Today we went to the British Museum because we thought they had an LGBT exhibit there but was proven wrong when we got there! However, we did get to see the astonishing Warren Cup. This was bought by the museum in 1999 for 1.8 million pounds, which set a record at the time. The cup [...]
Mar
29
Ashamed to be British…Part ??
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Think I have lost count! What a complete shambles at Heathrow Terminal 5 this week with the situation getting worse today with an expected 20,000 bag mountain [source: BBC]. The guy who was interviewed on Thursday was correct about the UK – all shine but nothing works. This morning we made the mistake by going [...]
Mar
26
Immigration Equality Blog
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Immigration Equality linked to my blog article today on the article I wrote about the bizarre comments made by the Family Research Council [see article]. They certainly wouldn’t like it if people said that all members of the FRC should be exiled overseas. Weird.
Mar
21
Relaxing Good Friday…Kind Of…
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This morning, soon after we got up, we were confronted with more shouting and swearing by “the neighbors from hell”. They were quiet for a while, because they were never around, but all of a sudden the noise has escalated. I can see another letter of complaint coming soon. We walked to Kings Cross Station [...]
Mar
21
Publicity for UAFA
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The positive thing about the remarks by the so-called Family Research Council has generated a lot of publicity for the Uniting American Families Act and Immigration Equality. I take this as good news for the cause, some people who were unaware are now informed especially at the stupidity and bigotry of the FRC. Talk about [...]
Mar
20
Family Research Council are Anti-Family
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This statement was email’d me today and thought it was worth sharing on my blog. New York, March 20, 2008 – Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, discussed the group’s opposition to the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) saying “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States [...]
Mar
20
Another very bad day with customer services in the UK: Sainsbury’s: Ordered groceries online for between 10-11 today, they never arrived. Phoned them, very unapologetic customer service person so I decided to cancel the delivery. Virgin Media: Continued to lie to me about fix time of the TV service, their call center in India keep [...]
Mar
17
Life Support Systems…
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Thank goodness I am not relying on the following companies for my life support system! Virgin Media: No cable TV service since Thursday 13th, initially took almost 30 minutes to report via call center in India, finally got an engineer booked for Monday 17th between 4pm and 7pm. No engineer turned up. Again another 20 [...]
Mar
14
UK Immigration Turnaround?
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The immigration service in the UK says its going to review their decision about a gay Iranian’s denial of asylum [source: CNN]. Seems like the British Government are being put under pressure from its European counterparts, the media and public (with a protest due March 22nd). In other good news, the Senate Foreign Relations committee [...]
Mar
13
Another Co-Sponsor
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Another Democrat has co-sponsored the Uniting American Families Act. She is Laura Richardson of California’s 37th district. The total number of co-sponsors in the House is steadily rising with Laura being the 91st. The Senate equivalent bill is still at 12. Sadly I don’t think the real action with these bills is going to come [...]
Mar
13
Carry on London
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Well, it has been known that I am not a fan of British comedy, mainly because I don’t really understand it. The only ever comedy I have understood is the slap and tickle adventures of the Carry On… series of films. Don and I were talking about this last night. On the BBC and Carry [...]
Mar
13
Sally Kern…Going to Hell
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Following my email to Sally Kern the other day I was intrigued to find out that she has indeed got a gay son [source: Queerty]. Oh my gosh, she is such a hypocrite and makes me totally sick. Poor old Oklahoma, I feel for you all, you are stuck with this idiot until 2016!
Mar
10
Freaky Weather Day
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This was supposed to have been the worst weather day for the UK this winter, even though its Spring. We have been battered with high winds, floods, 12,000 homes without power, travel disruption and so on [source: BBC]. Never mind that…you should have seen my hair when I got to work! I now walk everyday [...]
Mar
10
Another Republican Fruit Cake…
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Thinking that I have heard all the ungorgeousness from Republican’s mouths comes another idiot with a tirade against the gay community [source: GayWired]. This was not just a “I Hate Gay’s” speech, it was a whole monologue of equating LGBT people to terrorists, cancer and so on. I was so upset by the comments I [...]
Mar
9
Friday I took a day off from work. Finally our GP wrote a letter that was required to go with our medical information to the Canadian immigration, it took him two weeks. Anyway, on Friday morning I took the letter to the private medical practice that did our immigration medical to with the other paperwork. [...]
Mar
7
Deport to Death
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Seems to be a lot of deportation and aylum stories lately: A Malaysian gets deported from Canada where is likely to get executed [Edmonton Journal] This one is a very highly publicized story, gay Iranian gets sent back to his home country [Press Association and The Independent]. Jamaican police office wants asylum to Canada [365gay.com] [...]
Mar
1
Another Dim Sum Extravaganza
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After a restless night I felt rather awful this morning. I heard some people talking during the night and was in a little bit of pain with my side. Felt a bit grumpy when I got up. We went to the Algeria Coffee Store to get some Chocolate Macadamia Coffee beans, we had completely ran [...]