Copied from a myspace bulletin I posted earlier today.

I've made the decision to join the Minutemen Militia.

I'm sure you are all thinking the same thing "WTF!?"

Well on my way to work today I overheard an peice on NPR about the Minutemen, their plan to open new chapters, and hate crimes that they have commited but not admitted to. Now these guys have pissed me off for a long time, but they played a short clip from a Minutemen confrence that really pissed me off.

The key note speaker was relaying a disscusion she had with a border patrol man, she asked him "How many times do you deport the same individual?". He replied stating that the policy is 7 times. She went on to say that is too many, then told about how she asked the border partrol man what they should do if they end up having to deport the person an 8th time. At that point someone from the audience yells out "Shoot him!" then the entire audience errupts in to a raucous laughter.

So naturally, I've decided to join their ranks and see if I can stir up some shit. I do have the perfect Disguse of Big Goofy White Guy, but it will take some serious acting on my part to hide the fact that I'm "a Reader". I'm sure I will have to significatly decrease the amount of syllables I use in any given sentence and I will probabaly have to add my least favortie words in the history of the english language to my spoken vocabulary.... "aint" and "yall".

Wish me luck.

The man who invented the Internet forgot how to use it.

Just like most people out there, I am only recently learning about Al Gore's new movie, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. As much as I depise award shows, news from these things is near impossible to avoid. In this one instance, I'm glad I couldn't dodge this tidbit.

I should clarify here, that I have not yet watched the movie, though I plan to. My issue here is simply something that came up while trying to get the DVD.

From the website:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

"The DVD is packaged to make the smallest possible environmental footprint - it is made of 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper, no excess materials, and absolutely no plastics. "

Seriously? Comon, with the multidute of direct download services available, why do we need any packaging at all? I spent all of two seconds doing a Google search, and found lists of Torrent files for the Movie, but this is a situation where I might actually want to pay for the Movie, especially since "A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this DVD will benefit the bipartisan climate effort, The Alliance for Climate Protection. "

Alas, there is no mention of a entire movie download available on the Homepage. I ran a search on the new Bit Torrent Store, nothing.

If Mr. Gore and the rest of the Media community really want to get through to my demographic, they must understand me. I want my digital media imeadiately. I don't want to have to leave my house to get it. I don't want to wait for shipping. I don't feel I should have to pay for shipping something that I can download through an ISP that I already pay for.

Arizona Prop 101:

Yes. The Arizona real estate market can be quite volitile. Limiting Property tax increases to 2% per year and requireing a vote for a higher amount = good.

Arizona Prop 100:

I'm going to say No to this one. I think Judges throughout time are very aware of when someone is a flight risk, or when someone should not be let out into public for their own saftey and the safety of others. In those cases a Judge can simply set a bail so high that the defendant can't pay it. Why should we pass a law that dictates "No Bail" in any given situations. I would prefer to have faith in the Judge to make that decision on a case by case basis.

I have a friend, who will remain anonymous for now, that is all about getting people to vote. While I do not share her zeal, I have to admit she has brought to my attention some issues here in Arizona. I won't deny the fact that I was born a non-confortmist, and that my distaste for our Governing bodies at times rests upon my soul like a festering boil. Generally, my attentions are diverted to more important things like World of Warcraft. But they are no longer...

This friend of mine recently brought to my attention how bad of an idea the "Protect Marriage" initiative is for Arizona. So I started looking more into it and came across a couple things that bothered me. I mean first off, she made it seems like a war between the Christians and the Gay Community, when I don’t know if that is entirely accurate. No doubt when talking about protecting the “Sanctity of Marriage” you know, you are doing it for the 50% of the population that doesn’t get divorced… A prop like that will easily get a lot of support in a Red state like Arizona, the Latter day Saints will hit the polls in force. Whether you believe it is a Sin or not, I don’t see what a purpose a huge push by the Vatican to take away Gays Health Insurance would serve, thus It made me wonder who was REALLY behind the campaign.

Now let me back-track, this is not me trying to show my support for the gay community, my indifference there is unparalleled, but there is a 2nd part to The Amendment that could potentially affect me and others who live with a girlfriend.

From the “Protect Marriage Arizona” website:

4. ARTICLE XXX. MARRIAGE
5. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT MARRIAGE IN THIS
6. STATE, ONLY A UNION BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE
7. WOMAN SHALL BE VALID OR RECOGNIZED AS A
8. MARRIAGE BY THIS STATE OR ITS POLITICAL
9. SUBDIVISIONS AND NO LEGAL STATUS FOR UNMARRIED
10. PERSONS SHALL BE CREATED OR RECOGNIZED BY THIS
11. STATE OR ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS THAT IS SIMILAR
12. TO THAT OF MARRIAGE.

Notice the highlighted part. It doesn’t even have anything to do with Gay people. So I know right now if I wanted to I can get health Insurance for my Girlfriend through my place of business, I think she has some but if she wanted, I could get her under my plan at least with how the Law Currently stands.

My insurance coverage states this:

“Depending on your state's regulations, you may not be able to cover your domestic partner under some plans.”

So I would think this amendment would prevent me from getting my GF Insurance if I wanted to, thus it makes me wonder who is behind “Protect Marriage Arizona”. It’s quaint to think was put together by concerned Christians from our Community, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that it was put together by people in the Insurance Industry. As much as Bush and the Conservative right would have you believe that Policy is dictated by the God Fearing citizens, it’s much more likely that this particular Amendment is being dictated by the True God of Politics...Money.

What I want to know:

What kind of organization is Protect Marriage Arizona?

How are they recognized by the IRS?

You can make a direct contribution to them via their website :
http://www.protectmarriageaz.com/ are they legally responsible to make their financial statements available to the public?

It lists two names Lynn Stanley as the chairman of the initiative and yesterday it listed Bob Semple as the Treasurer, but for some reason his name is not on the website today… I tried to Google these people but did not come up with much.

Ultimately, I really don’t care if this Initiative passes or not. I just think it would be fun to try and prove my little conspiracy theory, of course, as long as I can prove it from behind my computer and I don’t actually have to go out and do anythingJ. That and if it did end up being the case maybe non-fanatical regular everyday Catholics like myself could get some slack.

I decided to make a blog about this.

(Some of what I typed above came from an e-mail I sent to one of my Uncles.)

I am way behind on the whole Blog trend. In fact I typically have an aversion established scenes, so I don't know why I am doing this really. Maybe becasue my job is really boring and I needed something to to pass a half hour. Of course there is also my instatiable appetite for Discourse and Debate. In the past I would usually get my fix on certain web forums, but I think now I want to be the moderator for a change.