Jubilee Birthday Celebration

Nancy negotiated a deal to take me on a vacation rather than suffer the public humiliation of a 50th birthday party. I was more than willing to forego the black balloons and cracks about my declining physical condition. On our way to Monterey Bay we took a detour to the Winchester Mystery house. I love Victorian architecture and have always wanted to see this strange attraction. This picture has a distant view of a second floor door that opens to a full story drop with no staircase. At another place in the house there is a staircase that rises to the ceiling with no door. I devised a book plot based on repositioning the stair to the door which creates a treasure map.

The next day we ate at Bubba Gumps and I posed for this Forrest Gump picture. At the ripe old age of 50, I am entitled to expound some wisdom. "Life is like a box of chocolate, and I don't like chocolate." After our wonderful vacation it's back to the diet and more ex-pounding.

Casa de Fruta

I recommend the pulled pork sandwich at Casa de Fruta. This was a fun rest stop at the west end of the Pacheco Pass on 152. There is a huge fruit stand, diner, candy shop, train ride and other touristy things.

We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and saw the jellies. I prefer raspberry, but it was cool.

Our Future

We completed our first walking promotion for Prop 8. We can't make the second week so we did some telephone calling instead. Our walk was a good experience. Most of our neighbors were positive and thanked us for our efforts. We did find a cluster of gays and a woman whose husband left her and her three children for a man. It was obvious that her life was devastated. How cruel and selfish. Except for their creativity and artistic ability as a group, all of my experience with gays has been negative. They are a selfish lot.

We did some telephone polling and called an apartment complex. Many of the voters were under twenty. It is obvious that Hollywood and our school system has converted our children to the falasy that gays are the same as everyone else. It will be a sad awakening when they realize that gender roles are important. Moms and dads have purpose. Those who deny or blur their gender, dull their own self worth. Imorality in any form weakens the basic unit of our society, the family.

Constitutional Abuse

Tomorrow Mom and I will brave the Bakersfield heat and walk a precinct in favor of Proposition 8, a California constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Who would have dreamed our society would descend to this level. I guess definitions are important given that liberal interpretations have altered the meaning of simple words like "is," reference Bill Clinton. It seems they all want to justify their selfish and sinful lifestyles.



It has become necessary to legislate morality because we as a society no longer have shared mores. We arrived at this point systematically through decisions of liberal courts. Initially the first amendment was intended to keep government out of our places of worship and allow us to protest when government exceeded its authority. A liberal court upheld that pornography was an appropriate protest. That was twisted to include almost any immoral act even the murder of innocent unborn children. The liberal manipulation of the law has eliminated God from government, denying our responsibility to a higher authority. The latest liberal manipulation is to force moral people to accept and even embrace the practice of homosexuality by legitimatizing it with the label of marriage.



To me the progressive agenda has come full circle. The government is now telling us what we must believe is correct, all the while using the First Amendment as its shield. This is an abuse of power and an assault on our rights of worship. It was derived not by common consent, a democratic process or even a representative vote, but by a liberal interpretation of an already weakened constitution.



My parents taught me what was right and my conscience confirms the truth. I don't need Hollywood or the Government to tell me what to believe. I pray that decent people will rally in favor of the movement to preserve traditional marriage.