What Surprised you today?

I called the hospital radiology dept to get a hard copy of an x-ray taken 2 months ago. The phone was answered by a real person who took the d-o-b and name and then said it would be waiting for me to pick-up in 30 minutes. Less than a minute on the phone. Incredible. It took me a lot longer than that to find the number I needed to call.

....and yes, I will be reporting my happiness in their service...when I find out how.... bet that takes hours...... ;0

Surprising me was the presence of a surprising me post in the Chubbiness is Next to Godliness thread. ;)

I was checking the yahoo headlines that come up next to my email, and saw this headline:

Harper Beckham takes first steps

I felt mildly annoyed. How is this news? Grrr. I was going to post it here as an example of non-news, but when I went to the article it was really cute! And I found myself smiling instead.

http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/gossip/googoogaga/harper-beckham-pictured-walking-first-time-proud-mum-131953391.html

In light of the murders in Colorado, I was surprised to find
the Comcast schedule today has Tom Cruise's movie "Minority Report"

Rain at 100 degrees, with no thunderstorm.

I was surprised by all the effing yahoos who lined up around the local Chik-Fil-A to "show support" for their anti-gay views.

I don't know WHY I was surprised. This IS Ohio. This IS the buckle of the damn Bible Belt. Oh, how I despise the Christian Right. They make me sick. I need to move away to a better, more tolerant, accepting, loving planet. Or Cape Cod - either one. And I'd gladly take my chances with the Great Whites circling the Cape rather than wrangle with these hillbillies in Hush puppies as they smugly scarf their fucking fried chicken. May they choke upon it. May they be smoted by the great FSM who rules us all! Jesus was never married; Jesus never even had a girl friend! Jesus hung out with dudes his whole freaking life!!!! Looks like Jesus was...teh ghey, right?

It's sickening, sickening.

OK. I need to take a deep, cleansing breath.

then drive down to Chik-Fil-A and french kiss the first woman I see and tell her that she turned me gay and ask her "Where's your god NOW bitch?!"

Brianna;822536 wrote:

then drive down to Chik-Fil-A and french kiss the first woman I see and tell her that she turned me gay and ask her "Where's your god NOW bitch?!"

Must
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I helped interview 4 job candidates today. Good surprises: the quality of the portfolios and the various talents exposed. Bad surprise: how out of line the qualities I was looking for in a gen ed co-teacher are with those of the two other interviewers. I find a teachers affect to be a very important quality at the pre-k level while the other interviewers seemed unconcerned about hiring folks who don't appear to have the soft skills. Imma sleep on this and maybe go back to the boss with my concern. I felt like the folks we chose had my skills (something lacking in other classrooms), I think I need someone who complements rather than mirrors. I'm not sure if this is a male/female thing? I could just be mourning my previous team.

I if were hiring a pre-K teacher, one part fo the process would be to put the candidates in a room with 8 pre-K kids and see how the kids react.

As much as I am annoyed[sickened] by bigotry the right to free speech trumps stupidity.

Brianna;822536 wrote:
... Jesus was never married; Jesus never even had a girl friend! Jesus hung out with dudes his whole freaking life!!!! Looks like Jesus was...teh ghey, right?
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NSFW lyrics
"I hang out with lepers, Barabbas, and Salome,
Jesus' friends are called "apostles"
Those dudes are totally gay.

Jesus performs miracles from Galilee to Rome
but it would be a miracle if he brought a fuckin' lady home..."

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ZenGum;822612 wrote:
I if were hiring a pre-K teacher, one part fo the process would be to put the candidates in a room with 8 pre-K kids and see how the kids react.

It would be nice.
I've got my head around to "hey all the behavior work won't be on me" and I'll have to grow. Maybe a good thing.

Brianna;822536 wrote:
I was surprised by all the effing yahoos who lined up around the local Chik-Fil-A to "show support" for their anti-gay views.

I don't know WHY I was surprised. This IS Ohio. This IS the buckle of the damn Bible Belt. Oh, how I despise the Christian Right. They make me sick. I need to move away to a better, more tolerant, accepting, loving planet. Or Cape Cod - either one. And I'd gladly take my chances with the Great Whites circling the Cape rather than wrangle with these hillbillies in Hush puppies as they smugly scarf their fucking fried chicken. May they choke upon it. May they be smoted by the great FSM who rules us all! Jesus was never married; Jesus never even had a girl friend! Jesus hung out with dudes his whole freaking life!!!! Looks like Jesus was...teh ghey, right?

It's sickening, sickening.

OK. I need to take a deep, cleansing breath.

then drive down to Chik-Fil-A and french kiss the first woman I see and tell her that she turned me gay and ask her "Where's your god NOW bitch?!"

I read this on Americablog today...it's perfect.

God is in the nuggets

The God of Gluttony smiled upon all those waddling through long lines at Chick-fil-a Wednesday to celebrate their pride in being heterosexual, bigoted and obese.

Sitting in their idling cars with the AC running, they waited their turn to take communion in the form of a typical American factory-farmed chicken breast laced with all the natural goodness of antibiotics, Benadryl, and arsenic (sorry, "organic" arsenic), then rolled in white flour, powdered sugar, butter, salt and deep fried.

In a culture that readily accepts highly-processed substances as "food," it was only a matter of time before we found people going to the same trough to meet their other needs, from spirituality to political expression.

In a matter of days, we've seen the meteoric rise of a brand new symbol of moral righteousness: the greasy fast food bag. Long thought of as mere garbage, this former agent of death is now the exulted symbol of a desperate people's moral compass (life imitates art). Politicians like Sarah Palin and Lindsey Graham proudly pose with it (oblivious to how gay their photo opps actually came off). I imagine Republicans will soon be signing pledges of loyalty to their chicken god.

The scenes were repulsive. Supposedly civilized people turning to the drive-through window for a super-sized order of malnutrition, warped spirituality, and bigoted political discourse. (Obesity and arteriosclerosis all being part of God's plan, praise the Lord.)

Though not a God you or I might be familiar with. Rather, a cheap fast-faith God who shares their prejudices, along with free refills of hate and intolerance.

Isn't it nice that we live in a place/time where we can say things like this without fear?

and pretty sad that we need to.

AMERICAblog is a journal of news and opinion about US politics, both domestic and foreign,
[COLOR="Red"]from a progressive point of view.[/COLOR]

what else would you have expected?

And so...? In fact the author may
even be gay...OMG.

Would you have expected anything else from that viewpoint?
Shall I go google some idiotic post from the other side and quote it here for balance?
His gender preference is of no interest to me. Nor should it be to you.
Using it to make some point is pretty shitty of you.

Nice surprise - the compostable bags that come with the new food caddy system smell like burnt toffee. I wouldn't like my whole life to smell like burnt toffee, but as it's a bag for food waste which will attract flies during the hot weather it's not a bad start.

classicman;822802 wrote:
what else would you have expected?

classicman;822819 wrote:
Would you have expected anything else from that viewpoint?

A liberal opinion piece was on a progressive blog.

OK.

Where do we go from there? What conclusions are your rhetorical questions trying to point to? Liberal blogs are likely places for liberal editorials to be made? Liberal editorials are likely to be made on liberal blogs? It seemed like you were hinting at something less trivial than that, but I can't quite figure out what it could be.

classicman;822819 wrote:
Would you have expected anything else from that viewpoint?
Shall I go google some idiotic post from the other side and quote it here for balance?
His gender preference is of no interest to me. Nor should it be to you.
Using it to make some point is pretty shitty of you.

That would be a perversion of balance. Not everything needs equal time. Homophobia and racism don't deserve equal time. They may well represent opposite points of view and may well have people who espouse them, but it is not desirable to validate such ideas by bestowing the mantle of "equality" on them.