And It Breaks My Heart


“Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

As someone who’s seen so many friends, family and even my own husband suffer from the scars that divorce can leave behind, especially for children, I am completely enraged that our government would seek to split up so many loving families because of their own bigotry. It makes me so sick. Please, please sign this petition. It takes 10 seconds and could make a world of difference for so many.

I can’t imagine what hell it would be if a law was suddenly passed that divorced Trent and myself. How would I tell Lucy? How would I explain what was happening, that people didn’t believe in her dad and me and therefore we couldn’t be together? That people claimed “God” didn’t recognize our marriage?

In the same breath, I think, how will I tell her about what is happening in California? When she asks if I did anything, if I stood up for the right thing, would I say yes?

YOU can tell the Supreme Court to invalidate Prop 8 and let loving, committed couples marry. Click here to sign the petition to the US Supreme Court, who will hear oral arguments on the unconstitutionality of Prop 8 on March 5. They will make a decision to either invalidate Prop 8 or divorce 36,000 people within 90 days.

And for those of you who say there are more important things to worry about than social issues (especially that person who told me no one will give a damn about the social issues in this country until the economy is fixed), I say, what kind of country are we trying to fix, if the rights of so many are taken away. If we had the greatest economy in the world, but no social conciousness, this country would be in horrible ruin. The US was built upon certain principals, and in the worst of financial times, it may be all we have.

Why Lucy Must Learn French?

Have I posted this before? If so, suck it up and watch it again. It will make you happy.


Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo.

News Vent

Today, I am breaking some blogging silence to tell the mainstream media that they surely do need to give themselves an enema. Holy. Effing. Crap. I got on my selected news channel of choice’s website today and immediately wanted to throw my computer out a 12-story window. Why? Let me show you:

CNN Screencap FAIL

OK, so maybe you can’t read that, so let me tell you about the top stories online today.

1. “Papa John’s founder warns against eating too much pizza” (also seen as “Papa John’s Radio Gaffe) – Apparently, while in London promoting the British franchises of his restaurant chain, the founder of Papa John’s pizza told his interviewer that “Pizza’s actually healthy for you if you don’t eat too much of it. You can’t eat five or six slices but if you eat one or two slices it’s very nutritious.” Apparently that is quite the gaffe. A restaurant owner told people NOT to eat too much of what he produces. Instead of encouraging us to Super Size everything in sight, he told us to get healthy. How dare he?!

I say kudos to Mr. Schnatter for putting the health of his patrons before corporate greed and investors. This was not a gaffe, and I will be eating at Papa John’s (moderately, of course) because of it.

And also, isn’t the fact that eating six slices of pizza in a sitting will make you fat common knowledge? This isn’t a great scientific discovery, AP reporters.

2. “Recession takes toll on parties” – AREYOUKIDDINGME! Effing waaahhh you poor babies. This mentality makes me ill.

3. “Phelps suspended from competition, dropped by Kellogg” – Nothing pisses me off more than the idiocracy that has led to the marajuana laws in this country. Michael Phelps smoked pot. A 23-year-old male college student smoked pot. An athelte smoked pot during the off season. Get over it! Jesus, it’s pot. Not crack. Not steroids. Not even alcohol, which kills more people per year than pot does and ever will. While Kellogg’s certainly sees nothing wrong with pushing unhealthy amounts of sugar in to my two-year-old’s diet by shoving cartoon frogs and tigers down her throat, it has a problem with an adult man smoking (maybe, hasn’t actually been proven) pot out of a bong. Get off your high horse Kellogg’s. At least Michael Phelps isn’t smoking out of a bong with a cartoon cat on it, telling kids it’s GRRRREAT!

4. Octuplets’ mom: ‘All I ever wanted’ – Idiot. No money, no career, no partner to help raise the children, six other young kids already. Implanted SIX EMBRYOS! Idiot. And I’m talking about the fertility doctor, not the woman, as she’s obviously unbalanced and we don’t make fun of mental illness on CB dot com.

Wow, I feel better. Don’t you? Now let’s get out in this insane-o seventy degree weather and forget the news. If just for one, happy day.

CPSIA Blogging Day – Save Handmade!

See these skirts?

Skirts
{via Kissing Kumquats}

I bought them last week for Lu on Etsy for a couple of fun Spring days. Aren’t they freaking adorable? And very, very well priced.

Well, if a certain law goes in to effect next week, it will be illegal for the wonderful maker of these skirts to sell them. Why? Well, it’s a complicated issue, but here’s the gist of it:

In 2007, large toy manufacturers who outsource their production to China and other developing countries violated the public’s trust. They were selling toys with dangerously high lead content, toys with unsafe small part, toys with improperly secured and easily swallowed small magnets, and toys made from chemicals that made kids sick. Almost every problem toy in 2007 was made in China.

The United States Congress rightly recognized that the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) lacked the authority and staffing to prevent dangerous toys from being imported into the US. So, they passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) in August, 2008. Among other things, the CPSIA bans lead and phthalates in toys, mandates third-party testing and certification for all toys and requires toy makers to permanently label each toy with a date and batch number.

All of these changes will be fairly easy for large, multinational toy manufacturers to comply with. Large manufacturers who make thousands of units of each toy have very little incremental cost to pay for testing and update their molds to include batch labels.

For small toymakers and manufacturers of children’s products, however, the costs of mandatory testing will likely drive them out of business.

Basically, a law with good intentions will make it illegal for small businesses in the U.S. to make anything handmade for children (not just toys) unless it complies with all of the above, which is nearly impossible for any small company. So instead of a great, handmade toy, your child can play with something plastic from Mattel. Instead of my daughter wearing these awesome skirts, she’ll be wearing something stitched up by an 8-year-old kid in a factory in Korea. Instead of reading books in local libraries, these books will be thrown in the garbage.

Go here, learn more and sign a petition if you’d like. I’ll be over at Etsy, buying everything I see before the law goes in to effect (February 10th, people!). Don’t tell Trent.

Currently Reading – 50 Most Loathesome People In America

This article made me laugh so hard that I had three people stop outside my office today to make sure I was okay. They rip democrats, republicans, entertainers, “reality” stars, political pundants, writers…even O.J. isn’t spared. I’ve pasted a few exerpts from the article below to entice you to read the entire thing here.

I will warn you, it’s not nice stuff. But if you’re offended, then you’re taking yourself way to seriously.

Barack Obama – Promised not to run for president, then did; vowed to take public election funds, then didn’t; backed telecom immunity, then accepted the nomination at the AT&T sponsored convention; expressed displeasure with Clinton’s hawkish foreign policy and vote for war in Iraq, then named her as Secretary of State.

Rev. Wright – Seriously, you don’t think the U.S. government could do a better job than AIDS? AIDS takes years to kill, spreads relatively slowly, and kills white people all the time. A CIA super-virus that can’t beat Magic Johnson? Unlikely.

Joe the Plumber – In a lot of ways, Samuel Wurzelbacher really does represent the average American—basing economic opinions on unrealistic expectations of personal future success, blaming his failure to meet those expectations on minorities and old people, complaining about deadbeats getting his taxes when he isn’t actually paying his taxes, and advertising his own rudimentary historical and mathematical ignorance by warning of creeping socialism in a country whose highest income tax rate has dropped by half in thirty years.

Dick Cheney – Still alive. The amount of medical resources devoted to keeping this black hole of decency operational could have cured cancer by now, but if they had, Cheney would make sure to keep it a secret.

Alan Greenspan – Refusing to accept any blame for years as the housing bubble, long-predicted by out-of-favor economic realists, bloated and burst, only recently has Greenspan accepted even marginal responsibility, admitting only that he was “partially” wrong, professing a state of “shocked disbelief” that lenders couldn’t regulate themselves, and thinking to himself, “This isn’t how it worked in Atlas Shrugged!”

George W. Bush – One good thing about him, though, is that he has no real interest in politics, and probably won’t give a flying shoe what happens to the world when his term is up.

John Edwards – And anybody knows that no nominee’s secret affair could survive the scrutiny of general election season—no Democratic nominee’s, anyway—so Edwards was knowingly jeopardizing the future of the world on the off chance the Enquirer reporter following him around, who already knew about the affair, wouldn’t find anything concrete. But hey, it’s not so bad, because, as Edwards stressed, his wife’s cancer was in remission when he began the affair. Classy guy.

The Clintons – Still around. Still married. Still rich. Still acclaimed. Still influential. Still sought. Still sanctimonious. Still aggrieved. Still phony. Still compromised. Still petulant. Still striving. Still self-pitying. Still self-important. Still important.

Sarah Palin – If you want to know why the rest of the world is scared of Americans, consider the fact that after two terms of disastrous rule by a small-minded ignoramus, 46% of us apparently thought the problem was that he wasn’t quite stupid enough.

You – You think it’s your patriotic duty to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when it’s actually because she’s just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and don’t understand why they’re so ungrateful.You think God zapped humans into existence a few thousand years ago, although your appendix and wisdom teeth disagree. You like watching vicious assholes insult each other on TV. You support gun rights, because firing one gives you a chubby. You cuddle falsehoods and resent enlightenment. You think the fact that 43% of whites could stomach voting for an incredibly charismatic and eloquent light-skinned black guy who was raised by white people means racism is over.

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