February 24, 2004 by s.z.

Tuesday Town Hall Because Jesus told me to. Rich Lowry All those Passion fans are Clinton's people, leading to speculation (by me) that Bush is planning on dumping Cheney and running with Mel Gibson this year.  The Bush presidency should be stamped: "Brought to you by orthodox Christian believers." Phyllis Schlafly Richard Shelby, Zell Miller, and some other cranks have sponsored a bill called the Constitution Restoration Act, which would make sure that no judges can prevent people from "acknowledging" God in public buildings (well, the God of those Bush supporters discussed by Rich Lowry -- I don't think you'd be allowed to put up an altar to Ba'al in the courthouse).  And all the judges will have to base their rulings on what the legislators says the law is, since the judicial branch refuses to be Republican, like the executive and legislative branches, and this is the only way to keep them in line.  See David Neiwert's excellent piece on this bill, if you haven't already. This legislation would clarify that the federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases brought against a federal, state or local government or officer for acknowledging God. [snip] The Constitution Restoration Act also orders federal courts not to rely on foreign laws, administrative rules or court decisions. Americans have been shocked to learn that five U.S. Supreme Court justices have cited foreign sources, even though it is self-evident that U.S. judges should be bound by the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws, rather than foreign ones.  Dennis Prager Last week Dennis explained that women expose their breasts during half-time shows because (1) it's the only way they can "announce they are females," everyone  tending to otherwise get confused about which ones the women are, except when they're actually in the process of giving birth.  Also, (2) there just aren't any nice clothes for women that don't include rip-away bodices and metal pasties. This week Dennis provides even more reasons that women keep exposing their naked bodies to him in his fantasies.  3.  Since women are not men, they find stripping more fulfilling than college teaching or corporate work.  Oh, and they only get fulfillment from being somebody's wife and the mother to his children, but feminism is trying to take that away from them by killing all their role models, so they can't afford to buy clothes.  Or something like that.  4.  Because sexual harassment laws prevent men from raping women at work, the evil temptresses delight in taunting men with their bare breasts and g-strings, and insistn on putting on slutty peepshows during board meetings. 5.  Women dress sexily to attract men.  But that's WRONG, because Dennis is married and shouldn't be having sex with you. 6.  Women today are highly educated, but still too stupid to know the difference between dressing "cute" and dressing "provocatively."  (Dennis gives simple advice to the poor dears: showing skin means you're a whore.) And since all men only want one thing, if you show any skin, they will all think that you're going to put out, and then they'll get really confused when you call the police on them for shoving their tongues down your throats.  "And that includes guys your age, your male teachers, your clergyman, your mailman, and the old man next door."  Omnipresent sexual harassment laws and "consciousness raising" seminars in businesses and schools have frightened men into not making any sexual comments to a woman.  As a result, the normal check on a woman flaunting her body is gone. A woman can reveal her breasts or cross her short-skirted legs near a man, but he is forbidden to say so much as, "You have great legs." In fact, he can be fired or sued for saying nothing and merely "staring." One reason women dressed more modestly in the past was fear of men's verbal reactions. No more. There are vast checks on his sexuality, none on hers.  Cal Thomas Mel Gibson's The Passion of Rambo is a going to do boffo box-office -- not because it's a good film, but so that the righteous can smite those atheistic Hollywood people who think they're better than everyone else. Large numbers of people have ceased going to films, or, like me, rarely buy a ticket, because they don't like paying to witness their beliefs and values. mocked  Cal rarely buys tickets for films like Sexy Stewardesses Have a Layover, but instead sneaks into the theater through the fire exit, in order to make a social statement about not paying to witness his values mocked. Go and see this film. It might change your life. It could change Hollywood if it is willing to receive the message that if you make good movies with good messages, those who now feel excluded and despised will pay money to see the films.  And if there is found to be a market for movies geared towards the excluded and despised in our society, watch for Mel Gibson's The Passion of Albert Einstein, geared towards nerds and math geeks. William J. Federer Gay marriage would result in pedophiles adopting children and abusing them, because, um, nothing would stop them from doing it. I asked this student if he thought individuals exist who desire to sexually abuse children and wouldn't they be tempted to adopt. I asked him who is going to police to make sure pedophiles don't adopt. He said that would be impossible. "Exactly my point," I answered, "it would be impossible. There would be no way to protect children from sexual predators if homosexuals were allowed to marry and adopt."  Thomas Sowell   There really aren't that many people who work and who are really poor for like, FOREVER, so we shouldn't worry our pretty little heads about them.  If they need food for their children, they can always sell a kidney. By focussing on those who work hard all their lives and still remain poor -- no more than 3 percent of the population -- and telling their personal stories endlessly, liberals can present the Big Lie with a human face.  So, make sure to thank the Mel fans for giving us Bush by voting for somebody else this fall; smack Zell Miller around the next time you see him, for proposing such stupid legislation(and on general principle); outlaw gay marriage, because otherwise who knows what could happen; screw the poor; and wear a Burqa to work, so that Dennis doesn't have naughty thoughts. 8:11:39 AM

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Full of Bloggy Goodness Be sure to check out the new issue of Virtual Occoquan, featuring the best of the Salon blogs.  Not only do will you receive mutated photos of Ayn Rand, you also get Susan of Pesky the Rat using spam to fix the economy; Dana of Dr. Omed discussing biblically-correct marriage; Meg of Blog Cabin recounting a junior high date with a memorable twist, and how that date is recalled by her former crush when she meets up with him years late, and MORE!  Fun for the whole family, assuming you have a grown-up family which is literate and fairly cool.  4:02:18 AM

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Rush Update Here's an update to our post "Rush Helps a Crushed Student".  As you may recall, it dealt with a young man who called Rush's radio program to ask for help in dealing with his sociology professor.  The call began: CALLER: I am a 21-year-old college student. I go to Northern Illinois University, and I'm taking a class in sociology called marriage, family, and social change. And the class I'm in, the professor is widely biased, liberal feminazi. The first day of class she wrote up on the board, "there is no single definition of marriage," and underlined it. After sharing their joint indignation about the professor's underlining of a sentence on the blackboard, and her statement "don't call me Mrs.," Rush said: RUSH: [T]his feminazi instructor who has got all this trauma in her past and taking it out on you. What she's doing is burdening you with her shame. She's got some shame because the trauma that's happened to her in her life, and she's dumping it on you, and it's not yours. And so on. Anyway, alert reader Chris Vosburg visited the NIU site and . . . Wouldn't you just know it: Interestingly, there's no course at NIU entitled "Marriage, Family and Social Change," but there is a course called "Families and Social Change." I think the difference speaks volumes about the retentive abilities of the average dittohead.  It's taught by Maureen Sullivan, Ph.D., (from California's own UC Davis), whose "research has examined gender inequalities within families, and the possible solutions offered by alternative family structures." Yep, that's Sociology, all right. Chris felt that Professor Sullivan was entitled to know what was being said about her and her class, and sent her a link to the transcript.  He later heard back from her: she indicated that the student in question ("Joe") gets lots of time in class to air his views "precisely because he is in the minority," and she so is astonished that he would "turn to Rush Limbaugh." Why would Joe whine to Rush about being oppressed in his sociology class?  Well, an obvious possibility is that he wanted attention, and couldn't get any through positive acomplishments.  So, Joe used the currently fashionable "consevatives are being crushed by liberal colleges" victim mentality meme --  and it worked for him, since he got to appear on a national radio show.  The fact that Joe signed up for an elective class which the catalog says will "explore issues related to family life among diverse groups in the population, including variations in gender roles and behaviors" and then complained that it was exploring issues relating to family life among diverse groups in the population, seems to indicate that he took the class just so he could complain about it, and demand that the class not explore these issues any more.  Hardly the acts of somebody seeking an education, but totally in keeping with somebody wanting to be a demagogue like Rush when he grows up.  But maybe there's another reason that Joe called in to Rush's program . . . First, some background.  Reader glenstonecottage commented that Professor Sullivan should consider giving Joe a special assignment: Maybe you could assign Joe to do a research paper on his hero Rush's own marriage history. Betch he'd find out that the word "traditional" wouldn't quite apply.When it comes to actually observing "the sanctity of marriage" many of these wingnuts are about as "traditional" as the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart. And that encouraged me to explore Rush's biography.  Here are some highlights from it: 1966-1969: Attends  Cape Central High School, Cape Girardeau, MO.  "Limbaugh was a chubby debating student in high school, and he didn't date much."  1970: Receives a military classification of 1-Y (fit for service only in time of war), thus avoiding the draft.  Per Al Franken, brother David said that Rush "avoided the draft because of a pilonidal cyst at the base of the spinal cord in which excess tissue and hair may collect, causing discomfort and discharge."  1971: Moves to Pittsburgh to work for radio station KVQ, then is fired.  There are allegations that he was fired after being arrested for soliticing sex from a man.  Also, in 2003 a St. Louis man claimed that while a university student in 1971, he had an affair with Limbaugh that lasted for about 3 months.  The man opines that Rush is still gay, and his marriages were all shams. Sep 1977:  Marries Roxy McNeely, sales secretary at radio station WHB in Kansas City. Mar 1980:  Roxy McNeely files for divorce, citing "incompatibility".   No children were born from the marriage. 1983:  Marries Michelle Sixta, a Kansas City Royals stadium usherette. Dec 1988: Michelle leaves him during Christmas weekend.  No children were born from the marriage. May 1994:  Marries third wife Marta Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old aerobics instructor who was taking classes at the University of North Florida; she sent him an e-mail note asking how to deal with a Reagan-bashing professor.  The couple have no children. So, given that there are rumblings about trouble in the Rush/Marta marriage, I think we can see another possible reason why Joe might have asked Rush how he should deal with his traditional marriage-bashing professor . . .  not that there's anything wrong with that.  Oh, and from Roger Ailes we get news of Rush's latest assault on marriage.  It seems that Rush read a story in a San Francisco paper about a lesbian couple who were recently wed.  Here are the highlights fron the news article: From where they sit at their baby's bedside, under the blinking monitors and beeping alarms of UCSF's neonatal intensive care unit, Lara Weiss and her partner, Nora Wynne, have hardly had time to think about getting married. A month ago, after a torturous pregnancy, Weiss was airlifted to San Francisco from their Humboldt County home in Arcata for the premature birth of their twins. One of the tiny baby girls had a birth defect that meant she had to undergo major surgery before she could take a breath on her own. But when a friend called last weekend to say he had gone to City Hall and gotten them a number holding their place in line to join the historic parade of same-sex couples getting married in San Francisco, they had to do it. Last Sunday, they took their other twin, Zea, for her first outing and pulled themselves away from Luna's bedside briefly to make their 10-year partnership official in the eyes of the state.  Luna had surgery two weeks ago, and is "doing better than either mother had allowed herself to hope for," but isn't out of danger yet.  The two women have been spent the time since Luna's operation in the neo-natal ICU, and hadn't thought about getting married until the friend told him he had gotten them a number, and encouraged them to be part of the historic event. "He told us, "Come on. It will be good for the kids to know you're married.'' So, a heart-warming story about two people with a seriously ill child getting the chance to get married.  What does Rush say about ? The ...article tells the story of a lesbian couple that left one of their twin babies at UCSF's neonatal ICU, where she had major surgery so she could breathe unaided, so they could go get a marriage license.  They left this little baby in dire straits so they could put themselves first.  What about the little girl in this story?  What about this baby?  You know, if a heterosexual couple did this, it would be called child abuse.  You could almost read it that way. Well, you could if you were a nutcase, and were burdening the women with your own trauma about being a closeted gay man.  Because no normal, sane person would ever say that a heterosexual couple who left the hospital for a couple of hours to get married was committing "child abuse."  It's sad to see Rush back on the drugs. 2:37:37 AM