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Leaving LJ, going here instead...
After several years I have decided to move all my online journal/blogging activities here:
http://davercles.blogspot.com/
I will be deleting the other accounts as much as they will let me. I'd rather not have my personal data mined anymore.
I am also leaving MaiSpace or "My annoyingly buggy, full of crappy fluff and malicious software Space" as I tend ( Read more... ) -
Jefferson nailed it!
In fact, it wasn't too long after our country's founding that this branch started down the wrong path. These days, it's not unusual for entirely new "rights" that are not even touched on in our Bill Of Rights to be invented by some creative judge with the Supreme Court. How's that for a smack in the face Mr. Jefferson?
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Busy but Happy
Just a quick update since it's been so long since my last one.
Rocking out to Maroon 5 and some new trance CDs from the UK. It's good music to draw to. :o)
We are having another movie night soon and it's primarily convention staff and volunteers on the invite list this time. We have determined that it's impossible to cram all our friends and ( Read more... ) -
Best weekend in months!
Late last week my hetero-lifemate, Lance helped me write up his first real resume since 1989! We were both pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out. Now he is sending it out to headhunters and such to look for a better job. He has been lead man for his department for several years now and is still not making what skilled welder / steel ( Read more... ) -
Random thoughts of others
“If the government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests.” -Calvin Coolidge
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Going to Baton Rouge again...shudder
Good and bad
Deanna and I will be making a road trip to Baton Rouge, LA at the beginning of October to visit my parents. There was some hurricane damage done during the last two hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and Dad isn't able to do it all himself. My other two siblings are….not likely to be of any help in this so it's up to me. The oldest child.
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Sad but true
“As many as an estimated nine out of 10 children with Down syndrome are aborted in the womb, sought out by increasingly sophisticated prenatal tests and eliminated as too flawed, too burdensome, too different to live. This is the ugly eugenic underbelly of American life, even as we congratulate ourselves on our tolerance and diversity.”
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Ben knew some politicians...
"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason."
-- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735)
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A noble cause
"Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it."
- George Washington (letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 10 May 1786)
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Designer vaginas???
It seems that some doctors in Australia are trying to get designer vaginas blacklisted. I didn't even know there was enough of that type of surgery going on to generate a backlash group!
Here's the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395243,00.html
Take care,
Davercles