This past week has been an eventful week for state and our country. Novemeber 4th the polls opended and by the end of the day, with an electoral map covered in red and blue (mostly blue) we were announced our presidential elect for 2008. Barack Obama was elected into office with a 6.5 lead over his running opponent John McCain, becoming our FIRST black president, a day that will go down in our nations history.
Our president elect had made history, but it wasn't the only pressing matter that people were voting with baited breath for (or against) California residents had their fair share of life changing propositions on the ballot this election season.
For instance, Proposition 8 is a State ballot proposition that would amen the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to it's original definition as "between a man and a women"
There are very strong arguments for both sides of this, equality for all being the major theme on the side of same sex marriage. TV airs commercials speaking of how our nation has come so far from where we started, when speaking of open mindedness and tolerance. They show clips of news paper articles that forbid interracial couples the right to get married, but then they even go so far as to compare voting yes on prop 8 to putting Japanese in confinement camps during the second World War.
That is ridiculous.
My parents are extremely conservative republicans but even they agree with me that same-sex couples should be allowed equal rights, taxes and tax benefits, as a couple. The argument against those who want to keep marriage between one man and one women is completely unfair, exactly what those who voted yes on pro 8 were accused themselves of being.
Same-sex marriage offends me. Not because a man and man, or a women and a women offend me, and not because I think sexual orientation is a choice, and that they chose wrong, but because for me, and millions of americans like me, religion plays a huge part of my fixed opinions.
I believe that marriage is a bond between a man, and women and God, with the purpose of procreation and the benefit of the way in which we ARE to go about procreating. I don't think sex is centered around procreation but I do believe that marriage was established as a bond between man women and God in order to create the healthiest universe possible.
On Novemeber 4th we voted Yes on pro 8, putting marriage back into its original terms, between one man and one women.
Marriage rarely will be what it was meant to be. A union between a man, a women and God. But the least we can do, I feel, is keep it in its original design.
In Arkansas they decided that Gay and Lesbian couples shouldn't be allowed to adopt children either, THATS AWFUL.
A loving family is better then the system any day, and anyone who can't see that is incredibly close minded. Thankfully here in California we allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
This all leads up to a question that I will leave for you to decide.
Should we be lead now by politics or religion.
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, but have we forgotten what governed us in the beginning?
11/8/08
11/2/08
we will whether the weather
California is renown for its year-round gorgeous weather. Many people don't understand that it's mainly Southern California that is stuck in this mid 70's limbo. Northern California, and even more inland areas such as Riverside can drop to frosty lows during the winter, albeit it's not snowing, it's gonna leave you in need of a thick winter coat. The beach cities do experience a low variation of weather changes, usually hitting highs of 100 and lows of mid 50's.
This brings me to a significant point, being, people from southern california aren't conditioned to handle life.
Every year for Thanks Giving my family goes up to the mountains for the holiday week. This is my favorite holiday and I'm fairly sure it has to do with watching my family deal with actual winter conditions.
One year, we got up to the cabin, which was located atop a set of (about) 50 stairs, around the time of our arrival it began to hail. Hail is rain that, while falling from the sky, freezes. It's hailed twice in Long Beach, but for the most part, over 50% of my family doesn't know what hail is, given over 50% of my family is under the age of 10...
Anyways, at this point in my life, (around 13) I had never seen snow or hail. I'd seen rain, but that was about it. As we start out climb up the stairs to the cabin door, the hail starts falling from the sky.
"OH MY GAWWWDDDDD ITS SNOWWING!!!!!!"
"no. it's not snowing"
"YES IT IS, ITS SNOWINGGGGGG"
"nope. its hail"
"....its what?"
Proof that there is a variation of weather in California. For the record, the largest recorded hail stone was 7 inchs in diameter and 19 inchs in circumference, I can't help but wonder what it hit..
Another nice thing about living in Southern California is that the slightest change in weather is wonderfully exciting. It rained yesterday for the first time in a while and the thumping of rain drops was accompanied by well over half the neighborhood kids running into my house screaming for hot chocolate and umbrellas.
The downfall of it all is that we can't handle much more then a drizzle. After half an hour of being quarantined from the muddy front yard my home was a mad house of children running like caged animals, which they were for the most part.
Once upon a time there was a really stupid man from Southern California (this is a true story)
Now, whether he was stupid by chance, or growing up in So. Cal had dramatically effected his ability to handle life, we'll never know...Now, I'm at work and it's pouring, like i've never seen it pour before. All the people who were out side are inside, it's raining so hard that people are avoiding reasons to leave for fear of driving. Stupid man says...
"Hey, since I can't sit outside can I smoke in here?"
"Uhhh, probably not, I'm sorry but inside is a non-smoking zone"
"Well, what if I smoke in the bathroom?"
"Uhhh, probably not, like I said, it'll set off smoke alarms and stuff"
"Well, what am I supposed to do then?"
"Uhhh, well you could step outside..."
"Are you f()cking kidding me?!?!"
"uhhh...no, that's your only option really"
the end.
This brings me to a significant point, being, people from southern california aren't conditioned to handle life.
Every year for Thanks Giving my family goes up to the mountains for the holiday week. This is my favorite holiday and I'm fairly sure it has to do with watching my family deal with actual winter conditions.
One year, we got up to the cabin, which was located atop a set of (about) 50 stairs, around the time of our arrival it began to hail. Hail is rain that, while falling from the sky, freezes. It's hailed twice in Long Beach, but for the most part, over 50% of my family doesn't know what hail is, given over 50% of my family is under the age of 10...
Anyways, at this point in my life, (around 13) I had never seen snow or hail. I'd seen rain, but that was about it. As we start out climb up the stairs to the cabin door, the hail starts falling from the sky.
"OH MY GAWWWDDDDD ITS SNOWWING!!!!!!"
"no. it's not snowing"
"YES IT IS, ITS SNOWINGGGGGG"
"nope. its hail"
"....its what?"
Proof that there is a variation of weather in California. For the record, the largest recorded hail stone was 7 inchs in diameter and 19 inchs in circumference, I can't help but wonder what it hit..
Another nice thing about living in Southern California is that the slightest change in weather is wonderfully exciting. It rained yesterday for the first time in a while and the thumping of rain drops was accompanied by well over half the neighborhood kids running into my house screaming for hot chocolate and umbrellas.
The downfall of it all is that we can't handle much more then a drizzle. After half an hour of being quarantined from the muddy front yard my home was a mad house of children running like caged animals, which they were for the most part.
Once upon a time there was a really stupid man from Southern California (this is a true story)
Now, whether he was stupid by chance, or growing up in So. Cal had dramatically effected his ability to handle life, we'll never know...Now, I'm at work and it's pouring, like i've never seen it pour before. All the people who were out side are inside, it's raining so hard that people are avoiding reasons to leave for fear of driving. Stupid man says...
"Hey, since I can't sit outside can I smoke in here?"
"Uhhh, probably not, I'm sorry but inside is a non-smoking zone"
"Well, what if I smoke in the bathroom?"
"Uhhh, probably not, like I said, it'll set off smoke alarms and stuff"
"Well, what am I supposed to do then?"
"Uhhh, well you could step outside..."
"Are you f()cking kidding me?!?!"
"uhhh...no, that's your only option really"
the end.
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