In hiatus

Taking some time off from this site as the other one is taking all my time. I will be adding to it in the future though. So check back often. Thanks
Trevor

Gunman in the Miami Hearld

You guys hear the latest about a gunman being in the Miami Herald. Police have told everyone to evacuate. Lets just hope that no one gets hurt.

I've been following the recent developments in Iraq and it's like a bad movie or something. It starts out slow with sporadic violence but as it reaches the end it builds to a climax (the end being all out civil war and chaos). Over the last 3-4 weeks the lid seems to have come off as the casualties and number of people killed has shot way up from previous levels Is there a happy end in sight? Eventually, yes there will be stability there. Will it be in my lifetime? That I honestly don't know. It could be a few years, decades, or even centuries before the situation finally stabilizes as it eventually must. After all every time throughout history a government has fallen a new one has always replaced it in the end.

I don't really what to go into a diatribe so I will just close with these few thoughts. Democracy exists only as long as people believe in it and guard it. For quite a few years now I've been angry, even full or rage at the way voters have led the United States down the path it has gone. I am hopeful that now that the imbalance of power in the capital is gone; that the United States can find its way back to the political center (after six years of a one party, one view and screw any one who doesn't agree-way of doing things). Maybe once the new legislature is sworn in and America is back where it needs to be (which is a political balance allowing everyone equal access to government) this country can get Iraq on the right course as this administration as failed (and with it all those who support it) to do.

Israel Allows Gay Marrige

Israel Court Orders State to Recognize Same-Sex Unions Performed Abroad

Three years after they tied the knot in Toronto, Yosi Ben-Ari and Laurent Schumann were planning a party last night to celebrate that Israel has acknowledged their marriage.

"It's a great relief. At last," Mr. Ben-Ari said yesterday after a precedent-setting Supreme Court ruling that will give the couple -- a Canadian-born set designer and French-born literary translator who have been together 21 years -- legal rights as a married couple in their adopted home country. "It opens hope for lots of other couples. . . ."

In a 6-1 ruling, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the state to register same-sex marriages performed abroad, after the petition by Mr. Ben-Ari and Mr. Schumann and another couple on the issue. Three other couples joined the case later.
In a 6-1 ruling, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the state to register same-sex marriages performed abroad, after the petition by Mr. Ben-Ari and Mr. Schumann and another couple on the issue. Three other couples joined the case later.

Jubilant civil-rights activists pointed out yesterday that the decision goes well beyond rulings on similar cases made in some U.S. courts, and credited Canada for giving them the grounds to make the argument.

Though other countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain, permit same-sex marriage, virtually all require at least one of the partners to be a citizen. Canada does not. "Without this, these people had no way to get married at all," said Yoav Loeff, a spokesman for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

After weeks of debate that saw hard-line religious leaders compare gays and lesbians to barnyard animals, the decision is a ray of light for the rights movement.
(Read More - Globe & Mail)

Fred Maher at InNewsweekely

I was just checking out what Fred Kuhr had to say about Bill Mahers comments on the Larry King show. I just wanted to add that to often people choose to live a lie instead of working to better themselves. It is easier to convince yourself you are a certain way when you are not, than to go out and change yourself.

Throw in the fear factor (phobia) and you've got a dangerous mixture. How many people have been hurt by Republican party policy. People who might not have been otherwise, had certain Republicans just accepted everything about themselves as any honest, ethical, and moral person would.

It is far easier to be true to yourself, all of you, than it is to live a lie. It's been my experience that those people who live in shame and try to kill off a part of their individual identity end up loosing the most. Just look at the fall out from the Republican scandals over the last six to eight months. Ted Haggerty choose to live this lie and at the same time was unable to help himself. He destroyed his reputation, his standing in the party, might have alienated all of his friends, and hurt his entire family.

The only hard part of being an honest openly gay man is to continue being who I am each and every day. For those who are my brothers by nature but choose to be my enemies. I don't know what to say except. I'm not sure it would be anything good except stay away from me.

What the fuck is Mitt's problem?

ooohhhhhhhhhhh. Poor Mitty. I guess you had to much anal sex as a child. Look what it's turned you into.

Has anyone been watching the latest on the efforts of the Governor to force a referendum vote on banning gay marriage? I read that yesterday when Mitt speaking before a rally at the state house to try and achieve this goal that supporters outnumbered the opponents. Hmmmmmmmm.

After reading the article a couple things came to mind. From listening to the Governor and others supporting the bill, you would think that those opposing the referendum have little legal standing to go on. I couldn't help but thinking when I was reading about every argument the Governor was using to justify the vote "What if it was you who was being discriminated against?" After all the Governor himself is in a minority as well. White (heterosexual maybe homosexual???) man in politics where the vast majority of Americans will never be. Any way you slice things, if you are objective and unbiased than Mitt comes off as a total dip when he says things like "Let us not see the state, which first established constitutional democracy, become the first to abandon it. "

Sorry Mitt but I can't help thinking of all the times in the history of this country when people have again and again masked bigotry and hypocrisy by trying to bind it to the constitution and their individual religions. That was how Jim Crow laws came into effect and lasted so long. That was partly how come slavery lasted for so long. That is how come the Indians were forcibly moved to reservations and that is how come the Japanese were interred.

Governor Romney, I'm sure that somewhere in you there is a decent person just wanting to break out and be free, but when you sound off about how the majority of the state legislature decided to "usurp the constitution,....and substitute a form of what this nation's founders called tyranny" you need to remember a few things.

First look at yourself in the mirror and realize that your are a fucking minority trying to suppress another minority which is being UN FUCKING AMERICAN!!!!!

Two that it was a minority of radical thinkers that dared to write the constitution and risked everything by signing their names to it.

Three a democracy is where the majority decides what will happen not the minority.

Four, this is one nation under god where all men are created equal. Nowhere in there do I see anything about inequality or exclusion.

Five the definition of oppression and tyranny could very well be interpreted by even you to include a minority putting its interests above the interests of the majority. You say the people need to speak and that what the legislature is doing is tyranny. Mitt, tyranny can also be interpreted as a minority pushing it's views on the majority. This is what you are trying to do. Put another way the founding fathers themselves could be called tyrants if you take up this argument. Most people in the colonies were not radicals and a great many had no desire whatever to split from Britain. Now everyone agrees they are patriots.

Isn't it patriotic to uphold the constitution and the principles on which this country was built to the point that you willing to demand equal rights for all? This doesn't mean you have to like everyone. After all I don't like you.

Isn't it patriotic to constantly challenge this country to become a better and more inclusive place? There are lots of people out there that are my enemies, you being one, but I respect your right to live enough that I will never infringe upon your god given right to equality. Unlike what you are trying to do to me. As for you saying that the people need to be heard and their votes counted. Well they have spoken by electing a body that is not interested in voting on this mean spirited and unamerican referendum. So the next time you feel compelled to say something about gay marrige I've got some advise for you. Take a deep breather, think happy thoughts, and take five minutes to go fuck yourself.