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12:54 am
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Chia is good for you?
or similar herb seeds, such as basil, timothy, alfalfa, marjoram or thyme.
- Chia pet instructions
I have half a dozen of these things, easily. I also have some awful white plastic planters, modular and singles, that I have to figure out what to cover them with, so they can be around the house without looking ugly. I'm thinking to grow kitty grasses.
Most of these clearly can't be grown on a Chia Pet. More. Et more.
Poisonous plants for cats
Next up, trying to figure out how math helps reinforce origami and vice versa, 'cause the kidlet loves origami and to find other materials he can work with so they're stronger-bigger-longer lasting than the simple paper he's been working with.
Note that where the lists conflict, it's safer not to risk your cat on what you've read on the interdawebs.
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02:22 pm
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Why PowerPC users will jump ship in droves: Because 10.6 is...
Hi,
Can a linux programmer please add some of these features to the next Ubuntu? Why yes, yes they could. Most of these feature improvements are such that the usual group of Macintosh third party programmers are probably going to make a bunch of small programs and charge for each one.
Seriously, this is what they're giving us? I'm about to jump OS'.
www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html
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08:43 pm
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The President significantly misses the point
Civil Unions: Getting to visit one another in hospitals.
The California State Supreme Court says that by taking away the designation Marriage, and having in place Domestic Partnerships, they have done a significant thing.
Let's be clear here: Saying the Federal Gov't isn't getting involved, means that the Federal protections and rights allowed for those who are married, are not there for those who have Domestic Partnerships. That is an omission, that is things we cannot do, that is harms we cannot protect each other from, that "Married" people can do for one another.
Let me ask you a question, by way of clarifying a point. Did you choose to be straight? Ever tried to choose not to be? How about chose to be not just bisexual in that you're into it with a person of the same gender (The stats show more than 50% of the straight population does this) but that you've fallen in love with this person of the same gender, that you want to commit to them, that what they're about for you, to you, about for themselves, is deeply, let's say significantly important to you? What if they felt the same way about you, but you could do nothing about it? That's right, what if the gov't said that your marriage wasn't really a marriage, and that you couldn't do for each other what you could do for each other yesterday?
( When the LGBT community says )
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02:22 pm
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The first act is to organize your ignorance
Knowing what you don't know is a good step, however...
The GOP has no position on Health Care for America
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10:58 am
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Prop 8; Why I think we won this round
..."Instead, the measure carves out a narrow and limited exception to these state constitutional rights, reserving the official designation of the term “marriage” for the union of opposite-sex couples as a matter of state constitutional law, but leaving undisturbed all of the other extremely significant substantive aspects of a same-sex couple’s state constitutional right to establish an officially recognized and protected family relationship and the guarantee of equal protection of the laws. "
-From the decision.
They basically said that the language of the measure was legally valid under the CA Constitution, so they let it stand. But wait, what did they let stand?
The marriages already in place.
The reaffirmation that they did not use their personal beliefs or values.
That in no way was this decision to infringe on the rights and protections for same gender couples, their relationships and their families.
All that was "won" was that designating word "Marriage" is reserved for opposite gender couples. A hollow victory.
The dissenting Judge says "Go back to the ballot box, that's how to win this one last thing."
I particularly liked that the entire court said that this didn't reflect their core values and beliefs; this is a slap in the face of the churches which espouse a "Family Values Judiciary", the churches which funded the initiative, funded an opinion against their strategy.
So, can a same gender couple run right out and get married? In all but the term, for all that CA can grant as a state (since it's not recognised Federally) well, yes. Opposite gendered couples can't get Domestic Partnered any longer in CA. This is reserved for same gendered couples. Will the children be protected as part of this license? Yes.
Is it right? Well, since the opinion is going to be used to fight the good fight at the Federal level at some point, yes, this is very, very good for us. It's right, right now. Is it enough? It's not nearly equality.
Am I happy with the decision? Er, I really dislike that we're having to fight for our rights at all. Do I think this was a "Win" for our side, if we're smart enough to see it that way? Yes. Better put, if we're going to have some losses, this is exactly the kind of losses I want to be taking. All the protections but in name only? Oh, and instructions on how to fill out the form to get the name, too? That's called "one step at a time", and so, I think the people who wanted to invalidate the marriages which were performed were told in no uncertain terms that this would actually have a substantive effect on individuals and families, so; no way.
What we have, is huge, I am totally pleased that instead of getting the term, only to find out that it's not half of what they other side gets, (Again, I'm only referring to CA state; we have a much longer way to go at the Federal level), that we get legal protection and acknowledgement of our rights as a half way point? Well, let me see, it will keep me warm at night and yes, I think it's shabby.
In terms of what the proponents wanted? I'd say their proposition got gutted and what they're striving for was turned back by so many more steps, that I believe they were told "Here's your name tag, and those families over there? You can have no more effect on them with this, whatsoever." If this were a game, they got to the point they wanted, but then were set so far back on the board. Their struggles have been multiplied at great expense to themselves, and our path has been cleared by much of their own efforts.
"The majority opinion "avoids the daunting task of reconciling with our constitutional tradition a voter initiative clearly motivated at least in part by group bias."
Prop. 8 is a valid amendment because, "excepting the name, same-sex couples are entitled to enjoy all the rights of marriage, leaving the state with a continuing duty to "eliminate the remaining important differences between marriage and domestic partnership, both in substance and perception."
- From the concurrence by Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar.
The State needs to get right on this, then.
So, who got told?
Current Mood: Better after having read the decision
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07:10 pm
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What you get when you elect a consitutional attorney
President Obama moves forward in the sunlight, with balances for all, himself included.
(vid)
Current Mood: Better for what he said in his own words
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05:47 pm
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Zeus shuts down 100K machines
None of them are Macintosh.
..."S21sec notes, however, that invoking the kos command only results in a bluescreen and subsequent difficulty booting the OS. There appears to be no significant data loss and neither the Trojan binaries nor the startup registries are removed, indicating that Zeus isn't trying to keep itself from being dissected by researchers. It could also mean that, once those hundred thousand or so users manage to get back online, Zeus will get back to work stealing passwords and credit card info."
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08:15 am
[Link] | Follow the money, follow their illegal, sins.
Wow. My brain is having so much trouble with this. Equal rights vote 12-1.
How does the guy who is black and has been a Mayor, get Pwnd by an aging white male, on the issue of equal rights?
I mean, I get the reality of it, but let me tell you, I think less of his church. What are they teaching people?
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01:11 pm
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Ratatatat: The landlord game
Bad news Ratinsky
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07:40 pm
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Yo, Fan boy...
Comics? Independent stuff? Margaret Cho?
I know, I know, that's Fan Grrl to you...
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10:11 pm
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Pride; let me show you it.
Speaking of Pride... I'm a Pride Safety Team Monitor for San Francisco.
We need, oh, about 200 new people to join the Pride Safety Team, so that it's totally safe, because seriously, people love us and it's us or the cops.
As it stands now, the cops only respond when our people radio in a request for assistance, so we need friendly people who literally, want to be in the parade, who like bopping about with small teams and who like being friendly to oh, hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ people who rely on us to make it look fun while keeping everything safe. We don't just work the Celebration, we make sure it stays a celebration, and get those who're in need, the need they need. And we get fed and watered and have our own bathrooms.
Teams: Friends, bring your friends!! The shifts are just four hours and we have a special, special power: We write down who to donate our volunteer hours to, from a list of community groups, these groups then split the pot of money that Pride raises for just this purpose. So we have rainbow fun and then get to toss the gold to those of our choosing, and they get thousands of dollars from a very small group of people.
200 newly trained volunteers. C'mon, it's a really good bouncy time amidst a very seriously needed thing we're doing.
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12:49 am
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Kitty Sauce
( Ladders for cats? )
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08:50 pm
[Link] | AMAZON HATES GAYS. CRUSH Them Lit-A-Rally !! Lit-a-Rawr-lily!
Flower power says free the gay books! Shop at Abebooks.com
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08:46 pm
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World responds to (R)
Bobby Jindail, report to the Fema Response Team, S.T.A.T.
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09:59 pm
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Tralala
What Gives?.
A little something on espresso
Vegan. Caesar Dressing. But it has soy, and yeast and oil, so if you're not already healthy, it's not so healthy for you.
A box, a special box. A cardboard and plastic oven.
Note the bit about a Charcoal making device? I think the cardboard box beat out this.
Needle distribution. Colorado struggles with it. Since California is further along, Oakland has PoD.
About those college loans; can you show me a little love?
The Immigration issue starts to move from the back burner...
News, Journalism, and the web.
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03:57 pm
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Seriously, we know of no one looking for a nice place to live in the East Bay?
Peektures
Craig's List ad
C'mon, at these prices, someone working retail/restaurant could nail the rent and be loving livin' in a *house*.
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03:59 pm
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Specialty chocolatier shop is closing
Josehph schmidts is closing their doors in S.F.
Their staff is sad, they're closing June 30th, they're having sales.
h/t to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fd_midori
If you're in the East Bay, you might want to check out Sharffen Bergers, as they're in the same situation, but I don't know their closing date.
I just hope there's a location which can take them on. Perhaps Ghiradelli could now expand into more specialties and hire on the above staff. Ghiradelli co. is union run, at least.
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10:48 am
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Ice: A battery pack?
( Ice holds more answers.. )
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06:21 am
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Crackerjack box
The laptop has been giving me this nasty message, saying there were disk repairs to be done, that I had to reinstall the OS. *sigh* Nope. Cleaned it up, which took awhile 'cause I did the desktop as well. What's this all mean? Forgot to sleep.
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02:33 am
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Is this the tipping point for thin clients?
Lock down their access to the physical media, because once exposed, you're fubar.
Speaking of throwing up: Here's where to check so your animal doesn't have to throw up, your plants.
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