November 30, 2009
Wingnut quote of the month....
"We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term." - Dana Pierno (while discussing the Fort Hood shootings with the always phony Sean Hannity
H/T - Bob Cesna's Awesome Blog! Go!
H/T - Bob Cesna's Awesome Blog! Go!
Would be the law here if SOME people had their way...
Uganda proposes death penalty for HIV positive gays
Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable.
Mr Brown made his views plain in a breakfast conversation with President Museveni of Uganda on the margins of the Commonwealth summit.
Homosexuality remains criminalised in many Commonwealth countries, but the more liberal countries have been horrified by the new legislation.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is going through Uganda’s Parliament after receiving its first reading last month.
According to Clause 2 of the Bill, a person who is convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment. But if that person is also HIV positive the penalty — under the heading “aggravated homosexuality” — is death.
Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable.
Mr Brown made his views plain in a breakfast conversation with President Museveni of Uganda on the margins of the Commonwealth summit.
Homosexuality remains criminalised in many Commonwealth countries, but the more liberal countries have been horrified by the new legislation.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is going through Uganda’s Parliament after receiving its first reading last month.
According to Clause 2 of the Bill, a person who is convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment. But if that person is also HIV positive the penalty — under the heading “aggravated homosexuality” — is death.
November 28, 2009
November 24, 2009
This Aggression Will Not Stand
Ahhh.....off work for the next 5 days.
Here's a look at how I plan on spending most of those days.
You know....with Family coming in for the holidays and all.
Posting may or may not be sporadic. We shall see.....
Here's a look at how I plan on spending most of those days.
You know....with Family coming in for the holidays and all.
Posting may or may not be sporadic. We shall see.....
November 23, 2009
November 22, 2009
November 21, 2009
It's come down to this....
To say the Pittsburgh Penguins have been plagued by injuries the past month is an understatement. This may come to pass....
H/T to The Pens Blog
November 19, 2009
Tom Waits - Dirt in the Ground
Technically Thursday night....but it's my blog. Tom's Friday visit comes by early. Apparently to bum us all out. From the album Bone Machine, Tom reminds us we are all going to be Dirt in the Ground. "Hell's boiling over, Heaven is full, we're chained to the world and we all gotta pull".
No Surprise Here....
Fox News again accused of airing misleading video
For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error." Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."
However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."
On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:
Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn't show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what's called "file tape" of Sarah Palin. We didn't mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.
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Nice banner for a worthy new cause.
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"Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are "valid," let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so." - Richard Dawkins
November 18, 2009
November 17, 2009
Palin Quote...
If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? - Sarah Palin
Christian Compassion in the Buckeye State
Apparently "turn the other cheek" and "do unto others" are very situational suggestions. It's AMAZING how a simple phrase like "don't believe in god? You are not alone" can cause Christians to froth at the mouth and go into attack mode. If you REALLY TRULY believed....would a simple billboard with a simple statement really be that big a bother to you?
Godless Billboard Moved After Threats
CINCINNATI -- In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says “Don’t Believe In God? You are not alone” came down early Thursday morning.
The billboard had gone up Tuesday afternoon at Reading Road and 12th Street, one block south of Liberty Street and it is being moved to a new site Thursday at the Sixth Street Viaduct.
The group that funded the billboard, the United Coalition of Reason, was contacted by Lamar Advertising of Cincinnati. Lamar reported that the landowner of the site had been threatened over the billboard's message and wanted it taken down.
"We weren't given the landowner's identity or precise details," reported Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason. "Nor did we pursue them. It was sufficient to learn that multiple, significant threats had been received and that Lamar would act quickly to alleviate the problem. Lamar was most apologetic to us regarding the situation. It was a development they hadn't expected. Nor had we. Nothing like this has ever happened to us before."
Full story here.
Godless Billboard Moved After Threats
CINCINNATI -- In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says “Don’t Believe In God? You are not alone” came down early Thursday morning.
The billboard had gone up Tuesday afternoon at Reading Road and 12th Street, one block south of Liberty Street and it is being moved to a new site Thursday at the Sixth Street Viaduct.
The group that funded the billboard, the United Coalition of Reason, was contacted by Lamar Advertising of Cincinnati. Lamar reported that the landowner of the site had been threatened over the billboard's message and wanted it taken down.
"We weren't given the landowner's identity or precise details," reported Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason. "Nor did we pursue them. It was sufficient to learn that multiple, significant threats had been received and that Lamar would act quickly to alleviate the problem. Lamar was most apologetic to us regarding the situation. It was a development they hadn't expected. Nor had we. Nothing like this has ever happened to us before."
Full story here.
November 16, 2009
Bill Guerin scores with 0.4 seconds left!
Penguins had lost 3 in a row......I ended up missing the last game on Saturday night. Figures....missed an absolutely amazing ending. Guerin buried it with 0.4 seconds left. Unreal.
November 13, 2009
Work..
Nice postcard of the street that I actually work on every day. If only it looked like this now. It barely resembles this.....
Tom Waits- Tango Till They're Sore
Nice live recording of one of my personal favorite Tom tunes. Have always loved the way the song sounds like a old record that's warped from being in the sun too long......
I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past.
November 12, 2009
November 10, 2009
Crazy Christian quote from the past....
Ellen White (1827-1915) was considered by some to be a true biblical prophet. She was a very influential Christian Evangelical leader who was instrumental in founding the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
This is from her book "A Solemn Appeal".
"If the practice [masturbation] is continued from the age of fifteen and upward, nature will protest against the abuse he has suffered, and continues to suffer, and will make them pay the penalty for the transgression of his laws, especially from the ages of thirty to forty-five, by numerous pains in the system, and various diseases, such as affection of the liver and lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, affection of the spine, diseased kidneys, and cancerous tumors. Some of nature's fine machinery gives way, leaving a heavier task for the remaining to perform, which disorders nature's fine arrangement, and there is often a sudden breaking down of the constitution; and death is the result."
Females possess less vital force than the other sex, and are deprived very much of the bracing, invigorating air, by their in-door life. The result of self-abuse in them is seen in various diseases, such as catarrh, dropsy, headache, loss of memory and sight, great weakness in the back and loins, affections of the spine, and frequently, inward decay of the head. Cancerous humor, which would lie dormant in the system their lifetime, is inflamed, and commences its eating, destructive work. The mind is often utterly ruined, and insanity supervenes."
Wow. She sounds like a real party.
This is from her book "A Solemn Appeal".
"If the practice [masturbation] is continued from the age of fifteen and upward, nature will protest against the abuse he has suffered, and continues to suffer, and will make them pay the penalty for the transgression of his laws, especially from the ages of thirty to forty-five, by numerous pains in the system, and various diseases, such as affection of the liver and lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, affection of the spine, diseased kidneys, and cancerous tumors. Some of nature's fine machinery gives way, leaving a heavier task for the remaining to perform, which disorders nature's fine arrangement, and there is often a sudden breaking down of the constitution; and death is the result."
Females possess less vital force than the other sex, and are deprived very much of the bracing, invigorating air, by their in-door life. The result of self-abuse in them is seen in various diseases, such as catarrh, dropsy, headache, loss of memory and sight, great weakness in the back and loins, affections of the spine, and frequently, inward decay of the head. Cancerous humor, which would lie dormant in the system their lifetime, is inflamed, and commences its eating, destructive work. The mind is often utterly ruined, and insanity supervenes."
Wow. She sounds like a real party.
November 08, 2009
November 07, 2009
November 06, 2009
Sigh......of course he did.
Shooter praised God before Fort Hood massacre
By Sharon Jayson and Dan Reed, USA TODAY
FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist who had counseled troops and was upset about being deployed to Iraq shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire on an unarmed crowd at Fort Hood Army base Thursday afternoon, killing 13 people and wounding 30, military officials said.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. citizen born in Virginia to Jordanian parents, was wounded by a civilian police officer responding to a shooting rampage that is believed to be the worst ever at a U.S. base, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, commanding general of Fort Hood.
Full story here. . . .
By Sharon Jayson and Dan Reed, USA TODAY
FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist who had counseled troops and was upset about being deployed to Iraq shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire on an unarmed crowd at Fort Hood Army base Thursday afternoon, killing 13 people and wounding 30, military officials said.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. citizen born in Virginia to Jordanian parents, was wounded by a civilian police officer responding to a shooting rampage that is believed to be the worst ever at a U.S. base, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, commanding general of Fort Hood.
Full story here. . . .
Tom Waits - Murder in the Red Barn
It's Friday.....and as Tom tells us, there's always some killin' you got to do around the farm....
November 05, 2009
Good for Italy!
European court: No crucifixes in Italian schools
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO,
ROME – The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms.
In a decision that could force a review of the use of religious symbols in government-run schools across Europe, the court ordered Italy to pay a euro5,000 ($7,390) fine to a mother in northern Italy who fought for eight years to have crucifixes removed from her children's public school classrooms. The Italian government said it would appeal.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the crucifix was a fundamental sign of the importance of religious values in Italian history and culture and was a symbol of unity and welcoming for all of humanity — not one of exclusion.
Not a symbol of exclusion?? Did he really just say that? Out loud?
Bishop Harry Jackson is proud of being a bigot.
What the fuck is he babbling about? Why do these people care who another person gets married to? Truly amazing.
November 04, 2009
Bible passage of the week...
Genesis 38:8-10 (NIV)
Then Judah said to Onan, "Lie with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother." But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so he put him to death also.
Then Judah said to Onan, "Lie with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother." But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so he put him to death also.
Go Pens
As some of you know I'm an enormous fan of the sport of Hockey and specifically the amazing Pittsburgh Penguins.
They are on a 12-3 start to the season and are undefeated on the road. Nice.
The Captain Sidney Crosby made an insane save last night when our goalie wandered off and forgot about the net. Crosby slid onto his side, stacked his legs and JUST blocked a shot that was all but guaranteed to go in and tie the game. Amazing.
Looked like something out of The Matrix.
Jackass quote of the week...
"We've struggled, we've worked against tremendous odds, as we've all known. We prevailed because the people of Maine, the silent majority, the folks back home spoke with their vote tonight." - Marc Mutty, campaign manager for Stand for Marriage Maine
Nothing like being insanely proud of yourself for orchestrating mass discrimination. Dick.
Nothing like being insanely proud of yourself for orchestrating mass discrimination. Dick.
November 03, 2009
November 02, 2009
Two princesses
My two lovely nieces each dressed up as a princess for Halloween.
Just all kinds of cute!
Just all kinds of cute!
Headline of the week....
...and it's only Monday.
They have fixed it now...but this is how it looked all morning...
www.wtov9.com
CORONER : TUSCARAWAS COUNTY WAS SHOT, STABBED BEFORE DEATH
They have fixed it now...but this is how it looked all morning...
www.wtov9.com
CORONER : TUSCARAWAS COUNTY WAS SHOT, STABBED BEFORE DEATH
November 01, 2009
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