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Yay for a dominionist government

This means that it's over for explicit writers. If your writing contains any sex at all, posting it means you risk five years in prison, and it will be on someone's archive, so there's no way to, say, privately e-mail to one's adult friends.

The Bush administration's proposal would require commercial Web sites to place "marks and notices" to be devised by the Federal Trade Commission on each sexually explicit page. The definition of sexually explicit broadly covers depictions of everything from sexual intercourse and masturbation to "sadistic abuse" and close-ups of fully clothed genital regions.

During his speech, Gonzales also warned that Internet service providers must begin to retain records of their customers' activities to aid in future criminal prosecutions--a position first reported by CNET News.com--and indicated that legislation might be necessary there as well. Internet service providers say they already cooperate with police and appear to be girding for a political battle on Capitol Hill over new regulations they view as intrusive.

Once this law is passed, it would be very advisable not to post any more explicit fic or icons unless you wish to risk arrest. . .

*sigh*

( Not worksafe at points. Also contains more typos than ever should occur in one fic. )

I went to the college fair at the Convention Center today (rode the trolley down there, hung around downtown San Diego alone a bit too ^_^) and I found out that the process for a community college student with a 3.0 or above (I have a 3.84) and 24 or more units to transfer in is basically a rubber stamp process, and that if I wanted to, if admissions haven't closed, I could even transfer for THIS FALL. I'm so praying they haven't and I can still apply.

YAY YAY YAY I am going to Hawaii! ^_^ YAY!

On other, more mundane news, I coughed up $16 at a hair salon near where I live and got my first "butchy" haircut today. It looks a lot like Gackt's haircut in this icon, and pictures are soon forthcoming once I can snag my sister's camera. Oddly enough, my family even says I look good with short hair. Maybe, just maybe, they're beginning to accept me as I am somewhat.

It's been a very good day.

I was originally going to post this on fst, but thanks to their new rule that no .wma files be allowed in FSTs, it's going here and to ragingbeat.

( Unexpected Love. Large images for front and back CD covers inside, as well as spoilers for the Trigun anime and manga. Proceed with caution. )

I was able to move stuff around in my room so I could set up my TV again. YAY. I didn't think I was strong enough to lift the TV myself *and* move a bookcase taller than I am and that weighs about a hundred pounds, but I did it on my own because I really didn't want to wait another month for my sister to help me or listen to my dad scream at me and demand I move my furniture around the way he wanted because I'm too stupid to even know how my own room is best arranged.

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Iran next, US planning on massive nuclear bombing campaign

This is absolutely sickening. Apparently, Bushco has dropped every pretense of intelligent foreign policy and every promise not to start another war like Iraq, except this time they're literally going nuclear. If this happens, it will be the first use of nuclear weapons as a preemptive first strike, the match on the powder keg that is the Mideast, and it will lead to the deaths of many innocent civilians.

Also, it brings up a specter that even Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't: dropping many deep-penetrating nuclear bombs on a sandy desert such as Iran could blow fallout dust into the atmosphere of Earth, basically irradiating the entire planet. This creates the risk of making a very large salted bomb blast, which could theoretically cause worldwide impacts.

These people are insane. No, insane is a nice word, one that means they don't know what they're doing and that it is wrong. These "people" are not insane as much as they are purely, inhumanly evil, only able to act in their own interest, and even lacking the animal instinct of self-preservation that would normally discourage one from using nuclear weapons in war.