Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Washington Post: Business groups are getting tired of the fundamentalist social agenda;

FotF press release - Dobson outraged over filibuster compromise;

FotF on South Korean stem-cell research advances - fears competition will stall efforts to ban the research here;

Pre-compromise article noteworthy for one thing: Trent Lott getting angry and lashing out at James Dobson;

Focus on the Family article and action item: pound the compromising Republicans demanding they abandon the filibuster compromise agreement - "This is not over";

Today's Family News in Focus;

Today's Focus on the Family main broadcast is about the filibuster fight aftermath - promises to bring it up again, statements outright that they're doing it because of issues involving God's Righteousness on earth, including ending legal abortion and marriage rights for gayfolk. If anyone says this isn't about religion, please read this transcript;

Concerned Women for America talk up the planned resolution at the Southern Baptist Convention to have local churches investigate local schools for "pro-homosexual" activities, and either remove their children from those schools or force the schools to shut the activities down - such activities include gay-straight alliance clubs, etc;

Press release from ExodusMandate.org - the umbrella group pushing this resolution (and other things). Two of the chief architects are Concerned Women for America regulars, Robert Knight and Warren Throckmorton;

CWA coverage of "snowflake" anti-stem-cell research press-conference;

CWA press release condemning the House passage of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act;

CWA condemns Senate filibuster compromise;

Washington Post article on Republican reaction to the filibuster compromise;

Boston Globe article on the same.

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On the way to art tonight - which was kind of short since nobody except me and spazzkat showed up and he wanted to go watch the season finale of Lost - I found out that cranky parking lady at the end of the road I walk to get there doesn't just have chickens; she has peacocks.

So I watched a peacock do the big display thing at a rooster. (Briefly, since I was late.) And I'm kind of thinking, "Dude, 0 for 2!" The rooster, for his part, seemed to be thinking something like . o O ( ? )

I took a couple of pictures but they didn't come out very well. I look forward to future days of more monex, and new digital cameras. Mmmmmmm, new camera. Someday!

Speaking of monex, I have five (5) showings of the house tomorrow. Given that I'm not really all that fond of, you know, people, this is insanity! But, hopefully at least one of them will decide to rent. I also took some pictures of the interiour that came out pretty well, so that's good too.

The bike ride back from murksouth was pretty brutal, though. Partly because I got nuts on the way there (2,6 almost the whole way, after not biking for over a week thanks to rain), and partly because of a strong headwind the entire way back. It felt like adding an entire extra gear. So I'm kind of wiped. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Miles today: 17
Token miles yesterday: 0.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 159.8. Chetwood. Why did it have to be Chetwood?
Miles to Rivendell: 298.2

And here's your flower picture:



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