I love fireworks. We spent last night watching them shower over The Mohawk River. A beautiful choreographed fireworks show brings to mind anything you want. What I don't get is the need to shoot off firecrackers and other cheap fireworks on your own. If you desire loud noise, listen to loud music or run down the street screaming. Don't make me listen to the insidious racket while I wait for you to burn your house down.

On a lighter note, I spent a good part of the day shooting pictures of The Stockade area of town hoping in the next year to complete my page on Schenectady which will be much like this and this, only better.

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Force moments of silence in schools.
Prohibit involuntary bussing of students.
Remove any protection any court may find for child pornography.
The Equal Rights Amendment.
Make English the official language of the United States.
Abortion, both for and against.
Disallow desecration of the U.S. Flag.
Force a balanced budget.
Make marriage between one man and one woman only.

These are just some of the 11,000 proposed amendments over the years. Only 17 have made their way through the whole process, not including the original 10. For the time being, the effort to amend The Constitution to make marriage between one man and one woman only has died. I know it'll be back in some form soon but for now, let's just be happy. The arguments they use will be the same. The purpose of marriage is to procreate and have kids yet they still allow elderly people and sterile people get married. It's a sin yet they still let murderers and rapists get married. It's an abomination of God yet they still let atheists get married. I just don't understand the hate in some people's blood.

Justice Judith Reichler has thrown out the case against two ministers who wed same sex couples in New Paltz after Jason West was told he could no longer do it.

"Mixed-sex couples who do not love each other can marry. Couples who do not even like each other can marry," Reichler said. "Regardless of the relationship a married couple has, legal privileges are granted to improve their economic, emotional and physical health -- simply because of their marital status. There can be no constitutional rationale for denying same-sex couples the right to receive the benefits that are so lavishly bestowed on mixed-sex couples."

"Tradition does not justify unconstitutional treatment. Slavery was also a traditional institution," Reichler wrote.

As for me, I've been around. We've been everywhere from The Adirondack Mountains to The Long Island Sound. I've also been dreaming.

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For the first time ever, I am considering putting a political bumper sticker on my car. The hard part is deciding between a "Kerry/Edwards" sticker or a "Vote Bush Out" sticker. I think the latter inspires more than the former.

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You may have noticed I've been having trouble with my web host over the last couple of days and I still can't get to their main site so I think I'll be changing soon. I think not being able to get my mail bothers me as much as the site being down and the fact that I can't get in touch with them bothers me even more.

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Happy Birthday baby. I love you, always. You're no faux intellectual.

...and as for my web host problems, if you're seeing this entry, you're on my new host, if not, you're on my old host and don't see this entry anyway. Don't worry, It'll come.

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We're getting good at this bat catching thing and nobody screamed like a girl...OK, I did.

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The Catskills, The Long Island Sound, Yale University, Dartmouth University, Killington VT, Manchester VT, The Great Sacandaga Lake, Hartford, CT, and The Adirondack Park are just a few places we've his in the last month. Whew!

I worked at Carowinds for four years when I was a kid. It was a great job for a kid and half the fun was hanging out with people when you weren't working. I can't believe they're taking away one of the greatest perks the job has to offer. If somebody is breaking the rules, write them up, fire them the next time. Don't smash the fun for everybody. Riding roller coasters every day rocks.

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When I was a kid, one of the first albums I remember buying with my own money was Goofy Gold. It was a K-Tel album or something like that off TV. I gave my mom the money and she wrote a check so I could send off for it. In the last month, I think almost half the songs have come up in conversation between Duncan and me, either through some stupid story or I just start singing them. Usually just the one or two lines I know. King Kong was one of my favorites because it involved Fay Wray, King Kong and Robert Armstrong singing with each other.

Fay Wray: I'm Fay, Fay Wray!
King Kong: Why do you run away?
Armstrong: Kong only wants to play with you.
King Kong: So come on Fay? Whaddya say?
(Fay screams!)

The other songs were:

Beep Beep
Monster Mash
Wooley Bully
Running Bear
Big Bad John
Transfusion
Western Movies
Chantilly Lace
Ahab the Arab
Alley Oop
Does Your Chewing Gum Loose Its Flavor
Mr. Custer
Tie Me Kangaroo Down
Purple People Eater
Battle of New Orleans

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26 July 2004

I stand corrected. Thanks Alan. Of course "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" was on my Goofy Gold.

Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh
Here I am at Camp Granada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

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I came across this so I posted it, no other reason really.

I haven't seen it rain this hard in quite a while and it hasn't let up all day except for one time. I had a job interview this morning and of course it was pouring. It let up for only a minute when I had to walk from my car. I'll take that as a good sign because the interview seemed to go OK.

Rain + Kaleb = Musty

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"I will do ANYTHING for a treat. I sit in my neighbor's backyard where I can keep an eye on the four backdoors that may open at any time so someone can come out to give me what I need. I can't make the buy myself so I have to give away the only thing I got, myself. I do what I have to do to get a fix. I can't live without them. Alpo Bites will do but sometimes I gotta have the Milk Bone. How it tempts me...What can I do for you?"

Everybody already knows Smithers is gay so I'm betting the new gay character on The Simpsons next season is Mo Szyslak. Nobody seems to know much about his life away from the bar and he seems awfully bitter about most things. Sure his fashion sense is not the best but remember he is living in the closet. Hell, he may still be living in denial.

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