To Obama: UR DOIN’ IT RONG

This is Obama’s answer to gay rights.

I’m not going to say much about this, as Obama’s answer pretty much explains itself. I wish he would actually do something about it. Instead of saying how much he wants to extend rights to gays, how about actually doing it? It’s not that hard. Set a fucking precedent and just DO IT.

I was once addicted to emoticons

I’m going to post something really personal right now. I think I need to tell people, because people need to know just how serious this is. I was once addicted to emoticons.

Yes, some of you may be snickering, but it really is no joke. It can take over lives and ruin them so quickly. It’s becomes very serious when you or someone close to you posts too many emoticons.

I understand how it feels. You become so lonely and everybody finds you irritating when constructing sentences on forums, because sometimes, your sentences completely CONSIST of emoticons! I will now tell you my own personal story of developing such an addiction and finally overcoming it. Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy. Here is my story…

This should be interesting…

I’ve joined a forum called “Rapture Ready“, basically it’s a Christian forum. This forum doesn’t exactly look like a fundie Christian forum as they don’t seem as crazy, but at the same time, some of the shit that’s been typed up there seems really… bronze age?

I’ve taken a particular interest to “The Ladies Forum“, which so far makes me feel sick and dirty after I’ve read a few threads.

I’m still waiting for the admin to confirm my account, but this should be interesting.

OBAMA! WHATCHA DOIN’?!

I’m reading through the double issue of The Economist (December 19th 2009 to January 1st 2010). Near the beginning of the magazine, they have these little snippets of news briefly detailing what’s been happening in the world within this week so far. I see this little piece of news on Obama, briefly detailing what he’s done so far since he’s been president. According to the magazine, he has:

• Overturned a prohibition on federal funding of stem call research. Eased restrictions on dealing with Cuba.
• Lifted a ban on people with HIV travelling to the US.
• Health-care reform deal.
• Promised to close the detention centre at Guantanmo
• Pledged to cut emissions
• And promoted the first Hispanic into Supreme Court.

That’s pretty awesome. You can see he’s quite sincere into fixing things, no thanks to George Bush and the mess he left the US in.

I’ve found that he seems to be very fond of the flaming homosexuals, but nothing has been done so far (or am I out of the loop here?). He has said that he plans to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, wants to expand protection of sexual orientation for hate crimes and wants adoption for same-sex couples, just to name a few. But where is the action? I want my cake too. I see that Australia has awesome relations with the US. The US doing those things mentioned before would hopefully influence Kevin Rudd in doing the same things.