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My God Jordan - triplets.  You deserve a medal for bravery and perseverance.  I'm sure they are all gorgeous - but it must have been a nightmare when they all wanted something at once, wouldn't go to sleep or eat at the same time and fought with each other at the same time. 

I'm amazed you've come out of it all with a sense of humour.   

"Ellen DeGeneres 'saddened beyond belief' by gay marriage ban   November 06, 2008
ELLEN DeGeneres says she is "saddened beyond belief" a ban on gay marriage has been approved by Californian voters.

DeGeneres married Australian actress Portia de Rossi in August, three months after the Californian Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage.

Yesterday's vote for Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriage, leaves the stars and thousands of other gay couples in legal limbo.

"Barack Obama is our new president. Change is here. I like millions of of Americans, felt like we had taken a giant step toward equality," the talk-show host said on her website.

"This morning, when it was clear that Proposition 8 had passed in California, I can’t explain the feeling I had. I was saddened beyond belief.

"Here we just had a giant step toward equality and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away."

Proposition 8 was approved in a referendum by 52.1 per cent of voters, compared with 47.9 per cent who voted against.

Local media reported that a lesbian couple, who previously won the right to marry with the Supreme Court ruling, were to file a new suit to stop the referendum from coming into effect.

Japanese-American actor George Takei, who played Mr Sulu in the long-running series Star Trek, and who married his longtime partner Brad Altman in September, said his marriage would stay remain valid no matter what.

"There's nothing in the language of Proposition 8 that says it's retroactive, so our marriage is going to be valid," he told a local TV channel.

"But what we're concerned about is the young people of the future. Proposition 8 will eliminate in the constitution of the state their options of really being who they want to be."

Hollywood stars including Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg, as well as multinational companies such as Apple, had flocked to the "No" camp against the ban, with donations of up to $US100,000 ($142,920).

Arizona and Florida also passed similar referendums by large margins yesterday, stating that marriage was the legal union between a man and a woman.

The largest was in Florida where 62 per cent of voters approved the measure compared to 38 per cent against.

President-elect Obama has previously said he supports civil unions for same-sex couples which would give them exactly the same rights as married heterosexual couples."


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24611555-12377,00.html



Saddenned beyond belief ???
I can't believe that.

Thursday November 06, 2008 03:10AM EST

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People ExclusiveEllen and Portia Get Married
By Julie Jordan

Originally posted Sunday August 17, 2008 01:00 AM EDT
Portia de Rossi (left) and Ellen DeGeneres
Photo by: Lester Cohen / WireImage  

Ring the wedding bells!

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have tied the knot.

"Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were married tonight in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles," their spokesperson tells PEOPLE exclusively.

DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, both wore Zac Posen and exchanged rings by Neil Lane during the Saturday ceremony. Their big day also featured arrangements by L.A. florist Mark's Garden.

The intimate ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres's mom Betty and de Rossi's mother Margaret Rogers (who flew in from Australia for the occasion), who witnessed the couple exchange handwritten vows.

The couple have been dating since December 2004. DeGeneres announced her plans to wed de Rossi during a taping of her talk show in May after California's Supreme Court ruled a previous ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional.

The following month de Rossi showed off a 3-carat diamond ring set on a pink pavé band DeGeneres presented to her for their upcoming nuptials when the pair attended the Daytime Emmy Awards together.

"She's taught me lessons about myself, and I feel like I've taught her," the TV host said of de Rossi last year. "We've both changed and grown, and we just feel like, 'Oh, okay, this is completion.'"

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You actually agree with that Oceans?

That's absurd.

freediver wrote on Nov 7^th, 2008 at 3:03pm:


what is?

This is absurd Oceans:

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