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I just signed a petition to Senator Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi about a bill they allowed to pass last week.

Democratic “leaders” crossed the line and betrayed the will of the majority who put them in power in 2006. A timid Congress caved in to President Bush and his demand for more out-of-control authority to spy on Americans.

The FISA gutting legislation voted on last weekend allows for massive, untargeted collection of Americans’ international communications without court order. The law allows for no meaningful oversight by either Congress or the courts and leaves decisions about the collection, mining and use of American information up to the Bush Administration’s Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales.

Please take a few minutes to sign the petition and tell Congress you believe in the Constitution and demand that it fix this legislation.
https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=Dont_Fail_Freedom_petition&JServSessionIdr011=dm8bv5vjb1.app24a

IN RESPONSE TO THIS BILL:

"The man who trades his freedom for security deserves neither"

You people make a mockery of our nation with your continued acceptance of the loss of our civil liberties in favor of this sham you call "national security", which is really a false sense of security.  Your laws are like the electronic gates on apartment complexes.  The price of the apartment is raised because it offers a sense of "security" with the electronic gate, but really anyone can get through simply by following in the car ahead of them or by walking through the pedestrian door in the fence.  The gate means nothing.  It looks dark and forboding and comes with a steep price, but in the end, we have done nothing that will stop those who wish to harm us.

Poly Myths

Although I wrote a rather long winded webpage on some Polyamory Myths, I came across this OKCupid journal entry that touches on some Poly Myths that I didn't address, and I'd like to share it:

http://www.okcupid.com/journal?pid=2048592600804512663&tuid=15147620753514063906

(Mine, for those who haven't seen it, is available at http://www.theinnbetween.net/polymyths.html)

Our Most Sensative Sexual Organ May Surprise You

Thanks to james_the_evil1 for this one:

Sex not on the brain, but in the nose: study
"The enormous difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in animals at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than by any gender difference in brain circuitry."

( The full article here )

 Fascinating.  Now I want to know how that affects humans, and if there is some significant difference in gender dysphoric humans and/or homosexual humans and I'm intensly curious to know the results in myself, personally.  I've always felt I was "male" in many ways, yet my sexual orientation is that of a heterosexual female.  These female mice behave as males, yet still "mated with males in a female-typical manner." - quite similar to how I've always felt.  Curiouser and curioser.

I wonder if the reverse could be engineered, either permanently or temporarily ... what would happen if this organ were stimulated in males as opposed to inhibited in females as in the study?

A Bevy Of Quotes

Stolen from a very old journal entry of tacit, some quotes that say a lot about some things I feel very strongly about:



Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. -- Leo Tolstoy

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the same extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. - H. L. Mencken

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I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen Roberts

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Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. -- George Bernard Shaw

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance. - Akhenaton

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -- Bertrand Russell

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