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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. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Re-post this if you believe love makes a marriage. (Shamelessly poached from http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/por/102351114.html)

Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Robe, South Australia, Australia Apparently, the temperature at Robe has never exceeded 40°C, since records have been kept. Amazing things you can learn on the internets, nowadays.

Hey tiger, you are the reason the rest of us have to pay such exhorbiant insurance prices! I sometimes kind of feel this way. If I can do something, it can’t be too hard, can it? I’m a bit the other way. I loose pens every day. Another year, another wasted year. The line I like best is from Diamonds Are Forever, where 007 meets a girl, and she goes to get changed, and comes back with a different colour hair. He comments, and she asks him which he prefers. His response:

I don’t mind. As long as the collars and cuffs match.

I never understood that as a child. I thought about this today when shopping. I saw a photo frame, and thought about people who buy a photo frame, and keep the picture that’s in there, as it’s better than anything they could replace it with.

A Church’s Lethal Contract This is a must read for anyone who wants to know anything about the evil, underhanded way the Church of Scientology handles itself. Kate Ceberano, I want you to read this.

Boing Boing: More from Evil Elmo This woman is a tool. It clearly (or as clearly as Elmo talks) says:

You can SHOUT with Elmo. Woah-oah-oah-aoh. You make Elmo want to shout! Be like Elmo, and Shake your fur out, and Throw your hands up, and Come on now.

I just spent the last week listening to this over and over, but the whole thing. It clearly says “Shake your fur out”, not “Shoot your foot off”. Sheesh. Some people need to get a life.

I have a CD, Talkie-Walkie, by Air, that has a sticker on it labelled:

Copy Controlled: See reverse for details.

On the back is a largish label, which says (amongst other things, including system requirements):

On some equipment, for example car CD players playback problems may be encountered.

(This is also repeated in several languages). This is an EMI CD, and with some trepidation, I put it into my iMac, to rip to my iTunes library. It gave me no problems at all. Ripped perfectly. Pretty effective copy control system, EMI.