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I’m neglecting my blog. I’ve been busy with a contract. But I’ve also started doing Pilates twice a week, more or less. I’m nearly over the sore muscles of re-starting Pilates. I’ve finally set up a desk in a convenient location. I might get some indoor cycling workouts.
I’m slowly exploring a big bag of science-fiction magazines that a friend gave me. The weather continues alternately cold and fine, with hardly any snow cover. And I’m still here.
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The Church of the Latter-Day Saints exchanged e-mails and conference calls, summoned 20,000 “volunteers,” hired coordinators, and called for millions of dollars to overturn the right of gay couples to the legal protections of marriage. At the same time, they explicitly tried to maintain “plausible deniability”–the ability to lie plausibly that they were not behind the effort.
“As you know from the First Presidency this campaign is entirely under the direction of the priesthood…”
“What is the next step in this campaign? I understand all grassroots organizing efforts in OC will be led by Gary Lawrence, who will report directly to the Protect Marriage.com Coalition leaders. He has also been hired…
[Gary Lawrence was the State Grass Roots Area Director for Prop 8 opposition.]
Says Brother Jansen said LDS not to take lead, but to work through Protect Marriage. SLC had teleconference with 159 of 161 stake leaders in CA. Goal is $5million at $30 minimum donation per head.
…key talking points will come from the campaign, but cautious, strategic, not to take the lead so as to provide plausible deniability or respectable distance so as not to show that church is directly involved. We might look at religious belief as source of opposition and think that some folks would vote their religious conscience, but we would not know that this sort of direct church power is engaged.
Quotations are take n from the Box Turtle Bulletin.
Meanwhile, isn’t it odd that the Mormon church has never repudiated the theological basis for theirpolygamous and age-inappropriate tradition of marriage?
One of the commenters over at Pharyngula posted this link. The song is kind of cute.
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Hildy’s owner continues to let her out and she came home pregnant AGAIN. This time it wasn’t one kitten but six. So far, one–the little tabby–has been killed by an improvised kitten barrier that the owner had not secured, which fell when the mom-cat jumped on it to get over.
The kitten’s neck was broken. The owner’s roommate and his friend took it to the emergency vet clinic. $700 later, it was still hopeless.
Anybody want a kitten? You’ll have to get it its shots.
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We ruthlessly recycled the Christmas wrappings instead of saving them for another, smaller, present.
This list isn’t as complete in previous years, but I’ve also been too busy to read constantly. I could certainly beef it up by adding some of the longer or more memorable science-fiction magazines that I read last year, but they’re not officially books. And I have an unusually large collection of half-read books this year. It will do as ise.
Books read in 2009:
by C. J. Cherryh (science fiction)
Red is becoming popular: “Red is the new black.”
“The colour of warmth, romance, anger, aggression and Christmas is having a moment.”
