September 2001 Archives
Because some of us need some specail help.
A religion and government watchdog organization dedicated to the separation of state and church as mandated under the establishment, due process and equal protection clauses of the Constitution of the United States and article 1, sections 4 and 5 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.And don't forget to check out "50 Reasons Why the Bible Must Never be Used in Government" on the bottom of the page.
[via CamWorld]
Alan Marciano: Why'd I get mixed up with that bitch?just because engel thought the previous pseudo quote really came Heat but Sent of the Woman.
Vincent Hanna: Cause she's got a great ass...and you got your head all the way up it!
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Barry Cohen: "I saw a bumper sticker today: 'Forgive your enemies, it drives them really nuts.'"Reminds me of something my High School Youth Director used to say.
The FSF USA and the GNU project need webmaster help. Tasks include:Volunteers must be able to use CVS to update files. They should also be very familiar with the GNU webmastering standards, found at: http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/ If you would like to volunteer, please write to <webmaster-volunteers@gnu.org>.
- Updating HTML files based on requests from FSF staff and GNU volunteers.
- Rendering text documents into HTML and putting them on the website.
- Determining if bug reports about the website are legitimate, and if so making the appropriate changes.
- Determining if pages meet the FSF/GNU linking requirements, and making links if they do.
Simple techniques to increase reliability and maintainability in Perl code
WTC emotions...
Like many out there I have been trying to come to grips with 9/11, after all it was soposed to be just engel's birthday. I actually work up early, which is strange as folks that know me can attest, and just read some email til engel called. I was expecting it was him just making sure I didn't over sleep like that day before. "Is the TV on, trun it on", or something like that. Something is wrong from the sound of his voice. "Which channel?" I ask, "any..." And I end up on one of the Canadian networks to the sight of the World Trade Center towers on fire. Engel says to get a shower and watch from Iambe and his place. When I get out of the shower the first tower starts to drop.
Til mid afternoon I watch the TV coverage with engel and ocassionally check the net news with iambe. Through it out I'm not feeling really anything. Iambe periodicly comes into the TV room with news form IRC in tears but still I'm not really having any emotions. I have been leary to talk or even write about how little was going on inside, that felt strange. Then Friday morning get into work and check email to something from muckhead, on of the Java coders and local. He has uploaded a desktop wallpaper from Digital Blasphemy of the U.S. flag. Shortly afterwards the "old guy from support :)" one of the most Canadians of the company comes over to the developer room. He has the Canadian memorial service on in the nest. It seemed like everyone in the company is in there.
Then it hits me. All the emotions that I have been unable to feel come poreing out. I think it was the feeling of support from the Canadians. I knew, know, that I will be here for a while. That it will be a while til I cross the border back into the U.S. Partly because the border is now much harder to cross, even though it is so close. Partly because this is becoming my home. But feeling support of the Canadians helped to give me the security I guess I needed to finally deal with what I had been feeling.
So thank you to all the Canadians who have helped at least this American through some of the pain and fear he is dealing with. Thank you...
It is just this kind of shit that makes me hate the Fundamentalists just as much as I hate the terrorists who destroyed the WTC. Both are evil, both are compassionateless, both thrive on fear not love. If anything brought about the attack, it was not the liberal media or the lack of spirituality in our society and government, it was the bigotry, racism, and intolerance of people like Pat Robertson.
"For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? "
---Submitted by Iambe via engel
"The first is freedom of speech and expression --everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-- everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants --everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor --anywhere in the wold.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called "new order" of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
To that new order we oppose the greater conception --the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear. Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society."
Moshi-moshi! I believe that we need to know about something that makes people very happy! And the happiest thing around is Hello Kitty!All for Iambe, sorry engel.
This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.Well, it turns out that this article was originally written and broadcast by Gordon Sinclair on CFRB, Toronto, Ontario, on JUNE 5, 1973!
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!
Many have sent me the text, one before 9/11 but many after. It is indead true and just as valid today as in 1973.
Rich countries should recognise the benefits of immigrants and keep the costs in perspectiveaSpeaking as someone who does live in a country other than their birth and citizenship, the more open and unrestricted the borders the better. It can be truely crazy what one has to go through to move to another country, even from the US to Canada which share the longest "unguarded" border in the world.
Liberals abandon their tolerance, and their professed dislike of government restrictions. Socialists speak of job-stealers. Conservatives mutter about spongers and scroungers, forgetting that immigrants generally bring with them the qualities of thrift, hard work and enterprise.
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