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[conuly]

Firstly, somebody just yesterday said they really like the articles I post. :) This is prompting me to make my own confession - I really like the articles I find here. In fact, I rarely crosspost any of them because then I'd have to crosspost all of them and then I might as well just link to the entry itself and too much of that is a little weird.

Here's an article on the criminalization of gay marriage. I don't understand what happened to the whole state's rights concept. Isn't one of the rights of the states to be able to deal with marriages?

Scary wage data - and it is scary!

Some judges chastise banks over foreclosures. All the bank people quoted in the article are going "boo-hoo-hoo, this is very bad, very bad indeed, it's not good for judges to do this!" but if the issue at hand is that they didn't bother to do paperwork or do it correctly - or even if they did it fraudulently, whom do they have to blame but themselves?

So, this is scary. Some Muslims heading to Mecca had their passports seized by Customs for... who knows? They missed their flight, because, you know, Muslims making their pilgrimage is something you totally can't predict will happen *every year* and it's *scary*. Or something.

I had no idea the citizenship laws were so... arcane.

On Jewish vampires
And just FYI, vampires don't eat Hindus :)

Automation Insurance: Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs

How much can you make collecting cans and bottles?

Comments

[steorra]

I am a dual citizen of Canada and the UK; in both countries, citizenship law has changed since I was born, to be more restrictive.

I was born in England to Canadian parents; I received UK citizenship automatically by being born there, and Canadian citizenship by being born to Canadian parents. Less than half a year after I was born, British citizenship law changed so that people born there do not automatically get citizenship; you have to have some degree of British ancestry (I don't know the details). I have no British background, so if I was born half a year later, I would not be a British citizen.

About a year ago, Canadian citizenship law changed concerning the ability of citizens born outside the country to pass their citizenship on to their children. Formerly, if you were born to a Canadian parent, you were automatically a Canadian citizen, regardless of where you or your parent was born. Now, if you are born outside Canada to a Canadian parent, whether or not you are a citizen depends on how your parent got citizenship. If they were born in Canada or naturalized, you are a citizen. If the parent was born outside Canada but got citizenship from a Canadian parent (like me), then you are not a citizen.

So if I have children outside Canada, they won't be Canadian by birth unless their father is Canadian :-(

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I repost my favorites of the articles you post on my facebook, and this morning one of my friends said I always have the best links. So really, that means, again, YOU always have the best links. :)

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what happened to the whole state's rights concept.

ROFL! Hee, you're funny sometimes.

...oh, wait, you were serious.

Ever since the War, that has been replayed in the courts time after time and the states always lose.

[conuly]

Okay, but why are the guys who largely revere (or so it seems to me) those folks who went to war to protect state's rights with regard to slavery (taking away people's rights!) the same ones wanting the federal government to take away state's rights with regards to marriage?

And for that matter, why are the same people who want LESS government control the folks who want MORE government control?

WHY IS EVERYTHING WRONG????

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Why are the ones feverishly promoting the sanctity of life WRT the death penalty the same ones promoting abortion-as-birth-control?

Life is full of these little brainbreaking paradii*. Then again, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, as somebody or other once said. ;)

*What is the plural of paradox, anyway....paradoxen?

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Paradoxes, simply enough.

(Which makes me a little sad, because I'm fond of the sound of paradoxii.)

[conuly]

More correctly, why are the people who are against birth control (real birth control, that is) also against abortion?

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I've been catching up on a week's worth of LJ (no small task) and I just found this post and . . . *sniffle*

Thanks.

[conuly]

I like to share the love around :)