Revenge of Rambling Thoughts and Bad Poetry

I will be starting to incorporate a few posts which will be friends only. There will also be other posts which will be selected friends only. It depends on how personal the post gets!

For people on my friends list: If you object to anything that is posted simply comment on the post and I will remove you from the list of people that receive these kinds of posts. I will not be including all friends in all types of posts. I relise that there are some details you just may not want to hear and I will respect that.

For people not on my friends list: There will still be a lot of public posts made, but if you want to be included in some of the other posts that I make, just drop me a comment here and I may add you to some of the sections of my journal.


All of this is part of a tidy up process after dumping 3 other blogs which I kept in favour of keeping everything together in one spot. So, have a nice day, and remember, "the world really is wonderful" just so long as your name isn't Simon Townsend!!!

Cathii

I needed somewhere to vent and get stuff out of my system... but every single web site / blog / forum I am a member of has either my real name or something instantly recognisable to people I know... even my family... So instead I opened up Open office and typed my fury out there... and then I deleted it... Why in the past have I felt the need to publish that sort of stuff???

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It is all to common to hear about transgendered/transsexual people being murdered, especially in the US. Something about this case though seems to have made people sit up, listen and understand. Finally???

It is at times like this that I wish I was religious so that I could be assured that people like Allen Andrade would spend not just a life time in jail, but also the rest of eternity in Hell. The "gay panic" defence seems to have at long last gone to hell where it belongs.

Once again, like I did last year, I will light a candle especially for Angie on November 20th, Transgender Day of Remembrance...

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime and sentenced to life in prison for killing a transgender teen he met on an online social networking site.

It was the first time in the nation that a state hate crime statute resulted in a conviction in a transgender person's murder, the advocacy group Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said.

Read the full article


And another from Feministe

Although it all happened half a world away, it is far too close to home for me.

Does anyone know when the Honda Clarity will be on sale in Australia?

So I recorded Life on Mars last night and watched it today..... Despite the fact that it is good, and normally I would watch it simply because Harvey Keitel is in it.... I don't think I will watch it from here in. Last night was the episode where Sam meets his mother, and learns that his Dad isn't everything that he thought he was..... It's bizarre watching Harvey Keitel saying exactly the same lines as Philip Glenister... That and the fact that as DCI Gene Hunt he isn't driving a Cortina..... For an American remake, it wasn't too bad.... but it wasn't sufficiently different to interest me. I'd rather watch the British original again.

Life can be pretty boring without all the angsty bits.... I feel like I should create some dramas just to relieve the boredom, but I am too damn lazy to get off my arse and cause issues..... Perhaps something interesting will happen tomorrow....... Today however I am at work and bored and feeling very ho-hum.....

A pic for my friends that ride bikes, scooters et al.....



I would like to see a lot more of this begining to happen in carparks around Perth. It makes sense for both bike riders and car drivers and makes good use of space. Pic taken at Karawara Shopping Center.

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Watching the US election coverage on CBS via webcast on one half of my screen, and seeing live updates of the ballot measures in the other half has been a unique experience.

Obama's victory has shown that mobilizing and uniting minorities does not have to alienate you from the mainstream.

However watching the outcome of the ballot measures has not been such a good experience.

Proposition 102 in Arizona, to ban same sex marriage in Arizona, currently stands at 56% for, and 44% against with over 80% of the vote having been counted.

Amendment 2 in Florida, to ban same sex marriage in Florida, currently stands at 62% for and 38% against with 92% of the vote counted.

Initiative 1 in Arkansas, to ban adoption by same sex couples in Arkansas, is currently 57% for and 43% against with 62% of the vote counted.

So here are three citizen initiated measures that are blatantly discriminatory that look like being passed by the people of the relevant states. It shows the true character of the political system where such measures could even make it to a ballot, and sadly the true nature of the people who have voted for such discrimination. But something even worse is taking place in the state of California.

Earlier this year a court in California came to the decision that under the constitution of that state that denying same sex couples the right to marry was unconstitutional. Ergo the constitution of California supported the rights of ALL Californian's to be married irrespective of their sexuality. Proposition 8 is a measure to alter the constitution of the state to remove the right of same sex couples from marrying and enjoying all the benefits that marriage brings with it. In short the people of California have been asked not only to vote on legislative change that is discriminatory, but on change that actively REMOVES the RIGHTS of a group based solely on their sexuality. For a country that waves their bill of rights as the thing that makes them superior to all others, it is disheartening to find it, and its citizens, raping the rights of a specific group of people.

Currently Prop 8 stands at: 54% for, 46% against with 22% of the vote counted. If this measure is carried, and the rights of GLBT people in California are destroyed, I wonder how long it will take before other rights like the freedom to speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion are similarly removed from the people of the US.

Voters in these four states obviously have no respect for other people's rights or freedoms, so why should anyone have any respect for theirs?
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Stolen from: gotica

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