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You know I find it very amusing that other people felt the need to leave notes for their pets in *my* journal.
2006-03-27
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One Of Those Big Mysteries...
So I'm listening to Billy Joel. Specifically the song Keeping The Faith.
What in the hell are ditty-bop shades??????
Googling "ditty-bop shades" only returns sites with the lyrics for the song.
What in the hell are ditty-bop shades??????
Googling "ditty-bop shades" only returns sites with the lyrics for the song.
If You Dig Mythology...
Check out this website
http://www.timelessmyths.com
unfortunatey, it's limited to Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic and Arthurian Legend...but its an awesome site...its pretty simple-looking til you start clicking around, there are things like hyperlink-annotated pantheon genealogies...it rocks.
http://www.timelessmyths.com
unfortunatey, it's limited to Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic and Arthurian Legend...but its an awesome site...its pretty simple-looking til you start clicking around, there are things like hyperlink-annotated pantheon genealogies...it rocks.
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More Therapeutic Letter Writing
Dear People Who Are In Charge Of Disseminating Information On Mythology,
Greek and Roman mythology may have many similarities and parallels and stuff but they are not mirror images with a name change! Go do your research! It's not like there aren't plenty of original sources available.
Love,
Fuego
Dear Disney,
Hercules was Roman. Herakles was Greek. WTF is wrong with you?
Cordially,
Fuego
Greek and Roman mythology may have many similarities and parallels and stuff but they are not mirror images with a name change! Go do your research! It's not like there aren't plenty of original sources available.
Love,
Fuego
Dear Disney,
Hercules was Roman. Herakles was Greek. WTF is wrong with you?
Cordially,
Fuego
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Reading ( this story- safe for work. )got me thinking...again.
The ACLU. Does anyone think that sometimes maybe they really go too far? Like about a year and a half ago, they went and threatened to sue a city in CA (forget which city...yes, i'm being lazy at the moment) to remove an image of a mission building with a cross on top from the city's seal claiming it was a matter of Separation of Church and State. As I recall, it wasn't an issue that anyone had ever complained about. And an image of the Roman goddess Pomona stayed where she was, also on the seal. The city voluntarily changed the design rather than have a lawsuit. The mission building was a reference to some of the local history. But if the mission building with the cross had to go, why was the Roman goddess okay?
It seems that everywhere you turn around, the ACLU is suing someone over something. Now the article that I cut into this post has a lot of its facts insanely wrong. The Darla Wynne case was brought about because the town of Great Falls, SC would not allow opening prayer for town council meetings from anyone of a "minority religion", and they were quite insistent on praying in the name of Jesus. This particular resident wanted to offer another, general prayer but was denied on the basis of being "of a minority religion". There was one point in time where she was making a presentation or speaking at one of the meetinsgs...something like that...where she said she objected to the prayer...she was told to stand outside until the prayer was over...she did and then was not allowed to make the presentation because she was not in the room when the prayer was given and the meeting was opened. She sued, she won and the city appealed to higher courts.
This is the sort of thing that needs to be fought.
But little things...a city's seal with images that reference history? If nothing else, it's a ridiculously frivolous waste of taxpayers dollars for all of the instances in which the city would need to change their seal. (OK...so thanks to the magic that is Wikipedia..the city is Redlands, CA. They also did the same to Los Angeles County. The Wikipedia article on the ACLU is quite informative.)
I really do wonder sometimes if they don't have people purposely looking for stuff to sue over as the article cut in above alleges.
So yeah...down with frivolous lawsuits. And while my personal opinion is that the writer of the above article is smoking some Really Good Crack (TM), he gives a point or two to think about.
The ACLU. Does anyone think that sometimes maybe they really go too far? Like about a year and a half ago, they went and threatened to sue a city in CA (forget which city...yes, i'm being lazy at the moment) to remove an image of a mission building with a cross on top from the city's seal claiming it was a matter of Separation of Church and State. As I recall, it wasn't an issue that anyone had ever complained about. And an image of the Roman goddess Pomona stayed where she was, also on the seal. The city voluntarily changed the design rather than have a lawsuit. The mission building was a reference to some of the local history. But if the mission building with the cross had to go, why was the Roman goddess okay?
It seems that everywhere you turn around, the ACLU is suing someone over something. Now the article that I cut into this post has a lot of its facts insanely wrong. The Darla Wynne case was brought about because the town of Great Falls, SC would not allow opening prayer for town council meetings from anyone of a "minority religion", and they were quite insistent on praying in the name of Jesus. This particular resident wanted to offer another, general prayer but was denied on the basis of being "of a minority religion". There was one point in time where she was making a presentation or speaking at one of the meetinsgs...something like that...where she said she objected to the prayer...she was told to stand outside until the prayer was over...she did and then was not allowed to make the presentation because she was not in the room when the prayer was given and the meeting was opened. She sued, she won and the city appealed to higher courts.
This is the sort of thing that needs to be fought.
But little things...a city's seal with images that reference history? If nothing else, it's a ridiculously frivolous waste of taxpayers dollars for all of the instances in which the city would need to change their seal. (OK...so thanks to the magic that is Wikipedia..the city is Redlands, CA. They also did the same to Los Angeles County. The Wikipedia article on the ACLU is quite informative.)
I really do wonder sometimes if they don't have people purposely looking for stuff to sue over as the article cut in above alleges.
So yeah...down with frivolous lawsuits. And while my personal opinion is that the writer of the above article is smoking some Really Good Crack (TM), he gives a point or two to think about.