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12 years ago @ KALLISTI: An Apple in ... - Olympiás vs. My... · 0 replies · +1 points

Glad to hear you got a new laptop. I would be freaking out too if mine died, given that my entire *life* seems to be on this thing now: art, writing, photos, magazines, books, etc.

My vote is for Olympiás. :)

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Pagan Community Reacts... · 0 replies · +9 points

Fortunately for the rest of America, you - whoever you are - do not get to decide what constitutes a "religion."

At any rate, the point very much IS a matter of religious freedom, and specifically the right to be treated equally by a government that is supposed to represent all of us. I'm personally against the idea of any government money being given to any religion, but if you're going to do it for one, you have to do it for all.

Favoring certain faiths over others - regardless of number of adherents - is the very definition of un-Constitutional. What the majority wants doesn't mean a thing if the equal rights of the minority are being infringed upon. Or at least that's the way the Constitution says it should be. Sadly as a nation, we don't always live up to our own high ideals.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Breaking: 9th Circuit ... · 0 replies · +3 points

"What recent SCOTUS decision would possibly make you think that's some kind of legal trend?"
How about the one that made corporations "persons" under the law? That was something a lot of liberals saw coming a mile away, and were called delusional conspiracy theorists by conservatives for... and then it happened.

At any rate, I'm just glad this ruling didn't include any mention of the Barton/Wallbuilders brief... for now, at least, their ridiculous notion of preferred tiers of faith hasn't been given any legal footnotes to back it up.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Why Our Fight Matters · 0 replies · +4 points

Ouch indeed.

On the bright side of things, the ruling makes no reference to (and thus gives no support to) the Wallbuilders/Barton concept of "preferred faiths" or tiers of religious freedoms, at least not that I could see. Not that they won't try to twist this into a victory for themselves, I'm sure... *rolls eyes*

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Pagan Terminology ... · 1 reply · +11 points

While I'm a Hellenic Polytheist who still considers herself under the larger Pagan umbrella, the "nature worship" and/or "earth-centered" classifications tend to bug me. Not because I don't see the Earth as sacred (I do), but because I'm not worshipping the Earth itself or nature itself: I'm worshipping gods and other divinities, some of whom may be connected to nature. Nature itself is not my focus; the gods are my focus.

I think maybe the irritant comes from the idea that everyone seems to be taught in their mythology classes that our gods were merely "made up to explain natural phenomena," disregarding the gross oversimplification of our deities that implies. Zeus is about more than lightning, Poseidon is about more than the oceans, etc., etc. Not to mention, that to date, no one claiming this theory has been able to come up with a "natural phenomena" explained by Hermes. LOL

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Quick Notes: Michele B... · 0 replies · +1 points

That's a shame... :(

I live about an hour from Pittsburgh, and that's far enough to put me in "Alabama." LOL

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Quick Notes: Michele B... · 1 reply · +4 points

*Nods* I hear you.

"We've also allowed policies which have virtually eliminated taxes for corporations and the wealthiest individuals."
And IMO, those are the *first* "entitlements" that should go. They had a decade of tax cuts, which they claimed were necessary to "create jobs" and yet resulted in the disastrous unemployment and economy we have today.

Another good point to make: unemployment numbers can be misleading... they stop counting you when you run out of benefits. They don't count the unemployed who still haven't found work but can't collect unemployment anymore. Not to mention those who lost full-time jobs but are trying to scrape by with part-time work. And don't get me started on how wages have stagnated for the average worker who's lucky enough to even find a job at all.

The politicians all want to talk about cuts, but only when it comes to those who can least afford it.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Quick Notes: Michele B... · 3 replies · +4 points

See that all depends on what you classify as an "entitlement." :) For instance, Social Security often gets put under that heading. But I pay into Social Security every paycheck. So yes I am "entitled" to get that money I paid back!

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Quick Notes: Michele B... · 1 reply · +1 points

Not many that I can see...

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Quick Notes: Michele B... · 2 replies · +3 points

Funny, when I lived in Massachusetts, arguably the most "Blue State" in the nation, I received a ticket for that very thing: not wearing my seatbelt. LOL Having grown up in PA, where you didn't have to wear a seatbelt if you were in the backseat, I had no idea I could even be ticketed for such a thing!

As a liberal myself, I don't consider PA all that liberal, at least not my area of it.

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