before bed

I have almost 200 pictures to process, of which I'll probably get, 50 or 60 pictures. Yay! I'd actually forgotten about one entire camera-trip. But it's a lot of work to do and I'm busy. But meanwhile, have a flower picture, okay? OK!


Lemmie! No, Lemmie!

(This one is another from the Ravenna Avenue P-Patch.)

Now to bed. G'night!

( Memage )

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Christian Post on FRC's "wait-and-see" reaction to Miers, Bush's defense of her nomination;

WSJ: Miers's judicial friends assured fundamentalist leaders that Miers would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade;

Human Events, regularly cranky about women in the armed services: "Did Miers Allow Armed Forces to Flout Law?"

Baptist Press: queers shouldn't be foster parents, they're all child-molsters;

David Frum spearheads anti-Miers fundraising effort;

LifeNews, an anti-abortion news site: Miers supported anti-abortion Constitutional amendment; also pledged to work to keep pro-choice appointees off of city boards and commissions;

Family News in Focus gives Roberts, courts a pass on Missouri inmate abortion issue;

FotF condemns survey showing widespread support for embryonic stem-cell research;

Yet another article condemning Plan B, the morning-after birth-control pill - includes ACTION ITEM to lobby the FDA against it;

FotF says "Commander in Chief" is a plot to get Americans used to the idea of a female president and is groundwork for the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign;

FotF: Anti-stem-cell work successful in prompting other forms of research they don't find religiously objectionable;

Credit where due: the Family Research Council officially endorses the HPV vaccine - good for them;

Anti-gay, anti-abortion Alliance Defense Fund to defend "Love in Action," the teen "gay-conversion" camp in Tennessee, against state regulation;

Dust-up over San Diego cross memorial on Federal property;

Viacom pulls down billboards for adult bookstore in Florida in response to AFA, other group pressure.

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