Posts made by raphjd

It sounds like the situation is solved.

Sadly, I'm sure the bigots will win as usual.

Eastern Europe is not center right.  They are far right.

I'm sure he understood that is what I meant.

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Hawaii governor vetoes same-sex civil unions bill

By HERBERT A. SAMPLE, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 7, 7:06 am ET

HONOLULU – Hawaii's governor ended months of speculation by vetoing contentious civil unions legislation that would have granted gay, lesbian and opposite-sex couples the same rights and benefits that the state provides to married couples.

Republican Gov. Linda Lingle's action on Tuesday came on the final day she had to either sign or veto the bill, which was approved by the Legislature in late April.

The measure would have made Hawaii one of six states that essentially grant the rights of marriage to same-sex couples without authorizing marriage itself. Five other states and the District of Columbia permit same-sex marriage.

Lingle said voters should decide the fate of civil unions, not politicians.

"The subject of this legislation has touched the hearts and minds of our citizens as no other social issue of our day," she said. "It would be a mistake to allow a decision of this magnitude to be made by one individual or a small group of elected officials."

For weeks, Lingle heard emotional statements from both supporters and opponents of the bill. On Tuesday, she invited leaders from both sides to her standing-room only news conference.

Opponents of the measure, including many religious groups, erupted in cheers and hugs when the announcement was made.
"What she did was very just, and I'm very happy about it," said Jay Amina, 50, of Waianae. "It sends a good message throughout the state of Hawaii — that our people here on the islands are standing for traditional marriage."

Supporters of civil unions shouted, "We'll keep fighting!" and "Let's go!" The group of about 100 joined in singing "We Shall Overcome."
"We had hoped the governor would do the right thing for civil rights and equality," Lee Yarbrough of Honolulu said while standing arm-in-arm with his partner. "This battle is far from over."

The Aloha State has been a battleground in the gay rights movement since the early 1990s. A 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court ruling nearly made Hawaii the first state to legalize same-sex marriage before voters overwhelmingly approved the nation's first "defense of marriage" constitutional amendment in 1998.

The measure gave the Legislature the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples. Lawmakers responded by enacting a law banning gay marriage in Hawaii but left the door open for civil unions.

Last year, civil unions easily passed the House but stalled in the state Senate. When legislators reconvened in January, it was passed in the Senate but shelved by House leaders until the final day of the legislative session.

About 60 percent of the more than 34,000 letters, telephone calls, e-mails and other communications from the public to the governor asked her to veto the measure, the governor's aides said late last week.

Lingle's decision will be the last development on the proposal this year. State House leaders had decided not to try to override any of her vetoes.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled in favor of gay couples' rights in two separate challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, a 1996 law that the Obama administration has argued for repealing. The rulings apply to Massachusetts but could have broader implications if they're upheld on appeal.

It must also be noted that the Obama administration, in both of the defences of DoMA, said that gay relationships were not better than incest, bestiality and pedophila.

So while they tell us that DoMA should be repealed, they have done everything they can to stab us in the back on the topic.

I have yet to find a way to get decent quality converted videos from FLV.

SATA II hard drives are better and cheaper nowadays.  Make sure it's 7,200rpm or faster, as the 5,400rpm HDDs are pretty sluggish when 500gb and over in size.

With a good inkjet printer, some full face printable discs and Accoustica CD/DVD Label Maker, you would be a lot better off than with Lightscribe and the expensive discs that it needs.

External speakers and a decent monitor would also be on the cards.

A seedbox is mostly so you can have faster file transfers between you and other people on the tracker.  It has little to do with your home computer other than it saves your home bandwidth for other things.

YES, getting files from your seedbox to your home computer depends on your ISP's bandwidth.

You will need to take the stuff from your seedbox and put it on your home computer to burn it to disc.

You have to remember, this is the same boyfriend that doesn't care how his female friend treats him {pornynick}.  They already discussed that and the boyfriend chose his female friend over ponynick's feelings.

It does seem very odd that the boyfriend has sided with his female friend and is now also regularly seeing his ex.

My point being, increased participation will increase your reputation just by virtue of how that system works. Give it a try.

He is right.

If you notice, you already have have positive rep now.  :hug:

Most countries still refuse to accept that women can be child molesters, even with countless cases already recorded.  So this won't help us much either.

They should be fined and lose their tax exempt status.

I've always liked "twink" for the youngest actors {as it is now} and "frats" instead of "young bloods".

@martini20:

The term 'barely-legal' sends out the wrong message and invites unwanted attention, imho

I agree.

Nice find.  :hug2:

I'm not really sure how to answer this other than to voice my concern that he dismisses your concerns so easily.

Nice ad and the "son" is cute.  :cheesy2:

As far as the "public organization" thing goes, we know that the US Supreme Court ruled that private groups {ie; the boy scouts} can discriminate as they wish.  Also in the same ruling, using public spaces does not automatically make you a public organization, otherwise the boy scouts would have to follow the law.

Ironically, this is another story that reminds me that Bisexuals want it all.

It doesn't matter if no one outside of Africa can show where Malawi is on the map, as that doesn't affect people's lives, as they will still get their aid money.

However, having hateful laws against an entire segment of your population does affect lives.

People will not come forward to proclaim they are gay in a country with such harsh and homophobic laws as we see in Malawi and the rest of Africa.  Maybe aid to Africa {and Jamaica} should be conditional on them getting rid of their hate filled laws.