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This being the AutoExec – WM-01 – Wheelmate Steering Wheel Desk Tray – Gray -. The customer images and the reviews are not to be missed. I am always astounded at how creative people are.

Obama leave me alone
Obama leave me alone
Obama leave me alooone
Remember I must have votes.

This is sung to the tune of “Oh Brandy Leave Me Alone”, although, strangely, I cannot find the lyrics that I learned to this song, even though I found a number of references to the record that I learned it from, and a South African friend of mind knew the same lyrics I did.

Oh Brandy leave me alone,
Oh Brandy leave me alone,
Oh Brandy leave me alooone,
Remember I must go home.

My girl’s got another fellow,
I don’t know the reason why.
I said hello dear,
She said hello and goodbye!

(chorus)

Last Sunday, I tried to see her,
I knocked at her door all day,
Then I stood in the cold
with my dying bouquet.

(chorus)

I’ve seen ads for this television show in New York. They appear on the sides of bus stops or near subway entrances. I confess that I imagined this to be a kind of “slice of life” show, where actual funny or touching stories of how couples met would be described and perhaps re-enacted.

Thanks to the coverage of the “Frosty the Snowman” flap, I have been disabused of this notion. Apparently this show is as vile as everything else that I’ve heard of on television. It’s sad, really, very sad. And of course the barbarians who run the television networks used it to defile the image of a Christmas icon for many children, which is par for the course for them, I suppose.

I should have realized that there would be no advertisements anywhere in New York City for a show that was funny or touching.

This is a really cool video showing air traffic around the world over a 24-hour period. It is really interesting to see how the traffic thins out in the dark and then picks up again with the daylight, all across the world.

Oh, this is truly funny. It’s screenshots from Lord of the Rings, captioned as if it were a D&D roleplaying game. Laugh out loud funny. I am always amazed at how clever and creative people are on the Internet.

I have never read the “Left Behind” books. I had some dim knowledge of their existence, but never had enough interest in them to check them out. I might even have been aware that they were poorly written.

They are amazingly poorly written. A blogger going by the name of Slacktivist has been reviewing these absolutely awful books for literally years.

Another blogger, Right Behind back in 2007 made a list of 186 posts (to that point) by Slacktivist about Left Behind. I have been reading them in order, and, after 64 posts, have made it to page 151. Of the first book. Of twelve.

Slacktivist’s reviews are kind of focused on the theological concerns of the books, which are important to him but not particularly to me, but he has real wit as well. For example, some of his titles: “10 Pages in the Men’s Room”, or “Everybody Loves Rayford”. I cannot possibly do justice to these reviews by, well, reviewing them, so I would suggest just starting at the beginning of Right Behind’s list (the Left Behind list, not the Tribulation Force list), and reading though. Which is what I’m doing.

Pharyngula is warning us about the end of the world. The page describing this is painful to the eye, and I have trouble telling if it’s serious. Pharyngula’s commenters are mostly either rejoicing over the imminent Rapture that will remove those pesky Christians, or bemoaning the fact that they didn’t buy enough alcohol, illegal drugs, and bacon to celebrate.

But it appears that nobody clicked on

Two– massive USA earthquakes in FALL 2009! (SEE: Massive earthquake to hit the USA!)

I did. The title of the page is “Web Bots – Two Major Earthquakes Summer 2009!” so I guess they had a little trouble with the Summer prediction and moved it to Fall. But they brag about accurately predicting “the Chinese Earthquake.” However, their proof of this prediction points you to a web page that contains this:

“Within the Terra entity, the [wedding] sub set continues to grow its association with the [female personality]. The [wedding] of the [sister/female relative] is now associated with the [east coast] of the USofA, and further is indicated to be [interrupted] by [earthquakes]. We note that the [earthquakes] are *not* at the location of the [wedding], but are such that the [guests] will be [involved] with the [earthquake recovery], and are described as [spilling out] of the [wedding location] like [ants] out of a [fiery nest].

Etc. I have no idea why many of the words are in brackets, or what this is supposed to mean, except that there is likely to be a woman getting married on the East Coast some time near the time of an earthquake elsewhere on the planet. Which one could probably have predicted without too much analysis.

As a result of updating my WordPress installation, I have apparently become RSS’ed.  It is possible to follow this blog with RSS (look at the very, very, very bottom of the page).  So you can check every day to verify that no, I really haven’t said anything new.

More comments on the inimitable Dr. Gordon.

In respect to parents of autistic children he stated:

I support their use of HBOT, chelation and other alternatives.

This is unequivocal. He says he supports chelation. He does not say, I am not familiar with the literature on chelation, but it seems safe and could conceivably be helpful, so I don’t object to its use. He continues:

Chelation therapy has been used in pediatrics and other specialties for decades. It is a safe proven treatment.

Well, yes, that’s true. It is a relatively safe proven treatment for heavy metal toxicity, but it is not proven, or safe, for randomly inflicting on just anybody just any time their parents feel like it. There are medical indications, proven over a period of decades, for when it should be used. Plenty of drugs are like that; prescription drugs are relatively safe (no drug is perfectly safe) and proven effective for specific conditions (though many anti-vaxxers would dispute even that — but if they did dispute it, I wonder how they justify not disputing chelation therapy for any condition whatever).

A number of people objected to the characterization of chelation therapy as safe for any purpose other than treating proven heavy metal poisoning, and Dr. Gordon responded,

Kathleen, I think that the risks to chelation are overstated (data, please gentlemen and ladies!!)

Uh … he’s supporting chelation for autism, which is an off-label, unproven usage, and he thinks the risks are overstated? He doesn’t have the data at his fingertips? But Dr. Gordon continues:

Can you send me to sites or articles you respect delineating the dangers of chelation? I know it’s well-known “woo” to you all, but I’m really interested in learning more about the potential problems.

He can’t investigate this for himself? He has little patients relying on him to guide their parents in caring for them safely, and he’s going to rely on the “brainy” commenters at Respectful Insolence to find articles they “respect” to help him learn about the potential problems of a treatment he supports?

*facepalm* That’s all I can say. Or *headdesk*.

This page is actually where I found my way to the previous video, but I think this video is great too.

Terminator ballad. What else can I say?