ACLU of Ohio Fights Overreaching Use of Issue 1

Like in a couple other states, voters approved a constitutional amendmend to ban "gay marriage". At least that's what it had been dubbed. In fact, the amandment is worded to ban state recognition of any union that is intended to "approximate" marriage. Now the ACLU has filed an amicus brief with the Ohio Supreme Court, because Cuyahoga County's Public Defender now attempts to use this amandment to strike down a domestic violence case in which the defendant was not married to the victim. And since nothing that only approximates marriage may be protected by the state, beating up your cohabitation partner now may have ceased to be domestic violence.
I wonder whether this was intended. After all, both cohabitation and not being able to beat your partner are not really biblical.

I owe them an apology

I am soooo sorry. I admit having had some rather negative thoughts about the president lately. Actually, for quite a while. I really thought he wouldn't have a plan, wouldn't know the heck what he was talking about! And in fact there are many reasons to hold such a view. But they are all so full of misunderstanding! Totally not getting it!
Today I had one of these moments of Eureka: First I wondered what He meant when he repeated the word 'freedom' I think 25 times during His inauguration speech. Seriously: what did he mean? I was convinced it was nothing but a convenient concept everyone would have to support, no one would know what it meant, and Georgie thought it sounded cool and totally divinely inspired. I was soooo wrong!

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose"

Yup. That's it. He probably heard it some night on the radio, pumped up with drugs. The lyrics and the song burned deep in His subconscious (that's what happens when your totally wasted, believe me...). And now he's working on Operation Iraqi Freedom. Freedom is on it's way at home, too. And soon: everywhere!!! Get the nukes out Donald, these suckers are going to be so free they might even decide to blow themselves up for all their joy!

"Four Months on Planet Bin Laden"

First of all: Keep the last post in mind.

The linked article is from a German paper, writing about experiences the two French journalist who were held in Iraq for a couple months made during their captivity. (Side note: Yes, of course that's a warped view! The French stink and made money with the Oil-for-Food Program - Chirac personally bought a Porsche with the cash -, and the Germans are weasels with ties to too many Arabs anyway. Oh, and they sell Porsches to Frenchmen. And if you believe this, you are brainwashed to begin with and need to see these people from Scientology for some cleansing treatment. So spare me your 'helpful hints'. I don't need them. And yes, I am bitter, but that's because people like you suck and steal too much of my attention. Sorry to anyone else for having to read this.)
Now what the journalists have to say is quite illuminating. Just remember all the people you recently talked to that explained to you why 'terrorists' do what they do. ("Because they hate freedom!" is my favourite. What the heck is that supposed to mean?) No one of them ever saw, or even talked to one. I see and talk to a lot of people every day, yet it takes a little more than just a conversation to find out how people think and why they do what they do. Yet there we are, believing we could long-distance-psycho-analyze terrorists, understand their rationale (or, more to the liking of the hawks: their evilness) and act accordingly. Since no one really talked to terrorists (and as far as intelligence people go, I am somewhat sceptical as to how appropriate torture-a-la-Guatanamo is to *understand*), the mind processes we attribute to 'terrorists', i.e. the way we believe they think, is actually modelled after ourselves. In other words, we create an image of 'them' as a variation of 'us'.
Sadly, then, these evil guys Bush is fighting against are modelled after himself. With all the uncomforting consequences (just think of the inability to let himself be corrected by reality). Which would make the journalist's belief that the war will not end anytime soon even more convincing.
God, if you're there, could you please have mercy and let some brain rain? Thanks.

CNN: "Poll: Nation split on Bush as uniter or divider"

This is just hillarious. And sad. Like so much nowadays.
So CNN did this poll and as it turns out, the nation is divided over the questions whether George Bush is a divider or a uniter. As a matter of fact, the poll shows he is a divider. If he was a uniter, the nation should at the very least agree on this. The nation does not.
Now what CNN did - probably without even realizing it - was to prove that the Bush camp lives in denial of the constitution of the reality all of us share. Whether we like it or not, the bare majority that is in power now acts upon a concept of the world that is simply not factual, when factual means according to the constitution of the world all of us live in.
Don't even imagine the other parts of the U-S-A screaming crowd's creed.

vietnam and iraq

what's the difference between vietnam and iraq?
- george w. had a plan to get out of vietnam.

the absurdity of election computers

i actually never got the idea of election computers. there are countries that use only paper and pen. actually quite a lot of countries. you print a ballot, give people a pen and they simply make a couple crosses. now either let volunteers count these things, or if you really want to give tax dollars to some companies, buy a couple scanners.
the less complex a technology, the less error prone. it's as simple as that.

so what is this now: cnn reports american troops stood by when al qaqaa
was looted - outnumbered and unable to do anything. why do they tell us
so late?
well, it's not as it this was in any way surprising. even if the
explosives would have been looted before the fall of baghdad - and
there's a lot that contradicts this hypothesis - it's incompetent of
whomever was responsible for the planning.

day one

for some reason many of us thought the 'war against error' would end with a victory on november 2nd. it did not. it's gonna be harder yet more necessary to fight from now on.
muster the troops.