Brandon: Happy New Year!

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It's that time of year again, when balls drop and people get hangovers. It is a time of year to reflect on our past transgressions and to make promises to ourselves that we absolutely do not intend to keep.

With that in mind, I hope everybody has a safe new year's celebration!

Go 2009!

It's: auld, not all.


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Brandon: Happy Holidays

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Its that time of year again!

The time of year when tales of breaking and entering by a fat man in questionable attire abound! Or something about candles, or maybe a aluminium pole. Regardless, let us celebrate with an egg based beverage filled with alcohol and by cutting down trees!

Anyway, I did want to share I and Vikki's christmas letter for this year. Sorry if I didn't get a physical copy out to everyone, I really don't know any of your addresses.

You can check it out in super high quality PDF format. The 15mb document is here

Enjoy!

Oh: the weather outside is frightful
But: the fire is so delightful


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Brandon: Stay classy AIG

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Seriously. Go ahead, waste taxpayer money. Even when you said you weren't going to.

Bloomberg has the details.



Bastards: all of them


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Brandon: Theological discussion.

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There are a couple things I'd like to say about my opinions on God and religion.

1) My (current) favorite quote about God is from the Futurama episode Godfellas. "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

2) My favorite movie about Religion is Dogma, although I have not seen Bill Maher's Religulous yet.

Also, what the fuck is wrong with Kansas? See this example.

I mean, sure, the guy did go to a Muslim school when he was young and living in Indonesia. But he also went to a Catholic school. Snopes has some good reading on that whole point. I guess since President-Elect Obama's mother is from Wichita, and she married a black man from Kenya, she sure as hell didn't get married in Wichita.

Come on people. This country was founded by people fleeing religious persecution. Just because someone else does not believe the way you do does not mean they are evil, or of Satan, or even of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I look at people like the pastor in the above-linked article as being pretty close to being the same as muslim extremists, you know, the ones who want to kill everyone? They are both running around with their fingers in their ears going "la-la-la I can't hear you" when anyone tries to tell them something different than what they have been indoctrinated. Granted, the extremist Christian types don't blow people up, yet.

How long until the next crusade? I hear Indiana Jones needs work these days.


Pensive: I like that word
Meh: is also a word now


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Brandon: Politics

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I can't honestly ever talk politics with anyone again. Unless someone is able to keep an open mind and not take mindless bullshit into account.

I would like to make some points.

1) FFS, there is no conspiracy. Don't trust the Internet. Nobody is really hiding the "truth".

1a) Yes there is a conspiracy, but they arent trying to hide the oppositions secret Nazi obsession. They are working on a grander scale, like making you all switch to digital broadcast television so they can sell the white space rights.

1b) They are also running the whole government like in Metal Gear Solid

2) You can have your opinion, but don't say you respect mine and then try and make me feel like crap for having that opinion. Hint: that is not respecting my opinion.

3) Yes, you can try and convince me to agree with you, but don't do it with stuff that requires a lack of common sense to believe

At any rate, I will never discuss politics with someone I can't trust to have common sense again.

Or something like that.

Frustrated: This is why we can't have nice things
Congrats: President Elect Obama


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