Putting Things In Perspective.

Few things recently give me that sense of "spiritual".  This vid though is one

It really puts things in perspective, showcasing the amazingness of the vast universe we're in
and how unbelievable it is that we, right now, are against all odds, lucky enough to be born
in the time when our species is first opening it's young eyes and taking it's first blinking
infantile look at the larger cosmos.


Then that was immediately contrasted with this article for me...

Houston voters elect first openly gay mayor 

"The election battle leading up to Saturday's balloting was marked by fierce campaigning and anti-gay rhetoric. Parker is a lesbian who has never made a secret or issue of her sexual orientation. If she wins, Houston will become the largest U.S. city to ever have an openly gay mayor..."

"Parker is a lesbian who has never made a secret or an issue of her sexual orientation. But that orientation became focus of the race in recent weeks after anti-gay activists and conservative religious groups endorsed the 61-year-old Locke and sent out mailers condemning Parker's "homosexual behavior..."

"Locke, who would become the city's second black mayor if elected, has been trying to distance himself from the anti-gay attacks while courting conservative voters who could tip the race in his favor.

"Although Locke has condemned the divisive rhetoric, two of his key supporters contributed money to a conservative political action committee that sent out an anti-gay mailer earlier this month, urging voters not to pick Parker because she was endorsed by the "gay and lesbian political caucus...

"Campaign finance reports show Ned Holmes, finance chairman of Locke's campaign, and James Dannenbaum, a member of the campaign's finance committee, each gave $20,000..."

 Really...amazing...just flipping amazing.  It has been about half a century since man first

set foot on another cosmic body, on another world...and yet this.  THIS of all things, is almost

as major an acomplishment.  

Why should it matter at all your canidates sex preferences or race or anything?  

How really is our country that equal and post racial when it's still an issue.

Maybe now more of an issue than it was ten years ago.

20,000 bucks to remind people about the evils of teh gay...imagine that being so 

important to people that they're willing to pay out that much.

people won't pay out the 1 buck needed to feed a child in bumblefuck Africa,

but to keep an undesirable out of office, wallets part like the red sea.

Uganda's gearing up to lock away their undesirables and execute them...an idea

supported and promoted by us Americans, and our news barely covers it.

Even beyond that countless undesirables live in poverty, or slavery

or abuse or famine or under tyranny, for really petty reasons.

I really just wish so much that the people who feel its so important to keep their

undesirables down, people who feel their god lets them be a dick, who feel the 

right to be greedy fucks, could look at the sky and see that galaxy rise.

I mean imagine that, there's all that stuff out there...all that to be discovered...

and a lot here to still do, and it's just sitting by the wayside ignored due to 

bullshit.

I think it's a tragedy and failing each and everyone one of us should feel

personally that Carl Sagan never lived long enough to see us reach the stars.

"The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars"

Carl Sagan

(1934-1996)