GC, that really is bullshit. Friends of just did the 2nd parent adoption in Indiana. Which was just really awesome because their son is 14 and he wanted both his moms to be "legal." (JR is J's from a previous marriage.) I had no idea it was such an expensive, invasive process to go through.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Cashmere - Nov 02, 2009 10:41:10 am PST #29111 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Glamcookie - Nov 02, 2009 10:41:32 am PST #29112 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Is so not piss-poor little, JZ. I'm so thankful to have allies in this battle. Visibility is really important.
sj - Nov 02, 2009 10:47:25 am PST #29113 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
(((GC and DW))). This is not something you should have to deal with. I'm so sorry.
javachik - Nov 02, 2009 10:51:35 am PST #29114 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I am pissed beyond belief at the way our society craps all over parenthood. Two days of maternity leave? That's an insult. And GC's wife having to PAY MONEY to legally be the parent to her own child? I am there for whatever beat down is necessary. And I also vote.
-t - Nov 02, 2009 10:53:08 am PST #29115 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How can that be right? I mean, it's clearly not right, but how can that be the law? Argh.
Barb - Nov 02, 2009 10:54:53 am PST #29116 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
It's all bullshit. I'm sitting here spluttering that Jess is only granted two days of maternity leave and that GC & DW have to go through such crap to parent their own child. I'm adding Bertha the baseball bat to the beatdown mix.
Cass - Nov 02, 2009 11:02:22 am PST #29117 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
For those who like such things, a class in pyrotechnics ... basically, setting things on fire and blowing them up. Quote from the professor's assistant, "When samples don't ignite as quickly as he'd like, he gets out the blowtorch."
Or Jilli or Cass? Or me?
YES! Bev is the best. She'll let me play with fire and stuff.
talking about the promotee telling his children someday about how he was off in Iraq defending America from the people who crashed two planes into two towers.
This is just massively upsetting to me.
How can that be right? I mean, it's clearly not right, but how can that be the law? Argh.
As are the idiotic hops that Glam and DW are being forced to jump through just to legally make their family a ... family.
edit: hoOps, not hops. Being forced to jump through hops makes no sense at ALL either though.
Toddson - Nov 02, 2009 11:36:35 am PST #29118 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
We're having a big fuss in DC over same sex marriage - there's a bill before the council and a massive group of people opposed. Many of them were organized (back when the initial proposal to recognize same sex marriages from other states was brought up) by churches from outside DC. There is also a group of clergy from a whole range of denominations that is in support of marriage equality. Gave me a little glow when they had a clip of their first meeting on TV and there, big as life and charasmatic as all get-out, was the rector of my church.
Trudy Booth - Nov 02, 2009 12:23:24 pm PST #29119 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think a lot of people don't realize that any number of US churches were performing gay marriages well before any US states or cities were even discussing it.
WindSparrow - Nov 02, 2009 12:41:02 pm PST #29120 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
What a bunch of crappy, ugly things Seska, GC & her DW, and Stephanie are being confronted with today. I'm sorry. I wish I had more than words for each of you.