red-letter Christians. left and right politically need to be more vocal.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Jun 01, 2006 5:15:15 pm PDT #139 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Steph L. - Jun 01, 2006 5:15:21 pm PDT #140 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Who won?
Charlie Brown.
sumi - Jun 01, 2006 5:16:19 pm PDT #141 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
The kid from New Jersey. Name was Kerry or Carrie or something like that.
Jesse - Jun 01, 2006 5:18:59 pm PDT #142 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It was Katherine, no? Possibly Catherine. Or Katharine. Not sure of the language of origin.
sumi - Jun 01, 2006 5:20:30 pm PDT #143 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
SailAweigh - Jun 01, 2006 5:24:31 pm PDT #144 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Was it the one that got reinstated? That's what I was hoping for.
Jesse - Jun 01, 2006 5:32:57 pm PDT #145 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sail, no. She came in third.
I have to confess how dorkishly excited I am for the upcoming season of Big Brother. BB All Stars!!!!
sumi - Jun 01, 2006 5:33:52 pm PDT #146 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I switched over to HGTV after the Bee. When did they start giving house prices on House Hunters?
Jesse - Jun 01, 2006 5:35:30 pm PDT #147 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, I have a new favorite HGTV show, too -- Freestyle! They just rearrange the people's existing stuff. Cool.
brenda m - Jun 01, 2006 6:06:20 pm PDT #148 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My concern is the political power of the religious right although really the concern isn't so much for the religious agenda as it is for the pro-corporate agenda that is riding it. I do worry about attacks on contraception, sexual education, science education, gay rights, and censorship but I don't think that the religious right has been all that successful in those areas. What they have done is help elect people who have gotten us into a unnecessary war, ballooned the deficit, weakened environmental laws, expanded executive power to crazy levels, and generally set the country back IMO.
I'll add something to this - the successes that they've had in the religious agenda - contraception, sexual education, science education, gay rights, and censorship, as you say, are issues where, long-term, they're losing. I don't mean that they're not having some success right now - I'm a bit less sanguine about that than you are, I think. And I think the short-term (10-20 year) consequences may be awful.
But. Frankly, on these issues, they're on the wrong side of history. They're panicked and hysterical about these issues for a reason. It's the less obvious stuff, the things that require a little more understanding and thought, the things that are tied in to the most rapacious elements of capitalist economics, that really hold the danger. Splitting those two strains apart is possibly the most important thing facing us today.