Memnison Journal

Where’s Mjöllnir when you need it!
Mr Alexander said the burglar threw himself out of a first floor window of his home in Edinburgh when he threw open the door and confronted him.
Speaking today Mr Alexander said: “As soon as he saw me his eyes went wide with terror.
“He [...]

Abstinence for teenagers, with pledges and/or theocratic imposition, isn’t working so well to control premarital sex.
My personal opinion is that:

Such pledges are more of a public status thing.    You may feel, either through pressure of your religious group or in a burst of moral hygiene, that you Ought To Say this.  Follow-through later is [...]

Hedge Fund founder who lost a serious bundle in the Madoff ponzi scheme commits suicide, and no, he didn’t jump out a window.
The radical Israeli settlers in the West Bank are a political nightmare that any government will have serious problems with and neither main party coalition wants to deal with.  Of course, government policies [...]

Saudi man needs money, and essentially sells off his eight-year-old daughter for $5000 for marriage to a 58-year-old-guy.  Horrified mom takes it to court.  Court sides with the dad, and says the kid can make the decision to go for a divorce - when she’s older.   Like puberty.

From the New York Times…one more place for fear:
The origins of India’s Jews remain uncertain, but according to some accounts they may have come as emissaries from the court of King Solomon. They established communities and lived peacefully with Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and, later, Muslims. The absence of anti-Semitism throughout this history has been a [...]

Lord God, I thank you for letting me live in this time, in this place, in these circumstances, among these good people, and within this beautiful and extravagant creation!
- jeff Duntemann

I’m noticing that a lot of my friends-list and others online - and the few I talk to on the phone (man, I am so housebound) - are going to take the holidays easy, cheap and local this year.  Our household will, as usual, trot out to Susan’s aunt Marlyce’s house and do the holiday [...]

Kosher meat production in the US has been hit - 65% drop in supply of beef.  Part is due to a fire, most is due  to a big processor in Iowa’s problems with raids on the plant by the Feds for employing tons of illegal immigrants, etc.
The skyrocketing IT presence in Bangalore, India is honking [...]

Lawrence Welk and his band doing ‘One Toke Over the Line’ on his show.  A new, modern spiritual, don’t ya know.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Panic in various circles over the mistaken notion that ‘Obama’s going to shut down gun shops and confiscate our guns‘.
Various people who were proclaiming Obama’s victory in  OMG terms now doing a ‘never mind’ response.
Dogs are adopting kittens in Jiangmen, Meredith’s home town in China, but you can’t adopt or foster children if you aren’t [...]

Susan and I took advantage of the federal holiday (but not one for the elections people) to go for the first day of early voting.  We have to, because we’re election judges.  The ballot was light - only a scattering of races, and in our heavily red area, a lot of the more local stuff [...]

Could you imagine, especially after the Couric interview, Palin going around like Biden did doing spin on the networks?  Could you imagine it being coherent?
If you have the mistaken idea that John McCain will get rid of Sarah Palin, even if some of the true believers in National Review Online are going OMGWTFBBQ get-rid-of-her over [...]

Seems that the lack of vetting that McCain did was the same that Bush did. (starts singing from Fiddler on the Roof here)
Next time around, I suggest that they use a divining rod or the Urim and Thummim - especially if it’s Romney.

My ex (elsewhere on LJ) long ago told me about the great parking goddess Squat.  Deb Geisler said something that reminded me of this, and I found that Squat has online devotee organizations:
Temple of Squat (reformed) (traditional)

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]