Panic everyone - panic!!!!! A white powdery substance confirmed by a preliminary field test to be the toxin that causes botulism and plague has been found in a washington area post office. Erm. Well. Maybe. Sort of. Turns out the "preliminary field test" should have read "wild media speculation". Turns out the powder wasn't white, it was brown. Turns out to be a totally inert substance of no danger to anyone. So the media hysteria, biochem suits and toxic cleaning showers set up at the site all look a bit stupid right now. Apparently though, 93 people are being treated for exposure. Exposure to what? Coffee? Holy shit people - get a fucking grip!
The non-separation of the LDS church and Utah state.
Look - I understand that mormons think gays are somehow evil, subhumans. I understand that the LDS won't tolerate gays, doesn't like them and thus won't marry them. But for local government to overturn a supreme court ruling about gay marriage is taking it too far. This is religious persecution on a par with the dark ages. The church doesn't like gays, so it leans on its members in government to do everything possible to prevent them from having the basic rights afforded other couples who want to marry. In other words, the LDS church is forcing it's (wrong) opinion about the LGBT community on everyone, via state and local laws that it has had passed and enforced on its behalf. Why should non-religious people be forced to abide by the opinion of a religious cult that they have no affiliation with? Apart from anything else, the uber-conservatives in this state are always the first ones to bitch when something even slightly unconstitutional happens, yet here they are r...
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