Monthly Archives: June 2004

Love the country, keep an eye on the Government

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We went to the Fine Arts Cinema in Fairfax yesterday and saw Fahrenheit 9/11. Its an important film – and I’d urge anyone who is curious to see it – but if you rather not spend money for a film, I found the following website to be an excellent parallel resource – it outlines and defines many of the points that Michael Moore makes in his movie, and has links to commentary by many folks (republican, democrats and others). Its a must read for all …

Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government

Michael Moore, Director of Fahrenheit 9/11

the Institute for Policy Studies

All politics are loco!

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While in Colorado, Kerry made a quick stop in Aspen for a $500,000 fund-raiser at the home of Michael Goldberg, president of Miami-based airline leasing company Aerolease International. Kerry invited Aspen resident and writer Hunter S. Thompson to ride in his motorcade and brought three copies of Thompson’s book about the 1972 presidential race, “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail” for autographs.

"Just to put your minds all at ease, I have four words for you that I know will relieve you greatly," Kerry told the fund-raiser. "How does this sound – Vice President Hunter Thompson."

From a Yahoo News Story

Road trip for a piece of Heaven

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Emma at the EDS Campus in Boston, June 18, 2004

Well, Late Saturday night we got back from our whirlwind tour of Boston – whew! What, you didn’t know about our trip?? I guess I never mentioned it online, only in meatspace –

The reason? My partner Emma had reached the end of her 5 years of classes, study and candidacy (internship) and it was time for her interview to determine if she would become a pastor in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Church (UFMCC – or MCC for short). Her interview was scheduled for Sat June 19th in Boston, so we made plans to drive up on Thursday, spend Friday relaxing and seeing the sights, then drive back to Virginia Saturday after her interview.

And the lobster?? I promised her a New England Lobster dinner while we were in Boston, so we dropped by Legal Seafood at Kendall Square in Cambridge and had a fine dinner – lots of fun!

Saturday morning I took her to the MCC interview at the Episcopal Divinity School – and a bit over 1 hour later, she was Reverend-Elect!

The only thing left now is the ordination ceremony – which involves the “laying on of hands” by various peers and mentors. She’s hoping to do have that ceremony in Richmond, as her parents can’t travel far, and she wants her dad to be involved. He retired 2 years ago after 50 years of being a Methodist Minister – so it would be very cool for him to “pass the baton” to her. Tho Emma has lots to do before we get to that point, its still very cool that all went well at the interview …

Suddenly, it all makes sense … !

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God may (also) be the reason Attorney General John Ashcroft, the administration’s lightning rod because of his questionable actions that critics argue threaten freedoms granted by the Constitution, remains part of the power elite. West Wing staffers call Bush and Ashcroft "the Blues Brothers" because "they’re on a mission from God."

See
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4636.shtml

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Found on GMS Legion’s LiveJournal – a link to this blog –

http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/001713.html

Bush Seeks Papal Support

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The New York Time carried a story about an report published Friday in the national Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper


Bush Asked for Vatican’s Help on Political Issues, Report Says
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: June 13, 2004

On his recent trip to Rome, President Bush asked a top Vatican official to push American bishops to speak out more about political issues, including same-sex marriage, according to a report in the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper.

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Supreme Court Audio files online

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BoingBoing today has a link to The Oyez Project.   The Oyez project is releasing US Supreme Court oral audio of historic cases in streaming and MP3 format. This audio is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. This license allows listeners to download, share, and create derivative works using these audio files.

I did a search through their archives and soon Emma and I found ourselves fascinated listening to the oral arguments in the 1967 case of Loving V. the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Its a significant decision about Virginia’s inter-racial marriage Law that anyone looking into Gay Marriage should know about …

Loving v. Virginia
388 U.S. 1 (1967)
Docket Number: 395
Audio Resources
Oral Argument and MP3 form

(The streaming audio is 2 hrs & 15 minutes)

http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/214/audioresources

The United States Supreme Court, Mr. Chief Justice Warren, held that miscegenation statutes adopted by Virginia to prevent marriages between persons solely on basis of racial classification violate equal protection and due process clauses of Fourteenth Amendment.

Equality Fairfax Meeting

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Last night Emma and I went to the June 7th meeting of Equality Fairfax. It was a
chance to meet local candidates and to let them listen to our community speak about GLBT issues. I expected mainly Democrats, so I was suprised and pleased to see two Republican representatives. However, a few minutes into the meeting, I was most surprised to see Senator Devolites enter. I was encouraged for a moment that, perhaps, just like other representatives from both parties who had supported
HB 751, she came to the meeting last night "to listen and to learn". But my feelings quickly turned into even greater surprise when, during her edgy introduction to the roomful of 120+ people, she suddenly asked if Heather and Emma were attending.

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