i had to tell you that i couldn’t afford the trigonometry calculator required for class. you kindly allowed me to use the book to do my calculations and you turned it into a game, challenging me to outdo the calc users.
daddy’d decorated my birthday present with this clown and i’d kept it in my scrapbook. deciding to use it for baby bro’s wall, i loved it – daddy had made it and it was something connecting me to the baby boy.
the recent failure of indymac bank has brought attention to just what “fdic insured” means. the federal deposit insurance protects the first $100,000 of deposits that you may have in a bank. anything beyond that and, if your bank fails, it’s a loss. in the case of indymac customers, about...
You know you’re in trouble when you turn on the cold water faucet and what comes out is hot water for the first three or four minutes. Its supposed to be 102F here today. That’s pretty hot. And I have two cats. Complete with fur. How do they stay cool in the summer? We always hear how...
i’ve waited to post this until i could martial all my thoughts together on the subjects. 2 recent supreme court rulings: testimony can’t be brought up against defendent if his accuser is dead, and the dc gun ban.
the first ruling, i consider a victory for domestic abusers and stalkers.
The case, Giles v. California, No. 07-6053, arose when Dwayne Giles was tried for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Brenda Avie. Giles’s position was that he shot the woman in self-defense, having heard her vow to hurt him and a friend. Giles maintained that Avie had once shot a man, and had threatened people with knives.
i am hearing some really disturbing arguments in defense of the flds compound and it’s practices. the arguments seem to revolve around:
1) “freedom from religious persecution”—as if our first amendment’s purpose was to allow for ~any~ behaviour under a guise of religion.
The Belief-Conduct Distinction—While the Court has consistently affirmed that the Free Exercise Clause protects religious beliefs, protection for religiously motivated conduct has waxed and waned over the years. The Free Exercise Clause ‘’embraces two concepts—freedom to believe and freedom to act. The first is absolute, but in the nature of things, the second cannot be.’’
thus, you’ve the right to believe whatever loony thing you want to believe. acting on those beliefs is an entirely different matter. the state CAN and WILL step in if you are breaking the law.
2) “individual liberty”—this strikes me as extremely bizarre, as the children and women of this compound have had NO liberty whatsoever. they aren’t given a choice. it is not ~choice~ when you are told that if you go against the wishes of the prophet, you are worthy of death.
3) saudi arabia do it, it’s a ~cultural~ issue. —why people consistently want to turn us into places like saudi arabia, i cannot imagine. and again, you are back to there being no liberty, no real choice for these women and children.
to see people defend the likes of warren jeffs is more disturbing and offensive than i can even say. i question the motives of those who have. there must be serious issues there.
The popular Broadway musical, adapted to film by directors David Greene and John-Michael Tebelak, retells the gospel of St. Matthew as it might happen in late-1960s Manhattan, as John the Baptist (David Haskell) gathers nine hippies and baptizes them in Central Park. When Jesus Christ (Victor Garber) joins in, a real love-fest begins, and the group joyously performs Biblical parables as they wander the city.
An overweight, overeducated lady-killer (Donal Logue) learns that his rules of cool (aka The Tao of Steve -- McQueen) get him everywhere with the women he doesn't want and nowhere with the woman he covets (Greer Goodman). Could there be something wrong with his philosophy? Sly and smart, The Tao of Steve burrows under the skin of modern romance, with warm, funny results.
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