Phishers rarely get their English right. Someone needs to hook them up with native English-speaking hoods so they can have a synergy thingy.

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The other day at D’s a woman came up to a group of us at the end of the evening and asked for our attention. First, she asked if we were “Program” which made sense, since a lot of 12 step folks show up on that night, but we weren’t. Then it was time for the presentation. She gave her name and then launched into a prepared story. She told us that she had spent years on alcohol and drugs, and was also HIV and Hepatitis C positive, and had no doubt given the disease to many people.

Everyone else was uncomfortably silent and I said “Uhh.. Uhh.. I’m really sorry to hear that.” Hard to say what to do.

She then went on to say that she had hurt us all and she wanted to apologize to us for this. I understood what she meant but thought “shouldn’t you be apologizing to people with AIDS or Hep C?”. Not going to say anything though.

She then went into a hard-core fundamentalist Christian conversion script. Unfortunately the script called for her to put people on the spot, so that she turned to me and asked me what I believed, and waited. “That’s kind of personal”, I said. She asked me “Are you positive, though? Do you have a positive belief in your heart?” I had to tell her that was personal, too. There were three or four more questions like that, to which I kept giving the same answer. Finally she blessed us all and left, after warning us that the end was soon and the fire, etc.

I heartily wish her well, not least because she got herself into such a nasty medical situation. And I do understand what she was about, mostly. The canned religious script was really hard to hear, though. It felt as though she couldn’t just go and apologize to the world for the things she felt guilt about; she had to win something too. And in this case, winning meant being right about God and being the deliverer of the Message.

I still don’t know what I think about it, really.

That was courtesy the1withtheeyes and she got goatse’d in return. Just so y’all know.

Petism is now. Let’s learn!

On the news radio just now there was a bumper promoting an interview with a “Senior Ethical Hacker” at IBM named Joshua Lackey.

The future is Dickens as rewritten by Philip K. Dick.

I think that there ought to be an all-Christmas-music speed metal band called SLEIGHER. That’s what I think.

Move to Somalia, or somewhere else violent. You’ll have an edge!

This has been a public service announcement, with guitar.

From today’s Los Angeles Times

Waves Claim an SUV, With Drinking Reported

An illegally parked sport-utility vehicle with several people inside drinking beer was pulled into the surf by a strong tide early Monday, officials said.

No one was injured when the SUV was washed into the surf about 12:50 a.m. The car was towed out of the surf, officials said.

The SUV’s occupants were cited for driving on the beach.

Probably related to the asshole I saw doing 70 on the Irvine Avenue S-curves tonight in a full-sized Dodge pickup in the wet.

Proposal: License any vehicle over a certain weight as a commercial truck, instead of doing so by number of axles. Do I hear an aye?

Psychiatrist’s office, soft hits station.

HOLY CRAP I THINK THIS IS STEVIE NICKS DOING “SILENT NIGHT” DO YOU HAVE ANY STELAZINE

My DSL changeover Just Worked. What the hey.