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Taking the high Moral Road is what some do when they say Gays do not need Marraige, they have Civil Unions and other means of being protected. In fact they even say its not a Federal Issue but is up to the individual States to determine. Nice words, sounds good on a 20 second sound bite on the local television news, but is also bullshit.
Take the instance here of Democrat Congressman Studds who was the first open gay congressman back in the time where equality was not even up for debate. He died and today the United States denied his legal spouse the rights to his survivors pension from all those years Studds served in Congress. ( full story ) What perhaps makes this even more ludicrous is that the law denying Studd’s legal husband these benefits is one passed and signed into law by Bill Clinton, not George Bush.
Go Figure huh?
So much for the claim by Democrats that they support equal rights for Gays. Just more poltical bullshit from obvious masters at deception, lies, and hatred. But hey it gets better because you see, legally married Gays are not only second class citizens, even when they do things legally, but are even below those who knowingly and admittingly commit fraud.
In short convicted Felons rate higher with the US Government than a Gay congressman’s legal spouse.
Republican Congressman Ney plead guilty for conspiracy and taking bribes and is facing 10 years in prison. But hey, not like that’s a big deal as he will continue to collect his Congressional Pension while doing time for abusing the system, for selling his votes while the same sex partner of Studds will collect NOTHING!
And this is Democracy that George Bush wishes to bring to the world? I’ll Pass Thank You!
I think it is only fitting that we all get down on our knees and thank His Holiness, Pope Benedict (Pope Intolerance) for helping to make this a kindler, gentler, world. After all we all need to know that GOD loves us all, and you certainly have given voice to that over the last little while haven’t you? I mean your comments about Islam and Muslims is merely a mis conception taken out of context, and your support for those political leaders who practise GODs passion for Freedom is well documented these days, so again, Thank You.
Of course he doesn’t mean the hateful things he says, after all he is sorry some of the time. Course when it comes to us Gays having equal rights, well that just isn’t in the cards. After all homosexuality is a social trend, nothing else, and it is a social trend he wants stamped out, in the name of Traditional Family Values.
Odd these are the same values that Stephen Harper and his Master, George Bush subscribe to. The values that have let Bush lie about WMD in Iraq and justify an invasion of a soverign nation. It is those values that led him to seek a ban on same sex marraige and cause an increase in Gay Bashing. It is these same values that have led to Republicans denying anti bullying laws or courses from being inacted, because well there are still about a third of school kids that haven’t been verbally abused or taken part in it yet. Course with so many kids shooting up their schools, no need for anti bullying laws or courses is there?
Under GODs name, so much hypcrisy exists today that it hard to tell where the bullshit starts or ends. Take the Mark Foley case, that is centred now on when did they all know about his penchant for young kids. I mean seriously, while they should focus on that, you would think there would be a damn site more about how to deal with the abused kids than who knew what, when? So much for protecting kids, just one more bullshit cause the Republicans and their coalition of Family Value hypocrites have hijacked.
There are serious issues and comments by Pope Intolerance only allow more evil to happen. Real evil, not made up bullshit about Gays and their secret little agendas. The evil that is being done to kids today by the Mark Foleys of the world is nothing to what these religious zealots are doing to the very generation coming up today. The way they twist their minds to parrot the parents and their relgiious hypocrisy is amazing. Anti Bully courses, teaching aids like showing differences and minorities is suddenly the latest target by these foaming religious fanatics who have clearly forgotten who GOD is, never mind what HE is about.
The sad part of all this, is that while there are many talking about dealing with Pedophiles, about protecting children, these supporters are the ones doing the abusing, and having their buddies cover it all up. As is the case of Mark Foley but worse is the parents who lead court action to insure that Hate is allowed where their kids are taught. As in the case of Georgia Tech.
Okay, so this John Karr didn’t do it? His DNA is not a match to what they have on file so no charges against him in the Jon Bonnet Ramsey murder, and I wonder, they couldn’t have checked that in Thailand?
In a news conference in Boulder, Lacy and staff members from the Boulder County district attorney’s office addressed how DNA evidence released Monday showed Karr could not have committed the killing he confessed to when he was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, earlier this month. (full story)
I mean they couldn’t have taken samples there and flown those to the States prior to shipping him over at taxpayer expense?
Then too I have to wonder at some of the statements made until they dropped the bombshell about him not matching the DNA. You know, the one’s where he had supposedly given them details that had never been released to anyone, including the Ramsey’s? So how did he find those out or did he make some lucky guess?
In watching this case unfold years ago, people kept referring to the Boulder police and DA as the new Keystone Cops, and now one has to wonder, is this part two?
So Karr will be sent to California to face misdemeanor charges while escaping harsher penalties in Thailand. That was of course one sentiment given and shouted down when he was first arrested, and one has to wonder, did Karr play Colorado for suckers?
Bet the news media are pretty ticked off. I mean suddenly they lose out on what might have been the court case of the year and super duper television ratings because Colorado once more goofed.
I wonder, will they ever catch the killer? Or will there be a part three to this whole affair?
There has been a great deal of talk lately about Pedophiles and the case of child porn online. The New York Times is just one major news media outfit that is investigating this abhorrent misuse of the Internet. Yet in doing so they have also glossed over a great many real facts about the Adult Industy on line.
The current article, perhaps inspired in part by the Jon Bonnet Ramsey case, is that child modeling sites are a new bred of site aimed at the scourge of our society, the Pedophile. There is a portion of that article that got me thinking.
Based on the images and wording from online advertisements, the sites show toddlers wearing tight thongs, and slightly older children posing evocatively while wearing makeup and feather boas. ( New York Times Article )
What got me is the end of that paragraph. Given all the hype lately of the supposed killer of Jon Bonnett being caught, there have been tons of photographs of her on the television. Now seems to me she is dolled up just as this article describes.
Which makes me wonder, when is it indecent and when is it wrong to take a child and doll them up like the Ramsey’s did?
Personally I don’t think they were involved in her death directly, but in dressing her up like they did, in enabling her to be seen publicly like that, they drew attention to her that more than likely lead to her death. At the same time, how can we demand a safer internet from sites promoting those same type of pictures and yet not go after the parents who enable this behaviour?
If dressing up a child in provocative clothing is wrong for use online, surely it is just as wrong to do it on a stage for a pageant? How can it not be?
And there is what the article perhaps misses out on. Just as it did in its celebrated Justin Berry case, where this alleged victim scored hundred of thousands of dollars of gifts and cash while a minor.
The Ramsey’s kept insisting that this is what Jon Bonnett wanted to do, that it was her desire and goal yet I wonder, who is the parent here, the child or the adults? Maybe she did really want to play dress up in that way, but surely the adults in the family should have said No as should other parents in similar circumstances.
I suppose part of this is that we put too much stress on beauty and on being recognized as such. Look at the televison commercials for shampoo or cars, or hell even feminine hygeine products, and tell me it isn’t designed to make a person feel a bit of a sexual urge? Yet that is legal and showing the same online isn’t?
More double standards it would seem to me.
I also think that while an adult is just that, and should be held accountable, a child can easily manipulate a willing adult. As is the case in the Justin Berry case, least in my opinion. Yet he is being held up as a prime victim but at best, he was a willing victim. To claim otherwise pushed the realm of credability, in my view.
So it would seem to me we are once more rushing into the dark regions of law simply to appease the moral indignation of some, without looking at the whole picture. Yes pedophiles are going to be attracted to this type of behaviour, but if we as a society allow it, then aren’t we also asking for that unwarranted attention?
If we truly wish to make it hard for creeps like pedophiles, then let’s make it a real attempt. Let us end the showcasing of our children in lewd outfits totally. Yes that include the pampers commercials and let us let kids be kids for a change.
Many won’t agree with me, but do we need to see kids in diapers to know that Pampers is super absorbant. Or the CanDoo commercials where a toddler is on the toilet smiling with his/her pants down at the ankles? Let’s face it, the commercials aren’t for kids, but to get adults to buy for the kids. So why are we showcasing innocent kids in compromising positions in commercials and then bitching when they are shown in similar conditions online?
Just more of a witch hunt I would think. For myslef, I believe no child should be shown on television or online in anything but fully clothed and in normal day to day activities like playing football, baseball, or such. We don’t need to see kids in underwear prancing around to tell us that they will enjoy the cartoon characters on them.
Let’s get real here. Apply some common sense for a change and end this cycle of abuse by limiting the ability for parents to exploit their own kids. No more Jon Bonnett’s please… one childs death is enough.
It is amazing that in Toronto, 70 hotel employees were suspended and the news is that it is because they wore a button supporting AIDS awareness. ( see 365Gay article )
What has me ticked off however is that it was a button supporting the Hotel Employees Union with a Red AIDS ribbon on it. The Hotel had allowed the official AIDS AWARENESS BUTTON to be worn, but union employees opted to wear their own version.
The black button is for the union Unite Here, which has worked to raise hotel employee wages.
Fastened to the button is a red AIDS ribbon. ( see story )
So is this a case of the hotel bashing AIDS SUPPORT? Or is it a Union attempting to vilify the Hotel to gain an upperhand in wage negotiations?
In reading the aricle, it seems to me that the Union was looking for a story or for headlines and naturally the media obliged. The story really should be that 70 employees were suspended for mis-using AIDS AWARENESS to further their own selfish goals, like increased wages.
What is it today, where organizations like this Union and others, trying to use important things for their own selfish gains? AIDS is a serious issue, an Epidemic really, and yet here is the union attempting to gain headlines from it, for their own end. The hotel naturally played into it, but where is the Media in this?
The article headline is misleading but then, when does the Media truly REPORT THE FACTS CLEARLY?
Ever since George Bush seized power and his Republicans gained control over American politics, the noose on human rights continues to get tighter. It is almost like a concerted effort to not just knock back some rights, but to actually obliterate them so they can never make a comeback.
The passage of a sex crime database bill is just one more in a long line of legislation that on the surface is fine and dandy and appears to favour children. I mean we are all for protecting kids, except maybe many parents. That’s for a different post, but it amazes me how in the name of keeping kids safe, they are willing to through others to the lions, so to speak.
For example, if an 18 year old is charged with rape and convicted they are listed as a sex offender. Makes sense but if the girl was 16 or 17 and it was consentual, how is that Rape, yet in many states it is. So here we have a kid serving time and forced to register as a sex offender when in reality he was simply a horny normal teenager who ran afoul of some irate parent and over zealous prosecutor. So now this kid is suddenly a target for any zealot who things they should be God’s avenging angel. ( Gay Persuasion )
If it isn’t about sex, then its about abortion. Call me crazy but now once more the attack on Woman and their right of choice is again being widdled away with the passage of a Bill making it illegal for anyone to help a pregnant teen cross a state line for an abortion. ( see CBS Story )
With many states now passing tougher abortion laws, this is just one more step towards a return to the dark ages when women were desperate and sought out abortions in back rooms and alleys. It is also a way to salve those states who think the federal government is too lax on abortion.
In short this is about politics, not helping a teenager.
Democrats complained that the measure was the latest in a series of bills designed chiefly to energize the GOP’s base of conservative voters.
“Congress ought to have higher priorities than turning grandparents into criminals,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. ( CBS Story )
I don’t know but given how many parents constantly blame others for their child’s rotten behaviour, to make them determine if their kid can bring another into the world is merely adding fuel to the fire it seems. I suppose being male I have a different take than most, but it would seem to me that any kid who is willing to go out of state to end their pregnancy should not be forced to have that kid in the first place.
What about grandparents who take the child across state lines because mommy is a drug addict or the parents are abusive? Where are the safeguards here?
That really is the whole trouble it seems, as once more Politics takes precedence over honest government. Mind you, the more I see the less of a difference I see between a Democrat and a Republican. They are both on the God Bandwagon simply to get votes. Whatever happened to speaking to the issues and not pandering to self interest here?
I guess its simply they love the money and power that comes from being a Congressperson or Senator and to hell with the people and their needs.
I suppose that maybe I am a bit jaded these days, however it galls me to listen to some politicians. I mean Secretary of State Rice made a surprise visit to Beirut and told the Prime Minister the United States has concern for the displaced and dead in the latest Middle East war.
The fighting came as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region, making an unannounced stop in Beirut, where she met Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fuad Saniora. Rice expressed concern for Lebanese suffering, and the United States said it would give $30 million to aid in the country’s recovery. “Thank you for your courage and steadfastness,” she told Saniora. ( see Story )
Now I don’t know, but let me see, this all started this go round because Hezbollah was firing off rockets into Israel for the last few years, and then to top it all off, went and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. All the time that they were doing this, the United Nations had passed security resolution after resolution requiring the Lebanese Government to disarm Hezbollah.
And here is the Great USA thanking Lebanon for its steadfastness? What, they ignored the United Nations and did absolutely nothing about disarming Hezbollah. As a direct result of their own inaction, war is now spreading across their country and so the greatest Democracy ever thanks them?
Give me a damn break.
I just don’t get it. I mean this war is as much their own fault as Hezbollah for their inability to disarm terrorists. Worse, three of their government ministers are members of the political wing of Hezbollah. So Rice thanks Lebanon? For what?
Causing another Middle East war?
Then of course we have the whining about nearly 380 dead Lebanese killed by Air strikes and Artillery shelling. I would say given the amount of artillery shells sent to Lebanon plus the continuous Air strikes, that Israel has shown a great deal of accuracy and restrain. I mean come on, it isn’t easy to target building like they have and not have incidental damage and deaths, yet the Lebanese Prime Minister complains about 380 dead.
But the visit was tense. Saniora angrily laid out the damage to his country, including about 380 people killed and about 750,000 displaced, and said the Israeli bombing had set Lebanon back 50 years, the prime minister’s office said. (see Story)
I wonder how many incidental deaths there would be if it was the vaunted United States doing the air strikes and shelling? Few thousand perhaps?
Don’t get me wrong, any deaths are horrible, but let’s call a spade a spade. The deaths of Lebanese and those rushing to hide in Syria is due to Hezbollah attacks and worse, Lebanese Government inaction. If anyone is truly to blame for these deaths it really is the Lebanese government.
It seems to just come back down to the simple fact. The USA is once again meddling. Why don’t they do something right and force Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah. I mean not like they are careful on where their rockets land, now are they?
More than 80 rockets crashed into northern Israel as of Monday evening, wounding about 20 people, the military said. The rockets again touched off brush fires, turning the clear summer sky gray with smoke in the town of Kiryat Shemona, which was hit by a heavy barrage in the afternoon. ( see Story )
I suppose this is what they mean when they talk about the Fog of War. I wonder though, if it wasn’t a bunch of Jews doing the attacking, would the USA be so genial with Lebanon? Maybe the Lebanese Prime Minister bought Bush a new sweater like Tony Blair did?
When is Enough going to be Enough?