Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart released a campaign "cartoon book" that attacks his rival's stance on accepting homosexuals.  The entire interview on CNN is full of Brent Rinehart saying that the country is in a "cultural war" and the few images from his "cartoon book" that we get to see are so preposterous that I have a hard time believing that he doesn't know the meaning of the word "homophobic."  He also states that he doesn't care if he misspelled the word "pedophile" as "pedifile."

The CNN interview.


(And if anyone knows how to embed CNN video- despite their lack of an embed code- I would love to find out.)

Fucking Awesome!

Recommendation:  Go see it.  Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker was simply amazing, giving this character a whole new perspective.  (Although I found some interesting parallels between this and Tim Burton's Batman.)  The Joker was over the top and stole the show.

And if you can go see it at the brand new AMC 16 at the Southcenter Mall then you will see it in digital projection.

Added bonus:  The Watchmen trailer is at the head of the movie.

Although I truly want one of these: Captain Hammer Shirt!

There was an article about the local mega-church Mars Hill (six branches now open plus one more coming soon in Olympia serving 7000+ people) in the PI yesterday.  The majority of it was an interview with the pastor of the newest branch in Bellevue.  At one point the interviewer asked the pastor about why is it the church would not allow women to be pastors and what his thoughts were about California legalizing marriage for gays.  His responses were laughable.

Why aren't there any female pastors at Mars Hill?

We believe that's a role God has given to men. He's given roles for women in our church as well, but the office of "elder," we believe, is reserved for men -- for one reason or another. We'll find out (why) in eternity, I suppose.

The thing that makes us successful is the power of God's word, which is the Bible. When we compromise on that, we do damage to what God wants us to do. The power of this church isn't us, it's God. We're really not driving this ship at all.

But we believe that without women, the church wouldn't be able to exist. Women can be deacons. Women can do just about anything in a church. When people check us out, their perception of chauvinism goes away when they realize the high regard we have for women -- the high calling we place on men to care for them.

 

Your home state of California just legalized gay marriage. What do you think of that?

Um. Well. I think it's interesting. I don't know how to answer that. (Later, not wanting to duck the question, he expanded his answer). I believe God's instituted marriage between a man and a woman.

 

The rest of the interview can be found here.

Movie meme acquired from tzaddi_93
Here's Entertainment Weekly's list of the top movies of the last 25 years. Go through their list and BOLD the ones you have seen, ITALICIZE those you love/would watch over and over again, STRIKE OUT those you dislike strongly or really would rather never see again.

Well, there is one less stressor in my life.  The trip to Chile, for me at least, has been cancelled.  The company we are dealing with cannot get me to where I need to be until the 20th of July.  This just is not an acceptable date as the time spent down there would have me coming back sometime in the first week of August and that is waaaayyyy too close to the wedding date.

It would have been some damn good money, but no amount of money will make me miss 17 August.  sigh

thatcaptjim mentioned theremins in a post earlier today and I found this video of a Zepplin tribute band that I had to post.

Enjoy!

There might actually be a bathroom forming in the basement.

For those of you that have seen our basement previously would be amazed to see that there is an actual bathroom there now.  Not yet functional, but there is a bathroom.  All that is left is hanging drywall, tiling, installing lights and plumbing fixtures sink and toilet.

There might just be a whole completely new basement down there in the near future.

I just posted some pics from your wedding onto my flickr account.  Thought you might want to check them out.

Happy One Year, my dear u2rgoddess.

Love you, wildly, madly, truly, deeply, completely.

Thanks totouchstoneaf

Most of the questions I got are the ones that tend to hit my buttons in written and spoken English.

Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test ...

English Genius

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 100% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!

Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

 

http://helloquizzy.okcupid.com/tests/the-commonly-confused-words-test/

Teacher suspended for using Freedom Writer's Diary as a teaching aid.

The long and short of it is that a teacher was suspended for allowing her inner city students a chance to read a book written by and about other inner city students who used their high school English class as a way to get ahead and g on to college.  Not only did the teacher send home permission slips to 150 parents all but one parent said the book was ok for their children to read.  The school board disagreed and told her to stop using the book in her classroom.  She refused to follow the order and was suspended for 18 months without pay because the school board did not agree with the "coarse language" used in the book.  Ironically the book is available in the school's library for check out.

Talk about censorship and going against the will of the parents.  If 149 out of 150 parents said their children could/should read the book because of the lesson it teaches then the school board should listen to the parents and not their own high-falutin morals.

Just because everyone else is doing it.....

Bold all the things you have done


01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink

Grumble....  My trip to Chile continues to be on hold until the company we are going to be assisting gets the last of the logistics figured out for us to transport over $100,000 worth of portable x-ray and other equipment there and back again.  grumblegrumblegrumble....

thanks to moon_goat for this.

On Wednesday Kathy Lee Gifford during a live broadcast of the Today show called Pagans "nasty, bad."  If you wish to help petition an on air apology then follow the link to the care2 site.

Could happen this summer.

oh yeah!

Stolen from rebelprivateer



how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen

Ok,  The pics of our friends at the Solstice Parade are up.

The trip is a go.  Currently scheduled to leave some time on Thursday and expected return is anywhere from ten days to two weeks.

Time for bag packing.

Here is a pic for you.