Softly Dreaming Blog

How would you like to pay half what you are paying now for gas? How would this be possible, you ask? Apparently oil speculation is what is driving these crazy prices, so:
The price of retail gasoline would fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit […]

The First Fifty Cents (up from two cents due to inflation)
Me, the Affable Imp, a social butterfly, C?…a curious accusation, though too true over the last several weeks, and it feels great! Funny though, coming from one of the “four corners” I’ve been flying about with.
So, to task…gay marriage…the great debate that tis not really, […]

As adults, we try to (hopefully) teach our children to be respectful and tolerant. Few things are more horrific than finding out your child is the one who picks on the “strange” kids in the sandbox. If you don’t have children, you hope that the parents of the children around you are instilling some sort […]

I thought this was a very novel way of looking at the ballot measure in California coming in November that may make same sex marriage illegal by altering the California Constitution. (Emphasis added)
Should voters approve the measure, Cruz said, offering another potential outcome, it could inadvertently affect traditional marriages. That’s because the amendment would undo […]

I was tooling around from blog feed, to articles, to links… Well you get my meaning. I found myself on a little off-my-beaten-path journey and came upon this article at a blog called Socyberty. It was called To Marry or Not: The Plight of the Homosexual. At first, the author, Stanley Roberts, seemed noncommital on […]

One of the things that amazed me when I lived in San Francisco is how passionate the San Franciscans are about protecting rights. There was a huge movement to allow the homeless to keep the shopping carts they stole (or ‘acquired’) and now used as their homes. That is a very special city.
I wanted to […]

As usual, the entire issue of whether or not California allowing same sex marriage will stick is fairly complex and confusing. Here in Oregon, for several months, gay marriage was legalized, then overturned. It was a political statement in the overturning, and the ballot measure was written in such a way that most people could […]

Pastor John Hagee spewed off at the mouth in 2003, claiming that the AntiChrist will be a gay Jew. Ah what strange bedfellows John McCain travels with. When word got out, McCain dropped him like the unpopular kid in the kindergarten sandbox.
Exposed here for the first time, Hagee’s comments identifying the Antichrist as a partly […]

You might remember my post on Tort Reform called Dirty Little Secret. Tort Reform seeks to limit the amount a filer of a civil suit can sue for. The insurance companies, large corporations, medical field and an organization backed by all of the above, spend millions of dollars each year advertising to you. They would […]

I was just minding my own business, checking my personal email, when a little birdie turned me onto this story.
Start spreading the news
I’m leaving today
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York
The New York Times ran an article called New York to Back Same-Sex Unions from Elsewhere. This is record breaking […]