Check it out here:
Subverting The Republic (Huffington Post)
Just Thinking,
Thursday, March 26, 2009
And You Thought That "We" Were Paranoid...
I wonder what you would have thought if any of the Bush Administration had succeeded in getting these "laws" passed?
Check it out here:
Subverting The Republic (Huffington Post)
Just Thinking,
Check it out here:
Subverting The Republic (Huffington Post)
Just Thinking,
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...Matrix 4 with GWB
He has epic powrz...
...to dodge those flying shoes!
Just sayin'
NOTE: the was on the other blog, but really belonged here instead...so I moved it. LOL
Just Thinking,
...to dodge those flying shoes!
Just sayin'
NOTE: the was on the other blog, but really belonged here instead...so I moved it. LOL
Just Thinking,
Thursday, December 4, 2008
funny...
In a Serious Kinda Way.
It's amazing how many famous people are in this one...they must all be gay, right? LOL
Just Thinking,
See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die
It's amazing how many famous people are in this one...they must all be gay, right? LOL
Just Thinking,
Friday, November 21, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
A Lot of Thought
I've been thinking a lot lately about the big election we had nearer the beginning of the month.
History. Honestly. Being. Made.
The good and the bad.
It amazes me that a nation that could so readily elect our first black president (and i use black rather than "african-american" because he does.) can also so easily vote to remove (take away, deny) rights from a single group of people. Astonishing and heart breaking.
If the issue had been directed at black americans, or latino americans or other groups, we would have all been appalled. The news would have been screaming about discrimination and hatred. Everyone would have found it laughable that there was any serious consideration to do "that" to "them"
But because it was directed at gay americans, we turn our heads, close our ears to the reality of what was done there on that November Tuesday in California.
What the hell?
It wasn't so very long ago that it was illegal for women to vote. It was illegal for blacks to vote too. It was illegal for blacks and whites to marry (among other racial pairings).
So why do we so easily accept it when a group chooses to REVOKE rights from citizens living in California (that I frankly believe should be nationwide, but I digress). They didn't just vote to add working to a state constitution.
They literally TOOK AWAY RIGHTS ALREADY GRANTED.
What the hell?
I don't care how you feel about gays, or gay marriage or marriage at all for that matter.
But I do care that as a nation we aren't up in arms when a group is targeted so blatantly to have rights removed. It's hatred, plain and simple.
Regardless of what people would have you believe, civil union is not the same thing as marriage. There are nowhere near the same rights, privileges or responsibilities between the two parties involved. It's a second class status at best, and pure discrimination at worst.
And if it's the term "marriage" as is applied in a religious context that has you worried, then change it. Not just for one group though, but for everyone.
Marriage is a blatant mingling of church and state. We use the term to define two entirely different things. The religious idea of marriage and the civil or legal idea. Find another word if you want, but apply it to all citizens, gay or straight. People will call it what they want anyway, but frankly, if you need to go to the state (government) to get a license, then it's not a religious issue anymore. You don't need a religious ceremony to be married, but you DO need a government issued license along with some kind of public agreement to the joining.
Let's just do away with "marriage" as a legal term at all. For everyone. And those that worry about the religious aspect of whether or not gays should "marry" in the church can deal with it their own churches and synagogs or ashrams or temples or whatever you call where you go.
Then, we can let people that want to commit and have the responsibility and privileges thereof, do so.
No one would vote to have those rights women and other minorities have gotten be taken away. This is no different.
We aren't talking about whether or not you like that the Supreme Court of California decided that all it's citizens deserved the same civil rights. We aren't talking about whether or not you think that being gay is a choice or a sin or right or wrong.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVING RIGHTS ALREADY BESTOWED TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM.
WHAT
THE
HELL????
I have dear friends (family really) that voted with the liars and bigots. I don't think that they are that way, but I have to wonder what they were thinking. Did they buy into the lies? Did they just vote without thinking, because it didn't effect them personally (as far as they know)? I don't know, but I do know that I was shocked and saddened by how cavalierly they voted to take away the rights of others. I know this because I asked. Not a big deal to discriminate. I think that they'd be appalled with themselves if they thought about it without all the lies and emotional bullshit - but I project my own feelings on to them here. Maybe they really do believe that this shot at "them" isn't a shot at "us". I still am confused about it and working through it. To me, it's so damn clear. I suspect that my myopic view makes it hard to see what I can only think of as a ridiculously easy decision. I'm trying to understand though.
I guess that in a country that so easily gives up basic rights of personal freedom in exchange for a feeling of safety (see all the executive orders that were signed without so much as a ripple in the ether), it shouldn't be a surprise to me.
But dammit, it is.
What is the matter with us? Why do we take things so lightly as to not understand that what is ok to do to one group is ok to do to all groups. What we do to "them", we do to "us". Are we so complacent that we don't see what is happening?
I fear for us all.
I pray that our new leadership can figure out a way to make us all care again.
Care about the stuff the supposedly makes this country great.
Freedom of Speech (lost that with exec order)
Freedom of Assembly (lost that one too)
Freedom of Religion (not when one group is targeted using religion as a weapon of emotion)
Here's a list of all the executive orders issued by our current and thankfully lame duck president. Some are standard business things...some aren't, but all happen without any due process or checks/balances. Scary stuff, some of it.
What we do to one, we do to all, people. Wake up! Today's "them" is tomorrow's "us". We are, every one of us, a "them" to someone else.
Maybe, just maybe, this passage of discrimination in California has finally lit the fires under us that will make us truly a society that values diversity and holds onto the idea that we are all first class citizens of this nation.
We can hope.
I'd like to hear what you think...let me know, or I'll get all "sound and fury" about it all.
Just Thinking,
History. Honestly. Being. Made.
The good and the bad.
It amazes me that a nation that could so readily elect our first black president (and i use black rather than "african-american" because he does.) can also so easily vote to remove (take away, deny) rights from a single group of people. Astonishing and heart breaking.
If the issue had been directed at black americans, or latino americans or other groups, we would have all been appalled. The news would have been screaming about discrimination and hatred. Everyone would have found it laughable that there was any serious consideration to do "that" to "them"
But because it was directed at gay americans, we turn our heads, close our ears to the reality of what was done there on that November Tuesday in California.
What the hell?
It wasn't so very long ago that it was illegal for women to vote. It was illegal for blacks to vote too. It was illegal for blacks and whites to marry (among other racial pairings).
So why do we so easily accept it when a group chooses to REVOKE rights from citizens living in California (that I frankly believe should be nationwide, but I digress). They didn't just vote to add working to a state constitution.
They literally TOOK AWAY RIGHTS ALREADY GRANTED.
What the hell?
I don't care how you feel about gays, or gay marriage or marriage at all for that matter.
But I do care that as a nation we aren't up in arms when a group is targeted so blatantly to have rights removed. It's hatred, plain and simple.
Regardless of what people would have you believe, civil union is not the same thing as marriage. There are nowhere near the same rights, privileges or responsibilities between the two parties involved. It's a second class status at best, and pure discrimination at worst.
And if it's the term "marriage" as is applied in a religious context that has you worried, then change it. Not just for one group though, but for everyone.
Marriage is a blatant mingling of church and state. We use the term to define two entirely different things. The religious idea of marriage and the civil or legal idea. Find another word if you want, but apply it to all citizens, gay or straight. People will call it what they want anyway, but frankly, if you need to go to the state (government) to get a license, then it's not a religious issue anymore. You don't need a religious ceremony to be married, but you DO need a government issued license along with some kind of public agreement to the joining.
Let's just do away with "marriage" as a legal term at all. For everyone. And those that worry about the religious aspect of whether or not gays should "marry" in the church can deal with it their own churches and synagogs or ashrams or temples or whatever you call where you go.
Then, we can let people that want to commit and have the responsibility and privileges thereof, do so.
No one would vote to have those rights women and other minorities have gotten be taken away. This is no different.
We aren't talking about whether or not you like that the Supreme Court of California decided that all it's citizens deserved the same civil rights. We aren't talking about whether or not you think that being gay is a choice or a sin or right or wrong.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVING RIGHTS ALREADY BESTOWED TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM.
WHAT
THE
HELL????
I have dear friends (family really) that voted with the liars and bigots. I don't think that they are that way, but I have to wonder what they were thinking. Did they buy into the lies? Did they just vote without thinking, because it didn't effect them personally (as far as they know)? I don't know, but I do know that I was shocked and saddened by how cavalierly they voted to take away the rights of others. I know this because I asked. Not a big deal to discriminate. I think that they'd be appalled with themselves if they thought about it without all the lies and emotional bullshit - but I project my own feelings on to them here. Maybe they really do believe that this shot at "them" isn't a shot at "us". I still am confused about it and working through it. To me, it's so damn clear. I suspect that my myopic view makes it hard to see what I can only think of as a ridiculously easy decision. I'm trying to understand though.
I guess that in a country that so easily gives up basic rights of personal freedom in exchange for a feeling of safety (see all the executive orders that were signed without so much as a ripple in the ether), it shouldn't be a surprise to me.
But dammit, it is.
What is the matter with us? Why do we take things so lightly as to not understand that what is ok to do to one group is ok to do to all groups. What we do to "them", we do to "us". Are we so complacent that we don't see what is happening?
I fear for us all.
I pray that our new leadership can figure out a way to make us all care again.
Care about the stuff the supposedly makes this country great.
Freedom of Speech (lost that with exec order)
Freedom of Assembly (lost that one too)
Freedom of Religion (not when one group is targeted using religion as a weapon of emotion)
Here's a list of all the executive orders issued by our current and thankfully lame duck president. Some are standard business things...some aren't, but all happen without any due process or checks/balances. Scary stuff, some of it.
What we do to one, we do to all, people. Wake up! Today's "them" is tomorrow's "us". We are, every one of us, a "them" to someone else.
Maybe, just maybe, this passage of discrimination in California has finally lit the fires under us that will make us truly a society that values diversity and holds onto the idea that we are all first class citizens of this nation.
We can hope.
I'd like to hear what you think...let me know, or I'll get all "sound and fury" about it all.
Just Thinking,
Friday, October 17, 2008
Whether or Not She's 82
This blogger has a point:
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/bitch-there-i-said-it/
"Sarah Palin Is A Bitch...There, I Said It"
"Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it’s NOT you girl…
Look. I am going to say what everyone at CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC is thinking but is afraid to say. Governor Palin is a stupid, conniving bitch. And it’s not because she is a strong woman - I like strong women… worship them… It’s actually the opposite. She is a weak, pathetic woman who thinks big hair, winking, baby talk and self deprecation is somehow becoming of a woman who wants to lead the free world. My god, where is Margaret Thatcher when you need her!
But what really makes me mad is the hypocrisy. She claims to be a Washington outsider and yet is the worst kind of politician. She will say anything and avoid answering any question instead choosing to spout whatever line or soundbite some adviser put into her mouth a few hours earlier. And exactly when did sounding like a hick make someone “more like us”. Last time I checked we were a country striving to educate our children to be intelligent and honest. I think I would die if my daughter came home from school and said something like “I gotta tell ya. Change is a comin’.” At the very least I would remove the Beverly Hillbillies from her approved TV viewing list.
And then there is Alaska. Have any of you been to Alaska recently? Although the largest State geographically, it has less than a million people - about 700,000. (The city I live in now is bigger. )Fewer population issues exist for lawmakers to address. And because they make so much money from the oil companies, the Alaskan government actually gives it citizens an annual dividend check (this year $3,200). Exactly what Governor wouldn’t be popular under those circumstances? No wonder they can afford to elect a governor who ony has an undergraduate degree in journalism and a few beauty pageant awards. By the way, when you got that journalism degree did they teach you that some journalists actually ask hard questions like what newpapers do you read?
Fact: Sarah Palin is stupid. Maybe not stupid by Alabama standards but stupid enough that she managed to get herself elected Governor while never bothering to educate herself on little things like the Constitution, foriegn affairs or appropriate debating practices. She is stupid enough to have accepted a VP nomination for which she is completely unqualified and stupid enough not to admit it - even though the future of our great nation could be irreversibly damaged by the decision.
When exactly do we all get to call “bullshit”?
She loves to talk about being a mother but the last time I checked, having your newborn on national TV at 11PM instead of in bed wasn’t considered “good muthering“. Neither was making your child’s unexpected teen pregnancy the talk of the nation because you desperately wanted to be a politician in Washington DC - or isn’t that exactly what you said you didn’t want. From where I sit, it appears you would sell your soul for the position. Kind of the way that Elisabeth girl on The View sold her soul for fame. Please god get her off the airwaves - she became famous because she ate a rat… but I digress…
Oh and my favorite - my husband Todd (the first dude) and I sit around the kitchen table wondering about the cost of college like many of you… oh really. Your oldest son went from high school into the military. Your next oldest is pregnant with plans to be married to some hockey jock at age 17. Seems to me you’ve got lots of time before you have to worry about college tuition especially being college doesn’t seem to be a priority in your family.
You refuse to give live interviews and then whine when your taped interviews get edited. Then you have a chance to be live in front of the nation during a debate and you respond by not answering the questions (proudly not answering the questions I might add) but rather by reading the cue cards given to you by a group of white old men who sold their souls to the political system when you were in…. I don’t know - 2nd grade maybe. Your insulting to a United States Senator who is so respected that his home state has elected him to office 6 times. And while I am on the subject of the debate - shame on Gwen Ifell for not making her answer the questions. Damn I miss Tim Russert.
Sarah Palin is an ignorant, ranting, whining bitch. There I said it. But lots more are thinking it.
Please take your ridiculous hair, your over lipstick-smacking mouth, your Lenscrafter look smarter glasses and your poorly fitted designer jackets back to Alaska. And when you get there, shove a piece of the pipeline up your considerable ass. I’ll be damned if we’ll put our children’s future in your hands. And the same thing goes for McCain - the ass wipe who gave her this national platform effectively pushing the woman’s movement back into the dark ages - knowing McCain that might have been his plan all along."
Just Thinking,
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/bitch-there-i-said-it/
"Sarah Palin Is A Bitch...There, I Said It"
"Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it’s NOT you girl…
Look. I am going to say what everyone at CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC is thinking but is afraid to say. Governor Palin is a stupid, conniving bitch. And it’s not because she is a strong woman - I like strong women… worship them… It’s actually the opposite. She is a weak, pathetic woman who thinks big hair, winking, baby talk and self deprecation is somehow becoming of a woman who wants to lead the free world. My god, where is Margaret Thatcher when you need her!
But what really makes me mad is the hypocrisy. She claims to be a Washington outsider and yet is the worst kind of politician. She will say anything and avoid answering any question instead choosing to spout whatever line or soundbite some adviser put into her mouth a few hours earlier. And exactly when did sounding like a hick make someone “more like us”. Last time I checked we were a country striving to educate our children to be intelligent and honest. I think I would die if my daughter came home from school and said something like “I gotta tell ya. Change is a comin’.” At the very least I would remove the Beverly Hillbillies from her approved TV viewing list.
And then there is Alaska. Have any of you been to Alaska recently? Although the largest State geographically, it has less than a million people - about 700,000. (The city I live in now is bigger. )Fewer population issues exist for lawmakers to address. And because they make so much money from the oil companies, the Alaskan government actually gives it citizens an annual dividend check (this year $3,200). Exactly what Governor wouldn’t be popular under those circumstances? No wonder they can afford to elect a governor who ony has an undergraduate degree in journalism and a few beauty pageant awards. By the way, when you got that journalism degree did they teach you that some journalists actually ask hard questions like what newpapers do you read?
Fact: Sarah Palin is stupid. Maybe not stupid by Alabama standards but stupid enough that she managed to get herself elected Governor while never bothering to educate herself on little things like the Constitution, foriegn affairs or appropriate debating practices. She is stupid enough to have accepted a VP nomination for which she is completely unqualified and stupid enough not to admit it - even though the future of our great nation could be irreversibly damaged by the decision.
When exactly do we all get to call “bullshit”?
She loves to talk about being a mother but the last time I checked, having your newborn on national TV at 11PM instead of in bed wasn’t considered “good muthering“. Neither was making your child’s unexpected teen pregnancy the talk of the nation because you desperately wanted to be a politician in Washington DC - or isn’t that exactly what you said you didn’t want. From where I sit, it appears you would sell your soul for the position. Kind of the way that Elisabeth girl on The View sold her soul for fame. Please god get her off the airwaves - she became famous because she ate a rat… but I digress…
Oh and my favorite - my husband Todd (the first dude) and I sit around the kitchen table wondering about the cost of college like many of you… oh really. Your oldest son went from high school into the military. Your next oldest is pregnant with plans to be married to some hockey jock at age 17. Seems to me you’ve got lots of time before you have to worry about college tuition especially being college doesn’t seem to be a priority in your family.
You refuse to give live interviews and then whine when your taped interviews get edited. Then you have a chance to be live in front of the nation during a debate and you respond by not answering the questions (proudly not answering the questions I might add) but rather by reading the cue cards given to you by a group of white old men who sold their souls to the political system when you were in…. I don’t know - 2nd grade maybe. Your insulting to a United States Senator who is so respected that his home state has elected him to office 6 times. And while I am on the subject of the debate - shame on Gwen Ifell for not making her answer the questions. Damn I miss Tim Russert.
Sarah Palin is an ignorant, ranting, whining bitch. There I said it. But lots more are thinking it.
Please take your ridiculous hair, your over lipstick-smacking mouth, your Lenscrafter look smarter glasses and your poorly fitted designer jackets back to Alaska. And when you get there, shove a piece of the pipeline up your considerable ass. I’ll be damned if we’ll put our children’s future in your hands. And the same thing goes for McCain - the ass wipe who gave her this national platform effectively pushing the woman’s movement back into the dark ages - knowing McCain that might have been his plan all along."
Just Thinking,
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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