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Water Water Everywhere….

cari — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:14:21 +0000

Dear Myopic, Idiot Neighbors,

Why yes, it is quite hot out, isn’t it? If you absolutely must open hydrants (thereby endangering the neighborhood by lowering water pressure when it might be needed to put out fires (or take showers for that matter), and basically treating clean water like it’s an infinite gift from the ass of baby Jesus and not a precious resource that must be cleaned and treated before it can be used again and therefore ought to be conserved), why the fuck can’t you share hydrants? Two on one block and one on each of the surrounding 3 blocks, flooding the streets. This always used to upset me when they showed clips of kids running through hydrant spray on Sesame Street and let me tell you, it’s far more upsetting to see it in person.

There are so many 311 calls about open hydrants that there is a special 311 Open Hydrant Complaint subset which directs callers to a 311 purgatory of waiting for an operator. I waited 11 minutes then gave up.

These people are not even using the hydrant caps that make a controlled spray, just completely removing the caps so the water gushes directly into the street. And then are unwilling/unable to close them again. YOU ARE IGNORANT AND WASTEFUL. I wish you lived in one of those countries where women have to walk for 3 hours to a water source and then lug 40 lbs of water back to their homes EVERY DAY.

Love,
Cari

Giving people access to safe, potable water.

Oh, Janeane, if only we’d listened….

cari — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:09:32 +0000

This aired a month before the Iraq war began. I know this is old news, but I’m feeling a little nostalgic for a time when we didn’t yet know how shitty things were going to be, when we could only guess at it.

The language Brian Kilmeade uses perfectly sums up typical right wing belligerence; this kind of verbal obfuscation and unmitigated arrogance has stymied this country for eight years and contributed to a national inability to hold a meaningful dialogue with someone with an opposing viewpoint. Please note his insistence on the missing Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Highlights from “Real TIme with Bill Maher”
Okay, we’ve got Janeane Garofalo, Salman Rushdie…and Rob Thomas?!?!

Lastly, the sound is out of sync on this but Maher makes some excellent points about organized religion so I’m going to post it anyway. For the record, Maher has always struck me as awfully smarmy and arrogant and I really hate those qualities in people; though it seems in this day and age that arrogance is now needed simply to stand one’s ground:

Note to Europeans

cari — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:52:03 +0000

I did not mean what I said earlier about you guys being assholes. My comment was purely for comedic effect. You know that I like a lot of you, especially the Brits. Really, a whole lot, the Brits.

Poor Purple Martin

cari — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:29:51 +0000

We all know how the Native Americans of North America were royally screwed by the White Man and His Manifest Destiny. According to a plaque in an exhibit outside of the Whitney Museum of American Art, no Native American is safe.

Here, the tragic story of the Purple Martin (Progne subis) –martyr and disenfranchised bird of color:

“We are native Americans. When European starlings arrive, they fill our nesting cavities with materials blocking our entrance, destroy our eggs, corner us in our homes and even peck us to death. Every fall we head for South America, but the starlings stick around, claiming our nesting cavities. We are now entirely dependent on human supplied housing east of the Rockies. We especially like the hollow white gourds you see below.”

Fucking Europeans! Even their birds are assholes.