Archive for May, 2010

Even funnier than the headline are the reasons that the organizers give for dropping them:

Andrew Chavez, a professional petition circulator involved in one of the efforts, said its backers pulled the plug after concluding they might not be able to time their petition filings in such a way as to put the law on hold pending a 2012 public vote.

Jon Garrido, the chief organizer of the other drive, attributed its end to a belief that the law would have been subject to legal protections under Arizona’s Constitution if approved by Arizona voters.

The actual reason. People in Arizona support the law by 70% and throughout the country by 60%. Plus you have stuff like this going on. They would not only lose, they would lose spectacularly!

When you have the Suns trying to remove fans who disagree with their political views these guys are getting nervous.

The last thing they need is to show just how little support they actually have.

…still no comment on that NY law nor the state trying to duck and dodge their own issues in that regard.

Mika Mika Mika I expect better from you. Perhaps she needs this quote from Katherine Lopez via Fr. Z

While MSNBC waits for the pope’s resignation, he, every day, leads a renewal. In our hearts and in the structure of the Church. I think even the New York Times realizes it. It’s why they grasp at old stories, trying to obscure what’s happening now. And even as they do that, they have to admit, as they recently did, that “there are indications that Benedict had a lower tolerance for sexual misconduct by elite clergy members than other top Vatican officials.”

Reading the statement on the Legion out of the Vatican, I’d conclude no tolerance. If it hadn’t been firm and had teeth, frankly, it would have been a bigger news story. The fact is that Benedict is a leader of renewal, a solution to the problem. He has been and continues to be. And that’s why, while trying to do the opposite, the “Paper of Record” couldn’t help but admit it. At a paper that has a libertine interest in the collapse of the institution that offers something radically countercultural, that has to be bad news. But it’s the news all the same, thanks be to God, working, in part, through our Holy Father today.

If she won’t listen to KJL maybe she will listen to that Catholic Fanatic Ed Koch.

As for the Pope is a big man he likely agrees with Dorothy Day that he can endure anything between two (receptions) of the Eucharist.

…who was so vocal in her denunciation of don’t ask don’t tell, but apparently chooses not to tell and apparently wishes we wouldn’t ask?

I finally heard back on my sleep study…

Posted: May 11, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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The night I took my sleep study (way back on April 12th/13th) I was told the results were mixed.

The funniest thing is to have glue and goop all over your face, head and chest hair and beard to stick stuff all over you…then to told to lie down and sleep normally.

The first half of the night (till I woke at 2 a.m.) I apparently was a very boring subject. However once I fell asleep again after finishing God is no Delusion (my review here) and apparently I was rocking, rolling and not breathing all over the place.

When I left the place I was told the results were mixed and they might want me back, however yesterday I got a call from the Doctor’s office telling me I have sleep apnea and wanted to schedule me for an in home trial of a sleep machine. My wife very much approves. I’m no doctor but I thought that it was kinda odd.

Since I don’t know if I’m going to Penn-12 yet or Ga-4 following I’ll schedule it during my June Andrew Sullivan days and let you know how it goes.