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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.

What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.

The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.

So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.

If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.

What to do?

- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.

- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.

- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.

- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.


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I really miss [livejournal.com profile] s0b
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Is anyone else doing Beautiful Days this year?
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The latest PC adverts are enough to make me want to buy a Mac.
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Snow tracking...

We are under white - are you? And where are you?!
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Am I the only person who finds David Mitchell exceptionally sexy?
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OK, so there must be a way of doing this - and someone out there must know!

I want to take a number of hours (4:15) and convert it into a decimal number (4.25) on Excel...

Even better, I would like to be able to put in two times (9:15-13:30) and be able to do a simple subtraction and get the answer as a decimal number (4.25)

Anyone?

Please?

There must be a way!
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I may be rather looking forward to the new album, and the tour, and Beautiful Days...
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This is a game that Col is enjoying, about Gladiators, I assume...

http://s6.gladiatus.com/game/c.php?uid=208786

Free food.

Jun. 12th, 2009 12:03 pm
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No really...

Don't forget graze.com - enter RGM8CR9 and get free food - if you don't like it you can cancel it after that (or if you do like it and do not want anything else).

I have just enjoyed wasabi peanuts, and have baby cherries looking at me asking to be eaten (and dairy free chocolate beans in the drawer)
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How can someone who consistently describes themself as a "clever woman" become a "clever girl" on the BBC website? I have watched the clip back and she uses "clever woman" a number of times, I did not catch "clever girl" at any point!

Deeply ironic as the discussion was partially around the fact that she is getting this attention as she is female - I am sure that the websire would not have reported her as a "clever boy" were she male...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7907154.stm


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How wonderful to be bathed in sunshine, sit in the warmth of the spring sunlight with the light streaming through the leaves on the rosebush. There is a glow around everyone you meet today with a feeling of optimism and hope, of new growth and positive change. Everyone has a smile either spreading across their faces, or just below the surface, waiting to be teased out with the smallest of encouragement - just try it, smile and watch them come out all around you. There is an expectation, almost like the intake of breath before a number starts up in a musical. Listen carefully and you can hear the music in the air.

As you go about your daily routine you can feel the positivity infuse you and lift your spirits carrying you on to places that make you happy.





(Optimistic) Rabbit Hole day - http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6914
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As seen on [livejournal.com profile] s0b's LJ




BBC story here
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The list that is currently doing the rounds (and to which I have responded) has only slim resemblance to the original list on the BBC.

Just so you know.

The original list is also from 2003...

Interestingly I think that I have read the same number of books of each list.

NOAH

Jun. 24th, 2008 03:57 pm
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To be fair I took more pictures than it would be decent to post anywhere.

I thought that I could narrow things down to my favourite few, and I sort of did - but there are still 40 pictures.

LJ is not playing ball when it comes to uploading them...

A couple to whet the appetite under here )

There will be more...

[livejournal.com profile] thecreepshow I will send you all of them on a CD or something...
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People have asked.

If you want to get a copy of Saying Goodbye To Amy, then do so now, or forever hold your peace.

Saying Goodbye To Amy


Have you ever had one of those days where you have wanted to run away? Have you thought what it would be like to leave everything behind and head off into the distance without looking back? For some people it might sound like an awfully big adventure but sometimes, just sometimes, people get what they wish for and come to regret it.

David, a talented young violinist, is unable to come to terms with the death of his younger sister and wishes he could leave the world behind. Time and place conspire and he finds himself in another world that grows around our own like honeysuckle. His primary concern is to get home, but first he must rescue the Faery Queen and help the slightly shady magician Thomas Wychwood to defeat his old enemy - a malevolent fiddle player who also comes from the real world.

Saying Goodbye To Amy is a Fairy Tale for anyone who got angry when they were told grown-ups could never return to Narnia.
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Copied from here, and from seeing it via [livejournal.com profile] d_floorlandmine:

"Pamela Wright, the partner of Steve (recently convicted of murdering five prostitutes in Ipswich) was interviewed on Sky News last Sunday, to give her side of the story. Pamela was oblivious to Steve’s actions, or even that he visited prostitutes, and it goes without saying that this is a pretty nightmarish time for her. She was brave, but visibly distressed.

"And do you know what Kay Burley asked her? She asked:

"Do you think if you’d had a better sex life, he wouldn’t have done this?"

"No, seriously, she did. You won’t believe me (I didn’t believe it) so you can watch a three minute clip of the interview here. It’s about halfway. I almost fell off my chair. Apparently women are now obligated to put out on demand, lest their partner get fed up and turn into a serial killer.

"Liveblogger Debi Linton is so pissed off she’s started off an internet petition to get Kay Burley sacked. Sign it, why don’t you?"

Consider my flabber well and truly ghasted.

Edited to add: Do not watch the video unless you are prepared to get cross:

"5 murders in 6 weeks, what changes did you notice in him, there must have been some changes during those 6 weeks?" - So she should have noticed? And stopped him?

"He blamed his need to visit prostitutes on the lack of a sex life at home, how do you feel about that?" - Why validate his warped thoughts by getting her to comment on them?
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Usual spiel; comment if you want me to pick 7 interests from your LJ profile and force you to explain them - these were the ones nominated by [livejournal.com profile] jfs about a year ago...

I just found the email, and so here you go:

bonfires - I have always found fire fascinating, I find it mesmeric/hypnotic and can watch the ever changing shapes for ever. It is also amazing that it is so random and never repeating. Fire has been a lifelong interest and I really have to fight hard not to dip my fingers in the melted wax in a candle, or adjust any fire that I am around. If you ever need a bonfire building/lighting then I am the person for you. There is something comforting about bonfires, something that takes me back to childhood as we had fairly regular fires in the back garden/field just to clear stuff out. They are something that I associate with my Dad who would be in charge of proceedings and I still love the smell of woodsmoke on clothes and hair.

chinstrap penguins - I have a penguin addiction. I know far more about penguins than is really necessary, and chinstrap penguins are my absolute favourite, there is something so cheeky and resilient about them, and I was assured at one point that they are the only bird who can survive entirely on sea water, with glands to excrete the salt under their chin - I cannot verify this anywhere, to be fair, but I like to think that it is true, and adds to their unique appeal!

cosib - I wish I could remember exactly where this started, whether it was Blather initiated, or Whitby initiated. It was an idea for an event/Whitby outfits/various other things. It stood for Cheerleaders Of Satan in Bondage - there may still be outfits at some point...


george alec effinger - One of my top two authors. I did have a long pause before typing that, and I think that there in no-one else who comes into that duo (the other being Primo Levi). There is something about his writing that I find totally immersive - within a couple of lines I am there with him, whether it is disappearing into the future in an Islamic cyberpunk world, or a trip around New Orleans (surprisingly close in some ways the way he writes it) , whether it is a crime thriller, or following Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, he makes me smile.

michael rosen - I grew up with his poems, as a childhood bookworm and member of the Puffin Club (anyone else remember this - you got a magazine and badges and there were events where you could meet your favourite authors, and stuff?) I met Michael when I was very young and remember him reading poems from "You Tell Me" alongside Roger McGough. I remember him being so full of life and passionate about books and reading signing possible the first poetry book I ever owned. There was also a book that I thought he wrote (I cannot find it in my collection or his bibliography) which was ghost stories, one being about ridding the Bakerloo line of rats - by putting an open knife in half a loaf of bread with the blade turned up and the rats brought themselves to it and slit their own throats - does this ring any bells, I would love to find a copy).

rvd - As some of you know, and as I have kept quiet from many, I am a bit of a wrestling fan - not the sanitised, americanised Vince McMahon empire, but something a little more real and gladiatorial. ECW was that for me for some time (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] thecreepshow) and my favourite was Mr Monday Night, The Whole F'N Show... Mr. Rob. Van. Dam. Cheeky, characterful, and the longest running champion holding the ECW Television Championship belt (I believe from April 1998 until January 2000, when he lost due to having a broken ankle). He has had a tumultuous private life, and I am not sure that he is someone that I would want to invite out for dinner, but I do love watching him wrestle - the fact that he is rather pleasing to the eye and can do box splits might help a little...

ultraviolet - I loved this miniseries, with Jack Davenport and Susannah Harker, a different twist on the vampire myth in a time when there were really only four television channels for us mere mortals making this a mainstream show rather than one of the hoard of supernatural shows that you can fill your schedule with nowadays. I liked the integration with (then) modern technology and modern London and the way that it fit in with the idea that it could be happening around any corner right now (well maybe not outside their cars with UV protected glass, to be fair).

Any questions? Other than how long it has taken to post this?
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