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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"/ Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
- Charles M. Schulz
I voted today. Was amazed at how easy it would be to steal someone's vote. All you have to do is know their name and address and show up before them...
on a different note:
Proposition 83
Sex Offenders. Sexually Violent Predators. Punishment, Residence Restrictions and Monitoring. Initiative Statute
Should California amend existing laws relating to violent and habitual sex offenders and child molesters to increase penalties and monitoring?
Yes: 70.4%
No: 29.6%
59.4% ( 14906 of 25090 ) precincts reporting as of Nov 7, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Dammit. Dammit Dammit Dammit. I so look forward to 80% of registered sex offenders going OFF REGISTER, not getting TREATMENT, and taxing our already WEARY POLICE FORCE, while at the same time spending money to INCARCERATE guys who took a piss in a park for INDECENT EXPOSURE. Like FUCK making them stay farther away from public schools is going to make them less likely to attack. Like FUCK having GPS bands is going to help the situation. If I really really wanted to kidnapp and rape a kid by stealing them away from a school 20 hundred feet from my home, I would walk or drive the bloody 2000 feet. Goddammit. I despise when people just listen to the catch phrase "protect our children" without actually reading what the consequences for "protecting our children" will be. Goddamn.
At least 85 is failing.
On another different note:
Today in sociology we had a group debate on same sex marriage. I was placed on the against side (which my teacher thought would be hysterical (this isn't as bad as it sounds, she didn't put me there for her own twisted pleasure, we were split based on last name)). We won. I argued that gay marriage would lead to incestuous marriages and other horrible horrible things. Oh, that and that by allowing children to be raised by gay couples, we were setting them up for STDs. Oh, and that we are a country founded on religion, and therefore, we must listen to the bible, regardless of spiritual preference.
But really, the thing that did me in was arguing that the only time I've ever been certain I've been in love never even existed. The book mentions that love could be defined as "a feeling we have for others who match up with what society teaches us to want in a mate," and I took that as truth and said that since Society teaches us to want opposite sex mates, same sex love does not exist. (Incidentally, they countered saying that you don't need love to have a marriage...o_O...stupid response on their point, because they contradicted themselves two seconds later, and because my argument was BOGUS, but then again, they don't have debate training...so...)
I could distance myself from the rest, but that one, I killed a part of myself when saying it, especially these days when I'm already feeling pretty shitty about myself and life in general, and barely believe myself capable of love.
- Charles M. Schulz
I voted today. Was amazed at how easy it would be to steal someone's vote. All you have to do is know their name and address and show up before them...
on a different note:
Proposition 83
Sex Offenders. Sexually Violent Predators. Punishment, Residence Restrictions and Monitoring. Initiative Statute
Should California amend existing laws relating to violent and habitual sex offenders and child molesters to increase penalties and monitoring?
Yes: 70.4%
No: 29.6%
59.4% ( 14906 of 25090 ) precincts reporting as of Nov 7, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Dammit. Dammit Dammit Dammit. I so look forward to 80% of registered sex offenders going OFF REGISTER, not getting TREATMENT, and taxing our already WEARY POLICE FORCE, while at the same time spending money to INCARCERATE guys who took a piss in a park for INDECENT EXPOSURE. Like FUCK making them stay farther away from public schools is going to make them less likely to attack. Like FUCK having GPS bands is going to help the situation. If I really really wanted to kidnapp and rape a kid by stealing them away from a school 20 hundred feet from my home, I would walk or drive the bloody 2000 feet. Goddammit. I despise when people just listen to the catch phrase "protect our children" without actually reading what the consequences for "protecting our children" will be. Goddamn.
At least 85 is failing.
On another different note:
Today in sociology we had a group debate on same sex marriage. I was placed on the against side (which my teacher thought would be hysterical (this isn't as bad as it sounds, she didn't put me there for her own twisted pleasure, we were split based on last name)). We won. I argued that gay marriage would lead to incestuous marriages and other horrible horrible things. Oh, that and that by allowing children to be raised by gay couples, we were setting them up for STDs. Oh, and that we are a country founded on religion, and therefore, we must listen to the bible, regardless of spiritual preference.
But really, the thing that did me in was arguing that the only time I've ever been certain I've been in love never even existed. The book mentions that love could be defined as "a feeling we have for others who match up with what society teaches us to want in a mate," and I took that as truth and said that since Society teaches us to want opposite sex mates, same sex love does not exist. (Incidentally, they countered saying that you don't need love to have a marriage...o_O...stupid response on their point, because they contradicted themselves two seconds later, and because my argument was BOGUS, but then again, they don't have debate training...so...)
I could distance myself from the rest, but that one, I killed a part of myself when saying it, especially these days when I'm already feeling pretty shitty about myself and life in general, and barely believe myself capable of love.