Preserving the sanctity of marriage

I just love that Khloe Kardashian and LA Laker Lamar Odom are preserving the sanctity of marriage by getting married after only dating for 3 weeks.  Isn't it such a wonderful thing?  I mean, just think about it, you know someone for 3 weeks and you just know, you just know that you have found your soul mate and you just have to get married.

That was so much sarcasm I just couldn't go on.  It just makes me so sick that it's ok for these stars to get married at the drop of a hat just because they can yet there are people out there who have been together for 10-40 years and they can't even get married.  Chip and I have been together for 15 years and his cousin and her girlfriend have been together for something like 20 or 25 years, I can't remember but it's a long time.  Yet they can never get married, well in California at least.

I'm always seeing how these stars get married and they are married for a day and get annulled or the stars who are only married for a few months and their whole relationship is toast.  It's so easy for them to get married just because they can.  It's like they are taking what they have for granted yet I can never experience it as long as I live in California.

The one star who has really impressed me and made me like him more than ever is Brad Pitt who said that he and Angelina Jolie will not get married until ALL of the people in the US can get married.  Now that is a stand up person.  I liked him throughout his career but I wasn't as huge a fan until he made that statement.  Then I fell head over heels.

So congrats on your 3 week relationship Khloe and I hope that your 6 week - 6 month marriage is worth the 6 digits you are going to spend on your wedding.

Grow your own meat

Cocoon food grower wins Electrolux Design Contest - Source Dvice.com



Vegetarians rejoice.  This is the future of growing your own meat instead of killing animals for food.  Now vegetarians can start eating meat again because your conscious is now clear that your dinner didn't come to you at the cost of the life of an animal friend.

Here are a couple of quotes directly from that article on the Dvice website.

"He thinks that the Cocoon could make food shortages a thing of the past. "This will create 100 per cent pure meat without the need for animals to be killed and with no risk of contamination," said the 27-year-old. "It will change everything."

"The design, described as "controversial" by one of the judges, is made of glass, and works by cooking pre-mixed packets of muscle cells, oxygen and nutrients."

Of course you are asking yourself where do those cells come from?  Well I'm sure in order to get those cells they have to take them from somewhere.  But if the animal remains alive but with less cells which will regrow anyway then what harm is it to take the cells?

Anti-gay judge confirmed

I got this email today from Geoff Kors, Equality California and thought that it was something interesting enough to paste in here.

September 25, 2009

Dear Mike, Over Equality California’s strong objection, the Commission on Judicial Appointments confirmed Gov. Schwarzenegger’s selection of Senator Charles S. Poochigian for a seat on the 5th District Court of Appeal yesterday. We find this appointment by the Governor to be appalling. Not only because Poochigian voted against every LGBT bill that came before him while in the legislature. Not only because the Judicial Nomination Committee of the State Board found him “Not Qualified.” Not only because the National Organization for Women-California Chapter and other groups are opposed to his appointment due to his dismal record on issues pertaining to the rights of women, people of color, people with disabilities and workers. But because all Californians will have to wonder about his commitment to justice when important issues come before the Court. Poochigian’s appointment is an example of why we need to elect a governor in 2010 who will select candidates who support our equality. I wonder if the result would have been the same if the nominee had opposed laws to ban employment discrimination against another minority group. As the only group to testify against Poochigian at the hearing, EQCA believes it is critical that our community’s issues are heard, and they were — front and center. For more than two hours, the issue of discrimination and bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Californians was presented to the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, the Attorney General, the Presiding Judge of the 5th District Court of Appeals and dozens of judges attending this hearing. Going forward I hope you will share with me any instances of legal proceedings where Chuck Poochigian’s lack of support for equal rights under the law – or that of any judge – is demonstrated. We will collect and pass your complaints to the State Bar. Warmly, Geoff Kors Executive Director Equality California P. S. For more details about the hearing, read a transcript of my testimony, and read the Bay Area Reporter’s coverage.