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Amazing.  I’ve successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and I didn’t crash the blog at all!  If you happen to notice anything out of place, please let me know but I think that things are all in order and I’ve got a new back end to play with that is far more user friendly.  I know I’m a geek but I enjoy this sort of thing.

I made it back today after 2 days of intensive training with my company over in Wisconsin.  I’m exhausted and I have to work all weekend too.  I likely won’t write again until next week but you never know, I may be inspired by something so just stay tuned.

I found this graphic the other day and think it’s worth uploading due to the screaming the wing-nuts are up to lately.  If you have not been following, gays are now being blamed for being pissed off with the largely religious voting base that in my opinion (and many others who know a LOT more than me) has illegally stripped a suspect class of a fundamental right.  Say what you will about “constitutional” rights and activist judges HOWEVER, the CA judiciary determined that gays were a suspect class AND that marriage was a right they were entitled to (just like everyone else).  There are 3 parts to this government and in these cases the checks and balances ALL WORK exactly like they are supposed to work, it is simply that a vocal population disagrees with the judicial outcome and simply does not understand the decisions (but they sure do when judges agree with THEM now don’t they…).  A predominantly religious base did not agree with that CA decision and successfully (through ballot initiative) wrote specific discrimination into the CA constitution.  The legal arguments out there will draw this out for likely a couple of years but the outcome is pretty well decided and it is again, an outcome that God fearing bigots will not like.  In America in 2008 it is unacceptable for a majority to oppress a RECOGNIZED minority from obtaining and realizing their constitutional rights.  This is not an argument you can win with scripture and I will do my bloody best to resist being a second class citizen of this country.  Ya, OK you can have my soap box now but I intend to push you off of it again.