A couple of weeks ago I go into the living room and Oprah Winfrey is on the TV and I see these tall TV screens (widescreen tv's turned on their sides) and you see women in these screens. At first I was like what the heck? They have audience members in giant sideways widescreen TV's now?
Then Oprah was asking them questions and they showed them talking but this time in the regular size on my screen and on the side of the screen it said "Skype". These women were in the audience via webcam lol. I thought that was genius that Oprah is incorporating this into her show.
But just this morning I woke up and go into the living room and Fox News is on and they are talking about the GM problem and they show this guy on a tv screen and on the left side of the screen I see "Skype" LOL.
The Skype streams seem to be pretty fast, a lot faster than cell phone video calls and I can see this being used in place of regular news cameras. Pretty cool.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Thursday, March 05, 2009
California Supreme Court
Today was the day that EQCA stood in front of the California Supreme Court which by the way is in San Francisco to over turn Prop 8. I didn't watch it from the beginning but as soon as I realized it was going to probably be on TV we quickly looked for it and watched it.
I think we only got to see maybe 2 hours of it but it was quite informative. Well, boring really. It was very informative for those who actually understand what they were talking about. I frankly didn't know who was for or against it because they weren't even speaking English. They were all talking lawyer English which I don't understand. I would need to go to Harvard just to get what they were talking about.
The oral arguments ended and they left and we changed the channel to Fox News to see what they were saying about it which wasn't really much. Kenneth Starr was one of the people talking and I wasn't sure which side he was on. Kenneth Starr is the guy who wrote that report which was bigger than 3 of the last Harry Potter novels stacked on top of each other about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
I did see Gloria Allred but she didn't talk at all and I was hoping she would.
One of the things I did understand is that Prop 8 isn't just about saying gay people can't get married but it's saying that it's OK to allow discrimination into our constitution and I don't think that any discrimination should be allowed into our constitution.
Anyway, I'm done thinking about it. I hope they come back with something positive for all the gay people in California.
EDIT: LMAO ok, I'm dumb. We just saw a news story on Fox News and they showed a little clip of Kennth Starr talking and he clearly said that he is against gay marriage. We sat there watching everything that he said and at no time did we hear him say what we just saw him say. That's how much we didn't understand anything that they were talking about, we couldn't even decypher when they were talking in plain English.
And there was a "man" named Shannon P. Minter. He was bald just like I am on top but apparently he lived his life as a woman for the first 36 years of his life. How could we have missed that? Good god, talk about ADD. You would've thought that I would've caught that. He was so convincing as a man. Wow, good for him.
I think we only got to see maybe 2 hours of it but it was quite informative. Well, boring really. It was very informative for those who actually understand what they were talking about. I frankly didn't know who was for or against it because they weren't even speaking English. They were all talking lawyer English which I don't understand. I would need to go to Harvard just to get what they were talking about.
The oral arguments ended and they left and we changed the channel to Fox News to see what they were saying about it which wasn't really much. Kenneth Starr was one of the people talking and I wasn't sure which side he was on. Kenneth Starr is the guy who wrote that report which was bigger than 3 of the last Harry Potter novels stacked on top of each other about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
I did see Gloria Allred but she didn't talk at all and I was hoping she would.
One of the things I did understand is that Prop 8 isn't just about saying gay people can't get married but it's saying that it's OK to allow discrimination into our constitution and I don't think that any discrimination should be allowed into our constitution.
Anyway, I'm done thinking about it. I hope they come back with something positive for all the gay people in California.
EDIT: LMAO ok, I'm dumb. We just saw a news story on Fox News and they showed a little clip of Kennth Starr talking and he clearly said that he is against gay marriage. We sat there watching everything that he said and at no time did we hear him say what we just saw him say. That's how much we didn't understand anything that they were talking about, we couldn't even decypher when they were talking in plain English.
And there was a "man" named Shannon P. Minter. He was bald just like I am on top but apparently he lived his life as a woman for the first 36 years of his life. How could we have missed that? Good god, talk about ADD. You would've thought that I would've caught that. He was so convincing as a man. Wow, good for him.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Prop 8
Tomorrow is the day that EQCA which stands for Equality California will stand before the Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8. Nobody should be discriminated against and what Prop 8 does is it puts in the constitution that gay people SHOULD be discriminated against. This starts with being told we can't get married but when does it end? Next they will say gay people shouldn't be allowed to have jobs and make a living and have medical coverage then they will say that gay people have no right living in California. When does it end?
Gay people have been around since the beginning of time and I don't want to hear any of this Adam and Steve BS because I don't believe in Adam and Eve. I believe in evolution and I believe that gay people were born gay for a reason. I don't know what that reason is, maybe it was for population control, who knows. But it's not a choice and I'm so sick of hearing people calling it a choice and a lifestyle. You don't call being straight a lifestyle choice because it's not a choice. You are either gay or you are straight or you are bisexual. There is no choice. But the religious nuts are choosing to take away our freedom because they don't agree that we don't have a choice.
Here is a video from EQCA showing men in World War 2 in concentration camps with their pink triangles in 1938. That shows that gay people have been persecuted along with the Jewish people in WWII. And they show a picture of gay men being arrested in the 70's and Matthew Shepard who was beaten to death in 1998.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXI2zlhIk3s
Here is a 4 min 25 second video talking about how Prop 8 is discriminating peoples rights to marry.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNOnUzhLsk
I don't care if you are gay or straight, nobody deserves to be told how to live their life. It wasn't more than 50 or 60 years ago that people of different races weren't allowed to get married. All gay people want is equal rights and not have their rights taken away from them.
Most of America passed the right to marry but California, the state with the most gay people is banning it? How is that fair? It's 2009, why are we going back in time to when it was OK to discriminate against people? We should be moving ahead instead of stepping back. Walk a mile in the shoes of a gay person then see how fair it is to be discriminated against.
Gay people have been around since the beginning of time and I don't want to hear any of this Adam and Steve BS because I don't believe in Adam and Eve. I believe in evolution and I believe that gay people were born gay for a reason. I don't know what that reason is, maybe it was for population control, who knows. But it's not a choice and I'm so sick of hearing people calling it a choice and a lifestyle. You don't call being straight a lifestyle choice because it's not a choice. You are either gay or you are straight or you are bisexual. There is no choice. But the religious nuts are choosing to take away our freedom because they don't agree that we don't have a choice.
Here is a video from EQCA showing men in World War 2 in concentration camps with their pink triangles in 1938. That shows that gay people have been persecuted along with the Jewish people in WWII. And they show a picture of gay men being arrested in the 70's and Matthew Shepard who was beaten to death in 1998.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXI2zlhIk3s
Here is a 4 min 25 second video talking about how Prop 8 is discriminating peoples rights to marry.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNOnUzhLsk
I don't care if you are gay or straight, nobody deserves to be told how to live their life. It wasn't more than 50 or 60 years ago that people of different races weren't allowed to get married. All gay people want is equal rights and not have their rights taken away from them.
Most of America passed the right to marry but California, the state with the most gay people is banning it? How is that fair? It's 2009, why are we going back in time to when it was OK to discriminate against people? We should be moving ahead instead of stepping back. Walk a mile in the shoes of a gay person then see how fair it is to be discriminated against.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Reaper Back On
YAY Finally Reaper is coming back to the CW tonight. I thought for sure that it was a goner but then I heard it was coming in 2009. About 2 weeks ago they finally started advertising that it would be here in March and I guess time went by real fast because it's on tonight. YAY!
Xanth Now, Belgariad Later
Today I bought book 2 "Source of Magic" and book 4 "Centaur Aisle". My friend Alyce who bought and mailed me book 1 "A Spell for Chameleon" also bought book 3 "Castle Roogna" and book 5 "Ogre, Ogre".
Since I've already read the first book I thought I should finish the Xanth series before moving onto the David Eddings books which have 17 books. Xanth has 32 or so but I can comprehend the Xanth ones a lot better. So as soon as I get the 2nd Xanth novel I'm going to start reading again.
Since I've already read the first book I thought I should finish the Xanth series before moving onto the David Eddings books which have 17 books. Xanth has 32 or so but I can comprehend the Xanth ones a lot better. So as soon as I get the 2nd Xanth novel I'm going to start reading again.
City Tap Water
Normally I don't drink out of the tap because when you put water in a glass from the tap it's so white it almost looks like milk. A very watered down milk actually. So for that very reason I fill a 5 gallon bottle of water and I use one of those little water bottle things with the spout lol I can't think of the name right now.
But last night I went to get some water because I had really bad heart burn and I needed to take a pepcid and we were out of the bottled water so I had to use the tap. We didn't have anything else to drink. The tap water tasted so bad, it tasted like metal. You could actually taste the pipes or maybe the minerals in the water. Sometimes it tastes like garden hose water which is a really nasty taste but now it's like metal.
Didn't Erin Brokovich work hard to protect the people from this kind of stuff? We have PG&E but this water is from the city of Bakersfield, not PG&E. Maybe Erin should come to Bakersfield and help us out. The water here is so toxic. You know how they say when you go to Mexico not to drink the water? Same applies to Bakersfield. Only drink bottled water or if you are green bring your own 1 gallon container and for 25 cents you can fill it with the Watermill Express. They are cleaned daily.
I like Watermill Express machines, we have one within walking distance from my house, it's actually a 2 minute walk there. They have a sign up about how the filter process is and they filter the hell out of the city water. It gets filtered so many times and it is so good. And they service it daily. We went to Sears and we passed it and there was a truck behind it and the Watermill Express employee was servicing it.
Speaking of which, I gotta go fill our water bottle.
But last night I went to get some water because I had really bad heart burn and I needed to take a pepcid and we were out of the bottled water so I had to use the tap. We didn't have anything else to drink. The tap water tasted so bad, it tasted like metal. You could actually taste the pipes or maybe the minerals in the water. Sometimes it tastes like garden hose water which is a really nasty taste but now it's like metal.
Didn't Erin Brokovich work hard to protect the people from this kind of stuff? We have PG&E but this water is from the city of Bakersfield, not PG&E. Maybe Erin should come to Bakersfield and help us out. The water here is so toxic. You know how they say when you go to Mexico not to drink the water? Same applies to Bakersfield. Only drink bottled water or if you are green bring your own 1 gallon container and for 25 cents you can fill it with the Watermill Express. They are cleaned daily.
I like Watermill Express machines, we have one within walking distance from my house, it's actually a 2 minute walk there. They have a sign up about how the filter process is and they filter the hell out of the city water. It gets filtered so many times and it is so good. And they service it daily. We went to Sears and we passed it and there was a truck behind it and the Watermill Express employee was servicing it.
Speaking of which, I gotta go fill our water bottle.
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