In spanish, you only capitalized the first word in a title

Before i say anything, I'd just like to inform the internet that i raped both my spanish midterm and my spanish essay. WHAM

Also I bought an awesome electric guitar and lots of goodies with it (pics soon). BAM

And that today we're having another house thanksgiving and we have a fuckload of food to eat including turkey, stuffing, mashedpotatoes, yams w/marshmallows, green beans, cornbread, rolls, several homebaked pies, good beer, good wine, icecream and much more. THANK YOU MA'AM

Except I gotta clean the house before we have guests. Lame. But I have all day to watch the turkey and fuck around on guitar, or play video games, or start the 3 page spanish essay that i have to write over break. ugh.

more later!

I Like How Blogger Calls It My "Dashboard"

I've been hearing how many people have been likening the ban on gay marriage to former Jim Crow laws. I've also been hearing a lot of people say that this is not only an incorrect comparison, but a demeaning and insulting way of putting things. While I understand that gays are totally not going through what blacks had to go through in times of slavery and the pre-jfk era, that doesn't necessarily mean that you cannot make the comparison.

It might be too easy of a comparison to make along the lines of Godwin's Law, where eventually every debate in an online forum will disintegrate into Nazi analogies, but that doesn't mean that there is no relevance to present day issues. The point that people want to make when they refer to past Jim Crow laws is that there was once a time where people were disenfranchised because they were the wrong color. There were a variety of reasons why people thought that blacks shouldn't have received equal rights that spanned from the immorality of black people, to specific bible passages, and usually just plain hatred. America realized, however, that you cannot suppress a group of people just because you don't agree with them or because they don't look or act like you.

The same reasoning applies to the gay civil rights movement. Gays are being disenfranchised. They do not receive the exact same rights as any other American. The government (and the American people, unfortunately) are keeping gays down by not giving them every single right that everybody else has. Nobody is trying to detract from the black civil rights movement. Lord knows there was a lot of pain and hardship there. And although gays appear to have it pretty good (They typically do well for themselves. Apparently they're one of the wealthiest subdivisions in America, but I think that's because they try harder and they don't have lots of kids to spend money on [esp. in Alabama or Arkansas or wherever they passed that stupid adoption law]), they still hurt that they can't participate in one of the most special moments in a normal person's life.

I dont think that people who voted for the ban on gay marriage are horrible people. Well, kinda, but I bet alot of them really do think that all hell will break loose if dudes marry dudes and girls mary girls. They're just afraid. The gay community just has a lot of reaching out to do. Especially to minority groups, if the statistics are accurate. And I don't feel bad that prop 8 passed. It's lamentable, but it wasn't necessarily supposed to happen. The results from the last vote were like 70-30 in favor of the ban, and now it's pretty much 50-50. California has come a long way. There's no doubt that this shit will be over in a year or two. I guess that's still not soon enough, but it's a relatively short time compared to however long gay people have been around and have been persecuted for their lifestyle.

Did you like how my subject totally changed? I kinda forgot where I was going with this one. Whatever.

Sinsemilla

I voted for President. I'm happy that I was on the winning team for my first presidential election. Palin can suck it. She would have been bad news bears.

I voted for other thingies too.

Highspeed rail won!
Chickens can spread their wings!
Teens can get abortions without their parents consent! (boy, that's a weird thing to be jubilant about)
Renewable energy lost by a wider margin that I would have hoped.
Gays are fuuuuuuuuuucked. Personally, I blame my roommate. He's a dick. A douche. A prick.
FUCK victims rights.
I dont think that redistricting made any difference to anybody and that's why it won by such a narrow margin.
Veterans get monies.


An alright election alongside a stunning defeat for the lgbts community. It hurts.

Why my roommate is a dick: he didn't vote until the last minute (typical) BECAUSE he wanted to see who was winning when the other polls were closing (LAME!). So he voted Obama, but I don't think Obama wanted his vote. It was a waste. Not to mention the fact that he keeps joking about his assassination. KNOCK ON WOOD KNOCK ON WOOD PLEASE GOD DON'T TAKE THIS AWAY FROM US! He also voted yes for 8 so he could make a fag joke. Waste. He also continues to state, very loudly, that he hates how JFK is idolized and asks the room "what did jfk ever do for me?" All I can think is "ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU. ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY!"

I think he does this because Afshin is one of his only friends. Afshin is very conservative, but he can be extremely reasonable about it and he really believes in what he says. Kevin has no other friends, so he spends his time sucking Afshin's dick for affection. It doesn't work that way because Afshin isn't an idiot. He sees that Kevin is a liar, a schemer, and a fool. Kevin doesn't do anything and sure as hell doesn't care about anything. My roommate is a waste of vote and a waste of space.