Monday, November 10, 2008
No Promises, No Demands
On a lighter note than what's been thrown at you lately on this blog, I want everyone here to remember just how awesome music videos used to be. Frankly I don't even know if they really "make" videos anymore, but..... I'm afraid to finish that sentence as it will make me feel really old. :) Enjoy this classic. There are few songs that are as fun to sing along to.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I Can Hear It
Just down the street from me they are protesting. I have goosebumps. I can hear the helicopters overhead. Citizens are protesting in front of the LSD (Goddamn Mormon) Temple in Los Angeles. If you're free and not stuck in an office with an oppressive conservative boss like me (Hi Mark!) go down there and give 'em some hell. I did symbolically flip off a ward that I passed on my way to work, but I sure would like to be down there giving them some hell!
Dark Clouds. But a possible silver lining.
The Goddamn Mormons won this round, but they ain't gonna win the war. They succeeded in lying and scaring California voters into taking away the rights of other Californians, but their success won't last. It won't last because the system of American Government, the Constitution, and the People won't let it last. It won't last because the U.S. Constitution does not allow discrimination, even if the Goddamn Mormons want our California Constitution to codify it. It won't last because Californians up and down the coast protested and made their voices heard last night that we won't stand for inequality and hate in our state. It won't last because Californians are already legally challenging an amendment to our Constitution which fundamentally changes rights of Californians.
I'm confident that one day we will succeed. We will succeed because it is not the right of Americans to take away the rights of other Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that Americans are to be treated equally under the law. Equally.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
California just amended its Constitution to specifically deny equal protection to gays. And what did we learn in during the Civil Rights Movement, specifically relating to segregation? Separate is inherently not equal.
I understand that Californians are working to challenge Prop 8 legally based upon other grounds (most notably that such a change to the Constitution cannot be effectuated by proposition), and we may be able to clean up our own mess, as California. But if we can't, its a whole other reason to be excited about Obama, because the U.S. Supreme Court should be poised to rule on gay marriage the exact same way they ruled on interracial marriage. America didn't collapse when blacks and whites (and all other races) could marry, and it won't collapse when gays can marry.
Whether you agree with gay marriage or not is completely irrelevant. Your personal morals are irrelevant. Your religion is irrelevant. Your opinion is irrelevant, as is mine. All that matters is that this is America, a place where people, more than anywhere else in the world, are supposed to be free and equal. And our Constitution guarantees those rights. It guarantees that all Americans are to be treated equally. So the Goddamn Mormon hate doesn't really matter. Equality will be vindicated eventually. And those who fought against that equality will hopefully be remembered as the divisive hatemongers that they are. And those self-righteous people who hide behind religion to promote hate will get their payback when they find out that God don't discriminate and loves gays and straights just the same. But FYI to the Goddamn Mormons: God hates hypocrites. So stop your bullshit hypocracy about the "sanctity of marriage" while you are marrying three or four women (underage) at a time. You will get your due.
I'm confident that one day we will succeed. We will succeed because it is not the right of Americans to take away the rights of other Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that Americans are to be treated equally under the law. Equally.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
California just amended its Constitution to specifically deny equal protection to gays. And what did we learn in during the Civil Rights Movement, specifically relating to segregation? Separate is inherently not equal.
I understand that Californians are working to challenge Prop 8 legally based upon other grounds (most notably that such a change to the Constitution cannot be effectuated by proposition), and we may be able to clean up our own mess, as California. But if we can't, its a whole other reason to be excited about Obama, because the U.S. Supreme Court should be poised to rule on gay marriage the exact same way they ruled on interracial marriage. America didn't collapse when blacks and whites (and all other races) could marry, and it won't collapse when gays can marry.
Whether you agree with gay marriage or not is completely irrelevant. Your personal morals are irrelevant. Your religion is irrelevant. Your opinion is irrelevant, as is mine. All that matters is that this is America, a place where people, more than anywhere else in the world, are supposed to be free and equal. And our Constitution guarantees those rights. It guarantees that all Americans are to be treated equally. So the Goddamn Mormon hate doesn't really matter. Equality will be vindicated eventually. And those who fought against that equality will hopefully be remembered as the divisive hatemongers that they are. And those self-righteous people who hide behind religion to promote hate will get their payback when they find out that God don't discriminate and loves gays and straights just the same. But FYI to the Goddamn Mormons: God hates hypocrites. So stop your bullshit hypocracy about the "sanctity of marriage" while you are marrying three or four women (underage) at a time. You will get your due.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Despicable.
Those that feel they must stop California from offering equal protection under the law to its citizens have taken an interesting new approach to fundraising.
This letter is being sent to some major donors to the NO on Prop 8 campaign. Basically, it says that these donors should donate an equal amount of money to the YES on Prop 8 campaign or else "it is a clear indication that you are in opposition to traditional marriage."
That's actually what it says.
If you oppose Prop 8, you oppose traditional marriage. So I guess when I go and vote NO on Prop 8 next month, I must OPPOSE traditional marriage.
I guess I didn't realize that Prop 8 somehow invalidates marriages between men and women.
Or that allowing gay marriage will somehow lead to man/sheep marriage in the near future, like this idiot seems to think. (On a related note, the idiot that runs the man/sheep site has refused to publish any of my comments at all. No obscenity was included or anything else inappropriate, he just can't have any differing opinions on his blog.) But let me just take this opportunity to say that if he hates gay marriage that much, he must be gay. Ted Haggard much?
Maybe its a good sign that the Yes on Prop 8 people are getting this desperate. They can't honestly believe that someone who had enough conviction to donate $10k to the NO campaign would turn around and undo the good that they did.
But did Yes on Prop 8 realize the potential backlash? They're just giving me a reason to donate and campaign for the other side.
This letter is being sent to some major donors to the NO on Prop 8 campaign. Basically, it says that these donors should donate an equal amount of money to the YES on Prop 8 campaign or else "it is a clear indication that you are in opposition to traditional marriage."
That's actually what it says.
If you oppose Prop 8, you oppose traditional marriage. So I guess when I go and vote NO on Prop 8 next month, I must OPPOSE traditional marriage.
I guess I didn't realize that Prop 8 somehow invalidates marriages between men and women.
Or that allowing gay marriage will somehow lead to man/sheep marriage in the near future, like this idiot seems to think. (On a related note, the idiot that runs the man/sheep site has refused to publish any of my comments at all. No obscenity was included or anything else inappropriate, he just can't have any differing opinions on his blog.) But let me just take this opportunity to say that if he hates gay marriage that much, he must be gay. Ted Haggard much?
Maybe its a good sign that the Yes on Prop 8 people are getting this desperate. They can't honestly believe that someone who had enough conviction to donate $10k to the NO campaign would turn around and undo the good that they did.
But did Yes on Prop 8 realize the potential backlash? They're just giving me a reason to donate and campaign for the other side.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Screw the Evil Mormons. Vote NO on Proposition 8!!!!!!!
Californians, we have a huge problem, and they are called the Mormons. Goddamn Mormons. Yeah, I said it. Screw you, Mormons, I've been on the path to hell since I rejected your "gospel" back in 1996. I'm well-stewed in heathen at this point. No going back.
Well, the Goddamn Mormons are trying to take away the fundamental rights of Californians to marry. The Goddamn Mormons have put more money into the "Yes on Prop 8" (no on equality) than anyone else, and they are winning because of it.
People, we have to fight the Goddamn Mormons. If we let them have their way, soon they will outlaw coffee. Tea. Shorts and sleeveless shirts (for women). Swearing. Alcohol. Fun. You think I'm kidding?????? Get thee to Utah and find out for yourself.
The point is, its not up to the Goddamn Mormons to decide which Californians can get married and which can't. And it shouldn't be up to us, the voters, either. Who are we to deny adult, human Americans rights? What happened to the land of the free? Fundamental rights? Not being oppressed by another's religion? Oh that's right, that's the one the crazies want us to forget about. If we ain't born again we must be terrorists.
This whole gay marriage thing is interracial marriage for the 2000s. Legally, its the exact same arguments that came up and the same equal protection and fundamental rights issues that the Supreme Court decided in Loving v. Virginia, where it ruled that laws outlawing interracial marriage were illegal. Why? Because THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS TELLING CONSENTING ADULTS WHO(m?) THEY CAN AND CANNOT MARRY!
Let's take care of a few misconceptions about keeping gay marriage in California legal:
Letting the CA supreme court decision stand will not make us all gay.
It will not make heterosexual men marry other men.
It will not make churches that oppose gay marriage conduct homosexual weddings.
It will not remove the tax exempt status from churches that do not conduct homosexual weddings.
It will not make your kids gay.
It will not make your kids learn about gay marriage.
It will not make teachers teach their students that gay marriage is good, or okay, or something they should aspire to.
Now let's look at what keeping gay marriage legal in California will do:
It will allow adult, consenting, same-sex couples to marry.
It will allow homosexual couples to obtain benefits for their spouses.
It will allow homosexual couples to safely bequeath their assets to each other in their wills (which are often contested currently by greedy family members trying to screw the gay partner that doesn't have legal standing).
It will allow homosexual couples the peace and security that heterosexual couples have enjoyed for years.
The Mormon agenda is a scary one. They are strong in California and they have a crapload of money. There is NO GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR PROP 8 other than to deny other Americans rights.
Support what America REALLY STANDS FOR: EQUALITY AND FREEDOM. Otherwise, we're no better than Al Qaeda, stifling people's rights, putting forth radical religious agenda, and snarling at anyone who gets in our way.
Well, the Goddamn Mormons are trying to take away the fundamental rights of Californians to marry. The Goddamn Mormons have put more money into the "Yes on Prop 8" (no on equality) than anyone else, and they are winning because of it.
People, we have to fight the Goddamn Mormons. If we let them have their way, soon they will outlaw coffee. Tea. Shorts and sleeveless shirts (for women). Swearing. Alcohol. Fun. You think I'm kidding?????? Get thee to Utah and find out for yourself.
The point is, its not up to the Goddamn Mormons to decide which Californians can get married and which can't. And it shouldn't be up to us, the voters, either. Who are we to deny adult, human Americans rights? What happened to the land of the free? Fundamental rights? Not being oppressed by another's religion? Oh that's right, that's the one the crazies want us to forget about. If we ain't born again we must be terrorists.
This whole gay marriage thing is interracial marriage for the 2000s. Legally, its the exact same arguments that came up and the same equal protection and fundamental rights issues that the Supreme Court decided in Loving v. Virginia, where it ruled that laws outlawing interracial marriage were illegal. Why? Because THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS TELLING CONSENTING ADULTS WHO(m?) THEY CAN AND CANNOT MARRY!
Let's take care of a few misconceptions about keeping gay marriage in California legal:
Letting the CA supreme court decision stand will not make us all gay.
It will not make heterosexual men marry other men.
It will not make churches that oppose gay marriage conduct homosexual weddings.
It will not remove the tax exempt status from churches that do not conduct homosexual weddings.
It will not make your kids gay.
It will not make your kids learn about gay marriage.
It will not make teachers teach their students that gay marriage is good, or okay, or something they should aspire to.
Now let's look at what keeping gay marriage legal in California will do:
It will allow adult, consenting, same-sex couples to marry.
It will allow homosexual couples to obtain benefits for their spouses.
It will allow homosexual couples to safely bequeath their assets to each other in their wills (which are often contested currently by greedy family members trying to screw the gay partner that doesn't have legal standing).
It will allow homosexual couples the peace and security that heterosexual couples have enjoyed for years.
The Mormon agenda is a scary one. They are strong in California and they have a crapload of money. There is NO GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR PROP 8 other than to deny other Americans rights.
Support what America REALLY STANDS FOR: EQUALITY AND FREEDOM. Otherwise, we're no better than Al Qaeda, stifling people's rights, putting forth radical religious agenda, and snarling at anyone who gets in our way.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
This Looks Promising
I'll be the first to admit that I am skeptical of the new Trek movie. Prequels have a history of sucking hard core. I assume there is no need to make allusions to other movie empires with "Star" in the title.
J.J. finally let us see something other than glimpses of the Enterprise. A nice consolation prize for the fact that the movie was pushed back six months? Here are some of the pictures that were finally released.
Dude. This actually looks kinda cool. Uhura's hot. Bones looks like Bones (annoyed). The dude's hair on the left is annoying the hell out of me. Is he supposed to be Chekov? Ug. Chekov was always kind of a dweeb.
Um, this looks like Spock going all Sylar on Kirk's ass. (Take away the uniform and the eyebrows and thats a total Sylar "I'm going to remove part of your brain" look. No?) Maybe some trouble with his human emotions as a youth?
I believe that this is Eric Bana all done up as the bad guy. He does not look like Eric Bana. He looks very bad ass. However, he does not look particularly Romulan. I see the points and the eyebrows, but still, not very Romulan. I am intrigued. I am hoping we are not diving into Nemesis territory here.
All in all, I have hope. You better come through, J.J. Abrams! The entire geekaverse is depending on you!!
Have I geeked out hardcore enough for all of you? I am feeling good! Live long and prosper, bitches!!
J.J. finally let us see something other than glimpses of the Enterprise. A nice consolation prize for the fact that the movie was pushed back six months? Here are some of the pictures that were finally released.
Dude. This actually looks kinda cool. Uhura's hot. Bones looks like Bones (annoyed). The dude's hair on the left is annoying the hell out of me. Is he supposed to be Chekov? Ug. Chekov was always kind of a dweeb.
Um, this looks like Spock going all Sylar on Kirk's ass. (Take away the uniform and the eyebrows and thats a total Sylar "I'm going to remove part of your brain" look. No?) Maybe some trouble with his human emotions as a youth?
I believe that this is Eric Bana all done up as the bad guy. He does not look like Eric Bana. He looks very bad ass. However, he does not look particularly Romulan. I see the points and the eyebrows, but still, not very Romulan. I am intrigued. I am hoping we are not diving into Nemesis territory here.
All in all, I have hope. You better come through, J.J. Abrams! The entire geekaverse is depending on you!!
Have I geeked out hardcore enough for all of you? I am feeling good! Live long and prosper, bitches!!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Geek Humor
Honestly, knowing Lucas' propensity for selling anything and everything possible with "Star Wars" plastered on it to his faithful fanboys and fangirls, I gave serious thought as to whether or not this was the real deal.
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