Day 2: What Can I say

Cats first: The cats are doing fine. Well, this morning I had to pick up the bed so Taylor could squeeze under and capture them. Good thing Motel 6 has cheap beds that are light. The cats just sit quietly in their boxes all day, in a very uninteresting fashion.

They have adjusted somewhat and were quicker to come out from under the bed this evening. Maybe that's because we didn't give them their cat tranquilizers today (saving those for ourselves). Scruffy is very interested in that other cat in the mirror. It's in there somewhere, and she wants to sniff its butt. (Taylor says it's okay for me to write that since nobody is going to read this anyway.)

Here is a haiku contributed by my friend Carl:
So you call this thing
Your "cat carrier". I call
These my "blades of death".

Because the cats are not performing up to their contract, I spent the day videoing our drive. What's more torture than hundreds of miles in a car without a break? Watching a shakey video of hundreds of miles in a car, taped through the bugs on the windshield. To add interest, Taylor performed the song: "Let's go on a safari up my sister's nose."

Next: I'll "blog" the election. They're even talking about election blogging on the news now.

So, I don't know about queers threatening straight marriage, but family values just attacked ours. That's right. Thanks to bigotry and misunderstanding, the marriage Taylor & I had on March 12, 2004 in Portland Oregon was invalidated. We are now part of a small club along with Rosie O'Donnell. Well, if John Ashcroft comes over and tries to take our certificate, he's gonna have one serious wardrobe malfunction by the time I'm done with him. (Do you think they're gonna say that's a threat and arrest me?)

As for the other results, there is no point in commenting. You've heard it all.

A haiku about this:
He says he is a
Republican. Then what's that
Giant deficit.

At the moment, Canada is closer than DC. It's looking better and better. Now, where are those cat pills?

Here are some uplifting thoughts courtesy of Linda in Maryland where, I think, they've never outlawed nor in-lawed gay marriage (also known as "marriage" to the radicals):

Some good election news: While 11 states have voted to write anti-gay discrimination into their constitutions, we should not allow this to overshadow the bigger picture.

According to Free State Justice: <-- Yesterday, there were some great victories for equality. Ten years ago, the citizens of Cincinnati, OH passed an anti-gay law that has prevented the city from passing any legislation to protect gays and lesbians. Yesterday, Cincinnati voters repealed the measure by 54 percent to 46 percent.

Three states – North Carolina, Idaho and Missouri –for the first time have elected an openly gay official to the state legislature. Now, these states will be less able to discount the LGBT community, as members of the community will have a place at the table.

In Oregon, the only state with the financing to run a competitive campaign against the anti-gay ballot measure, 43 per cent of the people voted not to amend the constitution to bar same-sex couples from marriage.