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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Man Is Pregnant for Second Time-New Normal?

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What do you think of this story presented by Barbara Walters on 20/20 about a man that is not only pregnant, but pregnant for the second time?



He successfully gave birth to a little girl last spring after being in labor for 40 hours. He did NOT have a caesarian, it was a natural child birth.



Now he is pregnant again.



Link to story

http://abcnews.go.com/…alth/story



These last few days since the election I have seen many many people showing their strong support for gay rights. Prop 8 in California has proven to be a lightning rod in that it ultimately and decisively showed Americans as bigots just at the moment in time when we were crooning over our ability to show our selves as not being racists by electing Barack Obama. Its hard to rejoice over a victory at the hands of a defeat.



Yet this story about a pregnant man pushes the envelope and the bounds of our societies perceptions, taboos, gender roles and much more.



Are we headed to a society where anyone man or woman can become pregnant, carry a baby to term and deliver a baby successfully?



Are we heading to a society where anyone can marry anyone else and in any number or combination?



Do we really need to maintain societal norms of 1 man for 1 woman no matter what?



We've seen divorce enter societal acceptance, witnessed trans racial marriages, witnessed trans ethnic marriages, witnessed arranged marriages, witnessed poligamy and bigamy and monogamy is this particular story all that different? Or is it just another step in our journey?

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

CNN Projects too

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Congrats Barack

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Campaigning at the Polling Place

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They were much closer than I would have like to have seen. No one there representing the presidential candidates though and there was a police officer to keep order.

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Early Voters DC

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This is another angle of the voters lining up to get into the church next door to my office.



This was taken at 8:30 this morning.

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In line at my polling place

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They say it's about an hour and a half wait from where I am in line. Not bad. Plus the weather is really nice today - great to be outside!

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I voted


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Voters on Election Day


It's Election Day in York County, and voters are telling us what they think.

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Voter preparation

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So first I woke up about 7:12 am after crashing at 1:12 am last night. I donned my hacker safe t-shirt and my charlie brown sweater as symbols of what I hope to avoid today.



As I write this, I am emptying my flash cards from my cameras. Then I'm going to run by the gas station and by several coke zeros before heading to the polls.



I'm packing 2 digital cameras, a cam corder, my aircard, laptop, voice recorder and xshot photostick.



I'm brushing my teeth while I type and I still need to shave, but then I'll be ready to go. The kids are staying home with their grandfather (long time non voter in protest). My wife voted a couple days ago after waiting in early voting lines for a couple hours. I'm betting lines will be short after early morning workers clear out of the way.



I have no idea who I will vote for. I am unlikely to vote for John McCain. I'm leaning towards voting for Bob Barr to continue supporting Libertarians and 3rd parties, or possibly Barack Obama, who still even on the day of the election reminds me of George W Bush in the way he panders to his base.



I've ruled out John McCain because he just does not seem to be the leader I thought he was in the 90's. So, who knows. :)



Guess its a crap shoot for me this year. I'd like to see the country to come together and I'd like to see the energy policy that Obama promises, but given his background in politics, I seriously doubt that he will do it.....



We'll see, and I'll let you know.

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We're Off to Oust the Wizard

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I got this one from my brother. I had a very cute reply for him, but I'm not going to share it with this group. I'm tired of debate.



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