"Abandon all hope, ye who enter..." -Welcome sign above the City of Dis. "Kaos is my son."- Ravager

Let's recap the list of shit;

1) Someone in our apartment complex keyed the window of our Jeep.
2) My department did not renew my contract despite a year of chronic pain due to a herniated disc, which slowed my progress to a standstill in my program.
3) I've taken out loans for the first time since I was an undergrad to pay for tuition/fees of this year for my PhD.
4) The Jeep we bought in Nebraska, which worked perfectly fine, no longer starts after its been parked in Oklahoma for 3 days without being run.
5) Just today, someone tried to steal my bicycle, but instead just settled with vandalizing it and stealing the odometer on it.

I fucking hate this place. I want to see it burn to the fucking ground from a thermonuclear blast.

An interesting series of slides from a Defense Department Report to bookmark.

What has the Pentagon been doing in the last thirty years? Why, increasing costs, while reducing the following; soldiers, warships, planes, nukes, etc. Basically the tooth to nail ratio.

Thanks Conservatives, for increasing costs while lowering fighting effectiveness.

Check it- dissension in the courts. The Ninth ruled that citizens in their jurisdiction have no reasonable privacy for cars in driveways unless you're rich (enough to fence in your yard).

Crazy.

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month's decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people's. The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night.

Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist," he wrote. "No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter." The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of "cultural elitism."

This will go to the Supreme Court. All the more reason that idiots like Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts should never have been confirmed.

The whole concept of bull fighting (baiting) is horrific.

Somehow, I don't feel sorry for the people who got hurt when the gladiator sprang into the crowd and started taking out its rage on them instead of the matador.

Maybe I'm a prime candidate for PETA?

Wait a second...

You have tea partiers and GOP candidates all intimating killing the president... and its a fucking inmate who finally gets charged with making threats against the president? Someone that was already in jail for other crimes?

Wow. Talk about low hanging fruit.

Who else didn't see this coming?

"The mother of three had big dreams to be an elementary school teacher, so when she saw ads for the University of Phoenix pop-up on her computer, she e-mailed them for more information. A few minutes later, Dalmier said she got a call from one of the school's recruiters, who she said told her that enrolling in the associate's degree in education program at the University of Phoenix would put her on the fast-track to reaching her dream.

"[The recruiter said] they had an agreement with Illinois State Board of Education and that as soon as I finished their program I'd be ready to start working," she recalled.

Within 15 minutes, Dalmier was enrolled. Since she didn't have enough money to pay for tuition, she said the recruiter helped her get federal student aid. In total, she took out about $8,000 in federally-guaranteed student loans.

But just a few months after Dalmier started, she said she learned the horrible truth: the degree program she was enrolled in would not qualify her to become a public school teacher upon graduation in Illinois.

"It was an outright lie. A bold faced lie," she said.

It's not the first time that the controversial school, which obtains almost 90 percent of its revenues from students paying tuition from federal aid, has come under fire for its recruiting methods.

The University of Phoenix was one of 15 for-profit schools whose aggressive recruiting practices were the subject of hearings held by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. The Government Accountability Office sent investigators to for-profit schools across the country and found that all of them were misleading potential students.

In 2004, the University of Phoenix paid nearly $10 million to the Department of Education to settle allegations that it had violated rules about its recruiting practices. The school did not admit any wrongdoing.

"I think maybe the whole orchard is contaminated," Harkin said. "There's a systemic problem with the system itself that needs to be addressed."

Well that's an interesting statement- a 1984 esque school district that used specialized software to spy students who received laptops for home and school use had no "criminal intent."

So... what's the deal with manslaughter? Someone dies, someone else is at fault, but death was not their intent yet prosecution must occur?

One of the Law Students I ran into this week made the comment that lawyers should be writing the laws, not normal citizens. How about rational people should write the law?

Turns out the locals of New York City supports the Muslim community center that republicans are crying and making into political hay.

Just like that community that offered to take the Gitmo residents and the Republicans tried to turn it into political hay.

The GOP motto seems to be, "Fuck the locals, I'll use whatever situation it is to push fear and hatred to stoke my base"