And Speaking of the 'Values Voters'....
Frederick wonders what they will think of the buffalo porn that the government is putting out.
He also uncovers some shocking statistics (see the item above the porn one) about men with the initials "A.S." and their propensity for group sex. Makes you think, doesn't it?
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Would YOU Want to be Associated With These Loonies?
As you know, Bill Frist is scheduled to speak at the Family Research Council's "Justice Sunday," a "simulcast" from a church which will urge "values voters" to pressure their representives to change the rules so that judicial nominees can't be filibustered, and will claim that President Bush's candidates are being blocked just because they are "people of faith and moral conviction."
The Family Research Council was set up by Focus on the Family's James Dobson. Dobson will be one of the speakers at Sunday's meeting, and Focus on the Family is urging its followers to support it.
Focus on the Family's PAC, "Focus on the Family Action" (also headed by James Dobson) is launching an ad campaign in 14 states, "urging calls to U.S. senators in support of an up-or-down vote on President Bush's judicial nominees." The ads demand that 14 Democratic senators "stop filibustering and allow a vote on all judicial nominees."
The ads also encourage the following Republican senators to support action (the Constitutional Option) to end judicial filibusters: Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine; Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; Sen. John Warner of Virginia; and Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana.
The ad for the state of Virigina begins:
Republican Sen. Warner may align himself with liberals to halt most Senate business rather than just allow a simple, up-or-down vote on the President's judicial candidates.
There is only one reason liberals are desperate to block these judges: they would easily be confirmed by a majority of the Senate, because they represent the President's mainstream American values.
We've seen enough nonsense on the federal courts from judges who demonstrate:
No Mercy--Judges allowed Terri Schiavo to die of thirst. Has she been an animal, a condemned killer, or even a terrorist, they would have stepped in immediately. But Terri had the misfortune to be innocent.
I don't think the average person likes to see Terri Schiavo's death being used in a political fight. And he or she finds it distasteful when partisans claim that judges who were following the law have "no mercy" and "allowed Terri to die of thirst." IMHO, this ad will only appeal to a minority of voters (the Focus on the Family contigent) and will alienate many others. This latter group will associate the Senators who are pushing to changing the rules about filibusters with the distate they have for the politicans who meddled in the Terri Schiavo case, and will probably, at some level of consciousness, consider these Senators to be part of the religious extremist contigent. So, I think Senator Warner would be a fool to vote for this change in Senate rules after the Focus on the Family Action ads come out. (Likewise Senators Snowe, Collins, Hagel, and Lugar.)
Oh, and Senator Frist, some people think that animals (which have functioning neurons in their brains, unlike Terri) are still every bit as innocent as Terri was, and so this ad, which lumps animals in with terrorists, might remind people of your cat experiments. Not good, buddy!
And yet the nuts putting out this ad are thet people with whom you've made common cause. I hope you weren't planning on having a political future, Frist, old chum.
P.S. Here are links to the PDFs of the ads for the various states:
Arkansas Colorado Florida Florida (Spanish) Indiana Louisiana Maine Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Dakota South Dakota Virginia
5:43:15 AM
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Doug and Mike, Together Again
While I don't actually know if Pastor Doug Giles and Dr. Mike Adams. Ph.D. will ever be going on any more of those manly camping trips, I will briefly recap both of their recent Townhall columns in the same post. You know, in the hopes that they will think of the good times, and reconcile.
So, first let's hear from Dr. Mike, whose thesis is that Gonzaga University needs a Spanish Inquisition to get rid of all of the anti-Catholic heresy to be found on campus.
Last week, I gave a speech at Gonzaga University - a university I have written about on three separate occasions. After spending two days at this "Catholic" university, I have come to the conclusion that it is far worse than my previous articles had suggested. I use the term "worse," primarily to describe Gonzaga's betrayal of Catholic principles - all in the name of tolerance and diversity.
As far as I can tell, Mike isn't Catholic (Bartholomew, who investigates Mike's claims about his conversion from atheist to Christianity, says, "Aside from his links to Doug Giles, nothing much can be gleaned about his actual church or personal religious mentors"). So, then why does Mike care so much about Gonzaga's "betrayal of Catholic principles"? Well, he doesn't, really -- he just hates tolerance and diversity. And universities.
And what proof does Mike have of Gonzaga's lack of Catholicism?
I could try to persuade my readers that my conclusion is correct by simply talking about the gay pride ribbons tied around lampposts and stair rails all around the Gonzaga campus.
If somebody has tied gay pride ribbons around lampposts and stair rails, then clearly the university has strayed from Catholic dogma, which holds that looping bits of colored fabric on metal objects damns one's soul to hell.
I could also talk about the Gonzaga feminists who ran in and out of classrooms shouting the word "c**t" on Vagina Day, which was previously known as Valentine's Day. They were greeted with amused laughter from professors who had their lectures interrupted by these profane displays of feminist hysteria.
Yes, he could talk about the Gonzaga feminists, and how their shouts caused him ED -- he could talk about them for hours. And I bet he has (damned feminists)! But the key thing to remember is that because some feminists at Gonzaga used a vulgar term for vagina and some professors laughed, the university isn't Catholic, because we all know that good Catholics don't have vaginas. (Well, they do, but they don't TALK about them -- they just use them to, you know, bring forth more Catholics.)
Finally, I could talk about the National Day of Silence at Gonzaga. This is the day that gays and their allies refrain from speaking on campus, in order to promote awareness of discrimination against gays.
But I won't talk about any of these things-
That's good, because otherwise people might wonder about his preoccupation with gays, and his visceral reaction of disgust for vaginas.
-especially the National Day of Silence. In fact, I would like to start a National Year of Silence. Imagine going twelve months without hearing some guy with a lisp decry the high cost of grooming his miniature poodle.
Yes, despite what you may have heard, Mike IS NOT GAY, because he doesn't lisp, doesn't own a miniature poodle, and really, really hates men who are gay. And women. No, he is, as Wonkette said, a "flaming heterosexual." And don't you forget it!
Instead of hearing about the above, I would like for my readers to see what a Gonzaga Professor of Religious Studies (Robert J. Egan) sent to various members of the Gonzaga University community on April 21, 2004:
Can you guess the topic of the memo that, per Mike, on by itself conclusively proves that Gonzaga has betrayed its Catholicism?
Yeah, you're right: Gay marriage.
Let's just skip to my favorite part of Mike's oh-so-clever fisking of Egan's memo:
"To put the matter simply: gay and lesbian people exist; they are real people; they have the same rights as any other people, and others do discriminate against them in various ways, including our own federal government. This situation, as I see it, is immoral."
(Author's note: Please disregard the previous reference to the Apostle Paul who said that homosexuality is immoral. Egan says that opposition to homosexuality is immoral. Burn your Bibles and dedicate yourself to a daily reading of Professor Egan's teachings).
Guess what Jesus (who outranks Paul) said about divorced people remarrying? He said that it's adultery (see Luke 16:18). And Paul said that adulters go to hell, right along with the gays (I Cor. 6:9). Therefore, if Gonzaga doesn't support a federal amendment prohibiting the divorced from remarrying, then it's betraying its Catholic principles, right, Dr, Mike?
(And btw, is there any truth to the rumor that Dr. Mike's marriage to former student Krysten is his second one? If so, we can only hope that his first wife died, because we'd hate to see him having to share eternal damnation with lisping guys who spend eons talking about their miniature poodles.)
Oh, and we hope that Gonzaga takes note of Dr. Adams criticisms and sets up a new department with the mission of ensuring that everyone on campus is properly Catholic. We recommend it be staffed by these guys:
[Image courtesy of these guys]
Now, on to Pastor Doug, who is every bit as masculine as Dr. Mike, if not more so. His column is about how today's women no longer want men to tape "Friends" and "Sex in the City," mostly because those shows haven't been made for a couple of years now.
According to a recent Washington Times report, American women are pig sick of the oversold and dandy metrosexual male imago. It seems as if the ladies are tired of dating, mating and watching these candy asses and, once again, are looking for a man whose masculinity is not in question.
A few points: first of all, the poll was commissioned by Dodge Trucks -- and so you might wonder if the questions were framed to elicit certain findings (such as that women will only sleep with men who drive Dodge Trucks).
Second, that most women want a man who is "low maintenance and easy going" doesn't mean that they have "embraced the Marlboro Man," as Doug puts it -- unless the fact that a majority of men want to date women who are low maintenance and easy going means that men too have embraced the Marlboro man (which Doug may indeed believe, now that I think of it).
And third, "pig sick"???
The decisively hetero girls are looking for some testosterone junkies who are not eating their gouda gift set but, instead, have mixed this smelly stuff with their stink bait and are using it to catch big catfish on the Chattahoochee.
So, if a woman rejects a testosterone junky like Doug, it means that she's a lesbian. Obviously.
Oh, and if the gouda set that Mrs. Doug gave him was smelly, then something was wrong, because gouda isn't a strong (or soft cheese). Do you think she did something to the cheese, or was Doug smelling something else, like his old socks?
God bless the women who are doing the Sadie Hawkins for guys who are low maintenance and easy going. Yeah … fine American lasses are righteously refusing the low yield, reflexively irate fops Hollywood has tried to cram down our culture’s collective throat.
Yeah, as a righteous American lass, I hate it when anyone tries to cram irate men down my throat (so to speak).
Yes, just when the sensible are about to go Ozzy on society and call for the four horsemen of the apocalypse to wrap this thing up, the clouds break and reveal that there is hope, once again, for our country after all.
While I'm glad that this Ford Truck survey of 1200 women has given Doug reason to live again, I am afraid I have some bad news for him, courtesy of Wonkette :
Bush Not Very Sexy, Women Say
Dance ten, looks two? "In a recent online poll conducted by Esquire magazine, 11,000 women in 15 countries were asked to rate Bush's sex appeal on a scale of one to 10, and America's commander-in-chief failed to register much more than a two." Esquire Poll Gives Bush Low Marks for Sex AppealEsquire Poll Gives Bush Low Marks for Sex Appeal [Reuters]
I hope this news doesn't mean that Doug is going to go Ozzie on society now. Hey, Doug, maybe it was just the foreign commie lesbos who didn't go for Bush's uber-macho sexiness. No wait, the Reuters article said that, "American women found their president slightly less appealing, rating him a 2.1" on a 1-10 point scale. But still, put the gun down, Doug, and we can talk about why you feel so strongly about metrosexuals.
Anyway, if you were wondering if you were a metrosexual, Doug offers a little quiz to help you become more masculine by making fun of you. (It turns out that, despite being in touch with my feminine side, I'm not a metrosexual since I no longer live in 1998. I feel so much more manly now that I know this.)
TBogg makes note of the quiz, and provides some photos of the kinds of eyebrow-plucking, salon-styled, Quiana-wearing Nancy boys Doug is talking about. You know, if I am any judge, they really do repel women!
2:55:33 AM
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Ann Coulter a Liar???
Say it ain't so, Pima County!
But here's the latest report from AZ on the fates of the two young man accused of attempted pie-icide:
The Pima County Attorney's Office intends to refile misdemeanor criminal damage and assault charges against Phillip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolff in connection with an Oct. 22 incident involving Coulter at UA's Centennial Hall, said Chief Criminal Deputy David Berkman.
Pima County prosecutors plan to take another shot at two men accused of throwing pies at political writer Ann Coulter, even though she didn't show up at their first trial last month.
Smith and Wolff were scheduled to go to trial March 18, but neither Coulter nor the arresting officer showed up, Berkman said.
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As a result, Deputy County Attorney Carlos Betancourt was forced to ask that the case be dismissed, with the understanding that it could be refiled, Berkman said. His request was granted.
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Coulter was sent repeated notices of the court date, and she will be notified of the new court date as well, Berkman said.
Remember what Ann told NewsMax?
Thank God for vigilante justice because that's the only justice there is in Arizona. All the attacks of the last week came soon after the Pima country prosecutor dropped all charges against my ... assailants, even though the whole attack was on videotape, all over TV, and I offered to fly out for the trial if necessary.
Well, even if she didn't show up, she OFFERED to, and that's why dropping the charges against the men (because there were no complaining witnesses) means that conservatives can't get any justice in AZ.
And the county's refiling of the charges just proves what she said in her column (not the coherent and honest spoof one by Mark, the idiotic and libelous real one by Ann):
Be forewarned, conservatives: Do not expect the law to protect you in Pima County.
Because, sadly, in Pima County they expect the aggrieved victims of such horrendous crimes to actually appear in their podunk courts. Man, what a miscarriage of justice!
P.S.
Ann is this week's Time magazine cover girl. The online version of their mag features a gallery of photos (most supplied by Ann) which show Annie growing from a Nixon tot to woman who hangs out with Miguel Estrada (Ann was kind of cute as a teen, back when she had undyed hair and more than 0% body fat); Time calls this gallery "Right From The Start."
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