tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77261532011-11-23T16:07:11.250-08:00Kevin and Darren live in Portland Oregon and are a gay, committed couple. We believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all...regardless of sexual orientation, gender, race, nationality, financial status, and being. Erase man-made borders and "they" become "we". New Site: <a href="http://lombardportland.com">HERE.</a>jikidohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01600973617435153718noreply@blogger.comBlogger3831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7726153.post-1113855002424919972005-04-18T13:10:00.000-07:002005-04-18T13:10:02.423-07:00

shakespeare garden

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Thank you, God It came out of the dark spot in the small room. I sat up and forward, turning my head towards his direction in disbelief at what I had just heard. Who was he talking to? Why did his voice seem so powerful this time? These were his final days and this particular evening was one of many that I slept on the floor near the hospital bed that we had put up in the dining room, where

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We are moving to another place on the web. I will maintain the site here but slowly things will migrate over to the new place which can be found here.The new place will give me more freedom to learn more about how all of this works and hopefully I will be able to use some of the design features I learned while studying Dreamweaver at PCC.Any tips or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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[New Scientist.com]10 The Kuiper cliffIf you travel out to the far edge of the solar system, into the frigid wastes beyond Pluto, you'll see something strange. Suddenly, after passing through the Kuiper belt, a region of space teeming with icy rocks, there's nothing. Astronomers call this boundary the Kuiper cliff, because the density of space rocks drops off so steeply. What caused it? The only

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begin or end?

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[Irish Examiner]Jennifer Lopez defended her use of animal fur in her clothing line on Australian radio last weekend - insisting she knows nothing about how fur is produced.The Get Right singer has been the target of a massive campaign by animal rights group People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) after they discovered she features fur in her fashion line Sweetface.It came to a head

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[Union Tribune San Diego]The head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego apologized Monday to the family of gay nightclub owner John McCusker, less than a week after decreeing that McCusker couldn't have a Catholic burial because of his "business activities," according to a statement released by McCusker's family. In a stunning twist to a controversy that has created an uproar in the San

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dogs are us2

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dogs us us

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best is yet to come

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On American Indian reservations, some tribes are debating whether they should embrace gay marriage or shun such unions as an affront to family values. The controversy in these often-ignored sovereign territories within the United States comes as Americans in general are divided, often bitterly, over same-sex weddings. The controversy made headlines again this week as

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[The Empty Closet]The National Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the GLBT Civil Rights Movement will be held on Sunday, May 1 at Independence Hall, the site in 1965 of the first annual and organized gay and lesbian civil rights demonstrations. These “Annual Reminders” in Philadelphia, New York, and DC from 1965 to 1969 laid the foundation for Stonewall in 1969 and the first New York Pride

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Sauvie's Island and catch the stick. Maestro wasone of the best friends I ever had. I miss him very much.[picture courtesy of John Turpeinen]

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resolve mind

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Going back to school has been quite a trip. Some things have changed dramatically and others haven't at all. I guess you could call me "old school" but i did had an initial problem with a certain person plopping down on the first day of class with a full taco-bell meal, then proceeding to eat. Once this person started, she looked up and around and said, "At least i was here on time!" The teacher

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[Bangkok Post]The city has no plan to introduce a study of homosexuality in its primary school curriculum, officials say. The issue sparked hot debate after Natee Thirarojanapong, a member of the BMA's participatory committee on social and public health, told the Thueng Luk Thueng Khon television programme that a study on homosexuality would promote a better understanding of young people with

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When I was a boy I heard them tell of an old farmer in Vermont. He was dying. The minister was at his bed-side -- asked him if he was a Christian -- if he was prepared to die. The old man answered that he had made no preparation, that he was not a Christian -- that he had never done anything but work. The preacher said that he could give him no hope unless he had faith in Christ, and that if he

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Senaatintorikevin turpeinen

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helsinki

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midnight sunkevin turpeinen

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[Irish Echo]The Irish gay group Irish Queers will "protest the exclusion of lesbian, gay and transgender Irish people" from the New York St. Patrick's Day Parade, the group said in a statement. The protest will include a demonstration at St. Patrick's Cathedral on the eve of the March 17 parade and a "black flag" protest at a point along the parade route.

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[Saudi Institute]Jeddah -The Saudi government arrested 110 Saudi men Monday on charges of attending a gay wedding, AlWifag electronic newspaper reported Today. AlWifaq said 30 of the wedding participants were brought to Superior Court in Jeddah Today to face the charges. The men were arrested in a wedding hall north of Jeddah on Monday while dancing at the wedding ceremony for two gay men, the

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[Gavin Rabinowitz]A coalition of evangelical Christians from the United States, U.S. rabbis and local ultra-Orthodox Jews vowed Wednesday to try and prevent an international gay pride parade from being held in Jerusalem this summer, but the mayor of the holy city said he has no way of stopping it. California pastor Leo Giovinetti, said hosting the 10-day WorldPride 2005 event could bring divine

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theirs is a world perhaps not seen....kevin turpeinen

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Quakers believe that no first hand knowledge of God is possible except through that which is experienced, or inwardly revealed to the individual human being through the working of God's quickening spirit. Broadly speaking, the office of the Inner Light is twofold. First, it discerns between good and evil, revealing the presence of both in human beings and, through its guidance,

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[OIA]The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition has expressed its support for Dawn Dawson, whose employment discrimination lawsuit against Bumble and Bumble, a New York City hair salon, was dismissed on Feb. 17 by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.Dawson brought her suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and under New York State Human Rights Law, claiming discrimination on the basis of

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[The Advocate]Two Saudi men were executed Sunday for killing a Pakistani man who saw them in a "shameful situation," the Saudi interior ministry said in a statement issued by the official Saudi Press Agency. The phrase "shameful situation" is used to refer to homosexual acts, viewed as a sin against Islam and prohibited in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations. In Saudi Arabia, homosexual acts

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A judge ruled Monday that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, saying the state could no longer justify limiting marriage to a man and a woman. In the eagerly awaited opinion likely to be appealed to the state's highest court, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer said that withholding marriage licenses from gays and lesbians is unconstitutional. "It appears

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[Anna Farley] A popular British seaside resort plans to make history by being the first city in the country to perform “gay marriages”, officials said today.Brighton & Hove Register Office has selected three couples to be wed in a joint ceremony one second after midnight on December 21.The Act does not use the term “gay marriage” but the civil partnerships have clearly been designed to be as

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-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-

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oooooooooo

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inside the Bybee house...

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garden shot back yard Bybee

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A look from the front porch of Bybee

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Bybee

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Bybee House on the Island

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Betsy to the right....

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Spring

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My favourite time of year....

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Sauvie's Island spring2

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Sauvie's Island spring

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A recent photo of St. Helens sent to me by a friend who lives near the mountain

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Lenten promise

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Trappist Abbey Lafayette Oregon

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when I was a baby....

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Si mi vida es muy bueno. no?

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A good man.

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Portland skyline from my office...Mt St Helens seems quiet so far today

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Portland morning...Mt Hood from my office

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Mollie after her trim...

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University of Portland's next great Freshman and Arthur Schultescholarship recipient beginning next September. Yay!

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Who dat?

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[Reuters]A Hungarian woman will become the country's first openly gay parliamentarian when she comes out on a television chat show on Thursday night. "It is simpler for me to say that I am homosexual rather than having others saying this to me," Klara Ungar of the liberal Free Democrats was quoted by local media as telling the "Strucc" TV chat show. In 15 years since the end of communism, few

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PLAGAL maintains that if the theory of a gay gene is proven and isolated, then the day will not be far off when a test for the predisposition of homosexuality will be developed. Once medical science achieves that ability, it will be possible to do by a legal, surgical procedure what all homophobes and gay bashers throughout history have tried and failed to do — to eliminate gays and lesbians

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[Ghana Home Page]The Anglican Church is ready to break up with the provinces of the United States and Canada if they failed to adhere to the church's decision to withdraw the consecration of Bishop Dean Robertson and also stop blessing marriages of same sexes.The Reverend Dr Justice O. Akrofi, Archbishop of Accra and Primate of Church of the Province of West Africa, said this at a press

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[Lornett Turnbull and Christina Siderius]The campaign for gay rights trained its hopes for marriage equality on nine men and women inside the Temple of Justice here yesterday. Attorneys for 19 lesbian and gay couples, their expectations high, made their case for state-sanctioned civil marriage before the Washington Supreme Court as the state, King County and a group of intervenors argued that

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[AP]Tel Aviv city council member Etai Pinkas and his boyfriend, along with three other gay couples from Israel, have arrived in Canada to obtain marriage licenses in Ontario, where same-sex marriages are legal. Pinkas, 31, his boyfriend Yoav Arad and the other couples intend to wed at Toronto City Hall on Friday.Pinkas, Tel Aviv's first openly gay man on the city council, said he's determined to

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[LISA ARTHUR]A statewide study of Hispanic same-sex couples shows similarities to other Latino households, according to a national gay rights advocacy group. The study will be used in the fight to end bans on same-sex adoption and marriage in Florida. Read here.When Stephanie Woolley-Larrea gave birth to triplets 2 ½ years ago, she had more than just the normal new-mom worries to cope with. She

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A great site run by Bryan Boyd: Basic Rights Oregon the Portland, Oregon based non-profit group, committed to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Oregon.Check it out here.

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Tuy Hua (about 15 clics outta Da Nang) Vietnam 1968.My Dad to the left.

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Mary F. Puckett, Senior-East High SchoolWichita, Kansas 1956 (my Mom)

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[Rick Klein]A group of more than 50 House members filed a bill Wednesday that would overturn the 12-year-old ``don't ask, don't tell'' policy and allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in uniform, arguing that the ban against them undermines national security at a time when the military is struggling to recruit soldiers. The bill represents an attempt by Democrats and gay-rights advocates to

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[RUKMINI CALLIMACHI]Every morning before she headed out into the world, Evelyn Hall took off her gold ring and placed it on the kitchen counter. When she returned at night, she slipped it back on. Last year, she put it on for good when she married the woman whom relatives had assumed was her roommate, cracking open the secret life the two had hidden for 46 years. A total of 2,968 couples

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My Mother at her engagement dinner (she declined) circa 1957. Grandparents Pierce and Kay.

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John F. Turpeinen, Freshman- Astoria High SchoolAstoria, Oregon 1953 (my Dad)

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Kaarina E Turpeinen (Nayho). She passed one year before I came onboard this planetso I never had the opportunity to meet her.

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Minun isä heimo kotona Hämmästyttää Oregon USA. Minunisoisä ja isoäiti ulos Suomi ikä aiemmin. Turpeinen.My Dad's Family circa 1948. My Grandfather and Grandmotherarrived from Finland several decades before. Turpeinen.

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[Dot and Bill Gerber Jr]The Humane Society International estimates that 100,000 dogs in Sri Lanka alone were left homeless by the storm. Frightened, disoriented and desperately hungry, some displaced dogs have become aggressive. This has led to the mass killing of strays in some remote areas. Making matters worse is the fact that many animal shelters were destroyed by the tidal wave, and their

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Maya Marcel-Keyes made her debut as a gay activist at a rally by supporters for LGBT rights in Annapolis, Maryland on Valentine's Day. Defining herself as a "liberal queer," the 19 year-old urged support for young gays and lesbians deserted by their families.Maya's father is Alan Keyes, the reactionary African American commentator and most recently the itinerant candidate for the US Senate in

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[AP] The picture of a lesbian student dressed in a tuxedo will not be permitted in her school's yearbook, the Clay County school officials decided.Principal Sam Ward of Fleming Island High School made the initial decision to pull Kelli Davis's picture from the yearbook, saying he did so because Davis, who is openly gay, was dressed in boy's clothes.The county school board and its superintendent

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primavera

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blossom

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My friend Liz brings in her buddy Rocky, to work from time-to-time and we always have a great visit!

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TOBI (picture courtesy of Tom Ferris)My friend Tom Ferris has a new site that has a lot of good information on diabetes and pets. It contains information regarding Tobi's treatment and successful response. Check it out!click HERE

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oregon spring

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st francis

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gracias, Madre

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[Office of the Prime Minister]LINKCheck against delivery I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.This is an important day. The attention of our nation is focused on this chamber, in which John Diefenbaker introduced the Bill

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lily

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portland morning

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Valentines

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Beautiful Jenny! and Ollie. We had a wonderful visit....

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Katie and Sarah. Our sweethearts!

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Beautiful Soul

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Happiness is contagious

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Downtown

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KOIN Tower

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Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today... Imagine there's no countries, It isnt hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace... Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A

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early

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February 10, 2005 Portland sunrise

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[World News] Two gay communist fighters in the southern Philippines fell in love and got married last week, a local newspaper reported Monday. The wedding made news largely because gay relationships, including marriage, are considered taboo in the mainstream Philippine society. The two men known as "Ka"(comrade) Andres and "Ka" Jose, pseudonyms in the New Peoples' Army - the guerilla arm of

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[Andy Borowitz] Fred and Barney should be banned because they are virtually inseparable, are never seen wearing pants and live together in the suggestively-named town of Bedrock, complains a conservative activist. click here

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Smiling faces. Shining heads. Gazing out from well-made beds. Parents with an anxious look. One kind word was all it took. Brothers and sisters affected too. And no-one knowing what to do. Doctors, nurses and caring folk Will sometimes stop to share a joke. Always there’s that question ‘Why?’ And please don’t say my child might die. Hope

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Taliesen West

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Tempe 2

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Tempe

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desert cactus

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