Bush League

"Man I've got this killer headache. Does anyone have a... oh shit... umm... does anyone know how to dissolve Krazy Glue?"





tags: Bush

Boy Wins "Right" to Wear a Skirt to School

Apparently Bob, the spokes-penis for the CWA (a.k.a. Cows With Attitude), thinks this is "another feather in the cap of the American Civil Liberties Union." He also says it points to "larger issues of gender confusion and a culture that refuses to acknowledge differences between the sexes."

Well, the student in question, 17-year-old Michael Coviello (pictured here), is wearing skirts to protest his school district's dress code, which bans shorts between Oct. 1 and April 15 but allows skirts. He believes this policy is discriminatory.

So, Bob, can you help me understand something here? Just what the fuck does this have to do with issues of gender confusion? For that matter, who says that our culture refuses to acknowledge differences between the sexes? Everyone knows that boys have penises, girls have vaginas and intersexed children have ambiguous genitalia. I can acknowledge the differences between the three genders... What about you, Bob?


see also:

• Google news articles...
  

tags: Michael Coviello, Hasbrouck Heights

Sexy substitute teacher 'has relations with boy'

29-year-old subtitute teacher, Cameo Patch, is facing felony charges and up to 5 years in prison for performing oral sex on a 17-year-old male student.

"All indications are the sexual activity was consensual."

Well, DUH!

"The informant stated Patch 'performed oral sex' on the student, but did not engage in sexual intercourse."

There was an informant? I'll bite: who blew the whistle? And why? Jealous, maybe? Feeling... left out? Hard up for attention, even?

Now, because the "assailant" is at least ten years older than the so-called "victim", the alleged crime is classified a third-degree felony. How... fucking dumb is that? Cum on guys -- this is a Van Halen video and every straight teenaged boy's wet dream all rolled up into one moist, slightly sticky kleenex tissue.

Cut her some slack -- I mean everyone knows that subs are supposed to be easy, right? Hell, all she did was give her student an oral exam...

Here's what you do: give her an Altoid breath mint, slap her wrist and send her home.


see also:

• Google news search...
  

tags: Cameo Patch, oral sex

Bush's Brain

"They say the left side of your brain makes you logical and rational. That's where what they call them 'language skills' come from too. Well... umm... that side seems to be missin'... they did one of them MRI thingies... empty... t'ain't nothin' there."



"Now the right side is 'sposed to be responsible for creativity and seein' stuff in a larger context. Well... that don't seem to be workin' too well neither."



tags: Bush

United Nations: U.S. Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote

Whenever you discover that the administration agrees with the country that it essentially believes to be the most dangerous nation on Earth, you have to stop, take a moment to shake your head vigorously and ask yourself, "What the fuck?"


see also:

• MOST DANGEROUS NATION ON EARTH
  

tags: Iran, Bush, HRC, Human Rights Campaign

Teachers refuse to display anti-violence posters

This article reports that five teachers at a Bay Area public school are refusing to display anti-violence posters. The posters in question apparently depict a rainbow flag and read, "This is a safe place to be who you are." These posters are part of San Leandro High School's efforts to comply with a state order requiring schools to ensure the safety of all students. The teachers object to the posters, saying that the message of tolerance toward gays conflicts with their religious beliefs.

Huh?

Most of the articles written about this incident seem to suggest that this is about gay rights. The authors are hung up on the whole rainbow flag thing, I guess. Okay -- take your head out of your ass, open your eyes and look past that. In this country, at least, the right to an education is fundamental. Actually, it's mandated by law. As such, the government, the educational system as a whole, (but in particular) school administrators and teachers have a obligation to provide each and every student a learning environment that is free of all forms of harassment, from their fellow students as well as the staff.

Hey, it's a state order. Shut your mouth, put up the poster and do your fucking job.


see also:

• Google news search...
  

tags: San Leandro High School, anti-violence

CWA vs. GSA

The Cows With Attitude are at it again. A bill has been proposed that would require schools in Georgia to notify parents before allowing students to join a school club. Despite their denials, this is an obvious attack aimed at Gay/Straight Alliances.

They realize that they can't fight the Federal Equal Access Act, so they are forced to resort to bully tactics to frighten and intimidate students in a vain attempt to combat membership in these clubs.

Parents should be involved in their childrens' lives -- but only to a point. This crosses that line.


tags: CWA, Concerned Women for America, GSA, Gay Straight Alliance, Equal Access Act

"Real Marriage"

In this article, Marie Jon writes:

Is America willing to forfeit its heritage, and therefore its future, to far-left progressives who would seek to reinvent human nature? Anyone who [sic] that turning a blind eye on gay "marriage" issue should watch out, next comes polygamy and who knows what else after that.

Okay... I'll bite: what's wrong with polygamy? I think if a man is stupid enough to marry two women, or three for that matter, let him. It would serve him right. Hey, let's not be sexist: why not polyandry too? Frankly, if women (except for you, of course, Marie) ran this world instead of the men, we'd be a much better off...

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

Hey Marie, do us all a favor, will ya? Take a Midol and chill.


tags: Gay Marriage, polygamy, polyandry

Stephen Hawking

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
     -- Stephen Hawking


tags: Stephen Hawking, Computer Viruses

NBC Drops 'Book Of Daniel'

This article reads:

"But NBC insists it was ratings and not pressure from conservative Christians that sank the show."

Yeah... right. And the check is in the mail. Most of the articles I've read so far continue to perpetuate several inaccurate plot points:

"Webster's secretary was a lesbian who was sleeping with his sister-in-law"

The sister-in-law, Victoria, was sleeping with Jessie Gilmore, who was actually the secretary of her recently deceased husband, Charlie.

Speaking of Charlie -- This slim-bag had skipped town and absconded with the parish's school building fund shortly before suffering a massive heart attack in flagrante delicto. I guess he didn't he didn't realize that he could cum and go at the same time.

"[Webster had] a 16-year-old adopted son who regularly had sex with the bishop's daughter"

Adam, the 16-year-old adopted son in question, was not sleeping with the bishop's daughter. He was, however, sleeping with Caroline, who was the daughter of Rodger Northrup, a senior warden of the parish.

Actually, Peter, the other son, slept with Adele Congreve, who was the bishop's niece. Peter, by the way, is the GAY son. A gay son named Peter; you just gotta love that...

Hell, it's almost like they've never even seen the show...


see also:

• Shawn McKenzie's review
• Un-wad your panties
• "The Book of Daniel"
  

tags: Book of Daniel, Aidan Quinn, Christian Campbell, NBC

MOST DANGEROUS NATION ON EARTH

This article suggests that Iran is now the most dangerous nation on Earth. RRRRRRR!!!!!! Sorry... wrong answer. What is the most dangerous nation on Earth? The United States of America.

It states:

Prior to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Iran was responsible for the deaths of over 1,500 Americans - more than any other state sponsor of terror or terrorist organization in history.

Well, since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when our government's holy war on terrorism really kicked into high gear, between 27,636 and 31,160 Iraqi civilians have been killed.

Who's the greater threat?

Okay, first we were told that we had to invade Iraq because Saddam was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. Thus far, nearly three years into this process, none have been discovered. Now we're being told that:

Iran is intent on possessing both nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles to deliver them, as well as electromagnetic pulse weapons, which experts say pose a direct and major threat directly to the American homeland.

Okay, Chicken Little, we know... the sky is falling. Now will you just shut the fuck up.


tags: Iran, Iraq, IraqWar, Terrorism, Nuclear Threat

JFK vs. W

VS.

Before his election, everyone in America was concerned about the influence the church might have on our first Roman Catholic President, John F. Kennedy. These fears were, of course, unfounded.

Today, however, no one seems to be even remotely concerned about the influence the church has on our current President, George W. Bush.

Ironic, isn't it.


tags: JFK, Kennedy, Bush, Church

Jesus Christ's existence going on trial this week

The article reads:

Viterbo, Italy, north of Rome, is the venue where Rev. Enrico Righi is being sued by his childhood friend, atheist Luigi Cascioli, for deceiving people into thinking Jesus was an actual historical figure.

"This complaint does not wish to contest the freedom of Christians to profess their faith, sanctioned by [article] 19 of the Italian Constitution," says Cascioli, "but wishes to denounce the abuse that the Catholic Church commits by availing itself of its prestige in order to inculcate - as if being real and historical - facts that are really just inventions."

Many people believe in Jesus, because that's what they were taught to believe, by their parents and by the church. However, is there sufficient evidence, outside of the biblical text, to corroborate his existence? Can that evidence stand up to judicial scrutiny?

Many people simply say "you've got to have faith." Well, faith is a powerful weapon, and unfortunately, in this day and age, it's a cudgel wielded by a bunch of sanctimonious tyrants.

Bullies call for a stop to bullying

Linda Harvey, in an article published by WorldNetDaily.com, condemns No Name-Calling Week. She writes:

But the real irony here - one that the humorless left will fail to see - is that some of the biggest bullies and name-callers in this country right now are homosexual activists, in the schools as well as outside.

Linda, dear, take your head out of your ass and listen: you are a bigot and a homophobe. If you think telling you the truth is bullying you, then you have a disturbingly perverted sense of reality. On the other hand, a 180lb jock in high school calling a 98lb freshman a faggot and threatening him with violence (either overtly or implicitly) IS bullying.

She goes on to say:

But rather than simply ignore those with whom they disagree, homosexual activists become attack-dogs out of the blue at Christian and conservative events all over America.

Are you fucking kidding me? We can't ignore you. You speak of the so-called "homosexual agenda", but what about your own "fundamentalist christian agenda"? You hate us because we were born different. You believe that your bible condemns homosexuality, so you feel justified in trying to exterminate us. Well, you may try, but we will not go quietly. We will fight you and your kind at every step.

GLBTQ Links

• Day of Silence
• glaad
• GLESN
• H.A.T.C.H.
• No Name-Calling Week
• PFLAG

Rabid Bitch

This article reads:

Opining on gay marriage, Parshall called it a "pretend family," arguing that "God himself" defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman, and that "everything else is a fraudulent misrepresentation." She then asserted that allowing a gay couple to adopt constituted "state-sanctioned child abuse because you've purposely taken away either a momma or a daddy, and mom and dad are both necessary in a child's life."

So, does that mean that children in a single-parent family are abused too? What about divorce? More often than not, custody is awarded to the mother and paternal visitation is restricted. Is that also a form of abuse?

She also implies that:

The "lifestyle" of Matthew Shepard, a gay man, was partly to blame for his 1998 murder.

That's right, bitch, blame the victim. I suppose you think that all the women who are raped each year are partly to blame for the crime too.

Will you ever stop frothing at the mouth?

ABC Soap General Hospital Nurses Homosexual Agenda

In her article, Stacy writes:

GH writers decided to introduce the gay character as Lucas, son of Bobbie and Tony Jones. How did they do it? In typical fashion - they had him get beaten up.

Now that is totally original isn't it!

No, Stacy, gay bashing is not original. It's been around forever, and you're perpetuating it. She wonders:

If ABC will deal honestly with the consequences of homosexual sexual behavior that leads to STD's, AID's [sic] and destruction of families and society...

First of all, all forms of unprotected sexual contact can transmit STD's, including HIV. The pandemic that has been ravaging the African continent is largely the result of heterosexual transmission of the HIV virus.

Moreover, your assertion that homosexual sexual behavior leads to the destruction of families and society is complete and utter bullshit. Rather, it's your bigotry and your hatred that destroys families. It creates an underclass from the ranks of gay and lesbian teenagers that are thrown away by their families. More often than not, these boys and girls have no choice but to live on the streets and resort to prostitution to survive.

That is YOUR legacy, so if anyone or anything has the ability to destroy society it's YOU and your sanctimonious bullshit.


see also:

• glaad
  
• General Hospital PSA

Another good reason to avoid "American Idol"

This short article reads:

The Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has called for a meeting with the producers of 'American Idol' over concerns that the usual nastiness by the show's judges may be sinking to a new low.

How far have we sunk since the days of Ed McMahon and Star Search? More importantly: have we hit bottom yet?

"End of the Spear" Controversy

A furor is brewing because Chad Allen, an openly gay actor, was cast in a lead role for the movie "End of the Spear". The movie depicts the events surrounding the murder of five missionaries by Waorani tribesmen in the jungles of Ecuador back in 1956.

How shallow and superficial do you have to be to believe that an actor's politics or sexuality have anything to do with his performance or the production of a movie in which he's cast?

Just unwad your panties and go see the movie.


see also:

• Google News search...
• "End of the Spear" official website
• Chad's official website

Why am I here?

I ask myself that question every day. I'm not here to make money. And I know I can't change your mind. I can't make you believe something you don't want to believe. But maybe I can piss you off enough to at least make you think about what you do believe.

Hewlett-Packard Co. - Domestic Partner Benefits Program

Working for a company like Hewlett-Packard is pretty cool. It pays well, has a non-discrimination policy that includes both sexual orientation and sexual identity or expression and provides domestic partner benefits. It has achieved a score of 100% in the HRC Corporate Equality Index since 2003. It even terminated an employee for displaying biblical quotes as an anti-gay protest against posters hung up around campus declaring that "Diversity is Our Strength".

What more could they do?

Well, to be eligible for most benefits, employees must submit a declaration of domestic partnership and meet the following criteria:

1. There must be an ongoing and committed spouse-like relationship intended to exist indefinitely, which has existed for at least six months
2. The partners are not related by blood to a degree of closeness that would prohibit legal marriage in the state in which they reside
3. Both have shared the same residence for at least six months, are responsible to each other for the direction and financial management of their household, and are jointly responsible for each other's financial obligations

What more could they do? They could eliminate the waiting period. There is no silly waiting period for married couples: you say "I do" in front of a duly appointed official and poof, you qualify for benefits. In this day and age, it's possible for a twit like Britney Spears to marry her childhood sweetheart only to annul the marriage soon afterward. The so-called "institution of marriage" is being treated as a joke -- a circus act to be used for nothing more than a mere publicity stunt. Why, then, should marriage confer special rights? I don't get it. I don't think I ever will.

Gay Partner Benefits Tied To Having Sex

In order to qualify for domestic partner benefits, gay and lesbian employees of the University of Florida must sign an affidavit swearing they are in a sexual relationship. Granted, the article indicates the wording is not quite so blatant -- it requires the enrollees to affirm they "have been in a non-platonic relationship for the preceding 12 months." Nevertheless, this requirement is wrong for two fundamental reasons:

1. Gay couples must satisfy preconditions that are presumed for married couples.
2. It suggests that their relationship is defined by sexual intercourse.
   

It's prejudicial and demeaning -- to them, it's all about sex. This is yet another example of how bigoted, homophobic administrators stigmatize gays and lesbians.

Actors: Out and About

• Chad Allen
• Rock Hudson
• Sir Ian McKellen
• Danny Pintauro
• Robert Reed
• Cesar Romero
  
• Dick Sargent
• George Takei
  

Get Real (in the park)

[JOHN comes out of the bathroom and both boys look at each other in surprise.]
JOHN: Alright mate, Carter isn’t it?
[JOHN approaches STEVEN and sits beside him.]
JOHN: Fag?
STEVEN: Sorry?
[JOHN hands him a cigarette.]
STEVEN: Oh. Thanks.
[STEVEN has obviously no clue what to do with the cigarette.]
JOHN: This is a nice park.
STEVEN: Yeah, it's nice.
[STEVEN coughs from the smoke.]
JOHN: Filthy habit.
STEVEN: What?
JOHN: Smoking. I only started because my mates did. Peer pressure they call it.
STEVEN: Yeah. Peer pressure.
[STEVEN coughs again]
JOHN: Don’t smoke to impress me. You be yourself.
STEVEN: Yeah.
[STEVEN throws the cigarette away.]
STEVEN: Listen, Dixon…
JOHN: Hey, the name’s John.
STEVEN: John, about what happened in there…
JOHN: Forget it mate, my mistake. I don’t know what came over me.
STEVEN: In there it’s usually a question of not knowing who came over you!
[STEVEN laughs for a second then looks away awkwardly]
STEVEN: I didn’t know it was you.
JOHN: Well, I certainly didn’t know it was you. Look, let’s just put it out of our minds. I mean, you don’t know why you did it either, right?
[STEVEN looks at him oddly, and JOHN figures it out.]
JOHN: You mean you’re…geez, I thought -- when Kevin and the guys call you names and that, they’re only taking the piss, right? I mean, you’re not really…dodgy?
STEVEN: Yeah, I’m …dodgy.
JOHN: Oh, fuck me! No…I don’t mean… I just mean… fuck me. I’m sorry.
STEVEN: Don’t be, I’m not.

Get Real (reprise)

LINDA: I’m just saying people sometimes go through a phase…
STEVEN: A phase? Since I was eleven?
LINDA: Eleven?
STEVEN: That’s how old I was when I discovered masturbation. [chuckles] Mind you it was another three years before I realized I could do it on my own.
LINDA: Stop trying to shock me! I’m unshockable.
[A soccer ball sails toward them and STEVEN catches it by reflex. A group of students approaches them and KEVIN grabs the ball from STEVEN violently.]
KEVIN: Stick to your own balls.
LINDA: [Checks out JOHN’S butt as he passes] You haven’t told those wankers you’re gay have you?
STEVEN: Oh, yeah, I announced it at assembly this morning. I told you, no one knows. Geez, if they thought I really was gay -- fuck me around enough because I don’t smoke or play football and I’ve got an IQ of over 25. School full of tossers.
LINDA: Oh yeah, bet you fancy half of them.
STEVEN: No way.
LINDA: Not even him? John Dixon. He is sex on legs.
STEVEN: I know. Every time I see his "Head Boy" badge I wish it was an invitation.
LINDA: Sure wouldn’t kick him out of bed for eating biscuits.

Get Real

STEVEN: I’m very proud…I’m very grateful to have won for the school. But I… umm… I feel a bit of a fraud. See I wrote about growing up as I imagined it must be for most of you, but there was another article which was to have been included in the school magazine, but it was censored because it was about a young guy who just happened to be… gay. I... wrote that article. I wish you could have read it so you could understand. Oh this is so difficult. I’m sick of feeling totally alone. I want to have friends who like me for who I am. [starting to cry] I want to be part of a family who loves me for who I am and not someone I pretend to be to keep their love. [GRAHAM walks in]. I’m sick of hiding. Of feeling sad and scared. Have you any idea! [crying harder] There must be more of you who feel like this! Like I do. Frightened to speak out! [looks at JOHN, who shakes his head] Well thanks for proving my point. Um… I’m gay. Sorry, mum... dad. But you can bet your life you’re not the only parents out there with a gay son. It’s only love. What’s everyone so scared of? Thanks for listening. [walks offstage. JESSICA stands up and begins clapping, most other people do too].

Daniela Sea

I first saw Daniela Sea and her girlfriend in the Bright Eyes video First Day of My Life, directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Then this weekend, I was watching an episode of Showtime's The L Word, titled "Lost Weekend", saw the character of Moira/Max and thought she looked extremely familiar. A google search finally made the connection.

If I hadn't been born a gay man, then I think being her girlfriend would have been my next choice...

MIB

Jay: Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it.
Kay: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

----

Edgar/Bug: Y'know, I've noticed an infestation here. Everywhere I look, in fact. Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscience pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about in their short pointless lives.
Zap-Em Man: Well, yea... uh... don'chou want to get rid of 'em?
Edgar/Bug: Ah... in the worst way.

Politics of FEAR

We live in a society whose dominant emotion is FEAR. The tragic events of 9/11 reminded us that we live in a dangerous world and that there are people out there who really don't like us. Through the machinations of the Department of Motherland Security, our government has seen fit to keep the country at an "elevated" threat level, indicating a "significant risk of terrorist attacks," and has occasionally raised it to "high" when something bad has happened in the world. Bad things happen in the world every day, so we live in fear.

How did our government react to 9/11? It sent troops to Afghanistan to blow shit up and kill people. Then what did it do? It invaded and now occupies Iraq. If someone thinks you're a bully, beating them up isn't going to convince them otherwise.

After all of that, are we better off today? No. The world is just as dangerous a place as it was on 9/10, and there are still people out there who really don't like us, more now than ever. Is anyone ever going to try to understand why these people hate Americans? No. Most Americans today are not interested in the truth -- their democratic and christian dogma are sacrosanct. Our government is not interested in the truth either -- it just wants you to be afraid, so that you will willingly sacrifice your freedoms and personal liberties on the alter of homeland security, all for their holy war on terrorism.

So it is with some sense of irony that I quote Patrick Henry:

Give me liberty or give me death.

"I have a dream"

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

WBC to Picket Indiana Soldier's Funeral

Darth Phelps and his band of whacked-out fuck-heads from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. plan to picket at the funeral of Pvt. Jonathan R. Pfender, a soldier killed in Iraq.

Why, you might ask? Because "American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays."

What a hateful bastard.


see also:

• HATE GROUP: Westboro Baptist Church
• Hate Group (defined)
  

Can you say "Turkey Baster?"

Robert Marshall, a Republican state lawmaker in Virginia, wants to stop doctors from helping unmarried women have babies.

His latest homophobic attack would:

• Preclude lesbian couples from conceiving through artificial insemination
• Prevent gay men from having children “through unmarried surrogate mothers”
  

His website does not include a biography, but we can only hope, my gentle snowflakes, that this man has not procreated.


see also:

• Va. bill would halt lesbian insemination
  
• Equality Virginia

"the 'verse"

can't understand
why things turn,
but they do,
from something into something else,
from bad to good,
but mostly
from good to bad.

that's just the way
of the 'verse,
ain't it?

© 2006

Un-wad Your Panties...

Now that we've all seen the first episode of "The Book of Daniel", everyone can take a deep breath and un-wad their panties: the world hasn't come screeching to a halt, so I think it's safe to say the danger has passed.

Let's see what the score was:

1. Daniel's a drug-addicted priest who talks to Jesus -- given the medical profession's propensity for writing prescriptions, being addicted to pain killers as the result of unremitting back pain is understandable. The "unconventional white-robed Jesus", by the way, gives him a fair amount of shit and actually keeps him from partaking on more than one occasion.
   
2. His wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis -- but she loves, accepts and defends her children. Hell, she even loves her husband. So who am I to condemn her for wanting to take the edge off with a little bit of vodka.
3. His adopted son is having sex -- hey, 16-year-old hormones; what are you going to do? Beside, he shows definite signs of being in love.
4. His daughter is a drug dealer -- she needed money to buy computer equipment, so she sold some pot and got caught. Come on: ganja for manga? Is there a higher calling?
   
5. His eldest son is a homosexual republican -- the aforementioned republican tendencies were never discussed, but we did discover that he's going into cancer research because his twin brother died of leukemia.
6. The lesbian secretary is sleeping with the sister-in-law -- well, I watched every second of the episode and I didn't see even an hint of on-screen rug-munching or muff-diving activities.
   

Okay... So Daniel's mother is suffering from alzheimer's while his father is shtuping the right bishop Dr. Beatrice Congreve, who occasionally dips into Daniel's stash of vicodin. Come on, my gentle snowflakes, you must admit that everyone has their foibles. These characters seem like real people with real problems. And when they pile up, all you can do is try to deal with it the best you can, right?

That seems to be precisely what the Webster family is trying to do.

So why don't you cut them some fucking slack...

The Book of Daniel

Just watched the two-hour premier. One word: excellent.

CWA -- Core Issues

• Definition of the Family
  
• Sanctity of Human Life
• Education
• Pornography
• Religious Liberty
• National Sovereignty
• Miscellaneous
  

Miscellaneous? Their web page describes these as:

"a variety of other issues that don't comfortably fit into a category, yet are important to address."

You might wonder what nefarious, insidious or heinous form of machination might fall into this category. Yup... You guessed it... The worst sort of evil imaginable:

The Holiday Turkey

Apparently, little Brenda has run afowl of this wicked and malevolent holiday tradition. Her war spanned years:

"Year three brought the turkey breast with no orifices to explore."

Brenda, it seems, has a problem with breasts, not to mention probing orifices. Each battle she waged ended in crushing defeat. So, what did this bastion of christian motherhood do? Did she dig in the heels of her fashionable Gwyneth Scalloped Mary Janes (wide width) from Payless? Did she "damn the torpedoes, and full speed ahead"?

NO!

She did what any self-respecting conservative republican would have done -- she hired mercs.

"There is no longer fear, trepidation, or an outbreak of hives in my home at the mere mention of turkey. I discovered that my local grocer would sell me a complete holiday turkey dinner, already cooked! And that is how I conquered my adversary, the holiday turkey."

Proper gender-roles notwithstanding, she really should have consulted her husband. Clearly, he must be an expert at dealing with a frigid bird...

Gender vs. Gender Identity

Curious, isn't it, that the spokesperson for the Concerned Women for America (CWA) is a man by the name of Bob Knight...


see also:

• Barbie 'Promotes Gener Confusion'...
  

Latter Days

[after having sex with Christian]
Elder Aaron Davis: Well, I'm already going to Hell for kissing you, so I may as well take the scenic route.

----

Sister Gladys Davis: His name was Christian, wasn't it?
Elder Aaron Davis: What?
Sister Gladys Davis: Was Christian the one?
[Aaron smiles]
Sister Gladys Davis: What did he do to you?
Elder Aaron Davis: He... He loved me.

----

Elder Aaron Davis: [about him being gay] What if it's not something I've done? What if it's who I am?
Sister Gladys Davis: [slaps him] Don't say that! Don't you ever even think like that!
[they both start crying]

----

Elder Aaron Davis: Mom.
Sister Gladys Davis: Uh-huh.
Elder Aaron Davis: Mom!
Sister Gladys Davis: What, Aaron what?
Elder Aaron Davis: Nothing. I just wanted to see if you could bring yourself to look at me.
Sister Gladys Davis: I'm looking at you, Aaron. What am I supposed to be seeing?
Elder Aaron Davis: Nothing.
[he walks away]

Barbie Furor Continues...

This one just doesn't want to die down. I think Mattel should change the site and make the choices read:

1. I am a Girl
2. I am a Boy
3. I am inter-sexed
4. I am a four-year-old, satan-worshipping, ultra-butch, f-m transsexual
   
5. I am a bigoted old harpy that supports the CWA
   
6. Mind your own fucking business
   

That would stir things up a bit, don't you think?


see also:

• Barbie's Obviously a Lipstick Lesbian...

The Outcast -- Stardate 45614.6

I have always been infinitely disappointed that Star Trek never really addressed the question of gays in the 24th century. Granted, the episode titled "The Outcast" was a left-handed attempt at demonstrating a social conscience, but it failed miserably.

The episode essentially concludes with the ordered "treatment" of the Soren character's "perversion". Afterward, she/he/it claims to be much happier as a "normal" J'naii. This, of course, echos the sentiments of so-called "ex-gays" and supports the misconceptions held by those who consider homosexuality a disease that can be cured. I could probably rant on, but Tim Lynch's review sums it up fairly well:

In any other context, I could probably dismiss the absence of references to gay people with "oh, well, it just wasn't all that important at the time". But not here; not when the very point of "gays are forced to be invisible in this society", made so crystal clear by analogy, is turned on its head by having gay people STILL being invisible and not discussed in the society we are *supposed* to be seeing as better than the J'naii. And my experience has shown me that if you leave intolerance the slightest hole to slither through, it'll do so and laugh at you on the way out.

Another example of that last, BTW, would be Riker's lack of answer to Noor's point about "those we cure are much happier than they were before." Of course they are; because society isn't TELLING them they're sick and evil and bad any more. That's the obvious answer, and the one Riker should have been able to immediately shoot back with. As it is, people who support "curing" homosexuals by brainwashing--and they do exist--will jump on that. Too many holes.

Clues

To avoid destruction, the crew of the Enterprise must forget ever having met a race of xenophobic isolationists and destroy all evidence of the encounter. They are successful, but only after repeated attempts.

Suppose, for a moment, that it was god instead of a race of isolationists. Further, suppose it was everyone on the entire planet, not just the crew of a spaceship. Granted, it's impossible, but I dare you to consider the scenario: if someone stopped the world, completely eliminated all references to god -- everywhere, including everyone's memories -- and then started the world back up again, what would happen? I mean, without the bible, how would people justify their hate?

3rd Rock

So... Is the Earth revolving around the Sun? Or is it just circling the drain?

Nicolaus Copernicus -- 19-Feb-1473 to 24-May-1543

He is mainly remembered for developing the heliocentric theory of the solar system, the idea that the earth revolves around the sun. In 1611, his work was put in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") and not taken out until around 1835.

According to the Atheist Foundation of Australia:

The index was a list of books put out by the Roman Catholic Church that they considered immoral, impious or dangerous. It is hard to believe but the last edition of the list was published as recently as 1948. Luckily for Roman Catholics it was decreed in 1966 that no more new lists would be published and that it was OK to read from existing lists without fear of excommunication.

For as much as the church preaches about "the gospels", it does nothing about uncovering truth.

Adoption -- And Misconceptions

This Dear Abby tries to tackle some of the prevailing misconceptions associated with gay men and lesbians adopting.

Gay men are child molestors

[according to an article published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1994] "Most child abuse appears to be committed by situational child abusers who present themselves as heterosexuals."

Children raised by gay men will be gay too

[from the same article] "Children raised in gay or lesbian households do not show any greater incidence of homosexuality or gender identity issues than other children."

She goes on to say:

Further, according to the American Psychological Association, "there is no evidence to suggest that lesbians or gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of gay men and lesbians is compromised in any respect relevant to that among offspring of heterosexual parents. -- Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth."

I think her response is somewhat weak, and she also failed to touch on one significant topic: the stigma often placed on children being raised by gay or lesbian parents. In school, they are often treated as badly as those who actually identify as being gay or those labeled gay because of their appearance or mannerisms. In this litigious age of political correctness, educators are being forced to deal with this kind of harassment and bullying, but it will never go away. Unfortunately, the attitudes and belief systems that engender these behaviors are too firmly entrenched: change and acceptance is impossible.

More's the pity...

HATE GROUP: Westboro Baptist Church

These people are some really sick mother-fuckers...

Here are a few headlines from their website:

• Thank God for 13 Trapped Miners in fag-infested West Virginia
• Thank God For Katrina (Mongrel Bush and His Battle of New Orleans)
• All nations must immediately outlaw sodomy (homosexuality) & impose the death penalty!

see also:

• Hate Group (defined)
  

Good As You

Jeremy Hooper, founder of the blog titled Good As You, will be featured in the next episode of In the life. Do you have a season pass on your TiVo?

Hate Group

Hate groups usually assert that the targets of their attacks are harmful to society, malicious, less fit to be members of society, or operating some hidden cabal, usually presenting poorly-corroborated "evidence" with the target's intrinsic religion, belief, race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability being the common element. The evidence is usually tied together by arguing either that members of the target group are guilty by definition or overwhelmingly tend to be guilty (making blanket statements against the group possible).

Examples:

• The American Family Association
• Concerned Women For America
• Ku Klux Klan
• Aryan Nations

Barbie's a Material Girl

Here's the WND article again:

Knight also questioned Barbie's emphasis on material things and physical appearance.

"Some critics have said the Barbie dolls really have convinced American girls that the materialistic way of life is the way to go," he told the newssite. "You have to have the hot cars, and the tropical scene. And Barbie has the perfect figure and the perfect outfits.

"It's really steering girls away from the idea of womanhood as predominantly - in terms of Christians -– serving the Lord, getting married, having kids, building a home. You don't see any of that with Barbie -– it's all about things."

In this age of rabid capitalism, I find this absolutely fucking hilarous...

Barbie's Obviously a Lipstick Lesbian...

World Net Daily finally chimed in.

These idiots are getting their collective panties in a wad over what was undoubtedly a poor choice of words on the part of some nerdy programmer.

To them, this is an evil plot on the part of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and trans-gendered community. Oh, and don't forget those questioning youth; you never know what those evil little bastards are up to...

Give it a rest. The nerdy programmer got his hand slapped, and now the third option reads "I don't want to say," which was the intended meaning all along.

Barbie 'Promotes Gender Confusion' Conservative Group Claims

The following are some excerpts from an article on the WDC Media site:

The Barbie Doll website is asking children aged 4-8 for their sex. The choices are three: girl, boy, and I don’t know.

First of all, they don't provide a link to the page. Taken out of context, debating the significance of this question is pointless.

The article goes on to say:

This new move by the iconic and trend-setting Barbie Doll is promoting gender confusion among children, according to Concerned Women for America (CWA).

Promoting gender confusion? You're kidding, right?

Then it says:

"It’s the idea that well, maybe people aren’t born a particular biological sex, or they are but that shouldn’t determine their gender identity," Knight said. "And that’s a very big component of the homosexual activist agenda now."

What? Are you taking speech lessons from George again?

Reputable scientists have and will continue to debate the various factors (e.g.: genetic, maternal endocrinologic and environmental) that influence human sexuality. However, they will agree that it consists of three distinct components:

1. Gender
2. Gender Identity
3. Sexual Orientation
   

So, yes Mr. Knight, there is a distinction between gender and gender identity.

Now this is where the article really goes off into the weeds:

The acronyms for the movement used to be limited to L and G, which stands for lesbian and gay. Then they added the letter, B, which means bisexual. Now it’s LGBT lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and some even add Q, which stands for questioning youth, Knight pointed out.

"In other words, any kid who’s not sure about who he is, he’s fair game to try to persuade to have same sex acts," said Knight.

What the fuck? Okay, Mr. Knight, pull your head out of your ass for just a few minutes and listen. All children, at some point in their development, question their sexuality. For the vast majority, the answer is simple. The others? Well, it's assholes like you that make their lives a living hell.

For you everything is black or white... But that's not how it works here in the real world. Attitudes like yours have devastated the lives of thousands of inter-sexed children, who are forced to undergo years of painful surgeries to align their gender to conform to some arbitrary sex-assignment made shortly after their birth. To quote Lewis Black, "How ... fucking dumb is that?"

The bottom line: if your child is between the ages of four and eight and surfing the web unsupervised, then you are an fucking idiot. Also, if you do have a son who wants a Barbie, un-wad your panties, go out and buy him one.

AFA gets "Cheesed" at Kraft Foods' for its support of the Gay Games

This page on the AFA website shows pictures taken at the last Gay Games, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

This young man, for example, is obviously limbering up for a grueling game of badminton... Where are the shuttlecocks, by the way?










Okay... So how about a REAL picture from the Gay Games in Sydney:

Prejudice

You have NOT seen an episode of NBC's new series titled The Book of Daniel, have you? Then supporting the AFA's attacks on the network, its affiliates and advertisers is an act of prejudice.

It's an important word... Look it up.

Gay Cowboys

Hey Jim-Bob, check out:

• International Gay Rodeo Association
• Texas Gay Rodeo Association
• Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association
• New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association
  
• Colorado Gay Rodeo Association

Big Dummy...

Big Dog wrote:

"It [The Book of Daniel] is supposed to give us an accurate portrayal of Christian life and how Jesus fits into it."

No, it's not! No more so than Queer as Folk was supposed to give us an accurate portrayal of how gay men and women live. It's network television, for fuck's sake.

Like everything on TV, it's a caricature, so simpletons like you can understand it. Besides, you haven't even seen it yet, so making judgments under those circumstances is what we call prejudice. Why don't you look it up...

At this point, all we can do is hope that it gives us some insight into how spiritual people deal with the shit that life dishes out. Why don't you watch an episode or two and then decide what it says about Christians...

Gay Marriage

The AFA suggests here that:

"Marriage is a covenant of companionship that is ordained by God."

Okay. If that is the case, then at what point in this process did the government of the United States get involved?

Our democratic system of government is founded, in part, on the principle of the separation of church and state. Why then, does our government ascribe any legal standing to these religious unions? Moreover, why does it issue marriage licenses and allow certain elected or appointed officials to perform secular marriages?

Then there's the concept of common-law marriage, which is a legally recognized, secular union based solely on a specified period of cohabitation. In the gay community, there have been a number of well publicized "palimony suits", for example between Billie Jean King and Marilyn Barnett, which are predicated on these same concepts.

I think the crux of the argument is simple: if our government establishes and recognizes secular marriages, then it has an obligation to do so for all of its citizens.

Pope's Warnings...

In this AP article, the Pope:

"warned Sunday that ... "fanatic fundamentalism" threatened world peace."

Fanatic fundamentalism? You mean the kind practiced by the likes of the AFA and Pat Robertson?