Gay Man Beaten By Pro Marriage Actiovist and Other Gay Neating Videos Is This what you "Family Values" people had in mind? SHAME ON YOU

(Children showing how parents are teaching them to kill gay people. Watch closely. What looks like play is really religious dogma, these boys may commit murder one day.)


(Sean Hannity promoting Hate against Gays)

















RHIS IS WHAT IS REALLY BEHIND THE "FAMILY VALUES" PROTESTORS OF CIVIL UNIONS FOR GAY PEOPLE> DO YOU WANT TO BE AS UGLY AS THESE PEO_PLE? COMMITTING HATE CRIMES EVERY TIME YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTHS? SHAME> THINK> BLINK> THEN RE THINK

A Christmas Message from our ohana to yours

We are the world. This year, as we are driven to our knees, and we fight to rise there is only one thing that will unite us in the battle to keep our dignity.
That thing is hope. As we express joy, hope is the enevitable aftermath. We all do have hope. But there is one thing that we must do to have it.

Recognize that we are all part of this world, and interdependent on the salvation and survival of one another.

In our home, Christmas is never about trees, lights or presents. We very rarely have those. We celebrate a spirit that comes from the pausing of the world, if only for the briefest moment to acknowledge something greater than themselves.

Each other.

Aoha to the world.

Ke 'Ao Nani. (The Beautiful World)

Aloha,

Anne, Kanani, and Kaulana

BIKEPATHS FROM OTHER PLACES-CAN WE REALLY COMMUTE ON OURS?

Well, I learned something people. BIKE PATHS DON"T HAVE TO BE ON A BEACH!!...WOW amazing. The things you can learn on the internet

Does our planned bikepath actually do the job it was intended to do? Or is it just a tourism orientated resort type path for the wealthy? DO local people really need to have their neighborhood bikepath "interpreted" for them?

DO local people need bikepaths in their ACTUAL COMMUNITIES? 

Is the planned bikepath supposed to go to areas where there are no major resorts? WIll it be going more inland to Wailua Houselots, Kalaheo perhaps? Will Westsiders, and Southsiders have this lovely, beautiful landscaped and interpretive signed bikepath as well? Will public housing residents be able to access this marvel of a path? Is this bikepath truly equitable, or was it just designed to serve a very few people, and visitors?

I was all for the path in the beginning. Until I realized I would never be able to get to it. Not unless I had a vehicle or traveled almost 2 hours on a bus to get there.

And what if EVERYONE tries to get  on the bus with a bike? Each bus can only handle a maximum of 3 bycicles.  So if there are anymore than three poeple actually trying to commute to work, using a combination of the bus, and the bikepath to get to, say Lihu'e from outlying areas such as Wailua Houselots, or Kalaheo guess what? You are out of luck pal. You need to get on the highway shoulder and pedal for your lives! Or else, you must wait another hour for a bus, thus either making you late for work, or requiring you to leave an hour earlier than you usually would.

Further, If you have to be at work by five or six, forget it. If three guys beat you to the bike racks on the bus you are out of luck. Also If you work a night shift, or get off of work a little later, or even earlier than that there is no bus. Also if you work on a Saturday, the bus runs on haldf schedual. It doesnt run on Sundays at all. SO really the idea that people can use a combination of the bus and the path to get to and from jobs is ridiculous.

Yet again, we have put the cart before the horse. We have designed the path, without designing enough supporting transportation to actually help people commute to and from work, school and recreation in a timely and convenient manner, thus lessening the amount of cars on the road.

The fact that the path will not have feeder routes connecting the major bedroom neighborhoods to a central path clearly shows lack of planning.

DO we need feeder bikepaths down to the REAL Bikepath?

Can the kids REALLY get to the bikepath to get on it with our their momm packing them all up, attaching the bikes toi the care somehow, driving them down to it and picking them up again? Kinda defeats the whole purose, huh?

Can poeple REALLY COMMUTE on our bikepath?

I am downloading some bikepaths from other places. They go on roads, inland, all over the place. Even on city highways. I don't see big, colorful ugly inertpretive signs on them, nor do I see face, forced landscaping, nor do they look like the front lobby of a hotel resort. They look like they ACTUALLY FUNCTION.

WOW. What a concept.

SO sit back, watch and EDUCATE YOURSELF.

Aloha.

 






 

Now let us discuss these bikepaths a bit. The ONLY bike path was the one from Santa Monica to Torrence. I have actually been on this path when I was a little kid. There are miles and miles of sand. It is far away from the highway. There are no sacred burials off it. The path is not a "boardwalk", screwed into the sand, but a surface one. These sands are extremely different from the shifting sands at Wailua.

After 40 years or so, the path needs to be replaces. It needs constant upkeep. But this path does not have 2 things on it, did you notice? No "landscaping," and No large, brilliant, bright interpretive signs that are like billboards that you can see from a mile away.

It is just simply a bike path. California has a billion or so visitors a year. They actually have more than we do per year.

Now, lets look at some more interesting features of these bikepaths. They are actually bikepaths. Some of them have soft walking trails beside them. Most of them have miles or large parts of them that do not go anywhere near a beach.

Only one of them is literally on top of the sand, and that is only in a place with a half mile or more wide long beach and it is places in such a way that it is not subject to the damages of erosion.

Ok,. I welcome comments, people.

What do you think?

(ps remember my commenting rules, and all will be well.)

SOMEONE FORGOT TO TELL MOTHER NATURE GLOBAL WARMING IS A FRAUD!

'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots - Yahoo! News

HOLY ICECUBES BATMAN!! GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT REAL GUYS> JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES> THAT HUGE CHUNK OF THE POLAR ICECAP FLOATING PAST AUSTRALIA IS JUST ANOTHER LIBERAL TRICK< I SWEAR! 

What Did George W Bush Accomplish in His first year? Find Out.

With everyone giving our Prez a hard time, lets just back up and look at what he is actually doing right now.

First of all, he is taking care of state dinners, flying all over the world trying to better our image, handling healthcare, and trying to get the war in afghanistan from turning into another 8 years. Everyone is whining. But this isn't done yet, and this isnt done yet. Oh, cut it out, kids. The man has four years you know.  If you ask me he is doing a pretty monumental job. Not only that he is still charming, young, handsome, has a wonderful family and tucks his kids into bed at night and loves his wife, ok? So knock it off.

Look, you could always have another Dubya on your hands. Would you prefer that? I found this great website, here is the link: showing Dubyas accomplishments in his first year in office.

For Your viewing pleasure, I have c and pd it right here, so lets just sit back, relax, and peruse this list, shall we?(Bad stuff is marked with an asterick (*))

 George W. Bush's first year in office (List of 77 accomplishments)
www.redpepper.org.uk ^ | 3/25/02 | Red Pepper staff

Posted on Monday, March 25, 2002 8:14:09 AM by LarryLied

In George W. Bush's first year in office he:

1. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.*
2. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.*
3. Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training.*
4. Cut funding for research into renewable energy sources by 50%.*
5. Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water.*

6. Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons. This, from a candidate who would readily fire-up his Spanish-speaking skills in front of would-be Hispanic voters.*
7. Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii (please see San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001).**
8. Cut funding for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks by 28% *
9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. **
10. Approved the sending of letters by Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.  *

11. Appointed John Negroponte -- an unindicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador.  *
12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rainforest conservation.  *
13. Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people without insurance. *
14. Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents. *
15. Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up sites on public lands. *

16. Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing. *
17. Proposed to eliminate a federal program, designed and successfully used in Seattle, to help communities prepare for natural disasters. *
18. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement. 19. Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers. *
20. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property. *

21. Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare to work.  *
22. Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra).  *
23. Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing.  *
24. Appointed Otto Reich -- an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure -- to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.  *
25. Cut the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $500 million.  *

26. Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.  *
27. Rescinded the rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.  *
28. Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety.  *
29. Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, the waste gas that contributes to global warming.  *
30. Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent funds.  *

31. Closed the White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach.  *
32. Nominated David Lauriski -- an ex-mining company executive --- to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health.  *
33. Approved a controversial plan by Interior Secretary Gale Norton to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast of eastern Florida.  *
34. Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling.  *
35. Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national monuments.  *

36. Gutted the White House AIDS Office.  *
37. Renegotiated a free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate workers's rights and safeguards for the environment.  *
38. Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association in recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments.  *
39. Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior.  *
40. Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality.  *

41. Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program.  *
42. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness.
43. Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects.  *
44. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can.  *
45. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah.  *

46. Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco company lawsuit.  *
47. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, 43% of which will go to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.  *
48. Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills.  *
49. Appointed a Vice President quoted as saying "If you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build nuclear power plants." (Meet the Press.")  *
50. Appointed Diana Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. ("There is no gender gap in pay", Boston Globe, March 28, 2001.)  *

51. Appointed Kay Cole James, an opponent of affirmative action, to direct the Office of Personnel Management.  *
52. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect.  *
53. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards.  *
54. Proposed elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental" program that gives free books to poor children.  *
55. Is pushing for development of small nuclear arms to attack deeply buried targets and weapons. This would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.  *

56. Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton, the attorney responsible for a recent case weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act, to federal appeals court judgeship.  *
57. Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building. *
58. Eliminated funding for the "We the People" education program which taught school children about the   Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship.  *
59. Appointed John Bolton, who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the UN, to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.  *
60. Nominated Linda Fisher, an executive with Monsanto, for the number-two job at the Environmental Protection Agency.  *

61. Nominated Michael McConnell, leading critic of the separation of church and state, to a federal judgeship.  *
62. Nominated Terrence Boyle, an ardent opponent of civil rights, to a federal judgeship.  *
63. Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high mileage cars.  *
64. Nominated Harvey Pitts, a lawyer for a teen sex video distributor, to head SEC.  *
65. Nominated John Walters, a strong opponent of prison drug treatment programs, to be Drug Tsar. (Washington Post, May 16, 2001.)  *

66. Nominated J. Steven Giles, an oil and coal lobbyist, for Deputy Secretary of the Interior.  *
67. Nominated Bennett Raley, who advocates repealing the Endangered Species Act, for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science  *
68. Is seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed in the US against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves during WWII.  *
69. Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs to go only to religious groups and not secular equivalents.  *
70. Reduced the Low Income Home Assistance Program by 40%; it aided low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills.  *

71. Nominated Ted Olson, who has repeatedly lied about his involvement with the Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas Project" to bring down Bill Clinton, for Solicitor General.
72. Nominated Terrance Boyle, a foe of civil rights, to a federal judgeship.  *
73. Proposes to ease permit process, including environmental considerations, for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam construction. (Washington Post, May 18, 2001.)  *
74. Proposes to give government the authority to take private property through eminent domain for power lines.  *
75. Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative renewable energy come from selling oil and gas lease tracts in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve.  *
76. Plans on serving genetically engineered foods at all official government functions.  *
77. Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck and appointed a timber industry lobbyist. **


WELL HECK 77 OUT of 77 ARE THINGS OBAMA HAS TO FIX NOW.


WHAT DO YOU NAY SAYERS, WHINERS AND COMPLAINERS HAVE TO SAY NOW? 


I will be posting the other 7 years up here as well.
Ok, then...lighten up.


Its either HOPE or THE DOPE. Make up your minds

My Life As an Iran Revolution Re-tweeter(fishsilly1-my videos)

When the Iran Revolution began, I was ill at home, but I could type. As someone who was used to protesting injustice, and all that sort of stuff, I felt deeply for what was going on. But what could I do? I spoke to an Iranian friend of mine via telephone that I knew from the internet and I had never met. It was then, that I learned, along with all of the other "original 100" about how to re=tweet, do it safely, get stuff up on the internet, make movies, and otherwise keep the spirits of the people up in Iran as best as we could.

Being involved with this was extremely intense. I remember after it was all over, very carefully concealing my identity in order to protect those I was protecting in Iran. "Fishsilly1", was being followed by hundreds of people, even CNN; My posts were seen on national and world news wires, and even on Huffington post.  But no one actually knew who it was for security sake.

Now thats all over, I guess I can say that fishsilly1 was me. The amazing thing about all of that experience, besides the incredible feeling of being right in the middle of things, and getting pretty emotional when my Iranian "tweets" would dissappear on me, was the fact that I learned so much about technology.

It was through this experience, that I created the You Tube channel, in order to keep the videos on the internet, as they were being attacked and hacked and I was a "safe re-tweet". During this, I created several videos for the first time in my life. I went on to create one more for another issue but thats another blog entirely.

In the beginning, we all had to understand what was actually going on. As things went along, it was very stressful. People were desperate to get to us, and the government was constantly thinking of ways to prevent them from communicating with the world. Thanks to a few very brave Iran Re Tweeters, they sort of coached the rest of us in how to handle any situation that may come up, and things changed from minute to minute.

Well meaning Tweeters were making costly and sometimes deadly mistakes trying to help, but those in the original group who still had phone or internet contact in Iran warned everyone that doing certain things was not to be done.

Some of the things that people were doing which was putting the people in jeopardy was trying to Google Earth the area of the protestors to let the protestors know where the troops were. But the troops were using google earth too, and then going into houses and arr4sting people. There were "fake" tweeters, claiming to be from Iran, or creating channels, but they were really the military spying. Word would quickly go out, and several servers were dedicated to just us that were safe re tweeters, and we learned to warn others of fake channels, and tell them who was trustworthy.

This was really intense, as people tried to tweet me in Farsi. This brought up the issue that google had no good Farsi translator. Google came to the rescue, and added a special Farsi translator, which I used for the rest of the time.  In the beginning we would all just retweet the Farsi messages. We were warned that we were actually retweeting information that was identifying people. So a few of us dedicated ourselves to translating the re-tweets in Farsi, and then re-tweeting them again after we were sure there was safe information. I cannot tell you how many Farsi tweets I intercepted that were the Security Forces in Iran.

Then things really started to get crazy. We started getting loads of Farsi messages and retweets. People were being arrested. When you retweet don't say the retweeters name! Don't use google earth! Take out the batteries from your cellphones!! Cover your faces!! Don't go to this site, its a trap they are tracking you!!...that was coming from our side. Suddenly we were getting tweets like "They are coming into our house now. oOodbye", and "They are at our doors now. We don't know what to do." These ones just broke my heart. We were now waging a full scale war of our own, weeding out the people on twitter that were there to get information in order to find epople and kill them or arrest them. At the same time we were trying to encourage everyone. Most importantly we wanted them to encourage each other, as we carefully retweeted Farsi messages that were scrutinized first, and then passed along.

Then, the security forces went after us, trying to hack our accounts and shut us down entirely. A few true hero re-tweeters then figured out how to switch router addresses constantly to save the connections to Iran, as fast as the government forces were shutting them down. But one of the problems was, in the beginning we kept announcing them as re tweets which just alerted the security forces to the new router addresses. So a secure set up was created so we would only pass those along to certain tweeters from Iran only.

I think for me, it was the tweeters that I was constantly in contact with that were telling me exactly what was happening that was amazing. And their determination to photograph what was happening under pain of death. I can remember trying to stay on with some of them as long as I could. It was stressful for me, but I just kept thinking what they were going through.

Then, as artists all over the world began to respond, by putting up inspirational you tube videos, I decided to join them. As an artist myself, as crazy as this sounded, there was beauty and artistry in what was happening over there. Culturally, poetically musically and photography wise. I had no idea what I was doing, but it got my mind off worrying about some of my Iran tweets and if they were alive. We all seemed to collectively start sending them messages of encouragement just trying to keep their spirits up.

As things dragged on, and the crackdown became more intense and brutal, the tweets coming out of Iran began to be more hopeless, and they seemed exhausted and frazzled. We started posting all of the art and videos, and hopeful messages that we could. I remember just being so frustrated and upset and worried for them. As I said this was extremely intense.

WHen I was making these videos, I was understanding that th4e people that took these photos took their lives in their hands, and we believe some may have died getting these pictures out to the world. I took a crash course in Farsi culture, by translating some bigger Farsi websites, and learning about the Lions, and the true flag and some of the history. When I learned that Irans Poet Laureate was a woman called the "Lioness of Iran" I was inspired! THat became my third video, and was my most popular one.

But my first video, I saw a single picture that spoke volumes for me, so I used it for my first 2 videos. It was the face of a young child defiantly staring at the camera and holding his sign proudly. "We want freedom" it said. I wept, then got myself together and made the first 2 videos. It took me forever to find music that would convey the feelings I wanted, and to put the pictures together in some sort of an artistic order. In the end I was proud of what I had done. All of us were tweeting these videos, art, pictures and words of encouragement, in the midst of mass arrests, executions, and bloody shootings on the street all meant to beat the people down.

The most inspirational thing, in the end came from the people themselves. They would tweet us heartfelt thanks, and they would tell us how they were standing on the roofs and chanting "Allah Ahkbar!", god is great. They believed they would be saved if they did this. It came from a legend in their history that once before their people were saved in just this way.

Writing about this, now that this particular event is over has been a great release for me. It has instilled in me an even greater need to fight to protect the people, and to stand up for what I believe in. The brave epople of Iran taught us a lot of lessons with their defiance and taking to the streets. We all needed that lesson. I hope we will remember it for a long time to come. I know that I will.

This was the last video I made. It didn't upload properly but no one seemed to care. The point was made. By that time, this event was worldwide, the entire planet was horrified, and I felt I had an obligation to portray a people who needed help, since they were absolutely exhausted and worn out by this time.

My most well known video. Dedicated to the women that were out in the streets. They actually led this revolution, although the popular media will never admit it. But I know, because I was communicating with them on the ground. I was so proud and inspired by these amazing women. I still am.

This was actually my first video. It was difficult to make, and I pretty much cried every time I would watch it.

This was my second one. More somber, more funerary. OK this one still makes me cry. But it has a somber, driving dignity. As an artist, blending certain pictures and choosing the right music was important to set the mood for what I was trying to convey. This is actually a different video from the one above even though the same picture of the child is being used

This video was dedicated to the men that were in the streets. I called them the Lions of Iran, as this was culturally correct for them. I learned a lot about the culture during this.

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