Everyone I Ever Was and Everyone I Ever Will Be

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"

Girl's night in over here, since Chris is gone on an overnight camping trip. No work tomorrow a.m. I ordered a small cheese pizza, and I'm going to sit here typing and making graphics for as long as I can keep my eyes open. I'm also going to make a bowl of homemade chocolate frosting. Because I can, dammit. ;-)

I want to watch the latest installment of Nightmares and Dreamscapes at 8:00, but I know better than to check out something that might very well scare me at night when I'm alone in the house eeee.

Yes, I am a wuss with paranoia issues.

How could they end Earth 2 on a cliffhanger like that and then not have it renewed for another season stupid freaking TV executives?!? *weeps*

Going to Kansas City for the weekend. Need to remember to look up a few restaurants to try out.

Found the box set of Earth 2 on Sunday. Haven't watched it yet, but they did have preview episodes of Sliders, and a show called Cleopatra 2525. I knew I liked Sliders, so we watched the second one . . . oh man. The level of cheese cannot be adequately explained with mere words. But we were about two minutes in and Chris goes, "Isn't that Zoe?" Me-- "Ohmygod, it is!"

These honey-butter pretz/pocky things are the best ever. Ashley, I blame you for getting me addicted to this stuff.

Planning to get another chapter of my alternate-universe ghost novel done this afternoon. I really do need to name this thing.

Sunburn is getting slightly better. I actually have a little bit of a tan, amazingly enough. My shoulder freckles also multiplied by about twenty-two million. Freaking sun.

I miss LOST. I also miss Shannon. *throws things at the writers*

Made a bit of a command decision a little over a week ago.

I stopped paying so much attention to politics. Before, I would read through a ton of news and opinion sites, and get myself worked up over something that, realistically, I knew I was never going to change. There are a few issues that I keep up to date on, and a couple of journals I still read, but it doesn't take up such a large chunk of my day.

There are some topics I'll still be writing essays on when the mood strikes, but the frenzy that's been going on with me since the last election . . . it seems to have faded away. I'm glad.

I also stopped watching the news. I keep track of things by talking to friends and family, and by looking through the Yahoo news bar and certain charity websites, but as for the constant barrage of "Tonight, we'll tell you how something previously thought to be safe will kill you! Update on that at 11:00. Right now, let's go to Minnesota, where this woman's husband and five children just died in a fire. Let's interview her. How do you feeeel?"

Yeah, that's out of our house. Gavin de Becker calls it "Nothing Educational or Worth Seeing" and talks about how immersing ourselves in tragedies we can't change and that will statistically probably never affect us can be really damaging to the nerves and make people more fearful unnecessarily. ((I'd look up a good quote from him on all that, but I'm heading over to my parents' house in about five minutes. Maybe later.)) Anyway, years after first reading his books (go pick up The Gift of Fear, now. I'll wait ;-)) I'm finally taking the advice to heart.

In short, I've got my own corner of the world to take care of, and I can't take care of it if I'm always running around fretting about the people I'm not in a position to help. I hope this doesn't come out sounding selfish or coldhearted; I honestly don't mean it to be if so. This decision is still new to me and I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to explain it.

Anyway, I feel a lot better; I think this was definitely a healthy thing to do. :-)

Gift cards galore this Christmas; Chris and I can now eat out for a little while without spending any money. Yay. (which works out well, because soon we'll probably get tired of leftovers) :-)

Also got some books-- Chronicles of Narnia, a LOST novelization, and a Descriptionary. I also got the Calvin and Hobbes collection (heavy, heavy thing. But very cool). Chris got some TV series-- the first season of Rescue Me, the first three seasons of American Chopper, and Band of Brothers. I'd seen a couple of episodes of American Chopper, but none of Band of Brothers; like it a lot so far. Will add the book to my amazon cart.

Chris's parents also gave me a neat little purse/writing case. So Chris and I went out driving last night and I tried it out. It's a habit for us . . . he'll drive around country roads at night and I'll sit next to him scribbling notes.

The Christmas dinner we held for our families went well-- we basically went into a cooking frenzy from the time we got back from his parents' house at 1:00 until people started arriving at 5:30.

He went back to work today, which is why I'm online/writing, and I have to go back to work tomorrow. Joy. But it's been a good break. Hope the same's true for you guys. :-) Later!

Well, after waking up this morning to news about what's happening in New Orleans, and flipping channels only to see the news-anchor nitwits "tsk tsk"ing over the looting going on, I was going to make a post about it--

But she says it all so much better.

I don't have any kind of rescue/medical training, so I'm not going to try and head down there and interfere with people who *do* know what they're doing, but I will be donating to the Red Cross.

This is completely surreal. :-(

I'm enjoying the peace today, because I'm going to be rushing around like mad tomorrow. What needs to be done then:

1) Go shopping for baking ingredients.

2) Make cookies and candy for the arts and crafts fair.

3) Get prices on everything.

4) Get the booth set up.

5) Go to Oswego and pick up the marriage license.

And then the fair itself is on Saturday. It's Chris's weekend to work, though, so I have a feeling I'll be coming back from that and immediately hopping on the computer so I can write and relax. LOL

Tonight, Chris gets off work at 10:00 as usual, and we're going straight to the theater to see Batman Begins. Yay.

And, something that happened the other night... will put part of it behind a cut due to adult content.

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I think the comedian annoyed me partly because of all the coverage of Natalee Holloway-- or rather, the 'blame the victim' aspect of the thing. I've seen it and heard it in discussions. "Well, what was she doing going off with three guys?" "She should've known better."

She made a *mistake*, people. Something every single one of us is inclined to do once in a while. That doesn't mean that she's the one to blame for whatever happened to her. Last I knew, that fault lies solely with the perpetrators, not the victim.

And I get into this almost every single time there's a high-profile assault case in the media. Because dad and I have just *slightly* different views on the whole thing, with him tending to be of the "You don't douse yourself in steak sauce before wandering around the lion's den, and you don't wear a short skirt while walking around alone at night" mindset, and me being of the, "Attacks are not triggered in normally decent guys by spasms of Miniskirt Lust. I happen to believe that most men are not wild animals. They can *control themselves*, thankyou" mindset.

You can imagine the arguments.

I've seen a little bit of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour stuff. And since Chris and I thought the guys seemed to hit it off fairly well together, we decided to check out some solo material. I already have some Jeff Foxworthy stuff, so we decided to rent the Larry the Cable Guy HBO special.

Have any of you seen this? If so, I feel sorry for you, just as I feel sorry for myself. If not, don't bother.

He did get off some good lines, truth be told. But what sticks in my mind is the diatribe against the Dixie Chicks (for the millionth time-- George W. Bush does not equal America. No President does. Insulting a President does not mean you hate the *country*. This has been a visit from the Logic Fairy. Thank you and have a nice day.)

And what *really* sticks in my mind were are the jokes about people who have harelips, and the constant jokes about "retards". Yuck. Just...yuck.