How I feel about LGBT & Marriage?

Some might argue that Marriage is a paper certificated contract between two humans. And in some states, is engendered with as a man and woman only and some states, it is whomever you choose to love.

I have come down to a place in my life about this subject, which may be different from other local bloggers, community members or national speakers might feel about it. And it might be the first time in my life that I have finally had to make the decision to step up in my life and live it.

No, I am not LGBT or any other label that someone wants to slap on my forehead. I am just a simply person who lives a simple life.  This commentary may lose me some friends, family, business or engender further economic strain and stratification. And it might be the same way for many other families across this great nation.

Have you ever felt that someone else around you deserves to live their lives in peace? Without unearned slander, libel or label unless they so choose to apply it?

I believe two people should be able to live together and stay together, regardless of race, gender or any status, unless they so choose to bring it into their lives. And this may mean that they also will have to live with the stigma of past generations that may look down upon them as though they are not humans or people worthy of the basic rights of respect and love.

To me, marriage is about two people, who love each other. That are coming together to profess to their community that they are willing to take a step of a greater responsibility, to love, to nurture and to live the rest of their lives together. They may or may not choose to bring a child or multiples of children into their lives. That they are willing to make this union and bond for life that is enshrined on a marriage vow and certificated at a court house in their legal jurisdiction.

I feel that they are just looking for the same right, the same love and attention that anyone else wants. They don't want to be treated as spectacles, obfuscations, abhorants or problems.

Now I could spend a long time looking all over the internet for statistics two and fro about the subject. To defend, argue, debate, debase and honestly waste a whole lot of life tragically that our nation could be using to look at the REAL problems facing cities, our nation, our world.

Yet, this subject engendered so much anger, hatred and emotional tragedy. Does anyone else see a problem here? Why are we wasting time and energy on the subject, when there is so much other things that our nation needs fixing

As long as they are not hurting anyone, I'll go find some other subject to deal with and would love to take my community forward and on to the next thing? Hell, let them do what they want, even if they need to go to online paper mill for their marriage certificate....

Is there a real news media in Clark County?

So I have read for some time and heard through conversation over the past the past two decades that the people of Clark County wanted some form of local news and community connection to find out more about themselves and the state that they lived in.

Yes, there is a new radio station that plays twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week of syndicated conversative talk radio that was shifted from sister stations and other local conservative stations to KKOV.

And there is a local daily that does a small percentage of news of what is going on and spends resources to local charities and business partnerships. And it has an executive staff that ticks off the local political blogosphere. Yet does not do much more than that?

You also have FVTV, which offers low cost production classes, studio time and gear for local productions for non-profit and local community events. It replays all of its content off the PEG access channel on Comcast channel 11. If you are not a cable subscriber, how are you able to access the production content?

The Vancouver Voice was a local weekly sheet & blotter that broke a bunch of local stories like the Storrow Case, The Value Motel Saga and other stories. It is now on the chopping block by its owners. I am not sure if its going to get picked up by a new publisher and financial backing due to the economy and the newsprints continuing escalating costs and declining readership as more and more people move online to get their hard news.

Some other local options Daily Insider, Clark County Live, Daily Couve (local satire), Vancouver Business Journal are smaller readership but also fill the gap for important constituencies here in our little neck of the woods.

There are many other online discussion forums, Facebook conversations and forums and many other ways we can communicate. But where do you think you can find a place where all of us stand as one as community speaking to the nation about WHO we are. I would love to see some thing like that happen.

Walkways throughout Clark County.

I am hoping to figure out what kind of new walkways in Clark County that I don't know of. There are so many in Vancouver and Hazel Dell. Burnt Bridge Greenway, Salmon Creek walkway? I believe there is one around Lacamas Lake. What about Battle Ground lake?