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        <title>Pics</title>   
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        <p>Only at my library...
    
    
    
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        <title>Religion and politics</title>   
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        <published>2007-02-08T15:43:00Z</published>
        <updated>2007-02-08T22:50:14Z</updated>
    
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        <p>I don&#39;t understand why the left is letting the religious right get away with being the &quot;religious&quot; right. If one looks at the lessons of the bible, the left is CLEARLY following the teachings of Jesus and the New Testament. Admittedly, the religious right does follow the bible, but it&#39;s the Old Testament that they revere. <br />I got into an argument with my mother one day about the relative &quot;sinfulness&quot; of various laws in Leviticus - you know the ones:<br /><blockquote><p>Don&#39;t eat shellfish, don&#39;t wear clothes of mixed fibers, men - don&#39;t sleep with other men (no prohibitions on lesbian sex - did you notice that - men are men no matter how far you go back in time, apparently), don&#39;t shave your beard, etc.<br /></p></blockquote>and Mom told me that when Christ came, he swept all of those laws (except for the gay ones) away. A few days later, she was talking about the 10 commandments, and I reminded her that when Christ came, all those laws were rendered null and void, remember? She, of course, insisted that she meant no such thing...<br />The point is that most fundamentalist, literalist evangelical Christians ignore completely the edicts by Christ to love your neighbor, support the poorest among you and &quot;judge not&quot; others. They tend to focus on the legalistic laws of the Old Testament. If a political candidate came out and confronted the religious right with that fact, they would win the moderate to left-leaning Christian base. I admit that it doesn&#39;t seem like there are that many of those types around, but I think that they are there - they are just being quiet because they don&#39;t want to admit that they follow the same religion as the right-leaning Christians.<br />This is, of course, just my opinion. I&#39;m neither Christian, nor conservative, so my take on how to get Christian conservatives may be way off base - but I think it&#39;s worth a try...<br /> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Tagged!</title>   
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        <p>I&#39;ve been tagged by <a href="http://www.mstabbycat.com">Tab</a>!</p><p>   1. Find the nearest book<br />
   2. Open to page 123<br />
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   4. Tag three others</p><blockquote><p>tags. Or you can change the now-passe &lt;b&gt; and &lt;i&gt; tags to their more modern equivelents, &lt;strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;.<br /></p></blockquote><p><br />Yeah - it&#39;s a computer book. Bite me.<br /> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Let it snow...</title>   
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        <published>2007-01-21T04:25:35Z</published>
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        <p>10:30pm - been snowing since 6ish. More to come!!
    
    
    
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        <title>The best of craigslist</title>   
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        <p>You know, if you hang around Craig&#39;s List long enough, you will find absolute gems. Perfect little sparkly nuggets of beauty that you read and you absolutely must share with everyone - because they are so freakin&#39; perfect. So, today, I came across a gem entitled, <a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/205576820.html">Why Nice Guys SUCK</a>, and I had to share. I think it hit a nerve with me - I dated a guy like this once and I have to admit that I became the biggest bitch on the face of the earth - because I could. He never called me on my behavior or argued with me about whatever it was I was mad about (and I seemed to be mad A LOT, trying to get some reaction out of him). He just hung his head and said, &quot;sorry honey&quot; every time I started yelling. I hated that with a passion!!! I&#39;m usually not bitchy at all (no comments from the peanut gallery Rogue or Tab!!!), but he really brought out the nasty side of my personality - and not in a good way.</p><p>Anyway, I read that, loved it and felt the need to share. Guys - read it, understand it and - please - live it!!!<br /> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Mess</title>   
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In a New York Times article published a few weeks ago, the argument was made that messy desks show their owners to be more creative and have more limber minds. Parents with messy closets are cooler and more nice than their more tidy counterparts. I just had to upload a pic of my desk, as it looks this morning, in response to that article. I&#39;m so freakin&#39; creative and limber...<br />
    
    
    
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        <title>QotD: I&#39;m Working.  Really.</title>   
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        <published>2007-01-12T15:59:22Z</published>
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        <blockquote><p>We know you never slack off at work, but if you did, what would you do? </p></blockquote><p>
Read <a href="http://www.fark.com">Fark.com</a> all day... </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>QotD: The Big To Do List</title>   
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        <blockquote><p>What&#39;s on your &quot;do before I die&quot; list?<br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">Submitted by <a at:user-xid="6p00c2251cd3b2604a" class="enclosure-inline-user" href="http://cvodb.vox.com/">Caroline</a>.</span><br /> </p></blockquote><p>
I don&#39;t really have one, so I&#39;m going to have to make this up as I go along...</p><ul><li>See my son happily settled</li><li>Go back to Italy</li><li>Finish college</li><li>Make enough money that I no longer live month-to-month</li><li>Visit Europe with my son</li><li>Have <strong>no</strong> regrets about things I *didn&#39;t* do while on my deathbed</li></ul><p>that&#39;s all I can think of for now. This should be a meme!! I think I&#39;m going to tag <a href="http://www.mstabbycat.com">Tab</a>, <a href="http://www.mikewashburn.com/blog">Mike</a> and <a href="http://rogue2408.wordpress.com/">Bobbi</a>. I wanna see your lists!!<br /> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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 <div>I&#39;m just starting to listen to this book - I&#39;m still in the first chapter somewhere, actually, but he&#39;s already saying stuff that&#39;s making me think. Of course, the idea that legal abortions caused the massive downturn in crime in the mid-90&#39;s (just when the kids who *would* have been born to &quot;adverse&quot; family conditions would have hit the prime time for them to become criminals after Roe vs. Wade was decided) intrigues me. I&#39;ve often felt that abortion is a much better idea than giving birth to kids who have no chance. I saw a cartoon once (and even my formidable Googling skills couldn&#39;t find it!!) that showed a little boy with band-aids and bruises sitting in an apartment with hypodermic needles littered across the floor (and not much else) looking out over a pro-life demonstration saying, &quot;what about me?&quot;. That cartoon pretty much sums up my feelings on the abortion debate. There is no reason to bring children into the world who have so many obstacles to overcome. <br />Damn it. There was another reason I was going to blog about this book today, and now I can&#39;t remember it. I&#39;d scrap the post entirely, but I really like the preceding paragraph, so now I&#39;ll just pretend that the entire post was supposed to be about the abortion --&gt; crime issue and not about whatever it was that struck me as so freakin&#39; insightful when I was listening to it. I hate it when that happens. I guess I&#39;ll post about whatever it was I really liked later, when I run across the idea again in the book...<br /></div>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Beach Baby</title>   
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        <p>That&#39;s Alex out there on the beach - next to the hot pink board thing. Take my word on it - it&#39;s him...<br />I dislike sand, so I&#39;m a ways back from him - hence the bad pic! More later!!!
    
    
    
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