If you don’t follow lacrosse, well, you missed one hell of a game yesterday. Otherwise, not much else going on, other than trying to reconcile myself to the idea of going back to work again today. Not that I really mind going to work, but there’s something about a three-day weekend that makes it tough to go back again (especially when you haven’t had an “extra” day off in, well, in longer than I can remember; not since New Years Day, I think).
A court decision on Prop 8 is expected in California today. That won’t end things, of course. If the homo-haters don’t get their way, they’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court. And gay rights supporters will put a proposition on the ballot in 2010 or 2012. I’m hopeful that the gay marriage legislation introduced in NY will make it though the State Senate. It’s already passed the Assembly, but it’ll need a east a few Republican votes in the Senate. It’d be nice to see the NY State legislature do something I can be proud of for a change. Their cowardice goes all the way back to 1776 when they abstained (twice) from the vote for independence. Way to take a stand.
Speaking of taking a stand, SEIU is taking one against CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Barack Obama, as a new series of ads are set to run Wednesday. This is because the Obama Administration, in what is becoming a rather frequent occurrence, has decided to cave in to pressure from the right.
When Schwarzenegger decided to cut pay for home health care workers and cut $750 billion healthcare programs for the poor, the Obama administration threatened to withhold $6.8 billion in federal stimulus funds unless the California legislature revoked the wage cut. But then the right got all pissy, and Obama caved in. I wonder if this is the same strategy Obama will use in dealing with the North Koreans? Not that that would necessarily a bad thing.
Turns out that North Koreans saber rattling and missile launching has caused the value of the Japanese Yen and US dollar to increase. Go figure. If a World War breaks out, we could be back in black in no time. Or at least on a permanent 3-day weekend.
lacrosse? I don’t even know what one would do to play lacrosse. Isn’t baseball and football and basketball enough?
Back to work today. For reasons I cannot figure out my boss is personally delivering dictionaries as gifts to the third graders. Then the little dears have to right literate thank you notes. Sounds like a fun day.
As for the state senate in NY, I believe cowardice is but one of the many charming qualities the members display. Stupidity is another.
At Bruegger’s Bagels, there are signs in the parking lot that say, “Parking for Bruegger’s customers only. All others will be pitied and towed.”
Non-sports fans needn’t worry. You won’t be towed.
Sonia Sotomayor. How many ways will the Repigs come up with to misspell this name? Now we’ll get to find out.
Three cheers for the California Supreme Court! :yippee:
Or is that too “festive” for them?
Another victory in the war against equal rights for all. Time to find another group to deny some civil rights to now.
:fu: 🙁 :tap: :fustrate: 😡
Aha! ‘Tis a game played by running around with sticks. But, I couldn’t tell what they were hitting with those sticks. It looked like hockey without ice.
Actually, the only things they “hit” with the sticks are the other players’ sticks (and the other players).
A shame they don’t teach Haudenoshonee culture in schools in this country (other than up here, anyway, and even here they barely scratch the surface). It is, after all, what our nation’s system of government (the whole confederation and democracy thing) is based on (except the white Europeans left out the matriarchy, and added the wealthy landowner part).
Tewaaraton (the Mohawk word for what we white folks call lacrosse) is sacred to the Haudenoshonee – played to give thanks to the creator, resolve conflicts, heal the sick.
It does indeed resemble hockey w/o ice, though it has as much (if not more) in common with basketball as it does with hockey. It really has elements of a lot of sports. Or, rather, a lot of other sports have elements of lacrosse in them.
And it’s the fastest game on two feet. 😉
The woodchuck that lives in our back yard has a little baby woodchuck! They look so cute together out there.
has a little baby woodchuck!
:bee: !!!
love it! made my day.
zillion birds here today. life is good.
all the bee hotels are chock full, they moved over to the neighbors house and he’s gonna have houses next year. his gardens have never been so good.