DADT GONE!


Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has been REPEALED!!!!! I’m so happy, I could cry! This is the first good news I’ve really felt happy about, that makes me feel a little less jaded, coming from our government in over a decade, especially in the light of so many of our freedoms being ever more readily flushed down the toilet. Hurray!

In other news, reading Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” and finding it a refreshing retort to even modern idealogical trends, minus the space bugs of course. Also one of the best damn books I’ve ever read.

(edit) Um. Yeah. Nevermind on Orson Scott Card. This guy’s is easily one of the craziest people writing essays on the net. Actually suggests rounding up all the “Spanish speaking brown-skinned people” into trucks and paying the Mexican government to take them back. … Um. Um… UMMMMMMM… So … what??? Mexicans (and actually, it’s mostly people from South America like Guatemala, you idiot, who are coming to the US) can’t even vacation in the US, either? I don’t get people who are so threatened by the Latino community in the US. The face of our country is changing. So? People from ALL OVER the world vacation in the US and stay here longer than their VISA allows. Should we send out a manhunt to round them up as well?

Idiot. I’m so disappointed that such a good book can be written by such a STUPID man. He makes Rush Limbaugh look like sugar and honey.

3 Comments


3 Comments

  1. The Aardvark  •  Dec 28, 2010 @10:41 am

    Just dropped by. I ran across my copies of “Steady Beat”, and thought I’d check on any new work. I join you in your anger over the whittling away of our 1st amendment rights. OTOH, I think you may have misjudged Card a tad. If it’s the 2007 article http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-08-26-1.html, he is using satire to show that it is NOT a good idea to ship the Mexicans off. It’s sarcasm at its finest.

    Card CAN be…different. Please don’t let a political tiff ruin a good reading relationship.

    Keep up your good work! I look forward to your future publishing!

  2. Jeanne Carnini  •  Dec 28, 2010 @3:22 pm

    Sorry this isn’t responding to this article, but somehow I found myself on your website and saw the name Jeannie Carnini and wondered how that came to you?

    Thanks, Jeanne Carnini

  3. Rivkah  •  Dec 28, 2010 @5:29 pm

    Ha! I’m guessing you came across this site searching your name, lol! I actually came up with her first name, and that last name became “Carnini” 1) because it rhymes with “Jeannie” and 2) it’s similar to “Houdini” which, Jeannie being a magician in the book makes sense. :) And, 3) it just sounds awesome. :)

    Oh, and 4) “Carni” as in a carnival person.

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