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gwydion* Unofficial results suggest Aung San Suu Kyi looks to have won her election and her party to have won 43 seats. Now lets see if the military government lets them actually take their seats or if they will steal the election, arrest winners, etc.. Fingers crossed everyone.
* Remember that military coup in Mali? It's looking like they are having a civil war. Tuareg rebels are holding Timbuktu and some other Northern bits. I wish I could tell you more, but most of what I know about Mali is general travelogue type stuff.
* DOMA's up before a federal Appellate Court this week. The President has sent a lawyer to aid in the fight against rather than defending it. I keep pointing out that while a lot of what President Obama has done for us isn't flashy, it's nitty gritty helpful support. He can't repeal DOMA personally by decree, (Congress needs to vote for repeal), but he's doing what he can. I don't think he gets credit for all the less glamorous things he does, like stopping Homeland Security outing trans folk to their employers, which is why I keep pointing this stuff out.
The House of Representatives is sending a lawyer to defend DOMA with taxpayer money. Of course.
* I see that a lot of the character assassination agreeing Trayvon Martin deserved to be shot originate from white Supremacist web sites, including pictures of other teens labelled as being Trayvon, misinformation, and claims by the KKK that they hacked his email. FOX and other right wing sources are repeating these white supremacist talking points and misinformation as if they are fact. O.o After all, misinformation from the KKK and the white power movement in general actually trumps the facts, right? *shudder*
* The hoodie protests have reached London.
* Two audio experts are agreeing with the Martin family and lay folk saying that it was Trayvon crying for help, not Zimmerman.
* It infuriates me that a bill designed to increase financial fraud through further deregulation of the financial markets, thus dramatically increasing chances of more financial collapses the "JOBS" bill. After all, look at how many jobs the financial markets destroyed so if we do more of that it will have the opposite effect, right? *sigh*
* I keep thinking about Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum's pastor demanding all of us non-Christians be deported. Where dowes he peropose we go, exactly? Two of my ancestors cme over on the Mayflower and my ancesters kept coming until the 1880's. In all that time, bloodlines get mixed which means at least five countries are represented i my bloodline. Which country will they send me to? Will they chop me up proportionally and ship my parts to those five countries? I find this idea that the Evangelicals are pushing that the first Amendment only applies to Christians disgusting. I am tired of being told I'm unAmerican for disagreeing.
* Hector is of the opinion that if he sits in my lap, I will medicate him. If I'm lying down, I'm safe, but I could be hiding eye drops if I'm sitting up. (He has as much eye sight as he does because we dosed him four times a day with medicine for a month. It was over a decade ago, but he remembers bad stuff happens in laps). Tonight, he decided the no lap rule doesn't apply to when I'm in the massage chair. I'm so used to his dysfunction that when he does behave like an ordinary cat, it's always a surprise. Picture him pooled in my crotch for a long pet while I watched the GoT premiere. Weird, right?
* Warning: the next couple days are going to be exhausting. Fingers crossed I don't drop any chainsaws.
* Now for Discount Armagedden as a pallet cleanser.
* I know UTI is a vocational school, but in my world, a UTI gets you a course of antibiotics, not a career as an electrician. Although, now that I think about it, wouldn't the opposite be interesting? "It was a weird weekend. I spiked a fever of a hundred and four and became a plumber!"
* And a comic: http://xkcd.com/1037/
* Spring Cake: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/4/1/spring-sweets.html
* Remember that military coup in Mali? It's looking like they are having a civil war. Tuareg rebels are holding Timbuktu and some other Northern bits. I wish I could tell you more, but most of what I know about Mali is general travelogue type stuff.
* DOMA's up before a federal Appellate Court this week. The President has sent a lawyer to aid in the fight against rather than defending it. I keep pointing out that while a lot of what President Obama has done for us isn't flashy, it's nitty gritty helpful support. He can't repeal DOMA personally by decree, (Congress needs to vote for repeal), but he's doing what he can. I don't think he gets credit for all the less glamorous things he does, like stopping Homeland Security outing trans folk to their employers, which is why I keep pointing this stuff out.
The House of Representatives is sending a lawyer to defend DOMA with taxpayer money. Of course.
* I see that a lot of the character assassination agreeing Trayvon Martin deserved to be shot originate from white Supremacist web sites, including pictures of other teens labelled as being Trayvon, misinformation, and claims by the KKK that they hacked his email. FOX and other right wing sources are repeating these white supremacist talking points and misinformation as if they are fact. O.o After all, misinformation from the KKK and the white power movement in general actually trumps the facts, right? *shudder*
* The hoodie protests have reached London.
* Two audio experts are agreeing with the Martin family and lay folk saying that it was Trayvon crying for help, not Zimmerman.
* It infuriates me that a bill designed to increase financial fraud through further deregulation of the financial markets, thus dramatically increasing chances of more financial collapses the "JOBS" bill. After all, look at how many jobs the financial markets destroyed so if we do more of that it will have the opposite effect, right? *sigh*
* I keep thinking about Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum's pastor demanding all of us non-Christians be deported. Where dowes he peropose we go, exactly? Two of my ancestors cme over on the Mayflower and my ancesters kept coming until the 1880's. In all that time, bloodlines get mixed which means at least five countries are represented i my bloodline. Which country will they send me to? Will they chop me up proportionally and ship my parts to those five countries? I find this idea that the Evangelicals are pushing that the first Amendment only applies to Christians disgusting. I am tired of being told I'm unAmerican for disagreeing.
* Hector is of the opinion that if he sits in my lap, I will medicate him. If I'm lying down, I'm safe, but I could be hiding eye drops if I'm sitting up. (He has as much eye sight as he does because we dosed him four times a day with medicine for a month. It was over a decade ago, but he remembers bad stuff happens in laps). Tonight, he decided the no lap rule doesn't apply to when I'm in the massage chair. I'm so used to his dysfunction that when he does behave like an ordinary cat, it's always a surprise. Picture him pooled in my crotch for a long pet while I watched the GoT premiere. Weird, right?
* Warning: the next couple days are going to be exhausting. Fingers crossed I don't drop any chainsaws.
* Now for Discount Armagedden as a pallet cleanser.
* I know UTI is a vocational school, but in my world, a UTI gets you a course of antibiotics, not a career as an electrician. Although, now that I think about it, wouldn't the opposite be interesting? "It was a weird weekend. I spiked a fever of a hundred and four and became a plumber!"
* And a comic: http://xkcd.com/1037/
* Spring Cake: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/4/1/spring-sweets.html