Link catchup: Politics and amusement

[skreidle]

Politics:

fuzzyamy: VA General Assembly passed Affirmation of Marriage Act, not yet governor-approved, stating that a same-sex partnership shall have no rights whatsoever, and out-of-state partnerships are void in VA. Gov. Warner recommends striking the preclusion amending to allow for domestic partnership benefits, which is a Good Thing. Contact your representatives to voice your opinion, hopefully in opposition to the bill and/or in support of Warner's revisions!


From prester_scott: "They Hate Us Because of Our Freedom." You think you're free?

Via deusinnomen: NYTimes: Hillary Clinton on health care, and it's an interesting read. I'll admit I didn't read it all the way through, but there's some content there I'm sure some of you will find interesting.

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Amusement/Niftiness:

An amusing rant by vinz_klortho on after-hours drop boxes: "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to transfer some package or message, the receiving party may not be present..."

Remember when kids clothespinned baseball cards into the spokes of their bikes to make it sound like a dirtbike? Introducing Turbospoke!

Conversatron and clever syllabic transpositions.

Nifty words from antikate:
Colposinquanonia - Estimating a woman's beauty based on her chest
Tarantism - An urge to overcome melancholy by dancing
Sphallolalia - Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere

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Get Your War On updated! "Yeah, I watched that shit. It was like rubbernecking a highway accident made entirely of words."

Comments

Please Correct What You Wrote

[fuzzyamy.livejournal.com]

Hey Scott? That's not what I said at all. I know you have a large readership, so I don't want to be misquoted. Also, if people are inspired to call their legislative representatives, I would hope that they tell them their opinion based on good information.

I was hoping people would support Governor Warner's revisions to the bill, as I understand them. They are written in legislative English, which isn't something I'm necessarily fluent in, but here's how the bill reads now (bold emphasis added by myself):

Affirmation of Marriage Act for the Commonwealth of Virginia States that a civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage is prohibited and that such an arrangement entered into in another state or jurisdiction is void in Virginia and any contractual rights created thereby are void and unenforceable.

Here's how Governor Warner's recommendations would change the bill:

States that a civil union, between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage is prohibited and that such an arrangement entered into in another state or jurisdiction is void in Virginia.

Notice the absence of the bold print from the previous version. What this says to me is that Warner is taking out the provisions that could otherwise would prevent people from creating domestic partner benefits.

I don't know if Warner can win the civil union fight in Virginia, as I mentioned in the comment section of this journal entry by iriantuu, because I believe that the House could likely overrule Warner. The bill, HB 751, passed through the House easily the first time through by a vote of 79 to 18.

Re: Please Correct What You Wrote

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

:-O! Big black mark for my misreading--I believe I tripped over "striking the preclusion." Fixed.