Month: June 2014

Stepping down

I’ve finally decided to gradually quit this vaping stuff.

I have been for a while now using Cherry 2.4 percent on the e-liquid.

Today I went and bought some new wicks for both my tanks. I also, instead of getting my usual 2.4 percent e-liquid, I bought some 1.8 menthol. So, I can gradually get off of the Nicotine. I just don’t think that it is right for my parents to have to pay for my habits, as I have not been very successful in getting any sort of donations via this blog at all. 

So, I am coming down gradually. It’s gonna take some serious prayers.

So, pray for me as I try to do this.

You can go here and here to see how I ever got started back to smoking in the first place. Basically, my trying to get hired with that company, and dealing with all the stress, is why I started back.

Modo takes a trip and never leaves the ground

This is so funny…:

The caramel-chocolate flavored candy bar looked so innocent, like the Sky Bars I used to love as a child.

Sitting in my hotel room in Denver, I nibbled off the end and then, when nothing happened, nibbled some more. I figured if I was reporting on the social revolution rocking Colorado in January, the giddy culmination of pot Prohibition, I should try a taste of legal, edible pot from a local shop.

What could go wrong with a bite or two?

Everything, as it turned out.

Not at first. For an hour, I felt nothing. I figured I’d order dinner from room service and return to my more mundane drugs of choice, chardonnay and mediocre-movies-on-demand.

But then I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn’t move to get water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid, sure that when the room-service waiter knocked and I didn’t answer, he’d call the police and have me arrested for being unable to handle my candy.

I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.

via Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude – NYTimes.com.

Too bad I wasn’t there; I could have gotten me a piece of booty and gotten away with it. 😉

Update: Some music related to post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3YtvuZ2-I0

also too…I  wonder if modo was seeing these?: (“Cause smokin’ and trippin’ is all that you do…”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8kYrIWu14E

Others: Firedoglake, Hit & Run, The Latest Word, Gawker, Politico, Ed Driscoll, Talking Points Memo,The PJ Tatler, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, Capital New York, Mediaite, Twitchy, JustOneMinute,The Week, Hullabaloo, Unqualified Offerings, Business Insider, The Dish and Balloon Juice (Via Memeoradum)

More on the bergdahl flap

More and more of this story is coming out; and it don’t look good at all.

To pull off the prisoner swap of five Taliban leaders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the White House overrode an existing interagency process charged with debating the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners and dismissed long-standing Pentagon and intelligence community concerns based on Top Secret intelligence about the dangers of releasing the five men, sources familiar with the debate tell TIME.

National Security Council officials at the White House decline to describe the work of the ad hoc process they established to trade the prisoners, or to detail the measures they have taken to limit the threat the Taliban officials may pose. They say consensus on the plan was reached by the top officials of Obama’s national security team, including representatives from the Pentagon, State Department, intelligence community and Joint Chiefs of Staff. “These releases were worked extensively through deputies and principals,” says National Security Counsel Deputy for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes. “There was not a dissent on moving forward with this plan.”

But officials in the Pentagon and intelligence communities had successfully fought off release of the five men in the past, officials tell TIME. “This was out of the norm,” says one official familiar with the debate over the dangers of releasing the five Taliban officials. “There was never the conversation.” Obama’s move was an ultimate victory for those at the White House and the State Department who had previously argued the military should “suck it up and salute,” says the official familiar with the debate.

via White House Overrode Internal Objections to Taliban Prisoner Release | TIME.

Suck it up and Salute? Yikes. Something tells me that this story is going to get much bigger; before it gets any smaller. 😯

Others: protein wisdom, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and Ed Driscoll

Now a memeorandum thread.

On the Bergdahl flap

I am sure by now that you have heard about the flap involving Bergdahl.

Of course, it is being politicized up the wazoo, by both sides.

Anyhow, here are two links that I very highly recommend that you read; by people who have been there and did that. By that, I mean people who have actually served in the Military.

Check out BlackFive’s and Laughing Wolf’s takes on the situation.

Update: Now a huge memeorandum thread.

Update #2: More about the flap