Happy, happy birthday, Lisa! Have cake! Have a hug!

I'm kinda optimistic about my Saints this year.

My undergrad school had a football team, but I never went to a game, because the games were on the other side of the city and it was a pain to get there. Also, I don't understand football. The university I'm at now has no football team.

I'm watching an Israeli movie on TV. I've discovered two things. 1. The only people whose Hebrew I can understand are the ones with American accents. 2. If I'm going to be watching movies with subtitles, I need new glasses.

Birthday Felicitations, Lisa!

While I knew Obama wasn't a supporter of gay marriage, it is quite a slap in the face to actually see it spelled out in print. I wish I could vote for a candidate that thought my rights were worth protecting instead of simply the "lesser of two evils." I am more depressed over this than I should be this morning.

Right there with you, GC. I have a horrific feeling that women in general are going to have to resort to suffrage all over again. I look at where this society was ten years ago and weep for the erosion, not only of rights, but the inattention and passivity that refused to notice when it was happening, one little increment at a time. Attitudes and expectations are so much different now, and I can't think any of it is for the better.

Obama may be a sign of hope for Democrats--though he's made so many concessions I can't quite believe in that, either--but he offers no hope to women, nor to families or individuals not firmly entrenched in the one-man-one-woman-as -many-kids-as-God-sends-us mindset, preferrably fundamentalist Christian. Others need not apply.

The Behind the Scenes video that BO sent to folks yesterday.

Um. I just realized that his initials are REALLY unfortunate. Wow.

I'm in the middle of a two-hour call that no one is participating in. Good times.

Does that mean you can hang up? Or just natter a lot? (Um, at least it's not at 5AM?)

Happy Birthday LisaH!

I wish I could vote for a candidate that thought my rights were worth protecting instead of simply the "lesser of two evils."

Amen, sister. Amen.

but he offers no hope to women, nor to families or individuals not firmly entrenched in the one-man-one-woman-as -many-kids-as-God-sends-us mindset, preferrably fundamentalist Christian.

Now, that I don't agree with. Fundamentalist Christian?!?

Yeah, I was all energized for Obama and I'll still vote for him, but I'm no longer the "rah rah" supporter I was.

whereas for me he's been a lesser evil all along.

Does that mean you can hang up? Or just natter a lot? (Um, at least it's not at 5AM?)

Actually, it meant that it ended early, so that's something. It was supposed to be an update call, but most of the people weren't on it, and half of the ones that were didn't say anything. But yes, at least it wasn't at 5am.

meara is me, wrt Obama.

Happy birthday Lisa!