished giving what could only be described as the worst presentation in the history of presentations. It was horrid, absolutely horrid. I am incapable of ‘writing’ a presentation, it’s not who I am. The 5-10 minutes of opening and the 10 minutes of Q&A at the end I thought ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/13/worst-of-the-worst/ I will be pretty much "out of reach" for the next few days.  If you need me, I'll be on the Lothar server.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll see you when I'm done. http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/the-next-few-days/ Heading to San Francisco to deliver the opening keynote tomorrow morning. Way out of my ‘comfort zone’ here, but it should be interesting. Shonda will be speaking on a panel on day 2 regarding charitable work and efforts moving forward in this industry.        http://38pitches.com/2008/11/12/keynote-umm-ya/ 38 Studios heads to the middle east, originally uploaded by gehrig38. A small gift for the men and women serving in the Middle East from the folks here at 38. I hope to be able to hand them all out while visiting. We’ll be selling these when I get back. We’ll ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/10/38-studios-heads-to-the-middle-east/ 38 posts on politics, 34 posts on everything else, combined. I didn't mean for this blog to go so political, but let's face it, the Presidential election has been the biggest story out there in the last 2 months. Since I've pretty much exhausted one of my nasty habits, politics, let's talk ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/this-is-not-a-political-blog/ A wake up call to the citizens of “Colly-Fornia”. You have just been taken over by the Christian Taliban. The Mormons were primary out of state supporters for Proposition 8, which has banned gay marriage in California. The tricky thing is that Proposition 8 bans gay marriage ... http://www.viet-justice.net/2008/11/08/next-they-want-your-chocolate/ Our friends at IBLOGA have found this little gem. A judge in Arizona has banned the term “illegal” and “aliens” in his court room. This does present a problem if you want to get a point across. I believe that we should look to how the British ... http://www.viet-justice.net/2008/11/08/arizona-judge-bans-the-term-illegal-and-aliens/ Now that everyone has had a couple of days to calm down from Tuesday, what exactly does it mean that Barack Obama has been elected our 44th president?  As usual, Matt and Trey have hilariously shown us a collective mirror.  Seems like half of us think that it's going to ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/obama-won-now-what/ Karl Rove scares me shitless. I am not referring to his personal politics which are no more or less malignant than any other Neocon.  I am not scared of him because his campaign tactics are just slightly less reprehensible than those of Hitler. This man managed to make Dubya palatable to the ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/karl-rove-is-the-scariest-man-on-earth/ I apologize in advance for the rambling nature of this post, but I've been taking in tonight's events from a variety of sources.  CNN, BBC, Fox News, CNBC, even Al Jazeera. There is a common theme in all of the coverage I've seen.  Reactions in Europe, the Middle East, Black America, ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/a-new-day-in-america/ What a night. I’ve never in my life paid as much attention to a campaign as I have this one, and especially tonight. Proud to know more Americans voted yesterday than at any time in this countries history. Congratulations to everyone that made their voice heard yesterday. Senator McCain; damn what a ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/04/wow/ Polls haven't yet closed on the west coast, but I'm going to do what every network is too chicken shit to commit to saying. It's over. Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. (Right now, at 10:10 PM EST, most projections have Obama at or around 200 electoral votes.  ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/its-over/ The rhetoric, the BS, the white noise. Get out and vote. Vote for whomever you choose to, whomever you believe will lead this country over the next four years, but just vote. When standing in line please say a thank you to the men and woman who’ve sacrificed so much for ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/04/its-all-over/ I received this email today. Read it and take from it what you want. Letter deleted. But every single one of you ranting and screaming below about ‘fairness’, internet trolls and the like needs to shut it. The context of this letter was nothing more or less than has been spewed by ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/03/wow-one-more/ Don't be this guy. Don't get me wrong, I understand his rage.  I know that just about every election is yet another example of the eternal struggle between "Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche"  Here is why it is important to vote anyway. You do not change the country in 4 years.  It ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/get-out-and-vote/ I will vote for John McCain on Tuesday. Stop reading if you don’t care, and no, I don’t want you to vote for him because I am. Vote for the person you believe will best serve us, the American people on Tuesday. 95% of Politicians lives are spent ‘behind closed ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/02/305/ The concept of a clan is something that many people have a hard time dealing with. Brother Grimm seems to think that the concept of society is exactly the same as a clan except on a larger scale. How can you shoot down the concept of subsidized health ... http://www.viet-justice.net/2008/11/02/not-everything-is-equal/ Tired of politics yet? Too bad. The good news, for you, is that in two days will will get a break from the incessant political ads which are about as truthful as a 16-year old who promises to pull out in time.  The bad news is that the sniping will continue until ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/11/2-more-days/ I just watched the most painful loss of my life, including games I’ve ever played in. Franklin defeated Medfield on a hail mary with 30 seconds left, 20-16. Congratulations to the Franklin team and best of luck in winning it all, no shame in getting beat by the SB Champs! The ... http://38pitches.com/2008/11/01/ouch/ In a counterpoint to Brother Grimm’s bad argument for socialized healthcare I would like to point out that the reasoning behind his bad argument are flawed. First of all Government should be minimalist and all of the Libertarian flaws that he points out regarding affordable roads and police forces ... http://www.viet-justice.net/2008/11/01/why-health-care-should-not-be-redistributed/ I'm just getting my breath back after a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas for my 30th birthday. It was my wife's first trip to Vegas, so we toured the Strip and downtown and saw the shows and walked...and walked...and walked.Seriously, I thought my legs were going to fall off. ... http://millambersmind.blogspot.com/2008/11/im-just-getting-my-breath-back-after.html One of the favorite arguments of so-called libertarians is that tax money is their money that government takes under threat of force.  Government, they argue, forces tax payers to surrender the fruits of their labor so that they can "give" money to the "underachievers" in society, and that by doing ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/health-care-and-the-concept-of-your-tax-dollars/ Ironic considering my "day job" blog, isn't it? Obviously, with such an attention grabbing headline, a little clarification is in order.  Those of you who are addicted to Minesweeper or Addictinggames.com, you can leave the room.  You play games, but you are not a gamer.  Those of you who play World ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/gamers-suck/ http://www.massively.com/2008/10/30/ask-massively-i-want-what-that-guy-is-having/http://www.massively.com I have a disgusting personal habit.  I enjoy talking politics with friends, family, even total strangers if they should show the inclination to participate in my disgusting habit with me.  Those of you who have been reading this site (and there have been a surprisingly large number of you... thank ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/an-open-letter-to-undecided-voters-why-you-should-vote-for-obama/ Hard to believe this is more than 25 years old.  Even harder to believe that this looks like John McCain's dream political rally. Here is a sign that your campaign is coming apart at the seams.  At a rally at Iowa State University, the heart of "Red State Country", your campaign ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/in-the-flesh-starring-john-mccain/ I hate telephone advertising.  While I realize that this is a controversial choice, I am prepared to defend my position against the hordes of angry defenders of the right to interrupt my dinner while peddling your bullshit product/service/charity/political candidate. That said, a couple of things have happened recently that have made ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/there-are-some-things-even-telemarketers-wont-do/ Let's face it.  I'm a southerner.  I was born in the south (South Carolina), spent my youth in the south (Florida and Georgia), went to college in the south (Georgia Tech) and remain in the south to this day.  I know what grits are made of, and I believe that ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/oh-god-i-think-i-caught-the-liberal-disease/ These are just things that popped up in my head over the weekend.  I may expand on some of these topics later, but right now I'm dealing with a fussy 6 week old girl and I'm heading to the office shortly. Since when do Liberals have a monopoly on "Big Government"?  ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/monday-morning-rant/ ...and all we can do is smile back. I got a note from a friend of mine recently.  Josh and I go way back.  We went to college together, we drank together, we worked together.  I was fortunate enough to meet his family on multiple occasions, and we have both stood ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/death-smiles-at-us-all/ Filed under: Ask Massively We are optimists here at Ask Massively. We went to go see Episode 3 despite the fact that Lucas managed to turn the Greatest Movie Villain of All Time into a whiny emo teenager. We choose to remember, fondly, the days of the Zahn Trilogy and ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Massively/~3/430074288/http://www.massively.com For years, it has been an article of faith in some parts of the music world that aliens captured the members of Metallica and replaced them with whiny, emo, pod people.  Fans in many parts of the world claim that Metallica "went soft" or has become "Alternica".  Others claim that ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/grims-playlist-now-with-actual-commentary/ Bravo!  Some McCain supporters with sense chased away some folks who were offering more "Obama is a Muslim" rhetoric at a McCain/Palin rally.  I have been a very loud voice in bashing the bigots among us, but it makes me hopeful that there are those who support McCain who will ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/credit-where-its-due-mccain-supporters-to-the-rescue/ It explains much... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/vote-for-the-toaster-fracker/ Should kids celebrate Halloween? Absolutely!  Halloween is fun.  Halloween results in sweet candy goodness.  Haloween teaches kids to worship the devil and believe in ghosts and demons. *sound of a record needle scratching* Are you freakin' serious? While the link above, from Pat Robertson's Klan of Kooky Kristians,  does mention the pagan origins of ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/more-wacky-christians/ Dear Rush, Greetings from a former Dittohead.  Back in the early 90's, I was an avid listener to your radio show.  I thoroughly enjoyed your sense of humor and your willingness to lampoon and annoy politicians and public figures that took themselves and their causes a little too seriously.  I embraced ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/an-open-letter-to-rush-limbaugh/ [caption id="attachment_208" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="BOOGA BOOGA"][/caption] Thank goodness we found out in time! It seems that the good folks at In Jesus (Mexican Gay Porn?) have solved the mystery of why a formerly respected Republican "Maverick" has turned into a doddering fool in only 8 short years. Barack Obama's family in Kenya is ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/those-wacky-christians/ This should come as no surprise because there is one former Bush cabinet secretary who still has his personal integrity intact.  There is one former Bush cabinet secretary who saw what was going on 4 years ago and said "No, I will not be a part of this."  I'm talking, ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/former-bush-cabinet-secretary-endorses-obama/ Government costs money. The protections that society provides, as agreed upon by "We the People" aren't free. The Army isn't free, public roads aren't free, emergency services aren't free, schools aren't free. To pay for these things, government has been given the authority (once again, by ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/taxation-income-redistribution/ Studies have shown that heated seats in some luxury cars may impair sperm production. It is too early to draw any conclusions, but this is promising news. We should do more studies into this to determine if all Catholics and Muslims should have to own luxury cars. ... http://www.viet-justice.net/2008/10/19/heated-seats-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/ Hey Grim, "Change" isn't supposed to be an acronym! Well, a certain 7th grade teacher in Florida would beg to differ. A Marianna middle-school teacher has been suspended for 10 days without pay after he wrote a racially charged interpretation of a commonly used phrase in the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/obama-and-change/ A 15 year old girl in Licking County, Ohio has been charged with felony child pornography. Her crime? Taking photos of herself. Yeah, you got it. Some idiot prosecutor seems to think it’s ok to charge this girl with a felony and make her register as ... http://www.viet-justice.net/2008/10/18/term-sex-offender-just-lost-all-meaning/ Exhausted.I and my coworker drove to South Carolina on Monday this week to work on what should be a simple system. One full size dimmer rack and small half rack, and rigging 14 Vari-Lites. The electricians were pulling out an old rack and installing the new one in ... http://millambersmind.blogspot.com/2008/10/shop-talk.html Sure, you might see the Al Jazeera logo at the bottom of this screen, but those are Americans that are making us look bad, not the announcer who just happens to be speaking the truth. Let's address these comments one by one...  They are all ludicrous to the point of hilarity, ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/tell-me-who-you-run-with-and-ill-tell-you-who-you-are/ That's the first time I've ever seen someone use "quotation fingers" around the word health. "So called 'heath'"? "Alleged 'health'"? "'Health' is just a code word for a welfare mom who doesn't want to hatch out a 17th kid"? "'Health'... is the extreme pro-abortion position" WHAT?!? Damn those mothers who want to keep on living.  How ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/abortion-is-still-an-issue/ From last night's debate... Schieffer: But even if it was someone -- even someone who had a history of being for abortion rights, you would consider them? McCain: I would consider anyone in their qualifications. I do not believe that someone who has supported Roe v. Wade that would be part of ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/mccain-straight-double-talk/ The new MacBook Pro's are out! 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor 4GB RAM 320GB Hard drive 17 inch display with an NVidia 8600M GPU. (1920x1200 native resolution) 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless Comes with a bunch of goodies installed including Boot Camp. Backlit keyboard Glass, buttonless touchpad.  Supports multi-finger gestures ala iPhone. 2700 bucks. You can't get a better laptop ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/grimmys-new-toy/ Courtesy of The Register over on the UK. There are a couple of interesting twists in this case.  First, a judge has ordered Sarah Palin to maintain records of her Yahoo! email traffic.  Second, while Palin has claimed "executive privilege" regarding said email, according to Alaska law, such privilege is waived ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/judge-orders-palin-to-save-yahoo-emails/ I just got home from a weekend excursion to Alabama.  My wife and I took in an Auburn football game (brutal loss...) and spent the weekend visiting her family.  All in all, it was a relatively pleasant experience... Except for... As you might have guessed by now, I'm backing Barack Obama in ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/i-have-seen-how-the-other-half-lives/ There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/quote-of-the-day/ This week I have been working in The Salvation Army's Kroc Center in downtown Atlanta. I am installing the dimming system and hanging a bunch of lights in the new chapel/auditorium.Yesterday, I was going about my business when 3 or 4 volunteers came in with a table, a Gatorade ... http://millambersmind.blogspot.com/2008/10/free-lunch.html [caption id="attachment_160" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Barack Obama, man of the cloth?"][/caption] My best friend has called me onto the carpet and charged me with that most heinous of journalistic crimes, lack of objectivity. Guilty. I'm biased as hell. Now that we have that out of the way, my friend has challenged me to bash Obama ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/equal-time-for-obama/ I get a kick out of Dan Savage's column, Savage Love. If you ever wanted to know about fetishes or "interesting" sexual practices or anything else that some Republicans might want to make a felony someday, he's your man. That said, I recently read a column from him that chilled ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/a-small-matter-of-life-and-death/ It's not all politics around here, I promise. As some of you may know, my "day job" as a writer is a column called Ask Massively over at Massively.com.  In it, I take questions from all comers about issues that matter to MMO players.  I have heard comments from some friends ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/abrupt-subject-change/ Considering there is already a website selling t-shirts at http://www.thatone08.com I'd say that McCain fucked up big time by pointing to a US Senator and calling him "That One". At least he didn't say "boy"... The "Terrorist!" and "Kill him!" bit is another story. No, McCain can't control what his crowds say, ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/that-one-wont-hunt/ Hey kids, remember this soundbite? So, McCain is willing to throw 700 billion at Wall Street, but as for 5 million to protect an endangered species, he's against that, right?  I find it slightly ironic that he got the dollar figure wrong on this study.  He claims that he's against spending ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/does-mccain-poop-in-the-woods/ I don't know, or care, if this is true.  It just made me giggle a bit today.  Taken from a comment thread over on Fark. Retirement Plan Investment Tip: If you had purchased $1000.00 of AIG stock one year ago, it would now be worth $56.91. With Washington Mutual, you would have $120.36 ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/the-new-retirement-plan/ ...because the word "hypocrisy" is overused. Let me see if I have this straight. John McCain "knows how to win wars" even though his war experience is mostly limited to serving as a POW on the losing side of one of the most ill-advised, mismanaged wars in US History. John McCain is "going ... http://www.grimnews.net/2008/10/the-dual-nature-of-john-mccain/