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Liberal media? What liberal media?
CBS/NBC refuse to run United Church of Christ ad because it's too pro-gay
This just makes me sick.
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250,000,000 to 1...
...you certainly have to ask the question.
You should all read this. It's dreadfully important.
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NAMING CONTESTS!
Before we go further: A new link of the day, for the first time in over five months. That should make you happy.
I have not one but two naming contests today! Leave your suggestions in the comments box: the winner of each contest will get 10 Mistersite.net Bucks(tm) redeemable for groovy gear, like a Hanes T-Shirt with "mistersite.net" written across the front with a Sharpie! Wow!
The first contest is for my parents' new cat. They'll be picking the winner here.
Current working titles thus far are Leo and Julius. Apparently they want to name him after a dead Pope. Why not Pius IX?
The second is for my new car. It's a 2005 Honda Civic Hybrid. It's dark gray. It looks something like this.
That's from when I drove the car in a snowstorm in Alaska. (Actually, it's from the Honda website. But it looks exactly the same.)
So... name away.
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Well, that's that, then.
After over a year of political sniping and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, it all came down to 100,000 votes in Ohio.
Hmm.
And so, another four years of Bush. Kinda like the groundhog seeing his shadow and returning to his hole. I wish I could say that the better man won, but I don't believe he did. At least this time, the guy who got the most votes won.
And it goes on. To those on the conservative end who would be inclined to start strutting and crowing, I wouldn't. First off, it's just not cool, and certainly not mature; second off, history has proven that the other side tends to come back. Just look at 1972, when Republicans swept the ticket even more decisively than this year, or 1992, when it looked like the Democrats were going to wipe the GOP off the US electoral map. We'll be back.
To those who would say that it's now our duty to shut up, accept the will of the people, and stop criticizing the President, I say... no. I'm going to be just as fair as I was before the election, criticizing and bashing the President every time he does something I disagree with, and praising him if he ever does something I agree with. That's my right and duty as an American.
The thing that makes me sick, though, isn't who won the job of president. That hurts, but it isn't sickening. What's sickening is the fact that in eleven states, the voters overwhelmingly approved discrimination against their fellow-citizens. Many of those states, including Ohio and Michigan, not only locked gay people out of the "institution of marriage," but also out of civil unions and domestic partnerships - denying not only the name, but also the benefits, afforded to hetero couples.
And people have the gall to be happy about this. There are actually people who are happy that two people who love each other can't get married, can't visit each other in the hospital, and can't inherit each other's property. There are actually people who will see the tears of the gay couples who really do love one another and be happy because these people are crying.
You want to preserve marriage, fine. I don't agree, but I understand. Don't call it marriage if you don't want to. But to write into the amendments the denial of civil unions and domestic partner benefits, goes way beyond that. That's crossing the line from preservation into hate, from defending the "institution of marriage" to hurting other people out of vindictiveness and self-righteousness. And those things are always unacceptable in my mind.
To those who voted for those amendments, I ask you: why?
The one problem with democracy is that millions of people can make the wrong decision just as easily as one person can.
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Election Eve: The Case For Kerry (and against Bush)
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, I’m pretty sure you know where I stand on the presidential election. In the style of Senator Kerry, though, I feel the need to make “closing arguments” – the final push to explain why I believe what I believe, to explain the reasons why I will not only be voting for Senator Kerry tomorrow but also why I will be working the phone banks tomorrow morning, urging voters in swing states to vote for Senator Kerry as well.
Harry Truman had a sign on his desk: “The Buck Stops Here.” It meant that if something was wrong in his administration, it was his fault as the leader of that administration. It meant that he was willing to take the blame for any mistakes he made.
Ladies and gentlemen, the buck has to stop here.
The greatest intelligence failure in the history of our country happened under Bush’s watch, and 3,000 people paid for this failure with their lives. President Bush, after an admirable display of courage in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, swore that he would hunt down and bring to justice the people responsible for the attacks. Three years later, the mastermind behind these heinous acts is not only at large, but is taunting us by videotape.
The buck stops here.
Against centuries of understanding as to how to proceed morally into war, President Bush preemptively attacked a regime which posed no threat to us, on charges that the regime possessed weapons which, it is now clear, that regime did not have. This unnecessary and immoral war has cost the lives of over 1,000 American soldiers and an estimated 100,000 innocent Iraqi citizens, not to mention up to $140 billion which has been borrowed against my generation’s and my children’s generation’s income.
The buck stops here.
The American working class and middle class have suffered greatly, seeing incomes go down and jobs disappearing while costs rose. The number of Americans without health insurance has increased by five million over the past four years; the number of jobs has decreased by 800,000 (the first net job loss in over 75 years). Meanwhile, President Bush has squandered a budget surplus at the beginning of his term of office with irresponsible tax cuts for the wealthy, leaving us with record deficits and a nation going deeper and deeper into debt, and squandering the Social Security Trust Fund the President swore in 2000 that he would leave alone.
The buck stops here.
President Bush has the most secretive administration since Nixon. He issued an executive order cutting off access to the papers of past Presidents and himself, even when his term of office is over. His vice president still refuses to reveal who he met with to draft an energy bill which strongly favors corporations and hurts the common person. The secrecy of this administration runs directly counter to the transparency of government required for a healthy government of the people.
The buck stops here.
The Republican Party is currently engaged in the largest voter-suppression effort ever attempted in this country, seeking to keep many who legally can vote from the voting booths in order to ensure their victory. Put another way: The Bush campaign strategy is to ensure that many people do not get to vote. This is completely counter-democratic, and belies the idea of government by the people.
The buck stops here.
Senator John Kerry is the Democratic alternative to this irresponsible, inept, and immoral administration. He served honorably in Vietnam while President Bush was busy playing hooky from the Texas Air National Guard; he served as a prosecutor, lieutenant governor, and Senator while President Bush was busy running oil companies into the ground; he offers hope of better times to come while President Bush is offering a future of fear and uncertainty.
When he becomes President, John Kerry will ensure that every child in America has health care.
He will restore fiscal responsibility to this country by rolling back the irresponsible Bush tax cuts for those making over $200,000 a year.
He will help the workers of this nation by cutting off incentives for companies to move jobs offshore and raising the minimum wage.
He will make this nation secure by concentrating on the murderers behind terrorism, rather than on settling personal scores with nations he doesn’t like.
He will restore America’s respect in the world, by working with other nations instead of against them, by sharing power rather than pursuing it, by restoring morality and sanity to American foreign policy.
John Kerry by himself, though, cannot restore America to its former glory. He needs the help of the American people, of America’s other leaders, not only in getting elected but in ruling responsibly and passing initiatives. When John Kerry becomes President, he will likely be facing a Congress dominated by the other party; he will have to count on the American people to pressure that Congress to support him just as they have supported the previous President, rather than blocking his every move for political gain.
John Kerry isn’t perfect. There are some things he supports that I oppose, and some things he opposes that I support. But given the alternative, four more years of irresponsible and inept leadership which leads to our being more hated and reviled in the world and more suffering in our own nation, he is the best choice. I used to be a strict anti-Bush voter; to be honest, I would have voted for anyone the Democrats put up against him. But John Kerry has transcended my anti-Bush sentiment; I am not only anti-Bush now but pro-Kerry. I think he has the vision, the integrity, and the ability to lead this nation back to where all share in our prosperity at home, and all are safe in an America which is respected throughout the world.
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