Oh...Goodie!!! Another big blank space!!!
I can't stand bitches like that!! A big rule of mine, never mess with a married man. 1) Not only is it morally wrong but I wouldn't want it done to me. Because karma is a motherfucker. So don't you worry, Whatever happens just remember, what comes around goes around. They got it coming, and your hands are clean. Don't you give in either!! Stick to your guns and stand your ground.
You think exactly like I do only I would add another reason not to mess with married men, I can get my own. Like I said before, I don’t like wishy washy men. I like strong men who know what they want and are not afraid to go after it. Vex NEVER fit that description so I have NO idea what the heck I was doing with him.
Karma is truly a bitch and I must admit to waiting patiently to hear that karma has finally come around. Chances are that it has in one way or another. I may not hear about it for a long time, but I will. I have a special acquaintance who keeps me informed. I’ve heard about a couple of incidents that truly made me smile, but to report them here (yet) would give up my source. It’s driving me nuts that I can’t say anything, but I will eventually.
Kansas just finished redoing the Scopes trial and this time it looks like the KS School Board will decide to dump teaching evolution and begin teaching "this is complex - it must have been designed by an invisible guy in the sky".
Now, this one is interesting. First of all, let me say that, if I am successful, you will never know what my own personal political party affiliation is. I want to examine some of these issues and do so in an impartial manner.
So, having said that, I am going to think out loud a little about the Kansas Board and it’s recent activities regarding the teaching of creationism in school. I will assume that we are talking about pre-college level schools. (In college, you can take whatever classes you want to take so I will not address them at all.)
When I sent my kids to school to learn, I wanted them to learn certain things. Then, on Sunday, I took them to church to have them learn other things. When my children sat in science classes, I wanted them to learn science. (My degrees are in science.) Science is based on certain principles and one of them is that you should have evidence to support any claim you make. Another principle is that you must be able to repeat the testing process and arrive at the same conclusion. Let me say this, evolution is no more than a theory...a well accepted theory, but a theory nonetheless. Science still considers it a theory even though bacteria have evolved. At one time, there was a germ that caused gonorrhea and we treated it with penicillin. Well, some of those little suckers evolved to the point where they EAT penicillin! Many consider this adaptation. Therefore, evolution IS still a theory.
So, what do we want our kids to learn? Theory’s most certainly have there place in science. And, considering the observations of Charles Darwin, we have a lot of things to think about. That’s the point, we have a lot of things to THINK about. Creationism may be a theory, but who’s theory is it? I believe it is the theory of Jews and Christians. So, you can’t really teach it in a school where all of the children may come from different backgrounds. That’s why God made religious schools.
Many scientists believe that the two theories are not mutually exclusive, as a matter of fact, they say that science has proven to them that there MUST be a higher power.
I, as a parent, have never been afraid of which theory the kids were taught in school. I helped them with their homework and encouraged questions like evolution vs. creationism at the dinner table. An involved parent is more powerful than anything that the school systems can come up with. Whatever the schools decide, we as parents are the ones who should be teaching our children the tough stuff. They wouldn’t even be bringing this up at all if some parents hadn’t stopped paying attention in the first place. When they do that, the schools use them as examples to justify whatever they want to teach, i.e. sex education. The schools NEVER should have begun teaching that and they wouldn’t have if the parents hadn’t abdicated their own positions of authority. As long as most parents don’t go to the meetings and don’t attend school functions, they sort of let the teaching default to the school and lose their own voice. More of us need to go and get involved with our children and their schools. Schools are like everything/everyone else, if you don’t watch them, they will do whatever they want and then you can’t complain because you let it happen in the first place.
I think the thing that angers me the most is that these politicians don’t even CARE what is taught in school, if they did, they would be more concerned with other things. But, they do what they think will get them re-elected. The president of the Massachusetts chapter of NOW was asked how she could support Kennedy’s when there was one sleeping with a very young babysitter and one who was trying to have his marriage annulled, making his children illegitimate. Her answer was, “We don’t care about their morals, as long as they are right on the issues.” So, why in the world should they even pretend to act like decent humans when we have tacitly allowed them to behave like less? We should expect more from our leaders, all of them, not just the ones we disagree with.
Here's how they are trying to outlaw abortion. SB 334 seeks to redefine in Tenn abortion statutes that life begins at conception. Therefor a fertilized egg is a human life. (Think of all the fertilized human eggs in freezers in clinics right now.) And the ONLY way that life may be terminated is for the woman's attending physican to certify in writing that an abortion "is necessary to preserve the life of the mother, and has filed a copy of the certificate with the district attorney general of the judicial district wherein the procedure is to be performed." (emphasis added.)link - http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
/bills/currentga/Bill/SB0334.PDF
I was so happy to get this link but I get a window that says “unable to parse vouchers” so I couldn’t read it yet but I will go to the main site and try to find it later after I get this post up.
Molly Ivan's writes about what she calls the "Texas Farm Boy Policy".The Texas State Police had a HR policy that you were not eligible for hire if you had had sex with another man since you turned 16, or had had sex with an animal since you became 18.
Well, does it count if the goat was my 18th birthday present?
When I was a kid, there was a local ordinance that said that no wheeled vehicle could travel the streets of Bensenville unless there was someone running ahead of them with a lantern to warn the cows. A bunch of us got into a convertible and rode slowly down the street, one guy running ahead of us with a lantern. It didn’t take long to catch the attention of the police. There was nothing they could do to us, because we didn’t break any laws. But...we DID get that law off of the books! Most states have some leftover nonsensical laws and here are some from Tennessee. Although the person who sent it says that they got it off of the internet and are not sure if they are correct, it is my bet that they are, especially considering the incident that I was involved with. These sound about right:
Other well thought out laws in Tennessee:
* More than 8 women may not live in the same house because that would constitute a brothel.
* It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish. (Not to mention, very ineffective.)
*"Crimes against nature" are prohibited.
* Giving and receiving oral sex is still prohibited by law.
(Crap, I thought that only the giver was breaking the law...so much for turning Vex in on that charge)
* Driving is not to be done while asleep.
* The age of consent is 16, but 12 if the girl is a virgin.
* It is legal to gather and consume roadkill.
* In Dyersburg, it is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.
* In Memphis, it is illegal for a woman to drive by herself; "a man must walk or run in front of the vehicle, waving a red flag in order to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists." (You know, some women....)
* Hollow logs may not be sold.
* Stealing a horse is punishable by hanging.
* In Fayette County, you may not have more than five inoperable vehicles on a piece of property.
* In Lenior County, when you pull up to a stop sign you must fire a gun out the window to warn horse carriages that you are coming.
* In Lexington, no one may eat ice cream on the sidewalk.
* In Lexington, spitting on the sidewalk is prohibited. (I actually LIKE this one! LOL)
* In Knoxville, in front of their buildings, all businesses must have a "hitching post."
* In Memphis, it's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM. (It’s about time we shut those damn frogs up. Now, if we can only get at the toads.)
* Panhandlers must first obtain a $10 permit before begging on the streets of downtown Memphis. (Passed in 1996)
* In Memphis, it is illegal to give any pie to fellow diners. It is also illegal to take unfinished pie home. All pie must be eaten on the premises.
* An ordinance forbids anyone to sing the song "It Ain't Goin' To Rain No Mo'" in Oneida.
* The definition of "dumb animal" includes every living creature.
* Males may not be sexually aroused in public in Nashville. (But I bet a woman can wear a thong!)
* It is illegal to place tacks on a highway.
* Skunks may not be carried into the state.
* You can't shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile. (Well, officer, I was AIMING at the whale!)
* Any person who participates in a duel may not hold any public office in the state.
* Ministers are to be dedicated to God and therefore are not eligible to hold a seat in either House of the Legislature.
* It is illegal to dare a child to purchase a beer.
* No Christian parent may require their children to pick up trash from the highway on Easter day.
These were all most likely enacted over one silly incident. Tough cases make for bad law and these must have been some wild and crazy cases. This is what happens when we have knee jerk reactions to stupid stuff that will probably never come up again. Once again, these things are not supposed to make sense, they are supposed to get somebody re-elected.
Alrightey then:
Neal Horsley: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."
OK...I am not sure how to address this one except to say, read the comment in yesterday’s post that started, “I’ve been thinking...”, specifically the one about Mr. HORSly. I would just like to add that if you grow up elsewhere and move to Georgia, your girlfriend is a trailer dwelling bimbo.
I wouldn’t take this man’s words seriously any more so than I would take Janine Garafolo‘s. She is a nut and so is Mr. Horsly. Please people, realize that most of us are somewhere in the middle and the media loves to show us the whack jobs...especially if they are of the opposite party than the moderator of the show. Mr. Horsly is no more an example of decent republicans than Ted Kennedy is of decent democrats. CNN loves to show nutty republicans and Fox loves to show nutty democrats. They are trying to manipulate our minds...don’t let them. We are ALL too good for that.
If there is anyone left who hasn’t smiled, check this out. I have the exact same tool kit, but mine is better. I have a phillips head screwdriver (steak knife) in mine.
http://yoke.cc/women.htm
See ya soon!
Meg
I can't stand bitches like that!! A big rule of mine, never mess with a married man. 1) Not only is it morally wrong but I wouldn't want it done to me. Because karma is a motherfucker. So don't you worry, Whatever happens just remember, what comes around goes around. They got it coming, and your hands are clean. Don't you give in either!! Stick to your guns and stand your ground.
You think exactly like I do only I would add another reason not to mess with married men, I can get my own. Like I said before, I don’t like wishy washy men. I like strong men who know what they want and are not afraid to go after it. Vex NEVER fit that description so I have NO idea what the heck I was doing with him.
Karma is truly a bitch and I must admit to waiting patiently to hear that karma has finally come around. Chances are that it has in one way or another. I may not hear about it for a long time, but I will. I have a special acquaintance who keeps me informed. I’ve heard about a couple of incidents that truly made me smile, but to report them here (yet) would give up my source. It’s driving me nuts that I can’t say anything, but I will eventually.
Kansas just finished redoing the Scopes trial and this time it looks like the KS School Board will decide to dump teaching evolution and begin teaching "this is complex - it must have been designed by an invisible guy in the sky".
Now, this one is interesting. First of all, let me say that, if I am successful, you will never know what my own personal political party affiliation is. I want to examine some of these issues and do so in an impartial manner.
So, having said that, I am going to think out loud a little about the Kansas Board and it’s recent activities regarding the teaching of creationism in school. I will assume that we are talking about pre-college level schools. (In college, you can take whatever classes you want to take so I will not address them at all.)
When I sent my kids to school to learn, I wanted them to learn certain things. Then, on Sunday, I took them to church to have them learn other things. When my children sat in science classes, I wanted them to learn science. (My degrees are in science.) Science is based on certain principles and one of them is that you should have evidence to support any claim you make. Another principle is that you must be able to repeat the testing process and arrive at the same conclusion. Let me say this, evolution is no more than a theory...a well accepted theory, but a theory nonetheless. Science still considers it a theory even though bacteria have evolved. At one time, there was a germ that caused gonorrhea and we treated it with penicillin. Well, some of those little suckers evolved to the point where they EAT penicillin! Many consider this adaptation. Therefore, evolution IS still a theory.
So, what do we want our kids to learn? Theory’s most certainly have there place in science. And, considering the observations of Charles Darwin, we have a lot of things to think about. That’s the point, we have a lot of things to THINK about. Creationism may be a theory, but who’s theory is it? I believe it is the theory of Jews and Christians. So, you can’t really teach it in a school where all of the children may come from different backgrounds. That’s why God made religious schools.
Many scientists believe that the two theories are not mutually exclusive, as a matter of fact, they say that science has proven to them that there MUST be a higher power.
I, as a parent, have never been afraid of which theory the kids were taught in school. I helped them with their homework and encouraged questions like evolution vs. creationism at the dinner table. An involved parent is more powerful than anything that the school systems can come up with. Whatever the schools decide, we as parents are the ones who should be teaching our children the tough stuff. They wouldn’t even be bringing this up at all if some parents hadn’t stopped paying attention in the first place. When they do that, the schools use them as examples to justify whatever they want to teach, i.e. sex education. The schools NEVER should have begun teaching that and they wouldn’t have if the parents hadn’t abdicated their own positions of authority. As long as most parents don’t go to the meetings and don’t attend school functions, they sort of let the teaching default to the school and lose their own voice. More of us need to go and get involved with our children and their schools. Schools are like everything/everyone else, if you don’t watch them, they will do whatever they want and then you can’t complain because you let it happen in the first place.
I think the thing that angers me the most is that these politicians don’t even CARE what is taught in school, if they did, they would be more concerned with other things. But, they do what they think will get them re-elected. The president of the Massachusetts chapter of NOW was asked how she could support Kennedy’s when there was one sleeping with a very young babysitter and one who was trying to have his marriage annulled, making his children illegitimate. Her answer was, “We don’t care about their morals, as long as they are right on the issues.” So, why in the world should they even pretend to act like decent humans when we have tacitly allowed them to behave like less? We should expect more from our leaders, all of them, not just the ones we disagree with.
Here's how they are trying to outlaw abortion. SB 334 seeks to redefine in Tenn abortion statutes that life begins at conception. Therefor a fertilized egg is a human life. (Think of all the fertilized human eggs in freezers in clinics right now.) And the ONLY way that life may be terminated is for the woman's attending physican to certify in writing that an abortion "is necessary to preserve the life of the mother, and has filed a copy of the certificate with the district attorney general of the judicial district wherein the procedure is to be performed." (emphasis added.)link - http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
/bills/currentga/Bill/SB0334.PDF
I was so happy to get this link but I get a window that says “unable to parse vouchers” so I couldn’t read it yet but I will go to the main site and try to find it later after I get this post up.
Molly Ivan's writes about what she calls the "Texas Farm Boy Policy".The Texas State Police had a HR policy that you were not eligible for hire if you had had sex with another man since you turned 16, or had had sex with an animal since you became 18.
Well, does it count if the goat was my 18th birthday present?
When I was a kid, there was a local ordinance that said that no wheeled vehicle could travel the streets of Bensenville unless there was someone running ahead of them with a lantern to warn the cows. A bunch of us got into a convertible and rode slowly down the street, one guy running ahead of us with a lantern. It didn’t take long to catch the attention of the police. There was nothing they could do to us, because we didn’t break any laws. But...we DID get that law off of the books! Most states have some leftover nonsensical laws and here are some from Tennessee. Although the person who sent it says that they got it off of the internet and are not sure if they are correct, it is my bet that they are, especially considering the incident that I was involved with. These sound about right:
Other well thought out laws in Tennessee:
* More than 8 women may not live in the same house because that would constitute a brothel.
* It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish. (Not to mention, very ineffective.)
*"Crimes against nature" are prohibited.
* Giving and receiving oral sex is still prohibited by law.
(Crap, I thought that only the giver was breaking the law...so much for turning Vex in on that charge)
* Driving is not to be done while asleep.
* The age of consent is 16, but 12 if the girl is a virgin.
* It is legal to gather and consume roadkill.
* In Dyersburg, it is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.
* In Memphis, it is illegal for a woman to drive by herself; "a man must walk or run in front of the vehicle, waving a red flag in order to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists." (You know, some women....)
* Hollow logs may not be sold.
* Stealing a horse is punishable by hanging.
* In Fayette County, you may not have more than five inoperable vehicles on a piece of property.
* In Lenior County, when you pull up to a stop sign you must fire a gun out the window to warn horse carriages that you are coming.
* In Lexington, no one may eat ice cream on the sidewalk.
* In Lexington, spitting on the sidewalk is prohibited. (I actually LIKE this one! LOL)
* In Knoxville, in front of their buildings, all businesses must have a "hitching post."
* In Memphis, it's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM. (It’s about time we shut those damn frogs up. Now, if we can only get at the toads.)
* Panhandlers must first obtain a $10 permit before begging on the streets of downtown Memphis. (Passed in 1996)
* In Memphis, it is illegal to give any pie to fellow diners. It is also illegal to take unfinished pie home. All pie must be eaten on the premises.
* An ordinance forbids anyone to sing the song "It Ain't Goin' To Rain No Mo'" in Oneida.
* The definition of "dumb animal" includes every living creature.
* Males may not be sexually aroused in public in Nashville. (But I bet a woman can wear a thong!)
* It is illegal to place tacks on a highway.
* Skunks may not be carried into the state.
* You can't shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile. (Well, officer, I was AIMING at the whale!)
* Any person who participates in a duel may not hold any public office in the state.
* Ministers are to be dedicated to God and therefore are not eligible to hold a seat in either House of the Legislature.
* It is illegal to dare a child to purchase a beer.
* No Christian parent may require their children to pick up trash from the highway on Easter day.
These were all most likely enacted over one silly incident. Tough cases make for bad law and these must have been some wild and crazy cases. This is what happens when we have knee jerk reactions to stupid stuff that will probably never come up again. Once again, these things are not supposed to make sense, they are supposed to get somebody re-elected.
Alrightey then:
Neal Horsley: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."
OK...I am not sure how to address this one except to say, read the comment in yesterday’s post that started, “I’ve been thinking...”, specifically the one about Mr. HORSly. I would just like to add that if you grow up elsewhere and move to Georgia, your girlfriend is a trailer dwelling bimbo.
I wouldn’t take this man’s words seriously any more so than I would take Janine Garafolo‘s. She is a nut and so is Mr. Horsly. Please people, realize that most of us are somewhere in the middle and the media loves to show us the whack jobs...especially if they are of the opposite party than the moderator of the show. Mr. Horsly is no more an example of decent republicans than Ted Kennedy is of decent democrats. CNN loves to show nutty republicans and Fox loves to show nutty democrats. They are trying to manipulate our minds...don’t let them. We are ALL too good for that.
If there is anyone left who hasn’t smiled, check this out. I have the exact same tool kit, but mine is better. I have a phillips head screwdriver (steak knife) in mine.
http://yoke.cc/women.htm
See ya soon!
Meg
posted by Meg Kelso | 9:40 AM
2 Comments:
Evolution is a theory that is contiunally tested with emperical observations and peer review. It has been shown valid countless times over the last few centuries.
Creationism or intellingent design theory has not been equally tested. The observation and review of creationsim goes like this -
Gee this sure is complex, do you think this could have evolved like this?
By golly you are right that would be hard to do. I couldn't even begin to do it, much less understand it.
You think it could have been made this way by god?
Possible. Let's look in the bible
So its "validity" is tested by ignorance and belief in the invisible and myth. Anytime that something is complex it just must be god's fault.
Which also helps why the Bushies accept the death, injury, and treasure lost in Iraq, and no WMDs, and why the flowers and candy Bush promised never happened. Golly planning and being a war president is hard - lets just let god figure it out.
Creationism may be a theory, but who’s theory is it? I believe it is the theory of Jews and Christians.
For the most part, evolution is not in conflict with Jewish theology. This is not just reform or conservative Jewish thought, as the orthodox will by and large agree with that statement. The very beginning of Genesis discusses the development of the universe and Earth in days, but according to Jewish thought these are G-d's days, not ours... and could be (and are likely to be) our equivalent of billions of years. The order of events dovetail with evolutionary theory.
So please do not include us in this crusade against evolution. Jewish theology dictates that we should revere education. It is paramount for us to understand the Torah laws, but it is no trivial pursuit to study the natural world and accept what we find in this world as truth. For while we do not hold evolution to be incorrect as a process, we do believe in a G-d intelligent enough and powerful enough to be able to start things with a big bang and to know quite accurately what the outcome will be, and to have started it thus intentionally. As a result, Jewish theology holds that our natural world is a gift to be treasured and examined without fear of the knowledge we may gain.
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