Stop Gay Marriage = Violence Against Gays

According to an article in the Orlando Sentinel:

The Florida state attorney general's most recent report showed a 20% increase in reported hate crimes based on sexual orientation, while Clarence Patton of the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs observes that fires this month at gay bars in Brownsville, Tex., and Fayetteville, Ark., are related to the "political season" of the last two years.

Because of the religious right and the Bush Administration's call for a Federal Marriage Amendment, a rural rage against gays has grown steadily over the past few years.

This couple in Florida had their house burnt down with "Die Fag" written on their front steps.

Being gay isn't a fad - it's not going away - you can't cure it.

It's time to deal people. As soon as you start hurting people because you subscribe to a certain ideology, you become a terrorist.

As you know, in this country we don't tolerate terrorists.

Just Waking Up

What a past couple of weeks! I am officially DONE with my finals and can resume a normal life for a month until classes start again in the fall.

ONE SEMESTER TO GO!

For any of you who watch 'The Daily Show' you will appreciate this...
Apparently, after taping a segment on the Broward Art Guild’s annual “Controversy” art show in Florida they fired the head of the Art Guild!

She's claiming 'cencorship' and they are..well..telling her to get outta here.

OK - I'm off to the beach to celebrate my 1yr with John. I hope we get some sun!!

10 Hours

I'll be done in 10 hours.

Freedom for at least one whole month in 10 hours.

In the mean time, I was distracted by this story: They have uncovered what they believe to be the oldest 'sexual aid' in world history. It was found in a cave in Germany and is about 28,000 years old. Those Germans - I swear!

To be fair, the BBC says, "It may also have been used to knap, or split, flints."

Ouch! No wonder it took us so long to evolve...

If I can make it through Wednesday...

I usually post to my blog at least once a day. However, I am in OVERDRIVE right now with finals.

Bear with me.

I have a bunch of great ideas on where I want to take my blog once the semester is over...but I need the semester to be over.

Wedneday night is my last exam so if I can make it until then I can pretty much walk on fire.

P.S. Yes, I do realize that John Roberts (President Bush's Supreme Court Nominee) and I have the same hairdo! I'll deal with that after exams as well.

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White Houses

I never gave Vanessa Carlton enough credit. Good stuff.

Maybe I'm a little bit over my head
I come undone at the things he said
And he's so funny in his bright red shirt
We were all in love and we all got hurt
I sneak into his car's black leather seat
The smell of gasoline in the summer heat
Boy, we're going way too fast
It's all too sweet to last

It's alright
And I put myself in his hands
But I hold on to your secrets in white houses
Love, or something ignites in my veins
And I pray it never fades in white houses

My first time, hard to explain
Rush of blood, oh, and a little bit of pain
On a cloudy day, it's more common than you think
He's my first mistake

Alienating RRRs

My mom forwarded me an email she received from a Religious Right Relative(RRR).

Usually I turn red and gnash my teeth, but in the end I let cooler heads prevail.

Yeah - today...not so much.

Here are some excerpts from the email my mom sent me:

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 06:42:35 EDT
Subject: Herein is one of many reasons why it is believed that media is biased.

Herein is one of many reasons why it is believed that media is biased.

Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?

Did you know his trial is over? Did you know he was sentenced? Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV/Radio? Didn't think so. Our liberal press don't care about these things.

Everyone should hear what the judge had to say. Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.

"It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely."

So, how much of this Judge's comments did we hear on our TV sets? We need more judges like Judge Young, but that's another subject. Pass this around. Everyone should and needs to hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home.

God bless America.

This is just an excerpt. The whole email made me blow a gasket.

So I emailed my mom and my RRR with this response:

I don't want to be rude, but your friends are ignorant. There was major coverage of the shoe bomber in the media. All they need to do is go to Google and type in "shoe bomber trial" and they would get more than 100,000 links. Here are just a few...

*http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/09/12/shoe.bomb.case/ *http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1783237.stm *http://www.time.com/time/world/
article/0,8599,203478,00.html *http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/
04/22/uk.shoebomb.sentence/

While there is a tendency for the media to cover the events of the world in the way that a majority of its product buying viewers (females between 18-24) like to see it, they would never try to hide things like this.

The same day of the London bombings reporters were on trial for not giving up confidential sources. Understandably, the media only covered one thing that day.

And another thing, regarding: "It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea."

It drives me nuts when the people who say stuff like this are the same people who believe women shouldn't have the right to choose what happens to their own body. When they are the same people who say that the terminally ill have no freedom to choose to end their life. When they are the same people who say that being gay is a sin and therefore you are lesser of a person and don't deserve the same freedoms accorded to people just like them.

How can the same people who champion the individual freedoms we are guaranteed as Americans be the same people who are so willing to restrict the freedoms of Americans who are not like them??

And finally, a person cannot claim the media is liberally biased just because they happened not to read the news that day. That is not called liberal bias, it's called being misinformed.

Of course, I forgot to even bring up the fact that on one hand these people bash and threaten judges for being 'activists' while on the other, when they rule in their favor or say things that reinforce their opinions, they love them.

GRRRRRRRRRRR.....

45%

According to SearchEngingeWatch.com, people are not as RED or BLUE as politicians would like us to believe.

A study by Harris Interactive found:

More than 45% of adults searching for news are looking for differing viewpoints, and 42% are searching for supplemental information.

Wow - only 55% of people set out to confirm their own beliefs and reinforce their own prejudices.

mmmmm...sarcasm