Right, then.
Aug. 24th, 2006 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptA pair of funnies - The insidious nature of LJ, and the inability of quantifying love.
Something not funny at all - baby found in the backseat of a car. The driver was DUI. Similarly, mother refuses to get her children rabies shots. Even though there were bats in the house that were very much around them.
Back to funny - I, for one, welcome out new insect overlords.
Scooter girls - proving that there are pin-ups for everything.
Drug defeats recall, but improves intuition. So you do learn a few things, even without remembering what you've already learned. Trusting your gut instinct is worth something, sometimes.
A T-shirt is apparently sufficient reason to prevent someone from boarding the plane. Well, it's more like the people who have bought into the lie that anything Middle-Eastern, including the Arabic script, is automatically a terrorist signal. Complaint, with the ACLU's assistance, has been filed. There is nowhere in the law that prevents a person from wearing a T-shirt on a plane that I know of. Wearing it in an airport was almost guaranteeing that the person would be pulled aside.
I'm really tired of the assumption that because some people who come from the Middle East and profess to follow the law of Mohammed are interested in the destruction of non-Muslim civilizations, that everyone who either comes from the Middle East or professes to follow Mohammed's law is in league with the extremists. Of course, it doesn't help that people who profess to follow Jesus's teachings but do nothing of the sort are the most visible face of the Christian religion. If both sides could rein in their extremists, I think the world would be a better place. Now, how do we go about doing that...?
Something not funny at all - baby found in the backseat of a car. The driver was DUI. Similarly, mother refuses to get her children rabies shots. Even though there were bats in the house that were very much around them.
Back to funny - I, for one, welcome out new insect overlords.
Scooter girls - proving that there are pin-ups for everything.
Drug defeats recall, but improves intuition. So you do learn a few things, even without remembering what you've already learned. Trusting your gut instinct is worth something, sometimes.
A T-shirt is apparently sufficient reason to prevent someone from boarding the plane. Well, it's more like the people who have bought into the lie that anything Middle-Eastern, including the Arabic script, is automatically a terrorist signal. Complaint, with the ACLU's assistance, has been filed. There is nowhere in the law that prevents a person from wearing a T-shirt on a plane that I know of. Wearing it in an airport was almost guaranteeing that the person would be pulled aside.
I'm really tired of the assumption that because some people who come from the Middle East and profess to follow the law of Mohammed are interested in the destruction of non-Muslim civilizations, that everyone who either comes from the Middle East or professes to follow Mohammed's law is in league with the extremists. Of course, it doesn't help that people who profess to follow Jesus's teachings but do nothing of the sort are the most visible face of the Christian religion. If both sides could rein in their extremists, I think the world would be a better place. Now, how do we go about doing that...?
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Date: 2006-08-24 11:20 pm (UTC)As for the "constitutional rights" thing, the mistake is that people believe that what was written in the Constitution applies equally to all people in all ages at all times. The new ideology is that the Constitution protects when its convenient to do so - if the government requires something from you or does something to you that violates those rights in the name of national security, then you, as an American-loving patriot and not an al-Qaeda thoughtcriminal, will happily allow your rights to be raped.
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Date: 2006-08-24 11:28 pm (UTC)While that may be true, and I completely agree with you that people tend to make the constitution convinient only when it works for them, we also have the ACLU that WILL continue to fight these situations. I *wish* I knew where my ACLU card was so I could say I'm a card-carrying member....
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Date: 2006-08-24 11:33 pm (UTC)As for the ACLU, they do great work, but they can only be in so many places at once, and it requires someone reporting to them for them to take action. The ALA routinely says that for every one book challenge that ends up at its Office of Intellectual Freedom, five more go unreported. People have to be willing to be the ACLU of themselves, knowing their rights and exercising them.
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Date: 2006-08-24 11:39 pm (UTC)I think a lot of people are scared of the ACLU. I don't think a lot of people even know what the AClU stands for, or what they do.