Bird droppings

http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com/2011/02/dianic-rites-gender-identification-and.html

Z Budapest, you disgust me.

Just stamp that boot harder. My face isn't numb enough yet.

Gah... I just write a post about compassion and then someone does something like this to enrage me.

I guess what I have to realize is that compassion doesn't mean you don't get angry. Maybe it's just what you do with that anger.

Obama is SUCH a geek.

He has a Pac-Man sticker on his MacBook.

He's read the entire Harry Potter series.

He knows enough about sorting algorithms to know that bubble sort isn't one you'd want to use to sort a large amount of integers.

He is going to set up a presidential youtube channel.

He has a weekly vlog/podcast on youtube.

He is a huge fan of Star Trek. He teases his wife about wearing a belt that looks like dilithium crystals on the Enterprise.

He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarbian comics.

He is very familiar with the Superman comics, saying once, "I was actually born on Krypton, and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the planet Earth."

We have a geek for a president. How cool is that?!

Some of these pictures bring tears to my eyes. It reminds me of all the anti-bush ones that were posted a while back, but these are all about bringing us together. Beautiful.

Found through phantomdancer

These photos of Obama are incredible.

But my favorite is this one. It really captures the spirit of who this man is and what promise he holds for our nation and the work that we have to do.

It's almost here. Election time. I want to tell you how I feel about some of the things going on out there.

First of all, if you live in California on November 4th, I urge you to go to the polls and vote. I know that many of you feel badly about the idea of voting, but we need YOU to come out and vote AGAINST Proposition 8. Please, even if you don't want to cast a vote for president or anything else, come out to vote against 8.

Being transgender, my marital abilities are always in question. Is it legal or not for me to marry a person of either gender? Generally speaking, there is usually someone the government says is my gender, and that means I can't marry them. That is stupid, bigoted, and wrong. Please help me and all GLBT people out by getting out there and voting. I want to someday have the option of marrying the love of my life.

And while you're at it, if you have ANY money to spare to help with advertising and campaigning in the final days leading up to the election, please give what you can, regardless of what state you live in. We need all the help we can get out here!

Here's a link for you to donate some money. $10, $20, $50... Whatever you can afford. Please send it our way.

Next, there's the presidential election. Out here in California, I don't think it really matters who you vote for, but if you live in one of the many states where it isn't too clear which candidate your state is going to go for, please go to the polls and vote for Barack Obama. I'm not a political analyst or anything like that, but from everything I've seen of the guy, I truly believe in him. Although the green party better matches my personal positions on things, I believe in Barack Obama and his ability to lead this nation. I don't think it's just a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils here, like it usually seems. In this case, I think we have a good and true candidate for the office of President of the United States. Under Obama, I believe that we're going to see real change in our policies both foreign and domestic, and that we're going to actually start moving again, instead of digging ourselves deeper and deeper into the shithole we've been digging for ourselves. I think our country is going to recover and become amazing again.

( About some other California propositions )

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.

This story needs to be read to be believed. Apparently, some airports believe they are actually required to stop 11-month old children from boarding because they are suspected of being terrorists.

C'mon... seriously?

I worry about this damn thing passing, and our rights being denied...

But then, it could be a good thing. EVERY history student is now going to have to have a class discussion about this Amendment. The issue of homosexuality will suddenly be in every classroom. We'll have breached the barrier preventing children from learning about it.

Interesting. I wonder how the right wingers are going to handle that.

"Don't talk to my kid about homosexuality!"
"But you put it in the constitution. We have to talk about it now!"
"I don't care. Tell them that the amendment is about something else."

I keep thinking that I need to reread "The Handmaid's Tail." America seems to be taking those slow steps towards a theocracy. Hmmm...

Note, this entry was originally published on my old blog back in 2005. I have ported it here for completion.

The abortion debate really really annoys me. *gets up on my soapbox*

Here's why:
One side says, "There is a LIFE inside there, and it is wrong and BARBARIC to "CHOOSE" to MURDER that life."
The other side says, "The woman's body is her OWN, and she can CHOOOSE what she decides to do with it."

I think both sides are so caught up in their own dogma that they fail to recognize that they both have a point.
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*gets off soapbox* That's my opinion, but to be honest, I'm not really sure about the issues. I do think both sides fail to properly characterize the argument, but what the result of that argument should be, I'm not really sure at all.

I'm not too familiar with the feminist-focused arguments for/against abortion, but those of you that don't know, there are many arguments discussing the social implications of forced pregnancy. Furthermore, there is certainly an argument for population reduction on the planet. More babies just makes more problems, in this regard. We need to reduce the population, not increase it!

*reads over this article* Wow... I don't like the way I sound in this... Do I come off too preachy? *laughs* I did used to be a total christian moralist, you know... ;P I blame it on that. Old habits die hard.

Note, this entry was originally published on my old blog back in 2004. I have ported it here for completion.

And didn't Jesus kick some major ass for this?

Note, this entry was originally published on my old blog back in 2004. I have ported it here for completion.

Although I don't believe it yet, I am getting more and more convinced that John F. Kerry is our elected president, and that election fraud has changed that result. Here's the latest article on the subject. Apparently, there is a 1 in 250 million chance that George Bush actually won the election.

This is making me very nervous... Two election in a row?! It is unfathomable. From now on, is this all the republicans will have to do: Divide the country as evenly as possible and let fraud carry them over to victory? Scary. I still hope that it is not true. Having bush win by fraud is worse than having him win legitimately...