Happy birthday rivet_geek!!!

This placed used to be the location of Bainbridge Naval Training Center. Bainbridge NTC was in operation from WWII until the 1970s. There used to be over 500 buildings at this site. Once the military abandoned the place they must have went and destroyed all the evidence. The only buildings left on this site were the ones taken over by the Job Corp. We visited 3 out of 4 of those buildings. One of them had no windows so it was too dark for pictures so we skipped that one. There are some other little buildings showing up on a google map but they are literally a half mile away and probably wasn't worth even trying to see them. This place has been ravaged. I'm not even sure by what. There is a lot of natural damage such as the roof caving in from water damage. But all the walls are smashed up like scrappers had been through. It's a strange place for sure.

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What do we call it when somebody rejects something very strongly yet cannot unlink one's thinking from the object of rejection? I'm blanking on the term right now. Is it pathological?

In other things, I went to see Lucky today and we had a good session. The relationship has definitely advanced by leaps and bounds. Now I show up and she trots up to the gate. I put her back today and she did something I never thought I would see her do: she kept nosing back to the halter. Then she hung her head over the bars of the gate and shook her head back and forth as I was walking away.

Awww... it's a paradox. When you're still working for the respect of the horse, leaving for the day is easy. When you make a connection with the horse, leaving is not so easy.

And another thing! Today at the end, Maria the big fat bitch mare who is way overweight and mean as all hell, whose owner never comes or trains or works or does any fucking thing with her, was being her usual big fat bitch self and Lucky used me for cover! Lucky posted right up behind me when Maria wandered over to nip and push and kick her around. And I was all like, "Yes, you big fat bitch?"

But I'm nice to Maria-the-big-fat-bitch anyway. It isn't her fault. I gave her a piece of carrot. She isn't mean to people so much. Just all the other horses.

The cats on Parliament Hill have been recently joined by an even cuter set of characters.

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CIA Assassin Program Was Nearing New Phase
Panetta Pulled Plug After Training Was Proposed

CIA officials were proposing to activate a plan to train anti-terrorist assassination teams overseas when agency managers brought the secret program to the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta last month, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The plan to kill top al-Qaeda leaders, which had been on the agency's back burner for much of the past eight years, was suddenly thrust into the spotlight because of proposals to initiate what one intelligence official called a "somewhat more operational phase." Shortly after learning of the plan, Panetta terminated the program and then went to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers, who had been kept in the dark since 2001.

The Obama administration's top intelligence official, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, yesterday defended Panetta's decision to cancel the program, which he said had raised serious questions among intelligence officials about its "effectiveness, maturity and the level of control."

But Blair broke with some Democrats in Congress by asserting that the CIA did not violate the law when it failed to inform lawmakers about the secret program until last month. Blair said agency officials may not have been required to notify Congress about the program, though he believes they should have done so.

"It was a judgment call," Blair said in an interview. "We believe in erring on the side of working with the Hill as a partner."
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Spoilers, Snape tries to shot Harry with a gun and gets thrown off of a Los Angeles Skyscraper.





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любителям постить фотографии ядерных взрывов подложу свинью...
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/testpix/index.html - вот вам сразу сто штук, и больше не делайте этого.

I had a personal training session (free, because I couldn't fit it into my first session at the gym and got comped for it am a Baller and Roll Like That) on Monday and only now, close to 55 hours later, do my triceps and...backy...things not feel like they are on fire. Not "FEEL THE BURN BRAH," but actual fire, what with the pain and the scorching and such. And so I bitch and whine into the vast, echoing chasm that is The Internet because I am too much of a delicate pussywillow to do pushups every other day.