We went to Santa Monica 3rd Street yesterday and there were lots of No on Prop 8 supporters. Kelly, my mom, and I got stickers are wore them all day. We saw lots of supporters throughout LA waving signs in support of No on 8, I haven’t seen this much action to election day ever. I wonder if the turn out will be must higher then in previous presidential election years. I read that the Church of Latter Day Saints spent over $20,000,000 in support of Yes on 8… Maybe they should spend that money on helping people instead of supporting discrimination. Oh well. Also heard the Catholic Church was the #2 supporter of Yes on 8, little do they understand that their own people oppose Prop 8 at a 2-1 ratio.
Then there is Prop 4, the one that tries to paint Planned Parenthood as some organization that unlawfully doesn’t report possible rape, incest, and abuse to the authorities. Prop 4 is the initiative that would prohibit abortion for unemancipated minors until 48 hours after physician notifies minor’s parent, legal guardian or, if parental abuse has been reported, an alternative adult family member. The commercials in support of it are trying to show that bad bad men constantly rape girls and drive them to the doctors to get abortions, and this will continue without it passing. Guess who is supporting this Prop? Pretty much the same organizations that support Prop 8.
Lastly we have Prop 2, whose supporters advertise with clips from farms that were already illegally treating animals badly. Prop 2 is in support of allowing farm animals for consumption time outside of cages and freedom to move around. I all for the better treatment of animals, regardless if it’s a pet or an animal for consumption, but the commercials themselves are sensationalistic because they are showing one farm that was fined for their treatment of animals (they were doing something illegal, this Prop wouldn’t have changed their actions).
Anyway, those are the big ones in CA. Not much else really going on, there is some measure J in Orange County regarding taxes (not much info on it), and I have some council members to choose and a school board member for Santa Ana.
Election coverage should be fun tomorrow.
Here is my halloween costume that I’m wearing at work!
Halloween 2008
Halloween 2008
I love that the smarter people get (education wise) the more willing they are to vote no on Prop 8. I’m also pretty surprised on the numbers breakdown comparison of Protestants to Catholics.
California Proposition 8 (2008) - Ballotpedia
Demographics
Although overall polling for Proposition 8 shows a close race, within subgroups there are some large differences in sentiment, based on a poll conducted between October 18-28 by the Field Poll.[89]
Group % Yes % No
Obama voters 21 73
McCain voters 84 13
Identify as non-partisan 31 60
Female voters 42 51
Male voters 46 47
Voters over 65 62 32
Identify as conservative 87 10
Identify as liberal 10 86
Identify as moderate 40 51
Live in coastal counties 39 54
Live in inland counties 57 37
White non-Hispanic 44 50
Latino 46 48
African-American 49 43
Asian-American 41 51
High school education 62 27
Post-graduate education 33 61
Protestants 60 33
Catholics 44 48
Anyone growing up in Southern California in the 80’s has to remember the Federated Commericals staring Fred Rated (Shadoe Stevens). This is an awesome montage of many of their commericals. I can’t believe they made over 1000 commercials in 4 years, that’s a lot of production. Shadoe Stevens is a radio icon in SoCal as one of the original DJs for KROQ.
So for those that haven’t heard we got a new car. I don’t have any great pictures to show of it yet, I’ll take some this weekend to show it off. We got a 2008 Infiniti G35 Journey Sedan Sport (that’s a mouthful!). The car is just amazing, talk about power, 0-60 in 5.4 seconds, 306 HP, V6 with RWD. I absolutely love the car. In addition to all the power it’s great inside, power leather seats, navigation, XM radio, it even has a back up camera! We are really enjoying it.
In addition to that I was able to get Apple to replace my iPhone due to various issues I was having with it crashing, hopefully this will resolve those issues, so far so good! Kelly has to take a trip up to San Francisco so she will be gone Thursday night till Friday night, I’ll miss her.
Other then that most everything else is good. We went to Oak Glen two weekends ago with all my family (parents, sister, brother in law and kids) and picked apples. We brought them home and Kelly cooked an apple pie, while I BBQ’d for everyone. It was nice all hanging out, I’m hoping we can start doing that more often on my side of the family. I did something to my left shoulder on Sunday morning and it’s been very painful when I extend it forward and do other various movements with it, so I’ve had to pull up lame on softball for awhile. If it still feels the same next week I’ll set up a doctors appointment to get it looked at; but as it is right now, I can’t swing a softball bat.
Work is good, very busy lately, but busy is a good thing, especially in this economy! My cousin Tim is getting married this weekend, I’m really happy for him! Next weekend we are going to see The Who!
This video hits dead on why it shouldn’t matter if a man and woman, woman and woman, or a man and man can marry. With a world with so many issues as there already are, is it really right to discriminate a couple that loves one another because they are different then you?
Allowing two people of the same sex isn’t going to affect me in any way shape or form, it won’t make my love for my wife Kelly any less, and it won’t change the direction the world rotates. Children aren’t going to all the sudden be taught that not only can Betty and Ted get married but so can Fred and Ted, or Betty and Bertha. People once were affraid of different races or nationalities getting married, just like they were once affraid of different religions getting married, it’s all the same. It is not our place to place judgement on what is right and wrong. As the famous rapper 2-Pac once said (Doug will love this) “Only God can judge me!”.
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