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Free Speech and Milo Y.

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For starters, lets study this comic carefully, it explains the concept of free speech most eloquently: So some people are boo hooing that Milo had his book contract canceled and was dis-invited to a big shindig and are claiming his free speech rights were violated. Oh get a grip! No such thing happened. He is just facing the consequences of his speech and those consequences are perfectly legal under the Constitution. These are private organizations who have told him to fribble off and go elsewhere. Now, if the US government swooped in and arrested him for what he says and writes, then his rights to free speech are being trampled. At that point even I would stand up and protest that his rights were violated, even tho I think he is a slimy waste of DNA and waster of oxygen. Because, if we allow the government to suppress someone's free speech rights, where will they stop? But I, like everyone else have the right to not have to listen to him. He can take a soap box and stand

Kitties on catnip

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A couple videos from the other night when I spiked the kitty scratch box with a LOT of catnip:

Hopefully this week will be better.

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Last week wasn't bad, I think I found a decent balance between dealing with political stuff and making sure I don't burn out. Nice thing about not having cable anymore is we are finding a ton of fun movies to watch (and a ton of really bad movies we take bets on how long we will last before turning them off LOL). Here is a pic I got of Napoleon the weekend previous. He thought he was going to bring lunch inside: Needless to say, he was sadly mistaken, tho it did take a while to finally get rid of the thing. Made my very first phone call to one of my congressional reps (Michael Crapo) to tell him to vote no on Betsy DeVos. Called first thing my time on Friday, so just after 6 am. Had the script from thesixtyfive.org in front of me, made some changes to it in my mind and made the call. Forgot, was calling the Washington DC office and they had been open for 3 hours. I got a live human being. I was expecting voice mail. Needless to say my pathological stage fright kicked