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[May. 16th, 2008|07:31 am] |
I'm happy about California. Now, I've got some friends, and have known some people, that think same-sex marriage is like, not that important. I was appalled the first time I heard this. The person said, I believe, something along the lines of, "It doesn't help me. It doesn't include me." I think my response may have been something like, "It doesn't have to." Well, I think my response was something like, "Are you fucking kidding me? What the fuck?" because, well...well if you've known me you have known me.
Anyways, I am all for steps. I know that same sex marriage isn't the be all and end all of things. I don't even LIKE state-sanctioned marriage. I don't even think it's a particularly healthy concept. But, of course, I do think of straight people can do it, people who aren't straight should be able to do it. And yes, I also think lots of people should be able to get married if they want to. And I think everybody who wants to should be able to adopt kids together. Or have kids together and all be considered the legal parents. Of course I think those things.
But those are not the same battle in my head. Monogomous same sex marriage is a different battle than polyamorous marriage in general. I see it amorphously flying around the same air space as same sex marriage, but not being in the exact same bubble. I think if there were a ven diagram there would be a lot of things in the overlapping areas of the circles, but not all things. And mostly I guess I don't think things work like that under our current system. And I do think they should, or moreso I think our current system should be like, y'know, imploded sucking up with it all of the undercurrent in our culture that it supports, but my idealism doesn't really get to make things happen, unfortunately.
So I'm happy for the monogomous folks in same sex couples who get to get married in California. I am happy for their children being legally connected to both their parents. I am happy for hospital rights, insurance benefits. I am happy for the continuing legal acceptance of same-sex couples, and I am nervous for the ensuing debates among pundits. The perverse reactions people have to love.
But mostly I am happy. |
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| splitting/toggling DVI signal |
[May. 15th, 2008|11:44 pm] |
If my (notebook) computer has one DVI output, can I get a splitter to split the signal to both 1) an external monitor and 2) my TV, and toggle between which is the "active" output device?
Practical application: I want to use my monitor when I am surfing the web and doing stuff on the computer, and use the TV when I am playing poker (via gamepad in my lap). Right now I am just doing this by pulling out the cable from one device and plugging in the other.
Advice, and links to products will be greatly appreciated. |
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| still more pretendian shenanigans! |
[May. 15th, 2008|10:05 pm] |
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American Indian tribe called bogus
By Paul Foy, Associated Press Writer | May 5, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY --A federal judge ordered a $63,000 civil-fraud judgment against four people who claim to be chiefs of an American Indian tribe in eastern Utah.
The men, who got organized at an Arby's restaurant and claim to have hundreds of tribal members, refuse to recognize U.S or state laws, have issued their own drivers' licenses and filed countless lawsuits against Utah authorities for ignoring their sovereignty.
In a decision Monday, following a trial last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Friot ordered the men to stop pretending to be Indians and pay Uintah County damages. He called their tribe a "complete sham."
The group calls itself the Wampanoag Nation, borrowing from the name of two federally recognized Massachusetts tribes.
Gayle Andrews, a spokeswoman for the Mashpee Wampanoags, said the Utah men are obvious impostors. She said the tribe often deals with phony membership claims. In the most feeble attempts to prove tribal affinity, others have offered pictures of their grandmothers dressed as Indian princesses, she said.
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| ARGH MOD NOTE ARGHHHHHHHHHH |
[May. 15th, 2008|09:47 pm] |
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OK look.
I'm reluctant to poke this eye-popping mess with a long, sharp stick, but many similar discussions have been coming up recently, and I need to reiterate:
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ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS are definitely not appropriate for this community, and are likely to derail the conversations we are trying to have here. This community is specifically for white people to get the fuck over themselves and address their whiteness and white privilege.
When posting OR REPLYING TO ANY POST HERE, please consider the audience, the community's specific intent, and the fair to awesome potential for derailing the discussion.
General political debate, intra-POC conflicts, and other topics that do not encourage-slash-force the white members of this community to examine themselves, their whiteness, their racism, and their white privilege are not productive here, and belong somewhere else.
EVERY post should be examined and responded to with the goal of DEBUNKING WHITENESS foremost in mind. If your reply does not address this first and foremost? Please post it in another community. Or don't post it at all.
Please think carefully about engaging in a thread that may derail the conversation away from WHITENESS, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, and WHITE PRIVILEGE. If your reply does not address these topics, there is probably a place for it, but that place is NOT Debunkingwhite.
It is all too easy for white people to wriggle out of, avoid, or imagine away their WHITENESS, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, and WHITE PRIVILEGE. Man, white people love to have the heat on another burner so we can pat ourselves on the back and not think about our complicity in scenario XYZ. Please, do not make it any easier for the white people in this community by derailing the conversation.
Also, for the record? I don't personally believe it's in any way possible to separate institutional racism from immigration issues, particularly in a postcolonial world. Whether you agree with me or not, discussions about immigration issues in this community MUST remain focused on WHITENESS, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, and WHITE PRIVILEGE. Please, keep other aspects in other communities so as not to derail the intentions of this community.
Thank you, and SORRY FOR ALL THE WACKY EMPHASIS CAPS OMG. |
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[May. 15th, 2008|03:01 pm] |
i thought iron man was ho hum, not spectacular or anything...
but i am looking forward to the new X-files movie and the new Batman, of course, but.......
i'm shocked im actually looking forward to this one too, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtu-Ed9LWo |
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| FiguresI |
[May. 15th, 2008|09:53 pm] |
I remembered my umbrella for the shitstorm but my internet has been shitty since I got home and I'm getting a few emails per minute since I left work.
Viva La RP
~K |
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do you know about loving day? It's coming up June 12th and isn't nearly as smaltzy as it sounds. As a black man married to a black woman it's not personal for me in that way but as the product of a interracial marriage it's very personal in another. |
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| I hope this hasn't been posted before (Eli Porter) |
[May. 15th, 2008|07:31 pm] |
If this has been posted, throw your shoes at me & Free Post the hell out of it. But this was sent to me earlier. This is a rap battle featuring Envy and an obviously mentally challenged Eli Porter. I have read a lot of commentary about this video and as one person stated: "It's almost like a Dave Chappelle skit" and another said "Everybody in the video appears to be mentally challenged to some extent." I have no words!!!! *SHAME*
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| Is THIS why Obama lost in West Virginia? |
[May. 15th, 2008|06:40 pm] |
All I can do is shake my head at these a**holes. It was expected, but it still makes me so mad... |
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[May. 15th, 2008|03:08 pm] |
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Just full of rage over Bush's statements about the Holocaust today. |
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| I'm heading to the state convention |
[May. 15th, 2008|02:22 pm] |
Keep me in your thoughts, I'm running to be a National Delegate for Obama!
Here are some pics to tide you over while I'm gone
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| Is it say what you want day? |
[May. 15th, 2008|02:20 pm] |
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: "We're closing in on Rove. Someone's got to kick his ass." Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn't, said Conyers, "We'll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We'd hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested." |
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[May. 15th, 2008|05:01 pm] |
Can someone explain X=Ray Diffraction to me in nice, small words I can understand?
Also, how did I forget that I think iced coffee is gross?
Also in case I didn't mention it, I am mostly sure I aced A&P in the end. Today I ordered my book for the psych class and here's the sick part. I can't wait to get it and look at it. I love school. |
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| McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013 |
[May. 15th, 2008|04:27 pm] |
McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013
By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.
The Republican presidential contender, in a mystical speech that also envisioned Osama bin Laden dead or captured, and Americans with the choice of paying a simple flat tax or following their standard 1040 form, said only a small number of troops would remain in Iraq by the end of a prospective first term because al-Qaida will have been defeated and Iraq's government will be functioning on its own.
"By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won," McCain told an audience of several hundred here in the capital city of a general election battleground state.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_governing_style |
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| This might make you laugh yourself to death |
[May. 15th, 2008|02:58 pm] |
( Liagra ) For once an email forward that was worth opening. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) 13ascension sent this one to me and I had to share. |
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Politico | Ryan Grim | May 15, 2008 05:03 PM