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Mar. 3rd, 2010 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nekosensei* Thoughts from my Ambien-riddled brain before falling asleep: Mother Nature and the Old Testament God are a lot alike. They can both be loving at times, but boy can they smack your shit down when they want to. Hmmm....maybe it's not a coincidence? ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nekosensei wanders off to press the [smite] button.
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* Passive Aggressive's The Joys of Motherhood. The last picture is kind of cute. Poor little guy. :)
* Wonka candy launches a real-life 'Golden Ticket' contest And the grand prize is a trip around the world. *wants* (Link swiped frombottledgoose
* To Avoid Funding Gay Marrieds, Catholic Charities Denies Benefits to All Spouses And it's shit like this that made me run screaming away from christianity in the first place... (Linked swiped fromrm)
* What is up with my stomach? It was mildly annoyed at me this morning, but eventually it settled down and I could eat breakfast. Now...it's killing me again...and I haven't even eaten lunch. What the hell?
* Uh-oh.
* False alarm.
* Or maybe not.
* My stomach can't decide whether it wants to reboot or not. So far, it's going with not, which is actually worse because "rebooting" would at least give me some relief.
* Went upstairs and took a 2-3 hour nap. The Good: I was unconscious and not aware of how much my tummy was hurting. The Bad: Now I have a raging headache from not eating or drinking anything since morning.
*doomsey came home. Sprite was procured. Took some Pepto-Bismal for the tummy, Tylenol for the headache, and I am now sipping Sprite in an attempt to get something in me. Might try chicken noodle soup later this evening if I'm up to it. Not sure if that's going to happen at this point.
* How Christian Were the Founders? I finally got around to reading the whole thing, and it's absolutely terrifying. Yep...that's exactly how to take over the country...get 'em while they're young. I'm okay with talking about the role of religion in American History-- and we did so in some of my college history classes--- but make sure that you get the facts right. And whatever you do, don't try to push an agenda. (Link swiped fromvanitashaze)
"Ask Christian activists what they really want — what the goal is behind the effort to bring Christianity into American history — and they say they merely want 'the truth.' 'The main thing I’m looking for as a state board member is to make sure we have good standards,' Don McLeroy said. But the actual ambition is vast. Americans tell pollsters they support separation of church and state, but then again 65 percent of respondents to a 2007 survey by the First Amendment Center agreed with the statement that 'the nation’s founders intended the United States to be a Christian nation,' and 55 percent said they believed the Constitution actually established the country as a Christian nation. The Christian activists are aware of such statistics and want to build on them, as Dunbar made clear. She told me she looks to John Jay’s statement that it is the duty of the people 'of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers' and has herself called for a preference for selecting Christians for positions of leadership." (o_O)
"What is wrong with the Texas process, according to many observers, is illustrated by the fate of Bill Martin Jr. The board has the power to accept, reject or rewrite the TEKS, and over the past few years, in language arts, science and now social studies, the members have done all of the above. Yet few of these elected overseers are trained in the fields they are reviewing. 'In general, the board members don’t know anything at all about content,' Tom Barber, the textbook executive, says. Kathy Miller, the watchdog, who has been monitoring the board for 15 years, says, referring to Don McLeroy and another board member: 'It is the most crazy-making thing to sit there and watch a dentist and an insurance salesman rewrite curriculum standards in science and history. Last year, Don McLeroy believed he was smarter than the National Academy of Sciences, and he now believes he’s smarter than professors of American history.' In this case, one board member sent an e-mail message with a reference to 'Ethical Marxism,' by Bill Martin, to another board member, who suggested that anyone who wrote a book with such a title did not belong in the TEKS. As it turned out, Bill Martin and Bill Martin Jr. are two different people. But by that time, the author of 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' [written by Bill Martin Jr.] was out." (*starts banging her head against the desk repeatedly*)
* Why is my iPhone chirping at me? Damn app. Now...how do I turn it off? The app is closed yet it's still making noise.
* Hmm...me thinks I fixed it.
* Still feeling crappy so no soup for me. This post is long so I think I'm going to press enter.
nekosensei wanders off to press the [smite] button.* Submitted without comment
* Passive Aggressive's The Joys of Motherhood. The last picture is kind of cute. Poor little guy. :)
* Wonka candy launches a real-life 'Golden Ticket' contest And the grand prize is a trip around the world. *wants* (Link swiped from
bottledgoose* To Avoid Funding Gay Marrieds, Catholic Charities Denies Benefits to All Spouses And it's shit like this that made me run screaming away from christianity in the first place... (Linked swiped from
rm)* What is up with my stomach? It was mildly annoyed at me this morning, but eventually it settled down and I could eat breakfast. Now...it's killing me again...and I haven't even eaten lunch. What the hell?
* Uh-oh.
* False alarm.
* Or maybe not.
* My stomach can't decide whether it wants to reboot or not. So far, it's going with not, which is actually worse because "rebooting" would at least give me some relief.
* Went upstairs and took a 2-3 hour nap. The Good: I was unconscious and not aware of how much my tummy was hurting. The Bad: Now I have a raging headache from not eating or drinking anything since morning.
*
doomsey came home. Sprite was procured. Took some Pepto-Bismal for the tummy, Tylenol for the headache, and I am now sipping Sprite in an attempt to get something in me. Might try chicken noodle soup later this evening if I'm up to it. Not sure if that's going to happen at this point. * How Christian Were the Founders? I finally got around to reading the whole thing, and it's absolutely terrifying. Yep...that's exactly how to take over the country...get 'em while they're young. I'm okay with talking about the role of religion in American History-- and we did so in some of my college history classes--- but make sure that you get the facts right. And whatever you do, don't try to push an agenda. (Link swiped from
vanitashaze)"Ask Christian activists what they really want — what the goal is behind the effort to bring Christianity into American history — and they say they merely want 'the truth.' 'The main thing I’m looking for as a state board member is to make sure we have good standards,' Don McLeroy said. But the actual ambition is vast. Americans tell pollsters they support separation of church and state, but then again 65 percent of respondents to a 2007 survey by the First Amendment Center agreed with the statement that 'the nation’s founders intended the United States to be a Christian nation,' and 55 percent said they believed the Constitution actually established the country as a Christian nation. The Christian activists are aware of such statistics and want to build on them, as Dunbar made clear. She told me she looks to John Jay’s statement that it is the duty of the people 'of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers' and has herself called for a preference for selecting Christians for positions of leadership." (o_O)
"What is wrong with the Texas process, according to many observers, is illustrated by the fate of Bill Martin Jr. The board has the power to accept, reject or rewrite the TEKS, and over the past few years, in language arts, science and now social studies, the members have done all of the above. Yet few of these elected overseers are trained in the fields they are reviewing. 'In general, the board members don’t know anything at all about content,' Tom Barber, the textbook executive, says. Kathy Miller, the watchdog, who has been monitoring the board for 15 years, says, referring to Don McLeroy and another board member: 'It is the most crazy-making thing to sit there and watch a dentist and an insurance salesman rewrite curriculum standards in science and history. Last year, Don McLeroy believed he was smarter than the National Academy of Sciences, and he now believes he’s smarter than professors of American history.' In this case, one board member sent an e-mail message with a reference to 'Ethical Marxism,' by Bill Martin, to another board member, who suggested that anyone who wrote a book with such a title did not belong in the TEKS. As it turned out, Bill Martin and Bill Martin Jr. are two different people. But by that time, the author of 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' [written by Bill Martin Jr.] was out." (*starts banging her head against the desk repeatedly*)
* Why is my iPhone chirping at me? Damn app. Now...how do I turn it off? The app is closed yet it's still making noise.
* Hmm...me thinks I fixed it.
* Still feeling crappy so no soup for me. This post is long so I think I'm going to press enter.
