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National "I am embarrassed by my pResident's bullshit"Brown Ribbonday slated for April 1st. No, it's not an April Fool's Day prank.

Looks like I have to go buy some brown ribbon for thursday. Especially with the bullshit stunt he pulled about letting the evil gap-toothed muppet talk to the 9/11 investigation board. So Rice talks to the council but in exchange Bush and Cheney get to tag-team the council TOGETHER and not under oath.

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Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six days.

Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"

God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put LIFE on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a place of great balance." "Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused. God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth, "For example, Northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while Southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot. Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over there is a continent of black people," God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by Gods work, then pointed to a large landmass in the top corner and asked, "What's that one?"

"Ah," said God. "That's Canada, the most glorious place on Earth. There are beautiful mountains, lakes, rivers, streams and an exquisite coastline. The people from Canada are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous and they're going to be found travelling the world. They'll be extremely sociable, hard working and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace. I'm also going to give them super-human, undefeatable ice hockey players who will be admired and feared by all who come across them."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed; "What about balance, God? You said there will be BALANCE!"

God replied wisely. "Wait until you see the loud-mouth ignorant asshats I'm putting under them...."

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Quite a number of people have told me I should move to such and such city for such and such reasons ...

Here's your chance to make your city shine. Tell me why you think I should move to your city.

What's the rent like in the various neighborhoods?

What's the average utilities bill?

How frequent and reliable is the public transportation system?

What schools are in the area?

Basically, why should I move to your city? If you have any links to things that would give an outsider a better look at the city?

The Ghost of Military Service past

For the record, while I was in the military I spent six months under courts martial investigation. It took six months to be cleared of the charges which stemmed from a false identification due to circumstancial evidence. In fact, the only reason I was cleared was because the woman I was supposed to have raped didn't understand why I was in the courtroom when the trial date finaly came around. When she was told I was the defendant she told the court that they were all crazy. Six months of hell ended in less than ten minutes.

Yes, that's right. I spent six months in hell because the MPs and CID refused to hold a line-up. For six months I was looked at by my chain of command as a criminal. I was told by the company CO that he could not speak to me without "reading me my rights" each and every time. I was unable to attend any service school and watched those who were below me go to PLDC, BNOC and in one case ANOC. I was in formation while I saw others promoted. My nerves couldn't take it. I snapped and spent a bit of time under psych treatment.

This treatment, which was really little more than how to deal after my nervous breakdown, has come back to haunt me. Any job that requires a thorough background check sees this and decides that I'm not right for the job.

Be all you can be ... which in my case seems to be nothing more than a bouncer.

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The previous post was due to an email I received from a company I interviewed with awhile ago who just now decided to send me a nice, "Thanks but fuck off" rejection.

I don't know which is worse. Never getting a reply from a company or them thinking they need to grind it in that I'm not what they're looking for.