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In the era of pretending we’re a free and tolerant society, the overall voice seems to be clear. We can tolerate that you’re gay, or different than us, as long as you display it in the privacy of your own home.

Just recently a story broke that is no doubt “breaking news” to openly gay couples who try to act like it in public. Sirbrina Guerrero was at a Mariners game against the great Boston Red Sox (yea i’m a Sox fan, shoot me haha), when she was with her date doing ‘date’ things. Cuddling, feeding each other nachos, pecking each other on the lips and ripping each others clothes off having porno-like hardcore lesbian sex in the stands.

Ok, so I made up the last part, but you’d think based on the reaction from some people, that’s what happened. They were told to stop giving each other kisses because it’s inappropriate in public, yet if you go to a game, it probably won’t take you too long to see a straight couple cuddling and giving each other kisses.

When asked what their problem was, many of the responses seem to be the typical “how am I supposed to explain two people kissing from the same sex to my child”? Sure, logical answer because you get to play the ‘kid card’ and nobody wants to argue against the children, and nobody dares want to question the parenting behind it. Apparently it’s too difficult to just be open and honest with your children and explain to them that there are all types of people in this World and it’s not a horrible thing for them to show affection to each other. In the process, you may actually teach your child tolerance so they don’t grow up scared of anyone different than them.

So next time you’re walking down the street and you see a gay couple doing something that wouldn’t offend you if they were straight, it’s not the gay couples issue. It’s yours, and it’s something you need to deal with.

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Back in the ‘olden days’, it was a time to get on your cruiser, pick up your chick and head off to the local drag race that usually ended up with some fiery crash over a cliff. Afterwards the gang would all hang out at some local burger joint with their cars running all night long and not a care in the world about burning up that oil. Ok, maybe I watch too many movies, but you get the idea.

Now, fast forward a few decades, and here we are in a situation where the best summer vacation is sitting in your house with the blinds closed hoping Iranian soldiers don’t come marching down your street siphoning your $4/gallon gas from your cars while sprinkling magical terrorist powder everywhere. Obviously the Iran situation is just more hyperbole spread by the Bush administration so we can try to get into another war before he leaves office, but sadly the gas situation is real and it is hurting the pockets of Americans.

How can we correct the situation? Is there even a solution? I mean other countries around the World have been paying higher gas prices for a while now, all while rolling their eyes at us complaining over our prices. Of course those countries don’t belong in the Middle East where their gas prices are so cheap they can fill up their tanks with change found under their seats.

And what about car companies? Where are they in this crisis? Why do they keep putting out vehicles with 25-35 mpg and act like we should sell all our property and rush right out to buy one? If they want to impress me, pump out a car with 100 mpg. I don’t need the power to be able to drive 175 mph, give me a large go-kart that reaches highway speeds and has the look / feel of a car and i’ll be happy.

Is that too much to ask? Does this post really make much sense? Am I that bored?

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Barring some miracle for the Clinton campaign, it’s set to be John McCain (aka Bush v2.0) vs Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential election. That is pretty much set in stone at this point, but the Clinton campaign keeps chugging on, as they have the right to do.

Now, i’m not going to be one of those people to say Mrs. Clinton should drop out of the race, in fact in her situation she’s pretty much stuck between a rock and a hard place, assuming she really cares about the democratic party winning this winter. I do think it’s historic seeing a female so close to being the nominee, and for her to quit before she’s eliminated will display a form of weakness towards her gender and her party.

Of course when a male drops out of a race before he’s officially eliminated, nobody thinks twice about it. However because Clinton is female (we think), gender seems to be taking a front seat to the more important issues this election. The war in Iraq, health care, the economy, etc. It’s pretty frustrating to anyone who cares about those issues to hear the gender issue come up almost daily, and many times from the Clinton campaign itself.

That said though, its’ pretty much a sure thing that she won’t be able to win against Obama at this point. She’s behind in almost every important category, and it would take a huge swing of the super-delegates for her to win the nominee. However, i’m not sure if she understands it or not, but most people respect the election process and for something like this to happen, it’s going to take away all the strides this 2008 election have made. We currently have a black guy going against a female for the chance to run against a 150 year old man.

If all of the sudden the leading vote getter and delegate leader were to lose because a few people decide they don’t want Obama to win, that will be a massive blow to both the democratic party and democracy in general. Then not only will Clinton lose the hardcore Obama supporters who would be furious about that, they would also lose a big chunk of those like myself who would have supported Clinton had she won fairly. Therefor, should the super-delegates sway to Clinton because of electability reasons, that would defeat the purpose and she would no longer be electable.

Mrs. Clinton needs to drag this out until June and the last election, and then gracefully drop out and fully endorse Barack Obama.  That is the only way she can both appease her base, and not screw up the democratic party enough that Bush 2.0 ends up sneaking in causing this war to last for 100 more years.

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It feels good to see quality shows return to TV to balance out the massive amount of crappy reality shows they’re putting out now. Don’t get me wrong, I watch the occasional reality show here and there, but they really need to cool it. Does anyone really care about what goes on in the day to day life of some non celebrity like Kim Kardashian? I mean if they’re going to follow people around who make sex tapes, why not choose a real porn star? I’d be curious to see what a real porn star does when she isn’t getting slices of bologna thrown on her while wearing a sheep outfit.

Back to “The Office”, I got a little side-tracked which happens from time to time. If you haven’t seen it yet, the show is mostly set in an office called “Dunder Mifflin” which is a paper company in nowhere PA. The premise of the show is extremely boring which makes it that much better, and semi-realistic. It features a boss who tries really hard to be everyones friend but usually fails pretty horribly at it. Each officer worker has a unique personality which makes the show very interesting and very funny every week as there is always something new happening.

Sorry i’m not the best at describing tv shows as I try not to give too much away, or build up hype and have people let down. It’s definitely worth checking out if you’ve never seen it before, and if you have this is just a reminder that it’s on tonight

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So there is a story out today about a group of women trying to get some strip clubs shut down, and to my surprise it was in the UK and not the United States. Not to say that women in the United States are prudes, there are many who aren’t, but there seems to be groups left and right looking to shut down anything that pretends men and women are not the same gender. In fact i’m having reservations about writing a post talking about it for fear of some lashing :p

Now this story is about the increasing amount of large companies that hold meetings and entertain clients are strip clubs, and the strip clubs that seek to accommodate them. One of the largest strip clubs in the UK opened smack dab in a business district for that reason. A group called “the Fawcett Society” is not only trying to get business meetings shut down, but trying to get stricter licensing laws to help curb the amount of clubs opening up.

This is where i’m torn. On one hand I do see their point that it has to be tough on high level businesswomen who don’t exactly enjoy going to business meetings with naked women around, and they do miss out on social ‘bonding’ if they choose not to go (as none of these meetings are required). That being said though, I find it odd that they’re going after the strip clubs themselves, instead of focusing on the businesses that do this.

Even going after the businesses seems to be a weak attempt at fixing anything, as life in the corporate world will always have these kind of issues regardless of strip clubs. If this group gets anything accomplished, you’re going to see all types of groups popping up trying to fix their issues at work. I’m sure issues similar to this happen in companies everywhere. Female execs probably do things that aren’t very appealing towards male co-workers, and male execs also do things that not all men enjoy, like going to sporting events, bars, etc.

So this situation seems to be one that cannot be resolved without more tightrope walking around corporate offices, but i’m guessing it will not end until we’re all robots who show up, do our jobs, smile like Mr Brady and go home acting like everything is great with their job. Reality is this will just make co-ed work environments already more uncomfortable than they already are.

Source: cnn.com

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This has to be one of the stranger stories i’ve heard in awhile. Terry Cottle was a 33 year old male from South Carolina who was married to 28ish year old Cheryl Cottle and had four children with her. Terry ended up committing suicide via a gunshot wound in 1995, possibly because he was married and had four children

Well, in comes Sonny Graham (pictured above), an old fart with a heart condition. In the same year (1995), his doctors diagnosed him with the condition and put him on the donor list hoping someone like Terry comes into the picture. Well, lady luck must have been smiling upon the old geezer, as just after Terry offed himself, his heart was prime for a transplant and got shoved in Sonny’s chest.

Now, here is where the story gets a bit weird. Thankful for the heart, Sonny decides to contact the Cottle family and ends up sharing letters with Cheryl, the grieving widow. Over a year of communication, Sonny (or better known as mr. viagra) ended up sweeping Cheryl off her feet and she ended up falling for Sonny. Some would say she loved his big heart, but that’s just a cheap joke.

Well, the story ended up taking an even weirder turn. Sonny, apparently unhappy in his life with Cheryl, her four kids, his own two kids, and six grandchildren, he decided to go the route of Terry. He placed a gun to his own neck and pulled the trigger, effectively ending his old life and leaving Cheryl (a former grieving widow of a suicide victim) as, you guessed it, a grieving widow of a suicide victim.

All joking aside, that has to be pretty hard on Cheryl. Maybe she was a nagging crazy wife, or maybe she was the perfect wife, but either way she has to now face the rest of her life as a mid 30’s widow x2, with both of her husbands sharing the same heart, and same fate. She could probably make a reality show of her going on dates just to see the reaction of guys when they hear that story.

Oh, and it’s also reported that Dr. Kevorkian is looking into buying that heart for his patients

Source: islandpacket.com

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WTF! I’m not sure if there is much else to say about this whack job who apparently was so desperate for a child, she strangled a lady, cut her open and stole her FETUS! Judging from her mugshot, it’s no shock she was desperate for a child as no guy with any standards would tap that. I mean look at her, she looks like the type of girl who would have sex with you, tie you up, snap your ankles “Misery” style, then rob you blind and leave you with one carrot in your mouth and one up your butt.

Serious though, does a person get much crazier than trying to steal a baby out of a woman? I thought stealing newborns from hospitals was a little wild, but this is clearly a new level and one I still can’t grasp.

On the bright side, she was sentenced to the gas chamber, but I think before they put her in, they should give her a plastic doll, tell her it’s real and it needs to go in her womb to survive. Then watch what crazy things she comes up to make that happen. You could video tape it, sell copies and give the proceeds to the family she destroyed.

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In the not so shocking news of the day, there are reports that there is violence and sex in “Teen Jails” around the country. And not surprisingly, many of those doing the abusing are the people in power.

A guard drove his knee into the neck of a frail suicidal Ohio boy after the youth was wrestled to the ground and held down by other guards who stripped him and covered his face with a smock, a state report said.

Erica was 16 when she was sentenced to Columbia after running away, a probation violation of an earlier marijuana conviction.

She admits she was a girl quick to sass her parents, full of anger about the death of a relative that happened around the same time Katrina wrecked her family’s Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, home.

Nervously touching a sparkly barrette in her red hair, she cries as she describes how guards forced her legs into tight metal shackles. She said she was cuffed and chained when she ate and used the bathroom — and was even forced to play soccer that way against other girls.

Guards called her “Chain Gang,” she said.

“I will always remember them things around my ankles, the way they cut into me,” she said, pulling up her pant leg to show slash-mark scars on her ankles and heels. “They made you feel like you were nothing.”

Now, aside the from funny part of calling her “Chain Gang”, this story is pretty disturbing on a few levels. This seems like some bitchy, snooty teen girl who had some troubles in her life so she had to rebel. She can join the millions of other teens around the country who are doing the same thing for various reasons. What bothers me about the story is that she was thrown in jail for breaking probation on a marijuana conviction.

So here you have a rebellious teen girl who is smoking pot to deal with the fact that her house was destroyed, someone close to her died, and probably other girl things like her bewbies growing and dorky pimple faced guys trying to bone her. She gets busted, probation, and breaks probation and is now sent to freakin jail with the teens who probably punch kittens for hobby. Not only does she have to deal with the punks in jail, but then the people with the authority there are messing with her by chaining her up in shackles and forcing her to play soccer that way.

I’m glad to see the crackdown of these guards, as nobody with authority should abuse it for personal gain, but they’re missing one of the roots of the issue. They’re sending people to these jails for such minor issues like smoking marijuana, and most definitely other stupid issues that should be dealt with by means other than locking them up and scarring these kids for life.

It’s just another case of the system having ridiculous policies and then getting upset when those policies come back to bite you. This girl should have never been in the jail in the first place, and that fact is going to be glossed over like many other root issues surrounding the problems in this country.

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One of his final moves as owner of the New York Yankees, George Steinbrenner built a nest inside Fenway Park to house hawks that were bred to attack anyone or anything displaying the Red Sox logo. It is reported that Steinbrenner was furious about the 2004 World Series Championship the Red Sox won, so he started breeding the Hawks in the event they won another Championship sometime in the next 86 years.

When the Red Sox won the World Series in 2007, Steinbrenner was forced to put his plan into action by planting the nests over the winter and hoped they would attack the first Red Sox player they saw, namely Manny Ramirez or David Oritz. Sadly, he forgot to plan on Fenway Park tours which resulted in the first of probably many hawk attacks to happen this summer at Fenway Park.

A red-tailed hawk attacked a girl on a tour of Fenway Park Thursday, drawing blood and sending the girl to a hospital for treatment.

The middle school student was touring Fenway with a group from the Memorial Boulevard Middle School in Bristol, Conn., when she came within 40 feet of a nest the hawk had built on an overhang near the press box.

In other related news, it has been reported that George Steinbrenner has purchased ‘The Boston Channel’ which could explain the obvious cover-up in the reported story claiming the hawk was the one who built the nest.

source: The Boston Channel

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One of the better comedies on TV is returning tonight after a layoff that lasted way too long due to the writers strike. It’s always good to see more scripted shows return to the air and do well opposed to the massive amounts of reality tv we have flooding the airways recently.

The show reminds me a lot of another quality show, King Of The Hill. Both shows have a quality writing staff that produces well thought out shows on a weekly basis, with the lead character of the show being a good hearted guy who is just trying to do the right thing. Neither shows are full of laughs from start to finish, but both usually feature some really funny parts through each show, and if not they’re always just good shows to watch.

Ok, enough of me being lame over a show. There are few quality shows on TV lately, so I just had to point out one of them. I’m sure you’ll see something similar when ‘The Office’ returns, which I believe is next week.

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