That tournament
I had been talking to some of you about? Took third place. Woulda been second, but I ran out of time. :p And first place dude had some serious deckage going on. *curses Wigglytuff's Do The Wave* Meanwhile, I've already got plans to retweak my deck, for it needs to be faster. I wish I didn't have to work Sats., because the major tourneys are then, but then again, I make really good money on Sats., so it's a hard choice.

Webcomic-ness!
I've been dead set on finding "Alien Dice". Durnit, I'm not having any luck: local stores don't have it in stock, Keenswag (Keenspot's store) isn't loading for me, and Amazon.com only has Alien Dice #2 (weh? it's coming out already?!). But I'm gonna get it, one way or another (and I seriously hope it's in color, because that's where the beauty of Syke's art lies).
I was pleasantly surprised to find "RPG World". Forgot how much I love that one. One of my favorite lines is:

Eikre: Galgarioun is Cherry's butt?! That is gonna be the coolest boss fight ever!

And the "Times are tough" guy is great (more so when he meets the "There are many guards at the castle" guy).

Today's 8-Bit Theatre is also amusing.

And now for a dose of uglyness
OK, I'm going to warn you right now: I'm not a political person and I don't normally like to voice my opinions about taboo issues, but if I don't say something somewhere, this'll spurt out where I don't want it to and cause a lot more ugliness than needs be.

If you are startled by that little warning, then I suggest you stop reading today's entry and go about your business.

So I'm at work yesterday, watching the FOX news channel. They were talking about Kerry and his choice for VP, Edwards. I thought, "All righty, this should be interesting."
The image switched to a lot of people waving signs that screamed "Make Abortion Legal!"

(I warned you, you know.)

Now, I don't know the full story, because I just about lost it right there. So I'm not completely and fully ready to comdemn Kerry/Edwards. It looks as if they are proposing an ammendment to the abortion bill Bush made. I need to know what kind of ammendment.

Look, I know that there are extreme cases in which abortion is a painful but only choice, ie: the mother or child or both will die in childbirth. Being careless is quite different. People that only want rampant sex but not children need to quit fucking around. I despise people like that.

(Seriously, I warned you.)

I mean, my glorious and loving Father in Heaven, get fixed or something. (Which, personally, I think would be a great ammendment--a limit to how many abortions one person can have, and after that, their reproductive organs are rendered useless.) In my religion, sex is a gift from God to married couples in which they can express their ultimate love for each other. It's not meant for five minutes of pleasure and that's it. I can't imagine why a person would freely go from one person to the next doing that, either; that would cause some serious mental problems for me.

Why do I feel so strongly? Is it just a Christian thing?
Well, yes, it's a Christian thing, but to me, it's a Ginny thing first.

I never could imagine why my biological father left me when I was little. It turns out that almost my entire family abandoned my mom when she was pregnant with me. Everyone around my mom told her to get an abortion or to be kicked out of the family. I can never fully express to my mother how grateful I am for her taking my side (my uncle, too--he supported my mom and even bought toy trucks for me, hee hee).

I loved my grandparents; when I found out they were the very first to tell my mom to get an abortion or else, I was heartbroken. Our relationship was pretty strained after that and I'm not sure if I really could ever fully forgive them. As for my biological father, he walked out because I was born. His only attachment to me is DNA; I have no love for the man and I could die quite happily without ever seeing him.

...hang on just a sec, I'm sorta getting blurry-eyed...

I think one of the most pointless arguments in favor of abortion is, "It's my body, I can do what I want!" To which science has proved otherwise--at the moment of conception, when two parts become one, there is a brand new mixture DNA. If technology can go in and pick out only the woman's DNA, sure, she can have that. But it can't. And therefore, that tiny life is not her body. I firmly believe that every life begins at conception, because at that moment, a soul becomes tangible.

I'm sorry, but abortion is murder. (And if you don't believe me, take a look at images from a partial birth abortion sometime. It's disgusting what humans have come up with.)

So my first thought on seeing that clip on FOX was, "Well, sure, we'll keep our men from being killed over there, because we're too busy killing them off over here." I still need the full story. Meanwhile, Kerry and Edwards are treading dangerously thin ice, indeed.

Try to have a good day.