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Tahiti Trip – FINALLY :)

Man… I’ve just been unable to find a free second to post about our trip.. Its crazy… But I did finally get all the pictures posted which I wanted to at least share…

The reader’s digest is that we had a fantastic trip to Tahiti where we spent 9 nights in AMAZING resorts on two different islands… The first 5 nights we spent on Moorea where we learned to Scuba dive and went on 6 dives over the course of 3 days… The last 4 days were on a MUCH smaller island (actually technically an ‘Atoll‘) called Manihi where we went on 3 more dives each.. The diving on both islands were amazing… The resorts were amazing.. both islands were REALLY cool in different ways. Moorea was a tall lush green island with lots of beautiful mountains, coral reefs, and critters everywhere. Manihi was a long ways away (hour plane flight) and was a round Atoll with a big lagoon in the middle. The population on Manihi was MUCh smaller and there was far less to do but it was VERY nice and the diving at ‘the drop off’ had more fish than I’ve ever seen in my life… It was CRAZY.

We had an amazing time and can’t wait to go back. We’re already looking for other diving trips to do as well – the diving part was the best part.. I’m hooked..

Oh.. And by the way – if anyone else is interested in going I can’t help but plug Dive Tahiti Blue. Laurel was SO WONDERFUL to work with setting this up. I gave her the vaguest possible request – we want to go to Tahiti and learn to Scuba Dive – and she bounced a ton of ideas and suggestions off of us and ended up setting up a great trip… I can’t recommend her enough! 🙂

Oh.. Yea… And the Pictures.. Here the are (had to split them up into multiple pages):

• Moorea – Page 1
• Moorea – Page 2
• Manihi – Page 1
• Manihi – Page 2
• Tahiti ( Papa’ete )

Gay Repbublicans

While I was working this morning I watched a show on ‘Trio‘ called ‘Gay Republicans‘ .. Oh my GOD… This is one of those shows that had me yelling at the TV. I can completely understand standing behind some of the stated Republican values of smaller government (though they’re missing the mark), conservative fiscal values (though they’re missing the mark), fiscal responsibility (though they’re REALLY missing the mark), and national security (oh my GOD are they missing the mark).. Mind you I’m not saying these are unique to the Republican Party – this is just their schtick. So, while I might not agree with their policy on these positions, I can at least understand the goal and how gay men and lesbians would support it.

However, what AMAZES me is how some openly gay and lesbian people can be a part of a party that goes beyond not accepting them to actively attacking them and using gay issues as a blatant political tool to to win a campaign at the expense of basic civil rights..It just escapes me…I just heard a gay man actually say ‘The amendment states that marriage is between a man and a woman – it doesn’t say anything about excluding me’… What the FUCK?.. That is actually PRECISELY what it says. It states that the rights and privileges that government provides to heterosexual couples isn’t available to him (and me).. Mind you I’m not talking about religious marriage (if a church doesn’t want to marry me i’ll go to a different church) – I’m talking about civil marriage and the rights the government ties to that construct. Oh my GOD… There are actually people that agree with, not only writing discrimination into the constitution, but writing in discrimination against them selves… I just want to scream.. Do people REALLY hate themselves that much?? WOW…

Makes ya wonder if there were women who didn’t think they should be allowed to vote… Or African Americans who thought that slavery was justified…

Uggg.. Anyway… Just venting

(BTW – the show also did a good job of showing the other half of the log cabins that were forced to split with their party over this very issue… I was impressed by their take on the whole thing)

An idea

(got this from a buddy via iChat – don’t know the origins but I like it! :))

General feeling

Just lookinig at the ichat statuses on my buddy list and there seems to be a theme:

• People suck
  
• USA Sucks… I’m moving to canada
  
• Deport ME!!!!
  
• We’re Screwed
  
• Bitter
  
• Depressed
  
• canada anyone?
  
• what happened to my country?
  
• yea… whatever… 🙁
  
• disgusted
  
• 4 more wars..
  
• A Once Great Nation
  
• Hello Draft
  
• Working remotely from Ontario for the next 4 years…
  
• Looking at Places to move

At a LOSS

I Just can’t tell you how much faith I’ve lost in the american electorate… Up until I had a certain amount of faith that even if there was evil and corruption in power, when given a chance, the american voter would do the right thing and vote with their brains and maintain the dignity of a great nation…

I’ve changed my mind…

It is somewhat excusable to vote the way people did in 2000… The administration didn’t have a presidential track record.. But today there is no excuse. We know what the man has done and by voting the way we did yesterday we’re telling the world that we’re proud of it. All I can say is I’m happy to live in a blue state (though barely.. WTF)

We’ve turned into a nation of schoolhouse bullies and frankly I’m absolutely disgusted…

Sorry.. back to what you’re doing

Today is the Day

VOTE!!!