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31 August 2004
Interesting little read  
Being There - What does 9/11 tell us about Bush? Nothing. By William Saletan

I'm really enjoying getting Slate headlines and stories piped to me that I might spread the word more (for what few people read the blog still). Just something to think about...

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27 August 2004
Happy Birthday: Here's the Fire Department!  
You hear about it in cards and jokes, but it did actually just happen. It was a coworker's 40th Birthday party (cake cutting at 9:40), so we all file up, and they light the 40 candles, and she goes to blow them out.
And you see the cloud of smoke rising.

Except, they're also trick-candles, so they keep smoking and keep relighting, so she blows them out again.

And you see the cloud of smoke thickening.

"Watch, the smoke alarm is going to go off," said my grand-boss.

WAH WAH WAH... WAH WAH WAH... WAH WAH WAH...

Someone calls to say it was just candles on a cake. The response was that we had to evacuate anyway. So we do. We sit outside waiting for the fire trucks to come (a big ladder truck, a smaller ladder/pumper, and two pain vehicles), and we watch the fire fighters all dressed up in their turnouts, go in the building because they have to. And then they come out after a few minutes with grins on their faces. "Who's this _____ person?" the chief asks, and we all point to her. "Well, happy birthday," he says.

So it does happen. Birthday cakes with too many candles can summon the Fire Department!

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26 August 2004
What a welcome to the area!  
So SU has a new chancellor. This is wonderful news! So what happens six weeks after she moves to the area? Someone steals her car. Yes, that's right. Someone stole the Chancellor's car right out of the Chancellor's residence. Nice. Real Nice.

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06 August 2004
I really love slate...  
Bushism of the Day By Jacob Weisberg

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Thanks to Alicia Butler.)

I'd say that it's about true.

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05 August 2004
Those silly Alabamans!  
The 11th Circuit court upheld an Alabama ban on the sale of sex toys. Of course, you can still buy them and bring them into the state and use them, but you just can't buy or sell them -in- Alabama.

I'm just amused by the thought of bigshot proper judges discussing sex toys in court.

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04 August 2004
On the Soap Box again  
I know it'a bit late, but it's not often that I have the time to write things down when they're topical. I suppose it is. Once again on NPR this morning, I heard a piece that's headlined "Bush Courts Catholics with Social Agenda," which was about Bush speaking before the Knights of Columbus, supposedly "As President."

I dodesn't matter what he was speaking as, Current President or Cantidate for President, the article brought up an issue for me.

All other things aside, why should America support an amendment to the Constitution which legislates discrimination. Bush's proposed amendment would specifically deny a group of people (voters) one of those inalienable human rights from the Declaration of Independence. What ever happened to the Persuit of Happiness.

This is what I don't get about the platform against gays. Supposedly, they contribute to the degeneration of society, what with their freewheeling lifestyles of mulitple partners. They're dangerous (and contageous! eek! Does that make me a lesbian because I lived with one?). They undermine society and Good Family Values™.

So they want to settle down in monogamous relationships, pledging their lives to each others, promising to love, honor, and cherish each other for as long as they both shall live.

Wait. That's bad too!

Huh?

What boat did I miss. It's against Good Family Values™ for gays to be free-wheeling and single. It's against Good Family Values™ for them to be in a stable loving relationship. The only conclusion that can be drawn from this dichotomous situation that it would be against Good Family Values™ for them to exist at all.

That, my friends is Hate.

That is discrimination and prejudice.

That is not what America is about.

Please, you don't have to agree with people. You just have to have enough respect to realize that legislating discrimination is a Bad Thing. This country has come a long way since the Constitution was written. Freedoms have been established, not taken away. Look what happened the last time the govenment ever attempted to legislate morality through the Constitution. Prohibition, anyone? That didn't last long.

You can't legislate morality. You can't legislate who people love. You can't legislate that. You shouldn't legislate discrimination.

/soap box

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