Madeline's WeblogJust when the capterpillar thought the world was ending...it turned into a butterflyFunny quote of the day...- March 28, 2004 "People who are opposed to gay sex should be for gay marriages. Everybody knows that once you get married the sex goes way down." (I don't know who said this orginally.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/2004/03/28.html#a183 Someday the truth will out- March 20, 2004 I think that someday, after today's men in power are long gone, it will come out that we had no cause to capture or detain many if not most of the people who've been imprisioned for over two years at Guatanamo. If we had afforded them the trials they are entitled to under international law, we would have had to release them long ago, because we had no proof that they had done anything wrong. I see no reason not to believe their statements that they were mistreated and ridiculed. It is no...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3515502.stm Hate and Vengeance- March 20, 2004 "I'll look forward to him catching AIDS in prison and dying," said Ertman. "I am happy again." Randy Ertman believes and claims that his daughter's murder has destroyed his life, but he is wrong. He blames those who raped and murdered her, but they cannot control him; they do not choose his course of action: only he does. His own beliefs, thoughts, and actions have destroyed his life. His hatred is no less ugly than the vicious muderers'. He feels that theirs justfies his, but no such...http://www.murdervictims.com/Voices/jeneliz.html US inmate faces deadly drugs cure- March 20, 2004 Old news, but my first knowledge of it... BBC News 11 February 2003, by By Susannah Price, BBC correspondent in New York A United States federal appeals court has ruled that mentally ill prisoners can be forced to take drugs even if it makes them sane enough to be executed. The US Supreme Court prohibits the execution of the mentally ill but says inmates can be forced to take anti-psychotic medication in some cases. The decision breaks new ground, allowing officials in Arkansas to force a...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2750991.stm Politics at Feedster- March 18, 2004 I really don't know what this is or what the point of it is, but it's something they're doing at the Feedster site, so I decided to do it... Basically, in order to oust Dubya, I support the Democratic candidate, which has turned out to be Kerry, but I have no real love for Kerry. Kucinich is who I'd want if I could have chosen the Democratic candidate, with Clark next, and then Dean. If I could choose the party to run the country of course it would be the Green Party! I Blog For:http://www.feedster.com/politics.php Colin Powell got something right anyway- March 18, 2004 It sucks that such a great man in so many ways has chosen to be a sucky, murderous, pro-war, lying Republican. I hope he repents of his evil ways some day. But he said a very cool thing about Affirmative Action. At least he's not Ward Connerly, but then maybe he's done equally as much bad for the world in his work for the Bush Administration, I don't know... Anyway, here's the cool thing he said: "There are those who say we can stop now, America is a color-blind society. But it isn't...http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/2004/03/18.html#a178 New California UU Legislative Ministry- March 17, 2004 UULM Office OpensJanuary 16th 2004926 J Street, Suite 417Sacramento, CA 95818 The UULM office in Sacramento officially opened for business, thanks, in large part, to a gracious invitation from Jericho for Justice to share their office space at a low cost. Jericho for Justice is an interfaith ministry focusing on public polices affecting low-income children and families. The other neighbors in the building include organizations familiar to many UULM supporters: Friends Committee on...http://www.cuulm.org/ Amish in the City (or Reality TV is Truly Terrible Trash Television!)- March 13, 2004 Hollywood Amish As spiritual cousins to the Amish, Mennonites feel a particular distaste at the prospect of an Amish-based "reality" TV show proposed to air this summer on UPN. After plans for Amish in the City emerged in late January, we thought such a preposterous concept would soon vanish on the shifting tides of taste. Unfortunately, we misjudged the network's determination to make Amish in the City its latest prism of comedic distortion, this one directed at an already misunderstood, and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/2004/03/13.html#a176 Ode to the Goddess of Spring- March 13, 2004 You visit the earth and water it, making it abundantly fertile; your river is full of water; you provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it. You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its young sprouts. You adorn the year with your bounty; your paths drip with fruitful rain. The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy, the meadows clothed with flocks, the valleys decked with grain; they shout and sing..http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/2004/03/13.html#a175 About Madeline- March 13, 2004 I recently joined an online community called The WELL. I made a profile for it. It's rather nice... Madeline is a radical, progressive, socialist, internationalist, ecofeminist, anti-racist, white, 27-year-old, student, francophone, writer, bisexual, polyamorous, Pagan, Unitarian Universalist who lives in San Jose, California. She aspires to be a Witch in the Reclaiming tradition. She advocates for personal liberty, communal responsibility, peace, economic justice, ecological sustainability,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/2004/03/13.html#a174 |