Adam Ant is making a comeback. For those of you who don’t know, which would probably be just about everyone, I am a HUGE Adam Ant fan in all his various incarnations. I even loved his last album when most people thought it was awful. Sure, it wasn’t exactly punk rock, but it was good. Well, I liked it anyway.

Anyway, hope this comeback works well for him and that he turns out an album I’ll enjoy. I’ll be buying the thing anyway –I have them all, even the imports and special releases– and it would be nice if I actually enjoyed it. Mostly though, I hope he puts behind him all that mental institution stuff and gets on with his life again, because he’s really a sweet person who deserves some goodness in his existence again.

Just south of Fifth Street in Downtown Austin, 16 blue panels line either side of the Lamar Boulevard underpass.

The panels are reflective and some mistake them as traffic signals, but the collective work of art is called “Moments.” Art in Public Places commissioned artist Carl Trominski to create the mixed-media work of art in 2003.

“When I first saw them, I was sort of perplexed by them,” Austin artist Magda Sayeg said. “When I found out that it was an art project, I really liked it. It made me want to think about it more.”

So Magda has temporarily covered them with knitting (and crochet)! Much better looking than the reflectors are all by themselves. I’d always wondered what those ugly blue reflective panels were on that underpass. I would have never guessed they were public art. They look so much better covered in yarn. Doesn’t everything? LOL!

You can read more about Magda -apparently the mother of Yarn Bombing- in the local newspaper, or visit her blog.

Mr. President, I rise to introduce legislation that sets forth a clear, comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of enemy belligerents who are suspected of engaging in hostilities against the United States. This legislation seeks to ensure that the mistakes made during the apprehension of the Christmas Day bomber, such as reading him a Miranda warning, will never happen again and put Americans’ security at risk.

Specifically, this bill would require unprivileged enemy belligerents suspected of engaging in hostilities against the U.S. to be held in military custody and interrogated for their intelligence value by a “high value detainee” interagency team established by the President. This interagency team of experts in national security, terrorism, intelligence, interrogation and law enforcement will have the protection of U.S. civilians and civilian facilities as their paramount responsibility and experience in gaining actionable intelligence from high value detainees.
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A key provision of this bill is that it would prohibit a suspected enemy belligerent from being provided with a Miranda warning and being told he has a right to a lawyer and a right to refuse to cooperate. I believe that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that when we capture a terrorist who is suspected of carrying out or planning an attack intended to kill hundreds if not thousands of innocent civilians, our focus must be on gaining all the information possible to prevent that attack or any that may follow from occurring. Under these circumstances, actionable intelligence must be our highest priority and criminal prosecution must be secondary.
–Senator John McCain, Arizona

For those of you who prefer to read actual legislative language rather than the public announcements of politicians. From the bill:

INAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN STATEMENT AND RIGHTS- A individual who is suspected of being an unprivileged enemy belligerent shall not, during interrogation under this subsection, be provided the statement required by Miranda v. Arizona (384 U.S. 436 (1966)) or otherwise be informed of any rights that the individual may or may not have to counsel or to remain silent consistent with Miranda v. Arizona. (link)

So said individual only needs to be suspected of being one of these new “enemy belligerents” in order to not be informed of any rights they may or may not have. This would, I should think fall far afoul of one of the great laws of our lawful land: innocent until proven guilty.

PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION BY HIGH-VALUE DETAINEE INTERROGATION GROUP- The high-value detainee interrogation group responsible for interrogating a high-value detainee under subsection (b) shall make a preliminary determination whether or not the detainee is an unprivileged enemy belligerent. The interrogation group shall make such determination based on the result of its interrogation of the individual and on all intelligence information available to the interrogation group. (link)

Said individual is determined to be an “unprivileged enemy belligerent” and therefore being eligible for interrogation by the high-value detainee interrogation group (explained starting here) only after being stripped of any rights this individual may or may not have and being interrogated by said high-value detainee interrogation group. That’s some circular logic for you. Paradox much?

CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION OF INDIVIDUALS AS HIGH-VALUE DETAINEES- The regulations required by this subsection shall include criteria for designating an individual as a high-value detainee based on the following:

(A) The potential threat the individual poses for an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the United States or upon United States citizens or United States civilian facilities abroad at the time of capture or when coming under the custody or control of the United States.
(B) The potential threat the individual poses to United States military personnel or United States military facilities at the time of capture or when coming under the custody or control of the United States.
(C) The potential intelligence value of the individual.
(D) Membership in al Qaeda or in a terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda.
(E) Such other matters as the President considers appropriate. (link)

The bit in bold rather destroys all pretense of checks and balances and the division of governmental powers in order to keep any one branch of becoming a little too god-like. Never should there be a law of any sort that says anything like “oh, and whatever the President thinks should be included.” Much too open-ended and fraught with danger of abuse.

But finally, we come to something of true importance for any American citizen to consider:

An individual, including a citizen of the United States, determined to be an unprivileged enemy belligerent under section 3(c)(2) in a manner which satisfies Article 5 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War may be detained without criminal charges and without trial for the duration of hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners in which the individual has engaged, or which the individual has purposely and materially supported, consistent with the law of war and any authorization for the use of military force provided by Congress pertaining to such hostilities. (link)

Bad enough McCain and his fellow co-sponsors are more than willing to throw away “all men are created equal” (not just Americans) and innocent until proven guilty for non-citizens of the USA, but they are also more than willing to do so for American citizens, and as we’ve read earlier in the bill … pretty much at the whim of whomever happens to be living in the White House. If I were these Senators, I think I’d be wondering if handing such an open-ended and easily abused law to the current administration might not lead to being named an enemy belligerent for having created the thing. It does say the President gets the final say on who is and is not an enemy belligerent, after all.

And back again to McCain’s announcement:

Mr. President, it should come as no comfort to any American that nearly eight and a half years after the attacks of 9/11 we still don’t have a clear mechanism, legal structure, and implementing policy for dealing with terrorists who we capture in the act of trying to bring about attacks on the United States and our national security interests at home and abroad.
–Senator John McCain, Arizona

Yes, we do. The USA has this thing called a legal system that we’ve been using for some time now to lock up people who do stupid, crazy, or evil stuff, and it seems to mostly work not just for your common street thug but also for those pesky terrorists (who are obviously supermen since normal prisons and normal trials are too puny to hold or try them). One of the cornerstones of our country has always been our belief in the right of everyone –citizen or not– to a far trial and certain rights … and that in order to be found guilty of some crime a person has to be found to actually be guilty, instead of some single someone (say, the President) just deciding they are. This bill jumps up on that cornerstone and craps all over it.

Every day is feels more and more like McCain has lost some of his previously functioning brain cells. Take for example all those years he called himself a “maverick” to only recently saying he never considered himself a maverick at all. Was he lying back then (during the 2008 elections and before), lying now, or has he gone senile? Me, I’m voting for having gone senile, because this piece of crap bill doesn’t sound like anything the McCain of the past would have anything to do with. My how things change when one either goes bat-crap crazy or starts playing entirely too much to the far right base.

You know, a couple of days after the health care bill had been signed into law Obama ran around all over the country saying, “Hey, you know, I’m looking around. The earth hadn’t opened up. There’s no Armageddon out there. The birds are still chirping.” I think the earth has opened up. God may have replied. This volcano in Iceland has grounded more airplanes — airspace has more affected — than even after 9/11 because of this plume, because of this ash cloud over Northern and Western Europe. At the Paris airport they’re telling people to head to the train station to catch trains out of France, and when people get to the train station they’re telling people, “There aren’t any seats until at least April 22nd,” basically a week from now. It’s got everybody in a shutdown. Earth has opened up. I don’t know whether it’s a rebirth or Armageddon. Hopefully it’s a rebirth, God speaking.
–Rush Limbaugh

Yes, Rush. You’re absolutely right. God doesn’t want poor people or anyone to be healthy. Doesn’t want anyone helping to take care of anyone else. Funny then that he sent Jesus down with his miracle healing powers and then allowed Jesus to heal poor people while simultaneously telling everyone to love each other and take care of each other, isn’t it?

It’s really odd how I, someone who would not describe themselves as Christian, seem to understand their god and Jesus better than they do. These people are less Christian than I am.

Arizona has decided to allow concealed carry of firearms without a permit, which means no background checks or training. I do not approve. Hope they know what they are doing.

The Temple, Texas school district is bringing back paddling. Once again, I do not approve. Those who rule by fear and force usually end up regretting it, even if the short term results seem to work.

While Israel is being somewhat silly and not allowing any iPads into their country, the Prime Minister of Iceland loves his and is currently using it to deal with the volcano crisis and run his country. Cool!

There’s a crucifix crisis at a Warr Acres church. People with penii on the mind are upset about a very classic iconographic painting.

The first thing insurance companies did after health care reform passed was look for ways to not cover sick children. Now they are playing with the numbers on their books and pretending paper shuffling and administration work is actually medical care … while also investing heavily in fast food corporations. This is why there needs to be a public option. I don’t want to be forced to give these jerks any of my money.

I always find it entertaining, to say the least, how news trickles down from the people making the news to the people reporting the news to the man on the street. It really is a game of Telephone. Didn’t you play that as a kid? One kid whispers something in another kid’s ear, and it passes around to everyone, and then they all get a big laugh out of how messed up the original statement was by the time everyone mishears or misunderstands what they heard. Anyway, the same thing seems to happen with news. Something happens, the reporters add some spin or are too dumb to really know what’s happened, and then the man on the street hears about it and really takes it to all new heights.

Yesterday, the rumblings from the man on the street was “OMG!!!! Obama has canceled the National Day of Prayer!!! Socialist! Communist! Heathen!!!” Now it wouldn’t break my heart at all if he had, because I don’t think it’s the government’s place to be asking us to pray (which is a small step from telling us to pray, really), but the fact is no such thing is true. Obama has not canceled the National Day of Prayer … no matter what the crazy man on the street is saying.

White House officials say President Obama will recognize a National Day of Prayer this year after a federal judge ruled that the proclamation is unconstitutional.

US District Judge Barbara Crabb, in Madison, Wis., ruled yesterday that the day violates separation of church and state. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed against the federal government by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Crabb said her order does not block a prayer day until after all appeals are exhausted.

Obama spokesman Matt Lehrich agreed that the ruling does not prevent the president from issuing a proclamation for the day next month.
— AP, source

So if the man on the street would please kindly stop losing their minds about Obama the horrible atheistic socialist communist, I’d appreciate it. And if we could do away with the National Day of Prayer all together, I’d be just fine with that too, because not everyone believes in gods and not everyone who does believes in praying. I know, crazy ain’t it? In the view of many, a national day of prayer is just as obnoxious as I am certain the overtly religious would find a national day of non-religion when everyone is told NOT to pray. So how about we leave the religion out of our government on the whole?

So how is refusing to obey orders working out for Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, an Army doctor who won’t believe Obama is his rightful Commander in Chief until he sees the birth certificate for himself? He’s now facing a court martial, as I expected.

Is this Birther nonsense ever going to end? No, I suppose. Obama’s birth in Hawaii has been vetted better than any other birth ever, but the only birth certificate Birthers would believe is real is one that says Kenya on it. He could produce the ancient copy of the original, which he likely still has (I have mine), and they’d still insist it was a fake.

That woman who was piercing cats’ ear was sentenced to a year in the county’s Intermediate Punishment Program for one count of animal cruelty. While I think putting 14 gauge barbells in cats’ ears is stupid, she wasn’t torturing the animals while doing it, and it’s no more stupid or cruel than bobbing a dogs tail or clipping their ears, and those things go on all the time. If I had my way, no cats with pierced ears AND no dogs getting bobbed and clipped, because it’s all stupid. Having a double standard about it is even more stupid.

Two female ophthalmologists went on a verbal rampage aimed at Barney Frank over the health care reform legislation while they were all stuck on a plane in flight.

“The women had been drinking, and they were crying and shouting,” Sexton said. “They were clearly the antagonizers, and Mr. Frank was kind of minding his own business.” Finally, the parties calmed down and remained quiet for the rest of the flight.

Said Frank: “It reminds me of the joke about the woman who’s in a restaurant and Clark Gable’s there. She complains to the waiter, ‘Clark Gable is annoying me.’ The waiter says, ‘He’s not even talking to you,’ and she says, ‘Yes, and I find that very annoying.’”

When is it OK to make a scene in public over legislation you don’t agree with? Or for any reason? Well, apparently it’s OK when you’re a woman and perhaps not brown in coloring. There have been endless stories in the news about planes landing immediately for situations less bothersome to an entire airplane full of people, and I imagine, had they been men (or heaven forbid “swarthy” looking) that plane would have been landed in an instant, they have been taken off in shackles, and been forced to spend some time with the FBI.

And really, how much more childish can one get than to start yelling at people in public and making a huge scene on a plane?

The Vatican’s second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, made the comments during a news conference Monday in Chile, where one of the church’s highest-profile pedophile cases involves a priest having sex with young girls.

“Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia. But many others have demonstrated, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true,” said Bertone. “That is the problem.”

As far as I am concerned, no one in the Vatican has more than two brain cells working or they are just a bunch of liars. Probably a little of both. Anyway, the supposedly true “relation between homosexuality and pedophilia” is totally not true. Could the Catholic hierarchy shut up now? And could they get a new Pope while they are at it? I usually don’t give a damn one way or the other about Popes, because I am not Catholic, but I’m actively starting to really dislike the current one.

Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty.

What does Oklahoma intend to do with its militia? The proper way to deal with legislation one disagrees with is to work to reverse it through the political process. A militia isn’t going to help with that as the only thing an ARMY is good for is starting a war. Does Oklahoma actually intend to use force to make it’s point? Force against the federal government? Oh, I can’t wait!

The American Family Association are up to their usual bigotry. This time they want all Muslims kicked out of the USA, because as we all know (Not!) all Muslims want to eradicate our freedoms and our way of life.

Those who are willing to convert to Christianity and renounce Islam, Allah, Mohammed and the Koran may be welcomed, for they can become not just good Christians but true Americans.

I find that statement somewhat in contradiction to this one:

Muslims continue to have as their objective the Islamization of the entire world, including the U.S., and are taught by their god to use force where necessary to accomplish the goal.

In what way is saying convert or we will kick you out against your will not also a use of force used to accomplish a goal? Seems to me the god of the AFA and the god of the Muslims they think they are talking about have a lot in common … other than, you know, actually being the same god. In fact, I’d say the god of the AFA and the god of the radical Muslims (a minority of all Muslims on the planet) are even more one and the same than the god of Christianity and Islam is just in general, owing to these particular iterations of god being all about the hate and using of force to accomplish goals.

I wonder, if the AFA got their wish and all Muslims were removed from the USA, who would they go after next? My guess would be the atheists. Or maybe the Jews. Those people have some funny ideas too that don’t fit into AFA’s grand picture of life in America.

In another delightful example of poor parenting, the parents of a six year old boy had him arrested for taking a bunch of his mom’s expensive jewelry and giving it to classmates. Yes, arrested. First off, I doubt the kid knew how much the jewelry was worth, and if he didn’t, that would be the fault of the parents. In fact, if he didn’t know he shouldn’t take things from his mom’s jewelry box and give them away, that would also be the fault of the parents. Seriously, at six years old, this kind of thing is entirely the fault of the parental units. They failed to teach their kids a few basic things.

My mom had some nice jewelry too. Do you think at the age of six I would have TOUCHED her jewelry box or, heaven forbid, taken anything out of it? Hell no, because my parents taught me the worth of things AND not to go messing around in other people’s belongings.^† And you know, even if I had done something so dumb, the issue would have been handled between the parents. I assure you, the cops wouldn’t have been called, even though I probably would have preferred that, because I can’t even imagine what my punishment would have been for doing such a thing. Seems to me sitting in a jail cell would have been better than living with my parents from that point forward.

Could we please stop criminalizing our small children? Please?

Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius said today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing a new regulation that would require food manufacturers to display nutritional information on the front of packages.

Won’t make a jot of difference in what people buy! The only people I know who bother to read the labels beyond the brand name and price are those people who give a damn about what they eat, and they are sadly in the minority. They could put the nutritional information on the front of the package in huge bold type and most people just wouldn’t care or notice it.

In a preview of his book “Conservative Victory—Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda,” due to be released Monday, Sean Hannity said of the policies President Barack Obama has been pursuing: “If you look up the dictionary definition of socialism, this is it.”

No, it’s not, and no, Obama is not the most “radical” president the USA has ever had. If Hannity went to college, I suggest he go back for some refresher courses in history and political science. Or maybe he could just look at the socialist countries in the world today and compare and contrast with the USA. Obama is no socialist and the USA is not about to become a socialist country. Sorry, Hannity, as usual, you don’t know what you are talking about.

Lt. Col Terry Larkin has undermined many of his superiors, including President Barack Obama, because he has refused to follow orders until Obama is able to produce his birth certificate. He went on to say that after looking at all of the information that currently publically available, even the most sensible person would have questions about the situation.

This Birther stuff just refuses to die, doesn’t it? Well, good luck with your plan to not obey orders, Lt. Col. Larkin. Let us know how that works out for you.

1. † I wouldn’t have even been in my parents’ bedroom without a parent present. It was off limits without supervision, because it was THEIR room. [↩]

With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: “I could give a flying crap about the political process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says.

I love it when the talking heads are honest. I’ve always known Beck didn’t give a damn about politics or the political process. I just wish all his many followers would clue into that fact. He isn’t at all about politics. He’s all about the money, and he will say or do whatever is necessary to continue to make tens of millions of dollars a year off the drivel that comes out of his mouth.

Today’s News 8 poll is about whether or not Texas should store radioactive waste for other states. I’m opposed, not because I think radioactive waste storage is all that dangerous anymore, but because I believe states should have to deal with their own garbage. If you make the trash, you should have to do something about your own trash and not ship it elsewhere. But I really don’t care too much one way or the other about radioactive waste storage, so long as they put it in the parts of Texas that are already pretty much unlivable.

My reason for posting this at all is just to point out some misinformation I read in the comments on the poll.

Radioactive waste cannot be loaded into a rocket and blasted into space. Sure, it sounds like a great plan, but what of the consequences of a rocket failure? Rockets do have a failure rate and every so often they do blow up on launch or just after. Do we really want to take the chance of releasing a lot of radioactive crap into the stratosphere to infect the entire ecosystem with it? Or having a rocket full of radioactive waste screw up and land in some other country to screw up their environment? Yeah, sounds great but the risks are FAR too high.

MRI scans do not create radioactive waste. Seriously, people, Google is your friend. Use it if you think it’s possible you don’t know what you are talking about, and really, most people should just assume they don’t know what they are talking about and do some reading before opening their mouths (or putting their fingers on the keyboard). Let me repeat, there is nothing at all radioactive used or created for MRI scans. They use magnets and magnetic fields, which would be why it’s called Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Anyway, these two things were annoying me enough I just had to post about. The poll comments aren’t the first time I have seen people spreading these two misconceptions around, and every time someone does some other person believes it and starts spreading it around too. If only people would use Google, do some reading, and think for a minute, I wouldn’t have to point out the stupidity and correct it. This will never happen, so I guess I’ll be pointing out stupidity for the rest of my life.

A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

A strangely dressed young man acting strangely on a strange day! Bwha ha ha ha ha! Love it!

The date. Remember the date.

Neal McDonough has been sacked from ABC’s new series Scoundrels, because he didn’t want to do hot and heavy sex scenes. He never does. It’s a moral thing for him. What I found most interesting about this article was the comments (not that I don’t find McDonough interesting, I do). So many people incapable of understanding how an actor can play a murderer or a soldier killing someone but refuses to do sex scenes due to his moral stance. It’s really easy to understand, if one thinks about it just a wee bit.

Sure, pretending to kill someone while making a movie or TV show does require calling up the ability and emotions to kill someone. That does have to be in your head or your performance will not be believable (and thus flat and not good), but you don’t actually kill anyone. In fact, the way movies and TV shows are made, you’ll barely even be going through the motions of killing someone, thanks to all the camera angles, multiple takes, and editing choices. Almost all thought and very little action.

Doing a sex scene is an entirely different beast. All the emotions and thoughts of being intimate with someone have to be there, and you are very much going through the actions of being intimate as well. There is no way to fake french kiss someone, or fake grab someone’s breast, or fake rubbing your naked body on them and grinding groins. It can very much feel like betraying your spouse, because it’s very real. Ever notice how many actors/actresses get divorced after making a steamy movie and then take up a relationship with their co-star (which then rarely lasts long)? Well, think about it a minute. I’m sure the answer will come to you, unlike the people leaving comments on that news story who just can’t figure out why someone wouldn’t want to simulate sex with someone other than their spouse.

Anyway, it’s a choice every actor/actress has to make for themselves, and kudos to Neal for standing by his decision.

Yes, I speak from experience, and no, I do not regret once losing a plum part because I refused to do sex scenes. It’s a shame I never had the chance to play the part of a murderer, because I’m pretty sure my inner hidden rage would have made my performance astounding. LOL!

The federal government is investigating dozens of death threats to IRS employees that have been posted online since the House passed the health care bill, FoxNews.com has learned.

The IRS’s office of criminal investigations will provide armed escort assistance in other situations, the memo said. But this has served only to further rile anti-tax extremists, who view themselves as patriots and pledge to confront any armed IRS agent with guns of their own.

“WE, I repeat, WE, are armed to the teeth. They need those pumps just to feel safe,” one commenter wrote.

“POINT OF ORDER: I dont shoot BACK; I shoot FIRST……….BUY MORE AMMO,” said another.

In a particularly heinous reply that was praised by dozens of other commenters, someone suggested – in graphic terms – that tax opponents should rape an attractive agent before killing her. “Or vice versa…don’t have a problem with that either.”

Other online discussions delved into specific tactics—what weapons, what bullets, what bait—to employ in the killing of IRS agents.

I can’t imagine why the IRS would be beefing up security and providing armed escorts and guards in some situations, can you? How can people so cavalierly say such things so publicly on the internet? Sure, some of them are just talking smack, but there’s really no way to tell who is insane and who isn’t. On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog … or someone actually crazy enough to kill an IRS agent. And for what really? First off, it’s not the IRS’s doings that created or passed the health care bill, and all said, any tax increase anyone may see come of the new reforms is really, really quite small (and mostly non-existent for the majority of people). I guess it feels to risky to folks to threaten to kill legislators and elected officials, so they pick on someone they think they can get away with threatening.

This really does suck, because I had already started the process of becoming an agent with the IRS, but then some nut flew a plane into a building just down the road here in town and now all this? Seeing as one of my life missions is to never be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I’d like to continue being alive to accomplish that mission, I think I won’t be working for the IRS just now. Sad, because the money is good (and we could use it), but now is not the time to be an IRS employee.

This craziness has to stop. It really does. I once thought I wanted to leave my country, because I didn’t like the way things were going, and then I decided we needed to stick around. Bad times and good times ebb and flow, and things have always gotten better after a rough patch. But I have to say that the increasing number of lunatics coming out of the woodwork is beginning to create a wee bit of constant stress for me. I don’t like walking around in my daily life and wondering if one of the people around me is just whacked enough in the head to do something horrible, and you know some of these crazy people are walking around my daily life. Maybe Lin and I need to consider moving up the dateline on the building of our sea-worthy retirement boat, so we can get the hell out of America if the crap really hits the fan.^†

1. † Oh, I say “Let’s get the hell out of here, but I bet some of you know full well when the going gets tough, Orb hunkers down, stockpiles food and water, and prepares to stay the course. But still … I am tired of being surrounded by people who can even think of some of the things these people are saying they want to do to other people. It’s madness, and I want no part of it. [↩]