visa lottery merry go round, part 4

Dear US State Dept.

I have a question regarding the diversity lottery for 2009, that hasn't been addressed in anything that I've read online at the US State Dept site. My partner (female) who was born in Algeria, but is living in Canada, would like to apply for a visa to live and work in the US. We are legally married in Canada, but are obviously not married in the US. I am an American citizen living in the US. There is a section in the lottery instructions that say she must state her marital status, and to provide spousal information and a photo. I feel that we are in a bind, since she would like to answer the questions truthfully and accurately, but our marriage is not recognized in the US. Can you please advise as to how she should answer the question, and whether or not she needs to provide info and a picture of me?

Thanks for your help in this matter.

What I'm bringing to Thanksgiving at 852

Mom let me borrow the big pot to bring potatoes...but Lucy has commandeered it for her own purposes. Think mom will notice?

a man I'd like to have dinner with

I love Barney Frank. He's funny, wicked smaht, fair. He puts G's in front of his L's like a certain brother I once knew (Glouie, Glouie), and sometimes he talks a might too fast. But I love this guy and wish he were in my district so that I could say that I vote for him.

Andrew Sullivan writes this about Barney's work on ending job discrimination for homos:

The Republicans - exempting 35 of them - did their best to link employment non-discrimination to marriage rights, expressing their usual spite toward those gay couples who have dared to commit to one another in law and love, by a legislative distraction. But they failed in the end. And most of us are used to the abuse by now. We do not need their affirmation to love one another. But some do still need some framework of protection in order to work without fear - especially in those states where gay couples have been targeted as public threats to the family.

I haven't always supported this legislation, and my libertarian heart is not thrilled by it. But every other minority is federally protected from discrimination in employment; it is increasingly a form of prejudice to say that gay people can be fired at will from their jobs just for being who they are.

I don't subscribe to much of Sullivan's beliefs, but everything he writes on the subject of fairness for all, is usually right on.

Happy Birthday Charlie!

Yes, it was yesterday, but it was a busy day! Happy Birthday my favorite 6 year old boy!