First of all, the weather for Monday (the May 20th BBQ) is looking pretty chilly, being between 2°C and 10°C (between 36°F and 50°F), with wind out of the north and a 1 in 5 chance of rain… So… Be sure you bring a jacket. It should be OK, but it will definitely be brisk. We should have the house contents in the truck by then though, so at least there's a house that can be filled as well.
By the way, does anyone else think it's sort of strange that Bush is vehemently apposed to cloning (the artificial creation of life) and brands it a monstrosity, but is in aggressive support of lining Alaska and outer space with missiles (the artificial creation of death)? I really don't understand how anyone can think that more nuclear missiles are a particularly good idea. Obviously if one is to make a “sliding scale of evil”, nuclear missiles and space warfare must come out on top of cloning.
Why are missiles even being bothered with?
At this point, war drives the US economy. Without it the US ecomony falls apart — the defense sector is that enormous. The US military employs more people than any other business in the US, by far, and when you factor in the peripheral businesses and contractors, it represents a staggeringly high percentage of all financial transactions in the US. All of this is basically designed to sustain — at the great cost — a system and a “quality of life” that is fundamentally flawed and deceitful about its true nature.
I am against the concept of raising the standard of living endlessly. There will never be a possibility of contentment. Life is larger than bathtubs, radios, and refrigerators. These comforts are beneath contempt. I am afraid that the higher the standard of living, the lower the culture.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
in The Aryan Path, Bombay, 1947
By the way, before people get all worked up about me quoting from The Aryan Path, learn what it is before making a jackass of yourself complaining about it.
Oh, and I'm not sure if anyone reading this had that problem, but the bug in the ModCon video site signup forms not allowing concurrant BME and ModCon access has been fixed. I've seen some of your names on the list — I hope the site content was enjoyable.
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