Tuesday, May 30, 2006

i went swimmin yesterday thats all that happened
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Monday, May 29, 2006

jordan here bored as hell i saw over the hedge last week it was a really good movie

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

yesterday was alrite i went a 1st grade class and read a book
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

hey ppl wats up
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

sorry i cant visit ne sites 2day im grounded but on the plus side i disected a fish in fish in science
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Friday, May 19, 2006

finally i gots sum nice weather wipeee
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

this is about my big sisters dad

Imagine not being able to read the newspaper or get on the computer because everything is blurry! That's what my dad is going through. His vision is blurry because of the surgery they did, and the eye takes awhile to heal and causes blurry vision until it heals. He says it's a little better each day, but not healing nearly fast enough for him! I can understand that.

The funny thing is that now he can see colors the way they really are. Before, it was like having a smokey film in front of his eyes; nothing looked like it really does. So now, he says funny things like "I didn't know that bucket was red", and "What a bright blue the sky is!" The funniest thing was when he showed me some bed sheets that he'd bought about a year ago. He had them on his bed when he had his first surgery. He told me that when he bought them, they looked like they were a blue/grey color. But then after his surgery, he looked at them and saw these hideous, baby-poop green color! GROSS! I can't believe they even make sheets in that color! But when he bought them, they looked blue/grey to him! I laughed so hard!!! Things that we take for granted everyday!


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good 2 no my doodle amused u i made during math class bcause i was bored as hell
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Monday, May 15, 2006

my little retarded drawing
it sux bcause i wasnt trying plus i took iy wit my camera

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Sunday, May 14, 2006

i just read this
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 — Sheila Kuehl has done a few things that someday may merit mention in the history books: more than a decade in the California Legislature, a public crusade against domestic violence and a stint as the tenacious busybody Zelda on the classic sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."

But if such immortality were to happen, Ms. Kuehl says, she would want one fact listed with the rest of her accomplishments: she is gay.

So this year, Ms. Kuehl, a state senator representing western Los Angeles, introduced a bill to assure that lesbians and gay men get what she feels is their due in California textbooks. The bill, which passed the Senate on Thursday and is now headed to the Assembly, would forbid the teaching of any material that "reflects adversely on persons due to sexual orientation," and add the "age appropriate study of the role and contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender."

For Ms. Kuehl, 65, the bill seems to have as much to do with school security as it does with the A B C's.

"One of the things that contribute to a safe or unsafe environment for kids are the teaching materials," Ms. Kuehl said. "If you have teaching material that didn't say anything at all about gay and lesbian people, it is assumed that they never did anything at all. But if it said anything about gay and lesbian people, the whole atmosphere of the school was safer for gay and lesbian kids, or those thought to be gay and lesbian."

At a time when same-sex marriage is a polarizing presence in the courts and in voting booths across the country, any issue dealing with gay rights is bound to cause a fluster, and this bill is no exception. The Capitol Resource Institute, a conservative organization, labeled the proposal "the most outrageous bill in the California Legislature this year."

Concerned Women for America, a Christian public policy group, filed a letter with the Senate suggesting that such studies were the domain of the home, not the schools.

Cindy Moles, the state director of Concerned Women for America, said the bill was trying to indoctrinate children to "dangerous sexual lifestyles" and was unnecessary from an educational standpoint.

"We don't need to list all the behavior of historical figures," Ms. Moles said. "Certainly not their sexual behavior."

Representatives for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to comment on the bill, as did Jack O'Connell, the state superintendent of public instruction.

Ms. Kuehl says she traces her quest to include material on gay figures in textbooks to her days as a student in Los Angeles public schools in the late 1940's and early 50's.

"When I was a kid, there were no women in the textbooks, no black people, no Latinos," she said. "As far as I knew, the only people who ever did anything worthwhile were white men."

Ms. Kuehl said the practical applications of the law would be limited to including the accomplishments of gay figures in textbooks and class studies alongside those of other social and ethnic groups. For example, a teacher talking about Langston Hughes would not only mention the fact that he was a black poet, but also mention his sexuality, Ms. Kuehl said.

If the law were to pass, new textbooks probably would not hit desks until 2012, by which time Ms. Kuehl, who is recognized as the state's first openly gay legislator, might merit a mention or two. What might she like it to say?

"I'd like to be remembered as a person that fought for civil rights and social justice," she said.

But what of "Dobie Gillis"? "I'm proud of that work, too," she said.


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