Lunch hour reports from Seattle indicated brisk business at official ballot drop boxes. Even the Approve71 webmaster Joshco finally voted (Pic)! Good thing too, since as of this morning only about 20% of ballots had been received back by the county elections division. Voter turnout in King County is thought to be key to passage of Referendum 71. To be counted, ballots must be deposited in an official drop box by 8 pm tonight or postmarked today.
WARNING: dropping your ballot in a mailbox today is not the same thing as having it postmarked today! Be sure to read the pick-up times/days on the mail box. Full story...
The anti-gay Family Policy Institute of Washington has posted a video called "BY PROHIBITING GAY MARRIAGE, AREN'T WE VIOLATING THE SEPERATION (sic) OF CHURCH AND STATE?".
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
This Adam Lambert controversy is ridiculous - that's my take on it.
Well. The Catholic Church spends oodles to defeat marriage equality in Maine, and yet there own record on child abuse.
The Advocate is asking the question "Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill?"
As of 9:30 AM PST Thanksgiving morning, this is the response:
The initial response from the non-scientific poll responders seems to be a big "No.
I was waiting for evidence that the networks, particularly CBS with its blurring of Adam Lambert's on-screen kiss of his male bandmate during the post-Children's Hour performance on the American Music Awards.
A real laff-fest for you...Rep. Michele "deranged" Bachmann (R-MN) as a featured guest along with Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin at the first National Tea Party Convention can conjure up a lot of jokes, but it's all true, including restricted press access to save them from themselves on camera.
Blame Dawn in Maine for this video- we were just talking about Arlo a few minutes ago on the phone and I mentioned that the first time I ever heard "Alice's Restaurant" was on Thanksgiving Day 1987, as I was driving back from my relative's in Amherst MA to my apartment outside Boston.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Air quality officials have called a Spare the Air alert for Thanksgiving, meaning the burning of wood and manufactured fire logs is banned both indoors and outdoors from midnight tonight until midnight Thursday.
From: http://www.tips-q.com/1638591-war-thanksgiving
This gem is from Christian Newswire:
The war over Thanksgiving as a holiday began when a generation was taught that the holiday's first setting was Pilgrims being saved from starvation by Native Americans.It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread...
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