Random advice for nieces and nephews.

Keep your nails short, don't get any facial piercings, and never wear clothing or shoes that restrict your movement. Zombies, aliens, and attempted rapists could strike at any moment, any form of personal adornment that hinders your ability to fight or flee is a Bad Thing. Facial piercings are especially bad; I have it on good authority that they hurt even worse than nipple piercings when forcibly ripped out. I'm going to watch movies now, more random advice may follow...

More random advice.

Kids, if you ever find yourself in a life or death struggle with a psycho killer, and you manage to knock him down, don't just stop hitting him and run away. Kick him in the throat, ribs, and groin until he stops moving, THEN run away. The same goes for werewolves, Amway salesmen, and date rapists.

And don't fight fair, no matter what the circumstances. If the schoolyard bully/would be rapist wanted to keep his teeth and testicles, he shouldn't have targeted you. The object of self-defense is to minimize harm to your own person; the bodily integrity of your assailant is at best a minor consideration. (The obvious corollary to this is, if _you_ start the fight, you deserve whatever happens to you. Not that I think any of _my_ nieces or nephews would start a fight.)

I'm down to the last pile of paperwork. All of it's stupid administrivia that no one will ever read, but it's still got to be done. Yet, I feel.... uneasy. By getting all caught up with my busywork, it's almost like the gods are wrapping up whatever 'surprise' they have for me. The calm before the storm is coming to an end. Or maybe the surprise will be "Nothing". Boy, that'd show me. What kidders the gods are, heh heh... :-/

Now this is disturbingly plausible.

Forwarded from warrenellis.com:

"Saudi Oil Fields Rigged To Explode

http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?p=701

According to a new book exclusively obtained by the Huffington Post, Saudi Arabia has crafted a plan to protect itself from a possible invasion or internal attack. It includes the use of a series of explosives, including radioactive “dirty bombs,” that would cripple Saudi Arabian oil production and distribution systems for decades…

If activated, the bombs would destroy the infrastructure of the world’s largest oil supplier, and leave the country a contaminated nuclear wasteland ensuring that the Kingdom’s oil would be unusable to anyone. The NSA file is dubbed internally Petro SE, for petroleum scorched earth.

According to the NSA intercepts, Petro SE was devised by the Saudis because of their overriding fear that if an internal revolt or external attack threatened the survival of the House of Saud, the U.S. and other Western powers might abandon them as the Shah of Iran was abandoned in 1979. Only by having in place a system that threatened to create crippling oil price increases, political instability and economic recessions did the royal family believe it could coerce Western military powers to keep them in power..."

Rest of article is at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/05/embargoed-book-claims-sau_1.html . Now that would explain a WHOLE lot, and makes our government's sycophantic relationship with the Saud Bandit Chieftans more understandable, if not fogivable.