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Eighth list of ten: High and low points hit in one day (Adoption Day)

18 Comments Published February 10th, 2007 in Baba familias, Go hetero ally go!, Re: the bairn, Ten lists of ten, Visual aids.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part eight in a ten-part series.
[Key: lil' monkey/ kid #1 = 2.3 yr old daughter; lil' peanut/ kid #2 = 3 week old son]
As proof that a static state of happiness is a mirage, but then again so is a static [...]

Seventh list of ten: Things to do whilst waiting for the birth

8 Comments Published January 8th, 2007 in Baba familias, Ten lists of ten.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part seven in a ten-part series.
Around here, we answer the phone with the preface “Baby on the inside.” Thus, in a sing-song: “Baby on the inside; hello.” Not that friends and family wouldn’t expect to have been informed somehow [...]

Sixth list of ten: Things I have in common with dads

4 Comments Published December 28th, 2006 in Baba familias, Ten lists of ten.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part six in a ten-part series.
I’m a female parent who (a) didn’t give birth, but (b) is partner side-by-side with one who did, and (c) is in some ways nearly as mannish as I am womanish. As a result, more [...]

Fifth list of ten: How to build a better weblog award competition

1 Comment Published December 20th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten, Two kinds o' people.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part five in a ten-part series.
[Warning A: Jumbo post alert! Warning B: Of little interest to anyone who didn't ride the Weblog Awards roller coaster last week! If you didn't, please check back in another day or two for actual [...]

Fourth list of ten: Thanks to those who got out the vote

9 Comments Published December 17th, 2006 in Go hetero ally go!, Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part four in a ten-part series.
In what I hope will be one of the last direct references to the virtual roller derby that was the Weblog Awards, below are, near as I can figure,
Ten contingents to whom I owe thanks for [...]

Third list of ten: Crisis/grief support

8 Comments Published December 13th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Seraphim/dakini, Ten lists of ten.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part three in a ten-part series.
As regular readers of this assemblage of lesbo bon mots will recall, my parenthood is markedly influenced by loss. My inaugural post introduced this theme; I named one of my exceedingly obscure tags “Seraphim/dakini” to [...]

Second List of Ten: First words

3 Comments Published December 12th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part two in a ten-part series.
You didn’t think that a doting parent could actually resist the magnetic pull of her child’s first words, did you? Which were uttered over the course of the first hundred posts of this digital paean [...]

In celebration of the 100th post

10 Comments Published December 11th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten, Two kinds o' people.

A hundred stones on a beach in Tasmania, placed and photographed by a blogger (far more imaginative and intrepid than me) to symbolize and celebrate a hundred blog entries (click the photo to link to them).
Warning! Warning! It’s a blog meme. Or at least I think it is. I’m still enough of a [...]

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    From "Gay marriages in California surpass those in Massachusetts,", Jessica Garrison, on 7 Oct., 2008, at the Los Angeles Times.



    Data released Monday (6 Oct 08) by UCLA's Williams Institute found that an estimated 11, 000 same-sex couples were married in CA since June 17, when the court began to allow them. (Since May 2004, over 10,000 have married in Massachusetts.)



    Pastor Jim Garlow of Skyline Church in La Mesa, who has been rallying voters to pass the constitutional amendment, said: "The fact that there are big numbers doesn't change the reality that it is still bad for the country."



    Garlow, who along with hundreds of other Christians, is observing a fast until election day as a way to show his support for the proposed amendment, added: "There are enormous numbers of people doing cocaine right now. . . . Simply because large numbers of people are doing something does not make it right."
    "Foes of gay-marriage ban say poll shows Prop. 8 leading," by Jessica Garrison, 8 Oct., 2008, in the Los Angeles Times:
    The opposition has enjoyed a healthy lead in several surveys taken by polling organizations that do not have a stake in the campaign. But officials with the No on 8 campaign held a conference call with reporters Tuesday to announce that their own poll showed the measure would pass by four points. Opponents attributed the result to fewer television ads, which is, in turn, a result of the No on 8 campaign falling behind in fundraising.
    From Geoff Kors, Equality California, in an email to EQCA and No on 8 supporters, 7 Oct., 2008:
    Our worst nightmares are coming true.



    Today we learned of the massive $25.4 million our opponents have raised so far. They are using this war chest to broadcast lies: 24/7 and up and down the state of California.



    And the polls show the lies are working. We need your donation now.



    Yesterday’s CBS 51 poll shows that:



    “…likely California voters overall now favor passage of Proposition 8 by a five-point margin, 47 percent to 42 percent. Ironically, a CBS 5 poll eleven days prior found a five-point margin in favor of the measure's opponents.”



    People change their minds about Proposition 8 when they hear the lie that churches will lose their tax-free status if they won’t marry same-sex couples – EVEN THOUGH THIS IS NOT TRUE!



    So this is crunch time. With less than a month before the election, we must get on the air now to answer these lies and swing votes back to our side.



    And the ONLY way to do that it to raise more money. The generous $15.8 million that our supporters have given isn’t enough. Not when the other side has nearly $10 million more than we do and the fundraising gap is growing.


    Earlier:



    Ellen DeGeneres: "My Political Point... And I Do Have One," on 24 Sept., 2008 at her site.



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