Bleargh...
Feb. 2nd, 2006 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptTake another extra shift shift and I've had my fun for the night. I was going to let the sub job slide until I got called, and then I caved in on it. I do need the money in one sense or another, to help fund the upcoming projects I have in mind. Although I feel like I should have had a check cut by now, so maybe tomorrow I'll ask and see if all my paperwork is in order. Nothing more for the week on that front, though.
There's been a flurry of politics of one sort or another, touched off by the arrest of Cindy Sheehan in the Capitol gallery before the State of the Empire address. Wearing a shirt that reminds the executive of the things he's done is apparently against the dress code at the time. Mind you, charges were dropped and she's been released, but apparently, she was somehow in the wrong for wearing a tee-shirt designed to bring to the minds of the observers a very real fact. It was a very silent protest, if it was one at all. I think it's a perfectly legitimate question - How many more? There are even Congressmen getting into asking that question - and detailing plans of their own on how it could be accomplished. Ex: Mr. Murtha's letter to the Executive. (If you want hilarity, or high blood pressure, check out the comments. The partisanship can get a little thick, as can the shit-slinging. And that's just on the first page, of which there are twenty-three more. I can only wonder what sort of unintelligent invective and toadying is being done by both sides over such a thing)
Speaking of said address, there are some who take issue with the spin being provided and offer a reality checklist of some of those objects to try and provide what Paul Harvey was famous for.
To further throw your blood pressure up towards unsafe limits, we have a list of unsupported, ill-thought out froth about religion and Christianity. Having seen some experience now with how... militant atheists can be (as good or better as their fundamentalist counterparts on the other side), this sounds more like someone taking every line they've heard that they think applies and just putting them all together - no rhyme, reason, or checking for repeats. (The original author is friends-locked, so you get the copy instead) For as much as I think there's been a lot of bad things done (and being done) in the name of organized religion, I'm still not convinced that it can be simply swept away and that life will magically improve because of it.
Your television will not be revolutionized. Reality and it's opposite will become one. Ignorance is strength.
But one light thing to leave you with: It's true, I'm a Discordian.
Because the meme says so, that's why.
There's been a flurry of politics of one sort or another, touched off by the arrest of Cindy Sheehan in the Capitol gallery before the State of the Empire address. Wearing a shirt that reminds the executive of the things he's done is apparently against the dress code at the time. Mind you, charges were dropped and she's been released, but apparently, she was somehow in the wrong for wearing a tee-shirt designed to bring to the minds of the observers a very real fact. It was a very silent protest, if it was one at all. I think it's a perfectly legitimate question - How many more? There are even Congressmen getting into asking that question - and detailing plans of their own on how it could be accomplished. Ex: Mr. Murtha's letter to the Executive. (If you want hilarity, or high blood pressure, check out the comments. The partisanship can get a little thick, as can the shit-slinging. And that's just on the first page, of which there are twenty-three more. I can only wonder what sort of unintelligent invective and toadying is being done by both sides over such a thing)
Speaking of said address, there are some who take issue with the spin being provided and offer a reality checklist of some of those objects to try and provide what Paul Harvey was famous for.
To further throw your blood pressure up towards unsafe limits, we have a list of unsupported, ill-thought out froth about religion and Christianity. Having seen some experience now with how... militant atheists can be (as good or better as their fundamentalist counterparts on the other side), this sounds more like someone taking every line they've heard that they think applies and just putting them all together - no rhyme, reason, or checking for repeats. (The original author is friends-locked, so you get the copy instead) For as much as I think there's been a lot of bad things done (and being done) in the name of organized religion, I'm still not convinced that it can be simply swept away and that life will magically improve because of it.
Your television will not be revolutionized. Reality and it's opposite will become one. Ignorance is strength.
But one light thing to leave you with: It's true, I'm a Discordian.
What Subversive Alternative Paradigm Are You? created with QuizFarm.com |
Because the meme says so, that's why.
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Date: 2006-02-02 04:12 pm (UTC)