Where do you think Nazis in Olympia go for fun? I mean, when they're not hosting hate rallies, they must hang out somewhere. (NSMers: Please feel free to respond. I know there are a couple of you who actually live here.) comment at What This Town Needs

I'm eager to see any photos and maybe even video that folks may blog up from the Pride parade and festivities today.  

Curious about the history of Gay Pride celebrations? Check out what Wikipedia has on Gay Pride and follow those tasty social history links too.

Capital City Pride

It was great.  There were some ill-informed warmongers there, but I believe they learned something even if it was subconscious.  The guy in the cowboy hat is very frustate.  It seems he has they key document, although the name of his reference escapes him, linking Saddam Hussein and Osama.  I guess it was only recently translated but acted as a recruitment flier for people to come attack America.  He's very frustrated that the liberal media hasn't put it out there.  In the end, he appoligized for his beligerence.  We all enjoyed how the "Thank You Erin" sign was a prominant central focal point surrounded by old glory.  The fact that the surround flags were held by pro-war folk didn't matter.  From the ground our American flag was rightly represented as belonging to the people and not the chickenhawks.  Pics below.  The little guy, by the way, was a very intelligent fourth grader who has been fed some amazingly hateful one-liners.  I like the kid a lot and am confident he will gain control of his mind in the years to come.

Comment Successfully Posted Let me say this to the public and to any grads out there: Unconventional: to NOT accept tidbits of information as lone truths. Shove the history story down our throats so that no new ideas can appear? Do we really need to teach history? No. History lives in the minds and hearts of every person, plant, and animal alive today; it need not be told for us. Erase the story somebody else told you. Close your eyes and imagine your own story. When I close my eyes I see two worlds. A linear world for the living and a circular world for the dead. I line inside of a circle if you will. Living life has a beginning point and an endpoint thus it is linear. Deceased life has no endpoint or beginning thus it is circular. Our world, our existance, our universes all have endpoints and they are circular, depending on our vantage point. The fabric of space and time changes as we change position and therefore the eternal world theory is correct even though there is evidence of a beginning and an end. I didn't read about it. "Open your mind" doesn't mean to fill it with other peoples' information. To "judge" means to examine the evidence without drawing conclusions. I have been authorized to hold the scales and to suggest what that means: duality changes with vantage point. Anonymous | 06.17.06 - 1:02 pm | #