Politics

This guy must vote like Keyes thinks Jesus would

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Today on my way to work, I happened to see a guy who decorated his truck just in time for the elections. I think I’ve found someone who will actually vote for Keyes! Those people do exist. However, I do have to say, from his posters, he seems to be more anti-Obama than pro-Keyes.

I took these photos with my phone, so they aren’t the best, but they get the job done. I’m just upset I couldn’t capture the back and other side of his truck. The back was a poster of the 10 commandments (looking all stone-tablet-like.) I wish I remember what it said, because the rest of his truck is all anti-gay-marriage, and I don’t remember homosexual love or what makes a marriage mentioned in the ten commandments. (There is the “Thou shall not commit adultry” rule, however, that doesn’t say who is married, just don’t go cheat.)


This also makes me think of a quote that is on my quotes page.

“Well, it was written by a people who were alternately fighting wars of genocide and of survival. Then one of those people a few millenia later said ‘The old Law is fullfilled, these are the two commandments: Love your God above all, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ You can’t really blame Him if His followers since keep harking back to version 1.0. Well, you can, but it’s hardly fair to those who try to live by the 2.0 version.” — Captain Nerd <cptnerdatnerdwatch .com>, 3/26/2004, on the bible

People like the guy pictured above, haven’t upgraded to 2.0, appearently.

Hey, anyone know what that white flag with the red cross in the blue field is?

Entertainment

DuPage Symphony Orchestra Concert on 9/11

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Pre-Dinah’s birth, Sarah had been playing with the DuPage Symphony Orchestra. She stopped playing once she couldn’t sit comfortably for an hour, and the summer for us to get used to having a baby. She’s just started rehersal again preparing for the yearly outdoor concert at Cantigny Park.

This concert is great, you can picnic, you can listen to my wife play with the symphony, and…CANNONS! You can never go wrong with cannons.

Perhaps our friend Maggie will stay in her chair this year when the cannons go off.

I’ve quoted the information off DSO’s web page below since they didn’t have a static URL for this information.

The DuPage Symphony Orchestra will end its historic 50th season with a gala outdoor concert at 7:00 pm on Saturday, September 11 at Cantigny Park in Wheaton. The park is located on Winfield Road just south of Roosevelt.

The DuPage Symphony concert will feature music of both Scandinavia and America. The concert will begin with a spirited march by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius from his Karelia Suite and Finlandia, the stirring anthem of his homeland. Norway is represented by the music of Edvard Grieg with his charming Peer Gynt Suite No.1.

Traditional American music is presented in the second half of the concert when the orchestra performs Patriotic Melodies that Stirred Our Nation. To commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, on the third anniversary of the tragedy, the orchestra will perform James Grant’s Tribute for Orchestra.

Highlighting the concert will be the DSO’s annual performance of Tchaikovsky’s “explosive” 1812 Overture, with the assistance of Taylor’s Battery, First Illinois Light Artillery Division.

For details and ticket information contact Cantigny Park at 630-668-5161.

General

Parental Disney update

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Okay, so this is a lesson that my brother exaggerates slightly. My parents were not in a shelter at Disney World during the hurricane.

This visit to Disney World they were stating in the Hotel that looks over the Animal Kingdom part of the park. When they got to the park and checked in, they were upgraded to a room with a view that overlooks the park. They were supposed to have a view of the parking lot from their room. Disney was moving people over from For Wilderness campground to take up shelter in the hotel. My mom figures they got an upgrade since they had a reservation at Animal Kingdom, and they were putting the Fort Wilderness people in the less desirable rooms.

When the storm really started to come in, they asked everyone to stay in their rooms, and everything was fine. They didn’t have room service and the restaurants weren’t open, but they had been given a bag dinner and the TV kept working.

All in all, sounded like a nice restful day on their vacation.

Geek, Politics

Alderaan had WMDs!

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On Slashdot today there was a news item about the upcoming DVD release of the first three Star Wars movies. Of course, everyone is still bitching about Greedo shooting first, as they should. And it seems the Lucas is going to tweak the movies AGAIN for DVD release.

Anyway, in the discussion thread there was a post mocking the Greedo people that said:

I hear that in this version Alderaan shoots first.

One of the responses to that post was classic.

No, but there’s good inteligence that clearly shows Alderaan had a stockpile of WMDs that it planned to give to the Rebel Alliance. The new DVD further points out that its government was an anti-democratic dictatorship by a royal family, and goes on to document its sentient-rights abuses which while largely decades in the past, still play a part in building a convincing case for a pre-emptive planetary destruction by the Emp – er – Coalition Forces.

General

Brown bag lunch in the loop

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Dave and I have been trying to bring lunch to work more often than not. However, we still want to get out of the office/our cubes, especially while its still nice out. The question is where is a good place to go.

So far we’ve been frequenting the courtyard near our building, and the courtyard in the area behind the Wrigley Building and Sun-Times Building. The latter spot may disappear when Trump Tower and Ego Palace construction begins.

So, anyone else know of a good place to eat outdoors near 430 N. Michigan Ave? (Please don’t suggest on the statue of Bob Newhart’s lap.)

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More on Hurricane Charley

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In my last post, I forgot to mention the other things in FL to worry about besides my parents.

My grandparents are snowbirds and own a trailer (with an addition) in Fort Myers. They spend 6 months out of the year there. Thankfully, they are in IL for the northern part of their yearly cycle. However, I wonder how their place is doing.
Also, my Uncle Mark is building a house on Captiva or Sanibel, I forget which. I think its Captiva. I wonder what shape that is in.

According to CNN, many places in Fort Myers have lost part, if not all, of their roofs. Among them are the Cape Coral Hospital and the post office.

Still no word from my parents at Disney World. However, I didn’t expect to hear from them until tomorrow.

General

It’s a small shelter after all….

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My parents have a vacation scheduled at Disney World. Unfortunately, the vacation started today. They flew out of O’Hare at 7am this morning. Appearently, with the Hurricane Charley coming their flight still flew this morning. They also deceided to still go on it.

They called my brother a little bit ago saying they made it to Florida safely. They also report that they are at Disney and have been put into a shelter there. They said they’d call tomorrow to let us know all is good.

Thanks to Mike Maggio for the post title.

Update 7/15: My parents called my brother this morning. All is good. They didn’t call yesterday because they didn’t have any cell signal yesterday. They said 7/14 was really enjoyable at EPCOT, if only because they were the only people there. No word on what the shelter was like. I guess we’ll know more next week.

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