JamesSavik

One Sunday night I had a nightmare. It was about a big building with lots of glass. There was an explosion and lots of fire and mangled bodies. People were screaming. There was fire, smoke and blood everywhere. I woke up at 4am in a cold sweat and couldn't go back to sleep. I couldn't forget the dream either. It gave me a creepy, eerie feeling of foreboding. The dream happened Sept. 9- the Sunday night before Sept. 11, 2001. Nothing like it has ever happened to me before or since. It has stayed with me a long time. The only way I can make any sense out of it is that somehow, through the collective unconscious, I got a little glimpse of something. What- I don't know. The future, a possible future or maybe just a f**ked up nightmare. It's something that I can't explain and has haunted me ever since.

You guys have a good one. EleCivil is a brilliant writer.

Remember that the same people that wrote the sex crime laws that equates a rapist with a child molester with someone who was seen taking a leak are writing the laws that would govern your chip. The law is an extremely blunt, no exceptions, instrument. It is subject to the whims and prejudices of the day. As a class of people with NO codified protections under US Federal law, I am shocked that you would even consider putting your head in this noose. What happens if there is a swing to the right in our government? What if they Mike Huckabee (A.k.a. Huckle-berry) actually gets his way and they start rounding us up and putting us in death happy camps? NO. f**k NO. Don't be foolish. There are so many potential abuses that we can't even imagine them yet. This would be a disaster and the end of human freedom. Stalin is having a wet dream in his tomb at the very idea of this technology and the foolish sheep that would embrace it for their "safety".

Soon- probably the weekend of the 15 or the weekend after.

< He can't be awesome. I'm awesome!

Never sleep with your boyfriends siblings. Enough said.

I spent the holiday in Dallas with family and had a great time. Problem is I had to come home to Mississippi. :vomits: You just don't know how far it is to the hind tit until you've seen something better. I don't want to be here anymore. I don't care where I go, #50 is just not big enough for me anymore.

I rarely drop in and only when I see my favorite people there. I usually try to make myself available when I've got something new out but most people in chat are like you write?

Counting Crows Long December A long December and there’s reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can’t remember the last thing you said as you were leavin’ Now the days go by so fast And it’s one more day up in the canyons And it’s one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven... I wish you would The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it’s one more day up in the canyons And it’s one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California... I think you should Drove up to the Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her And it’s been a long December and there’s no reason to believe Maybe this year will be better that the last I can’t remember all the times I tried to tell myself To hold on to these moments as they pass And it’s one more day up in the canyon And it’s one more night in Hollywood It’s been so long since I’ve seen the ocean... I guess I should

I'm not sure what the right move would be. I would hope that the United Nations would put together a coalition like 1991. I've got other ideas that I would rather not discuss in public. Suffice it to say,if you've got a rouge state using germs, you simply can NOT let it go on uncontested.

No. Don't care to have an electronic nose ring.

Foot and mouth disease outbreak in South Korea 28. December 2010 16:20 Source Link: the Medical News By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD South Korea is facing an outbreak of foot and mouth disease reported Seoul’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Foot and Mouth Disease is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease that can affect cloven-hoofed animals including pigs, sheep, cattle, deer and goats. Humans are usually not affected. The three most recent cases take the total number reported in South Korea to 56 with more than 400,000 animals destroyed since November 29. A ministry official said, “About 389,000 animals have been or will soon be culled around the country... numerically, this is the worst outbreak we have ever had.” The ministry estimates losses related to the disease at around 400 billion won (347.5 million dollars). About 160,000 animals were slaughtered during the previous worst outbreak in 2002. Last Saturday the government launched vaccinations for some 56,000 cattle. Now the country will face an export ban since it takes longer for a country that launches vaccinations to regain disease-free status from the World Organization for Animal Health. President Lee Myung-Bak on Sunday urged officials to provide “maximum support” to farmers and health officials fighting the disease, including offering gloves, earmuffs and other cold weather gear. ______________________________________________________ S Korea's foot-and-mouth disease spreads across five provinces 2010-12-28 11:27:32 Source Link: Xinhua News SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Tuesday confirmed an additional case of foot-and-mouth disease in North Chungcheong Province, raising the total number of provinces hit by the disease to five. "Foot-and-mouth disease virus has been detected from cattle at a farm in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, that were culled on a preventive basis," the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said. Chungju previously witnessed an outbreak of the disease in April. The highly contagious animal disease has spread across the country's five provinces so far, since its first case was confirmed in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, on Nov. 29. Related to the latest outbreak, the most severe in South Korea' s history, the government announced last Wednesday that it will opt to vaccinate cattle after nationwide quarantine and decontamination efforts failed to prevent the disease from spreading. It said over the weekend that vaccinations will be expanded to counter new outbreaks in the southeastern parts of Gyeonggi Province. More than 184,057 animals on 7,500 farms and ranches are earmarked for vaccination although the numbers may be adjusted. Some 471,094 livestock from 2,131 farms have been culled as of Tuesday in the wake of the country's worst outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease. _____________________________________________ South Korea confirms bird flu cases as foot-and-mouth spreads 33 Dec 2010 Source Link: Reuters/Yahoo News SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea, already battling a serious outbreak of food-and-mouth disease in livestock, on Friday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at poultry farms. The H5N1 avian influenza virus was detected in ducks in the city of Cheonan, South Chungcheong province, and in chickens in the city of Iksan in North Jeolla province, the agriculture ministry said in a statement. Detection of the virus had prompted the authorities to cull affected poultry and quarantine commercial duck, chicken breeding farms in affected areas, the statement said. The government raised the bird flu alert to caution from attention, while its foot-and-mouth disease alert remained at the highest level, the ministry said in two statements. So far, 540,000 pigs, cattle and other livestock have been culled. South Korea has no human cases of the high-severity bird flu strain. It has had three outbreak of the virus at poultry farms in the past ten years, according to another ministry statement. The nationwide outbreak of foot-and-mouth has prompted shutdowns of all livestock markets in South Korea, leading to a rise in the price of beef and pork and a possible rise in imports from the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The outbreak of foot-and-mouth, which affects livestock including sheep, cows and pigs, originated in pigs in the city of Andong in North Gyeongsang province on November 28. The government has been conducting vaccinations in badly affected areas. (Reporting by Cho Mee-young; Editing by Chris Lewis and Miral Fahmy) ____________________________________________________ It's a good question. Hoof & Mouth1 disease is a highly contagious virus that affects livestock with cloven hoofs. There have been several outbreaks over the past year (April, Nov) which have caused considerable economic damage to South Korean agricultural exports. Bird Flu2 is a dangerous flu virus variant that could possibly cross species and kill a great many people and birds. The appearance of the virus in South Korea will cause hundreds of thousands- if not millions of birds to be sacrificed and incinerated. According to the US Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, the likelihood of bioterrorism aimed at agriculture with the intent of causing economic damage is very high. It is cheap, easy to do and is very difficult to detect. The United States has a very active disease surveillance program as do most countries3. The appearance of one economically damaging virus in a region where tensions are growing may be a coincidence. The appearance of a second economically damaging virus in the same region is pushing it. This incident is being understated but may well blow up into a very serious incident if more information or evidence is discovered. North Korea has long be suspected of having and actually using biological weapons as far back as the Korean War. In the early 1950s US combat soldiers began to get very sick from a mysterious viral illness which turned out to be an exotic hemorrhagic fever. Hantaan Valley Fever or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever4 turned out to be carried by rats. There have been numerous outbreaks since the war. It is related to the Hanta Virus which broke out in the American South-West during the 1990s. _______________________________ 1 Hoof and Mouth Disease is classified as a category B biological agent. Category B agents are moderately easy to disseminate and have low mortality rates. They primarily target vulnerable humans and agriculture. 2 Bird Flu (or Avian flu) is Influenza A virus subtype H5N1. It is highly contagious and could cross over into the human population and cause a pandemic. Bird Flu is classified as a category C biological agent. Category C agents are emerging pathogens that might be engineered for mass dissemination because availability, easy to produce and disseminate, or may possess high mortality or a major health impact. 3 Anti-Agricultural Biological Warfare 4 The Korean War's silent killer strikes again - hemorrhagic fever Source: Are North Koreans using Bioterrorism?

Foot and mouth disease outbreak in South Korea 28. December 2010 16:20 Source Link: the Medical News By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD South Korea is facing an outbreak of foot and mouth disease reported Seoul’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Foot and Mouth Disease is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease that can affect cloven-hoofed animals including pigs, sheep, cattle, deer and goats. Humans are usually not affected. The three most recent cases take the total number reported in South Korea to 56 with more than 400,000 animals destroyed since November 29. A ministry official said, “About 389,000 animals have been or will soon be culled around the country... numerically, this is the worst outbreak we have ever had.” The ministry estimates losses related to the disease at around 400 billion won (347.5 million dollars). About 160,000 animals were slaughtered during the previous worst outbreak in 2002. Last Saturday the government launched vaccinations for some 56,000 cattle. Now the country will face an export ban since it takes longer for a country that launches vaccinations to regain disease-free status from the World Organization for Animal Health. President Lee Myung-Bak on Sunday urged officials to provide “maximum support” to farmers and health officials fighting the disease, including offering gloves, earmuffs and other cold weather gear. ______________________________________________________ S Korea's foot-and-mouth disease spreads across five provinces 2010-12-28 11:27:32 Source Link: Xinhua News SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Tuesday confirmed an additional case of foot-and-mouth disease in North Chungcheong Province, raising the total number of provinces hit by the disease to five. "Foot-and-mouth disease virus has been detected from cattle at a farm in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, that were culled on a preventive basis," the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said. Chungju previously witnessed an outbreak of the disease in April. The highly contagious animal disease has spread across the country's five provinces so far, since its first case was confirmed in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, on Nov. 29. Related to the latest outbreak, the most severe in South Korea' s history, the government announced last Wednesday that it will opt to vaccinate cattle after nationwide quarantine and decontamination efforts failed to prevent the disease from spreading. It said over the weekend that vaccinations will be expanded to counter new outbreaks in the southeastern parts of Gyeonggi Province. More than 184,057 animals on 7,500 farms and ranches are earmarked for vaccination although the numbers may be adjusted. Some 471,094 livestock from 2,131 farms have been culled as of Tuesday in the wake of the country's worst outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease. _____________________________________________ South Korea confirms bird flu cases as foot-and-mouth spreads 33 Dec 2010 Source Link: Reuters/Yahoo News SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea, already battling a serious outbreak of food-and-mouth disease in livestock, on Friday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at poultry farms. The H5N1 avian influenza virus was detected in ducks in the city of Cheonan, South Chungcheong province, and in chickens in the city of Iksan in North Jeolla province, the agriculture ministry said in a statement. Detection of the virus had prompted the authorities to cull affected poultry and quarantine commercial duck, chicken breeding farms in affected areas, the statement said. The government raised the bird flu alert to caution from attention, while its foot-and-mouth disease alert remained at the highest level, the ministry said in two statements. So far, 540,000 pigs, cattle and other livestock have been culled. South Korea has no human cases of the high-severity bird flu strain. It has had three outbreak of the virus at poultry farms in the past ten years, according to another ministry statement. The nationwide outbreak of foot-and-mouth has prompted shutdowns of all livestock markets in South Korea, leading to a rise in the price of beef and pork and a possible rise in imports from the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The outbreak of foot-and-mouth, which affects livestock including sheep, cows and pigs, originated in pigs in the city of Andong in North Gyeongsang province on November 28. The government has been conducting vaccinations in badly affected areas. (Reporting by Cho Mee-young; Editing by Chris Lewis and Miral Fahmy) ____________________________________________________ It's a good question. Hoof & Mouth1 disease is a highly contagious virus that affects livestock with cloven hoofs. There have been several outbreaks over the past year (April, Nov) which have caused considerable economic damage to South Korean agricultural exports. Bird Flu2 is a dangerous flu virus variant that could possibly cross species and kill a great many people and birds. The appearance of the virus in South Korea will cause hundreds of thousands- if not millions of birds to be sacrificed and incinerated. According to the US Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, the likelihood of bioterrorism aimed at agriculture with the intent of causing economic damage is very high. It is cheap, easy to do and is very difficult to detect. The United States has a very active disease surveillance program as do most countries3. The appearance of one economically damaging virus in a region where tensions are growing may be a coincidence. The appearance of a second economically damaging virus in the same region is pushing it. This incident is being understated but may well blow up into a very serious incident if more information or evidence is discovered. North Korea has long be suspected of having and actually using biological weapons as far back as the Korean War. In the early 1950s US combat soldiers began to get very sick from a mysterious viral illness which turned out to be an exotic hemorrhagic fever. Hantaan Valley Fever or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever4 turned out to be carried by rats. There have been numerous outbreaks since the war. It is related to the Hanta Virus which broke out in the American South-West during the 1990s. _______________________________ 1 Hoof and Mouth Disease is classified as a category B biological agent. Category B agents are moderately easy to disseminate and have low mortality rates. They primarily target vulnerable humans and agriculture. 2 Bird Flu (or Avian flu) is Influenza A virus subtype H5N1. It is highly contagious and could cross over into the human population and cause a pandemic. Bird Flu is classified as a category C biological agent. Category C agents are emerging pathogens that might be engineered for mass dissemination because availability, easy to produce and disseminate, or may possess high mortality or a major health impact. 3 Anti-Agricultural Biological Warfare 4 The Korean War's silent killer strikes again - hemorrhagic fever

I know. Construction is a pain in the ass. Potholes, Detours, Traffic Jams... It's all a huge pain in the ass. It's enough to make you want to drink, drive and run over Lassie. Or even take a different exit that doesn't even go where you want to be. I suggest that we all mellow out, have some patience and let the process proceed. Because we all know. It's not the traffic, the construction or the delays that make us crazy. It's the asshat who thinks that standing on his horn, yelling curses and giving everyone the finger is going to make things go faster. Please. Don't be that asshat.

Red... like a rash

< Must...get...rid...of...this...damned...shirt.

I loved it.

I might add that not all writers are raging alcoholics. Some of them are mellow alcoholics.

I left Jackson, MS last Tuesday at 2:00 and drove the eight hours to Dallas on I-20. It's a fairly boring drive. The only points of interest are Monroe, LA which smells like a wretched fart that never dissipates because of the paper mills and Shreveport which you by-pass if you are smart. There is Marshall, Longview and Teryl Texas but... the prize is Dallas. Stopped for a burger and a shake in Canton, TX at the Dairy Palace. It's a little pricy but the food is good and its not one of those cookie cutter chain food abominations. I arrived about 9:00 at night and made it to my destination completely exhausted and got some sleep. Wednesday- Next morning I got up and did some Christmas shopping. All the usual suspects are there like Walmart and Target but in Dallas, you've got so much other stuff to chose from. One of my favorites is Fry's. Fry's is an electronics superstore that makes Best Buy look like a Radio Shack. Don't expect a whole lot of customer service. If you know what you want/need and have some knowledge, the prices are great and you can really make some sweet deals. Ate fajitas at Rosa's Cafe in Highland Village. Nice place for a quickie lunch and the food and prices are good. Spent the rest of the afternoon in Denton. Mostly at Recycled Books more commonly known locally as "the Opera House". It's a giant used book store in an old theater building which is painted purple. Just my kind of place. I went in and began digging right away. Bought gifts and finished up my collection of Samuel E Morrison history collection. Yes! Found some rare videos on DVD. My kind of place. Supper on Wednesday was at Pappadeaux's Seafood Kitchen in Dallas. YUM!! I had A shrimp po-by and seafood gumbo. Thursday- More shopping, much cooking. I made two pans of lasagna and a pecan pie. Visited LA Fitness Gym for work out. Many yummie twinkies and assorted eye candy, some quite flirty. What happens in the steam room stays in the steam room. Friday- Christmas Eve. Stayed out of traffic mayhem. Read Venus by Ben Bova and enjoyed it thoroughly. It's a great yarn about near future exploration of the solar system. It was a neat book but the characters were its strength. Check it out or any of Ben Bova's Grand Tour series. It's all good stuff. Beats the hell out of insane traffic and panic shopping. Massive feast of Prime rib, twice-baked potatoes and other goodies. Never had prime rib before. Now I am completely ruined. How am I supposed to eat beef again? Nothing compares. My sis-in-law rocks in the kitchen. Exchanged gifts with family. I gave 32 gig thumb drives and Amazon gift certs. I got amazon gift certs, polo shirt, and a fat gift cert for Recycled Books in Dallas. Saturday- Slept late. Ate too much. Played with the kids. Put everybody's electronics together. Troubleshot the neighbors home network and got their new printer working. Watched footbrawl. Ate lasagna. Slept with a huge cat on my lap. Sunday- Church at the Village Church. It's an amazing little church of about 5,000 members. They have an excellent pastor. He preached the parable of the house built on sand and the house built on the rock. The traditional interpretation is that the house built on rock will stand the storm. His take was that it didn't matter: both houses had to experience the storm. Interesting. Very different culture for a church. Much more open and accepting. I liked it. Too bad I'm going back to Mississippi where there hasn't been an original sermon in 100 years. Lunch at Animia's in Flower Mound. Had enchiladas verde or chicken enchiladas in green sauce. Watched the Giant's choke. Worked on my brothers truck. Monday- Went to Denton to visit niece and her husband. I've adopted these two. She's expecting twin boys in April and I fully intend to spoil them rotten. Took the aforementioned kids to Recycled Books to use our gift certificates. I added the Omega Man, A Boy and his Dog and Soyent Green to my DVD collection. Added a major pair of books to my astronomy library: Uranometria 2000- high resolution star charts for the northern and southern hemispheres. I also got Variable Stars by Petit. It's old (1989) but it is a serious text on the subject. Cat was back tonight to sleep on me. Tuesday- Lazy morning. Big breakfast. Left Dallas at 1:00. Returned home listening to Sirus Radio. Channel 14 Classic Vinyl or Channel 24 Lithium. Drove back through stinky Monroe. Fart still has not dissipated. Traffic crazy. Listened to Saints vs Falcons. Got home just in time for the final drive where Drew Brees through the winning touchdown. The perfect end for the perfect Christmas Vacation. Sad part is going back to Mississippi. You have to go somewhere else (anywhere else) to fully realize what a f**king dump it really is.

I haven't had any dreams for a long time. Less disappointing that way.

OH, OH- I remember NOW! It was Comicality's My Only Escape. I read it on the Shack but didn't explore the rest of the site.

Zombie apocalypse canceled for lack of brainz

Tonight a rare astronomical alignment that has not occurred in centuries will appear in our skies. Tonight is the winter solstice, a lunar eclipse and a blood moon. It is thought that this rare astronomical convergence will trigger a Zombie Apocalypse. In the event of a zombie apocalypse, don't get depressed. It's your big chance to smack your obnoxious neighbors in the face with a shovel. Use weapons that are as silent as possible as noise attracts zombies. Inflict as much head trauma as possible to decapitate zombies. Avoid getting bitten or scratched at all cost. If you feel a strong craving for brains, avoid Walmarts. Target shoppers have more brains. In the event that no zombie apocalypse occurs, carry on. There is always 2012. BUH-wa-ha-ha-ha

Tonight a rare astronomical alignment that has not occurred in centuries will appear in our skies. Tonight is the winter solstice, a lunar eclipse and a blood moon. It is thought that this rare astronomical convergence will trigger a Zombie Apocalypse. In the event of a zombie apocalypse, don't get depressed. It's your big chance to smack your obnoxious neighbors in the face with a shovel. Use weapons that are as silent as possible as noise attracts zombies. Inflict as much head trauma as possible to decapitate zombies. Avoid getting bitten or scratched at all cost. If you feel a strong craving for brains, avoid Walmarts. Target shoppers have more brains. In the event that no zombie apocalypse occurs, carry on. There is always 2012. BUH-wa-ha-ha-ha

If you NEED a toilet seat, its the best gift ever.