Everyone I Ever Was and Everyone I Ever Will Be

Watched the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert show on the elections before I went to bed, so I had a feeling things would be looking good this morning, but this??

Democrats win control of House

South Dakotans rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research.

And in my state, the person I voted for (Nancy Boyda) actually won!

I have to go to work now, but today is the day to buy a lottery ticket, I'm thinking. ;-) *plays bouncy music and dances around the room*

Let's see how many posts I can make within an hour, hm? :-)

On a more serious note, stoney321 got a rather interesting email today. . .

"This is not your typical newsletter from Outsidepride.com, Inc. In fact, this is the first one in six years which is not business related. I apologize for cluttering your inbox with an unsolicited email; however you are free to unsubscribe just by clicking the link at the bottom.

I want to share with you my television viewing experience the other night on prime time television. I ask those of you who agree with me to go to www.cbs.com and go to the bottom of the page, click the feed back link and express your opinion. I know the vast majority of you will agree with me as all polls indicate. We are the majority, not the minority as the liberal media would lead you to believe.

My wife and I sat down to watch television the other night with our children. Cold Case was on which is normally a fairly enjoyable show to watch; however, the last half hour of the show dealt with a young man who wished he had asked his male friend to come with him (long story short). The show ended with the two men hugging and obvious intimation they had discovered their gay feelings towards each other. The very next show was Without A Trace. The whole last half hour of this show was about two lesbians who were struggling with their feelings of lesbianism. It ended with full acceptance from one father and the two lesbians making out. Yes, they were kissing right at the end of the show on public prime time television. So much for wholesome family television.

Now, I am NOT trying to bash homosexuals and I am not a bigot;however, I feel homosexuality is morally wrong and should not be "promoted" as what is the norm for society. Text books are being rewritten as I am writing this to "highlight" every homosexual who has made a contribution to society. There are teachers who have been asked to make sure students know that, "This person in history was a homosexual." History is being rewritten to promote homosexuality and prime time television is doing its best to make homosexuality a "normal" behavior. If homosexuality was the norm, civilization would have ceased to exist thousands of years ago. Procreation takes a man and a woman. There was Adam and then there was Eve, not Adam and Steve.

There are literally tens of thousand of you reading this email right now. If you are tired of the way public television is going let CBS know! It will only take about 1 minute of your time. Again, just goto www.cbs.com and click the feedback link at the bottom. It is time the majority speak up and not let the minority run this country. The majority can bring back the Christian heritage this country was founded on because it is, "In God We Trust."

Thank you for your time,

Troy Hake
President
Outsidepride.com, Inc."



First off, I just want to say-- he actually used "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve". If I roll my eyes any harder they are going to fall out of my head. I sent them an email, a polite one. Geez. I watch CSI, but I would never call it 'wholesome'.

Anyway, this was the reply stoney321 sent (see the rest of her post, including contact info for the company, here).


"Dear Troy Hake,

I received your email regarding homosexuality on television programs that run late in the Primetime scheduling block, programs that show graphic violence and gore, that show women being absued, children murdered or abused, and so forth.

It's interesting that you sent a spam email to all of your company's mailing list because of your horrified reaction to love. Two people who love each other. Yes, they happen to be the same sex. It's interesting that any time those shows have graphic heterosexual sex, I have yet to receive a spam-type email from you or your company, not that I want one, mind. Gratuitous sex is fine, as long as it's between people with the parts you approve of interlocking? That's quite hypocritical.

Even though you state that you are NOT a bigot, that you are NOT bashing homosexuals, you ARE. You are a bigot by saying it is wrong. That's... what a bigot IS, sir.

Interesting that abuse, cruelty and neglect to children, and graphic violence makes "good tv," but two people finding love and happiness - as exhibited through the innocent act of kissing - is wrong .

You have utterly convinced me that I will never use any of your products. Nor will any of my friends. I will be sure to send your email with my response to as many people as I can, so they can write in and let YOU know how we feel about how "Outsidepride" is doing. Just like you asked other bigots and hate-mongers to write in to CBS.

You should be ashamed of yourself, but I'm sure you won't be. And I'm sure you've completely forgotten that Jesus Christ himself said, "As I have loved you, love one another." There was not an addendum that it was okay to hate certain groups.

Best regards that I can muster,
Laura M____________
Texas Master Gardener"

Good news from my state? Will wonders never cease. ;-)

Nor was it just Parkinson's leave-taking that left Republicans spluttering with rage and talking of betrayal. It was that as he left Parkinson lambasted his former party's obsession with conservative and religious issues such as gay marriage, evolution and abortion.

Sitting in his headquarters, the new Democrat is sticking to his guns. Republicans in Kansas, he says, have let down their own people. 'They were fixated on ideological issues that really don't matter to people's everyday lives. What matters is improving schools and creating jobs,' he said. 'I got tired of the theological debate over whether Charles Darwin was right.'

I really should've posted this two days ago to get the full effect, but does anyone happen to know if Ann Coulter might be sporting a certain "666" birthmark?

In "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," the uncompromisingly right-wing Coulter writes the Jersey Girls have no right to criticize President Bush or any of the failures that led to the terror attacks.

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis," Coulter writes.

"And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy. . .

"These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."

'Unhinged' does not even begin to describe this moron. Does she even work for anybody anymore? I remember that National Review fired her, but is there any paper/magazine that still pays for her crap? Because if so, I'm boycotting it. Attacking women whose husbands were murdered on 9/11. I really have to stop hearing the latest idiocy from her and thinking that she can't stoop any lower, because she always finds a way.

I really shouldn't have read this: Bush's radio address about how he has to protect marriage from the evil horror of people who want to get married.

But wait! There is hope on the horizon! Look at this excerpt--

"In our free society, people have the right to choose how they live their lives. And in a free society, decisions about such a fundamental social institution as marriage should be made by the people -- not by the courts."

Wheeee! So apparently this is going to be legalized . . . no, wait, I forgot. Gay and lesbians don't count as 'people'. I gotta do a better job of remembering how the logic works here.

And I'm really curious to see how Concerned Women for America, the Traditional Values Coalition, and all the rest of the "We should all lead moral lives! And by 'moral', I mean, 'according to MY morals', of course" crowd would react if this amendment to protect marriage cut out any option for divorce, and declared all second/third marriages null and void. I mean, wouldn't that ensure longer partnerships, and no chance of splitting up? They do want to protect the institution of marriage, don't they?? :-P

Anyway, Chris'll be home soon, so I am now done with this topic for today. Hopefully. Unless I find something else brain-searingly stupid within the next hour or so.

New York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News. That was a key factor used to determine that New York City should have its anti-terror funds slashed by 40 percent--from $207.5 million in 2005 to $124.4 million in 2006.

I really can't think of anything to say here. I hope I'll find out this was all a big practical joke tomorrow, but at this point, I'm so not counting on it.

Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday. ... The definition of sexually explicit broadly covers depictions of everything from sexual intercourse and masturbation to "sadistic abuse" and close-ups of fully clothed genital regions.

"Close-ups of fully clothed genital regions"? Please. Am I the only one tempted to write incredibly explicit porn right now just to thumb my nose at these people?

Seriously, though-- they have nothing more important to do? Everything is so calm and peaceful that they can focus on government warning labels for websites? I had no idea.

Napoli suggested that if it was a case of “simple rape,” there should be no thoughts of ending a pregnancy. Letters by the hundreds appeared in local newspapers, mostly written by women, challenging Napoli’s description of rape as “simple.” He has yet to explain satisfactorily what he meant by “simple rape.”

The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, was incensed. A former nurse and healthcare giver she was very angry that a state body made up mostly of white males, would make such a stupid law against women.

“To me, it is now a question of sovereignty,” she said to me last week. “I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.”

And this entry has contact/donation information.

On a related note, yay for snarky webcomics.

This has been your public service announcement for the day. Or something. Anyway, back to editing. :-)

An interesting essay on the Oscars--

The theme of star-crossed lovers can certainly be "overtly political" -- just look at Romeo and Juliet. But I'm pretty sure that Brokeback doesn't end with two grieving families reconciling in a belated, "glooming peace." It's mainly, from what I'm told, just a love story.

Horn and King insist that this love story is "overtly political" because the two people in love both happen to be the same gender. But they didn't fall in love as a "political" act. No two people ever have. Not Romeo and Juliet, not Tony and Maria, and not Jack and Ennis.

The comments are definitely worth checking out, too.

Now watch-- I just posted an entry about all this, and I'll still forget to watch the silly things. :-)

In keeping with a general subject I've been talking about a lot today . . . *S* Here's a list of The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000. The list is also under the cut, with the ones I've read in bold. Tell me which ones you've read, which ones you'd never want to read and why, which ones you can't believe are on the list in the first place . . . go nuts. ;-)

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I'll start with-- Roald Dahl? Shel Silverstein? Whaaaaa?? I can at least see where there'd be issues with Bret Easton Ellis or Anne Rice, but if someone can let me know why in the world A Light in the Attic would get challenged, I'd be most grateful.

ETA: And/or, tell me your favorite weird story that has to do with a novel. Mine is from about six months ago, when a lady came through my line at work and recognized me. She'd been the librarian at my first grade school. I only attended there for kindergarten and first grade, so I said that I was surprised she recognized me. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Well, not many kindergartners come up to my desk and ask to check out Dracula."