Head-Spinning Political Shit!

[Diva]

That big island out in the middle of nowhere is lookin' mighty good to me right now.......

When I taught in Richardson (a Dallas suburb) ~ which is a very fine school district, I might add ~ we always laughed when the idea of firing all the gay teachers came up.....they would have lost about 1/3 of their teachers....their BEST teachers at that.

[rlin]

[Artdecogoddess]

Alternet ran a really fine story about a small town in Tennessee I believe (please don't quote me) that allowed a man's house to burn down because he had not paid the $75.00 fee for services.


The fire department shows up and checks a list. When they realize that the homeowner whose house is BURNING DOWN did not pay his fee, they allowed his house to burn down. They only got involved in putting out the fire when it began to spread to a neighbor who had paid the fee.

The homeowner was offering the fee on-the-spot but the firefighters were not moved.

Isn't this extortion? Or some other thuggery? Why didn't they put the fire out and then bill the man? Was this a warning to other rural neighbors to pay up or they will get no help or services either?

Literally my head was spinning around backwards reading this.

ADG

[Medusa]

More GOP support having a strip-club at Ground Zero than a Mosque:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_756259.html

[MsDemeanor]

Originally Posted by Medusa

More GOP support having a strip-club at Ground Zero than a Mosque:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_756259.html

I'm not surprised. This is just the sort of thing that sexual repression does to folks.

Remember, the GOP is lead by people who keep getting caught in (same and opposite) sex scandals, practice serial marriage ("honey, I know you're kinda busy here in this hospital bed, but I want a divorce"), use taxpayer dollars to visit girlfriends in other countries, hold fundraisers at lesbian bondage clubs, and held a convention in Tampa, aka the Strip Club Capital of America.

linkyloo

The GOP is PINO - Puritanical in Name Only.

[LeftWriteFemme]

saw this and had to post it. Dan Savage answered this woman way better than I ever could have!



October 14, 2010

Dear Dan: I was listening to the radio yesterday morning, and I heard an interview with you about your It Gets Better campaign. I was saddened and frustrated with your comments regarding people of faith and their perpetuation of bullying. As someone who loves the Lord and does not support gay marriage, I can honestly say I was heartbroken to hear about the young man who took his own life.
If your message is that we should not judge people based on their sexual preference, how do you justify judging entire groups of people for any other reason (including their faith)? There is no part of me that took any pleasure in what happened to that young man, and I know for a fact that is true of many other people who disagree with your viewpoint.
To that end, to imply that I would somehow encourage my children to mock, hurt, or intimidate another person for any reason is completely unfounded and offensive. Being a follower of Christ is, above all things, a recognition that we are all imperfect, fallible, and in desperate need of a savior. We cannot believe that we are better or more worthy than other people.
Please consider your viewpoint, and please be more careful with your words in the future.
—L.R.

Savage:
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments.
No, wait. I'm not. Gay kids are dying. So let's try to keep things in perspective: Fuck your feelings.
A question: Do you "support" atheist marriage? Interfaith marriage? Divorce and remarriage? All are legal, all go against Christian and/or traditional ideas about marriage, and yet there's no "Christian" movement to deny marriage rights to atheists or people marrying outside their respective faiths or people divorcing and remarrying.
Why the hell not?
Sorry, L.R., but so long as you support the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples, it's clear that you do believe that some people—straight people—are "better or more worthy" than others.
And—sorry—but you are partly responsible for the bullying and physical violence being visited on vulnerable LGBT children. The kids of people who see gay people as sinful or damaged or disordered and unworthy of full civil equality—even if those people strive to express their bigotry in the politest possible way (at least when they happen to be addressing a gay person)—learn to see gay people as sinful, damaged, disordered, and unworthy. And while there may not be any gay adults or couples where you live, or at your church, or in your workplace, I promise you that there are gay and lesbian children in your schools. And while you can only attack gays and lesbians at the ballot box, nice and impersonally, your children have the option of attacking actual gays and lesbians, in person, in real time.
Real gay and lesbian children. Not political abstractions, not "sinners." Gay and lesbian children.
Try to keep up: The dehumanizing bigotries that fall from the lips of "faithful Christians," and the lies about us that vomit out from the pulpits of churches that "faithful Christians" drag their kids to on Sundays, give your children license to verbally abuse, humiliate, and condemn the gay children they encounter at school. And many of your children—having listened to Mom and Dad talk about how gay marriage is a threat to family and how gay sex makes their magic sky friend Jesus cry—feel justified in physically abusing the LGBT children they encounter in their schools. You don't have to explicitly "encourage [your] children to mock, hurt, or intimidate" queer kids. Your encouragement—along with your hatred and fear—is implicit. It's here, it's clear, and we're seeing the fruits of it: dead children.
Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate? They fill your gay children with suicidal despair. And you have the nerve to ask me to be more careful with my words?
Did that hurt to hear? Good. But it couldn't have hurt nearly as much as what was said and done to Asher Brown and Justin Aaberg and Billy Lucas and Cody Barker and Seth Walsh—day-in, day-out for years—at schools filled with bigoted little monsters created not in the image of a loving God, but in the image of the hateful and false "followers of Christ" they call Mom and Dad.

[Vanessa Emma Goldman]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

I'm not surprised. This is just the sort of thing that sexual repression does to folks.

Remember, the GOP is lead by people who keep getting caught in (same and opposite) sex scandals, practice serial marriage ("honey, I know you're kinda busy here in this hospital bed, but I want a divorce"), use taxpayer dollars to visit girlfriends in other countries, hold fundraisers at lesbian bondage clubs, and held a convention in Tampa, aka the Strip Club Capital of America.

linkyloo

The GOP is PINO - Puritanical in Name Only.

yep, the Republicans are the party of "Do as we say, not as we do!"

[Nat]

[Nat]

This isn't capital-P Political but it still spins my head and ties into my feelings about the current political climate:

Man cited for littering after cash to panhandler hits ground

John Davis says he was cited for littering, which carries a $344 fine, rather than for giving money to a panhandler, which carries a much smaller penalty.

Davis, who pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in a Cleveland court, tells WJW that he was pulled over by a police officer after handing the money to the panhandler, who was in a wheelchair and holding a religious sign.

"Obviously he's needing some money or he wouldn't be out there," he told Fox 8.

Davis says court costs alone could run as much as $500, not including attorney fees.

"I never thought that a couple dollars could turn into a couple hundred dollars or whatever it may be at this point," Davis tells WJW-TV.

[dreadgeek]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1789716.html

In Kentucky, a state elected official wants creationism given the same status as evolutionary theory on the ACT. Money quote is:

"The theory of evolution is a theory, and essentially the theory of evolution is not science -- Darwin made it up," state Sen. Ben Waide (R) said. "My objection is they should ensure whatever scientific material is being put forth as a standard should at least stand up to scientific method. Under the most rudimentary, basic scientific examination, the theory of evolution has never stood up to scientific scrutiny."

This is not even wrong. I don't even know where to begin. Evolutionary theory not only holds up but it is one of the most successful theories in *any* scientific domain. How sure are biologists about evolutionary theory? It is *at least* as established as the following ideas that everyone accepts:

water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom
the Earth orbits the Sun
the atomic model

That is as established as things get.

Cheers
Aj

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

I'm not surprised. This is just the sort of thing that sexual repression does to folks.

Remember, the GOP is lead by people who keep getting caught in (same and opposite) sex scandals, practice serial marriage ("honey, I know you're kinda busy here in this hospital bed, but I want a divorce"), use taxpayer dollars to visit girlfriends in other countries, hold fundraisers at lesbian bondage clubs, and held a convention in Tampa, aka the Strip Club Capital of America.

linkyloo

The GOP is PINO - Puritanical in Name Only.

Yes, the "family values folks!"

[iamkeri1]

This is so astonishing to me, that I posted it on two different threads. Talk about head-spinning - thought my neck was going to SNAP over this one.
Smooches,
Keri

Please note - this bill was introduced BY A WOMAN!!!!
AZ Introduces Bill Allowing Employers to Fire Women for Using Contraception

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Mar 14, 2012 in Genital Warfare | 10 comments
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 Monday to endorse a controversial bill that would allow Arizona employers the right to deny health insurance coverage for contraceptives based on religious objections.
Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, such as hormone control or acne treatment.
“I believe we live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,” Lesko said. “So, government should not be telling the organizations or mom and pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs.”



It all sounds rather condescending and Arizonish when you put it like that, but there’s more to this bill than meets the eye.
Arizona is an at-will employment state, which means bosses can fire you just because. The type of employer who wishes to deny women access to contraception unless absolutely medically required to do so (think ovarian cysts) is the type of employer that may give women a pink slip for failing to provide medical records showing a non-birth control necessity for well, birth control.
In short, if your boss objects to you taking the pill, under Arizona House Bill 2625 your boss is protected by the law in terminating your employment.
Jezebel’s Erin Gloria Ryan has a fantastic piece up explaining this all far better than I’m able to. (Because I’m leaving for the airport, not because I lack ovaries.) Go read it.
Please, dear readers, make a giant stink about this. Share this. Spread the word. The war on women in our country is bizarre and real and very much happening. Attention gays, stand up for the women standing up for you.
How is this real life?

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Medusa

More GOP support having a strip-club at Ground Zero than a Mosque:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_756259.html

Yanno..... this just about says it all! Msdemeanor puts the icing on the cake for the rest!

Sometimes, I really do wonder is something is in the water where these people reside. But right now, these nut cases are actually going to get elected to office! I am truly fearful at the moment with what is going on. Ya' think they all might drink some Kool-Aid?

[MsDemeanor]

Do you have a link for the Dan Savage piece? I'd like to share it :-)

[Galahad]

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/arc...ry-nothing-fun


I found the article and letter here.

[KatieStar]

Originally Posted by Medusa

More GOP support having a strip-club at Ground Zero than a Mosque:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_756259.html

This makes me physically ill.

[rlin]

Originally Posted by rlin

here is the direct link... just in case....
( tommi!!!)