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Jan. 14th, 2004
The Where I've Been Meme
Jan. 14th, 2004 07:50 pmBold=visited (for at least 2 days), Italics=spent a night, Underline=Lived there, ALL CAPS=currently live there, *Asterisk=born there
1) Alabama 2) Alaska 3) Arizona 4) Arkansas 5) California 6) Colorado 7) Connecticut 8) Delaware 9) Florida 10) Georgia 11) Hawaii 12) Idaho 13) Illinois 14) Indiana 15) Iowa 16) Kansas 17) Kentucky 18) Louisiana 19) Maine 20) Maryland 21) Massachusetts 22) Michigan 23) Minnesota 24) Mississippi 25) Missouri 26) Montana 27) Nebraska 28) Nevada 29) New Hampshire 30) New Jersey 31) New Mexico 32) New York 33) North Carolina 34) North Dakota 35) Ohio 36) Oklahoma 37) *OREGON 38) Pennsylvania 39) Rhode Island 40) South Carolina 41) South Dakota 42) Tennessee 43) Texas 44) Utah 45) Vermont 46) Virginia 47) Washington 48) West Virginia 49) Wisconsin 50) Wyoming and DC
That was fun to do. It's been fun to read everyone else's too, and see where they've been. My folks liked to get out and travel and see places.
EDIT:A few of mine that I've just visited are states that I've driven through on family trips to other places. I pulled those off the list.
1) Alabama 2) Alaska 3) Arizona 4) Arkansas 5) California 6) Colorado 7) Connecticut 8) Delaware 9) Florida 10) Georgia 11) Hawaii 12) Idaho 13) Illinois 14) Indiana 15) Iowa 16) Kansas 17) Kentucky 18) Louisiana 19) Maine 20) Maryland 21) Massachusetts 22) Michigan 23) Minnesota 24) Mississippi 25) Missouri 26) Montana 27) Nebraska 28) Nevada 29) New Hampshire 30) New Jersey 31) New Mexico 32) New York 33) North Carolina 34) North Dakota 35) Ohio 36) Oklahoma 37) *OREGON 38) Pennsylvania 39) Rhode Island 40) South Carolina 41) South Dakota 42) Tennessee 43) Texas 44) Utah 45) Vermont 46) Virginia 47) Washington 48) West Virginia 49) Wisconsin 50) Wyoming and DC
That was fun to do. It's been fun to read everyone else's too, and see where they've been. My folks liked to get out and travel and see places.
EDIT:
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Jan. 14th, 2004 08:16 pmAnd morons still think that being gay is a "choice"... I'd love to shove this in the face of every one of those ignorant fools!
Of the 53 penguins in the Central Park Zoo, Silo and Roy are not the only ones that are gay. In 1997, the park had four pairs of homosexual penguins. In an effort to increase breeding, zookeepers tried to separate them by force. They failed, said Gramzay.
From this article I found courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mickeym
Awwwww!!
::hugs the adorably sweet & cute penguins::
And in case you're curious about other known gay members of the animal kindom, the article also has this to say:
Bruce Bagemihl's "Biological Exuberance," published in 1999, documents homosexual behavior in more than 450 animal species. The list includes grizzly bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls and even several species of salmon.
ETA: My issue with people thinking being gay is a 'choice', is that frequently that is used as a reason as to why homosexuals should simply 'choose' to stop being gay and stop living what they seemingly believe is an immoral and evil lifestyle.
As thinking beings, we are above living lives of pure instinct. In my opinion, that does not mean that gays can simply make a conscious choice to 'stop being gay'. If someone is sexually attracted to a persons of the same gender as themselves, they will always be attracted to those people and a simple choice will not make that go away. Of course, there are many people who choose to ignore or suppress this part of themselves, and live their life as a 'straight' person regardless of whether their that sexual preference is, in my opinion, their inborn nature. This kind of choice is not without consequences.
I feel that one's sexual orientation is *not* a choice. Whether you are attracted to people of the same gender as yourself, or those of the opposite gender, that is an inborn genetic component of who you are. However, like Catholic priests who are (supposed to be) celibate, you can choose whether to act on that sexual preference. But choosing to change who you are sexually attracted to is, in my opinion, impossible. For people to expect their fellow citizens of humanity to do so is not only ignorant, but is harmful in that it marginalizes and degrades those members of humanity who are doing nothing more than trying to live their life in the way they feel is right for them.
Of the 53 penguins in the Central Park Zoo, Silo and Roy are not the only ones that are gay. In 1997, the park had four pairs of homosexual penguins. In an effort to increase breeding, zookeepers tried to separate them by force. They failed, said Gramzay.
From this article I found courtesy of
mickeymAwwwww!!
::hugs the adorably sweet & cute penguins::
And in case you're curious about other known gay members of the animal kindom, the article also has this to say:
Bruce Bagemihl's "Biological Exuberance," published in 1999, documents homosexual behavior in more than 450 animal species. The list includes grizzly bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls and even several species of salmon.
ETA: My issue with people thinking being gay is a 'choice', is that frequently that is used as a reason as to why homosexuals should simply 'choose' to stop being gay and stop living what they seemingly believe is an immoral and evil lifestyle.
As thinking beings, we are above living lives of pure instinct. In my opinion, that does not mean that gays can simply make a conscious choice to 'stop being gay'. If someone is sexually attracted to a persons of the same gender as themselves, they will always be attracted to those people and a simple choice will not make that go away. Of course, there are many people who choose to ignore or suppress this part of themselves, and live their life as a 'straight' person regardless of whether their that sexual preference is, in my opinion, their inborn nature. This kind of choice is not without consequences.
I feel that one's sexual orientation is *not* a choice. Whether you are attracted to people of the same gender as yourself, or those of the opposite gender, that is an inborn genetic component of who you are. However, like Catholic priests who are (supposed to be) celibate, you can choose whether to act on that sexual preference. But choosing to change who you are sexually attracted to is, in my opinion, impossible. For people to expect their fellow citizens of humanity to do so is not only ignorant, but is harmful in that it marginalizes and degrades those members of humanity who are doing nothing more than trying to live their life in the way they feel is right for them.
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Jan. 14th, 2004 08:27 pmBWHAHAHAHA!!
from an interview here with QAF's Hal Sparks:
Interviewer: Politics first. The gay-civil-unions guy is running for president. What do you think of Howard Dean's candidacy?
Hal: I think he seems like a great guy. I'm not a big fan of Western medicine, so having a doctor in the White House isn't a good idea, but it's better than a spoiled rich kid with a psychotic reflex.
I knew I liked him for a reason! He's damn funny! (I agree with him about the "spoiled rich kid with the psychotic reflex"completely... let me clarify. In all humor there's a grain of truth. Sometimes smaller, sometimes larger. I agree with the grain of truth, or the truth as I perceive it, in that funny little statement of his.
from an interview here with QAF's Hal Sparks:
Interviewer: Politics first. The gay-civil-unions guy is running for president. What do you think of Howard Dean's candidacy?
Hal: I think he seems like a great guy. I'm not a big fan of Western medicine, so having a doctor in the White House isn't a good idea, but it's better than a spoiled rich kid with a psychotic reflex.
I knew I liked him for a reason! He's damn funny! (I agree with him about the "spoiled rich kid with the psychotic reflex"