Bullshit.

Look, we all know that the government is watching everything, it isn't news.  But you have to take the crap they are feeding us with a ton of salt.
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I mean these were the same exact guys that a month ago were saying they weren't gathering wholesale information on Americans.  So we know you were lying then (with the fabu answer "I told the truth as best I could" - which was not at all).  Why do we believe you now?
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Listen, don't listen, you will do what you want (you big liar, President Obama), but don't try to explain it away - because we KNOW you are lying.  You lied before, you lied about getting caught, you are lying now.
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I particularly like the latest line, "If we had this ability before 9/11 we might have stopped it."  Excuse me, you had the plans to use planes, you had a big special warning to watch out for AlQueda and you did diddle shit.  How would watching my mail or phone calls change that.  THAT would have been the piece of information that caused Bush to listen to his security briefings?
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As for handling data "confidentially" you gave it to a high-school drop out you paid $200,000 a year to train to be an analyst.  Just do what you want and ignore us, don't insult us on top of it.

Ed comes home today

Well, Ed ends his swing through the Golden State today and heads home.  It will be great to see him, but I think Trevor will be happiest.
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T-Bone, watching the door and waiting

Trevor enjoys me, but when Ed is away he does stare at the door a lot.
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I come home and there is a big bound to the door, a little peak around me to see if you-know-who is with me and then Trevor's "well, it's still nice to see you" look.
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You know, that same look a little kid gets when you bring home a nice ice-cream sandwich, but my mom had promised him a big Root Beer Float.  Don't get me wrong, Trevor likes the Ice Cream Sandwich, but in his mind - that Root Beer Float might be coming around the corner any minute.

Geography Fail

Remember when I said I can see a geographic fail a million miles away.
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Well, I was scanning this and noticed the problem and it annoyed me.  See if you can spot it.
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Delaware is shaded incorrectly.  It is shaded one way on the map and a different way in the call out.

Who Wore It Better?

Now we have all seen the tacky magazines with the "Who Wore The Outfit Better?" sections.  Even if it was just in the waiting room and you didn't buy it (sure).  I have always thought, where did they get those pictures.
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Then I was running through my pictures of Croatia, and I have a picture of some random tourist wearing the same outfit as Jane.  Same day, same tourist town.
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Who Wore It Better?
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A) Wandering Miss in Korcula?

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B) Random stranger in Korcula?

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And the Winner of course is out lovely friend Jane.

One Last Uplifting Crap

This song always makes me fell better.  Because, you are rarely as alone as you think.
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What my Honey sent to brighten my day

Nice.
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Ducks outside of Ed's Hotel Room

Sometimes it is a combination of things

Sometimes it is a combination of things that put you in a better mode.  The jet-lag wears off, the boyfriend sends you a great picture to make you happy, your mother writes to cheer you up and then, to push you finally off your perch.
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Laura (who's birthday it is today - Happy Birthday), send me a card just to be nice that made me laugh out loud.  I think she probably gets it because her sister is as crazy as I am (in the same way).
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Anyway, a grateful Scooter thanks you.
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Well, I have taken a deep breath and I am probably ready to stat blogging again.  I am working and, while I will never be the corporate drone that so many aspire to, I have come to terms with (shudder) working -  and have moved on from belligerent and hateful to simply cranky and annoyed.  As those of you who know me will attest, this is probably the best that can be hoped for in the short term.

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You may ask what prompts this… (or you may not – but if you are bored enough to read this far, suffer through)…

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Well, at work (work!) I get headlines from around the world and I found one strangely touching.  The Age mentions that “cute” animals are hogging p all the wildlife funds.  Pandas and Tigers and such (although anyone who has actually seen a Californian Condor might disagree on the “cute” part).  This is an old, and not entirely untrue problem.  Usually brought up in reference to spiders, snakes and rodentia that, frankly, we all might be better off without.  In this particular case it was brought up in reference to the Australian Flying Foxes.

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Ah, the Flying Fox.  It is not a fox, but rather a very very large bat that flapped around Sydney scaring Ed and I on a train platform.  As all the Aussie calmed sat by as they blotted out the sun, Eddie and I ducked and feared that the Wicked Witch of the West has set some devilish pox on us.  It is amazing how quickly your adrenaline will race when confronted by a bat the size of Trevor, with wings!  But the funny thing…

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After that trip, whenever we have journey to Australia we have sought out those denizens of death.  Once you realize they aren’t after you, it is fun to watch a virtual pack of dogs take to wing.  They don’t attack people, so I liked them.  I can see how they aren’t “cute”, but they are cool.

 

Time For A Break

There comes a time when what once seemed charmingly silly, or laughable is no longer.  I need a break.
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I thought this first when I didn't understand National Park vandalism, but then I thought, "You just had a bad day Scott.  The world can't be getting that bad."
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I was wrong.

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This is Ezekiel Gilbert.  Ezekiel hired (what he assumed was) a prostitute from Craig's List in San Antonio - although she was listed as "escort".  She arrived and he paid her $150 to be "escorted".  She left after 20 minutes without providing sex, despite Mr. Gilbert's charming entreats to perform any number of various sexual acts upon his person.  She said she had to give the $150 to her driver (Ezekiel believes it was her pimp).
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Well, Ezekiel was not about to let some woman walk away with his money unearned, as it were.  So he went out with a gun to get sex or his money.
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Getting neither quickly enough, Ezekiel shot the woman which he assumed to be whore.  And on June 6th he was acquitted of any crime. Not just murder, or even solicitation (which it appears he admitted to), but acquitted.  As in "Not Guilty".  You see Texas allows the use of deadly force if you think you are being robbed.
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My best guess is that the law was written so that if someone was trying to rob you - by say - calling out "hands up" or "this is a hold up", you are allowed deadly force to protect yourself.  I would assume it wasn't written to be used by a man who though his $150 should, at the very least, provide a hummer and a smile.  And when the non-hooker left, chasing the unarmed woman out into the street and shooting her to death.
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Of maybe it was - who knows what the fuck Texans are capable of doing.  Apparently 12 of them agreed that because fatty couldn't get laid he deserved to kill the bitch who refused.  How is that even possible?
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And you see, I don't know how to function in an age and place - where murder like this is legal.  Call me old fashioned.  I know I can't be funny about it.  I so I think it's time for Scooter take a little break.  You know, for sanity's sake.
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You can read the story on the Daily Mail,  the New York Post, or watch the Fox Video.
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Last one to notice civilization's final gasp, turn the lights out.

I do not understand.

I don't understand this.  It isn't an isolated incident, you can read the article - if you see that it is happening a lot in National Monuments, National Parks etc. (LINK)

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I don't get it.  The fact they do it and post it on Facebook is odd to me.  I mean, I get that people are inconsiderate, but this is just crazy.  The beauty of these places stuns me, I don't get why someone would do this.

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Really, just don't get it - and I am not a stupid person.

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