it's one thing to take your time doing your job. it's totally another when you have an poopyhead attitude about it.
: "For the first few months Mian would get up in the morning, call the Embassy, and spend the day on hold, being shuffled from one desk to another, but never finding out what was going on. Sometimes no one would even ask his name or what he wanted. People would just tell him they couldn't help him.
So he waited. He had tests coming up at Drake, so he'd try to study, but he couldn't concentrate. He had all kinds of commitments in Des Moines. He had to stay in touch with his office, pay his rent, take care of his car insurance, his utilities. He ran up hundreds of dollars in long-distance phone bills.
He met other folks in the same situation, workers losing their jobs in the United States, students who couldn't get their degrees.
'I was very depressed not knowing where I'd end up. You feel angry, frustrated. Maybe I was naive, but I didn't get it. I was never in trouble, I worked and paid my taxes and I didn't pose a security risk. Why do this to me?'
At one point he called his supervisor at AmerUs, who spoke to Roger Brooks. Then Brooks ran into Sen. Tom Harkin at the WineFest, told him what was going on, and Harkin got his staff involved. They got the attention of the State Department. Mian got his visa. He figures he'd still be sitting in Lahore if he didn't have these connections.
And it was Harkin's folks, not the Embassy, who let Mian know he'd gotten the OK to come home.
'When I called the Embass"

the understatement of the decade.
AIDS Cases Again on Rise: "The popularity of certain recreational drugs, such as crystal methamphetamine, has also fostered risky sexual behavior, especially among gay and bisexual men, said Bayrd of the UCLA AIDS Institute.

Crystal methamphetamine 'produces a heightened euphoria and that leads people to take risks they might not otherwise take, both in terms of having unprotected sex and having it with multiple partners,' he said."

yah yeah ya... its ben a while. so sue me. :) they make you wear seatbelts in cars, but not helmets on motorcycles. now how fuckdup is that? c'mon. why should there be that much of a disparity between human safety, which is the criteria that laws should be based on. too many states have no helmet law and madison capital times, which i monitor for bushwatch, had a good article today "No Helmets = No Brains". my point exactly. anyway, come keep up with me on fields of poopy.

(disclaimer: i do not own a motorcycle, but i do like riding them)