.~Javier Plumey~.|Fatih, Technology, Politics, Whatever.

NASA is going to be making a pretty big announcement on May 14th. Given the instruments cited, I wouldn’t be surprised if they finally found the first extra-solar planet with similarities to Earth. What else could it be?

WASHINGTON — NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/may/HQ_M08089_Chandra_Advisory.html

Technorati Tags: geek, science, space, NASA

Well, the quasi-socialists liberals running our government continue to me amaze me with their brazen agenda.

What is ENDA? ENDA is the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that is being moved through Congress. So it sounds like a nice thing, right? Isn’t it a good thing that there isn’t any discrimination in the work place? Yes, it is, but it’s already been done. There’s already a law that prevents that. In fact there are several laws that prevent employers (most of them, anyway) from discriminating in the workplace based on an employee’s race, nationality, color, or creed. Check out http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

So why do we need another one? Well the liberals think that people should not be discriminated againt based on their sexual orientatation and preferences.

Why is this bad?

According to the American Family Association:

It [ENDA] would grant special consideration on the basis of “sexual orientation” that would not be extended to other employees in the workplace.

ENDA violates employers’ and employees’ Constitutional freedoms of religion, speech and association. The proposed legislation would prohibit employers from taking their deeply held beliefs into account when making personnel decisions. This would pose an unprecedented intrusion by the federal government into people’s lives.

ENDA would approvingly bring private behavior considered immoral by many into the public square. By declaring that all sexual preferences are equally valid, ENDA would change national policy supporting marriage and family.

It’s obvious that the real agenda behind the innocuously named Employment Non-Discrimination Act is a push to enshrine homosexuality in national policy. This dangerous legislation would dramatically expand the government’s reach into your work place and create unnecessary work-place conflicts and lawsuits. ENDA is a sweeping employer mandate to create special new legal protections based on “sexual orientation” (or “perceptions”).

Although religious organizations are exempt, I have three main issues with the legilslation:

1. It promotes an unhealthy lifestyle. The gay and lesbian lifestyle should not be a basis for discrimination. Perhaps there is a good reason why most of America disproves of the gay lifestyle? Perhaps they should pass a law that an employer can’t discriminate on the basis of other lifestyle choices? Hm…can you be fired from a meat plant if you’re a vegetarian?

2. It promotes more infringement of the government into the private sector. Another law, with more lawyers looking for cash, more lawsuits, more fees, more forms, more of everything.

3. It will open the door to more discussion and use of sex in workplace politics. If people aren’t talking about sexual orientation in the worklace, there will be few issues related to it. In short, we don’t need this act.

From my AFA-generated letter to my Florida Sentators:

The case has not been made that systemic and widespread discrimination justifies a new legally protected class. Don’t you think that you have a right to work without being subjected to sexual expressions, political agendas and other non-work related conduct? For example, as employers prepare to comply with the legislation and guard against frivolous claims, employees will be trained to be more “sensitive” to gay and lesbian co-workers and pressured to embrace and promote all values, even those that violate their own religious or personal convictions.

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With my sinus infection, I feel like this unfortunate piece of wood…

Suicide note. Those are two words you never ever ever want to say when talking about a loved one. Well, Florida police have released the suicide note for a woman known as “the DC Madam”, who apparently ran a prostitution ring for almost 13 years.

This is just another sad example of what happens when the value of our bodies and the God-ordained sexual experience is devalued to the point of death, literally, in her case.

For me this raises the question of legal prostitution, which is rampant in many parts of the world. Here in the United States, prostitution is only legal in one state, Nevada, but in many parts of the world, sexual services can be gotten very easily.

An upcoming post will deal with the issues of prostitution, but I wanted to make a post about the note itself. Look at the handwriting, the nuances of her penmanship, the details of her punctuation marks. There is emotion in this letter; the emotions of a sad woman, with a desperately warped perception of love. Let us pray for her soul and for those involved in this lifestyle.