Tarot

OK, why am I finding so many references to various Tarot decks all of a sudden?

First, through a series of links on Monday, I ended up on a Christian Fundamentalist site warning parents away from the Lord of the Rings movies on the basis that it's really a secret introduction to the occult. It offered as proof the existence of the Lord of the Rings tarot cards.

Then yesterday, in reading the Harry Potter newsgroup I came across a link to this one, currently in progress.

Then I got a link to this one in my email yesterday from a guy who played in a Call of Cthulhu game I ran at a convention 4 months ago.

And this morning, the funniest of them all, I found this link in gallows_brother's livejournal.

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So yet another top dude criticized our Iraq strategy.
What gets me about this, though, is that I knew that occupation was going to require a large amount of military and time. I just assumed that all those statements about how the Iraqi's were going to welcome us in with open arms and just couldn't wait to set up a new US-friendly government of their own were just propaganda. Is there a possibility that our top brass actually believed it? I'm not sure what's worse: blatant obviously untrue propaganda being issued by our government, or the idea that the top levels of military planning, the guys who have access to nuclear weapons and the largest military ever assembled on the planet, whose full-time job it is to plan this stuff, understand the situation less than a guy who sits on his couch surfing the web for an hour or two a day...

Billy-Kay Gavin is in trouble.

Yesterday, I had this conversation on the phone:

"Hello, this is Pat" (Since people are calling my number for Geeks Without Borders I've been slightly more formal than usual when answering the phone)
"This is Capitol One Mortgage calling for Billy-Kay Gavin"
"You have the wrong number"
"Is this the Gavin residence?"
"What part of 'wrong number' didn't you understand?"
"Look, this is a very important phone call!"
"Well, then, maybe you should have called the right number."
[click]

And this morning so far, I've gotten two more calls from two different voices trying to reach him again.

Poor guy, hope he manages to get away, whoever he is.

About the new FCC deregulation.

Mark Fiore, as usual, has it pegged:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/06/04/fiorerules.DTL