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1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Being gay is disgusting. Which is why lesbian porn isn't a 3.5 billion dollar a year industry.

9. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

10. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

11. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

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Me on Flickr: [link] ]]> =steph9668 http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/28150474/ http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/28150474/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:42:31 PST Oh well. Gotta get my butt in gear!

If anyone knows of any job opportunities in the Philly area, I'd love to hear about them!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween! I've been seeing some amazing party photos through Facebook. I love them!

Thanksgiving seems to be coming up so fast... time flies! How is everyone doing?

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Me on Flickr: [link] ]]> =steph9668 http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/26503356/ http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/26503356/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:12:19 PDT
I don't like these 'share' options on all the deviations now and wish it was an optional feature. I fully understand that it doesn't give anyone any extra "powers" over my photos... but there are a lot of changes that don't quite suit me and I liked when people didn't associate my naked self with post directly to Facebook. Not that they would necessarily do that... just, now it kinda stares them in the face and it makes me a little uncomfortable.

...and I think my heart isn't into it anymore. I liked the way DA used to be.

Not sure yet. We'll see.

17 days until I'm back!

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Met Walter (*colpewole) and Elisa (~renela) on Sunday. Had soooooo much fun chatting - they are very fun, interesting, crazy people. I hope I get a chance to visit them soon to see the genius at work. (whenever you can stand me again! just tell me!)

......and you guys better tell me if you head out to L.A.!!!!


Otherwise, not much picture time besides a wedding over the weekend. I might post some older things no one has seen... I've been going through my photographs, kind of weeding them out, and I found a few that I wanted to share.

Hm, and other than that... everything is ok.



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Me on Flickr: [link] ]]> =steph9668 http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/24747146/ http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/24747146/ Thu, 14 May 2009 00:15:16 PDT
Guest: Noam Chomsky, Professor of linguistics at MIT

Hosts: Svetlana Vukovic, Svetlana Lukic

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B 92: Why do you think these attacks happened?

CHOMSKY: To answer the question we must first identify the perpetrators of the crimes. It is generally assumed, plausibly, that their origin is the Middle East region, and that the attacks probably trace back to the Osama Bin Laden network, a widespread and complex organization, doubtless inspired by Bin Laden but not necessarily acting under his control. Let us assume that this is true. Then to answer your question a sensible person would try to ascertain Bin Laden's views, and the sentiments of the large reservoir of supporters he has throughout the region. About all of this, we have a great deal of information. Bin Laden has been interviewed extensively over the years by highly reliable Middle East specialists, notably the most eminent correspondent in the region, Robert Fisk (London "Independent"), who has intimate knowledge of the entire region and direct experience over decades.

A Saudi Arabian millionaire, Bin Laden became a militant Islamic leader in the war to drive the Russians out of Afghanistan. He was one of the many religious fundamentalist extremists recruited, armed, and financed by the CIA and their allies in Pakistani intelligence to cause maximal harm to the Russians - quite possibly delaying their withdrawal, many analysts suspect - though whether he personally happened to have direct contact with the CIA is unclear, and not particularly important. Not surprisingly, the CIA preferred the most fanatic and cruel fighters they could mobilize. The end result was to "destroy a moderate regime and create a fanatical one, from groups recklessly financed by the Americans" ( "London Times" correspondent Simon Jenkins, also a specialist on the region).

These "Afghanis" as they are called (many, like Bin Laden, not from Afghanistan) carried out terror operations across the border in Russia, but they terminated these after Russia withdrew. Their war was not against Russia, which they despise, but against the Russian occupation and Russia's crimes against Muslims.

The "Afghanis" did not terminate their activities, however. They joined Bosnian Muslim forces in the Balkan Wars; the US did not object, just as it tolerated Iranian support for them, for complex reasons that we need not pursue here, apart from noting that concern for the grim fate of the Bosnians was not prominent among them. The "Afghanis" are also fighting the Russians in Chechnya, and, quite possibly, are involved in carrying out terrorist attacks in Moscow and elsewhere in Russian territory.

Bin Laden and his "Afghanis" turned against the US in 1990 when they established permanent bases in Saudi Arabia - from his point of view, a counterpart to the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, but far more significant because of Saudi Arabia's special status as the guardian of the holiest shrines.

Bin Laden is also bitterly opposed to the corrupt and repressive regimes of the region, which he regards as "un-Islamic," including the Saudi Arabian regime, the most extreme Islamic fundamentalist regime in the world, apart from the Taliban, and a close US ally since its origins. Bin Laden despises the US for its support of these regimes.

Like others in the region, he is also outraged by long-standing US support for Israel's brutal military occupation, now in its 35th year: Washington's decisive diplomatic, military, and economic intervention in support of the killings, the harsh and destructive siege over many years, the daily humiliation to which Palestinians are subjected, the expanding settlements designed to break the occupied territories into Bantustan-like cantons and take control of the resources, the gross violation of the Geneva Conventions, and other actions that are recognized as crimes throughout most of the world, apart from the US, which has prime responsibility for them. And like others, he contrasts Washington's dedicated support for these crimes with the decade-long US-British assault against the civilian population of Iraq, which has devastated the society and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths while strengthening Saddam Hussein - who was a favored friend and ally of the US and Britain right through his worst atrocities, including the gassing of the Kurds, as people of the region also remember well, even if Westerners prefer to forget the facts. These sentiments are very widely shared. The "Wall Street Journal" (Sept. 14) published a survey of opinions of wealthy and privileged Muslims in the Gulf region (bankers, professionals, businessmen with close links to the US). They expressed much the same views: resentm... ]]> =steph9668 http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/24707928/ http://steph9668.deviantart.com/journal/24707928/ Mon, 11 May 2009 17:27:34 PDT


AMAZING live. If you like his music and have the chance to see him, GO! He was on for 2 hours which was awesome (2 encores), the band was so great and it was a really high-energy, very fun performance. His lead guitar player, Craig Ross, is unbelievable. I'm convinced they played 'American Woman' for me. Oh and one small thing - LK is definitely one of the most attractive men I've ever seen in person. Oh my goodness.




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Maybe I will see you there?

Also, I will be in Denmark with a friend during the first week of June. Don't know if I know anyone in Denmark but I'd be very happy to meet you if you are there. Somewhere around Billund airport I assume. I don't have all the details yet but that's the airport I'm heading to.



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I can't even begin to tell you how much I love this place and the people. Not to mention the monuments, music, culture, food, landscape, etc. I felt like I was breathing for the first time ever.

I had over 1000 photos but here are the few (still over 200) I thought people would be interested in: [link]



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