YOU SUCK.

Voting Yes on Prop 8.  You bigoted fools.

Guess what?  Next we take it to the Courts.  That's right, my Constitution trumps your Bible.

Fuck you.

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose a few people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them. Don't forget to leave them a comment (you're it) and to read your blog for instructions. You can't tag a person who has tagged you. Since you can't re-tag me, let me know when you've posted your blog so I can see the answers!

1. Looks can always be deceiving.  What I present and who I really am are very different things.

2. I have 2 books that I've written but never sought to publish.

3. I giggle when I'm really happy.

4. Humility is my ultimate source of self-pride.  I really believe the things I say about myself and don't want bullshit compliments because of it.

5. I'm absolutely torn between life in Australia and life in California.

6. According to those who really know me, I'm a walking contradiction.

7. I have the craziest, coolest, quirkiest most loving, cohesive Tribe a girl could ever dream of.

8. I'm horribly harsh on myself and sometimes wonder if my kids deserve better.  Then I look at how much we laugh together and know otherwise.
 
9. I think I sleep too much and am too lazy.  Others think I sleep too little and am too busy.

10. My friends are the damn coolest people.  I adore each and everyone.  I don't waste time with people I don't care for and get called all kinds of names because of it.  I'm okay with that. 

Who am I tagging??

1. Shannon because, well, she's always top of my tagging and online craziness (this is what Sisters do).  She has to be after so many years.
 
2. TG because I adore her and want to hear her answers.

3.  Jenna because SHE ROCKS.  My Sister Wife is the coolest.

4. Cardigan because I want to share the love.

I don't know why I didn't post this sooner ... I think this is my favorite piece of journalism ever written.

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Published - Friday, October 20, 2006

Quaker statement on gay marriage

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By DAVE CHAKOIAN | Viroqua, Wis.

On November's ballot, Wisconsin will vote on a constitutional ban on same-gender marriages. We of Religious Society of Friends believe the movement to isolate and scapegoat homosexuals, to promote hatred against them, and to impose in law one group's religious beliefs on us all, is blatantly immoral and contrary to Jesus' teachings.

With half of marriages ending in divorce, unquestionably the right thing to do is to strengthen marriages. But diverting the question to whether two people of the same sex can have legal rights together completely loses track of the problem of frail marriages.

The proposed constitutional amendment really has nothing to do with marriage; it is a thinly veiled attack on gays and lesbians, part of a pattern of discrimination and institutionalized hatred. It is a strategy of power practiced by would-be tyrants throughout history.

Some have portrayed persecution and hatred of gays as a Christian thing to do. We can find nowhere that Jesus said anything about homosexuality. Nor did Jesus ever suggest encoding Christian teachings into a Sharia-like law to force religious beliefs on society.

We believe that God loves us all equally, and that we are called to treat each other with the same love in which God created us. We have no need to hate, or to discriminate against, any group for any reason. It is simply not Christian to do so.

David Chakoian is clerk of the Kickapoo Valley Monthly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends (Quaker).

The owner of a Chinese karaoke bar where 25 people died in a massive explosion had stored dynamite in the building, a news report said Friday.

The Beijing News said that Qu Hua, the owner of the bar, also owned a local coal mine. The report said he had kept more than a tonne of TNT in the basement.

The owner died in the massive blast on Wednesday, which also injured 41 people.
 
The two-storey building in the town of Tianshifu was completely destroyed. Nearby cars were also buried in rubble, the Beijing News reported.

Tianshifu is in Liaoning province, about 800 kilometres northeast of Beijing.

The building was filled with people, many of them students celebrating the end of exams.

Police were questioning the owner's wife and some of his employees, the Beijing News reported.

China has suffered a string of blasts, fires and accidents in shopping malls, cinemas and other public places despite repeated government promises to improve safety.

Many are blamed on lax safety procedures and negligence.

In April 2006, a cache of explosives improperly stored in a hospital by a coal mine owner exploded, killing 35 people in the northern city of Yuanping, in Shanxi province.

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The moral of the story?  STOP STORING TNT IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS!!!  2!!  2!!! Of these explosions in just over a year ... c'mon people!

Wow ... read all the way to the bottom ... it's well worth it!!!

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Police: Naked Couple May Have Died From Sex

"Daddy, can we talk about motorcycles and carrot cake?"

Woah ... non-sequitor?

I was chased down by yet another illustrious Christian (I can't get away from the bastards!) who handed me a Bible Study Invitation.  I laughed, said thanks and told him that it didn't apply to me, but I'd be glad to pass it on to someone who might need it because, after all ... and I quote from here on out ...

"Isn't helping others find light what it's all about?"

His reply???

"No, it's about saving yourself."

I wanted to shout out "THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU JUST HAND THIS TO ME!?!" but I'm sure the irony would have been lost.

Stupid fucking Christians.  I wonder if they read their own book.