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Bush jokes about weapons of mass destruction. Apparently Bush appeared at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner and joked about the fact that he has failed to find any evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. I think the writer draws a valid comparison: "The problem is not that someone told a joke about WMD. It's that as the chief purveyor of the WMD falsehood, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iraqis, it is beyond bad taste for George W. Bush to joke about WMD. It's the difference between a comedian making a joke about O.J. Simpson looking for Nicole Brown Simpson's "real killer," and O.J. Simpson making the same joke."
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eor I would be in bed by now. I've been reading Diary of a Mountie again. And yes, THIS time the link goes to the beginning of the story, for any of you who are silly like me and adore serialized adventure stories.:) And after you finish up the first few installments, then you go to sgt_preston and find the rest.
At work Preacher went into another of his ... well, you can't call them diatribes or rants, because he does them so sincerely and politely and kindly. Um. Sermons? Yes, sounds good - Preacher went into a sermon about loving the sinner but hating the sin around homosexual behavior. Which he apparently ranks up there around the same level as the sin of littering. :) His point was that he thinks some churchs carry things way too far when they fight against homosexuality because if the gays can't be part of the church community they can't be there to be saved and use the community to lead themselves back out of their sinful lifestyle. Anyway, he knows I don't agree with him, but I sat and nodded and smiled and said things like, "you're entitled to your opinion." And later when I'd gone to do an online training thing he came to find me and whispered (so as not to bother the other people who were training), "thank you for letting me express myself." I was quite touched, and said, "Certainly!" I felt like patting him on the cheek. He is a dear boy, even if he is The Adversary.;) (The training I happened to be doing used the phrase "the adversary" quite often, which amused me by sounding so Good Omens-esque.)
Edited: I forgot to mention! Before Preacher went into that sermon I'd explained to him the game of finding likely slash pairings in books/movies/tv shows, and he had a GREAT time with that. It came about because I was explaining to him the Red Dwarf/M*A*S*H* crossover of Doom and he said he just couldn't see Hawkeye/Frank, "Not because I don't approve of such relationships but because the characters! No! It just doesn't work! Not like Kirk/Spock, now that seems a natural." And then he came up with Kirk/Khan and I was like, "Eep! I can see that, but it'd be viscious."
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eor I would be in bed by now. I've been reading Diary of a Mountie again. And yes, THIS time the link goes to the beginning of the story, for any of you who are silly like me and adore serialized adventure stories.:) And after you finish up the first few installments, then you go to sgt_preston and find the rest. At work Preacher went into another of his ... well, you can't call them diatribes or rants, because he does them so sincerely and politely and kindly. Um. Sermons? Yes, sounds good - Preacher went into a sermon about loving the sinner but hating the sin around homosexual behavior. Which he apparently ranks up there around the same level as the sin of littering. :) His point was that he thinks some churchs carry things way too far when they fight against homosexuality because if the gays can't be part of the church community they can't be there to be saved and use the community to lead themselves back out of their sinful lifestyle. Anyway, he knows I don't agree with him, but I sat and nodded and smiled and said things like, "you're entitled to your opinion." And later when I'd gone to do an online training thing he came to find me and whispered (so as not to bother the other people who were training), "thank you for letting me express myself." I was quite touched, and said, "Certainly!" I felt like patting him on the cheek. He is a dear boy, even if he is The Adversary.;) (The training I happened to be doing used the phrase "the adversary" quite often, which amused me by sounding so Good Omens-esque.)
Edited: I forgot to mention! Before Preacher went into that sermon I'd explained to him the game of finding likely slash pairings in books/movies/tv shows, and he had a GREAT time with that. It came about because I was explaining to him the Red Dwarf/M*A*S*H* crossover of Doom and he said he just couldn't see Hawkeye/Frank, "Not because I don't approve of such relationships but because the characters! No! It just doesn't work! Not like Kirk/Spock, now that seems a natural." And then he came up with Kirk/Khan and I was like, "Eep! I can see that, but it'd be viscious."