Nov

14

Anti-Gay Blacklist

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As I’ve stated before I’m opposed to the policy of Prop 8 but feel that the protesters need to use the legal system instead of the streets to fight Proposition 8. Now the protesters have finally lost all of my support. They have posted an anti-gay blacklist which lists donors to the measure and advocates boycotting their businesses:

How can anyone defend these kinds of actions? Just like you have a right to protest the measure, others have a right to support it. This is America, everyone has a right to vote how they feel, and that may mean going against your views. You are protesting hate, lost of rights, yet you create a blacklist and advocate people to take away other American’s right to own a business and profit? You force a man out of his job because he supported the proposition?

What you are doing here is exactly what you are protesting, the loss of rights. As Gandhi said “An eye for eye makes the whole world blind”. Instead of talking and having civil discussions, you shut out the opposing view and reject their right to free speech.

Nov

14

Voting For Obama is Sin

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So says a Cathloic Priest from South Carolina:

This action reenforces why politics should be kept out of Religion, and as a Catholic it insults me. Opposing Abortion is one thing, but to impose a statement like this during such trying times is plain stupidity. While abortion may be a terrible thing, to state voting for a candidate that showed he was better suited to lead the country is a sin, is ignoring so many issues we cannot afford to overlook. In a time in which we are fighting two wars, dealing with the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression I think abortion can take a back seat.

Nov

10

Nasty Protesters

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To all the people who fought back to my post on stopping the prop 8 protests, I’m sorry but I can’t support actions of protesters like this:

Nov

8

Stop the Protesting

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I posted an article after the election telling people who didn’t like that Obama won to stop being sore losers and get over the fact that their candidate lost. I would be amiss for not doing the same for opponents to Proposition 8. It failed, and instead of accepting the fact that it did and move on, they decide to whine and protest in the streets causing issues and tie-ups. They harass Mormons, and label all of the State of Utah as bad and say we should boycott it.

While I don’t agree with the amount of money and support the Mormon Church put into the campaign, these actions aren’t going to change anything. Lets get something straight, while Utah may be the home of the Mormon Church (formally called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) not everyone in the state is a member of the church, and even if they are many have either expressed opposition or  simply don’t care. To have people boycott Utah does nothing more than take away money from the local economies when they need money the most.

Grow up, stop being sore losers. If you really want to do something use legal system, file lawsuits, file IRS complaints against the Mormon Church, but don’t take it out blindly on innocent people. Doing so is no better than what you are protesting against, ignorance. 

**My stance on the law itself is the government should allow any constenting adults to marry. Likewise the church shouldn’t care one way or another as the marriages are legal, and not religious. The church should have the right to deny marrying people but people shouldn’t be denied the right to marry. 

Nov

7

Why?

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I posed the question on social networks asking why people felt the need to own AK-47s or AR-15s. Many people state the reason for owning them as “protection”, and many people are running out to buy more guns now that Obama has been elected president.

Being from Connecticut I’ve never been around gun enthusiasts, my mom hates guns and my dad doesn’t have an opinion, but having moved south to Oklahoma for college I was thrown into the middle of a gun-loving society. The number one ad I heard on the radio in the run up to the election was a gun store having a sale to “defend your second amendment rights”. I don’t have an issue with people owning handguns or rifles, but I still can’t get my mind around the reasoning for owning semi-automatics.

I don’t know anyone who hunts with these kind of guns, and as far as protecting your family its overkill and seems to be more of a hazard than anything. Don’t these things go through walls and bones and anything else in there way? Weren’t they meant for the battle field? Do we really neeed these things floating around the country?

Call me a weird Northener but I just don’t see the need for them, and hope the Obama administration will work to restrict access to them, even bringing back the ban that was passed during the Clinton adminstration.

Nov

5

Grow Up and Stop Whining

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To all the people that in the instant that America elected the first
African American President felt the need to  say the country is going
to hell, say he is a terrorist, you sicken me. Regardless of your
political alignment to attack someone with such racist, demeaning, and
false statements makes you no better than the KKK or regimes like
Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Il. You are the terrorist, you are the
racist.

Americans showed up in record numbers to exercise their
right to vote for the person they felt was the best suited to lead the
country. If you bash or attack something like this you are stating your
opposition to democracy, to the basic principles on which this country
was founded 232 years ago. You have every right to not like the
election results, I didn’t like them in 2000 or 2004 but I acted like
an adult, I accepted the victory of George Bush and hoped for the best.
Stop acting like 2 year olds who didn’t get your toy, start acting like
adults. You people show more reason why the founding fathers were right
when they set up the electoral college, you are too dumb to make
rational, logical decisions that will directly affect the nation.

Nov

4

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7:28 PM  Gonna start blogging this thing

7:34 PM  MSNBC has called NC senate seat for Kay Hagan. Dems have gained three seats

7:35 PM Georgia for McCain

7:36 PM  It should be noted I’m going to attempt to flip around the channels but a lot of this data is coming from MSNBC. This netbook doesn’t do much for multi-tasking

7:41 PM 102-34 from CNN. They called PA for McCain. 

7:44 PM  McCain’s party is down while Obama’s is loud as hell. Looks to be a long night for Republicans

7:48 PM No big flip for Obama. Time to take a breather

8:01 PM  Big run in states, no big chances from 2004. McCain does get North Dakota. Arizona too close to call, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Colorado, all still out

8:05 PM MSNBC - Confederancy, slavery, repeat

8:08 PM 175-76 Obama but the fact that Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana are still out

8:14 PM  Obama up by 14 in Wake county NC

8:14 PM  Florida looking bad for McCain

8:23 PM  OHIO FOR OBAMA, Big news

8:27 PM McCain looking bad in Florida and North Carolina, with Ohio gone he needs to win those. Obama can lose Iowa colorado

8:32 PM CNN is most conservative of all the networks. Hell Fox News has called Ohio for Obama

8:35 PM  CNN has called it for Obama. Still to early to give the election to Obama? Hes only 75 away

8:37 PM  New Mexico for Obama via MSNBC. I can;t even name the states Obama can lose now. Ca, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii could go it

8:38 PM  WV for McCain 200-90 via MSNBC

8:42 PM Obama just needs to win Cali Oregon Washingon all states that went to Kerry in 2004 to get to 270. Its over I call it now

9:04 PM Obama is ahead in Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia, down by 9K in Indiana. Landside is kicking for the Repubs

9:09 PM Shays has lost. No repubs in New England anymore.

9:40 PM I’m stopping the blogging, McCain has no path to victory, Virginia, Florida, and NC looking good for Obama. Election to be called at 11.

Nov

4

Why My Mom is Voting for McCain

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I moved into a new apartment this weekend and my mother came out to help with the move and buying new furniture and getting everything set. She is a registered Democrat, never voted for a Republican for President, and feels Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were the best presidents while she was alive. This year will be different, this year, she is voting for McCain in the presidental election.

While I voted for Obama and a majority of my family members will more than likely vote for Obama, I respect her right to vote for whoever she wants to. Her decide to vote for McCain wasn’t an easy one, she was a Clinton supporter in the primaries, but she feels she doesn’t know enough about Obama and at times doesn’t trust Obama. She feels that with Obama we may not know what we are getting, but with McCain we know, four more years of Bush. She doesn’t like Bush, doesn’t like 99% of his decisions, but feels that Bush didn’t destroy the country entirely, so McCain can’t do much worse.

In the end you may not agree with the decisions of your family members we need to realize that everyone has a right to vote for who they want to and we need to continue to support them.

Nov

4

A Trick Too Far

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Halloween was Friday and its suppose to be a day when you become something you aren’t. While many adults continue to indulge in the tradition with parties, the holiday is meant for kids, for getting an amount of candy that will have dentists seeing dollar signs. But one woman has turned the holiday into a way to punish kids for their parents decisions:

Kids don’t vote, they can’t vote, and if you want to make kids cry simply because you don’t like Obama, you are nothing better than a terrorist. Lady you need to grow up, stop attacking people for their votes, this is America and while you have a right to do this, I think we all can agree its over the line. Give the kids the candy and let politics be.