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faireraven. I try to credit correctly.
soundtracks
dawntreader90 )now some rock
and we'll wind it down with the classic Steve Hackett halloween trilogy
and 2 more just to keep things going while i pack up the lights
so in spite of hunting the classical down, i didn't play any today. oh well...
Another (very specifically fundraising) letter he wrote mentions dangerous legislation like
2) The Offense to Marriage Act, repealing the Defense of Marriage Act which has stood for over a decade against the Homosexual Lobby.
If passed, wedding gown-clad men smooching before some left-wing clergyman or state official is just the beginning.
You’ll see men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to “pick out” a little boy for themselves.
3) The Gay Bill of Special Rights, granting special job rights to homosexuals. Every homosexual fired or not hired becomes a potential federal civil rights lawsuit.
Radical homosexuals will terrorize day cares, hospitals and churches.
culminating, of course, with "In fact, if I’m to effectively defeat even one of these bills, I’m going to need an immediate influx of funds." - Fear-mongering, hatred, and an annoyingly active imagination unable to see reality in the slightest, and his flock should give him money for that.
How detached from reality is he? He even made a post (I think a tweet, but I can't recall now) about how "his" Sterling so overwhelmingly voted Republican in November (facts? Obama took 65%, Kaine took 68% - both contributing to their late-night wins once the votes were counted - and within Sterling, Wolf was in the minority, though he took his district thanks to Fauquier and Winchester, not Loudoun which went 50/50). A few hours later, he took that one down.
By the way, the mailing list of people who love to read that kind of stuff? In the months prior to the election, he sold it. To Bachmann, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, likely more.
He personally takes home about $171,000 a year writing this stuff, according to analysis of public tax filings. And this is a 'non-profit' advocacy group, btw. And that's on top of his PACs, his investments, and his income from the Loudoun Board. He actually primarily lives in Falls Church (ironically because it has better schools for his kids, who knew?).
And no, I have NO intention of linking to to those pages...but he clearly owns it, as shown by the whois records for the domain.
But no, he's not one who "hates" and there is no "hate" in Sterling, except against him.
Really.
Who needed photos to remember moments? I didn't. Certainly not!
That was true until just recently. On a recent visit to my husband's office, I saw a picture of a 4-year-old, with the ex-mayor of New York City, David Dinkins [acroyear70: 1990 or 1991]. In the photo, she's smiling at Mayor Dinkins who is obviously charmed by her. It's a perfectly captured moment, a lovely picture. But, as I stared, I became horrified. It wasn't the fact that she was standing on the Honorable Mayor's desk that bothered me. No, I was horrified because I couldn't remember...I simply couldn't remember the event!
I could guess...It had probably been taken on one of several "Children's Day Celebrations" at Gracie Mansion, or a celebration for a television award. I just couldn't be positively sure....But I was so very happy someone had had the good sense to take a picture of it -- to record it for me. I began to wonder what other things had happened in her life that I had forgotten. I wondered what else had gone from my memory, to make room for other memories - events in Gabi's life that were, perhaps, too small to remember on their own, but could have lived on a picture I should have taken....
So there you have it. "To be or not to be." To stand outside the moment and record it; or to forgo recording it, in order to be in it! That's the question.
about this kid that decides to break copyright law on a scale the record industry can only dream of, gets prosecuted, and decides that death is better* than indentured servitude as he would have to pay off a huge fine and/or jail for the rest of his life, and deciding to do so even before actually appealing to a judge for leniency which is often granted in copyright cases.
really. i don't care. he wasn't a hero, he was a thief who got caught.
Is there a problem in that publishers often don't redistribute royalties to the authors? of course there is. in some cases it is contractual (the author accepts the initial advance in lieu of fighting for accounting which often doesn't amount to much). in other cases, yes, the publishers are being jerks through bad accounting practices. this latter case happens in ALL the creative industries, from records that never recoup in spite of selling hundreds of thousands, to Lord of the Rings never making a profit on 1 billion in ticket sales collectively.
but if one is going to practice civil disobedience to raise awareness for an issue, one should accept the consequences of that. Any 'academic' should know that, from Emerson, to Thoreau, MLK Jr, and even Jesus, all of whom accepted the jail time that came with the disobedience they practiced.
This kid didn't. he cut an ran. he wasn't a hero, he was a coward.
and I have no sympathy at all.
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* I'm aware that he suffered from depression, as is the case in most suicides, and that the prosecutors involved ignored that and refused to come to some arrangement, but all things being equal, the law is the law. He simply shouldn't have done that if he wasn't able to deal with the inevitable consequences of prosecution.
"If we have learned anything from the fiscal cliff fiasco, conservatives discovered we need to stand firm, and stand together, on our principles from beginning to end," said Republican strategist Alice Stewart. "It's frustrating to see the GOP drop the ball and turn a position of true compromise into total surrender. The Democrats succeeded in their strategy of divide and conquer."
after this, things had been quiet out there for some time, so I switched to classical/movies and brought it inside...
and with that, I think I'll call it a night...
oh, and it was wiggle's first trick-or-treat outting!
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