Point by point rebuttal on Zell Miller’s rabid speech at the RNC – is this guy sane – or was it a carefully crafted attempt to garner sympathy for a bi-polar moment?
Also read Jimmy Carter’s letter in response to the “speech” … courtesy of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, by way of Grant
And to put it all in perspective, here is
Zell Miller’s speech FOR John Kerry, back in 2000
Mark your Calendar: October 3rd, 2004 – Leesburg, Virginia!
VirginiaBritishMotorcycleClub.org at a new location!
I had some time to work on the bike today, And the plan was to try and cure a hard-to-start problem. Although I had gotten the motorcycle to run last fall, starting it wasn’t easy.
from a
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Press Release posted on Yahoo
– Weds Sept 1, 5:44 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ — The Human Rights Campaign today condemned Home Depot, Sprint, Ecolab and Waste Management — all Fortune 500 companies — for offering their employees pet insurance but not domestic partner health insurance.
“Paying for a parrot’s but not a person’s hospital stay is absurd,” said HRC President Cheryl Jacques. “This is no joke. Employees deserve better from these companies.”
I just got back from a weekend in Richmond, Virginia. After 5 years of work, study and practice, my partner Emma was ordained as a Reverend in the Metropolitan Community Church.
It was a very significant weekend for me, my dad expressed an interest in seeing her service, and by going to Richmond, he’d get a chance to meet Emma’s parents as well, who he’s never met, due to their poor health and inabilty to travel.
One of the neat things is that Emma’s dad had been a Methodist Minister most of his life – he retired a few years ago after preaching for 50 years. Her uncle is also a retired Methodist Minister, so Emma going into the ministry was following in a family tradition. (Yeah – she’s a PK – Preacher’s Kid)…
Continue on for picture highlights …
My partner Emma has reached the end of her training and waiting – on August 28th, on her birthday, she becomes ordained as a full Reverend in the Metropolitan Community Church. Its a real big deal to both of us, and to her family, who are travelling for the occasion. We’re also having some MCC pastors and elders travelling in from a distance. Rev Elder Darlene Garner (who was the pastor when we joined MCC NoVA back in 1996) is flying in from Monterrey Mexico, and some other surprises are expected. Even my Dad is coming to see the service, and he’s not regular church-going folks!
As you might imagine, I’ll be away from the computer most of the weekend. My hands will be busy with family and guests and such – – but I’ll post pictures once I have them.
Found via Shaula’s weblog
http://tsuredzuregusa.blogspot.com/
As she says … best Campaign spot
Ever …
http://www.n3t.net/humor/Seriously.mpg
Very funny, but if at work, use headphones …
If you consider that my recent posts here have all been about
pushing the range of an Apple Airport Express adapter, you might think I spend all my time indoors at a computer screen. But in truth, its just part of the things that keep me busy …
Of course, we have the backyard pond to maintain, and about 18 very tall trees … recently reduced by one. Thats the problem with living among old tall trees – the shade is wonderful, but even with regular watering and deep root feeding, they only live for so long. And in the 4 years we’ve lived in this home, we’ve had 4 large trees cut down. Its troubling, but on each occasion we found a huge amount of decay hidden within the trunk, so its actually a blessing to take the trees down gently at our pace, instead of waiting for them to crash down in winter, loaded with ice.
As you can see from the pictures, the last homeowner let the yard go to seed – so I’ve spent a lot of time clearing weeds and undregrowth from a lot of the yard. Somebody in the past had even filled in the little pond years ago – but I show how I got the pond set up in pictures and pages here
Its a lot of work, but its very pleasant to go sit in the chairs on a sunday morning with a nice cup of coffee and watch the birds play in the trees. Very soothing – like a vacation in our own backyard.
Continuing my project to boost the received signal to my Airport Express (AEx) at home, I got my (MC-Card to N fitting) 5′ pigtail from EtherDesign in the mail yesterday, so I was ready to build the antenna with the Cookie can! See the
Seattle Wireless website for design specifics. I followed their basic plan, but because I was going to use the antenna inside, I used an old folding microphone tripod and short gooseneck, and twisted a wire coathanger around the cookie can, slipping the ends into the mic stand gooseneck. Having that easily bendable wire allows me to vary the antenna beam, relative to the AEx downstairs at the other end of the house. At the moment, its standing on Emma’s monitor in the office. Click the picture for an enlarged view at a different angle.
I checked inside my G4 PowerMac to confirm the little pigtail with a 90 connector that’s plugged into my Airport Extreme (802.11g) card.
My plan is to build a high gain cantenna, connect it to my powermac instead of the existing Omnidirectional internal antenna, and use it to feed a focused beam to the Airport Express downstair on my stereo.
See Pepperidge Farm Cookie Cantenna with a 15-18dB gain!
So I checked my old ham junkbox yesterday and found a bulkhead N connector – I got a can of Pepperidge Farm Pirouette cookies when I did the groceries today – and I ordered a 60″ pigtail (MC-Card connector to N) a few moments ago! About $30 for the pieces (mostly the pigtail). I’ll make a little mount from an old gooseneck microphone stand. With any luck I’ll get the pieces late next week and maybe get a chance to try all this out in the next couple weeks.
Lotta work for an automated (computer) radio station …!