More Prop 8 stuff.  Olbermann really knows how to say what I believe.

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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.

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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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The problem with politics; the root of the problem with all political parties and with political candidates is that instead of choosing the best person normally I’m stuck with having to choose the least bad person for the job.  Look I’m a responsible adult that tries to make the right decisions when it comes to my career, my life, and my investments, I don’t feel I have the need to be baby-sit and have my hand held throughout my life by the government.  It’s the government’s responsibility to protect me, not to take care of me.

I’m not looking for handouts, I don’t feel that the government has an obligation to me to provide health care, bail me out of bad financial investments, nor give things I want free.  I do think people that make more money should pay more taxes.  Look if you are making millions of dollars you can afford to pay more taxes, sure it sucks, but that’s the price of being successful in our society.  I do think the government needs to look out more for the people of the USA then they do for the companies of the USA.  I have very conflicting views that travel the full gamut of political parties.  I love the environment and believe we should do a lot more then we currently do to protect it.  I feel that our immigration laws should be enforced, not because I hate people that are different, but because I want people that are willing to endure the difficult process of becoming an American citizen, instead of those looking for a free ride (it’s a privilege not a right).  I’m all for people coming here for a better life, but you got to do it the right way.  Children up to the age of 18 deserve great education, because they are our future of the US, preschool should be mandatory from around age 3, and there should be wide improvements in the infrastructure of the US educational system, up to high school.

All investment in corn as a fuel should be stopped and more research should be taken into more efficient ways of the production of fuels (there are types of grass that are less expensive and much more efficient).  All government subsidies should be removed.  Abortion should be legal for any pregnant woman, but at the same time there should be strict guidelines on what reasons and when.  Religion has no place in laws, period.  People that get married and or have children should not get tax breaks.  In fact people that have children should have to pay more taxes.  Oh by the way, I don’t care if you are straight or gay, you deserve to be married to the person you love regardless of your sexual orientation.  Marriage is not a religious concept.  If religions want to call it something else, more power to them, but a marriage is a marriage and that’s what the government should recognize it as.

Companies shouldn’t be able to lobby the government to make things illegal because they might compete with their business.  This is a free market as long as the item isn’t going to be deadly to my health it should be legal (not to say all substances should be legal, but things like stevia were illegal for years for no apparent reason).  Talking about legal substances, marijuana should be legalized and taxed.  But being under the influence of it should be illegal at times, just like alcohol.  I could probably go on and on, but I’d continue to make too much sense if I do.

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So, I’ve always sort of had a pet peeve about MOST motorcycle riders.  In my opinion for all intents and purposes they pretty much have no place in this world.  Many of them drive as if the road belongs to them and all others must bow and succumb to their rule of the road.  Not to say that people that drive cars aren’t the same, but it appears to me that the percentage of assholeness is higher for motorcycle riders then it is for cars.  Case in point.  Yesterday Kelly and I were driving home from her work on the 55 freeway at 5 PM.  We were in the carpool lane and the traffic was slowing down in all lanes including the carpool lane.  All the sudden about 4 motorcycles come riding along the right side of us in the quadruple yellow island that separates the carpool lane from the freeway lanes.  Now I’m not traffic cop but my understanding it is illegal for ANY vehicle (which is what a motorcycle is) to cross/drive/use that area on any public road, but that doesn’t stop these assholes from doing it.  In addition I was in MY lane right in the middle as one is supposed to drive and these motorcycle riders have the audacity to expect me to move over in order to support their illegal use of the island.  It’s bad enough that California law allows them to split lanes but they then expect other vehicles to move out of their way because they choose to split lanes and if you don’t they still end up driving right by you within inches of hitting your vehicle.  Oh did I mention that the 4th motorcycle was so wide that he barely squeezed by me and once he did he flipped me off?  I’m sick of these assholes that think the road is theirs and all must move for them.  it’s completely unsafe.

Not to mention a question for the crowd, in California the HOV (Carpool Lane) is for “vehicles” with 2 or more people in them, there is then an additional sign that states “motorcycles ok”, now my interpretation of that is that vehicles with 2 or more, including motorcycles that have 2 or more people on them, am I wrong to understand it that way?

And lastly why must most motorcycle riders be such attention whores?  Their motorcycles are loud.  It’s even worse when you sitting at a stoplight and then split lanes to get to the front and their engine is blasting.  I thought there were laws against excessive noise…  Oh well.

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