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Oct. 5th, 2005 09:59 pmThere 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!
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!
