Thanks to a belly full of chinese food from Paul Chen's, I managed to fall asleep on the couch in front of the window at a little after midnight. I've got a bunch of stuff to do today (like neighborhood searching) but I'm stumbling around like a zombie and I'm not really sure how much sleep my body still needs.

On Thursday I received a hand-signed reply from United States Congressman Elijah Cummings concerning H.R. 4122, a sex education bill that would block any funding for sexual education programs that advocated anything but abstinence. Cummings agreed with my position against the program and was happy to point this out.

On Friday I received a form letter from United States Senator Barbara Mikulski concerning S. 2048 also known as Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act or CBDTPA, a draconian bill designed to implement more stringent copy restrictions on digital media devices like computers and DVD players.
To paraphrase Mikulski's reply to me: thanks for writing, but my mind is made up in favor of the bill. Apparently I live in a brain damaged state
filled with elected corporate welfare Democrats.

At least Virginia Republicans would let me keep my guns while fleecing me for the good of Capitalism, unless of course I was in brain-damaged New Jersey where everybody is liberally restrictive and in favor of any polluter with tax revenue. How do you think we got a head of the Environmental Protection Agency that doesn't have any interest in actually protecting the condition of any environment besides corporate board rooms? Thank New Jersey for bringing Christie Whitman to George W. Bush's attention.

I wrote a handwritten three page letter to Elijah Cummings today about civil liberties post September 11th. Hopefully he'll have the chance to read it as the session comes to a close and help protect us from the FBI and John Ashcroft. I noted the recent example of PADI caving to FBI demands without even being issued a warrant, and giving them unrestricted access to the last three years of certified scuba divers.

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