MAIFEST AT MAINSTRASSE

http://www.covingtonky.com/index.asp?fn=news&id=1657

There will be merry-making in MainStrasse this weekend as
Maifest kicks off the summer celebration season.

The annual toast to early wines has grown in depth as new food
vendors, performers and artisans expand visitor choices.

"We've added approximately 30 new arts and crafts booths this
year," said Donna Kremer, administrative coordinator for the
MainStrasse Village Association that presents the family-
friendly event.

A couple of the new displayers are:

Keske Carved Bird Houses.

Created in the shapes of German Gnomes, these Kobold Spirits are
one of a kind.

Fountains by Gilstorf. From Tennessee, these garden fountains
are made from old pumps, antique buckets, driftwood, stones and
other components

MAIFEST AT MAINSTRASSE

http://www.covingtonky.com/index.asp?fn=news&id=1657

There will be merry-making in MainStrasse this weekend as
Maifest kicks off the summer celebration season.

The annual toast to early wines has grown in depth as new food
vendors, performers and artisans expand visitor choices.

"We've added approximately 30 new arts and crafts booths this
year," said Donna Kremer, administrative coordinator for the
MainStrasse Village Association that presents the family-
friendly event.

A couple of the new displayers are:

Keske Carved Bird Houses.

Created in the shapes of German Gnomes, these Kobold Spirits are
one of a kind.

Fountains by Gilstorf. From Tennessee, these garden fountains
are made from old pumps, antique buckets, driftwood, stones and
other components

The media continually wrings its hands about prejudice against the Mormon Church, but has never mentioned of word about the
prejudice *in* the Mormon Church- the stories of electroshock at Brigham Young University, the gays followed and photographed, the
suicides among students and faculty. They have not mentioned Mormon clergy who have tacitly blessed physical assaults against gays.
Similarly, the Globe did not cover the kind of hate-rhetoric that poisoned the Tremont Baptist Church, where gays were demonized as
"sodomites", "abominations" and "vile.' The Globe apparently thinks it unimportant, to think that the Governor of the State gives
his blessing, without saying a word, to this kind of religious rat-poison. The media is more concerned with the possible prejudice
against one...

There is nothing to stop the People essentially
from making an unconstitutional amendment to
the Constitution. If it is trivialized enough, then
you effectively do not have a Constitution.

That is why the bar should be raised, to a
2/3 or 3/4 quarters mininum vote, never a
simple majority vote. The Constitution should be
an anchor, something of stability, not something
changed to suit passing whims, biases, and
political motivations of the power-hungry.

Votes that attempt to rationalize a denial
of equality under the law risk making a
Constitution meaningless. If there is not equality
under the law, then there is no law.

It would not be an example of how Democracy works.
It would be an example of how Democracy fails.

A Democracy is not self-justifying. It needs to
be governed by fairness, or can degenerate into
lawless chaos, and deservedly so.

RH wrote:

What the the heck do you think? A very pregnant Jewish couple show up
in modern Bethlehem... assuming they could get past the
checkpoints...they'd likely be brutally murdered by a mob of er-
'oppressed' Palestinians. So much for Christmas. Any other silly
questions?

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove should be out on trial for the murder of
all the soldiers who have died for this pointless war.

3 non political slide shows:

http://photo-vinc.com/PHP/b2evolution/blogs/index.php/all/2006/12/25/

The Soviet Union, R.I.P.?

by Stephen F. Cohen <
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061225/cohen>

The most consequential event of the second half of the
twentieth century took place surreptitiously fifteen
years ago at a secluded hunting lodge in the Belovezh
Forest near Minsk. On December 8, 1991, heads of three
of the Soviet Union's fifteen republics, led by Boris
Yeltsin of Russia, met there to sign documents
abolishing that seventy-four-year-old state.

by Peter Fruchter, December 20, 2006

Jimmy Carter seems like a gentle man. Gentle as a wheeze. But the
response to his recent "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" book
hasn't been. It's been anything but gentle. It's been outrage.

Some now say he's anti-semitic. Which is unwarranted, and worse -
irrelevant. The issues contested concern Israel - and Islamic
fundamentalism. Not Judaism. Not the Jewish - or Masonic or Templar
or Protestant - conspiracy. Not any more. Since the creation of
Israel, it's what goes on in the Middle-East getting voted most
likely to enflame Armageddon.

Carter is wrong, of course. That's clear the moment we concede
Israel's entitled to defend herself. Right? However defined,
apartheid is offensive - and thereby can't conceivably be practiced
in self-defence.

"Democracy does not begin and end with popular vote.
It begins with equality under the law, or it ends in violence."