Random Things
April 18th, 2006 at 12:07pm Geraldine
Vilsack signed the bill banning protestors from military funerals yesterday. This comes just in time for the funeral of Daniel Sesker, a soldier killed in Iraq who happened to be homosexual. I think this is a slippery slope on free speech, without which we wouldn’t get to enjoy the irony of quotes like this: “The church issued a statement Monday critical of the Legislature for passing the law, saying protesters also planned to picket the ‘ignominious, Bible-dumb, pandering demagogic Iowa Legislature.’” The First Amendment Center offers a discussion of the legal background.
The Register irritated me with this headline: “GOP’s Lamberti bests Boswell in fundraising.” The fine print/article? Boswell is still way ahead. I have a very love-hate relationship with horse races.
Yepsen blabbers on about taxes. He sure seems to do that a lot.
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1. Chaundra Smith | December 15th, 2006 at 1:57 am
About the comment that was made concerning Dan Sesker, the soilder killed in Iraq in April, 2006. The comment was made that he was a homosexual and that is completely false. I dont know where this information came from but I was an extrmemly close friend of his and to the family and I do know that he was engaged to be married and his fiance just had thier son. Therefore, he is not a homosexual. Dan would actually laugh about this now and have fun with it. However, since he is not here anymore to laugh about it, I felt I needed to clear some things up! Thank you very much!
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