Amie Stuart ~ On the Back Porch

Paula reminded me of what I forgot to blog about this week. On Tuesday, voting day in Texas, I saw a sign that said “If you love God please vote” –I wonder if they wanted me to vote for or against the proposed constitutional ammendment

The ammendment (?) on the ballot was to NOT allow same sex unions. Now, if I read this right, and I hope to hell I didn’t cuz it passed by something like 70%, not only will we not allow same sex unions (homophobic redneck anyone?) Texas won’t even RECOGNIZE a same sex union from another state. From the San Jose paper:

The proposed amendment, aimed at fortifying the state’s 2003 Defense of Marriage Act, states that marriage in Texas is solely the union between a man and woman and prohibits same-sex marriages or civil unions, including those created in other states.

Whatever happened to HUMAN rights? :loser:

BTW Paula looks a lot like a girl I went to school with

Ok so anyway today I have to do promo stuff, including putting out a newsletter for Raine and getting stuff to TRS Blue because I’m gonna be a featured author in December. On the writing front, I’ve been doing a lot of this. And a lot of thinking. Right now, there is no joy in Writerville. :embarassed:

Today I found myself forced to do one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my entire life. It cut me to the quick and left me shaking.

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You gotta fight…for your right….to talk to God?
Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan: BBC

‘God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan’.’

And it was what? Good? :memememe:

“And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq…’ And I did.

And what? It made your oil friends a bunch of money? :crazy: I wonder if She appeared as a Burning Bush?

Nothing against anyone who communes with the Holy One. More power to you if you’ve got Her direct line. Maybe calling God and asking Her how to get the price of gas down would be, you know, a smart move. Or end World Hunger or the AIDS epidemic in Africa. I can think of a lot more useful things to discuss with God.

The White House, of course, denies it.

TXU (that’s the electric company if you’re in Texas) has asked the Utility Commission to authorize a rate hike (as if they didn’t charge enough already) becuse of increased fuel costs. It’s not their fault fuel costs have gone up but I already hate them. Commy bastards.

From the San Jose paper:

TXU Energy is asking the state Public Utility Commission for permission to raise rates by 24 percent - an average monthly increase of about $30 - by January, a TXU Energy spokesman says.

TXU also asked the commission Tuesday to allow it to raise rates about 12 percent - equal to about $15 each month - through the end of the year. That increase would go into effect by early November.

The news (TV) said our rates were going to double. :dead:

“Oh, my goodness,” Tim Morstad, an analyst with the Consumers Union, a nonprofit consumer advocate, told The Dallas Morning News as he began leafing through TXU’s filing Tuesday. “Wow, this is very, very high.”

NO SHIT??? :wtf:

On my way to work today I heard a commercial for ONSTAR….you know if you get in trouble on the road, you just push a button (or something). I suppose, in theory this is kinda cool, but what about your cell phone if you break down. You do have one…don’t you? WELL DON’T YOU?
Cuz there’s the Big Brother angle. There’s a device in your car that will allow you to be tracked. Anytime, anywhere by any agency that doesn’t really exist. [insert X-FILES Music here]

What if you’re…you know, selling state secrets AND having a torrid love affair with your secretary?

I mean, if you were just having an affair and you accidentally pushed the button while having hot monkey sex in the front seat of your Cadillac, you could kinda blow that off (though that friendly voice going “ONSTAR” might scare the bejesus out of you). No one would be the wiser.

But if you’re dabbling in espionage and having a hot affair…parked out on Pier 69, goin’ at it like Rabbits when the feebies come a knockin’. Not only would your ass end up in Federal Prison, your wife would leave you and take EVERY FRICKEN THING. :loser:

Pat Robertson was wrong………it’s not the Telletubbies we should be worried about. I mean Gay is Okay….but what about incest?

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What Raine Said:

if we really wanted to reduce waste, taxes, deceit, wars, slow environmental death, and the number of arrogant pricks who’ve forgotten who pays their salary, we could assemble volunteer firing squads to kill all the politicians. It would be morally reprehensible, of course–but ridiculous?

*snicker*

1. Get smokes
2. Draw a winner for the September contest
3. Post the October contest (BEENIE BABIES!!!!!)
4. Whip that ho Lanie into shape.
5. Do critiques
6. Go see Serenity

And not necessarily in that order either :dead:

People who can’t think for themselves.

*Fucking just be an original already. Is that so hard?

:ohmy:

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*Yes I”m still cranky