As promised with a surprise included

So like I promised, here is your blog that is only a few days late.  In my defense, reorganizing a basement is exhausting work.  Anyway, let's see what issues are out there this week for me to blog about.

I can't blog without mentioning the oil spill in the Gulf.  Notice the lack of a link, because everyone knows about it.  I'm not getting into whether we should drill here, drill now or any of those issues.  However, I do have a few questions that I have about this.  First, what was the condition of the rig that it exploded in the first place?  Second, what sort of regulations were in place to keep the rig in a workable condition?  Third, when it did explode (wherein the logical extrapolation would be that it would sink and oil would end up in the ocean) why didn't they immediately begin to prepare for the oil spill instead of waiting until it happened?  Just a couple things, like I said.

"THAT GROUP" is doing more reprehensible things.  I mean, come on, picketing funerals (the funerals of veterans to boot) is one thing.  But who pickets and protests at a high school graduation?  What message is this sending, and what can possibly be gained from doing this, aside from cementing the fact that you and your group are the biggest [insert whatever appropriate expletive you want] in the world.

A couple of weeks ago, I read an article (and possibly linked to it here, but I can't find it) about how some baseball players got kicked off a league for not being gay enough.  You can find the PDF file of the lawsuit that followed here.  I can't think of anything that would justify this.  Is the gay community setting itself up for some sort of reverse discrimination quagmires?  I'm not sure.  But I don't like this sort of thing.

Apparently DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell) is working just fine.  As evidenced by the video for this week's blog.  The video shows a group of soldiers who are apparently in Iraq making a parody video of Lady GaGa's music video "Telephone".  So...yeah.  DADT, works great.  I'm not supporting DADT in any fashion, but attempting to make a joke.  Not sure if it worked.  Blogging is a hard medium for comedy.  Go watch the video already.





So even the former FLOTUS couldn't even convince her hubby to leave gay marriage alone.  This article/blurb mentions a quote from her memoir.  I'm actually shocked that they have gay friends and such.  And I don't know why, but it just strikes me that if they have gay friends, and are friends with people who have gay children, wouldn't you think that would give you some insight into the hardships of the gay community?  Apparently not, as evidenced by the last sentence of the blurb.

The bigotry and hatred in the south continues to abound in ways that continue to astonish me.  But then again, it's the south, so...  This article mirrors the Constance McMillen issue, but apparently being gay is still thought of as catching according to this article. 

I wonder if these issues involving High School-ers are being thrust into the spotlight is because kids are coming out earlier.  In any event, here's another issue of High School bigotry in full force.  I can't even imagine how she must feel to have been left out of the yearbook.  The yearbook is one of the highlights of every year of school.  To be left out, would be tantamount to having your classmates tell you that you don't exist, and aren't worthy of being acknowledged as a person.

Being that it's the south, I'm sure that they're approach to homosexuality would be to send them to an ex-gay ministry/therapy.  Well as this video shows, and I'm sure there are more, but I'll post a link rather than just the video so you can explore.  The video is basically ex-gay advocates apologizing for what they supported.  I watched part of it, and it's not bad.  

There's a lot more going on in the realm of gay news.  You can follow links on this page to go search for yourself.  On that note, happy weekend, and I'll see you next Wednesday, assuming that I don't get totally wrapped up in dealing with boxes and re-packing.