Kayote in Wonderland

The randomness of today:

• 16:43 I HATE VISTA!!!!
• 16:44 you know, if I wanted to not be THE ADMIN on my own damn computer I would use a dif account. *SCREAMS*
• 17:02 HAHAHAHA!!! Vista has be pwned!!!
• 17:34 *sigh* no, didn't pwn Vista. :( Vista just sux!!! Why did they do this??? I can't install the program I want to install even as the real adm
• 18:33 k, just pwned vista again... but I now perm loath this damn OS!!! I can haz a mac nao? :[ plz
• 20:19 ok, my day was made better by someone on DragCave being nice and giving me a chicken egg... my daughter think I'm a tard now...

I think I've calmed down enough to post about this but we shall see...

Usually I'm on top of these things but I've been slacking lately on keeping up with news about my favorite shows, for some reason I was caught up in politics. So Friday night while watching Stargate Atlantis they have a promo for upcoming episodes and I hear them say they are the final episodes. I'm all WTF??? THEY'RE CANCELING IT??? And I hit the internet. Yes indeed, it's been canceled. SciFi is pointing the finger at MGM. It was MGM's decision to pull the plug and SciFi didn't have a say. However we're supposed to be placated with a new Stargate show that starts filming in early 2009 called Stargate Universe which sounds basically like a sexed up teeny bopper show if you ask me. Bunch of 20 somethings flying around in a ship. Sorry guys, that's not Stargate anything, that's more like Starship Troopers.

SciFi can't blame this totally on MGM though. Apparently when SciFi pulled the plug on SG:1 they really made sure they killed it good. MGM wanted to continue the show on another network and SciFi had a cow about it saying their first run rights were permanent even though they didn't want to show them. That left MGM with their only choice in wrapping up the show as the DVD movies they have released for SG:1. Those have apparently made them enough money to decide to give SciFi a taste of their own medicine and pull the plug on the Atlantis series and make DVD movies instead. Some snarky asshole at MGM then took one look at the crap SciFi has left for programming and offered them another steaming pile of shit with the Stargate label slapped on it to replace it. HAHA Revenge for killing SG:1!

Gone are the days when I looked forward to tuning in to SciFi to watch my favorite shows... They've all been canceled. After they finish up Battlestar Galactica sometime next spring I'll never tune my television to that channel again.

Oh, yeah, BSG lovers, final season starts January 16... right after Stargate Atlantis ends it's run.

The randomness of today:

• 16:22 @jendraknet oh man, I am jealous!!
• 16:30 12 days till I go to Vegas!
• 16:32 Oh, and we shall call it my temp move to Vegas, I'll be there for a few months. My aunt is having back surgery sometime after Jan 1.
• 19:54 @Aiyuki CALL YOUR SISTER! :p
• 20:12 @davensjournal I could have told you before you asked damnit lol I'll keep thinking though
• 20:17 @davensjournal Three to Tango

The randomness of today:

• 04:24 @thorswitch because of the whole hyper age thing for children on soaps. :p
• 06:37 *kicks tinyurl*

This is the transcript of Keith Olbermann's special comment tonight on the passage of proposition 8 in California. This one literally brought me to tears as I watched.

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
msnbc.com

Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast.

Some parameters, as preface. This isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics, and this isn't really just about Prop-8. And I don't have a personal investment in this: I'm not gay, I had to strain to think of one member of even my very extended family who is, I have no personal stories of close friends or colleagues fighting the prejudice that still pervades their lives.

And yet to me this vote is horrible. Horrible. Because this isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics. This is about the human heart, and if that sounds corny, so be it.

If you voted for this Proposition or support those who did or the sentiment they expressed, I have some questions, because, truly, I do not understand. Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships, these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option. They don't want to deny you yours. They don't want to take anything away from you. They want what you want—a chance to be a little less alone in the world.

Only now you are saying to them—no. You can't have it on these terms. Maybe something similar. If they behave. If they don't cause too much trouble. You'll even give them all the same legal rights—even as you're taking away the legal right, which they already had. A world around them, still anchored in love and marriage, and you are saying, no, you can't marry. What if somebody passed a law that said you couldn't marry?

I keep hearing this term "re-defining" marriage. If this country hadn't re-defined marriage, black people still couldn't marry white people. Sixteen states had laws on the books which made that illegal in 1967. 1967.

The parents of the President-Elect of the United States couldn't have married in nearly one third of the states of the country their son grew up to lead. But it's worse than that. If this country had not "re-defined" marriage, some black people still couldn't marry black people. It is one of the most overlooked and cruelest parts of our sad story of slavery. Marriages were not legally recognized, if the people were slaves. Since slaves were property, they could not legally be husband and wife, or mother and child. Their marriage vows were different: not "Until Death, Do You Part," but "Until Death or Distance, Do You Part." Marriages among slaves were not legally recognized.

You know, just like marriages today in California are not legally recognized, if the people are gay.

And uncountable in our history are the number of men and women, forced by society into marrying the opposite sex, in sham marriages, or marriages of convenience, or just marriages of not knowing, centuries of men and women who have lived their lives in shame and unhappiness, and who have, through a lie to themselves or others, broken countless other lives, of spouses and children, all because we said a man couldn't marry another man, or a woman couldn't marry another woman. The sanctity of marriage.

How many marriages like that have there been and how on earth do they increase the "sanctity" of marriage rather than render the term, meaningless?

What is this, to you? Nobody is asking you to embrace their expression of love. But don't you, as human beings, have to embrace... that love? The world is barren enough.

It is stacked against love, and against hope, and against those very few and precious emotions that enable us to go forward. Your marriage only stands a 50-50 chance of lasting, no matter how much you feel and how hard you work.

And here are people overjoyed at the prospect of just that chance, and that work, just for the hope of having that feeling. With so much hate in the world, with so much meaningless division, and people pitted against people for no good reason, this is what your religion tells you to do? With your experience of life and this world and all its sadnesses, this is what your conscience tells you to do?

With your knowledge that life, with endless vigor, seems to tilt the playing field on which we all live, in favor of unhappiness and hate... this is what your heart tells you to do? You want to sanctify marriage? You want to honor your God and the universal love you believe he represents? Then Spread happiness—this tiny, symbolic, semantical grain of happiness—share it with all those who seek it. Quote me anything from your religious leader or book of choice telling you to stand against this. And then tell me how you can believe both that statement and another statement, another one which reads only "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

You are asked now, by your country, and perhaps by your creator, to stand on one side or another. You are asked now to stand, not on a question of politics, not on a question of religion, not on a question of gay or straight. You are asked now to stand, on a question of love. All you need do is stand, and let the tiny ember of love meet its own fate.

You don't have to help it, you don't have it applaud it, you don't have to fight for it. Just don't put it out. Just don't extinguish it. Because while it may at first look like that love is between two people you don't know and you don't understand and maybe you don't even want to know. It is, in fact, the ember of your love, for your fellow person just because this is the only world we have. And the other guy counts, too.

This is the second time in ten days I find myself concluding by turning to, of all things, the closing plea for mercy by Clarence Darrow in a murder trial.

But what he said, fits what is really at the heart of this:

"I was reading last night of the aspiration of the old Persian poet, Omar-Khayyam," he told the judge. It appealed to me as the highest that I can vision. I wish it was in my heart, and I wish it was in the hearts of all: So I be written in the Book of Love; I do not care about that Book above. Erase my name, or write it as you will, So I be written in the Book of Love."

The randomness of today:

• 21:09 @TarotByArwen my grandfather the geologist graduated from Tech hehehehee
• 21:59 @tarotbyarwen my obama lol @pwnedkitten ... i'm here now. @jazdewills get me can't her know don't think would that's @draknet <--twee ...

The randomness of today:

• 21:02 YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• 21:07 I'm a blubbering idiot right now. OMG! What a night!
• 21:12 McCain has called Obama and conceded!
• 21:20 McCain is giving his concession speech now. This is for real, really for real.
• 21:45 looks like the landslide I was predicting...
• 21:58 Obama just came on stage and the tears are a flowin again. I'm so proud to have been a part of this historic election.
• 22:27 Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America
• 22:38 @jazdewills twitter is so lagged, watch em show up tomorrow. lol
• 23:24 My pick for Mayor won too. :D
• 23:33 @TarotByArwen that is actually a txt message that was read the other day on NPR. Great quote.
• 12:50 @_MEGASTAR_ I'm going to go to Vegas for the winter. It's too fookin cold here now.
• 15:54 @moon_ferret eh volunteers can be fired too. So sayeth the Beeotch Goddess. BTW, @Teal_Cuttlefish is an awesome mod. *wink wink*

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America!

I am elated to have been a part of this historic election. I witnessed history and more, I participated in history. What a night!

I also get a cookie for predicting this landslide victory. :)

I exercised my civil right to vote today and was privileged to witness my 19 year old daughter register and cast her first vote today.

I woke up this morning with only a few hours of sleep and threw on some clothes. I then called my son-in-law so he and my daughter could ride with Parker and I down to the polling location. They both had to register so they could vote and I'm happy this state is one that allows registering at the polling location on election day.

So even though I do not at all expect Wyoming's 3 electoral votes to go to Obama all four of us did cast our votes for Obama... and every other democrat on the ballot. I left the one where only republicans were on there blank just to make a statement.

Remember, voting is a RIGHT so if you haven't voted yet please do.