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I’m not sure if I have ranted about this before, but if I could make one request of the people of Rochester, it would be this:

When approaching a 4-way stop, and there are other cars around, please come to a full and complete stop. If you are making a left hand turn, you are to go behind the oncoming car. Behind him. Not in front. Never in front. Always behind.

Traffic goes in an alternating manner. If you arrive slightly after later than the people who are now leaving the stop sign, do not gun it in an attempt to “catch up”. You are too late to go with those people. Your time has passed. Await your turn. Awaiting your turn means waiting for the cars to cross in front of you. Then your turn. If you are making a left hand turn, go behind the oncoming car. Behind, never in front. Never in front. Patience, grasshopper, patience.

Okay so that was like four requests. Heed them! Or await the wrath of my horn!

Another excellent article from Arianna Huffington at Salon.com

So Justin exposing Janet’s boob is a sin, but White House staffers exposing Valerie Plame is a win. Profiting from porno is a sin, but Halliburton’s wartime profiteering is a win. Two men getting hitched is a sin, but Cheney and Scalia shacking up in a duck blind is a win. Telling students condoms can prevent STDs is a sin, but lying about WMD is a win. And so, apparently, is GOP staffers hacking into Senate computers and Tom DeLay illegally funneling corporate money to Texas politicians.

The president’s culture war is little more than breasts and circuses. Election-year weapons of mass distraction. Hail to the panderer in chief.

Here’s my stance on gay marriage. How can the state discriminate against two people who are committed to each other? Bring up the litany of arguments against it. I’m going to bet all of them come from religion. In this country we have the separation of church and state. If a church wants to say no to gay marriage, that’s their right. If the state wants to intentionally discriminate against a group of people, that is wrong.

Obviously this is a divisive issue, and I’m not going to be very eloquent in defending my position. But to look at all the religious types spewing hatred at people who love each other, it boggles my mind and they should be ashamed of themselves. They claim to know the bible so well, and yet they are missing the most important part. Love. What did Jesus say? Love each other. Love your brother. Love your mother and father. Love.

Matt 19:

[37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38] This is the first and great commandment.
[39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

It’s really not all that hard. There’s too much hate, destruction and violence in the world to be denying people who are in love the chance to spread love, peace and happiness.

[1:11] Me: Little Bro
[1:11] Me: no school?
[1:11] LittleBro: aj
[1:11] LittleBro: nope
[1:11] LittleBro: presidents day
[1:11] Me: oh yeah
[1:11] Me: i have to work
[1:12] LittleBro: thats too bad
[1:12] Me: yeah what have you been doing all day?
[1:12] LittleBro: i woke up 30 minutes ago
[1:12] Me: are you serious?

Ah, must be nice…

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You know you’ve always wanted to be on South Park. How would you look? Create your very own south park character!

Here’s me and my lovely lady:

Are we living in some sort of bizarro world where conservative pundits now are critical of President Bush?

Yahoo! News – Pundit O’Reilly Now Skeptical About Bush

“I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this,” O’Reilly said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

He goes on to blame the CIA for the no-WMD problem. So maybe we haven’t entered bizarro world yet. Blaming the CIA is what the bush administration will try and push now as the reason that we were so wrong. The reason we were so wrong is that Cheney, Rumsfield and Wolfowitz trusted their clandestine Office of Special Plans more than they trusted actual intelligence professionals. Read George Tenet’s comments from the other day. The CIA was urging caution about the intelligence that was being produced.

Bush, Aides Ignored CIA Caveats on Iraq [washingtonpost.com]

“The probability of him initiating an attack . . . in the foreseeable future . . . I think would be low,” a senior CIA official told the Senate intelligence committee during a classified briefing on the estimate on Oct. 2, 2002.

It is important to not believe the spin that comes from the Bush Administration. For example, in another classic case of administration doublespeak, they have released records that “prove” Bush completed his required service in the military. . . but the records contain no details about the 1972-1973 time period that everyone is so interested in!

In addition to the unanswered question about where Bush performed his service and the fact that no one he served with has come forward, several other loose ends remain:

Bush was suspended from flying at least twice for failing to “accomplish” a physical exam; he could not be evaluated by the Texas Guard because, at one point, he had not been observed there for a year;

Don’t take what the administration tells you at face value. Their record over the past 3 years has not been good.