March 2011
1 post
shampooingmelvin:
The Senate health care bill “[…] includes ‘conscience clause’ language that protects both individuals and entities that refuse to provide, pay for, provide coverage for, or refer for abortion.”
You don’t approve of abortion? Ok, fine, but choose a profession that doesn’t put you in the situation of assisting one.
Old Order Amish have every right to their beliefs but I’m not...
August 2009
2 posts
Also, this reminds me of the poster for Dante’s Peak. How long until they look like the posters for The Swarm?
July 2009
1 post
Raining on your Dissuade Parade
I don’t think American capability should be measured against the yardstick of what Canadians can’t do. The possibility of universal health care in the US shouldn’t be restricted by the (real or perceived) failures of other countries. Whatever happened to “anything you can do I can do better”? Or are we actually updating the refrain to “anything you can’t...
June 2009
152 posts
To veer from my usual posting content...
Instead of a vigil, whadday we memorializes Michael Jackson by coordinating groups to do Thriller all over the world? I’m not really all that into Michael Jackson, but it’d be a great excuse to unite the world in group dance.
Him: ...gay exorcism?!
Me: Are you really surprised?
If homosexuality is evil, naturally there will be people thinking it can be removed like evil spirits.
If it's a disease, it can be cured.
Him: Yeah, I guess I shouldn't be, but still...
Me: If it's learned it can be unlearned.
If it's actually a natural part of someone, that person should be destroyed.
If it threatens your belief structure, and your belief structure is infallible, you threaten it.
It's really disturbing the ways in which closed-minded culture "copes" with that which is incompatible.
Him: Yeah, you ain't lying.
Church creates stir with gay exorcism video →
“Rip it from his throat!” a woman yells. “Come on, you homosexual demon! You homosexual spirit, we call you out right now! Loose your grip, Lucifer!”
Disgusting.
“Because—equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for....”
– Joss Whedon
(What can I say, it bears repeating?)
Transcript: Joss Whedon, Honoring Men On the Front...
Uh, the most courageous thing I’ve ever done is something called a press junket, um, uh, which is actually pretty courageous, believe me, because they ask you the same questions over and over and over. And over and over and over.
Um…I’ve done as many as 48 in a day—these interviews, and they really—they don’t come up with the fresh stuff. So, there is one question that...
Here’s Ledeen at The Corner:
[Obama], [y]ou’re going to be accused of meddling anyway, since out there in the real world you are believed to be the leader of the forces of freedom and democracy. So stop pretending to be a sweet innocent, and get in there and fight for people who are dying in the name of our values, and who want to be part of our world.
Dear Michael Ledeen:...
“The president is wildly popular. A “public option,” which most people seem to...”
– First Draft
If there’s isn’t a public plan by the end of the year I’m going to be unbelievably upset. I’m fine with Obama being a predictably disappointing politician as long as I get my god damn public plan.
(via sexartandpolitics)
“This argument is basically about the seven dirty words that the FCC complains...”
– Frank Zappa
Lofton: Every form of government is based on some form of morality, Frank.
Zappa: Morality in terms of behavior, not in terms of theology.
Twitter Unleashes Deluge of Sarcasm on Republican... →
Pete Hoekstra, tweeted: “Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.”
And the internet said…
mike_bosworth @petehoekstra I got a sunburn last weekend. Makes me think of Hiroshima.
curtsmith @petehoekstra, fell off my surfboard in Malibu today, now I know what D-day felt like.
More at link…
“We [Iranians] are a bit unfortunate. When we had our Obama [meaning President...”
– Mohsen Makhmalbaf, spokesman for Mousavi (via)
U.S. and Iran are like Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, only with hostages, nuclear weapons, occupations of neighboring countries, etc.
One day we’ll get on the same page. But what we’re witnessing now may merely be Meg’s fake...
Mike Huckabee: I don’t think there’s anybody that wakes up and says, “I really think abortion is a wonderful, wonderful thing.” I don’t truly think that people believe — even people that would consider themselves pro-choice — like abortion. I don’t think they have thought through the implications and the logical conclusions. For example: if we train...
WatchMike Huckabee. Jon Stewart. Abortion.
“JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT’S...”
– GOP operative Mike Green on Twitter Source.
World Future Council →
The WFC Future Justice Programme aims to protect and to promote the rights of future generations through the dissemination of exemplary laws and through the denunciation of ‘future foreclosing’ crimes against future generations.
“I really don’t have a problem with gay marriage… because I’m tolerant and...”
– David Cross (via michaelikesit) (via gimmick) (via peterwknox)
“So here we have the entire health care debate in a horrible nutshell. The...”
– Rondam Ramblings (via azspot)
Anne and Emmett
[Janet] Langhart Cohen, a former television talk show host and newspaper columnist, has written a provocative one-act play in which two martyred teenagers, Anne Frank and Emmett Till, meet after death in a place called Memory.
Anne, a Jew, died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. She was 15. Till, who was black, was lynched by white racists during the Jim Crow era. He was 14....
Anne and Emmett
Anne: We're all here together in the darkness, yet alone at the same time until we're pulled into the light, until we're remembered.
Emmett: Remembered? By whom?