QOD
Today has been fertile ground for the quote of the day...
“Transformers, I had suck a crush on Opimus Prime” - Jenny
“What? He was a truck!” - me
"If you had a football team of ninja's, what would the cheerleaders
look like?" - me
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Today has been fertile ground for the quote of the day...
“Transformers, I had suck a crush on Opimus Prime” - Jenny
“What? He was a truck!” - me
"If you had a football team of ninja's, what would the cheerleaders
look like?" - me
In another bizarre twist of reality the Bush administration has raised last-minute objections to a new .xxx internet domain for pornographic websites. How can the Bush administration be against an easy way to filter out adult content? Answer is simple, the Family Research Council.
Family Research Council has dedicated itself to working against reproductive freedom, sex education, equal rights for gays and lesbians and their families, funding of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They support a school prayer amendment and would like to ‘disestablish’ the Department of Education.
So, you can imagine where they stand on porn. Here is the statement the made about the new domain:
"Pornographers will be given even more opportunities to flood our homes, libraries and society with pornography through the .xxx domain. The .xxx domain will increase, not decrease, porn on the internet," it said.
What? So what you are saying is that labeling R rated movie is making it easier for kids to sneak into them? This logic does not stand up. That is because they are lying. Pornographers will have then same or less chance to flood our homes with nudity. Which one of these domain names looks more like an adult content site My-Site dot COM or My-Site dot XXX? Let us not even talk about Whitehouse dot com... Wouldn’t it be nice if it went to something that had to do with the place the President lives?
Here is my guess why Family Research Council objects, it will make adult content easier to find. They do not want to protect you from Pornographers shoveling smut under your door. They want to ban it. I do not like Larry Flint, but I can see his point. Think about it... what on the list of things they want to ban would you miss? Freedom, equality, arts, education for all, Big Bird?
Bush, who is taking his political cues from the movie Bullworth, will not interrupt his 4 week vacation to talk to grieving mother camped out side his gate. Instead he told reporters “I think it’s important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something to say. But I think it’s also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life. ...”
This balanced life includes a multi-million-dollar Republican fund raiser, by the way. Therefore, if I paid a couple of thousand dollars and was a republican, I could get to meet the president. If my son gives his life for this country, I get remarks worthy of a high school break up.
Bush continues... “I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions and to stay healthy. And part of my being healthy is to be outside exercising. So I’m mindful of what goes on around me. On the other hand, I’m also mindful that I’ve got a life to live and will do so.”
You are not talking about eating more fiber. It is soldier’s lives and it is your job. You took an oath, remember...
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
You job is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. You have two roles chief executive of the federal government and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. One of those roles has something to do with being a commander of troops. We are fighting a war... is this ringing any bells?
You are the President of the United States! There is a reason everyone who gets this job ends up with grey hair. Didn’t anyone tell you the job was full time, with nights and weekend?
Hello... the press... where are you?
Rich Pablum has a new book titled “The Five People You Meet in Hell.” The book is a parody of the book “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” The Heaven version is another take on “It’s a Wonderful Life” where a good hearted person dies and 5 people explain the meaning of his life. In Rich Pablum’s version the same thing happens with a slight change in venue. In a nature of full disclosure, I have not read either book yet.
I thought wow, what a great question. Who are the five people I would meet in hell to explain the meaning of my life? Here is my answer:
My high school guidance councilor - We would sit in his office. He would tell me why coffee at Java Café instead of going to algebra has led me to where I am. How he was right, that if I had ‘chosen’ (listen to him about) a career at age 16 my life would have meant something. He would explain how the collage application process is the last important thing anyone does. Last, as I chewed my nails off, he would tell me that high school was the meaning of my life. Who I was in 10th grade was the meaning of life.
Billing Service for TXU - I would sit in the dark and be asked question I do not know by an automated voice for duration determined by satin himself. A demon would appear ask me to explain why I was there. After listening to a syllable of my screams, the demon would disappear and I would be sent back to the automated voice to re-answer all the questions again for a duration twice as long as the one determined by satin himself. Another demon would appear who would ask me to repeat all the questions again. If I could not answer, I would be sent back to the dark for duration four times as long as the one determined by satin himself. After I had answered all of the second demons questions I would be told to saw my right hand off or go back to the first step. In the dark an automated recording would tell me this is the meaning of my life every 5.34 seconds.
Dating Service - While sitting in a chair under a bright light, I have to explain why I deserved contact with the opposite sex in writing using only the words zits, ugly, out of shape and loser. If I touched my pencil to the page, an attractive person narrates as they show an awkward moment in my life on a screen and the contents of hell laugh. All the while, a clearly written poster would site in front of me with GQ models on it that said, “Being attractive is the meaning of life.”
A Televangelist - With me chained to a folding chair, Jerry Falwell explained how real people of faith all made it to heaven. If I had been a real Christian I would be there too. I should have supported life as long as it is unborn or brain dead and thus unable to sin. I should have distanced my self from anyone who was gay, divorced or just different. How my desire to listen to other point of view lead me here to hell. If I had been a real Christian, like him, I would have been able to come down from heaven and tell people this too. As I tore my left ear off he says, “Being Christian, like me is the meaning of life.”
The Guy I Accidentally Cut Off in Traffic - Sitting in a very uncomfortable chair, we would go back over my life frame by frame. He would point out any time I was a jerk or broke the law. If I disagreed or acted unsympathetic he would hook his horn at me and poke me with a stick. Every mistake would be replayed from multiple angles. When I broke and gave in to the insanity he would say... “It is what other people think you that is the meaning of life!”
I read over 4,000 emails in the last year. This is not an exaggeration. Counting them up I came up with a little of 4,300 email I that I opened and spent more them 5 seconds looking at. That is 10-15 a day based on workdays. Over the last 7-8 years the number of emails has been fairly constant. Before that the number of email I received was much less. Therefore, add all this up, if I had to guess my life time email load is about 35,000 - 40,000. In the last year I have sent around 1,700 emails. That is a rough estimate of 15,000 life time.
Back in high school we watched a movie called Future Shook. The premise was that growth of technology would isolate people from one another. I can order a pizza without talking to a human. This leads to the idea that human interaction is some how limited by technology. My human communication load is increasing not decreasing. I spend less time talking to people face to face, but much more time writing to them.
Before the phone or telegraph, advances in transportation brought about what is called the golden age of letters. A time when sending letter was an art. Winston Churchill was an infamous letter writer. He wrote letters to his wife daily, even though they lived in the same house and shared a bed. Today K and I write quick notes to each other during the day.
Technology has once again brought about an age of letters. Admittedly the art is lacking, but think about it. We are just starting this age. The prose of our language is still adjusting to the new media. One day, blogging, email and may be even text messaging will be regarded as art. Call it the second golden age of letters. Out of 15,000 attempts 1 or 2 must be art.
Bush wants children taught Intelligent Design in school. President Bush said students "ought to be exposed to different ideas." This floors me. The same President that believes teaching high school student about condoms, the civil rights movement or free speech is dangerous says exposing children to different ideas is a good thing. Wow, how does he sleep at night?
This debate is not about science. Intelligent Design is not a theory because it has no hypothesis. Gravity is a theory because the hypothesis is that mass warps space around itself causing gravity. Now evolution is a theory, based in science, like gravity.
Anyone who says Intelligent Design is anything other then a Christian Coalition (radical right) ploy to get theology taught in schools is lying! End of debate.
Now Mr. President if you are interested in some different ideas from a Christian point of view check-out this group� www.christianalliance.org