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Don't pick on me...

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:31:23 GMT

clipped by: earnric
clipper's remarks: The clip says it all...

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

Tags: racism, government, republicans

Moving toward equality under the law...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:43:56 GMT

clipped by: earnric
clipper's remarks: Looks like a clear majority simply don't care if you are gay or str8... Looks like rationality is finally taking hold on this issue.

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Most say gay marriage private choice

Six in 10 Americans say the government should not regulate whether gays and lesbians can marry the people they choose, a survey finds.

As same-sex couples line up to get marriage licenses in California on June 17, the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found that 63% of adults say same-sex marriage is "strictly a private decision" between two people.

That the government has the right "to prohibit or allow" such marriages was stated by 33%, and 4% had no opinion.

Tags: gay marriage

Sanctity and the government...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:57:25 GMT

clipped by: earnric
clipper's remarks: The blogger is right on point regarding the CA ruling allowing same sex marriages...

Clip Source: fogghorn.blogspot.com

"Many people are concerned that we need more conservatives in government so that we won't have judges who decide this way" was nearly the entirety of the commentary, the balance was the observation that it was the Constitution (hence not the judges) that stood in the way of preserving the "sanctity" of marriage. Regardless of the now apparently reduced sanctity of my own marriage, I continued to wait for my dear wife to have her X-ray with undiminished dedication.

Sanctity, of course is indeed a subject that our Federal Constitution excludes from the business of government. Establishing religious rules or laws based on religious rules is specifically forbidden and not applying any laws in a discriminatory fashion, whether based on religious taboos or not, has long been established in the law. What does CNN mean to imply here: that we should get rid of that nasty secular Democracy thing so we can all be holy? What else can we infer?

Tags: gay marriage, politics, stupidity

Bigotry alive and well...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:28:14 GMT

clipped by: earnric
clipper's remarks: In case you thought it was on the way out...

And guess what? You just need to look to the bible-belt to find the largest percentages of bigots in the country. In 1998 S. Carolina had about 38% of voters still in favor of miscegenation laws.

Amazing...

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In 1967, 17 Southern states (all the former slave states plus Oklahoma) still enforced laws prohibiting marriage between whites and non-whites. Maryland repealed its law in response to the start of the proceedings at the Supreme Court. After the ruling of the Supreme Court, the remaining laws were no longer in effect. Nonetheless, it took South Carolina until 1998 and Alabama until 2000 to officially amend their states' constitutions to remove language prohibiting miscegenation. In the respective referendums, 62% of voters in South Carolina and 59% of voters in Alabama voted to remove these laws.^[17]

Tags: bigotry, marriage

The "sanctity" of marriage...

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:40:52 GMT

clipped by: earnric
clipper's remarks: Bigotry... the real motive behind such laws...

Clip Source: img509.imageshack.us

Tags: gay marriage, government, law

The Imperial Criminal

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:02:51 GMT

clipped by: earnric

Clip Source: reasonreigns.blogspot.com

Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators - washingtonpost.com

The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes.

How in the world can the American people tolerate this behavior? It goes without saying that a chief executive doesn't get to pick and choose the laws he wishes to obey...

Tags: politics, tyranny, law