Thursday, March 23, 2006

More random thoughts Now that the oil deposits in Afghanistan have been determined to be three times larger than previously suspected, I wonder how long it will be before we send a few more troops over that way (to help out the march to democracy, of course)? I was recently back in my home town, and I tried to access my bloglines account.  No dice. The Symantec filter said something about the use of prohibited words, or "too many usages" of restricted words.  Okay, fine.  I figured I'd just link to my site directly, in order to get to my blogroll.  That didn't work, either.  This time it gave as the reason "Sex Ed/Advanced".  I wonder what that means - sex education combined with advanced topics?  Or more advanced sex ed than anyone should have access to?  I don't remember going into that many details.... I'm so sick of lawmakers being "strict originalists" about the Constitution, and how they think this country should reflect only exactly what the Founding Fathers intended - meaning their opinion of what the Founding Fathers intended.  My opinion is, the Founding Fathers meant for the people of this country to decide how we want to be governed.  In their world, only certain people were allowed to have guns.  And each gun had to be loaded by hand after it was fired once.  Hence, the 2nd Amendment, to state that everyone should be able to have guns.  But we live in a world where a man with a semi-automatic weapon can kill seven innocent people and wound seven others, in a church, after buying the gun at a flea market.  And these are the same people that keep saying that "9/11 changed everything".  Well, you know what also "changed everything"?  Automatic and semi-automatic weapons in the hands of criminals.  We own this government, and we have the right to decide how we want to be ruled.  And that's what those 225+ year old people wanted for us, too. I can't find the link now, but I'm sure it was at BroadSheet at Salon.  It was about how one plan to fight the South Dakota law is not to fight it.  As in, not to acknowledge its existence.  Similar to the plan of not allowing creationism in science classes so as not to elevate it to equal footing with evolution as a "hypothesis" of the origins of life on earth.  This will work just fine, until some Planned Parenthood doctor gets locked up for performing an abortion.  And you know that's going to happen sooner or later, and probably sooner.  So sure, we can decide not to challenge the law before it is used, but we're most certainly going to have to challenge it after. But I'll end things on a good note:  Cecilia Fire Thunder, the first female tribal leader of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota has said she will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on the grounds of the reservation.  Read the comments (all of them) to the post if you want information on where to send a donation.  I had planned to boycott the state of South Dakota, but I think now that means the whole state except for the reservation.  I may make that my next vacation destination spot.  Be well, and keep thinking! 8:42:26 PM    Here's what I have to say about THAT! []