Aaron’s Blog

I just saw a story on CNN about the famous conservative political pundit, Michael Savage. (He is the third most listened to radio commentator below Limbaugh and Hannity, for anyone that didn’t know)

Anyhow he made some completely unacceptable comments about individuals with autism. He said quote:

“You know what autism is? I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is.What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’ Autism — everybody has an illness. If I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, ‘Don’t behave like a fool.’ The worst thing he said — ‘Don’t behave like a fool. Don’t be anybody’s dummy. Don’t sound like an idiot. Don’t act like a girl. Don’t cry.’ That’s what I was raised with. That’s what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You’re turning your son into a girl, and you’re turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That’s why we have the politicians we have.”

…..my god people. When are his listeners going to wake up and realize that this man, and the people that are like him, are thugs and bullies. I have had extensive work with kids and students that are diagnosed with autism and I can tell you right now it is not a made up disease. Even if it is an over diagnosed disease, which it isn’t, why would Mr. Savage choose this to attack? Seriously, what is his goal? A bunch of conservative jerks crying afoul on autistic programs throughout the US? How is this compassionate, good or moral in any way?

Personally I think someone should arrange for Mr. Savage to do some socialization work with a young autistic boy so he can learn a little bit more about his righteous crusade against the mentally ill. But he WOULDN’T do that because he is a “compassionate” conservative and spreading hate is more important than doing something good.

It’s Amber’s 24th birthday today! Wish her the best!

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Enough said…

We have some new additions to the Lamble apartment…

Amber had been talking about getting more fish for some time, so we decided to go to our local Walmart to pick out more aquatic friends. Amber chose two black mollies and we also decided to live a little by throwing a crab in too.

Turns out crabs are really boring, however Amber is completely enthralled with him. I was given the task of naming our crustacean, of course I chose a fitting name of Citizen Snips. We named the mollies Black and Momba, yet another Kill Bill reference…

I consider these guys as stepping stones to more substantial pets, of course that is not meant to demeane their stature…I mean Citizen Snips could really do some damage.

The end of Spring Break is upon us and I HAVE to go back to work.

Though not the most rock’n awesome spring break I have ever had there were some highlights…

1. Mom, Dad, Adam and Seth came up on saturday and sunday. We really didn’t do much though, I beat Adam in Smash Brothers a couple times. We also had a huge hassle with dinner…in the end we just got pizzas from Wal-Mart, which to be honest I preferred.

2. From monday through wednesday I did absolutely nothing…However Battlestar Galactica Season 3 came out tuesday night! Amber and I have already finished it, it is totally worth it by the way.

3. Amber took half of thursday off, we got our haircut, I lost my luxurious locks…Amber told me if I got my hair cut she wouldn’t make me cut it again until August. We relaxed for the rest of the afternoon and planned out our adventurous weekend.

4. We decided to get out of Colby for awhile and took a trip to Denver. Our first stop, of course was the Denver museum of Nature and Science. A majority of the museum was taxidermy exhibits, but there were a couple other interesting things on display, such as the prehistoric adventure.

5. Our other stop was Flat Iron Crossing mall, this mall is a gigantic half inside half outside monstrosity. Just being able to walk around a mall was pretty great and there were a bunch of things to see. Speaking of, we went to see Drillbit Taylor, it was surprisingly funny and it also had a cameo of Jayne, literally Jayne from Firefly.

That is about it, right now I am sitting in front of the TV worrying about school tomorrow. It is hard to believe I have already been through 3/4 of the school year.

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For anyone that does not know teachers have to attend these workshops called inservices every few months. The students love them because they don’t have school and the teachers “love” them because the students don’t have school.

Anyhow, I attended one last Friday and its theme was technology in the classroom. One of the sessions I went to was an introduction to Photoshop. Thinking to myself, “I love Photoshop Phriday!” I was eager to go. I learned a bit about making posters and stuff, but the greatest thing I learned about was….

LIQUIFY!!!!! This tool allows you to mess with the photos and stretch them out…naturally I found immediate utility in this skill and started mutating our wedding pictures.

My best work however is a picture of our third twin Adrumb…

Gods above…is that creepy or what?

Happy Birthday big Sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There’s just something about extremely dumb, racist and fundamentally religious people that makes me smile.

I have been going to this website quite a bit lately. It is basically a repository of religious and racist comments made by people on the internet. Some of it is funny, some of it ridiculous and sometimes it is down right psychotic.

Such as the guy that thinks DNA is a secular conspiracy because it is acid and will melt you…because that is what acid does…duh!

It’s good for a laugh, unless you are sensitive to really stupid people saying really terrible stuff.

It is somewhat of a tradition for us in the Lamble apartment to have delicious stir-fry on fridays nights. It is almost like a reward for a long week of work. Anyhow, it is also a tradition for us to watch sci-fi stuff too!

So far we have barreled through quite a bit of electronic entertainment.

10 Seasons of Stargate SG-1
8 Seasons of X-Files (we are almost done)
2 Seasons of Battlestar Galactica
1 Season of Stargate Atlantis
Various other Sci-Fi themed movies

There is nothing finer in life than a good story and some delicious asian food. It is a great way to spend a friday night! If anyone else wants to adopt our tradition you are more than welcome.

Hello everyone,

Not much to say other than some of the things I have been doing to keep myself entertained. (Not much out here is Colby, so we do what we can…)

I have been reading Colbert’s new book, I Am America (And so Can You)

I have also started playing WoW again, I am still not sure it was such a good idea to play again but we will see. However I have been enjoying my time playing it. In fact I just finished one of the greater feats in the game and scored myself a nice new epic mount.

Amber and I seem to be doing okay, school is hard. It always seems like a struggle to get things ready for the next day, but I have been told I should expect as much my first year.