So Marie Osmond’s son who recently killed himself similarly to my cousin (jumping from balcony) was gay and Mormon? I have always liked Marie, but bigoted communities yield high suicide rates. Roseanne Barr made a controversial blog about the subject, but I’m afraid I have to agree with her.
Category Archives: Activism
Daughter said she realized her father was a “genius”
Yesterday when she learned in environmental science that tap water is cleaner than bottled, and that was something that I had advised her of a long time ago. Moreover, bottled water I learned can seep plastic into the water when left in a hot car trunk, for example, over time.
Liz Cheney announced she is against DADT *after* she emcee’s the conservative conference!
I’m sure the check was deposited before she released the statement today.
It’s no surprise that she would support her lesbian sister and concur with her father, but somehow this hypocrite whose family still profits off of the wars in the Middle East, still holds herself out as some kind of new age Repub.
“Retard” Brouhaha is not what it seems…
Doubt the Palin clan knew actress portraying mentally retarded character on Family Guy has Downs Syndrome before they started lambasting it. Before the Palins had a stage, the “Petarded” episode, where the main character was found to have a very low IQ, didn’t get much flack. Apparently SOME of the letter that the actress wrote to the New York Times was published, but not the part that accused Sarah of carrying her son around “like a loaf of bread” for sympathy votes!
Now that DC has gay marriage…
So kathlicks in DC would rather let orphans languish and remain homeless than give them to a potential gay couple b ending it’s foster care program in that city? Klassik! And on Ash Wednesday they decide to announce this, no less. I wonder how many of those kids are going to grow up still respecting the kathlik church after this?
Today I started walking 4 miles a day back and forth to BART
Some of the trip is uphill, so hopefully it won’t be too hard walking home for me. I traveling light with my briefcase, but it does hurt my shoulder after a while. If I do this, I will be walking well over 20 miles a week, which hopefully will net a significant, healthy weight loss. While I don’t officially get to wear tennis shoes at work, I have a pair of dress shoes if I need them to change into, and I can’t imagine walking in anything else.
Despite originally protesting, Alex walked with me to her school and I even caught the early train. I’m hoping this will significantly improve health/blood sugar.
If the timing and discomfort of walking becomes ridiculous, I might buy a bike and a heavy-duty chain, but right now I’m saving money on that and the one dollar a day parking fee. I don’t even know how long we will live at this location, so this is not the time to make such large investments.
Yesterday after I returned from IBR from the long weekend, Alex and I did a ton of grocery shopping and got a lot of healthy food, which of course is more expensive. We went to Safeway and I used my discount card, but before going there, we got some basic canned goods at the dollar store near Mom’s house in southern Hayward. We got to see Nicholas and my brother finally fixed my windshield wipers, which was something that was scary not to have fully functioning on the Nissan when it rained, but of course now it probably won’t rain until next year. It was nice seeing Mom and having lunch there after not seeing her for about a month while she was in Florida.
HBO Documentaries on Chinese Earthquake and Family Diversity
Both of them made me cry for different reasons. I was very glad to see poor, rural Chinese citizens distraught over losing their children speak up about the shoddy construction (citing specific examples of there being no mortar between the bricks and small wires for large walls), including cursing at the Party leaders who were trying to stop a demonstration. Some things don’t need translation, but what made this even more painful to watch is the one child policy that China has, which means that the likelihood that many of these parents who lost kids in the schools that crumbled while other buildings remained upright are probably unable to have any other kids either because of forced sterilization or because they are beyond child-bearing years.
I had seen Rosie O’Donnell interviewed about her family diversity documentary, which I thought as pretty well done. Rosie is never shy about showing herself raw, and this is sort of what she looked like when I met her in person. When I was on her show, though, I did not meet her.
Why is there any debate left on DADT?
When did people start forgetting the United States President is the de facto Commander-in-Chief of the military?! That is clearly stated in the Constitution and it has worked to prevent us from having coups in this country. Countries with coups have an army “independent” of the executive branch. Obama said repeal DADT! End of discussion! This should have been handled 17 years ago, but hypocrites like McCain who said he would follow “military leadership” (as if Bill Clinton himself wasn’t the Commander-in-Chief) reneged even when people like Colin Powell have changed their minds.
I know at least three active duty servicemen who I keep in regular contact with who are very comfortable with the fact that they are gay, even though it is not discussed where they work. I don’t think they are particularly afraid of losing their jobs, but it sure would be a lot less stressful ON THE BATTLEFIELD if they didn’t have to worry about their own colleagues turning their backs on them.
How can we ever say anything bad about Bill Gates?
Yes, it’s a tax write-off, but TEN BILLION dollars for children’s vaccines to save untold millions of lives? How many rich people even think of such benevolence? By comparison the United States committed 100 MILLION to Haiti relief, even though I realize it might become far more as a result of the military efforts and that many of the expenses will benefit the American economy as companies from the United States will be providing many of the supplies.
I disdain Democratic hypocrisy also!
John Edwards’ former assistant Andrew Young and his family who feigned Andrew’s fatherhood of Rielle Hunter’s baby should be highly compensated for their sacrifices with their book proceeds and otherwise! I would think someone capable of such loyalty would be highly employable if he should ever have to worry about his marketability.
