pantoum's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSITIONING INTO THE NEW HUMANITY 289. Headline on Yahoo today:Shatner sells kidney stone to charity. Huh. I wonder if it will try to rap, entertain its new owner.... And if that�s not disturbing enough, here�s news from Kiplinger�s: if you�re dumb like me and took on your ex�s credit-card debt (theoretically, for the duration of graduate school) or if you�re one of those consumers who charged $232 billion on your Visa between November 1 and Christmas Day, then you�ll be pleased to know that your government is concerned about your credit-card debt so�even though you have probably not gotten a substantial raise in five years and even though the cost-of-living has gone up substantially and even though your heating bill and transportation costs have doubled�nevertheless, your friendly Big Brother has issued new federal guidelines that require creditors to double your minimum credit-card payments. Meanwhile, the coauthors of the million-copy selling Medicine Cards deck and memoir Crossing into Medicine Country are also looking out for us. (People are so nice, aren�t they? I mean, all this charity has inspired me to do a Sally chant so here goes: They like me. They really liiiiiiike me!). Yep, the Medicine Card people are now publishing 2012 Oracle: Transitioning into the New Humanity, and well before 2012! This divinatory deck and accompanying book are �intended to help guide humanity through immense world change heralded for 2012 by the Bible Code, Nostradamus, astrology, and the Mayan calendar.� Huh? The Bible code? What the uh Hell is that? And why not include the fucking Code of Hammurabi in that list? Well, clearly, I best rush right out and purchase this deck since I like to plan ahead for such momentous life events. I wonder, though, if these coauthors might need to make a slight adjustment in their calculations. I mean, our boy dictator apparently believes (along with those other defenders of so-called intelligent design) that the earth is only six thousand years old. And we know he�s competitive. Surely he�ll notice soon enough that he and his party and corporate interests haven�t quite controlled the Press as much as, say, dictators in Chile and El Salvador did. Nope, he just hasn�t gone far enough. If he believes that our ancestors walked the Earth with dinosaurs then they better adjust their oracle transitions to fit his beliefs or he�ll prohibit them from publishing this information. I wonder though: weren�t the disappeared called the disappeared because they just vanished and their families heard through the grapevine that maybe the government had taken them but they received no notification of their imprisonment or information on any charges with which they might have been charged and there were no limits on how long they could be held without trial ... sorta like today in the boy dictator�s USofA? Meanwhile MSN really is looking out for us (there are angels everywhere!) and have thus published this depressing list of the 10 Worst Things You Can Eat: Hydrogenated/Trans fats > These manufactured fats are used in bakery items and margarine. Studies indicate that it isn't so much how much fat you consume, but what kind you consume. These are the worst, so better avoid cookies, crackers, baked goods etc. that include hydrogenated oil in their ingredient list. Finally, my advice (�cause hey I�m looking out for you too, wink wink): just don�t even look at the number of nitrates that are now allowed under the revised-for-corporate-gain-at-the-expense-of-your-health �organic� label. It�s too depressing. All right. Back to work now. Mush, mush! 2:10 p.m. - 2006-01-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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