THEN FREAKING DON'T GET ONE ::snarling and making sure I do **not** watch commercial TV until *after* tuesday::

Meme going around -- yoinked from ffutures . "Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay...people will promote an ideology that discriminates against, harms, and might ultimately kill  our friends, loved ones, and neighbors. That isn't acceptable.  Not in any way.  Not in any form. Ever.

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Check out this article from The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-27/sarah-palins-a-brainiac/1/ I seriously doubt this perspective from the 'inside' will in any way...stereotype in every instance - and that such a derivation is even tolerated within their ranks! No doubt I'm equally in shock when not every liberal woman I encounter isn't a carbon copy of Valerie Solanos

Okay, in light of some recent (rather shocking) events and conversations from friends, I feel as though I should debunk some popular misconceptions about Muslims. Because you look retarded when you go...been arrested for a minor offense that lead to the further investigation people may still be blaming Muslims today. These FACTS were taken from numerous websites including Wiki AND my school textbooks

I am now working on the Obama campaign every single day. I’ve been making phone calls and knocking on people’s doors trying to convince them to vote for Obama since the week of the Democratic National... inspired or enslaved your mind, please consider buying me a tea. Hell, just buy me one anyway. I'm still poor. Originally published at Folklore Fanatic . You can comment here or there .

Seeing unconventional couples being their unconventional selves makes me tremendously happy.... If you know me at all, then you know I abhor bigotry. I grew up in the buckle of the bible belt, where I encountered heavy racism and sexism. I remember a couple of cross burnings, and red paint on an off-white house saying "Go away niggers". One of my favorite guys in high school hot beaten up because...

...according to the signs people were waving around at a major intersection here on my way into work. Not so much, guys. Prop 8 is nothing more than small-minded bigotry, and nothing less than a naked attempt to to enforce ONE religious view on the rest of America. What saddens me most this cycle (since the GOP appears to be cratering in an epic manner) is that this plan to incorporate their views...

...partisan politics, where even a hint of resonance with an opposing view suffices as an excuse, or serves as a mandate in fact, to throw symphony out with the bad note. Knee jerk hair trigger bigotry rules us thanks to the propagandists. We should all seriously think about what has been done and what is being done to us in the name of political discourse, which has now decayed into a mindless...

George Will is one of those "nice," "decent," oh-so- respectable conservative pundits, who has that reputation in part because he's older than dirt, and in part because he presents a carefully-cultivated...being invoked to defend. --That, btw, is the answer to why he cares about the schism in the Anglican church, when he himself is purportedly agnostic. (more on this later, I have to go to work.)