since my husband David is quite familiar with the community at DSL Reports, I thought he’d be interested in this item from Boing Boing: Shaw is censoring Internet feeds and lying about it – because DSL Reports did the outing.
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Apparently, that young man that gets such a kick out of politics was an elections official at a Pennsylvania polling place. While there he apparently intimidated a female Democratic poll watcher into keeping silent, successfully challenged a homeless man who attempted to vote but left in frustration, and harangued a woman who asked for information about her ballot. The future of the Republican Party. Believe it. Via Jesus’ General
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Along with everyone else in TiVo land, I have to discuss whether my fave shows are on the TiVo Top 100 Season Pass List However, I’ve chosen to edit the list down to just those few items we watch that are on the full list, rather than posting the whole thing and marking my few choices: Rank Title ———- —————————————- 2 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 9 CSI: Miami 12 CSI: NY 22 Queer Eye for the Straight Guy 25 Enterprise 28 The Simpsons 31 Cold Case 32 Smallville 36 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 37 Rescue Me 46 Stargate…
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At least one person I know is having a bad day, (in a series of bad days) today. So I give you all The Llama Song. HTH, HAND, ROTFLMAO.
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Yahoo! News – Vt. Man Devours 19 Lobsters in 35 Minutes Yep, that pretty much says it all. Rance could probably eat three… maybe. On a good day.
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Serenity’s Nathon Fillion does a little press for the upcoming film on Sci Fi Wire: As for his acting style, Fillion said, “I haven’t made any drastic changes or anything. I have noticed that my nose is a lot bigger on screen. It’s like, there are times when if you could put your arms up, that’s about how wide my nostrils are. I’ve always known I have big nostrils, but now I could park a Buick in them.” The above quote is a good indicator of why Nathan Fillion is one of the funniest actors in “the industry.” Also one…
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Via Clack: Don’t think for one minute that it’ll stop with just abortion. Some pharmacists refuse to dispense birth-control pills on moral grounds. There are legal protections for pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control, too. They’re supposed to make arrangements for another pharmacist to fill the scrip, but some even refuse to do that. Which makes me wonder if the RTL movement has been quietly working to get a lot of pharmacists into their tent… if you object to birth control on moral grounds, one way to stop it is to cut off the supply at a convenient choke…
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Via Salt: a good laugh from The Borowitz Report .com, which report that an openly Episcopal man has joined the Village People. Open schism is possible, although the Construction Guy urged “tolerance and understanding” in a recent statement. Heh. Look for an Anglican chant version of “YMCA” soon. In the meantime, here is the highway report. As it happens, we did a bit of Anglican chant today for our main service – it was the celebration of All Saints’ Day, which was last Monday. We did a version of the Beatitudes set to music by Richard Proulx. By coincidence, my…
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John Perry Barlow’s post election essay helps to put things into perspecitive, post-electionwise: Magnanimous Defeat Meanwhile, Jesus’ General helpfullly passes along a link to the Theocracy Mentorship Program, which puts US Blue bloggers together with Iranian bloggers to get survival tips for living mostly free under a theocracy. For those that feel that living in a theocracy is not worth the trouble, Jahiri has some advice. “The key to self-immolation is location, location, location. I recommend shopping centers or busy open parks. If you intend to go out in flames, make sure people see it.” As for me, I’ve been…
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Thanks to Jeff at Clack, I’m now thoroughly creeped out on the subject of this season’s Scary Word, “Dominionism.” I got here via Theocracy Watch. Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical “warfare” is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, “sodomy or homosexuality,” incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the…