forgot last night

Thursday's miles: 0.5 (0.5 is where it stops being a token. ^_^ )
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1310.1
Miles out of Rivendell: 845.1
Miles out of Lothlórien: 390.1
Miles to Rauros Falls: 18.9

Not very useful yesterday, tho' I did get in some decent walking. None of the new carrots or lettuce have sprouted yet, I'm somewhat worried I did something wrong or that something happened while I was in hospital. That would be sad. The cover crop for over the winter (snow peas) is growing, so it's not like somebody poured gasoline over the bed or something, so it may just still be too hot. It's been an uncommonly long and hot summer.

Physical therapy today, um, yay? Still, better than stumbling around and falling down.

If I can get myself to do it, today will feature the return of the Cultural Warfare Update. There's a lot to post, too. It's just so, well, depressing, you know? It's kind of hard to make myself do it right now. It's fatiguing.

Here, have a flower picture. Flowers are nice and don't hate you. ^_^


Red Rows

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Faith and Freedom Network cranky at Seattle PI columnist talking about their effort to elect fundamentalist-friendly judicial slates across the state;

Faith and Freedom Network pushes their "educational" "voter's guide," which is basically their judicial endorsement list;

Links to Faith and Freedom Network's endorsement list and the Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to vote for fundamentalist judges in Washington State;

Faith and Freedom Network ACTION ITEM to download their endorsement list and vote for the judicial candidates they endorse;

Focus on the Family protests Illinois court decision upholding an anti-marriage initiative being kept off the ballot; Illinois law requires that no more than 5% of signatures be invalid, their initiative was well over that, so they sued and lost;

Liberty Council files suit filing lawsuits to overturn GBLT civil rights protections at the county level in Virginia; they plan to do so in several counties which have passed local antidiscrimination law;

FotF reports on a freethinker atheist group being formed at the Air Force Academy;

FotF happily reports on veto of GBLT educational bill in California; hoping Governor Schwarzenegger will veto antidiscrimination bills affecting schools;

Faith and Freedom Network ACTION ITEM to get out the fundamentalist vote for the primary;

Focus on the Family demands action on anti-abortion legislation;

Focus on the Family and several other fundamentalist leaders want to meet with President Bush to demand Federal obscenity prosecutions;

Focus on the Family reports on efforts to ban pr0n shops in Kentucky and Indiana;

FotF article on a lawsuit challenging Maryland's same-sex marriage ban;

Focus on the Family pushes their "ex-gay" "Love Won Out" agenda;

Focus on the Family Canada upset at Manitoba schools;

Focus on the Family happily reports on North Carolina's ban on Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs, violating the equal-access rule laid out by the Supreme Court several years ago, the same ruling that they rely on to make sure religious clubs have access; they loved the ruling when they could use it to sue schools to let religious clubs in, they hate it when queer kids use it too;

Focus on the Family complains about lack of anti-abortion-rights bills in Congress;

FotF reports on the Southern Baptist Convention effort to get a fundamentalist exodus from public schools;

Focus on the Family commentary outlines the war on terrorism as a religious war, with George Bush as the hero and everyone who criticises him as a Leftist Who Hates America;

Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to support more of President Bush's judicial nominees;

"Psychologist Suspended for Ties to Pro-Family Organization"; I'd like to hear more details about this story;

Arizona anti-marriage amendment to be on ballot;

The so-called "Christmas Wars" generates a bunch of letters to Sam's Club, who says they will specifically refer to "Christmas" in future advertising; however, they refuse to refer only to Christmas, which is what the American Family Association (one of the bigger groups behind this) has typically insisted upon;

Focus on the Family reports Vatican to give more consideration to creationism in the form of "intelligent design";

Faith and Freedom Network attacks the idea that the court system has any business protecting the rights of minourities and declares that majorities have absolute rule, rights be damned;

Focus on the Family continues to push "ex-gay" bullshit, claims APA is on the verge of recognizing "ex-gay" ministries;

Focus on the Family happy to report that there is "one less gay character on network TV" this fall;

Faith and Freedom Network declares GBLT people a Threat to Your Children;

Faith and Freedom Network: Americans have too much freedom, asks whether it will lead to death;

AFA works with Texas Ford dealers to get a large number of them to request that corporate Ford not advertise to GBLT customers any longer;

Focus on the Family outlines some of their fall campaign strategy.

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