My score on The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test:

/tnote[Bypass]/ Rabbit (You scored 15 Ego, 16 Anxiety, and 14 Agency!)

“IT was going to be one of Rabbit’s busy days. As soon as he woke up he felt important, as if everything depended upon him. It was just the day for Organizing Something, or for Writing a Notice Signed Rabbit, or for Seeing What Everybody Else Thought About It. It was a perfect morning for hurrying round to Pooh, and saying, “Very well, then, I’ll tell Piglet,” and then going to Piglet, and saying, “Pooh thinks–but perhaps I’d better see Owl first.” It was a Captainish sort of day, when everybody said, “Yes, Rabbit ” and “No, Rabbit,” and waited until he had told them.

You scored as Rabbit!

ABOUT RABBIT: Rabbit is generally considered Clever by his many friends and relations. He is actually a much better reader and writer than Owl, but he doesn’t consider it worth mentioning. Instead, Rabbit’s real talent lies in Organizing Plans. He organizes rescue parties, makes schemes to reduce Tigger’s bounciness, and goes on missions to find out what Christopher Robin does when he’s not at the Hundred Acre Woods. Sometimes, however, his Plans do not always go as Planned.

WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT YOU: You are smart, practical and you plan ahead. People sometimes think that you don’t stress or worry, but this is not the case. You are the kind of person who worries in a practical way. You think a) What are my anxieties about and b)what can be done about them? No useless fretting for you. You don’t see the point in sitting around and waiting for things to work out, when you could actually work them out today and save yourself a lot of time and worry. Your friends tend to rely on you, because they know that they can trust you help them work things out. You sometimes tend to be impatient with people who are less practical in their ways. You don’t have much patience for idiots who moan about things but never actually DO anything about them. You have high expectations of everyone, including yourself. When you don’t succeed at something, or when something goes wrong despite your best efforts to prevent it, you can get quite hard on yourself. You need to cut yourself some slack and accept that everyone has their faults, even you, and THAT IS OKAY. Let yourself be faulty, every now and then, for the sake of your own sanity.”

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I have posted what should be just about all of the pictures I have from our wedding. You can find them in the Wedding directory of my website.

“How can I explain these things, so obvious, and yet so invisible to those who think that “it’s all about sex”? Difference of sex makes a difference, but what kind? Perhaps I should leave it at this: To a man, women seem to glow in more hues than men do. In different ones too. The spectrum is wider, the world has more color, because of their presence in it, especially the presence of the beloved. Of course there are certain things which a normal man prefers to do with other men, like playing tackle football. Yet the very light and air seem to change when a woman leaves the room, and all men know it. Obviously this fact is connected with her bodily presence, but it isn’t about imagining her naked.” - J. Budziszewski aka Professor Theophilus¹

An excellent quote by one of the better Focus on the Family authors.

Today I learned that qmail was released to the public domain back in November.¹ Vincas tells me that he informed me of this change back in November when it happened, and that I was not interested. I do not know where my head was at the time.

As we are now looking at using qpsmtpd for auth and greylisting, it is entirely feasible to put qmail behind it instead of postfix, and to ditch mailman in favor of ezmlm. I am thinking that this might be the best way to go, particularly now that there is a route forward for qmail. One of the flaws in it has historically been that its development simply does not move, at all.

For this reason I am thinking that I would look at netqmail and not qmail itself, as there are more developers for it.

On numerous occasions, I have heard Democrats mock President Bush’s speaking ability. Clearly, the man is not the world’s greatest public speaker. I do not know if he has an actual speech impediment or if he just does not care about the way he sounds, or if some mis-guided analyst focus-grouped things and came up with the idea that he should not worry about the way he sounds. It really does not matter.

What is truly bizarre though is that Democrats think they can dismiss his ideas, policies, and even measure his intelligence from this. I am not sure when medical science proved that everyone who mispronounces words and occasionally stutters is mentally deficient, but I have apparently missed the report.

I am further not sure when such a blatant ad hominem attack became an acceptable way to refute someone’s ideas. For the record, if you lower yourself to such an attack, you have, in my eyes, demonstrated that you must have nothing meaningful to say against the ideas he presents, stands for, and works to achieve. You must be so utterly blown away that you cannot even begin to defend your own position. You posit that he is right, and that you are wrong, but you just do not care.

That is why I have not really mentioned it ever, though I disagree with the man on immigration, education, and a number of other issues. I think that I can hold my own, and that my ideas are worth considering, are in fact better. I do not need to attack the man and hope that doing so causes people to forget his ideas.

Do you really think our public schools are doing a good job? Keep in mind that most of the teacher’s union dollars go to the Democratic party.

Do you really want to see our medical system go the way of Canada or the UK? Keep in mind that 1/4 children in the UK cannot see a dentist because the nationalized health care there is floundering. Or that a far greater percentage of those who have strokes there die than here, because they cannot get the drugs that would save their lives. Or a host of other examples.

I am all for handling social issues. I just do not think that the democratic party’s notions of nationalizing everything will by any stretch of the imagination help. It is a waste of money, and worse, gets in the way of really solving problems.

But it is beyond that. Both Democratic candidates are 100% in favor of killing babies. This is not hyperbole, it is not fiction. Both will work to expand funding for abortion, help ensure that attempts to restrict it are impossible. Both will work to export our insanity to other countries such as poor African nations. Both will make it harder to make people aware of the reality of the choice they are making - to kill their unborn baby.

HOW CAN YOU VOTE FOR THAT‽

I simply cannot understand how you can worry about health care or education and sleep nights knowing that you have, with your vote, helped ensure that 1.37 Million¹ babies will be killed next year.

I am sorry that having that child might impact that mother. It might reduce her standard of living, remind her of things in her past, change her career plans, or whatever else. BUT THAT CHILD DESERVES TO LIVE. Keep that in mind when you proclaim yourself pro-choice, that the child has none.

And yes, he or she is a child. He or she is not a mass of tissue. We can keep him or her alive without the mother for months before natural birth. He or she has a soul and a life of his or her own, one that is just as important, but a whole lot more defenseless, than that of the mother whose “rights” you are so passionately defending.

Worse though, I think, is if you somehow think that something can be more important than this. The idea of claiming to be pro-life, but voting democratic sickens me with the thought of that much hypocrisy.

So the snow and ice last night was utterly insufficient to overwhelm VDOT’s efforts. This is highly unfortunate because rex et al chose today to be unstable.

Snow, snow go away, come again on Friday. Luke wants snow when Lauren is home.

Seriously, why does it always pick days when it does me absolutely no good?