Wendy and I find ourselves with one extra ticket for “Aveue Q” at the Hobby on Saturday, Oct 27th. Free to a good home — the only proviso is that you’d be stuck sitting with Wendy, Katie and me.
For those not familiar with the show, it’s basically, as Wendy puts it, “The Muppets do ‘Rent’.” It’s a show done with puppets, but it is definitely not a children’s show. Examples: one of the songs is “The Internet is for Porn” and one of the characters is named “Lucy the Slut.” Enough said. 
Yesterday was a very unusual day. The temperature inside the house was cooler than the temperature outside the house. So Wendy and I decided to open a few windows to get some fresh air (well, as fresh as Baytown gets, anyway) circulating through the house. But when I raised the blinds in the kitchen to get to the window, I saw that I can caught a “friend.”
I could never have done it intentionally (I’m nowhere NEAR that coordinated) but somehow I managed to time it so that, when the blinds collapsed as they were going up, they caught this guy’s tail. So it was just hanging there, trying to do it’s best impression of a drawstring. I tried to catch it so that I could let it go, but that threat gave it the impetus it needed to escape the Venetian Blinds of Death TM and scurry up between the window and the screen. I ended up having to take the screen out and shake it rather violently to get our visitor out into “the wilds” of our yard.
We’ve been getting quite a few visitors of this sort recently. Anybody with kids who need to do a science project on reptiles, amphibians, or arachnids need look no further than our back yard.
President Bush Discusses Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Legislation
Nobody who’s read this blog for a while can have many doubts about my feelings on the current president and his policies. Here’s another example of what I don’t like. The President is pushing for a renewal/beefing up of something called the “Protect America” act which I guess semi-legitimized the illegal surveillance his administration had done in the past. Now he wants his “get out of jail” card made permanent.
In particular, look at this paragraph:
The final bill must meet certain criteria: It must give our intelligence professionals the tools and flexibility they need to protect our country. It must keep the intelligence gap firmly closed, and ensure that protections intended for the American people are not extended to terrorists overseas who are plotting to harm us. And it must grant liability protection to companies who are facing multi-billion-dollar lawsuits only because they are believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend our nation following the 9/11 attacks.
(emphasis added)
“Protections intended for the American people?” I thought we were a nation that believed in and valued basic human rights, not basic American rights. That’s the same logic allows immigrants, illegal or not, to be treated more like objects than people. So we don’t protect people, but we certainly do protect huge corporations from litigation.
I believe very strongly in America. That’s why I oppose so much of what this administration stands for.
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