of course this is all broked in IE. damn you, IE! i'm still working on it, but i'm also this close to tossing it.

i have to admit that i have been known to love me some lenny, but what is up with that new hairdo? i just can't get into it.

duh!

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that is all.

dubya says blah blah blah.

We must support the institution of marriage and help parents build stronger families. And we must continue our work to create a compassionate, welcoming society, where all people are treated with dignity and respect.

eh?

this is so full of crap.

Why does "defending marriage" and "defending the family" require opposing same-sex unions? How does a homosexual union do any harm to someone else's heterosexual marriage?

Of course, it could be argued that many of those marriages may have ended long before a spouse found their current homosexual partner. And some may assume that no opposite-sex spouse would want to remain married to someone with same-sex attractions. Nevertheless, the popular myth that a homosexual orientation is fixed at birth and unchangeable may have blinded us to the fact that many supposed "homosexuals" have, in fact, had perfectly functional heterosexual marriages. And as Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby points out, "In another time or another state, some of those marriages might have worked out. The old stigmas, the universal standards that were so important to family stability, might have given them a fighting chance. Without them, they were left exposed and vulnerable."

ok. never mind that your Boston Globe survey is probably crap like most surveys are anyway, but let's use your numbers. 'nearly 40 percent' - what about the other 'nearly 60 percent'? and 60 percent is the majority anyway, buddy. plenty of people leave their marriages to run off with someone of the opposite sex, too, so your argument is just stupid.

Don't homosexuals need marriage rights so that they can get Social Security survivor benefits when a partner dies?

Very few homosexual couples organize their lives along the lines of such a "traditional" division of labor and roles. They are far more likely to consist of two earners, each of whom can be supported in old age by their own personal Social Security pension.

how many heterosexual households have two earners? quite a few, i would imagine. so shouldn't they also be cut off, following your logic?

oh i can't even read any more of this nonsense. i just don't get it. if they're having such a cow about defining the word 'marriage' then fine - do it, but i don't see why two people that want to commit to each other should be denied the ability to that, legally. they argue that if the gays can marry, then the polygamists, etc. will all want that. and maybe they will. i don't see how that's going to destroy my life, either. set some limits. there are already limits set on marriage. it's like anything else. however, i do not share their religious beliefs, so we'll never agree there. i don't believe that children are better off in a heterosexual family unit than a homosexual one. there's too many variables. if they're both great family units and everyone is loving and supportive and all that good stuff, i don't really see a difference. a child raised by two women or two men is still going to encounter people of the opposite sex. what about 'traditional' families where one spouse dies? they continue to function. most of my friends grew up in 'traditional' families, but they were hardly good environments (mine included). that doesn't mean that all heterosexual families are bad, either. sheesh, i'm just rambling now. i enjoy debate, but this felt more like it was being crammed down my throat, so i just got all pissy. it's late and i should go to bed.

what in the hell is wrong with you people?! sheesh.

"As someone who's spoken out in strongly moral terms, what's your view on homosexuality?" a reporter asked the president.

"Yeah, I am mindful that we're all sinners," Mr. Bush replied. "And I caution those who may try to take the speck out of their neighbor's eye when they got a log in their own. I think it's very important for our society to respect each individual, to welcome those with good hearts, to be a welcoming country.

"On the other hand," Mr. Bush continued, "that does not mean that somebody like me needs to compromise on issues such as marriage. And that's really where the issue is headed here in Washington, and that is the definition of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. And I think we ought to codify that one way or the other. And we've got lawyers looking at the best way to do that."

blah. blah. blah.

i can't get the MT netflix plugin to work and it's driving me batty. of course it doesn't really matter if i can plug in my netflix queue or not, but it's driving me batty anyway.

bring out yer dead. ("i don't want to go on the cart! i feel fine!")

perhaps this did him in.

Dear Republican National Committee:

Please stop spamming me.
You're barking up the wrong tree.

Thanks.

AUSTIN -- Same-sex marriages or civil unions will not be recognized in Texas under legislation that Gov. Rick Perry signed Tuesday.

whew! it's good to know that went through.

Perry signed the measure in a private meeting in his Capitol office, where he was joined by backers of the bill. News reporters were not allowed to attend.

"Like the vast majority of Texans, I believe that marriage represents a sacred union between a man and a woman. With passage of the Defense of Marriage Act, Texas now joins more than 30 states in reinforcing that basic belief," Perry said in a prepared statement afterward.

oh cease it with your 'basic belief' nonsense. why didn't they just draft a bill that says "gay people are bad"? that sure seems to be their point.

"It defends and protects the institution of marriage that candidly has been under attack the last 25 years," Wentworth said.

it's been candidly under attack for the last 25 years? wow. regardless, Mr. Wentworth was also busy with this legislation:

Public school students will observe a minute of silence to reflect, meditate or pray and recite pledges of allegiance starting next school year under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Rick Perry.

Unless their parents submit a written objection, students, regardless of citizenship status, will be required to participate in the pledges and moment of silence. However, the bill provides no penalties for students who fail to do so.

what in the hell is that all about? argh. perhaps i should write entries when i'm more coherent.

i've done some griping about him before. this morning, at 6:45am, we heard a leaf blower outside. i look out the window and there's freaky neighbor. wearing khakis and a polo shirt. with his leaf blower. on his roof. insanity, i tell you.

people. i'm so sick of people.

rob came over after work tonight so that we could try to decipher his new insurance plan. sheesh. it's a weird one, that's for sure. i decided to cook dinner, so i made pizza and salad. it was all yummy. the only thing i changed on the recipes was that i decided since i was supposed to roast the garlic and the onions anyway, i might as well roast the pepper myself, too, instead of buying some in the jar. i did all that last night so that all we had to do today was assemble the thing and bake it. it was good, good, good. i actually had fun cooking, too, which i don't usually enjoy all that much. rob is a much better cook than i am, anyway. he can just go in the kitchen, throw some stuff together, and it's all yummy. i pretty much always need a recipe to follow.

oh brother! can't these people just get over it already?

i didn't write yesterday, and i have lots of stuff to do this weekend, so i figured i better write tonight or soon enough another week will have disappeared. i should really be in bed already. poohead is going to the vet tomorrow morning to have his teeth cleaned, so i have to be up early. i took him in last weekend, and the vet seems to think that his bad teeth are the reason he hasn't been eating as much and therefore losing weight. i hope that's all it is.

i've been feeling baby move around today for the first time. i guess i've been feeling her on & off for a good part of the day, but i wasn't really sure it was her until tonight. it's an odd feeling, but it's also exciting.

what is this nonsense all about? why did this woman have to go to court to be 'allowed' to do something that she supposedly already has the right to do? i don't know her. i don't know him. i don't know their situation. all i know is that it's her body and it should be her decision. i can only hope that it stays that way. our president and his buddies would i'm sure like to see things change.

i need to go to bed.

random movie quote:

"please. i have a wife and kids. please don't."
"you do? well, you're lucky. you be sweet to 'em - especially your wife. my husband wasn't sweet to me and look how i turned out."

why in the hell is kid rock so popular? what's the attraction?

friday i babysat rob's kitten. i can't believe i had that kitten over here being cute all day and i didn't take a picture of him. i don't know what's wrong with me. we had lots of fun playing and napping. he also made friends with ms. zira, and found her cage to be the most fun place because she has so many toys. kitty's name is asphyxiation, which was already given to him before he came to live with rob. rob decided it was a fitting name, though, so he kept it. when i stayed at rob's last week, i missed my cats and my bunny. now that i'm home with all of my babies, i miss his kitty.

argh. what a day. actually, just the first half of the day was bad. i thought i had to get blood drawn 3 times, but i was wrong - 4 times. once when i first got there, then i drank the yucky sweet stuff again and had blood drawn once an hour for the next three hours. apparently i have veins that don't want to cooperate, so after getting poked twice in the left arm, twice in the right arm (one was no good, though), i also got stuck in the back of my right hand. OUCH. my damn hand is still sore. thankfully rob got the day off so i had someone to hang out with & be bored with for all that time. i also had my monthly exam while we were there. i don't like this whole business of getting poked & prodded & probed all the time now just because i'm pregnant. in fact, i hate it. there's a reason i hate going to the doctor. any doctor.

ugh. i've felt pretty blah for the past three days. just general nausea. i won't say morning sickness because a) it's not just in the morning and b) i haven't actually been sick - i just feel sick. thing is, i've been sitting here for the past half hour or so watching this. sheesh, now i really feel sick. i guess i should be clear - it's the intolerance that makes me want to puke. southern baptists have always scared me. well, at least the ones with the big mouths that they're all too eager to open up. every time one of these misguided souls quotes the bible, though, i hate to say that it just makes me wish i had a nice big hardbound edition of that very book to knock them over the head with. i guess i'm not a good christian. oh well, i think i'll go eat some crackers now.

well, i can't sleep, so i decided that maybe i could write. i don't even know where to begin, really. hmm ... last friday? actually, not last friday, but friday a week ago. 4/27. argh, i just realized it was actually 4/26, but since i wrote my entry for the day after midnight, 4/27 seemed the correct date. oh who cares.

good god. every time i think that it's not possible for my life to get any more bizarre, it does. this is a big one. i don't even know when i'm going to feel like writing. it might be time for an extended vacation.

i don't really know why i haven't updated in several days. i've been kinda feeling crappy, but i think it's just allergies. i've been sleeping a lot.

so, one of the other things i was going to write about the other day was this girls gone wild nonsense.

they were arguing about the gender pay gap in the u.s. on politically incorrect tonight. what a load of crap.

do you see what i'm saying?!
click. on. ass.

well, blah. i have returned home. it isn't all it's cracked up to be. i terribly missed my animals this weekend, though. christina & brian went out of town for the weekend, so i was taking care of their cat, smokey. since rob was driving me over there on saturday & sunday anyway, he also brought me by here both days so that i could take care of ms. zira. poohead was not happy with me for being gone and so he was being pouty both days - hiding under furniture where i couldn't get to him. perhaps i missed them so much because i would come by here, see them, and then leave again. i don't know. i have no idea what goes on in my head sometimes.

men, men, men. why are you all so base?

ok. i feel the need to write another entry. of course this is only due to cider & beer, but that's how it goes.

what does this (presumably) naked woman have to do with your personal horoscope? and why do you have to click on her ass to get it?

i can't do it anymore.

i've had enough.

...

i'm just editing this to say that what i can't do anymore and what i've had enough of are related to my familial units and not dland or this diary. thanks for your time.

i need a vacation from my life.

politically incorrect, last friday - 2/22. i was waiting for the transcript to get posted. bill maher, michael rappaport & ann coulter.

here's a link to mr. maher's criticism of jon stewart & david letterman, if you care to read what's being referenced here. so it doesn't bother me that much that bill maher said this stuff. why? simply because he is a man. i've never quite understood that whole 'i'm a big strong man' business, but then again - i'm not a man. i mean, huh? men don't have emotions? ok, whatever. the thing is, i know way too many males who do subscribe to that belief, so there's that. i can exonerate bill maher based upon the fact that he's male. so what is ann coulter's excuse? maybe she's part of that 'axis of evil'.

i am so very sad because i cannot find my tiger balm.

so it's valentine's day. i have no valentine this year, so it's just like any other day. of course last year i did have a valentine, but it was still just like any other day. let's not talk about that, ok? ok. blah. the whole holiday thing is pretty much rubbish since you should be showing your love all the time, and it certainly doesn't require buying gifts. i have to admit, though, that when i'm part of a couple i get excited about any excuse to get all mushy. i guess that's because i'm romantic, seeing as how i'm lloyd dobler & all. so, to all of you out there with valentines - bully for you, and i hope you have a great day. and for those of us without a valentine, here's to a great day for us as well.

last night i watched politically incorrect, as i usually do.

we went shopping with sarah on saturday. she wanted some kung fu shoes, so we went to hong kong market because we figured they might sell them. they didn't have the shoes, but we bought tons of yummy food. they have all sorts of tofu out there. i got the stuff to make spring rolls and i also bought some gyoza. we went to a few other stores looking for the shoes, but no luck. i told her she should just order them online. she did find some slippers that she liked, though.

can i just say that my brother has been driving me insane since friday night and shows no signs of stopping? well, of course i can. this is my journal, so i can say whatever i want. my brother is driving me insane. indeed.

be on the lookout for terra. what is the point of releasing this message? to make the already fearful people more fearful? to give crazy kooks some ideas? to cover their asses 'just in case'? to distract our attention from something else? i'm sure that this will be received well around the world, too. "Our mission also includes countries which develop weapons of mass destruction -- nations with a history of brutality." - so wait, you're including the usa in there, too, dubya? are we going to attack ourselves? must fight terra! rid the world of evil-doers! "If they are ever able to mate up with terrorist organizations the free world will be threatened." the fact that your parents mated up & spawned you has threatened the free world, buddy.

random movie quote:

"that johnnie is one clever detective. you know how clever?"
"how clever?"
"he told me once he could find an honest man in washington."

what is this shite? this has to be a joke. maybe mr. nesvik is just really confused. 'promoting world peace'?! ha! "I'm a baseball fan, I want a scorecard," says dubya.

to top things off, kenny boy has gone missing. maybe he's afraid that this might happen again. or maybe he's scared of all the politicians he's bought (both republican and democrat, though the republicans got a lot more money in recent years).

also, it would be interesting if instead of everyone just discounting this as a conspiracy theory, someone actually took it upon themselves to prove the theorists wrong. by the way, i love you, tom tomorrow.

i've got to do something about my sleeping schedule.

random movie quote:

"i envy you. convenient memory is a gift from god."

argh. i fear that i'm going to have to bury my head in the sand and quit reading the news. otherwise, i'm going to get more concerned, which will lead to more bitching in this journal. i read it, i think about it, and because it's up there in my head - i want to write about it. i see that getting old really fast.

what happens when i get irritated & then get bored? i make animated gifs, apparently. state of the union address? i thought i was watching a pep rally. what a load of bollocks. ok, this 'freedom corps' he mentioned ... check out the citizen corps section. of particular interest is the neighborhood watch program:

"Community residents will be provided with information which will enable them to recognize signs of potential terrorist activity, and to know how to report that activity, making these residents a critical element in the detection, prevention and disruption of terrorism."

how about that thinly veiled statement on morality? sheesh.

random movie quote:

"he's worse than crazy, he's evil!"