The joys of pending staycation.

Oh wait.

There isn't any joy.

Guess that's the price I and my family will pay for bad decisions and being stuck in the crumbling class formerly known as middle.

The only difference between us and the poor, is we're surviving paycheck to paycheck and we have a roof over our heads.

US$50 Billion?

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• An international court orders Russia to repay US$50 billion to shareholders of the Yukos Oil Company for breaching the Energy Charter Treaty.

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From today's Wikipedia page.

Terrible parking job.

Couldn't be bothered to straighten out after first getting in?

What an asshole.

Seriously - Israel is run by the right wing; does anyone really expect them to act like rational human beings?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2014/jul/24/gaza-crisis-palestinian-death-toll-passes-700-live-updates

They see Palestinians as less than human. I sincerely believe the only reason they don't use their large nuclear arms is because it would make the lands they are slowly cleansing for themselves unusable.

To all you bozos who shop at Amoron, or worse, link to them.

This is the asshole corporation you're dealing with -

http://www.occupy.com/article/amazon-scariest-part-cias-new-amazon%E2%80%8B-cloud-storage?utm_source=Website+%27Join+Us%27&utm_campaign=80c5663526-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_77fe4a462d-80c5663526-67628737

"The fact that the cloud's $600 million budget will be parceled out from the CIA kitty over the next ten years, in some ways, confuses the issue. All 17 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community will be making use of Amazon's cloud, including, selected at random, the NSA, the DEA, the Department of the Treasury, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and Coast Guard Intelligence—which you'd think you would have heard of by now. Like: there should definitely already be a CBS procedural or at least a USA Network original series about Coast Guard intelligence agents, given how much old people love boats and mysteries. "

The fact that the cloud's $600 million budget will be parceled out from the CIA kitty over the next ten years, in some ways, confuses the issue. All 17 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community will be making use of Amazon's cloud, including, selected at random, the NSA, the DEA, the Department of the Treasury, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and Coast Guard Intelligence—which you'd think you would have heard of by now. Like: there should definitely already be a CBS procedural or at least a USA Network original series about Coast Guard intelligence agents, given how much old people love boats and mysteries. - See more at: http://www.occupy.com/article/amazon-scariest-part-cias-new-amazon%E2%80%8B-cloud-storage?utm_source=Website+%27Join+Us%27&utm_campaign=80c5663526-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_77fe4a462d-80c5663526-67628737#sthash.WGALeTjt.dpuf

The fact that the cloud's $600 million budget will be parceled out from the CIA kitty over the next ten years, in some ways, confuses the issue. All 17 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community will be making use of Amazon's cloud, including, selected at random, the NSA, the DEA, the Department of the Treasury, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and Coast Guard Intelligence—which you'd think you would have heard of by now. Like: there should definitely already be a CBS procedural or at least a USA Network original series about Coast Guard intelligence agents, given how much old people love boats and mysteries. - See more at: http://www.occupy.com/article/amazon-scariest-part-cias-new-amazon%E2%80%8B-cloud-storage?utm_source=Website+%27Join+Us%27&utm_campaign=80c5663526-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_77fe4a462d-80c5663526-67628737#sthash.WGALeTjt.dpu"

Glad I don't have to leave this place in a hurry.

Sun ... rise at Long Beach, WA?

Evening time. And the sun is making a brief comeback.