2004-07-08

winterbadger: (small haggis)
2004-07-08 09:17 am

chelona, this one's for you

Virginia license plate: BY HOMER

Spotted, of course, on a maroon Honda Odyssey minivan.

:-)
winterbadger: (shaolin evil spirit)
2004-07-08 01:11 pm

Bush appointee to federal judgeship confirmed

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/07/congress.judges.ap/index.html

I'm all for everyone having the right to their own religious views and the freedom to worship how they choose. I'm also for the Senate using its powers of advice and consent to determine whether a candidate's views, whether dervided from religion, philosophy, personal experience, or any other source, indicate that he or she is capable of interpreting the law in a fair and balanced manner.

If Judge Holmes feels that women ought to be subordinate to men, that it is a wife's duty to subordinate herself to her husband, then I do not think he can be expected to interpret the Constitution, especially the 14th or 19th Amendments, in reasonable and legitimate manner.
winterbadger: (sushi)
2004-07-08 03:02 pm

not the typical conversational gambit heard in our washroom

Voice 1: So, Jim, do Mormons believe that Adam and Eve... well... that the Garden of Eden was in North America?

Voice 2: Um, yes, in fact, we do. It's not a central, core tenet or anything, but well, after the Flood , things got kind of, sort of jumbled up, and obviously that later stuff wasn't in North American, but, yes.
winterbadger: (shaolin evil spirit)
2004-07-08 11:44 pm

if there's anything more unpleasant

than stepping unexpectedly in the dark into a warm pool of cat vomit filled with little chunks of seafood, I really don't want to know about it.