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Tonight we went with Miorlau (our 7 years old cat) to the animal clinic, as he was showing the symptoms of an urinary obstruction. When I called the clinic to book for an appointment, they said: “You know we have to see Miorlau today, right?”… thing that I was hoping to hear, as we knew a cat can’t live more than 48 hours like this, as essentially it will be poisoned to death.

Once there, after the consultation the doctor said that he’s going to put Miorlau under the worst case scenario and follow all the necessary steps to make him well, which usually means 3 days in the hospital.

What we did next was to ask for a cost estimation, which they provide us with. The total cost was of $2193, which could go higher in case there are complications! We asked for two minutes to discuss about it, as tonight we were having serious problems to pay the required 50% down payment in advance, in order for the clinic to start the treatment… the second day it could be too late.

Pretty much sucks to see that someone close to you depends on how much you afford to pay to fix the problem, but it can happen, this is why psychologically (and not only) you’ll have to be prepared all the time for cases like this. Once you are prepared, you’ll be able to take the best decision.

We managed to pay for the treatment and left the cat there. Two hours ago we got a call from the doctor, Miorlau is fine, he peed a lot in the doctor’s hand (no blood in the urine) after some injections and some pills. They found out what the problem is, are taking care of it and they said that tomorrow we will probably be able to take him back home.

For Miorlau, we (me, Cata and Deb) were the Gods tonight, and his Gods decided he’s going to live, lucky guy
What about you reader? Do you have any Gods around you? In case you’ll need it, can you be your own God?

Am aflat ca acum cateva zile, la confruntarea finala pentru presedentia Romaniei, cei trei principali candidati au fost rugati sa numeasca un personaj public al zilelor noastre pe care il considera un reper de moralitate. Basescu a raspuns “Sotia mea”… de parca sotia dumnealui este publica sau de parca toata lumea ar locui cu dumneaei in casa pentru a sti cat de morala e. ProstanacuGeoana a raspuns “Parintele Patriarh Daniel”, raspuns cu care a marcat direct in testicolele taranilor carora le e frica de preotul satului si care, probabil, in ziua votului, cu frica de cel de sus, vor pune stampila unde trebuie. Pe Antonescu, infantil ca intotdeauna, l-a apucat sinceritatea si a raspuns “Tudor Chirila”, dupa parerea mea de departe cel mai sanatos raspuns dintre cele trei.

Cum am spus intr-un articol anterior, as vrea sa-i mentionez pe acei care, dupa parerea mea, au ajutat la ideea de ‘roman’. Pentru ca istoria invatata de mine in scoala era pura propaganda, ma voi limita la a-i nominaliza doar pe acei mari romani care au trait incepand cu 1900 si pana in prezent, 2009.

Voi incepe cu personaje in viata si voi continua cu cei care nu mai sunt, a caror ordine va fi alfabetica.

As vrea sa adaug aici faptul ca personal ii apreciez mai mult pe cei care, vazand ca altfel nu se poate, au reusit sa plece din tara si sa isi strige durerea din afara, participand astfel la un alt tip de revolta, decat pe cei care au ramas in speranta ca se va schimba ceva. In naivitatea mea am crezut si eu ca ceva trebuie sa se schimbe, ca lumea nu e chiar asa usor de manipulat, dar cum acest lucru nu se poate intampla intr-o societate crescuta sub teroare si violenta, am ales sa ma revolt la randul meu si sa particip la ‘revolutia’ celor peste 10 milioane de romani care au plecat din tara dupa caderea comunismului… si i-au lasat pe comunistii din randul doi, pe mana carora au incaput toate resursele Romaniei, sa se chinuie cu “pulimea” sa faca bani, dupa ce termina tot ce e de furat.

Daca vreunul din numele urmatoare nu iti spune nimic, ar trebui ori sa-ti fie rusine, ori sa-ti aloci macar 5 min sa afli cine a fost si ce a facut. In mare, cei din lista se pot imparti in doua categorii. Prima categorie este formata din cei care au contribuit la crearea Romaniei din perioada interbelica, pe care o consider ca punctul de varf al existentei tarii. Ce-a de-a doua categorie este dedicata dizidentilor anticomunisti. Asadar:

Paul Goma
Vasile Paraschiv
Doina Cornea
Radu Filipescu
Radu Negrescu-Sutu
Gheorghe Hagi
Nadia Comaneci

Constantin Noica
Corneliu Coposu
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Dan Iosif Nita
Elisabeta Rizea
Emil Cioran
Eugen Ionescu
Ion I.C. Bratianu
Iuliu Maniu
Lucian Blaga
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Vulcanescu
Nae Ionescu
Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Titulescu
Nicolae Windisch
Noel Bernard
Petre Tutea
Raymond Paunescu
Take Ionescu
Vali Sterian
Victor Frunza
Vlad Georgescu

Romani, gasiti-va busola morala, altfel v-ati cam dus in pizda ma-sii.

PS: Lista este inca in lucru, este posibil sa mai adaug nume celor de mai sus. Pe de alta parte, se poate intampla sa sterg din personajele care sunt inca in viata (asa cum am facut cu Florin Chilian, dupa ce am aflat de implicarea sa in campania electorala din 2009…), pentru ca atata vreme cat omul traieste, este supus greselii. Cei de sus au fost corecti pana la capat, motiv pentru care nu i-am amintit, de exemplu, pe Virgil Ierunca si Monica Lovinescu. Inca incerc sa-mi dau seama daca batranetea tampeste si daca greselile facute de om dupa ~70 de ani, sunt de scuzat au ba. Deocamdata-i ba.

Karl Denninger wrote today an amazing article, “Open Letter To The Chinese Premier“. I like his positive attitude on where the globalworld economy is going to and the entire satirical tone on how the Western part of the world got into and will go out of this mess.

He is talking about how the US government hijacked the rights from their people and gave them privileges instead, about how puppets like Clinton, Bush, Obama, Greenspan, Paulson, Bernanke or Geithner acted as ‘we the people’ never existed, about how the Chinese leaders used their slaves and pegged currency to take over the supply chains in the rest of the world, about how most of the world is going bankrupt because they can’t fight a Chinese $2/day slave labor and about how the only way out is for the ones in debt to default and start rebuilding.
All of this may very well result in one of the two: third world war or a big Chinese revolution. As I wrote earlier this year on the blog, I think that the Chinese revolution is the most probable, as the Chinese propaganda machine already showed its limitations, thus they can’t motivate their slavespeople for a war… although last year they created the most spectacular Olympic opening ceremony, not that it has anything to do with what I said so far

First thing I thought of when I read Karl’s article is:

Okay, enough, here is the awesome article of Karl Denninger (I wish I could write like he does…), please note that the original one has some hyperlinks to news articles, which I didn’t port:
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I have two black cats. My wife used them with canned food every morning, between 6:30 and 7:30, when she wakes up. I didn’t know the cats can read the time, but around 6:30 they start to make noise, if my wife doesn’t wake up till 7 o’clock, things start to get serious/personal. When they get serious, the cats are doing one of the following three things, without repeating the same one in two consecutive mornings:
- Mirolau (the oldest one) goes to the litter box and starts to cry as loud as he can;
- Megan (she’s younger, but fatter ) jumps into the bed and starts to grab my wife’s feet, even if sometimes she’s confusing them with mine…
- both of them start to play by running back and forth from our bedroom to the kitchen.

There are times (very few) when I get upset because I can’t get back to sleep, so I jump from the bed and run after them, both of them trying to get to the other bedroom and to hide under the bed. I never took them out from under there as I prefer for them to believe that’s the “safe spot”. If by mistake I catch one, I’m taking it in bed with us… I don’t know why, but they hate that! This is when they know life sucks and they will get food very late that day, and they can’t do anything about that.

Now, by alternating their wake up call role, I consider them as being in a very smart risk sharing agreement… as we can never get upset on just one of them, so we have to evenly love/hate them in the same time

Here are some thoughts I had about… casual sex:

Most of the smart people end up by talking about sex without having sex.
Most of the mediocre people have sex and end up by talking about it.
Most of the stupid people have sex and never talk about it.

How smart would you want to be?
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First
How would it be not to own everything, but to have everything?
How would it be not to own the knowledge, but to know the truth?
How would it be not to know all the answers, but to be able to answer any question?
How would it be not to know the reason, but to be able to explain the consequences?

Helpful translation:
How would it be to own the truth?
How would it be to know all the consequences?

Second
By knowing all you wanted to know by now, is it going to make it easier for you?

Helpful translation:
Can you be serious when it all makes sense?
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I just found out that the first key that’s wiping off from my keyboard is “C”. Now, what does this mean?
- I’m fast?
- I’m lazy?
- I’m not creative?
- My forefinger rests on the wrong key?
- My forefinger sweats a lot?
- A B C D …
- It’s a cheap keyboard?
- All of the above;
- Nothing.

I scored 26 on the “Mensa Workout” test. What is this making me believe? Well, I believe my math got rusty and so far it was one of my biggest pleasures in life. This winter I’m going to review some of my old copybooks. Repetita iuvant.

Your score was 26 out of 30. That is an excellent score—you would have a very strong chance of passing the Mensa test and joining Mensa.

Please note that the Mensa Workout is NOT the official Mensa test, and your score will not qualify or disqualify you for membership.

I was not happy enough for the last two days after I found out that the Romanian-born poet and novelist Herta Muller had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, so I had to go back to Earth and find out today that the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to backbone free Obama.
First I thought I probably didn’t catch much news this year, but c’mon! After that I thought it’s a joke or that because of the current economic crisis the Nobel Foundation ran out of money. I went and checked the announcement of the Nobel Foundation, it was all true, the reaction people have had to the announcement confirmed me “the news”.

I thought I was somehow familiar with what Alfred Nobel intended the Prizes to be awarded for and because I didn’t see the connection for a politician, the President of the biggest empire today, to get this prize, I tried to find the excuse.

From Alfred Nobel’s will:

shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows… and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

If it would be for us to judge after what Obama did in the precedent year, 2008… well, he was in campaign for the entire year :-). Is this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Obama’s presidential campaign?

Some context. Because of the economic mess we are in and because many economists are saying that the only way out (especially for US) is to start the World War III, we may actually see it happen. Two weeks ago, the leaders of US, UK and France have held a joint press conference to warn Iran to ‘come clean’ on something they already did/didn’t do/hadn’t to, which is a sign for big trouble. China is the number one oil and gas importer from Iran, go figure.

What struck my mind was that in this context, the best thing the Nobel Foundation could do would be to work proactively and to award the peace prize to the (leader of the) most aggressive country in the last 65 years. How can Obama now declare war to anyone when he was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for his vision? It’s just like stipulating in a contract some of the clauses he engaged to during his campaign. After all, he may very well lead his empire for 7 more years. What would be the world with no new wars for 7 years?

The Nobel Foundation’s press release quotes (I highlighted the key words) :

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons…

I think the contract I was talking about is present in the last part of the press release:

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.”

By accepting the prize, Obama signs the contract in the name of the most powerful nation. Unfortunately, life taught me that people without backbone are extremely dangerous, as they don’t care much about contracts. I guess we’ll have to see. Anyway, with this prize, they killed just another myth… and created a new one.

Starting with tonight, for the rest of my life, I will look just like Tom Cruise in “Top Gun”… or like Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, depends of the budget.