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  Colorado GOP trying religious freedom
Posted by: LynnInDenver - 03-23-2018, 06:16 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (16)

Only they're calling it "Live and Let Live". http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/fi...206_01.pdf

Basically, license to discriminate if you can somehow justify that it's against your religion to NOT discriminate. It's going to be hard to prove that someone doesn't "sincerely" hold it as a religious belief. And, of course, such licensed discrimination makes it harder for anyone who doesn't hew strictly to the "white, straight, cisgendered" stereotypes to simply exist in public.

BTW, it's against my personal religious beliefs to do business with any company or individual who uses religion as their own personal shield for shitty, uncivilized behavior like discriminating against someone for a fact of their immutable makeup. Because I staunchly refuse to not show affection for my husband in public because someone doesn't think they can do business with me because it condones such behavior.

Yes, I'm venting. I'm old enough to remember Amendment 2, which attempted to prevent the State of Colorado from enacting anti-discrimination statutes to protect LGBT, under the guise of "it would grant LGBT special rights", and got us quite rightly labeled as The Hate State.

Plus, I view it as treating some religions differently than others to carve out this sort of exemption. After all, my husband, an atheist, doesn't have an easy piece of "reference material" to refer to so he could take advantage of the exemption, and that qualifies to some as a religion to be an atheist.

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  I'll just leave this here
Posted by: robkelk - 03-22-2018, 08:26 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - No Replies

CBC Analysis/Opinion: If Trump ignored advice about congratulating Putin, what might he say to Kim Jong-un?

It's an intriguing read... and it shows just how ill-suited Trump is to be in charge of anything.

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  Pot legalization bill doesn't go up in smoke
Posted by: robkelk - 03-22-2018, 08:24 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - No Replies

Trudeau government avoids defeat on key pot bill vote

There was some question as to whether it would pass second reading in the Senate, since a majority of Canadian senators no longer answer to any party whip. But it made it through, and now it's going to committee.

I hope it passes soon - then edibles will be legal in Canada and people can stop smoking the stuff, sending second-hand smoke into my lungs.

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  And another board upgrade
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 03-21-2018, 08:13 PM - Forum: Forums - Replies (6)

Version 1.8.15 just came out a few days ago, and I only learned of it this afternoon.  I did a board upgrade about an hour ago, so if anyone got an error or something strange, you might have run into me in the middle of the process.  Everything should be just fine now, though.

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  Spring forward...
Posted by: robkelk - 03-21-2018, 11:38 AM - Forum: Forums - Replies (4)

I just noticed that the forum's default time zone is still Eastern Standard. Once I'm logged in, it displays as Eastern Daylight.

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Question [RFC] Going beyond simply filing off the serial numbers?
Posted by: Black Aeronaut - 03-20-2018, 12:01 PM - Forum: Hangar 13 - Replies (47)

The other day, I was listening to this song by The Offspring...  (Warning: NSFW for R-Rated lyrics!)



I couldn't help but think to myself that this sounds a lot like the relationship between my SI character, Ezekiel Darkwood, and the god, Raven.  Except that Raven's big thing isn't lies per say.

But what if it was?

It planted the idea in my head about filing off the serial numbers.  Which is doable.  But the thing is that I absolutely detest that sort of thing.  It feels like a grave disservice to the characters to put them behind masks like that.  And I suppose that's part of why I've become so good at characterization is that I don't simply see them as words on paper.  I see them as actual people living out their lives somewhere in the infinite cosmos of the Multiverse.  Actual people with actual motivations and actual thoughts and emotions.

So, yeah.  After that, the idea then came to mind: what if I went beyond that?  Similar situations, similar people, but often very different circumstances and removed from the characters that inspired them.

Thoughts?

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  I'm sure we can do something with this one
Posted by: robkelk - 03-19-2018, 08:24 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (1)

A little bit of soul, a little bit of jazz, a whole lot of funk... and I think I don't need to say which Step this is for.



Saidah Baba Talibah, Revolution, composed by Saidah Baba Talibah, copyright © 2012 CLK Creative Works

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  It's time for another War on Drugs!
Posted by: robkelk - 03-19-2018, 04:10 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (1)

The New York Times: Trump Declares Opioid Crisis a ‘Health Emergency’ but Requests No Funds
The Washington Post: Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency

Yeah, because (as The Huffington Post points out), the last War on Drugs worked so well... <sigh>

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  Cynthia Nixon running for governor of New York
Posted by: robkelk - 03-19-2018, 03:13 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - No Replies

On the Democratic ticket, assuming she's chosen in the primaries.

Sex and the State House, anyone?

Quote:Her announcement sets up a race pitting an openly gay liberal activist against a two-term incumbent with a $30 million US war chest and possible presidential ambitions.

Which means she doesn't have much of a chance, unless she can raise a much larger war chest and get voters to ignore her sexual orientation - but that has happened elsewhere in North America. (Ontario's current Premier, to be specific, who has been Premier for about a decade now... and it usually takes about a decade for innovations in Canada to become possible in the USA.) Or unless Cuomo decides to go for the Oval Office, in which case all bets are off.

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  Self-driving car strikes, kills pedestrian in Arizona
Posted by: robkelk - 03-19-2018, 02:22 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (6)

CBC News: Uber halts self-driving test in Toronto after Arizona pedestrian death

It appears the pedestrian may have been jaywalking... but that's no excuse.

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