They Gotta Be Kidding January 27, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in News Of The Weird.Tags: compensation, Costa Cruise, injury attorney
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Costa Cruise Line Offers Passengers $14,460 For Their Trouble
Good luck with that:
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Reversal Of Fortune: Homophobia In The Heartland January 27, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics, religion.Tags: AIDS, choice, cynthia nixon, gay, gay marriage, GRID, HIV, homosexual, lesbian, Newt Gingrich, pope benedict
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For a long time, things seemed to be improving in this country. Beginning back in those hippy days of the 1960′s, it looked as if we were gradually easing into the Age of Aquarius. On issues like civil rights, human rights, gay rights, privacy, honest sexuality, freedom of and from religion, and public education, we seemed to be entering a new enlightenment, a time of tolerance, openness, and understanding. Now it’s all turned to shit. Really. I’ve gone from encouraged to frightened. Maybe it was 9/11 or maybe it was just some ingrained human opposition to change, but everywhere you turn right now, you find the darkness of ignorance and bigotry and mindless fear encroaching on any inroads of the light. This week’s examples:
Minnesota Parents Demand Schools Teach “Pray Away The Gay”: This one ought to warm the hearts of Michele Bachmann and her devout husband, who runs a clinic for washing away homosexuality with some combination of holy water and hypnosis. They also demand that the schools teach about GRID, Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, which is how the medical community stopped referring to HIV/AIDS about a month after the epidemic started. I imagine the term “GRID” would be fairly offensive to the millions of heterosexual individuals who have been afflicted with HIV/AIDS in the last thirty years. Ask Magic Johnson.
Cynthia Nixon: For Me, Being Gay Is A Choice: Well, maybe Cindy just got tired of penises in general, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that there’s an element of bisexuality in all humans, expressed to one degree or another depending on historic and social and environmental factors, but for several tens of millions of gays, they’ve no more made a choice about their sexuality than I made a choice about my eye color. This kind of statement from another bed-hopping celebrity just adds fuel to the fire of folks like the ones in Minnesota who’d like you to believe that homosexuality is not so much a choice as a disease, and one which is an affront to their god (who should also be your god or you should spend a trillion years in flames, but that’s another issue altogether…).
Newt Gingrich Equates Gay Marriage To “Rise In Paganism”: Yeah, right. All the gays are out in the forest running around campfires in the nude and chanting incantations. Newt should be statutorily prohibited from ever commenting on the sanctity of marriage. As an aside, this is also an insult to Wiccans, whose religion has every bit as much basis in fact as Christianity.
Pope Benedict XVI Says Gay Marriage Is “A Threat To The Future Of Humanity”: Whereas the Inquisition and witch burnings were positive developments to the march of civilization.
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What The Hell Are They Teaching? January 26, 2012
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Where do we begin?
Multiculturalism
Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs were innocent victims
Joe McCarthy was worse than Stalin or Mao
Che Guevara was a hero
Someone other than Lee Oswald killed JFK
Michael Moore is a hero
Jacque Derrida
the list goes on
Rick Santorum Just Gets Buggier Every Day January 26, 2012
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Rick Santorum Claims That US Colleges “Indoctrinate” Students Into Leftist Thinking
I guess I ought to send a thank you note to Northwestern, but truth be told, I was perfectly capable of critical (leftist) thinking well before I arrived. But there are probably other students who come out with not only a degree, but information about things like scientific theory, evolution, and the earth being more than 6,000 years old. What the hell are they teaching?
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I Agree With My Blogmate- People Should Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes January 26, 2012
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Building A Church For Atheists January 26, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in religion.Tags: atheist, church, temple, UK
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Is sort of like organizing a congress of anarchists. But that isn’t stopping some ambitious, if godless, entrepreneur from proposing the project.
The resemblance, I presume, to a giant high-tech dildo isn’t coincidental. I don’t know. This thing could work. I can see pews comprised of plush theater seats with drink holders, an open bar, hymnals ranging from “The Origin of Species” through ”The Joy of Sex”, guest sermons by Bill Maher, and a bronze statue of Christopher Hitchens behind an altar festooned with tasteless cartoons of Jesus and the prophet Muhammed. Sign me up.
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This Is What I Call Diversity January 26, 2012
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How Many Times Do I Have To Say It? Pussy And Football Don’t Mix January 26, 2012
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Another Take On SOTU January 26, 2012
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H/t Hugh Hewitt:
SOTU: Did I hear that right?
By Clark S. Judge: managing director, White House Writers Group, Inc.; chairman, Pacific Research Institute.It sounded like such a soft, even conservative speech.
But let me get this straight: 1) banks will be punished (do I understand this right, by a committee headed by Eric Holder?) if their lending is too risky, 2) and they will be required (by the same committee) to give more home loans (meaning, it must be, to people who would otherwise not qualify for the loans, or else the government would not have to be involved) at lower rates (which means rates that do not compensate them as much as the market says they need to be compensated for the risks they are taking, all of which sounds like a new edition of the policies that brought on the financial collapse), 3) which must mean that they will have to pull back on risky lending someplace other than homes, 4) the only place that most banks would be able to pull back on riskier customers would be loans to small and new businesses, 5) but these are the businesses that have created just about all the jobs over the last 20 years and he said early in the speech he wants to encourage them, 6) so maybe their growth capital will come from selling stock to the kinds of people who invest in new and small businesses, 7) but through the Buffet Rule he’s going to double the tax rate on investment income for those people, meaning that, like the banks, they can’t be fully compensated for the risk of backing small and new businesses, 8) so they will not invest more in small and new companies but in big established firms, 9) so more of those small and new firms will have to turn to the government for capital, 10) which luckily he said would up its investing in early stage businesses with “the best” ideas, 11) “the best” ideas meaning, I guess, as with Solyndra, ideas that advance his agenda through companies whose owners support his candidacy), 11) or maybe it would be companies that agree to invite unionization (since the unions have failed to organize the new and dynamic sectors of the economy, which is why they have been shrinking), 12) but then with the big businesses, he wants to punish American companies if they invest overseas, 13) and he wants to increase exports, 14) but being competitive in the global markets often means having part of your production near your markets, which is why many companies have opened production facilities abroad and many foreign companies (BMW and Honda, for example) have opened their facilities here, 15) so he’ll make these companies less competitive, meaning less able to export anything that might be paired with some other product the company makes abroad in order to attract buyers, 16) and it also means he’ll have the U.S. ignoring many of the international trading rules of which we have been the principal sponsor since the end of WWII, rules that have led to an incredible growth in widely shared wealth all over the planet, 17) which means that, if he follows through, he’ll blow up the post-WWII global economic system, 18) which in the very short run may help the uncompetitive American labor unions but in the not-so-long run would devastate every economy on earth, 19) but it would also mean he would be in a position to decide where big companies could invest, and when, just as he’ll be in control of all new and small businesses, too, 20) meanwhile he is going to tell states and localities what their budget priorities should be, 21) and make them adopt his policies for running their schools, leaving me to wonder, when he’s through, what won’t he control?
I believe that’s what I heard the president advocate last night. But one term I didn’t hear, maybe I missed it: “The Constitution.” Then again, wasn’t he suggesting that, in brave times like these, we need to put aside those old rules. Do I have this straight?
