Here are some of the things I am Thankful for...............................................
Charlotte and Randy's bathroom is as big as our house,lol. It has 5 rooms in it and the walk in closets are called bedrooms in other people's houses. The food was great. The company even better. I hope you are all as lucky as I am and that you got to spend your day with your favorite people also. Happy Thanksgiving.
Trader Joe's opened in Nashville!!!!
I only took a few pics of our Trader Joe's haul. We lived a block from one in LA for 15 years and have certainly missed having one. Kevin's mom always brings stuff back when she visits California. She went the other day and reminded us it opened. They said they had the biggest opening in TJ's history and there is not a booze section in our store so that's pretty cool. The place was so packed it was unbelievable. It was a Whole Foods that closed a few months back. Tater loves these dog biscuits and Kevin is going to make her sick feeding them to her. Zola is a little turd and seems to want to be near Tater more and more lately. I missed two basketball games, a football game, and three days of work because of a head cold. I managed to get to one game and took a picture of our star athletes as you enter the Basketball Arena. There is a boy and a girl from each team. I cleaned house all day and have done about 30 loads of laundry. I have used a few cans of Lysol and am currently laundering the bed linens. The weekends fly by and it is already time to get stuff ready for work tomorrow. All the students are on break so I will only have my regular employees until December 2nd. That's okay. I can hardly keep up with the little rascals anyhow.
I just got a confirmation from Amazon that my book by our fellow Voxer Laurie is on it's way and I am very excited!
Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes officially came out this weekend, announcing to the estimated crowd of 1,000 gathered in Las Vegas at one of the many rallies for gay rights taking place around the country on Saturday that she’s gay, and that she legally married her wife in California on Oct. 25.
Send / ShareAdd CommentSykes (who divorced her husband of seven years in 1998), has spoken out about gay rights issues many times in the past, recently participated in a campaign to fight anti-gay slurs, and has openly referred to her wife in some of her stand-up routines.
But she has always declined to specifically discuss her sexual orientation publicly — until now.
“I don’t really talk about my sexual orientation," she told the crowd at the Las Vegas GLBT Community Center. "I didn’t feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life."
"Everybody that knows me personally, they know I’m gay. But that’s the way people should be able to live their lives.”
But the passage of Proposition 8, she told them, spurred her decision to officially come out. “ We took a huge leap forward and then got dragged 12 feet back. I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked — our community was attacked."
“Now, I gotta get in their face," she continued. "I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay.”
Sykes joins WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes as one of the few high-profile black women in America who have publicly come out as a lesbian or bisexual woman.
Just before the Nov. 4 election, Sykes talked about homophobia within the black community on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, acknowledging there are differences between the black civil rights movement and the gay civil rights movement, but saying, "discrimination is discrimination, and of all people, black people should know about discrimination."
Currently co-starring with Julia Louis Dreyfus in the CBS comedy The New Adventures of Old Christine, Sykes — along with Jasika Nicole of Fox’s sci-fi drama Fringe — is one of the only out actresses currently playing a leading or supporting role on primetime broadcast television.
She and her wife are among the 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who married during the four months same-sex marriage was legal in California, including many lesbian couples in the entertainment industry.
Sykes said in her speech that she believes passing Proposition 8 will ultimately backfire on those who are against gay marriage.
"They pissed off the wrong group of people," she told the crowd. "They have galvanized a community. We are so together now and we all want the same thing and we shouldn’t have to settle for less. Instead of having gay marriage in California, no, we’re gonna have gay marriage across the country."
I knew this about her but I bet lots of people didn't. I applaud her for doing this in such a public way.
Vanderbilt Commodores are going to a bowl game after beating the Kentucky Wildcats. We held the record for not getting to a bowl game longer than any team. We still have two games left to play so we can improve the game we play in.
Gee Wally! You're pretty talented.
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell.
Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed The Beav's big brother, Wally, in the '50s TV series "Leave It to Beaver," will have one of his abstract sculptures on display at the Louvre. Several sculptors from the Karen Lynne Gallery — including Dow — will have their works shown at the historic art museum in Paris as part of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition.
"Having something shown at the Louvre is about as good as you can get," said Dow, who lives in Los Angeles, "especially when it's a juried show like this where there's a panel of judges who pick the pieces to be in the exhibition. I'm a little humbled by the whole thing but grateful nonetheless."
Dow, who has also worked as a director and visual effects producer on several TV shows, has been painting and sculpting since he was a teenager. The 63-year-old artist's sculpture that will be shown at the Louvre from Dec. 11 to Dec. 14 is titled "Unknown Warrior," and is a bronze figure of a woman holding a shield.
"Of course, I'm really proud of 'Leave It to Beaver' and my directing career in television," said Dow. "Those are great accomplishments. I'm really proud of them, but this is interesting because I don't think they know anything about that at the Louvre."
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Who'da thunk it! I think they are really good works. The Louvre! Wow.
Just a question in case people hadn't thought about this:
How does it feel to be black and gay in California? While the rest of the black community shed the "shackles" of history and took their place as fully equal citizens of the United States they relegated many of their own people to remain perpetually second class. I would like to see black gays stand up together and make some noise. November was supposed to be the month that the past was buried and dead.
The hope was that with the election of President Obama that the final barrier to being black in America would come down.
And it was but a few million people were dumped into the pit as a sacrifice to an unforgiving God who creates people only to judge and punish them. He uses his own creations to punish his other creations and that's why I'm glad to have the God I do. I don't want the laws of the land decided by a cut-rate Walmart God who is mean spirited and ugly.
Their God is the God of the Bible that thinks slavery is okay. That children should be stoned to death for disobeying parents. That animal sacrifices should be made to him.
So I have to tell you that while I hunted for pictures of black gay people I was stunned that it took me so long to find non-pornographic pictures, given the number of black gay people I know, have known and the number of Community leaders I have met having lived in so many large cities across the country. That goes for men and women.
I had hopes that we could put the gay rights issue behind us so we could go out into the world and combat the hatred that exists in other countries. People are jailed and executed all over the world for being gay. Perhaps buried to their necks and stoned to death. Or strung up in public squares and beaten to death with sticks. Or hung and left hanging for the community to see. All in the name of God.
We are supposed to set an example throughout the world on how things are done corredctly. The Bush Administration and it's Faith Based Initiatives have caused more damage to the gay community than any other thing in recent history. And other countries have used our model as an example. Shame on us. Look at what we have done.
What about being a black lesbian. Black. A woman. Gay? If you meet black lesbians you should give them all the respect in the world because they have been battered more than any single other group of Americans. Housing, employment, judgement? The American Dream of equality has a long way to go. Looks like Canada is still an option. I want less and less to give my money in the form of taxes and charitable contributions to a society that throws it's own people away.
http://www.aclu.org/transition/
Read this. I think you'll find it addresses many things we've all been bitching about. Let's make sure some of this stuff gets taken care of. Barack will read it. Especially if we all send our pictures. He loves taking goofy pictures.
Do it for America. Let's help Barack turn this sucker around.
It's good for the country and safe for the baby!
Now get out there and save the country.
that all men are created equal!
This is one of the greatest days in American History.
The line has been crossed and we will never go back again.
None of it was in vain. The world is about to change for the better.
Four more years, four more years!!!!!! Yes we did!!!!
Congratulations everybody. Let those tears of joy flow.
Breathe in and then out. Pinch yourself. It really happened!!!!
