Good quote from Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins. One of my largest frustrations is when someone has all the information available to them to make an informed decision, but chooses to not even look at the information, and instead makes a silly and uninformed decision. Alternate expression: “I’ve got my mind all made up, I won’t let the facts confuse me.”
Month: May 2006
The Washington Post reports that the UN wants the military prison at Guantanamo Bay closed down and all the prisoners either tried or released. Guantanamo Bay is something that makes me embarassed to say that I’m an American. We’re supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but humiliating and possibly even tourturing prisoners is cowardly.
As a citizen of God’s kingdom first and an American second, I believe that we need to take a stand and tell our government that situations like that prison are not acceptable. Holding people for an extended time without trial is not the American thing to do, and it’s certainly not something that is pleasing to God. It’s time for our nation to repent of our mistake at Guantanamo Bay and to make things right with those people who were held there.
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Good quote about wages
I liked this quote from Michael over at You Can Know God:
Waitresses make $1.50 an hour and a share of the tips, bringing them up to a “normal” hourly wage. But the tip is arbitrary and changes from night to night. That defeats the intention of a gratuity, which was to give the server a little something extra. A restaurant doesn’t pay the employee the fair wage, but counts on the generosity of the patrons to make up for their low wages. What other industry operates on this kind of pay scale? What if we lowered the salary of other people and made them count on tips to make up the difference? I think this might work for politicians.
See his full post here
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Behind on blogging
I’m alive, but a little behind. I’ve been trying to sort through my emails and get the number still needing response down to zero, plus barely sleeping. It’s been a rough past week. A lot of vtONE stuff came up, and I said goodbye to a number of friends. Congratulations to the VT class of 2006. Come back and visit!
I’m back in the DC area for about five weeks of work at Digital Sandbox. I start in a few hours.  After that, I’m hoping to go to Colorado for a week with my family. Then, I’ll be back in Blacksburg in early July.
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Exams are done!
My junior year is over! I took two exams back to back this morning, and am now done. I’ll be in Blacksburg through graduation so I can see Michael and Cory graduate. Hit me up if you’re in the Blacksburg area and want to do something this week. I’m very available.