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Unconscious Mutterings – Week 42

1. Concert:: Central park
2. Sydney:: Mardi Gras
3. Shower:: April
4. Patterns:: Quilts
5. Market:: Street
6. Chair:: Aeron
7. London:: Tube
8. Reception:: Wedding
9. Republican:: Democrat
10. Cough:: Turn your head! 😉

WOO HOOOOOOOOO

KICK ASS…. (from the HRC)

Gay and Lesbian Couples in Long-term, Committed Relationships Get Equal Protections Under the Law in Massachusetts

WASHINGTON (Nov. 18) — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that same- and opposite-sex couples must be given equal civil marriage rights under the state constitution. The ruling in Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health makes the state the first in the nation to grant same-sex couples the right to a civil marriage license. Ruling that civil marriage in Massachusetts means “the voluntary union of two persons as spouses, to the exclusion of all others,” the Court allowed the Legislature 180 days to change the civil marriage statutes accordingly. more

Keep making forward progres – one step at a time…

Too funny….

So I still had this sitting out on my desk this morning (see this post for details) when one of my Co-Workers came in to ask me a question.. During the course of the conversation she caught sight of it and it stopped her dead in her tracks.. She said “uh.. Pete… umm… what… whats this?”… CRACKED ME UP… She was clearly trying to be polite but was tottaly confused and disapproving as to the fact that I had what looked to be a signed picture of Dubbya on my desk. I laughed as I explained it to her and she let out a sigh of relief.

In general most of the folks I work with are pretty liberal and I have yet to find any of his supporters in meetings but there is bound to be one or two – but they’re pretty closeted for fear of being looked down upon ( kinda poetic if you ask me! 🙂 ). I do find people use pictures of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft as iChat images but it’s by no means out of respect! 🙂

Blog rolls are hosed

Argggg… Something happened overnight and my blogrolls have gotten hosed – everything listed has been replaced by a single link… not sure if blogrolling got hacked or if its just a bug but until it gets fixed I’m pulling mine…

Bums me out.. thats where I kept my links to all my favorite blogs… Arggggggggg

UPDATE: Looks like blogrolling.com got hacked over the weekend.. Bummer… They’ve restored from backup and I’m gonna see about exporting my rolls so I don’t loose my links to y’all..

Ugg… Do ya ever get the feeling that there is a shocking lack of morals and respect on the loose these days? Between the frequent mop-up I have to do from comment spam, the amount of time we ALL waste with email spam, and hackers pulling stunts like this I’m starting to get really angry (ok.. well not starting). I’ve been sorely tempted to disable comments on my blog cuz of this but thats part of what I enjoy about blogging is the interaction. I’ve heard all the hacker and spammer justification for why they feel they have the right to pull these stunts and, frankly, its all bullshit. Just because our legal system hasn’t caught up with technology (and probably never will) doesn’t give them the moral right to invade our privacy in cyberspace any more than it gives them the right to crawl through the windows of our house… It is all a violation and a simple lack of human respect for other people that they get away with because they’re protected hiding behind their keyboards in some remote location.

Uggg…Sorry… Just venting… this kind of thing just REALLY pisses me off.

Oh.. And thanks to the folks at blogrolling for mopping up after this mess – they shouldn’t have to and I wish I could help them out somehow… Good luck

I had no IDEA

Yesterday I got an envelope at work from the Republican National Committe with this inside:

I couldn’t stop laughing. I had NO IDEA I was such a supporter. Maybe it was the groans I make whenever I hear his voice. Or the rants I go into any time anyone makes the mistake of mentioning the war that he duped the country into supporting. Whatever it was I’m glad they appreciate it… Though despite all that I don’t think I’ll continue the support the way they requested with the picture. After all – after all I’ve done do they need a check from me in that little envelope too. Haven’t I done enough? 🙂

Friday Funnies

Few things that made this morning:

• These Crazy Rabbits… Too funny… (thanks to ultrasparky )
• The dude driving down the freeway today with plastic carpet protector taped where his drivers window should be in his thrashed civic. You know – that stuff that comes in long 2′ wide strips with the points on the bottom to protect your carpet. Don’t know why… just made me chuckle.
• The woman driving on two, count ’em, two donut sized spare tires on her car. Where do you get the second if you’ve used your first spare tire? Did she steal someone else’s spare rather than just getting her’s fixed. The whole car was leaning to the right.
• And my FAVORITE: We saw the mystery machine driving down the road. An honest to god 70’s van with the two long windows in the back, painted with a big orange daisy on the back and the green and blue colors with ‘The Mystery Machine’ painted on the side

Don’t know why some of that cracked me up – it just did. Guess I’m just giddy today… Better than being cranky I suppose! 🙂