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[12 Jan 2007|11:04am] |
I think I'm going to make a new journal. I usually rip on people for doing that, but I don't know. I just don't like the LJ mojo here at vitabuona.
Plus, I'm really bored at work and it'll give me something more productive to do.
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[10 Jan 2007|12:24am] |
I found a radio station that plays all the music that I used to really really love in middle & high school.
It makes me sublimely happy.
And sometimes also makes me dance around like an idiot.
I try to avoid tuning in while driving.
Dan and I watched the Black Dahlia Murder tonight. I'm not all that impressed. Is that bad? I wish I had spent two hours reading. Although my book doesn't have Scarlett in it. She's so beautiful... I don't care what Dan says.
Little man is good. He's a big fan of his new crib aquarium and I'm therefore a fan. Anything that helps him get to sleep easier at night gets an A+ from me. If you're a mommy, GET ONE. Haha. I'm going to Babies R Us this weekend. I casually hopped on their website today at work and now I need everything...( because, what baby doesn't need this stuff? )
Okay, so maybe he doesn't need all of it, but I just want to go wander and look!
I'm pretty happy right now.
Things are falling into place all over the place. Haha.
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[03 Jan 2007|09:54am] |
So, there's been an internal debate as to whether or not I should make any New Year's resolutions. I know I won't stick to them just for the sake of resolving to, so what's the point? To show my lack of self-discipline, that's what.
Without further ado, Amy's resolutions for 2007.
1) Stop talking to ex-boyfriend/relationship type guys. Living in the past, being full of regret, or engaging in mind games as an adult is just SILLY. STOP IT AMY.
2) Go to the damn yoga classes that I paid for and then got in a car accident and never went back for.
3) Organize my closet. This doesn't seem like it should be a resolution for an entire year, but that's just because you haven't seen my closet.
4) Ha, I almost typed "Find a good guy", but I stopped at "goo..." because that's not feasible! Ha! I would like to break the pattern of bad dates and joining the convent and more bad dates and back to the convent, by finding someone that I can spend time with, minus petty stuff.
5) Visit my grandmother in Iowa while she still remembers who I am.
That's all I've got so far...
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| Silly bloggers. :) |
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| Oh, you cheesy superheroes. |
[30 Dec 2006|12:15am] |
Tonight, I watched Superman and Batman.
I guess I wanted to take in some bad acting and cheesy special effects.
Good times, right?
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[03 Dec 2006|10:28am] |
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There's supposedly 74 bands in this picture.
( So far, I've got... )
(Thanks to my Jaime and Al!)
I will get them all, dammit.
FINALLY! DONE! HA! It was much easier with this link that actually had the whole picture.
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| Deleting some people. |
[08 Sep 2006|05:55pm] |
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With all due love, respect, and LJ politics management in mind... I've decided to cut back my list of friends. It's nothing personal. I just don't like sifting through 69485094258 posts to read the, like, 3 that I logged on to read. I love you all, just, you know... friends are friends... LJ is LJ.
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| Another rant. Get off the soap box, Amy!!! |
[31 Oct 2005|01:41am] |
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I'm sure you've all read my rant posted here.
Well, last time I posted it, some idiot left a comment and I went off on him/her. I thought it was lost in the internet abyss, but apparently not.
For your reading enjoyment...
Here's the thing. This isn't about whether or not they made a choice or if it was something they were born with. This is about equal rights and benefits, things written into the legislature of this country from Day One.
I'm sure there are a lot of gay couples who want to get married and experience the benefits of that union. I think you'd be making a far stretch to say that most of them wanted to get married strictly for that reason though. There's many hetero couples that also look forward to sharing their benefits. There's cases about couples getting married early or even getting married at all for insurance reasons. As far as tax breaks, I think if they pay the same taxes, why shouldn't they be entitled? No one likes taxes. In most cases, it would be a tax penalty, instead of break, anyhow.
I also don't think that they're trying so hard just to use the word "married", "husband", or "wife", because a lot of gay couples consider themselves "married", outside of the law. I'm really glad you had a girlfriend who didn't care about getting married, but that's completely irrelevant to this discussion. Also, since it's past tense, I see how well that worked out.
Don't you ever say "Fuck you" to a homosexual for demanding that they be treated like an equal. That's ridiculous. I'm offended by your blatant display of ignorance and fear.
Marriage is for any two people who want to have a union and live their lives together. I'm sorry, but there's no clause that says "Oops! Sorry! You don't have plans to procreate in the next couple of years, try again later!" There's no obligation or requirement to start a family in those terms. Here's a dictionary definition of "family" for you, anyway: "Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place. " I think they qualify then, don't you?
You said, "You want to adopt kids, then go ahead". So, it's okay for them to adopt, but they can't raise that child in a stable marriage? Here's the thing, homosexuals are not allowed to adopt children, as a couple. One may adopt the child, sure, but unlikely. Adopting as a single parent is a lot harder process, to start with. Something they would surely consider is that due to the closed-minded laws in place right now, the other "parent" will not be allowed to a) provide insurance for that child, b) have any claim if the other parent were to die, c) have any visitation rights or child support obligations if the parents were to split, d) have no say if the child was in the hospital and the other parent was unreachable, and many more. That's a really tough situation to willingly bring a child into, don't you think?
It doesn't matter the motive for the marriage and I don't think they're fighting just for the title. It matters that we are proposing creating legislature that will prevent an American who works as hard, pays the same taxes, etc to be equal. Seperate but equal is no longer acceptable in today's society. It never has been and certainly hasn't been since the 60's.
Men and women are created differently, every person is created different! That's what makes this world so interesting and why we have great artistic masterpieces, gorgeous symphonies, groundbreaking research, incredible medical procedures, and more. Not everyone is created the same, but by the foundation this country and most of its states were built on, we are all promised equal rights and benefits.
I don't think anyone is proposing everyone going gay. There will always be hetero couples reproducing and keeping or species moving forward. The problem, if you want to go there, is the amount of children hetero couples create and then neglect. If we gave a child to every gay couple wanting to adopt, we wouldn't even chip the number of abandoned children. These children are our future and they deserve loving homes and it doesn't take two straight people to create that.
Tolerance is not just being numb to an issue. It has advanced us, despite what you think. Think back to cases like Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 or Loving v. Virginia in 1967. Back then, no one wanted to practice tolerance, but if they hadn't, we'd still have segregation and no interracial marriages or adoption! So, tell me. Do you also oppose those issues or do you think the practice of tolerance was suitable there?
Your closing line, "If you're going to allow "gay rights", you mine as well allow rights to Necrophiliacs and beastiality," is the most ignorant and childish statement I've heard in this debate so far, and that's really pulling out all the stops. I thought I'd heard it all.
In response to it, no matter how ridiculous it is, homosexuality is a sexual preference, not a fetish, as necrophilia and beastiality both are. They both involve non-living-human "partners" which wouldn't be given any rights or benefits under the constitution, so it's a dead point. Thanks for playing.
And to finish, I don't hate you, but I did lost a lot of respect for you. Please refrain from leaving comments like this again unless you're going to make some valid or really debatable points.
Thanks.
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[29 Oct 2005|01:23pm] |
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1. Open a music player.
2. Go to 'all music'/'library'.
3. Hit shuffle/repeat/randomise.
4. Find photos of the first 10 artists/bands that come up (no repeats and no cheating).
5. Have people guess who the artists/bands are. (no cheating and looking at the source codes or anything.)
6. Paste this in your journal and do it too, so I can have fun guessing as well
( Mmm, hmm )
( And now some answers.. )
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| Silly kids, pro-choice is the way to be! |
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"I have done several abortions on women who have regularly picketed my clinics, including a 16 year old schoolgirl who came back to picket the day after her abortion, about three years ago. During her whole stay at the clinic, we felt that she was not quite right, but there were no real warning bells. She insisted that the abortion was her idea and assured us that all was OK. She went through the procedure very smoothly and was discharged with no problems. A quite routine operation. Next morning she was with her mother and several school mates in front of the clinic with the usual anti posters and chants. It appears that she got the abortion she needed and still displayed the appropriate anti views expected of her by her parents, teachers, and peers."
- Physician, Australia
Link to full story
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| I don't need no stinkin' LJ cut! Gay marriage rant! |
[09 Oct 2005|10:28am] |
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I wrote this rant about 6 months ago. I just found it again and figured I'd repost it.
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So, Thursday in my Domestic Relations Law class, we had a debate about same-sex marriage. Those of you who know me should know that I feel very very passionately about the topic, so the second he started the conversation, I was firing up from my seat in the back of the lecture.
It amazes me how ignorant and afraid of change some people are. They stand behind religion everytime someone asks a question. A lovely gentleman, who we all now call "Bible Boy" actually made me physically sick. His lack of compassion and understanding sickened me. He was one of those guys who could quote probably 3/4 of the bible and if you asked him to analyze its meaning, the only thing he could throw back was something that his church or parents told him. Every single student who said "Well, I was raised in a religion that doesn't think that's okay", the professor would ask "Well, why don't YOU think so?" and none of them had an answer! It just simply wasn't.
As one woman said to him, "Wow, you amaze me. We're sitting here in 2005 and you want to talk about oppressing people? Do they not pay the same taxes? Work just as hard? Aren't they Americans and should be given the same rights?" Who the fuck are we to say "Oh sorry, you, uh, were born 'gay' and that's not cool in this country, you're going to have to live a miserable, lonely life, but still work as hard and pay as many taxes as those who do have rights"... I mean, why don't we just lump them up in groups and put them in concentration camps, kids? What's next? Are we going to take away their rights to vote or go to school?
Bible Boy went on to say that he has a friend from church who was gay for 24 years and just decided not to be gay one day. Just poof, woke up and said, "Eh, I like girls now". I'm sorry, but does this not scream of church intervention to anyone else? He went on to say that his church had nothing to do with it, that this guy came about it on his own and decided to date a girl. I tried not to laugh when one lady goes, "Yea, honey, it's called bisexual!" I'm sorry, but you don't go about having sex and relationships with men for 24 years and then decide that it's not your thing. I was beside myself.
I think part of the problem may be a lack of understanding. I don't think anyone, not even me, will ever know what it's like to go through a day being a "queer" or "dyke". A majority of Christians think that they choose to be the way they are. Tell me, would you choose to be looked down upon, taunted, oppressed, misunderstood? Uh, I think not. Spend a day with a gay friend and ask them if they woke up one morning and said, "Gee, I think I'll be gay now!" I could be wrong, but my gut's saying that their answer will probably be, "No". Out of all the people in my class, there was one lesbian. She was so strong, so proud of who she was. She was sitting on the opposite side of the class from where the professor started asking questions, so by the time he got to her, she'd heard 35 people speak, probably half of which condemned "thoooose people" and agreed they shouldn't have equal rights. When he asked her opinion, I could hear in her voice that she was getting a little teary eyed. I know I'd be hysterical if I'd just listened to people not allow me my rights. She spoke very clearly and simply, most of the time looking at Bible Boy, "No one chooses a life of isolation. No one chooses to be gay. It's something inside of you that you don't just ignore and it goes away. You don't understand and you wouldn't allow yourself to, anyway". About here, the professor interrupted and asked, "Are you gay?" and she stood in front of the 45 people who had just talked about homosexuals like they were aliens and would never happen to them and said, "Yes, I am". She talked about not filing taxes together, not being able to get into the hospital if your partner was seriously injured, about not being able to get in if your partner's child was seriously injured, about having to right or claim to anything if your partner dies without a will. All of these points made the issue so much bigger, it's not just a marriage license or a union, it's an entire life together. I think it's something people fail to see.
Then, of course, the adoption issue brought up. One woman said, "Well, you think about a child being in a home with abusive or drunk parents or being in a loving home which happens to have two women or two men, who would you rather see raise a child?" Then one man said, "She just gave an extreme situation, you know, not every home is like that, blahblahblah [I'm sorry, but I really couldn't hear what he said because he was mumbling since he had no point]" Well, sir, why do you think children get surrendered or taken out of homes? It's not because the parents just got tired of the kid or forgot to give them their breakfast one morning. When DCF steps in and takes a child, it's much much bigger than that. So yes, when kids end up in group and foster homes, they are from situations where the parents were abusive or drunk or somehow not fit to raise a child. I think that given the chance, any of those little kids would rather have a loving, happy home than stay where they were. With the rigors adoption agencies put families through today before they adopt out a child, I think that their preference in the bedroom should be the least of our worries.
So, then this guy said something along the lines of "Well, I think we need to be careful because we don't want them to, uh, push certain, hm, values on them", excuse me? So, because the parents are gay, they're going to bring up their child gay? Newsflash, straight parents have been raising gay children for centuries, so there must be a hole in your logic! It's not like there's been an underground lair of homosexuals breeding gay kids and sending them up here! Also, when a child is born into a Christian home, don't they push those values on it? Excuse me again if I'm wrong, but I don't think any Christian parent has ever sat down with their five year old and let it pick it's future religion. No, they send him off to private school and church every Sunday. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Christianity, I was raised in a private school in Miami, but I'm just saying that parents often pass down their values to children, but being gay is not a value. It's not something you turn your child into. If anything, I think these parents would pass down tolerance and an open mind, two things that there are far too few of in this world.
Another awesome lady brought up the point that not all that long ago, interracial marriages were not allowed. Today, there's thousands of them, all living normal lives and producing children that can be just as happy, intelligent, and special as those from same race marriages. Back then, again, the Bible Belt, good ole Southern boys would rather die than have that happen.
Times change and so does our legistlature. There's been times for revolutions and I think the time is now for gay Americans to have equal rights.
And I think I've yapped enough, I'll get off my soap box now. Thank you.
♥,
Amy Lee
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