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What else can I say?
Friday, September 12, 2003
All of God's Children Ain't Free You would think that people who have been traditionally discriminated against wouldn't discriminate themselves....
and you're always wrong.
"My name is 'Sue!' How do you do!" Apparently, someone has come up with an algorithm... you give it prose, it can nail the gender of the person who wrote it.
It guessed right for me.
After Taxes Well, duh.
When you're averaging $1000+/month in loan repayment, that means the first $20,000 you make each year has to go to pay back loans.
You simply cannot afford to take a job that pays in the $30s. Unless you're married to (or were born to) someone who makes a whole lot more.
I'm ragged but I'm right Disagreements on the tax plan...
but they're all aware that Bush messed this one up.
We used to look at this place like we looked at Kansas," said another USGS scientist, Ralph Haugerud. "It's beginning to look a lot more like southern California.
Stop him before he designs again! Admittedly, that picture looks only slightly ugly - but it's obvious that it's the same guy repsonsible for the monstrosity that is Experience Music Project (so ugly, they don't even show the whole thing on the website, just a few "partial" photos) and a number of other incredibly expensive, aesthetically distasteful metal droppings.
Don't let him do this to your town (and I'm truly sorry if it's too late).
It's still illegal, immoral, and unChristian And at least the associate justices have realized that - if they must in the most mealy mouthed, pathetic wording possible ("bound by solemn oath to follow the law, whether they agree or disagree with it," It should not be that difficult for a state supreme court justice to take a stand to follow the law. Get a backbone and a clue. Of course, they seem to be with all the other public officials in Alabama - do they not teach basic civics there? Do they not care? Maybe we should just encourage them to secede and let them go their merry, tyrranical, bigotted way this time). As the "justice" himself said
It's about the acknowledgment of God.
which is precisely what government instutions in America are not supposed to do.
We ended welfare as we knew it! And now we have poverty like some of us have never seen it before. 20% of children are below the poverty line (which is astoundingly low). How did anyone not see that coming?
"Cleansing" It never ceases to amaze me how much women have had to deal with... and how dangerous it has always been to just get by.
Good for these women for getting the economic power and position to save themselves.
Bad public policies w.r.t. HIV and AIDS At least one-sixth of the population of the tiny town are HIV-positive - and instead of sending doctors (there are none), they sent a police force with nearly the same numbers as the population of the town.
Herd Immunity The National Acadamy of Sciences wants to change from government buying vaccines to using the money to support vaccination programs. Which will supposedly save lots of money and make the whole vaccination process more affordable - but even among those who can afford it, many aren't "fully" vaccinating themselves and their kids, or even bothering with vaccination at all (due to some controversies over the vaccine.
Which may be more valid than that site gives them credit for being.
(I do, though, wonder how many of the people who voluntarily decline vaccinations realize that the only reason their kid is safe is that the rest of the kids are vaccinated?)
Misleading headlines anyone? Yes, an appeals court let a 10 commandments plaque, erected in 1920 with the building of the courthouse, stand. That does not mean that the disgusting, disgraceful, un-Christian monstrosity that Judge Moore erected shouldn't go. Today is it's due date, from now on the Judge gets fined $5000/day until it's off the court lawn.
He knows he's wrong. If he didn't, he would have attempted to secure public funds for a work on public land, instead of paying for it privately. He would have announced it - as all other art projects are announced, with ribbon cuttings and press. He put it up in the light of day, instead of sneaking it on in the middle of the night.
It is wrong - on every level, legal, moral, religious.
That thing needs to go.
Anyone wanna buy a paper? Hearst is looking to sell the P-I which is not a good thing. And brings us closer to a one paper town. which is still pathetic in a Seattle sized city.
It must be pleasant there The President still believes the economy is fine and that things are picking up right around the corner. For the sake of the many who are un and underemployed, I hope he's right. Sadly, I fear he's just deluded.
And he's not alone It says something when you run for President as a Democrat and your fundraisers are put on by Republicans. What it does not say is "I cross the divide between the parties." It says "I'm really a Republican!"
If, by some nightmare, this guy gets the nomination, I will hold my nose and vote for him - the same way I did three years ago. But stunts like this make it more and more clear to everyone that he shouldn't get the nomination.
BTW, "Joe's Jobs Tours" for someone who doesn't actually support doing anything to create jobs is insulting.
More on the recall Perhaps it's the continually blaring CNN in my cube. And the articles, and letters. But this has my attention. 247 people filed. How many of the filings pass muster is another question - but they're having problems figuring out how to put that many names on a ballot without confusing the hell out of people.
Oh yes, and this plan to "fix" the California government will end up costing at least $60 million in a state that's already strapped for money.
In the meantime, it's been entertaining - people showed up to watch the arrangement of the alphabet for some of the ballots (which enver happens) which will include the name Terry Tate star of the Reebok Office Linebacker commercials (which, while entertaining completely fail to associate with Reebok, so fail as advertisements).
Less permanent "solutions" Juries are becoming less and less likely to sentence people to death. And everyone is realizing that mistakes get made and innocents get killed.
More than 6 degrees We're not as connected as we thought. (But still pretty connected). I'd love to do one of these studies.
Yay! Al Gore's speech to MoveOn.org. Wonder if it would look really bad for him to say "I've changed my mind, none of the nine of you have a shot or a clue. I'm running, sit down, and shut up." Maybe not. Things I love, the Bush camp's response is to "dismiss it". For the love of all that is holy, listen to what people are saying. It's your job, to listen to the people. AAAA. Please vote that man out of office.
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