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A friend just pointed this out to me. I have no idea how things like this get discovered but it’s hilarious. I wasn’t sure how long this would work so I grabbed a screen capture of the page. This is an actual screen shot. Nothing was edited. If you go to Google and search on just the word failure, the first search result is a link to the “Biography of President George W. Bush”. The interesting (and funny) thing about this is that the referenced page doesn’t even have the word failure anywhere in the content. I do a lot of search engine optimization and there is no way that page can be first without some insider help. So I guess we know which side the techs at Google are on. I can’t see this staying in their index very long, as Google probably hates this type of publicity. SEOs are going to have a fit because clearly this proves that Google is stuffing their search engine rankings. It’s also not someone paying for the top spot through an Adwords pay-per-click campaign either. Even if it is a joke, it shows that the tech people behind the scenes are putting whatever keywords they want at the top. (click on image for larger version).

Now THAT is funny!

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Just in case you weren’t paying attention… Today the Canadian House of Commons passed a bill that makes gay marriage legal in all of Canada. The bill was supported by 158 lawmakers in the 308-seat House of Commons, with 133 MPs voting against. It is expected to win Senate approval and become law by July, making Canada the third country after the Netherlands and Belgium to allow gay marriages. Gay marriage is already legal in eight of 10 provinces and one of Canada’s three territories.

Most countries also already allow gays to serve opening in their military as well. So almost every other modern democracy around the world, is more democratic then America. We’re too busy attacking other countries and screwing over our veterans and seniors to worry about stuff like this.

Can our country survive in this modern world and continue to be a super power? The fall of the Roman Empire is attributed to several factors: the influence of christianity and religious power resulting in less government control, decline in public health, political corruption, unemployment, inflation, urban decay, inferior technology and military spending. Sound familar?

Read more about the gay marriage ruling in Canada:
CBC News- Same-sex marriage law passes 158-133
BBC NEWS | Americas | Canadian MPs back gay marria
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Today I was walking back from my coffee at Starbucks and an older, somewhat disheveled and heavyset man with a cane stopped me and asked for help. He wore dirty, ratty clothes and was unshaven. He was shuffling along and could barely walk. He told me he was trying to get down the street about a block and was wondering if I would offer an arm to steady him and help him along. At first I replied that I was sorry and couldn’t really help as I was on my way somewhere and after all my hands were full with my cell phone and the book I was reading. He very politely insisted and again said that he was just going down a few houses. It was one of those random situations that is sufficiently weird and strange that I had to stop and reconsider. You know those bizarre moments when you have to stop and look around to see if anybody else can see him. To make sure he really did exist and that it wasn’t just something in my imagination. Like one of those scenes in a movie where the person sees this old bum walking and it turns out to be an angel or God testing him. It was one of those moments and so I paused for a second and then put my arm out and started guiding him down the sidewalk. His name was John. He began to explain that he was 67 and that his condition was something with his feet called soft tissue and it was very painful to walk. As we shuffled along I realized that his words were very pronounced and articulate, speaking like a professor would speak. He asked me what I did for a living and I told him I worked for myself doing web design and photography. He thought that was great and remarked how it takes a special person to be disciplined enough to make that work. We continued along as he talked more about life and success and he chuckled and said how he probably sounded like a cranky old man complaining to me. He said, “it used to be success wasn’t enough. You had to bloom and be great. Today, just surviving is success and you’re lucky to have that.”

He was right and it made sense to me. I spend a lot of time just surviving. Sure I could walk better then him but it made me wonder who really needed whose arm to lean on.

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Ok, so we really didn’t have an earthquake that big, but it sure felt like it with the email I received about the LA Pride & Anna Nicole Smith pictures I posted. It appears that some people, and by some people I mean my Mother, felt I crossed the line by posting those scandalous images here on my blog. My friends and I have this saying when someone just goes completely off the hook and gets pissed. We call it a 10.0 (pronounced ten point oh), taken from the TV miniseries last year about a 10.0 earthquake hitting the west coast and demolishing civilization there. Well, my mother Betty went 10.0 on me. I decided to write about it because, all kidding aside, I think this is an important subject and since her email, I’ve been thinking about my life and this blog and what it really is like being gay and 34. In all fairness to her, we talked this over and she gave me permission to write this and to graciously post her 10.0 email.
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Ok, they are finally up online in the photography gallery. The scandalous pictures you’ve all been waiting for of Anna Nicole Smith, along with a few others of the weekend thrown in. If you don’t know what pictures I’m talking about, see the previous post.

I also forgot to mention that Greg (the guy’s house we ended up at Sunday night) is also the writer and director of the movie “The Broken Hearts Club” (IMDB) (Amazon.com). I watched it again last night just because it’s a good movie and I wanted to see the director and producer’s commentary. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend it. It’s a good flick.

View the pictures in the LA Pride Weekend 2005 photography gallery.

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