The first day of school this year….

 

 

Nine of ten Americans (89 percent)  believe that texting messages or emailing while driving is dangerous and distracting and should even be banned, furthermore, 91% compare the jeopardy it implies to that of driving after one has had a couple of drinks. What is astonishing is that two in three drivers (66 percent) admit reading text messages or emails while behind the wheel and also 57 percent admitted to sending text messages or emails while driving.

Do you text and Drive? Do these videos make you think?

Here are pictures from here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Fill vehicles with gas.
• Get extra cash.
• Fill prescriptions.
• For mobile homes, secure tie-downs and prepare to evacuate when ordered.
• Bring in loose objects from outside.
• Prepare to secure all windows with shutters or plywood.

If you are not told to evacuate:

• Stay at home! Leave the roads available for those who must evacuate.
• Clean bathtub with bleach, fill with water for washing and flushing (not drinking).
• Set fridge to maximum cold and keep closed.
• Turn off utilities if told to do so by local officials.

During a Hurricane

• Go to an interior room on the lowest level of the structure in which you’re taking shelter.
• Stay away from windows and doors, even though they’re covered with shutters or
• plywood.
• During extremely strong winds, lie under something sturdy such as a stairwell or large piece of furniture.
• Do not go outside, not even during passage of the eye. If the eye passes directly over you, the winds could become very weak, but only for a very short period. It will not be long before hurricane-force wind resume, blowing from the opposite direction as before the eye arrived.

After a Hurricane

• Help might not come for up to a few days, and power could be out for days or even weeks.
• Avoid driving on roads covered by water and/or debris. It is often difficult to determine the depth of water covering a road. Turn around, don’t drown.
• Avoid downed power lines. Stay away from objects that are touching a downed power line, such as a fence or tree.
• Do not touch anything electrical if you are wet. Stay out of water that could be touching anything electrical, such as in a basement with electrical appliances, or in flooded areas outside where there could be downed power lines.
• Only use a generator in an outdoor, well-ventilated area, and closely follow manufacturer’s instructions. Many people have died in the aftermath of a hurricane from inhalation of poorly ventilated carbon monoxide from a generator.
• Use flashlights instead of candles for light. Candles pose a serious fire hazard.

 

 

I did a video for We Are Atheism. 

 

About We Are Atheism….

This is your chance to finally be heard. This is our chance to stand up, speak out, and be counted. We want to provide a platform for atheists around the globe to see that they are not alone. Atheists come in all shapes, sizes, ages, and backgrounds. The only thing that we all have in common is that we don’t see any credible evidence to believe  in a god. It’s ok to be an atheist, and we want the world to know.

To learn more about them you can visit their website or facebook page

 

Here is my video

 

 

 

Dear Friend,

Imagine that one day Facebook suddenly erased your identity from its social network-  What would you do?  The right to an online identity is something that most of us have come to take for granted, yet there are millions of people in every part of the world who are denied this right.

What we love about Facebook is the ability for people to create and customize online identities to reflect our lives. When it comes to languages, we can list virtually any language in the world, or even make up languages- how else could we show off our fluency in “Language of Love”?  If our ability to choose religions, languages, and interests are limitless, why should Facebook impose limits on something as essential as gender?

Join me and urge Facebook to become a vehicle, not a roadblock, in the uphill drive for recognition and respect of trans identities:

www.allout.org/facebook

I just want to get this straight right away for everyone… GenderQueer has NOTHING to do with who you do or do not have sex with.

Genderqueer is a catch-all term for gender identities other than man and woman, thus outside of the gender binary and heteronormativity. People who identify as genderqueer may think of themselves as one or more of the following:

both man and woman (bigender, pangender)
neither man nor woman (genderless, agender)
moving between genders (genderfluid)
third gender or other-gendered; includes those who do not place a name to their gender
having an overlap of, or blurred lines between, gender identity and sexual orientation

 

Some genderqueer people prefer to use gender-neutral pronouns such as one, ze, sie, hir, ey or singular “they”,”their” and “them”, while others prefer the conventional binary pronouns “her” or “him”. Some genderqueer people prefer to be referred to alternately as he and she (and/or gender neutral pronouns), and some prefer to use only their name and not use pronouns at all.

 

Despite what we’re force-fed by the media and by society, it really is okay to be inbetween genders if that’s where you feel you need to be. It’s almost preposterous that, depending on the flesh between our legs, we are expected to behave in certain ways;

Gender is not black or white, man or woman. It’s a spectrum – it stretches from the extremes of gender to the grey area in-between.

Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell walked off Piers Morgans’ chat show after he asked her about gay marriage.

 

O’Donnell, who opposes many gay rights measures, has said in the past that masturbation is “sinful”. In 2010, she made headlines after confessing to having “dabbled in witchcraft”.

Morgan tweeted later: “Ms. O’Donnell wasn’t happy about me quizzing her re views on witchcraft and sex. But really flipped at gay marriage Qs. Ripped mike and fled,”