So, um... apparently when you click on the trash folder in gmail, you get helpful recycling tips such as "You can make a lovely hat out of used aluminum foil," at the header, where the Spam recipe links are in the spam folder.

Sox, beautiful picture and great hair!

keep the aliens from hearing your thoughts, also. recycling with purpose!

meara, your trip sounds terrific!

So I comment that thankfully it's not on ground zero, but a couple blocks away, and also thankfully we live in a country with religious tolerance, and that it helps prove we are as advertised.

I've started telling teabaggers that it's a DHS plan to keep the area safe from future Muslim attacks. Because the terrorists aren't going to bomb a mosque.

I figure, if they are too stupid to understand the difference between a mosque and a cultural center, between wacko fundie terrorists and Muslims, and between Ground Zero and Syms discount clothing, why not give them a conspiracy theory to chew on?

Ooh, good one, Raq.

Someone on my facebook is saying that this is high disrespectful and Obama is wrong and blah blah.

I asked about the mosque that's there, is that disrespectful, should they stop worshiping and his answer is no that's different.

Also he's trying to claim that the attempts to block the building are not a First Amendment issue because it's not about religion but about good taste.

I don't understand him, but then he doesn't understand me either because he made a point to say that it was weird I was defending Islam and the religion is anti gay (he and I have gone around about Prop 8).

I tried to explain that it's not about defending Islam, it's about defending peoples rights and being against discrimination.

The "Ground Zero mosque" is down the block from my dad's office. The summer after 9/11, when I was home from college, one of the things that made me feel a whole lot better was going to visit that neighborhood and seeing that things were getting back to normal -- people working, shopping, eating, whatever. This desire to turn all of Lower Manhattan into sacred ground is kind of creepy to me. It's not like they're building on the WTC site -- they're building on what used to be a Burlington Coat Factory, and was a Sym's before that.

Yeah, it's not a damn shrine, its a living breathing city. The people in that neighborhood, the actual fucking survivors of the attack spent months and months putting their homes and businesses back together and rebuilding their lives.

It was kind of a relief when large swaths of the contry went back to hating us, but couldn't they just leave us alone now?

but couldn't they just leave us alone now?

Sort of a city-wide "We're walkin' here!"

Niece!! [link]

Me, Calli, and Debetesse!! [link]

Em's new Miracle Princess t-shirt, courtesy of Debetesse!! [link]