This NRA tract is pretty awesome. Stock up on ammo now or else Rosie O’Donnell, some hippy farmer chick with a bomb-carrying owl and a land-lobster for companions, the black helicopter people and America’s minority communities are going to do something really naughty to you.
Kidding aside, the illustrations in the piece are really good. Even if you don’t find it funny it’s worth your time for the art.
Follows is a from CLV.
Yesterday morning at 3 am, the house where my friends Legion and Crickett (and their housemate Soonie) burned to the ground. Sarahliz just moved out a couple days ago, and she lost some stuff, too.
Everyone, including the cats, survived. But they lost ALL of their stuff. I was down there yesterday helping out and the tiny pile of stuff that looks like trash on the lawn? That’s all the material possessions they have any more.
This is me, pimpin’ it for donations. Please feel free to forward this to mailing lists, churches, whatever. My email address is clynne-donations@ofb.net.
If you’d like to donate money, there is a paypal link (and more about the fire) in RedJenn’s livejournal. If you don’t do paypal or would like to get money to them faster than that, you can send me checks or money and I will pass it along to them. There’s also friends in Monrovia and Long Beach who can take donations.
If you’d like to donate clothes, their sizes are:
Crickett: pants, size 10; M-L tops; 6.5 shoes; M-L undies; 38D bra
Legion: 2XL pants & shirts; 50-52″ waist; 29″ inseam; size 9 shoes.
Soonie: not sure, maybe an 8?
If you’d like to donate specialty items, the special little luxuries that we all accumulate and love over our lives:
Soonie: Not sure (no one knows her very well).
Legion: He is an actor, musician, and DJ. His keyboards and drums survived the fire, but we don’t know how well, as he hasn’t tried to play them yet. The drums will need new heads for sure. All his mixing equipment is melted, and I’m pretty sure his records & CDs are all toast.
Crickett: She lost all her knitting stuff – yarn, needles, books, and patterns. She also lost all her Renfaire garb except a drinking mug.
Sarahliz: She hasn’t asked for anything because she only lost a couple items compared to what her housemates lost. But I know she lost a bunch of cool shoes and her favorite cooking utensils, as well as some drawings by her mom.
If you can’t send money or stuff, or even if you can, prayers and/or good energy are also needed. Dude, their house burned down four days before Christmas.
Once again, go right ahead and forward this to anyone.
Thanks,
:) Connie-Lynne
I stopped at home yesterday to drop off some packages and found a new battery on my front porch.
I have to say that Apple’s turnaround time on this was pretty impressive. Almost as impressive as if the battery hadn’t gone so quickly bad in the first place ;)
Have you ever seen a webmeme video that a) is hilarious and b) reminds you of somebody you know?
Merry Christmas! (or similar)
I got an exploding battery! (Serial number ending in “U7SC.”) It didn’t explode, but it bowed the battery case out to the point that the mouse on my laptop thought it was pressed all the time. Two things that this is not: braggable. Both of them, actually, are “braggable.”
The only redeeming thing about the story is that Apple is shipping me a new battery. But it’s only redeeming in a “yeah, I stole your car, but at least I filled it up with premium before the police found it” sort of a way.
Anyway, I feel a certain bond of brotherhood with the other Dell and Viao and Powerbook users who got exploding batteries. It’s a good thing the exchange happened before DHS found out that I’ve carried dangerous explosives like this on to airplanes on multiple occasions.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that most people don’t read any sort of sports journalism for the writing. It’s usually all about the numbers and grasping at any opportunity to speculate about KG coming to LA or similar. The Clipper Blog, which I appreciate more and more with each article I read, give something to those of us who enjoy an amusing read every now and again with their recap of the recent drubbing that San Antonio put on the Clippers.
Not since the days of George Gervin, Alvin Robertson, and James Silas have the San Antonio Spurs flexed their offensive muscle, but tonight the Spurs took a time machine in defeating the Los Angeles Clippers 207-89. Mano Ginobili led the Spurs with 76, Tim Duncan added 60, and Brent Barry – making six of seven shots from the five-point line – added 56.
If you’re a Clippers fan or a fan of NBA basketball at all, I can’t recommend this blog enough.
I hadn’t planned on going, but if they’re going to send me a card this rad, I sort of have to.
