CNN.com - Oregon county bans all marriage - Mar 23, 2004: "The last marriage licenses were handed out in Benton County at 4 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. EST) Tuesday. As of Wednesday, officials in the county of 79,000 people will begin telling couples applying for licenses to go elsewhere until the gay marriage debate is settled.
'It may seem odd,' Benton County Commissioner Linda Modrell told Reuters in a telephone interview, but 'we need to treat everyone in our county equally.'"

Thats brilliant (if a little overboard). Everybody should do that.

CNN.com - Tennessee county wants to ban gays - Mar 18, 2004: "Commissioner J.C. Fugate, who introduced the measure, also asked the county attorney to find a way to enact an ordinance banning homosexuals from living in the county."

Their domain (http://www.rheacounty.com) is for sale. Somebody should buy it and really piss 'em off.

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )"

Ray came by today to say 'hi'. His mother died over the weekend. She'd been sick for awhile. He said that she was peaceful and 'went on her own terms'. I hope he'll be ok.

I should be doing my employee reorientation packet (actually, I should already be done with it, I've had it a week. It's not due 'till tommorrow. I'll finish it at work.

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page: "Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx"