The annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn drew thousands of parents and children, as it has for 130 years now.* The annual Easter Egg An undocumented function hidden in software that may or may not be sanctioned by management. Easter Eggs are secret "goodies" found by word of mouth or accident. They are also used in video games, movies, TV commercials, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs and every so often in hardware. Roll on the White House lawn drew thousands of parents and children, as it has for 130 years now. This year, however, 200 or so of the parents were wearing artificial leis in rainbow colors. Why thus distinguish themselves? Well, these were homosexual couples, asserting their right to participate, together with the children they are raising, in this traditional family event. Could they not have participated just as well without the colorful leis? Ah, but then their presence might have gone unnoticed, their numbers unremarked. Were they not, then, shamelessly shame·less adj. 1. Feeling no shame; impervious to disgrace. 2. Marked by a lack of shame: a shameless lie. politicizing a formerly apolitical a·po·lit·i·cal adj. 1. Having no interest in or association with politics. 2. Having no political relevance or importance: claimed that the President's upcoming trip was purely apolitical. event designed not to promote anyone's "lifestyle," but to give harmless pleasure to innocents? Perish TO PERISH. To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. 2. What has never existed cannot be said to have perished. 3. When two or more persons die by the same accident, as a shipwreck, no presumption arises that one perished before the the thought! Who would be so cynically manipulative as to do such a thing? |
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