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[judecorp]

There are so many thoughts swirling through my little noggin, yet I haven't the time to process them fully or really do anything with them. It's sad.

I'm glad the whole "conception crime" schtick in Indiana has been thrown out, for so many reasons not the least of which is that it would, of course, leave me the potential of being a criminal in Indiana. Not that I ever plan to set foot in Indiana, but hey, you never know. I've just never been one for breakin' the law. It's ludicrous that there is a group of people who believe that not only do they have the correct idea of what is the "ideal" parenting situation, but have the desire and power to try to legislate such a thing. That makes me sick. It's bad enough that we have a society have a preposterous idea that poor people don't deserve to have children, now society wants to legislate that only married, hetero folks with no criminal records do? Makes me sick.

I find it almost laughable that GWB would nominate his personal counsel for the SCOTUS. I say "almost" because, well, it's really not funny. Now it's one thing to nominate someone with no judicial experience (it's been done before, it will be done again, although usually said person at /least/ has held a post like attorney general or something other than president of a bar association)... but it's something else entirely to nominate someone who has been involved in cleaning up your record and taking care of personal business. I can understand GWB's desire to nominate someone so close to him, someone so firmly lodged in his pocket... but I just think she's a poor choice. Although, who knows? She could end up another David Souter, lefty in disguise! (Okay, that's not entirely true but a girl can dream.)

Science teachers somewhere in Pennsylvania (Dover?) are now required to read a statement acknowledging "other theories" (read: intelligent design) before teaching evolution. Dear god in heaven, MAKE THESE PEOPLE STOP ALREADY. Teach all the creationism you want in your frickin' church schools, CCDs, religion classes, and family home evenings. Let's leave science class for the testable things, okay?

My wish for Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah is peace. Heck, that's my wish for every frickin' holiday that exists. You would think that someone up there would LISTEN to me. Just once. Please?

I'll be 30 in 12 DAYS. How exciting is that??!? A new decade!

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[thelastbard.livejournal.com]

My hope too is that she becomes another Souter, but I hold little hope. It's like a single birthday candle hope. Tiny one.

Here's my thinking on the "intelligent design:" if we accept the premise that "complex organisims" are not explained by Darwin's theories, then that leaves us in a morass of OTHER hypothesi (sp?) that make so much more sense. For instance: the world was created by a giant spaghetti monster, and that's why lots of people like pasta - it's in genetic homage to our illustrious whet-based creator. Do they REALLY want to through the baby out with the bathwater, in the name of some fractured sense of "religious sensitivity?"

And then, you know, the usual shaking of the head at hetero white folks that want to tell us how to raise kids when their own kids are babysat by their cable television...

My cousin is working on an international MBA so he can be an expat - he's tired of living here, and I sympathize with him. Canada is looking mighty attractive to me these days.


(BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY STINKY B! It's nice to be thirty. Sometimes.)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I know that political culture comes in waves, and each wave is a bit of a backlash of the one before, but that doesn't make it any easier, not for those of us who grew up at the end of the Carter era and still had some of that driving force. I know that eventually things will swing back toward the progressive, at least a little bit. I just don't know how long I can wait.

It's just not feasible to leave the country right now, especially since it is incredibly difficult to do so - getting into Canada can take quite a while and it's quite the hassle. And I'd rather try to change things from the inside, but at the same time, it's very frustrated and painful for me to see the way things have swung around and are going. Ick.

p.s. Thanks. I wish I could see you for my birthday!

Ice Cream for everyone!

[thelastbard.livejournal.com]

That's a good point - we're riding an eight year backlash for the previous eight years of Clinton. I can respect that to a degree, since it's one of the few ways that the executive branch gets some ideological balance. I have difficulty with either extreme, though. I'm more of a moderate, but if you threatened my life, I'd plead liberalism. My problem is that few in the Midwest, or wherever the middle of the country's zeitgeist sits these days, seem to see the damage of their attempt at cosmopolitain electorate - whatever might be fasionable at the time of whatever election you might have that particular year. It's an ADD of strange and frustrating consequence. I really think that is what's wrong - people (the big general "people" of... average America) tend to vote in fashion simply because it takes too much time to figure it out for themselves.

Plus, most canidates are annoying. There. I said it. As much as I detest W., Kerry was no promised land either. And to go totally cosmo, I wished Joe Liebermann made a serious run at it - that would have been at least interesting.

Yeah, leaving the country at this point is not economically feasible right now for me either. But one can dream, if only to be an expat, living the expat lifestyle... ahhhhh...

Anyhoo:
PS - I wish I could see you too. So we could eat ice cream. Mmmmm, ice cream...

Re: Ice Cream for everyone!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I find Liebermann to be one of the most cardboard, boring politicians ever. Besides, he's the most un-Democratic Democrat ever. Gosh, why can't anyone be LIBERAL these days? It's like there are two groups of people: moderates and neo-cons. Where are all the commies like me??!? =P

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

The ironic thing about the whole evolution shebang is that all the Catholic schools in my area teach evolution. We tell the kids that the Bible gives answers about faith, but it is not a science book.

Happy almost-birthday!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I went to Catholic schools for 13 years and it was the same way. Pope John Paul II even stated that evolution was not against the teaching of the RC Church and that evolution and creationism can go together.

Now with the new Benedict, who knows what will happen.

[ktmcda.livejournal.com]

I hope she's part of a secret sleeper cell for a radical leftist group. that she's been working for bush all this time with a master plan of making sure the ERA gets passed.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Gah, that would be GREAT.