Day: June 25, 2011

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Congratulations New York!


Congratulations to my friends in New York.

Guys ya done good!

Now, unfortunately you’re going to have to fight hard to keep your right to marry. Your opponents are going to fight dirty!

Even now while you’re celebrating, there are people gathering money, lawyers, and public relations folks. They are preparing to wage a battle to defer your ability to seize your marriage rights.

They will fight to defer the date you can marry, then they will work to render the law unconstitutional and invalidate the process that put the law on the books.

In all likely hood they will pull out all the stops and do everything to characterize you, your partner, your children, and anything that you have created or done as something hideous.

In some of the most evangelical circles, there may even be “Men of God” who incite violence against you or anyone perceived to be gay.


My friends and brothers, Celebrate this weekend!
…On Monday be prepared for a renewed fight.

Don’t let what happened in California happen to you.

Religious groups time and again talk about “The Gay Agenda” and  how “The Children” will be hurt.


The ONLY GAY AGENDA is this. Gay people want the RIGHTS, and PRIVILEGES that they are ENTITLED TO, NOTHING MORE!

This notion that Gays want special rights comes directly from the fact that so many people have worked so hard to insure Gay peoples rights were abridged!

Gay people pay taxes, own homes, and are contributing members of society.

It makes absolutely NO FUCKING sense that simply identifying ones self as GAY strips you of the rights, that being a citizen of the United States conferred on you a moment before you said the word.

The gay agenda is TAKING BACK rights that were TAKEN away by a bunch of fucking insecure zealots who couldn’t abide someone that was different. Unless of course the “different” person could do something for them. Alan Turing springs to mind.


THE CHILDREN

I know a lot of gay men who have children.

When these men came out and divorced their wives, Their children were more hurt by the divorce than they were by their Dad being gay. Dads are Dads regardless of who they sleep with.

To a man, their Children are priority number 1. I know men that broke up, because they were concerned that their boyfriends didn’t have the appropriate values to be around their children. This is parenting… it’s not a Gay or Straight issue.

I know it’s infinitely better for a child to have EVEN a single responsible loving parent than to live in an institution. Having two loving parents regardless of their genders can only be even better for a child.

Lets take “THE CHILDREN” off the table as a weapon / or bargaining chip. THE CHILDREN deserve better.

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Oh Come on!!!!

 

I have had ENOUGH with the assholes on the road using the emergency lanes or the entrance lanes to pass slow traffic.

LOOK ASSHOLES! you gain maybe 1/2 a second but you create worse traffic, and you endanger all the rest of us.

I’d love to be a cop, I’d have a lot of great days writing tickets

In the mean time… I think I want to buy an old truck, I mean something really old, all steel and worth about 2 bucks. I’d love letting these asses hit me

People used to refrain from stuff like this because in polite society it simply wasn’t done. Well that and there were enough police on the road that folks who tried got the “What’s your hurry buddy?” question.

If you tried this same shit in a line for food, or a movie, or practically any other public venue and you’d end up with someone whaling on you.

The only reason people even try this shit is because of the anonymous nature of driving.

It would be nice if they’d just follow the rules of the road.

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What day is it?

 

I feel like I did as a kid during the summer. I’ve been “off” work for a while but I still have to check in daily so I’m not completely free of responsibility

During the time off each day is fun but the names and dates don’t really mean too much. After all there’s always another day to hang out.

This philosophy worked great until the last week before School started again then it was cram everything possible into that last precious week.

The last weekend before school restarted was always the sweetest. I’d stay up late on Sunday night trying to stretch out the last precious moments of Summer knowing that when I woke up I’d once again be the property of the evil empire. My time would be regimented and controlled for another 9 months and I hated it.

The thoughts above are poignant  because when I checked in this morning, I had a ton of email. One in particular from the bug boss. he wanted to have a face to face to discuss changes to the impending layoff.

SO Monday, I got the official layoff notice saying that I was out of work on the 29th. Today I was offered a furlough instead.

Furlough you say? you don’t get paid if you’re on a a furlough. True, however being on furlough means that you’re not actually unemployed and your health insurance does (in my case) continue on without break. Here in California we may also be able to collect on unemployment but that is uncertain. I have to check on that Monday.

Worst case I have health insurance until August. Best case I’ll have a new project by the 19th of July and won’t have to go looking for a new job. So School may be starting again…

The question is do I take the trips I’ve been wanting to take and waiting to take ( for the layoff) or do I tough it out for YET another year and not get to go enjoy myself.

I’m leaning toward taking the trips regardless…

And In OTHER NEWS….

Got the estimate on the car. Thank goodness I did the extended warranty.

They’ve decided that BOTH Turbos need to be replaced. 3500.00 but the extended warranty is covering it. I do have some questions about why suddenly both turbos dump valves are malfunctioning and why it’s all the sudden. One turbo failing … OK, but two on the same vehicle? perhaps a bit more than coincidence.

In theory this should fix the acceleration issue that I’ve been chasing since 2009 I still think this qualifies initial manufacturing defect but that discussion I’ll have in letter form with BMW North America.