Protest under the palms

[isomeme]

Yesterday evening was exciting.

First, I dashed out early (for me) from work to meet the lovely rosefox  for a quick dinner.  It had been a long time since our last chance to visit, and the conversation zinged wildly from common friends to politics to the economy to our careers and relationships, and points between and beyond.  In retrospect, I'm amazed

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its my fault

[krishnahermes]

Yeah, I was too intimidated by the prospect of being called into the jury duty when I haven't reached fulltime status yet that I didn't register. Not registering has been key to staying out of the jury pool while its very expensive.

Now I admit its pretty lame, but when you're both scottish and italian jewish it makes you genetically doubly tight fisted.

I admit its selfish, I really should've broken into a CD early to get funds to cover my jury duty so I could've registered to vote against Prop 8.

However I doubt my one puny vote would've helped much, ultimately the huge turnout for Obama dovetailed with a group that is openly hostile towards Gays.

This reminds me of the BS I was taught in school that african americans are incapable of having prejudice because they are "disempowered."

Well its true they have a special struggle even with Obama, but at the same time as voters they are empowered enough as a block to take away the rights of other people.

If you read the new testament its actually pretty "fiercely" clear that Jesus was obviously bisexual. I mean, why do you have to take this "youth" to spend the night for an "annointing," why does he have to get all gussied up.

I should know because that's how I got talked into being abused! Be like our Lord!

If only the Christians knew that Jesus was 100 times weirder than Aleister Crowley. As hard as Crowley worked at it, in fact he was hard pressed to be as strange and licentious as the historical Jesus.

One day maybe we'll be as uptight as the Christians are today and we'll be under the delusion that somehow Crowley was some upstanding celibate or something! Just give it 2000 years!

Re: its my fault

[contentlove]

Yeah, I was too intimidated by the prospect of being called into the jury duty when I haven't reached fulltime status yet that I didn't register.

You are aware that you can get a dispensation from jury duty if there is a compelling work problem?

Re: its my fault

[krishnahermes]

We need same day registration. Without the growth of same day registration in other states Obama may have lost.

They may have tweaked the jury system since the last time I went. I went before 911 and wore pajamas to court in order to get out of serving.

But if I do fulltime then my employer pays for my jury duty so I'll wind up serving if I don't wind up in contractor limbo.

You can get out of it, but I believe you still have to come into court. But I could be wrong, it may be streamlined where you can just call in on the phone and get out of it, maybe I'm being unreasonable about it.