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]

Your niece is lovely, Aims! And it's great that your outfits are coordinated in the photo.

Thanks!! Her onesie says "My Aunt is my BFF!"

I got her 4 of them in varying sizes.

Aimee you're so tan!

Also I loathe climate change because I really want to be comfortably asleep right now.

OMG. I am currently on my laptop in my basement bedroom, because it is actually cool. Last night I had the worst time sleeping--one of the few nights it hasn't gotten cool enough, quickly enough, to make sleep easy even if it was hot during the day. And I couldn't get the fan pointed at me, and I kept waking up, and and and...

Lots of time on the lake and at the pool!

after using my highly technical time-measuring device (aka HKFan), I think that it was about 6 years ago. I'd love to see the pics. That was a great wedding (and great people getting married, and great people attending). Except for the pregnancy-sunburn where I looked like Shamu (in patterning).

Ahahaha! My technical time-measuring device is Lillian, because I know it was shortly before I got pregnant. I'll try to put some (friends accessed under Mohmlet) up on Flickr.